# UFO/UAP Event Chronology, Part 1: Distant Past up to and including 1949, v1.46 - Compiled 10/3/2023 An automated compilation by Richard Geldreich, Jr. using public data from Dr. Jacques Vallée, Pea Research, George M. Eberhart, Richard H. Hall, Dr. Donald A. Johnson, Fred Keziah, Don Berliner, Larry Hatch, [NICAP](https://www.nicap.org/), [Thomas R. Adams](https://www.lulu.com/shop/ray-boeche/bloodless-cuts/hardcover/product-22167360.html?page=1&pageSize=4), [George D. Fawcett](https://archive.ph/eQwIL), [Chris Aubeck](https://books.google.com/books/about/Return_to_Magonia.html?id=JBGNjgEACAAJ&source=kp_author_description), [Philip L. Rife](https://www.amazon.com/Didnt-Start-Roswell-Encounters-Coverups/dp/059517339X), [Richard Dolan](https://richarddolanmembers.com/), [Jérôme Beau](https://rr0.org/), [Godelieve Van Overmeire](http://cobeps.org/fr/godelieve-van-overmeire), and an anonymous individual or group. ## Some non-summarized events fall under one of these copyrights: - Richard Geldreich, Jr. - Copyright (c) 2023 (events marked \"maj2\" unless otherwise attributed) - Dr. Jacques F. Vallée - Copyright (c) 1993 - LeRoy Pea - Copyright (c) 9/8/1988 (updated 3/17/2005) - George M. Eberhart - Copyright (c) 2022 - Dr. Donald A. Johnson - Copyright (c) 2012 - Fred Keziah - Copyright (c) 1958 - Larry Hatch - Copyright (c) 1992-2002 - Thomas R. Adams - Copyright (c) 1991 - Richard Dolan - Copyright (c) 2002 - Jérôme Beau - Copyright (c) 2000-2023 ## Update History: - v1.46: Adding ~3700 events, translated from the French chronology [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) by Belgian ufologist [Godelieve Van Overmeire, 1935-2021](http://cobeps.org/fr/godelieve-van-overmeire). Note these events are from the old HTML version on archive.org, not the larger [(10k event) PDF version](http://www.cobeps.org/pdf/Chronologie-OVNI-VOG.pdf). It is unclear if these events are copyrighted. I didn't see a copyright in either the HTML or PDF versions. - v1.43: Added ~3160 events, translated from a French chronology to English using OpenAI, from [rr0.org](https://rr0.org/). I believe this chronology was composed by Jérôme Beau. Its license is [here](https://rr0.org/Copyright.html). - v1.40: Added digitized events/newspaper clippings from [Frank Scully's papers at the American Heritage Center in Laramie, WY](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256), summarized the events from the timeline on the [Disclosure Diaries](https://www.disclosurediaries.com/) website, and added more misc. events. Fixed auto-translation issue in the search page. - v1.38: Added a [client-side search engine](search.html). There are a bunch of features I'm going to add to this engine, for now it can only search for keywords in the desc, location and and reference fields. - v1.37: Updated intro text, added total number of events to each event year, added a few 1800's events. - v1.36: Extracted and summarized the events in the book [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_ by Philip L. Rife](https://www.amazon.com/Didnt-Start-Roswell-Encounters-Coverups/dp/059517339X). Also extracted the military UFO events from Richard Dolan's book [_UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973_](https://www.amazon.com/UFOs-National-Security-State-Chronology-ebook/dp/B0C94W38QY). - v1.34: Added more modern events, 1917 Mystery Airplane newspaper articles. - v1.33: More events: Events from George D. Fawcett, short AI summaries of Stringfield's 1978 MUFON symposium presentation, and short AI summaries of the pre-industrial era sighting events from the book [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects from Antiquity to Modern Times_](https://www.amazon.com/Wonders-Sky-Unexplained-Objects-Antiquity/dp/1585428205). - v1.30: Added 203 Mystery Helicopter/mutilation related events (1970's-1980's) compiled by author/researcher [Thomas R. Adams](https://www.lulu.com/shop/ray-boeche/bloodless-cuts/hardcover/product-22167360.html?page=1&pageSize=4) (1945-2015) (or see [here](http://copycateffect.blogspot.com/2018/06/Adams-Massey-Obits.html)), from his book [_The Choppers - and the Choppers, Mystery Helicopters and Animal Mutilations_](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/avistamientos_ovnis/Adams,Thomas,Choppers%20and%20the%20Choppers-1.pdf), minor fixes - v1.28: Added KWIC (Key Word in Context) index. - v1.27: Imported Anonymous PDF's contents, originally from [here](https://pdfhost.io/v/gR8lAdgVd_Uap_Timeline_Prepared_By_Another), with fixed URL's - v1.23-1.24: Added a handful of key historical events, such as Edward Tauss the head of CIA UFO disinformation in the 50's - v1.22: Fixing the date of Dr. Eric W. Davis's March, 2020 classified briefing to the Senate (I had it listed as March 2019) - info from NY Times. Basic locations added to Eberhart records using OpenAI. - v1.20: Split up into 5 parts, to work around iPhone web browser limits. Minor spelling and grammer fixes throughout timeline. - v1.15: Eberhart records now have basic locations, thanks to OpenAI's Davinci-3 AI model. They aren't perfect, but it's a good start to geocoding them. - v1.14: Added nuclear test data, over 2000 records, from the [_Worldwide Nuclear Explosions_](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) paper by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards. Note the locations in the paper are approximate, and the yields are not super accurate, which are two problems I'll fix over time. I improved the coordinates of the earliest USA/USSR tests by looking them up from Wikipedia. - v1.13: Split up the timeline into 4 parts. Still not the best solution, but it avoids croaking browsers. - v1.12: Added \*U\* database record data, using a custom event description decoder to handle his 1k+ abbreviations and custom syntax - v1.11: Crawled all ~10.5k unique URL's in this timeline using [curl](https://curl.se/) and fixed dead URL's to use archive.org. - v1.10: Added NICAP DB data. ## Important Notes: Best viewed on a desktop/laptop, not a mobile device. On Windows, Firefox works best, followed by Edge, then Chrome. I've split up the timeline into 4 parts, to reduce their sizes: distant past up to 1949, 1950-1959, 1960-1979, and 1980-present. The majority of the events in this chronology are sighting related, however it's important to be aware that this is a timeline of UFO/UAP related _events_, not necessarily or exclusively UFO _sightings_. **This is not exclusively a UFO sightings timeline or database.** Some sighting reports or events appear multiple times in this timeline because they appear in more than one data source. I view this as a useful feature. Currently, the events are not sorted by time of day, only by date. Some sources have separate "time" fields, but most don't. This will be fixed once the event times are automatically extracted from the description fields. A few events don't have firm dates, for example "Summer of 1947", or "Late July 1952". In these instances the compilation code uses fixed dates I selected for date sorting purposes. (See the code for the specific dates.) ## Source Code: This website is created automatically using a [C++](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B) command line tool called “ufojson”. It parses the raw text and [Markdown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown) source data to [JSON format](https://www.json.org/json-en.html), which is then converted to a single large web page using [pandoc](https://pandoc.org/). This tool's source code and all of the raw source and JSON data is located [here on github](https://github.com/richgel999/ufo_data). ## Year Ranges 1. [Part 1: Distant past up to and including 1949](timeline.html) 2. [Part 2: 1950 up to and including 1959](timeline_part2.html) 3. [Part 3: 1960 up to and including 1969](timeline_part3.html) 4. [Part 4: 1970 up to and including 1979](timeline_part4.html) 5. [Part 5: 1980 to present](timeline_part5.html) ## [Timeline Search Engine](search.html) ## KWIC (Key Word in Context) Index [a](kwic_a.html) [b](kwic_b.html) [c](kwic_c.html) [d](kwic_d.html) [e](kwic_e.html) [f](kwic_f.html) [g](kwic_g.html) [h](kwic_h.html) [i](kwic_i.html) [j](kwic_j.html) [k](kwic_k.html) [l](kwic_l.html) [m](kwic_m.html) [n](kwic_n.html) [o](kwic_o.html) [p](kwic_p.html) [q](kwic_q.html) [r](kwic_r.html) [s](kwic_s.html) [t](kwic_t.html) [u](kwic_u.html) [v](kwic_v.html) [w](kwic_w.html) [x](kwic_x.html) [y](kwic_y.html) [z](kwic_z.html) [numbers](kwic_numbers.html) [misc](kwic_misc.html) ## Table of Contents Year Histogram ### Years 0 34 61 66 70 80 98 180 187 189 193 195 200 235 240 251 260 300 314 317 334 350 351 393 394 396 436 438 457 460 497 500 507 540 549 575 577 584 585 587 596 597 637 640 642 655 661 664 666 670 675 679 680 682 684 692 698 729 741 746 749 760 773 776 789 793 796 800 807 810 811 812 813 814 815 817 827 840 842 848 877 879 880 881 900 905 919 922 927 934 940 944 950 966 967 970 979 989 998 999 1001 1010 1015 1023 1027 1034 1036 1045 1050 1054 1059 1067 1071 1085 1092 1096 1098 1100 1104 1110 1113 1123 1125 1130 1133 1138 1142 1155 1160 1161 1167 1169 1170 1171 1178 1180 1182 1185 1186 1189 1193 1200 1211 1212 1218 1222 1224 1232 1235 1237 1239 1252 1253 1254 1258 1260 1265 1269 1270 1271 1273 1277 1284 1290 1294 1295 1296 1299 1300 1320 1322 1347 1349 1352 1355 1360 1361 1368 1382 1384 1385 1387 1388 1389 1390 1394 1395 1400 1408 1415 1420 1422 1425 1428 1430 1433 1444 1449 1453 1456 1458 1461 1463 1465 1468 1477 1478 1479 1482 1487 1491 1492 1493 1494 1498 1499 1501 1504 1509 1513 1517 1518 1520 1521 1523 1526 1528 1529 1533 1535 1536 1537 1538 1543 1544 1546 1547 1548 1550 1551 1552 1553 1554 1555 1557 1561 1563 1564 1566 1567 1568 1569 1571 1572 1574 1575 1576 1577 1578 1579 1580 1586 1587 1589 1590 1591 1592 1593 1595 1600 1603 1606 1608 1609 1612 1613 1614 1619 1620 1621 1624 1626 1628 1629 1634 1635 1636 1637 1638 1639 1640 1641 1642 1644 1645 1646 1648 1650 1651 1652 1655 1656 1659 1660 1661 1662 1663 1665 1666 1667 1670 1671 1672 1674 1676 1677 1678 1680 1684 1685 1686 1687 1688 1689 1692 1693 1694 1696 1697 1699 1700 1701 1702 1704 1707 1709 1710 1712 1716 1717 1718 1719 1720 1721 1722 1726 1728 1729 1730 1731 1733 1735 1736 1737 1739 1740 1741 1742 1743 1744 1745 1748 1749 1752 1753 1754 1755 1756 1757 1758 1759 1761 1762 1763 1764 1765 1766 1767 1768 1769 1772 1775 1777 1778 1779 1780 1781 1782 1783 1784 1785 1786 1787 1788 1789 1790 1791 1792 1793 1794 1795 1796 1797 1798 1799 1800 1801 1802 1803 1804 1805 1806 1807 1808 1809 1810 1811 1812 1813 1814 1815 1816 1817 1818 1819 1820 1821 1822 1823 1824 1825 1826 1827 1828 1829 1830 1831 1832 1833 1834 1835 1836 1837 1838 1839 1840 1841 1842 1843 1844 1845 1846 1847 1848 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 ## Event Timeline --- ## Year: 0, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 0 (979AEFAA) **Date:** 0's **Description:** Greek and Roman records of UFO's **Type:** ufo sightings **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_1 --- ## Year: 34, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1 (F91D10A9) **Date:** 4/34 **Location:** China **Description:** A white, round object, accompanied by 10 small stars, flew overhead. The pattern suggests the stars might have been in formation with the main object, making it an unusual possible meteor event. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_23 ### Event 2 (1D286C2A) **Date:** 4/4/34 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In China, a "shooting star" white in size of the Moon appears. Around it, about 10 small stars turn. (4 April) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/34.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_0 --- ## Year: 61, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 3 (DD02BA75) **Date:** 61 **Location:** China **Description:** Han Emperor Mingti experienced a vision of a golden figure enveloped in a halo of light, which various sources described as either a dream or an apparition. This figure was interpreted as a flying Apsara (Buddhist angel) or possibly the Buddha himself. As a result of this vision, the Emperor sent envoys to India to understand Buddhism better. The account does not specify any physical aerial object associated with the vision. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_24 --- ## Year: 66, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 4 (627F2474) **Date:** 66 **Location:** ITALY, ROME **Description:** (Translated from French) Under the reign of Nero, Simon the Magician attempts a flight in the presence of the Emperor. He kills himself. Saint Peter witnesses the experience and prays for the magician to fail. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 14 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_0 --- ## Year: 70, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 5 (E492FDE6) **Date:** 5/21/70 **Location:** PALESTINE, Jerusalem **Description:** (Translated from French) Flavius Josephus described an incredible size demonic ghost. Before dawn, chariots and armed soldiers appeared over the entire country. **Reference:** Christiane PIENS: "Les Ovni du passé" - Marabout 1977 - p. 38 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1 ### Event 6 (B10DE7B7) **Date:** 5/21/70 **Time:** ~18:00 **Location:** PALESTINE **Description:** Many observer(s). Chariots and regiments circle towns in sky. Loud noises later. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: PROJECT DELTA; 1994, LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 USA (Index 120) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_5 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **HST:** Historical account, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Israel", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "60", **HatchDesc:** "PALESTINE:MANY OBS:CHARIOTS+REGIMENTS CIRCLE TOWNS in SKY:LOUD NOISES LATER", **LatLong:** "31.766668 35.233335", **LatLongDMS:** "31:46:00 N 35:14:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.766668,35.233335)", **State/Prov:** "Unknown", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7 (FD9510CA) **Date:** 5/21/70 **Location:** Jerusalem **Description:** Historian Flavius Josephus documented a remarkable sighting where, before sunset, chariots and armored troops were observed in the sky, seemingly racing among the clouds and encircling cities. This extraordinary event, although sounding like a fable, was vouched for by multiple witnesses. The importance of subsequent events added weight to these accounts, indicating that they were not mere tales or exaggerations. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_25 --- ## Year: 80, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 8 (06F72004) **Date:** 80 **Location:** SCOTLAND, Caledonia **Description:** (Translated from French) When Emperor Agricola was in Caledonia, flames appeared above the forest, and on clear days it was possible to make out a vessel in the sky. **Reference:** Christiane PIENS: "Les Ovni du passé" - Marabout 1977 - p. 38 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_2 ### Event 9 (9DE0BC60) **Date:** 80 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Caledonia, the Roman Emperor Agricola and others observe, on a clear day, an aerial vessel flying over the country \(*Present-day Scotland*\). **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/80.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_1 ### Event 10 (702D2F9C) **Date:** Winter 80 **Location:** Caledon Wood, Scotland **Description:** During the Roman Emperor Agricola's time in Scotland, there were reports of mysterious flames illuminating the skies over Caledon Wood for an entire winter night. On clear nights, a fast-moving ship-like object was observed in the sky. Additionally, there were accounts of unusual events in Athol, such as a rain of stones and frogs, and nighttime visions of fiery battles in the sky. These events, rich in anomalies, intertwine with tales from Geoffrey of Monmouth's rendition of the King Arthur legend, where Arthur famously defeated the Saxons at Caledon Wood. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_26 --- ## Year: 98, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 11 (29BA8EBA) **Date:** 98 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Rome, a flaming shield is seen above the city. **Reference:** [W. Raymond Drake](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/DrakeWalterRaymond.html), *Gods and Spacemen in Greece and Rome* **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/98.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_2 --- ## Year: 180, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 12 (C1A3E692) **Date:** 180 **Location:** ROME ANTIQUE **Description:** (Translated from French) Under the reign of Emperor Commodus, "great prodigies happened at that time... one often saw stars suspended in the air during the day..." [IN REALITY: it was the Haley's comet...] (Between 180 and 192) **Reference:** Yves Naud: "The E.T. and the UFO in History" Famot 1977, Volume 2 p. 113 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_3 --- ## Year: 187, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 13 (B64EFE22) **Date:** 187 **Location:** Rome, Italy **Description:** During the reign of Commodus, there were peculiar daytime sightings of stars that appeared throughout the entire day. According to Herodian, some of these stars seemed to elongate and hover in the middle of the air. These sightings were interpreted as unignited clouds being driven together, for they appeared illuminated at night but vanished when viewed from a distance during daylight. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_27 --- ## Year: 189, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 14 (BD622080) **Date:** 189 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) \(or 190\) Under the reign of the tyrant Commodus, a bright and large object was seen crossing the sky in broad daylight. **Reference:** Lampride, *Life of Commodus* **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/189.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_3 --- ## Year: 193, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 15 (9F9221AB) **Date:** 193 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Publius Helvius Pertinax \(126-193\), after a successful military career and a consul post, was chosen by the conspirators who had just freed Rome from the tyrannical Commodus to take his place. He was assassinated a few months after his accession to the throne by the Praetorian Guard. In the last three months of his brief reign, he had coins minted. One of these coins was found in Syria and can be seen in the Federico Eusebio Archaeological Museum in Alba, the Piedmont city where Publius Helvius Pertinax was born. This coin has the remarkable peculiarity of showing what could well be a mysterious flying object. In the Italian ufology magazine *Clypeus*, numismatist Renato Gatto gave the following description:

The Emperor Pertinax \(...\) had coins minted not with any star \(a decorative motif often used to immortalize great events\) but with a globe surmounted by antennas similar to those of our first artificial satellites. Many experts, after examining these coins, agreed to affirm that the object represented was neither the Sun, nor the Moon, nor any other celestial body. This certainty is based on the fact that the 4 "rays" of the globe in question are arranged in a completely different way from that which characterizes the representations of stars. The words *Providentia deorum* engraved on one of the faces of the coin exalt the goodness of the gods. On the other face, one sees a woman personifying *Providentia*, a minor divinity who must have manifested herself at the time of the appearance of the four-rayed globe that Rome wanted to commemorate.

Is it rash to suggest that this antennaed globe could be one of those mysterious flying objects called UFOs? By looking at the photographs of the coin, one sees a woman stretching out her hands towards an enigmatic object above her, a globe from which 4 rays emerge in asymmetrical positions, while the usual representations of a known star are symmetrical. But then, what is the mysterious event commemorated by the coin? The Roman historian of the 5th century Lampridius speaks in his *Life of Commodus* of a bright and quite large object that had crossed the sky during the reign of the tyrant. The excellent Greek historian Herodian \(170-240\), considered one of the most reliable of his time and who held public offices in Rome, confirms in his *Notes on the History of the Empire after Marcus Aurelius* \(book 1\) that stars were seen suspended in the air in broad daylight at that time and locates the appearance of the event in 189 or 190. It is therefore quite possible that the coin of Emperor Pertinax wanted to account for its appearance. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/193.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_4 --- ## Year: 195, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 16 (918FF380) **Date:** 1/195 **Location:** Rome, Italy **Description:** Bright stars were observed surrounding the sun during Julianus' Sacrifices of Entrance in front of the senate-house. These anomalous stars were so vivid that soldiers continually gazed at them, speculating an impending doom for the emperor. Concurrently, three leaders, Severus, Niger, and Albinus, each commanding vast legions, sought control of the region, potentially symbolized by these three stars. The nature of these "bright stars" remains unclear, though they were not simply a result of refraction. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_28 --- ## Year: 200, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 17 (F3ACAB90) **Date:** 200 **Location:** JAPAN, Notorita **Description:** (Translated from French) There was in the village of Notorita a man called Hashiro-Kima-Washi. He was a large individual who had wings on his body so that he could fly and rise very high in the sky. He refused to obey imperial orders and robbed people. **Reference:** Yves NAUD: "Les Ovnis et les E.T. dans l'histoire, tome 1" - ed. Famot 1977, tome 2 p. 237 **Reference:** Book 1 of Nihongi **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_4 --- ## Year: 235, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 18 (8EC325BD) **Date:** 235 **Location:** CHINA **Description:** (Translated from French) A red meteor emitting pointed rays fell from the northwest to the southwest in the Liang camp. The meteor moved three times back and forth above the camp, each time with a greater magnitude when moving forward and when withdrawing. **Reference:** Christiane PIENS: "Les Ovni du passé" - Marabout 1977 - p. 39 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_5 ### Event 19 (554C72C3) **Date:** 235 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In China, Liang went to war against the kingdom of Wei. While his troops were stationed at Wei-nan, a [meteor](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Meteore.html) red emitting "pointed rays" came from the sky towards the southwest of his camp above which it moved 3 times back and forth, each time with a greater magnitude forward than on its withdrawal. Soon, Liang died in his camp. His troops then burned it and left. A little later, Liang's generals began to fight each other. These events will not surprise anyone because all Chinese thought that the passage or fall of a meteor on an army invariably foreshadowed its defeat. **Reference:** Edmond Biot, *General Catalogue of Shooting Stars in China for Twenty-Four Centuries* **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/235.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_5 ### Event 20 (9679253F) **Date:** 235 **Location:** Weinan, China **Description:** The army of Emperor Hou Chu witnessed a red object with pointed rays fly over them on three separate occasions. Despite being documented in a compilation of "shooting stars and meteors," the idea of a regular meteor passing multiple times over the army is highly improbable. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_29 --- ## Year: 240, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 21 (40D68BCC) **Date:** 240 **Location:** Che-chiang Province, China **Description:** Wang Shuh, while gathering medicinal herbs on T'ien Tai Mountain, took a rest and saw a small blue boy, over a foot long, in a brook. This boy rode on a red carp and both disappeared into a cloud. After a subsequent thunderstorm, the boy and carp reappeared and returned to the brook. The sighting, possessing attributes commonly ascribed to "dragons" in Chinese literature, remains unexplained by ordinary phenomena. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_30 --- ## Year: 251, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 22 (80F8DD58) **Date:** 251 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Under the consuls P. Posthumius Tubertus 2 and Agrippa Monenius Lanatus, in the year 251 of Rome, in the thickest of the night, lances of fire were seen in the sky. **Reference:** Julius Obsequiens \< Costaglioga 1998 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/251.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_6 ### Event 23 (C0D3900F) **Date:** 251 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Sometimes a star shoots out of the sky, or else they are fires, sometimes stationary and still, sometimes rolling through space. We observe various kinds: we have wheels, when a luminous edge surrounds a vast depression in the sky, similar to a deep and circular cavity... When an enormous mass of rounded fire moves through the sky or burns in place; chiasmas when a corner of the sky opens up and through this sort of crevice reveals a flame in the mysterious space. **Reference:** Julius Obsequiens \< Costaglioga 1998 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/251.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_7 ### Event 24 (07328974) **Date:** 251 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) There are those brilliant [meteors](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Meteore.html) that suddenly depart like shooting stars, others remain in place emitting such a bright light that they dispel the darkness and bring back the day until, having consumed what fed them, they become less bright and like a diminishing flame gradually fading away. They often appear in the clouds, better seen above them. **Reference:** Julius Obsequiens \< Costaglioga 1998 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/251.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_8 --- ## Year: 260, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 25 (5A171163) **Date:** 3/260 **Location:** China **Description:** Amidst a political crisis, while "hostage children" played together, a mysterious child, less than four feet tall, joined them. The child, with light rays flashing from his eyes, identified himself as the star-god Yunghuo (Mars) and delivered a prophecy that "The Three Lords will return to Ssu-ma." After conveying his message, he ascended to the heavens, leaving behind a trail resembling flowing silk. This event remained unreported due to the political turmoil, and years later the prophecy came to fruition as Hsiu was overthrown and power shifted to Ssu-ma. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_31 --- ## Year: 300, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 26 (51D9F9B6) **Date:** 300 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In a small and rocky valley closed off on all sides, he saw a snuffling dwarf with horns on its head and forked extremities like those of goats. At this sight, Antoine, like a good soldier, seized the shield of faith and the helmet of hope: nevertheless, the creature offered him the fruit of the palm tree to sustain him on his journey and as a kind of peace offering. Antoine, seeing this, stopped and asked him who he was. The answer he received was this: "I am a mortal being and one of the inhabitants of the Desert whom the Gentiles abused by designating him in an erroneous cult of various forms under the names of Fauns, Satyrs and Incubi. I am sent to represent my people. We beg you to solicit for us the favor of your Lord and ours, who, we have learned, once came to save the world, and whose voice has penetrated the whole earth." As he uttered these words, tears streamed down the old traveler's cheeks, witnesses of his deep emotion, and which he shed in the fullness of his joy. He rejoiced in the glory of Christ and the destruction of Satan, and marveled at being able to understand the language of the satyr during all this time, and, striking the ground with his staff, he said: "Woe to you, Alexandria, who, instead of God, have worshiped monsters! Woe to you, city of prostitutes, in which the demons of the whole world rush together. What have you to say now? Beasts that speak of Christ, and you who, instead of God, worship monsters..." He had not finished speaking when - as if it had wings - the wild creature fled far away. Let no one have any scruple in believing this incident; its truth is affirmed by what happened when Constantine was on the throne, an affair of which the whole world was witness. For a man of this kind was brought alive to Alexandria and shown to the people as a wonderful spectacle. Later, to prevent his corpse from rotting in the heat, it was preserved in salt and taken to Antioch so that the Emperor could see it. **Reference:** Saint Jerome, *The Life of Saint Antoine the First Hermit*, Chapter 8 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/300.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_9 --- ## Year: 314, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 27 (04EA62BC) **Date:** 1/314 **Location:** CHINA **Description:** (Translated from French) .. the sun fell to the ground and three other suns rose together above the horizon. And another day, the sun quickly lowered to the ground and three other suns flew side by side, after rising in the west, heading east. **Reference:** SHI BO: "China and the Extraterrestrials" ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p. 47 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_6 ### Event 28 (FE0ADFF3) **Date:** 1/314 **Location:** China **Description:** The Sun appeared to descend to the ground while three additional suns simultaneously rose from the western horizon and moved together towards the East. This description suggests a rare and unordinary phenomenon, but with limited information provided, a complete interpretation would require access to the original text. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_32 --- ## Year: 317, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 29 (45E5F510) **Date:** 1/317 **Location:** CHINA **Description:** (Translated from French) Three suns shone at the same time in the sky tinted with multicolored colors. The suns were surrounded by an aureole and suspended at ten meters above the ground. The center of the suns had a greenish color. **Reference:** SHI BO: "China and the Extraterrestrials" ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p.47 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_7 --- ## Year: 334, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 30 (3CE36296) **Date:** 334 **Location:** Antioch, Turkey **Description:** A star-like object appeared in the eastern sky during daylight hours, emitting a significant amount of smoke, similar to that from a furnace, from the third to the fifth hour. Given its extended duration, it cannot be classified as a comet, and it persisted longer than typical meteors. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_33 --- ## Year: 350, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 31 (FE59CDC1) **Date:** 350 **Location:** Emesa, Syria **Description:** Eusebios experienced an unexpected urge to travel to a hill with an ancient temple of Athena near Emesa at midnight. There, he witnessed a fireball descend, accompanied by a lion that quickly vanished. Approaching the cooled globe, Eusebios found the baitylos, a sacred meteorite. When he questioned the stone about its deity, it claimed to belong to "Gennaios, the Noble One." The baitylos, described as a whitish, occasionally purple-hued globe, displayed letters painted in cinnabar, a bright red pigment esteemed in antiquity. This baitylos's characteristics challenge common understanding of meteorites. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_34 --- ## Year: 351, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 32 (3599430B) **Date:** 5/7/351 **Location:** Jerusalem **Description:** As Cyril took over the leadership of the church of Jerusalem, a radiant and concentrated cross appeared in the skies. Measuring about fifteen stadia from Calvary to the Mount of Olives, this luminous cross was notably brighter than the sun and remained visible for several days. Its remarkable appearance caused widespread fear among the observers, as documented by Hermias Sozomen in his Ecclesiastical History. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_35 --- ## Year: 393, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 33 (1D26B48A) **Date:** 393 **Location:** Rome, Italy **Description:** A new and distinctive star, initially observed at midnight towards the east, was reportedly brighter than most, rivaling the luminosity of Venus. Surrounding this star, smaller star-like points clustered like bees around their queen. Later, its shape morphed, resembling a double-bladed sword. The celestial object moved distinctively across the sky, eventually settling in the Big Dipper and fading away after a forty-day journey. While it resembles descriptions of a comet, no corroborative record of such a cometary observation exists for this period. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_36 --- ## Year: 394, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 34 (45E35957) **Date:** 394 **Location:** TURKEY, Antioch **Description:** (Translated from French) "...one night, there appeared something resembling a woman dressed and moving high in the sky. It had colossal dimensions and an aspect so horrible that the witnesses who contemplated it were terrified. It went back and forth in the sky, above the streets of the city. It constantly emitted a sound similar to the whistling of a whip and the air reverberated with it. This sound was like that usually made by a tamer when he excites wild beasts to enrage them before presenting them to the spectators of an amphitheater..." **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des Ovni" - Delarge 1977 - p. 54 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_8 --- ## Year: 396, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 35 (841D2975) **Date:** 396 **Location:** Constantinople (Istanbul), Turkey **Description:** At nightfall, a fiery cloud appeared from the East, initially small, but as it neared the city, it expanded and ominously loomed over Constantinople. The fearful populace sought refuge in the Church, and upon the cloud's eventual dispersal, rumors spread that the city would be destroyed the following Sabbath. This led to a mass evacuation, including the Emperor. With the city ultimately remaining unscathed, St. Augustine pondered whether this event was a manifestation of God's wrath or mercy. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_37 --- ## Year: 436, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 36 (18F8BD27) **Date:** 436 **Location:** BYZANCE **Description:** (Translated from French) The author cites J. Obsequens: "Earthquakes follow one another at a frightening rate.... Suddenly, and in the midst of all the spectators, a child was taken up by an unknown force high enough in the sky that it was lost to sight; after which, having descended as he had ascended, he declared to the Patriarch Procus, to the Emperor himself and to the assembled multitude that he had just attended a great concert of angels praising God..." **Reference:** Yves Naud: "ETs and UFOs in History" Famot 1977, Volume 2 pp. 110-111 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_9 --- ## Year: 438, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 37 (38A9BB5E) **Date:** 438 **Location:** Constantinople (Istanbul), Turkey **Description:** In the aftermath of a devastating earthquake, as pestilence and famine spread and the city's walls and towers lay in ruins, the residents gathered in the countryside praying for their city's salvation. Amidst these dire circumstances, a miraculous event took place: a child was abruptly lifted into the air, disappearing from sight. Upon returning, he recounted to Patriarch Proclus, the Emperor, and the masses that he had witnessed a celestial chorus of angels singing praises. This astonishing event was widely seen by the city's inhabitants and was later commemorated annually in ecclesiastical annals and Greek church readings. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_38 --- ## Year: 457, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 38 (93E9025C) **Date:** 457 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Above Great Britain and northern France, a flamboyant thing in the shape of a globe is seen in the sky. Its size is immense and from this ball of fire two beams come out, one that goes further than France, and the other that goes towards Ireland, and ends in fire, like beams. **Reference:** Conrad Wolffart, known as Lycosthenes, professor at the University of Basel, Switzerland, since 1539 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/457.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_10 --- ## Year: 460, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 39 (35C1FF75) **Date:** 460 **Location:** JAPAN, mont Katsuraki **Description:** (Translated from French) 4th spring, 2nd month. The emperor took part in a bow hunt on Mount Katsuraki. Suddenly a tall man appeared, who in face and appearance, resembled the emperor. "From what place do you come?" asked the emperor. "I am the god of visible men. First tell me your royal name and then I will inform you of mine." The emperor answered: "We are the Waka-taka-no-Mikoto." The tall man said: "Your servant is the god Hito-Koto-Mushi. The god who chases away with one word the good and with one word the bad. He joined the emperor until the setting of the sun, when the hunt ended. The god accompanied the emperor to the waters of Kume". **Reference:** Yves NAUD: "Les Ovni et les E.T. dans l'histoire, tome 1" - Famot 1977, tome 2 p. 237, 238 **Reference:** Nihongi **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_10 --- ## Year: 497, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 40 (02F9469C) **Date:** 497 **Location:** British Isles **Description:** Possibly 473 AD. A massive and bright globe was observed in the sky. From this globe emanated a second fiery ball which projected two distinct rays. One ray stretched out towards Gaul, while the other aimed towards the Irish Sea, subsequently splitting into seven smaller beams. The exact date of this event remains contested, with some sources pointing to 473 and others, like Roger of Wendover, suggesting 497. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_39 --- ## Year: 500, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 41 (7C2C7E50) **Date:** 500 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Probable settlement of Easter Island by navigators from the Society Islands or the Marquesas Islands, via the Gambier Islands. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/500.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_11 --- ## Year: 507, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 42 (E2DA4152) **Date:** 507 **Location:** Poitiers, France **Description:** As King Clovis sought to overcome the Visigoths and claim their French territories, he embarked on a night march directed by a bright meteor, likened to the biblical column of fire that guided the Israelites. This fiery signal, possibly coordinated with the cathedral of Poitiers, illuminated his path, leading him to victory against the Visigoths, subsequently culminating in the death of their king, Alaric II. Following this triumph, Clovis relocated the Frankish capital to Paris. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_40 --- ## Year: 540, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 43 (69ACB8F1) **Date:** 540 **Location:** Rome, Italy **Description:** A small spark was observed descending from the sky to Earth. Upon nearing the Earth, it expanded, resembling an orb akin to the Moon and took on a disc-like shape. This celestial event was perceived as an omen, predicting significant societal unrest and grave misfortunes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_41 ### Event 44 (7C28EBD5) **Date:** 540 **Location:** Monte Cassino, Italy **Description:** At dawn, Saint Benedict of Nursia witnessed an intense light that evolved into a fiery globe, illuminating the night brighter than day. As he gazed upon this brilliance, he perceived the entire world condensing under a single sunbeam and saw the soul of Germanus, Bishop of Capua, ascend to heaven within a flaming sphere accompanied by angels. Calling upon Servandus the Deacon as a witness, only a waning remnant of the light was visible to the latter. Upon investigation, it was discovered that Bishop Germanus had passed away at the exact moment of Saint Benedict's vision, suggesting a potential connection between the event and the Bishop's departure. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_42 --- ## Year: 549, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 45 (A7E1B585) **Date:** 549 **Location:** CHINA **Description:** (Translated from French) During the Thai Tsing period, under Emperor Won-Ti of the Liang Dynasty, General Heou-King besieged the city of King Thai. The inhabitants of the city used kites to send out calls for help to the nearby villages. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout Université 1967, p. 14 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_11 --- ## Year: 575, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 46 (74EB9EDE) **Date:** 575 **Location:** IRELAND **Description:** (Translated from French) When St. Columcille convened the synod of Drum Ceatt (or Drom Ecart), he asked Aedh Mac Ainmuire to release Scandlann Mor, which was refused. During the same night, a pillar of fire was seen above the city. It headed towards the prison where Scandlann Mor was held, stopped and emitted a beam of light that penetrated the cell. The chains that held the prisoner then detached and he heard a voice calling him. An angel came to free him. Following this, Aedh Mac Ainmuire, greatly impressed, recognized the divine mission of which St. Columcille was invested. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des Ovni" - Delarge 1977 - p. 55 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_12 --- ## Year: 577, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 47 (80F69450) **Date:** 577 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A fireball as big as the [Moon](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Moon.html) traverses the sky towards the West, accompanied by a loud noise and winding through the air. **Reference:** Abel Rémusat, *Le journal de la physique et de la chimie*, 1819 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/577.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_12 --- ## Year: 584, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 48 (51A763CE) **Date:** 584 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Appeared in the sky bright rays of light that seemed to cross and collide. **Reference:** Saint Gregory, Bishop of Tours, *Historia Francorum* --- "History of the Franks" **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/584.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_13 --- ## Year: 585, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 49 (555B81DC) **Date:** 585 **Location:** FRANCE **Description:** (Translated from French) "In September, some saw signs, that is to say these rays or domes that one is accustomed to seeing and which seemed to run with speed in the sky". **Reference:** Henry DURRANT: "The Black Book of UFOs" - Laffont 1970, p. 56 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_13 ### Event 50 (99BF942E) **Date:** 9/585 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Some people saw signs, namely rays or domes as one usually sees... flying in the sky. (September) **Reference:** Saint Gregory, Bishop of Tours, Historia Francorum --- *History of the Franks* **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/585.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_14 --- ## Year: 587, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 51 (9456775D) **Date:** 587 **Location:** FRANCE **Description:** (Translated from French) "We saw for two nights in a row, in the middle of the sky, a kind of very bright cloud that had the shape of a hood." **Reference:** Henry DURRANT: "The Black Book of UFOs" - Laffont 1970, p. 56 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_14 --- ## Year: 596, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 52 (C6DCAC17) **Date:** 11/596 **Location:** Nara prefecture, West Japan **Description:** An object resembling a canopy or lotus flower was observed descending and hovering above the Houryuji temple. While suspended, it underwent various color and shape transformations. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_43 --- ## Year: 597, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 53 (917F95D9) **Date:** 6/9/597 **Location:** Ireland **Description:** During a nighttime fishing session, multiple witnesses, including the narrator Adomnan, observed the sky suddenly illuminating. An immense pillar of fire ascended from the east, brightening the entire heavens as if it were midday. This extraordinary luminous column was seen not only by the group of Adomnan but also by various other fishermen scattered along the river. The intense light was then followed by profound darkness, resembling sunset. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_44 --- ## Year: 637, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 54 (5AC60197) **Date:** 637 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Japan, a large star moved from east to west, and there was a sound that resembled thunder. People of that time said that it was the crash of the star falling. But the Buddhist priest Bin said: "It is not the star that falls, it is the Celestial Dog whose bark is like thunder" \(...\) The Celestial Dog is a winged creature with a human form, with an incredibly long nose; it frequents mountains and secluded places. **Reference:** *Nihon-shoki*, cited by W. Raymond Drake **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/637.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_15 --- ## Year: 640, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 55 (950AF2A3) **Date:** 4/7/640 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In China, an astre is observed entering the [Moon](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Moon.html). \(Or 642. The seventh day of the second month of spring.\) (April 7) **Reference:** *Nihon-shoki,* cited by W. Raymond Drake **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/640.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_16 --- ## Year: 642, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 56 (5C82D0BB) **Date:** 4/7/642 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In China, an astre is observed entering the Moon. \(Or 640. The seventh day of the second month of spring.\) (April 7) **Reference:** *Nihon-shoki,* cited by W. Raymond Drake **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/642.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_17 --- ## Year: 655, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 57 (00D47F56) **Date:** 5/655 **Location:** Katuragi Mountain near Nara, W. Japan **Description:** A figure resembling a Chinese man was observed riding a dragon in the sky. The details surrounding this event are sparse and its credibility is uncertain. It's mentioned in hopes of encouraging further exploration of ancient Asian sources for more information on this peculiar sighting. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_45 --- ## Year: 661, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 58 (D8F396DA) **Date:** 661 **Location:** JAPAN **Description:** (Translated from French) For the year 661, Japanese chronicles cite an intriguing event: "Autumn, first day of the eighth month. The imperial prince, after coming to bow over the mortal remains of the deceased empress, returned to the Ihase palace. That night, at the top of Mount Asakura, there was a spirit wearing a large hat, who observed the funeral proceedings. All the people present gave loud cries of astonishment." **Reference:** Richard D. NOLANE: Autrefois les Extraterrestres - Mythes et réalités" Presses de la Cité Poche 1993 p.184 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_15 ### Event 59 (CFBEAA91) **Date:** Autumn 661 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) First day of the 8th month. In China, the imperial prince, after coming to bow to the mortal remains of the deceased empress, returns to the Ihase palace. That night, at the top of Mount Asakura, there is a Spirit wearing a large hat who watches the funeral proceedings. Everyone present gives loud cries of astonishment. (Autumn) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/661.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_18 --- ## Year: 664, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 60 (4277C9C6) **Date:** 664 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Barking **Description:** (Translated from French) .. while some nuns were praying in a cemetery near the convent of Berecingum (Barking), a large light descended from the sky, encircled them, then circled the monastery before disappearing high into the sky. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p.58 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_16 ### Event 61 (2AD4B3B3) **Date:** 664 **Location:** Kent, England **Description:** During the night, an unusual pillar of light illuminated the hall of King Ecgbert I's palace, startling many of his household. The brightness led to widespread astonishment and cries, prompting the king to rise from his bed. As he left the house, he observed a brilliantly burning globe of white flame, which seemed to have originated from the aforementioned luminous pillar. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_46 --- ## Year: 666, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 62 (C6856DAB) **Date:** 6/6/666 **Description:** version: Last updated 9/16/2023 (rg) **Type:** version **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_0 --- ## Year: 670, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 63 (1A7B7CFD) **Date:** 9/6/670 **Location:** Nara Prefecture, Western Japan **Description:** A mysterious cloud resembling an umbrella manifested in the sky, accompanied by an unusual noise. While meteors can produce sounds, they are not typically described as "umbrella-shaped clouds." Due to the limited information available, the event remains unidentified and requires further research for a more comprehensive understanding. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_47 --- ## Year: 675, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 64 (9D9E8937) **Date:** 675 **Location:** Berecingum Convent, near London, England **Description:** While nuns at Berecingum (Barking) convent were praying at the tombs after matins, a brilliant light, described as a "great sheet," suddenly descended upon them, causing great amazement. This luminosity, brighter than the midday sun, subsequently moved to the south side of the monastery, where it lingered for a while before ascending back to the heavens. The event's nature left the witnesses convinced that the light symbolized a heavenly signal related to the souls' eternal journey. The described behavior of the light does not align with typical meteor activity. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_48 --- ## Year: 679, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 65 (303C5EDD) **Date:** 10/1/679 **Location:** JAPAN, Osaka **Description:** (Translated from French) "... a material similar to cotton five to six feet long fell on Ninawa [former name of Osaka]. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p.58 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_17 --- ## Year: 680, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 66 (6AEC0E09) **Date:** 11/3/680 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In China, a brightness is seen in the east from Dog Hour \(8 PM\) to Rat Hour \(midnight\). (November 3, 8 PM-12 AM) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/680.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_19 --- ## Year: 682, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 67 (356CE285) **Date:** 682 **Location:** Japan **Description:** (Translated from French) On the third day of the eighth month of the year 682 a great star crossed the sky from east to west above Tsukushi. The term great star seems to exclude a meteor or comet. Eight days later: "Something appeared that had the shape of a Buddhist baptismal flag, flame-colored. It hovered in the void, headed north and was seen in all provinces. Some said it plunged into the sea off Koshi." (Richard D. NOLANE: "Once Upon a Time Aliens - Myths and Realities" Presses de la Cité Poche 1993 p.184, 185) On the twelfth day there was a strong earthquake. The next day the vice-governor of Tsukushi reported that he had seen a three-legged bird. On the seventeenth day there was another earthquake. At dawn an arc of the sky was seen in the middle of the sky at the height of the sun. [note from vog: there is nothing supernatural or extraterrestrial about this. This rather rare phenomenon of a complete circular rainbow around the sun, I was able to contemplate in the 60s when I lived in Africa.] **Reference:** Yves NAUD: "UFOs and ETs in History" - FAMOT 1977, VOLUME 2 p. 240, 241 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_18 ### Event 68 (5814DC38) **Date:** 8/3/682 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In China, a great star traverses the sky from East to West above Tsukushi. (August 3) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/682.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_20 ### Event 69 (5A6651CA) **Date:** 8/11/682 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) something appeared that had the shape of a Buddhist baptismal flag, flame-colored. It hovered in the void, headed north and was seen from all provinces. Some said it plunged into the sea off Koshi. (August 11) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/682.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_21 --- ## Year: 684, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 70 (A8225F70) **Date:** 11/21/684 **Location:** Japan **Description:** At dusk, observers reported witnessing seven stars that appeared to "drift together" towards the north-east before disappearing below the horizon. Due to the limited details provided, it's challenging to determine the exact nature or origin of these so-called "drifting stars." **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_49 --- ## Year: 692, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 71 (00EDDADB) **Date:** Autumn 692 **Location:** JAPAN **Description:** (Translated from French) On the twenty-eighth month, under the reign of Tokama-no-ara-hito-hime, in the night, the planets Mars and Jupiter were seen to approach each other and then move away four times in succession, shining and then fading alternately. (692, Autumn) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p.58 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_19 ### Event 72 (E2203B6B) **Date:** Autumn 692 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In China, one can see in the night the planets Mars and [Jupiter](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Jupiter.html) approach each other and then move away 4 times in succession, shining and fading alternately. (Autumn) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/692.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_22 --- ## Year: 698, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 73 (D1D63729) **Date:** 5/698 **Location:** Ireland **Description:** Observers reported seeing three "shields" in the sky, moving from the east to the west on the night of the Ascension of the Lord. The shields displayed distinct colors: one snowy, the second fiery, and the third bloody. These celestial phenomena were interpreted as omens, thought to presage upcoming misfortunes. Later that year, herds of cows across Ireland and other parts of Europe faced near devastation. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_50 --- ## Year: 729, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 74 (017A3779) **Date:** 729 **Location:** FRANCE, Meaux **Description:** (Translated from French) ".. the monk Wilfred saw two large comets circling around the Sun..." **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p.58 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_20 --- ## Year: 741, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 75 (0AF29F80) **Date:** 6/741 **Location:** Constantinople (Istanbul), Turkey **Description:** During the reign of Constantine, Copronymus, three columns of fire were observed in the sky in June and then again in September. A similar phenomenon was noted in 735 AD, described as a half-moon-shaped object in the northern part of the sky. This object gradually moved to the southern quadrant before returning northward and eventually disappearing below the horizon. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_51 --- ## Year: 746, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 76 (91405C89) **Date:** 746 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN **Description:** (Translated from French) ".. dragons were seen several times in the sky, as well as aerial vessels with men on board". (746-748) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p.58 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_21 --- ## Year: 749, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 77 (ACD0FD47) **Date:** 749 **Location:** Ulster, Ireland **Description:** Aerial ships accompanied by their crews were observed in the sky above Cluain Moccu, as documented in the 15th century Annals of Ulster. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_52 --- ## Year: 760, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 78 (17BEAF86) **Date:** 760 **Location:** FRANCE **Description:** (Translated from French) Under the reign of Pepin the Short (715-768), very singular phenomena were publicly shown in France. The air was full of human figures, the sky reflected mirages of palaces, gardens, agitated waters, ships with sails in the wind and armies lined up for battle. The atmosphere was like a great dream. (...) Dreams and wakefulness were confused and several people thought they had been taken away by aerial beings; all that was heard was talk of trips to the land of the sylphs .... madness seized the best minds and finally the Church had to intervene". **Reference:** Yves Naud: "ETs and UFOs in History" Famot 1977, Volume 2 p. 122-123 **Reference:** Eliphas Levi in "History of Magic" **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_22 ### Event 79 (0CA1C94E) **Date:** 760 **Location:** France **Description:** During Pepin le Bref's reign, the skies over France reportedly exhibited numerous unusual phenomena, including human figures, ships with sails, and warring armies. Several individuals even claimed they were abducted by beings from the air. However, the original source of this information remains elusive and might have been influenced by the Comte De Gabalis written in 1670 by Abbe N. de Montfaucon de Villars. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_53 --- ## Year: 773, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 80 (C135AC40) **Date:** 773 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN **Description:** (Translated from French) "... a red cross appeared after sunset above England. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p.58 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_23 --- ## Year: 776, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 81 (C6FB16EC) **Date:** 776 **Location:** GERMANY, Sigisburg **Description:** (Translated from French) "...and on the same day, as they were preparing a new assault against the Christians living in the castle, the glory of God manifested itself above the church, inside the fortress. Those who were on guard outside in the square said they saw the resemblance of two large shields of reddish color, flaming and in motion above the church itself..." **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "The Chronicle of UFOs" - Delarge 1977 p.58-59 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_24 ### Event 82 (640F85C9) **Date:** 776 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The *Annales Laurissenses* testify to an astonishing observation during the Saxon siege of the Frankish fortress of Sigisburg: Saxon warriors who were preparing the siege of a castle where Franks were sheltered, were put to flight at the sight of two "flaming shields" descending from the sky and moving above the chapel. **Reference:** Paul Misraki, *Des Signes dans le Ciel* **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/776.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_23 ### Event 83 (D2E4E35B) **Date:** 776 **Location:** Syburg Castle, Germany **Description:** During a rebellion against Charlemagne, the Saxons besieged Syburg Castle. As they were about to storm the castle, they reportedly witnessed two flaming, shield-like objects hovering above the church. This sight instilled panic among the Saxons, causing them to retreat in chaos. In their terrified state, many inadvertently harmed or killed their fellow soldiers while fleeing. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_54 --- ## Year: 789, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 84 (7F5BB75C) **Date:** 789 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A law prohibiting contact with the peoples of the clouds is promulgated by Charlemagne \(747-814\) in Aachen. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/789.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_24 --- ## Year: 793, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 85 (26262372) **Date:** 793 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN **Description:** (Translated from French) Above the former kingdom of Northumbria: .." very powerful and terrifying the inhabitants... they were lights like never seen before, like flashes, and red dragons were also seen flying in the air..." **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p. 61 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_25 ### Event 86 (F7A51789) **Date:** 1/793 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At the monastery of St Cuthbert \(Lindisfarne\), the monks witnessed remarkable phenomena: terrible portents appeared in Northumbria, greatly afflicting its inhabitants. These were exceptional lightning bolts \[*sky-bourne portents*\], and fire dragons seen flying in the air and Fire dragons in the sky terrified the unfortunate nation of the English. Shortly after the observation, the monastery was attacked and razed by invading Vikings. The dragons observed were seen as an ill omen. (January) **Reference:** Roger de Wendover **Reference:** Anglo Saxon Chronicles **Reference:** Mysterious Britain **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/793.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_25 --- ## Year: 796, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 87 (CE634A58) **Date:** 796 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN **Description:** (Translated from French) According to the "Flores Historiarum" of the Benedictine Roger de Wendover, small globes were seen spinning around the sun. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD, Inforespace n° 22, p. 36 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_26 --- ## Year: 800, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 88 (F8F9D7DA) **Date:** 800's **Location:** BYZANTIUM **Description:** (Translated from French) The Byzantines, relaying the Chinese and Arabs whose recipe was then transmitted to all of Europe, shot off rockets. They were called "Rocchetto" in Italy, a name which the French translated as "Fusee", the Germans as "Rakete", and the English as "Rocket". It became the absolute weapon in the Middle Ages and Charles VII made abundant use of it in the reconquest of the Kingdom. (800's) **Reference:** L'Astronautique", Pierre Rousseau, ed. Hachette 1965, p. 8 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_27 --- ## Year: 807, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 89 (4F66E3E3) **Date:** 807 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Charlemagne's court astronomers reported that a small planet, the size of Mercury, interposed itself between the [Sun](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Soleil.html) and the [Earth](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Terre.html) for 8 days. This planet appeared in the [Sun](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Soleil.html)'s disk as a black spot. There were also 4 eclipses: 3 of [Moon](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Lune.html), 1 of [Sun](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Soleil.html). **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/807.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_26 --- ## Year: 810, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 90 (E68AC5F7) **Date:** 810 **Location:** GERMANY, Saxony **Description:** (Translated from French) Charles himself was the victim of a significant accident during his last expedition in Saxony against the Danish king Godefrid. One day, when he had left the camp and set out before sunrise, he suddenly saw a dazzling torch miraculously descend from a serene sky and traverse the air from right to left. And as one wondered what this phenomenon portended, the horse he was riding suddenly lowered its head and fell, precipitating him to the ground with such violence that the fibula of his cloak broke and the belt of his sword was torn off. When his servants, witnesses of the accident, rushed to raise him up, they found him without weapons, without a cloak, and a javelin was picked up at least twenty feet away which had escaped from his hands at the moment of his fall." **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "The Chronicle of UFOs" - Delarge 1977 p. 61 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_28 --- ## Year: 811, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 91 (DA1AEAA0) **Date:** 811 **Location:** Near Aachen on Via Aquisgrana, Germany **Description:** Emperor Charlemagne witnessed a large flaming globe moving across the sky from east to west during a campaign against the Danes in Saxony. As he observed the unusual celestial event, he was thrown off his horse, which might have been startled by the spectacle. The emperor's fall was so forceful that his cloak buckle broke and his sword belt shattered. Additionally, a javelin he held was thrown about twenty feet away from where he landed. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_55 --- ## Year: 812, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 92 (5AA87AC1) **Date:** 812 **Locations:** Lyon, France; Magonia; Mahón, the port of the island of Menorca, Spain **Description:** [Agobard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agobard)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agobard) the archbishop of Lyon, France, writes De Grandine et Tonitruis \(“On Hail and Thunder”\), in which he condemns pagan folk beliefs, such as the notion of a “certain region called Magonia, from which ships, navigating on clouds, set sail to transport back to this same region the fruits of the earth ruined by hail and destroyed by the storm.” He cites an episode in which some foolish peasants capture “three men and one woman who they said had fallen from these ships.” Brought out in front of an enraged mob, Agobard intervenes and prevents their lynching, persuading the crowd that the charges are false and absurd. Some ufologists interpret this as a visitation from an alternate reality or an abduction case, while Jean-Louis Brodu observes that in the 9th century the atmosphere was likened to an ocean in which aerial ships could navigate from point to point on the earth. Miceal Ross argues that Magonia is a corruption of Magonianus, relating to the city of Mahón, the port of the island of Menorca, Spain. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jean-Louis Brodu, “Magonia: A Re-Evaluation,” Fortean Studies 2 \(1995\): 198–215; Miceal Ross, “[Anchors in a](https://www.jstor.org/stable/1260571?refreqid=excelsior%3A80f33a6d0d2ed2d946c20adc1419ea0d) [Three-Decker World,](https://www.jstor.org/stable/1260571?refreqid=excelsior%3A80f33a6d0d2ed2d946c20adc1419ea0d)” Folklore 109 \(1998\): 63–75; Vallée, Magonia, [pp. 23–24](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/8/mode/2up); Clark III 1213–1214; Vallée and Aubeck, Wonders in the Sky, Tarcher, 2009, [pp. 70–73](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/page/n84/mode/1up); Pierre Chambert-Protat, “[Florus de Lyon et les Extra-](https://florus.hypotheses.org/292) [terrestres,](https://florus.hypotheses.org/292)” Florus de Lyon, November 4, 2014; Pierre Lagrange, “[_Agobard, la Magonie et les ovnis_,](https://pierrelagrangesociologie.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/lagrange-agobard-magonie-ufologie-lhistoire-440-2017-10-p28-29.pdf)” Actualité, no. 440 \(October 2017\): 28–29; Wikipedia, “[Magonia \(mythology\)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magonia%5F%28mythology%29)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_0 --- ## Year: 813, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 93 (2EF061DA) **Date:** 813 **Location:** Santiago de Compostela, Spain **Description:** A hermit named Pelayo heard music and witnessed a unique shining star above Mount Libredon, an ancient Celtic sacred site. This celestial sighting led to the naming of the location as "Campus Stellae," meaning "field of the star," which evolved into "Compostela." After an investigation initiated by Bishop Teodomiro, the tomb of the Apostle was discovered. King Alphonse II designated Saint James as the patron of his empire and constructed a chapel on the site, which eventually became the renowned Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, attracting numerous pilgrims. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_56 --- ## Year: 814, 4 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 94 (AB57CB93) **Date:** 814 **Location:** CHINA **Description:** (Translated from French) A star like a half braid of straw rose from the ground and its light illuminated the ground. A number of small stars came out of it. **Reference:** Christiane PIENS: "Les Ovni du passé" - Marabout 1977 - p.40 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_29 ### Event 95 (6FC79E86) **Date:** 814 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Death of Charlemagne. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/814.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_27 ### Event 96 (9ADF5FCC) **Date:** 814 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Many lunar and solar eclipses are observed. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/814.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_28 ### Event 97 (F0058D89) **Date:** 814 **Location:** China **Description:** A bright object ascended and illuminated the terrain below. Numerous smaller "stars" were observed emerging from this luminous entity. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_57 --- ## Year: 815, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 98 (4BF4F18F) **Date:** 815 **Location:** Lyons, France **Description:** Saint Agobard, the Archbishop of Lyons, wrote extensively against the superstitions of his time. Among these was the popular belief in a region called "MAGONIA" from where ships would fly and sail upon clouds. These ships allegedly transported goods that had been damaged by storms or hail, after a transaction with 'Tempestaires'. In one notable event, four individuals, three men and a woman, were believed to have fallen from such a ship and were brought forth to be stoned. Saint Agobard intervened and saved their lives, expressing skepticism about the reality of these supposed ships and the beliefs associated with them. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_58 --- ## Year: 817, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 99 (78E10701) **Date:** 817 **Location:** China **Description:** A luminous globe was observed directly overhead, accompanied by a trailing tail. It moved at a slow pace towards the West, beneath the moon. Witnesses reported hearing sounds reminiscent of birds during the event. The sighting is notable due to the globe's unhurried movement, which is atypical for meteors, and the associated auditory phenomena. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_59 --- ## Year: 827, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 100 (80D8D61B) **Date:** 827 **Location:** SPAIN **Description:** (Translated from French) Eginard further reports that during the expedition to Spain of Pépin Ir, second son of Louis the Pious, strange things happened: ".. in truth this disaster was preceded by terrible apparitions of things in the air. During the night they were sometimes pale lights, sometimes bright and red fires like blood". **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p. 61 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_30 ### Event 101 (14DFF25F) **Date:** 827 **Location:** Barcelona, Spain **Description:** Eginard reports "terrible things in the sky" emitting pale or red lights during the night, coinciding with Pepin's war campaign. The nature of these lights, distinct from meteors, adds to the challenge of interpretation. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_60 --- ## Year: 840, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 102 (0D0AE40E) **Date:** 840 **Location:** FRANCE, Lyon **Description:** (Translated from French) (Before 840.) Agobard (779-840) had conducted an investigation and discovered that missing people claimed upon their return to have visited a country they called Magonia. Being a Christian and a rationalist, he refused to believe it and had even stoned three men and one woman in his presence who claimed to have gone to Magonia in an aerial ship. (Jacques BERGIER: "Les E.T. dans l'histoire" - J'AI LU 1970 - p 146) (note from vog: this seems, to say the least, a rocambolesque interpretation of what was really happening with Agobard...) One day, aerial saucers arrived in Lyon from which three men and one woman were seen descending. The whole city gathered around them, shouting that they were magicians sent by Grimaldus, Duke of Berreventum, the enemy of Charlemagne, to destroy the French crops. In vain, the four innocents defended themselves by saying that they were their own and had been carried away a short time before by extraordinary men who had shown them wonders never heard of before, and they had desired to make their own account of what they had seen. The raging populace paid no attention to their defense and was about to throw them into the fire, when the brave Agobard, Bishop of Lyon, alerted by the noise, arrived running and after having heard the accusations of the people and the defense of the accused, declared gravely that both were in error... the men and the woman were released. [note from vog: which also does not seem to be the correct interpretation: Agobard was neither wise nor balanced, he was a kind of fanatic towards unbelievers and heretics, and those "returning from an aerial vessel", what else were they?] **Reference:** Yves Naud: "Les E.T. et les OVNI dans l'histoire" Famot 1977, volume 2 p. 126 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_31 ### Event 103 (9330B338) **Date:** 840 **Location:** China **Description:** Witness accounts describe the appearance of two "sacred lamps" during the early night. The first lamp, initially the size of a begging bowl, grew to that of a small house, atop a ridge east of the terrace across the valley. The crowd, deeply moved, chanted the name of His Holiness as the second lamp emerged, initially resembling a rain straw hat and gradually expanding. The two lights, shining ardently and spaced approximately 100 steps apart, faded and became invisible around midnight. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_61 ### Event 104 (D2C51E95) **Date:** 1/840? **Location:** LYON, FRANCE **Description:** Mob Lynches 3 figures from 'cloudship'. They admitted flying. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 7) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_6 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "LYON,FRANCE:MOB LYNCHES 3 FIGURES FROM 'CLOUDSHIP':they admitted flying", **LatLong:** "45.750002 4.866667", **LatLongDMS:** "45:45:00 N 04:52:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.750002,4.866667)", **State/Prov:** "Rhône", **Strangeness:** "10" --- ## Year: 842, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 105 (A7DA45FE) **Date:** 3/842 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Multicolored armies are seen marching in the sky... these observations of infernal armies are nocturnal, and sometimes accompanied the siege of Jerusalem. (March) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/842.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_29 --- ## Year: 848, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 106 (C64C804B) **Date:** 12/1/848 **Location:** FRANCE **Description:** (Translated from French) Lances were seen in the sky. Thirty days later, terrifying lances were again seen in the north and east of the sky. **Reference:** Christiane PIENS: "Les Ovni du passé" - Marabout 1977 - p.40 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_32 --- ## Year: 877, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 107 (DA11BF1D) **Date:** 877 **Location:** FRANCE **Description:** (Translated from French) Charles II, the Bald (823 - 877) was one day taken away by a being of dazzling whiteness, armed with a weapon throwing an extraordinary light, like that of a comet. During the journey, the stranger protected the king from certain wild animals by enveloping him in a brightness that so offended these dangerous beasts that they could not reach him. (877 (before...)) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD, Inforespace n° 21, p. 48 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_33 --- ## Year: 879, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 108 (8693E4B4) **Date:** 11/879 **Location:** CHINA **Description:** (Translated from French) There was one day two suns that fought ardently. And another day of the same month, two suns rose together and fought in the sky, merging into one single star in the eyes of all spectators. **Reference:** SHI BO: "China and the Extraterrestrials" ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p.47 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_34 ### Event 109 (7CBF8589) **Date:** 11/879 **Location:** China **Description:** An anomalous sighting records the energetic clash of two "suns" in the sky, reminiscent of a battle. On a separate day within the same month, two suns engaged in combat before eventually merging into one. This phenomenon bears resemblance to a similar event described in a Japanese account noted in case 69. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_62 --- ## Year: 880, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 110 (C6066A5E) **Date:** 4/25/880 **Location:** Montserrat-Santa Cova, Spain **Description:** Approximate date. Seven young children from Monistrol in Barcelona witness an enigmatic light descending from the sky and moving towards a small grotto on Montserrat mountain, accompanied by a soft melody. A week later, a group of priests led by the Bishop of Manresa also observes the phenomenon. For four consecutive Saturdays, the light reappears in the sky and descends towards the mountain grotto. Investigating further, seven men follow the light's indication to Santa Cova area, where they discover an image of a black virgin emitting a magical light and pleasant aroma. Attempts to relocate the sculpture to Manresa prove futile due to its increasing weight, leading to the establishment of a hermitage named after St. Mary at the original site. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_63 --- ## Year: 881, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 111 (B7B13A08) **Date:** 9/3/881 **Location:** Japan **Description:** Unusual celestial activity is documented as two stars manifest in the sky, engaging in peculiar maneuvers that involve merging and separating. This observation mirrors a similar pattern detailed in case 67 from China, suggesting a shared phenomenon across regions. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_64 --- ## Year: 900, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 112 (F6C99E5E) **Date:** 3/900 **Location:** China **Description:** The New Book of the Tang documents two significant celestial phenomena. In the year of Guang Hua, a large, yellow, star-like object, roughly 500 meters square, is observed flying southwest with a pointed head and cylindrical rear. Another account describes a "star-like object," five times larger than the previous one, flying northwest. As it descended to around thirty meters above the ground, witnesses noted red-orange flames emitted from its upper part. The object exhibited snake-like movements and was accompanied by sudden appearances and disappearances of numerous small stars. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_65 --- ## Year: 905, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 113 (CFEC8014) **Date:** 905 **Location:** CHINA **Description:** (Translated from French) On the third moon and the day I-Cheou at midnight, a great ball of fire appeared at the zenith. It was the size of five bushels. It headed towards the northwest. At a distance of one hundred feet it stopped. Above it, a multitude of small stars were seen, like sparks of a yellowish red. Its tail was fifty feet long and resembled a snake. All the small stars were in motion. Soon after, the ball went out and was replaced by a greenish vapor, like tufts of bamboo, which extended to the zenith and whose color was fading. **Reference:** Christiane PIENS: "Les Ovni du passé" - Marabout 1977 - p.41 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_35 ### Event 114 (4E084CD5) **Date:** 905 **Location:** China **Description:** A notable sighting involves the appearance of a sizable fiery globe in the sky's zenith, which proceeded to move towards the northwest. This globe halted about 100 feet away while numerous small stars circulated above it. The phenomenon left behind a greenish vapor, adding to the intrigue of the event. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_66 --- ## Year: 919, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 115 (885A76F2) **Date:** 919 **Location:** HUNGARY **Description:** (Translated from French) ..."a flaming torch and brilliant spheres like stars moved here and there in the sky of Hungary. **Reference:** Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: "UFOs in the USSR and in the East Countries" - trad. Laffont 1976 - p. 245 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_36 ### Event 116 (283E0C65) **Date:** 919 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) An object like a flaming torch is observed in the sky, with spheres flying above Hungary, emitting a light brighter than the stars. **Reference:** *Ribera El gran enigma*, p. 356 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/919.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_30 ### Event 117 (9638EBAD) **Date:** 919 **Location:** Hungary **Description:** Witnesses report the sighting of luminous spherical objects resembling stars, accompanied by a bright torch-like presence. These bright spheres exhibit erratic movements, moving back and forth across the sky, captivating the attention of observers. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_67 --- ## Year: 922, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 118 (C6E24523) **Date:** 5/12/922 **Location:** Bulgaria **Description:** During an ambassadorial mission led by Susan ar-Rassi in Almush's country, a peculiar sky phenomenon occurred. As described by the mission's secretary, Ahmad ibn-Fadlan, the sky's horizon turned red, accompanied by loud sounds and commotion during the usual prayer hour before sunset. A red cloud was observed, bearing figures resembling men and horses. These figures wielded weapons and engaged in combat with another group, also visible within the cloud. A black armed group appeared alongside the red one. The event continued for some time, and both ibn-Fadlan and ar-Rassi described the occurrence, noting two red clouds. Ambassador ar-Rassi's account added that the phenomenon started an hour before sunset, lasting until approximately 1:00 A.M. King Almush attributed the event to "Jinni," believed by his forefathers to be responsible for such sightings. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_68 --- ## Year: 927, 4 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 119 (8E5CBC52) **Date:** 927 **Location:** FRANCE, Verdun. **Description:** (Translated from French) In the "Annals" of Flodoard, a French chronicler, it can be read that in 927 in Verdun and throughout the east of France armies were seen marching in the sky. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p. 61-62 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_37 ### Event 120 (1917849D) **Date:** 927 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The city of Verdun, like all of Eastern France, sees armies of fire appear in the sky. A similar phenomenon appeared at various times. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/927.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_31 ### Event 121 (A0B5950D) **Date:** 3/927 (approximate) **Location:** VERDUN, FR **Description:** 'Fiery armies' pass in sky here and all E. France according to Scribe Flodoard. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 32) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_7 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "VERDUN,FR:'FIERY ARMIES' PASS IN SKY HERE +ALL E.FRANCE per Scribe FLODOARD", **LatLong:** "49.150002 5.350000", **LatLongDMS:** "49:09:00 N 05:21:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.150002,5.350000)", **State/Prov:** "Meuse", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 122 (2FAED867) **Date:** 3/927 **Location:** Reims, France **Description:** An unusual sighting is documented in Reims, where an "army of fire" appeared in the sky on a Sunday morning in March. This sighting was followed by an outbreak of pestilence, as noted by Flodoard. The description lacks a clear correlation to known optical or atmospheric phenomena, contributing to the mystery of the event. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_69 --- ## Year: 934, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 123 (2D03F0E0) **Date:** 10/14/934 **Location:** CHINA **Description:** (Translated from French) At the beginning of the night, a star was seen, as big as five bushels, heading towards the southwest. It had a long tail of about 10 degrees. Its color was red. It instantly changed shape, taking the form of a dragon before becoming two spades that were getting closer. A small star moving east was seen at the same time. **Reference:** Christiane PIENS: "Les Ovni du passé" - Marabout 1977 - p.41 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_38 --- ## Year: 940, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 124 (CD0A157E) **Date:** 940 **Location:** GERMANY **Description:** (Translated from French) Armies ravaged the sky. **Reference:** Christiane PIENS: "Les Ovni du passé" - Marabout 1977 - p.41 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_39 ### Event 125 (BBF44775) **Date:** 940 **Location:** FRANCE **Description:** (Translated from French) On a seen beams of light in the sky on a Sunday night. **Reference:** Christiane PIENS: "Les Ovni du passé" - Marabout 1977 - p.41 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_40 --- ## Year: 944, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 126 (77EC2879) **Date:** 944 **Location:** Trans-Rhenan Germany **Description:** Reports indicate the sighting of burning iron globes in the sky, with some causing damage to farms and houses as they flew. However, in certain areas, these iron globes were thwarted by countermeasures involving crucifixes, episcopal blessings, and holy water, successfully repelling the anomalous objects. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_70 --- ## Year: 950, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 127 (E9A107E4) **Date:** 950 **Location:** IRELAND, Cloera **Description:** (Translated from French) (Approx. date.) On a Sunday when people were at mass, a miracle happened in the town of Cloera. There is a church in the town dedicated to the memory of Saint Kinarus. A metal anchor with a rope attached to it fell from the sky and one of its pointed legs got stuck in the wooden arch that tops the church. People rushed outside and saw in the sky a ship with men on board floating at the other end of the anchor rope, then they saw a man jump overboard and descend the rope as if to go and unhook the anchor. It seemed as if he was swimming in the water. People rushed to grab him but the bishop forbade them to hold him for fear of killing him. The man, once released, quickly climbed back up the rope to rejoin the ship. The crew cut the rope and the ship, rising, disappeared. But the anchor remained in the church as a testimony to this singular event (in "Speculum Regali" manuscript "Konungs Skuggsa") (Frank Edwards: "Les S.V. affaire sérieuse" - trad. Laffont 1967 - p. 17- other authors place this event around 1215) ANOTHER VERSION: A ship sailed in the air, everyone saw it. One of the crew of the ship threw a javelin to catch a fish, which people also saw swimming in the air. The javelin missed its target and fell to the ground. The unfortunate fisherman plunged out of the ship and swam to retrieve his weapon. But among the terrestrial spectators, a man had already taken the javelin. The aerial fisherman failed to take it back from him and then said: "But let it go, for I shall drown". The man let go and the fisherman swam back up to the ship, where he climbed aboard. **Reference:** © 1997 Jeroen Slurf and Jeroen Kümeling. **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_41 ### Event 128 (B925B685) **Date:** 950 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In the town of Cloera \(old Ireland\), on a Sunday when the population was attending religious service, a metal anchor with a long rope attached to it fell from the sky and one of its pointed legs got stuck in the wooden arch above the church door. The congregation immediately rushed outside and saw a man jumping from some kind of stationary ship in the sky and descending down the rope to free the anchor. He moved like a submarine diver. People rushed to apprehend him, but the bishop ordered that he be released. The stranger then quickly ascended back to the ship which rose and disappeared, after cutting the rope. The anchor remained in the church as a testimony to this event. **Reference:** *Speculum Regali*, according to [Frank Edwards](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/ufologues.html\#EdwardsFrank) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/950.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_32 --- ## Year: 966, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 129 (C08CCBE9) **Date:** 7/29/966 **Location:** MEDITERRANEE **Description:** (Translated from French) At sea a cylinder was observed in a vertical position **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD, Inforespace n° 22 p. 36 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_42 --- ## Year: 967, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 130 (35AB17AF) **Date:** 9/9/967 **Location:** Japan **Description:** Witnesses observe a formation of numerous objects arranged in a triangular pattern, flying beneath rain clouds with an east-west trajectory. The distinct triangular formation and the presence of rain clouds challenge a meteoric interpretation of the event, if the description is considered reliable. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_71 --- ## Year: 970, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 131 (B6B9B84E) **Date:** 970 **Location:** CHINA **Description:** (Translated from French) As for its applications (that of powder) as a propulsion agent, they are placed around 970, at the time of Tai-Sou, founder of the Song Dynasty. At the time, arrows were used with a bamboo tube filled with powder attached; the charge was set on fire just before releasing the bowstring, and the range of the arrow was thus considerably increased. **Reference:** "Conquest of Space" - Thomas de Galiana, ed. Larousse Poche, 1967, p. 49 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_43 --- ## Year: 979, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 132 (2F891EB1) **Date:** 11/2/979 **Location:** FRANCE **Description:** (Translated from French) Throughout the night, beams were noticed in the middle of the sky. **Reference:** Christiane PIENS: "Les Ovni du passé" - Marabout 1977 - p.41 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_44 --- ## Year: 989, 6 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 133 (EC237C0D) **Date:** 989 **Location:** Constantinople (Istanbul), Turkey **Description:** A phenomenon resembling a "comet" is observed in the western sky after sunset. Unlike a typical comet, this object rises in the evening and exhibits erratic behavior, constantly changing its position and displaying sudden, rapid movements. The bright rays it emits are visible from a significant distance. The unsettling movements of this celestial anomaly evoke awe and fear among witnesses, leading them to interpret the event as an ominous sign. The occurrence coincides with a powerful earthquake that destroys the towers of Byzantium, aligning with the foreboding expectations associated with the phenomenon. While the description seems inconsistent with a typical comet, the possibility of confusion exists, as another comet was visible around the same time according to historical records. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_72 ### Event 134 (3DF6B301) **Date:** 7/29/989 (approximate) **Location:** JAPAN **Description:** (Translated from French) ...three round and shiny objects flew over Japan. (989, July 29 (August 3?)) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p. 62- Inforespace n° 22 p. 36 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_45 ### Event 135 (E92FEEB9) **Date:** 8/3/989 **Location:** JAPAN **Description:** (Translated from French) The three objects shone in an unusual way and came together at the same point in their trajectory. **Reference:** Christiane PIENS: "Les Ovni du passé" - Marabout 1977 - p.41 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_46 ### Event 136 (8B414336) **Date:** 8/3/989 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Japan, during a period of great social unrest, 3 round objects of an unusual brilliance were observed. Shortly afterwards, they come together to form only one. (August 3) **Reference:** Vallee 1969 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/989.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_33 ### Event 137 (9A71A0D0) **Date:** 8/3/989 **Location:** JAPAN / LOCATION UNKNOWN **Description:** Unusually bright saucers fly. Then join together. Time unknown. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_8 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "JAPAN/LOC UNK:UNUSUALLY BRIGHT SCRS FLY:THEN JOIN TOGETHER:TIME UNKNOWN. ", **LatLong:** "35.666668 139.833340", **LatLongDMS:** "35:40:00 N 139:50:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.666668,139.833340)", **State/Prov:** "Honshu Island", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 138 (024BFEE7) **Date:** 8/3/989 **Location:** Japan **Description:** A remarkable event unfolds as three bright objects in the sky undergo an extraordinary transformation, becoming luminous in an unusual manner. These three objects converge and meet at a singular point along their trajectories, creating a unique and intriguing celestial spectacle. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_73 --- ## Year: 998, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 139 (BD7BDAC2) **Date:** 998 **Location:** Budapest, Hungary **Description:** King Stephen (Istvan), the crowned King of Hungary from 997 to 1038, is reported to have experienced frequent aerial episodes. Documented by his biographer, Chartruiz, Bishop of Hungary, these events sometimes occurred spiritually and at other times physically. One instance, as recounted in Chartruis' Life of St. Stephen, describes the king being elevated into the air by the hands of angels while he was engaged in prayer within his tent. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_74 --- ## Year: 999, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 140 (406ADA6D) **Date:** 999 **Location:** Abbey of Saint-Leger, Cote d'Or, France **Description:** Rodulphus Glaber, a monk and chronicler, recounts a personal encounter with a disturbing apparition at the Abbey. During the night, before Matines, he witnessed a grotesque humanoid figure with peculiar features appear at the foot of his bed. The creature had a frail neck, black eyes, a wrinkled forehead, pointed ears, and other unsettling characteristics. The figure forcefully shook his bed and uttered the words, "You will not stay here any longer." Terrified, Glaber woke up and continued to see the figure, gnashing its teeth and repeating the same phrase. Disturbed by the encounter, he hurried to the monastery, confessing his sins and seeking solace at the altar of Saint Benedict. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_75 --- ## Year: 1001, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 141 (956B1A7D) **Date:** 4/25/1001 **Location:** Foggia, Italy **Description:** The Count of Aviemore, seeking shelter in a rustic hut after a day of hunting, is roused from his sleep by frightened servants and friends. They report strange flashes and urge the hunters to flee, fearing a forest fire. Instead of joining them, the Count decides to investigate the phenomenon. Approaching the source of the flashes, he discovers a peculiar light and a luminous lady amidst the flashes, whom he identifies as the Virgin Mary. Witnessing the same vision, a farmer named Nicholas hears a request from the apparition for a place of worship to be established. The construction of a chapel at the site leads to the emergence of a pilgrimage center, eventually evolving into a monastery under the Verginiani and later the Cistercians. The basilica's recognition comes from Pope Paul VI on 31 May 1978. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_76 --- ## Year: 1010, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 142 (0D489366) **Date:** 1010 **Location:** Ostium, Italy **Description:** Peter Damian, the Cardinal-Bishop of Ostium, documents an incident involving the abduction of a five-year-old nobleman's son. The child was taken from a monastery to a locked mill during the night, only to be found there the next morning. The boy recounted being carried by strangers to a grand feast and then placed into the mill through its roof. This early account highlights the theme of interactions between human witnesses and beings from another realm, which would later evolve into beliefs about fairies, elementals, and otherworldly creatures. The description of great feasts and abductees being offered food resonates with fairy folklore, while the act of being pulled through the roof finds parallels in modern UFO abduction accounts. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_77 --- ## Year: 1015, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 143 (AB84C1E2) **Date:** 7/7/1015 **Location:** Kyoto, Western Japan **Description:** The Director General of Saemonfu, part of the Royal Guard, recounts an event where he observed two stars converging at night. As they approached within approximately 10 meters of each other, small stars emerged from each of the larger stars and swiftly moved towards the opposite big star, only to return to their respective originating stars. Subsequently, the two primary stars swiftly departed, followed by the appearance of clouds that covered the sky. This extraordinary occurrence of celestial interaction, though noted in ancient times, had become a rarity, leaving a lasting impression on the witness due to its uncommon nature. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_78 ### Event 144 (D9024E22) **Date:** 8/23/1015 **Location:** JAPAN **Description:** (Translated from French) Two spherical luminous objects were observed in Japan while they released two stars. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p. 66 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_47 ### Event 145 (DB59132B) **Date:** 8/23/1015 **Location:** JAPAN / LOCATION UNKNOWN **Description:** 2 spheres hover. 2 small objects exit.. 1 smokes. No further details. / Belgian UFO Society (SOBEPS) IFS#23 p35. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 9) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_9 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "JAPAN/LOC UNK:2 SPHERES HVR:2 SML OBJs EXIT..1 smokes:NFD:/SOBEPS IFS#23 p35", **LatLong:** "35.633335 139.800007", **LatLongDMS:** "35:38:00 N 139:48:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.633335,139.800007)", **State/Prov:** "Honshu Island", **Strangeness:** "4" --- ## Year: 1023, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 146 (18E321F1) **Date:** Fall 1023 **Location:** France **Description:** In the southern sky within the Sign of the Lion, a remarkable sight unfolds as two stars engage in a prolonged celestial ballet. Throughout the autumn season, the larger and more luminous star approaches from the east, while the smaller one approaches from the west. The smaller star exhibits furious and fearful movements, aggressively charging towards the larger star. However, the larger star's radiant mane serves as a defensive barrier, repelling the smaller star and forcing it to retreat far towards the east. This intricate and dynamic display of celestial interaction captivates observers during the autumn months. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_79 --- ## Year: 1027, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 147 (B2100F62) **Date:** 8/1027 **Location:** EGYPT, Cairo **Description:** (Translated from French) ..in the month of Redjeb, many stars passed over Cairo and the Nile Delta. They flew with great noise and emitting a bright light. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p. 66 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_48 --- ## Year: 1034, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 148 (FC6B8F2E) **Date:** 1034 (approximate) **Location:** EUROPE **Description:** (Translated from French) A strange ovoid-shaped object of fire color crossed the sky of Europe. It went from south to east and changed direction before disappearing to the west. This fact was reported by the German humanist Hartmann Schaeden in an incunable written in 1493. On this document, which would now be in the possession of the Verdun museum, one can apparently see a representation of the UFO. A kind of cylinder or cigar surrounded by flames, flying over a verdant countryside. (1034 (or 1043?)) **Reference:** like a comet??? **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p. 66 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_49 ### Event 149 (776614D5) **Date:** 1034 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Fireball sailing from South to East and then to West. An illumination shows a kind of cigar surrounded by flames flying over green valleys. Incunable \(printed book or phamplet\) from 1493 from the library of Saint Atry. **Reference:** Wartmann Schaeden \< archives de Verdun \< discovered by the canon Boulleaux, LDLN 329 \< Costaglioga 1998 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1034.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_34 ### Event 150 (EB99F8B6) **Date:** 1/1034? **Location:** NEAR VERDUN, FR **Description:** Fiery ovoid going quickly southeast turns going quickly west. / Verdun Museum / Belgian UFO Society (SOBEPS) IFS#23 p35. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 9) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_10 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "nr VERDUN,FR:FIERY OVOID >>SE TURNS >>W:/VERDUN MUSEUM /SOBEPS IFS#23 p35", **LatLong:** "49.083336 5.333334", **LatLongDMS:** "49:05:00 N 05:20:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.083336,5.333334)", **State/Prov:** "Meuse", **Strangeness:** "6" --- ## Year: 1036, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 151 (EC307163) **Date:** 1036 **Location:** Taichang, China **Description:** In an intriguing event, a cloud reportedly descends from the sky, carrying a female entity identified as the goddess Zigu. The cloud enters the bedroom of Wang's daughter, and Zigu engages with the girl. The goddess possesses the ability to write and is described as remarkably attractive. Standing on a cloud that hovers beneath her feet, Zigu demonstrates effortless and swift movement. She offers the daughter an opportunity to travel with her, and when the girl agrees, clouds form in the courtyard to lift her. However, Zigu instructs the girl to remove her dusty shoes before ascending, and once done, the girl rises on the clouds, which carry her into the sky. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_80 --- ## Year: 1045, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 152 (857D6985) **Date:** 1045 **Location:** England **Description:** During the reign of Emperor Henry III in Rome, an event is documented involving the abduction of a purported "witch" by a devil. The witch was reportedly drawn behind the devil on his horse with a frightful cry, then lifted into the air and carried away. The cries of the old woman were heard for several hours over a distance of nearly four miles in the country. This account aligns with a recurring theme of stories involving witches being transported through paranormal or non-human means, often associated with demonic entities. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_81 --- ## Year: 1050, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 153 (8125686D) **Date:** 1050 **Location:** Vinland (Newfoundland) **Description:** The Greenlanders Saga recounts an encounter involving Gudrid, who sat beside her son's cradle when a shadow fell across the doorway and a woman in a black dress entered. The woman had light-brown hair, large eyes, and introduced herself as Gudrid. As the two Gudrids conversed, a loud crack was heard, and the visiting woman vanished from sight. Simultaneously, a skirmish took place between a Skraling and a house carle of Karlsefne's, resulting in the Skraling's death. This incident, although debated as a possible ghost story rather than a UFO case, bears similarities to the contemporary motif of "Woman-in-black" encounters, aligning with narratives of modern alien visitations. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_82 --- ## Year: 1054, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 154 (A02F51E0) **Date:** 1054 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Chinese astronomers observe the supernova that will give birth to the Crab Nebula, in the constellation of Taurus. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1054.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_35 ### Event 155 (E1FC9DC9) **Date:** 4/14/1054 **Location:** Rome, Italy **Description:** On the day of Pope Leo IX's departure, a remarkable celestial event occurs around midday. Documented in the Tractatus de Ecclesia S. Petri Aldeburgensi, a bright and extraordinary circle appears in the sky, radiating brightness for about half an hour. This phenomenon is observed not only in Rome but also worldwide, symbolically believed to signify the Pope's worthiness of a heavenly crown. Although later suggested as a supernova, the Crab Nebula's recorded sighting by Chinese astronomers three months later brings into question the initial interpretation. The Flemish chronicler's description highlights the appearance of a bright disk-like shape, emphasizing the object's intense brightness and duration, while the document separates the observation from any specific belief system. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_83 --- ## Year: 1059, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 156 (D50A948F) **Date:** 1059 **Location:** Fanliang, China **Description:** In the midst of Emperor Jia You's reign, a remarkable sighting is documented by Chinese scholar Sheng Gua. A massive luminous pearl is observed under gloomy skies, making appearances over a ten-year period. This radiant object travels from the marshes of Tianchang district through Bishe Lake to eventually vanish into Xinkai Lake. The pearl's radiance is so intense that it illuminates the surroundings, and it even enlarges significantly at one point, emitting a white and silvery center that is almost blinding. The pearl's luminosity reaches faraway trees, casting shadows on the ground and lighting up the distant sky. Captivated by these appearances, the inhabitants construct a "Pearl Pavilion" in the town of Fanliang, where people from various places gather by boat, hoping for a glimpse of this enigmatic phenomenon. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_84 --- ## Year: 1067, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 157 (05E7BC4E) **Date:** 1067 **Location:** At sea, in the English Channel **Description:** (Translated from French) "...coming from Normandy, several members of a crew perished at sea in the English Channel... A fire shone and burned superbly in the air. It came close to the ground and illuminated it for some time. Then, it departed, rose very high and then shot into the waters. In many places it burned woods and crops. In Northumberland this fire was seen twice in the year.. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p. 66 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_50 ### Event 158 (6802F2AE) **Date:** 1067 **Location:** Northumbria, England **Description:** Numerous individuals witnessed an inexplicable fiery sign in the sky that resembled fire, burning fiercely and illuminating the surroundings. The phenomenon drew close to the earth, providing a brief but intense illumination, then began to revolve and ascend high into the sky, eventually descending into the depths of the sea. Its presence caused the burning of woods and plains in various areas. This enigmatic event occurred in the Northumbrian region and recurred twice within a single year, leaving observers puzzled about its meaning and significance. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_85 --- ## Year: 1071, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 159 (AC465BA4) **Date:** 12/1071 **Location:** Zhengjiang, China **Description:** Renowned scholar Su Dongpo witnessed an extraordinary event as a large light emerged from the Yangtse River. The sight of this phenomenon caused a disturbance among mountain birds, as they were frightened by the unusual occurrence. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_86 --- ## Year: 1085, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 160 (AE6134B3) **Date:** 7/1085 **Location:** Estella, Navarra, Spain **Description:** In Estella, Navarra, a remarkable event unfolded as a significant star and the Holy Virgin were witnessed by a group of shepherds on a mountain. The presence of the Virgin and the extraordinary star led to the establishment of a sanctuary in the area, attracting a multitude of pilgrims. King Sancho Ramirez played a role in the construction of the sanctuary, solidifying its significance. A plaque within the chapel commemorates the event, stating that the star descended from the sky to Estella for its observation and protection. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_87 --- ## Year: 1092, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 161 (AE33508B) **Date:** 1092 **Location:** Drutsk and Polotsk, Ukraine **Description:** The year 1092 marked the first recorded instance of the Devil's Hunt phenomenon in folklore. In Drutsk, a massive sign resembling a large circle emerged in the sky, and shortly afterward, similar signs manifested in Polotsk. Mysterious sounds resembling the galloping of men on horseback were heard, causing fear and devastation. People in Polotsk were terrified by the nighttime noises of what were believed to be demons running through the streets, causing harm to anyone who ventured outside. Later, these entities appeared on horseback during the day, with only the hooves of their horses being visible. These events were associated with a period of dry weather, forest fires, and deaths, leading to the interpretation of demonic activity. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_88 --- ## Year: 1096, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 162 (7CD4B7C0) **Date:** 7/1096 **Location:** JAPAN **Description:** (Translated from French) "...ten lights arranged in a straight line flew over the Japanese territory..." (1096, July-August) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p. 66 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_51 ### Event 163 (AC7B37A9) **Date:** 7/1096 **Location:** Japan **Description:** In an unspecified location, ten flying objects were observed coming together to form a necklace-like arrangement in the sky towards the northwest. Unfortunately, due to the lack of an original quote or detailed information, further analysis of this event is limited. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_89 --- ## Year: 1098, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 164 (FEA79065) **Date:** 1098 **Location:** GERMANY, Worms **Description:** (Translated from French) "Cavalry forces in the sky near Worms" **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "The Chronicle of UFOs" - Delarge 1977 p. 67 **Reference:** Meland 2, no. 5 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_52 ### Event 165 (4E8C4347) **Date:** 9/15/1098 **Location:** Antioch, Turkey **Description:** During the First Crusade, historical accounts from Raymond d'Aguiliers and Alfred of Aachen describe a remarkable celestial event. A large star appeared over the city of Antioch in the night sky, which eventually split into three parts and descended onto the camp of the Turks. The star's fiery and luminous appearance captivated the Christian guards on duty, forming a dense group resembling a scintillating globe. The phenomenon continued to evolve, eventually shaping itself into a crown-like formation above the city before breaking into a new pattern and path. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_90 --- ## Year: 1100, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 166 (EF40B59F) **Date:** 1100's **Location:** TURKEY, CONSTANTINOPLE **Description:** (Translated from French) Under Emperor Emmanuel Comnene, a Saracen, Georges of Trebizoade (or of Trabson) tries to fly in Constantinople, in the presence of the Sultan of Turkey. He kills himself. (1100's) **Reference:** "La conquête de l'air, chronologie..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - éd. Marabout Université 1967, p. 14 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_53 ### Event 167 (49DD883B) **Date:** 1100 **Location:** Germany **Description:** An account speaks of prodigious signs in the sun, the sky, and on the earth that ignited fervor for an upcoming Crusade. A priest named Suigger reported witnessing two knights engaged in an aerial battle, where one carried a large cross and ultimately triumphed. People in the fields claimed to have seen an airborne image of a city, with diverse troops converging on it from various directions. Many individuals displayed a divine imprint of the cross on their clothing, foreheads, or bodies, believing this marked their destined service to God. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_91 --- ## Year: 1104, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 168 (5044CC44) **Date:** 1104 **Location:** Great Britain or SWITZERLAND? **Description:** (Translated from French) "Torches of fire, burning streaks and flying lights were often seen in the sky at that time. There were some that looked like swarms of butterflies or small glowing worms of a strange kind. They flew in the sky and hid the light of the Sun as if it were clouds." (Christiane PIENS: "Les Ovni du passé" - Marabout 1977 - p.46: Great Britain) Wolfart notes that in Switzerland, in 1104, "torches...etc." **Reference:** "Dossiers OVNI", ed. Marshall Cavendish, Paris 1998, Hors série, p.3 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_54 ### Event 169 (4E35AB63) **Date:** 1104 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Switzerland, "fiery torches, streaks of fire, and flying fire were often seen in the sky that year. And there were close to the stars, like swarms of butterflies and small strange fiery worms. They flew in the sky and darkened the sky as clouds would have done". **Reference:** Wolffart **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1104.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_36 --- ## Year: 1110, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 170 (98B3B642) **Date:** 2/11/1110 **Location:** Pechorsky Monastery, Russia **Description:** A fiery omen took place at the Pechorsky monastery, where a pillar of fire reaching from the ground to the sky appeared. Lightning illuminated the earth, and thunder resounded in the first hour of the night. Initially, the fiery pillar hovered over the monastery dining room, obscuring the cross, and later moved to the church, then to Feodosiev's tomb. Eventually, it ascended to the top of the church, facing eastward, before vanishing. This phenomenon was believed to be an angelic apparition, consistent with angels often appearing as fiery columns or flames. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_92 --- ## Year: 1113, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 171 (70FE7387) **Date:** 1113 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In England, a group of clerics from Laon travel from town to town in Wessex \(southwest England\), carrying with them the relics of the Virgin Mary, which allow them to perform miraculous healings. Arriving at the coastal town of Christchurch, in Hampshire, they are astonished to see a dragon emerge from the sea, breathing fire from its nostrils. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1113.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_37 --- ## Year: 1123, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 172 (33FB3EA1) **Date:** 1123 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, London **Description:** (Translated from French) In Geoffrey of Monmouth's chronicle there is mention of observations in London of "ships at anchor between the clouds". **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "The Chronicle of UFOs" - Delarge 1977 p.67 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_55 --- ## Year: 1125, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 173 (5D878B23) **Date:** 1125 **Location:** GERMANY **Description:** (Translated from French) For three nights, starting at midnight, a man of fire was said to have run from one birch tree to another. Georg Miltenburger, who lived near a hop field near Railbach, Freienstein district, explained that the figure had first appeared on Sunday night, between 11:00 PM and midnight, quite far from him: he was nevertheless able to count all the figure's ribs. Many other people saw him on the crest of the hills as he ran in all directions. He spat fire from his nose and mouth. (Michel BOUGARD, Inforespace n° 23, p. 35) That year, one night, a man of fire haunted the mountain like an apparition; it was just midnight. The man went from one birch tree to another, setting them on fire, the guard declared that he looked like a bright fire. He did the same thing for three nights, and that was it. **Reference:** Jean FERGUSON: "Les Humanoïdes..." ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1977, p.17, citing Raymond Drake **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_56 --- ## Year: 1130, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 174 (24657978) **Date:** 1130 **Location:** CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Prague. **Description:** (Translated from French) "Two flaming flying dragons" passed over Prague. (1130 and 1142) **Reference:** Henry DURRANT: "The Black Book of UFOs" - Laffont 1970 -p. 56 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_57 ### Event 175 (73345EBC) **Date:** 1130 **Location:** Bohemia, Czechoslovakia **Description:** A recorded sighting describes a flying sign or "monster" resembling a flying serpent that appeared in the skies over Bohemia. This sighting is documented by two distinct historians. It's worth considering the possibility that this sighting could have been attributed to a natural phenomenon. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_93 --- ## Year: 1133, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 176 (13B2108C) **Date:** 1133 **Location:** ENGLAND, Christchurch, Hampshire **Description:** (Translated from French) A group of clerics from Laon were travelling from town to town in Wessex, carrying with them the relics of the Virgin Mary, which allowed them to perform miraculous healings. Upon arriving in the town of Christchurch in Hampshire, they were astonished to see a dragon emerge from the sea "breathing fire from its nostrils". **Reference:** "UFO Files", ed. Marshall Cavendish, Paris 1998, Special Issue, p. 3, 4 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_58 ### Event 177 (7A3F279B) **Date:** 8/12/1133 **Location:** Japan **Description:** A large silvery object reportedly descended close to the ground in a close encounter. However, due to the lack of an actual quote, the details of this case are uncertain and should be taken with reservations. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_94 --- ## Year: 1138, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 178 (6EE3A704) **Date:** 1138 **Location:** GERMANY (unspecified) **Description:** (Translated from French) A dwarf was captured in the cellar of a German monastery. He was completely black and spoke no language. He was released to see what he would do. He returned to the cellar where he was found, lifted a stone and entered a tunnel that no one was able to follow him into. The tunnel was sealed with a cross and that was the end of it. **Reference:** Jacques BERGIER: "Les E.T. dans l'Histoire" - J'AI LU - 1970 - p. 166, 167 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_59 --- ## Year: 1142, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 179 (EA976F4F) **Date:** 1142 **Location:** Bohemia, Czechoslovakia **Description:** A sighting of a flying phenomenon resembling a "flying dragon" occurred over Bohemia, similar to a previous case from 1130. The nature of these reports suggests possible natural phenomena or misinterpretations. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_95 --- ## Year: 1155, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 180 (24FCC4C1) **Date:** 1155 **Location:** Rome, Italy **Description:** During the coronation of Federico Barbarossa by Pope Eugene III, three lights and a cross formed by stars were observed in the sky. This event took place during a significant historical moment and was marked by the appearance of these celestial phenomena. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_96 --- ## Year: 1160, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 181 (6CA86F0A) **Date:** 1160 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN **Description:** (Translated from French) Olivier de Malmesbury wants to reenact Icarus' flight; he jumps from the top of a tower; he glides for a distance of 120 steps and breaks his legs upon landing. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout Université 1967, p. 14 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_60 --- ## Year: 1161, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 182 (9D848D87) **Date:** 1161 **Location:** Thann, Alsace, France **Description:** In the village of Thann, three lights or luminous objects were witnessed in the sky by the Lord of Engelburg. This event occurred in conjunction with the theft of a relic from the body of Saint Ubald by a servant, who hid it in a walking stick planted next to a pine tree. The three aerial lights were observed hovering over the tree, and the next day, the servant found his stick immobilized. The phenomenon left a lasting impression, leading to the construction of a chapel to commemorate the event. To this day, the "cremation des trois sapins" celebration occurs annually in Thann, involving the burning of three fir-trees to honor the foundation legend. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_97 --- ## Year: 1167, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 183 (26D1DBC3) **Date:** 12/25/1167 **Location:** England **Description:** On Christmas Day, two "fiery stars" were observed in the western sky. According to Nicholas Trivetus' account in the Annales, one of the stars was large, and the other was small. Initially appearing as one unit, they later separated distinctly and remained visible for an extended period. The sighting, witnessed during the watch night (vigilia) of the Lord's Nativity, holds historical significance, although the exact location in England where this event took place remains uncertain. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_98 --- ## Year: 1169, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 184 (7A3DF93A) **Date:** 1169 **Location:** China **Description:** During a thunderstorm in the fifth year of the K'ien Tao era (now known as Qiandao), two dragons were witnessed engaged in a battle in the sky. As they departed, pearls resembling carriage wheels fell from the sky and landed on the ground. This event is recorded in the history of the Song Dynasty and highlights a remarkable celestial occurrence involving dragon-like creatures and the unusual appearance of pearls. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_99 --- ## Year: 1170, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 185 (18456B45) **Date:** 3/9/1170 **Location:** ENGLAND, St Ostwyth (Sussex) **Description:** (Translated from French) 12th century chronicler Ralph Niger recounts that an "incredibly large dragon" was observed, leaving the Earth to fly into the air. The air was set ablaze by its action and a house was burned to ashes, along with its outbuildings. **Reference:** "UFO Files", ed. Marshall Cavendish, Paris 1998, Special Issue, p. 4 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_61 ### Event 186 (9CAE35D3) **Date:** 3/9/1170 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At St Ostwyth, in Sussex \(South East England\), an incredibly large dragon was observed, leaving the Earth to fly into the air. The air was set ablaze by its action and a house was burned to ashes along with its outbuildings. (March 9) **Reference:** Ralph Niger, 12th century chronicler **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1170.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_38 --- ## Year: 1171, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 187 (1FAD0DFB) **Date:** 1171 **Location:** Teruel, Aragon, Spain **Description:** During the Reconquest of Spain, King Alfonso II and his soldiers witnessed a perplexing event. While advancing towards Teruel, they observed a wandering bull accompanied by a luminous, star-like object in the sky. According to local tradition, this celestial phenomenon was interpreted as a sign, prompting the warriors to disregard the king's orders. Guided by their dreams and the enigmatic display, they established a new town by capturing the fortress of Teruel, an event that continues to be depicted on the town's emblem featuring a bull and a star. This blending of historical events and legendary symbolism underscores the significance of celestial occurrences in shaping historical narratives. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_100 --- ## Year: 1178, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 188 (C4A05400) **Date:** 6/18/1178 **Location:** Canterbury, England **Description:** Gervase of Canterbury documented a remarkable celestial event around an hour after sunset. Observers witnessed the upper horn of the bright new moon suddenly splitting into two, with a flaming torch erupting from the division point. The moon appeared to writhe and throb, emitting fire, hot coals, and sparks, a phenomenon that recurred multiple times and turned the moon blackish along its length. While some theories linked this event to the lunar crater Giordano Bruno's formation, later calculations challenged this explanation due to the potential catastrophic effects it would have had on Earth. The precise nature of the phenomenon witnessed by Gervase's contemporaries remains a mystery, raising questions about its true origin and implications. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_101 --- ## Year: 1180, 4 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 189 (A8708614) **Date:** 10/27/1180 **Location:** JAPAN **Description:** (Translated from French) Some chronicles report that on that day, a bright object similar to a clay pot took off in the middle of the night from a mountain in Kyushu and headed northeast towards Mount Fukuhara. The object suddenly changed course, flew south and disappeared leaving a luminous trail. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "The Chronicle of UFOs" - Delarge 1977 p.68 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_62 ### Event 190 (E87DA767) **Date:** 10/27/1180 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Japan, an unusual, luminous object, similar to a clay bowl, flew from a mountain in the Kii province at midnight towards the Fukuhara mountain in the Northeast. After some time, the object changed direction, went South and was lost from sight, leaving behind a luminous trail. (October 27th, 0:00) **Reference:** as reported by ancient Japanese documents **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1180.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_39 ### Event 191 (015F78FC) **Date:** 10/27/1180 (approximate) **Location:** KII SANCHI, NARA, JAPAN **Description:** Glowing 'pot' flies and maneuvers between mountains. Going quickly south. / Belgian UFO Society (SOBEPS) IFS#23. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: DIMENSIONS, A Casebook of Alien Contact Ballentine, NY 1989. PB (Index 10) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_11 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "KII SANCHI,NARA,JAPAN:GLOWING 'POT' FLIES+MNVRS BTWN Mtns:>>S:/SOBEPS IFS#23", **LatLong:** "34.000002 135.672229", **LatLongDMS:** "34:00:00 N 135:40:20 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.000002,135.672229)", **State/Prov:** "Honshu Island", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 192 (E4CEE47D) **Date:** 10/27/1180 **Location:** Kii Sanchi, Nara, Japan **Description:** Witnesses reported observing a luminous "earthenware vessel," potentially resembling a saucer, maneuvering in the sky between Kyushu's mountains. The object altered its trajectory, moving northeast towards Mount Fukuhara, then sharply changing course to the south before disappearing, leaving behind a glowing trail. The description hints at a possible unidentified flying object encounter during this historical event. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_102 --- ## Year: 1182, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 193 (02B7559A) **Date:** 1182 **Location:** Friesland, Holland **Description:** According to the chronicler Winsemius, a peculiar sighting occurred involving the appearance of four suns in the sky along with a group of armed men. Additionally, there were reports of a rain of blood. This historical account describes an anomalous atmospheric phenomenon that intrigued witnesses during that time. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_103 --- ## Year: 1185, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 194 (AEFC8EC0) **Date:** 1185 **Location:** Mount Nyoigadake, Japan **Description:** Fishermen reported witnessing an unusual event where red beams appeared behind the mountain, followed by the sighting of a luminous wheel-like object flying across the sky and eventually entering the sea. This mysterious phenomenon caught the attention of the witnesses and remains an intriguing account of a pre-industrial anomalous sighting. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_104 --- ## Year: 1186, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 195 (5AEFD4C5) **Date:** 8/9/1186 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Dunstable (county of Betford) **Description:** (Translated from French) Benedict of Peterborough in his "Gesta Regis Henrici Secundum" reports that at the ninth hour of the day (around 2 pm) the sky suddenly opened and both the laity and the clergy of the abbey saw a very long and astonishingly large cross. The apparition lasted until midnight.

Walther of Hemingford, chronicler and canon of Gisburn, also reports the event in his "Chronica" but places it in 1189, specifying that the cross was bright and white like silk. William of Newburgh, on the other hand, also places the event in 1189 but in Dunstaple this time, on the road to London and adds "one hour after noon the Emblem of the Lord and the shape of a crucified man were seen". But this is not the end of these mysterious crosses. The archives of the Dunstable abbey obviously report the majestic passage of an immense cross, high in the sky, from east to west, but this time the observation was made in 1217. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.68-69 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_63 ### Event 196 (AFEC2999) **Date:** 8/9/1186 **Time:** 14:00 **Location:** DUNSTABLE, BEDFORDS **Description:** Many observer(s) amazed. 'Sky opens up'. Huge cross hovers till midnight. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** INFORESPACE Journal. SOBEPS Group, Belgium; bimonthly (Index 23) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_12 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "88", **HatchDesc:** "DUNSTABLE,BEDFORDs:MANY OBS AMAZED:'SKY OPENS UP':HUGE CROSS HVRS TILL MIDNITE", **LatLong:** "51.883336 -0.450000", **LatLongDMS:** "51:53:00 N 00:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.883336,-0.450000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "7" --- ## Year: 1189, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 197 (EC50E924) **Date:** 8/9/1189 **Location:** Dunstaple, Bedfordshire, England **Description:** In the afternoon, numerous astonished observers witnessed a remarkable event as the sky seemed to "open up," revealing a large cross and the image of a crucified man, resembling church depictions of Christ. This awe-inspiring vision lingered in the clear atmosphere, captivating those who looked up. The cross eventually separated from the crucified figure, leaving a gap between them before vanishing entirely. Chronicler William of Newburgh documented this prodigious occurrence, alongside other accounts like those by writers Thomas Wykes, Wilhelmus Parvus, and Walther of Hermingford, in their historical and philosophical writings. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_105 --- ## Year: 1193, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 198 (B54B0C4C) **Date:** 6/7/1193 **Location:** London, England **Description:** On the 7th of June, around 6 o'clock, a dense black cloud emerged in the sky despite the clear sunshine. Within the heart of the cloud, an aperture formed, from which a brilliant white ball of light emerged. This luminous sphere remained suspended like a hovering orb beneath the dark cloud, positioned over the Thames River near the Bishop of Norwich's Palace. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_106 --- ## Year: 1200, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 199 (2EAB77AE) **Date:** Late 12/1200 **Location:** Yorkshire, England **Description:** During the third year of King John's reign, an extraordinary phenomenon occurred in Yorkshire. Five moons were reported to have appeared in the sky, arranged in formation - one each in the East, West, North, and South, with the fifth moon positioned amidst the others. This central moon was surrounded by numerous blazing stars, and it encircled the other moons five or six times over the course of about an hour before disappearing shortly thereafter. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_107 --- ## Year: 1211, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 200 (03F80F09) **Date:** 1211 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) He arrived in the town of Cloera \(Ireland\), on a Sunday, while everyone was at Mass, something wonderful. There is in this town a church dedicated to Saint Kinarus. It happened that an anchor was thrown from the sky, attached to a rope, and one of the beaks caught in the arch above the church door. People ran out of the church and saw in the sky a ship with men on board, which floated in front of the anchor cable, and they saw a man climb over the railing and jump to the anchor as if to free it. It seemed he was swimming in the water. People rushed to try to seize him but the bishop forbade them to catch the man because, he said, it could kill him. The man was left free and hurried to the ship; the crew cut the rope and the ship set sail until it was out of sight. It is said that the anchor was kept in the church. This story has been located in many other places the same year including Gravesend in Kent \(England\) or Bristol \(Somerset\). Other sources suggest that the Cloera story dates from 965 and appeared in the *Speculum Regale*. **Reference:** Irish story telling the two incidents of Drake and Wilkin **Reference:** Mysterious Britain **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1211.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_40 --- ## Year: 1212, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 201 (8A054FF3) **Date:** 1212 **Location:** FRANCE **Description:** (Translated from French) A young boy, Etienne de Cloyes, heard voices urging him to gather fifty thousand children to set up the pathetic Children's Crusade. They left to fight against the infidels and all disappeared. The explanation given is that they were taken as slaves. [note from vog: Keel seems to be blaming other forces for the disappearance of the children...] **Reference:** Excerpt from John Keel's book; found in "Coscon Files" Internet, 5.1.1997 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_66 --- ## Year: 1218, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 202 (C080093C) **Date:** 1218 **Location:** GERMANY, Cologne and Munster **Description:** (Translated from French) In 1218 both in Cologne and Munster and in Leyde, a formation of three crosses was seen crossing the sky. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.68-69 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_67 ### Event 203 (7B6FC4B9) **Date:** 1218 **Location:** NETHERLANDS, Friesland **Description:** (Translated from French) A blue cross was even seen above Friesland at the same time. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.68-69 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_68 --- ## Year: 1222, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 204 (B5E41F1C) **Date:** 11/30/1222 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In London \(England\), "dragons" are observed above the city. After the observation, violent storms cause significant flooding. (November 30) **Reference:** Mysterious Britain **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1222.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_41 --- ## Year: 1224, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 205 (7B8BA4A8) **Date:** 9/1224 **Location:** ITALY, Alverne **Description:** (Translated from French) Brother Leon, companion of Francis of Assisi, saw a ball of fire descend on Mount Alverne. The same night Leon found Francis in ecstasy talking aloud to an invisible interlocutor. (September 1224) **Reference:** Christiane PIENS: "Les Ovni du passé" - Marabout 1977 - p. 48 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_69 ### Event 206 (A0FD34B4) **Date:** 9/14/1224 **Location:** Mount Alverne, Italy **Description:** Brother Leo's account describes a mystical event atop Mount Alverne. As St. Francis of Assisi engaged in conversation with an unseen entity, Brother Leo observed a suspended ball of light above him. During this interaction, voices exchanged questions and answers. St. Francis, in a humble manner, repeated inquiries about his identity and that of the divine. St. Francis extended his hand into his bosom thrice, reaching toward the light, which eventually vanished along with the conversation. This incident serves as a unique link between atmospheric lights, luminous ground-level orbs, and the concept of ethereal communication. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_108 --- ## Year: 1232, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 207 (D23CA30C) **Date:** 1232 **Location:** CHINA, Pien King, (Honan) **Description:** (Translated from French) Ogdai, son of Genghis Khan, was marching south when he came upon the walls of Pien King. There, he had the greatest surprise of his life. The defenders possessed two secret weapons. One was a real thunder that shook the skies, in Chinese: "chin-tien-loui", the other, worse, flying fire arrows, not simple arrows dipped in flaming pitch but authentic rockets that their wand allowed them to shoot from a bow. The thunder of the firecrackers and the flashes of the rockets spread terror among Ogdai's horde. **Reference:** "Assault on Space" Georges H. Gallet, ed. of Modern Thought, p. 18, 19 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_70 ### Event 208 (655E220D) **Date:** 5/3/1232 **Location:** Caravaca, Spain **Description:** Luminous occurrences accompanied the descent of a double-armed cross, believed to have been brought down by an entity resembling an angel. This event, steeped in religious significance, has endured as a legend, recounted by various authors. The 13th-century Franciscan Juan Gil (Egidio) de Zamora's account holds particular authority. He narrates that two angels conveyed the cross into the church. Presently, the fate of the original artifact is uncertain; the cross on display in Caravaca's sanctuary is a replica, as the original was likely stolen in 1934, potentially by a cult. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_109 --- ## Year: 1235, 4 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 209 (6ED77826) **Date:** 9/24/1235 **Location:** JAPAN **Description:** (Translated from French) While General Yosistsume was camping with his army, lights appeared here and there in the sky, swirling towards the southwest and leaving trails. The phenomenon lasted until the next morning and at the request of the general, an investigation was immediately launched to shed light on the mystery. The explanation came quickly: according to the scientists consulted, it was a rather rare natural phenomenon, namely "it was the wind that made the stars move". **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.69 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_71 ### Event 210 (6A51A435) **Date:** 9/24/1235 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Japan, General Yoritsume camps with his army. Suddenly, his sentinels observe a curious phenomenon: mysterious sources of light come and go, swirl to the southwest, describing loops, and this until morning. General Yoritsume orders that a thorough scientific examination be carried out, and his collaborators get to work. It takes them little time to draw up their report: the phenomenon is quite natural. It is only the wind that moves the stars. (September 24) **Reference:** Yusuke J. Matsumura, from Yokohama **Reference:** Vallee 1969 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1235.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_42 ### Event 211 (80CDB668) **Date:** 9/24/1235 **Time:** ~22:00 **Location:** JAPAN / LOCATION UNKNOWN **Description:** Night lights and fireballs overhead all night. 'Wind making stars sway' / Belgian UFO Society (SOBEPS) IFS#23. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: DIMENSIONS, A Casebook of Alien Contact Ballentine, NY 1989. PB (Index 11) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_13 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HST:** Historical account, **MIL:** Military investigation, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "88", **HatchDesc:** "JAPAN/LOC UNK:NLTS+FBLS OVHD ALL NITE:'WIND MAKING STARS SWAY'/SOBEPS IFS#23", **LatLong:** "37.016668 140.000007", **LatLongDMS:** "37:01:00 N 140:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.016668,140.000007)", **State/Prov:** "Honshu Island", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 212 (C2BB9264) **Date:** 10/2/1235 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** Japan **Description:** At around 8 P.M. under clear skies, Suketoshi Abe, a fortune teller and advisor to Shogun Yoritsune Fujiwara, informed the palace of peculiar luminous phenomena observed in the southwest. These enigmatic lights were witnessed swaying and encircling in the sky throughout the night. In response, Yoritsune initiated an inquiry, engaging his astrology consultants skilled in astronomy. These experts dismissed the phenomenon as mere star movement caused by the wind, even suggesting that Abe should apologize. Yasutoki Houjo, a high-ranking government official, rejected this assertion. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_110 --- ## Year: 1237, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 213 (562BA74A) **Date:** 1237 **Location:** El Puig, Valencia **Description:** Over the course of four consecutive Saturdays, a sequence of seven unexplained lights manifested in the night sky. The lights appeared to descend from above, entering the earth at a specific location. As recounted in Tirso de Molina's Historia de la Orden de la Merced, these luminous stars descended atop the summit near the El Puig fortress. Guards stationed there reported the phenomenon to Pedro Nolasco and the mayor. Intrigued by the possible significance, they investigated the site and unearthed a hidden treasure: a bell and a sculpted image of the Virgin Mary. Grateful for these gifts, Nolasco later constructed an altar at the site, attributing the findings to angelic intervention or divine providence. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_111 --- ## Year: 1239, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 214 (AAD93503) **Date:** 7/24/1239 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) As the Sun set, a great star appeared over Hereford and Worcester \(towns in the west of England, close to the Welsh border\), rising in the south and giving off a great light. It had the shape of a large head, the front part was sparkling and the back part was emitting smoke and flashes. And, it turned towards the north... not quickly, nor fast indeed, but precisely as if it wanted to ascend to a place in the sky. (July 24) **Reference:** Matthew of Paris, British chronicler, Historia Anglorum - "History of the English" **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1239.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_43 ### Event 215 (C4DBA24E) **Date:** 7/24/1239 **Location:** France **Description:** During the evening twilight, in clear and serene skies, an extraordinary event unfolded. A large star-like object emerged, resembling a torch, ascending from the south. Alongside it, a substantial light emanated at a higher altitude. The object altered its course, shifting toward the north in the higher regions of the sky. The peculiar pattern of movement, distinct from natural occurrences, suggests that this phenomenon was not a conventional star but rather an anomalous sighting. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_112 --- ## Year: 1252, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 216 (1188D56D) **Date:** 1252 **Location:** Padua, Italy **Description:** Recorded in the Cronaca di Rolandino da Padova, an intriguing event is recounted by a witness. A massive star-like object, similar to a comet but without a tail, appeared as a remarkable and portentous phenomenon. Its size approached that of the moon, and it exhibited swifter movement than the moon, resembling the speed of falling stars. Lasting for an hour, the object disappeared after its observation. The description distinguishes it from comets or meteors, suggesting it was an exceptional and distinct occurrence. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_113 --- ## Year: 1253, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 217 (D43809F0) **Date:** 10/14/1253 **Location:** England **Description:** Nicholas of Findern relayed an extraordinary account to Burton Abbey. As vespers approached and the sky remained clear, a significant luminous star emerged from a dark cloud, accompanied by two smaller stars nearby. An intense celestial conflict unfolded, resembling a battle, with the smaller stars repeatedly engaging the larger one. This skirmish caused the prominent star to diminish in size, while sparks of fire emanated from the celestial combatants. This puzzling spectacle continued for a substantial duration, leaving onlookers both amazed and fearful. In their confusion and ignorance of its significance, the observers eventually fled the scene. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_114 --- ## Year: 1254, 4 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 218 (BA1E8ABA) **Date:** 1254 **Location:** FRANCE, Paris. **Description:** (Translated from French) At midnight, something like a large vessel, high in the serene sky, visible for a long time until it slowly disappeared. **Reference:** Henry DURRANT: "The Black Book of UFOs" - Laffont 1970, p. 59 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_73 ### Event 219 (FC905602) **Date:** 1/1/1254 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, St Albans (Middlesex) **Description:** (Translated from French) In the night, monks from the Saint Albans abbey saw in the sky a kind of large vessel of elegant shape and well rigged and of a wonderful color. **Reference:** Henry DURRANT: "The Black Book of UFOs" - Laffont 1970, p. 56 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_72 ### Event 220 (DDDA400A) **Date:** 1/1/1254 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Hertfordshire/Middlesex \(England\), monks from the abbey of Saint-Alban saw around midnight, a kind of large vessel of elegant shape, well rigged and of a wonderful colour, in a serene sky and in fine weather, the stars shone clearly and the moon was in its 8th day of its month; the monks contemplated it for a long time before it disappeared. (1st January, 0h) **Reference:** an English chronicler **Reference:** Wilding-White 1977 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1254.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_44 ### Event 221 (618322D7) **Date:** 1/1/1254 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** ST. ALBANS ABBEY, HERTFS **Description:** Date exact. Many observer(s). Large elegant ship. Paris also. / IFS#23. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 11) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_14 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "3", **Duration:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "ST ALBANS ABBEY,HERTFs:DATE EXACT:MANY OBS:LRG ELEGANT SHIP:PARIS ALSO:/IFS#23", **LatLong:** "51.733336 -0.333333", **LatLongDMS:** "51:44:00 N 00:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.733336,-0.333333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" --- ## Year: 1258, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 222 (9E963AB6) **Date:** 1258 **Location:** GERMANY, Cologne **Description:** (Translated from French) The use of a firework rocket is already reported in 1258 in the city chronicle. **Reference:** "A l'Assaut de l'Espace" Georges H. Gallet, ed. of la Pensée Moderne, p. 26 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_74 --- ## Year: 1260, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 223 (FFD02038) **Date:** 1260 **Location:** ITALY **Description:** (Translated from French) Rockets were used in 1260 in Italy to fight against pirates. **Reference:** "The Rockets of the Future" - Hans K; Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 12 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_75 --- ## Year: 1265, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 224 (C05D8125) **Date:** 1265 **Location:** FRANCE **Description:** (Translated from French) Albert the Great mentions rockets in 1265 in his work "De Mirabilis Mundi". In the following centuries, the rocket gradually gained a place in the warfare technique of the European peoples. (1265,) **Reference:** "The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" - Hans K; Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 12 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_76 --- ## Year: 1269, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 225 (3AB1D2E0) **Date:** 12/6/1269 **Location:** POLAND, Krakow **Description:** (Translated from French) Martin Cromer in his chronicles reports that at dusk a strange light, whose shape resembled a cross, brightly illuminated the city of Krakow and its surroundings, like a powerful projector. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "The Chronicle of UFOs" - Delarge 1977 p.70 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_77 ### Event 226 (A3D081B0) **Date:** 12/6/1269 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At dusk, a strange cross-shaped brightness shone high in the sky and illuminated the city of Krakow. (December 6) **Reference:** Martin Cromer, History of Poland **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1269.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_45 ### Event 227 (47359A2D) **Date:** 12/6/1269 **Time:** ~18:00 **Location:** KRAKOW, POLAND **Description:** Many observer(s). Cross-shape lights town like a strong projector. / Cromer. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** INFORESPACE Journal. SOBEPS Group, Belgium; bimonthly (Index 23) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_15 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Poland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "KRAKOW,POLAND:MANY OBS:CROSS-SHAPE LITES TOWN LIKE A STRONG PROJECTOR:/CROMER", **LatLong:** "50.100002 20.016668", **LatLongDMS:** "50:06:00 N 20:01:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.100002,20.016668)", **State/Prov:** "Krakow", **Strangeness:** "6" --- ## Year: 1270, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 228 (62F27D08) **Date:** 1270 **Location:** GERMANY, Nuremberg **Description:** (Translated from French) The first image of a firework display near Nuremberg dates back to 1270. (1270,) **Reference:** "A l'Assaut de l'Espace" Georges H. Gallet, ed. de la Pensée Moderne, p. 26 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_78 --- ## Year: 1271, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 229 (500D1285) **Date:** 9/12/1271 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Japan, Priest Nichiren is about to be beheaded at Tatsunokuchi, Kamakura, when an object flying in the sky resembling a full [Moon](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Moon.html), bright and shining, appears. The authorities are taken by panic and the execution does not take place. (September 12) **Reference:** Vallee 1969 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1271.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_46 ### Event 230 (0F215EBC) **Date:** 9/12/1271 **Time:** ~12:00 **Location:** JAPAN / LOCATION UNKNOWN **Description:** Sudden 'extra moon'. Panic stops execution of priest / r186 #23. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** EMENEGGER, Robert: UFO'S PAST PRESENT & FUTURE; Ballentine Books 1974. (Index 6) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_16 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "JAPAN/LOC UNK:SUDDEN 'EXTRA MOON':PANIC STOPS EXECUTION OF PRIEST./r186 #23", **LatLong:** "37.000002 140.000007", **LatLongDMS:** "37:00:00 N 140:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.000002,140.000007)", **State/Prov:** "Honshu Island", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 231 (8BC8C83D) **Date:** 9/12/1271 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** Japan **Description:** At the stroke of midnight, Nichiren Shonin, one of Japan's prominent saints, was being led to the beach for execution. However, a momentous intervention occurred just before his impending fate. A radiant sphere, comparable in size to the moon, soared across the sky, illuminating the surroundings. The extraordinary sight struck fear into the hearts of the authorities, leading them to reconsider their decision to execute Shonin. Instead, they opted to exile him to Sado Island. Despite his exile, Shonin's teachings endured, and a branch of his doctrines, the Sokka-Gakkei, now boasts a substantial global following. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_115 --- ## Year: 1273, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 232 (466EC503) **Date:** 1273 **Location:** Naples, Italy **Description:** During an illness that occurred around the year before his death, St. Thomas Aquinas returned to Naples for a brief stay. According to his biography, while he was there, two monks observed an unusual event. A substantial light, likened to a large star, entered the room through a window. This luminous entity briefly rested on the head of the ailing man before vanishing in the same manner it had appeared. While the connection with ufology is debated, researchers exploring abduction phenomena have shown heightened interest in such narratives. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_116 --- ## Year: 1277, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 233 (296A9032) **Date:** 6/3/1277 **Location:** CHINA, Baoding (Hebei) **Description:** (Translated from French) Extract from Liou Ying: I get up at dawn and through the window, I see a very bright star crossing the Milky Way. Now I see three bright objects appear in the southern sky, two of which fly away and suddenly disappear from my sight. The one that remains has five unequal lights under it and on its upper part I notice something dome-shaped. The unknown object begins to zigzag, like a dead leaf. At the same time something burning falls from the sky. Soon after the sun rises but its brightness is dulled by the bright object moving quickly in the direction of the north. In the western sky, a green cloud is suddenly agitated by another unknown object, oval, flat, which descends quickly. This object is more than three meters long, it is surrounded by burning flames, it rises shortly after its descent. . **Reference:** SHI BO: "China and the Extraterrestrials" ed. Mercure de FRANCE, 1983, p.37 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_79 ### Event 234 (3BD2D102) **Date:** 6/3/1277 **Location:** China **Description:** Liou Ying, a Yuan Dynasty poet, detailed an extraordinary dawn event in a poem titled "Event Seen at Dawn." The poet described witnessing a remarkably bright star crossing the Milky Way, followed by the appearance of three luminous objects in the southern sky. Two of these objects vanished, while the remaining one displayed five exceptional lights underneath and a dome-like structure above. The enigmatic object exhibited zigzag movement akin to a falling leaf, and a fiery object descended from the sky. As the sun rose, its radiance was obscured by the swift-moving luminous object heading north. A green cloud in the western sky was disturbed by another oval-shaped, flame-surrounded object that rapidly descended and ascended. Liou Ying documented this surreal occurrence, seeking explanation for the mesmerizing spectacle. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_117 --- ## Year: 1284, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 235 (8751CD70) **Date:** 1284 **Location:** Saint Rufiino, Parma, Italy **Description:** The Chronicon Parmesan, authored by the Franciscan monk Salimbene de Adam, recounted a remarkable occurrence. On 6 August 1284, the naval battle of Meloria between Genoa and Pisa took place. However, in the town of Saint Rufiino, within Parma's diocese, some women engaged in washing linen at night observed an extraordinary event. Two sizable stars were seen approaching each other in the sky, then moving apart, only to collide again repeatedly, chasing one another. This celestial phenomenon appeared to foreshadow and announce the forthcoming battle and its tragic outcome between the Genoese and Pisan forces. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_118 ### Event 236 (3A03634A) **Date:** End of 1200's **Location:** USSR - Siberia **Description:** (Translated from French) (Note: this was in chron3, and marked "End of 13th century".) In Siberia there were black men who flew on silver plates, leaving long trails of fire behind them. (End of 1200's) **Reference:** Peter KOLOSIMO: "Shadows on the Stars" - Albin Michel 1970, p. 315 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_64 ### Event 237 (8FF03D8D) **Date:** End of 1200's **Location:** USSR, Russia, Don region **Description:** (Translated from French) (Note: this was in chron3, and marked "End of 13th century".) The inhabitants of a large village were one day surprised to find, 2 km from their home, a metal ball 3 meters in diameter. The whole population came to admire this strange object, wondering what it could be and where it came from. It certainly had not arrived by road, as there were no traces of wheels on the road or in the fields. If it had fallen from the sky, or been vomited from hell, one should have seen a hole or something. But there was nothing abnormal. The surface of the gray ball was as smooth as a marble. Not so smooth, however, as circles, very regular, as if drawn by a compass, and of various sizes, were engraved on it. The villagers tried to push the thing, to make it roll on itself. Useless efforts: it did not move a millimeter. (...) When Pouchkine arrived, a Cossack of very bad reputation but, despite all his faults, very courageous, the villagers immediately informed him of the presence of the mysterious object. (...) Drawing his saber, he rushed on horseback on it, swearing and defying it to resist him. (...) ... the spectators are ready to go home. But they start screaming in fear: a circle of the ball has split, revealing an eye, a round cyclops eye that stares fixedly at its assailant, who, in turn, laughs and continues to strike, striking so hard that his sabre breaks (...) The peasants flee. Some hide behind the trees. And what do they see? They see Pouchkine and his mount becoming transparent before disappearing completely into the air. Yet they still hear his curses (...) Two days after this great fight, rider and horse, staggering like people who have drunk too much, made their entrance on the square (...) He started to shout that he was going to set fire to the wood and that the horrible thing would roast with everything around it. So everyone ran after him to witness the spectacle, but only witnessed his sad disappointment: the ball was no longer there. (End of 1200's) **Reference:** Peter KOLOSIMO: "Shadows on the Stars" - Albin Michel 1970, p. 315, 316 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_65 --- ## Year: 1290, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 238 (C659C09A) **Date:** 1290 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Drawing by Gigi depicting the observation of Byland Abbey, see images/1290.jpg. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1290.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_47 ### Event 239 (728589E8) **Date:** 8/3/1290 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN: Yorkshire **Description:** (Translated from French) Abbot Henry, prior of the Abbey of Byland, in the refectory, surrounded by his monks, saw "with great terror" a huge silver disc pass slowly above them. **Reference:** Henry DURRANT: "The Black Book of UFOs" - Laffont 1970, pp.56-57 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_80 --- ## Year: 1294, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 240 (85F81510) **Date:** 8/3/1294 **Location:** Japan **Description:** Amidst a parade, an intriguing event unfolded. A red shining object emerged, seemingly originating from a shrine. Resembling the Moon, this object traversed the sky in a northerly direction. While the precise location remains unspecified, this sighting of a luminous and enigmatic object during a public event offers a glimpse into historical anomalous occurrences. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_119 --- ## Year: 1295, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 241 (C79E669E) **Date:** 5/1295 **Location:** Hing, China **Description:** In the fifth month of the year yih-wei, an unusual event transpired. A phenomenon characterized by a powerful wind riding on the water occurred, reaching considerable heights. Subsequently, more than ten fireballs, resembling houses in size, descended from the sky. These fireballs were described as dragons. In response to their descent, two dragons swiftly ascended to the sky, driven away by sacred fire sent by Heaven, supposedly to prevent potential calamity. Cheu Mih, the 14th-century chronicler, noted another incident involving a dragonfall, during which a dragon fell and was subsequently burned by terrestrial fire, indicating the dragons' aversion to fire. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_120 --- ## Year: 1296, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 242 (CD59CA13) **Date:** 9/8/1296 **Location:** Loreto, Italy **Description:** In the period before dawn, an extraordinary event unfolded in the skies over Loreto. Repeatedly, enigmatic globes of light manifested, displaying a peculiar behavior of descending, stopping, and suddenly vanishing. This phenomenon was observed by a hermit named Paul Selva, who later documented his experiences in a letter addressed to Charles II in June 1297. These luminous manifestations took on an elliptical shape. Mantovano, a writer who sourced information from records dating back to 1300, described the phenomenon as a brilliantly bright comet-like object, measuring twelve feet in length and six in width. However, the object's characteristics clearly distinguished it from a conventional comet. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_121 --- ## Year: 1299, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 243 (F925C07F) **Date:** 12/24/1299 **Location:** Tier (Treves), Germany **Description:** The Chronicle of the Archbishops of Trier, known as the Gesta Trevirensium Archiepiscoporum, documents an intriguing celestial occurrence. Employing the term "cometa," which could signify various luminous sky objects rather than solely a comet as defined today, the chronicle describes an unusual phenomenon. Just past midnight, during misty and frosty conditions, a comet-like object emerged in the sky, resembling the size of the moon and radiating a fiery red hue. This object persisted for an hour before vanishing. Subsequently, two more comets manifested in quick succession, positioned near each other and resembling the earlier one in size and color. These too swiftly disappeared. A third appearance followed after a brief interval, mirroring its predecessors in size and color, and similarly vanished promptly. The peculiar behavior of these objects deviates from conventional celestial patterns. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_122 --- ## Year: 1300, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 244 (46EEB302) **Date:** 1300's **Location:** ITALY, VENICE **Description:** (Translated from French) J. B. Dante (de Perouse) carried out several flat flight experiments. In Venice, at the end of one of them, he fell on the roof of St. Mark's Church and broke his thigh. (1300's) **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 14 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_81 ### Event 245 (4213B44D) **Date:** 1300's **Location:** PORTUGAL, Fundao **Description:** (Translated from French) A little girl disappeared for three days. She was eventually found and she then told that she had been taken by a "white lady" who had offered her water to drink in a "bell". (1300's) **Reference:** Masinaigan at aol.com **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_82 --- ## Year: 1320, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 246 (BA698A66) **Date:** 1320 **Location:** Saint Leonard, Durham, England **Description:** Following the passing of the Abbott of Saint Gregory monastery, a remarkable occurrence unfolded. An unidentified object, described as "a great light," illuminated the sky above his burial site in Saint Leonard. This luminous phenomenon initially hovered at a higher altitude before descending, moving away, and ultimately vanishing. The event's symbolic significance and interpretation leave room for debate regarding its potential connection to ufology or other mysterious phenomena. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_123 --- ## Year: 1322, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 247 (D9DEBA35) **Date:** 11/4/1322 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Uxbridge (Middlesex) **Description:** (Translated from French) Robert of Reading, a Benedictine at St. Peter's Westminster, informs us that "in the early hours of the night a pillar of fire of the size of a small boat, of pale color, was seen in the sky. It rose to the south, crossed the sky with a slow and majestic movement and departed to the north. At the front of the pillar, a bright red flame burned, throwing out great rays of light. Its speed increased and it disappeared into space... Several witnesses saw as if a collision and heard as if the crash of a terrible battle." **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.71 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_83 ### Event 248 (F2AC946E) **Date:** 11/4/1322 **Time:** ~19:00 **Location:** UXBRIDGE, ENGL **Description:** Big pillar / fire. Rises going south. Fireball / front shoots beams. Turns going north and away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** INFORESPACE Journal. SOBEPS Group, Belgium; bimonthly (Index 23) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_17 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "9", **HatchDesc:** "UXBRIDGE,ENGL:BIG PILLAR/FIRE:RISES > S:FBL/FRONT SHOOTS BEAMS:TURNS>N+AWAY", **LatLong:** "51.533336 -0.450000", **LatLongDMS:** "51:32:00 N 00:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.533336,-0.450000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 249 (73E95EC4) **Date:** 11/4/1322 **Location:** Uxbridge, England **Description:** During the first hour of the night, a remarkable celestial event occurred over Uxbridge. A pillar of fire, resembling a small boat in size, appeared in the sky with a pale and livid hue. This column of light ascended from the south, traversed the heavens with deliberate and solemn movement, and proceeded northward. A fervent red flame emerged from the front of the pillar, accompanied by intense beams of light. The object's speed increased as it flew through the air, leading to reported collisions and the sounds of impactful crashes in the distance. The object's slow and deliberate motion contradicts characteristics of comets or meteors, raising questions about its nature. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_124 --- ## Year: 1347, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 250 (99DD07C7) **Date:** 1347 **Location:** Florence, Italy **Description:** Approximate date. During the period of the Black Plague between 1347 and 1350, strange cigar-shaped objects are reported to have been observed crossing the sky at a leisurely pace, sometimes flying at low altitudes and emitting a disconcerting mist. Writer Gianfranco degli Esposti suggests a connection between these objects and the outbreak of the Black Plague, noting that the epidemic emerged soon after these unusual sightings. In Florence, a vast mass of vapors emerged from the northern sky, subsequently spreading across the land. Additionally, many animals reportedly fell from the sky in the East during the same year, releasing decaying carcasses that contributed to foul air and the rapid spread of the deadly disease. The Black Plague claimed a significant number of lives, particularly in Florence where it caused the death of 60,000 people. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_125 --- ## Year: 1349, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 251 (F3D3C548) **Date:** 7/18/1349 **Location:** JAPAN **Description:** (Translated from French) Observation of two objects performing acrobatic exercises while emitting flashes. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.71 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_84 ### Event 252 (99AA5285) **Date:** 7/20/1349 **Location:** Japan **Description:** In an unspecified location, two luminous objects materialized in the sky, emerging respectively from the southeast and northwest. These objects engaged in a dramatic and forceful collision, seemingly performing intricate maneuvers, including acrobatic movements, while emitting flashes of light. The nature of this unusual event, characterized by the appearance and interaction of these shining objects, remains enigmatic and intriguing. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_126 --- ## Year: 1352, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 253 (0ED0454A) **Date:** 12/1352 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN **Description:** (Translated from French) A kind of powerful beam of light sweeping the sky in the north of England. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.71 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_85 --- ## Year: 1355, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 254 (EF68B4A6) **Date:** 2/5/1355 **Location:** Suzhou (Pingjiang), Jiangsu province, China **Description:** A puzzling event occurred, marked by a significant noise originating from the sky. This phenomenon was accompanied by the sighting of a large, black cloud illuminated by flames and lights. The cloud was peculiarly laden with what appeared to be troops. This anomalous occurrence also resulted in substantial physical destruction. The enigmatic nature of these events raises questions about their origin and purpose. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_127 ### Event 255 (BBBC3504) **Date:** Summer 1355 **Location:** ENGLAND, Leicester **Description:** (Translated from French) According to the "Chronicon Monachi Leycestrensis" by Henry Knigton, during the summer of 1355 "a red banner and a blue one appeared in the sky of Leicester and were also observed in many places in England. They seemed to sometimes approach each other as if to clash. Finally the red banner won over the blue one and threw it to the ground, which everyone saw". (1355, Summer) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.71-72 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_86 --- ## Year: 1360, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 256 (B0B5025C) **Date:** Summer 1360 **Location:** England and France **Description:** During this season, in desolate regions of both England and France, a peculiar phenomenon unfolded. Two towers suddenly materialized in the sky, visible to many. From these towers emerged two distinct armies. One of these armies bore a warlike emblem on their headgear, while the other was clad in black. A subsequent encounter saw the warrior forces triumphing over the black-clad contingent, before returning to their respective tower. The entire spectacle then disappeared, leaving behind a baffling and unexplained event of armies and towers in the sky. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_128 --- ## Year: 1361, 4 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 257 (A7F6CF09) **Date:** 1361 **Location:** JAPAN **Description:** (Translated from French) A flying object in the shape of a drum and measuring twenty feet in diameter had emerged from a Japanese island and had flown over the entire west of Japan. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.72 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_87 ### Event 258 (22740DB7) **Date:** 1361 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) An object flying described as drum-shaped, measuring about 6 m in diameter emerged from an island located west of Japan. **Reference:** Vallée 1969 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1361.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_48 ### Event 259 (F99AFE99) **Date:** 1361 **Location:** Yamaguchi Prefecture, Western Japan **Description:** An intriguing account describes an incident where a drum-shaped object, measuring around six meters in diameter, emerged from the sea. This enigmatic object took flight, passing overhead in a westerly direction. While an exact reference to this event has not been identified, its widespread mention across databases and websites has contributed to its inclusion within anomalous sighting records. The peculiar nature of a drum-like object emerging from the sea and taking flight raises questions about the event's origin and meaning. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_129 ### Event 260 (FAACBEE6) **Date:** 1/1361? **Location:** OFF WEST JAPAN **Description:** Date unknown. 6M "drum shaped object" emerges from sea and flies away. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_18 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "OFF W JAPAN:DATE UNK:6M "DRUM SHAPED OBJ" EMERGES FROM SEA+FLIES AWAY:NFD", **LatLong:** "37.000002 134.833340", **LatLongDMS:** "37:00:00 N 134:50:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.000002,134.833340)", **State/Prov:** "SEA", **Strangeness:** "7" --- ## Year: 1368, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 261 (044A266C) **Date:** 1368 **Location:** CHINE **Description:** (Translated from French) During the reign of Emperor Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty, Commander Qiu Jingsi deployed his troops along the Yellow River. One afternoon, in a "Platane" village, a huge luminous object fell into the river, flames were shooting out of the waves up to the camps installed on the water's edge, several warriors were injured. (between 1368 and 1399) **Reference:** SHI BO: "La Chine et les extraterrestres" ed. Mercure de FRANCE, 1983, p. 41 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_88 --- ## Year: 1382, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 262 (A8ABE006) **Date:** 2/1382 **Location:** Paris, France **Description:** In the lead-up to the Maillets uprising, an extraordinary event unfolded. Over a span of eight days, a fiery and flashing globe of light was observed. This luminous phenomenon exhibited a unique behavior, moving from door to door above the city of Paris. Notably, this roaming globe did not coincide with any wind agitation, lightning, or thunderous noise. Despite its dazzling presence, the weather remained consistently calm and serene throughout this remarkable occurrence. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_130 --- ## Year: 1384, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 263 (EC827139) **Date:** 1384 **Location:** Caravaca, Spain **Description:** In 1384, an unusual occurrence involving aerial lights took place. As the Caravaca cross was being transported from the village of Caravaca in Murcia to Lorca y Totan, two lights in the sky were observed accompanying the cross-bearers throughout the journey. These lights persisted until the cross was in its intended location, suggesting a connection between the lights and the holy relic. The Caravaca cross itself was surrounded by various legends and stories of miraculous events, including teleportation and instances of attracting luminous phenomena. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_131 --- ## Year: 1385, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 264 (2B19551B) **Date:** 7/15/1385 **Location:** London and Dover, England **Description:** A remarkable event occurred simultaneously in both London and Dover. Following sunset, a peculiar phenomenon manifested in the southern skies, resembling a head-shaped fire. This fiery shape extended towards the northern part of the heavens and then proceeded to divide itself into three distinct parts. These segments of light exhibited movement akin to a bird in flight. Eventually, the three parts merged back into one, and the entire spectacle vanished suddenly. The nature and behavior of these lights remain mysterious and unexplained. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_132 --- ## Year: 1387, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 265 (47763ABF) **Date:** 10/14/1387 **Time:** 06:00 **Location:** DERBYSHIRE AND LEICS COS, ENGL **Description:** Fiery wheel / barrel spins. Strong rays. Cloud dumps 'blood'. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** INFORESPACE Journal. SOBEPS Group, Belgium; bimonthly (Index 23) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_19 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "53", **Elev:** "150", **HatchDesc:** "DERBYs+LEICs cos,ENGL:FIERY WHEEL/BARREL SPINS:STRONG RAYS:CLOUD DUMPS 'BLOOD'", **LatLong:** "53.000003 -1.500000", **LatLongDMS:** "53:00:00 N 01:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.000003,-1.500000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 266 (053E4B97) **Date:** 10/14/1387 **Location:** Leicester and Derbyshire, England **Description:** A remarkable phenomenon akin to fire was observed in multiple locations across the kingdom of England. This appearance displayed varying forms, shifting from one to another, over the course of several months, particularly in November and December. The diverse forms included a burning revolving wheel, a round barrel emitting flames from above, and a long fiery beam. This phenomenon persisted through a substantial part of the winter, with heightened activity notably observed in the counties of Leicester and Northants. The true nature of this event, marked by its fire-like shapes, remains enigmatic. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_133 --- ## Year: 1388, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 267 (2342F942) **Date:** 1/8/1388 **Location:** SICILY: Ragusa **Description:** (Translated from French) ... passage of several very bright objects aligned above the convent of the Franciscan Friars of Ragusa. **Reference:** Henry DURRANT: "The Black Book of UFOs" - Laffont 1970, p. 59 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_89 ### Event 268 (1256F5EB) **Date:** 1/8/1388 **Time:** ~23:00 **Location:** RAGUSA, ITALY **Description:** Several friars. Luminous bodies fly single file / 1 hour. / Belgian UFO Society (SOBEPS) r186#23. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 18) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_20 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "502", **HatchDesc:** "RAGUSA,ITALY:SVRL FRIARS:LUM.BODIES FLY SINGLE FILE/1 HOUR:/SOBEPS r186#23", **LatLong:** "36.966668 14.683334", **LatLongDMS:** "36:58:00 N 14:41:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.966668,14.683334)", **State/Prov:** "Ragusa", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 269 (873E2AED) **Date:** 11/1388 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A fire in the sky, like a spinning wheel and blazing, or a circular barrel of flames, emitting fire from above, and others in the form of long burning rays, were observed for much of the winter in Leicester County, and also in Northampton County. (November-December) **Reference:** Henry Knighton, *Continuation of the Chronicle of Leicester* **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1388.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_49 --- ## Year: 1389, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 270 (FEB8254B) **Date:** 4/1389 **Location:** ENGLAND, Leicester **Description:** (Translated from French) The same source (Continuation of the Chronicle of Leicester, by Henry Knighton) reports that the following year (1389) in the city of Leicester "a flying dragon was seen in several places, during April". **Reference:** "UFO Files", ed. Marshall Cavendish, Paris 1998, Special Issue, p. 5 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_90 ### Event 271 (8127AF4F) **Date:** 4/1389 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Leicester one lived in many places, in April, a flying dragon. (April) **Reference:** Henry Knighton, *Continuation of the Chronicle of Leicester* **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1389.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_50 --- ## Year: 1390, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 272 (A723C7D7) **Date:** 1390 **Location:** Bologna, Italy **Description:** A peculiar incident is reported involving an observer of the Asinelli Tower. The guardian of the tower reportedly witnessed a rotating "ball of fire" hovering above the roofs. Intriguingly, within this fiery object, the faces of some devils were discerned, seemingly attempting to peer outside. The nature and origin of this phenomenon, characterized by the presence of unknown creatures and a fiery vehicle, remain shrouded in mystery, offering a glimpse into the enigmatic anomalies witnessed during that time. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_134 ### Event 273 (36BFE92C) **Date:** 1/26/1390 **Location:** Messina, Sicily, Italy **Description:** An intriguing event occurred in Messina during the night hours. An unusual sight was witnessed as a light descended from the sky above the Cross, positioned atop the dome of the Monastery of the Fathers of St. Salvadore. This phenomenon left the monks in astonishment, though the exact duration of the sighting was uncertain. The light, observed for around half an hour, eventually ascended back into the heavens. Given the prolonged duration and distinct behavior, this event stands out as uncommon and distinct from typical meteor phenomena. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_135 --- ## Year: 1394, 4 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 274 (9553A991) **Date:** 9/2/1394 **Location:** ITALY, Forli **Description:** (Translated from French) "At the beginning of the month of September, many asud (name given to celestial objects by Professor Marzocchi) appeared in the sky and shooting stars." "On the second day of the month of September, at the second hour of the night, a great asud appeared to men who were on the public square of Forli and to others gathered in other places. It crossed the sky very slowly and stayed in the sky for the time of two Pater Noster and was as long as a step. When it disappeared, the men who were on the square reported that it sent out a smell of burning wood. We have also heard other people who assured that the said asud in fire was travelling through the air in its own way. But then it remained still for a little while in the sky and after that time it gradually disappeared leaving in its place like a cloud and the rest of the vapours had taken the shape of snakes, a thing quite admirable". **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.72 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_91 ### Event 275 (81DA6D5F) **Date:** 9/2/1394 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A strange object flew over Forli \(Italy\) multiple times: At the beginning of the month of September, many "asud" \[name given to celestial objects, notes Professor Marzocchi\] appeared in the sky and shooting stars. The flying object was observed by many witnesses: The same year, on the 2nd day of the month of September, at the 2nd hour of the night, a large asud appeared to men who were on the public square of Forli and to others in other places assembled; it crossed the sky very slowly and stayed in the sky for the time of 2 *Pater Noster*, and it was large in length of one step and when it disappeared -the men who were on the square reported it - it sent out a smell of burning wood and we heard other people who assured that said asud of iron was traversing the air in its own way; but then it remained motionless for a time in space and after that time, it gradually disappeared leaving in its place like a cloud and the remains of vapor had taken the form of snakes, a thing quite admirable. (September 2, 2am) **Reference:** Cronica Albertina, manuscript, years 1393-1394 \< Professor Marzocchi \< [Michel Bougard](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/BougardMichel.html), *La chronique des OVNI*, Delarge 1977, p.72 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1394.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_51 ### Event 276 (14457125) **Date:** 9/2/1394 **Location:** Forli, Italy **Description:** During the second hour of the night, observers in Forli witnessed an immense celestial object, referred to as an "asub," moving slowly across the sky. The event lasted for approximately the time it would take to say two "Paternoster" prayers. Witnesses reported a distinct smell resembling burning wood, and some accounts even mentioned the object remaining stationary in the sky for a period of time. The unusual characteristics of the sighting and its duration make it unlikely to be a conventional astronomical or meteorological occurrence. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_137 ### Event 277 (CE7DCDD9) **Date:** Winter 1394 **Location:** England **Description:** Historical accounts, including Raphael Holinshed's chronicle, report a strange phenomenon in various parts of England. During the night, a fiery apparition resembling a wheel or barrel of fire was seen by many. This enigmatic object exhibited peculiar behavior, often accompanying individuals and remaining stationary when they did. The descriptions vary, depicting the object as a turning wheel, a round barrel emitting flames at its head, or even a long burning lance. The nature of this phenomenon, with its persistent presence and distinctive attributes, contrasts with typical meteoric occurrences. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_136 --- ## Year: 1395, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 278 (BFFEDAB5) **Date:** 1395 **Location:** FRANCE, Languedoc **Description:** (Translated from French) According to Jean Juvenal des Ursins, the following text can be read: In the country of Languedoc, a large star and five small ones were seen in the sky. It seemed as if they were attacking and wanted to fight the large one and followed it for half an hour. And voices were heard in the sky like cries. And afterwards a man was seen who seemed to be made of copper, holding a lance in his hand, and throwing fire, who seized the large star and struck it. And nothing more was ever seen. In some parts of Guyenne, voices and the clanking of armor and people fighting were heard. These things gave people great fear and terror, and not without cause. And because these things happened before the battle of Hungary, some said that this was its meaning. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.73 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_92 ### Event 279 (E2323DB6) **Date:** 1395 **Location:** Languedoc, France **Description:** Witnesses reported a peculiar aerial event where a large star and five smaller ones were observed in the sky. The smaller stars appeared to engage in a sort of combat with the larger one, chasing it for about half an hour. An audible voice was also heard from the sky. During the event, a figure resembling a man made of copper was seen, wielding a spear and emitting fire. This figure apparently grabbed the large star, struck it, and following this interaction, the phenomenon ceased. The strange and detailed nature of the account makes it unlikely to be a typical astronomical occurrence. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_138 --- ## Year: 1400, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 280 (6306C79C) **Date:** 1400's **Location:** GERMANY **Description:** (Translated from French) Jean Muller of Koenigsberg, called Regiomontanus (born in 1436) would have made a flight of an iron eagle before Emperor Frederic IV. (1400's) **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 14 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_93 --- ## Year: 1408, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 281 (E9E078CB) **Date:** 9/16/1408 **Location:** Rome, Italy **Description:** Three "stars" were observed flying over Rome in a formation. Antonio Di Pietro, a Vatican canon, documented the incident in his Diarium Romanum (Diary of Rome), noting that the event occurred after sunset. One large, beautiful star appeared to originate from the sky of Tarrione, moving towards Castel Sant' Angel, accompanied by two smaller, bright stars. The spectacle left observers greatly surprised. While the phenomenon could be interpreted as an unconventional meteor train, the simultaneous appearance of multiple bright objects flying in formation adds an unusual element to the account. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_139 --- ## Year: 1415, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 282 (5EECB7CE) **Date:** 10/25/1415 **Location:** FRANCE, Agincourt **Description:** (Translated from French) On that day the Battle of Agincourt in the Pas de Calais took place, which saw the victory of the English troops of Henry V over those of the French, who were superior in number. On that day the English archers were considered the real winners, but most of them later claimed that they had been helped by "fiery beings who moved through the air at great speed and who launched fire rockets at the enemy". [note from vog: the use of rockets in armies was general... without the intervention of celestial or aerial beings!] **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.73 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_94 ### Event 283 (0D5FF3A1) **Date:** 10/25/1415 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** AGINCOURT, FR **Description:** Fast fireballs strike with a disabling beam French troops. Henry V wins historic battle. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** INFORESPACE Journal. SOBEPS Group, Belgium; bimonthly (Index 23) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_21 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **HST:** Historical account, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "AGINCOURT,FR:FAST FBLS ZAP FRENCH TROOPS:HENRY V WINS HISTORIC BATTLE", **LatLong:** "50.455558 2.127778", **LatLongDMS:** "50:27:20 N 02:07:40 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.455558,2.127778)", **State/Prov:** "Pas-de-Calais", **Strangeness:** "4" --- ## Year: 1420, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 284 (18DCDCA2) **Date:** 1420 **Location:** GERMANY, Eichstätt **Description:** (Translated from French) Konrad Keyser leaves us with a description of a rod-shaped rocket. **Reference:** "The Rockets Vehicles of the Future" - Hans K; Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 12 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_95 ### Event 285 (688232BD) **Date:** 7/1420 **Location:** Castle Godego, Treviso, Italy **Description:** Hungarian merchant Peter Tagliamento was leading cattle to Bassano del Grappa when he lost his way in a dense area near Castel di Godego. Amid shadows and silence, he prayed for help and was suddenly greeted by a brilliant light. In this light, he saw a beautiful young woman who guided him to the road and requested the construction of a chapel at the site. She left a cross in the ground as evidence of her visit. Though met with skepticism at first, the cross's discovery convinced the community of Godego to build the chapel, becoming a focal point for solemn processions. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_140 --- ## Year: 1422, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 286 (0522C311) **Date:** 1422 **Location:** FRANCE **Description:** (Translated from French) Charles VII was born in 1402 and reigned from 1422 to 1461. To reconquer the kingdom he used countless rockets on the battlefield. It was only later that cannonballs were judged to be more effective. (1422 to 1461) **Reference:** "Astronautics" Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 9 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_96 --- ## Year: 1425, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 287 (9B1739C0) **Date:** 1425 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) When I was about 13 years old, I had a voice from God to help me govern myself. The first time, I was very scared. And the voice came around noon, in the summer, in my father's garden. I had not fasted the day before. I heard the voice on the right side of the church, and rarely did I hear it without clarity. \(...\) This clarity is on the same side where I hear the voice, and there is usually a great clarity there \(...\) - Master Beaupère: How was this voice? - Jeanne: It seemed to me that it was a worthy voice, and I believe that this voice was sent by God. When I had heard this voice 3 times, I knew that it was the voice of an angel. This voice has always kept me well, and I understood this voice well. - Master Beaupère: What teaching did this voice give you for the salvation of your soul? - Jeanne: It taught me to conduct myself well, to attend church \(...\). The voice told me to come to France, and I could no longer stay where I was \(...\) It told me 2 or 3 times a week that I had to leave and come to France... and I could no longer stay where I was... Jeanne identifies the voices as those of Saint Michael, Saint Catherine and Saint Margaret. **Reference:** Procès de Jeanne d'Arc, Jeudi 22 Février **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1425.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_52 --- ## Year: 1428, 4 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 288 (2B98F5DC) **Date:** 1428 **Location:** FRANCE, Orléans **Description:** (Translated from French) Joan of Arc uses rockets at the Siege of Orleans. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 14 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_98 ### Event 289 (4C7DFE61) **Date:** 3/3/1428 **Location:** ITALY, Forli **Description:** (Translated from French) The sky of Forli was again traversed by strange things. Here is what the city archives tell us about it: "On the third day of March, at half past one in the night for many and many people worthy of faith in all things, was seen in the city of Forli, above the Friars Minor, a very high flame in the shape of a tower and was seen a column that seemed of fire that rose in the air. The people of Forli saw them: many were monks and also those of the plains." "On the same day of March 3, a lamp of fire was seen in the air in Forli that lasted from one hour until three o'clock in the night". **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "The chronicle of UFOs" - Delarge 1977 p.74 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_97 ### Event 290 (3A6A54CB) **Date:** 3/3/1428 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A fire lamp in the air from one to three in the morning. (March 3, 1 AM) **Reference:** Domenico Capranica, Bishop of Fermo **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1428.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_53 ### Event 291 (6E873127) **Date:** 3/3/1428 **Time:** 01:30 **Location:** Forli, Italy **Description:** Around 1:30 A.M., a fiery lamp resembling a tower-shaped flame was observed in the sky for approximately two hours. The city archives also document the sighting of a very high flame resembling a column of fire ascending into the air. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_141 --- ## Year: 1430, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 292 (E0B3CAE7) **Date:** 6/10/1430 **Location:** SPAIN, Jaén **Description:** (Translated from French) Between 11pm and midnight, one of the most impressive supernatural performances in human history was orchestrated in the city of Jaén. A diverse angelic militia, strong from 400 to 1000 anthropomorphic silhouettes, was materialized, slowly advancing towards the St Ildefonse church, from the first belt of streets outside the city to the main street of Les Cantarerias, along the cemetery to the parish. It was like one of those Catholic processions organized at that time, with crucifixes carried in arms, followed by a score of clerics marching in double file and praying aloud in an incomprehensible jargon for the inhabitants of the city. Then there was a kind of matron, a mature woman carrying a baby of a few months, she was raised above the other characters, and curiously at the time nobody identified her with the Holy Virgin. This character was escorted by a follower who held an open book in front of her. A cortege of 300 boys and girls followed. All this theater gradually faded away in the air, disappearing as incomprehensibly as it had appeared. All this is recorded by a notarial deed bearing all the names of the witnesses on parchment on June 13, 1430 before the provost Villalpando. **Reference:** Article by Ignacio Darnaude Rojas Marcos in the magazine "Investigacion" No. 23 of Nov. Dec. 1997 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_99 --- ## Year: 1433, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 293 (54E6BE81) **Date:** 1/5/1433 **Location:** NICE, FR **Description:** St. Boniface Manuscript v2p397. Luminous globe appears / sky / several hours. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LDLN CONTACT LECTEURS: by Series and #. May'68 -JAN'72 (Entire set of 18 issues) LDLN local chapters & individual members' UFO reports. (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_22 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "44", **Elev:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "NICE,FR:St.BONIFACE MANUSCRIPT.v2p397:LUMn.GLOBE APPEARS/SKY/SVRL HRS:NFD", **LatLong:** "43.716669 7.250000", **LatLongDMS:** "43:43:00 N 07:15:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.716669,7.250000)", **RelAlt:** "99", **State/Prov:** "Alpes Maritimes", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 294 (D1600574) **Date:** 1/5/1433 **Location:** Nice, France **Description:** A luminous globe appeared in the sky and remained visible for several hours. This phenomenon was reported by Abbe Joseph Bonifacy, who noted the presence of the luminous globe in the air on that specific date. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_142 --- ## Year: 1444, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 295 (7E11C2BB) **Date:** 6/1444 **Location:** Bibbiena, Arezzo, Italy **Description:** Witnesses reported sightings of unexplained golden globes of light over a period of three months. These lights were observed both inside and outside a church. Don Massimo, a Benedictine monk, documented the sightings and described the globes as thick as a printing press. Lorenzo Piovano of Bibbiena also witnessed the lights, which emitted a remarkable sweetness. While some individuals did not see the lights, they did notice the distinctive scent described by witnesses. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_143 --- ## Year: 1449, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 296 (84487801) **Date:** 1449 **Location:** FRANCE, Pont-Audemer **Description:** (Translated from French) It was with rockets that Dunois set fire to Pont-Audemer in 1449 before scaling its walls. **Reference:** "A l'Assaut de l'Espace" Georges H. Gallet, éd. de la Pensée Moderne, p. 21 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_100 --- ## Year: 1453, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 297 (7B34AB57) **Date:** 5/29/1453 **Location:** Constantinople **Description:** During the siege by the Turks, a phenomenon of descending fire from the sky was witnessed every night over the city. Initially interpreted as a sign of God's wrath and impending destruction, the Christians later perceived it as a sign of divine support due to their early success against the Turks. The phenomenon's behavior changed on the night before the Turks were planning to lift the siege – the heavenly sign appeared to be far away, scattered quickly, and then vanished, leading the sultan and his court to experience joy. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_144 --- ## Year: 1456, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 298 (7EB557F0) **Date:** Late 12/1456 **Location:** Piacenza, Italy **Description:** The Annali Piacentini by Antonio da Ripalta records the appearance of four remarkable stars that moved from east to west in a configuration almost resembling a cross. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_145 --- ## Year: 1458, 5 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 299 (B105D077) **Date:** 1/2/1458 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Japan, a bright object in the sky resembling a full [Moon](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Moon.html) is seen. This is followed by strange signs in the sky and on the ground. People remain baffled. (2 January) **Reference:** Vallee 1969 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1458.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_54 ### Event 300 (6107D607) **Date:** 3/7/1458 **Location:** JAPAN, Kyoto **Description:** (Translated from French) Five stars appeared in the sky. They formed a circle around the Moon and changed color three times before suddenly disappearing. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.74 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_101 ### Event 301 (A064EB2A) **Date:** 3/7/1458 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Japan, 5 stars appear, forming a circle around the [Moon](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Moon.html). They change color 3 times and suddenly disappear. The leaders, deeply troubled, believe that this sign is a harbinger of great turmoil throughout the country. All the inhabitants of Kyoto expect disasters to follow and the emperor himself is upset. (March 7) **Reference:** Vallee 1969 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1458.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_55 ### Event 302 (FF309386) **Date:** 3/7/1458 **Location:** Kyoto, Japan **Description:** Five "stars" were observed circling the moon, undergoing three color changes before suddenly disappearing. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_146 ### Event 303 (5365000B) **Date:** 3/17/1458 (approximate) **Location:** JAPAN / LOCATION UNKNOWN **Description:** 5 'stars' appear. Circle the moon. Change colors 3 times.. vanish. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** EMENEGGER, Robert: UFO'S PAST PRESENT & FUTURE; Ballentine Books 1974. (Index 6) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_23 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "JAPAN/LOC UNK:5 'STARS' APPEAR:CIRCLE THE MOON:CHANGE COLORS 3 TIMES..VANISH.", **LatLong:** "35.850002 139.666673", **LatLongDMS:** "35:51:00 N 139:40:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.850002,139.666673)", **State/Prov:** "Honshu Island", **Strangeness:** "5" --- ## Year: 1461, 7 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 304 (DD94D81F) **Date:** 10/1461 **Location:** Metz, France **Description:** Between Saint Remy's day (October 1st) and All Saints' Day (November 1st), numerous large and marvelous firebrands were observed in the air, lasting for about 7.5 minutes each time and seen twice. Some witnesses also reported seeing what appeared to be a battle with accompanying noise. While the meteor showers Draconids and Orionids could have caused the visual phenomenon, the reported noise and uproar suggest a more complex event. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_147 ### Event 305 (14CCD368) **Date:** 11/1/1461 **Location:** FRANCE, Arras **Description:** (Translated from French) On this day of Our Lord, on All Saints' Day, November 1, there appeared in the sky an object shining like a bar of iron, long and wide like half the Moon. It remained motionless for fifteen minutes. Then, suddenly, the strange object began to rise in a spiral, then it turned and whirled like an unwound watch spring and afterwards it disappeared into the sky (Henry DURRANT: "The Black Book of UFOs" - Laffont 1970, p. 60). That night (All Saints' Night 1461), indeed, he (Sir Jean Du Clercq, advisor to the Duke of Burgundy) witnessed, along with a crowd of stunned Arrageois, a very strange phenomenon. He saw, motionless in the sky of Arras, "like a kind of iron bar, quite long and thick like half a half-moon". The sky was clear and the apparition was perfectly visible. It lasted well a quarter of an hour. Then the "thing" began to "corkscrew, twist and twirl like a watch spring in the sky and disappear"... The emotion was great in Arras and people will talk for a long time about this extraordinary event to which nobody can give an explanation! **Reference:** Phil..., Mail-list: OVNI-SCIENCES, 1999 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_102 ### Event 306 (E34574AB) **Date:** 11/1/1461 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Gregory of Tours. On the night of All Saints 1461, something burning like a bar of iron, long and thick as half the [Moon](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Moon.html), was seen for a short quarter of an hour. It was clearly visible and suddenly this strange thing twisted and turned like a watch spring and went back up to the sky. (November 1st) **Reference:** Jacques Duclarcq, advisor to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, Memoirs of a Bourgeois of Arras, reported by Jacques Bassard, av. President Wilson, member of the French Astronomy Society, BSAF, 1954 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1461.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_56 ### Event 307 (478DED8B) **Date:** 11/1/1461 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Bright great bar of fire, which spread a great splendor above Florence. Circles of fire in the sky of Bolzano. **Reference:** Benvenuto Cellini, Memoirs, ch. 84 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1461.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_57 ### Event 308 (E8EA902D) **Date:** 11/1/1461 **Location:** ARRAS, FRANCE **Description:** Fiery rod hovers / 15 minute(s). Suddenly spirals and twists upward and gone! / IFS#23. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 11) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_24 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "ARRAS,FRANCE:FIERY ROD HVRS/15min:SUDDENLY SPIRALS+TWISTS UPWARD+GONE!:/IFS#23", **LatLong:** "50.300002 2.766667", **LatLongDMS:** "50:18:00 N 02:46:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.300002,2.766667)", **State/Prov:** "Pas-de-Calais", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 309 (CA5304ED) **Date:** 11/1/1461 **Description:** A fiery rod or cylinder hovered for 15 minutes over the town of Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France. It suddenly spiraled and twisted upward and was gone. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Data-Net Report, May 1970; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 7 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7362 ### Event 310 (7F1BC69B) **Date:** 11/1/1461 **Location:** Arras, France **Description:** On All Saints Day, an unusual object resembling burning steel was witnessed in the sky. It was as large as half the moon and remained stationary for fifteen minutes before starting to spiral upwards, then rolling and spinning like a loose watch spring. The object eventually disappeared into the sky. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_148 --- ## Year: 1463, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 311 (B11116D7) **Date:** 1463 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Engraving of _The Flaming Celestial Object_ observed. See images/1463.jpg. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1463.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_58 --- ## Year: 1465, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 312 (E6028776) **Date:** 2/19/1465 **Location:** Italy **Description:** 19-21 February 1465. In the morning at daybreak, several signs were observed in the sky, including a remarkable event on the 19th. A large, flaming ship-like object appeared in the northern sky, and this sighting was repeated on the following days, though not at the same time. These unusual aerial phenomena captured the attention of observers during that period. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_149 --- ## Year: 1468, 4 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 313 (98A3F296) **Date:** 3/8/1468 **Location:** JAPAN, Nara **Description:** (Translated from French) A dark object, making the sound of a wheel, flew away from Mount Kasuga in the middle of the night and flew westward, towards Osaka Bay. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.74-75 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_103 ### Event 314 (CBE9EF4E) **Date:** 3/8/1468 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Japan, a dark object making the sound of a wheel flew away at midnight from Mount Kasuga and headed west. The combination of the sound and the dark hue of the flying object is difficult to explain in common terms. (March 8) **Reference:** Vallée 1969 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1468.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_59 ### Event 315 (97B25F51) **Date:** 3/8/1468 (approximate) **Location:** MT. KASUGA, JAPAN **Description:** Dark object makes 'wheel-like sound'. Flies going quickly west from mountain. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** EMENEGGER, Robert: UFO'S PAST PRESENT & FUTURE; Ballentine Books 1974. (Index 7) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_25 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "Mt.KASUGA,JAPAN:DARK OBJ MAKES 'WHEEL-LIKE SOUND':FLIES >>W from MOUNTAIN:NFD", **LatLong:** "35.800002 139.633340", **LatLongDMS:** "35:48:00 N 139:38:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.800002,139.633340)", **State/Prov:** "Honshu Island", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 316 (DD8CF8E2) **Date:** 3/8/1468 **Location:** Mount Kasuga, Japan **Description:** During the nighttime hours, a dark object was observed taking off from Mount Kasuga and flying towards the bay of Osaka. It emitted a sound resembling a spinning wheel as it moved. The estimated size of the object was 9 by 6 feet. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_150 --- ## Year: 1477, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 317 (2099D664) **Date:** 9/27/1477 **Location:** Japan **Description:** A luminous object was observed traversing the sky, followed by the descent of an unfamiliar cotton-like substance over a span of six hours. The exact nature and origin of the object and substance remained unidentified. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_151 --- ## Year: 1478, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 318 (EF839201) **Date:** 1478 **Location:** Milan, Italy **Description:** During a battle, two unexplained flying objects are witnessed. An accompanying engraving in Lycosthenes' edition depicts the scene, although it's uncertain whether the image was specifically created for the book or reused from other sources. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_152 --- ## Year: 1479, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 319 (1ECBCCF9) **Date:** 1479 **Location:** Arabia **Description:** A pointed object resembling a "comet" is observed in the sky. An engraving accompanies the account, but there are doubts about its authenticity and origin, as it looks similar to drawings of multi-stage rockets developed around the same period. The illustration's source and accuracy remain uncertain. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_153 --- ## Year: 1482, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 320 (C30A81A5) **Date:** 10/18/1482 **Location:** Albisola, Savona Province, Italy **Description:** During a territorial dispute between the villages of Albisola and Stella, a dazzling white cloud appeared in a clear sky. The cloud emitted intense light, seemingly collecting all sunlight, and a clear, sweet voice repeated the word "peace" three times. This sudden phenomenon halted the ongoing battle as fighters were stunned and astonished by the event, leading them to abandon their weapons. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_154 --- ## Year: 1487, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 321 (31CFB5D8) **Date:** 8/1487 **Location:** Forli, Italy **Description:** Early in the morning, a large star-like object appeared in the sky, resembling a flying butterfly. Witnesses, including peasants with loaded carts heading to Forli, observed this phenomenon as it moved from the mountains towards Ravenna. The object was also described as resembling a floating cartwheel. The event lasted only a short time, intriguing those who saw it and sparking discussions among the witnesses about its nature. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_155 --- ## Year: 1491, 4 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 322 (C64FD826) **Date:** 1491 **Location:** Vladimir, Russia **Description:** A remarkable event occurred in the city of Vladimir, where witnesses reported seeing a frightful and awe-inspiring apparition in the sky. The event involved the appearance of a figure resembling the Saint Grand Prince Alexander Nevsky rising in the air above a stone church and the abbot's residence. This figure was seen on a white horse, surrounded by a bright, white cloud or thin smoke. The spectacle left the observers frightened, prompting the ringing of bells throughout the city. The event was interpreted as a sign of divine wrath, urging people towards repentance. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_156 ### Event 323 (8FDEBC0F) **Date:** 8/13/1491 **Location:** ITALY, Milan **Description:** (Translated from French) Facius Cardan saw appear at 8pm, 7 men dressed in silky garments resembling Greek togas. They wore bright shoes and had bright breastplates. Two of them, appearing more noble than the others, were dressed identically. One was tall and ruddy-faced and had two companions, the other smaller and fairer-skinned had three. They were said to be 40 years old but looked only 30. They said they were men made of air, subject to birth and death but could live up to 300 years. When questioned about the immortality of the soul they said nothing survives of the individual that is personal to them. They said God creates the world little by little, so that if he were to stop doing it, even for an instant, the world would perish. **Reference:** Jacques VALLEE: "Chronicles of E.T. Appearances" - DENOEL 1972 - coll. J'AI LU, p. 26, 27 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_104 ### Event 324 (0621ACA6) **Date:** 8/13/1491 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** MILANO, ITL **Description:** Fazio Cardano. 7 small humanoids (or Greys). "Live 300 years.. can't say much / special laws..". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Book: BERGIER, Jacques: E.T. VISITATIONS, PREHISTORIC TIMES to the PRESENT; J'ai Ju, France 1970 & H. Regnery, Chicago 1973, Signet, NY 1974. (Milan, 1491 pg 85. Esterhazy, pg 163) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_26 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **CNT:** Contactee related, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NFO:** No craft seen, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "180", **Elev:** "122", **HatchDesc:** "MILANO,ITL:FAZIO CARDANO:7 OIDS:"LIVE 300 YRS..CANT SAY MUCH/SPECIAL LAWS.."", **LatLong:** "45.466669 9.200000", **LatLongDMS:** "45:28:00 N 09:12:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.466669,9.200000)", **State/Prov:** "Milano", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 325 (91ADAF50) **Date:** 8/13/1491 **Location:** Milan, Italy **Description:** Philosopher Facius Cardan had an encounter with seven enigmatic figures in his study. According to his son Jerome, who recorded the event, these beings appeared dressed in silken garments similar to Greek togas, with radiant breastplates and unique undergarments of crimson color. Two of them, seemingly of higher status, were dressed distinctively. These figures claimed to be composed of air and subject to birth and death, though their lifespans exceeded those of humans, potentially reaching three hundred years. During their interaction, they discussed various philosophical topics, including the nature of the universe and the mortality of the soul. The encounter lasted for more than three hours and left Cardan with profound insights and intriguing perspectives. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_157 --- ## Year: 1492, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 326 (B33CC3A4) **Date:** 10/11/1492 **Location:** Guanahany, Bahamas **Description:** Christopher Columbus and a crew member observed a small light two hours before midnight. Columbus initially saw the light on the quarter-deck, but it appeared so diminutive that he hesitated to confirm it as land. He called upon Pero Gutierrez and Rodrigo Sanchez of Segovia to witness the light, but only Gutierrez could see it from his vantage point. The light seemed to move like a flickering candle, prompting speculation that it might indicate the presence of land. Columbus was convinced that land was nearby and urged his crew to keep a vigilant watch for it. He offered a reward, including a silken jacket, to the first person who spotted land, in addition to the King and Queen's promised annuity. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_158 ### Event 327 (44EAF4A6) **Date:** Mid 10/1492 **Location:** AMERICA (New World) **Description:** (Translated from French) "Two hours before midnight" Columbus indeed distinguished a light. He called Pero Guttierez and asked him to look: "It was in fact like a kind of light, like a chain of wax, which rose and fell, gradually approaching the ground". (1492, mid-October) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "The Chronicle of UFOs" - Delarge 1977 p.77-78 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_105 ### Event 328 (4D1F152F) **Date:** 11/16/1492 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Ensisheim \(Alsace\), 1st well-observed fall of meteorites, and of which there are still samples. (November 16) **Reference:** [Etienne 1998](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://www.sat-net.com/spnews/meteorites\_gen.html) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1492.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_60 --- ## Year: 1493, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 329 (70C0824A) **Date:** 1493 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Birth of Paracelsus. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1493.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_61 ### Event 330 (AD345822) **Date:** 8/13/1493 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Meeting of [Facius Cardan](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/temoins.html\#CardanFacius). (August 13) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1493.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_62 --- ## Year: 1494, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 331 (94C54FC0) **Date:** 1494 **Location:** Apulia, Italy **Description:** During the arrival of King Charles VIII in Naples, three suns were reportedly observed in the night sky amidst a cloud-covered backdrop. The phenomenon was accompanied by intense lightning and unsettling thunder, creating an awe-inspiring spectacle. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_159 --- ## Year: 1498, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 332 (9FF3D768) **Date:** 9/20/1498 **Location:** Japan **Description:** An unidentified bright object resembling an umbrella was sighted crossing the sky accompanied by a rumbling sound. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_160 --- ## Year: 1499, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 333 (88A2A787) **Date:** 1499 **Location:** South Atlantic, off Africa **Description:** During Pedro Alvares Cabral's expedition, a luminous object was observed in the southern sky for 8 minutes as they sailed around Africa. The object's appearance was followed by a hurricane that caused significant damage to the expedition. While six ships were lost, the remaining seven continued their journey to the Americas, eventually bringing back valuable spices and news of the discovery of Brazil and Madagascar. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_161 --- ## Year: 1501, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 334 (D8A5AE1D) **Date:** 1501 **Location:** Between Urbino and Gubbio, central Italy **Description:** In 1501, a phenomenon described as a "horrible appearance in the stormy sky" was witnessed between Urbino and Gubbio. This event was reported by the Florentine physician Antonio Benivieni, who noted that it caused many abortions. The description of this event as a "monstrous" occurrence is reminiscent of historical UFO sightings, suggesting a possible connection to unidentified flying objects. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_162 --- ## Year: 1504, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 335 (9E200E79) **Date:** 9/29/1504 **Location:** Tirano, Val Poschiavo, Italy **Description:** Mario Omodei experienced a remarkable event in his garden at dawn. He was surrounded by a bright light, heard a voice calling his name, and was lifted from the ground. He found himself transported to a location owned by Alojsio Quadrio, where he encountered an even more dazzling vision that he interpreted as the Virgin Mary. This luminous apparition, resembling a 14-year old girl, instructed him to build a temple dedicated to her. The temple was eventually completed in 1513 and consecrated in 1528, following this extraordinary encounter. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_163 --- ## Year: 1509, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 336 (E01546AF) **Date:** 1509 **Location:** MEXICO **Description:** (Translated from French) One morning in 1509 the guardians of the temple of Telzatlipoca informed the emperor Moctezuma that in the middle of the previous night, they had been able to observe a smoke that was thickening and that was so white and bright, that it was like being in broad daylight. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.77-78 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_106 ### Event 337 (B60184D4) **Date:** 3/19/1509 **Location:** Villefranche-du-Rouergue **Description:** A man named Collongis encountered an extraordinary event while attempting to free a stuck cart in a river. After praying, he witnessed a being surrounded by blinding light, accompanied by twelve other figures that he interpreted as the Virgin Mary and the Apostles. These figures walked on thirteen stones used for crossing the river and then disappeared to the West. Miraculously, as they vanished, Collongis found that his cart had been freed from the mud. This event led to the establishment of the Chapel of the Thirteen Stones on July 1, 1510, following an investigation by the bishop of Rodez. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_164 --- ## Year: 1513, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 338 (248A688E) **Date:** 1513 **Location:** Rome, Italy **Description:** The renowned sculptor Michelangelo Buonarroti reported sighting a triangular light with three distinct tails of varying colors. This remarkable event, witnessed on a calm night, led Michelangelo to paint an image of the phenomenon. Unfortunately, the painting has not survived over time. According to the account in Benedictine chronicler Benedetto Lushino's book "Vulnera Diligentis," the triangular sign resembled a star with a silvery tail, a red tail, and a fiery and bifurcated third tail. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_165 --- ## Year: 1517, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 339 (5F9B0784) **Date:** 11/8/1517 **Location:** ROMANIA **Description:** (Translated from French) According to the Romanian chronicle "Leptopisetul Moldovenesc", a great sign appeared in the sky, shining like a human figure, towards the west. It stayed up there for a long time before hiding itself again in the air. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.78) On November 8th ”A great blue sign shining like a face of a man” appeard in the western sky over Moldavia. It remained quite a long time, at the same place, after which it ”hid itself” in the sky again. (November 8th, 1517) **Reference:** cf. Letopisetul Moldovcenesc **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_107 ### Event 340 (63ED85A5) **Date:** 11/8/1517 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A large, bright blue sign like the face of a man appears in the western sky above Moldavia. It stays there for a long time, after which it disappears again into the sky. (November 8) **Reference:** Letopisetul Moldovcenesc **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1517.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_63 ### Event 341 (AB62F8E8) **Date:** 11/8/1517 **Location:** Moldavia, Romania **Description:** A significant event occurred when a prominent blue sign resembling a human face appeared in the sky. The 17th-century Moldavian chronicler Grigore Ureche documented this occurrence, describing the face-like object shining brightly in the sky. After a period of remaining motionless, the object eventually concealed itself once more within the sky. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_166 --- ## Year: 1518, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 342 (C3E72F5E) **Date:** 4/1518 **Location:** Yucatan, Mexico **Description:** Spanish conquistador Juan de Grijalva reported a remarkable event where a star-like object appeared above their ship in the evening. The object exhibited movement and emitted continuous rays of light as it moved toward a nearby town or village, leaving a visible trail in the air that endured for three hours. This extraordinary sighting, accompanied by other clear signs, led the crew to interpret it as a divine message, signaling the divine will for them to settle in the village of Coatzalcoalco. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_167 --- ## Year: 1520, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 343 (7CDE61B0) **Date:** 1520 **Location:** GERMANY: Erfurt **Description:** (Translated from French) Under the reign of Emperor Carlos V of Prussia (Charles Quint), two bright Suns were seen at the same time in Erfurt; a burning ray suddenly landed and then departed into the sky where it took a circular shape. (Henry DURRANT: "The Black Book of UFOs" - Laffont 1970, p. 61) "A wonderful burning ray of great dimensions suddenly appeared in the sky. It fell to the ground and destroyed several places. Then it turned around, circled and rose into the sky where it remained in the form of a circle" **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "The Chronicle of UFOs" - Delarge 1977 p.78 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_108 ### Event 344 (90E5B1CF) **Date:** 1520 **Location:** Hereford, England **Description:** An anomalous event involving thermal effects occurred in which a massive beam of fire was witnessed in the sky. As it descended towards the Earth, its intense heat caused damage to various objects. Subsequently, the fiery beam ascended back into the sky, transforming its appearance into that of a circular ring of fire. This unusual sighting, documented by Lycosthenes in his Prodigiorum ac Ostentorum Chronicon, left an impression of both wonder and mystery. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_168 ### Event 345 (6B07D666) **Date:** 1/1520? **Location:** ERFURT, PRUSSIA **Description:** Round glow. Rotating beam scorches ground. Also 2 fiery spheres. / r8 p?? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 178) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_27 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "ERFURT,PRUSSIA:ROUND GLOW:ROTATING BEAM SCORCHES GND:+2 FIERY SPHERES:/r8 p??", **LatLong:** "50.983336 11.066667", **LatLongDMS:** "50:59:00 N 11:04:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.983336,11.066667)", **State/Prov:** "THR", **Strangeness:** "6" --- ## Year: 1521, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 346 (6B08BD57) **Date:** 1521 **Location:** Cuenca, Spain **Description:** Dr. Eugenio Torralba had a remarkable encounter with an entity named "Zekiel" who imparted secrets and knowledge to him. This being allegedly flew Torralba to Rome, leading to his fame and medical success. Cervantes even mentioned Torralba in Don Quijote for his extraordinary journey. However, Torralba's association with Zekiel attracted the attention of the Inquisition, which accused him of heretical practices. Torralba was arrested in 1528, subjected to torture, and imprisoned. Despite his release and the condition to avoid contact with Zekiel, the episode remained a mixture of blessing and curse in his life. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_169 --- ## Year: 1523, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 347 (777D0887) **Date:** 1523 **Location:** CHINA, Yugiu (Jiangsu) **Description:** (Translated from French) ...a teacher named Lü Yu lived in the village of Yugiu. One day, when it was raining non-stop, this teacher noticed two ships sailing on the fluffy clouds in front of his house. On these two ships measuring more than ten arms, men two arms long were busy, each wearing a red hat and multicolored clothes. They all held a pole in their hand. The ships moved very quickly. At Lü Yu's house that day there were a dozen scholars who, alerted by Lü Yu, came out of the house and stood next to him to observe the phenomenon. Then, the men in multicolored clothes passed their hand over the mouths of the scholars: their mouths immediately became black and none of the scholars could speak anymore. At that moment, they saw a man, escorted like a mandarin, dressed like a retired scholar, emerge on one of the ships, accompanied by a bonze. Long after, the ships flew away, as if pushed by the clouds, and fell a kilometer away in a cemetery. The ships gone, the scholars felt their mouths become normal again. But five days later, Lü Yu died for unknown reasons. **Reference:** SHI BO: "China and the Extraterrestrials" ed. Mercure de FRANCE, 1983, p.42 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_109 ### Event 348 (624D3397) **Date:** 1523 **Location:** Changsu, Jiangsu Province, China **Description:** A fascinating account is documented in the Chinese book "Stories in a Summerhouse of Flowers" by Qiu Fuzuo. The story tells of a teacher named Lii Yu who witnessed two large ships flying over the clouds during incessant rain. These ships carried two tall men, each twelve feet tall, dressed in multicolored clothes and holding poles. The men's actions left observers speechless, and they even turned the scholars' mouths black with a gesture. A figure resembling an old scholar emerged on one of the ships, escorted by a bonze, and the ships eventually departed, leaving a lasting impression on those who witnessed the event. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_170 ### Event 349 (CD0CDC39) **Date:** 8/1523 **Location:** CHINA, Guiling (Guangxi) **Description:** (Translated from French) The townspeople saw in the sky each night a star measuring more than ten arms. It always remained suspended in the sky, surrounded by white vapor. It was rectangular, like a saber, and moved slowly from north to south. (August 1523 to October) **Reference:** SHI BO: "China and the Extraterrestrials" ed. Mercure de FRANCE, 1983, p.44 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_110 --- ## Year: 1526, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 350 (15E72103) **Date:** 1526 **Location:** Rome, Italy **Description:** Inquisitor Paulus Grillandus recounted a tale of demonic transportation involving a countryman in Rome. The man's wife participated in a witch gathering and later transported him through two he-goats. At the gathering, he witnessed famous individuals pledging allegiance to the Devil, engaging in dances and banquets. When he accidentally uttered the word "God" and requested salt, everything vanished. He found himself naked near Benevento, far from Rome, and eventually returned home. This account illustrates the complex beliefs surrounding supernatural experiences and the differing perspectives of medieval demonologists, from skeptics attributing such events to mental illusions to "true believers" embracing the supernatural. Some contemporary researchers speculate that similar phenomena might occur in altered states of consciousness rather than the physical world. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_171 --- ## Year: 1528, 5 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 351 (B6EA7E3D) **Date:** 1528 **Location:** FRANCE **Description:** (Translated from French) Ambroise Paré: "This comet was so horrible and so terrifying that some people died of fear; the others fell ill. It appeared to be of excessive length and was of a blood-red color; at the top of it, one could see the figure of a bent arm, holding a great sword in its hand, as if it wanted to strike. At the tip, there were three stars. On both sides of the rays of this comet, one could see a great number of axes, knives, swords colored with blood, among which there were a great number of hideous human bundles, with beards and bristling hair. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.79-80 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_111 ### Event 352 (5EE4ED8C) **Date:** 1528 **Location:** NETHERLANDS, Utrecht **Description:** (Translated from French) During the siege of Utrecht "a cruel and strange observation was made in the sky, which terrified the citizens and made the enemies believe they were going to occupy the city. It was yellow in color and passed over the city, high in the sky, and was frightening to behold". **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.79 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_112 ### Event 353 (C0BDE70A) **Date:** 1528 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) During the siege of the city of Utrecht \(Netherlands\), a strange and cruel sign was seen in the sky --- the shape of a Burgundian cross, just above the city, of a yellow color and horrible to behold. **Reference:** Wolffart **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1528.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_64 ### Event 354 (8F4DBF6D) **Date:** 1528 **Location:** Utrecht, Netherlands **Description:** A yellow object with a cross-like appearance was observed in the sky during the siege of Utrecht. This phenomenon created panic among the town's inhabitants while the attackers interpreted it as a positive omen for their impending success. The sky sign, resembling a cross of a yellowish color, had a terrible aspect and was associated with the symbol of Burgundy. This event illustrates how celestial occurrences could influence the emotions and beliefs of people during historical conflicts, shaping their perceptions and expectations. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_172 ### Event 355 (4F4DEBBF) **Date:** 10/9/1528 **Location:** Westrie, Northern Germany **Description:** A terrifying and unusual sighting was recorded by Pierre Boaistuau in his Histoires Prodigieuses. Ambroise Paré described a blood-red 'comet' that emerged from the east and was visible for about an hour and fifteen minutes, disappearing towards midday. This object caused panic and illness among the populace, leading to deaths due to fear. The 'comet' had a distinctive appearance with an arm holding a great sword pointing downwards, accompanied by stars and a multitude of axes, blades, and repulsive human faces. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_173 --- ## Year: 1529, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 356 (020C3948) **Date:** 1529 **Location:** ROMANIA **Description:** (Translated from French) In the museum of the small town of Sibiu, Romania, extraordinary documents are available to those who wish to consult them. In 1555 a three-stage space rocket was built running on solid fuel. The author of this invention of a prodigious technique returns to the master of fire, Conrad Haas. The chronology of inventions is found in the Sibiu Manuscript: 1529: Two-Stage Rocket (ignition in both), 1529: Three-Stage Rocket, 1529: Rocket Battery, 1536: Flying House. Experimentation of the principle of ignition in the multi-stage rocket, 1555: Use of delta wings to stabilize rockets in flight. (1529 to 1555) **Reference:** Jean FERGUSON: "All about Flying Saucers" ed.; Leméac, Ottawa, 1972, p. 26, 27 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_113 --- ## Year: 1533, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 357 (EF2461E0) **Date:** 8/1533 **Location:** Peru **Description:** Garcilaso de la Vega, the Incan, documented the sighting of an unusual greenish-black 'comet' in his work Historic General del Peru. This comet had distinctive features, being narrower than a man's body and longer than a pike, and was observed by many witnesses on multiple occasions at night. The sight of this mysterious object intensified Tupac Huallpa's fear of his own death, as a similar phenomenon had been seen before his father's death. Despite being accustomed to heavenly phenomena, Huallpa found this 'comet' to be different from the ordinary kind. Tragically, Tupac Huallpa was executed on 29 August 1533. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_174 --- ## Year: 1535, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 358 (C0A4DC09) **Date:** 4/20/1535 **Location:** STOCKHOLM, SWD **Description:** Many observer(s). '7 suns' circle city. Same over Weimar, Germany / same date. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** INFORESPACE Journal. SOBEPS Group, Belgium; bimonthly (Index 24) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_28 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "STOCKHOLM,SWD:MANY OBS:'7 SUNS' CIRCLE CITY::SAME OVR WEIMAR,GERMANY/SAME DATE", **LatLong:** "59.350003 18.000001", **LatLongDMS:** "59:21:00 N 18:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/59.350003,18.000001)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "6" --- ## Year: 1536, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 359 (8A28B2E3) **Date:** 5/31/1536 **Location:** Monte Stella, Brescia, Lombardy, Italy **Description:** Antonio de' Antoni, a deaf-mute shepherd from Gardone Val Trompia, was reciting the rosary when he witnessed an intense light. Within this light, the Virgin Mary appeared, holding Jesus in her arms. She appeared dressed simply and conveyed a message to the shepherds that they should build a temple at that location. Antonio shared the experience with others, and upon his return, the site was illuminated by the beams of an overhead star. Pope Paul III granted the location a consecrated status, and a temple was constructed there by 1539. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_175 --- ## Year: 1537, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 360 (BCD29592) **Date:** 1537 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) People from Franconia, between Pabenberp and the Thuringian forest, see a star of astonishing size. It descends lower and lower and then becomes a large white circle from which swirls and balls of fire escape. As they fall to the ground, the balls of fire melt the tips of spears and all that is made of iron, without causing any harm to humans or their houses. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1537.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_65 ### Event 361 (E37D315B) **Date:** 1537 **Location:** Near Florence, Italy **Description:** Benvenuto Cellini, a renowned artist, recounts an incident in his autobiography. While he was riding back to Florence from Rome, a large and brilliantly shining object of fire was seen in the sky. People observed this extraordinary phenomenon and were amazed by its dazzling splendor. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_176 --- ## Year: 1538, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 362 (9664591F) **Date:** 1/16/1538 **Location:** In Franconia, Thuringia, Germany **Description:** A significant sighting was recorded where a large "star" was observed in the sky. This celestial object descended gradually, transforming into a large white circle. It emitted whirlwinds and clumps of fire that fell to the earth. These fiery fragments had the remarkable effect of melting the tips of spears, irons, and even horses' bits, without causing harm to people or buildings. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_177 --- ## Year: 1543, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 363 (7B0B717A) **Date:** 1543 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A large comet approached closer to the [Sun](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Soleil.html) than any other, and the same thing will repeat in [1882](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/1882.html). These two comets penetrated into the Sun's belt which is given an absolute temperature of 1 million degrees, reports [George Hunt Williamson](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/WilliamsonGeorgeHunt.html). These comets traveled 1 million km in this incandescent crown and emerged unscathed, without any change in velocity or direction. If the Sun emits such intense heat, how is it that they did not disintegrate the moment they plunged into this 1 million °C. **Reference:** *Other Languages, Other Natures* **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1543.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_66 --- ## Year: 1544, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 364 (D0BD2D0F) **Date:** 1544 **Location:** FRANCE, Nay (Béarn) **Description:** (Translated from French) A fire lance appeared in the sky on Pentecost day. At 3 o'clock in the afternoon this lance fell on a square and on a building with a terrible crash. Nothing remained of the building. **Reference:** Christiane PIENS: "Les Ovni du passé" - Marabout 1977, p. 59 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_114 ### Event 365 (C26D75EC) **Date:** 5/15/1544 **Location:** In Nay, Beam, France **Description:** An anomalous event occurred involving an object resembling a fiery sword or described as three fireballs. This object hovered over the town before crashing down with a terrifying noise, ultimately demolishing a house upon impact. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_178 --- ## Year: 1546, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 366 (4C6A8C5E) **Date:** 1546 **Location:** In Caranza near La Spezia, Italy **Description:** Farmers reported witnessing a peculiar event involving a disk that changed colors from yellow to red. This disk was accompanied by red fireballs shining beneath it. The phenomenon was observed in multiple areas, including the village of Caranza near Passo del Bocco, occurring intermittently. Chronicler Father Antonio Cesena recorded this event, interpreting it as a sign of the impending death of Count Luigi Fieschi, the governor of Varese Ligure, which occurred later that year. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_179 --- ## Year: 1547, 5 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 367 (6D37B1B7) **Date:** 4/24/1547 **Location:** In Halberstadt, Saxony, Germany **Description:** Witnesses reported sighting a black ball-shaped object that appeared to emerge from the middle of the moon. This mysterious object then rapidly flew towards the North. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_180 ### Event 368 (9213707F) **Date:** 11/13/1547 **Location:** Near Rome, Italy **Description:** At 3 P.M., witnesses observed a rod and a cross in the sky, accompanied by a bird-like object situated above them. The sky was clear and calm, and these objects remained visible for three consecutive days. This event was depicted in a German broadsheet found in the Johann Jacob Wick's collection, preserved by the Zurich Zentralbibliothek. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_181 ### Event 369 (A5B78CB3) **Date:** 12/13/1547 **Location:** ITALY, Rome **Description:** (Translated from French) "On the first day of the Ides of December at the third hour of the afternoon, while the weather was splendid and the sky serene, a staff, and a red cross were observed in the air for nearly three hours. And above that one thought to see an eagle taking flight, its wings open..." **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.80 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_115 ### Event 370 (047D9906) **Date:** 12/15/1547 **Location:** Hamburg, Germany **Description:** Mariners in the port of Hamburg, Germany, see a fireball moving to the south. Its rays are so hot that passengers cannot remain inside the ships. Thinking the vessels are about to burn, they hide and take cover. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Simon Goulart, Thrésor d’histoires admirables et mémorables de nostre temps, Geneva, 1600, [vol. 1, p. 55](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101080753633&view=1up&seq=75&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1 ### Event 371 (233D6881) **Date:** 12/15/1547 **Location:** Hamburg, Germany **Description:** At midnight, sailors in Hamburg witnessed a luminous globe with intense heat, resembling the Sun, moving northward through the sky. The globe emitted scorching rays that were so powerful that they compelled ship passengers to seek shelter, fearing their vessels might ignite." **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_182 --- ## Year: 1548, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 372 (83478F91) **Date:** 6/28/1548 **Location:** GERMANY, Oettingen (Bavaria) **Description:** (Translated from French) At Oettingen it was said that the sun disk darkened at the passage of several aerial objects that went here and there in the sky, close enough to the ground to fly over the houses while red flames stayed in the air. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.80 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_116 ### Event 373 (23AB235E) **Date:** 6/28/1548 **Location:** Oettingen, Bavaria **Description:** The sky darkened as approximately twenty flying "vehicles" accompanied by red flames were observed maneuvering above the houses. This unusual spectacle occurred on multiple occasions, specifically on 28 June and 26 July 1548 in Oettingen, Bavaria. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_183 --- ## Year: 1550, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 374 (B2CB7FE3) **Date:** 6/19/1550 **Location:** Near Trebnitz, Saxony, Germany **Description:** Residents of Saxonia, close to Wittemberg, were witness to an extraordinary event as described in Histoires Prodigieuses. A sizable cross materialized in the sky, encircled by two large warring armies generating cacophonous sounds. The heavens released blood-like rain, while the sun appeared to fracture into two segments, with one portion seemingly descending toward the earth. Despite some discrepancies in details, a contemporary 1550 broadsheet corroborated Fincelius' account, validating the occurrence of this remarkable phenomenon. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_184 ### Event 375 (CF1FEB87) **Date:** 10/15/1550 **Location:** Biubiu River, Chile **Description:** Pedro de Valdivia, a conquistador who played a prominent role in the conquest of Chile, documented an anomalous event in an instruction to his representatives. He recounted that Mapuche Indians encountered two enigmatic figures preceding an attack. The beings, a beautiful woman and an old man on a white horse, both attired in white garments, appeared to warn the Indians against retaliating. The woman disappeared, and the devil subsequently reiterated the message. Valdivia's report also included an account of a comet falling with exceptional brightness three days prior, from which the woman emerged, while the devil followed to instruct the Indians to gather a large force. This encounter and its prophetic nature prompted Valdivia to reflect on the divine cult and the displacement of devilish worship. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_185 --- ## Year: 1551, 5 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 376 (B9C5B2DC) **Date:** 1551 **Location:** Morbecque, France **Description:** Approximate data. Jacquemine Deickens, wife of Hirache, faced accusations of sorcery after encountering a being believed to be the Devil while milking cows. Allegedly engaging in intimate relations with the entity, she bore a mark on her back beneath her left shoulder blade as evidence of her wrongdoing. This woman, known as a flying contactee, was said to have flown out of her house every few weeks to rendezvous with fellow witches at a crossroads near Pierre Depours' residence. They engaged in dancing and feasting with numerous demons. Eventually, in 1557, she stood trial, found guilty, and was executed for these purported activities. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_186 ### Event 377 (E5D4F4AD) **Date:** 1551 **Location:** Near Waldstadt, Germany **Description:** Following a drinking party, a woman who had spoken blasphemies was reportedly lifted into the air by the devil while onlookers observed. Spectators hurried outside to track her flight, witnessing her suspended in the sky above the village. To their astonishment, she then plummeted from the heavens and was discovered lifeless in a field, marking a bizarre occurrence that illustrated the dramatic consequences believed to be linked to her interaction with the devil. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_187 ### Event 378 (0C548653) **Date:** 1/3/1551 **Location:** LISBON, PORTUGAL **Description:** Flying red cylinders and fireballs terrify population. 'Rain of blood'(?) **Type:** sighting **Reference:** INFORESPACE Journal. SOBEPS Group, Belgium; bimonthly (Index 24) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_29 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Portugal", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "LISBON,PORTUGAL:FLYING RED CYLs+FBLS TERRIFY POPULATION:'RAIN OF BLOOD'(?)", **LatLong:** "38.683335 -9.066667", **LatLongDMS:** "38:41:00 N 09:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.683335,-9.066667)", **State/Prov:** "EST", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 379 (C31508D2) **Date:** 1/3/1551 **Location:** Lisbon, Portugal **Description:** Reports of flying red cylinders in the sky spread fear among the population. It's worth mentioning that another account mentions a "fiery meteor" sighted on 28 January, coinciding with a significant earthquake. However, due to the lack of a specific source, it's uncertain whether these two reports might be conflated or confused with each other. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_188 ### Event 380 (50D4D3C4) **Date:** 3/1551 **Location:** Magdeburg, Germany **Description:** A remarkable celestial event unfolded as three suns appeared in the sky, prompting Emperor Charles Quint to cease the siege of the city. Although details are limited, this occurrence could possibly be attributed to parhelia, also known as "sun dogs." Historians note that despite the initial siege by Emperor Charles V, he was persuaded to retreat his forces in exchange for a substantial sum of money. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_189 --- ## Year: 1552, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 381 (61F010A7) **Date:** 1552 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) German Conrad Wolffhart \(known by the pseudonym Lycosthènes and author of a chronicle of cursed facts which makes him a sort of Charles Fort of the Renaissance\) ensures the publication of existing fragments of Julius Obsequens' *Prodiges*, thus probably saving them from total disappearance. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1552.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_67 --- ## Year: 1553, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 382 (068F0B84) **Date:** 1/13/1553 **Location:** PERU, Porco and Potosi **Description:** (Translated from French) At the time when Sebastian and his allies were preparing troops and weapons for the execution of his uprising in this city and Captain Francesco Hernandez Giron was doing the same in Chaqui, three Suns and two Moons appeared in the sky above the Porco site, in the middle of a circular halo, and inside it two blue and red arcs. Two other arcs of various colors and an admirable comet of blood red color appeared above the rich hills of the imperial city. On Friday, January 13, 52 days before General Hinojosa was assassinated, at 7 o'clock in the morning, a large circle was seen in the sky above Porco, passing through the middle of the natural Sun and it was all white, the size of an empan. It was reddish, tending towards the color of blood and the two others at its sides were very red and made of blood, to the point that their brightness and fire took away the sight of those who looked at them. The two Moons located at the limit were of a kind of white and a little red tending towards the color of blood. The two arcs that appeared were blue and red, the smaller arc was wider than the other. The comet that seemed to be born from the halo was blazing and made of blood, with a formidable head and a tail of the same material. This prodigy was seen from the Porco site and all its surroundings. The comet was seen again seven days later, at dawn, on the hill of Potosi, with two other arcs, one very white that seemed polished silver, the other that was above it, of a red tending towards blood and shining like a fire. One end of this arc ended in a kind of spiral ray of blood color... **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.81 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_117 ### Event 383 (1DD514EE) **Date:** 1/13/1553 **Location:** Porco, Peru **Description:** An extraordinary atmospheric event unfolded, leaving a deep impression on the people. Above Porco, three suns and two moons appeared within a great ring, along with two blue and red arches. Concurrently, a comet with a fiery and blood-red appearance emerged outside the ring, marked by a distinct, curly head and tail. Despite its cometary description, this phenomenon was not consistent with a typical comet or aurora borealis, occurring at 7 A.M. The indigenous reactions to this event were intense, marked by astonishment and utterances signifying apprehension and impending catastrophe. This occurrence's social impact and its connection to subsequent events, including the demise of key figures, further fueled its mystique. The multifaceted nature of the phenomena indicates an intricate interplay of highly unusual atmospheric conditions. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_190 --- ## Year: 1554, 5 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 384 (A98D7186) **Date:** 1554 **Location:** GERMANY, Nebra (Prussia) and Griessisie (Thuringia) **Description:** (Translated from French) Two red crosses appeared in the sky of Nebra and the same day the solar disc was obscured by a cross in Griessisie; many discs were also seen. **Reference:** Christiane PIENS: "Les OVNI du passé" - Marabout 1977 - p. 60 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_119 ### Event 385 (73BE3E98) **Date:** 2/1/1554 **Location:** Salon de Provence, France **Description:** Dr. Nostradamus, along with numerous witnesses, reported an astonishing celestial occurrence between 7 and 8 P.M. A large "bright burning rod" manifested in the sky, displaying remarkable behavior for two hours. The phenomenon, initially resembling a blazing staff or torch, emitted intense brightness and fiery spurts akin to a smith's forge. It traveled rapidly with roaring thunderous sounds, possibly propelled by strong winds, and eventually altered its course over a span of 20 minutes. The object transitioned southward, releasing a fiery stream that lingered. Nostradamus perceived it as an ominous omen, foretelling potential calamities for Provence and its ruler, potentially involving war, fire, famine, or foreign subjugation. This perplexing event was witnessed by over a thousand people and left an indelible mark on its observers, prompting Nostradamus to communicate its significance to the Duke of Tende. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_191 ### Event 386 (DB449C6D) **Date:** 6/10/1554 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** SALON-DE-PROVENCE AND ST. CHALMAS, FR **Description:** 'Lance' wobbles east going quickly west. Flames all over. Seen / 2 hours. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** INFORESPACE Journal. SOBEPS Group, Belgium; bimonthly (Index 24) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_30 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "120", **HatchDesc:** "SALON-de-PROVENCE+St CHALMAS,FR:'LANCE' WOBBLES E>>W:FLAMES ALL OVR:SEEN/2hrs", **LatLong:** "43.650002 5.100000", **LatLongDMS:** "43:39:00 N 05:06:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.650002,5.100000)", **State/Prov:** "Bouches-du-Rhône", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 387 (7E55FEBE) **Date:** 6/13/1554 **Location:** GERMANY, Jena, Nebra, Thuringia **Description:** (Translated from French) A large number of spheres and discs flew quickly over the city of Jena. They had sudden changes in speed and took on a red hue as they headed north. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.82 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_118 ### Event 388 (BE8FCAD5) **Date:** 6/13/1554 **Location:** Iena, Germany **Description:** A significant sighting occurred as numerous spheres and disks traversed the skies over the city of Iena. These objects displayed rapid changes in speed and, notably, shifted in color to red while heading northward, creating an enigmatic and memorable phenomenon for observers in the area. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_192 --- ## Year: 1555, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 389 (6114A0E3) **Date:** 3/5/1555 **Location:** Buendia, Cuenca, Spain **Description:** On Tuesday, March 5th, 1555, a significant sighting took place in Buendia, Cuenca, Spain. Numerous witnesses observed an immense cross-shaped object suspended in the sky beside a newly constructed calvary, a representation of a crucifix on elevated ground. This hovering cross remained stationary, prompting the involvement of the Inquisition of Cuenca, who dispatched an investigator. A total of nineteen individuals recounted the event to notaries, underscoring its relevance as an unidentified aerial phenomenon, albeit within a religious context. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_193 --- ## Year: 1557, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 390 (0D14D0CC) **Date:** 12/5/1557 (approximate) **Location:** GERMANY, Tübingen (Baden-Württemberg) **Description:** (Translated from French) "Many black clouds appeared around the Sun, like those we see when great storms rage. And soon after other clouds of fire and blood emerged from the Sun, and others yellow like saffron. From these clouds came light effects in the shape of large, high and wide hats, and the earth itself appeared yellow and bloody and covered with high and wide hats that took on different colors such as red, blue, green and mostly black... " (1557, (or 1577?) December 5) **Reference:** Jacques VALLEE: "Autres dimensions" - trad. Robert Laffont 1989 - p. 32-33, cites Pierre Boaistuau and places this phenomenon in 1577; also cited in 1577 by "Dossiers OVNI", ed. Marshall Cavendish, Paris 1998, Hors série, p. 5; Christiane PIENS, in "Les OVNI du Passé - Marabout 1977 p. 60, restores this to 1557 **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.85 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_120 ### Event 391 (7C14E4E7) **Date:** 12/5/1557 **Time:** 07:00 **Location:** NEAR TUBINGEN, GERM **Description:** Many large colored 'hats' exit odd clouds. Small humanoids (or Greys) too? / Belgian UFO Society (SOBEPS) IFS#24. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: DIMENSIONS, A Casebook of Alien Contact Ballentine, NY 1989. PB (Index 13) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_31 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "nr TUBINGEN,GERM:MANY LRG CLRD 'HATS' EXIT ODD CLOUDS:OIDS TOO?:/SOBEPS IFS#24", **LatLong:** "48.550002 9.083334", **LatLongDMS:** "48:33:00 N 09:05:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.550002,9.083334)", **State/Prov:** "Bade-Wurtemberg", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 392 (82FB3902) **Date:** 12/5/1557 **Description:** Above Tubingen, Germany fiery clouds circled in the sky around seven o'clock in the morning, from which emerged "large, tall and wide" hat-shaped objects. The glow cast upon the ground was yellow and "bloody". The hat-shaped flying objects were multicolored: black, red, blue, and green. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 33; Jacques Vallee, Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact, p. 13 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8190 --- ## Year: 1561, 5 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 393 (37C8682F) **Date:** 4/4/1561 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) [Observation at Nuremberg](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/1561-04-04\_Nuremberg.html). (4 April) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1561.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_68 ### Event 394 (9EC8C3DD) **Date:** 4/4/1561 **Location:** Nuremberg, Germany **Description:** Dusk. A “frightening vision” is seen in the sky above Nuremberg, Germany, said to be observed by many. Printer [Hans Glaser](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%5FGlaser) describes in his broadside many blood-red, blue, and black balls or discs near the Sun. “They were three alongside each other, sometimes four in a square, and several alone, and between these balls blood- colored crosses” are seen. Two “great pipes” \(cannon\) are also observed, and everything starts to “fight against each other.” The battle lasts about one hour, then the burning balls fall to the earth and vanish on the ground. Although cited as a possible early UFO report, the narrative is simply about a battle in the sky by phantom armies told as an allegory of what awaits an unrepentant humanity on Judgment Day. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Hans Glaser, [Himmelserscheinung](https://swisscovery.slsp.ch/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma99117090354605508&context=L&vid=41SLSP%5FNETWORK%3AVU1%5FUNION&lang=de&search%5Fscope=DN%5Fand%5FCI&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=41SLSP%5FNETWORK&query=any%2Ccontains%2CHimmelserscheinung%20%C3%BCber%20N%C3%BCrnberg%20vom%2014.%20April%201561&offset=0) [über Nürnberg am 14. April 1561](https://swisscovery.slsp.ch/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma99117090354605508&context=L&vid=41SLSP%5FNETWORK%3AVU1%5FUNION&lang=de&search%5Fscope=DN%5Fand%5FCI&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=41SLSP%5FNETWORK&query=any%2Ccontains%2CHimmelserscheinung%20%C3%BCber%20N%C3%BCrnberg%20vom%2014.%20April%201561&offset=0), Holzschnitt, 1561; Carl Jung, Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies, Mentor ed., 1969, [pp. 103–104](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersmod0000cgju/page/102/mode/2up), between [pp. 120–121](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersmod0000cgju/page/n127/mode/2up?q=1561); Ulrich Magin, “A UFO in the Year 1561,” Fortean Times 283 \(February 2012\): 40–42 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_2 ### Event 395 (6A1984A5) **Date:** 4/14/1561 **Location:** GERMANY, Nuremberg **Description:** (Translated from French) At sunrise the inhabitants of Nuremberg had a very frightening vision... "In addition to red, bluish or black balls, and circular discs, two large pipes were seen..., in which small and large pipes there were three balls, also four and more. All these elements began to fight against each other". This battle seemed to have lasted an hour, then, "as mentioned above, from the Sun and the sky, it fell to the earth as if everything was burning and with a great vapor everything was consumed". In the middle of these spheres a elongated shape was also observed "similar to a large black lance". **Reference:** Henry DURRANT: "The Black Book of UFOs" - Laffont 1970, p. 61; cites Nuremberg Gazette in "A Modern Myth" by C.G. Jung, Paris, 1961 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_121 ### Event 396 (7071AD15) **Date:** 4/14/1561 **Time:** 06:00 **Location:** NUREMBURG, GERM **Description:** Spheres and disks exit cylinder/cylindrical object / sky. Gone in flames. 'Common event' / r2p12. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 186) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_32 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "NUREMBURG,GERM:SPHERES+DISKS EXIT CYL/SKY:GONE in FLAMES:'common event'/r2p12", **LatLong:** "49.450002 11.116667", **LatLongDMS:** "49:27:00 N 11:07:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.450002,11.116667)", **State/Prov:** "Bavaria", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 397 (620AAB87) **Date:** 4/14/1561 **Location:** Nuremberg, Germany **Description:** At sunrise, a remarkable phenomenon unfolded, captivating the observers. Numerous red, blue, and black spheres and disks emerged from two vertical cylinders, initiating an apparent aerial battle. These objects traversed the sky across the Sun's face, creating a spectacle akin to conflict. A contemporary engraving portrays some of these spheres landing on a hill near the city, accompanied by rising smoke. The imagery includes an elongated form resembling a large black spear in a horizontal position. The report describes not just spheres and disks but also two large pipes within which smaller and larger pipes contained three or more balls. This aerial skirmish persisted for about an hour before culminating in a dramatic descent toward the Earth, accompanied by intense smoke and apparent combustion. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_194 --- ## Year: 1563, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 398 (5FA4AB6B) **Date:** 12/24/1563 **Location:** NORWAY, Bergen **Description:** (Translated from French) Shortly before Christmas. Absalon Pedersson Beyer, a Protestant priest, and Christern Ulff as well as a goldsmith, the latter two accompanied by their wives, women and servants, observed a round, black, abnormal cloud passing in front of the moon and covering it. The black cloud emitted a puff of black smoke and the witnesses then heard a whistling sound. The cloud then went back and forth and finally disappeared. All this happened from around 5:30 pm until around 9 pm. **Reference:** continued: same witness see 1564 at Easter - Bergen **Reference:** Source: Armand/Holm-Hansen: UFOER OVER NORGE., 1971, 73, collated by Ole Jonny Braenne **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_122 ### Event 399 (CBAB437A) **Date:** 12/24/1563 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Just before Christmas. In Bergen \(Norway\), the priest Absalon Pederssøn Beyer, with Christern Ulff and a goldsmith, as well as their respective wives and servants, observe a round, unnatural black "cloud" pass in front of the [Moon](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Moon.html) and cover it. A jet of smoke and fire is then emitted from the black "cloud", and all hear a whistling. The "cloud" then moves from back to front, and then disappears. (December 24, 7:30pm to 9:00pm) **Reference:** Armand/Holm-Hansen: UFOER OVER NORGE., 1971, 73 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1563.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_69 --- ## Year: 1564, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 400 (22991DD8) **Date:** 1564 **Location:** NORWAY, Bergen **Description:** (Translated from French) (cf: 1563, shortly before Christmas - Bergen) The witness was again Absalon Pedersson Beyer, this time accompanied by his wife. They saw a "sword of fire" that seemed to touch the ground three times, before rising back into the sky, where it split into three parts. Observation around 6 pm. (1564, Easter) **Reference:** continued: 1568, January 2, Bergen **Reference:** Source: Armand/Holm-Hansen: UFOER OVER NORGE., 1971, 73-4, collated by Ole Jonny Braenne **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_123 ### Event 401 (9728EA2C) **Date:** 3/1/1564 **Location:** Near Brussels, Belgium **Description:** A startling event transpired between Mechelen and Brussels, documented in Gilbert's Annalen for 1806. Initially clear, the sky's complexion shifted around 9 o'clock to a fiery hue, casting a yellowish tint over the surroundings. Amidst this, three regally adorned figures with crowns atop their heads emerged in the sky, remaining visible for nearly three-fourths of an hour before gradually converging and vanishing over the following 15 minutes. Subsequently, a distressing phenomenon ensued as stones of varying sizes, some as heavy as five or six pounds, rained down from the heavens. Notably, no evidence of these stones entering collections has been reported. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_195 ### Event 402 (E3A739DD) **Date:** 4/1564 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Easter. In Bergen \(Norway\), Priest Absalon Pederssøn Beyer and his wife see a "shining sword" that appears to touch the ground 3 times, then rises back into the sky and splits into 3 parts. (April, 6 PM) **Reference:** Armand/Holm-Hansen: UFOER OVER NORGE., 1971, 73-4 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1564.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_70 --- ## Year: 1566, 5 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 403 (AF879BA8) **Date:** 1566 **Location:** BELGIUM, Flanders **Description:** (Translated from French) Italian historian Fomianus Strada relates in his "De Bello Belgico decades duae" that in 1566 armies of the sky were seen in the sky of Flanders in full combat. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.84 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_125 ### Event 404 (2E164E7A) **Date:** 1566 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Engraving depicting the black globes seen in the sky of Basel. See images/1566-Bale\_400.jpg. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1566.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_71 ### Event 405 (EE648375) **Date:** 8/7/1566 **Location:** SWITZERLAND, Basel **Description:** (Translated from French) Many discs, both white and black, appear in the sky of Basel and move; the whole population sees them. (Henry DURRANT: "The Black Book of UFOs" - Laffont 1970, p. 61) The "Gazette of Basel", written by Samuel Coccius, "student of Holy Writings and of free arts, in Basel, in the homeland, in August of the year 1566", reports, in the dialect of the time, that on August 7th of that year, at sunrise, "one saw in the air many large black balls which moved quickly and very rapidly towards the sun, then they turned around, crashing into each other as if they were fighting; a great number of them became red and fiery, and afterwards they burned and extinguished". As the period illustration shows, the observation took place in Basel; the image shows the "Munster" square, the cathedral, with the Antistitium. **Reference:** UFOs with Heidi, cfr GREPI, Switzerland, 1997 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_124 ### Event 406 (68B34B9A) **Date:** 8/7/1566 **Time:** 06:00 **Location:** BASEL, SWZ **Description:** Large tilted cylinder/cylindrical object and many black disks. Aerial combat? / IFS#24+/ r221p14. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 12) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_33 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Switzerland", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "BASEL,SWZ:LRG TILTED CYL+MANY BLACK DISKS:AERIAL COMBAT?:/IFS#24+/r221p14", **LatLong:** "47.500002 7.583334", **LatLongDMS:** "47:30:00 N 07:35:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.500002,7.583334)", **State/Prov:** "Basel", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 407 (7BA31E33) **Date:** 8/7/1566 **Location:** Basel, Switzerland **Description:** An extraordinary occurrence unfolded as the sun rose. A multitude of sizable black spheres streaked through the sky, rapidly approaching the Sun and subsequently reversing course, seemingly engaged in aerial combat, colliding as if locked in battle. During this encounter, a number of spheres transformed into fiery red objects before undergoing disintegration and extinguishment. A contemporary engraving captures this event, portraying the spheres above the "Munster" cathedral alongside the Antistitium. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_196 --- ## Year: 1567, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 408 (6AAF87AD) **Date:** 1567 **Location:** SWITZERLAND, Basel **Description:** (Translated from French) A black sphere emerged and covered the entire surface of the sun. It remained visible everywhere throughout the day. **Reference:** Christiane PIENS: "Les Ovni du passé" - Marabout 1977 - p. 62 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_126 ### Event 409 (53566690) **Date:** 4/7/1567 **Location:** Basel, Switzerland **Description:** A mysterious event unfolded as a black sphere manifested in the sky, effectively obscuring the Sun's face. This enigmatic object remained visible throughout the entire day, leaving observers perplexed by its presence and its impact on the natural illumination. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_197 --- ## Year: 1568, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 410 (124FD5C2) **Date:** 1/2/1568 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Bergen \(Norway\), priest Absalon Pederssøn Beyer sees a strange sign in the sky. (2 January) **Reference:** Armand/Holm-Hansen: UFOER OVER NORGE., 1971, 74 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1568.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_72 ### Event 411 (56B2FF82) **Date:** 9/26/1568 **Location:** Tournai, Belgium **Description:** Remarkable celestial phenomena unfolded between the seventh and twelfth hours in the evening. Initially, luminous circles resembling fire with sun-like rays emitting water-like trails captured observers' attention. Subsequently, a dark cloud materialized, followed by the appearance of substantial lights. Following their departure, an intriguing scene unfolded as figures on horseback engaged in combat, resembling skirmishing musketeers. The ground was illuminated by sparkling fire, creating a striking spectacle. While a potential interpretation could involve an aurora borealis, insufficient information is available to confirm, necessitating a cautious approach to understanding this event. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_198 --- ## Year: 1569, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 412 (DC15CE40) **Date:** 1/3/1569 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Japan, in the evening, a flaming star appears in the sky. It is interpreted as an omen announcing profound changes: the fall of the Chu dynasty. (January 3) **Reference:** Vallée 1969 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1569.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_73 ### Event 413 (F7B0BD7F) **Date:** 4/11/1569 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Bergen \(Norway\), the priest Absalon Pederssøn Beyer sees a ball of light, not as big as the Sun, with a white tail turning red at its end. (April 11 (perhaps 1570)) **Reference:** Armand/Holm-Hansen: UFOER OVER NORGE., 1971, 74 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1569.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_74 ### Event 414 (36F7C5CB) **Date:** 11/1569 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Oslo \(Norway\), priest Absalon Pederssøn Beyer reports seeing "burning rice" in the sky. (November) **Reference:** Armand/Holm-Hansen: UFOER OVER NORGE., 1971, 74 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1569.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_75 --- ## Year: 1571, 4 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 415 (86FE2F80) **Date:** 7/20/1571 **Location:** Prague, Czechoslovakia **Description:** Around midnight, an extraordinary event unfolded in the skies above Prague. A powerful wind resembling an earthquake roused the populace, leading them to their windows. From the direction of the cattle fair, witnesses observed what appeared to be a marching army advancing along Spalena Street. These soldiers, armed and eerie in appearance, were followed by an unusual round object, akin to a "chariot," being drawn by oxen. The metallic, wheel-less object emitted loud noises and was accompanied by eight human figures with no faces but wearing large spurs on their feet, adding to the commotion. As the procession crossed the square, a fire materialized near the Church of the Sacred Heart, adjacent to numerous boxes and barrels resembling containers for gunpowder. The chariot converged with the fire, consuming the boxes and barrels. Subsequently, a wind and fiery rain arose, leading to the vanishing of the unsettling scene, leaving behind a luminous circle of fire that persisted until dawn. The year was marked by a great famine and significant mortality. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_199 ### Event 416 (168CF59F) **Date:** 9/20/1571 **Location:** Lepanto, Italy **Description:** During the night of September 20th, a remarkable phenomenon occurred over Lepanto. A colossal flaming column, radiating light and fire, traversed the sky for an extended duration. Alberto Guglielmotti, the official historian of the papal fleet of Rome, documented this event based on the accounts of witnesses Sereno and Caracciolo. This celestial display was perceived as a miraculous sign, evoking awe and admiration among observers. Many interpreted the fiery column as a positive omen, guiding the Christian fleet's course at sea, analogous to the biblical narrative of the Israelites' desert journey. On October 7th, the Christian fleet achieved a significant victory over Selim II, the Sultan of Turkey, near Lepanto's shores, aligning with the sensed premonition of triumph. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_200 ### Event 417 (C2A771A5) **Date:** 9/29/1571 **Location:** SWITZERLAND, Basel **Description:** (Translated from French) The "Neue Zeitung" reported that a dark sphere remained visible for a day, covering the sky as it had five years before. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.85 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_127 ### Event 418 (7A3F9DE1) **Date:** 10/17/1571 **Location:** ITALY, Rome **Description:** (Translated from French) Shortly after the naval victory of Lepanto, Pope Pie V observed from his window, like a mechanism that remained still for a few minutes before disappearing. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.85 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_128 --- ## Year: 1572, 4 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 419 (E8C7F071) **Date:** 2/16/1572 **Location:** Constantinople, Turkey **Description:** The inhabitants of Constantinople were astonished by the presence of cross-shaped objects flying above their city, forming a perplexing phenomenon. These crosses, believed to bring comfort to captive Christians and bewilderment to the Turks and Jews, appeared consecutively for three days over different Turkish mosques. Witnessed by all in the vicinity, the crosses hovered above mosque roofs, undergoing continuous color changes. While Christians found joy and wonder in the sight, the Turks experienced confusion and unrest. Attempts by the Turks to interpret the event led to suspicions of Christian magic. In response, they engaged in violent combat against Christians, even shooting at the crosses. However, the crosses would vanish temporarily when threatened, only to swiftly reappear, adding to the mystique surrounding the event. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_201 ### Event 420 (42C61514) **Date:** 11/6/1572 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) W. Schuler sees a "new star" in the sky near the constellation of Cassiopeia, as bright as [Jupiter](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Jupiter.html). It turns out to be a supernova. (November 6) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1572.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_76 ### Event 421 (15EFE7E0) **Date:** 11/11/1572 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Tycho Brahe sees the same supernova as Schuler on 6 November. (11 November) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1572.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_77 ### Event 422 (76236A50) **Date:** 11/15/1572 **Location:** Romerswil, Switzerland **Description:** Hans Buchmann, a Swiss farmer, experienced an extraordinary incident in which he vanished from his village of Romerswil. His absence led his family to believe he had been murdered by a family rival, Klaus Buchmann. However, four weeks later, it was revealed that Hans Buchmann had reappeared in Milan, Italy, two and a half months after his disappearance. His return shocked his family, as he was devoid of hair on his head, face, and chin, with a swollen face rendering him almost unrecognizable. During his interrogation, he recounted his unsettling experience of hearing strange music in a forest and subsequently losing consciousness as he was lifted into the air. He found himself in Milan after two weeks, weak and disoriented, having undergone an abduction that defied explanation. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_202 --- ## Year: 1574, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 423 (F275110F) **Date:** 1/29/1574 **Location:** Japan **Description:** An unexplained event took place in an undisclosed location in Japan, where a significant umbrella-shaped object was observed flying through the sky. This object emitted light that illuminated both the sky above and the ground below. The occurrence repeated itself on two distinct occasions, contributing to the enigmatic nature of the phenomenon. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_203 --- ## Year: 1575, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 424 (2866C767) **Date:** 1575 **Location:** SOUTHERN EUROPE **Description:** (Translated from French) Pierre Boaistuau wrote: "the face of the sky has been so often disfigured by comets with beards and hair, torches, flames, columns, spears, shields, dragons, moons, multiple suns and other things of the same kind... " **Reference:** Yves Naud: "The E.T. and UFOs in History" Famot 1977, Volume 2 p. 119 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_131 ### Event 425 (51CEC88B) **Date:** 2/13/1575 **Location:** BELGIUM, Brabant **Description:** (Translated from French) At 9 o'clock in the evening, Cornelius Gemma, a professor of medicine at Louvain, saw two large hoops coming from the north, as well as two arcs and a vast light. One of the hoops had several colors and both were leaning on the west, on the equinox point. The southernmost arc broke near the belt of Orion and a multitude of rays, lances and javelins came out of the breach. Moving, they formed the image of a bloody battle. A red vapor spread in the sky and then became a vivid purple. Meanwhile, a white cloud with a dark spot rose towards the sky. The lances and javelins rose towards the sky and the fire became universal. (February 13, 1575) **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_129 ### Event 426 (F6A46E63) **Date:** 9/28/1575 **Location:** BELGIUM, Brabant **Description:** (Translated from French) Cornelius Gemma, professor of medicine at the University of Louvain, saw in the night a powerful light coming from the sky and which swept the ground with a burning beam. According to the witness the brightness was such "that one could distinguish a nail on the ground at night" (1575, 28 September) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.84 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_130 --- ## Year: 1576, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 427 (D7138558) **Date:** 12/21/1576 **Location:** Mount Kasuga in Japan **Description:** An hour-long sighting of a wheel-shaped object flying over the castle occurred. Regrettably, no historical sources are available for this intriguing incident, underscoring the need for additional examination by experts acquainted with Japanese chronicles. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_204 --- ## Year: 1577, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 428 (20F6AAC5) **Date:** 12/5/1577 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A few kilometers from Tübingen \(Germany\), the locals could see many black clouds around the sun, like those we see when big storms occur; and shortly after, other clouds of fire and blood emerged from the sun, and others yellow like saffron. From these clouds came light effects in the shape of hats, large, high and wide, and the earth itself appeared yellow and bloody and covered with high and wide hats that took different colors such as red, blue, green and, for the most part, black. (December 5th, 7am) **Reference:** Pierre Boaistuau, *Histoires Prodigieuses*, 1594 **Reference:** Vallée 1969 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1577.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_78 ### Event 429 (6EC5583E) **Date:** 12/5/1577 **Location:** Near Tubingen, Germany **Description:** A remarkable celestial event unfolded as numerous black clouds formed around the Sun, reminiscent of storm clouds. Subsequently, clouds resembling blood and fire emerged from the Sun, followed by others that were saffron yellow. These celestial manifestations gave rise to luminous effects that resembled large, broad hats in various colors including red, blue, green, and notably, black. The landscape itself took on a remarkable appearance, appearing yellow, bloody, and covered with these enigmatic hats. The event was interpreted as a divine sign, prompting contemplation, repentance, and penance among observers. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_205 --- ## Year: 1578, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 430 (AC1515BC) **Date:** 12/21/1578 **Location:** SWITZERLAND, Geneva **Description:** (Translated from French) "Wonderful and terrible discourse of the signs and prodigies which have appeared in the sky over the city of Geneva on the 21st day of December 1578" is the title of a pamphlet published by G. Stadius, mathematician of the Duke of Savoy and known astronomer of the time. He describes strange phenomena that would have occurred in the sky of Geneva. It is the description of a "comet surmounted by a small cross". **Reference:** The Saucers at Heidi, cfr GREPI, 1997 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_132 ### Event 431 (191C1DA3) **Date:** 12/21/1578 **Location:** Geneva, Switzerland **Description:** An intriguing pamphlet titled "Marvellous and terrifying discourse of the signs and prodigies that appeared over the city of Geneva the 21 day of December 1578," penned by G. Stadius, a prominent mathematician and astronomer affiliated with the Duke of Savoy, chronicles a range of extraordinary occurrences. These peculiar phenomena encompass a comet adorned with a small cross, alluding to a comet that appeared over the city during this time. The pamphlet's contents underscore the awe-inspiring and unsettling nature of these events that captured the attention and imagination of the populace. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_206 --- ## Year: 1579, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 432 (6033886C) **Date:** 2/18/1579 **Location:** Paris, France **Description:** An event of curiosity unfolded as a "great and wondrous flying serpent or dragon" made an appearance, as documented in a contemporary leaflet or "canard." This remarkable sighting captured the attention of numerous individuals in Paris, commencing at two o'clock in the afternoon and continuing until evening. The peculiar nature of this aerial phenomenon stirred intrigue and wonder among those who witnessed the spectacle. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_207 --- ## Year: 1580, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 433 (2C23D378) **Date:** 2/7/1580 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Chile, this night, we saw something round, vermilion red in color, rising into the sky and into the wind. This thing extended itself over a hill forming like a Lance up on the mountain and fixed itself like a half-moon with reddish colors. (February 7) **Reference:** Logbook of Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, Spanish navigator and founder of the two ports of the Magellan Strait **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1580.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_79 ### Event 434 (A3916F8D) **Date:** 2/7/1580 **Location:** Straits of Magellan **Description:** In Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa's account titled "Viajes al Estrecho de Magallanes," a captivating sighting is detailed from his travels to the Strait of Magellan in 1579 and 1581. At 1:00 A.M. on Thursday, February 7th, 1580, a remarkable event occurred as a red, fiery object resembling a shield emerged in the sky to the south-southeast. This object gradually transformed, elongating as it moved over a mountain, eventually adopting the appearance of a half-moon, with shades of red and white. Sarmiento de Gamboa likened the object to an "adarga," a type of shield used in the era of Don Quijote. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_208 ### Event 435 (6C727CB4) **Date:** 9/10/1580 **Location:** FRANCE, Valence (Drôme) **Description:** (Translated from French) Two very large objects were observed in the sky. **Reference:** M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: "Ovni: le premier dossier complet..." ed. Alain LEFEUVRE 1979, p. 34 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_133 --- ## Year: 1586, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 436 (0153650E) **Date:** 1586 **Location:** FRANCE, Tors (Charente Maritime) **Description:** (Translated from French) Agrippa D'Aubigné relates: "A few days after the taking of Tors, the lord of the place took his guest to a garden, a little before sunset, and they saw a round cloud of a horrible color to look at, for which the Latin word subfusca (dark brown) must be used. This cloud seemed like a hat with an ear in the middle, with the colors of an Indian cockerel's throat that the spectator judged to be similar in all respects to the phlegmon that had been torn from him in the aposthume of his plague that he had had in Orleans. This hat with its fateful sign came in and melted near the bell tower..." [note from vog: I could not find a village called Tors, nor Beauvais in Charente Maritime...] **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.85-86 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_134 ### Event 437 (3DB78237) **Date:** 1586 **Location:** Grangemuir, Scotland **Description:** Alison Pearson, a woman, admitted to encountering the "Good Neighbors," supernatural beings who bestowed upon her a potent healing salve with the ability to cure all ailments. She recounted an encounter with a green-clad man and a group of merrymaking men and women accompanied by music. Subsequently, she claimed to have been taken away by these beings. Her confessions led to her trial and execution in the same year. Notably, despite her fate, she had applied the salve to the Archbishop of Saint Andrews, who attested to its efficacy. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_209 ### Event 438 (F33BC4BC) **Date:** 1586 **Location:** Beauvais sous Matha near Tors, France **Description:** The poet Theodore Agrippa d'Aubigne and the Marquis de Tors witnessed an unusual event. They observed a brown cloud in the sky resembling a hat with a disturbing red coloration. The cloud descended over the hamlet of Beauvais-sous-Matha, close to the steeple, shortly before sunset. The cloud's appearance was described as resembling a hat with an ear in the middle, the color akin to the throat of an Indian rooster. The cloud eventually reached the steeple and dissipated. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_210 --- ## Year: 1587, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 439 (2B91F7A7) **Date:** 9/21/1587 **Location:** FRANCE, Turnac (Sarlat, Dordogne) **Description:** (Translated from French) At vespers it happened in the parish of Carsac, land of Monfort, that in the air, as on the plain of a place called Turnac, on the side of the Midi, facing the West, there appeared a great army equipped and in good order, both on foot and on horseback, making a hundred paces in front and remaining for about two hours, as if preparing to clash. And suddenly they rushed into the skirmish, one among the others: some of them could be distinguished by the color of their clothes which were yellow, and by their banners. During this first battle, from the side of the East, and from the part of the Roc de Carsac, a larger and better formed army of people dressed in white was seen, holding a white staff in their hands. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.86 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_135 --- ## Year: 1589, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 440 (65FFC2A1) **Date:** 1/12/1589 **Location:** Saint-Denis, France **Description:** A text published around 1599 recounts an extraordinary sighting. Two large clouds were observed between Paris and St. Denis at night, emitting intense light. These clouds moved towards each other, joined briefly, and then separated, giving rise to numerous fiery arrows and spears that engaged in a prolonged celestial combat. Eventually, they retreated and continued their journey southwards, passing over the City of Paris. Additionally, on January 13, a remarkable sight was witnessed, consisting of a large crescent shape in the sky with a star above it, resembling a bright comet. The populace was astonished, and prayers were offered for divine protection. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_211 --- ## Year: 1590, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 441 (29580AF1) **Date:** 1590 **Location:** Scotland **Description:** Peasants reported to the shire reeve that they had observed a sizeable tubular object hovering over their town. The object remained stationary in the sky for a few minutes before disappearing. While there are numerous references to this event, an original source for this account has not yet been identified. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_212 --- ## Year: 1591, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 442 (4BF1C4A8) **Date:** 5/25/1591 **Location:** FRANCE, Saintes Maries de la Mer **Description:** (Translated from French) According to old chronicles, a child, thrown from the tower of the church of Saintes Maries de la Mer, is miraculously supported in the air and lands without any harm. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 15 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_136 --- ## Year: 1592, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 443 (BB204373) **Date:** 1592 **Location:** Pinner, Middlesex, England **Description:** Farm worker Richard Burt encountered a being he described as a "large black cat" and was transported magically to Harrow through what seemed to be a mysterious event. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_213 --- ## Year: 1593, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 444 (CE4984E8) **Date:** 5/1593 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, London **Description:** (Translated from French) In the suburbs of London several witnesses reported having seen a "flying dragon" surrounded by flames. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.86 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_137 --- ## Year: 1595, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 445 (5C6D861F) **Date:** 10/15/1595 **Location:** Targoviste, Wallachia, Romania **Description:** During the siege of Targoviste by Prince Michel the Brave against the occupying Turks, a large comet-like object was reported to have appeared above the military camp and remained stationary for approximately two hours. This event is described in an Italian report that was redacted in Prague. Interestingly, there is no corresponding record of this comet-like object in astronomical records. Subsequently, three days after the appearance of the object, the Turks were defeated by Prince Michel's forces. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_214 --- ## Year: 1600, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 446 (C5A905E6) **Date:** 1600's **Description:** Significant sightings **Type:** ufo sightings **Reference:** [Charles Fort](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fort) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_2 --- ## Year: 1603, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 447 (155EC333) **Date:** 1/23/1603 **Location:** Besançon, France **Description:** During the evening hours, a peculiar phenomenon occurred over the city. Witnesses reported a great light in the sky, forming a heavy, round-shaped cloud with a reddish hue. The cloud remained nearly motionless above Mount Saint Etienne, then descended slowly, casting its light on nearby streets and buildings. The phenomenon persisted for approximately two hours, traversing various parts of the city, including over the Saint Vincent Abbey and the cathedral, before eventually disappearing. The source of this event is an account by a visitor to Sainte Claire monastery in Besançon. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_215 --- ## Year: 1606, 5 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 448 (16CE6C88) **Date:** 2/13/1606 **Location:** FRANCE, southeast **Description:** (Translated from French) It is a "column of fire" that is still observed in the southeast of France. **Reference:** M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: "Ovni: le premier dossier complet..." ed. Alain LEFEUVRE 1979, p. 35 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_138 ### Event 449 (87CE9B33) **Date:** 5/1606 **Location:** JAPAN, Kyoto **Description:** (Translated from French) Balls of fire had been constantly flying over the city of Kyoto and one night a red wheel had even come to spin and hover above the Nijo Castle. (May 1606) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.86 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_139 ### Event 450 (884CD046) **Date:** 5/1606 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Japan, balls of fire are constantly being observed above Kyoto and, one night, many samurai notice that a ball of fire similar to a red wheel is spinning and flying above the Nijo Castle. The next morning, the city is full of rumors and people are murmuring: This must be an omen. (May) **Reference:** Vallée 1969 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1606.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_80 ### Event 451 (26E3471E) **Date:** 5/1606 **Location:** Kyoto, near Nijo Castle, Japan **Description:** Witnesses, including samurais, reported seeing balls of fire flying over Kyoto during this period. On one particular night, a red wheel-shaped object was observed hovering above Nijo Castle. However, no original Japanese source for this intriguing event has been found. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_216 ### Event 452 (E4A1D2C2) **Date:** 5/1/1606 (approximate) **Location:** KYOTO, JAPAN **Description:** May. Many fireballs. Flaming wheel spins near Nijo Castle. / Belgian UFO Society (SOBEPS) IFS#24. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: DIMENSIONS, A Casebook of Alien Contact Ballentine, NY 1989. PB (Index 12) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_34 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "KYOTO,JAPAN:MAY:MANY FBLS:FLAMING WHEEL SPINS nr NIJO CASTLE:/SOBEPS IFS#24", **LatLong:** "35.000002 135.766673", **LatLongDMS:** "35:00:00 N 135:46:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.000002,135.766673)", **State/Prov:** "Honshu Island", **Strangeness:** "3" --- ## Year: 1608, 6 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 453 (B6786755) **Date:** 1608 **Location:** Between Angoulême and Cognac, France **Description:** A clear and calm day turned unusual when a multitude of small, thick clouds appeared and descended to the ground. These clouds transformed into an estimated 10,000 to 12,000 warrior-like figures, tall and handsome, clad in blue armor and marching behind red and blue banners. This spectacle caused both peasants and nobility to gather and observe the procession. As the figures approached a dense forest, they ascended above the trees and resumed their orderly march on the ground, eventually disappearing into another forest. This account is based on a manuscript report by the late M. Prévost, curate of Lussac-les-Églises. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_217 ### Event 454 (AB60E7A0) **Date:** 8/1608 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Between Genoa \(Italy\) and Marseille a series of demonstrations and aerial battles is observed. People die of fright. This is followed by rains of blood along the coast up to Marseille. The battle takes place between flying apparitions and others only partially emerging from the sea off Genoa. The soldiers of the fortress of this city try to disperse the intruders by firing no less than 800 cannon shots against them. These signs are interpreted as a warning from God who would be about to punish men. **Reference:** [_Discourse of the Terrible and Dreadful Signs Appeared on the Sea of Genoa_](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/1608\_Article.html), Pierre Ménier **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1608.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_81 ### Event 455 (0F84EEE7) **Date:** 8/1/1608 **Location:** MEDITERRANEAN: Cannes, Genoa, Marseille, Nice **Description:** (Translated from French) On the sea of Genoa were seen the most horrible signs that have ever been spoken or written of! Some were in human figures, having arms that seemed to be covered in scales and each holding in their hands two horrible flying serpents, which entwined their arms and only appeared from the navel upwards, out of the sea, and they threw out cries so horrible that it was a terrifying thing, and sometimes they plunged into the sea and then reappeared in other places far away, howling cries so terrifying that many were made ill from the fear they had. They saw some that seemed to be in female figures. Others had a body like a human, all covered in scales, but the head was in the shape of a dragon. From the first day of the said month, they were ordinarily seen to the great astonishment of all the Genoese. The seigniory had some cannons fired in order to try to make them leave that place. About 800 shots were fired at them, but in vain, for they were not in the least astonished. The churches assembled and, going to the true remedy, made many processions, commanded the youth, and the good Capuchin fathers ordered the 40 hours in order to try to appease the wrath of God, with their salutary remedy. On the fifteenth day of August, on the said sea of the port of Genoa, three chariots were seen, each drawn by six figures all on fire in the semblance of a dragon. And the said chariots were drawn by the said signs which always had their serpents, continuing their terrifying cries and approaching quite close to Genoa, so that the spectators, at least the greater part, astonished, fled, fearing the effects of such a prodigy.

But when they had made the circuit three times along the port, after they had thrown such powerful cries of noise that they made the mountains in the vicinity resound, they were lost in the said sea and since then, none have seen or heard any news of them. This brought great damage to many citizens of Genoa, some of whom died of fear, such as the son of Mr. Gasparino de Loro and also the brother of Signor Anthonio Bagatello, and many women were afflicted and had such fear that they died of it... From the length of the sea of Nice and all along the coast of Provence, both on the marine side and on the plain, it was found to have rained natural blood which ran and tried to redden the leaves and fruits of the trees. At Toulon, most of the houses on the roof were stained with the said blood, and the pavement of the parish church of the said place, at the exit of Mass, was seen to be sprinkled with a horn of real and natural blood. On the eighteenth of the said month, it rained blood in such abundance that it ran along the streets and it seemed as if an infinity of people had been slaughtered at Riliane.

At Lambex, on the twentieth of the said month, in the presence of all the people, it was seen to rain blood so much that none went out of the houses without being stained with the said blood which distilled from the roof of the houses, or else from that which fell from the first rain. In short, along the marine from Nice to Marseille, blood rained on various days... Dreadful things, worthy of memory, happened almost at the same time in the town of the Isle of Martègue, on the twenty-second day of the said month, when two men appeared in the air, each with weapons and shields in their hands, and they fought in such a way that they astonished the spectators, and after having fought for a long time, they rested for a certain time, then returned to battle and their combat lasted two hours. On the twenty-seventh of the said month, they fought on foot and quarreled in such a way that it seemed to some that each of them was armed with a fortress or castle, and after having made a good show against each other, there was a noise as of some shots from a cannon. The noise was so frightful that it seemed to the listeners to be the end of the world, then having continued the said days for seven hours all at once, a thick cloud appeared in the air and covered so darkly that nothing was seen for two hours but clouds and black mists, darkened, smelling like gunpowder, and after the air was purified, none of these chimeras were seen, which had vanished. (August 1, 1608) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.87-88 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_140 ### Event 456 (F96F4698) **Date:** 8/1/1608 **Location:** Genoa Harbor, Italy **Description:** Two human-like figures were observed engaging in a battle over the sea, gripping what appeared to be flying snakes. Although only their torsos were visible above the waves, their cries were so terrifying that several witnesses were physically affected by fear. This unsettling spectacle persisted over the course of several weeks, during which these entities were repeatedly seen. Despite the efforts of firing approximately 800 cannon shots to deter them, the creatures remained unfazed. It's worth noting that this incident is sometimes conflated with unrelated atmospheric phenomena involving "bloody rains" reported between Nice and Lambesc in France. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_218 ### Event 457 (993A48AE) **Date:** 8/15/1608 **Location:** Genoa Harbor, Italy **Description:** Three coaches materialized above the sea, each pulled by six fiery creatures resembling dragons. Accompanying these coaches were the aforementioned signs, still carrying their serpents, emitting eerie cries. The coaches approached the city of Genoa, causing a substantial portion of the spectators to flee in terror. Despite making three trips along the harbor and emitting powerful screams that echoed across the nearby mountains, the coaches eventually vanished over the sea, never to be seen again. This event inflicted significant distress upon the citizens of Genoa, leading to various adverse effects, including the death of individuals such as the son of Sr. Gasparino de Loro and the brother of Sr. Anthonio Bagatello, as well as several women who were deeply affected by the fear induced by the phenomenon. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_219 ### Event 458 (07A7E2EB) **Date:** 8/27/1608 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Other strange giant figures fight for hours in the sky of Martigues, characters whose weapons make a sound of the end of the world. Then they disappear in a black rush that leaves behind a smell of saltpeter. (22nd and 27th August) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1608.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_82 --- ## Year: 1609, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 459 (10EAC26A) **Date:** 2/15/1609 **Location:** Tiannin Mountain, China **Description:** The walls of a temple were illuminated by intense lights originating from a celestial phenomenon described as resembling either a ship or a luminous eye. The sky bore witness to this blinding spectacle, leaving observers in awe and wonder. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_220 --- ## Year: 1612, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 460 (2D00CA87) **Date:** 7/3/1612 **Location:** Switzerland **Description:** Between July 3rd and 6th, 1612, a series of extraordinary celestial phenomena unfolded over Switzerland. Notable occurrences included the appearance of three suns, three rainbows, and a prominent white cross. However, the most remarkable sight was the sighting of two armies seemingly engaged in battle in the skies. A contemporary broadsheet, written in rhymed strophes, urged Christians of all ages to take these signs seriously as omens of impending turmoil and danger, emphasizing the need for repentance in the face of the extraordinary events. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_221 --- ## Year: 1613, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 461 (F3E5B772) **Date:** 1613 **Location:** Perth, Scotland **Description:** Isobel Haldane recounted a bewildering experience of being mysteriously taken from her bed, unsure whether by divine or malevolent forces. She found herself transported to a hillside that inexplicably opened before her. Inside, she spent three days in what she described as the "fairy kingdom." She was eventually led out by a man with a grey beard, who imparted upon her the knowledge of curing illnesses and predicting the future. During the 17th century, such tales of encounters with supernatural beings and abductions were relatively common, often giving rise to suspicions of connections with the Devil. Unlike many similar stories, this one includes a specific date and location – Perth, Scotland. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_222 --- ## Year: 1614, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 462 (D35E9075) **Date:** 3/4/1614 **Location:** JAPAN, Kinki **Description:** (Translated from French) It was observed the passage of a square object. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.89 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_141 ### Event 463 (478D5326) **Date:** 3/4/1614 **Location:** Kinki, West Japan **Description:** an unidentified four-sided object was observed in the sky. Unfortunately, detailed information from an original source is currently unavailable. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_223 ### Event 464 (411060C2) **Date:** 5/10/1614 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** WESTLEY, ENGLAND **Description:** Church records. 3 'suns' hover / one hour. Back again 18 Mar. '1639. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 399) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_35 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "61", **HatchDesc:** "WESTLEY,ENGLAND:CHURCH RECORDS:3 'SUNS' HVR/1hr:back again 18MAR1639:NFD", **LatLong:** "52.250002 0.666667", **LatLongDMS:** "52:15:00 N 00:40:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.250002,0.666667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" --- ## Year: 1619, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 465 (541CAFB9) **Date:** 1619 **Location:** SWITZERLAND, Fluelen (Uri). **Description:** (Translated from French) Herr Christophorus Schere, Prefect of the Canton of Uri, saw near Fluelen, along the Lake of Uri, a long and shining flying object. (Henry DURRANT: "The Black Book of UFOs" - Laffont 1970, p. 61) In 1619, in Flüelen, an enormous elongated and fiery-colored object was seen near a lake by Professor Christopher Scherer, Prefect of the Canton of Uri: "Having lingered on the balcony to admire the purity of the firmament, I saw a brilliant fiery dragon emerge from one of the caves of Mount Pilate and quickly head towards Flüelen at the other end of the lake. It was enormous, its tail long and its neck stretched out...It left behind, in flying, numerous sparks...At first I thought I saw a meteor, but then, looking more closely, I was convinced by its flight...that I was seeing a real dragon." **Reference:** UFOs in Heidi, cfr GREPI, 1997 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_142 ### Event 466 (F09E1E57) **Date:** 1619 **Location:** Near Fluelen on Lake Lucerne, Switzerland **Description:** Herr Christophorus Schere, the prefect of Uri County, reported witnessing a remarkable event. He observed a fiery and bright dragon-like object flying across the night sky from a cave in Mount Pilatus to another cave known as Flue. The creature had wings that moved rapidly, a long body, tail, and neck, and a serpent-like head with teeth. As it flew, it emitted sparkles similar to those from incandescent iron struck on an anvil. Herr Schere initially mistook it for a meteor but upon closer observation, he concluded that he had witnessed a genuine dragon, leading him to share this extraordinary account. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_224 ### Event 467 (9E5C3329) **Date:** 1619 **Location:** Prague, Czechoslovakia **Description:** A series of fiery globes are sighted in the sky. These globes, some of which break into multiple parts, cause astonishment among the villagers, who were already on edge due to the presence of soldiers in the country. At around 10:00 in the evening, the village priest joins the villagers in observing the spectacle. One of the globes transforms into a bloody crucifix before gradually fading away along with the other globes. This mysterious occurrence, featuring cycles of globe formations and disappearances, is witnessed multiple times before everything vanishes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_225 --- ## Year: 1620, 4 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 468 (AA7273D1) **Date:** 2/1/1620 **Location:** FRANCE, Quimper-Corentin **Description:** (Translated from French) Between 7 and 8 PM lightning struck the lead-covered pyramid on the roof of the cathedral. It caught fire, exploded and crashed to the ground with a terrifying noise. People who came to see it then saw in the flames and smoke a demon of either green or blue color, doing its best to stoke the fire... **Reference:** Jacques VALLEE: "Chronicles of E.T. Appearances" - DENOEL 1972 - coll. J'AI LU - p. 95, 96 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_143 ### Event 469 (B283E9F1) **Date:** 2/1/1620 **Location:** Quimper-Corentin, France **Description:** A green flying creature and destructive fire. Witnesses in the town experience a catastrophic event as lightning strikes the bell tower of the cathedral, causing it to catch fire. Amidst a fierce hailstorm, a frightening green demon with a long tail is observed clinging to the top of the tower. The demon's presence remains visible throughout the day, with smoke eventually billowing from the structure. Despite efforts to extinguish the flames and the use of holy relics, water, and even a consecrated host, the fire continues to burn. Finally, a ritual involving a loaf of rye bread containing a consecrated host and other sacred elements forces the demon to depart, ending the ordeal and saving the town from further damage. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_226 ### Event 470 (23795B93) **Date:** 4/5/1620 **Location:** SWITZERLAND, Geneva **Description:** (Translated from French) Palm Sunday. Another pamphlet published in 1620 entitled: "Horrible Battle Seen over the City of Geneva on Last Palm Sunday..." recounts: "Two suns were seen, one red and the other yellow, which clashed with each other... Shortly afterwards a long cloud like an arm appeared from the side of the sun, which stopped near the said Sun, and from this cloud a great number of people dressed in black and armed like soldiers emerged... and then yellow clouds like saffron appeared, from which clouds reflections resembling large high and wide hats emerged and the whole earth was shown yellow and bloody... The sun split in two and everything ended in a rain of blood." **Reference:** Les Soucoupes chez Heidi, cfr GREPI, 1997 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_144 ### Event 471 (5D26E6FD) **Date:** 4/9/1620 **Location:** Geneva, Switzerland **Description:** Astonishing celestial phenomena and mysterious figures. Observers witness the appearance of two suns, red and yellow, colliding with each other. Following this, a long cloud emerges from one of the suns, carrying a multitude of people dressed in black attire, resembling warriors. Additional saffron-hued clouds release tall, hat-like objects, and the earth takes on a yellow and bloody hue. The sun's duplication and a final rupture, described as a "rift of blood," mark the conclusion of this extraordinary occurrence. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_227 --- ## Year: 1621, 8 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 472 (C52BCD0B) **Date:** 7/28/1621 **Location:** SWITZERLAND, Geneva **Description:** (Translated from French) The presence of a cross in the sky of Geneva is still reported on July 28, 1621, a cross that threw flames as if to burn the city and its surroundings. **Reference:** Les Soucoupes chez Heidi, cfr GREPI, 1997 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_145 ### Event 473 (F245F418) **Date:** 9/11/1621 **Description:** Contrails and white "crowns" moved in groups over Paris, France at 10:00 p.m. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Lumieres dan la Nuit, issue 125 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5847 ### Event 474 (6324AA90) **Date:** 9/12/1621 **Location:** FRANCE, Paris and Saint-Denis **Description:** (Translated from French) "Various small white clouds appeared which, as if in squadrons, separated from each other, came afterwards to join each other with prodigious speed, after which they disappeared, and others presented themselves and, on approach, sent out shapes and forms like lances and arrows against each other, just like squadrons that come fiercely to the shock and, after having fought for a while, were lost and no longer appeared..." wrote Pierre de l'Estoile. While Jacques Thevenyn, notary, described: "The night of Sunday, the twelfth of September, between Monday the thirteenth, although we had no moon, nevertheless it was very clear and in the air there were swans of medium size. Around ten o'clock in the evening I saw, being at our door, in the sky like three long white paths, one smaller than the others and they moved. I thought it was the wind but I do not know what it was and on this, I saw like a crown which was not at all closed on the side of the Saint Anthoine Gate and was around it, against which there were several branches that came to merge..." **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.89-90 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_146 ### Event 475 (A53C68CA) **Date:** 9/12/1621 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In the evening, observation of a kind of aerial battle between balls and flying spears above Paris. (September 12) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1621.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_83 ### Event 476 (82A09183) **Date:** 9/12/1621 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** PARIS AND ST. DENIS, FR **Description:** Separate observer(s). Contrails and white 'crowns' move in groups. / r186#24. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 125) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_36 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "120", **HatchDesc:** "PARIS+St DENIS,FR:SEP.OBS:CONTRAILS+WHT 'CROWNS' MOVE in GROUPS:/r186#24", **LatLong:** "48.816669 2.316667", **LatLongDMS:** "48:49:00 N 02:19:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.816669,2.316667)", **State/Prov:** "Paris", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 477 (B011AB73) **Date:** 10/12/1621 **Location:** FRANCE, Lyon, Nismes, Montpellier **Description:** (Translated from French) On the night of the 12th of October last, around eight o'clock in the evening, with no moonlight at its last quarter, the air, beyond what is natural, began to clear up from the east and continued for an hour and a half or so, making the time as clear and bright as the most beautiful days of summer, which caused great astonishment to the inhabitants of Lyon. Most of them, looking up, perceived things that were entirely strange and beyond the course of nature. Namely, on the large Bellecourt square they saw like a large mountain, on which was the figure of a castle, from which came forth many flashes of light that gave off light in all directions and lost their light in an instant. And this figure of the castle was consumed as these said flashes came out. It seemed to cover the entire quarter of the Rosne gate, Saint Michel, the Saone river, and reach as far as the faux-bourg of Saint George. On the side of the Terreaux square it was seen (by more than four hundred people) in the air, like the shape of a battalion of soldiers on horseback, at the head of which there was a very luminous star, which seemed to lead them, which was larger and brighter than those usually seen in the sky. This star, like a second sun, made all the clouds that presented themselves in various shapes disperse before it, and seemed to want to keep its brightness, but being overcome by its great light, they entirely lost their shapes and were no longer visible. The whole city and surrounding areas were covered this night and others following with various signs and prodigies, like burning lances, which seemed to come from the side of the faux-bourg of La Guillotière, which, approaching the Rosne bridge, dispersed and were no longer visible, and this until daybreak.

In the city of Nismes (...) at the same time previously mentioned by the inhabitants of the said city, principally the night of the thirteenth of the said month around nine to ten o'clock in the evening, on the Amphitheatre there was seen like a great and very resplendent sun, which was surrounded by a number of other luminous torches and seemed to want to go straight to the Roman Tower.. on which there appeared like carts on fire all around surrounded by very bright stars. There also appeared other signs both on the Capitol and on the Temple, which seemed to cover the whole city, which greatly astonished all the inhabitants of the said city and other surrounding areas. In the city and town of Montpellier... there began to appear on it a quantity of burning torches in the form of torches of light from which came a number like lances of fire that went back and forth. This way of doing lasted from nine to ten o'clock at night until three o'clock in the morning when there appeared a great and luminous star with a long tail, other small stars, which seemed to make a large cloud mixed with various flashes disperse, which wanted to cover it and prevent its brightness... **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_147 ### Event 478 (FC2ED3B1) **Date:** 10/13/1621 **Location:** Nimes, France **Description:** Radiant celestial display above the amphitheater. At approximately 9 to 10 P.M., observers in Nimes witness the presence of a brilliant, sun-like object hovering over the city. This luminous spectacle is accompanied by numerous other shining torch-like lights. The phenomenon gives the impression that the main sun-like object is heading directly towards the Roman Tower. In the vicinity of the tower, fiery chariots with dazzling stars encircling them are also observed, creating a remarkable and awe-inspiring scene in the night sky. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_228 ### Event 479 (4D45423C) **Date:** Mid 10/1621 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The south-east of France is the site of intense aerial activity revolving around the presence of a large and luminous Star with movements and presence far from natural. A monograph published in Nîmes shortly after the events reports very close observations in time of the same phenomena above Lyon, then Nîmes and finally Montpellier. (Mid October) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1621.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_84 --- ## Year: 1624, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 480 (6867A3EC) **Date:** 5/12/1624 **Location:** Anhalt, Germany **Description:** Skyborne procession of men and chariots. Between the hours of 6 to 8 in the evening, an unusual phenomenon unfolds over Gierstedt (Bierstedt), Anhalt. Spectators witness a multitude of men and chariots emerging from the clouds, creating a surreal and unexpected spectacle in the skies. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_229 --- ## Year: 1626, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 481 (067E53FD) **Date:** 8/5/1626 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) With the members of his expedition in Central Asia, Nikolai Roerich, painter and scholar, observes with binoculars a huge ovoid shining object that moves in the sky changing trajectory. (August 5) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1626.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_85 --- ## Year: 1628, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 482 (8583A26D) **Date:** 1628 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The physicist Konstantine Tsiolkovski, one of the founders of Russian cosmonautics, in his work *Volonté de l'Univers, Forces intelligentes inconnues*, is convinced that evolved beings from the Universe can move from one planet to another to intervene. Throughout his life, Tsiolkovski will seek the means to make interplanetary trips. His ideas will often be invoked by Soviet scientists when they begin to see in the sky unknown objects of which they denied the existence. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1628.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_86 --- ## Year: 1629, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 483 (E67928AA) **Date:** 1629 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) 5 suns seen in Rome in 1629. **Reference:** Journal des savans, XIX, Monday 10 May 1666 p. 452; letter from Mr. Etienne de Chartres **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1629.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_87 --- ## Year: 1634, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 484 (F03F59E2) **Date:** 1634 **Location:** Wiltshire, England **Description:** Bewitched encounter with dancing elves. In the year 1633 or 1634, Mr. Hart, a curate from a Wiltshire "Latin Schoole," experienced a baffling incident. While walking across the "downes," he stumbled upon a multitude of diminutive beings, akin to pigmies, engaged in a peculiar dance within a fairy ring. Despite his amazement, Hart found himself unable to flee and was seemingly entranced by the sight. The tiny creatures surrounded him, inflicting pinches and emitting curious humming sounds. The encounter left Hart paralyzed, and when he regained consciousness, he discovered he had been transported to the center of the fairy ring. This tale of elvish mischief and enchantment was recounted by Aubrey based on his conversation with Hart. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_230 --- ## Year: 1635, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 485 (450BDB33) **Date:** 1635 **Location:** Port-Louis, Brittany, France **Description:** Approximate date. Heavenly procession witnessed. Jean Le Guen, a resident of Riantec near Port-Louis, reported an extraordinary sighting. He claimed to have witnessed a celestial procession of beings he identified as "angels" moving through the sky. This ethereal spectacle was observed as these beings traveled from Port-Louis to Caudan, leaving an indelible impression on the 60-year-old man and those who heard his account. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_231 --- ## Year: 1636, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 486 (32290648) **Date:** 3/1636 **Location:** FRANCE, Belle-Ile (Morbihan) **Description:** (Translated from French) Extract from the letter of the Duke of Retz to his friend the R.P. Césarée -Méjanes Library in Aix-en-Provence, manuscript no. 1209) ... the man marain was on a rock on the west side called Arbonne... and appeared to be sitting. The great height of the coast prevented him from judging what was under the water, but what appeared outside was the belly, the navel, the body, the head, the arms and the hands very well proportioned, except for the hands which were extraordinarily large and white inside and the arms which were a bit short. His body appeared to be the size of a barrel of wine and the rest in proportion. His hair down to his shoulders very greasy and whitish, his beard similar and going down to his stomach, his eyes very big and rough, his skin neither white nor tanned, but it had the appearance of being rough. ... but they saw well that the groin appeared wide of more than a foot and that his back was like the top of his hands and arms with a grayish skin without scales. .... instead of legs, two fish tails made like a salmon... sometimes he beat his hands against each other and made a certain whistle that they took for laughter... At the same time that it appeared in Belle Ile, inhabitants who went to Vannes assure that in broad daylight they saw the same thing... **Reference:** Yves Naud: "Les E.T. et les OVNI dans l'histoire" Famot 1977, Volume 2 p. 147-148 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_148 --- ## Year: 1637, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 487 (709126A5) **Date:** 5/28/1637 **Location:** Between Chartres and Paris, France **Description:** Enigmatic celestial display. Travelers on this date observed a puzzling occurrence involving three prominent 'stars' accompanied by smaller ones. Additionally, a prolonged line of other 'stars' was also witnessed. While lacking specific details such as duration and trajectory, skeptics might posit that the travelers might have witnessed a sequence of bright meteors, given the available description. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_232 --- ## Year: 1638, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 488 (95D96328) **Date:** 1638 **Location:** Moon **Description:** English clergyman and philosopher [John Wilkins](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FWilkins) writes The Discovery of a World in the Moone, in which he highlights the similarities of the Earth and the Moon \(seas, mountains, atmosphere\) and concludes that the Moon is likely to be inhabited by living beings, whom the calls “Selenites.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Maria Avxentevskaya, “[How 17th Century](https://web.archive.org/web/100/https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2017/12/02/how%5F17th%5Fcentury%5Fdreamers%5Fplanned%5Fto%5Freach%5Fthe%5Fmoon%5F110476.html) [Dreamers Planned to Reach the Moon,](https://web.archive.org/web/100/https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2017/12/02/how%5F17th%5Fcentury%5Fdreamers%5Fplanned%5Fto%5Freach%5Fthe%5Fmoon%5F110476.html)” Real Clear Science, December 2, 2017 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_3 ### Event 489 (CE4E7B24) **Date:** 1638 **Location:** Boston, Massachusetts **Description:** Night. John Everett and two companions are crossing the Muddy River near Boston, Massachusetts, in a boat when a “great light” appears above them. It darts back and forth across the river, sometimes hovering and “flaming up,” for about 2–3 hours. After they stop watching it, they discover that their boat has moved about one mile against the current to the place where they had embarked. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** John Winthrop, The History of New England from 1630 to 1649, Little, Brown, 1853, [vol. 1, pp. 349–350](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=miun.afj7387.0001.001&view=1up&seq=371&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_4 ### Event 490 (B344E254) **Date:** 3/1638 **Location:** Muddy River near Charlton, Massachusetts **Description:** Puritan's encounter with a luminous phenomenon and missing time. Puritan James Everell, accompanied by two others, experienced a startling event as they observed a luminous mass hovering over Muddy River. This mass exhibited erratic movements and changed in shape, at times resembling a swine. The phenomenon persisted for several hours, during which the observers' boat was unexpectedly carried upstream against the tide. After the light vanished, they realized they had returned to their starting point, a mile away. The event's duration and the peculiar boat movement prompt speculation about potential gaps in their memory, akin to contemporary claims of alien abduction in abduction literature. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_233 --- ## Year: 1639, 4 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 491 (8EDC3F5B) **Date:** 3/1639 **Location:** USA, Boston **Description:** (Translated from French) James Everll saw a blazing light in the sky. It was square or rectangular in shape, 2.5 to 3 meters wide, and moved in a zigzag pattern. **Reference:** Yves Naud: "Les E.T. et les OVNI dans l'histoire" Famot 1977, Volume 2 p. 152-153 **Reference:** Christiane PIENS: "Les ovni du passé" - Marabout 1977 - p. 65 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_149 ### Event 492 (AF2E8118) **Date:** 4/1639 **Location:** CHINA, Yuan (Shansi) **Description:** (Translated from French) The villagers were offering their condolences to the family of Yuan Yingta, National Defense Minister during the Ming dynasty, who had sacrificed himself on the battlefield while resisting the Man soldiers. Then a luminous thing in the shape of a star, of red, white, yellow and blue color, flew over the funeral procession (...) This bright thing did not land on the ground, but it circled over the village for a very long time, then it rose into the sky. Its lights were seen up to more than five kilometers away. **Reference:** SHI BO: "China and the Extraterrestrials" ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p.45 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_150 ### Event 493 (A76227DE) **Date:** 4/1639 **Location:** Yuan, Fengxian, Shansi province, China **Description:** Aerial spectacle during a funeral procession. While villagers were paying their respects to Yuan Yingta, a fallen war minister of the Ming dynasty, a remarkable event unfolded. A luminous object resembling a multi-colored star—red, white, yellow, and blue—appeared above the funeral gathering. This radiant phenomenon remained airborne, encircling the village for an extended period before ascending into the sky once more. Its brilliance was so intense that it could be seen from a distance of five kilometers, creating an awe-inspiring spectacle during the solemn proceedings. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_234 ### Event 494 (DE2F4E57) **Date:** 7/1639 **Location:** Santiago, Spain **Description:** Unexplained aerial ships and sounds. A pamphlet from Seville, published in 1639, recounts an intriguing occurrence near the town of Santiago in Galicia. The pamphlet, titled "An Account of the Prodigious Visions of Armies of Men, Standards, Flags, Vessels, and Other Things," describes the sighting of three ships in the sky accompanied by the sound of drums and a gathering of people. While details are sparse, this enigmatic event adds to the collection of anomalous sightings during that period. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_235 --- ## Year: 1640, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 495 (69465E1A) **Date:** 1640 **Location:** BELGIUM, Knokke, **Description:** (Translated from French) The Spanish Memorial Historica Tome XVI states that in 1640 at the Fort of Kenoque (Knokke), which was a defense of the city of Ypres, the soldiers of the fort saw at the zenith a complete army marching through the flames. Hardly had it been deployed when they saw two others, one coming from the east and the other from the west. According to the text "these two armies put themselves in battle order and fought against the one coming from the north. The battle lasted an hour and the shots were heard clearly..." **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.93 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_151 --- ## Year: 1641, 4 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 496 (B86210AD) **Date:** 4/13/1641 **Location:** Aragon, Spain **Description:** Domingo Sanchez, a gardener at the Monastery of Maria de Aragon, who had taken a vow of chastity and was contemplating marriage, experienced a series of apparitions. On the night of April 13th, as he lay in bed, he witnessed a demonic figure that forcibly took him out of bed and dragged him around his living quarters, subjecting him to physical blows. In his distress, Domingo sought solace from the Virgin Mary. To his aid, the Virgin Mary appeared surrounded by luminous lights, providing him with assistance and support until dawn. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_237 ### Event 497 (1D3D97F9) **Date:** 5/4/1641 **Location:** Madrid, Spain **Description:** At 9:00 P.M., an unusual and unexplained event occurred. Despite clear skies, an exceedingly dark cloud emerged from the east or north, expanding and contracting as it moved between the western and midday directions. Jose Pellicer observed this strange phenomenon and noted its similarity to modern descriptions of "cloud cigars." Additionally, Pellicer reported a mysterious sound eruption in the sky above Molina de Aragon, with residents hearing loud and eerie noises resembling bugles and drums. These sounds conveyed a sense of an invisible and intense battle, although no visual evidence accompanied the auditory disturbance. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_238 ### Event 498 (290C8B2D) **Date:** 5/9/1641 **Location:** Braga, Portugal **Description:** A flying disk resembling a flat "wafer" and accompanied by two human-like figures described as "angels" was observed in the sky. The event took place in the city of Braga at the lodgings of Reverend Doctor Jao d'Abreda Rocha, an ecclesiastic judge and general vicar. Witnesses included D. Gastao Coutinho, a provincial general, who alerted the judge about many people reporting signs on the moon depicting the unusual scene. The Reverend Doctor ordered the creation of a written record and collected testimonies from witnesses, including Father Simao Alvares, the apostolic notary. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_236 ### Event 499 (30319D7B) **Date:** 9/14/1641 **Location:** Akhaltsike, Georgia **Description:** At sunset, Armenian chronicler Zacharia Sarcofag witnessed an extraordinary event. The eastern sky tore open, revealing a large dark-blue light that descended towards Earth, casting a brighter illumination than the sun. This descending light resembled a wide and long wheel, exhibiting red and white hues as it rotated northward. Positioned about an open hand's distance ahead of the light was a star of Venus-like size. The luminous spectacle persisted until Sarcofag's father sang six sharakans, short prayers that took about two to three minutes each. The event's total duration lasted at least 15 minutes, with reports indicating that the miraculous light was observed in Akhaltsike and beyond. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_239 --- ## Year: 1642, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 500 (0CD584DB) **Date:** 7/3/1642 **Location:** Olesa de Montserrat, Catalonia, Spain **Description:** Joseph Aguilera and a group of witnesses in Olesa de Montserrat reported an anomalous sighting. They observed a globe-like object that underwent a transformation, appearing as "three moons." Subsequently, an immense light illuminated the area for a duration of one hour. The witnesses' account suggests a series of unexplained changes in the appearance of the object, followed by the presence of a substantial and persistent luminous phenomenon. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_240 --- ## Year: 1644, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 501 (F0866968) **Date:** 1/18/1644 **Location:** USA, Boston (Virginia) **Description:** (Translated from French) At around 8 o'clock in the evening, several inhabitants of the Boston area by the sea saw a light the size of a full moon rise above the sea to the northeast. Shortly afterwards, another light appeared to the east. Then the inhabitants witnessed a curious game of hide and seek between the two lights. (...) During this celestial ballet, several people known to be sober and pious who were on the water between Dorchester and Boston claimed to have heard a voice in the sky pronouncing "in a most terrible manner" the following words: "Little, little, come, come" .... These calls were repeated about twenty times from various directions. A week later, other witnesses saw the same ballet and heard the same calls coming from the depths of the sky. **Reference:** Yves Naud: "Les E.T. et les OVNI dans l'histoire" Famot 1977, Volume 2 p. 153-154 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_152 ### Event 502 (97648291) **Date:** 1/18/1644 **Location:** Boston, Massachusetts **Description:** Three individuals arriving in Boston from the sea witnessed the emergence of two human-shaped lights rising from the ocean. Around 8 P.M., residents of a coastal area of Boston observed a moon-sized light ascending in the northeast, followed by another light in the east. These two lights engaged in a playful and evasive interaction. Meanwhile, aboard a boat between Dorchester and Boston, several credible and devout individuals claimed to hear a chilling voice from the sky repeatedly uttering the words "Boy, boy, come away..." The calls, which originated from different directions, occurred approximately 20 times during this mysterious celestial display. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_241 ### Event 503 (DE0F138D) **Date:** 1/25/1644 **Location:** Boston, Massachusetts **Description:** Witnesses reported sighting sparkling and flame-emitting luminous objects. Similar to the previous week's occurrence, an airborne display resembling a ballet was observed. Once again, a voice was heard emanating from the phenomena, repeating the words "Boy, boy, come away." This event seems to be a continuation of the earlier anomalous sightings with the presence of luminous objects, aerial maneuvers, and the mysterious vocalizations. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_242 --- ## Year: 1645, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 504 (6137AC64) **Date:** 4/1645 **Location:** Caudan, Brittany, France **Description:** Jean Coachon, a resident of Calan near Lanvodan and Vannes, reported an extraordinary occurrence. He claimed to have observed a celestial procession of beings he described as "angels" encircling the church, with the Virgin Mary among them. This account was conveyed by the Lord of Lestour, who was known for gathering similar narratives of unusual events. Coachon's testimony speaks of a remarkable sighting involving a heavenly gathering of angelic figures, further emphasizing the widespread nature of such accounts during that period. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_243 ### Event 505 (7F34123C) **Date:** 11/11/1645 **Location:** Naples, Italy **Description:** Astronomer Francesco Fontana from Naples observed an unidentified celestial body resembling a satellite in close proximity to Venus. Subsequent observations on December 25th, 1645, and January 22nd, 1646, confirmed the presence of this enigmatic "satellite." The celestial object was later named "Neith" by Jean-Charles Houzeau, the director of the Royal Observatory of Brussels, in the 1880s. Fontana's initial sighting marked the discovery of an unidentified planetoid near Venus, a phenomenon that garnered attention and intrigue among astronomers. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_244 --- ## Year: 1646, 5 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 506 (421467B5) **Date:** 4/1646 **Location:** St. Teath, Cornwall **Description:** Anne Jefferies, a woman from the parish of St. Teath, experienced a transformative event that led to her becoming a healer. At the age of nineteen, while serving as a maid for Mr. Moses Pitt's family, she suffered a sudden loss of consciousness, after which she exhibited unusual behavior. She claimed to have been abducted by six "small people" dressed in green, which caused her great fright and illness. During her sickness, she began to display healing abilities. Anne's healing powers became known when she successfully treated her employer's mother for a broken leg. Word spread, and people from various places came to Anne seeking her magical healing. She described her encounters with the small people and the circumstances of their visits, often occurring in groups of even numbers. However, Anne's reputation as a seer and faith healer attracted the attention of local authorities who questioned her interactions with supernatural beings. Despite her rational explanations, she was deemed deluded by the devil and arrested for her activities. After spending three months in jail, Anne was released and continued her healing work, living with various relatives and eventually marrying. Anne Jefferies' story is a remarkable account of a woman who claimed to have been in contact with otherworldly beings and acquired healing abilities after a mysterious experience, leading to her becoming a renowned faith healer in her time. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_245 ### Event 507 (E7A57C74) **Date:** 5/1646 **Location:** NETHERLANDS, The Hague **Description:** (Translated from French) Strange people and animals appeared in the sky of The Hague. While "coming from the southeast a large fleet of airships with many sailors on board" approached this unusual spectacle. A gigantic battle followed and at the moment of the disappearance of the phenomenon one saw then "like a large cloud appear where there was nothing before.." **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.94 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_153 ### Event 508 (221EAC42) **Date:** 5/1646 **Location:** The Hague, Netherlands **Description:** An extraordinary event occurred where unknown individuals and animals were observed in the sky over The Hague. This sighting involved a fleet of airships emerging from the southeast, carrying numerous occupants. The airships approached the scene, resulting in a substantial aerial conflict. When the phenomenon eventually dissipated, witnesses noticed the emergence of what appeared to be a massive cloud, materializing in a location that was previously devoid of any visible presence. This mysterious occurrence entailed a series of otherworldly elements, including airborne vehicles, occupants, and a subsequent transformative cloud-like phenomenon. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_246 ### Event 509 (4B6340BF) **Date:** 5/21/1646 **Location:** NEWMARKET TO/FROM THETFORD, ENGL **Description:** Vertical cloud-cylinder/cigar-shape goes going down. Rises. Changes shape and gone. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** INFORESPACE Journal. SOBEPS Group, Belgium; bimonthly (Index 25) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_37 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "90", **HatchDesc:** "NEWMARKET> Event 510 (A9D8921F) **Date:** 5/21/1646 **Location:** Newmarket & Thetford, England **Description:** Between Newmarket and Thetford in Suffolk, witnesses reported an unusual occurrence. A vertical pillar or cloud emerged from the ground, displaying the appearance of a sword's bright hilts at its base. This pillar transformed into a pyramidal shape resembling a spire or steeple. Simultaneously, a form resembling a sharp-headed pike or lance descended from the sky. This extraordinary display persisted for an hour and a half, marking a distinct event of anomalous sightings involving the convergence of terrestrial and celestial phenomena. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_247 --- ## Year: 1648, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 511 (D6176FFF) **Date:** 1648 **Location:** Edinburgh, Scotland **Description:** In the spring of 1670, Major Thomas Weir, the Captain of the Town Guard and a respected preacher, along with his sister Jane Weir, confessed to a series of offenses that included sex crimes and witchcraft. Thomas recounted that he and his sister had dealings with demons and fairies, selling their souls in the process. They claimed to have been transported by strange entities on various occasions, including a fiery "coach" that took them between Edinburgh and Musselburgh, as well as a fiery "chariot" between their house in West Bow and Dalkeith. Thomas Weir's confession stemmed from his guilt for consorting with devils, driven by his strict Protestant beliefs. Both he and his sister were eventually convicted and met grim fates – Jane was hanged and burnt at the stake, and Thomas was executed, both remaining unrepentant till the end. Their confessions and punishments reflect a belief in their supernatural interactions and their deep remorse for their actions. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_248 --- ## Year: 1650, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 512 (A8E0119A) **Date:** 1650 **Location:** Limerick, Ireland **Description:** A remarkable event occurred where a luminous globe, radiating light brighter than the moon, was observed in the sky. This globe projected a vertical beam of light onto the city of Limerick before gradually fading away as it moved over the enemy camp. This sighting of a luminous globe with a focused light beam suggests an otherworldly phenomenon that attracted the attention of witnesses and could have held significance in the context of the events of that time. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_249 ### Event 513 (1D3C869C) **Date:** 1650 **Location:** Fisherton Anger, Wiltshire, England **Description:** Approximate date. Anne Bodenham, a former servant to Dr. Lamb of London, was accused of witchcraft and communicating with devils. She was executed in 1653 at the age of 80. During her trial, a maid testified that she had witnessed Anne invoking the Devil. Anne created a circle with burning coals and two spirits resembling boys with shaggy hair appeared beside her. Anne pricked the maid's finger, mixed her blood with ink, and had the maid write in a book. One of the spirits laid its hand over Anne's hand while the maid wrote, and they all said "Amen" together. The maid noted that the spirit's hand felt cold as it touched hers. This account provides insight into the accusations of witchcraft and supernatural interactions during that era. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_250 --- ## Year: 1651, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 514 (626E93B8) **Date:** 12/22/1651 **Location:** Almerdor, Holland **Description:** Dutch sailors witnessed an extraordinary sight as they reported seeing a fleet of ships suspended in the sky. The aerial ships were accompanied by numerous people and soldiers. This sighting of ships in the air, often referred to as "flying Dutchmen," showcases an anomalous occurrence where maritime elements were seemingly replicated in the skies, capturing the attention and amazement of those who observed it. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_251 --- ## Year: 1652, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 515 (5F2E41E6) **Date:** 5/1652 **Location:** Near Rome, Italy **Description:** Witnesses reported the sighting of a massive luminous object measuring 80 meters in size hovering in the air. During this event, a peculiar occurrence took place as a mass of "gelatinous matter" was observed falling from the sky and landing on the ground. This unusual sighting involved both the presence of a sizeable aerial object and the release of an unfamiliar substance, suggesting a remarkable and unexplained phenomenon that left witnesses intrigued and puzzled. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_252 --- ## Year: 1655, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 516 (A566FC9D) **Date:** 1655 **Location:** Portugal **Description:** (Translated from French) The Inquisition was called upon due to the allegations of a businessman, suddenly appearing in Portugal, who claimed that only a few seconds earlier he was in Goa, east coast of India, in the street, in front of his shop. Finding him with diabolical powers, the Inquisition condemned him to the stake. **Reference:** Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDEL: "The World's Greatest UFO Mysteries" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p. 72 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_154 --- ## Year: 1656, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 517 (CA769104) **Date:** 1656 **Location:** Cardiganshire, Wales **Description:** In 1656, John Lewis recounted a peculiar account from an acquaintance in Cardiganshire. The man shared an unusual nighttime experience where he observed a light entering his room just after midnight. Around a dozen small beings resembling men, women, and children entered the room, causing it to appear illuminated and wider. These entities engaged in dancing and feasting, inviting the witness to partake in the food. This enchanting scene lasted for four hours, accompanied by intermittent whispers in Welsh that urged silence. The man was unable to wake his sleeping wife during the event. Eventually, the spirits moved to another room and departed, leaving the man unable to find the door or return to bed until he woke his family. John Lewis vouched for the honesty of the witness, describing him as an honest and reputable individual who was willing to take an oath to confirm the truth of the account. This event narrates a mystical and captivating visitation involving ethereal beings and mysterious actions within a private space. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_253 --- ## Year: 1659, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 518 (4AAEA100) **Date:** 1659 **Time:** 13:00 **Location:** Leicester and Nottinghamshire, England **Description:** Beginning at 1 P.M., numerous witnesses reported observing a peculiar object resembling a black coffin with a fiery dart and a flaming sword. This airborne coffin-like object maneuvered back and forth in the sky, captivating the attention of hundreds of people who witnessed it with astonishment. The phenomenon continued until 3:15 P.M., at which point it disintegrated with a remarkable display of brilliance. This unusual sighting of a flying coffin accompanied by fiery elements presents an intriguing and unexplained event that held the gaze of many onlookers. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_254 --- ## Year: 1660, 13 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 519 (7E23991E) **Date:** 1660 **Location:** New England, American Colonies **Description:** In response to remarkable aerial phenomena observed in the sky, including a spear-like form descending towards the setting sun, the colonial magistrates and clergy seized the opportunity to harness the impact of these signs to promote a moral revival among the population. The phenomena, potentially including the zodiacal light, left a deep impression on the people. The authorities capitalized on this by publishing a list of prevalent vices, such as neglecting child education, vanity in hairstyling, excessive clothing adornment, immodesty in attire, lack of respect in church behavior, disobedience to parents, profanity, idleness, excessive visits to taverns, and the price-gouging tendencies of shopkeepers. This convergence of unusual atmospheric events with a religious and moral agenda reflects a notable episode where natural occurrences were used to inspire societal change. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_255 ### Event 520 (59BC474F) **Date:** 3/14/1660 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** LONDON **Description:** Bright white cloud 'drops fire' / Westminster Hall and parliament. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The UFO REGISTER. CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK. (annual sightings catalog.) (Index 77) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_38 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "LONDON:BRITE WHT CLOUD 'DROPS FIRE'/WESTMINSTER HALL+PARLIAMENT.", **LatLong:** "51.500002 -0.133333", **LatLongDMS:** "51:30:00 N 00:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.500002,-0.133333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 521 (13D97C44) **Date:** 3/14/1660 **Location:** London (Westminster), England **Description:** Passengers on a boat reported a peculiar atmospheric phenomenon. They observed a dark cloud initially, followed by a bright white cloud that emitted enough light to clearly see the windows of the Parliament House and people on Westminster Bridge. This bright cloud descended fire multiple times onto Westminster Hall and then moved over Parliament Hall, continuing to drop fire on it as well. This anomalous sighting of a cloud emitting fire over significant buildings in Westminster during the evening presents a mysterious event that captured the attention of witnesses. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_256 ### Event 522 (F47C7DD1) **Date:** 8/1660 **Location:** Stratford Row, near London, England **Description:** Witnesses reported observing an unusual sight resembling a "great ship" suspended in the air. The airborne ship gradually decreased in size until it eventually vanished from view. The account is supported by the testimony of an able minister living nearby, who received information directly from the witnesses themselves. This sighting of a ship-like object in the sky, followed by its gradual disappearance, offers a short but intriguing narrative of an anomalous event that left an impression on those who witnessed it. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_257 ### Event 523 (75883F43) **Date:** 9/1660 **Location:** London, England **Description:** A gentleman of significant stature, once an Officer of Eminency in the late King's army and presently a Justice of the Peace, reported witnessing a sighting of unknown lights. The observer saw a bright light in the Southwest accompanied by six smaller lights. As he and several others watched with amazement, all the lights suddenly descended vertically and disappeared. This account describes an unexplained phenomenon involving a formation of lights that captured the attention of the witness and onlookers before swiftly vanishing, contributing to the growing records of pre-industrial anomalous sightings. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_258 ### Event 524 (E141874F) **Date:** 10/3/1660 **Location:** Hull, England **Description:** Soldiers stationed at the South Blockhouse reported a significant sighting of a large fiery object with a tapering shape at one end, leaving a narrow trail behind. The object emitted such intense brilliance that it enabled them to read fine print or even pick up a pin from the ground by its light. This remarkable aerial presence persisted for half an hour. A traveler arriving in Hull from Lincolnshire on the same night confirmed the sighting, describing a very bright light in the sky that illuminated his way through the darkness. Several reputable individuals in Hull, including eyewitnesses and informed inhabitants of London, attested to the incident, contributing to the reliability of this account of an unexplained flying object that left a profound impact on those who witnessed it. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_259 ### Event 525 (D20F7D63) **Date:** 10/11/1660 **Location:** Hertford, England **Description:** An individual of high reputation and credibility woke up at 4 A.M. due to a flashing light resembling fire against their window. Concerned that a nearby house might be on fire, they got up to investigate. What they saw was a sizable object surrounded by a circle, with two appendages situated above and below it. These appendages emitted significant flashes of light. The unusual object remained visible for several hours and was also witnessed by other individuals in the town. This account details an unexplained sighting of an object with distinct features and remarkable luminous emissions, leaving multiple witnesses intrigued by the sight. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_260 ### Event 526 (838001CB) **Date:** 10/12/1660 **Location:** London, England **Description:** At approximately 4 P.M., observers reported the sighting of an object moving through the air from west to east accompanied by a significant noise. Witnesses described its shape as resembling a "broomstick" or "broom." Soon after this sighting, another object of the same shape but smaller followed the same path in the sky. This account presents a peculiar incident involving the observation of two objects with distinct shapes and a shared trajectory, leaving those who saw them intrigued by the mysterious phenomenon. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_261 ### Event 527 (676B1C43) **Date:** 10/30/1660 **Location:** Austy, England **Description:** Travelers en route to Ware Market witnessed an astonishing event. Following a sudden and intense flash of lightning, the night sky progressively brightened until a large fiery object emerged in the East and ascended. From this large object, three star-like objects descended vertically. The primary object transformed into a crescent shape and remained visible until dawn. A similar occurrence was observed by five individuals traveling from Hertford to London, where the flash of lightning was so luminous that it made their surroundings appear as bright as noonday. Contradicting the notion of a fireball or meteor, the story describes the large fiery body rising again into the air with a tail extending about the length of a pole. Eventually, it moved eastward and became fixed in the sky, resembling a star. This account presents an enigmatic event involving multiple celestial phenomena that left witnesses captivated by the spectacle's extraordinary nature. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_262 ### Event 528 (D08E045E) **Date:** 10/30/1660 **Location:** Yelden, England **Description:** A bright celestial object caught the attention of a reliable observer. This prominent star-like object emitted such intense light that inhabitants were able to conduct household tasks indoors using its illumination. One credible individual reported observing the object for a continuous period of two hours. Towards the end of the sighting, the object transformed into the shape of a perfect Roman 'S'. Subsequently, it divided in the middle, with one half moving towards the northeast and the other towards the southwest, gradually fading away. This account describes a compelling event where a luminous object displayed intriguing transformations and movements before gradually disappearing, captivating the attention of those who witnessed it. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_263 ### Event 529 (75A9F0F1) **Date:** 11/10/1660 **Location:** Oxford, England **Description:** A scholar named Allen, from Magdalen College, Oxford, experienced an unusual encounter. While in bed, he heard a noise resembling geese and went to look out of a window on a bridge side, but saw nothing. Upon returning to bed, he noticed a peculiar figure resembling a bishop at the door. Initially not too frightened, he called out to the figure and demanded it to speak. However, as the bishop-like figure approached his bed, he became terrified and cried out for help, causing the entity to vanish. The scholar later mentioned that he had witnessed and heard something he was unwilling to disclose to anyone. This account narrates a mysterious experience involving an enigmatic humanoid figure that left a lasting impression on the witness. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_264 ### Event 530 (0E538DE0) **Date:** 11/30/1660 **Location:** Ilford, Essex, England **Description:** During the early hours of the morning, two individuals witnessed a remarkable phenomenon. They observed a fiery cloud in the southwest sky, from which emerged two luminous objects comparable in size to the moon. These objects engaged in a dynamic aerial maneuver akin to a dogfight. Over time, one of the objects dimmed while the other grew larger, persisting in view for approximately two hours. During this period, the observers reported streams of fire and streams of blood emanating from the object. Eventually, the object reduced in size until it resembled an ordinary star. This account narrates an extraordinary sighting of luminous aerial objects engaging in an otherworldly interaction, leaving witnesses awe-inspired by the enigmatic display. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_265 ### Event 531 (07E99ED1) **Date:** 12/1/1660 **Location:** Hounsditch, England **Description:** At 5 A.M., a resident of Hounsditch reported sighting a mysterious and radiant object resembling the size of the moon in the eastern part of the sky. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_266 --- ## Year: 1661, 9 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 532 (1C3AD729) **Date:** 1661 **Location:** FRANCE, Goult (Vaucluse) **Description:** (Translated from French) Antoine de Nantes, a messenger from Goult, suffering from a cruel illness, saw a child of wonderful beauty, hovering above the debris of a halo of fire. And when the divine figure had disappeared, the messenger found himself perfectly restored. A chapel was erected, inaugurated on January 3, 1663; "miracles multiplied from that day: meteors of fire burst in the shadows on the blessed dome." **Reference:** M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: "Ovni, le premier dossier complet..." - éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1969, p. 38 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_155 ### Event 533 (18F14675) **Date:** 1661 **Location:** Goult, Vaucluse, France **Description:** Antoine de Nantes, an ailing messenger from Goult, witnessed a radiant and captivating child-like figure surrounded by a fiery halo. Miraculously, the sight of this luminous being led to his complete recovery. Subsequently, a chapel was consecrated within two years, marked by a surge in reported miracles. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_267 ### Event 534 (E107BDC7) **Date:** 2/1661 **Location:** Darken, Surrey, England **Description:** During the evening, an observant gentleman witnessed an unusual cloud formation. He described two cathedral or church-like objects within the cloud, adorned with magnificent spires and streamers. One object brightened over time while the other remained darker. The larger entity emitted vapor and vanished, while the smaller one increased in brightness. Unfortunately, the witness was summoned indoors and couldn't observe the conclusion of the phenomenon. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_268 ### Event 535 (CF9FEE09) **Date:** 3/20/1661 **Location:** Canterbury, England **Description:** A significant celestial event transpired, as a remarkably large "star" was observed in the sky, featuring a distinctive opening beneath it. This aperture emitted streams of fiery light, captivating the observers for a duration of thirty minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_269 ### Event 536 (370AC71C) **Date:** 4/1661 **Location:** Chard, Somersetshire, England **Description:** Several witnesses observed a narrow, long dusty cloud from which three very bright spots descended and merged together. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_270 ### Event 537 (9DB2385E) **Date:** 4/1661 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** Between Ilford and Romford, England **Description:** Around 10 P.M. - Captain Chelmford of Ipswich and a companion witnessed a maneuvering fiery light with a green-white glow that altered its course. The light swiftly approached, emitting beams, then abruptly changed direction directly above them before vanishing at the horizon. Notably, upon reaching London, the witnesses formalized their encounter by having a notarial deed documenting the experience created. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_271 ### Event 538 (C479A09A) **Date:** 4/23/1661 **Location:** Bednall-Green, England **Description:** Observers witnessed a significant pillar of fire encompassing smaller objects resembling "burning coals." At around 10 o'clock that night, individuals near Pickadilly also reported seeing unsettling fiery clouds and other alarming objects. These details were relayed by witnesses who were greatly affected by the sight. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_272 ### Event 539 (3FCCF953) **Date:** 6/29/1661 **Location:** Eastberry, Berkshire, England **Description:** Numerous dark balls obscured the Sun, moving across its path, while additional objects resembling crosses were also observed. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_273 ### Event 540 (62F0AC0D) **Date:** 10/1661 **Location:** Bristol, England **Description:** A cloud emerged from the river, splitting open on three occasions to unveil various discernible figures within. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_274 --- ## Year: 1662, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 541 (217D5C9A) **Date:** 4/1662 **Location:** Tedworth, Wiltshire, England **Description:** Multiple occurrences of bedroom visitations, accompanied by knocks and accounts of witnesses experiencing paralysis due to lights and humanoid entities. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_275 ### Event 542 (1ACDFCFE) **Date:** 5/11/1662 **Location:** Near Salt Ash, Cornwall, England **Description:** A "very great star" with the appearance of two red "legs" and a black square object was observed near St. Stephens. The star exhibited an unusual back-and-forth motion. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_276 --- ## Year: 1663, 7 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 543 (7B0C1663) **Date:** Late 7/1663 **Location:** Saint Martin, Brittany, France **Description:** Francois Carre of Bodeau witnessed a flying red cross near Saint Martin church. The cross appeared to move away from the church towards the direction of the Saint Michel chapel. Seeking confirmation, Carre called his wife to observe, and she also reported seeing the red cross heading towards the chapel of Saint-Michel. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_277 ### Event 544 (462D1D1A) **Date:** 8/15/1663 **Location:** RUSSIA, Belozero **Description:** (Translated from French) Extract from the report of the St Cyrille monastery: "The peasant Levka Fedorov from the village of Mys told me the following: ... from various lands and various domains people were attending mass, ... in great numbers.. and at that moment a very loud noise came from the sky, and many people went out to the courtyard and saw... from the winter side of the brightest sky, not from a cloud, a great fire came out from Roboziero and headed towards the South, along the lake, above the water and had this flame twenty sagènes (1 sagène = 2.13 m) and more on all sides, and a blue smoke was next to it and becoming the flame, on twenty sagènes, two beams of fire as well ... and from the great fire and the two smaller flames, nothing more was seen. After about an hour, the same fire returned again to the lake, from the same place where it had disappeared the first time and went from the south to the west for half a verste (1 verste = 1.066m) and disappeared in the same way. The third time this fire became more frightening than the first one due to its size and then went towards the west. And it stayed on Roboziero, this fire, above the lake, for about an hour and a half and said lake was two verstes long and one across... On the lake peasants were sailing in a boat and the flame of this fire was so hot that they could not approach it. And the lake was lit up to the bottom, to the deepest, in the center of it, this lake, four sagènes and the fish fleeing to the shores, all saw it and under the fire, the water became, due to the flame, as if covered in rust.." **Reference:** Ion Hobana/Julien Weverbergh: "Les Ovni en URSS et dans les pays de l'est" - Kluwer 1972 - translation Laffont 1976 pp. 79 to 87 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_156 ### Event 545 (36D45292) **Date:** 8/15/1663 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Peasants from the village of Robozero \(in the county of Bolozero, Russia\), among them Levka Pedorov, are in the church when they hear a loud noise in the sky. They leave the church to see what is happening, and see a flaming ball descending from the clear blue sky of the South. The object passes over the church and goes towards the nearby lake of Bieloziero. It measures 40 or 45 m in diameter, and 2 jets of "fire" come out of its front. After that the object leaves from the South towards the West \(500 m from Pedorov\), then "disappears". It reappears 1 hour later, above the same lake, which it flies over for 1 hour and 30 minutes. A fishing company on a boat on the lake 1 mile from Pedorov is painfully burned by the light of the "ball", which is so bright that one can see the bottom of the lake at a depth of 8 or 9 m, which allows to see the fish moving away. The water seems covered in rust under the glow. (Saturday, August 15th, mid-day) **Reference:** Testimony of Levka Pedorov, one of the witness peasants, transcribed by a scribe from the monastery of Saint Cyril, Historical Archives of Saint Petersburg, found by the archaeological commission part IV in 1842 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1663.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_88 ### Event 546 (4BB36054) **Date:** 8/15/1663 **Locations:** church in a village near Lake Zarobozero, Vologda Oblast, Russia; Lake Zarobozero, Vologda Oblast, Russia **Description:** 12:00 noon. The faithful gathered in a church in a village near Lake Zarobozero, Vologda Oblast, Russia, hear a loud noise outside and see a large ball of fire descend from the north and then head south following the lake, low over its surface. The fireball seems to measure about 140 feet across and has blue smoke issuing from its sides. Two fiery rays extend from its front part. Less than an hour later, a similar fireball reappears over the same lake. Moving from south to west, the object again disappears. It reappears a third time a short while later, this time larger than before, and stays over the lake for an hour and a half. Peasants in a boat try to get close to it, but the heat is too intense. The water of the lake is illuminated to a depth of 30 feet, and fish are seen swimming away from the object, which then flies off to the west. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Akty istoricheskie, sobranye i izdanye Arkheografischeskaia Kommissiia, Vol. 4, Saint Petersburg, 1842, [pp. 331–332](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951p00828434a&view=1up&seq=345&skin=2021); Hobana and Weverbergh 54–61; Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, Wonders in the Sky, Tarcher, 2009, [pp. 215–217](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/page/n257/mode/2up); Thomas E. Bullard, “Defending UFOs,” IUR 34, no. 2 \(March 2012\): 31; Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, pp. 157–161 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_5 ### Event 547 (AF0E80F4) **Date:** 8/15/1663 **Description:** At noon on this day a large ball of fire, 45 meters in diameter, descended toward Lake Robozero, Bieloziero, Russia. Two beams of light came from the object and was directed onto fisherman in a boat on the lake. The water in the lake was illuminated to a depth of 30 feet. The fisherman were burned by the heat from the beams, and the water became covered with a "rust" material. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, pp. 54-55; John W. Spencer, World Atlas of UFOs, p. 128 ; Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 135 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5027 ### Event 548 (9E7C26C2) **Date:** 8/15/1663 **Location:** Roboziero near Bieloziero, Russia **Description:** Farmer Levko Federov and others witnessed a fiery object approximately 40 meters in diameter, accompanied by burning beams. The object reappeared an hour later, moving across the sky in different directions. The event was reported by Ivachko Rievskoi to Saint Cyrille Monastery. The object's appearance led to fervent prayers among the gathered people, and its illumination affected the lake's waters. The reported phenomenon, observed over water, caused disruption to nearby boats and wildlife, leaving a lasting impression on the witnesses. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_278 ### Event 549 (35B5CEAB) **Date:** 11/30/1663 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Another case, in many ways similar to that of August 15, still above Robozero. (November 30) **Reference:** Brief mentions in the Historical Archives of Saint Petersburg, found by the archaeological commission, part IV in 1842 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1663.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_89 --- ## Year: 1665, 4 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 550 (E06F1729) **Date:** 2/1665 **Location:** Vienna, Austria **Description:** A flying object with a box-like appearance, described to resemble a coffin, was observed in the sky, leading to widespread anxiety among witnesses. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_279 ### Event 551 (4B9DD606) **Date:** 3/23/1665 **Location:** GERMANY, Leipzig **Description:** (Translated from French) There would have been such an abundant fall of blue silk filaments, that entire fields were covered with them. These filaments would have fallen from the sky and clung to the feet of men and animals. **Reference:** Inforespace n° 52 - 1980, p. 3 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_157 ### Event 552 (97C821AB) **Date:** 4/8/1665 **Locations:** Stralsund, Germany; St. Nicholas Church **Description:** 6:00 p.m. Numerous wonders are seen in the sky over Stralsund, Germany, including ships, large flocks of birds, fire, and smoke, as well as a dark “round flat form like a plate and like a big man’s hat” that hovers above St. Nicholas Church for one hour. Witnesses include several fishermen who later complain of tremors in their hands and feet. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Eine abgebildete Beschreibung von dem wunderbarlichen Stralsundischen Lufft-Kriege und](https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Von%5Fdem%5Fwunderbarlichen%5FStralsundischen%5FLufft-Kriege%5Fund%5FSchiff-streite) [Schiff-streite](https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Von%5Fdem%5Fwunderbarlichen%5FStralsundischen%5FLufft-Kriege%5Fund%5FSchiff-streite)[,](https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Von%5Fdem%5Fwunderbarlichen%5FStralsundischen%5FLufft-Kriege%5Fund%5FSchiff-streite) Leipzig, 1665; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 23–38 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_6 ### Event 553 (245E882B) **Date:** 4/8/1665 **Location:** Stralsund, Germany **Description:** Witnesses in Stralsund reported anomalous sightings involving aerial ships and a saucer-shaped object with a dome flying over the town's church near the Baltic Sea. The saucer-like object, resembling a large man's hat, remained stationary above the St. Nicolai church until evening. The observers, including fishermen who initially saw a swarm of starling birds that transformed into battling ships, experienced feelings of sickness and trembling, possibly due to radiation. The event was documented in various historical accounts, including Erasmus Francisci's writings, and later discussed by researcher Illobrand Von Ludwiger, acknowledging skepticism but indicating the significance of the sighting in relation to historical conflicts between the Swedes and the Prussians. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_280 --- ## Year: 1666, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 554 (20E72877) **Date:** 4/9/1666 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) 3 circles in the sky, a very large one of D 100°, center near the zenith, a 4th much smaller. (April 9, 9:30) **Reference:** Journal des savans, XIX, Monday 10 May 1666 p. 452; letter of P. Le Bossu, regular canon, abbey of Saint Chéron-lez-Chartres **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1666.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_90 ### Event 555 (26D08CEB) **Date:** 5/26/1666 **Location:** Tokyo (Edo), Japan **Description:** A baffling sighting occurred as a luminous entity, resembling a human and measuring around "20 feet long," was witnessed flying toward the East. The event offers an intriguing account from Asia, though further comprehensive details are required for a deeper understanding. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_281 --- ## Year: 1667, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 556 (418A7463) **Date:** 1/20/1667 **Location:** Gjov, Faeroe Islands **Description:** Jacob Olsen, 24, encountered an extraordinary event where he was awakened by a radiant being. This luminous visitor reportedly had healing abilities and made a subsequent appearance descending from the sky. The incident remains a remarkable account of an otherworldly encounter on the Faeroe Islands. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_282 ### Event 557 (40034580) **Date:** 11/15/1667 **Location:** Mittelfischach, Germany **Description:** A remarkable sighting occurred at sunrise, lasting several hours, where a "terrible sign of wonder" was observed in the sky over Mittelfischach. An engraving captures the scene, depicting the sun shining through cloud gaps as onlookers witnessed a display of round lights forming a battle scene in the sky. Notably, three crosses were visible amidst dark nebulosities, while intricate details of the village, including the church and a few houses, were shown on the left side of the image. This event has been preserved as a vivid historical record of the unusual phenomenon. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_283 ### Event 558 (6E91F97A) **Date:** Late 12/1667 **Location:** Bayarcal, Spain **Description:** Procession of lights: In the midst of the inquisition's attention, Juan Munoz, a tailor from Santander, testified about an anomalous sighting in Bayarcal. Around Christmas time at midnight in 1667, he observed a cross followed by a banner, and four wick-like lights that flickered on and off. Initially assuming it to be the Viaticum carried by a priest, the lights appeared exceptionally bright. Munoz walked closer as the lights moved, eventually reaching a point fifteen steps away. Anxious about what he saw, he went home, only to witness the lights passing by the church as he closed the door. Despite his initial reluctance, he shared the experience with neighbors who revealed similar sightings in the past, often interpreted as signs commemorating local martyrs' lives. The event was considered significant due to Munoz's unfamiliarity with the phenomenon upon his arrival, indicating its existence beyond imagination, and similar light processions were reported across Spain and Europe, varying in size and location. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_284 --- ## Year: 1670, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 559 (57AD82CE) **Date:** 4/1670 **Location:** Countryside near London, England **Description:** Jane Lead's contact: Jane Lead, a British Christian mystic born in 1623, had a transformative encounter in April 1670. During a moment of contemplation about Wisdom, she experienced an overshadowing bright Cloud from which emerged the figure of a woman adorned in radiant gold. Although the woman's appearance was both awe-inspiring and gentle, Lead was initially astonished. This encounter marked the beginning of a life filled with visionary experiences for Jane Lead. Her subsequent writings detailed various sightings and abductions by enigmatic beings, neither angels nor demons, which she referred to as 'Transports' in her diaries. Jane Lead's mystical journey led her to delve into theology, philosophy, and alchemy, as evident in her works, particularly the book "A Fountain of Gardens." **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_285 --- ## Year: 1671, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 560 (B57F746E) **Date:** 8/18/1671 **Location:** Regensburg, Germany **Description:** Signs in the clouds: An intriguing event occurred in Regensburg as witnessed on 18 August 1671. An engraving depicts a mesmerized crowd gazing at an array of unusual occurrences in the sky, including ships, mythical creatures, and armies poised for battle. This engraving, featured in the 1672 edition of "The Relationis historicae semestralis vernalis continuatio" authored by Jacobus Francus and Sigismundus Latomus, captures a moment of awe-inspiring celestial phenomena that captivated the observers. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_286 --- ## Year: 1672, 6 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 561 (ADD645BC) **Date:** 1/25/1672 **Location:** Paris Observatory, France **Description:** Unknown planetoid orbiting Venus: Giovanni Domenico Cassini, the renowned astronomer and director of the Paris Observatory, noted an enigmatic finding on this date. He observed what appeared to be a potential satellite orbiting Venus, but he refrained from publicizing this discovery until its confirmation in 1686 upon seeing the object again. The mysterious satellite was subsequently identified as "Neith," marking a significant observation in the history of planetary exploration. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_287 ### Event 562 (8337A0A3) **Date:** 2/8/1672 **Location:** At sea, in the English Channel **Description:** (Translated from French) At one hour after midday, in the clearest of weather, a star appeared above our heads, about fifteen feet in length. From there it went to fall to the north side, leaving a smoke which formed into two ships, each with two masts and the mizzen and their large sails tight and furled, both having the front facing upwards. The one to the north was larger than the one above. And as they went thus, they separated about four feet apart, in the middle of which formed another ship, appearing larger than the others, all black, showing us the back and turning the front to the north, without any sail but yet equipped with its masts, yards and ropes, as if it had been at anchor. This appeared to us for the space of a large half hour. And then afterwards, having come together, they dissipated, going to the side of the above without leaving any mark... **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.96 **Reference:** Captain Izaac Guiton, Port De Fosse, Nantes **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_158 ### Event 563 (71A3EB39) **Date:** 2/8/1672 **Time:** 13:00 **Location:** OFF CHERBOURG, FR **Description:** Dark 'flying ship' hovers still / wind. No sails. Going quickly south. / r186#25. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 186) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_39 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "33", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "off CHERBOURG,FR:DARK 'FLYING SHIP' HVRS STILL/WIND:NO SAILS:>>S:/r186#25", **LatLong:** "49.833336 -1.750000", **LatLongDMS:** "49:50:00 N 01:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.833336,-1.750000)", **State/Prov:** "Manche", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 564 (AEF12A1F) **Date:** 2/8/1672 **Description:** A dark "flying ship" hovered in place over the ocean near Cherbourg, France during a wind. It had no sails, and eventually flew off to the south after 33 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 186 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_751 ### Event 565 (B88834AE) **Date:** 2/8/1672 **Location:** Off Cherbourg, France **Description:** Triple sky ships: Captain Isaac Guiton recounted an extraordinary sighting at sea. A "star" descended and divided into two distinct "ships," with a third vessel emerging later. The description details how the star initially appeared overhead, then descended towards the north, leaving a trail of smoke that transformed into two ships, each featuring lights and furled sails. These ships sailed southward, spaced around four feet apart, and eventually a third ship emerged between them, appearing larger and entirely black. This middle ship, without sails but with masts and ropes, assumed a northward orientation as if at anchor. The entire spectacle lasted over half an hour before the ships vanished without a trace, leaving the witnesses in awe. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_288 ### Event 566 (DE457FA4) **Date:** 11/16/1672 **Location:** Tokyo, Japan **Description:** Flying lantern: A sighting in Tokyo involved the observation of an object that bore a resemblance to a lantern. This object took flight and moved towards the east, sparking curiosity and intrigue among the witnesses. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_289 --- ## Year: 1674, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 567 (B707EDE4) **Date:** 1674 **Location:** Japan **Description:** Fast flying "dark cloud": In an unspecified location in Japan, an anomalous sighting occurred. Witnesses observed a swift-moving, elongated "dark cloud" traveling in a direction from the north to the southeast, akin to an arrow's trajectory. The description provided distinguishes this sighting from typical meteors, which are luminous and often described as "fiery," suggesting that this particular occurrence did not conform to the characteristics of a meteor. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_290 --- ## Year: 1676, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 568 (B4605CE4) **Date:** 5/23/1676 **Location:** London, England **Description:** Spiritual writer Jane Lead recorded a peculiar experience in her diary, recounting the presence of three enigmatic figures in her bedroom. The first figure, appearing as a youthful presence, startled her, rendering her speechless. A second, more mature and masculine figure, sought familiarity but remained silent before vanishing. Lastly, a comely and attractive figure emerged, though her spiritual constraints prevented interaction. Though some might interpret this as a manifestation of schizophrenia, today's perspective could liken it to a classic "bedroom visitation" by extraterrestrial beings found in contemporary abduction literature. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_291 ### Event 569 (E3F55207) **Date:** 7/16/1676 **Location:** London, England **Description:** Spiritual writer Jane Lead observed a remarkable celestial event, describing it as an azure blue firmament with an extraordinary eye at its center, radiating flaming streams. She found it challenging to depict the exact form, but conveyed an image of a flaming eye within a circular rainbow, accompanied by countless stars in the sky. Although her language is reminiscent of 17th-century mysticism, her account appears to detail a luminous, eye-shaped object with radiant streams that traversed the London sky on a sunny day. Her drawing suggests an oval or eye-like object emitting fiery light, encircled by a substantial "Globe of Light," possibly distinct from a simple ring or rainbow. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_292 ### Event 570 (17030995) **Date:** 9/20/1676 **Location:** Uffington Fields, England **Description:** An extraordinary event unfolded as witnesses in Northamptonshire observed a peculiar fiery meteor resembling a dart. The meteor exhibited an unusual wavy and vibrating movement as it traveled across the sky, with its stem initially appearing to be around a foot and a half in length and emitting a slender stream of light, akin to a cord. The sighting, reported around 7 P.M., lasted approximately one minute. Mr. Gibbon, an observer from Peterborough, detailed the meteor's distinctive behavior and appearance, noting its motion towards Uffington Fields after he spotted it at the zenith. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_293 --- ## Year: 1677, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 571 (0476318D) **Date:** 3/22/1677 **Location:** London, England **Description:** Spiritual writer Jane Lead recounted a nocturnal experience in which she felt transported into a wilderness during a magical sleep. Initially surrounded by tranquil nature, the serenity was disrupted by the presence of three entities, including a fierce female who pricked her skin akin to a sharp needle. Seeking celestial aid, Lead managed to ward off these beings and the encounter concluded. She later learned through the vision that there was no need for concern, as such an event would not recur. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_294 ### Event 572 (9782BF95) **Date:** 12/30/1677 **Location:** At sea to the west of Granada (SPAIN) **Description:** (Translated from French) Pierre Boutard, an officer aboard the "La Maligne" noted in the logbook "on Thursday, the 30th of December 1677 in the morning at 4 o'clock, we saw a star to the northwest 1/4 of west and ending in the southeast 1/4 of east, but bearing a great light that we all believed in our ship that the fire was everywhere, but it was accompanied by more than 200 rays bearing an unequalled clarity, that we were all amazed. We sailed towards the small harbor of Granada around 9 or 10 o'clock in the morning." **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.97 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_159 ### Event 573 (03CB10AA) **Date:** 12/30/1677 **Location:** At sea West of Granada, Spain **Description:** Pierre Boutard, an officer on the ship La Maligne, documented an extraordinary sighting in the ship's logbook. Around 4 in the morning, a brilliant "star" appeared in the northwest, moving to the southeast, emanating intense light that deceived the crew into thinking there was a widespread fire. The celestial object was accompanied by over 200 rays, intensifying the dazzling effect and causing distress among the crew. The ship eventually anchored in Grenada's small bay between 9 and 10 in the morning. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_295 --- ## Year: 1678, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 574 (509F8577) **Date:** 2/9/1678 **Location:** London, England **Description:** Jane Lead's diary entry describes an anomalous sighting where she awoke in a disoriented state and found herself surrounded by unfamiliar figures in a silent place. She experienced a sense of detachment from her corporeal body and observed a gold-colored craft resembling a large ship with four golden wings descending swiftly. Although Lead questioned the figures about what she saw, they claimed not to see it. The ship landed, and Lead felt herself leaping and dancing with joy. Eventually, the ship ascended and disappeared, after which Lead returned to her physical senses. This account bears similarities to modern UFO abduction experiences, challenging the notion that such stories are confined to contemporary times. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_296 ### Event 575 (CCA71235) **Date:** 12/12/1678 **Location:** FRANCE **Description:** (Translated from French) The "Journal des Savants" publishes a letter from Mr. Toynard in which he reports that "Mr. S. Besnier, locksmith of the Sable, in the country of Maine, has invented a four-winged machine to fly". **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 14 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_160 --- ## Year: 1680, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 576 (DA6BEA7A) **Date:** 1680 **Location:** RUSSIA, MOSCOW **Description:** (Translated from French) A polish peasant, whose name is lost, attempted a flight in Moscow in the presence of Minister Froecourov. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 14 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_161 ### Event 577 (CCD59E2A) **Date:** 9/17/1680 **Location:** Lisbon, Portugal **Description:** A significant incident occurred where a dark cloud-like mass descended and landed in a field. From this mysterious mass emerged a large, hairy entity whose appearance seemed to materialize and vanish. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_297 --- ## Year: 1684, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 578 (725271A2) **Date:** 11/17/1684 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** Saint Aubin, Brittany, France **Description:** At approximately 10 A.M., a priest from Lannion reported witnessing an unusual event. He observed a tear-shaped object resembling a flame descending from the sky. The object's slow movement took around seven to eight minutes to reach the horizon. It displayed a bluish hue and emitted sparks from its tail. Notably, the object's location was opposite to that of the sun. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_298 --- ## Year: 1685, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 579 (226FF48C) **Date:** 12/10/1685 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** MOON **Description:** Astronomer Bianchini. Reddish ray / light crosses crater Plato during eclipse. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** PINDEVIC, Thierry: Le NOEUD GORDIEN ou la FANTASTIQUE HISTOIRE des OVNI. Editions France-Empire, Paris 1979. (Index 51) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_40 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NFO:** No craft seen, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "The Moon", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "MOON:ASTRONOMER BIANCHINI:REDDISH RAY/LITE CROSSES CRATER PLATO DURING ECLIPSE", **LatLong:** "90.000004 -0.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "90:00:00 N 00:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/90.000004,-0.000000)", **State/Prov:** "PLT", **Strangeness:** "6" --- ## Year: 1686, 5 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 580 (0C27C05D) **Date:** 1686 **Description:** French philosopher [Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%5FLe%5FBovier%5Fde%5FFontenelle) writes Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds, in which he speculates on extraterrestrial life. He imagines Venusians to be “little black people, scorched with the Sun, full of fire, very amorous.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversations%5Fon%5Fthe%5FPlurality%5Fof%5FWorlds)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_7 ### Event 581 (547E7C0D) **Date:** 6/1686 **Location:** SCOTLAND, Crosford, Nanark **Description:** (Translated from French) From chronicler Patrick Malker: ... near the ford of Crosford, two miles below Nanark and particularly at the Hands, on the Clyde River, a great crowd gathered several times in the afternoon. There was a shower of hats, flags, guns and swords. The trees and the ground were covered. Companies of armed men marched in order along the river, companies meeting companies rushed against each other and falling to the ground, disappeared. Others reappeared immediately and marched in the same direction... those who had seen were seized with such fear and such trembling that those who had not seen were troubled... (1686, June and July) **Reference:** Yves Naud: "The E.T. and the UFOs in History" Famot 1977, Volume 2 p. 151 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_162 ### Event 582 (2E1A64CA) **Date:** 7/9/1686 **Time:** 01:30 **Location:** LEIPZIG, GER **Description:** Astronomer Kirch and more/others. Moon-size fireball hovers / 8 minute(s). Altitude = 50km. Same / 22 Mar. '1680. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 144) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_41 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "LEIPZIG,GER:ASTRONOMER KIRCH++:MOONSIZE FBL HVRS/8min:ALT=50km:SAME/22MAR1680", **LatLong:** "51.333336 12.400001", **LatLongDMS:** "51:20:00 N 12:24:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.333336,12.400001)", **State/Prov:** "Saxony", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 583 (41DE29EB) **Date:** 7/9/1686 **Time:** 01:20 **Location:** Leipzig, Germany **Description:** At around 1:20 A.M., the late Mr. Gottfried Kirch, a knowledgeable observer of astronomy, documented a remarkable sighting. He observed a brilliant object in the sky, about half the apparent size of the Moon, suspended motionless for a duration of 15 minutes. The object was described as having the characteristics of a fireball with a tail. Its initial brightness was so intense that reading could be done by its light. The phenomenon was witnessed simultaneously in various locations, including Schmitza. Kirch's notes indicated the object's position and its oblique trajectory before eventually fading away, leaving behind unseen nodes or globules. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_299 ### Event 584 (FA001ABC) **Date:** 8/28/1686 **Location:** Paris Observatory in France **Description:** Cassini made a notable observation of a mystery planetoid in close proximity to Venus. This sighting occurred while Venus was situated as a morning "star," positioned at a heliocentric longitude of 59° and an elongation of 38°. The enigmatic object, later named "Neith," appeared to be roughly 1/10th the diameter of Venus and displayed a similar phase. This marked Cassini's second sighting of the object, sparking intrigue in the scientific community. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_300 --- ## Year: 1687, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 585 (D7B9D6C6) **Date:** 1687 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, London **Description:** (Translated from French) In his law "action and reaction", Isaac Newton gives the explanation of the principle of operation of the rocket. **Reference:** "The Rockets of the Future" - Hans K; Kaiser, ed. Amiot -Dumont 1954, p. 12 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_163 --- ## Year: 1688, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 586 (95FC436B) **Date:** Spring 1688 **Location:** CHINA, Kunmin (Yun'nan) **Description:** (Translated from French) (notes of Gu-Sheng, chap. 6) between the end of spring and the beginning of summer of the twenty-seventh year under the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing dynasty, my brother-in-law Bixilin went to his home in the mountains 20 kilometers from the city of Kunmin. During his stay, he saw every noon, when it was nice, a large lid young like an umbrella rise slowly from a ridge. This thing threw bright lights that he did not dare to look at directly. It took height and penetrated into the clouds. Soon after it descended, always slowly, to go up and down in the same way. When night fell, the flying object lost the brightness of its yellow color and became paler and blurred. It completely disappeared when the sky became black. (1688, spring-summer) **Reference:** SHI BO: "China and the Extraterrestrials" ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p. 36 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_164 ### Event 587 (E42BF5D7) **Date:** 6/1688 **Location:** Yunan Province, China **Description:** Approximate date. an anomalous sighting occurred involving a sizable yellow "umbrella-like" entity. This object ascended from a ridge, emitting numerous lights, and subsequently descended again. According to an account from that time, during the 27th year of Emperor Kangxi's reign in the Qing dynasty, a person named Bixilin observed this phenomenon while in the mountains near Kunmin. Regularly around noon, under clear weather conditions, the object, resembling a brilliant yellow canopy, gradually rose above the ridge, emitting dazzling lights. Due to its radiance, direct viewing was challenging. The object would rise and then vanish into the clouds, only to reappear later, repeating its ascent and descent. Interestingly, the object's luminosity diminished after sunset, eventually fading away completely in the darkened sky. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_301 --- ## Year: 1689, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 588 (6101E4B1) **Date:** 12/20/1689 **Time:** 04:45 **Location:** In England **Description:** An unusual event took place at approximately 4:45 AM. A fiery object, resembling a half-moon, transformed into a radiant sword-like shape and swiftly traveled in a westerly direction. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_302 --- ## Year: 1692, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 589 (0C344CDF) **Date:** 1692 **Location:** GRANDE-BRETAGNE, pays de Galles **Description:** (Translated from French) According to "Morden's Atlas of Wales": "a burning exhalation crossed the sea and set fire to haystacks, wheat fields and barns, close to Harlech. This thing infected the grass but it was not dangerous for men, even for those who were in the middle of it. It always happened at nightfall, most often on a Saturday or Sunday, and it lasted for a few months. The only way to extinguish it and make it flee was to sound a hunting horn or fire shots..." **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.99 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_165 ### Event 590 (D718C6A1) **Date:** 5/6/1692 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** EDO = TOKYO, JAPAN **Description:** 3 objects in formation. Type unknown. 6 wheels and 2 flying barns in Wales / 1694. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** INFORESPACE Journal. SOBEPS Group, Belgium; bimonthly (Index 25) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_42 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "EDO=TOKYO,JAPAN:3 OBJs/FORMn:type unk::6 WHEELS+2 FLYING BARNS in WALES/1694", **LatLong:** "35.683335 139.766673", **LatLongDMS:** "35:41:00 N 139:46:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.683335,139.766673)", **State/Prov:** "Honshu Island", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 591 (6EFAB9B9) **Date:** 5/6/1692 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** Edo (now Tokyo), Japan **Description:** A striking incident occurred during daylight hours. Three luminous objects, resembling the sun, the moon, and a star, emerged in the sky. These objects exhibited a remarkable and otherworldly sparkle. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_303 --- ## Year: 1693, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 592 (A823EF32) **Date:** 1693 **Location:** Hamburg, Germany **Description:** An intriguing event unfolded involving a highly luminous circular "machine." This machine featured a central sphere and was observed as it traversed across the sky. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_304 ### Event 593 (8A783969) **Date:** 9/1693 **Location:** Bowden Parva, Northampton, England **Description:** A complex and unfamiliar object was witnessed. The upper part of the object resembled the letter "W," with a luminous string of light extending from the lower section of the "W," measuring about a yard and a half in length. This enigmatic formation persisted for a duration and was observed by multiple individuals across the surrounding region. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_305 ### Event 594 (293E8C68) **Date:** 12/1693 **Location:** Egryn, Merionethshire, Wales **Description:** An unexplained fiery incident occurred. A "fiery exhalation" emerged from the sea and ignited the hay with a subdued blue flame. Despite being easily extinguishable, the fire displayed an unusual nature. Men who intervened to save the hay noticed that, although distinct from regular fire, it did not harm them even when they approached or entered it. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_306 --- ## Year: 1694, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 595 (52BEC7F0) **Date:** 1/1694 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Dolgelly (Wales) **Description:** (Translated from French) The priest of Dolgelly reported that "sixteen haystacks and two barns had been burned by some kind of flaming vapor that is often seen coming from the sea..." **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" -Delarge 1977 p.99 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_166 ### Event 596 (47685A60) **Date:** 7/23/1694 **Location:** London, England **Description:** An event was documented by Jane Lead, involving a phenomenon she termed an "enclosed Principle" encircled by fire. Within this space, luminous Beryl Bodies were observed moving in a manner akin to a mirror's reflection. A spherical representation of the regal glory of their powerful King accompanied them in their movements. The ground they tread upon was adorned with sparkling stones and veins of gold, emitting a profound radiance. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_307 --- ## Year: 1696, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 597 (C6727671) **Date:** 11/25/1696 **Location:** Tobolsk, Russia **Description:** A remarkable sighting occurred in the sky. An object divided into four radiant segments, with a central region that appeared dark, revealed the outline of a human form within. This celestial occurrence was reported as follows: "On Sunday, at 2 P.M., there appeared in Tobolsk a sign in the sun: it split into four parts, as it were, and the rays from the sun were light, but in the middle it was dark. And among these parts one could see in the darkness something like a man with extended arms." **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_308 ### Event 598 (05919F9C) **Date:** 11/28/1696 **Time:** 05:00 **Location:** Tobolsk, Russia **Description:** An anomalous sighting involved a double object descending from a dark cloud in the east. Resembling an iron clamp with a bright shining fire, the objects descended to the ground, creating a remarkable spectacle. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_309 --- ## Year: 1697, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 599 (B7B4F977) **Date:** 11/4/1697 **Location:** GERMANY, Hamburg **Description:** (Translated from French) A kind of huge, very bright sphere slowly flew over Hamburg and other cities in northwest Germany. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.99 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_167 ### Event 600 (57C013B2) **Date:** 11/4/1697 **Time:** 06:00 **Location:** Mecklenburg & Hamburg, Germany **Description:** At 6-7 P.M., an event of pre-industrial anomalous sightings featured two massive glowing wheels in the sky. The spectacle, witnessed by crowds, included a fiery cannonball-shaped object and a cross-shaped entity with sulfur-gleaming, bright and terrible lightning. After about 15 minutes, the fiery ball emitted a bang and vanished from sight, followed by the departure of the cross-shaped entity, leaving a lasting impression on the many thousands of spectators. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_310 --- ## Year: 1699, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 601 (483E62B5) **Date:** 1699 **Location:** FRANCE, Avignon **Description:** (Translated from French) Extract from "The History of the Diocese of Avignon" by Abbot Granget: "Arriving near the oratory which is opposite the chapel of Notre Dame Ste Garde (St Didier, Vaucluse) I saw the sky open, a great light appeared and soon I saw three globes of fire. The one in the middle was raised above the others. Here I said to myself, the lights of which I have been told. Immediately I fell to my knees and I blessed God for such a great wonder. At the same time, two new lights appeared but a little above the place where the chapel is. I advanced to the oratory where the mystery of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ is represented. The two globes then joined the one in the middle and disappeared. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "The Chronicle of UFOs" - Delarge 1977 p.99-100 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_168 ### Event 602 (714EFE9C) **Date:** 1699 **Location:** St **Description:** Didier, Vaucluse, near Avignon, France. A priest recounted an unusual event where he witnessed a large light and three fire globes descending from the sky and subsequently merging. The globes, with one in the center and two flanking, appeared to hover at different heights. As the priest observed in awe, two additional lights emerged, slightly higher in the sky, and ultimately combined with the central globe before disappearing, prompting the priest to express gratitude for the remarkable marvel he had witnessed. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_311 --- ## Year: 1700, 4 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 603 (8E3A3D71) **Date:** 1700's **Description:** Significant sightings **Type:** ufo sightings **Reference:** [Charles Fort](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fort) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_3 ### Event 604 (82F07D77) **Date:** 1700 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) 1700's. At Oslofjorden \(Norway\), people saw from afar a fence \(barrier?\) fall from the sky near a farm. People came from far away to see this "wonder" of the heavens. **Reference:** DET UKJENTE, 2/1988, side 43 **Reference:** Fort: The complete books of Charles Fort **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1700.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_91 ### Event 605 (B006C56F) **Date:** 4/17/1700 **Location:** FRANCE, Dolus (Oléron) **Description:** (Translated from French) Easter Tuesday. Approximate date. During a procession a luminous cross was seen in the sky. It was approximately 50 cubits long and preceded the procession for nearly two hours. It stopped when the procession stopped and disappeared when the procession entered the church. The weather was warm, without clouds or wind. The cross was almost lying from east to west; the foot was very long. More than a thousand people saw it. **Reference:** Pierre VIEROUDY: "These UFOs that announce the Superman" - Laffont 1979, p. 35 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_169 ### Event 606 (C173D668) **Date:** 8/1700 **Location:** Sahalahti, Eastern Finland **Description:** In a peculiar incident, an elderly blacksmith named Tiittu allegedly vanished following the appearance of a flying disk over the village. Tiittu's son embarked on a search and encountered a being resembling a "bear," who informed him that his father had flown away. Subsequently, the villagers observed a large hovering disk above the village, which stirred fears of an impending apocalypse. For two days, the villagers engaged in religious practices, expressing their anxieties. Later, Tiittu's son encountered the "bear" again, who reassured him that his father had been taken to a superior world by the sky ship. The event sparked community discussions, yet a new priest dismissed it as a product of drunken imaginations and urged the villagers to forget the incident. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_312 --- ## Year: 1701, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 607 (EF8B7E1B) **Date:** 1701 **Location:** Cape Passaro, Sicily, Italy **Description:** Witness C. De Corbin reported a remarkable sighting of a luminous light in the sky that remained suspended for a duration of two hours, defying strong winds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_313 --- ## Year: 1702, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 608 (EC173A62) **Date:** 9/1702 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Japan, the Sun takes on a color of blood which it retains for several days in a row and it seems that cotton threads fall from it. (September, 12 PM) **Reference:** Vallée 1969 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1702.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_92 ### Event 609 (5C396C20) **Date:** 9/1702 **Location:** Japan **Description:** A sun-like object with a red hue was observed in the sky, releasing cotton-like filaments as it hovered. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_314 --- ## Year: 1704, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 610 (9E95FBE3) **Date:** 1704 **Location:** Hamburg, Germany **Description:** In an intriguing occurrence, individuals witnessed the sky adorned with sparkling boat-like objects that weaved, pursued, combined, and separated from one another, seemingly multiplying in clear sight. The nature of the phenomenon remains ambiguous, and there's insufficient data to definitively attribute it to an aurora borealis. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_315 --- ## Year: 1707, 4 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 611 (68DB0453) **Date:** 4/3/1707 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Upminster (Essex) **Description:** (Translated from French) William Derham saw an object of pyramidal shape of red color. It emerged about a quarter of an hour after sunset. **Reference:** Christiane PIENS: "Les Ovni du passé" - Marabout 1977 - p. 76 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_170 ### Event 612 (39BEB0BC) **Date:** 10/28/1707 **Location:** Hidaka County, Wakayama, Japan **Description:** Amid a coastal tsunami, a luminous white ball-like object manifested within the waves, adding to the extraordinary events of the moment. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_316 ### Event 613 (D923A232) **Date:** 12/18/1707 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** SEVERAL COS / SOUTH ENGL **Description:** Huge cylinder/cylindrical object and odd cloud and night lights move together. Low / horizon. / Rev. John Morton. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** AWARENESS (Quarterly) CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK: listed by year. (Index 77) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_43 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "60", **HatchDesc:** "SVRL cos/S.ENGL:HUGE CYL+ODD CLOUD+NLTS MOVE TOGETHER:LO/HRZN:/Rev.John Morton", **LatLong:** "52.000002 -2.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "52:00:00 N 02:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.000002,-2.000000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 614 (08AA1B9F) **Date:** 12/18/1707 **Location:** Southern coast of England **Description:** A massive cylindrical object accompanied by an unusual cloud was observed moving alongside nocturnal lights near the low horizon. According to the account of "the Worshipful Charles Kirkham, Esq.," the phenomenon appeared as a horizontally oriented, dark cylindrical cloud that divided the sky's brightness into roughly equal halves. Despite brisk winds, the cloud remained relatively stationary until a sudden brightening occurred within it, culminating in the emergence of pale-colored flames. The flames subsided within half a minute, leaving the cloud's original position unchanged, creating a profoundly eerie and astonishing spectacle. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_317 --- ## Year: 1709, 4 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 615 (B8A20B2E) **Date:** 2/5/1709 **Location:** ROMANIA **Description:** (Translated from French) A great sign appeared in the sky on February 5, a Friday. Two large columns of fire appeared, one to the west, the other to the east and they moved until they formed the letter A. They then joined together and transformed into a rainbow emitting a strong luminosity for three hours before disappearing. **Reference:** Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: "Les OVNI en URSS et dans les pays de l'Est - trad. Laffont 1976, p. 287 **Reference:** Biblioteca Academici: Manuscris românesc 706, folio 1 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_171 ### Event 616 (3130690E) **Date:** 2/5/1709 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Here was a great sign in the sky \(...\). Two great columns of fire were revealed, one in the East, the other in the West, and as they moved they formed the letter A. They united after that and turned into a rainbow, emitting a strong light for three hours, before their disappearance. (Wednesday 5 February) **Reference:** Biblioteca Academiei, *manuscris slavon* 706, f.1. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1709.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_93 ### Event 617 (32FCA2B1) **Date:** 4/17/1709 **Location:** PORTUGAL **Description:** (Translated from French) John V. of Portugal granted a pension of 600,000 Reis to R.P. Bartholomeo Lourenco de Gusmao, who proposed an aerial apparatus (type dirigible). **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 14 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_172 ### Event 618 (6D677592) **Date:** 8/8/1709 **Location:** PORTUGAL **Description:** (Translated from French) Bartholomeo Lourenco de Gusmao's flying machine would have made a flight in the presence of King John V. of Portugal. This inventor is often confused, rightly or wrongly; the chronicles are not very precise, with the experimenter of 1736. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 14 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_173 --- ## Year: 1710, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 619 (0BD5DD36) **Date:** 5/11/1710 **Time:** 02:00 **Location:** London, England **Description:** At 2:00 A.M., several witnesses reported a peculiar sighting involving a "strange comet" being trailed by two black clouds. Following this, an account describes the appearance of a figure resembling a man within a fiery cloud, holding a sword, and moving in conjunction with the clouds. This remarkable spectacle continued for almost fifteen minutes, leaving the observers greatly astonished. A visual representation of the event was captured through a woodcut illustration. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_318 ### Event 620 (F26243FB) **Date:** 5/18/1710 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Leeds (Yorkshire) **Description:** (Translated from French) At around 9:45 pm Ralph Thoresby saw an object "resembling a trumpet" above Leeds. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "The Chronicle of UFOs" - Delarge 1977 p.103 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_174 --- ## Year: 1712, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 621 (5FDE06FF) **Date:** 6/7/1712 **Location:** Spain, Seville **Description:** (Translated from French) At the death of Reverend Mother Teresa of Jesus from the Assumption Convent, there were numerous testimonies saying that at the moment of her death a large pyramidal mass of light descended on the convent, so bright and resplendent that all who saw it in and out of the city were filled with great joy. **Reference:** ABC, Opinion, Album de recuerdos, Seville 8.5.99 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_175 --- ## Year: 1716, 4 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 622 (72C0FAEC) **Date:** 3/1/1716 **Location:** Off the coast of SPAIN **Description:** (Translated from French) The captain wrote at the time: On March 1 at 9:00 PM we were at 45°36' latitude, off the northwest coast of Spain, when a bright cloud appeared towards the east, but not far from the zenith. It split into a large number of luminous rays, each of them resembling the tail of a comet. This luminous body appeared to the northwest of us and continued to shine until the next noon. It was then at a good distance from the ship, just before it suddenly disappeared". **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.103 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_176 ### Event 623 (50716DC7) **Date:** 3/1/1716 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** OFF NORTHWEST SPAIN **Description:** British ship. Glowing cloud divided / beams of light. Seen / 15 hours and vanishes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** INFORESPACE Journal. SOBEPS Group, Belgium; bimonthly (Index 24) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_44 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "132", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "OFF NW SPAIN:BRIT.SHIP:GLOWING CLOUD DIVIDED/BEAMS OF LITE:SEEN/15hrs+VANISHES", **LatLong:** "45.600002 -10.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "45:36:00 N 10:00:00 W", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.600002,-10.000000)", **State/Prov:** "NAT", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 624 (0A561639) **Date:** 3/6/1716 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** LONDON **Description:** Astronomer Edmond Halley. UFO / 2 hours. 'Bright enough to read'. Type unknown. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 12) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_45 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "120", **HatchDesc:** "LONDON:ASTRONOMER EDMOND HALLEY:UFO/2hrs:'BRIGHT ENOUGH TO READ':TYPE UNK", **LatLong:** "51.500002 -0.100000", **LatLongDMS:** "51:30:00 N 00:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.500002,-0.100000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 625 (3FF05EA8) **Date:** 4/2/1716 **Location:** Tallin, Baltic Sea **Description:** An extraordinary event unfolded during the evening hours near Tallinn, where two large dark clouds were observed engaging in a unique form of combat. Numerous smaller swift clouds were also present. The incident, documented in official records and ship logbooks, occurred on the second day of Easter around 9:00 P.M. The sky featured a dense black cloud with a broad base and pointed top that ascended rapidly, creating an angle of elevation of almost half a right angle in less than three minutes. Concurrently, a brilliant comet emerged towards the west-northwest at an angle of about 12 degrees above the horizon. Another dark cloud emerged from the north and converged with the first cloud, generating a luminous column between them. This column remained stationary for several minutes before the second cloud swiftly traversed through it, resulting in a collision that produced fiery smoke lasting around fifteen minutes. The phenomenon concluded with the emergence of numerous bright arrows reaching an altitude of 80 degrees above the horizon. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_319 --- ## Year: 1717, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 626 (7AE57CC7) **Date:** 3/6/1717 **Location:** Southwest of MARTINIQUE **Description:** (Translated from French) In his logbook, the knight de Ricouart, commander of the frigate "La Valeur" noted: "At two o'clock in the morning we were going a little forward, the course to the southeast. We saw pass along the side like the mast of a ship, which was standing two feet above the water." (March 6, 1717) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.104-Inforespace n° 26 p. 45 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_177 ### Event 627 (3F2BE980) **Date:** 3/6/1717 **Location:** Southwest of Martinique (at sea) **Description:** An intriguing incident occurred where a solid object resembling a ship's mast was observed hovering approximately two feet above the water's surface. Captain Chevalier de Ricouart, commanding the frigate La Valeur, recorded the event in his log. The sighting took place around 2:00 in the morning as the ship was heading southeast. The object's presence, resembling a mast, was notable for its unusual behavior as it moved alongside the ship at a low elevation above the water. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_320 --- ## Year: 1718, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 628 (CC6F6E21) **Date:** 3/19/1718 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) English botanist Sir Hans Sloane believes he sees a shooting star. I suddenly saw a great light in the sky towards the West. It shone with a much greater brightness than the [Moon](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Lune.html). He quickly realized his mistake, the object progressing much too slowly and in a straight line. The object had a singular shape: A kind of long luminous thread was attached in the middle of this [meteor](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Meteore.html) which resembled a pear tapered upwards. The lower part was spherical, but smaller than the full moon. It was white and blue in color, and its brilliance as dazzling as that of the sun in full daylight \(...\). It moved for about thirty seconds and disappeared about 20° above the horizon; behind it, it left a kind of faintly orange trail, a bit like a glowing coal. It seemed to sparkle, but it did not fall. I heard it was also observed in Oxford and Worcester? (March 19) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1718.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_94 --- ## Year: 1719, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 629 (61BFD56E) **Date:** 3/19/1719 **Location:** Oxford, England **Description:** A perplexing sight unfolded in the night sky, as a remarkably bright object with whitish and blue hues was observed moving from the west in a straight path at 8:15 P.M. The object's motion, slower than that of a typical meteor, caught the attention of multiple witnesses across England. Notably, physicist Sir H. Sloane, the Vice-President of the Royal Society, reported seeing the object traverse more than 20 degrees of the sky in "less than half a minute." Despite its classification as a meteor, the object's unusually leisurely speed adds an intriguing dimension to the phenomenon. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_321 ### Event 630 (377C867F) **Date:** 3/30/1719 **Location:** FRANCE, Dieppe **Description:** (Translated from French) Many people who were walking along the beach saw a column of fire emitting a very bright light, which, approaching the city, exploded with a sound like three shots of artillery and fell defeated in smoke, on the walls, without doing any harm. **Reference:** Pierre DELVAL: "Contacts of the 4th type" - De Vecchi 1979, p. 207 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_178 --- ## Year: 1720, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 631 (A7E429AD) **Date:** 1720 **Location:** NETHERLANDS, Gravezande **Description:** (Translated from French) Further trials of the same kind were carried out by the Dutchman J.W. He built models of reduced vehicles and presented them in an amphitheatre. However, he did not use rockets, but water vapor; the propulsion mode, the reaction, was nonetheless identical. **Reference:** "The Future Vehicle Rockets" - Hans K; Kaiser, ed. Amiot - Dumont 1954, p. 12 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_179 --- ## Year: 1721, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 632 (223D33EE) **Date:** 1/16/1721 **Location:** Bern, Switzerland **Description:** At night, a towering Pillar of Fire was observed above the nearby mountains to the west of the city. Gradually approaching the city, the pillar eventually burst with minimal noise. Subsequently, three distinct Fire Globes emerged from the burst, each choosing a unique path before vanishing. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_322 --- ## Year: 1722, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 633 (CF774F0C) **Date:** 4/5/1722 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Easter day. Dutch navigator Jacob Roggeveen \(who, according to Lyon Sprague de Camp, was not particularly skilled in latitude and longitude calculations\) arrives at the island he will name *Easter Island*. The first Europeans to set foot on this island, located 4000 km from the Chilean coast and 2000 km from the nearest Polynesian island, discover an arid land, battered by the winds and sparsely populated. Remarkably, it is dotted with several hundred strange statues, called "moai" by the natives and many of which are erected on stone pedestals called "ahu". The size of the moai can reach almost 10 m high in the case of the moai *Te Pito Te Kura*, with an estimated weight of 80 t. This moai is the largest erected on an ahu but there is another, unfinished one, measuring almost 20 m for an estimated weight of 300 t. The moai were carved from the tuff of the island's volcano, *Rano Raraku*. On the other hand, the huge red tuff cylinder that often tops their heads comes from another volcano, Puna Pau. Last detail, the size of the gigantic statues seems to have suddenly stopped, as evidenced by many of them left in various stages of completion on the slopes of Rano Raraku. (April 5) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1722.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_95 --- ## Year: 1726, 4 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 634 (4A01D87C) **Date:** 10/19/1726 **Location:** BELGIUM, Ath (Hainaut) **Description:** (Translated from French) In "The History of the City of Ath" written by Gilles Joseph de Boussu, there is mention of phenomena that caused panic in the region. "On Saturday, October 19, at about seven-thirty in the evening, large clouds of fire rose on our horizon, driven by the south wind towards the north. They seemed to collide with each other in a terrifying way, yet without any noise. The sky, although clear, seemed to be all ablaze. One could also see among these troops of fire, large luminous circles, open at the bottom, which pushed each other, like the waves of a stormy sea. Around eleven o'clock these phenomena passed over the city, which continued far into the night, causing terror and admiration everywhere..." **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.105 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_180 ### Event 635 (18F9F290) **Date:** 10/19/1726 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** ATH, BELGIUM **Description:** Large glowing clouds collide. Fireballs and light circles. Same / Vilvoorde later. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** INFORESPACE Journal. SOBEPS Group, Belgium; bimonthly (Index 26) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_46 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "90", **HatchDesc:** "ATH,BELGIUM:LRG GLOWING CLOUDS COLLIDE:FBLS+LITE CIRCLES::SAME/VILVOORDE LATER", **LatLong:** "50.622225 3.772222", **LatLongDMS:** "50:37:20 N 03:46:20 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.622225,3.772222)", **State/Prov:** "Belgium", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 636 (CB82F2BB) **Date:** 10/29/1726 **Location:** BELGIUM, Vilvorde - (Brabant) **Description:** (Translated from French) At around nine o'clock in the evening and for two consecutive hours, one could see in the sky horrible and curious meteors coming among the clouds like flashes and disappearing in the same way. Their aspect was most terrible. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.105 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_181 ### Event 637 (3FF767A9) **Date:** 10/29/1726 **Location:** Vilvoorde, Brabant, Belgium **Description:** At around nine o'clock in the evening, a series of alarming and peculiar meteors were witnessed in the sky. These meteors, resembling lightning, emerged from the clouds and swiftly vanished. Their appearance evoked a strong sense of terror. While the possibility of an aurora borealis cannot be ruled out due to limited details, the nature of the sighting remains enigmatic. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_323 --- ## Year: 1728, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 638 (EFEA3E68) **Date:** 12/17/1728 **Location:** ITALY, Bologna **Description:** (Translated from French) On the 17th another one was seen, having the appearance of a cross, followed by the appearance of a young man on horseback, with a helmet on his head, adorned with feathers, which caused great consternation among the people. On the 18th, in the province of Marca, a violent earthquake was experienced. **Reference:** Pierre DELVAL: "Contacts of the 4th Type" - De Vecchi 1979, p. 210 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_182 --- ## Year: 1729, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 639 (56DC9CE0) **Date:** 1729 **Location:** Finis Terrae Cape, Galicia, Spain **Description:** According to a local account, three individuals descended from a cloud, visited a market to partake in a meal, and then departed by flying southward. The incident presents a peculiar narrative of strangers arriving from the sky, adding to the realm of unexplained phenomena. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_324 ### Event 640 (44A7154C) **Date:** 10/1/1729 **Location:** Noes, Uppland, Sweden **Description:** Approximately two hours before sunrise, M. Suen-Hof witnessed red vapors in the sky forming expansive bands from north to south. Subsequently, these vapors coalesced into a fiery globe measuring around two feet in diameter. Emitting sun-like brightness and sparks, the globe followed the path of the earlier red vapors. Covering a quarter of the sky, the globe vanished suddenly, accompanied by dense black smoke and a cannon-like sound. The incident stands as a remarkable account of an anomalous fiery phenomenon. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_325 --- ## Year: 1730, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 641 (F8A914AA) **Date:** 11/2/1730 **Location:** Salamanca, Spain **Description:** Witnessed by Torres, an astonishing event occurred at 11:30 P.M. An enormous building-sized Globe of fire manifested, accompanied by two luminous beams on either side. These beams exhibited dynamic movements, growing brighter as they fluctuated, and transitioned in color from green to red. The phenomenon's radiant light illuminated the vicinity, and by 2:00 A.M., the columns converged. Despite debates categorizing the event as a UFO, it is often attributed to an aurora borealis due to its similarities. The incident remains an intriguing blend of natural wonder and unexplained occurrence. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_326 --- ## Year: 1731, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 642 (47E19B3F) **Date:** 12/9/1731 **Location:** ITALY, Florence **Description:** (Translated from French) A luminous cloud, moving at great speed, disappears beyond the horizon (before an earthquake) (Charles FORT: "The Book of the Damned" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 187) Strange globes of light in the sky. (Desmond Leslie and Georges Adamski: "The S.V. Have Landed" - J'ai Lu 1971 - p. 31) Strange luminous balls appear in the sky of Florence. An author of the time, Bianchini, adds that they made a loud humming sound and that he was able to distinguish windows. **Reference:** Moustique n° 1508 of 19.12.1954, p. 17, article by Bert Brem **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_183 ### Event 643 (887DF15A) **Date:** 12/9/1731 **Location:** FIRENZE, ITALY **Description:** 'Luminous cloud' going quickly [to] overhead at high velocity. / Charles Fort / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_47 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "50", **HatchDesc:** "FIRENZE,ITALY:'LUMINOUS CLOUD' >> OVHD AT HIGH VELOCITY:/CHARLES FORT/NEWS", **LatLong:** "43.783335 11.250001", **LatLongDMS:** "43:47:00 N 11:15:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.783335,11.250001)", **State/Prov:** "Firenze", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 644 (9A657197) **Date:** 12/9/1731 **Location:** Florence, Italy **Description:** An unexplained luminous cloud attracted attention as it moved with noticeable force from east to west, eventually vanishing beyond the horizon. Bianchini, a contemporary writer, further described the incident, noting the presence of peculiar luminous spheres emitting a whirring sound. This event, marked by its mysterious characteristics, adds to the historical record of inexplicable phenomena in the skies above Florence. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_327 --- ## Year: 1733, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 645 (D7FEB48A) **Date:** 12/8/1733 **Time:** 11:40 **Location:** FLEET, DORSET **Description:** 1+2 observer(s). Silver saucer darts to and fro. Going quickly northwest. Same Berks to/from Kent / 11 Dec. '1753. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** INFORESPACE Journal. SOBEPS Group, Belgium; bimonthly (Index 26) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_48 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "60", **HatchDesc:** "FLEET,DORSET:1+2 OBS:SLVR SCR DARTS to+fro:>>NW::SAME BERKS>Year: 1735, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 646 (CA726FDC) **Date:** 3/17/1735 **Location:** London, England **Description:** Dr. John Bevis witnessed an unexplained stationary light in the sky, which persisted for an hour. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_328 --- ## Year: 1736, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 647 (948ADD51) **Date:** 1736 **Location:** PORTUGAL, LISBON **Description:** (Translated from French) Gusman ascended to the height of the Lisbon Tower (66 m) on board a basket of wicker covered with paper. He descended without any harm. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 14 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_184 --- ## Year: 1737, 8 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 648 (A532BA48) **Date:** 12/5/1737 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Sheffield. **Description:** (Translated from French) At around 5:00 PM, Mr. Thomas Short was the witness of "the appearance of a dark red cloud beneath which was a luminous body sending out very bright beams of light. This was nothing like the aurora borealis as the light rays moved slowly for some time and then stopped. Suddenly it became so hot that I had to take off my shirt even though I was outside. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.105 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_185 ### Event 649 (BCE24C4F) **Date:** 12/5/1737 **Locations:** Sheffield, England; Venice, Italy; Kilkenny, Ireland **Description:** 5:00 p.m. Physician [Thomas Short](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FShort%5F%28physician%29) witnesses a blood-red luminous display in the sky around Sheffield, England, which moves from west to north and then to the east. The cause seems to be one or more clouds in which are embedded brilliant lights as bright as the full moon that give off slow-moving streamers or rays. The display is accompanied by unseasonable heat and lasts until 10:30 p.m. Short hears that a similar phenomenon is seen at the same time in Venice, Italy, and Kilkenny, Ireland, where it appears as a bursting fireball. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Thomas Short, “[An Account of Several Meteors,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x001301357&view=1up&seq=689&skin=2021)” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 41 \(1741\): 625–627 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_8 ### Event 650 (530BA691) **Date:** 12/5/1737 **Description:** An astronomer in Sheffield, England saw a dark red, luminous cloud that emitted intense beams of light (solid light). The light beams moved slowly, then stopped. He suddenly felt so hot that he had to remove his shirt outdoors. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of Phenomenon, p. 9; Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. 3 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8191 ### Event 651 (0683DB42) **Date:** 12/5/1737 **Location:** Sheffield, England **Description:** Astronomer Thomas Short reported a distinctive event around 5 P.M. A dark red cloud emerged with a luminous body beneath it, emitting intense beams of light that moved slowly before halting. The phenomenon's heat became so intense that Short had to remove his shirt despite being outdoors. This occurrence differed from aurora borealis due to the nature of the luminous beams and the subsequent rise in temperature. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_329 ### Event 652 (D2D02522) **Date:** 12/6/1737 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A large symbol appears in the West sky red as blood and very wide above Bucharest \(Romania\). After staying in the sky for 2 hours, it splits into 2 parts to later reunite in the same place as at the beginning. (December 6th, in the afternoon) **Reference:** Biblioteca Academiei, "manuscris romänesc" 2342, f. 3-4 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1737.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_96 ### Event 653 (6B57C935) **Date:** 12/6/1737 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) [Edmund Halley](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/HalleyEdmund.html) had a stroke. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1737.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_97 ### Event 654 (975E169D) **Date:** 12/6/1737 **Locations:** Bucharest; Wallachia; Banat region **Description:** Afternoon. A large, blood-red object is seen in the western sky at Bucharest, Wallachia \[now Romania\]. It lingers for two hours before splitting up then reuniting once again. The phenomenon is said to have occurred at night in the Banat region. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Hobana and Weverbergh 222; Romania 4 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_9 ### Event 655 (0FEBE036) **Date:** 12/6/1737 **Location:** Bucharest, Romania **Description:** During the afternoon, a blood-red "Symbolic form" appeared in the sky from the west. This enigmatic object persisted for two hours before dividing into two segments, which soon reconnected and retreated westward. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_330 --- ## Year: 1739, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 656 (F98ED748) **Date:** 1739 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) On the east coast of Canada, first appearance of the Palatine Light phenomenon after the unexplained sinking of the Princess Augusta. Its degrees of brightness vary often, sometimes like a spot on the sea, sometimes like a fire. And, to note, it emits light rays just like the light wheels observed in the Indian Ocean or the Persian Gulf. The captain of the merchant ship Somerset, who saw it for the first time, describes the circumstances of the phenomenon in his logbook: This view impressed me so much that I gained the place where the burning ship had disappeared \(...\), but found no survivors, no wreckage. Much effort is made by the port police, often alerted by people who claim to have witnessed a fire at sea, without any trace of anything, any clues of shipwreck or hoax. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1739.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_98 --- ## Year: 1740, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 657 (206EDA5E) **Date:** 2/23/1740 **Location:** FRANCE, Toulon **Description:** (Translated from French) In the Toulon harbor a fireball was seen. It then plunged into the sea from where it rose up like a bouncing ball. Having reached a certain height it exploded and spread various fireballs, some of which fell into the sea and others on the mountain. (1740, night of February 23rd to 24th) **Reference:** Christiane PIENS: "Les Ovni du passé" - Marabout 1977 - p. 77, 78 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_186 ### Event 658 (CC936522) **Date:** 2/23/1740 **Location:** Toulon, France **Description:** During the night, a rising purple globe resembling fire was observed. The orb ascended slowly, descending into the sea with a rebound effect. Upon reaching a specific altitude, it detonated, emitting multiple fireballs over the sea and mountains. The explosion produced a sound akin to a powerful thunderclap or a bomb blast. The occurrence was reported to the Marquis de Caumont by witnesses. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_331 ### Event 659 (5EA18CC9) **Date:** 10/23/1740 **Location:** England **Description:** Renowned astronomer James Short, celebrated for crafting telescopes, documented an intriguing sight. He believed to have witnessed an unidentified planetoid he initially considered a Venusian satellite. This celestial body, eventually dubbed "Neith" by Hozeau, was observed during Venus' heliocentric longitude of 68° and an elongation of 46°. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_332 --- ## Year: 1741, 4 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 660 (18076DEA) **Date:** 9/21/1741 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Bradly, Selborne, Alresford. **Description:** (Translated from French) According to the Wernerian Natural Historical Society Transactions (vol. 5, p.386) it would have fallen between Bradly, Selborne and Alresford over several tens of square kilometers "like spider webs in the form of flakes or tatters, about 3 cm wide and 15 to 18 cm long".

Apparently this fall was made in large quantities and twice. After several hours of calm, a second "shower" would last from 9 am until dusk. The "All the Year Around" (vol. 8, p 254) describes the same phenomenon but specifies that the three locations form a triangle of 13 km side and that the matter fell at great speed. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.106 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_187 ### Event 661 (A0495A0E) **Date:** 9/21/1741 **Locations:** Selborne, Hampshire, England; New Alresford; Bradley **Description:** Dawn. Parson-naturalist [Gilbert White](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert%5FWhite) wakes up at his vicarage in Selborne, Hampshire, England, and finds the neighboring clover fields matted all over with a thick coat of cobwebs, laced with dew. The dogs are blinded by it when they attempt to hunt. At 9:00 a.m. more cobwebs fall from the sky and continue until dusk. They are “perfect flakes or rags; some near an inch broad, and five or six long, which fell with a degree of velocity that showed they were considerably heavier than the atmosphere.” The fall extends to the neighboring villages of New Alresford and Bradley. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Gilbert White, The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne \(1789\), [Letter XXIII](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark%3A/13960/t6833pn6s&view=1up&seq=317&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_10 ### Event 662 (79ECBEAA) **Date:** 12/11/1741 **Time:** 12:50 **Location:** HERTSFORDSHIRE AND LONDON, ENG **Description:** 20cm fireball falls. Levels going quickly ESE and away. / r186#26+/ r34p85. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 387) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_49 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "HERTSFORDSHIRE+LONDON,ENG:20cm FBL FALLS:LEVELS >>ESE+AWAY:/r186#26+/r34p85", **LatLong:** "51.500002 -0.066667", **LatLongDMS:** "51:30:00 N 00:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.500002,-0.066667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 663 (5C4F8F76) **Date:** 12/12/1741 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Sussex **Description:** (Translated from French) "Around 12:00 or 13:00 a terrible thunderclap was heard in the direction of the north. It sounded like two very large cannons firing one after the other. But the rumble and echo did not resemble those produced by a cannon shot. Within a 30 km radius, all the houses were shaken." Another witness, a canon at Canterbury, was luckier. On the same day, also around 13:00 his house was strongly shaken by what he took for an earthquake. But he rushed out and then saw "what seemed to be a cloud of storm in the sky and a ball of light that passed very quickly over the eastern region towards the west. It had begun with two loud detonations like cannon shots. It was like a very large shooting star in the middle of the day." **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.106-107 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_188 --- ## Year: 1742, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 664 (09A2705C) **Date:** 1742 **Location:** FRANCE, PARIS **Description:** (Translated from French) Jumping from the roof of his hotel, on the banks of the Seine in Paris, the Marquis de Bacqueville made a gliding flight (wings attached to his body), which allowed him to almost entirely cross the river. He landed abruptly on a boat moored to the opposite shore. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 14 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_189 ### Event 665 (5BC0C89C) **Date:** 12/16/1742? **Locations:** St. James’s Park; Westminster; London; England **Description:** 8:40 p.m. Physician [Cromwell Mortimer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromwell%5FMortimer)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromwell%5FMortimer) secretary of the Royal Society, is walking through St. James’s Park in Westminster, London, England, when he sees a light ascend from behind the trees and houses in the southwest. When it reaches 20° against the sky, it takes a horizontal path with an undulating motion before disappearing in the northeast after a full 30 seconds. The front part is luminous with a frame-like structure behind it, and it has a faint trail. The date is questionable since Mortimer calls this a “Thursday” and December 16 was a Sunday. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** \[[A Note by Cromwell Mortimer](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x001264415&view=1up&seq=686&skin=2021)\], Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 43 \(1745\): 524–525 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_11 --- ## Year: 1743, 6 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 666 (B4406C69) **Date:** 1743 **Location:** GRANDE-BRETAGNE, Peibio (Anglesay - pays de Galles) **Description:** (Translated from French) At Peibio, near Holyhead, two farmers working in the fields saw "a ship with its sails, flying in the air." The object came from the southeast, from the direction of Mount Snowdon (Caernarvan) and was heading towards the witnesses. They added that a "flock of birds gathered to watch the phenomenon and then dispersed in all directions". According to the farmers, the object must have weighed 90 tonnes and was moving at an altitude of about 40 m. The "airship" resembled the old steamships that used to shuttle between Holyhead and Ireland. They could clearly see the bottom of the "ship" when it passed almost vertically. The weather was quite cloudy. According to the witnesses, similar observations had already been made in the region ten or twenty years before. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.109-110 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_192 ### Event 667 (CA64FFCD) **Date:** 1743 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Near Holyhead \(Anglesey, Wales\), a farmer saw a "boat" sailing in the clouds at about 1500 feet. **Reference:** FSR 1971 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1743.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_99 ### Event 668 (A684CB1A) **Date:** 8/31/1743 **Location:** ITALY, between Castel-Nuovo and Rome. **Description:** (Translated from French) In his memoirs Girolamo-Giacomo Casanova, barely 18 years old and not yet having acquired the reputation of a seducer that will be attributed to him, wrote: "From Terni I went to Cirocoli.. and from there to Castel-Nuovo, from where I went to Rome where I arrived on the first of September at nine in the morning. I must not forget to mention here a particular circumstance which will please more than one reader, however ridiculous it may be in the end. An hour after Castel-Nuovo, the air was calm and the sky serene, I saw to my right and ten steps away from me a pyramidal flame of the height of a cubit and raised four or five feet above the level of the ground. This apparition struck me because it seemed to accompany me. Wanting to study it, I tried to get closer to it, but the more I went in its direction the more it moved away from me. It stopped as soon as I stopped and, when the part of the road I was crossing was bordered by trees, I stopped seeing it, but I found it again as soon as the edge of the road became free again. I also tried to turn back, but each time it disappeared and only reappeared when I was heading back towards Rome. This strange beacon did not leave me until the light of day had chased away the darkness.... I had the prudence not to tell anyone about it." **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.108-109 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_190 ### Event 669 (78E0247F) **Date:** 12/16/1743 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Westminster **Description:** (Translated from French) Mortimer Cromwell, a physicist, was returning home at 8:40 pm when he saw a light towards the southwest from St James Park. It moved in a wavelike motion, and he saw it for 30 seconds. At the front was a bright flame projected backwards, followed by a glowing fire in an opaque capsule, followed by a long tail becoming increasingly darker towards the end. The head of this tadpole-shaped object had an apparent diameter of half a degree, the tail a length of three degrees, and for the thickness 1/8 of a degree. **Reference:** Flying Saucer Review vol. 23 no. 2 pp. 14-15 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_191 ### Event 670 (8EFB94FE) **Date:** 12/16/1743 **Time:** 20:40 **Location:** LONDON **Description:** M. Cromwell. Flaming red-glowing cylinder/cylindrical object rises. Going northeast / slow wavy trajectory. / MJ#148. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 278) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_50 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "LONDON:M.CROMWELL:FLAMING RED-GLO CYL RISES:>NE/SLOW WAVY TRAJECT:/MJ#148", **LatLong:** "51.500002 -0.050000", **LatLongDMS:** "51:30:00 N 00:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.500002,-0.050000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 671 (7B32D666) **Date:** 12/16/1743 **Location:** London, England **Description:** An observer from the Royal Society documents an uncommon sighting of a slow-moving, waving light resembling a rocket. At 8:40 PM, while in St. James Park, the observer witnessed a light emerging from the southern horizon behind trees and houses. The light ascended to around 20 degrees, exhibiting a wavering motion parallel to the horizon, before proceeding towards the northern point over houses. The observer described the light as resembling a flame with a bright, charcoal-like core encased in an opaque, iron-banded structure. A tail of light flame trailed from the object. The observer's detailed account and the object's unusual characteristics challenge the notion of a regular meteor, leaving it difficult to classify the phenomenon, especially considering the lack of satellite re-entry in 1743. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_333 --- ## Year: 1744, 4 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 672 (18A7D308) **Date:** 5/27/1744 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, London **Description:** (Translated from French) Mr. Henry Baker shortly after 11pm saw a strange trumpet-shaped object above Somerset House at the moment when this unusual craft emitted a white flame. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.110 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_193 ### Event 673 (2498C335) **Date:** 6/6/1744 **Location:** HRADEC-KRALOVY, CZK **Description:** 2 brilliant disks seen. No further details. / Lumieres dans la Nuit (monthly, Paris) #326p34. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 326) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_51 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Czech and Slovak Republics", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "HRADEC-KRALOVY,CZK:2 BRILLIANT DISKS SEEN:NFD:/LDLN #326p34", **LatLong:** "50.200002 15.833334", **LatLongDMS:** "50:12:00 N 15:50:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.200002,15.833334)", **State/Prov:** "VYC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 674 (36E12E75) **Date:** 6/23/1744 **Location:** SCOTLAND **Description:** (Translated from French) From two hours before dusk until nightfall above a Scottish hill: "a troop of armed men" was observed in the air by 27 witnesses including a magistrate. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.110 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_194 ### Event 675 (ECF61301) **Date:** 6/23/1744 **Location:** Knott, Scotland **Description:** A group of twenty-six witnesses, including a judge, reported an astonishing occurrence where they observed a troop of armed men in the sky above a hill. At around 7 o'clock in the evening, D. Stricket, a servant to Mr. Lancaster, spotted a procession of horse-mounted figures moving leisurely along Souter Fell in Cumberland. After alerting his master, Mr. Lancaster, the aerial figures became visible near a location known as Knott. The inexplicable spectacle continued for a duration of two hours, during which all twenty-six individuals, residing within a mile's radius, had the chance to witness the phenomenon. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_334 --- ## Year: 1745, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 676 (86890C92) **Date:** 7/4/1745 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, London **Description:** (Translated from French) The Reverend George Costard saw a trumpet-shaped craft at around 8:00 PM above Stanlake Broad. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.110 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_195 ### Event 677 (314B6B9F) **Date:** 7/14/1745 **Locations:** Standlake Broad; Oxford, England **Description:** Astronomer [George Costard](https://www.prints-online.com/george-costard-14285856.html) observes a meteoric stream of fire that persists for at least one hour at Standlake Broad west of Oxford, England. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Part of a Letter from the Reverend Mr. Geo. Costard to Mr. John Catlin, concerning a Fiery Meteor Seen in the Air on July 14, 1745,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 43 \(1745\): [522–524](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x001264415&view=1up&seq=684&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_12 ### Event 678 (3FFCF5AF) **Date:** 7/14/1745 **Location:** London, England **Description:** Reverend George Costard witnessed an anomalous event where he observed a trumpet-shaped object flying over Stanlake Broad at approximately 8:00 PM. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_335 --- ## Year: 1748, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 679 (AD1DB25A) **Date:** 8/5/1748 **Location:** Aberdeen, Scotland **Description:** Eleven witnesses reported seeing three globes of light along with the appearance of twelve tall men and armies in the sky at 2 P.M. in a valley located west of the city. Initially believed to be meteorological phenomena, the intensity of the lights increased, revealing the figures and armies dressed in bright clothing. The entities seemed to re-enact the battle of Culloden, which had occurred near Inverness on 16 April 1746. Notably, the sighting's timing during the early afternoon ruled out the possibility of an aurora being responsible for the anomalous occurrence. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_336 --- ## Year: 1749, 4 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 680 (9C0912BB) **Date:** 1/2/1749 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Japan, 3 round objects resembling the [Moon](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Moon.html) appear, and are visible for 4 days. Social unrest breaks out, attributed to the mysterious celestial objects, and the government takes action. Those who participated in the riots are executed. However, confusion reigns when people notice 3 "moons" aligned in the sky and, a few days later, 2 suns. (January 2nd) **Reference:** Vallée 1969 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1749.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_100 ### Event 681 (92B5BCE6) **Date:** 1/2/1749 (approximate) **Location:** JAPAN / LOCATION UNKNOWN **Description:** 3 moonlike objects / 4 days. Later they line up. Days later 2 more show. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: DIMENSIONS, A Casebook of Alien Contact Ballentine, NY 1989. PB (Index 12) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_52 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "128", **HatchDesc:** "JAPAN/LOC UNK:3 MOONLIKE OBJS/4 DAYS:LATER THEY LINE UP:DAYS LATER 2 MORE SHOW", **LatLong:** "36.050002 140.000007", **LatLongDMS:** "36:03:00 N 140:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.050002,140.000007)", **State/Prov:** "Honshu Island", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 682 (EA71B2DB) **Date:** 4/27/1749 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, London **Description:** (Translated from French) The Ruggieri, of Bolognese origin, were famous throughout Europe. Louis XV had them come to his court to organize real pyrotechnic spectacles at Versailles. But it was in London, in St James's Park, that the firework display was fired that has probably never been surpassed in magnificence. King George II had asked Gaetano Ruggieri, assisted by Giuseppe Sarti, to celebrate the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle. He was so impressed that a complete description was published in a special book. (...) The success of these spectacles was such that they became the obligatory complement of all festivities. **Reference:** "To the Assault of Space" Georges H. Gallet, ed. of Modern Thought, p. 30 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_196 ### Event 683 (0C0E1DEA) **Date:** 11/4/1749 **Locations:** North Atlantic Ocean; Cape Finisterre, Spain **Description:** 11:50 a.m. The crew of the [HMS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS%5FMontagu%5F%281660%29) [Montagu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS%5FMontagu%5F%281660%29) watches a large blue fireball, apparently low on the water, head directly toward them from the northeast and explode some 150 feet away from the ship, causing some damage to the mast, before it continues on toward the southwest. The incident takes place in the North Atlantic Ocean some 240 miles west of Cape Finisterre, Spain. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Chalmers, “[An Account of an Extraordinary Fireball](https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rstl.1749.0073) [Bursting at Sea,](https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rstl.1749.0073)” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 46 \(1752\): 366–367; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 67–75; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 2, Anomalist, 2021, pp. 105–114 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_13 --- ## Year: 1752, 9 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 684 (46337022) **Date:** 1752 **Location:** SWEDEN, Augermannland **Description:** (Translated from French) (Before the earthquake) balls of fire raced across the sky. (Charles FORT: "The Book of the Damned" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 187) Spheres of fire emanating from a long, flaming tubular object. **Reference:** Desmond Leslie and George Adamski: "The S.V. Have Landed" - J'ai Lu 1971, p. 31 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_199 ### Event 685 (90507DD7) **Date:** 1752 **Location:** Kazan, Russia **Description:** A man named "Yashka" claimed to have encountered a person dressed in white who transported him to a flying cauldron. Yashka described his experience as a journey to another world before ultimately returning to Earth. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_337 ### Event 686 (CF5AF3A2) **Date:** 4/15/1752 **Location:** NORWAY, Slavane (Stavanger?) **Description:** (Translated from French) (Preceded by a violent storm and) a strange, 8-sided star. **Reference:** A strange, sparkling, 8-sided object: cfr UFO-ORIENTERING., 1966, 7, listing of Ole Jonny Braenne **Reference:** Charles Fort: "The Book of the Damned" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 187 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_197 ### Event 687 (7217286D) **Date:** 4/15/1752 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Stavanger \(Norway\), observation of a strange object, with 8 faces and sparking. (April 15) **Reference:** UFO-ORIENTERING., 1966, 7 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1752.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_101 ### Event 688 (D22F19E1) **Date:** 4/15/1752 **Location:** STAVANGER, NORWAY **Description:** 'Octagonal star' seen. / Charles Fort / Book of the Damned and IFS#26. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_53 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "STAVANGER,NORWAY:'OCTAGONAL STAR' SEEN:/CHARLES FORT/BOOK OF THE DAMNED+IFS#26", **LatLong:** "58.950003 5.716667", **LatLongDMS:** "58:57:00 N 05:43:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/58.950003,5.716667)", **State/Prov:** "Norway", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 689 (0646411A) **Date:** 4/15/1752 **Location:** Stavanger, Norway **Description:** An octagonal luminosity was observed in the sky, emitting fireballs from its corners. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_338 ### Event 690 (14E5D1AE) **Date:** 6/1/1752? **Location:** AUGERMANLAND, SWD **Description:** Luminous spheres exit bright cylinder/cylindrical object in sky. Coordinates approximate. / IFS#26. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 13) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_54 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "AUGERMANLAND,SWD:LUM SPHERES EXIT BRITE CYL.IN SKY:COORDS APRX:/IFS#26", **LatLong:** "60.000003 15.000001", **LatLongDMS:** "60:00:00 N 15:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/60.000003,15.000001)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 691 (03B65864) **Date:** 6/1/1752 **Time:** 04:00 **Location:** Angermannland, Sweden **Description:** Between 4 and 5 A.M., luminous "balls of fire" were seen emitting from a bright streak in the sky that stretched for approximately 12 to 13 miles along the coast from northeast to southwest. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_339 ### Event 692 (32CBC5B9) **Date:** 9/1752 **Location:** USA **Description:** (Translated from French) Benjamin Franklin launches the first electric kite in a thundercloud. He feels a shock when touching the apparatus' cable. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 18 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_198 --- ## Year: 1753, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 693 (77CDAB42) **Date:** 5/14/1753 **Location:** FRANCE **Description:** (Translated from French) First experience in France (second in the world), of an electric kite, by Romas. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 18 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_200 ### Event 694 (63D40A02) **Date:** 12/8/1753 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Fleet Dorset **Description:** (Translated from French) At around 11:45, on a sunny day, Mr. Cracker saw something resembling a child's kite but shining like silver, passing back and forth through the clouds. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.111 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_201 ### Event 695 (03900118) **Date:** 12/11/1753 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Berkshire **Description:** (Translated from French) Around 5:00 PM in an area stretching from London to Kent, the maneuvers of a kite were preceded by a dull explosion. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.111 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_202 --- ## Year: 1754, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 696 (E9097CAC) **Date:** 8/15/1754 **Location:** Amsterdam and Chiswick, England **Description:** Following sunset, a peculiar sphere with a diameter similar to the full moon's was witnessed emitting intense, blinding beams of light as it descended near ground level. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_340 --- ## Year: 1755, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 697 (B416ECB4) **Date:** 3/1755 **Location:** Jupiter **Description:** German philosopher [Immanuel Kant](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel%5FKant) publishes Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens, in which he theorizes that distance from the Sun determines the intelligence level of a world’s inhabitants; thus, the people who live on Mercury are the stupidest, and the Venusians are only dimly brighter—making any Jupiterians and Saturnians much smarter than earthlings. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%5FNatural%5FHistory%5Fand%5FTheory%5Fof%5Fthe%5FHeavens)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_14 ### Event 698 (3278F6C0) **Date:** 8/15/1755 **Time:** ~21:00 **Location:** CHISWICK, LONDON **Description:** Odd sphere shoots brilliant beams. Drops and hovers just over ground. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** INFORESPACE Journal. SOBEPS Group, Belgium; bimonthly (Index 26) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_55 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "CHISWICK,LONDON:ODD SPHERE SHOOTS BRILL.BEAMS:DROPS+HVRS JUST OVR GROUND", **LatLong:** "51.483336 -0.266667", **LatLongDMS:** "51:29:00 N 00:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.483336,-0.266667)", **RelAlt:** "2", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "7" --- ## Year: 1756, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 699 (942D1F0C) **Date:** 1756 **Description:** Scottish astronomer [James Ferguson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FFerguson%5F%28Scottish%5Fastronomer%29) writes Astronomy Explained upon Sir Isaac Newton’s Principles, proclaiming the certainty of a plurality of inhabited worlds “peopled with myriads of intelligent beings, formed for endless progression in perfection and felicity.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** James Ferguson, Astronomy Explained upon Sir Isaac Newton’s Principles, 8th ed., London, 1790, [p. 6](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951000485239d&view=1up&seq=18&skin=2021); Matthew Goodman, The Sun and the Moon, Basic Books, 2008, [pp. 189–190](https://archive.org/details/sunmoonremarkabl00good/page/188/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_15 ### Event 700 (F82BE98F) **Date:** 1/2/1756 **Location:** ITALY, Turin **Description:** (Translated from French) An explosion shook the sky of Turin, just after the passage of a blue flying object which, during its entire flight, projected flames. It remained visible for 20 minutes. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.111 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_203 ### Event 701 (5B594964) **Date:** 1/2/1756 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** TORINO, ITL **Description:** Blast shakes sky. Blue object shoots flames / 20 minutes passing. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** INFORESPACE Journal. SOBEPS Group, Belgium; bimonthly (Index 26) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_56 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "239", **HatchDesc:** "TORINO,ITL:BLAST SHAKES SKY:BLUE OBJ SHOOTS FLAMES/20 MINUTES PASSING:NFD", **LatLong:** "45.083335 7.750000", **LatLongDMS:** "45:05:00 N 07:45:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.083335,7.750000)", **State/Prov:** "Torino", **Strangeness:** "5" --- ## Year: 1757, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 702 (8F328616) **Date:** 9/13/1757 **Location:** USA, BOSTON **Description:** (Translated from French) John Childs made several flights or gliding descents (with parachute?) from the top of a church tower in Boston. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 18 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_204 ### Event 703 (5A247B50) **Date:** 11/26/1757 **Location:** SCOTLAND, Edinburgh **Description:** (Translated from French) A conical object flew over the city at high speed. Before disappearing, this UFO released three satellite-shaped discs. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.112 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_205 --- ## Year: 1758, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 704 (F7FBDE28) **Date:** 1758 **Locations:** Jupiter; Mars; Moon; Planets beyond the solar system **Description:** Swedish theologian and mystic [Emanuel Swedenborg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel%5FSwedenborg) writes in The Earths in the Universe that that he has conversed with spirits from Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Saturn, Venus, and the Moon, as well as spirits from planets beyond the solar system. From these encounters, he concludes that the planets are all inhabited and that such an enormous undertaking as the universe cannot have been created for just one race on one planet. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Emanuel Swedenborg, [The Earths in the Universe](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433082254123&view=1up&seq=11&skin=2021), London, 1875; Richard Smoley, “[Is There Really Life on Other](https://swedenborg.com/scholars-is-there-really-life-on-other-planets/) [Planets?](https://swedenborg.com/scholars-is-there-really-life-on-other-planets/)” Swedenborg Foundation, February 15, 2019 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_16 ### Event 705 (DE7CA21E) **Date:** 11/26/1758 **Location:** EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND **Description:** Fast conical object flies over. Offloads 3 small disks and flies away! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** INFORESPACE Journal. SOBEPS Group, Belgium; bimonthly (Index 26) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_57 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "32", **HatchDesc:** "EDINBURGH,SCOTL:FAST CONICAL OBJ FLIES OVER:OFFLOADS 3 SML DISKS+FLIES AWAY!", **LatLong:** "55.950003 -3.233333", **LatLongDMS:** "55:57:00 N 03:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/55.950003,-3.233333)", **State/Prov:** "Scotland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 706 (44306C87) **Date:** 12/29/1758 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** Colchester, Essex, England **Description:** Around 8:00 P.M., a large oval object resembling a football was observed descending from the sky. The object disappeared suddenly, akin to a squib without any sound. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_341 --- ## Year: 1759, 6 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 707 (57B8C5A4) **Date:** 2/24/1759 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Liskeard (Cornwall) **Description:** (Translated from French) At 10pm a slight tremor like an earthquake was felt: it was a vibratory movement that lasted 2 or 3 seconds. George Thompson went out to observe the sky and saw multitudes of red blood rays converging from all corners of the sky towards a dark point. **Reference:** Christiane PIENS: "Les OVNI du passé" - Marabout 1977 - p.79 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_206 ### Event 708 (689C074C) **Date:** 4/27/1759 **Location:** Longdon, Somerset, England **Description:** 4:00 p.m. Following a clap of thunder, a flat, pale object is seen “dancing” in the sky over Longdon, Somerset, England. It is joined by three similar objects, all of which move from west to east for 30 seconds and disappear in a cloud. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** London Universal Chronicle, May 5, 1759; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 83–96 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_17 ### Event 709 (E9B06E89) **Date:** 5/20/1759 **Location:** Unexplained satellite of Venus **Description:** Astronomer Andreas Mayer reported observing a planetoid object in orbit around Venus, although the specific location of the observation remains unknown. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_342 ### Event 710 (F9AAE58A) **Date:** 6/9/1759 **Location:** FRANCE, Bazas **Description:** (Translated from French) At 9 o'clock in the evening, the curate of Captioux who was walking in front of his church with the curate of Loubens, his brother, saw a column of fire going from east to south. It passed behind a wood which hid it from their view. An hour later, a second column of fire was seen rushing into the river, near the mill. That same evening, from the town of Bazas, at the end of the horizon, towards Langdon, a whirlwind of fire was seen. **Reference:** M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: "Ovni, le premier dossier complet..." - ed. Alain LEFEUVRE 1979, p. 38, 39 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_207 ### Event 711 (0150C51C) **Date:** 9/16/1759 **Location:** Lonmora, Sweden **Description:** Man abducted for four days. On the evening of September 16, 1759, Jacob Jacobsson, a 22-year-old crofter from Lonmora, Sweden, crossed Lake Vastra Kiolsjon to deliver a food packet. Upon returning, he encountered an inexplicable phenomenon. A road appeared before him, leading him to a large red mansion where he found himself in the company of short-statured people, including a chubby man with a red cap and a taller maiden. They offered him food and drink, which he declined, expressing his desire to return home. The man with the red cap ordered his removal due to Jacob's refusal, and suddenly, he was back by the lake shore. Four days had passed, leaving Jacob without food or sleep, though he perceived it as only a brief absence. The incident left an uneasy feeling in him, and he recounted the experience to others, known for his simple, pious nature. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_343 ### Event 712 (76DC5271) **Date:** 10/10/1759 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Mendips (Somerset) **Description:** (Translated from French) Objects resembling balls quickly flew in the direction of Essex. One of them emitted a bluish light and made a kind of loop before disappearing on the horizon. (1759, 10 October) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.112 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_208 --- ## Year: 1761, 4 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 713 (1BC6F171) **Date:** 5/7/1761 **Location:** France **Description:** Prominent astronomer J. L. Lagrange spotted a planetoid in apparent orbit around Venus. The object's orbital plane, as described by Lagrange, appeared to be perpendicular to the ecliptic. This observation occurred while Venus was positioned as an evening "star" at 207° heliocentric longitude and 34° elongation from Earth. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_344 ### Event 714 (02745A07) **Date:** 6/6/1761 **Location:** Unknown observation location **Description:** Astronomer Scheuten observed a planetoid alongside Venus as he tracked Venus during its transit across the Sun's disk. The planet was accompanied by a smaller dark spot on one side, which moved in tandem with Venus during the transit. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_345 ### Event 715 (1656E921) **Date:** 11/2/1761 **Location:** SWITZERLAND **Description:** (Translated from French) (Before the earthquake) a "huge globe" was seen. (Charles FORT: "The Book of the Damned" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 187) A procession of "huge globes" flew over Switzerland. (Desmond Leslie and Georges Adamski: "The S.V. Have Landed" - J'ai Lu 1971 - p. 32) A procession of "huge globes" flew over Switzerland on November 2, 1761. (November 2, 1761) **Reference:** The Saucers with Heidi, cfr GREPI, 1997 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_209 ### Event 716 (9ACFA12F) **Date:** 12/26/1761 **Location:** Weyloe, Denmark **Description:** During a stormy night, an observer in Weyloe noticed a sudden light resembling lightning around 2:04 AM. As the storm intensified, at around 4:00 AM, a distinct horizontal ray of light emanating from the moon became visible, roughly nine feet in length and as thick as a man's arm, emitting rays on each side. Following this, a pale ball of fire, initially resembling a cloud-covered sun, moved slowly from south to north, gradually turning redder and smaller. The phenomenon concluded after approximately two minutes without any noise or smoke. Despite the storm's intensity, the weather's unusual behavior and the presence of multiple beams make the possibility of globular lightning less likely. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_346 --- ## Year: 1762, 7 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 717 (93604AC0) **Date:** 1762 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A large, spindle-shaped object intrigues an astronomer from Basel, who describes it as being three times longer than wide, slowly moving across the disk at a speed barely equal to half of that of ordinary sunspots. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1762.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_102 ### Event 718 (F6B90724) **Date:** 2/1762 **Location:** Nuremberg, Germany **Description:** Mr. Staudacher observed an unfamiliar astronomical occurrence, describing it as a "black round spot" moving across the Sun. The following day, the object was no longer visible, leading him to speculate whether it might be a new planet. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_347 ### Event 719 (3E71FE38) **Date:** 8/9/1762 **Location:** BASEL AND SOLETHURN, SWZ **Description:** 2 astronomers. Huge cylinder/cigar-shape crosses solar disk. Outer edge glows. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 13) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_58 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Switzerland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "BASEL+SOLETHURN,SWZ:2 ASTRONOMERS:HUGE CGR CROSSES SOLAR DISK:OUTER EDGE GLOWS", **LatLong:** "47.516669 7.566667", **LatLongDMS:** "47:31:00 N 07:34:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.516669,7.566667)", **State/Prov:** "Basel", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 720 (4CD676DE) **Date:** 8/9/1762 **Locations:** Lausanne, Switzerland; Solothurn, Switzerland; Paris, France **Description:** 12:00 noon. An amateur astronomer named de Rostan is observing the Sun at Lausanne, Switzerland, when he notices a large, spindle-shaped body moving across the solar disc from east to west at a slower rate of speed than sunspots move. It is surrounded by a thin “nebulosity.” An observer named Croste in Solothurn, Switzerland, also observes the object, but French astronomer [Charles Messier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FMessier), who is also taking solar measurements in Paris, France, does not see it. It remains visible until September 7, when it passes the Sun’s western limb. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Observation](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=ucm.5327384079&view=1up&seq=120&skin=2021) [Astronomique,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=ucm.5327384079&view=1up&seq=120&skin=2021)” Histoire de l’Académie Royale des Sciences, 1766, pp. 106–107; “[An Account of a Very Singular](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433081562823&view=1up&seq=368&skin=2021) [Phaenomenon Seen in the Disk of the Sun,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433081562823&view=1up&seq=368&skin=2021)” Annual Register, 1766, pp. 120–122; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 2, Anomalist, 2021, pp. 33–45 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_18 ### Event 721 (D1235726) **Date:** 8/9/1762 **Location:** Basel and Solothurn, Switzerland **Description:** Two witnesses, Monsieur de Rostan in Basel and Croste in Solothurn, observed a spindle-shaped object resembling a cigar slowly flying in front of the Sun. Monsieur de Rostan, an astronomer from Basel, traced its outline with a camera obscura and sent the image to the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris. The object appeared for almost a month and moved gradually from the eastern to the western limb of the Sun. This mysterious phenomenon was observed by multiple astronomers but remained unexplained, as it didn't resemble a typical solar spot, planet, or comet. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_348 ### Event 722 (60983EAC) **Date:** 11/19/1762 **Location:** Location unknown **Description:** An anomalous sighting of a planet-like object passing in front of the Sun was reported. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg observed a greenish round spot, roughly one twelfth the diameter of the Sun, moving across a 70° chord in a span of 3 hours. The exact location of this observation remains unspecified. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_349 ### Event 723 (3B1C8E7F) **Date:** 12/5/1762 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Bideford (Devon) **Description:** (Translated from French) At around 8:50 PM a kind of writhing serpent descended slowly above Bideford and remained visible for only a few minutes. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.112 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_210 --- ## Year: 1763, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 724 (683B397A) **Date:** 8/19/1763 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, London **Description:** (Translated from French) Darkness more impenetrable than that of the eclipse of 1748 (Gentleman's Magazine 33-414) (Charles FORT: "The Book of the Damned" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 182) In broad daylight it suddenly became as dark as in a furnace. The most astonishing thing is that the darkness was quite impenetrable to the light of candles or lanterns. **Reference:** Jacques BERGIER: "The E.T. in History" - J'AI LU - 1970 - p. 161 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_211 --- ## Year: 1764, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 725 (2C568CE2) **Date:** 3/4/1764 **Location:** Unknown location **Description:** A mysterious satellite attributed to the planet Venus was observed once more while Venus was visible in the evening sky. Positioned at a heliocentric longitude of 59° with an elongation of 30°, this enigmatic object garnered a total of eight observations throughout the year 1764. The exact location of these observations remains undisclosed. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_350 ### Event 726 (7AF639FD) **Date:** 3/28/1764 **Location:** Unknown location **Description:** A mystery satellite was sighted near planet Venus. The object, resembling a planetoid, was observed orbiting Venus with a heliocentric longitude of 98° and an elongation of 35°. This sighting adds to the collection of reliable observations of such phenomena during the pre-industrial era. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_351 ### Event 727 (35D3726B) **Date:** 5/1764 **Location:** Near Gotha, Germany **Description:** Mr. Hoffmann reported an anomalous sighting of a large round object, roughly 1/15th the size of the Sun, moving slowly from north to south across the sun's path. The incident involved a single unidentified object passing in front of the sun, casting a distinct spot on the solar surface. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_352 --- ## Year: 1765, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 728 (3ACB7DFE) **Date:** 6/13/1765 **Location:** Mount Prospect, Inishannon, Ireland **Description:** A remarkable phenomenon dubbed the "Sky throne" was observed by numerous individuals around 8 to 9 PM. The spectacle, visible for approximately 30 minutes, featured a majestic throne situated in the Northern Sphere. Enclosed by a broad golden circle, the throne was adorned with a lion at its forefront, seemingly guarding it. The incident took place against a serene evening backdrop, with the sky appearing dark everywhere else, and its authenticity was confirmed by trustworthy witnesses. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_353 --- ## Year: 1766, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 729 (34CBBAFD) **Date:** 1766 **Location:** INDIA, Mysore **Description:** (Translated from French) In India, rockets retained their favor and developed into a feared weapon. The army of the Prince of Mysore, Haider Ali, counted 1200 rocket launchers. **Reference:** "Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 13 **Reference:** see 1782 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_212 --- ## Year: 1767, 5 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 730 (B305850D) **Date:** 6/19/1767 **Location:** FRANCE, Gévaudan **Description:** (Translated from French) The beast killed by Jean Chastel with a blessed bullet was very different from a wolf, with reddish fur. The grass did not grow for a long time where the corpse had fallen. (There were a hundred authenticated cases of children being devoured). **Reference:** Pierre VIEROUDY: "These UFOs that Announce the Superman" - Laffont 1979, p. 270 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_213 ### Event 731 (55B85FA3) **Date:** 9/1767 **Location:** SCOTLAND, Coupar Angus (Pertshire) **Description:** (Translated from French) Some kind of fiery house approached close to the ground and caused some damage in the town. "It took the form of a pyramid and suddenly moved forward in the direction of the Erick. It then rushed into this river at great speed and disappeared a little after Blairgowrie (more than 7 km away). This caused considerable excitement... When it passed, this object carried a large cart and transported it several meters away, into a field. A man who was on the main road at that moment was thrown off his horse and knocked out; he remained unconscious for a long time. The object also destroyed a house and the arch of the new bridge in Blairgowrie. After that it quickly disappeared." **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "The Chronicle of UFOs" - Delarge 1977 p.113 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_214 ### Event 732 (58B4B5A2) **Date:** 9/1767 **Location:** COUPAR ANGUS, SCOT **Description:** Pyramid. Lifts cart. Knocks man / horse. Damages buildings. / r186#28. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 256) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_59 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **TRC:** Physical traces, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "59", **HatchDesc:** "COUPAR ANGUS,SCOT:PYRAMID:LIFTS CART:KNOCKS MAN/HORSE:DAMAGES BLDGs:/r186#28", **LatLong:** "56.550003 -3.266667", **LatLongDMS:** "56:33:00 N 03:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/56.550003,-3.266667)", **RelAlt:** "2", **State/Prov:** "Scotland", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 733 (74906FE3) **Date:** 9/8/1767 **Location:** Perthshire, Scotland **Description:** A peculiar event unfolded near Cupor Angus on the water of Isla. Preceded by a dense dark smoke, a substantial luminous entity resembling a blazing house emerged. It swiftly transformed into a pyramid-like shape and surged forward, traversing towards the water of Erick with remarkable speed before vanishing near Blairgowrie. The effects were astonishing: it displaced a large cart across a grassy field, unseated a man from his horse rendering him unconscious, demolished half of a house, and undermined an arch of a newly constructed bridge at Blairgowrie before its disappearance. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_354 ### Event 734 (B71CF74B) **Date:** 9/9/1767 **Locations:** Coupar Angus, Perth, Scotland; River Isla; River Ericht; Blairgowrie **Description:** A cloud “like a house on fire” that soon takes on a pyramidal form is seen traveling along the course of the River Isla near Coupar Angus, Perth, Scotland. It moves northeast to the confluence of the River Ericht and follows that stream to the west toward Blairgowrie where it disappears. It is accompanied by strong winds that destroy two houses. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Annual Register 1767, [pp. 127–128](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433081562831&view=1up&seq=145&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_19 --- ## Year: 1768, 4 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 735 (951EC1DB) **Date:** 1/4/1768 **Location:** Copenhagen, Denmark **Description:** Astronomer Christian Horrebow documented an unusual sighting of a "small light, that was not a star," seemingly orbiting Venus. Referred to as "Neith" by M. Hozeau of the Brussels observatory, this object remained enigmatic and was never definitively identified. It was confirmed that Neith was not a natural satellite of Venus. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_355 ### Event 736 (64227D79) **Date:** 9/1768 **Location:** GERMANY, between Frankfurt and Leipzig **Description:** (Translated from French) Excerpt from the 6th book of Goethe's autobiography. At the time he was 16 years old and was on his way to the University of Leipzig. The journey was arduous in the pouring rain and on the hills, the travelers had to get down to relieve the effort of the horses. During one of these forced marches, he noticed an astonishing phenomenon: "Suddenly, in a ravine to the right of the road, I saw a kind of amphitheater, wonderfully lit. In a pipe-shaped space an incalculable number of small lights were placed one on top of the other. They shone so brightly that the eye was dazzled. But what troubled most in this vision was that the lights were not fixed, they jumped here and there, went up and down and vice versa, in all directions. The greatest number of them, however, remained stable and radiated. It was with the greatest reluctance that I consented, when I was called, to move away from this spectacle that I would have liked to examine more closely. The postilion, when I questioned him, declared that he had never had knowledge of such a phenomenon, but that there was an old stone quarry nearby whose excavation was filled with water. It remains to be seen now whether this was a pandemonium of goblins, or an assembly of luminous creatures, I cannot decide. (September 1768) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p.113-114 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_215 ### Event 737 (7B8A965D) **Date:** 9/1768 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Goethe, then a young man of 16, travels to the University of Leipzig with two passengers from Frankfurt. Most of the journey takes place in the rain and the carriage sometimes has difficulty climbing hills. As the travelers left their seats to walk behind the horses, the young man noticed a strange and luminous object on the ground: Suddenly, in a ravine to the right of the road, I saw a kind of amphitheater wonderfully illuminated. In a tubular space shone an incalculable number of small lights placed one on top of the other; and they shone so brightly that the eye was dazzled. But what troubled most in this vision was that the lights were not fixed, they jumped here and there, went up and down and vice versa, in all directions. The largest number of them, however, remained stable and radiated. It was with the greatest secrecy that I agreed, when I was called, to move away from this spectacle that I would have liked to examine more closely... It remains to be seen whether this was a pandemonium of goblins or an assembly of luminous creatures; I cannot decide. (September) **Reference:** 6th book of his autobiography according to Kenneth Anger, film director and occult scholar **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1768.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_103 ### Event 738 (2E746B2A) **Date:** 9/1/1768 (approximate) **Location:** NEAR LEIPZIG, GERMANY **Description:** Goethe. Ballet of miniature lights / roadside hollow. / IFS#28. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: DIMENSIONS, A Casebook of Alien Contact Ballentine, NY 1989. PB (Index 20) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_60 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "nr LEIPZIG,GERMANY:GOETHE:BALLET of MINIATURE LITES/ROADSIDE HOLLOW:/IFS#28", **LatLong:** "51.300002 12.400001", **LatLongDMS:** "51:18:00 N 12:24:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.300002,12.400001)", **State/Prov:** "Saxony", **Strangeness:** "5" --- ## Year: 1769, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 739 (29C2CFB1) **Date:** 10/24/1769 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Oxford **Description:** (Translated from French) Observation of "houses of fire" flying. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "The Chronicle of UFOs" - Delarge 1977 p.113 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_216 ### Event 740 (1138DA03) **Date:** 10/24/1769 **Location:** Oxford, England **Description:** An unusual incident involved the sighting of an object resembling a blazing house in the sky, lasting for about an hour. This object exhibited vertical movement, resembling hovering as it moved up and down. Notably, it emitted jets of gas and produced rumbling sounds during its presence. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_356 ### Event 741 (4DEF06C2) **Date:** 11/18/1769 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Arendal \(Norway\) Mr. Abo \(lieutenant captain\) and Mr. Drejer \(controller\) observe with binoculars a fog and spots on the solar disk. The spots do not move while they are observed. (November 18, 12 PM) **Reference:** KONGELIG PRIVELEGERT ADRESSE CONTOIRS EFTERRETNINGER, No.5 - 1769/70 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1769.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_104 --- ## Year: 1772, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 742 (39C8200E) **Date:** 1772 **Location:** FRANCE, ETAMPES **Description:** (Translated from French) The canon Desforges attempts an experiment using his flying chariot at Etampes, but the apparatus refuses to rise. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout Université 1967, p. 18 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_217 --- ## Year: 1775, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 743 (6260EE1B) **Date:** 5/8/1775 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** Waltham Abbey, Hertfordshire, England **Description:** Around 8:30 PM, a gentleman in Waltham Abbey witnessed an extraordinary event. A meteor, taking on the appearance of a hazy star, emerged slightly above the moon's position. It moved unhurriedly towards the east, maintaining a parallel trajectory with the ecliptic, covering an arc of approximately 5 to 6 degrees before fading away. The meteor's size was about 6 or 7 minutes of arc, boasting a brightness and hue akin to that of the moon. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_357 --- ## Year: 1777, 5 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 744 (06970694) **Date:** 1777 **Location:** FRANCE **Description:** (Translated from French) Joseph Montgolfier jumps off the roof of his house with a parachute of his own invention. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout Université 1967, p. 18 **Reference:** Follow-ups: 1779, December 29th 1782, June 3rd 1785 and October 22nd 1797 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_218 ### Event 745 (3BF9C927) **Date:** 6/17/1777 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) [C. Messier](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/scientifiques.html\#MessierC) sees a number of round, black objects in the sky. (June 17) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1777.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_105 ### Event 746 (6BB25B77) **Date:** 6/17/1777 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) [Herschell](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/HershellWilliam.html) sees fireballs. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1777.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_106 ### Event 747 (B0ED6E4F) **Date:** 6/17/1777 **Location:** Hôtel de Cluny in Paris, France **Description:** 11:46 a.m. French astronomer [Charles Messier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FMessier) views a large number of round, dark-brown globules passing in front of the disc of the sun for 5 minutes from west-southwest to east-northeast. He sees them through an achromatic refractor at the naval observatory located in the Hôtel de Cluny in Paris, France. His estimate of their size \(one-600th the size of the solar disc\) puts them near the limit of resolution for his telescope, but Messier claims the objects are far away and in focus. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Charles Messier, “[Observation singulaire d’une prodigieuse quantité](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x002099520&view=1up&seq=682&skin=2021) [de petits globules qui ont passé devant le disque du soleil, le 17 juin 1777,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x002099520&view=1up&seq=682&skin=2021)” Mémoires de l’Academie Royale des Sciences, 1777, pp. 464–472; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 7–18 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_20 ### Event 748 (60E65AA1) **Date:** 6/17/1777 **Location:** France **Description:** During a lunar eclipse, astronomer Charles Messier witnessed a peculiar event involving unidentified objects moving in parallel paths. He likened these objects to a combination of ships and bells due to their size and swift movement. Messier speculated that these anomalies might have been airborne hailstones or seeds, but he leaned toward the possibility of them being small meteorites. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_358 --- ## Year: 1778, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 749 (55159A17) **Date:** 1778 **Location:** USA, Northwest Coast - Nootka Tribe. **Description:** (Translated from French) The Nootka Man - Source: Dark Visions, by John Robert Colombo. John Meares (1756-1809) was a lieutenant in the Royal Navy where he enlisted in 1771. He made, as captain, three voyages from China to Nootka Sound. (...). In these travel memoirs he recounts a story of an extraordinary stranger from the sky, of whom the Nootka Indians spoke. The stranger was dressed in copper, traveled in a copper canoe and that all the stranger possessed was made of metal. The stranger warned the Indians saying that he came from the sky and that one day their nation would be destroyed and all the people killed. Finally it would be the Nootka who would have the last word on the stranger by killing him and stealing all his metal objects. (1778 to 1779) **Reference:** UFO Joe website, collected from the Internet May 1997 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_219 --- ## Year: 1779, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 750 (37BA6395) **Date:** 1779 **Location:** FRANCE, AVIGNON **Description:** (Translated from French) Joseph Montgolfier re-enacted his experience in Avignon in the presence of the Vice-Legate of the Pope and the Marquis de Brantes. This Avignon parachute allowed a sheep to land safely, even though it had been launched from the top of the Palace tower. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 19 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_220 --- ## Year: 1780, 4 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 751 (F6C7E6E5) **Date:** 1780's **Description:** Coulomb’s law of electrostatics **Type:** scientific advanced **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Maxwell%27s_equations) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_4 ### Event 752 (66459436) **Date:** 1780 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) During an eclipse, the [Moon](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Moon.html) takes on a blood red hue. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1780.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_107 ### Event 753 (13B85F25) **Date:** 2/5/1780 **Time:** 07:00? **Location:** BUSSIERES, FR **Description:** Civil records. Flaming 'dragon' going [to] overhead / 15 minute(s). Lights all below brightly. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 338) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_61 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "BUSSIERES,FR:CVL RECORDS:FLAMING 'DRAGON' >OVHD/15min:LITES ALL BELOW BRIGHTLY", **LatLong:** "48.927780 3.238889", **LatLongDMS:** "48:55:40 N 03:14:20 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.927780,3.238889)", **State/Prov:** "Seine-et-Marne", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 754 (CCA0F51A) **Date:** 2/5/1780 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** Bussieres, France **Description:** Around 6 P.M. - A flaming "dragon" appeared in the sky, emitting light that illuminated the area and lasted for approximately 15 minutes, captivating those below. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_359 --- ## Year: 1781, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 755 (8AAA1161) **Date:** 8/28/1781 **Location:** FRANCE **Description:** (Translated from French) In a letter to the "Journal de Paris", Blanchard announces that he has been working for twelve years on the realization of a flying machine and that he is now on his sixth operation (let us read: experience). He is experimenting with a sail chariot that many witnesses have seen in Paris. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 19 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_221 --- ## Year: 1782, 11 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 756 (D8380BE3) **Date:** 1782 **Location:** INDIA, Symore **Description:** (Translated from French) (cf. 1766) His son, Tippoe Sahib increased the force to 5000 fuseens. They used rockets of 3 to 6 kilos consisting of a 20 cm long and 4 cm diameter iron tube, stuffed with powder and fixed to a long bamboo rod serving as a guide. Their range was around 800 meters. **Reference:** "The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 13 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_222 ### Event 757 (414148BF) **Date:** 6/4/1782 **Location:** FRANCE, ANNONAY **Description:** (Translated from French) First public captive ascent of an aerostat (a hot air balloon) built by the Montgolfier brothers in Annonay. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 22 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_223 ### Event 758 (3B4903F5) **Date:** 8/27/1782 **Location:** FRANCE, PARIS **Description:** (Translated from French) Ascension of the balloon "Le Globe" by Charles and the Robert brothers. It was inflated with hydrogen. The balloon, not having ascended, landed in Gonesse (north of Paris), and was destroyed by the population after having been exorcised by the local priest. **Reference:** "La conquête de l'air, chronologie..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - éd. Marabout Université1967, p. 22 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_224 ### Event 759 (CA1654E5) **Date:** 9/12/1782 **Location:** FRANCE, PARIS **Description:** (Translated from French) First captive ascent of a hot air balloon in the Faubourg St. Antoine. Rain interrupted the experience. The apparatus remained exposed to the rain for more than 24 hours. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 22 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_225 ### Event 760 (241EC662) **Date:** 9/19/1782 **Location:** FRANCE, PARIS **Description:** (Translated from French) In the presence of King Louis XVI, the first three aerial passengers in history made an ascent in a hot air balloon: a cock, a duck and a sheep. their return, unharmed, proved that it is possible to breathe at a few tens of metres above the ground. (1782, 19th September) **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 22 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_226 ### Event 761 (33B1D159) **Date:** 10/15/1782 **Location:** FRANCE **Description:** (Translated from French) First captive ascent of a man: Pilatre de Rozier rising to 26 metres above the ground, on board of a hot air balloon. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 22 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_227 ### Event 762 (458FFBE2) **Date:** 10/19/1782 **Location:** FRANCE **Description:** (Translated from French) The ascent of October 15 had taken place in a courtyard. On the date of the 19th, Pilatre de Rozier resumed the experience in front of a large crowd. He rose to 60 meters and remained at this altitude for six minutes. He ascended a second time to 80 meters and maintained it for nearly 10 minutes. A third and final ascent on the same day was made in the company of Giroud de la Villette; the altitude reached was 324 feet; the ascent lasted 9 minutes. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 22 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_228 ### Event 763 (26896615) **Date:** 11/21/1782 **Location:** FRANCE, PARIS **Description:** (Translated from French) First free ascent in human history and first aerial voyage in a hot air balloon: Pilatre de Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlandes surveyed the city of Paris. The verbal process of this event is signed, in particular by Benjamin Franklin. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 22 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_229 ### Event 764 (F1C2D3F9) **Date:** 12/1782 **Location:** USA, Philadelphia **Description:** (Translated from French) Wilcox would have risen, carried by a cluster of balloons. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 22 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_230 ### Event 765 (89C614B1) **Date:** 12/1/1782 **Location:** FRANCE, PARIS **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of a hydrogen-filled balloon: Professor Charles and mechanic Robert take off from Paris (Tuileries) and land at Nnesle, travelling approximately 40 km in 2 hours. (1782, 1 December) **Reference:** "La conquête de l'air, chronologie..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - éd. Marabout Université 1967, p. 22 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_231 ### Event 766 (CBFD8242) **Date:** 12/29/1782 **Location:** FRANCE, MONTPELLIER **Description:** (Translated from French) Lenormand carries out the first practical experiments with parachute jumps. The parachutists are a cat and a dog. (1782, 29 December) **Reference:** "La conquête de l'air, chronologie..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - éd. Marabout Université1967, p. 22 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_232 --- ## Year: 1783, 5 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 767 (CB7C73A2) **Date:** 1783 **Location:** Bath, England **Description:** British astronomer [William Herschel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FHerschel) has been observing the lunar surface since the mid-1770s in Bath, England, and writes journal entries in which he details sightings of immense trees, forests, and pastures, comparing it to the English countryside. By 1778, he is seeing circular formations that he thinks are towns and villages. He also notes canals, roads, and patches of vegetation, but never writes about it publicly, since he knows that telescopic observations can be tricky. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** George Basalla, Civilized Life in the Universe, Oxford University, 2006, [pp. 51–52](https://archive.org/details/civilizedlifeinu0000basa/page/50/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_21 ### Event 768 (9E8A11CC) **Date:** 3/1783 **Location:** Japan **Description:** Over the course of several days, there were reports of luminous objects flying from north to south at low altitudes, seemingly passing just above rooftops. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_360 ### Event 769 (C3B5452B) **Date:** 8/18/1783 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** GREENWICH, ENGL AND BELGIUM **Description:** Cloud cylinder/cigar-shape and 8 spheres all going southeast slow. Meteors? / r2p13+IFS#28. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 145) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_62 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "GREENWICH,ENGL+BELGIUM:CLOUD CGR+8 SPHERES ALL >SE SLOW:meteors?:/r2p13+IFS#28", **LatLong:** "51.466669 -0.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "51:28:00 N 00:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.466669,-0.000000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "2" ### Event 770 (626D65C3) **Date:** 8/18/1783 **Locations:** British Isles; North Sea; east coast of Scotland; England; English Channel; southwestern France; northern Italy; Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England **Description:** 9:15–9:30 p.m. An unusually bright bolide is observed in the British Isles on a clear, dry night. Analysis indicates that the meteor has entered the Earth’s atmosphere over the North Sea, before passing over the east coast of Scotland, England, and the English Channel; it finally breaks up, after a passage within the atmosphere of around 1,000 miles, over southwestern France or northern Italy. Perhaps the most prominent witness is [Tiberius](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberius%5FCavallo) [Cavallo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberius%5FCavallo)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberius%5FCavallo) an Italian natural philosopher who happens to be among a group of people on the terrace at Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England, at the time the meteor appears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[1783 Great Meteor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1783%5FGreat%5FMeteor)”; Tiberius Cavallo, “[Description of a Meteor, Observed Aug. 18, 1783](https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rstl.1784.0010),” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 74 \(1784\): 108–111; Charles Blagden, “[An Account of Some Late Fiery Meteors,](https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rstl.1784.0019)” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 74 \(1784\): 202–232; Martin Beech, “[The Great Meteor of 18th August 1783,](https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1989JBAA...99..130B)” Journal of the British Astronomical Association 99 \(1989\): 130–134; Kaushik Patowary, “[The Great Meteor of 1783,](https://www.amusingplanet.com/2021/09/the-great-meteor-of-1783.html)” Amusing Planet, September 8, 2021 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_22 ### Event 771 (34436A4A) **Date:** 10/18/1783 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Windsor **Description:** (Translated from French) Mr. Tiberius Cavallo made an exceptional observation from the terrace of Windsor Castle: "To the northeast of the terrace, in a clear sky and warm weather, I suddenly saw an oblong cloud moving almost parallel to the horizon. Below this cloud one could distinguish something like a luminous object which soon became spherical, brightly lit and eventually stayed stationary. It was then about 9:45 pm. This strange ball first appeared bluish and pale, but its luminosity increased and soon it started moving east. The object then changed direction and moved parallel to the horizon before disappearing to the southeast. I was able to observe it for half a minute and the light it emitted was prodigious. It illuminated any object on the ground. Before its disappearance it changed shape, became oblong and at the moment when a kind of trail appeared, it seemed to split into two small bodies. Barely two minutes later the sound of an explosion was heard." The same kind of phenomenon was reported that evening in Deptford (Wiltshire) as well as in Hartlepool. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 p. 115-116 **Reference:** Durham **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_233 --- ## Year: 1784, 21 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 772 (42B258E4) **Date:** 1/19/1784 **Location:** FRANCE, LYON **Description:** (Translated from French) The gigantic Montgolfiere (23,270 cubic meters) named "La Flesselles" rises from Lyon, carrying 7 passengers to 1000 meters in altitude. The six planned passengers were: J. Montgolfier, Pilatre de Rozier, Prince Ch. de Ligne, Marquis de Laurencin, Marquis de Dampierre, Count de La Porte d'Anglefort and Count d'Entraigues. At the last moment, the young Fontaine rushes into the gondola: he can be considered the first stowaway of the conquest of the air. (January 19, 1784) **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 23 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_234 ### Event 773 (9B8C9B81) **Date:** 2/22/1784 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN: Sandwich (Kent) **Description:** (Translated from French) BELGIUM, WARNETON A small balloon, unmounted, diameter 1.50 m rises from Sandwich and lands in Warneton (Belgium) after a three hour ascent. It thus makes the first crossing of the channel. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 23 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_235 ### Event 774 (65953F33) **Date:** 2/25/1784 **Location:** ITALY **Description:** (Translated from French) Italy is the second country to witness the ascension of a human being aboard a balloon; the pilot is Paolo Andreani. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 23 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_236 ### Event 775 (B08171F5) **Date:** 3/2/1784 **Location:** FRANCE, PARIS **Description:** (Translated from French) In an attempt to steer his balloon, Blanchard rises from Paris and lands, unsuccessfully, in Billancourt. He uses oars and a rudder as if on a boat. (1784, 2 March) **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout Université 1967, p. 23 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_237 ### Event 776 (A4DA55CB) **Date:** 4/25/1784 **Location:** FRANCE, LYON **Description:** (Translated from French) Guyton de Morveau conducts tests of direction of a balloon, using oars whose pallets have one meter of width. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 23 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_238 ### Event 777 (AE269985) **Date:** 4/28/1784 **Location:** FRANCE, PARIS **Description:** (Translated from French) Lannoy and Bienvenu present to the "Academy of Sciences" of Paris, a reduced model of a helicopter. The device makes a flight in the meeting room. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 23 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_239 ### Event 778 (2D79FC19) **Date:** 5/6/1784 **Location:** FRANCE **Description:** (Translated from French) Xavier de Maistre made an ascent in a hot air balloon that he built with the help of some friends. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 23 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_240 ### Event 779 (0F3E38A3) **Date:** 6/4/1784 **Location:** SPAIN, ARANJUEZ **Description:** (Translated from French) Bouche makes first ascent in a balloon. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 23 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_241 ### Event 780 (C7647B2E) **Date:** 6/4/1784 **Location:** FRANCE, LYON **Description:** (Translated from French) The hot air balloon "Le Gustave", named in honor of the King of Sweden, Gustave III, rises in Lyon in the presence of the sovereign. It carries, in addition to its pilot Fleurant, the first passenger of space, Madame Tible. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 23 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_242 ### Event 781 (8AD8731F) **Date:** 6/12/1784 **Location:** FRANCE, DIJON **Description:** (Translated from French) Guyton de Morveau makes a 20 km trip, from Dijon to Etrevaux. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 23 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_243 ### Event 782 (734E2873) **Date:** 6/23/1784 **Location:** FRANCE **Description:** (Translated from French) Piloting the "Marie-Antoinette" hot air balloon, Pilatre de Rozier and Proust rise to 4000 meters in altitude. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 23 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_244 ### Event 783 (7D9E071B) **Date:** 6/24/1784 **Location:** USA, BALTIMORE **Description:** (Translated from French) American P. Carnes builds a balloon whose ascensional force is too reduced to be able to carry it: it is a 13 year old child, Ed Warren, who, in Baltimore, becomes the first aeronaut of the United States. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 23 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_245 ### Event 784 (7BA4F1FC) **Date:** 6/24/1784 **Location:** China **Description:** In an unspecified location, a significant event occurred involving an oscillating 'star.' This star emerged suddenly in the southeast, displaying scintillating characteristics. It underwent a repeated pattern of rising and descending three times. Another star replicated this peculiar motion, and reportedly, the latter star descended and impacted a village. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_361 ### Event 785 (2D1FD25D) **Date:** 6/29/1784 **Location:** BELGIUM **Description:** (Translated from French) First attempt at parachute jumping in Belgium, by De Groof. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 23 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_246 ### Event 786 (93F55411) **Date:** 7/7/1784 **Location:** AUSTRIA, Vienna **Description:** (Translated from French) Stuver in Vienna makes the first ascent in Austria. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 23 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_247 ### Event 787 (ED0939F8) **Date:** 7/8/1784 **Location:** FRANCE, AVIGNON **Description:** (Translated from French) In the "Courrier d'Avignon", M. Aries claims to have risen to 70 feet with the help of two wings of cloth. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 23 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_248 ### Event 788 (438F6F9E) **Date:** 7/15/1784 **Location:** FRANCE **Description:** (Translated from French) The Robert brothers, the Duke of Chartres and Collin-Hullin, made an ascent in a balloon (hydrogen) named "Caroline". Upon landing, the balloon not deflating quickly enough, the Duke punctured the envelope with the flagpole of a flag. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 24 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_249 ### Event 789 (87AA0F55) **Date:** 7/17/1784 **Location:** USA, BALTIMORE **Description:** (Translated from French) P. Carnes in Baltimore conducted the first captive ascent of an adult. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 24 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_250 ### Event 790 (08A996F3) **Date:** 8/25/1784 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN **Description:** (Translated from French) J. Tytler launches the first British-built hot air balloon. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 24 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_251 ### Event 791 (C3E925A7) **Date:** 9/14/1784 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN **Description:** (Translated from French) The Italian Lunardi performs the first ascent in Great Britain and goes from Moorsfield (London) to Ware. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 24 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_252 ### Event 792 (A912F6F0) **Date:** 10/4/1784 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, OXFORD **Description:** (Translated from French) J. Sadler, first English aeronaut, succeeded in an ascension at Oxford. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 24 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_253 --- ## Year: 1785, 8 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 793 (3FE7FE51) **Date:** 1/7/1785 **Location:** THE ENGLISH CHANNEL **Description:** (Translated from French) Frenchman Blanchard and American Jeffries make the first crossing of the English channel in the history of aerial locomotion. They cover approximately 50 km in 2 hours and 20 minutes. They would have carried some letters, which would bring the birth of air mail to this first crossing of the "channel". (1785, 7 January) **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 24 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_254 ### Event 794 (CF879B26) **Date:** 6/3/1785 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, LONDON **Description:** (Translated from French) During an ascent made in London, Blanchard carried, for their first air flight, the two youngest passengers to date, the Simonet Sisters, aged 17 and 14. A dog accompanied the travellers. On this occasion, Blanchard tried out a parachute of his own invention: the dog was released from the balloon, it landed without harm. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 24 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_255 ### Event 795 (1CDA4693) **Date:** 6/15/1785 **Location:** THE CHANNEL **Description:** (Translated from French) Pilatre de Rozier, accompanied by P.A. de Romain, attempts a crossing of the channel on board of an "Aero-Montgolfiere", a combination of a hydrogen balloon and a Montgolfiere. A few minutes after taking off, the aerostat returns towards the French coast, catches fire and crashes in Wimereux. Both occupants are killed. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout Université 1967, p. 24 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_256 ### Event 796 (BC9C38B9) **Date:** 6/17/1785 **Location:** IRELAND, DUBLIN **Description:** (Translated from French) Dr. Potain ascended from Dublin in a balloon with the intention of crossing the St. George's Channel. He advanced far out over the sea, but a contrary wind drove him back to the Irish coast. Some claim that Dr. Potain did not even reach above the sea. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 24 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_257 ### Event 797 (02221E73) **Date:** 6/29/1785 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, LONDON **Description:** (Translated from French) The Italian Lunardi and the British Biggin ascend in London, accompanied by the first British female aeronaut, Mrs Sage. This fact is often contested despite an engraving depicting Mrs Sage and Biggin in the balloon's gondola. It seems that the ascensional power of the aerostat was insufficient. The authentic passengers of Lunardi would have been a dog, a cat and a pigeon. We have not found the name of the one who would be the first female aeronaut of English nationality, if one disregards Mrs Sage. (1785, 29th June) **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 24 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_258 ### Event 798 (31B48D44) **Date:** 7/13/1785 **Location:** NETHERLANDS, THE HAGUE **Description:** (Translated from French) First ascent in Holland, in the Hague, by the Frenchman Blanchard. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 24 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_259 ### Event 799 (78167682) **Date:** 10/3/1785 **Location:** GERMANY, FRANKFURT **Description:** (Translated from French) Blanchard again, performs the first ascent in Germany at Frankfurt. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 25 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_260 ### Event 800 (13D8FE49) **Date:** 11/20/1785 **Location:** BELGIUM, GHENT **Description:** (Translated from French) It is Blanchard who makes the first ascent in Ghent. (November 20, 1785) **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 25 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_261 --- ## Year: 1786, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 801 (0894C4C2) **Date:** 1786 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) France organized one of the largest maritime expeditions in the Pacific Ocean, to New Zealand and Australia. Two magnificent ships filled with scientists, cartographers, astronomers, botanists, the *Boussole* and the *Astrolabe*, sailed the waters. After reaching Australia, they headed towards the New Hebrides to continue their exploration, when one day they were never heard from again. No trace of the ships was found. An investigation was unable to give an exact picture of the origin of the drama. The *Pérouse*, like so many others, experienced a destiny that remained obscure. It was not until the 1820s that Dumont d'Urville and then Peter Dillon found traces of the shipwreck; and much later, in 1962, the remains of the *Boussole* were discovered. **Reference:** see Dominique Césari, [*Le naufrage au Port des Français*](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://perso.club-internet.fr/cesarigd/parcsafabriques/mere/naufrageLPF.htm) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1786.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_108 ### Event 802 (914510AE) **Date:** 6/18/1786 **Location:** FRANCE **Description:** (Translated from French) Pierre Testu-Brissy makes the first night ascension. [note from vog: after reading his numerous tests and flights carried out in the 18th century, I am forced to think that the appearance 100 years later in the USA of the famous "airships" is a hoax...] **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 25 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_262 --- ## Year: 1787, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 803 (816E7D94) **Date:** 9/11/1787 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** Edinburgh, Scotland **Description:** Around 8:30 P.M. - Observers witnessed a remarkable event involving a fiery globe exceeding the size of the sun. This celestial object moved from north to east at an elevation of 15 to 20 degrees, later descending to the horizon. The globe then ascended once more, exhibiting short waves in its path, and ultimately shifted westward before disappearing behind a cloud, where it seemed to detonate. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_362 --- ## Year: 1788, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 804 (4A28BE20) **Date:** 5/3/1788 **Location:** SWITZERLAND, BASEL **Description:** (Translated from French) First ascent of a balloon in Switzerland at Basel, performed by the Frenchman Blanchard. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 25 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_263 ### Event 805 (B0935D6E) **Date:** 6/12/1788 **Time:** 04:00 **Location:** Zamora, Spain **Description:** Between 4 and 5 A.M., two large globes of fire, roughly the size of a Bristol barrel, were observed flying horizontally in the southeastern sky. The globes approached each other and collided before being separated by a centrifugal force, after which they took divergent paths—one moving East Southeast and the other West by North. The event, witnessed by numerous individuals, lasted around twenty minutes. The globe in the southeast eventually burst with a loud crack audible up to ten miles away, while the other descended slowly until disappearing from view. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_363 --- ## Year: 1789, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 806 (1CD4A662) **Date:** 5/30/1789 **Location:** POLAND, WARSAW **Description:** (Translated from French) Blanchard makes an ascent in Poland, in Warsaw, the first in this country. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 25 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_264 ### Event 807 (6755CA39) **Date:** 10/31/1789 **Location:** BOHEMIA, PRAGUE **Description:** (Translated from French) Blanchard made an ascent in Prague, the first in Bohemia. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 25 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_265 --- ## Year: 1790, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 808 (A4EDF119) **Date:** 6/12/1790 **Location:** FRANCE, Alençon (Orne) **Description:** (Translated from French) Report written by Inspector of Police Liabeuf: "At five o'clock in the morning, some peasants observed an enormous globe that seemed to be surrounded by flames. At first they thought it was a burning hot air balloon, but its great speed and the whistling it emitted intrigued them greatly. The globe descended gently, turned and eventually crashed at the top of a hill, uprooting the vegetation that grew on its sides. The heat emitted by the object was so great that the grass and shrubs caught fire shortly afterwards. The peasants managed to contain the fire which otherwise would have spread throughout the region. In the evening, the globe was still hot and then something extraordinary happened, barely believable. The witnesses of this event are two mayors, a doctor, and three other local personalities who confirm my report, not to mention the dozens of peasants who were also present. The sphere, which was large enough to contain a whole crew, was intact after the flight it had just made. It slowly aroused the curiosity of the people who came from all directions to see it. Then, suddenly, a door opened and a person came out, just like us, but dressed in a strange way with clothes that clung to his body; seeing the crowd, this person muttered some incomprehensible words and fled into the woods. ('but he seemed to have dissolved in thin air,'"Liabeuf wrote: "he dissolved like air, Liabuef wrote - cfr John KEEL) The peasants instinctively recoiled, frightened, and ran away. Shortly afterwards the sphere exploded silently, sending debris in all directions; these debris burned until they were reduced to powder. Searches were carried out to find the mysterious man but he seemed to have evaporated into the air and so far no trace of him has been found..." [note from vog: is there really a report about this somewhere, or is this stuff made up by an author and taken up by others without further ado?] **Reference:** See OPERATION TROJAN HORSE by John A. Keel, Manor Books, New York, NY, 1970, page 66. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "The Chronicle of UFOs" - Delarge 1977 p.116-117, full text **Reference:** Henry DURRANT: "The Black Book of UFOs" - Laffont 1970, p. 62, summary **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_266 ### Event 809 (9A5230B6) **Date:** 6/12/1790 **Location:** Alençon, Normandy, France **Description:** 5:00 a.m. Several farmers in Alençon, Normandy, France, see a large globe surrounded by flames and making a whistling sound. The object slows, oscillates, and moves toward the top of a hill, unearthing some plants along the slope. The heat is so intense that grass and small trees start burning. In the evening the sphere is still warm. Witnesses include two mayors, a doctor, and three other authorities in addition to the dozens of peasants who are present. A kind of door opens and a person emerges. He is dressed in a tight-fitting suit and, seeing all the people, says some words that are not understood. He runs into the woods. The sphere explodes silently, throwing pieces everywhere, and these pieces burn until they are powder. The original source is allegedly from a June 17 report by a Police Inspector Liabeuf and forwarded to the French Academy of Sciences. However, the Academy reported in 2006 that it has no knowledge of such a report in its archives. Probable hoax. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Alberto Penoglio, “[Antichi](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Italy/Clypeus/Clypeus%20-%201966%20-%20Vol%203%20No%203.pdf) [Visitatori dal Cielo,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Italy/Clypeus/Clypeus%20-%201966%20-%20Vol%203%20No%203.pdf)” Clypeus 3, n. 3 \(1966\): 13–14; Vallée, Magonia, [pp. 60–61](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/60/mode/2up); “[1790 UFO Crash or Time](https://coolinterestingstuff.com/1790-ufo-crash-or-time-traveller) [Traveller?](https://coolinterestingstuff.com/1790-ufo-crash-or-time-traveller)” Cool Interesting Stuff, June 1, 2014 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_23 ### Event 810 (46388666) **Date:** 10/22/1790 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) During a total eclipse of the [Moon](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Moon.html), [Herschel](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/HershellWilliam.html) discovers more than 150 bright red points on the lunar surface, with a telescope that magnifies only 320 times. (October 22) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1790.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_109 --- ## Year: 1791, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 811 (2737E789) **Date:** 9/18/1791 **Location:** FRANCE, PARIS **Description:** (Translated from French) Day of the proclamation of the Constitution; the German de Ste. Croix rises from Paris, carrying a certain number of copies of the "Declaration of the Rights of Man". Arrives at 12,000 feet of altitude, in shirt, he reads the text aloud. (1791, 18 September) **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 25 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_267 ### Event 812 (9C8597D8) **Date:** 11/12/1791 **Location:** Gottingen, Germany **Description:** Astronomer Lichtenberg reports a solitary sighting of an object passing in front of the Sun, observed from his location. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_364 --- ## Year: 1792, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 813 (D12A2C9F) **Date:** 1792 **Location:** INDE, Seringapatam **Description:** (Translated from French) The British were greatly impressed by the rocket army during the siege of Seringapatam in the southern part of INDIA. "A single rocket killed three men and wounded four" reported Colonel Gerrard of the British Indian Army. **Reference:** "Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" Hans Kaiser, Ed. Amiot - Dumont 1954, p. 13 **Reference:** "Assault on Space" Georges H. Gallet, Ed. de la Pensée Moderne, p. 22 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_268 --- ## Year: 1793, 6 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 814 (E0758582) **Date:** 1/9/1793 **Location:** USA, PHILADELPHIA **Description:** (Translated from French) Blanchard makes the first air travel in the United States. He travels from Philadelphia to Gloucester County (New Jersey) in 46 minutes. He carries a letter from George Washington. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 25 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_269 ### Event 815 (FDA14BC3) **Date:** 1/19/1793 **Location:** England **Description:** An unidentified, lengthy opaque object was witnessed by multiple observers, stationed immobile at the center of the sun. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_365 ### Event 816 (CF587396) **Date:** 6/6/1793 **Location:** USA **Description:** (Translated from French) First parachute drop in the United States: Blanchard experiments with his parachute and releases a dog, a cat, then a squirrel. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 25 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_270 ### Event 817 (8793227A) **Date:** 11/27/1793 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Above Bucharest \(Romania\) the city is shaken by 3 earthquakes. A witness recounts that, while he was dining with his friend Constandin Poenaru in Floresti the following evening, the [Moon](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Moon.html) performed a miracle - it made a journey across the sky in half an hour. (November 27) **Reference:** *Biblioteca romänesc* 2150, f. 111v. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1793.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_110 ### Event 818 (8F2F0A80) **Date:** 11/27/1793 **Time:** ~19:30 **Location:** FLORESTI, ROM **Description:** Earthquake. Next day 'moon' east going west / 30 minute(s) across sky and stops! / LDLN#119. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HOBANA Ion & WEVERBERGH,Julien: UFO'S from BEHIND the IRON CURTAIN; Bantam Books,1975. 308pp. (Index 222) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_63 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Romania", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "FLORESTI,ROM:EARTHQUAKE:NEXT DAY 'MOON' E>W/30min ACRS SKY +STOPS!:/LDLN#119", **LatLong:** "45.100002 23.850001", **LatLongDMS:** "45:06:00 N 23:51:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.100002,23.850001)", **State/Prov:** "Bucharest", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 819 (7EA093B2) **Date:** 12/28/1793 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** Bucharest, Romania **Description:** During the evening at approximately 7:30 P.M., a diner in Bucharest noted an enigmatic occurrence where it appeared as though the moon had performed a miraculous feat, traversing the sky in just half an hour. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_366 --- ## Year: 1794, 4 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 820 (F2E02665) **Date:** 6/2/1794 **Location:** FRANCE, MAUBEUGE **Description:** (Translated from French) A balloon is used, for the first time, for military observation. The first official one will be on June 26. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 26 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_271 ### Event 821 (EA685C18) **Date:** 6/26/1794 **Location:** BELGIUM, FLEURUS **Description:** (Translated from French) (8 Messidor an II) The balloon "L'Entreprenant" piloted by Captain Coutelle (French, appointed on April 2nd) monitored the battlefield during the Battle of Fleurus. It stayed in the air for 10 hours, transmitting numerous messages to the ground. General Jourdan took a seat in the balloon in order to make a direct observation of the battle. The balloon had been brought inflated from Maubeuge to Fleurus (approximately 60 km). **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout Université 1967, p. 26 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_272 ### Event 822 (4AF5151A) **Date:** 8/20/1794 **Time:** 19:45 **Location:** Balasore, India **Description:** At 7:45 P.M., a group of observers witnessed an unusually large meteor, outshining even the planets in brightness. As it descended, it periodically halted, becoming even more brilliant during these pauses. The meteor disappeared momentarily behind hills but reappeared after around two minutes, ascending above the hills and swaying horizontally between North and South directions. This pattern of rising and falling occurred two more times before the object eventually vanished, leaving the surroundings in darkness. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_367 ### Event 823 (01685E5D) **Date:** 8/24/1794 **Location:** PORTUGAL, LISBON **Description:** (Translated from French) Italian Lunardi makes the first ascent in Portugal at Lisbon. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 26 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_273 --- ## Year: 1795, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 824 (414C760A) **Date:** 1/27/1795 **Location:** CHINA **Description:** (Translated from French) ... in the sky of the southeast a big star of the size of a bushel suddenly emerged. Sparkling it descended and rose up to descend and rise three times in a row. Another star repeated the same movement and finally fell before crashing in a village. (1795, 27 January) **Reference:** SHI BO: "China and the Extraterrestrials" ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p.44 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_274 ### Event 825 (52E6411E) **Date:** 1/27/1795 **Location:** Quangxi Province, Linggui area, China **Description:** In the Southeastern sky, a sizable luminous object resembling a star was observed rising and falling three times. Subsequently, another similar object descended and crashed into a village. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_368 ### Event 826 (FD18A877) **Date:** 11/18/1795 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** DERBY, ENGL **Description:** Many observer(s). Fireball bounces going up and down. Odd clouds. Sonic booms. No further details. / Periodicals. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** AWARENESS (Quarterly) CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK: listed by year. (Index 77) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_64 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "67", **HatchDesc:** "DERBY,ENGL:MANY OBS:FBL BOUNCES ↑+↓:ODD CLOUDS:SONIC BOOMS:NFD:/Periodicals", **LatLong:** "52.938891 -1.466667", **LatLongDMS:** "52:56:20 N 01:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.938891,-1.466667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" --- ## Year: 1796, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 827 (D5390D05) **Date:** 1796 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN **Description:** (Translated from French) Englishman George Cayley repeats the experience of the French Lannoy and Bienvenu (helicopter). **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 26 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_275 ### Event 828 (2B74A206) **Date:** 10/1796 (approximate) **Time:** ~07:00 **Location:** NEW MINAS, NS **Description:** 3 observer(s). 15 airships going quickly east. Man seen / front end / 1 ship. / r54p18. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LEDGER, Don: MARITIME UFO FILES: 1998 Nimbus Publ. Ltd. Halifax, NS. ISBN 1-55109-269-7 162pp. trade paper. (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_65 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "NEW MINAS,NS:3 OBS:15 AIRSHIPS >>E:MAN SEEN/FRONT END/1 SHIP:/r54p18", **LatLong:** "45.072224 -64.472225", **LatLongDMS:** "45:04:20 N 64:28:20 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.072224,-64.472225)", **State/Prov:** "Nova Scotia", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 829 (95EC2F66) **Date:** 10/12/1796 **Location:** New Minas, Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia **Description:** Fifteen airborne "ships" moving eastward, each featuring ports on their sides, were observed in the sky. On one of the ships, a man was seen extending his hand. The event was documented by Simeon Perkins in his five-volume diary. A girl at Mr. Ratchford's residence in New Minas reported the sighting around sunrise, prompting two men to verify the phenomenon. Despite skepticism, some individuals believed the account, while Perkins speculated that the sighting might have been a product of imagination, potentially due to clouds at sunrise. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_369 --- ## Year: 1797, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 830 (268CFFC5) **Date:** 1797 **Location:** FRANCE **Description:** (Translated from French) The aeronaut Testu Brissy made an ascent on a horse placed as a nacelle under a balloon. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 27 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_276 ### Event 831 (3E389661) **Date:** 10/22/1797 **Location:** FRANCE **Description:** (Translated from French) (1 Brumaire an VI) Frenchman Garnerin makes a parachute jump from a balloon at an altitude of 1000 meters. This is the first successful parachute jump by a man. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 26 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_277 --- ## Year: 1798, 5 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 832 (B25D36E7) **Date:** 1/18/1798 **Location:** Tarbes, France **Description:** Astronomer D'Angos witnessed an astronomical anomaly, describing a distinct elliptical spot moving across the Sun's surface. The anomaly, positioned midway between the Sun's center and its edge, was observed for approximately 25 minutes before disappearing from view. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_370 ### Event 833 (3C00764A) **Date:** 9/10/1798 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Alnwick (Northumberland) **Description:** (Translated from French) At around 8:40 pm an object resembling an apothecary's pestle suddenly emerged from a cloud. One of the witnesses added that it seemed to branch out and then split into two half-moons with rays of light. This strange object disappeared after 5 minutes of observation. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "The Chronicle of UFOs" - Delarge 1977 p.118 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_278 ### Event 834 (245868CA) **Date:** 9/10/1798 **Time:** 22:40 **Location:** ALNWICK, NORTH ENGLAND **Description:** Cylinder/cylindrical object jumps from cloud. Splits going [to] 2 saucers with luminous rays. Vanishes / 5 minute(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** INFORESPACE Journal. SOBEPS Group, Belgium; bimonthly (Index 28) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_66 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "61", **HatchDesc:** "ALNWICK,N.ENGLAND:CYL.JUMPS FROM CLOUD:SPLITS>2 SCRS W/LUM.RAYS:VANISHES/5min", **LatLong:** "55.077780 -1.716667", **LatLongDMS:** "55:04:40 N 01:43:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/55.077780,-1.716667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 835 (5DC22480) **Date:** 9/10/1798 **Location:** Alnwick, Northumberland, England **Description:** Before midnight. Schoolmaster Alexander Campbell and one other person observe a “remarkable comet, or meteor” at Alnwick, Northumberland, England. It rapidly increases in brightness, changing from a star-like object to a shape like “two half-moons, back to back, having a short luminous stream between the two backs” over the course of 5 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Annual Register 1798, [p. 83](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433006400042&view=1up&seq=345&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_24 ### Event 836 (F08E379E) **Date:** 9/10/1798 **Location:** Alnwick, Northumberland, England **Description:** Schoolteacher Alexander Campbell and a companion reported a remarkable UFO sighting. Initially appearing as a small star in the southwestern sky, the object transformed as it approached, eventually resembling an apothecary's pestle. It shifted shapes multiple times, becoming a hammer or cross, and then forming into two back-to-back half moons with a luminous stream between them. The object grew increasingly bright with each transformation, outshining surrounding stars. The sighting lasted about five minutes before the UFO vanished from view. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_371 --- ## Year: 1799, 5 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 837 (91247417) **Date:** 1799 **Location:** GRANDE BRETAGNE **Description:** (Translated from French) William Congreve, aged 29, set out to study war rockets in depth. With the help of his father, Lieutenant General Sir William Congreve, who was in charge of the Royal Laboratory of Woolwich, he was very successful. Soon Congreve produced rockets with a range of about 2000 meters which were tested successfully in front of the Prince Regent, the Prime Minister and the Lords of the Admiralty. **Reference:** "A l'Assaut de l'Espace" Georges H. Gallet, éd. de la Pensée Moderne, p. 22 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_279 ### Event 838 (5F17D608) **Date:** 7/1799 **Location:** BRUGES, BELGIUM **Description:** Unusual meteor goes south. Returns going quickly north. Then makes 45° turn going quickly northwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The UFO REGISTER. CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK. (annual sightings catalog.) (Index 77) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_67 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "BRUGES,BELGIUM:UNUSUAL METEOR GOES S:RETURNS >> N:THEN MAKES 45° TURN>>NW", **LatLong:** "51.200002 3.200000", **LatLongDMS:** "51:12:00 N 03:12:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.200002,3.200000)", **State/Prov:** "Belgium", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 839 (D0BA5BB8) **Date:** 7/1799 **Location:** Bruges, Belgium **Description:** An anomalous event occurred involving an object initially perceived as a meteor. This object, however, exhibited extraordinary behavior, deviating from typical meteoric paths. It moved from south to north, then unexpectedly shifted course at a 45-degree angle to the northwest. The unconventional maneuvering of the object ruled out the possibility of it being a natural celestial body like a meteor, raising questions about its true nature and origin. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_372 ### Event 840 (7F382CD0) **Date:** 11/12/1799 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Hereford **Description:** (Translated from French) A large red pillar flew over Hereford from north to south. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "The Chronicle of UFOs" - Delarge 1977 p.118 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_280 ### Event 841 (C7B49304) **Date:** 11/13/1799 **Location:** Gerona, Catalonia, Spain **Description:** Numerous brilliant "shooting stars" cluster and then separate in an anomalous display of maneuvering stars. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_373 --- ## Year: 1800, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 842 (32481B28) **Date:** 1800's **Description:** Significant sightings **Type:** ufo sightings **Reference:** [Charles Fort](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fort) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_5 ### Event 843 (873B40F1) **Date:** 3/20/1800 **Location:** Quedlinburg, Germany **Description:** Preacher and amateur astronomer Fritsch observes an unidentified object swiftly traversing the sun's disk. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_374 ### Event 844 (532BEF75) **Date:** 4/5/1800 **Location:** USA, Louisiana, Baton Rouge **Description:** (Translated from French) A shining body of about thirty meters remained suspended above the city before disappearing with a huge noise. **Reference:** Yves Naud: "The E.T. and the UFOs in History" Famot 1977, Volume 2, p. 197 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_281 --- ## Year: 1801, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 845 (AC745170) **Date:** 6/19/1801 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Hull **Description:** (Translated from French) A luminous sphere the size of a full Moon, crossed by a dark bar, broke up into five bright bodies. (1801, night of June 19th to 20th) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 123 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_282 ### Event 846 (366A8F24) **Date:** 9/30/1801 **Location:** London, England **Description:** At around five to six in the morning, a remarkably bright cross-shaped object is sighted in the Eastern sky. Two smaller star-like objects accompany it, one shining brightly to the left and the other faintly below, all moving swiftly towards the South. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_375 --- ## Year: 1802, 5 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 847 (6EB3B46E) **Date:** 1802 **Location:** PARIS, Champ de Mars **Description:** (Translated from French) Claude Ruggieri launched rockets carrying rats or mice as passengers. these devices were equipped with parachutes that brought their occupants back to the ground, in principle unharmed, at the end of their rocket flight. **Reference:** "A l'Assaut de l'Espace" Georges H. Gallet, éd. de la Pensée Moderne, p. 50 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_285 ### Event 848 (1737AA25) **Date:** 2/7/1802 **Location:** Quedlinburg, Germany **Description:** Amateur astronomer Fritsch records the passage of an unidentified dark celestial body with swift independent motion across the Sun. The small spot moves from northwest to southeast, exhibiting acceleration during its traversal. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_376 ### Event 849 (B838E4CF) **Date:** 3/22/1802 **Location:** ITALY, Poniente **Description:** (Translated from French) In the afternoon of the 2nd Germinal of the year X, we saw a wonderful luminous phenomenon. The sky was very clear, especially in the direction of Poniente. At the moment when the Sun was approaching the horizon, on the diametrically opposite side, I then saw five or six beams of light. They were diverging from a hemisphere similar to a large globe, of which half was hidden by the horizon. This half-disk was the same color as the sky, as blue as it, but shone with more splendor (...) The sky became cloudy above Poniente and hid the view of the setting Sun. During this time the luminous phenomenon did not cease. As soon as the Sun had set, it began to diminish in intensity and finally disappeared. (March 22, 1802) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 123 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_283 ### Event 850 (8E5B2C4A) **Date:** 6/24/1802 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN **Description:** (Translated from French) First scientific balloon ascent (various measurements in the atmosphere) by Humboldt and Bompland; they reached an altitude of 5878 meters. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 26, 27 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_284 ### Event 851 (8D4F0C8C) **Date:** 10/10/1802 **Location:** Magdeburg, Germany **Description:** Astronomer Le Verrier reports an anomalous sighting by Fritsch, who observed an unknown dark object moving rapidly across the sun's disk. The object covered 2 minutes of arc in 3 minutes of time and disappeared after a cloudy interval of 4 hours. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_377 --- ## Year: 1803, 6 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 852 (5EF30A62) **Date:** 1803 **Location:** FRANCE, Ornans (Evilliers) **Description:** (Translated from French) Two luminous globes emitting rays of the sun, appeared above a tree to Pierre Mille, to his three daughters as well as to a basket maker of the country. **Reference:** Christiane PIENS: "Les Ovni du passé" - Marabout 1977 - p.84 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_286 ### Event 853 (805A6E7A) **Date:** 1803 **Location:** FRANCE **Description:** (Translated from French) Robertson and Lhoest aeronauts reach aboard the balloon "Entrepreneur" the altitude of 7,400 m. They suffer from lack of oxygen. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 27 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_287 ### Event 854 (0026F2C2) **Date:** 1803 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) After the [meteorite](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Meteore.html) shower of the Eagle \(Orne\), the Academy of Sciences delegates an investigation commission led by Jean-Baptiste Biot. This will lead the scientific community to admit the extraterrestrial origin \(coming from space to fall on [Earth](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Terre.html)\) of these stones. **Reference:** [Etienne 1998](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://www.sat-net.com/spnews/meteorites\_gen.html) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1803.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_111 ### Event 855 (DA42B921) **Date:** 2/22/1803 **Location:** NEAR TOKYO, JAPAN **Description:** 6M saucer-ship floats ashore. Young woman exits. Very white skin.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RANDLES, Jenny: ALIEN ABDUCTIONS - the Mystery Solved; Inner Light, NJ 1988. (Index 34) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_68 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "2", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "nr TOKYO,JAPAN:6M SCR-SHIP FLOATS ASHORE:YOUNG WOMAN EXITS:VERY WHITE SKIN..", **LatLong:** "35.500002 139.666673", **LatLongDMS:** "35:30:00 N 139:40:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.500002,139.666673)", **State/Prov:** "Honshu Island", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 856 (23E6F2B5) **Date:** 2/22/1803 **Alternate date:** 3/24/1803 **Location:** Hitachi province, Japan **Description:** An attractive young woman aged 18–20 years old arrives on a beach aboard a “hollow ship” \(Utsuro-bune\) that looks like a rice cooking pot or incense burner in Hitachi province, Japan. Fishermen bring her inland to investigate further, but the woman is unable to communicate in Japanese. She is dressed in a foreign fashion made of unknown fabrics and is clutching an ornate box also marked with the unknown script. The vessel is covered in hieroglyphs that no one can decipher. The fishermen return her and her vessel to the sea, where it drifts away. Accounts of the tale appear in three texts: Toen shōsetsu \(1825\), Hyōryū kishū \(1835\), and Ume-no-chiri \(1844\), but no official records mention it. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Utsuro-bune](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utsuro-bune)”; Kazuo Tanaka, “Did a Close Encounter of the Third Kind Occur on a Japanese Beach in 1803?” Skeptical Inquirer 24, no. 4 \(July/August 2000\): 37–60; Masaru Mori, “The Female Alien in a Hollow Vessel,” Fortean Times 48 \(Spring 1987\): 48–50; Junji Numakawa, “[On a UFO-Shaped Boat in 1803,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Japan/UFO%20Criticism%20%28Japan%2C%20English%20language%29/UFO%20Criticism%20by%20JN%20from%20Japan%20-%202001%2001%20-%20vol%201%20no%201.pdf)” UFO Criticism 1, no 1 \(January 2001\): 2–3; Tanaka Kazuo, [“‘Utsurobune’: A UFO Legend from Nineteenth-Century Japan,](https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-topics/g00879/)” nippon.com, June 26, 2020; Shoichi Kamon \[pseud. of Tanaka Kazuo\], The Mystery of Utsuro-bune: Ancient UFO Encounter in Japan? Flying Disk Press, 2019 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_25 ### Event 857 (CE73D439) **Date:** 8/15/1803 **Location:** Ormans near Evilliers, France **Description:** Pierre Mille and his three daughters, accompanied by a local craftsman, witness two luminous globes emitting sun-like rays hovering over an oak tree. This event takes place while the family is en route to church for the Feast of the Assumption. Upon investigation, a small statue of the Virgin Mary is found within the oak tree. Notably, the youngest daughter had previously observed the Virgin Mary accompanied by two floating lights at the same location during Easter, along the path between Maizieres and Ornans. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_378 --- ## Year: 1804, 4 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 858 (F5963134) **Date:** 1804 **Location:** Mays Landing, New Jersey **Description:** Summary: The famous American naval hero Stephen Decatur was said to have briefly skirmished with a bizarre creature known as the “Jersey Devil.” He was test firing a new cannon when the weird winged creature suddenly appeared overhead. Decatur reportedly fired a shot at the thing but missed, and it flew off. **Type:** creature sighting **Reference:** [_America’s Nightmare Monsters_, Phillip L Rife](https://www.amazon.com/Americas-Nightmare-Monsters-Philip-Rife/dp/0595194133) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_1013 ### Event 859 (C898FEE4) **Date:** 8/20/1804 **Location:** FRANCE **Description:** (Translated from French) Biot and Gay-Lussac conduct an ascent to measure the magnetic force; they do not exceed 3977 m. (August 20, 1804) **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 27 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_288 ### Event 860 (3D773F17) **Date:** 9/16/1804 **Location:** FRANCE **Description:** (Translated from French) Gay-Lussac makes a new ascent, during which he reaches an altitude of 7016 m. He brings back air samples collected at 6561 m and 6636 m. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 27 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_289 ### Event 861 (886158FB) **Date:** 12/16/1804 **Location:** FRANCE, PARIS **Description:** (Translated from French) (The 25th of Frimaire, Year xiii) On the order of Napoleon and on the occasion of the coronation of the Emperor, Garnerin launched a balloon from Paris, decorated with the Imperial Crown. Unmanned, at the mercy of the winds, the balloon headed towards Italy, flew over Rome and, on the way, grabbed the Tomb of Nero (!) leaving behind a part of its crown. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout Université 1967, p. 27 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_290 --- ## Year: 1805, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 862 (5C1BCCC0) **Date:** 1805 (approximate) **Location:** Koyuk, Alaska **Description:** Natives told of seeing a silver disc like object that sailed through the air and then landed. Apparently three human-looking “little men” emerged from the object, learned to communicate with the locals, and reportedly stayed in the village for a long time. **Type:** landing/interaction **Reference:** [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1800-usa-koyuk.htm#ar1) **Reference:** Mark Chorvinsky, Fate January 1990 **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_1012 --- ## Year: 1806, 5 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 863 (4D659854) **Date:** 1806 **Location:** FRANCE, Marseille **Description:** (Translated from French) There was a presentation as the climax of the show in certain fireworks, the launch of a simple device (...) to which an animal was attached. It must be believed that this material had been seriously improved, since the chronicle states of a launch of this kind in which a sheep would have reached a height of 200 m. **Reference:** "To the Conquest of Space" - Thomas de Galiana, ed. Larousse Poche, 1967, p. 53 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_292 ### Event 864 (F1A787A5) **Date:** 6/27/1806 **Location:** Geneva, New York, USA **Description:** Astronomer W. R. Brooks, using a two-inch telescope at 1:00 A.M., observes a long, dark object crossing the lunar disk from west to east. The object's swift passage, taking 3 to 4 seconds, rules out the possibility of it being a bird. Despite its relatively small apparent size, approximately one third that of the moon, the nature of the object remains unidentified. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_379 ### Event 865 (D3E84836) **Date:** 7/1806 **Location:** Maine **Description:** Reverend Abraham Cummings, a scholar with a Master's degree from Brown University, investigates a ghostly apparition after initial skepticism. He describes witnessing a white rock-like object in the evening, later transforming into a two-foot-diameter globe with a reddish tint. As he approached, the object quickly transformed into a female figure in attire, growing in size based on his thoughts. This entity, representing a deceased woman, appeared radiant with a sun-like depiction on her head, and Cummings documents over thirty witness affidavits affirming similar encounters. The apparition consistently emerged from a small luminous cloud, taking on the woman's form before departing in a similar manner. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_380 ### Event 866 (01B561B1) **Date:** 8/7/1806 **Location:** Rutherford, North Carolina **Description:** Patsey Reaves, residing near the Appalachian Mountain, reports a remarkable sighting involving her daughter Elizabeth and son Morgan. Elizabeth initially sees a man on Chimney Mountain, followed by Morgan observing a multitude of flying things in the air. More witnesses, including Polly and a Negro woman, join in, and Mrs. Reaves herself sees a vast crowd of white-clad beings resembling humans of various sizes. These beings rise off the mountain, moving towards Chimney Rock in a northern direction. The spectacle continues for about an hour, witnessed by many, including Mr. Robert Siercy, who initially doubts the strangeness but later perceives the radiant entities moving in groups and forming a semi-circular pattern before gradually disappearing from sight, leaving an indelible impression. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_381 ### Event 867 (3A7B23B0) **Date:** 10/8/1806 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN **Description:** (Translated from French) In the evening of October 8, ten small vessels (boats) participated. 200 rockets were launched in salves in half an hour, with a range of 800 meters. Many fires were lit in the city but, quickly extinguished, had little military consequences. Indeed, Nelson's victory at Trafalgar over the Spanish and French naval forces had given England control of the sea. (...) The english had considered the use of rockets sufficiently conclusive. See 1807, Copenhagen. **Reference:** "Assault on Space" Georges H. Gallet, ed. of Modern Thought, p. 23 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_291 --- ## Year: 1807, 4 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 868 (0F5FE2DE) **Date:** 1807 **Location:** DENMARK, Copenhagen **Description:** (Translated from French) The English made a terrifying demonstration in Copenhagen. The ships of the English squadron launched 25,000 to 40,000 rockets. The city, set on fire, was almost entirely razed. **Reference:** "Assault on Space" Georges H. Gallet, ed. of Modern Thought, p. 23 **Reference:** see 1912 London **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_293 ### Event 869 (BDE552C3) **Date:** 1807 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Cornwall Coast **Description:** (Translated from French) Signal rockets, whose head contains a small parachute whose deployment is triggered at the top of their course at the same time as an illuminating charge is ignited before slowly descending, maybe white, red or green or a succession of these three colors in 27 possible combinations. In broad daylight this illuminating charge is replaced by a smoke pot leaving a black trace in the sky. These signals remained visible for a long time from very far away. (...) The first tests seem to have been made in England by a Captain Henry Trenrouse on the coasts of Cornwall where frequent shipwrecks occurred. **Reference:** "A l'Assaut de l'Espace" Georges H. Gallet, éd. de la Pensée Moderne, p. 31 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_295 ### Event 870 (AFF612B1) **Date:** 12/22/1807 **Time:** evening **Location:** Middleton Cheney **Description:** An object was sighted that had an appearance and performance beyond the capability of known earthly aircraft. One object was observed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Contact U.K. **Reference:** [ThinkAboutIt](https://www.thinkaboutitdocs.com/1800-1824-ufo-alien-sightings/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_1014 ### Event 871 (D28B602D) **Date:** 12/22/1807 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Middleton Cheney (Northans) **Description:** (Translated from French) The town was overflown by an object shaped like a rocket moving at an altitude of about thirty meters. The UFO flew horizontally from northeast to southwest, like a bird and disappeared before reaching a hill. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 124 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_294 --- ## Year: 1808, 8 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 872 (077DA226) **Date:** 4/18/1808 **Location:** ITALY, Torre Pelice **Description:** (Translated from French) A certain Simondi, secretary of the justice of the peace of this village, was awakened by a loud buzzing. That is when he saw a bright disc rise from the ground at great speed. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 124 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_296 ### Event 873 (F306760F) **Date:** 5/16/1808 **Location:** SWEDEN, Skeninge **Description:** (Translated from French) Mr. Acharius observed at 4 o'clock an extraordinary phenomenon. The sun became brick red. At the same time, a large number of dark brown, round bodies, of the apparent size of a hat brim, appeared from the western horizon and passed through the sky, disappearing towards the east. This fantastic procession lasted nearly two hours. Sometimes one of the bodies fell to the ground. Instead of a fall, a film was found which dried up immediately and disappeared. Often, when approaching the sun, these bodies seemed to come closer together in groups of no more than eight units, and then tails of 5 to 8 m in length were seen. When away from the sun, their tails became invisible again. Their substance was described as soapy and gelatinous. (May 16, 1808) **Reference:** Charles FORT: "The Book of the Damned" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 221, 222 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_297 ### Event 874 (18B819ED) **Date:** 5/16/1808 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** SKANNINGE, SWEDEN **Description:** Sky turns red. Brown hat-crown size objects pass overhead going quickly east. / Charles Fort. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_69 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "SKANNINGE,SWEDEN:SKY TURNS RED:BROWN HAT-CROWN SIZE OBJS PASS OVHD>>E:/C.FORT", **LatLong:** "58.394447 15.077778", **LatLongDMS:** "58:23:40 N 15:04:40 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/58.394447,15.077778)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 875 (CC999384) **Date:** 5/16/1808 **Locations:** Biskopsberga; Skänninge; Sweden **Description:** 4:00 p.m. Swedish lichenologist [Erik Acharius](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik%5FAcharius) watches a stream of dark-brown spherical objects moving slowly through the sky in a straight line over Biskopsberga, near Skänninge, Sweden. Some hover temporarily and speed up, while others fall to earth. The objects appear in the western sky and stream to the east for 2 hours. Some are apparently linked together in groups of three, six, or eight, and all of them have some kind of trail. A few of them fall in the vicinity of K. G. Wettermark, who has also been observing. They resemble soap bubbles and dissipate quickly, leaving a film like cobweb. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Erik Acharius, “[Besynnerligt Meteor-Phenomén,](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/180275%23page/221/mode/1up)” Konglige Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handligar, ser. 2, vol. 29 \(July/September 1808\): 215–218; “[Account of an](https://www.google.com/books/edition/The%5FNorth%5FAmerican%5FReview%5Fand%5FMiscellane/3oxeorbYDO0C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Account%2Bof%2Ban%2BExtraordinary%2BMeteoric%2BPhenomenon%E2%80%9D%2BNorth%2BAmerican%2BReview&pg=PA320&printsec=frontcover) [Extraordinary Meteoric Phenomenon,](https://www.google.com/books/edition/The%5FNorth%5FAmerican%5FReview%5Fand%5FMiscellane/3oxeorbYDO0C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Account%2Bof%2Ban%2BExtraordinary%2BMeteoric%2BPhenomenon%E2%80%9D%2BNorth%2BAmerican%2BReview&pg=PA320&printsec=frontcover)” North American Review 3 \(1816\): 320–322; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 18–29 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_26 ### Event 876 (07F23A97) **Date:** 7/22/1808 **Location:** Maine, USA **Description:** School teacher Cynthia Everett's diary entry records an unusual sighting of light originating from the East. Initially mistaken for a meteor due to its motion, the light's behavior distinguishes it from such phenomena. It swiftly darts through the atmosphere, transitioning between ascending and descending while maintaining a consistent distance from the ground. The light moves in a circular pattern across the visible horizon and eventually retraces its path. Dr. Ranlett, a historian, highlights the significance that despite Cynthia Everett's education and familiarity with celestial occurrences, she refrains from attributing this sighting to a natural phenomenon, suggesting its exceptional nature. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_382 ### Event 877 (0FBF1F39) **Date:** 9/1/1808 **Location:** Moscow, Russia **Description:** A radiant "plate" was observed flying over the Kremlin by Alexander Afanasyev, a member of the Russian State History Museum. The event took place at 8:07 after noon in a clear, star-studded sky. The phenomenon, characterized by its exceptional beauty, radiance, and immense size, soared in an arch from 55 to almost 90 degrees on the horizon. The object, resembling a long, flat plate around 6.35 meters in length and 0.35 meters thick, displayed an oval flame on its front edge, emitting a phosphorescent-like radiance. The flame dissipated, leaving a brightly illuminated plate that ascended vertically among the stars, remaining visible for about two minutes before becoming invisible due to its extreme altitude. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_383 ### Event 878 (E3F67BD0) **Date:** 10/12/1808 **Location:** ITALY, Naples **Description:** (Translated from French) A phosphorescent dome appears above Naples (Yves Naud: "Les E.T. et les OVNI dans l'histoire" Famot 1977, Volume 2, p. 197) Luminous discs fly over Pinerolo. At the same time, strange lights and noises are reported in the sky of the Swiss Alps and the Tower of Auvergne (Puy-de-Dôme). **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 124 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_298 ### Event 879 (C31296FD) **Date:** 11/12/1808 **Location:** AUSTRIA **Description:** (Translated from French) The aeronaut Degen succeeds in making certain corrections to the flight of a balloon, and in directing it in some way. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout Université 1967, p. 27 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_299 --- ## Year: 1809, 5 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 880 (0B054E70) **Date:** 1809 **Location:** NETHERLANDS, Flessingue **Description:** (Translated from French) The British artillery fired rockets at Flessingue. **Reference:** "The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 14 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_300 ### Event 881 (6CC38391) **Date:** 8/10/1809 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Hatton Garden (London) **Description:** (Translated from French) Observation by Sir John Staveley: "I saw many meteors near the corner of a black cloud from which lights were coming out. They were like dazzling spots of light dancing and passing through the cloud. One of them increased in size until it reached the brightness and size of Venus on a clear evening. But I could not see any body in the light. It moved with great speed and bordered the corner of the cloud. Then it became stationary, lost its brilliance and disappeared. I saw these strange lights for minutes, not seconds. For nearly an hour these glimmers, as strange as it was and in countless points, came out and went back into this dark cloud. No light came from the clouds where these glimmers were playing. At the moment when these meteors increased in size, it seemed as if they were descending towards the ground.." **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 125 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_301 ### Event 882 (5599CA57) **Date:** 8/10/1809 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The *Journal of Natural History and Philosophy and Chemistry* describes the observation of an object of artificial appearance evolving in space. (August 10) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1809.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_112 ### Event 883 (1D961CE2) **Date:** 8/10/1809 **Location:** LONDON **Description:** Scientist Staveley. Many night lights maneuver / dark cloud cover. No further details. / r2p14. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 403) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_70 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "LONDON:SCIENTIST STAVELEY:MANY NLTS MNVR/DARK CLOUD COVER:NFD:/r2p14", **LatLong:** "51.516669 -0.083333", **LatLongDMS:** "51:31:00 N 00:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.516669,-0.083333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 884 (AE6DB093) **Date:** 8/10/1809 **Location:** Hatton Garden, London, England **Description:** John Staveley recounts observing a remarkable event where he witnessed a mesmerizing display of luminous lights within a black cloud resembling an aerial ballet. The lights, resembling sparkling specks, danced around the cloud's edge, with one light even expanding to the size and brilliance of Venus. This light moved rapidly along the cloud before fading away. Staveley continued to watch for over three hours, during which the lights multiplied and descended in various sizes, all while no lightning was associated with the active cloud. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_384 --- ## Year: 1810, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 885 (301EC574) **Date:** 8/1810 **Location:** Meklong, Thailand **Description:** Dr. Jacob Hazlitt, a missionary and physician, reported an anomalous sighting of a silver-clad humanoid along a road near Meklong. The entity, described as having gleaming skin and a single eye, caught his attention. Writer Ahmad Jamaludin further discussed abduction cases in Malaysia and Indonesia involving beings from a coexisting world. Abductees claimed to be transported to a reality beyond ours, experiencing side effects akin to UFO abductees, including amnesia, thirst, fatigue, and emotional distress. These beings, referred to as the Bunian People, dressed similarly to locals, though the origin of the term "Bunian" remains unclear. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_385 ### Event 886 (102E4CC0) **Date:** 9/1810 **Location:** Thailand **Description:** A woman reported an unsettling experience where she was awoken by an unknown force in the middle of the night. Strangely, the usual sounds of animals were absent. Peering out her window, she witnessed a peculiar humanoid figure in her backyard. The entity, characterized by its singular eye and metallic suit-like appearance, caught her attention. The incident culminated with the woman asserting that she had been abducted to a place she referred to as a "palace of lights." **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_386 ### Event 887 (DEDDCAA2) **Date:** 9/19/1810 **Location:** Brezeau, Holland **Description:** A strange event unfolded in the Dutch village of Brezeau. According to the 36th volume of the Philosophical Magazine, witnesses observed a luminous meteor to the south between 5:00 PM and 6:00 PM. The meteor seemed to gather and consolidate for about a quarter of an hour, eventually transforming into a significant fireball that moved northward. This phenomenon caused fear among the villagers, who feared their houses would catch fire. The meteor was accompanied by dense fog and notably absorbed water while crossing a river, later releasing the water as rain. The duration of the event, lasting forty-five minutes before becoming a column of fire and ascending into the sky, adds to its mysterious nature. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_387 --- ## Year: 1811, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 888 (9CB27F2F) **Date:** 1811 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A resident of Block Island Sound described in a letter the phenomenon of phosphorescence to Pastor Samuel T. Livermore: The light is sometimes seen 800 m from the shore and it is strong enough to illuminate the inside of a room through the windows. Livermore will mention it in his book entitled *A History of Block Island*. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1811.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_113 ### Event 889 (22066F44) **Date:** 5/11/1811 (approximate) **Location:** SWITZERLAND, Geneva - FRANCE, Paris **Description:** (Translated from French) At 8:35am, in the northwest, a light was seen preceded by a whistling sound. At first it was a snake of fire, then the shape changed, becoming a rectangle (horseshoe) and finally two lights at the ends of a curved line could be seen. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 125) On May 11th, 1811, at 8:35am, in Geneva, many people including members of the faculty of sciences, suddenly saw a flash of light in the northeast. This flash then took the shape of a horseshoe. It was advancing eastward and seemed to be twice as high as the mountains of the Jura. A witness who examined it through a telescope stated that this luminous line was composed of several separate parts. (May 11th (or 15th?), 1811) **Reference:** Les Soucoupes chez Heidi, cfr GREPI, Switzerland, 1997 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_302 ### Event 890 (AC80CEF9) **Date:** 11/7/1811 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** LONDON, ENG **Description:** T. Forster. Large meteor moves in sudden jumps. Enters cloud. Never exits. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** AWARENESS (Quarterly) CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK: listed by year. (Index 77) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_71 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "LONDON,ENG:T.FORSTER:LRG METEOR MOVES IN SUDDEN JUMPS:ENTERS CLOUD:NEVER EXITS", **LatLong:** "51.483336 -0.100000", **LatLongDMS:** "51:29:00 N 00:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.483336,-0.100000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" --- ## Year: 1812, 7 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 891 (3EA6ED77) **Date:** 1812 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN **Description:** (Translated from French) In response to the success of rockets, the British Army became interested in this new weapon. The first British field rocket brigade was created in 1812. After a year of training, it participated in the battle of Leipzig and all those that followed. **Reference:** "Assault on Space" Georges H. Gallet, ed. of Modern Thought, p. 23 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_303 ### Event 892 (0D952644) **Date:** 1812 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Stan Irinie from Sâcele-Brasov saw above the city of Bucovina \(...\) a large star with many rays appear and in the night it rose higher and flew towards the Russians; afterwards it returned to the West, where the rays extinguished. Thus the star revealed itself for 4 months. This was during the war between the Russians, the French and the Germans This could be a "mirror" of ejected explosives but is still interesting. (At noon) **Reference:** Biblioteca Academiei, "manuscris românesc" 1346 f:2V. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1812.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_114 ### Event 893 (4D275E32) **Date:** 3/20/1812 **Location:** FRANCE, between Manosque and Villeneuve d'Apert **Description:** (Translated from French) On the day of the earthquake in Marseille, accompanied by such frightening phenomena that the 7 passengers in the Digne carriage preferred to stop at the bad inn of the Quatre-Tours rather than come to sleep in Manosque. As the carriage approached, this luminous balloon that was hovering on the road split into 4 fires, and then the sight of the passengers became so blurred that they thought they saw four men dancing around them, each enclosed in a lantern. **Reference:** Pierre DELVAL: "Contacts of the 4th Type" - De Vecchi 1979, p. 204 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_304 ### Event 894 (D5BA52D8) **Date:** 3/20/1812 **Location:** Near Manosque, France **Description:** A group of seven travelers on the road from Villeneuve to Manosque witnessed an anomalous event. They observed a luminous ball hovering near their coach, which then divided into four distinct lights. These lights contained human-like figures and resembled lanterns. The travelers, frightened by this encounter, decided to halt their journey at the inn of Quatre Tours instead of continuing to Manosque. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_388 ### Event 895 (AA3455A1) **Date:** 4/1812 (approximate) **Time:** ~20:00 **Location:** NORTHEAST / MANOSQUE, FR **Description:** 7 observer(s). Luminous globe going [to] over road. 4 figure(s) with lights inside. Volcano active. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 313) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_72 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "NE/MANOSQUE,FR:7 OBS:LUMn.GLOBE >OVR ROAD:4 FIGs W/LITES INSIDE:volcano active", **LatLong:** "43.916669 5.916667", **LatLongDMS:** "43:55:00 N 05:55:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.916669,5.916667)", **RelAlt:** "3", **State/Prov:** "Alpes de Haute Provence", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 896 (1B32BD35) **Date:** 5/1/1812 **Time:** 09:00? **Location:** BARBADOS ISLAND **Description:** 2 large colored clouds hover / 12 hours. Other clouds move. Blasts. Big ash fall. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** AWARENESS (Quarterly) CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK: listed by year. (Index 76) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_73 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **HST:** Historical account, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Caribbean area", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "208", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "BARBADOS ISL:2 LRG CLRD CLOUDS HVR/12hrs:other clouds move:BLASTS:BIG ASH FALL", **LatLong:** "13.083334 -59.550003", **LatLongDMS:** "13:05:00 N 59:33:00 W", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/13.083334,-59.550003)", **State/Prov:** "BRB", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 897 (F5383A3E) **Date:** 6/10/1812 **Location:** FRANCE, PARIS **Description:** (Translated from French) The Austrian Degen makes his first flight experiment in Paris, but fails. His apparatus is a "glider" fixed to the body of the experimenter. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 27, 28 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_305 --- ## Year: 1813, 4 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 898 (DCF6C2A4) **Date:** 1813 **Location:** Germany, Wittenberg, Danzig, and Leipzig **Description:** (Translated from French) On the battlefield, the British are present with their rocket launcher detachment. **Reference:** "The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" - Hans K. Kaiser, Ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, P. 14 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_306 ### Event 899 (A0EEDCE6) **Date:** 3/22/1813 **Time:** 19:20 **Location:** LONDON AND AREA **Description:** Triangular 'meteor' hovers near cloud. Going west. Beams rays all over/all about. Glowing-orbs exit. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** AWARENESS (Quarterly) CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK: listed by year. (Index 76) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_74 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "LONDON+AREA:TRIANGULAR 'METEOR' HVRS nr CLOUD:>W:BEAMS RAYS ALLO:GLO-ORBS EXIT", **LatLong:** "51.516669 -0.116667", **LatLongDMS:** "51:31:00 N 00:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.516669,-0.116667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 900 (03EB97CF) **Date:** 4/8/1813 **Location:** Atlantic Ocean **Description:** The crew of the ship "Niagara," situated at approximately latitude 43 north and longitude 65 west, encountered a peculiar phenomenon. Initially appearing as an overturned ship, the crew soon realized the object was in motion. As they approached, it became evident that the object was a massive creature resembling a fish, with dimensions estimated at around 200 feet in length, 30 feet in width, and 17 to 18 feet in height. The creature's body was covered in a shell, featuring a notable hole or archway with an occasional fin. Despite intending to investigate further, the crew decided against it due to the intimidating nature of the creature. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_389 ### Event 901 (3946F34B) **Date:** 7/25/1813 **Location:** Portsmouth, Virginia, USA **Description:** Carpenter Edward Hansford penned a letter to Thomas Jefferson on July 31, 1813, detailing an extraordinary sighting. Alongside Baltimore resident John L. Clark, Hansford witnessed a luminous object resembling a ball of fire, comparable in size to the midday sun. This object emitted periodic smoke from its own body, all the while maintaining its radiant and distinct form, though with noticeable agitation. The object then transformed into the likeness of a turtle, displaying similar restlessness and being occasionally concealed by smoke. It descended diagonally towards the West and subsequently ascended vertically to its original position at around 75 degrees. Edward Hansford had previously been involved in Revolutionary War efforts and held positions related to harbor management in the Norfolk and Portsmouth regions. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_390 --- ## Year: 1814, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 902 (5AC2A7D5) **Date:** 1814 **Location:** Austria **Description:** (Translated from French) In Austria rocket battalions were formed that fired projectiles weighing 3 to 6 kilograms at a distance of 1100 meters. These batteries were successfully employed during the campaigns of 1848 and 1859 against Italy. **Reference:** "The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 15 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_307 ### Event 903 (7F2BC307) **Date:** 9/5/1814 **Time:** 11:00 **Location:** NORTHWEST / AGEN, FR **Description:** Small round cloud hovers / strong wind. Spins and shoots going quickly south. Stones fall. Fades. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** AWARENESS (Quarterly) CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK: listed by year. (Index 77) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_75 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "50", **HatchDesc:** "NW/AGEN,FR:SML ROUND CLOUD HVRS/STRONG WIND:SPINS+SHOOTS>>S:STONES FALL:FADES", **LatLong:** "44.333335 0.500000", **LatLongDMS:** "44:20:00 N 00:30:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.333335,0.500000)", **State/Prov:** "Lot-et-Garonne", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 904 (4B894506) **Date:** 9/5/1814 **Time:** 11:00 **Location:** Near Agen, France **Description:** At 11 A.M., amidst clear skies and a strong breeze, an unusual event occurred. A slowly moving, circular white object with a grayish center appeared in the northwest sky. Initially thought to be a "cloud," it defied the wind by becoming stationary until noon. Unexpectedly, the object then sped southward while rotating, accompanied by rumbling sounds that crescendoed into an explosion. This explosion led to the release of a shower of stones. Following this, the "cloud" resumed a halt, gradually diminishing until it disappeared. The explosion's impact and the ensuing panic reverberated throughout the region, causing distress among the local population. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_391 --- ## Year: 1815, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 905 (EE5DC9AC) **Date:** 1815 **Time:** morning **Location:** Ilkley Moor, England **Description:** William Butterfield a bath operator at the local White Wells natural springs was about to open the door to the spa and had inserted the keys in the lock when it spun around on its own accord. He looked inside and saw numerous little creatures dressed in green, no more than 18 inches high, making jabbering noises and dipping in the water, apparently taking a bath. Upon noticing the witness, the creatures began bounding over the walls, running madly, heads over heels. They were quickly lost from sight. **Type:** creature encounter **Reference:** _The Truth about UFO Abductions_, Peter Hough & Moyshe Kalman **Reference:** [ThinkAboutIt](http://www.thinkaboutitdocs.com/1815-little-creatures-spotted-in-ilkley-moor-england/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_1016 --- ## Year: 1816, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 906 (41017968) **Date:** 1816 **Location:** NORTH POLE **Description:** (Translated from French) Englishman Clarke, in his "Voyages", reported that he launched a hot air balloon at Enontekiö. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 28 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_309 ### Event 907 (A7064D42) **Date:** 1/15/1816 **Time:** twilight **Location:** Gallardon, Beauce, France **Description:** In the fields, 33-year-old ploughman Joseph Martin encountered a mysterious small-caped figure who instructed him to deliver a message to King Louis XVIII. Despite initial disbelief from his wife, Martin was later confronted by the figure again in his cellar, claiming to be "an Angel of God". Given Martin's reputable standing, the story reached higher authorities, and he met the King on April 2. The message remains secret, but the day after their meeting, King Louis XVIII abdicated and went into exile in England. **Type:** creature encounter **Reference:** Louis Pauwels, “Martin of Gallardon” **Reference:** [ThinkAboutIt](https://www.thinkaboutitdocs.com/1810-1824-ufo-alien-sightings/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_1015 ### Event 908 (7E5D1F2E) **Date:** 1/15/1816 **Location:** FRANCE, Gallardon (Beauce) **Description:** (Translated from French) Extract from the "Dictionary of Secret Societies in the West" under the direction of Louis Pauwels. "MARTIN de GALLARDON". Gallardon, in Beauce, is a village of 1800 inhabitants, three leagues to the west of Chartres. On January 15, 1816, at dusk, Thomas Martin, a thirty-three year old farmer, was spreading manure on his fields when he heard someone calling out to him. He turned around and saw nothing. He was very afraid; he was about to take up his pitchfork again when a second call became more insistent. This time he distinctly saw an unusual figure: a small being wearing a top hat and dressed in a light frock coat. The apparition commanded him: - Martin, my friend, you will go to the Tuileries, see King Louis XVIII and you will speak to him in my name... The apparition vanished into the night that was falling. Thomas had a wife and children. At dinner he told them about his adventure. His wife gently mocked him and recommended that he forget it. To fill a pitcher of cider he went down to the cellar and there he saw his "gentleman" again who insisted:

- Trust me, Martin, my friend. I am an angel of the Good Lord. And the angel formulated a very secret message, of the highest importance for the king. The next day, at dawn, Martin, a good parishioner, told his priest, Abbot Laperruque. The rector listened to him attentively, for Martin had an excellent reputation (...) Thus, on March 6, under the guidance of a gendarmerie lieutenant, Thomas Martin took the coach and arrived in Paris two days later. (...) Martin was taken to the Tuileries on April 2, and the king immediately granted him a private audience. The monarch and the farmer remained alone, absolutely alone, for almost an hour! A great favor, Louis XVIII escorted his humble visitor.

- This is the end of the reign of the present king. He has no other choice but to leave France. Neither he nor the Duke of Angoulême will return there, and Henri V will not be king. Naundorff will one day see his rights recognized, was Martin's comment. - M.M.Garçon: Vintras (Nourry 1928) - G. Lenôtre: Louis XVIII and the Enigma of the Temple (Perrin 1920) - Revue Flos Florum (very rare edition, Bordeaux, s.d.)

[note from vog: IN REALITY: the epilogue comes from the announcement on the radio and television on April 19, 2000. The DNA of the heart of the child (Louis 17) who died on June 8, 1795 is indeed the DNA of the son of Louis 16 and Marie-Antoinette (University of Louvain (Belgium) and another in Germany) and Naundorff from then on is only an impostor. The "dwarf" who would have contacted Martin de Gallardon is just as much... if he ever existed.] **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_308 --- ## Year: 1817, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 909 (CD84759C) **Date:** 9/25/1817 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** LANEJOIS, FR **Description:** 3 observer(s). Red-glowing disk disk going [to] near Roman ruins / 2-3 minute(s). / Journal de Lozere. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 326) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_76 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "LANEJOIS,FR:3 OBS:RED-GLO DISK DISK > nr ROMAN RUINS/2-3min:/JOURNAL de LOZERE", **LatLong:** "44.500002 3.577778", **LatLongDMS:** "44:30:00 N 03:34:40 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.500002,3.577778)", **State/Prov:** "Lozère", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 910 (007BDE67) **Date:** 9/25/1817 **Time:** 18:25 **Location:** Lanuejols, France **Description:** Around 6:25 P.M., three travelers who had recently visited a Roman monument near Lanuejols spotted an extraordinary sight. Positioned in the south-southeast direction, towards Villefort, they observed a luminous object with a reddish hue. This object took the form of a disk, measuring three to four times larger than the full Moon. After 2 or 3 minutes, the object vanished. The sky during this time was overcast and marked by a light drizzle. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_392 --- ## Year: 1818, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 911 (74A9AB62) **Date:** 1/6/1818 **Location:** Ipswich, England **Description:** Mr. Capel Lofft and Mr. Acton, English writers, observed an anomalous event where a small, uniformly opaque, subelliptical spot was sighted near the sun for three and a half hours. The object's rapid movement over the sun, faster than Venus during transit, caught their attention. By sunset, the object, seemingly of cometary or planetary nature, vanished. This well-documented sighting raises intrigue due to its unusual characteristics. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_393 ### Event 912 (F6DECBD3) **Date:** 8/3/1818 **Location:** Worthing, England **Description:** At 11:15 P.M., Mr. Thomas Young observed a remarkable event, describing a bright meteor near Cassiopeia. The object's trajectory began at a point 19 degrees from the pole at 65 degrees in right ascension, shifting to 17 degrees from the pole and 80 degrees in right ascension. Strangely, the object remained stationary for a full minute after its movement. This sighting of a motionless light in the sky adds an enigmatic aspect to the phenomenon. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_394 --- ## Year: 1819, 9 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 913 (F77AC332) **Date:** 6/13/1819 **Location:** FRANCE, Angoulême (Charente) **Description:** (Translated from French) On June 13th, at 6 o'clock in the morning, according to the Journal de la Charente of June 19th, 1819, "suddenly a meteor was seen in the atmosphere. It had the shape of a "rocket", its length seemed to be about 1200 toises and it inclined towards the earth. It threw an extremely bright light into the air. A toise is 1.95 meters, so 1200 toises is about 2340 meters! If a real meteor of this size had been seen, it would have been in our atmosphere, therefore too close to the ground to escape the terrestrial attraction. It would have fallen causing a formidable earthquake that would not have gone unnoticed! (June 13th, 1819) **Reference:** Jimmy GUIEU: "Les S.V. viennent d'un autre Monde" Fleuve Noir 1954 - Réédition Omnium Littéraire 1972 p. 235 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_310 ### Event 914 (DBFE7541) **Date:** 6/26/1819 **Location:** Buchholz, Germany **Description:** Astronomer J.W. Pastorff witnessed an intriguing event initially thought to be a "comet" in proximity to the Sun. However, Olbers raised doubts about its comet classification. On the same day, Gruithuisen, observing from Holland, reported the presence of three unidentified objects traversing the Sun's disk. These included one near the Sun's center and two smaller objects lacking nebulosity near the western limb. Notably, this observation, once documented in Reverend Webb's prominent astronomy handbooks, has been omitted from more recent editions, adding a layer of mystery to the account. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_395 ### Event 915 (8D0444E0) **Date:** 8/13/1819 **Location:** USA, Amherst (Massachusetts) **Description:** (Translated from French) Professor Dewey, communicating Professor Graves' report, recounts that at the sound of an explosion, a bright light spread over the town of Amherst, illuminating one of the walls of the room where he himself was with his family. The next day, in Professor Dewey's front yard, on the very spot from which the strange light seemed to come, a mysterious object covered with bright yellow down, like that found in drapery factories, was discovered. The down was pushed aside and a pulpy yellowish-fawn substance appeared, which, giving off a very nauseating smell, turned bright red upon contact with the air. It liquefied after a few minutes, becoming red blood (...) (August 13, 1819) **Reference:** Charles FORT: "The Book of the Damned" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 51, 52 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_311 ### Event 916 (80AD7966) **Date:** 8/13/1819 **Location:** Amherst, Massachusetts **Description:** 8:00–9:00 p.m. A brilliant white fireball streaks across the sky at Amherst, Massachusetts. The next morning, Erastus Dewey finds a strange substance 20 feet from his front door and assumes it is residue from the meteorite. It is about 8 inches in diameter, resembles an upside-down salad dish, and consists of buff-colored pulpy substance with an overwhelmingly bad smell. It is covered with a nap that, when removed, causes the interior to liquefy and form a starchy substance. A couple days later, it largely dissipates. Geologist [Edward](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FHitchcock) [Hitchcock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FHitchcock) thinks it is some kind of “gelatinous fungus” common to the area in the late summer. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Rufus Graves, “[Account of a Gelatinous Meteor,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000036673113&view=1up&seq=359&skin=2021)” American Journal of Science 2 \(1820\): 335–337; Edward Hitchcock, “[On the](https://www.google.com/books/edition/American%5FJournal%5Fof%5FScience/-yZGAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%E2%80%9COn%2Bthe%2BMeteors%2Bof%2BNov.%2B13%2C%2B1833%2C%E2%80%9D%2BAmerican%2BJournal%2Bof%2BScience%2B25&pg=PA354&printsec=frontcover) [Meteors of Nov. 13, 1833,](https://www.google.com/books/edition/American%5FJournal%5Fof%5FScience/-yZGAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%E2%80%9COn%2Bthe%2BMeteors%2Bof%2BNov.%2B13%2C%2B1833%2C%E2%80%9D%2BAmerican%2BJournal%2Bof%2BScience%2B25&pg=PA354&printsec=frontcover)” American Journal of Science 25 \(1834\): 354, 362–363 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_27 ### Event 917 (580CC291) **Date:** 10/9/1819 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) An unknown celestial body is reported to be traversing the solar disk. It is neither a comet, nor a [meteor](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Meteore.html) or a meteorite, and this star does not belong to any known, discernible category. (October 9) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1819.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_115 ### Event 918 (25260365) **Date:** 10/9/1819 **Location:** Augsburg, Germany **Description:** An anomalous sighting occurred as an immense celestial body transited the Sun. Mr. Stark, a canon from Augsburg, documented this event, later referenced by Le Verrier in February 1877's Monthly Notices of the R.A.S. The observation depicted a distinct circular anomaly, roughly akin in size to Mercury, though it vanished by the subsequent evening. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_396 ### Event 919 (4CF520AD) **Date:** 11/2/1819 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Red rain falls on a region of Holland. (November 2) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1819.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_116 ### Event 920 (66E46642) **Date:** 11/9/1819 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A black rain falls on [Canada](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/CA.html) during an earthquake. (November 9) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1819.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_117 ### Event 921 (D12F0E39) **Date:** 11/19/1819 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In [Canada](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/CA.html), there is suddenly an intense darkness in the middle of the day; celestial lights pass through the sky as a fall of black matter takes place simultaneously with seismic shocks. (November 19) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1819.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_118 --- ## Year: 1820, 11 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 922 (9D2E1DDE) **Date:** 1820 **Location:** USA, Massachusetts **Description:** (Translated from French) William Denton (...) claimed to have had contact with inhabitants of Venus. They traveled in a machine shaped like a saucer made of aluminum. They used a telepathic language to communicate with Denton. **Reference:** Jean FERGUSON: "Enigmes du temps présent" ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1979, p. 103 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_313 ### Event 923 (B8BCB1EA) **Date:** 1820 **Location:** Hopkinton, New Hampshire, USA **Description:** At dusk, a young man in the vicinity of "The Lookout" near Putney Hill (Gould Hill) was trailed for nearly two miles by multiple luminous spheres. The spheres mimicked his movements, halting when he turned to observe them, and then recommencing their motion when he continued walking. Despite this, they maintained a distance of around 50 feet and never approached any closer. Comparable radiant orbs had been observed in the area since 1750, drifting slowly through the air, suggesting a plausible natural origin. The specified date is an approximate approximation. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_397 ### Event 924 (976A8B86) **Date:** 2/12/1820 **Description:** 10:45 a.m. A German astronomer and cleric named Steinheibel watches a clearly defined dark orange-red spot traversing the disc of the Sun in about five hours. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Joseph Johann von Littrow, “[Further Note on the](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106014897588&view=1up&seq=286&skin=2021) [Supposed Observation of an Intra-Mercurial Planet on the 12th of February, 1820,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106014897588&view=1up&seq=286&skin=2021)” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 22 \(1862\): 276 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_28 ### Event 925 (B8D27A02) **Date:** 2/12/1820 **Location:** Augsburg, Germany **Description:** A distinct round area with an orange-gold hue, which was not witnessed again that night, was reported by two separate witnesses, Stark and Steinhubel. The spot traversed the sun over a span of approximately 5 hours, signifying a peculiar inter-solar journey. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_398 ### Event 926 (7532F880) **Date:** 5/27/1820 **Location:** Spello (Perugia), Umbria, Italy **Description:** During a sermon by Saint Caspar (San Gaspare Del Bufalo) in the town square, an extraordinary event unfolded. Roughly thirty minutes before sunset, observers witnessed the appearance of three stars forming a cross in the eastern sky. These stars moved in unison, creating a triangle with one light positioned above and the other two at lower levels. The celestial display occurred directly over the head of Saint Caspar, leaving the crowd and even Bishop Monsignor Lucchesi in a state of astonishment. However, skepticism surrounds the event as it fails to appear in Gaspar's published correspondence, despite existing letters from various dates in May 1820, including the 27th and 28th. This intriguing phenomenon remains subject to uncertainties about its authenticity. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_399 ### Event 927 (4AEF6BA1) **Date:** 9/7/1820 **Location:** FRANCE, Embrun (Hautes Alpes) **Description:** (Translated from French) A formation of discs flew over the town of Embrun during a lunar eclipse. These objects rotated 90° before disappearing. Report established by astronomer Arago. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 126) Strange uniform formations arrived in a straight line above Embrun, performed a rotating movement of 90° and moved away in perfect order. Charles de Maingot, a notable, wrote that the "vehicles" resembled bells. (September 7, 1820) **Reference:** Moustique n° 1508 of 19.12.1954, p. 17 article by Bert Brem **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_312 ### Event 928 (73BEEE7A) **Date:** 9/7/1820 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A flight of objects in the shape of saucers passes over the town of Embrun \(France\). Suddenly they change direction and, without disturbing their formation, make a 90° turn. This event is described in *Astronomy, Annals of Physics and Chemistry*. (7 September) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1820.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_119 ### Event 929 (9EDA097B) **Date:** 9/7/1820 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The body observed the previous year is reported near the [Earth](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Earth.html) and it is seen crossing the solar disk. Everything suggests that it is the same one. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1820.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_120 ### Event 930 (73F1AE09) **Date:** 9/7/1820 (approximate) **Time:** 20:00? **Location:** EMBRUN, FR **Description:** Many observer(s). Saucers maneuver / military precision during lunar eclipse. 90° turns etc. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLUNDELL, Nigel & BOAR, Roger: The WORLDS GREATEST UFO MYSTERIES; Octopus, London 1989 & PB/Berkley Books, NY 1990 (Index 85) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_77 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "EMBRUN,FR:MANY OBS:SCRS MNVR/MIL PRECISION during LUNAR ECLIPSE:90°TURNS etc", **LatLong:** "44.566669 6.500000", **LatLongDMS:** "44:34:00 N 06:30:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.566669,6.500000)", **State/Prov:** "Hautes Alpes", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 931 (C14826F3) **Date:** 9/7/1820 **Description:** At 8:00 p.m. many observers in Embrun, Hautes-Alpes, France watched flying saucers maneuver with military precision during a lunar eclipse, making 90 degree turns and other maneuvers, for five minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Charles Fort, Book of the Damned; Ray Palmer, Flying Saucers magazine, November 1973, p. 36; Desmond Leslie & George Adamski, Flying Saucers Have Landed, p. 24 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5706 ### Event 932 (8EB71EC9) **Date:** 9/7/1820 **Location:** Embrun, France **Description:** Astronomer François Arago, director of the Paris observatory, documents an anomalous sighting during a lunar eclipse. Witnesses in Embrun observed peculiar objects exhibiting precise military-like formation. These objects, noted for their equidistant spacing and ability to maintain formation even while changing directions, moved along straight trajectories. The event raises questions about unexplained aerial phenomena during the eclipse. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_400 --- ## Year: 1821, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 933 (3CC6FADB) **Date:** 2/13/1821 **Location:** Paris, France **Description:** After departing a theater, individuals witnessed a luminous globe suspended in the sky, remaining visible until dawn. The account, originating from a French source, highlights the persistence of superstitious beliefs within a seemingly enlightened society, according to a skeptical translator's note. The event underscores the prevalence of unexplained occurrences and their influence on public perceptions even in the face of enlightenment. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_401 ### Event 934 (062E1A7C) **Date:** 7/19/1821 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, LONDON **Description:** (Translated from French) Green in London used gas lighting for the first time to inflate a balloon. (July 19, 1821) **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 28 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_314 ### Event 935 (27B36560) **Date:** 12/16/1821 **Location:** ENGLAND, London **Description:** (Translated from French) A Londoner claims to have seen a "dome illuminated like the sun" moving for half an hour above his house. "The occupants of the craft were numerous: twelve, fifteen or twenty, I do not know exactly. Sparks like snake tongues were coming out of the craft. One of the occupants, who seemed taller than the others, saw me standing on the threshold of my house and made me a sign. I did not understand the meaning of this sign. What did he want to tell me?" [note of vog: he wanted to say: hello, we are in a balloon...] (December 16, 1821) **Reference:** Yves Naud: "The E.T. and the UFOs in History" Famot 1977, Volume 2, p. 201 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_315 --- ## Year: 1822, 4 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 936 (CCF07942) **Date:** 10/23/1822 **Location:** BERLIN, GERMANY **Description:** Date unknown. Astronomer Pastorff. 2 disks pass sun's face. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_78 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "BERLIN,GERMANY:DATE UNK:ASTRONOMER PASTORFF:2 DISKS PASS SUN'S FACE:NFD", **LatLong:** "52.533336 13.400001", **LatLongDMS:** "52:32:00 N 13:24:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.533336,13.400001)", **State/Prov:** "BRL", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 937 (89B84165) **Date:** 10/23/1822 **Description:** On this day in Berlin, Germany Astronomer Pastorff watched two disc pass in front of the face of the Sun. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case no. 81 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7032 ### Event 938 (A411BA1F) **Date:** 10/23/1822 **Location:** Buchholz, Germany **Description:** Astronomer Pastorff observes two round spots moving across the Sun in a sighting that deviates from the norm of the pre-industrial era. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_402 ### Event 939 (79A8649D) **Date:** 12/5/1822 **Location:** Aberdeen, Scotland **Description:** A peculiar meteorological event unfolds as an unusual luminous object resembling a large moon-sized ball is sighted descending towards the horizon. Transforming into a fiery pillar and then reverting to its initial spherical shape, the object displays an anomalous behavior before ultimately disappearing from view. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_403 --- ## Year: 1823, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 940 (FF2B5FA6) **Date:** 5/22/1823 **Location:** Hereford, England **Description:** Reverend T.W. Webb, a respected astronomer known for his work "Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes," reports the sighting of a luminous unidentified object in close proximity to Venus. This unexplained bright object garners attention due to its juxtaposition with the planet, intriguing both amateur and professional stargazers. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_404 ### Event 941 (9D3DF87B) **Date:** 8/7/1823 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** NOBLESVILLE, IN **Description:** 12M square cloud / clear sky. Spirals going down. Shots heard. Drops meteorite! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** AWARENESS (Quarterly) CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK: listed by year. (Index 77) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_79 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "242", **HatchDesc:** "NOBLESVILLE,IN:12M SQUARE CLOUD/CLR SKY:SPIRALS↓:SHOTS HEARD:DROPS METEORITE!", **LatLong:** "40.033335 -86.016671", **LatLongDMS:** "40:02:00 N 86:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.033335,-86.016671)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 942 (EAD2BB05) **Date:** 9/21/1823 **Location:** USA **Description:** (Translated from French) Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon Church, had his first celestial vision. **Reference:** Yves Naud: "The E.T. and UFOs in History" Famot 1977, Volume 2, pp. 198-200 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_316 --- ## Year: 1824, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 943 (CFD2771A) **Date:** 1824 **Locations:** Munich, Germany; Moon; Schröter crater **Description:** Bavarian astronomer [Franz von Gruithuisen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz%5Fvon%5FGruithuisen) of Munich, Germany, writes Discovery of Many Distinct Traces of Lunar Inhabitants, Especially of One of their Colossal Buildings, in which he announces his discovery of a city on the Moon in the rough terrain to the north of Schröter crater that he names the Wallwerk. This region contains a series of somewhat linear ridges that have a fishbone-like pattern, and, with the small refracting telescope he is using, can be perceived as resembling buildings complete with streets. His claims are readily refuted using more powerful instruments. Gruithuisen also thinks that the mysterious “ashen light” observed on Venus’s dark side is due to a festival of fire in honor of the “ascension of a new emperor to the throne of the planet.” Later, he speculates that the illumination is caused by burning jungles to create new farmland. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Gruithuisen’s Lunar City,](https://www.whatsupinthesky.com/index.php/forum/the-moon/1620-gruithuisen-s-lunar-city)” whatsupinthesky.com; David Dunér, “[Venusians: The Planet Venus in the 18th-Century Extraterrestrial Life](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013JAD....19..145D/abstract) [Debate,](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013JAD....19..145D/abstract)” Journal of Astronomical Data 19, no. 1 \(2013\): 162; Andrew May, “The Lost Ruins of the Moon,” Fortean Times 358 \(October 2017\): 56 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_29 ### Event 944 (744B5C95) **Date:** 2/11/1824 **Location:** DARK LIMB OF MOON **Description:** Light flashes intermittently / 30 minute(s). / observatory record. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LESLIE, Desmond & ADAMSKI,G: Flying Saucers Have Landed; British Book Center, NY 1956 (Index 126) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_80 **Attributes:** **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "The Moon", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "DARK LIMB of MOON:LIGHT FLASHES INTERMITTENTLY/30min:/OBSERVATORY RECORD", **LatLong:** "90.000004 -0.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "90:00:00 N 00:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/90.000004,-0.000000)", **State/Prov:** "Unknown", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 945 (61EAF593) **Date:** 10/20/1824 **Time:** 05:00 **Location:** DARK PART / MOON **Description:** Astronomer. Bright object 400X200 km. wide! Going quickly [to] Mt. Copernicus. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLAMMONDE, Paris: UFO EXIST!; Ballentine Books, NY 1976. PB 480pp. (Index 67) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_81 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "The Moon", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "DARK PART/MOON:ASTRONOMER:BRITE OBJ 400X200 km. WIDE!:>>MT COPERNICUS", **LatLong:** "90.000004 -0.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "90:00:00 N 00:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/90.000004,-0.000000)", **State/Prov:** "MCP", **Strangeness:** "6" --- ## Year: 1825, 4 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 946 (C0175E43) **Date:** 1825 **Description:** Ampère published his "Ampère’s law." **Type:** scientific advance **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Maxwell%27s_equations) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_6 ### Event 947 (B9BB9821) **Date:** 8/12/1825 **Location:** HAWAII - Honolulu **Description:** (Translated from French) Excerpt from UFO Investigator, the magazine of the National Investigation Committee on Aerial Phenomena, Washington. It informs us that in "The Diary of Andrew Boxam", published in 1925 by the Bernice P. Bishop Museum of Honolulu, the following passage can be found: "This morning at about 3:30 (August 12, 1825) the watch on deck was amazed to see that all around them was suddenly illuminated. Turning their eyes eastward, they saw a large, luminous, round body rising about 7 degrees from the water to the clouds, falling out of sight, and then rising and falling again. It was the color of a red-hot cannonball and seemed the size of the sun. It spread such a bright light that a pin could have been picked up from the deck." (August 12, 1825) **Reference:** Yvan T. SANDERSON: "The Invisibles Under the Seas" Albin Michel 1979 p. 42-43 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_317 ### Event 948 (1FAC6EBA) **Date:** 8/12/1825 **Time:** 03:30 **Location:** SEA NEAR HAWAII **Description:** A. Bloxam. Round glowing object rises / sea going up [to] clouds & descends twice. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SANDERSON, Ivan: INVISIBLE RESIDENTS; World Publishing HB 1970 & Avon Books PB 1973 (Index 29) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_82 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "SEA nr HAWAII:A.BLOXAM:RND GLOWING OBJ RISES/SEA ↑CLOUDS & DESCENDS TWICE:", **LatLong:** "21.333334 -158.000008", **LatLongDMS:** "21:20:00 N 158:00:00 W", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/21.333334,-158.000008)", **State/Prov:** "HWI", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 949 (8E3DCC5C) **Date:** 8/12/1825 **Location:** At sea near Hawaii, Pacific **Description:** English naturalist Andrew Bloxam and fellow observers witness a remarkable event where a large red luminous object emerges from the sea, casting a wide-reaching illumination. The object rises and falls twice, exhibiting a behavior that captivates the onboard middle watch crew. Its fiery red hue and intense brightness, akin to a red-hot cannonball, not only astonish the observers but also provide substantial lighting, allowing small details like a pin to be discerned on the deck. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_405 --- ## Year: 1826, 4 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 950 (DE016E7A) **Date:** 1826 **Location:** FRANCE, Migne-Auxances (Poitou) **Description:** (Translated from French) A luminous cross of 80 feet was seen by 3000 people, 200 of whom provided testimony. **Reference:** Christiane PIENS: "Les Ovni du passé" - Marabout 1977 - p.86 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_319 ### Event 951 (57F9E45B) **Date:** 4/1/1826 **Location:** FRANCE, Saarbrücken **Description:** (Translated from French) A grey object shaped like a torpedo approached the Earth at high speed. [vog note: see January 12, 1836, this is probably the event] (April 1, 1826) **Reference:** Desmond Leslie and George Adamski: "The S.V. Have Landed" - J'ai Lu 1971, p. 33 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_318 ### Event 952 (3FE90B18) **Date:** 4/1/1826 **Locations:** Rastpfuhl; Saarbrücken; Germany **Description:** 4:00 p.m. Stone mason Johannes Becker hears a noise resembling thunder at Rastpfuhl, northwest of Saarbrücken, Germany, and sees a grayish object “like two pieces of tin” approaching the earth with lightning speed and expanding itself like a sheet before falling to earth, apparently not far away. After one minute there is another sound like thunder and a strong whirlwind, as if coming from an impact. Pastor Köllner collects testimony from other nearby witnesses and visits the supposed landing site but finds no burn marks or meteoritic stones. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ernst Chladni, “[Über eine merkwürdige meteorische Erscheinung, am 1 April 1826, nicht weit von](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89048351621&view=1up&seq=399&skin=2021) [Saarbrücken,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89048351621&view=1up&seq=399&skin=2021)” Annalen der Physik und Chemie 7 \(1826\): 373–377; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 31–38 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_30 ### Event 953 (B0D1DAEC) **Date:** 4/1/1826 **Location:** Saarbrücken, Germany **Description:** A grayish object, estimated to be larger than 1 meter, descended swiftly toward the ground emitting a thunderous sound and then expanded, resembling a spreading sheet. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_406 --- ## Year: 1827, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 954 (01A085B9) **Date:** 1827 **Location:** FRANCE **Description:** (Translated from French) Englishman Bedford brought perfected rockets to France. (...) Captain Munier modified them by using a faster burning powder. They were used for the first time during the Kabylie campaign, in the battle of Staouelli. **Reference:** "To the Assault of Space" Georges H. Gallet, ed. of Modern Thought, p. 34 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_320 ### Event 955 (BF5EE3C8) **Date:** 1827 **Location:** Tietjerk, Friesland, Holland **Description:** Lieuwe Klaasens and a pastor witnessed a fireball descending and transforming into a fiery human figure upon landing, which subsequently flew back up into the sky. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_407 --- ## Year: 1828, 4 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 956 (31A81A96) **Date:** 3/1828 **Location:** Mount Wingen, Australia **Description:** An enigmatic flying object described as "cigar-shaped with a peculiar silver hue" landed on Mount Wingen, accompanied by a loud banging noise. The impact ignited vegetation and resulted in the death of cattle. Concurrently, tall unidentified individuals emerged in the town, gesturing towards their needs without speaking. The event led to speculations among the locals, linking it to unexplained disappearances of both people and domesticated animals. This unsettling occurrence remained ingrained in local memory, passed down through generations. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_408 ### Event 957 (3401DC13) **Date:** 5/28/1828 **Time:** 10:00? **Location:** NURNBERG, GERM **Description:** Kaspar Hauser age 17. Apparently raised / aliens. Amazing. see reference. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHELL, John: The FLYING SAUCER VISION; Ace-Star Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 66) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_83 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NFO:** No craft seen, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **MIB:** Men in Black, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **ABD:** Human or animal abduction, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "NURNBERG,GERM:KASPAR HAUSER AGE 17:APPARENTLY RAISED/ALIENS:amazing. see ref", **LatLong:** "49.466669 11.116667", **LatLongDMS:** "49:28:00 N 11:07:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.466669,11.116667)", **State/Prov:** "Bavaria", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 958 (E52026A2) **Date:** 10/1828 (approximate) **Location:** CASSADAGA SWAMP, NY **Description:** Man lost. Brilliant 12M square / light guides him back to road twice! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 140) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_84 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "50", **Elev:** "396", **HatchDesc:** "CASSADAGA SWAMP,NY:MAN LOST:BRILL.12M SQR/LITE GUIDES HIM BACK TO ROAD TWICE!", **LatLong:** "42.316669 -79.300004", **LatLongDMS:** "42:19:00 N 79:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Wetlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.316669,-79.300004)", **RelAlt:** "3", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 959 (86A7ED80) **Date:** 10/17/1828 **Location:** GERMANY, Memel **Description:** (Translated from French) More significant tests of the same kind of launch (of life-saving rockets) were undertaken in 1824 on the Isle of Wight by Captain Dennett. When later, on October 17, 1828, the Prussian Commander Stiehler had successfully conducted a test launch near Memel, the sea-rescue rocket was generally adopted. (October 17, 1828) **Reference:** "Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 17 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_321 --- ## Year: 1829, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 960 (B7625F9B) **Date:** 7/17/1829 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** Kensington, Pennsylvania, USA **Description:** Between 11 P.M. and midnight, an extraordinary event unfolded as a bright red object, akin to a meteor but with distinctive characteristics, emerged from the vicinity of the Schuylkill. Its journey spanned over Kensington and the Delaware River before vanishing behind Jersey's woods. Initially accompanied by a luminous trail, the object exhibited rapid, irregular, and wavering motions, reminiscent of a kite or an air balloon swaying. Radiating a deep red and remarkably brilliant hue, roughly half the size of the moon, it ascended until crossing the Delaware. Afterward, it diminished to a small speck, then suddenly expanded, emitting sparkles before dimming and ultimately disappearing behind the trees. This perplexing spectacle persisted for an estimated fifteen to twenty minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_409 ### Event 961 (AB804E71) **Date:** 8/20/1829 **Location:** York Road east of Leeds, England **Description:** 11:00 p.m. A man on the York Road east of Leeds, England, sees a moon-like object split into two halves, the upper half of which gives off an apparent shaft of light. He sees two human figures visible to the waist, one of which has a red cloth around its head. The object is visible for more than one hour and is seen by others, during which time a cloud passes in front of it. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Celestial Phenomena,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91910117/)” York Herald, August 22, 1829, p. 2; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 111–125 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_31 --- ## Year: 1830, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 962 (C74ACAB4) **Date:** 7/23/1830 **Location:** SCOTLAND, Forfar (Angus) **Description:** (Translated from French) The Reverend Alexander Espline was travelling from Auchtermuchty to Letham when he noticed a peculiar light suspended in the air above Whinny Park, the residence of one James Millie. Approaching the Park, Mr. Espline saw two lights, one smaller and brighter than the other, of a leaden hue, pale as death. Suddenly, the smaller of the spheres emitted a beam of light of extreme brightness, soon followed by a series of flashes from both objects at once. Frightened by this phenomenon, Mr. Espline fled. Two days later the body of James Millie was found, having been murdered and buried at the spot where the glows had been seen. (July 23, 1830) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 127 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_322 ### Event 963 (6C89374F) **Date:** 7/23/1830 **Location:** Whinny Park, near Cupar, Fife, Scotland **Description:** Reverend Alexander Espline, traveling from Auchtermuchty to Letham, encountered an unusual sight above Whinny Park, owned by James Millie. Initially observing one peculiar light, he discovered two lights with varying brightness levels. The smaller light emitted a beam before both lights began to flash, prompting Espline to flee in fear. Surprisingly, two days later, the body of James Millie was found near the same location. The incident's connection to his murder wasn't initially considered; a report noted that the discovery might not have happened without an accidental circumstance. Such flickering lights, reminiscent of the ignis fatuus phenomenon, often held significance in medieval tales, indicating burial or other important sites. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_410 --- ## Year: 1831, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 964 (225017DB) **Date:** 1831 **Description:** Michael Faraday is generally credited with the discovery of induction **Type:** scientific advance **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_induction) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_7 --- ## Year: 1832, 6 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 965 (7771ED9F) **Date:** 1832 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN **Description:** (Translated from French) Englishman Lennox and Frenchman Le Berrier make an ascent in Paris aboard a "dirigible" balloon. They use oars to attempt to make direction changes. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 28 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_326 ### Event 966 (1B9A59B8) **Date:** 3/1832 **Location:** RUSSIA, Kourianof **Description:** (Translated from French) A yellow, resinous substance was discovered, stretching like cotton. It fell over an area of approximately 600 m² and up to a thickness of 5 cm. This substance was combustible. In water it took on an amber color and became elastic like natural rubber. The smell was that of oil and wax. **Reference:** Inforespace n° 52 - 1980, p.3 and 4 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_323 ### Event 967 (49C66361) **Date:** 7/4/1832 **Location:** MOON **Description:** Astronomer Webb. Dot and dash flashes / Mare Crisium. Blots and rays / light. / r223p51. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** PINDEVIC, Thierry: Le NOEUD GORDIEN ou la FANTASTIQUE HISTOIRE des OVNI. Editions France-Empire, Paris 1979. (Index 51) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_85 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "The Moon", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "MOON:ASTRONOMER WEBB:DOT+DASH FLASHES/MARE CRISIUM:BLOTS+RAYS/LITE:/r223p51", **LatLong:** "90.000004 -0.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "90:00:00 N 00:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/90.000004,-0.000000)", **State/Prov:** "MCR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 968 (9BDC80ED) **Date:** 11/10/1832 **Location:** NETHERLANDS, The Hague **Description:** (Translated from French) Y. Berghelen saw "a round disc two meters in diameter, jumping from one side of the canal to the other. As it moved it emitted a dull sound." **Reference:** Yves Naud: "The E.T. and UFOs in History" Famot 1977, Volume 2, p. 202 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_324 ### Event 969 (B255D0ED) **Date:** 11/14/1832 **Location:** AUSTRIA, Bruneck (Tyrol) **Description:** (Translated from French) A brilliantly lit white cloud appeared in the sky. At 6:00 there was first a powerful beam of light in the night. This light then gathered into an oval shape which remained stationary for more than a quarter of an hour. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 127 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_325 ### Event 970 (00EB5783) **Date:** 11/14/1832 **Location:** Tyrol, Germany **Description:** A ball of bright light, accompanied by "falling stars," remained suspended in the sky for approximately 15 minutes. Although the incident coincided with the usual timing of the Leonids meteor shower, the unusual presence of a glowing orb in the sky for an extended period distinguishes this event. The report is based on a letter received from Bruneck, Tyrol, Germany, prompting further attention due to its unique nature. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_411 --- ## Year: 1833, 7 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 971 (5D2DC2B4) **Date:** 3/16/1833 **Time:** 18:35 **Location:** North Carolina **Description:** During twilight at 6:35 P.M., an observer witnessed an exceptionally slow and bright object, initially positioned slightly to the right of Venus. The object, initially moving northward, defied expectations by altering its trajectory and gliding parallel to the horizon. It transformed into a serpentine shape, remaining stationary for around two minutes and spanning a span of 12 to 15 degrees. The object gradually diminished in luminosity, eventually resembling a thin whitish cloud before completely vanishing by 6:40 P.M., rendering a total visibility duration of just 5 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_412 ### Event 972 (D226E52B) **Date:** 11/13/1833 **Location:** USA, Niagara Falls **Description:** (Translated from French) A large luminous body, almost stationary at times, in the shape of a square table. (November 13, 1833) **Reference:** Charles FORT: "The Book of the Damned" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967 p. 226 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_327 ### Event 973 (6E043C10) **Date:** 11/13/1833 **Location:** MEXICO and ATLANTIC OCEAN **Description:** (Translated from French) Around 2 o'clock in the morning, in a cloudless sky, a real rain of fireballs began. Many witnesses noticed that among the lightning streaks, there were luminous bodies that remained visible for a long time and almost stationary. Various witnesses collected on the ground a whitish gelatinous substance that quickly sublimated. Phenomenon mainly visible in a quadrilateral delimited on the one hand by the 61st degree of longitude (Atlantic Ocean) and the 100th degree of longitude (Central Mexico) and, on the other hand, by the Great Lakes of Jamaica. (November 13, 1833) **Reference:** Henry DURRANT: "The Black Book of S.V."-Laffont 1970 - p.63 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_328 ### Event 974 (5C8D4670) **Date:** 11/13/1833 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A large luminous square hovered for over 1 hour above Niagara Falls \(United States\). (November 13) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1833.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_121 ### Event 975 (0018787F) **Date:** 11/13/1833 **Description:** 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, New York, 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. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Gordon Lore, Jr. and Harold H.Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, pp. 60-61 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7622 ### Event 976 (CF714FF5) **Date:** 11/13/1833 **Location:** Niagara Falls, N.Y. **Description:** USA - A large luminous square object observed in the sky for an hour, remained stationary, then departed slowly. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_413 ### Event 977 (CF4E1DE9) **Date:** 12/1833 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Swedish press begins to report mysterious gray planes without markings that are quickly nicknamed "ghost planes". These devices seem as comfortable in clear weather as in the heart of the worst snowstorm that grounds the Swedish air force planes. When the fighters manage to take off to chase the intruders, they prove unable to fulfill their mission. Over the weeks and accumulating testimonies, the ghost planes become a national affair. Witnesses speak of planes, sometimes biplanes and regularly assure that these aircraft that mock the military seem to cut their engine during their maneuvers. In several cases, the presence of a powerful projector has been mentioned, as for the aircraft of [1897](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/1897.html) and the pseudo-dirigibles of [1909](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/1909.html). The observation reports dry up with the arrival of spring, but similar cases will continue to appear from time to time in the following years. In [1978](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/1978.html), the Swede Anders Liljegren will discover that the Swedish air force had at that time created an investigation office. (December) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1833.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_122 --- ## Year: 1834, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 978 (8AB47B78) **Date:** 1834 **Location:** GERMANY, Cologne **Description:** (Translated from French) At about seven o'clock in the evening a bolide was seen in the northeast, heading north with some speed parallel to the horizon. It suddenly disappeared, only to reappear two seconds later and split into two parts. **Reference:** Christiane PIENS: "Les Ovni du passé" - Marabout 1977 - p.86 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_329 ### Event 979 (E368B58B) **Date:** 1834 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN **Description:** (Translated from French) Lennox and Edon create in London the "aeronautic aerial company" to ensure a regular service between London and Paris. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 28 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_330 ### Event 980 (E7A57FB5) **Date:** 1834 **Location:** Cologne (Koln), Germany **Description:** Bright object flying NE-N parallel to the horizon, reappeared and split in two. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_414 --- ## Year: 1835, 6 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 981 (0790D6BD) **Date:** 1835 **Location:** USA, PHILADELPHIA **Description:** (Translated from French) John Wise makes his first ascent in Philadelphia. During an exceptional career he will attempt, multiple times and in vain, to cross the Atlantic Ocean. He will be lost in 1879 (the date is not specified) in Lake Michigan, during his 479th or 480th ascent. Wise will then be 71 years old. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 29 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_331 ### Event 982 (16FD241D) **Date:** 5/11/1835 **Locations:** Palermo Observatory; Italy **Description:** At the Palermo Observatory in Italy, astronomer [Niccolò Cacciatore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2%5FCacciatore) detects a starlike object in the Southern sky between the constellations Virgo and Crater moving at a slow rate that might indicate a planet beyond Uranus. It is nowhere to be seen during his next observation on May 14. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Supposed New Planet,” American Journal of Science 31 \(1837\): 158–159 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_32 ### Event 983 (23BD70D0) **Date:** 5/11/1835 **Location:** Sicily, Italy **Description:** Astronomer Cacciatore reported an unknown luminous object, observed on four consecutive days. Initially mistaken for an eighth magnitude star, its position shifted relative to another star by May 14, 1835. Cacciatore considered it a comet or planet beyond Uranus, but subsequent cloudy skies prevented further observations, and the object was lost by June 2, 1835. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_415 ### Event 984 (6FDDFDE2) **Date:** 7/4/1835 **Location:** USA, CINCINNATI **Description:** (Translated from French) Richard Clayton carried the mail, for the first time by air, in the United States, to Cincinnati. (July 4, 1835) **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 29 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_332 ### Event 985 (A264B037) **Date:** 8/25/1835 **End date:** 8/31/1835 **Locations:** New York; America; Europe **Description:** The New York Sun publishes a series of six articles on the alleged discovery by English astronomer [John](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FHerschel) [Herschel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FHerschel) of plants, animals, and winged people on the lunar surface. Using a huge and powerful telescope, Herschel supposedly sees herds of bison-like quadrupeds, a spherical amphibious creature, and a bipedal beaver that lives in huts. The humans are man-bats “covered, except on the face, with short and glossy copper-colored hair, and had wings composed of a thin membrane, without hair, lying snugly upon their backs.” The article is an elaborate hoax. Herschel hasn’t observed life on the moon at all, nor is Herschel even aware of the story until much later. The announcement causes enormous excitement throughout America and Europe. Authorship of the article is usually attributed to Richard Adams Locke, a reporter who is working for The Sun at the time. Locke publicly admits to being the author in 1840, in a letter to the weekly paper New World, although his intent is satire, not misinformation. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Great Moon Hoax](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%5FMoon%5FHoax)”; Richard Adams Locke, [The Moon Hoax](https://archive.org/details/moonhoax00Lock/page/n1/mode/2up), Gowans, 1859 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_33 ### Event 986 (79BBE77E) **Date:** 10/6/1835 **Location:** Cosenza, Italy **Description:** A pyramid-shaped meteor was observed flying west of Cosenza. It changed shape, leaving a vaporous trail, and moved slowly southward, following a parabolic curve. The meteor eventually disappeared towards Fiumefreddo harbor after heading off towards a mountain, leaving a "gloomy tail." **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_416 --- ## Year: 1836, 9 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 987 (013DEDF5) **Date:** 1836 **Location:** HUNGARY, Szeged **Description:** (Translated from French) Spherical lights and the appearance of what the inhabitants described as a lady in white created a great commotion in a part of the city. **Reference:** Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: "Les OVNI en URSS et dans les pays de l'Est". Trad. Laffont 1976 - p. 245 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_333 ### Event 988 (2E56835B) **Date:** 1836 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In the city of Szeged \(Hungary\), near the Romanian border, spherical lights and the appearance of what looks like a "lady in white" created a stir in a part of the city. **Reference:** Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, *UFO's Behind The Iron Curtain* 1972 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1836.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_123 ### Event 989 (B2981987) **Date:** 1/12/1836 **Location:** FRANCE, Cherbourg **Description:** (Translated from French) "A luminous body representing two-thirds of the Moon seemed to pivot as if on an axis: it had a dark cavity in its center". [note from vog: Christiane Piens dates this event to 1832...] (January 12, 1836) **Reference:** Charles FORT: "The Book of the Damned" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 213 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_334 ### Event 990 (3652AB2C) **Date:** 1/12/1836 **Location:** Cherbourg, France **Description:** A "luminous body" about two-thirds the size of the moon was observed at 6:30 P.M. It exhibited a dark cavity in its center and appeared to be rotating on its axis while traveling at approximately half a mile per second and an altitude of around 1000 feet. As it passed, it cast shadows on the ground and emitted a whistling sound. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_417 ### Event 991 (681A8D45) **Date:** 7/1836? **Location:** SZEGED, HUNGARY **Description:** Spherical lights. Lady-in-white appears and vanishes. Local uproar. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HOBANA Ion & WEVERBERGH,Julien: UFO'S from BEHIND the IRON CURTAIN; Bantam Books,1975. 308pp. (Index 198) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_86 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **HST:** Historical account, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Hungary", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "SZEGED,HUNGARY:SPHERICAL LITES:LADY-IN-WHITE APPEARS+VANISHES:LOCAL UPROAR", **LatLong:** "46.250002 20.150001", **LatLongDMS:** "46:15:00 N 20:09:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.250002,20.150001)", **State/Prov:** "CSG", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 992 (C8F645C0) **Date:** 7/1/1836 **Location:** Szeged, Hungary **Description:** Haunted house phenomena reported, including globular lights, poltergeist effects, and apparitions of a "lady in white" and a dwarf-sized Franciscan monk. Objects were observed being thrown by unseen hands. Similar manifestations have been noted in ufological literature and have been linked by some researchers to the abduction phenomenon. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_418 ### Event 993 (B8C981FE) **Date:** 7/8/1836 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** Saratov Province, Russia **Description:** At 10 P.M., a globe-shaped whitish mass, roughly the size of the moon, appeared on the northern horizon. It hovered briefly before descending slowly to the ground, leaving a zigzag trail, and ultimately disappearing. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_419 ### Event 994 (2A67E991) **Date:** 11/1/1836 **Location:** Buchholz, Germany **Description:** Astronomer Pastorff reported two unexplained objects crossing the sun's face. The objects, of differing sizes, exhibited changing positions relative to each other. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_420 ### Event 995 (3998767B) **Date:** 11/7/1836 **Location:** Great Britain, London **Description:** (Translated from French) Green, Hollond and Monkl-Mason aboard the balloon "Royal Vaux Hall" rise from London and make the first crossing of the channel of a British crew. They make this crossing at night, thus attributing another first. They will land at Velberg in the Duchy of Nassau. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 29 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_335 --- ## Year: 1837, 11 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 996 (D68004E8) **Date:** 1837 **Location:** Scarborough, England **Description:** Chief officer Mr. White witnessed frightening lights the size of oranges with undulating motion about five to six feet from the ground, accompanied by hissing noises. Additional luminous appearances shot across the road and sky emitting rocket-like hissing sounds. Another man named Trotter, stationed on a cliff, was so frightened by these phenomena that he hid. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_421 ### Event 997 (8674DD84) **Date:** 2/16/1837 **Location:** Buchholz, Germany **Description:** Astronomer Pastorff reported another unexplained object crossing the sun's face. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_422 ### Event 998 (FBF07ECD) **Date:** 8/29/1837 **Location:** ROMANIA, Tirgu-Néamt and Dorohoi **Description:** (Translated from French) During this night a meteor was seen or a physical phenomenon. A luminous sphere of about three meters in diameter traveled in the sky. At dawn, the meteor descended and the whole field began to shine with a very bright reddish light. (1837, night of August 29-30) **Reference:** Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: "Les OVNI en URSS et dans les pays de l'Est" trad. Laffont 1976 - p. 288 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_336 ### Event 999 (4A2634C8) **Date:** 8/29/1837 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) , above Tîrgu-Neamt and Dorohoi: During this night a meteor was seen, or a physical phenomenon. It was a sphere, lit up, long of about 12 hands and wide \(close to 3 m\). It descended in the twilight and the whole field shone with a powerful and luminous light. (29/30 August) **Reference:** *Albina Românesca*, 2 September **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1837.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_124 ### Event 1000 (B6E35109) **Date:** 8/29/1837 **Location:** Tirgu-Neamt, Romania **Description:** A luminous sphere was observed by locals during the night. At dawn, the sphere descended closer to the ground, casting an intense reddish glow that illuminated the fields. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_423 ### Event 1001 (DDBE1A68) **Date:** 9/1837 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Jack "Spring Heeled Jack". See images/SpringHeeledJack\_2.jpg. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1837.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_125 ### Event 1002 (A776D4F2) **Date:** 9/1837 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In London \(England\), Jack attacked a group of 3 women and 1 man. All managed to escape except Polly Adams. Jack ripped off the top of her corset, seized her breasts, and began to scratch her stomach, tearing her dress at the waist as if with iron-plated fingers. The attack left Adams unconscious, discovered later by a policeman. The victims would later describe Jack as able to spit blue flames: The intruder was tall, thin and strong. He had a prominent nose, bony fingers, extremely powerful, resembling claws. He was incredibly agile. He wore a long flowing cape, like those worn by people going to the opera, soldiers and wandering actors. On his head he had a high helmet, appearing to be made of metal. Under the cape, a tight-fitting suit of a shiny material like oilcloth or metal mesh. He had a lamp attached to his chest. The strangest of all: the creature's ears were short and pointed like an animal's. (Later that night) **Reference:** [Vallée](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/ValleeJacques.html) 1988 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1837.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_126 ### Event 1003 (28819B77) **Date:** 10/1837 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In London \(England\), Mary Stevens, a servant, is returning to her employers' house on Lavender Hill. As she crosses Cut Throat Lane in Clapham Common, a figure leaps out of an alley, tightly embracing her, kissing her face and beginning to put his hands in her corset. Stevens screams, causing the figure to flee. Men from the area are alerted by the screams and quickly arrive on the scene. They search for the assailant, without success. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1837.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_127 ### Event 1004 (DBCF5A27) **Date:** 10/1837 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The next day, "Jack Springheels" strikes again in a place near Mary Stevens' residence. He jumps in front of a moving car, causing the driver to lose control and have an accident. Witnesses of the scene report that Jack Springheels escaped by effortlessly jumping over a 3m \(9 feet\) wall. Shortly after the car incident, Jack accosted a woman near Clapham Church. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1837.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_128 ### Event 1005 (D66DBE9F) **Date:** 10/1837 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Shortly after the carriage incident, Spring Heeled Jack accosted a woman near Clapham Church. The character left two deep footprints of 7.5 cm \(3 inches\), suggesting some kind of "spring" mechanism in the shoes. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1837.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_129 ### Event 1006 (DB185472) **Date:** 11/1837 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, London **Description:** (Translated from French) A man flying, carrying something on his back and making tremendous leaps, flying above those who wanted to catch him. Admiral Codrington offered a reward for his capture. **Reference:** Jacques VALLEE: "Chronicles of E.T. Appearances" - DENOEL 1972 - coll. J'AI LU - p. 119 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_337 --- ## Year: 1838, 11 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1007 (2621D085) **Date:** 1838 **Description:** Samuel F. B. Morse demonstrates telegraph transmission across two miles of wire in Morristown, NJ **Type:** scientific advance **Reference:** [link](https://www.thoughtco.com/the-invention-of-the-telegraph-1773842) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_8 ### Event 1008 (F0F5EAFE) **Date:** 1838 **Location:** INDIA **Description:** (Translated from French) A prolonged disk of a kind of hook, as big as the moon but more sparkling: a diagram is drawn of it. **Reference:** Charles FORT: "The Book of the Damned" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 225, 226 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_341 ### Event 1009 (24DAA6BD) **Date:** 1838 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Jack "Spring Heels". See images/SpringHeeledJack.jpg. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1838.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_130 ### Event 1010 (6E98F7BA) **Date:** 1838 **Location:** Broughty Ferry, Dundee **Description:** Scottish minister and science writer [Thomas Dick](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FDick%5F%28scientist%29) publishes Celestial Scenery: The Wonders of the Planetary System Displayed, in which he suggests that every planet in the Solar System is inhabited. At his home in Broughty Ferry, Dundee, he computes that the Solar System contains 21.9 trillion inhabitants, 53.5 billion of them on Venus. This is done comparing the surface area of each planet and the population density of England. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Thomas Dick, [Celestial Scenery](https://archive.org/details/celestialscenery00dick/page/n6)[,](https://archive.org/details/celestialscenery00dick/page/n6) Harper, 1838 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_34 ### Event 1011 (CDD7077B) **Date:** 1838 **Location:** India **Description:** G. Pettitt reported a flying disk with a hook-shaped appendage, roughly the apparent size of the moon but brighter. The sighting lasted around 20 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_424 ### Event 1012 (F50BE33C) **Date:** 2/18/1838 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, London **Description:** (Translated from French) Miss Scales, passing through the poorly lit alley of the Green Dragon, near a tavern, saw a tall figure hide in the shadows. She hesitated and waited for her sister who had stayed behind. Her sister described him as "tall, slim, distinguished"! He had thrown his cape to the side and shone a lantern on the startled girl. She didn't have time to scream, the strange blue flame covered her face and she fainted deeply. Then Jack calmly withdrew... **Reference:** Jacques VALLEE: "Chronicles of E.T. Appearances" - DENOEL 1972 - coll. J'AI LU - p. 119 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_338 ### Event 1013 (0376FEB9) **Date:** 2/18/1838 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Miss Scales, from Limehouse, passes through Green Dragon Alley \(London\), a poorly lit passage near a cabaret. When she sees a tall silhouette hiding in the shadows, she hesitates and waits for her sister who stayed behind. The latter arrives and sees the tall, slim and distinguished character who has thrown his long cape to the side and shone a lantern on the stunned young girl. She doesn't have time to scream when Jack spits a blue flame at the face of his victim who falls to the ground unconscious. Jack then calmly leaves. Sergeant Charles Pritchel will later tell the authorities that she was suffering from hysteria and great agitation, presumably due to fear. (February 18, 8:30 PM) **Reference:** [Vallée](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/ValleeJacques.html) 1988 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1838.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_131 ### Event 1014 (AE92B230) **Date:** 2/20/1838 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, London **Description:** (Translated from French) A strange being seemingly clad in what would now be called a space suit, frightened the Londoners. At times it was luminous and could jump very high. Named "Spring Heel Jack" this character had adventures that are not without strongly recalling much more modern facts. On February 20th Miss Jane Alsop, aged 18, met the "monster" at Bear Bine Cottage, where she lived in the small village of Old Ford, near Bow. Having heard a violent knocking at the front door, she went out and saw the most hideous apparition: a figure clad in tight-fitting and glittering clothes, a lamp radiating in the middle of its chest and eyes resembling red balls of fire. She began to scream with all her might. Spring Heel Jack then seized her arm in a metallic hand with fingers like claws and sent balls of fire into the young girl's face. She soon fell unconscious and had still time to see this sad figure fly away into the air. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 128 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_339 ### Event 1015 (AA7D72BC) **Date:** 2/20/1838 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Old Ford \(London\), Jane Alsop, 18 years old, hears a violent ringing of the doorbell and shouting: "For the love of God, bring me a light, for we have caught Spring-heeled Jack in the alley!" In an instant, Alsop runs out with a candle and is confronted with the most hideous appearance of Jack. He wears shiny clothes and a flaming lamp on his chest. His eyes look like sparkling fireballs: when Miss Alsop screams, the intruder grabs her arm with his fingers like claws. The girl's sister rushes to the rescue to bring her sister back inside. The visitor sends a burning gas \(blue and white flames\) to Jane's face, who faints. Curiously, Jack knocks on the door several times and waits for an answer, before finally fleeing when the sisters call for help, dropping his cape which is immediately picked up by another shadow running after him. (February 20th, late at night) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1838.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_132 ### Event 1016 (6310CD95) **Date:** 2/28/1838 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Turner Street \(London\), Jack knocks on Mr. Ashworth's door and asks for him. The servant who opens the door starts to scream and Jack runs away. (February 28) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1838.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_133 ### Event 1017 (C145D5ED) **Date:** 7/6/1838 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Liverpool **Description:** (Translated from French) In the night, Inspector Hemer of the Liverpool police was patrolling along the boundaries of Teth Park. Suddenly he saw a large sphere of fire that was stationary at some height above a nearby field. The object remained stationary for two minutes. Then it emitted bright sparks and quickly rose into the sky to disappear. (July 6, 1838) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 128 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_340 --- ## Year: 1839, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1018 (6BA0A5BA) **Date:** 1839 **Location:** FRANCE **Description:** (Translated from French) Eurriot makes an ascent on board an oblong balloon (dirigible) that he is unable to maneuver, however. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 29 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_342 ### Event 1019 (8C771E12) **Date:** 1839 **Location:** SILESIE **Description:** (Translated from French) There was a fall of "sheets" having the appearance of a "cotton felt". **Reference:** Inforespace n° 52, 1980, p.4 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_343 ### Event 1020 (2EE55814) **Date:** 10/2/1839 **Location:** Rome, Italy **Description:** Astronomer De Cuppis of the Royal College reported an unknown body resembling a planet passing in front of the sun. This observation was used by Le Verrier to calculate the orbit of Vulcan. The object appeared as a well-defined, perfectly round spot, moving at a speed that would make it cross the sun in approximately 6 hours. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_425 --- ## Year: 1840, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1021 (D3094F69) **Date:** 1840 **Location:** Vienna Observatory **Description:** Joseph von Littrow, of the Vienna Observatory, had an idea on how to establish interplanetary communication. He proposed excavating trenches about 20 miles wide to form geometric shapes, filling those trenches with water and kerosene, and lighting them up at night to increase their visibility. Both Gauss and von Littrow reasoned that, if there was intelligent life out there, those beings would recognize mathematical truths as a sign that Earth had its own intelligent beings. Math would be the universal language. **Type:** contact proposal **Reference:** [slate.com](https://slate.com/human-interest/2016/05/victorians-wanted-to-contact-aliens-using-giant-mirrors.html) **Reference:** [US House Of Representatives - 1978 - Hearing - Space Science Subcommittee - Extraterrestrial Intelligence Research, page 41](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Documents/USA%20-%20Congress/US%20House%20Of%20Representatives%20-%201978%20-%20Hearing%20-%20Space%20Science%20Subcommittee%20-%20Extraterrestrial%20Intelligence%20Research.pdf#page=41) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_1018 ### Event 1022 (CEFBBD9F) **Date:** 1840 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The *Rosalie*, a large French vessel bound for Havana, is found adrift with no one on board, but in perfect condition. There is only a half-starved canary in its cage left on board. Most of the sails are hoisted and the cargo is intact. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1840.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_134 --- ## Year: 1841, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1023 (34258300) **Date:** 1841 **Location:** Pedang, on the coast of Sumatra **Description:** Mr. M. N. Ward, a gentleman connected with the mission at Pedang, on the coast of Sumatra, has published a well attested account of a flying serpent seen by the narrator. He saw the animal fly from a tree at the height of some fifty or sixty feet, to another tree some forty fathoms distant. It supports itself in the air by drawing its belly, widening itself and forming an arch as far as the ribs extend, and forces itself ahead with the rapidity of a bird, by sinuous motions, like a serpent swimming. There is nothing in the reptile which bears any resemblance to a wing. Its length is about four feet, and bite is dangerous. Another description of flying or darting serpents, is described by the natives, whose bite is instant death. It leaps or flies only about half the distance of the other, and makes none of the sinuous waving motion in the air. This discovery, of the truth of which there can be no doubt, shows the portion of Scripture which speaks of “burning fiery serpents” had a literal fact for the basis of its figurative language, though the species is now extinct in the region spoken of in the Bible. What a terrible scourge must be such an animal. Give us the sterility of the frozen, rather than the fertility of the torrid zones with such drawbacks. Polar bears are more agreeable than flying serpents. **Type:** creature encounter **Reference:** _Holly Springs Gazette_ (Holly Springs, Mississippi), August 04, 1841 **Reference:** [ThinkAboutIt](https://www.thinkaboutitdocs.com/1835-1844-ufo-alien-sightings/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_1017 --- ## Year: 1842, 6 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1024 (C9CED03F) **Date:** 1842 **Location:** URSS, Orenbourg **Description:** (Translated from French) Small perfectly hexagonal metal objects fell from the sky after a strange cloud was seen suspended over the city for a very long time. **Reference:** Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: "Les OVNI en URSS et dans les pays de l'Est" trad. Laffont 1976, p. 272 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_345 ### Event 1025 (E667C07F) **Date:** 1842 **Location:** France, Clavaux (near Gavet) Isère **Description:** (Translated from French) Two little girls saw stones falling around them. The stones fell with a strange slowness. The children ran to the family home and returned to the spot with their parents. The stones were still falling, always with the same astonishing slowness. Then, a kind of upward current - a whirlwind - sucked the two little girls who were lifted up but their parents were able to, thanks to the speed of their reflexes, hold them back at the last second to prevent them from being carried away God knows where. The parents were not affected by the suction phenomenon. **Reference:** Jean SIDER: "Ovni, les envahisseurs démasqués" - éd. Ramuel 1999, p 159 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_346 ### Event 1026 (06CDB5AD) **Date:** 1842 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Above Orenburg, a strange cloud hangs for a considerable amount of time. Afterwards, small metallic objects, perfectly hexagonal, fall from the sky. **Reference:** Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFO's Behind The Iron Curtain 1972 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1842.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_135 ### Event 1027 (F3673F9D) **Date:** 6/30/1842 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** CUPAR, FIFE, SCOTLAND **Description:** Big boom. Clothes fly off lines. Some drop. Others fly away! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 89) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_87 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NFO:** No craft seen, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "48", **HatchDesc:** "CUPAR,FIFE,SCOTLAND:BIG BOOM:CLOTHES FLY OFF LINES:SOME DROP:OTHERS FLY AWAY!", **LatLong:** "56.322225 -3.005556", **LatLongDMS:** "56:19:20 N 03:00:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/56.322225,-3.005556)", **State/Prov:** "Scotland", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 1028 (CDD1F244) **Date:** 7/1842? **Location:** ORENBURG, RUSSIA **Description:** Odd cloud hovers. Perfectly hexagonal metal pieces fall! P280. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HOBANA Ion & WEVERBERGH,Julien: UFO'S from BEHIND the IRON CURTAIN; Bantam Books,1975. 308pp. (Index 280) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_88 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Russia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ORENBURG,RUS:ODD CLOUD HOVERS:PERFECTLY HEXAGONAL METAL PIECES FALL!:p280", **LatLong:** "41.833335 55.083336", **LatLongDMS:** "41:50:00 N 55:05:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.833335,55.083336)", **State/Prov:** "ORE", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 1029 (0BD37F38) **Date:** 9/29/1842 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN **Description:** (Translated from French) W. H. Phillipps would have made a small helicopter "a reaction" rise (steam jets on pallets). [vog note: it was a miniature, in reality.] **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 29-30 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_344 --- ## Year: 1843, 7 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1030 (AA5E133D) **Date:** 3/1843 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A comet suddenly becomes visible and excites the public's curiosity to the highest degree. It can indeed be seen in broad daylight and very close to the Sun. What makes its tail so remarkable is its small size and uniform width. It is suspected of causing floods in the south of France and an earthquake in Guadeloupe. (March) **Reference:** Biblioteca Academiei "Manuscris românesc" 4043, f.1 et Albina românescâ, pp. 81-82 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1843.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_136 ### Event 1031 (CFB23006) **Date:** 3/5/1843 **Time:** 01:00 **Location:** BUCHAREST, ROM **Description:** Signs appear in sky. One is [a] pyramidal comet. Not weather balloon. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HOBANA Ion & WEVERBERGH,Julien: UFO'S from BEHIND the IRON CURTAIN; Bantam Books,1975. 308pp. (Index 222) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_89 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Romania", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "104", **HatchDesc:** "BUCHAREST,ROM:SIGNS APPEAR IN SKY:1=PYRAMIDAL COMET:NOT WEATHER BALLOON:", **LatLong:** "44.433335 26.100001", **LatLongDMS:** "44:26:00 N 26:06:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.433335,26.100001)", **State/Prov:** "Bucharest", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 1032 (583CB0A7) **Date:** 4/9/1843 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** Greenville, Tennessee, USA **Description:** Around 8 o'clock in the evening, a luminous ball approximately two feet in circumference was observed in the southwestern sky. The ball emitted small meteors and surpassed the brightness of the sun. Initially stationary, it then displayed rapid vertical motions, rising about thirty feet, falling to its starting point, and repeating this pattern around fifteen times. It subsequently moved horizontally for a similar distance and time. After assuming its original position, it rose vertically about twelve feet, gradually diminishing in size over an hour and fifteen minutes before vanishing entirely. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_426 ### Event 1033 (5438293B) **Date:** 5/7/1843 **Description:** An object with the "resemblance of a ship" sailed through the air over Quebec City, Quebec, Canada and cast a shadow on the ground. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** John R. Colombo, UFOs over Canada: Personal accounts of sightings and close encounters, p. 209 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2610 ### Event 1034 (F9B76488) **Date:** 7/16/1843 **Location:** FRANCE, NANTES **Description:** (Translated from French) At Nantes, a hot air balloon escaped from the ground on its own; the anchor grabbed the young Guerin by the pants and carried him into the air. The ascent ended without harm for the boy. [note from vog: this true story is transformed, among other places, in the United States, into a legend, during the famous affairs, hoaxes or real dirigibles, of the "air-ships"s.....] (July 16, 1843) **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 32 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_347 ### Event 1035 (D5D44DA4) **Date:** 10/1843 **Location:** Warwick, Ontario, Canada **Description:** In the afternoon of October third, Charles Cooper, a farmer, witnessed an unusual event in the sky. After a light rain and the passing of a rainbow, Cooper heard distant thunder-like sounds. He noticed a distinct cloud approaching from the west, underneath which he saw three white men flying through the air in a single-file formation. The figures appeared motionless, with outstretched arms, emitting mournful moans that resembled the distant roars he had initially heard. The men, seemingly sailing just above the treetops, continued their passage until disappearing from view. Despite Cooper's claims, others in the area did not report seeing the flying men. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_427 ### Event 1036 (4C95BDAA) **Date:** 10/3/1843 **Description:** Farmer Cooper saw three men flying through the sky over Warwick, Quebec. They were completely white. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** John Colombo, UFOs over Canada: Personal accounts of sightings and close encounters, p. 209 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6516 --- ## Year: 1844, 4 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1037 (9234F26B) **Date:** 1844 **Location:** FRANCE **Description:** (Translated from French) D'Arville is said to have risen aboard a "pedal-powered" helicopter (?). He would have thus reached an altitude of around 100 m and the landing was made normally. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 32 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_348 ### Event 1038 (4F95BA03) **Date:** 7/8/1844 **Location:** TURKEY **Description:** (Translated from French) Italian Comashi makes an ascent in a balloon, from Constantinople to Desmirdje Davasi. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 32 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_349 ### Event 1039 (6265A038) **Date:** 10/4/1844 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Glaisier sees light signals as bright as [Jupiter](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Jupiter.html) sending rapid waves of light. (4 October) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1844.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_137 ### Event 1040 (1B61B870) **Date:** 10/4/1844 **Location:** Astronomer Glaisher reported an unidentified luminous object, shining as brightly as Jupiter **Description:** The object emitted rapid, flickering waves of light. The specific location where this event occurred is unknown. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_428 --- ## Year: 1845, 15 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1041 (B2EFA466) **Date:** 1845 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Asia Minor, during a storm, large gelatinous masses fall. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1845.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_138 ### Event 1042 (661DB967) **Date:** 3/16/1845 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Shanghai, a rain of olivaceous powder falls. (March 16) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1845.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_139 ### Event 1043 (EC381CAB) **Date:** 3/29/1845 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** London, England **Description:** At 11 P.M., Mr. Goddart witnessed an orange-colored object in the sky within the Canes Venatici constellation. He described it as a faint light, about magnitude 4, with a yellow hue. Using a telescope, he observed the object resembling a cluster of four stars, with a central area emitting an orange glow. The object moved gradually from Canes Venatici towards Coma Berenices, increasing in brightness. After approximately two minutes, the object faded and disappeared. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_429 ### Event 1044 (F481EBA8) **Date:** 4/1/1845 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Lithuania, a storm is accompanied by the fall of large gelatinous masses. (April 1st) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1845.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_140 ### Event 1045 (8C7D7F30) **Date:** 5/11/1845 **Location:** CAPODIMONTE OBSERVER(S), ITL **Description:** Astronomer. Odd shapes pass suns face / 2 days. / Nature. / r2p15. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 278) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_90 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "CAPODIMONTE OBS.,ITL:ASTRONOMR:ODD SHAPES PASS SUNS FACE/2 DAYS:/NATURE:/r2p15", **LatLong:** "40.866669 14.200001", **LatLongDMS:** "40:52:00 N 14:12:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.866669,14.200001)", **State/Prov:** "NA", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 1046 (404D3739) **Date:** 5/11/1845 **Location:** Capodimonte Observatory, Naples, Italy **Description:** Astronomer Schumacher communicated to Gauss that astronomer Ernesto Capocci had observed objects passing in front of the sun between 11 to 13 May. Capocci's report about these occurrences was conveyed to Schumacher. The exact nature of these passing objects and their characteristics are not specified in the provided information. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_430 ### Event 1047 (30539672) **Date:** 6/7/1845 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) An ordinary meteorite fall occurs in Darmstadt. (June 7) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1845.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_141 ### Event 1048 (7472B831) **Date:** 6/12/1845 **Location:** TURKEY, Constantinople **Description:** (Translated from French) Italian Comashi makes an ascent in a balloon in Constantinople, on the occasion of the marriage of Mehemet Ali Pacha. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 32 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_350 ### Event 1049 (AEAEC58D) **Date:** 6/18/1845 **Location:** In the Mediterranean Sea **Description:** (Translated from French) Three luminous bodies were seen emerging from the ocean forty meters from the "Victoria", a British brigantine 1300 km from Adalia (Asia Minor) and remained visible for ten minutes. The ship was located at 36°40'56" north latitude and 13°44'36" east longitude. Professor Baden Powell published a letter from a correspondent from Mount Lebanon who described the same miraculous phenomenon but only cited two luminous bodies, five times bigger than the Moon and with appendages in the shape of sails resembling "large flags blown by the breeze". They were visible for an hour. The appendages did not resemble meteor trails, as their glow seemed to come from the bodies themselves. At Adalia 1300 km from the Victoria and at the same time, the Rev. F. Hawlett, cited by Professor Baden-Powell, witnessed the spectacle which he estimated to last half an hour. The phenomenon was also reported from Syria and Malta, in the form of "two closely linked bodies." **Reference:** Charles FORT: "The Book of the Damned" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 213 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_351 ### Event 1050 (C73EB9B9) **Date:** 6/18/1845 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) From the brigantine *Victoria* off Adalie \(Minor Asia\), 3 luminous bodies were seen 40 m away and remained visible for 10 minutes. (June 18) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1845.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_142 ### Event 1051 (07BE51C4) **Date:** 6/18/1845 **Location:** NORTHWEST / MALTA **Description:** Steamship Victoria. Wind stops. 3 luminous silver saucers rise / sea. Hover. Shoot going up. / r44p34. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 40) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_91 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "NW/MALTA:SS VICTORIA:WIND STOPS:3 LUMn.SLVR SCRS RISE/SEA:HVR:SHOOT↑:/r44p34", **LatLong:** "36.683335 13.744445", **LatLongDMS:** "36:41:00 N 13:44:40 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.683335,13.744445)", **State/Prov:** "SEA", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 1052 (19F7E1AD) **Date:** 6/18/1845 **Locations:** Strait of Sicily; Licata, Sicily, Italy; Ainab, Lebanon **Description:** 10:30 p.m. The British brig Victoria, captained by [George Henry Caithness](https://molegenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/02/tracing-master-mariners-career.html)[,](https://molegenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/02/tracing-master-mariners-career.html) is becalmed in the Strait of Sicily about 30 miles southwest of Licata, Sicily, Italy, when a huge wind suddenly blows from the east for two hours. Then the wind suddenly stops, and the crew feels an overpowering heat and smells a sulfuric stench. At this moment three “luminous bodies” emerge from the sea about one-half mile away and remain visible for 10 minutes. Shortly thereafter the wind picks up again. \(This could be a magma plume from an undersea volcanic vent.\) Around 7:10 p.m., at Ainab, Lebanon, two objects five times as large as the moon, joined by “streamers or appendages,” are observed in the west and remain visible for one hour, moving slowly on an easterly course. The objects are so bright they are painful to look at. A possible outgassing event from the Madrepore subsea vent. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Atmospherical Phenomena,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91910671/)” London Morning Chronicle, August 8, 1845, p. 5; The Athenaeum, August 19, 1848, [p. 833](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=iau.31858029267220&view=1up&seq=845&skin=2021); James Glaisher, et al., “Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors, 1860–61,” Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1861, [pp. 30–31](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101076796398&view=1up&seq=104&skin=2021); Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 139–152; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 2, Anomalist, 2021, pp. 115–126 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_35 ### Event 1053 (C7134EAB) **Date:** 6/18/1845 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** Between Malta and Turkey **Description:** On the brig Victoria, en route from Newcastle to Malta, an anomalous event occurred. Around 9:30 P.M., the ship was becalmed, and its top-gallant and royal masts were suddenly lost as if in a squall. Following two hours of strong eastward winds and the crew reefing topsails, an abrupt calm ensued accompanied by intense heat and a sulfuric smell. Three luminous objects emerged from the sea about half a mile away from the vessel, remaining visible for about ten minutes. Subsequently, strong winds resumed and the ship encountered a cold, fresh air current. The reported coordinates would place the ship approximately 900 miles from Antalya, Turkey. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_431 ### Event 1054 (92B83888) **Date:** 6/18/1845 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** Ainab Mountain, Lebanon **Description:** Half an hour after sunset, an extraordinary and captivating yet unsettling sight unfolded in the sky. Observers at Ainab, Mount Lebanon, witnessed two large celestial bodies, each estimated to be around five times larger than the moon. These objects were connected by streamers or appendages, resembling billowing flags caught in a gentle breeze. Emitting a painful brightness that seemed to be reflected from the main bodies, these entities appeared in the west, endured for an hour, followed an eastward trajectory, and gradually vanished. This event might have been linked to the earlier sighting on the same date. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_432 ### Event 1055 (3D4AB06B) **Date:** 10/16/1845 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A terrifying red rain falls on France. (October 16th and 17th) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1845.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_143 --- ## Year: 1846, 8 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1056 (3EDF900C) **Date:** 1846 **Location:** FRANCE, La Sallette (Isère) **Description:** (Translated from French) Before being able to distinguish the silhouette of a luminous lady, it was first a light at the bottom of the valley that attracted the attention of Mélanie Calvet and Maximin Guiraud. Having approached, they saw a kind of very bright globe that opened to let them see the lady. (Paul MISRAKI - Mame) "We saw a light open, and inside, the Lady..." **Reference:** Erich ZURCHER: "The Appearances of Humanoids" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 200 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_352 ### Event 1057 (176C0A36) **Date:** 1846 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Ireland, hundreds of people witness what they call the *Good People* fighting in the sky above Knoch Magh, and further towards Galway. The very poor potato harvest and the ensuing famine is attributed to these issues in what they call the fairy world. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1846.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_144 ### Event 1058 (C719D099) **Date:** 6/2/1846 **Location:** CHINA, Zheijang **Description:** (Translated from French) At noon I went out of my house and saw in the sky a big fireball, bigger than a bowl. It flew from south to north, followed by a multicolored beam of light. Another column of white light followed the beam. The beam and the column had the same length. When the flaming ball passed over my head, a sound like thunder was heard. (June 2, 1846) **Reference:** SHI BO: "China and the Extraterrestrials" ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p.73 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_353 ### Event 1059 (94E9A43A) **Date:** 6/7/1846 **Location:** Darmstadt, Germany **Description:** A reported instance of an object descending from the sky was determined to be "only slag" upon examination. Although the residue's composition was found to be "nothing but slag," this observation is noteworthy due to its physical implications, especially in light of similar instances where unidentified flying objects dropped molten metal. While not a significant sighting itself, its potential relevance prompts its inclusion for consideration. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_433 ### Event 1060 (AA236F74) **Date:** 8/25/1846 **Location:** Saint-Apre, France **Description:** Dr. Moreau experienced an unusual event around 2:30 A.M. during his journey back from a patient's house. He encountered a luminous globe that appeared to unfold, releasing numerous star-like objects. This phenomenon persisted for about three to four minutes before gradually diminishing, eventually leading to the disappearance of the globe. The occurrence took place under warm and calm weather conditions. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_434 ### Event 1061 (8608EA20) **Date:** 9/19/1846 **Location:** La Salette, France **Description:** Two cowherds, an eleven-year-old boy named Maximin and a fourteen-year-old girl named Melanie Calvat, witnessed a brilliant light and an apparition. Melanie recounted seeing a radiant light even brighter than the sun while observing grazing cows. She and Maximin both observed a static light that opened up to reveal a more brilliant moving light, within which appeared a beautiful lady dressed in white and gold with a rose-adorned cap. The lady was surrounded by light and tears, expressing concern about Sunday desecration and blasphemous behavior. The parish priest identified the figure as the Blessed Virgin. The Bishop of Grenoble approved the apparitions, leading to pilgrimages, while Melanie became a nun and continued receiving revelations, whereas Maximin's aspiration to become a priest was unsuccessful. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_435 ### Event 1062 (721F34E6) **Date:** 10/26/1846 **Location:** USA, Lovel, Massachusetts **Description:** (Translated from French) A luminous disc moved above Lovel. It dropped a gelatinous and stinking mass. It weighed 55 kilograms and measured 122 cm in diameter [the stinking mass, of course!]. **Reference:** (c) 1997 Jeroen Slurf and Jeroen Kümeling. **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_354 ### Event 1063 (16A9B8B5) **Date:** 11/1846 **Location:** Rangoon River, China **Description:** During a dark night around 7:30 P.M., a ship's owner's wife, the captain, and a 4-year-old child witnessed the sudden appearance of a bright light emitting extreme heat. The light, resembling a compact flame, swiftly moved in front of the ship. Unlike lightning, the light's appearance alarmed the witnesses, while others nearby also sensed a rapid rise in temperature, despite being unable to see the light themselves. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_436 --- ## Year: 1847, 9 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1064 (96AE6C60) **Date:** 1847 **Location:** MEXICO, Chapultepec **Description:** (Translated from French) The US Army had 2000 rockets made by the Washington Arsenal. The USA was engaged in a bloody conflict with Mexico. The hale rockets were used during the landing at Vera Cruz and the capture of Chapultepec. The Rocket Artillery batteries were dissolved the following year. (1847,) **Reference:** "Assault on Space" Georges H. Gallet, ed. of Modern Thought, p. 34 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_355 ### Event 1065 (FB73BB24) **Date:** 1847 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Astronomers record the passage of a celestial body of the size of the asteroid Vulcan passing through the solar disk. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1847.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_145 ### Event 1066 (8CC94659) **Date:** 1847 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Ireland, hundreds of people witness what they call the *Good People* fighting in the sky above Knoch Magh, and further towards Galway. The very poor potato harvest and the ensuing famine is attributed to these issues in what they call the fairy world. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1847.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_146 ### Event 1067 (355CC71A) **Date:** 3/18/1847 **Location:** DARK PART / MOON **Description:** Luminous dots appear / 2 days. 11+12 December. Bright flashing light / dark part. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LESLIE, Desmond & ADAMSKI,G: Flying Saucers Have Landed; British Book Center, NY 1956 (Index 126) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_92 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "The Moon", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "196", **HatchDesc:** "DARK PART/MOON:LUM.DOTS APPEAR/2 DAYS::11+12DEC:BRITE FLASHING LITE/DARK PART", **LatLong:** "90.000004 -0.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "90:00:00 N 00:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/90.000004,-0.000000)", **State/Prov:** "DRK", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1068 (A9ACD625) **Date:** 3/19/1847 **Locations:** Highbury East, London, England; Hampstead **Description:** 8:30 p.m. A woman and her companion are in Highbury East, London, England, when they notice what seems to be a fire balloon ascending slowly in the west, seemingly over Hampstead. It shoots out “several fiery coruscations” and turns into an intensely radiant cloud, which moves on further west. Its light shines down on the houses below. Suddenly another bright cloud appears above the first. After 2–3 minutes, a fiery ball drops from the upper cloud to the lower one, followed by two others. Soon after this, both clouds disappear. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Meteoric](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112110907091&view=1up&seq=515&skin=2021) [Stones,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112110907091&view=1up&seq=515&skin=2021)” Littell’s Living Age 56 \(1858\): 503 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_36 ### Event 1069 (BA93A327) **Date:** 3/19/1847 **Location:** Holloway, London, England **Description:** In the evening, witnesses observed an unknown object resembling a fire-balloon ascending slowly in the west, accompanied by intense brilliance. As it reached a position over Hampstead, the object emitted fiery coruscations and transformed into a radiant cloud, emitting a unique and bright blue-tinted light on the surrounding houses. Another even more brilliant cloud appeared above, and after a brief period, small fiery balls dropped from the upper cloud into the lower one. This process repeated, with larger balls descending. Eventually, both clouds disappeared, seemingly absorbed into the heavens. The moon later emerged to the north, and the witnesses also observed zodiacal light lasting over an hour. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_437 ### Event 1070 (BB182B02) **Date:** 9/25/1847 **Location:** BELGIUM, BRUSSELS **Description:** (Translated from French) Dr. Van Hecke experiments with a balanced helicopter aerostat at ground level; he turns his helicopter by hand and rises up to 1000 m in altitude. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 33 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_356 ### Event 1071 (884B5CB9) **Date:** 10/11/1847 **Location:** Bonn, Germany **Description:** Astronomer Schmidt reported a swift-moving small black spot crossing the sun's disk. The object's rapid motion was distinct from that of a bird or an insect passing before the telescope. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_438 ### Event 1072 (303E504F) **Date:** 11/19/1847 **Location:** Oxford, Wytham Park, England **Description:** Mr. Symonds reported a sizable object in the sky that made two stationary stops during its seven-minute trajectory. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_439 --- ## Year: 1848, 9 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1073 (81D8D600) **Date:** 1848 **Location:** Great Britain **Description:** (Translated from French) Stringfellow Flies the First Heavier-Than-Air Machine Powered by Its Own Engine; Wingspan of the Machine, 3.04 m (10 English Feet); Weight 6,629 kg Empty and 3,900 kg with Water and Fuel. The Engine Was a Steam Boiler. The Remains of This Machine Are at the British Museum in London. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 33 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_357 ### Event 1074 (90A84251) **Date:** 1848 **Location:** Arabian Sea, Arabia **Description:** A ship at sea encountered two fiery wheels resembling rolling haystacks on fire. As they approached, the wheels exploded with a crashing sound, causing two masts on the ship to rupture violently accompanied by a strong sulfur odor. Sir W. S. Harris reported this incident. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_440 ### Event 1075 (57BC711B) **Date:** 3/9/1848 **Location:** Oxford, Wytham Park, England **Description:** Mr. Symonds reported a solitary unidentified celestial object in the sky. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_441 ### Event 1076 (71B2A19E) **Date:** 3/19/1848 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The celestial body detected the previous year revealed its presence during a [Moon](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Moon.html) eclipse, accompanied by unusual events: the [Moon](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Moon.html) shone 3 times brighter than normal during an eclipse, then it turned a blood red color, as in 1780. (March 19th) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1848.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_147 ### Event 1077 (2508FD0A) **Date:** 5/3/1848 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Vienna \(Dauphiné\), 20 witnesses claim to have seen, for 2 hours, 3 lions, a general, a tricolor scarf, a Napoleonic hat, a bridge with multiple arches filled with anxious spectators, looking at an aerial city invaded by whirls of smoke; and more, a white lady placing a crown on the head of a white lion, an army of cavalry followed by infantry and gunners. (May 3rd, 6pm) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1848.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_148 ### Event 1078 (66BA9E35) **Date:** 5/3/1848 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At the British Association of Sciences Congress, Sir W. S. Harris described the following observation: 2 fireballs, similar to rolling wheels of flame, approached a boat. A terrible crackling occurred when they were close. The tops of the masts were shattered. A strong smell of sulfur was reported... **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1848.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_149 ### Event 1079 (2B0054BE) **Date:** 5/3/1848 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Creation of the [AAAS](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/AAAS.html). **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1848.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_150 ### Event 1080 (AF4F05B3) **Date:** 9/4/1848 **Time:** 20:59 **Location:** Nottingham, England **Description:** At 8:59 P.M., Mr. Lowe observed a slow-moving unidentified object from Highfield Observatory. Resembling a bright star, the object traveled from Eta of Antinoiis to Pi of Sagittarius, taking 45 seconds to cover the distance. Its gradual speed ruled out meteoric activity, and its brightness was estimated to be six times that of Jupiter. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_442 ### Event 1081 (93D14E9B) **Date:** 9/18/1848 **Location:** Inverness, Scotland **Description:** Two large, bright lights resembling stars observed in the sky. Lights alternated between stationary and high-velocity movements. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_443 --- ## Year: 1849, 10 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1082 (1B361A28) **Date:** 2/5/1849 **Location:** Deal, Kent, England **Description:** Observer named Brown witnessed two dark objects crossing the sun's disk. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_444 ### Event 1083 (B8FFB5DA) **Date:** 2/13/1849 **Location:** Reims, France **Description:** Skilled observer Coulvier-Gravier witnessed a 3rd magnitude "star" displaying abrupt accelerations and stops while moving a 20-degree course across the sky. Observed around 7:30 P.M. near Delta Cephei. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_445 ### Event 1084 (C529D904) **Date:** 3/12/1849 **Location:** Location Unknown **Description:** Astronomer Sidebotham recorded an object traversing the sun's disk, contributing to Le Verrier's calculations regarding Vulcan, a hypothesized planet within Mercury's orbit. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_446 ### Event 1085 (8FD123F1) **Date:** 4/4/1849 **Location:** Delhi, India **Description:** An exceptionally slow object observed in the sky, displaying variations in brightness. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_447 ### Event 1086 (F539A181) **Date:** 6/22/1849 **Location:** AUSTRIA **Description:** (Translated from French) Austrian troops attempt to send balloons for bombardment of Venice. Many balloons return to Austrian positions and explode there. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 33 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_358 ### Event 1087 (1A83DF71) **Date:** 8/8/1849 **Location:** SWITZERLAND, Gais **Description:** (Translated from French) At three o'clock, Sir Robert Inglis saw thousands of bright objects, resembling snowflakes in a cloudless sky. But although this deployment lasted only 25 minutes, none of the flakes fell to the ground. Inglis's servant thought he saw some of them had some kind of wings. During the same communication, Sir John Herschel recalled that in 1845 or 1846 his attention had been drawn to large objects crossing the air. Through the telescope he identified them as masses of hay two meters in diameter, but although only a whirlwind could have lifted them, he noticed that the air was quite calm. (Charles FORT: "The Book of the Damned" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 173, 174) Thousands of luminous objects are observed by the astronomer Inglis in a clear sky. Some seem to have wings or a luminous halo. (Desmond Leslie and George Adamski: "The S. V. have landed" - I read 1971, p. 36) Sir Robert Inglis saw at 3 o'clock thousands of bright objects resembling snowflakes in a cloudless sky. The phenomenon lasted 25 minutes. (Christiane PIENS: "The UFOs of the past" - Marabout 1977 - p.87) In 1849, on August 8 at 3 o'clock, the astronomer Inglis, from Gais, saw thousands of luminous discs crossing a clear sky, without interruption for twenty-five minutes. Some had some kind of wings or a crown-shaped glow. His servant saw them surrounded by a ring or a luminous halo. **Reference:** The Saucers at Heidi, cfr GREPI, Switzerland, 1997 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_359 ### Event 1088 (2531331D) **Date:** 9/2/1849 **Location:** FRANCE, MARSEILLE **Description:** (Translated from French) F. Arban Flies Over the Alps, the First During an Ascent From Marseille to Turin. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 33 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_360 ### Event 1089 (D8FF033F) **Date:** 10/7/1849 **Location:** SPAIN, BARCELONA **Description:** (Translated from French) F. Arban makes an ascent in Barcelona. He takes his wife with him; after a few minutes, he drops her off on the ground, leaves alone and heads over the Mediterranean Sea. He disappears forever. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 33 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_361 ### Event 1090 (5B16B6E0) **Date:** 10/14/1849 **Location:** Athens, Greece **Description:** Astronomer Schmidt documented an unidentified celestial object transiting across the sun's disk. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_448 ### Event 1091 (8C4A24BF) **Date:** 10/17/1849 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** BANGALORE, INDIA **Description:** Lt. Hershel. Luminous disks stream past sun. 1 pauses then burst / speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LESLIE, Desmond & ADAMSKI,G: Flying Saucers Have Landed; British Book Center, NY 1956 (Index 45) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_93 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "India", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "152", **HatchDesc:** "BANGALORE,INDIA:Lt HERSHEL:LUM.DISKS STREAM PAST SUN:1 PAUSES THEN BURST/SPEED", **LatLong:** "13.050001 77.650004", **LatLongDMS:** "13:03:00 N 77:39:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/13.050001,77.650004)", **State/Prov:** "KRN", **Strangeness:** "6" --- ## Year: 1850, 14 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1092 (5A5894B7) **Date:** 1850's **Location:** Sonora, California **Description:** Charles A. Dellschau and a group known as the Aero Club, comprised of inventive individuals, reportedly secretly built and flew revolutionary aircraft in the 1850s. Dellschau's illustrated notebooks detail their activities, claiming the aircraft used a substance called "supe" or "NB" with anti-gravity properties for propulsion and lights, but disbanded after the substance's inventor died, with mention of a possible larger secret organization called NYMZA. (Chapter 1, Ref 78) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_73 ### Event 1093 (3A47B05F) **Date:** 1850 **Location:** NORTH POLE **Description:** (Translated from French) During the expedition charged with finding Sir John Franklin and the members of his mission in the Arctic, Captain Austin had his sleds pulled by kites. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 33 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_362 ### Event 1094 (BD4745D1) **Date:** 1850 (approximate) **Location:** FRANCE, Poitou **Description:** (Translated from French) One evening, near the beach of the Egray river, a group of women had chatted until around midnight and were returning to the village. They had just crossed a bridge when there was a terrible noise and they saw "a cart with creaking wheels climbing the hill at an astonishing speed, pulled by goblins". It leapt over the hill and disappeared. (1850 (approx.)) **Reference:** Jacques VALLEE: "Chronicles of E.T. Appearances" - DENOEL 1972 - coll. J'AI LU, p. 89, 90 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_364 ### Event 1095 (B29DE20C) **Date:** 1850 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) One evening, near the banks of the Egray river, a group of women who had been chatting outside were returning to the village. They had just crossed a bridge when they heard a terrible noise and saw something that froze them with terror. An object, which they would describe, not finding a better expression, like a cart with creaking wheels, climbed the hill with astonishing speed. The terrified women huddled together at the sight of the apparition. One of them, although scared to death, made the sign of the cross. The strange cart leapt over the vineyard and disappeared into the night. The women hurried home and told the story to their husbands, who decided to investigate. They went to the scene... as soon as the sun rose. There was nothing to see anymore. (0 h) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1850.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_151 ### Event 1096 (01DEE2BB) **Date:** 1850 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) On the coast of Durham \(England\), one can see quite low glows above the ground. Ships, confusing these glows with lighthouses or beacons, run aground one after the other, so much so that the fishermen are accused. One of the witnesses finally describes these glows as considerably high above the ground, but without anyone finding their account. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1850.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_152 ### Event 1097 (380775D8) **Date:** 1850 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Farmers and fishermen living in a village of Easron Beach, near Newport \(Rhode Island\), spot a ship, the *Seabird*, heading straight for the coast. The sails are unfurled and the flags are flapping in the wind. The ship is heading towards a sandbank. It glides ashore without damage in front of the crowd that has gathered. Several people board the ship, but there is no one alive. Yet, the coffee is boiling in the stove and breakfast for the crew is ready. The logbooks are up to date and the navigation instruments remain in perfect condition. Only a small dog is quietly sitting on the deck. Not only is everything in order, but the smell of tobacco still lingers in the crew quarters. No bodies were washed ashore in the weeks that followed. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1850.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_153 ### Event 1098 (C1800DBA) **Date:** 1/15/1850 **Location:** Cherbourg, France **Description:** Around 7:45 P.M., during snowy weather, Mr. Fleury observed a luminous object above trees. The light exhibited a swinging motion around its base aligned with the horizon. The object flickered, appeared on the brink of vanishing, rekindled, and eventually vanished. Subsequent small flashes were observed moving south. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_449 ### Event 1099 (D29020C9) **Date:** 2/5/1850 **Time:** 18:50 **Location:** Sandwich, Kent, England **Description:** At 6:50 P.M., Mr. W. H. Weekes reported a small luminous object initially stationary near Orion. It moved gradually along a straight path, increasing in apparent size to about one third the moon's diameter. The object transformed from a speck of light to a "red-hot iron ball," lingered for approximately three minutes, and then vanished in a fiery display. The object had been motionless for 1 minute and 45 seconds before moving horizontally for 45 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_450 ### Event 1100 (9D3AFFDE) **Date:** 2/18/1850 **Location:** Athens, Greece **Description:** Astronomer Schmidt observed and reported an unidentified object passing in front of the Sun. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_451 ### Event 1101 (47D4B8D7) **Date:** 3/13/1850 **Location:** Paris, France **Description:** Mr. Goulvier-Gravier, founder of a meteoritics observatory, witnessed a magnitude 3 "shooting star" originating from the southeast. The object altered its course and reversed direction at 4:45 A.M. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_452 ### Event 1102 (68617CE3) **Date:** 9/15/1850 **Locations:** Wellington Channel; Cornwallis; Devon Islands; Nunavut; Canada **Description:** 6:20 p.m. Senior medical officer [Elisha Kent Kane](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha%5FKent%5FKane) and other crew members of the [USS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FAdvance%5F%281847%29) [Advance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FAdvance%5F%281847%29), participating in the First Grinnell Expedition to the Arctic to determine the fate of the lost Franklin Northwest Passage expedition, watch a balloon-like object over the Wellington Channel between Cornwallis and Devon islands, Nunavut, Canada. It is floating slowly northward and appears to be 2 feet long by 18 inches wide. After a short time, a small object appears below it. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Elisha Kent Kane, The U.S. Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, Harper and Brothers, 1854, [p. 190](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31822037764818&view=1up&seq=209&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_37 ### Event 1103 (8BCD0A23) **Date:** 10/3/1850 **Location:** Talcot Mt., near Hartford, CT, USA **Description:** Observer Graylord Wells reported a bright orange-hued meteor about a foot in diameter, accompanied by a fan-shaped train approximately 15 to 16 feet in length. The meteor ascended from east to west, passing near the moon, before altering its direction towards the southeast. The phenomenon descended gradually and disappeared on the southeastern horizon. The entire event, including the movement of its train, lasted for at least three minutes, and its visibility likely extended for an hour and a half, according to the observer's account presented by Professor Brocklesby. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_453 ### Event 1104 (0AF811B2) **Date:** 11/6/1850 **Location:** FRANCE, PARIS **Description:** (Translated from French) Clockmaker Jullien maneuvers an aerostat pisciform at the Hippodrome of Paris. The device has a length of 7 meters. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 33 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_363 ### Event 1105 (3EAC8087) **Date:** 12/8/1850 (approximate) **Location:** ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND **Description:** Violet meteor north going south. Shoots out small fiery ball / 90° to original trajectory. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 29) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_94 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "36", **HatchDesc:** "ABERDEEN,SCOTL:VIOLET METEOR N>S:SHOOTS OUT SML FIERY BALL/90° to ORIG TRAJ", **LatLong:** "57.166669 -2.133333", **LatLongDMS:** "57:10:00 N 02:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/57.166669,-2.133333)", **State/Prov:** "Scotland", **Strangeness:** "4" --- ## Year: 1851, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1106 (5712ED93) **Date:** 1851 **Time:** 9:30 **Location:** London, England **Description:** Unidentified objects were sighted, but with appearance and behavior that most likely would have a conventional explanation. Physiological effects were noted. Many discs were observed by one experienced male witness for 99 minutes. **Type:** ufo sightings **Reference:** _Flying Saucers Have Landed_, Desmond Leslie, British Book Center, 1953 **Reference:** [ThinkAboutIt](https://www.thinkaboutitdocs.com/1850-1859-ufo-alien-sightings/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_1019 ### Event 1107 (F0196CCE) **Date:** 9/4/1851 **Location:** ENGLAND, London **Description:** (Translated from French) At 9:30 in the morning, the Reverend W. Head (Read?) saw a multitude of luminous bodies pass through the field of his telescope, some moving slowly, others quickly. They seemed to occupy a large area of several degrees. Most of them were going from east to west, but some were going from north to south. Their number was prodigious and they were observed for 6 hours. W. Head had never seen anything like it before. He specifies that two members of his family had seen the objects in question. **Reference:** Charles FORT: "The Book of the Damned" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 171 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_365 --- ## Year: 1852, 6 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1108 (E2378B61) **Date:** 1852 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Giffard's Airship. See images/1852_Giffard_airship.jpg. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1852.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_154 ### Event 1109 (54C9D806) **Date:** 1852 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Observation of 3 round objects flying from West to East in Norway. (16 h) **Reference:** Flying Saucer Review, February 1956 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1852.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_155 ### Event 1110 (D8B798C5) **Date:** 8/12/1852 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Holyhead (Anglesey) and Sub-Hamdon (Somerset) **Description:** (Translated from French) A certain G.F.I. reported: "At 9:20pm my attention was suddenly drawn to what appeared to be a bright flash of light and turning in the direction from which it came (south-west) I saw a magnificent meteoric light of a shape which I describe below (lenticular). The colour was an intense blue and it occupied at least a quarter of the visible sky, the phenomenon being inclined towards the ground at an angle of 45°. This lasted from 30 to 40 seconds, gradually diminishing in thickness until it became only a narrow beam of light, the length remaining unchanged. Just before it went out the phenomenon began to tremble and undulate. The sky at that moment was very clear and without clouds and a light, fresh wind was blowing from the north-north-west.." Mr. R.W. Stoke reported the following: ".. Around 7:20pm my attention was drawn to a very bright flash and turning immediately in the direction from which it came, I saw a bright mass of light of about 15° in length in the shape of a diamond. This phenomenon remained visible for nearly ten minutes, gradually weakening.." (1852, August 12th to 13th) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" -Delarge 1977, p. 130-131 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_366 ### Event 1111 (16095CA9) **Date:** 10/10/1852 **Location:** Reims, France **Description:** M. Coultier-Gravier, compiling shooting star statistics, observed a distinctive "meteor" at 8 P.M. The third-degree object initially appeared near "nu" of Capricorn and followed a 30-degree path across the sky. Notably, the meteor altered its course from northwest to southwest, making a 90-degree turn. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_454 ### Event 1112 (0FD5C577) **Date:** 12/17/1852 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, near Dover **Description:** (Translated from French) It was a red sphere of a size equal to half of the full Moon, with a trail of six to seven times this dimension. It appeared in the center of a huge triangular cloud and it constantly emitted flashes of a very bright red light. A sound resembling a shrill whistle was heard. Having apparently crossed the Channel from southeast to northwest, the object exploded in a bright flash and a solid body was seen to fall into the waves about 800 m from the shore. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 131 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_367 ### Event 1113 (33D7F487) **Date:** 12/17/1852 **Time:** 05:00 **Location:** DOVER, KENT **Description:** Triangular cloud with tail appears / storm. 1/2 moon-size. Blast. Dissipates. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** AWARENESS (Quarterly) CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK: listed by year. (Index 77) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_95 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "13", **HatchDesc:** "DOVER,KENT:TRIANGLR CLOUD W/TAIL APPEARS/STORM:1/2 MOONSIZE:BLAST:DISSIPATES", **LatLong:** "51.166669 1.316667", **LatLongDMS:** "51:10:00 N 01:19:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.166669,1.316667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" --- ## Year: 1853, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1114 (2F5E345C) **Date:** 1853 **Location:** Paris, France **Description:** Amede Guillemin, residing on Rue Arnelot, witnessed a slow-moving object above Pere-Lachaise cemetery. The object, described as a "pale red disk," moved horizontally at an exceptionally leisurely pace. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_455 ### Event 1115 (623691B7) **Date:** 10/28/1853 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Redford **Description:** (Translated from French) At around 4:00 PM an enormous meteor flew over Redford from southwest to northeast. The size of a full moon, with a red hue and surrounded by a bluish halo with yellow spots, the body was followed by numerous small whitish globes. According to all the testimonies it seems that this "meteor" flew over the region at a relatively low altitude. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 132 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_368 --- ## Year: 1854, 2 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1116 (C3C1C957) **Date:** 3/21/1854 **Location:** Washington, D.C. **Description:** 9:30 p.m. People in Washington, D.C., see a brilliant light in the sky overhead “like a coal of fire glowing,” red in color and stationary. It is visible for 20–30 minutes before it fades away. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Atmospherical Phenomenon,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91911905/)” Gettysburg \(Pa.\) Adams Sentinel, March 27, 1854, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_38 ### Event 1117 (86ECEEC7) **Date:** 5/22/1854 **Location:** Unknown Location **Description:** A correspondent named R. P. Greg relayed that their friend witnessed a series of unidentified objects. The first object, comparable in size to Mercury, appeared near the planet. Following it was an elongated object, and behind that, a smaller round object. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_456 --- ## Year: 1855, 8 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1118 (B9949FD4) **Date:** 1855 **Location:** USSR, Sebastopol **Description:** (Translated from French) In France, the Pyrotechnics School continued its works and during the Crimean War, at the Siege of Sebastopol, the French Fusees Corps, with their 92 mm diameter devices, with a range of more than 6,000 meters obtained excellent results. (...) War rockets would soon be surpassed by the steel rifled cannon. **Reference:** "To the Assault of Space" Georges H. Gallet, ed. of Modern Thought, p. 34, 35 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_369 ### Event 1119 (74CE8123) **Date:** 1/21/1855 **Location:** New Haven, Connecticut **Description:** Around 10 P.M., an observer spotted a bright red sphere, roughly two minutes in diameter. The object initially appeared beneath the guards in Ursa Minor and exhibited apparent stillness. After approximately fifteen seconds, it gradually moved eastward, almost horizontally, with a slight undulating motion. The object passed near the star Benetuash in Ursa Major and vanished in the distance close to Denebola in Leo constellation. The observation extended for ten minutes, and there were no observed explosions or scintillations. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_457 ### Event 1120 (03BCEE6E) **Date:** 1/22/1855 **Locations:** New Haven, Connecticut; Eta Ursae Majoris; Denebola in the constellation Leo **Description:** 10:00 p.m. A witness walking in the public square in New Haven, Connecticut, sees a brilliant red fireball in the sky near the star Gamma Draconis. At first it is stationary but after 15 seconds it moves slowly toward the east with a slight undulatory motion. It passes below the star Eta Ursae Majoris and disappears not far from Denebola in the constellation Leo. The object is visible for 10 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Meteoric Phenomenon,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1855/01/25/76458138.pdf?pdf%5Fredirect=true&ip=0)” New York Times, January 25, 1855, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_39 ### Event 1121 (29C69D48) **Date:** 2/8/1855 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Devonshire **Description:** (Translated from French) And here is the journalistic version: "A great sensation is reported in the villages of Tapshamn Lymphstone, Exmouth, Teignmouth and Dawlish, caused by the discovery on February 8 of an incredible amount of strange and mysterious footprints" (in the thin layer of freshly fallen snow). Again, there is talk of the incredible multiplicity of footprints found in the very large area limited by the different villages. They were also found in the most unexpected places: gardens enclosed by high walls, open countryside and roofs of houses. In Lymphstone there was hardly a single garden that did not receive this indescribable visit. (...) It is said that the footprints were generally 25 cm apart. "The footprint of the foot resembles very closely the hoof of an ass and measures 4 cm, sometimes 6 cm." (...) the footprints were taken on both sides of the Este (small lake 3.5 km wide). (...) No animal leaves a straight footprint, not even man. Whatever the origin of these traces, they seemed to have raised the snow rather than compressed it. (February 8, 1855) **Reference:** Charles Fort: "The Book of the Damned" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, pp. 246 to 249 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_370 ### Event 1122 (0CDF2B04) **Date:** 2/26/1855 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The three-masted *James B. Chester* is found by the *Marathon*, southwest of the Azores, completely deserted. The sails are in bad condition. Tables, chairs are overturned, drawers pulled out, clothes and personal items are scattered on the deck. No traces of blood, weapons, or evidence of struggle are noticed. Neither water nor provisions are missing, the cargo is intact, and the ship is in excellent condition. (February 26) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1855.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_156 ### Event 1123 (8ACA3EAE) **Date:** 6/11/1855 **Location:** Bonn, Germany **Description:** Astronomers Ritter and Schmidt reported a dark unknown body crossing the sun's disk. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_458 ### Event 1124 (9891E766) **Date:** 8/11/1855 **Location:** Tillington, Sussex, England **Description:** Around 11:30 P.M., Mrs. Ayling and several other witnesses observed a red wheel-shaped object with spokes. The object emerged from behind hills and remained visible in the sky for an hour and a half. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_459 ### Event 1125 (6A4330E3) **Date:** 12/10/1855 **Location:** Copenhagen, Denmark **Description:** An unexplained object, ranging in size from the sun's apparent diameter to that of a star, appeared in the southwestern sky for approximately 10 to 12 minutes. The object's configuration underwent multiple changes, transitioning from a single mass to two or three masses alternately. The phenomenon illuminated a significant portion of the heavens around it. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_460 --- ## Year: 1857, 1 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1126 (0AB2657A) **Date:** 6/19/1857 **Alternate date:** 6/20/1857 **Location:** Carbondale, Pennsylvania **Description:** Sunset. A large cloud moves in over Carbondale, Pennsylvania, from the northwest, accompanied by considerable wind. It emits a dark-looking substance that falls to the ground, where it becomes highly luminous. It moves toward a large barn and passes through its center, setting it on fire, and continues on in a straight course for the woods, burning up the underbrush. It makes a path about 16 feet wide for a distance of 3 miles, and it finally stops against an outcrop of anthracite coal 60 feet in thickness. It leaves a sulfurous mass behind. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Extraordinary](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91912237/) [Meteoric Phenomenon,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91912237/)” Baltimore \(Md.\) Sun, June 27, 1857, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_40 --- ## Year: 1858, 3 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1127 (307458D8) **Date:** 1858 **Location:** Jay, Ohio, USA **Description:** Witnesses, including Mr. Henry Wallace, observed a large, uniquely designed vessel approximately 100 yards above the ground. The craft was manned by several very tall individuals. Speculation arose that the vessel hailed from Venus, Mercury, or Mars, potentially for exploration or leisure. Mr. Wallace described the vessel's intricate mechanical workings as advanced and precise, capable of a steady pace of about six miles per hour, with the potential for much higher speeds. Despite subsequent research efforts, the veracity of this account remains unverifiable due to lack of definitive historical evidence. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_461 ### Event 1128 (B424FADB) **Date:** 2/11/1858 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Meeting of [Bernadette Soubirous](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/SoubirousBernadette.html). (11 February) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1858.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_157 ### Event 1129 (292A6085) **Date:** 7/10/1858 **End date:** 1/7/1943 **Description:** Nikola Tesla (1858-1943), born in modern-day Croatia, was an inventor and electrical engineer renowned for his contributions to the development of alternating current (AC) electrical systems. His rivalry with Thomas Edison, who was a proponent of direct current (DC), is legendary in the history of science. Tesla's innovative work spanned a wide range, including radio waves, remote control drones/robotics, the Tesla turbine, wireless transmission, and the Tesla coil. Despite his profound contributions, he spent his later years in relative obscurity and died in New York City in 1943. The SI unit named after Nikola Tesla is the ["tesla,"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_(unit)) symbolized as "T." It is the unit of magnetic flux density (or magnetic induction) in the International System of Units. One tesla represents one weber per square meter and can also be viewed as the magnetic field strength that results in a force of one newton on a charge of one coulomb moving perpendicular to the field at a speed of one meter per second. **Type:** scientist **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_9 --- ## Year: 1859, 4 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1130 (AB142CFA) **Date:** 1859 **Location:** GRANDE-BRETAGNE, Pembroke **Description:** (Translated from French) An oblong UFO with red lights and a black center flew over the county. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 133 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_373 ### Event 1131 (CF59DE3A) **Date:** 3/26/1859 **Location:** Orgeres, France **Description:** Amateur astronomer Mr. Lescarbault reported observing a planetary-sized body crossing the sun's disk. His letter led to a meeting with Le Verrier, who aimed to validate the observation for the purpose of calculating an orbit for Vulcan, an intra-mercurial planet hypothesized by Le Verrier. Lescarbault's account included a detailed duration of the passage and an expectation that a circular, small black dot might be seen again in front of the sun, potentially representing the hypothesized planet. The interaction between Lescarbault and Le Verrier was significant in the context of their collaboration on this astronomical phenomenon. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_462 ### Event 1132 (FCA68FC2) **Date:** 6/10/1859 **Location:** ITALY, SOLFERINO **Description:** (Translated from French) From June 10 to 24: Italian Campaign. Frenchman Godard makes several captive ascensions and one free ascension in a hot air balloon in order to monitor the movements of the enemy troops (Battle of Solferino). **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 35 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_371 ### Event 1133 (7E4D55F0) **Date:** 7/1/1859 **Location:** USA, from St Louis to Henderson **Description:** (Translated from French) John Wise ascends from St. Louis aboard the balloon "The Atlantic" and travels 1850 km in 20 hours 45 minutes. He carries a 4.5 kg mail bag. He is accompanied by Mountain, Gager, and Hyde. Towards the end of the journey, the balloon is in difficulty above Lake Ontario: all available ballast is thrown out, including the mail (which will be recovered later) but the journey ends on solid ground in Henderson (Jefferson County). This trip sets a world record for distance. (July 1, 1859) **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 35 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_372 --- ## Year: 1860, 17 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1134 (048746F2) **Date:** 1860 **End date:** 1864 **Description:** Louis Pasteur’s key germ theory experiments **Type:** scientific advance **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_theory_of_disease#19th_and_20th_centuries) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_10 ### Event 1135 (7561A3D1) **Date:** 1860 **Location:** FRANCE **Description:** (Translated from French) France had a war rocket of 20 kilograms weight and a range of 3200 meters, after having a few years earlier eliminated from its artillery a rocket which, during the siege of Sebastopol in 1854-1856, had not given full satisfaction. (Between 1860 and 1899) **Reference:** "The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 15, 16 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_374 ### Event 1136 (8531ECF4) **Date:** 1/16/1860 **Location:** JAMAICA **Description:** (Translated from French) The inhabitants witness a true rain of fireballs falling from a cloudless sky. They notice that among these flashing balls, there are luminous bodies remaining visible for a long time and almost stationary. Some witnesses even collect a whitish gelatinous substance on the ground. **Reference:** Yves Naud: "Les E.T. et les OVNI dans l'histoire" Famot 1977, Volume 2, p. 207 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_375 ### Event 1137 (8ACE3112) **Date:** 1/29/1860 **Location:** London, England **Description:** Mr. Russell and three additional observers reported an unidentified object of planetary dimensions. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_463 ### Event 1138 (0DAE8696) **Date:** 3/1/1860 **Time:** 21:45 **Location:** Moscow, Russia **Description:** At 9:45 P.M., a star southwest of the Great Bear suddenly expanded in size and turned reddish, resembling iron at a high temperature. This anomaly persisted until 11:30 P.M., reaching half the moon's size, after which it faded. By midnight, the object vanished, replaced by a black speck among the stars. The event's author speculated about the possibility of the object's destruction, suggesting that astronomers and poets might explore its significance. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_464 ### Event 1139 (4D2F6835) **Date:** Summer 1860 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A vast superconstruction hovers over India. (Summer) **Reference:** Fort **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1860.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_158 ### Event 1140 (B0E256AB) **Date:** 7/13/1860 **Location:** WILMINGTON, DE **Description:** 60M object / 30m altitude. Type unknown. 3 glowing-balls trail / 30m intervals. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** CLARK, Jerome: UFO ENCOUNTERS & BEYOND; Signet Books 1993. 192pp. (Index 17) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_96 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "WILMINGTON,DE:60M OBJ/30m alt:TYPE UNK:3 GLOW-BALLS TRAIL/30m INTERVALS", **LatLong:** "39.733335 -75.550004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:44:00 N 75:33:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.733335,-75.550004)", **RelAlt:** "30", **State/Prov:** "Delaware", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 1141 (D1DED67A) **Date:** 7/13/1860 **Description:** In Wilmington, Delaware at 9:45 p.m. a pale blue light illuminated a 200-foot long cloud-like object in the sky that moved slowly and silently through the sky. At regular distances behind the cloud followed three "very red and glowing balls." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Gordon I.R. Lore, Jr. and Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 65 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4024 ### Event 1142 (E0FCDB21) **Date:** 7/17/1860 **Location:** Dharamsala, India **Description:** Following the day when a notable meteor fell in the region, an observer witnessed a sequence of lights in the evening sky around 7 P.M. The lights displayed patterns, each enduring for at least a minute, located over areas devoid of structures or roads. Some lights resembled fire balloons, while others appeared in the distance towards lower hills, and a few were closer to the observer's location. The observer ruled out common explanations like lanterns or bonfires and concluded these were genuine lights in the sky. Despite inquiries among the local population, the cause of these lights remained elusive. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_465 ### Event 1143 (BD6457AB) **Date:** 7/20/1860 **Locations:** Brooklyn, New York; Texas State University–San Marcos; Hudson River; New York; Philadelphia; Washington, D.C.; Baltimore; Norfolk **Description:** 9:40 p.m. A poem by Brooklyn, New York, poet [Walt Whitman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt%5FWhitman)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt%5FWhitman) “Year of Meteors \(1859-60\),” published in a later edition of Leaves of Grass, describes a “strange huge meteor-procession dazzling and clear shooting over our heads.” For many years, no one could identify the event. Then in 2000, Texas State University–San Marcos physicist Donald W. Olson discovered a painting by Hudson River artist [Frederic Edwin Church](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic%5FEdwin%5FChurch) depicting two large meteors streaming across the sky and dated July 20, 1860. An examination of contemporary newspapers revealed that this was probably Whitman’s meteor procession. Around 9:40 p.m., two meteors with trails, one behind another, are seen in New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Norfolk, and other locations in the East, proceeding slowly from northwest to southeast for nearly one minute. They are as bright as Venus. A rare event, and little understood until 1913, a meteor procession occurs when an earth-grazing meteor breaks apart and the fragments travel across the sky in the same horizontal path. Olson and his colleagues finally publish their discovery in the July 2010 issue of Sky & Telescope. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[The Wonders of the Heavens: The Meteor Train,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91912697/)” Brooklyn \(N.Y.\) Evening Star, July 21, 1860, p. 2; “[The Meteor of Friday Night,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91912986/)” New York Herald, July 22, 1860, p. 1; “Texas State Astronomers Solve Walt Whitman Meteor Mystery,” Office of Media Relations, Texas State University, May 28, 2010; David Dickinson, “[Remembering the Great Meteor Procession of 1860,](https://www.universetoday.com/103549/remembering-the-great-meteor-procession-of-1860/)” Universe Today, July 20, 2013 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_41 ### Event 1144 (AC6FB3AA) **Date:** 7/28/1860 **Location:** INDIA, Dhurmsalla **Description:** (Translated from French) The meteorites were collected almost immediately after their fall within a quarter of an hour. (...) The stones were so cold that they numbed the hands of the coolies. Yet they had fallen with a jet of light, a flame of fire three meters long and 60 cm wide. (...) **Reference:** Charles FORT: "The Book of the Damned" - ed. Eric Losfeld, 1967, p. 189 and 219 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_376 ### Event 1145 (F0B17B94) **Date:** 8/2/1860 **Locations:** Norfolk, Virginia; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania **Description:** 11:00 p.m. Another seeming procession of two meteors is observed in Norfolk, Virginia, moving with an undulating motion in the western sky in a northerly direction. One of the lights is clear red and the other is greenish, and they both emit flashes of light, leaving a sparkling trail. The phenomenon is also seen in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Some unnamed contemporary scientists compare it to the July 20 meteor procession. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Another](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91913274/) [Splendid Meteor,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91913274/)” Baltimore \(Md.\) Sun, August 6, 1860, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_42 ### Event 1146 (68382493) **Date:** 8/6/1860 **Location:** Norfolk, VA **Description:** Two objects, one red and one green, flew overhead together, moving with an undulating motion. (NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_0 ### Event 1147 (63C78957) **Date:** 8/6/1860 **Description:** Red objects with a green tint were seen flying in formation over Norfolk, Virginia, moving erratically with an "undulating motion, rising and subsiding." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Baltimore Sun, August 6, 1860; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. & Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 71 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4713 ### Event 1148 (6306F5B3) **Date:** 9/24/1860 **Location:** Nebraska City, USA **Description:** After sunset, witnesses Joel Draper and Mr. Beebout observed three bright objects in apparent formation. The first object resembled a quarter of the sun's edge in size, color, brightness, and shape. Positioned to the right and slightly higher, the second object was about one-third the size of the first. A third object, also about one-third the size, appeared directly above the first. These objects moved rapidly southwards while maintaining their initial arrangement. The sky was clear with no clouds or vapors, ruling out the possibility of sun dogs or mock suns. The illumination caused by the objects made the surroundings as bright as ten to fifteen minutes before sunset. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_466 ### Event 1149 (18C82DB7) **Date:** 11/7/1860 **Location:** USA, PHILADELPHIA **Description:** (Translated from French) T.S. Carlincourt Lowe makes a new ascent. This time it is to study the behavior of the balloon equipped with a gondola and a boat (in case of landing) with a view to crossing the Atlantic which the aeronaut still dreams of. (November 7, 1860) **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 35 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_377 ### Event 1150 (6DF2CCEC) **Date:** 11/10/1860 **Location:** Washington, D.C., USA **Description:** Just before sunset, multiple witnesses observed three unidentified objects flying over the capital. Described as "the size of a balloon," one object moved swiftly in a southwesterly direction. Despite the strong daylight, the object had its own distinct and brilliant illumination. Witnesses learned that two similar objects had been sighted earlier. The object in question changed its course from southwest to a direct westward path, gradually and quickly fading from sight as it moved away from the observers. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_467 --- ## Year: 1861, 4 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1151 (19AEC54B) **Date:** 1861 **Location:** North Atlantic Ocean **Description:** During a squall, three luminous bodies emerged from the North Atlantic Ocean and remained visible for at least ten minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_468 ### Event 1152 (F278A0B8) **Date:** 3/19/1861 **Location:** MENDOZA, ARG AND AREA **Description:** Round glowing-orbs all over. Huge quake kills thousands next day. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BANCHS, Rodolfo: LAS EVIDENCIAS de los OVNI; Rudolfo Alonso Editor, Argentina. 1976 (Index 120) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_97 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Argentina", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "824", **HatchDesc:** "MENDOZA,ARG+AREA:ROUND GLO-ORBS ALL OVR:HUGE QUAKE KILLS 1000s NEXT DAY.", **LatLong:** "-32.883335 -68.816670", **LatLongDMS:** "32:53:00 S 68:49:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-32.883335,-68.816670)", **State/Prov:** "MND", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1153 (933CE695) **Date:** 5/9/1861 **Location:** BELGIUM, Liège **Description:** (Translated from French) The inhabitants of Liège saw a strange reddish sphere the size of a church, spinning like a top in the sky. **Reference:** Yves Naud: "Les E.T. et les OVNI dans l'histoire" Famot 1977, Volume 2, p. 207 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_378 ### Event 1154 (02D1CB29) **Date:** 10/4/1861 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** New York, USA **Description:** Around 6 P.M., an enigmatic balloon carrying two men flew over the city at a significant altitude, traveling from west to east. Speculations arose among witnesses, suggesting that the balloon might be associated with traitors or a creation of Professor Lowe. However, both explanations were deemed impossible. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_469 --- ## Year: 1862, 4 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1155 (7AD63371) **Date:** 1862 **Location:** CHINA **Description:** (Translated from French) ... in the night a star was seen, as big as the moon, burning. It had an orange-red color like the fire of a furnace. It emitted such bright lights that one did not dare to look at it directly. When it appeared, a faint, lugubrious noise was heard. It moved at a vertiginous speed towards the north and suddenly stopped. It began to waver, suspended in the air. Suddenly this metal crepe divided into three parts, spitting into the sky thousands and thousands of luminous pearls that flew in all directions, the whole sky becoming multicolored. What a splendid spectacle! When the pearls fell up to three meters above the ground, all the colors immediately extinguished, but the roofs were still lit. (1862,) **Reference:** SHI BO: "China and the Extraterrestrials" ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p. 41, 42 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_381 ### Event 1156 (0F675951) **Date:** 5/31/1862 **Location:** USA **Description:** (Translated from French) T.S.C. Lowe Perfects a Captive Spherical Observation Balloon. **Reference:** Inforespace No. 54, 1980 source "Flights through the Ages" Hart Davis, Mac Gibbon, London 1974 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_379 ### Event 1157 (6094F457) **Date:** 6/18/1862 **Location:** USA **Description:** (Translated from French) T.S.C. Lowe employed the telegraph from a captive (June 18th 1862) **Reference:** Inforespace No. 54, 1980 source "Flights through the Ages" Hart Davis, Mac Gibbon, London 1974 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_380 ### Event 1158 (024B24F4) **Date:** 11/1862 **Location:** Morpeth, New South Wales **Description:** Early morning. Magistrate [Osman Edward Middleton](https://australianroyalty.net.au/tree/purnellmccord.ged/individual/I30385/Osman-Edward-Middleton) hears a “peculiar rushing noise” at Morpeth, New South Wales, and looks up to see a dark object traveling rapidly toward the southeast. It appears to be revolving on its axis. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** \[[Letter](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91913659/)\], Sydney \(N.S.W.\) Morning Herald, November 20, 1866, p. 5; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 167–173 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_43 --- ## Year: 1863, 6 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1159 (AFF0FDA8) **Date:** 4/27/1863 **Location:** SWITZERLAND, Zurich **Description:** (Translated from French) Henry Waldner had seen a large number of bright bodies moving from west to east, he alerted Dr. Wolf of the Zurich Observatory who was convinced of the reality of this strange phenomenon and informed him of the similar observation made by Signor Capocci of the Capodimonte Observatory in Naples, on May 11, 1845. The shapes were varied, or were they different aspects of the same shapes? Some bodies were star-shaped and had transparent appendages. (Charles FORT: "The Book of the Damned" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 172) At the Zurich Observatory, on April 27, 1863, Dr. Wolf sees a large number of bright discs coming from the east. Some have tails, others look like stars. **Reference:** Saucers in Heidi, cfr GREPI, Switzerland, 1997 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_382 ### Event 1160 (0956959E) **Date:** 4/27/1863 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Zurich, Wolf observes a large number of bright discs coming from the East. (April 27) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1863.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_159 ### Event 1161 (41808AFE) **Date:** 8/2/1863 **Location:** SPAIN, Madrid **Description:** (Translated from French) A luminous disc of reddish color, surmounted by a dome of fire, was seen in the sky above Madrid, towards the east. At first it was thought to be the appearance of a comet, but the immobility of the disc made it clear that they were mistaken. It was only after a long time that it began to turn very quickly, in all directions, horizontally and vertically. (1863, August 2 (not 12)) **Reference:** Charles GARREAU: "Alert in the Sky: The Abduction File" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1981, p.141 **Reference:** Peter KOLOSIMO: "Shadows on the Stars" - Albin Michel 1970, p. 316 which says "August 12"... **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_384 ### Event 1162 (34E43791) **Date:** 8/11/1863 **Location:** CHILE, Copiapo **Description:** (Translated from French) A giant bird of metallic appearance flew over the city with a motor noise. **Reference:** Pierre VIEROUDY: "These UFOs that announce the superhuman" - Laffont 1979, p. 43 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_383 ### Event 1163 (3A843E08) **Date:** 8/12/1863 **Time:** 23:00? **Location:** EAST / MADRID, SP **Description:** Luminous object / horizon. Halo / top. Hovers then maneuvers / all directions. / Gaceta de Madrid. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 346) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_98 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "60", **HatchDesc:** "E/MADRID,SP:LUMn.OBJ/HRZN:HALO/TOP:HVRS then MNVRS/ALL DIRs:/Gaceta de Madrid", **LatLong:** "40.450002 -3.666667", **LatLongDMS:** "40:27:00 N 03:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.450002,-3.666667)", **State/Prov:** "MDR", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 1164 (9F758836) **Date:** 8/12/1863 **Location:** Madrid, Spain **Description:** A luminous object resembling a comet was seen on the eastern horizon. It exhibited a reddish color and a blazing crown-like appendix on its upper part. Initially stationary, the object eventually started maneuvering rapidly in various directions, including horizontal movement, ascent, and descent. The idea that it was a comet was not a viable explanation for this phenomenon. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_470 --- ## Year: 1864, 4 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1165 (ECCD44D3) **Date:** 9/1864 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A [meteor](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Meteore.html) is observed in Leavenworth \(Galena\) in multiple parts or exploding. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1864.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_160 ### Event 1166 (DB4EF2AB) **Date:** 9/1864 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A [meteor](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Meteore.html) is observed by Colonel Bonneville in Cincinnati. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1864.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_161 ### Event 1167 (7DEE6CD7) **Date:** 9/1864 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) James Lumley, an old Rocky Mountain trapper, set out to trap in the mountains about 75 or 100 [miles](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/unites.html\#Mile) above the Great Falls of the Upper Missouri, near the Cadotte Pass. Shortly after sunset one evening, he saw a brightly lit body in the sky, moving very rapidly eastward. It was perfectly visible for at least 5 seconds, then suddenly split into several parts like the explosion of a rocket in the air. A few minutes later, he heard a loud explosion, which shook the ground very distinctly, followed shortly after by a loud rumbling, as if a tornado were passing through the forest. A strong wind arose at this moment, but subsided just as suddenly. The air was also filled with a peculiar smell, somewhat sulphurous.

The next day he found that about 2 miles from his camp, as far as he could see in every direction, a path had been cut through the forest, several rods wide --- giant trees uprooted or broken off at their base --- the tops of hills shaved off, and the ground plowed in many places. Enormous and extensive ravages are visible everywhere. Following the trace of this desolation, he quickly finds its origin by observing the shape of an immense stone sent onto the side of a mountain. An examination of this stone, or at least of its major visible part, shows that it has been divided into fragments, and that, in various places, it is marked with curious hieroglyphs. Lumley also finds other fragments of a substance resembling glass, and here and there dark spots, as if caused by a liquid. He thinks that the hieroglyphs are made by human hands, and that the stone itself, although a fragment of an immense body, must have been used for some purpose by animated entities. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1864.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_162 ### Event 1168 (60EFF1CC) **Date:** 11/1/1864 **Location:** Florence, Italy **Description:** A white fiery globe, significantly larger than the full moon, appeared nearly stationary in the air. The globe displayed shifting hues of orange and blue across its surface. After about a minute, it abruptly vanished on the spot. A smaller fiery orange ball was observed just below it right before its disappearance, sharing the same hue at that moment. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_471 --- ## Year: 1865, 8 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1169 (FE887F16) **Date:** 1865 **Description:** James Clerk Maxwell publishes “A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field” on electromagnetism. Maxwell derives an electromagnetic wave equation with a velocity for light in close agreement with measurements made by experiment, and deduces that light is an electromagnetic wave. **Type:** scientific advance **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Dynamical_Theory_of_the_Electromagnetic_Field) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_11 ### Event 1170 (90D875C3) **Date:** 1865 **Locations:** Baltimore; Moon **Description:** French novelist [Jules Verne](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules%5FVerne) publishes From the Earth to the Moon. It tells the story of the Baltimore Gun Club, a post–American Civil War society of weapons enthusiasts, and their attempts to build an enormous Columbiad space gun and launch three people—the Gun Club’s president, his Philadelphian armor-making rival, and a French poet—in a projectile with the goal of a lunar landing. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[From the Earth to the Moon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From%5Fthe%5FEarth%5Fto%5Fthe%5FMoon)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_44 ### Event 1171 (B81CFAAE) **Date:** 1865 **Location:** Cadotte Pass, 75-100 miles from the Great Falls of the Upper Missouri **Description:** There are pre-1900 reports of crashed UFOs resembling spaceships rather than dirigibles. In an incident from 1865 in western Montana, a mountain man witnessed a bright, luminous body in the sky that exploded, followed by a heavy explosion and rushing sounds. The next day, he discovered a path of destruction with uprooted trees, and he found a large stone with compartments and hieroglyphics, suggesting a possible interaction with advanced beings. (Chapter 2, Ref 105) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_99 ### Event 1172 (7DB759CC) **Date:** 4/10/1865 **Location:** MOON **Description:** Astronomer Ingall. Perfect point / Steller light / Mare Crisium! Also blots and lines. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** PINDEVIC, Thierry: Le NOEUD GORDIEN ou la FANTASTIQUE HISTOIRE des OVNI. Editions France-Empire, Paris 1979. (Index 51) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_99 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **NFO:** No craft seen, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "The Moon", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "99", **HatchDesc:** "MOON:ASTRONOMER INGALL:PERFECT POINT/STELLER LITE/MARE CRISIUM!:+BLOTS+LINES", **LatLong:** "90.000004 -0.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "90:00:00 N 00:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/90.000004,-0.000000)", **State/Prov:** "MCR", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 1173 (511CFD94) **Date:** Mid 9/1865 **Location:** USA, Cadotte Pass **Description:** (Translated from French) James Lumley, a trapper, saw in the evening a large light in the sky moving quickly in an easterly direction. The light was fully visible for only 5 seconds, when suddenly it split into particles, like a firework. A few minutes later he heard the sound of an explosion that shook the ground in vibrations, while a sound of a tornado was heard. Lumley did not pay more attention to the phenomenon, but the next day he discovered, 2 miles from his camping location, a hole in the forest, with giant trees broken off. Going around the damage he found a large stone embedded in the side of the mountain. This stone seemed divided into compartments and bore curious hieroglyphs. Lumley also found fragments of something resembling glass. The stone in question was examined in Leavenworth, Galena and Cincinnati by Colonel Bonneville. It is thought to be some kind of meteorite. (September mid, 1865) **Reference:** TASK and Jeroen Wierda PUFORI, 26.4.1997 **Reference:** The Cincinnati Commercial, October 30, 1865 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_385 ### Event 1174 (96D5F421) **Date:** 10/19/1865 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The Saint Louis Democrat reports the story of James Lumley from September 1864. (October 19) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1865.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_163 ### Event 1175 (9A0EADB1) **Date:** 10/30/1865 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The Cincinnati Commercial reports the story of James Lumley from September 1864 according to the St. Louis Democrat. (30 October) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1865.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_164 ### Event 1176 (86A95265) **Date:** 12/1865 **Locations:** Durham, England; Whitburn; Tyne; Sunderland; Lizard Point **Description:** The British Board of Trade asks Trinity House to investigate the “false lights” of the Durham, England, coast, mysterious revolving lights seen above a rocky headland at Whitburn by mariners negotiating a hazardous stretch of the northeast coast. Between 1860 and 1870, more than 150 ships are wrecked on the rocks near Whitburn after following a light or lights in the sky that they wrongly believe are from a lighthouse at the mouth of the Tyne. A commission led by Rear Admiral [Richard Collinson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FCollinson) meets in Sunderland on December 28 to interview witnesses and determine whether salvagers are responsible for the lights that are causing shipwrecks. Although the commission decides that the false lights are not deliberately lit, they are puzzled about the true cause. The lights and wrecks continue until January 1871 when the Souter Lighthouse is erected on Lizard Point. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[False Lights on the Durham Coast,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91939345/)” Newcastle Weekly Courant, January 12, 1866, p. 5; David Clarke, “[Britain’s First X-File?](http://drdavidclarke.blogspot.com/2010/08/britains-first-x-file.html)” August 14, 2010; David Clarke, “The False Lights of Durham,” Fortean Times 266 \(October 2010\): 40–42; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 77–79 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_45 --- ## Year: 1866, 4 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1177 (D4DB52D6) **Date:** 1866 **Location:** USA, Nebraska **Description:** (Translated from French) It was said to find a fiery serpent in Nebraska. It seemed to spit fire and there were illuminated stripes on its sides. The observation was immortalized by a popular song. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 133 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_387 ### Event 1178 (CF76BE92) **Date:** 1/1866 **Location:** FRANCE, Vence **Description:** (Translated from French) Balls of fire coming out of a very slow cloud moving in the sky. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 133 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_386 ### Event 1179 (878CB96B) **Date:** 5/4/1866 **Location:** MOON **Description:** Linne crater changes black to white. Small well-defined dots appear there. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LESLIE, Desmond & ADAMSKI,G: Flying Saucers Have Landed; British Book Center, NY 1956 (Index 126) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_100 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "The Moon", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "MOON:LINNE CRATER CHANGES BLACK to WHT:SMALL WELL-DEFINED DOTS APPEAR THERE", **LatLong:** "90.000004 -0.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "90:00:00 N 00:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/90.000004,-0.000000)", **State/Prov:** "CLN", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 1180 (9B332CEC) **Date:** 6/21/1866 **Description:** The US Hydrographic Office is established by Congress. It is assigned to the Navy Bureau of Navigation and collects reports from ships’ officers on observations of various marine phenomena, hazards, and other activities. Among the reports collected are meteors, ball lightning, and other celestial and meteorological phenomena. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[United States Hydrographic Office](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%5FStates%5FHydrographic%5FOffice)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_46 --- ## Year: 1867, 4 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1181 (5718FC55) **Date:** 6/10/1867 **Location:** SULPICIUS GALLUS, MOON **Description:** 3 black dots appear. Stay until 13 June when they vanish! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LESLIE, Desmond & ADAMSKI,G: Flying Saucers Have Landed; British Book Center, NY 1956 (Index 126) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_101 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "The Moon", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "204", **HatchDesc:** "SULPICIUS GALLUS,MOON:3 BLACK DOTS APPEAR:STAY UNTIL 13JUNE WHEN THEY VANISH!", **LatLong:** "90.000004 -0.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "90:00:00 N 00:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/90.000004,-0.000000)", **State/Prov:** "SLP", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 1182 (6DE1679B) **Date:** 11/4/1867 **Locations:** Waterworks Reservoir; Chatham, England **Description:** 3:00–4:00 p.m. James E. Beveridge is passing the mill by the Waterworks Reservoir in Chatham, England, when he and the miller see numerous black discs moving in the air to the west, some in groups, others scattered. They are visible for more than 20 minutes. In passing in front of the sun they appear like large cannon shot. Several groups pass over his head, disappearing suddenly, and leaving puffs of grayish brown smoke. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Three Strange Stories,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951000919116g&view=1up&seq=268&skin=2021)” Symons’s Monthly Meteorological Magazine 2 \(1867\): 130 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_47 ### Event 1183 (3E65F3E7) **Date:** 11/4/1867 **Description:** In the middle of the afternoon a large number of black discs in groups and separately passed rapidly through the sky over Chatham, England. The procession continued for more than 20 minutes. Several groups passed silently overhead, then vanished leaving a brown, smoke-like vapor. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jerome Clark, International UFO Reporter, Spring 2003, p. 20 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7455 ### Event 1184 (F97E409C) **Date:** 12/1867 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** Chatham, England **Description:** On the afternoon of Monday, the 4th, between 3 and 4 PM, a remarkable event occurred. Witnesses, including James E. Beveridge, observed numerous black disks in groups and scattered formations moving swiftly through the sky. The miller who first noticed it compared the disks to balloons. The disks, resembling large cannon shots when passing in front of the sun, persisted for over 20 minutes. As they flew overhead, they emitted grayish-brown vapor reminiscent of smoke before disappearing. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_472 --- ## Year: 1868, 14 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1185 (94047CA8) **Date:** 3/1868 **Location:** CHILE, Copiago (see July.. same affair?) **Description:** (Translated from French) A strange aerial construction bearing lights and making a great noise flew over the city at low altitude. Those who saw it described it as a giant bird covered in large scales and producing a metallic noise. **Reference:** Yves Naud: "Les E.T. et les OVNI dans l'histoire" Famot 1977, Volume 2, p. 207-208 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_388 ### Event 1186 (1568CDAC) **Date:** 3/15/1868 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** COPIAPO CHILE **Description:** Giant bird with scales. Metallic noise. Low altitude. No further details. / r8#001 / Charles Fort. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 16) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_102 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Chile", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "381", **HatchDesc:** "COPIAPO CHILE:GIANT BIRD W/SCALES:MTLC NOISE:LOW ALTITUDE:NFD:/r8#001 /C.FORT", **LatLong:** "-27.366668 -70.333337", **LatLongDMS:** "27:22:00 S 70:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-27.366668,-70.333337)", **State/Prov:** "Atacama", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1187 (33856A54) **Date:** 6/6/1868 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At the Radcliffe Observatory \(Oxford\), an object of light was observed moving in the sky, stopping, changing its course to the west, then to the south. (June 6) **Reference:** Trouvelet **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1868.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_165 ### Event 1188 (A20F263F) **Date:** 6/8/1868 **Location:** Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford University, England **Description:** 9:50 p.m. John Lucas Sr., an observer at Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford University, England, notices a comet- like object with a trail a bit west of Polaris. As he is pointing it out to some others, it begins moving west. It moves in a straight line at first, then moves south for a bit, then continues to the north. They watch it for 4 minutes until it disappears below the northwestern horizon. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Remarkable Meteor,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924069708760&view=1up&seq=523&skin=2021)” English Mechanic 7 \(July 10, 1868\): 351 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_48 ### Event 1189 (6ED643D0) **Date:** 6/8/1868 **Location:** Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford, England **Description:** Astronomers documented an unidentified luminous object at 9:50 P.M. The object displayed rapid movement across the sky, then halted and altered its course westward. Afterward, it changed direction again to the south, where it remained stationary for four minutes before proceeding northward. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_473 ### Event 1190 (5049AB94) **Date:** 7/1868 **Location:** CHILE, Copiapo (see also March.. same affair?) **Description:** (Translated from French) A gigantic bird with wide open eyes, shining like burning coals, covered with immense wings that beat with a metallic sound. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 133 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_389 ### Event 1191 (4901CD74) **Date:** 7/1868 **Location:** ENGLAND, Radcliff **Description:** (Translated from French) A dome, as large as a cart, flew for half an hour above Radcliff. **Reference:** Yves Naud: "Les E.T. et les OVNI dans l'histoire" Famot 1977, Volume 2, p. 208 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_390 ### Event 1192 (35A05492) **Date:** 7/1868 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Atacamena in the Copiago zone \(Chile\), a strange aerial construction pointing lights and producing engine sounds flew low over the city. The local population also described it as a giant bird covered in large scales producing a metallic noise. Although it did not land, this object is the first case of close observation of an unknown object at low altitude in the 19th century. (July) **Reference:** Fort 638 **Reference:** Anatomy 11 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1868.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_166 ### Event 1193 (618BBEDD) **Date:** 7/1868 **Location:** Copiago, Chile **Description:** A strange "aerial construction" bearing lights and making engine noises flew low over this town. Local people also described it as a giant bird covered with large scales producing a metallic noise. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_1 ### Event 1194 (6E08DB82) **Date:** 7/1868 **Location:** Copiago, Chile **Description:** A strange "aerial construction" bearing lights and making engine noises flew low over this town. Local people also described it as a giant bird covered with large scales producing a metallic noise. Although not an actual landing, this is the first instance of close observation of an unknown object at low altitude in the nineteenth century. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Fort 638; Anatomy 11 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_1 ### Event 1195 (1506EDAF) **Date:** 7/25/1868 **Location:** PARRAMATTA, AUST **Description:** Dream? Flying head invites observer(s) / flying ark. See reference! / r174p23. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO RESEARCH AUSTRALIA NEWSLETTER. (Details missing) (Index 821) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_103 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **MST:** Missing time or time anomaly, **ABD:** Human or animal abduction, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "PARRAMATTA,AUST:DREAM?:FLYING HEAD INVITES OBS/FLYING ARK:see ref!:/r174p23", **LatLong:** "-33.816668 151.005563", **LatLongDMS:** "33:49:00 S 151:00:20 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-33.816668,151.005563)", **State/Prov:** "NSW", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 1196 (5156FA5C) **Date:** 7/25/1868 **Location:** Parramatta, New South Wales **Description:** Engineer [Frederick William Birmingham](http://parramattaheritage.blogspot.com/2014/01/frederick-william-birmingham%5F9.html) of Parramatta, New South Wales, watches a bizarre procession of the faces of two prominent Australians \(Archbishop of Sydney [Frederic Barker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic%5FBarker) and New South Wales Premier [James](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FMartin%5F%28Australian%5Fpolitician%29) [Martin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FMartin%5F%28Australian%5Fpolitician%29)\) through the air as well as a vessel he calls an “ark.” He hears a voice suggesting that “That’s a machine to go through the air.” The voice comes from a “spirit” whom he describes as “like a neutral tint shade and the shape of a man in his usual frock dress.” After the ark maneuvers for a while in the air, the spirit says, “Have you a desire or do you wish to enter upon it?” He is then lifted up and carried through the air into the object about 60 feet away. The spirit guides him into the “pilot house” of the machine where he is given some papers with formulas on them that will help him construct a flying machine. He observes another UFO-like craft on March 9, 1873, and later attempts to build a mechanical replica of what he has seen. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Bill Chalker, “[The Mystery of a](https://www.auforn.com/Bill%5FChalker%5F25.htm) [Machine to Go through the Air: A UFO Vision?](https://www.auforn.com/Bill%5FChalker%5F25.htm)” 1998; Clark III 60–65; “[Did Frederick William Birmingham](http://theozfiles.blogspot.com/2013/11/did-frederick-william-birmingham-build.html) [Build a Flying Machine Based on His Bizarre 1868 UFO ‘Vision’ in Parramatta, NSW, Australia?](http://theozfiles.blogspot.com/2013/11/did-frederick-william-birmingham-build.html)” TheOzFiles, November 30, 2013; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 185–190 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_49 ### Event 1197 (AF0DA0B9) **Date:** 7/25/1868 **Location:** Parramatta, NSW, Australia **Description:** Mr. Frederick William Birmingham, an engineer, reported a sighting of a flying "Ark" resembling a vessel for air travel. While observing, he heard a voice confirming it was a machine for aerial travel. The machine performed maneuvers, including a curved descent. Birmingham described the machine's bottom, side, and front, noting its steel-blue color with fish-scale-like patterns. He experienced contact with a spirit who invited him aboard the machine. He entered a compartment with a table and was given papers with formulas. Subsequently, he encountered paranormal events like sky faces, poltergeist occurrences, and strange clouds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_474 ### Event 1198 (A9709D09) **Date:** 11/14/1868 **Time:** 00:10 **Location:** MEDFORD, MA **Description:** Astronomer Trouvelot. 5 hours / meteors. One / 90° turn. Some curve and reverse! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Periodical: UFO HISTORICAL REVUE (UHR Qtrly) Barry Greenwood. Issue #6 Mar., 2000. POB 176, STONEHAM,MA 02180 **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_104 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "44", **Elev:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "MEDFORD,MA:ASTRON.TROUVELOT:5 HRS/METEORS:ONE/90°TURN:SOME CURVE+REVERSE!", **LatLong:** "42.416669 -71.094448", **LatLongDMS:** "42:25:00 N 71:05:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.416669,-71.094448)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "5" --- ## Year: 1869, 11 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1199 (C3EBBA71) **Date:** 1869 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Members of the Royal Society in Britain observe on the [Moon](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Moon.html) lights arranged geometrically in the *Sea of Crises*. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1869.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_167 ### Event 1200 (4D007E1B) **Date:** 1869 **Location:** Mars **Description:** French poet and inventor [Charles Cros](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FCros) is convinced that pinpoints of light observed on Mars and Venus are the lights of large cities on those planets. He spends years petitioning the French government to build a giant mirror to communicate with the Martians and Venusians by burning giant lines on the deserts of those planets. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Alissa Walker, “[A French Inventor Once Proposed a Giant Mirror to Burn a Message on Mars,](https://gizmodo.com/a-french-inventor-proposed-a-giant-mirror-to-burn-a-mes-1647075915)” Gizmodo, October 16, 2014 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_50 ### Event 1201 (3AC3666A) **Date:** 6/8/1869 **Time:** 02:30 **Location:** Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA **Description:** Around 2:30 A.M., a large object emitting bright red light and resembling a circle of fire was observed in the western sky for approximately 30 minutes. The object periodically emitted rays resembling broom straws, with sparks akin to a Roman candle. This display alternated with a central ball of fire. Two witnesses, including the doorman of Pike's Opera House, observed the phenomenon descending behind Mount Davidson, with continuous blazing and sporadic fire jets until disappearing. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_475 ### Event 1202 (02B64ADF) **Date:** 7/2/1869 **Location:** USA, San Francisco **Description:** (Translated from French) Inventor Frederick Marrion constructed a torpedo-shaped balloon powered by steam, called the Avitor, and flew it over Shell Mound Park just outside the city. This craft was not very representative of the balloon cohort, but a few other flights were executed that year, including one under an exhibition hangar. (July 2, 1869) **Reference:** "UFO's - A Century of Sightings by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 2 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_391 ### Event 1203 (6ADA01FB) **Date:** 8/1869 **Location:** IRELAND, Cork, BELGIUM, Brussels **Description:** (Translated from French) Children, more than other groups of humans, disappear. We are not speaking here of ordinary runaways. In August 1869, 13 children disappeared in Cork, Ireland. No signs of kidnapping or hoax. During the same month there was a wave of child disappearances in Brussels, Belgium. **Reference:** John Keel: 'OUR HAUNTED PLANET', pp. 202-208: **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_392 ### Event 1204 (F5C87461) **Date:** 8/7/1869 **Location:** Adamstown, Pennsylvania **Description:** 12:00 noon. Four or five witnesses watch a luminous object land in a vacant lot about 200 yards north of the village of Adamstown, Pennsylvania. It is originally square-shaped but shoots up into a column about 3–4 feet high and 2 feet thick. The object glitters like a “column of burnished silver.” It gradually fades away and disappears after 10 minutes. No unusual traces are found on the lot. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Singular](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91943696/) [Phenomenon,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91943744/)” Lancaster \(Pa.\) Daily Evening Express, August 10, 1869, pp. 2–3 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_51 ### Event 1205 (2CE99AC9) **Date:** 8/7/1869 **Location:** St. Paul's Junction, Iowa **Description:** About 4:45 p.m. During a total solar eclipse, four amateur observers in St. Paul’s Junction \[possibly a railroad stop between Maynard and West Union\], Iowa, both with and without instruments independently notice a bright object below the lunar disc and just outside the solar corona. There are no visible stars in that position in the sky. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Was It the Intra-Mercurial Planet?](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015065413836&view=1up&seq=251&skin=2021)” Astronomical Register 7 \(1869\): 227–228; John Russell Hind, “[Stellar Objects Seen during the Eclipse of 1869,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c047864269&view=1up&seq=695&skin=2021)” Nature 18 \(1878\): 663–664 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_52 ### Event 1206 (D107C31D) **Date:** 8/7/1869 **Description:** Around midday a luminous square body settled near the center of an empty lot in Adamstown, Pennsylvania in Lancaster county. It shot up a shiny column four feet high and two feet thick that glittered like burnished silver. It gradually faded away, and was gone in 10 minutes. It frightened the four witnesses, but left no traces. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Skylook, March 1972 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4757 ### Event 1207 (D372024F) **Date:** 8/7/1869 **Location:** Adamstown, Pennsylvania **Description:** Around noon, a luminous object described as square descended from the sky and transformed into a 3 to 4 feet tall, 2 feet thick column. The object had a reflective quality, resembling burnished silver, and landed in a dry, swampless area 200 yards north of the village. After 10 minutes, the object vanished. Despite witnesses gathering at the landing spot, no traces of the object's landing were found. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_476 ### Event 1208 (2D513736) **Date:** 8/7/1869 **Location:** Ottumwa, Iowa **Description:** Approximately 25 minutes before a solar eclipse's totality, Professor Zentmayer, an astronomer, observed bright objects moving across the solar crescent from one cusp to the other. Each object took two seconds for the crossing, with clear, well-defined points indicating distance from the telescope. Similar objects were also reported by Professor Swift in Mattoon, Illinois, and by individuals in Shelbyville, Kentucky, observed by Alvan Clark Jr., George W. Dean, and Professor Winlock. The coordinated sightings across different locations ruled out the possibility of local insects or wind-carried seeds as explanations. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_477 ### Event 1209 (E5944F02) **Date:** 8/16/1869 **Location:** MARE CRISIUM, MOON **Description:** Astronomers. Odd lights maneuver / changing patterns til March / 1870. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: The FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY; Henry Holt, NY 1955; HC (Index 73) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_105 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "The Moon", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "MARE CRISIUM,MOON:ASTRONOMERS:ODD LITES MNVR/CHANGING PATTERNS TIL MAR/1870", **LatLong:** "90.000004 -0.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "90:00:00 N 00:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/90.000004,-0.000000)", **State/Prov:** "CPL", **Strangeness:** "5" --- ## Year: 1870, 18 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1210 (5F537755) **Date:** 1870 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Photo taken in the winter of 1870-1871 above Mount Washington. See images/1870-Winter_MtWashington_NewHampshire.jpg. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1870.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_168 ### Event 1211 (3B1E7073) **Date:** Spring 1870 **Location:** NORWAY, Alen **Description:** (Translated from French) Lars Lillevold's grandmother saw something strange which she later described as a flying object. She also observed someone in the object, who waved at her. (1870, Spring) **Reference:** Krogh: HESSDALSRAPPORTEN., 1984, 11., THE HESSDALEN REPORT., 1985, 7. and THE HESSDALEN REPORT., 1971, 7, listing by Ole Jonny Braenne **Reference:** First possible CE-3 incident. **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_394 ### Event 1212 (2DE21609) **Date:** Spring 1870 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Ålen, Norway, Lars Lillevold's grandmother sees something she will later describe as a flying object. She also states that someone waved at her from this object. (Spring) **Reference:** \[Krogh: HESSDALSRAPPORTEN., 1984, 11\] \[THE HESSDALEN REPORT., 1985, 7\] \[THE HESSDALEN REPORT., 1971, 7\] **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1870.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_170 ### Event 1213 (E51201C4) **Date:** Spring 1870 **Location:** Alen, Norway **Description:** A flying object was observed in the sky by Lars Lillevold's grandmother. An occupant on the object gestured to her, beckoning for her attention. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_478 ### Event 1214 (811FA1A2) **Date:** 3/22/1870 **Location:** ATLANTIC OCEAN - CAPE VERDE, Lat. N. 5°47' Long. W. 27° 52' **Description:** (Translated from French) Captain F. W. Banner, commander of the "Lady of the Lake", took a bearing and recorded in his logbook: "... the sailors on my ship saw in the sky a remarkable cloud. It had a circular shape with a half circle inscribed divided into four parts, the dividing line beginning at the center of the circle and extending outward, then curving back. The object moved from a point 20° above the horizon to another at 80°. Then it headed NW while it had come from the SE. It was light gray, like a cloud color, much lower than the other clouds, it moved against the wind. It presented itself obliquely to the wind then decided to go straight into the eye of the wind. The shape was visible for half an hour. It disappeared due to the darkness. **Reference:** Charles FORT: "The Book of the Damned" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 217, 218 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_393 ### Event 1215 (AD7E8CF2) **Date:** 3/22/1870 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Captain Banner and the crew of the *Lady of the Lake*, a steamship, observed for 30 minutes a luminous halo disk with a sperm-like tail. Drawing by Banner. (22 March) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1870.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_169 ### Event 1216 (B71A8633) **Date:** 3/22/1870 **Location:** SS / ATLANTIC **Description:** Light grey saucer flies into wind / 30 minute(s). Hook-shape appendage / r221p15. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 16) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_106 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "35", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "SS/ATLANTIC:LITE GREY SCR FLIES INTO WIND/30min:hook-shape appendage/r221p15", **LatLong:** "5.783334 -27.866668", **LatLongDMS:** "05:47:00 N 27:52:00 W", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/5.783334,-27.866668)", **State/Prov:** "NAT", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1217 (6D6E7E40) **Date:** 3/22/1870 **Locations:** North Atlantic; 860 miles from the coast of West Africa **Description:** 6:30 p.m. Capt. Frederick William Banner, master of the barque Lady of the Lake, is sailing in the North Atlantic 400 miles north of the Equator and 860 miles from the coast of West Africa when he sees a “curious- shaped” light-gray cloud in the south-southeast. It is circular, with four rays or arms extending from the center to the edge, and a curved tail. It is visible for about 50 minutes until it is too dark to see. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Frederick William Banner, “[Extract from Log of Barque ‘Lady of the Lake,’](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hxgncd&view=1up&seq=183&skin=2021)” Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 1 \(1873\): 157; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 89– 109 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_53 ### Event 1218 (91EFC94D) **Date:** 3/22/1870 **Description:** At 6:30 p.m. in the Atlantic Ocean south of Cape Verde, the crew of the steamship Lady of the Lake sighted a gray object in the sky divide into four connected sections while it flew against the wind. Behind it trailed a long hook connected to the center of the UFO. It was visible for at least 30 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Gordon I. R. Lore and Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 46; Harold T. Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 57; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 11 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1610 ### Event 1219 (CD50B6EE) **Date:** 3/22/1870 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** Atlantic Ocean **Description:** At 6:30 P.M., Captain Frederick William Banner and his crew on the American bark "Lady of the Lake" spotted an object while halfway between Senegal and Natal, Brazil. The object, observed in the south-southeast, appeared as a light gray circular cloud with a semicircle at the center and four arm-like extensions reaching from the center to the circle's edge. Additionally, a distinct fifth ray extended from the center beyond the circle. Moving to the northeast below the cloud cover, the object remained visible until 7:20 P.M., positioned about 30 degrees above the horizon. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_479 ### Event 1220 (39E94932) **Date:** 4/5/1870 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** GENT = GAND, BELGIUM **Description:** Several / observer(s). Ring becomes wheel going [to] ovoid going [to] fish shape. Vibrant bright red and fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The UFO REGISTER. CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK. (annual sightings catalog.) (Index 75) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_107 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "GENT=GAND,BELGIUM:SVRL/OBS:RING BECOMES WHEEL>OVOID>FISH SHAPE:VBRITE RED+FAST", **LatLong:** "51.200002 3.716667", **LatLongDMS:** "51:12:00 N 03:43:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.200002,3.716667)", **State/Prov:** "Belgium", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1221 (2D534E77) **Date:** 8/15/1870 **Time:** 20:45 **Location:** Dunbar, Scotland **Description:** At around 8:45 P.M., a bright sparkling ball of light with a blue tinge appeared approximately 45 degrees above the northern horizon. The ball emitted a tail of the same bright color, extending towards the north-east. The object initially appeared motionless but later exhibited a second tail branching off at a 45-degree angle, creating a forked appearance. This secondary tail intermittently disappeared and reappeared. Lasting about 20 minutes, the phenomenon eventually moved slowly in a south-westerly direction. Despite its striking display, no noise or explosion accompanied its passage, drawing significant attention and excitement from nearby villagers. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_480 ### Event 1222 (29BA3787) **Date:** 9/23/1870 **Location:** Paris-London **Description:** (Translated from French) 66 Balloons, 100 Passengers, Managed to Leave Paris, Besieged by Prussian Troops (September 23, 1870 to January 28, 1871) **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air, Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck - Ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 38, with Details **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_396 ### Event 1223 (26057F5A) **Date:** 9/25/1870 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, London **Description:** (Translated from French) The London "Times" of September 26, 1870, described a strange object seen as it passed in front of the moon. It was elliptical with some kind of tail, and it took about thirty seconds to go from one side of the moon to the other. (Donald KEYHOE: "Flying Saucers Exist" ed. Corrêa Paris 1951, p. 80) Passage in the sky of an object heading towards the Moon: some kind of ellipse-shaped craft, with some kind of tail that remained visible for about 30 seconds. **Reference:** Peter KOLOSIMO: "Shadows on the Stars" - Albin Michel 1970, p. 316 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_395 ### Event 1224 (83ED5B84) **Date:** 9/26/1870 **Locations:** Berlin, Germany; Eiswerder island **Description:** A luminous object with a tail is seen in the constellation Lyra by [Reginald Brabazon, 12th Earl of](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald%5FBrabazon%2C%5F12th%5FEarl%5Fof%5FMeath) [Meath](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald%5FBrabazon%2C%5F12th%5FEarl%5Fof%5FMeath)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald%5FBrabazon%2C%5F12th%5FEarl%5Fof%5FMeath) second secretary of the British legation to the North German Confederation, in Berlin, Germany. Possibly a light pillar reflection caused by a bright arc-light source at a military installation on Eiswerder island. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Brabazon, “[A Meteor,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91944654/)” London Times, September 30, 1870, p. 9; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 111–116 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_54 ### Event 1225 (797A3502) **Date:** 9/26/1870 **Time:** 12:15 **Location:** Berlin, Germany **Description:** At 12:15 AM, an observer using a 4.5-inch achromatic telescope with a power of 46 noticed a luminous object with a comet-like tail moving slowly across the field of view. The object seemed to originate from Vega and move towards Epsilon Lyrae. The transit took around 30 seconds, and just before reaching the edge of the observer's view, the object vanished suddenly. While the observer initially considered it a falling star, the prolonged visibility in the telescope suggested otherwise. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_481 ### Event 1226 (E2CDB01E) **Date:** 11/17/1870 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN - various places **Description:** (Translated from French) In the night thousands of English people saw flying saucers above several of their cities. Astronomer Maunder speaks of one of the phenomena he himself observed: "A large, round, bright and green shape appeared on the horizon in an east-northeast direction, like a rising star, and like a star, but much faster, it crossed the sky in a straight line and at a regular speed. Passing the meridian, exactly under the Moon, it took on the shape of a very elongated ellipse. Some observers spoke of an object shaped like a cigar, a torpedo or a spindle." [note from vog: the Paris balloons???] **Reference:** Peter KOLOSIMO: "Shadows on the Stars" - Albin Michel 1970, p. 317 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_397 ### Event 1227 (2CE19CBF) **Date:** Winter 1870 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Photograph of a cigar-shaped object in front of a cloud formation above Mount Washington \(New Hampshire\). (Winter) **Reference:** *Summit Mt. Washington, Winter 1870-1871 Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1871, by Clogh & Kimball, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington*, Detail of a 3D/stereo view \> [UFO Updates](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2002/mar/m06-023.shtml) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1870.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_171 --- ## Year: 1871, 11 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1228 (A297FBE9) **Date:** 1871 **Description:** English astronomer [Richard A. Proctor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FA.%5FProctor) writes Other Worlds Than Ours, in which he discusses the question of the plurality of worlds in the light of new facts. He suspects that Venus is likely the “abode of living creatures not unlike the inhabitants of earth.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Richard A. Proctor, [Other Worlds Than Ours](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433069107484&view=1up&seq=11&skin=2021), Appleton, 1871 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_55 ### Event 1229 (24683423) **Date:** 1/17/1871 **Location:** FRANCE, Pontmain (Normandy) **Description:** (Translated from French) While the children see and hear the holy virgin, all the witnesses notice in the sky three bright stars delimiting the space of the apparition. These stars were never seen again in the same place. **Reference:** Paul MISRAKI - Mame **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_398 ### Event 1230 (CD17A447) **Date:** 8/1/1871 **Location:** FRANCE, Marseille **Description:** (Translated from French) A large red body moving slowly was visible for fifteen minutes. (Charles FORT: "The Book of the Damned" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 226) A large round and wide body had been seen above Marseille. (Donald KEYHOE: "Flying Saucers Exist" ed. Corrêa Paris 1951, p 80) An enormous silver-colored machine passes through the sky. (August 1, 1871) **Reference:** Charles GARREAU: "Alert in the Sky: The Abduction File" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1981, p. 142, date of May 3 of the same year **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "The Chronicle of UFOs" - Delarge 1977 - p. 134-135 with the complete timing by the witness Coggia, astronomer **Reference:** Henry DURRANT: "The Black Book of S.V."- Laffont 1970 - p.64 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_399 ### Event 1231 (9A7D3C4D) **Date:** 8/1/1871 **Time:** 10:40 **Location:** MARSEILLE, FR **Description:** Meteor going quickly / 20 minute(s). Several stops and 90° turns. Drops going [to] horizon. / Nature Oct. '1871. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 190) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_108 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "MARSEILLE,FR:METEOR>>/20min:SVRL STOPS+90°TURNS:DROPS>HRZN:/NATURE OCT1871", **LatLong:** "43.250002 5.383334", **LatLongDMS:** "43:15:00 N 05:23:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.250002,5.383334)", **State/Prov:** "Bouches-du-Rhône", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 1232 (B2812806) **Date:** 8/1/1871 **Location:** Marseille Observatory, France **Description:** 10:43 p.m. Astronomer [Jérôme Eugène Coggia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A9r%C3%B4me%5FEug%C3%A8ne%5FCoggia) at Marseille Observatory, France, watches a slow, blood-red fireball move across the sky and change course twice before falling to the earth. He sees it for 20 minutes and 20 seconds. Possible earth-grazing meteor or a candle balloon. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jérome Eugène Coggia, “[Observation d’un bolide,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31822009519000&view=1up&seq=403&skin=2021) [faite à Observatoire de Marseille le 1](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31822009519000&view=1up&seq=403&skin=2021)[er](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31822009519000&view=1up&seq=403&skin=2021) [août,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31822009519000&view=1up&seq=403&skin=2021)” Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l’Académie des Sciences 73 \(1871\): 397–399; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 117–119 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_56 ### Event 1233 (590BCA8C) **Date:** 8/2/1871 **Time:** 22:43 **Location:** Marseille, France **Description:** Camille Flammarion reports an observation by Mr. Coggia, who discovered a comet. At 10:43 P.M., Mr. Coggia witnessed a long-lasting "bolide" that differed from traditional meteors due to its slow progression across the sky. Described as a "magnificent red object," it moved eastward for an extensive nine-minute duration. After a pause, it changed direction, moving north, and became stationary at 10:59. Resuming its eastward course, the object eventually disappeared from sight at 11:03 P.M. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_482 ### Event 1234 (6D862A73) **Date:** 8/23/1871 **Location:** FRANCE, Jarny (Moselle) **Description:** (Translated from French) In the middle of the day a dark gray almost black snake was visible in the sky. According to many witnesses who were able to observe it, it must have been at least 200 m long. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 135-136 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_400 ### Event 1235 (EEBC9FC9) **Date:** 8/29/1871 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In the United States, formations of complex objects are seen, some triangular, some round, others of various shapes; some seem to hover, one seemed to be in difficulty, falling and oscillating from side to side. (29 August) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1871.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_172 ### Event 1236 (CB112C65) **Date:** 8/29/1871 **Location:** MEUDON, FR **Description:** Astronomer Trouvelot. Several orbs and triangles. 1 / dead leaf drop. / r221p15. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 17) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_109 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "MEUDON,FR:ASTRONOMER TROUVELOT:SVRL ORBS+TRIANGLES:1/DEAD LEAF DROP:/r221p15", **LatLong:** "48.800002 2.233333", **LatLongDMS:** "48:48:00 N 02:14:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.800002,2.233333)", **State/Prov:** "HDS", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1237 (D491D987) **Date:** 10/4/1871 **Location:** ENGLAND, High Wycombe (Buckinghamshire) **Description:** (Translated from French) For more than 100 years, the secret of William Robert Loosley, a carpenter entrepreneur, was kept secret. It was his great-granddaughter who discovered the description of the event among papers in a drawer of the old desk. Wycombe at that time was only a small village. On the 4th of October at 3:15 in the morning he woke up, felt uncomfortable and went out into the garden. A star, brighter than the full moon, passed through the sky, followed by an astonishing thunderclap, as the sky was clear and without clouds. The object stopped in mid-flight, began to sway while descending. It seemed to land in the nearby forest. The next day Loosley went in search of the object. After a long time, as he poked his walking stick into a pile of dead leaves, he saw something strange, metallic, like a container, 55 to 60 cm long, covered with curious bubbles. "Suddenly something opened with the sound of a well-oiled piece, an eye came out, covered with glass and 2 to 3 cm wide. A few moments later a second eye opened, sending a purple light beam. Then a third one, which made a rod appear a little bigger than a pencil. I didn't want to stay there anymore. As I left, the machine started up, tracing three small furrows in the ground. When I reached the clearing, I noticed that similar furrows crossed and intertwined everywhere. The machine stopped for a short moment, a kind of pincer came out, digging in the ground, and a dead rat came out. It was illuminated 2 to 3 times by the purple light. Then the corpse was sprayed with a liquid before being taken to a closed opening by a panel. In my haste to leave, I lost my cane. The machine swallowed my cane. It followed me, like a sheepdog, forcing me in my flight to follow the path it wanted, close to another metal box, bigger. "In panic, he looked up and saw a light like a moon that seemed to make light signals. Before being able to determine the sequences, the light disappeared. Loosley then fled to his house running. In the night, unable to sleep, he saw through the window a light descending in the direction of the clearing he had visited during the day. After a moment the light rose and finally disappeared. He got up, put the whole story on paper, and locked the manuscript in his desk. Loosley died in 1893. (1871, October 4th and 5th of) **Reference:** Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDEL: "The World's Greatest Ufo Mysteries" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p. 82, 83 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_401 ### Event 1238 (27DB0EDC) **Date:** 10/4/1871 **Time:** 03:20 **Location:** HIGH WYCOMB, BUCKS **Description:** Night lights. Box found / leaves. Sprouts eyes and probes. Catches rat! References. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLUNDELL, Nigel & BOAR, Roger: The WORLDS GREATEST UFO MYSTERIES; Octopus, London 1989 & PB/Berkley Books, NY 1990 (Index 92) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_110 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **RBT:** Possible robot or "Grey", mechanical motions, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "44", **HatchDesc:** "HIGH WYCOMB,BUCKS:NLTS:BOX FOUND/LEAVES:SPROUTS EYES+PROBES:CATCHES RAT!:REFS.", **LatLong:** "51.611114 -0.744444", **LatLongDMS:** "51:36:40 N 00:44:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.611114,-0.744444)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "12" --- ## Year: 1872, 10 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1239 (8F50079F) **Date:** 1872 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A very modern ship for its time, the *Iron Mountain*, 60 m long, 10 m wide, carrying 55 passengers plus crew, vanished in the Missouri \(United States\). **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1872.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_173 ### Event 1240 (FA4ECC1C) **Date:** 1872 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The Mary Celeste found abandoned near the Azores, see images/MarieCeleste\_300.jpg. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1872.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_174 ### Event 1241 (7D518EA2) **Date:** 8/31/1872 **Location:** Rome, Italy **Description:** Camille Flammarion, a French astronomer and author, records an observation of a slow-moving object in the sky. The object's trajectory was distinct from that of a meteor, indicating that it was not a typical meteoric event. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_483 ### Event 1242 (6AFBD8E8) **Date:** 11/24/1872 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The *Dei Gratia*, a brigantine, cuts through the waters near the Azores when it encounters a seemingly helpless ship. The sea is calm. It is the British brigantine, the *Mary Celeste*, drifting slowly, all sails out. The *Dei Gratia* sends a boat and some men, who board the ship. The ship is deserted. An uneasiness takes hold of the new arrivals. Laundry is still drying on the deck and, in the cabin, teacups are still arranged, ready to be drunk. In the cabins, a small harmonium is open, with a sheet of music on the music stand. Children's toys are scattered on the floor and, in the captain's office, his gold watch is found. On a cushion, the imprint of a small child's head can be guessed. As no boat is missing, the sailors scan the sea in the hope of seeing a body or a head, floating, but in vain. No other ship was crossing in the area and yet, all these traces of abandonment are recent. Nothing is floating. It seems that the cabins had been abandoned in a hurry, the second of the *Dei Gratia*, Oliver Deveau, who boarded the *Mary Celeste*, would later declare. The crew seems to have acted in panic. The men had indeed left their personal possessions, that is to say that their clothes were still in their place... Nothing is missing, not even their pipes, one of which is still warm and smoking, so dear to any sailor.

The captain was accompanied by his wife and daughter. A half-hemmed skirt is still engaged on the table of a sewing machine. Only the chronometer, the sextant and the logbooks, including the nationality certificate, are missing. Only a cat emits faint meows and it is neither hungry nor scared. The cargo --- 1700 barrels of raw alcohol --- has not been touched. The total value of the boat and its cargo is estimated at around 8500 £. Traces of boarding with something are found on the *Mary Celeste*: grooves from a cutting instrument, *on both sides* and a few feet from the bow, about fifty centimeters above the flotation, are judged to be very recent, and not due to the action of time. A deep cut is also found on the starboard railing. Oliver Deveau declared that he had no idea of the origin of this cut. Near this cut, brown spots are found on the deck, directly above, seeming to have been caused by blood. It is then suspected that Captain Moorehouse, of the *Dei Gratia*, and his crew, had massacred the crew of the brigantine in order to receive the reward for any discovery of a drifting wreck and its contents.

However, the report of the doctor who performed an analysis from the blood spots remained in a sealed envelope and was not revealed until 14 years later \(which did not prevent the suspects from being prosecuted on mere presumptions\). The doctor, Doctor Patron, declared to have removed with a pair of scissors several brown red spots, thick 1 mm and about 1 cm in diameter, on the deck and on the railing. After these negative experiments, I feel authorized to conclude that, in the current state of our scientific knowledge, there is no blood, neither in the spots found on the deck of the *Mary Celeste*, nor in those found on the blade of the sword I examined. The origin of these brown red spots is not revealed. A sword is found, covered with the same brown spots. In the bosun's cabin, on his table, there is a slate where the temperature, the time, the notes of the dial were written: November 24th, 11am, 36° north latitude, 27° west longitude, fine weather. A line passed, one can read: Strange, my dear wife.. (November 24th, 11am) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1872.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_175 ### Event 1243 (F8D752D9) **Date:** 12/7/1872 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, King's Sutton (Banburry) **Description:** (Translated from French) The inhabitants saw at 1 o'clock a kind of haystack crossing the space, accompanied like a meteor, by fire, dense smoke and a sound of railway. It was sometimes very high, sometimes very close to the ground. The effect was that of a tornado: trees and walls were knocked down. The object disappeared "all at once". **Reference:** Charles FORT: "The Book of the Damned" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 185 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_402 ### Event 1244 (17250E99) **Date:** 12/7/1872 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In King's Sutton, Banbury \(Great Britain\), an object resembling a haystack flies in an irregular trajectory. Sometimes at high altitude, sometimes very low, it is accompanied by fire and dense smoke. It produces the same effects as a tornado, causing trees and walls to fall, then suddenly disappears. (December 7th, 1am) **Reference:** Fort 189 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1872.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_176 ### Event 1245 (F86ED0C7) **Date:** 12/7/1872 **Time:** 01:00 **Location:** BANBURY, ENG **Description:** 'Haystack' going [to] high and low. Wrecks trees and walls. Smoke and flame. Vanishes. / r221p15. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 2) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_111 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **ODR:** Odors associated with UFO's, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "102", **HatchDesc:** "BANBURY,ENG:'HAYSTACK' >HI+LO:WRECKS TREES+WALLS:SMOKE+FLAME:VANISHES:/r221p15", **LatLong:** "52.066669 -1.333333", **LatLongDMS:** "52:04:00 N 01:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.066669,-1.333333)", **RelAlt:** "2", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 1246 (66E54AC4) **Date:** 12/7/1872 **Location:** Banbury, UK **Description:** 1:00 a.m. At King's Sutton an object resembling a haystack flew on an irregular course. Sometimes high, sometimes very low it was accompanied by fire and dense smoke. It produced the same effect as a tornado, felling trees and walls. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_2 ### Event 1247 (2CACBE98) **Date:** 12/7/1872 **Time:** 0100 hours **Location:** Banbury, Great Britain **Description:** At King's Sutton an object resembling a haystack flew on an irregular course. Sometimes high, sometimes very low it was accompanied by fire and dense smoke. It produced the same effect as a tornado, felling trees and walls. It suddenly vanished. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Fort 189 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_2 ### Event 1248 (3F71A602) **Date:** 12/7/1872 **Description:** At King's Sutton in Banbury, England an object resembling a haystack flew on an irregular course at one o'clock in the morning. Sometimes flying very high, sometimes very low, it was accompanied by fire and dense smoke. It produced much the same effect as a tornado, felling trees and walls. It vanished suddenly. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 2 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8250 --- ## Year: 1873, 12 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1249 (DB79C03A) **Date:** 1873 **Description:** Maxwell published A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism as a summary of his work on electromagnetism **Type:** scientific advance **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Maxwell%27s_equations) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_12 ### Event 1250 (DE85F056) **Date:** 1873 **Locations:** Wellesley, Massachusetts; Mars **Description:** English-American geologist and psychometrist [William Denton](https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/denton-william-1823-1883) of Wellesley, Massachusetts, publishes volume 3 of The Soul of Things, in which he describes his astral visit to Mars along with his sister Anna Cridge and wife Elizabeth. He finds it harbors a thriving civilization with a technology based on aluminum. He reports that they soar above traffic on their individual fly-cycles and seem particularly fond of air travel, with as many as 30 Martians occupying some of the large flying conveyances. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** William Denton, Soul of Things, Wellesley, Mass.: Elizabeth M. F. Denton, 1873, vol. 3, [pp. 171–267](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015033393680&view=1up&seq=175&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_57 ### Event 1251 (B28CEEC8) **Date:** 3/9/1873 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** PARRAMATTA, NSW **Description:** 3 brown colored clouds. Large object extends screws going down. Saucer appears between screws. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO RESEARCH AUSTRALIA NEWSLETTER. (Details missing) (Index 821) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_112 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "PARRAMATTA,NSW:3 BRN CLOUDS:LRG OBJ EXTENDS SCREWS↓:SCR APPEARS BETWEEN SCREWS", **LatLong:** "-33.833335 151.000007", **LatLongDMS:** "33:50:00 S 151:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-33.833335,151.000007)", **State/Prov:** "NSW", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1252 (E199A459) **Date:** Late 3/1873 **Locations:** Taylorsville (now Philo); Bristol Township; Lawrence Road; New York Herald **Description:** Evening. Thomas Inman and his son are traveling home from the village of Taylorsville \[now Philo\], Ohio, and are possibly in Bristol Township when they see a bright light descending swiftly with a roaring noise. It strikes a short distance in the road \[probably Lawrence Road\] ahead of them, flickers and flares, then fades. A man dressed in a suit of black carrying a lantern emerges from the object. He walks a few paces and steps into a buggy, which Inman has not noticed before. The buggy begins to move silently and quickly, even though there is no horse attached to it, until it reaches a deep gully, into which it plunges and disappears. Historian [William](https://digital-collections.columbuslibrary.org/digital/collection/ohio/id/4682/) [Alexander Taylor](https://digital-collections.columbuslibrary.org/digital/collection/ohio/id/4682/)[,](https://digital-collections.columbuslibrary.org/digital/collection/ohio/id/4682/) who supplies the story to the New York Herald, vouches for the witnesses. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Very Like](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35995802/new-york-daily-herald/) [a](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/74675522/new-york-daily-herald/) [Whale,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/74675522/new-york-daily-herald/)” New York Herald, April 8, 1873, p. 7; Clark III 1123–1124; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 175–191 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_58 ### Event 1253 (EA87071E) **Date:** 6/2/1873 **Location:** Paris, France **Description:** Astronomers from the Paris Observatory witnessed three round objects in the sky. These objects were seen moving slowly at an estimated altitude of 80 kilometers, and they left no visible trails behind them. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_484 ### Event 1254 (D14C029C) **Date:** 7/1873 **Location:** USA, Fort Scott (Kansas) **Description:** (Translated from French) A similar one was observed the next day, above Fort Scott. (flaming object, detached from Mars) (Henry DURRANT: "The Black Book of UFOs" - Laffont 1970 - p.64) "Cotton farmers were frightened by a bright object that rushed towards them. This silver snake plunged and gained altitude several times. A team of horses panicked and the driver thrown under the wheels was killed on the spot. (July beginning 1873) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "The Chronicle of UFOs" - Delarge 1977 - p. 136 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_403 ### Event 1255 (DED81A8B) **Date:** 8/30/1873 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** Brussels and Ste-Gudule, Belgium **Description:** Approximate date. At 8 P.M., an object resembling a star emerged above the horizon in a clear sky. The object exhibited a starlike appearance and gradually ascended for two minutes before abruptly vanishing. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_485 ### Event 1256 (47388E27) **Date:** 9/10/1873 **Location:** NEAR CLERMONT-FERRAND, FR **Description:** 3cm stones fall very slowly. Normal fall rate on rebound. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 89) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_113 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "nr CLERMONT-FERRAND,FR:3cm STONES FALL VERY SLOWLY:NORMAL FALL RATE ON REBOUND", **LatLong:** "45.766669 3.083333", **LatLongDMS:** "45:46:00 N 03:05:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.766669,3.083333)", **State/Prov:** "Puy-de-Dôme", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1257 (8509CE8C) **Date:** 10/6/1873 **Location:** Atlantic Ocean **Description:** (Translated from French) Failure of W. Donaldson Across the Atlantic in a Spherical Balloon **Reference:** Inforespace No. 54, 1980 Source "Flights Through the Ages" Hart Davis, Mac Gibbon, London 1974 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_404 ### Event 1258 (5B1F8C7C) **Date:** 11/20/1873 (approximate) **Location:** USA, Bonham (Texas), **Description:** (Translated from French) It was broad daylight when a strange object, moving at a very high speed, appeared in the sky, to the southwest of the town. The inhabitants watched it for a moment, not believing their eyes. The only flying machine they knew was the hot air balloon. But this object was terrifying, and the speed at which it moved distorted its silhouette. Frightened farmers hid under their cars. The people of the town locked themselves in their homes. A few brave souls remained in the streets. The mysterious object circled Bonham twice, then moved east and disappeared. Descriptions varied, giving it a round or oval shape and a cigar shape. (Donald KEYHOE: "Flying Saucers Exist". Corrêa Paris 1951, p. 78) A luminous disc made 3 laps around Bonham and flew away. (November 20th, 1873 (Summer?)) **Reference:** Christiane PIENS: "UFOs of the Past" - Marabout 1977 - p.88 which gives November 20th as the date. **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_405 ### Event 1259 (ADBA82FF) **Date:** 11/20/1873 (approximate) **Location:** USA, Fort Scott - or Fort Riley? (Kansas) **Description:** (Translated from French) Twenty-four hours after this incident, a similar craft was seen at Fort Scott. Soldiers in panic scattered when it passed over them. It disappeared in a few seconds in the direction of the north. (Donald KEYHOE: "Les soucoupes volantes existent". Ed. Corrêa Paris 1951, p. 78) An hour later a disc descended over the cavalry troops during a parade at Fort Riley (Kansas) and scared the horses. (Summer (20th November?) 1873) **Reference:** Christiane PIENS: "Les Ovni du passé" - Marabout 1977 - p.88 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_406 ### Event 1260 (B78BA89A) **Date:** 11/30/1873 **Location:** Poissy, France **Description:** Multiple observers witnessed a maneuvering object with a red color akin to Mars. The object's presence persisted for about 10 minutes. Initially sighted in the North above the Big Dipper, it then approached the star 'gamma' without making contact, followed by a series of curved movements before disappearing in the western sky. Camille Flammarion and Mr. Vinot, the editor of Journal du Ciel, conducted inquiries that corroborated the reported sighting. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_486 --- ## Year: 1874, 10 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1261 (46A27D46) **Date:** 1874 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Birth of [Charles Fort](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/FortCharlesHoy.html). **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1874.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_177 ### Event 1262 (2C6A2B2F) **Date:** 1874 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A Professor Schafarick sees a strange, lit and shining object passing slowly in front of the Moon and remaining visible for some time afterwards. I don't know what to make of this... **Reference:** Vallée, *Anatomy of a Phenomenon* p. 28 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1874.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_178 ### Event 1263 (8DB93F49) **Date:** 4/24/1874 (approximate) **Location:** PRAGUE, CZ **Description:** Astronomer Schafarick. Vibrant bright slow white object crosses moons face going [to] space. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 17) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_114 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Czech and Slovak Republics", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "PRAGUE,CZ:ASTRONOMER SCHAFARICK:VBRITE SLOW WHT OBJ CROSSES MOONS FACE >SPACE", **LatLong:** "50.083336 14.433334", **LatLongDMS:** "50:05:00 N 14:26:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.083336,14.433334)", **State/Prov:** "LUN", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 1264 (EA0D0855) **Date:** 4/24/1874 **Locations:** Prague; Czech Republic **Description:** 3:30 p.m. Chemist and astronomer [Vojtěch Šafařík](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vojt%C4%9Bch%5F%C5%A0afa%C5%99%C3%ADk) of Prague \[now in the Czech Republic\] sees “an object of so peculiar a character that I do not know what to make of it.” It is a dazzling white object slowly crossing the moon. He first sees it in front of the moon, then watches it against the “deep blue sky like Sirius or Vega in daylight.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Vojtěch Šafařík, “[Telescopic Meteors,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015065413646&view=1up&seq=223&skin=2021)” Astronomical Register 23 \(1885\): 205–211 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_59 ### Event 1265 (B4A319FE) **Date:** 4/24/1874 **Location:** Prague, Czechoslovakia **Description:** Professor Schafarik observed a dazzling white object in front of the three-quarter moon around 3:30 in the afternoon. Using a 4-inch achromatic telescope with a power of 66, he noticed the object while the sun was shining brightly. The object appeared as a bright white star on the moon's disc and moved slowly from E.S.E. to W.N.W. Once it left the moon's bright disc, it continued to shine in the deep blue sky, resembling prominent stars like Sirius or Vega during daylight. The object had a sharp appearance without a noticeable diameter. Professor Schafarik expressed uncertainty about the nature of the object. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_487 ### Event 1266 (630BD225) **Date:** Summer 1874 **Location:** USA, Newport, Oregon **Description:** (Translated from French) In 1874, Newport was the scene of one of the strangest events. Muriel Trevenard, a 16-year-old girl, suddenly disappeared from the third floor of the old Yaquina Bay villa where she was and was never found again. (1874, Summer) **Reference:** continued in 1966 **Reference:** UFO Roundup, Volume 5, Number 11. **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_408 ### Event 1267 (014E80B3) **Date:** 7/6/1874 **Location:** MEXICO, Oaxaca **Description:** (Translated from French) A kind of giant trumpet 130 meters long, suspended vertically and oscillating gently, is visible for 5 to 6 minutes. (July 6, 1874) **Reference:** Charles FORT: "The Book of the Damned" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 226 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_407 ### Event 1268 (2893FA31) **Date:** 7/6/1874 **Location:** OAXACA, MEXICO **Description:** 130M spiral 'trumpet'. 60M bell hangs going down. Floats 5 minute(s) and vanishes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The UFO REGISTER. CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK. (annual sightings catalog.) (Index 76) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_115 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Mexico", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "1552", **HatchDesc:** "OAXACA,MEX:130M SPIRAL 'TRUMPET':60M BELL HANGS ↓:FLOATS 5min+VANISHES", **LatLong:** "17.050001 -96.700005", **LatLongDMS:** "17:03:00 N 96:42:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/17.050001,-96.700005)", **State/Prov:** "OAX", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 1269 (AB860558) **Date:** 7/6/1874 **Description:** In Oaxaca, Mexico a 130-meter long spiral-shaped "trumpet" and a 60-meter diameter bell hovered and floated in the sky for five minutes and then vanished. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Charles Fort, Book of the Damned, p. 275 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3854 ### Event 1270 (BEEFC721) **Date:** 8/13/1874 **Locations:** Pascagoula, Mississippi; Gulf of Mexico **Description:** 11:00 p.m. A large, “luminous electric cloud” flies over the western edge of Pascagoula, Mississippi, from the northwest to the southeast. It illuminates the ground and emits heat so intense that some witnesses think their houses are about to ignite. When last seen over the Gulf of Mexico, it renders the spars and rigging of a ship “distinctly visible.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Singular Phenomenon,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91946167/)” Pascagoula \(Miss.\) Star, August 22, 1874, p. 2 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_60 --- ## Year: 1875, 6 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1271 (A57B938B) **Date:** 2/1875 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Pwllheli (Wales) **Description:** (Translated from French) "A few days ago we saw something we had never seen before: lights, eight in total, stretching over an estimated distance of 13 km and moving at times horizontally, at times vertically or in zigzag. Sometimes they had a very bright blue color, sometimes they looked more like electric light (...) They disappeared at one point, but they quickly came back, as bright as at the beginning..." (February 1875) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 138 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_409 ### Event 1272 (A91DB11C) **Date:** 2/17/1875 **Location:** Pwllhi, Caernarvonshire, Wales **Description:** Eight lights were observed moving erratically with variations in color and brightness. Witnesses reported the lights changing from light blue to bright carriage lamp-like light and even resembling electric lights. The lights moved in horizontal, perpendicular, and zigzag patterns at an estimated distance of 8 miles. The lights intermittently dimmed and reappeared over a short span of time. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_488 ### Event 1273 (66B7251C) **Date:** 4/1875 **Location:** At sea, Gulf of Mexico **Description:** (Translated from French) Edward L. Moss was on board the HMS Bulldog, cruising a few kilometers north of Vera Cruz in the Gulf of Mexico, when a line of light appeared on the northern horizon and, without any breath of wind, approached the boat and then passed it in a series of short pulsating lights. (April 1875) **Reference:** Charles FORT: "The Book of the Damned" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 215 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_410 ### Event 1274 (C9BC89D7) **Date:** 4/15/1875 (approximate) **Location:** GMX NEAR VERACRUZ, MX **Description:** Sea Captain. Luminous straight lines appear / sea surface. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SANDERSON, Ivan: INVISIBLE RESIDENTS; World Publishing HB 1970 & Avon Books PB 1973 (Index 97) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_116 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NFO:** No craft seen, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Mexico", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "GMX nr VERACRUZ,MX:SEA CAPTAIN:LUMINOUS STRAIGHT LINES APPEAR/SEA SURFACE ", **LatLong:** "19.250001 -95.916671", **LatLongDMS:** "19:15:00 N 95:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/19.250001,-95.916671)", **State/Prov:** "GMX", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 1275 (22E0285D) **Date:** 5/6/1875 **Location:** PAKISTAN, Barisal **Description:** (Translated from French) For the first time, mysterious detonations are spoken of, which still perplex scientists and experts today. English people passing near Baarisal, a small village located to the west of the mouth of the Ganges, 70 miles south of Dacca, heard cannon shots that seemed to come from all corners of the horizon. **Reference:** Yves Naud: "Les E.T. et les OVNI dans l'histoire" Famot 1977, Volume 2, p. 210 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_411 ### Event 1276 (AC327171) **Date:** 12/1875 **Location:** INDIA, Calcutta **Description:** (Translated from French) Report by explorer G.B. Scott: "In December 1875, when I was travelling from Calcutta to Assam, crossing the Sundarbans, the weather was calm, the sky clear, no atmospheric disturbances were foreseeable. During the day, the noise of conversations and navigation prevented me from hearing anything else. At night, when we stopped on the banks of the canals, far from the villages and surrounded by miles of marshes, there was nothing to break the silence except the lapping of the water and the fall of stones, and at regular intervals, some kind of cannon shots. Sometimes one, sometimes two or three in a row. They seemed to be fired from far away, but never from the same distance." **Reference:** Yves Naud: "The E.T. and UFOs in History" Famot 1977, Volume 2, p. 210 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_412 --- ## Year: 1876, 6 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1277 (F08F31CB) **Date:** 1/12/1876 **Location:** Sheridan, Pennsylvania **Description:** A man riding home on horseback encountered a bright light on a creek bank, initially intense but diminishing as it seemed to move away. The witness urged his horse forward and saw the light again in a field, accompanied by a white-clothed human-like figure gliding along the ground. When the figure approached within 100 yards, the horse bolted forward, nearly unseating the witness. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_489 ### Event 1278 (4C95DB3A) **Date:** 3/1876 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Through a clear sky, in a strip of land in a Kentucky village, chunks of beef 5 to 10 cm square fall like a shower on the ground and trees, but only within a strip of land 100 m long and 50 m wide. (March) **Reference:** New York Times **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1876.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_179 ### Event 1279 (19A79A1A) **Date:** 3/3/1876 **Location:** USA, Bath Country (Olympian Springs?) (Kentucky) **Description:** (Translated from French) Under a completely clear sky, flakes (gelatinous) from 5 to 10 cm² fell in a dense shower on the ground and trees, but limited to a strip of land 100 m long by 50 m wide. (Charles FORT: "The Book of the Damned" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 53) It was seen falling from a cloudless sky a substance having the appearance of flesh. Flakes from 5 to 20 cm² fell in a shower covering the ground, trees and fences, in a corridor 50 m wide and 100 m long. (March 3, 1876) **Reference:** Inforespace n° 52 - 1980 p. 4 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_413 ### Event 1280 (88F72A3B) **Date:** 4/4/1876 **Location:** Peckleloh, Germany **Description:** Mr. Weber from Berlin reported observing a potential intra-mercurial planetoid around 4:25 AM Berlin Mean Time. The sighting was communicated to astronomer Le Verrier by Astronomer Wolf in August 1876. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_490 ### Event 1281 (E5AE704D) **Date:** Winter 1876 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Christiania \(Norway\), large worms crawl along the streets while the ground is particularly frozen \(possible wormfall\). (Winter (or Winter 1877)) **Reference:** Armand/Holm-Hansen: UFOER OVER NORGE., 1971, 22 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1876.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_180 ### Event 1282 (7E0128F3) **Date:** 12/21/1876 **Locations:** Topeka, Kansas; western Pennsylvania; Columbus, Ohio; Rochester, Indiana **Description:** 8:30–8:45 p.m. A bright bolide that explodes and breaks up into a group of 20–100 smaller balls is seen over a wide swath of the US from Topeka, Kansas, to western Pennsylvania. Over Columbus, Ohio, it is described as “a cluster or flock of meteors seemingly huddled together, like a flock of wild geese, and moving with the same velocity and grace of regularity. The color of their light was a yellowish red, like red rocket-balls.” A stony chondrite falls 3 miles northwest of Rochester, Indiana, at the same time. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** James Glaisher, et al., “Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors during the Year 1876–77,” Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 47 \(1877\): 98, [149–152](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101076796562&view=1up&seq=257&skin=2021); Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 144–145 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_61 --- ## Year: 1877, 16 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1283 (E05FA626) **Date:** 1877 **Location:** Unknown City, UK **Description:** Three meteor-like objects moving together with "remarkable slowness" flew across the sky, visible about three minutes, "moving with the same velocity and grade of regularity. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_3 ### Event 1284 (2EF13815) **Date:** 2/27/1877 **Location:** GERMANY, Peckloch **Description:** (Translated from French) ...a yellow rain of gold fell, the coloring matter of which consisted of four different organisms, with the total exclusion of pollen. These organisms had respectively the shape of an arrow, a coffee bean, a horn and a disc. **Reference:** Charles FORT: "The Book of the Damned" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 41 **Reference:** Monthly Weather Review, May 1877 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_414 ### Event 1285 (F5574BAB) **Date:** 3/17/1877 **Location:** Gunnersbury, England **Description:** A sizeable red "star" was observed around 8:55 PM in the Serpens constellation. Its brightness exceeded that of Arcturus. Over a span of at least 10 minutes, the object alternated between increasing and diminishing in magnitude, appearing to flash, before ultimately vanishing. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_491 ### Event 1286 (4CB2E2DA) **Date:** 3/23/1877 **Location:** FRANCE, Vence **Description:** (Translated from French) The lights that appeared in the sky were described as almost blinding balls of fire, coming from a cloud of one degree in diameter and moving with relative slowness. They were seen for more than an hour heading North and it was said that 8 or 10 years before similar ones had been observed in Vence itself. **Reference:** Charles FORT: "The Book of the Damned" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 233, 234 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_415 ### Event 1287 (C97E2505) **Date:** 3/23/1877 **Location:** Vence, France **Description:** Dazzlingly bright balls of fire, described as luminous, emerged from a cloud-like formation with a diameter of about one degree. These lights moved at a relatively slow pace and remained visible for over an hour as they moved northward. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_492 ### Event 1288 (A8755929) **Date:** 3/27/1877 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN **Description:** (Translated from French) At 22:50, a phenomenon identical to that of Vence four days earlier was observed. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 139 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_416 ### Event 1289 (94A1A3E5) **Date:** 3/27/1877 **Location:** BELGIUM, Ghent (East Flanders) **Description:** (Translated from French) A bright disc flew at low altitude over the city of Ghent emitting "a great noise". **Reference:** Yves Naud: "The E.T. and the UFOs in History" Famot 1977, Volume 2, p. 213 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_417 ### Event 1290 (8B46E03D) **Date:** 4/1877 (approximate) **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Aldershot **Description:** (Translated from French) A silhouette resembling Spring Heel Jack appeared outside an army post in Aldershot. Two sentinels, very good shots, fired almost at point-blank range and hit him, as he refused to stop at their cries. The creature made a terrible leap and disappeared, leaving no traces of blood on the ground. (Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDEL: "The World's Greatest UFO Mysteries" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p. 84) Great return of "Spring Heel Jack". "..sentries from two guard posts were frightened by the appearance of two bright spectres in the night, as if they were covered in phosphorus (...) The shapes could make leaps of ten meters in length.." (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 139) A resident sees "a strange being in tight clothes wearing a shiny helmet rising into the air". His testimony is confirmed by two sentinels who also saw him and even shot at him, to no avail. This apparition, according to their words, "paralyzed them with fear". (1877, April (May 15?)) **Reference:** Yves Naud: "Les E.T. et les OVNI dans l'histoire" Famot 1977, volume 2, p. 213 which locates the phenomenon on May 15 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_418 ### Event 1291 (51DEFD3F) **Date:** 5/15/1877 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Aldershot \(Hampshire\), a being in tight-fitting clothes \(like tights\) wearing a shiny helmet rises into the air above two sentinels who shoot at him, to no avail. The apparition has paralyzed them with what they describe as a blue fire. The character is identical to that of "Jack Spring-heeled" who made a name for himself in [1837](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/1837.html) and [1838](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/1838.html). (May 15) **Reference:** FSR 61.3 **Reference:** [Vallée](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/ValleeJacques.html) 1988 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1877.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_181 ### Event 1292 (2679A193) **Date:** 5/15/1877 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Coney Island \(Brooklyn\), a winged human figure performed aerial acrobatics above the crowd of bathers. This strange being would be seen again until [1880](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/1880.html). **Reference:** \[Letter from W. H. Smith on September 18th to the *New York Sun*\] \[Keel 1975\] **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1877.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_182 ### Event 1293 (B0EE66C8) **Date:** 5/15/1877? **Location:** ALDERSHOT, HAMPS **Description:** Helmeted figure floats over guards who shoot. Stunned / beam. / r221p15. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 3) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_117 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NFO:** No craft seen, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "ALDERSHOT,HAMPs:HELMETED FIG.FLOATS OVR GUARDS WHO SHOOT:STUNNED/BEAM:/r221p15", **LatLong:** "51.250002 -0.750000", **LatLongDMS:** "51:15:00 N 00:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.250002,-0.750000)", **RelAlt:** "2", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 1294 (960E2ABA) **Date:** 9/7/1877 **Location:** USA, Bloomington (Indiana) **Description:** (Translated from French) A light blinking regularly with an interval of 4 seconds flew over the city. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 139 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_421 ### Event 1295 (EA2CB78A) **Date:** 9/7/1877 **Location:** Bloomington, Indiana, USA **Description:** Mr. John Graham observed a sequence of five stationary luminous objects in the sky. The first object, located between the constellations Aquila and Anser et Vulpecula, increased in brightness before disappearing slightly to the east of its initial position. Following this, three more objects appeared and vanished at the same spot, except for one that disappeared west of the radiant. After a short interval, a fifth similar meteor appeared in the same location. These meteors resembled first-magnitude stars. An explanation for this observation could be an improbable succession of identical meteorites falling directly towards the observer's direction over several minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_493 ### Event 1296 (808A98F6) **Date:** Autumn 1877 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Newport **Description:** (Translated from French) The inhabitants of Newport shot at Spring Heel Jack who was flying on the rooftops of the houses. He escaped, apparently without being injured. (Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDEL: "The World's Greatest Ufo Mysteries" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p. 84) "as if he had springs on his shoes because he could jump up to a height of nearly five meters without any difficulty". (1877, Autumn) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 139 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_419 ### Event 1297 (3705DCF2) **Date:** Autumn 1877 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Lincoln **Description:** (Translated from French) Spring Heel Jack appears in the locality, guards try to catch him: He jumps out of reach. (1877, Autumn) **Reference:** continued on September 10, 1904 **Reference:** Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDEL: "The World's Greatest Ufo Mysteries" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p. 84 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_420 ### Event 1298 (76CD15A3) **Date:** 10/1877 **Locations:** Brera Observatory; Milan, Italy **Description:** Astronomer [Giovanni Schiaparelli](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni%5FSchiaparelli) reports seeing canali on the Martian surface from Brera Observatory in Milan, Italy, during the Great Opposition. While the term “canals” indicates an artificial construction, its proper translation as “channels” implies that the observed features are natural configurations of the planetary surface. From the incorrect translation into the term “canals,” various assumptions are made about life on Mars; as these assumptions are popularized, the canals become famous, giving rise to waves of hypotheses, speculation, and fiction about the possibility of intelligent life on Mars—the Martians. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Martian canal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian%5Fcanal)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_62 --- ## Year: 1878, 11 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1299 (DC89C2C3) **Date:** 1878 **Location:** AUSTRALIA, near Sydney **Description:** (Translated from French) H. C. Russell, an astronomer, and his colleague G. D. Hirst were in the Blue Mountains near Sydney. Mr Hirst was gazing at the moon. Suddenly he saw what Russell calls "one of the most remarkable facts that must be recorded at the moment, even if no explanation can yet be given for it." "Hirst saw that a large part of the moon was covered by a shadow as dark as that of the Earth during a lunar eclipse. It was almost impossible to resist the conviction that it was a shadow, even if it could not be the shadow of a known body". (...) **Reference:** Charles FORT: "The Book of the Damned" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, pp. 178-180 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_423 ### Event 1300 (698D8566) **Date:** 1/22/1878 **Location:** USA, Denison (Texas) **Description:** (Translated from French) The "Daily News of Denison of January 25th, gave this report: Mr. John Martin, a farmer who lives about six miles south of our town, told us the strange story as follows: Tuesday morning, while hunting, his attention was drawn to a dark object quite high in the sky towards the south. The particular shape of this object and the speed with which it approached struck him and he made all his efforts to better distinguish it. At the time it was seen, it was roughly the size of an orange and continued to grow larger. Mr. Martin strained his eyes looking at it and turned away for a moment to rest his eyes. When he looked for it again, the object was almost vertical, its dimensions had increased considerably and it seemed to be advancing at a prodigious speed. When it passed vertically, the object was about the size of a large saucer and was obviously at a very high altitude. Mr. Martin thought it looked like a balloon as far as he could judge. It disappeared as quickly as it had appeared and was soon out of sight. (Donald KEYHOE: "Les soucoupes volantes existent". Ed. Corrêa Paris 1951, p. 78, 79) A luminous disc is seen in the sky of Denison; a witness already uses the term "saucer" to describe it. An article from the "Daily News" dated the next day confirms it. (Henry DURRANT: "Le livre noir des S.V."- Laffont 1970 - p.64) John Martin was hunting south of Denison on January 22nd when he saw an object descending from the sun, about the size of a large dinner plate. (January 22, 1878) **Reference:** Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDEL: "The World's Greatest Ufo Mysteries" Ed. Hamlyn 1995, p. 76 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_422 ### Event 1301 (7E51724B) **Date:** 1/22/1878 **Location:** 6 miles north of Dallas, Texas **Description:** John Martin is out hunting near his ranch 6 miles north of Dallas, Texas, when he notices a dark object high in the southern sky. It is so bright it hurts his eyes as it moves with great speed to directly over his head. The object is “about the size of a large saucer” and looks like a large balloon. It speeds away rapidly. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[A Strange](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2994794/john-martins-ufo-sighting-in-1878/) [Phenomena,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2994794/john-martins-ufo-sighting-in-1878/)” Dallas Daily Herald, January 23, 1878, p. 4; Patrick Gross, “[The First Publicized Flying ‘Saucer’](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/denison1878.htm) [Report?](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/denison1878.htm)”; “[Dallas 1878,](http://roswellbooks.com/museum/?page%5Fid=633)” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, February 5, 2014 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_63 ### Event 1302 (9C946F07) **Date:** 1/22/1878 **Location:** Dallas, Texas, USA **Description:** Mr. John Martin, a farmer, spotted a dark object in the northern sky while hunting. The object, initially the size of an orange, rapidly grew larger as it approached with remarkable speed. Passing directly overhead, Martin likened its appearance to a large saucer. This early use of the term "saucer" for unidentified flying objects has sparked debates among researchers. Notably, the term likely referred to the object's size, similar to how "saucer" was used by Kenneth Arnold in 1947 to describe the motion of crescent-shaped objects. The possibility that Martin observed a balloon also warrants consideration. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_494 ### Event 1303 (38B92D2C) **Date:** 1/24/1878 **Time:** ~08:00 **Location:** SOUTH / DENISON, TX **Description:** Farmer J. Martin. Flying saucer / wonderful speed. Longitude & latitude coords. approximate. / r204p134. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 1) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_118 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "235", **HatchDesc:** "S/DENISON,TX:FARMER J.MARTIN:FLYING SAUCER/WONDERFUL SPEED:LL APRX:/r204p134.", **LatLong:** "33.750002 -96.550005", **LatLongDMS:** "33:45:00 N 96:33:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.750002,-96.550005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1304 (F9A5FED9) **Date:** 2/1/1878 **Location:** Osceola Township, Iowa, USA **Description:** A newspaper reported a peculiar incident where a young man observed a large, intensely bright light moving along a road. The light approached him rapidly and stopped when it reached a point opposite him. After a brief pause, the light ascended and then descended back toward the observer. Perplexed by the sight, the man returned to a nearby house for safety. The light followed him to the house, and when he shared his experience with two men there, they ventured out, but the light vanished. It reappeared suddenly, seen by all three, and this time it moved in different directions at varying distances. Others in the neighborhood also witnessed the unexplainable phenomenon. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_495 ### Event 1305 (FA361EDE) **Date:** 7/29/1878 **Locations:** Ann Arbor (Mich.); Separation, Wyoming; Rochester, New York; Denver, Colorado **Description:** About 12:30 p.m. Astronomers [James Craig Watson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FCraig%5FWatson), director of the Ann Arbor \(Mich.\) Observatory, and [Lewis Swift](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis%5FSwift)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis%5FSwift) an amateur from Rochester, New York, both claim to see a planet-like object close to the Sun during the total solar eclipse. Watson, observing from Separation, Wyoming, places the object about 2.5° southwest of the Sun and estimates its magnitude at 4.5. Swift, observing from a location near Denver, Colorado, sees what he takes to be an intra-mercurial planet about 3° southwest of the Sun. He estimates its brightness to be the same as that of Theta Cancri, a fifth-magnitude star which is also visible during totality, about six or seven minutes from the object. Both Watson and Swift describe the object as red in color. Watson says it has a definite disc, unlike stars, which appear as shimmering pinpoints of light. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** James C. Watson, “[On the Discovery of an](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924093039315&view=1up&seq=248&skin=2021) [Intra-Mercurial Planet,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924093039315&view=1up&seq=248&skin=2021)” American Journal of Science, ser. 3, 16 \(1878\): 230–233; Lewis Swift, “[Letter from Mr.](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924093039315&view=1up&seq=331&skin=2021) [Lewis Swift, Relating to the Discovery of Intra-Mercurial Planets,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924093039315&view=1up&seq=331&skin=2021)” American Journal of Science, ser. 3, 16 \(1878\): 313–315; Richard Baum and William Sheehan, In Search of Planet Vulcan: The Ghost in Newton’s Clockwork Universe, Plenum, 1997, pp. 185–223 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_64 ### Event 1306 (090B2CDB) **Date:** 7/29/1878 **Location:** Rawlins, Wyoming, USA **Description:** During a total eclipse, Professor Watson observed a shining object located a significant distance from the sun. Professor Swift of Denver, Colorado, also confirmed this observation. Astronomer Lockyer remarked that the discovery strongly suggested the identification of an intra-Mercurial planet by Professor Watson. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_496 ### Event 1307 (7631B476) **Date:** 7/30/1878 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** EDWARDSVILLE, KS **Description:** Railroad/railway crew. 'Train' nears. Steam and lights. Jumps track and enters woods! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The UFO REGISTER. CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK. (annual sightings catalog.) (Index 77) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_119 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "259", **HatchDesc:** "EDWARDSVILLE,KS:RR CREW:'TRAIN' NEARS:STEAM+LITES:JUMPS TRACK+ENTERS WOODS!", **LatLong:** "39.061113 -94.822227", **LatLongDMS:** "39:03:40 N 94:49:20 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.061113,-94.822227)", **State/Prov:** "Kansas", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 1308 (B64547A3) **Date:** 7/30/1878 **Location:** Edwardsville, Kansas, USA **Description:** Mr. Timmons, a reliable farmer, recounts a remarkable incident involving section men from the K. P. railroad. Anticipating a storm, they sped towards Edwardsville on a hand-car when they spotted what seemed to be an approaching locomotive. Realizing it wasn't, they quickly removed the car from the track. The mysterious object emitted dense smoke with occasional flashes resembling a headlight within the smoke. It traveled about three-fourths of a mile along the track, circled a pile of cordwood, and then veered off in a southwesterly direction through dense woods. The duration of the phenomenon, although unusual, could possibly be attributed to globular lightning guided by the train tracks. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_497 ### Event 1309 (8CE7D384) **Date:** 8/11/1878 **Location:** McKeesport, Pennsylvania, USA **Description:** Amateur astronomers Mr. Gemill and Mr. Wampler, using a 5-inch telescope, observed an unusual dark spherical object on the eastern edge of Jupiter's disc. Moving westward above the northern belt and parallel to the planet's equator, it exited the disc at 1:24 AM on 12 August, completing the crossing in 3 hours and 19 minutes. The object, larger than any of Jupiter's known satellites, displayed a sharp and intense black appearance. Notably, it couldn't have been one of the four known satellites or their shadows, as those were all visible throughout the observation period. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_498 --- ## Year: 1879, 13 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1310 (58CF21BA) **Date:** 1879 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Spain, discovery of the cave paintings of [Altamira](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/lieux.html\#Altamira). **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1879.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_183 ### Event 1311 (51D71FA5) **Date:** 3/14/1879 **End date:** 4/18/1955 **Description:** Albert Einstein (1897-1955), born in Ulm, Germany, was a theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (the other being quantum mechanics). He's best known for his equation, E=mc^2, which describes the relationship between energy and mass. Over his lifetime, Einstein's groundbreaking work earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 and solidified his legacy as one of the most influential scientists of all time. **Type:** scientist **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_13 **Attributes:** Einstein ### Event 1312 (C7431543) **Date:** 4/1879 **Location:** USA, Sleight's Canyon (now Paris Canyon) **Description:** (Translated from French) Albert Humburg, a German immigrant, owned a mine in Sleight's Canyon. He had it worked by the three Ludlum brothers. Henry Ludlum told his brothers he had heard strange noises behind the rock walls of the mine's tunnels while he was working. His brothers replied that it was only the ground settling. But Henry insisted that what he had heard sounded like little cries, murmurs, whistles, and metallic noises. His brothers made fun of him. Henry then wanted to get "proof" to convince his brothers. The rest is told by Humburg's daughter, Mrs. Emma Hymas: "I will never forget that April morning, it was barely 4 o'clock. There was still a lot of snow whose surface was frozen in a crust. Ludlum knocked on our door saying that his brother Henry had gone down into the mine the day before and had not come back up. They had been at the entrance of the mine calling him, but there was no answer. My father left the table and his breakfast, put on his red cape and accompanied the Ludlums. I remember that cape, new and red, which he was no longer wearing when he was found. In the mine there were pockets of bad air but the Ludlums lit fire torches, no doubt to purify them. When they arrived at the mine my father told them he wanted to go to the bottom, to see what was going on. So he got into the barrel that the brothers lowered with the pulley. My father found Henry Ludlum dead. With rope he tied the body to the barrel and gave the signal for it to be raised. About halfway up, the Ludlums heard a growl of a wild animal followed by the sound of a body falling. They started calling out with all their might, but my father did not answer. The barrel was raised, empty. So they quickly left for Paris (Idaho) to call for help. Several people arrived, with horses and sleds, but by then it was afternoon and no one wanted to go down into the mine in the dark. But they lowered a kind of grappling hook with a rope and, being as careful as they could, they managed to grab my father's blue overalls and raise his body. Bob Spence, a lawyer who was also there, thought he saw some signs of life still, but at that time no one knew about artificial respiration. I still clearly remember how my mother left the house with my six-year-old brother, climbing the hill and putting him in our homemade toboggan, to go and tell the Foxes, our neighbors, of my father's death. The men near the mine finally managed to raise Henry Ludlum's body too. The two corpses were taken to the judge's room for some kind of inquiry." The mines were never worked again after these mysterious deaths, of which no one ever knew the cause. Humburg's mine is still known today as the "Hummingbird Mine" in Peis Canyon 40 km south of Soda Springs in Idaho. (April 1879) **Reference:** Folklore from Utah, Wyoming and Southern Idaho, edited by Austin E. Fife, Volume III, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, 1958, pages 16-17 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_426 ### Event 1313 (02EA0236) **Date:** 4/12/1879 **Location:** Manhattanville, New York, USA **Description:** Mr. Henry Harrison, while searching for Brorsen's comet, spotted a swiftly moving object that didn't match the characteristics of a comet. Confirming the observation with his friend Mr. J. Spencer Devoe, they both noticed the object's rapid motion. The object remained visible until 2 AM. Mr. Harrison emphasized technical details and disclaimed any sensationalism in reporting the phenomenon. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_499 ### Event 1314 (2C206743) **Date:** 4/13/1879 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** LOCATION UNKNOWN **Description:** Astronomer Harrison. Inexplicable object maneuvers 3.5 hours. Very bright. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLAMMONDE, Paris: UFO EXIST!; Ballentine Books, NY 1976. PB 480pp. (Index 68) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_120 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Earth Orbit or seen from space stations/capsules", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "210", **HatchDesc:** "LOC UNK:ASTRONOMER HARRISON:INEXPLICABLE OBJ MNVRS 3.5 hrs:VERY BRIGHT", **LatLong:** "90.000004 -0.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "90:00:00 N 00:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/90.000004,-0.000000)", **State/Prov:** "Unknown", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1315 (E349CCDB) **Date:** 5/15/1879 **Location:** GULF OF PERSIA **Description:** (Translated from French) Captain Evans, a hydrographer of the British Navy, reported that Commander Pringle of the ship "Vulture" observed at 26°26' N latitude and 53°11' E longitude, waves of light or aquatic pulsations moving at great speed. He noted that the light waves passed under the Vulture. Looking eastward, it seemed like a wheel spinning on its axis and its rays lighting up, while to the west, an identical wheel moved in the opposite direction. The light waves extended from the surface to the depths of the sea. Commander Pringle thought that the rays came from a single wheel and that the doubling was pure illusion. He estimated that the objects were forty meters wide, spaced one hundred and fifty meters apart, and moved at 80 km/h for 35 minutes at 9:40 PM. After their passage, the boat crossed large patches of a floating substance that resembled "schools of oily fry". (May 15, 1879) **Reference:** Charles FORT: "The Book of the Damned" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 215 **Reference:** "Nature" 20-291 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_424 ### Event 1316 (3459E8C5) **Date:** 5/15/1879 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In the Persian Gulf, passengers of the vessel *Vultur* observe for 35 minutes two immense wheels spinning in the air and slowly descending towards the surface of the water. They estimate their diameter to be 40 m, and the distance between the two objects to be 150 m. Their speed seems to approach 80 km/h. (May 15, 9:40 PM) **Reference:** Round up 17 **Reference:** Anatomy 12 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1879.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_184 ### Event 1317 (C40DCCD6) **Date:** 5/15/1879 **Time:** 21:40 **Location:** SS VULTUR / PERSIAN GULF **Description:** 2 40M luminous/glowing wheels spin and descend slow. Back / 1880. / r2p17. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 40) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_121 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Arabian Peninsula", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "35", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "SS VULTUR/PERSIAN GULF:2 40M LUMn WHEELS SPIN+DESCEND SLOW:back/1880:/r2p17", **LatLong:** "26.433335 53.183336", **LatLongDMS:** "26:26:00 N 53:11:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/26.433335,53.183336)", **State/Prov:** "PGF", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1318 (2C56EC87) **Date:** 5/15/1879 **Location:** At sea, Persian Gulf **Description:** 9:40 p.m. Two very large "wheels" were seen spinning in the air and slowly coming to the surface of the sea. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_4 ### Event 1319 (F6B8D03E) **Date:** 5/15/1879 **Time:** 2140 **Location:** Persian Gulf **Description:** Two very large "wheels" were seen spinning in the air and slowly coming to the surface of the sea. Estimated diameter: 40 m. Distance between the objects: 150 m. Speed: 80 km/h/ Duration: 35 min. Witnesses aboard the ship "Vultur" **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Round up 17; Anatomy 12 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_4 ### Event 1320 (748493D4) **Date:** 5/15/1879 **Description:** Witnesses aboard the ship "Vultur" in the Persian Gulf saw two very large "wheels" spinning in the air at 9:40 p.m. They watched them slowly descend to the surface of the ocean. Their estimated diameter was 40 meters, with a distance between the objects of 150 meters. They moved at an estimated speed of 80 kmph. The sighting lasted 35 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 180, case 4; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomena, p. 12; Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 111 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2847 ### Event 1321 (435D6CDF) **Date:** 8/21/1879 **Location:** IRELAND, Knock **Description:** (Translated from French) At 8:30 PM Mary McLoughlin went out to visit a friend. It was raining. Passing by the church she saw several strange silhouettes and something like an altar with a white light, but she didn't linger. On the way back, in the company of Mrs Beirne, she saw three people surrounded by a bright light standing in the grassy meadow. A diocesan commission investigated and found at least 14 witnesses. They had seen lights on the church, a large luminous globe or the apparition of "saints". **Reference:** Jacques VALLEE: "Chronicles of E.T. Appearances" - DENOEL 1972 - coll. J'AI LU, p. 194, 195 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_425 ### Event 1322 (1E9C4304) **Date:** 10/10/1879 **Location:** Dubuque, Iowa, USA **Description:** Early morning observers were surprised by the sight of a large balloon-like object passing over the city, visible for an hour. Multiple people in different parts of the city witnessed the phenomenon. The object moved in a southwesterly direction and eventually disappeared on the horizon. Notably, Thomas Lloyd, an employee of the Times, observed the balloon from the southeast as it slowly rose and fell while heading south. Although a real balloon ("Pathfinder") had recently taken off from Missouri, it had already crashed into Lake Michigan, making it unlikely to be the cause of this sighting. This event marked one of the last in a series of U.S. sightings, culminating with the unexplained sighting of an "airship" hovering slowly over the city. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times_, by Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, 2009](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/mode/2up) **Source:** WondersInTheSky, **ID:** WondersInTheSky_500 --- ## Year: 1880, 40 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1323 (0146B0C4) **Date:** 1880's **Location:** American West **Description:** In the 1880s, an incident in the American West involved a man who encountered a ball-shaped UFO landing on a mountain. Despite his fear, he approached the craft and observed a large silver hall with a retractable lid. From inside emerged two shorter, attractive beings—identified as a man and a woman—who attempted to communicate with him but failed due to language barriers. The beings returned to the craft, closed the lid, and the UFO ascended into the sky and disappeared. (Chapter 2, Ref 93) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_87 ### Event 1324 (9BA2D6AE) **Date:** 1880 **Location:** VENEZUELA (EAST OF..) **Description:** (Translated from French) A 14-year-old boy saw a luminous balloon descend from the sky and remain suspended above him. The witness then felt as if he was "drawn" to the object, but he managed to flee in spite of his fear. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 140 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_430 ### Event 1325 (2725F311) **Date:** 1880 **Location:** Aldershot, UK **Description:** A strange being dressed in tight-fitting clothes and shining helmet soared over the heads of two sentries, who fired without result. The apparition stunned them with something described as "blue fire." (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_5 ### Event 1326 (D436D6F3) **Date:** 1880 **Location:** Eastern area, Venezuela **Description:** A 14-year-old boy saw a luminous ball descending from the sky and hovering near him. He felt somehow "drawn" to it, but succeeded in backing away in spite of his terror. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_6 ### Event 1327 (BF665399) **Date:** 1880 **Location:** Aldershot, Great Britain **Description:** A strange being dressed in tight-fitting clothes and shining helmet soared over the heads of two sentries, who fired without result. The apparition stunned them with something described as "blue fire." **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** FSR 61, 3; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_3 ### Event 1328 (640DD831) **Date:** 1880 **Location:** Eastern Venezuela **Description:** A 14-year-old boy saw a luminous ball descending from the sky and hovering near him. He felt somehow "drawn" to it, but succeeded in backing away in spite of his terror. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Lor. III 2O6 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_5 ### Event 1329 (99FDFF6D) **Date:** 3/22/1880 **Locations:** Kattenau, East Prussia; Furmanovka, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia **Description:** About 6:00 a.m. A large number of brilliantly luminous bodies are seen to rise from the horizon and pass from east to west at Kattenau, East Prussia \[now Furmanovka, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia\]. They move through space “like a string of beads.” Possible meteor procession. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[A Remarkable Phenomenon,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951d00324870l&view=1up&seq=92&skin=2021)” Nature 22 \(May 20, 1880\): 64; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 169– 170 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_65 ### Event 1330 (79115E8F) **Date:** 3/26/1880 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Near Galisteo Junction, New Mexico, four men walking are surprised by the sound of voices coming from a strange balloon flying above them. The object has the shape of a fish and seems to be directed by a fan. Between 8 and 10 figures can be seen on board. Their language is unknown, they speak and laugh and drop various objects over the side: a beautiful flower, a ribbon of paper with a silk-like appearance with Asian characters, and a cup of a very particular make. The object flies at low altitude over Galisteo Junction and quickly disappears in the direction of the East. A few hours after the objects were displayed in the window of a nearby station, a man claiming to be a collector of curiosities arrives. He identifies the articles as being of Asian origin and offers a considerable sum for their acquisition. The deal made, he takes them away. A first [MIB](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/MIB.html)? (March 26, Evening) **Reference:** [FSR](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/FSR.html) 65, 3 **Reference:** GREPI **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1880.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_185 ### Event 1331 (5F3B6AC0) **Date:** 3/26/1880 **Time:** ~19:00 **Location:** LAMY, NM **Description:** 4 observer(s). Fish-blimp with prop and 8 figure(s). Music and gibberish. Drops flower and cup. / r221. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** CLARK, Jerome & COLEMAN, Joren: THE UNIDENTIFIED; Warner PBs, NY 1975 (Index 131) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_122 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **MIB:** Men in Black, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "1976", **HatchDesc:** "LAMY,NM:4 OBS:FISH-BLIMP W/PROP+8 FIGS:MUSIC+GIBBERISH:DROPS FLOWER+CUP:/r221", **LatLong:** "35.483335 -105.877783", **LatLongDMS:** "35:29:00 N 105:52:40 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.483335,-105.877783)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 1332 (0224B21C) **Date:** 3/26/1880 **Location:** Lamy, NM **Description:** Evening. Four men walking near Galisteo Junction were surprised as they heard voices coming from a "strange balloon," which flew over them. It was shaped like a fish and seemed to be guided by a large fanlike device. There were eight to ten figures aboard. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_7 ### Event 1333 (A032CA93) **Date:** 3/26/1880 **Time:** evening **Location:** Lamy, New Mexico **Description:** Four men walking near Galisteo Junction were surprised as they heard voices coming from a "strange balloon," which flew over them. It was shaped like a fish and seemed to be guided by a large fanlike device. There were eight to ten figures aboard. Their language was not understood. The object flew low over Galisteo Junction and rose rapidly toward the east. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** FSR 65, 3 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_6 ### Event 1334 (B1FB52DA) **Date:** 3/26/1880 **Location:** Galisteo, New Mexico **Description:** Night. The train depot operator and a few friends are walking at Galisteo, New Mexico, when they hear loud voices and laughter coming from a “large balloon” shaped like a fish approaching from the west. A flower is dropped from the car of the balloon to which is attached a slip of silk-like paper on which Chinese characters are written. The next morning, searchers find a cup of peculiar workmanship, but both artifacts are purchased by a “wealthy young Chinaman” and a “collector of curiosities” who visits town on March 28, although this part of the tale seems facetious and racist. The yarn is typical of sensational newspaper hoaxes that have no basis in reality. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Galisteo’s Apparition,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91954003/)” Santa Fe Weekly New Mexican, March 29, 1880, p. 3; “[Solved at Last,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91954137/)” Santa Fe Weekly New Mexican, April 5, 1880, p. 4; Clark III 69–70, 592; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1880-03-26-usa-lamy.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1880-03-26-usa-lamy.htm) December 3, 2007 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_66 ### Event 1335 (A6409376) **Date:** 3/26/1880 **Description:** Lamy, New Mexico - Four men walking near Galisteo Junction in the evening were surprised as they heard voices coming from a "strange balloon," which flew over them. It was shaped like a fish and seemed to be guided by a large fanlike device. There were eight to ten figures aboard. Their language was not understood. The object flew low over Galisteo Junction and rose rapidly toward the east. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 180, citing Flying Saucer Review, May 1961; Santa Fe New Mexican, March 27, 1880 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1667 ### Event 1336 (F97CB51E) **Date:** 5/1880 **Location:** At sea, GULF OF PERSIA **Description:** (Translated from French) On board the steamer "Patna", on a very dark night, around 11:30 PM suddenly appeared in the sky, on either side of the ship, enormous luminous wheels spinning on themselves and whose rays seemed to brush the ship. These rays measured from 200 to 300 m long and resembled the rods of schoolmistresses. And although each wheel must have had from 500 to 600 meters in diameter, one could always distinctly see the 16 rays it contained. Without any other visible light in the air above the water, this phosphorescent glow seemed to glide flat on the surface of the ocean. The appearance of these rays can be almost exactly imitated by agitating from a boat, a lantern horizontally above the water and making it describe concentric circles. The wheels escorted the ship for twenty minutes. Witnessed the phenomenon besides me: Captain Avern of the "Patna", Mr. Manning 3rd Officer. Sé Lee Fore Brace (May 1880) **Reference:** Charles FORT: "The Book of the Damned". - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 211, 212 **Reference:** "Knowledge" 28 December 1883 **Reference:** pseudonym of J.W. Robertson **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_428 ### Event 1337 (FD7DF1E6) **Date:** 5/1880 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In the Persian Gulf, on an extremely dark night, J. W. Robertson, Captain Avern and Mr. Manning, 3rd officer of the *Patna*, a steamer of the British East India Company, suddenly see two huge luminous wheels appear on the sea, on either side of the ship, spinning on themselves and whose rays seem to brush the ship as they pass. These rays measure 200 to 300 m long and resemble the rods of a schoolmistress. Although each wheel must have 500 or 600 m in diameter, the 16 rays it contains are always clearly visible, without any other visible light in the air, above the water, this phosphorescent glow seems to glide flat on the surface of the ocean. The appearance of these rays can be exactly imitated by shaking a lantern horizontally above the water and making it describe concentric circles. The wheels escort the ship for 5 minutes. The testimony of the 3 sailors is published in the *Knowledge* magazine. It arouses vigorous criticism and a remark saying that if the indications were correct, the wheels must have been moving at least 160 km/h! (May) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1880.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_186 ### Event 1338 (7B3A9F64) **Date:** 5/1880 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** PERSIAN GULF **Description:** HMS Patna swept / 16 spokes / light from 300M luminous wheels / sea. / r28 p71. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 39) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_123 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Arabian Peninsula", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "PERSIAN GULF:HMS PATNA SWEPT/16 SPOKES/LITE fm 300M LUMn.WHEELS/sea:/r28 p71", **LatLong:** "27.000001 52.000002", **LatLongDMS:** "27:00:00 N 52:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/27.000001,52.000002)", **RelAlt:** "-1", **State/Prov:** "PGF", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 1339 (0E8905B1) **Date:** 5/8/1880 **Location:** CHINA, Xi-Yan (Hubei) **Description:** (Translated from French) Ju Tan, as he was going to work in a field, saw in the air a shining object of different colors. He felt himself carried away through the clouds, in a strange state which did not allow him to struggle or to think, and suddenly felt himself thrown from a great height onto the side of a high mountain. Ju Tan was not injured but terrified beyond words: he did not know this landscape and wondered where he was. He followed a path at random to descend towards the valley. A woodcutter he met on the way told him he was in the province of Guizhou, more than a thousand li (about 500 km) from his starting point. When Ju Tan returned home, eighteen days had passed. **Reference:** FSR vol. 38 n° 4 winter 1993, Gordon Creighton, taken up by Marie-Thérèse de BROSSES: "Enquiry into E.T. Abductions" - Plon 1995, p. 300, 301 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_427 ### Event 1340 (DF7E01D8) **Date:** 5/8/1880 **Description:** A farmer named Ju Tan in Song-Zi Xian Couny, China came upon a misty white light in some bushes around 8:00 p.m. He then felt a tingling paralysis, and heard a humming or rushing noise. He was levitated upwards and lost consciousness. His next recollection was finding himself, in a dazed state, in Guizhou province, which was 300 miles away from his home. The time was two weeks later. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jenny Randles, Time Storms: Amazing Evidence for Time Warps, Space Rifts, and Time Travel, p. 25 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2648 ### Event 1341 (8C78AD3C) **Date:** 6/1880 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At the end of the evening, off the coast of Malabar \(Persian Gulf\), Commander Harris of the steamer *Shahjehan* observed calm seas and clear skies with interspersed waves of bright light and an unknown substance floating, not emitting any fires, but appearing illuminated by gigantic luminous beams. He ordered the ship to stop. As the commander himself declared: Wave after wave succeeded in one of the most grandiose and solemn spectacles that can be imagined! (June) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1880.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_187 ### Event 1342 (90BCE18D) **Date:** 6/1880? **Location:** East Kent [now Chatham-Kent], Ontario **Description:** David Muckle and W. R. McKay of East Kent \[now Chatham-Kent\], Ontario, are in a field on Muckle’s farm when they hear a loud explosion and see a cloud of stones flying upward. They go to the spot and find a circular area, 16 feet across, that has been swept clean of vegetation. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[A Curious Phenomenon,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102836810/the-herald/)” Rock Hill \(S.C.\) Herald, July 7, 1880, p. 4 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_67 ### Event 1343 (5D28CD23) **Date:** 6/5/1880 **Location:** At sea, off the coast of Malabar **Description:** (Translated from French) Commander Harris of the steamer "Shahjehan" saw at ten o'clock in the evening, on a calm sea and a cloudless sky, something so strange that he stopped his ship. He described waves spaced apart with bright light and an unidentified substance floating on the water: it did not illuminate anything but seemed lit up with the rest of the sea, by gigantic luminous rays. "Wave after wave succeeded in one of the grandest and most solemn spectacles that can be imagined". (June 5, 1880) **Reference:** Charles FORT: "The Book of the Damned" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 214 **Reference:** "Nature 21-410. Letter to the Englishman of Calcutta, 21.1.1881 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_429 ### Event 1344 (144316C5) **Date:** Early 7/1880 **Locations:** Chattanooga Railroad; Murfreesboro, Tennessee **Description:** A train is running on the Chattanooga Railroad near Murfreesboro, Tennessee, in a thunderstorm when the engineer sees a large ball of fire rushing down the rails to the engine. As it passes under the locomotive, he feels a shock that jars the entire train. There is a loud explosion “opposite the ladies’ car” and a telegraph pole is splintered from top to bottom. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Passengers Shocked by Lightning,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91954329/)” Memphis \(Tenn.\) Public Ledger, July 15, 1880, p. 2; Mark Rodeghier, “UFO/Vehicle Very Close Encounters,” IUR 27, no. 1 \(Spring 2002\): 5 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_68 ### Event 1345 (CCFDFDAF) **Date:** 7/21/1880 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) J. Rand Capron, a spectroscopist, describing [circular flattenings](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/CropCircles.html) in a wheat field in Surrey \(England\). (July 21) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1880.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_188 ### Event 1346 (24C5DF4A) **Date:** 7/28/1880 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Approximate date. C. A. Youngman and Bob Flexner see a man surrounded by machinery that he seemed to animate with his hands. He has wings or propellers on his back that he flaps in the air. Astonished, the two men see him disappear, seeming to fly clumsily. (July 28) **Reference:** Courier Journal of Louisville \(Kentucky\) of July 29 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1880.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_189 ### Event 1347 (8F631B5C) **Date:** 7/28/1880 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** LOUISVILLE, KY AND MADISONVILE **Description:** Numerous observer(s). Dumbell-ovoid maneuvers all directions up and down. See reference. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 39) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_124 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "140", **HatchDesc:** "LOUISVILLE,KY+MADISONVILE:NMRS OBS:DUMBELL-OVOID MNVRS all dirs UP+DOWN:see rf", **LatLong:** "38.233335 -85.716671", **LatLongDMS:** "38:14:00 N 85:43:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.233335,-85.716671)", **State/Prov:** "Kentucky", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1348 (43277619) **Date:** 7/28/1880 **Locations:** 2nd and Chestnut streets, Louisville, Kentucky; Ohio River bridge; Madisonville, Kentucky **Description:** 6:00 p.m. C. A. Youngman and Ben Flexner are looking out a drugstore window at 2nd and Chestnut streets in Louisville, Kentucky, when they see something in the air coming from the direction of the Ohio River bridge. As it approaches them, it appears to be a man surrounded by machinery, which he is working with his hands and feet. The object is too high to make out the details of its construction. The man moves off to the south, pedaling constantly. Around 8:00 p.m., the Royster family of Madisonville, Kentucky, watches a circular flying object with a ball at each end moving above the train depot. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[More Monkeying,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91955014/)” Louisville \(Ky.\) Courier-Journal, July 29, 1880, p. 4; “[The Flying Machine,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/73758258/the-flying-machine-louisville/)” Louisville \(Ky.\) Courier-Journal, August 6, 1880, p. 4 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_69 ### Event 1349 (63BA2D65) **Date:** 7/29/1880 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) J. Rand Capron's testimony appears in the letter from the readers of the *Nature* issue \(in volume 22\), \(pages 290-191\). (29 July) **Reference:** Peter Van Doorn, *Journal of Meteorology*, January 2000 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1880.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_190 ### Event 1350 (00978B65) **Date:** 7/30/1880 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Witnesses in Saint Petersburg see a large spherical light accompanied by 2 smaller stars or spheres following the course of a ravine for 3 minutes, after which they suddenly disappear. (July 30) **Reference:** Fort, The Book of the Damned, p. 234 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1880.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_191 ### Event 1351 (0A9AB236) **Date:** 7/30/1880 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Aldershot \(Great Britain\), a strange being dressed in tight clothing and a shining helmet rises above the heads of two sentinels, who fire without result. The apparition stuns them with what they describe as a blue fire. **Reference:** FSR 61, 3 **Reference:** Vallee 1969 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1880.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_192 ### Event 1352 (4C909E97) **Date:** 7/30/1880 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In the East of Venezuela, a 14 year old boy sees a glowing ball descend from the sky and hover near him. He feels drawn to it, but manages to flee due to his terror. **Reference:** Lor. III 206 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1880.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_193 ### Event 1353 (841A6EEF) **Date:** 7/30/1880 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA **Description:** Large and 2 small glowing orbs follow ravine / 3 minute(s). / r84p280. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 39) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_125 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Russia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "St PETERSBURG,RUS:LRG+2 SMALL GLOWING ORBS FOLLOW RAVINE/3min:/r84p280", **LatLong:** "59.933336 30.366668", **LatLongDMS:** "59:56:00 N 30:22:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/59.933336,30.366668)", **State/Prov:** "STP", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1354 (357B386C) **Date:** Early 8/1880 **Location:** USSR, Saint Petersburg **Description:** (Translated from French) A large spherical light accompanied by two stars followed the course of a ravine for three minutes, then suddenly vanished. (Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: "Les OVNI en URSS et dans les pays de l'Est" - Trad. Laffont 1976, p. 272) A large circular craft followed by smaller bodies was observed. For three minutes these objects moved along a ravine and they disappeared in complete silence. (Early August, 1880) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 140 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_431 ### Event 1355 (8E63AF2E) **Date:** 8/20/1880 **Location:** FRANCE, Paris - (or: Bagnères de Luchon?) **Description:** (Translated from French) Excerpt from the "Bulletin de la Société Astronomique de France" of 1885, observation by M. A. Trecul, astronomer: "During a thunderstorm with thunder and lightning, I saw, in broad daylight, emerge from a dark cloud a luminous body, very bright, slightly yellow, almost white, of a slightly elongated shape, having apparently 35 to 40 cm in length, about 25 cm in width, with the two ends briefly attenuated in cone. This body was only visible for a few moments; it disappeared as if it were entering the cloud; but on its withdrawal, and this is what seems to me to be especially noteworthy, it left behind a small quantity of its substance, which fell vertically like a heavy body, as if it had been under the sole influence of gravity. It left behind a luminous trail, at the edges of which sparks, or rather reddish globules, were manifested, for their light was not radiant. Near the falling body, the luminous trail was almost in a straight line (vertical), while in the upper part it became sinuous. The small falling body divided during its fall and soon extinguished when it was about to reach the top of the screen formed by the houses. At its departure and at the moment of its division, no sound was heard, although the cloud was not far away. This fact seems to me to be especially interesting in that it undeniably denoted in the cloud the presence of a ponderable matter, which was not violently projected by an explosion, as in the case of bolides, nor accompanied by a loud electric discharge". (Henry DURRANT: "Le livre noir des S.V."- Laffont 1970 - p.67... to note that page 65 he tells the same thing with other words and on the date of 20.8.1880) August 25, Bagnères de Luchon. "During a thunderstorm with thunder and lightning B. Vessiot saw in broad daylight emerge from a dark cloud, a luminous body very bright, slightly yellow, almost white, of a slightly elongated shape, with the two ends briefly attenuated in cones. This body was only visible for a few moments, it disappeared as if it were entering the clouds. But on its withdrawal it left behind a small quantity of its substance which fell vertically like a heavy body which had been under the sole influence of gravity. The small falling body divided during its fall and soon extinguished when it was about to reach the top of the screen formed by the houses". [note from vog: either it is the same observation, or the same observation took place in two distant places 700 km apart at the same exact time, described with the same words?] (August 20 or 25, 1880) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 141 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_432 ### Event 1356 (ACFFD245) **Date:** 8/25/1880 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** BAGNERES-DE-LUCHON, FR **Description:** Yellow cylinder/cigar-shape exits storm clouds. Pointed ends. Drops something. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 128) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_126 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "BAGNERES-de-LUCHON,FR:YLW CGR EXITS STORM CLOUDS:POINTED ENDS:DROPS SOMETHING", **LatLong:** "42.766669 0.600000", **LatLongDMS:** "42:46:00 N 00:36:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.766669,0.600000)", **State/Prov:** "Haute Garonne", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1357 (C3C47B0F) **Date:** 9/8/1880 **Location:** USA, Coney Island (Brooklyn) **Description:** (Translated from French) W.T. Smith reported seeing "a man" at an altitude of 1600 m above Coney Island. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 141 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_433 ### Event 1358 (BFE0FA6A) **Date:** 9/12/1880 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Relating events that have been occurring since [1877](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/1877.html), a journal reports that many people of unblemished reputations have seen a man flying towards New Jersey with wings resembling those of a bat. He maneuvers at an altitude of about 300 meters and moves like a swimmer. Witnesses claim to have clearly seen his face. He wore a cruel and determined expression. The entirely black figure stands out perfectly against the clear blue sky. As he was not dragging any advertising banners behind him and at that time the first experimental gliders never flew very far, usually crashing instead, the phenomenon remains unexplained. (September 12) **Reference:** *New York Times* of September 12 **Reference:** Keel 1975 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1880.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_194 ### Event 1359 (D69EDD57) **Date:** 9/23/1880 **Location:** USA, Gallatin (Tennessee) **Description:** (Translated from French) At around 3:30 in the afternoon on this sunny Sunday, Mr. David Lang, a farmer, vanished from sight in front of five witnesses: his wife, his two children, his father-in-law, and a local judge. The father-in-law and the judge had just arrived in a wagon, and Mr. Lang was coming towards them across the field with his family. Without any warning, Mr. Lang ceased to exist. There was no cry, no sign of distress. Suddenly, he was lifted up and thrown down, disappearing into the ground he had just walked on. All afternoon and all night, searches were conducted throughout the field. The county police on the scene determined that there was no quicksand, no hidden underground cave, nothing... (September 23, 1880) **Reference:** "Coscon Files" on the Internet, 5.1.1997 **Reference:** continued in April 1881 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_434 ### Event 1360 (0D8F5C8C) **Date:** 9/30/1880 **Location:** Columbus, Georgia **Description:** 9:45 p.m. A brilliant object is seen crossing the sky in Columbus, Georgia, at a very low altitude. Coming from the south, it heads northeasterly in a horizontal line. It appears made of three perfectly developed balls of an equal size and equidistant from each other. The first ball emits a tail that envelops the two following and extends behind them. The tail is luminous except at the far end, where it is indistinct and nebulous. It is visible for a full 50 seconds and continues on its course without falling. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Wonders of a Meteor,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91955142/)” Marion \(Ohio\) Star, October 5, 1880, p. 3 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_70 ### Event 1361 (CDC1E1AF) **Date:** 11/30/1880 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) While studying the [Sun](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Soleil.html) at the Palermo Observatory \(Sicily\), astronomer Ricco saw winged bodies moving slowly on two long parallel lines and passing in front of the solar disk. It looked like very large birds or cranes. (November 30, 8am) **Reference:** Keel 1975 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1880.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_195 ### Event 1362 (3ECFFFEB) **Date:** 11/30/1880 **Description:** A procession of numerous objects flew over the Palermo Observatiory in Sicily, Italy at 8:30 a.m. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p. 213; Desmond Leslie & George Adamski, Flying Saucers Have Landed, p. 46; Ray Palmer, Flying Saucers, November 1973, p. 36 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8062 --- ## Year: 1881, 13 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1363 (9EFDC2E0) **Date:** 3/6/1881 **Location:** France, Nice **Description:** (Translated from French) Jovis, Allioth and Vivier, departed from Nice in a balloon, were picked up in the Mediterranean Sea. (March 6, 1881) **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air. Chronicle..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 41 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_435 ### Event 1364 (C838F67D) **Date:** 4/1881 **Location:** USA, Gallatin, Tennessee) **Description:** (Translated from French) (cf: September 28, 1880) In April, seven months after his disappearance, the children heard their father's voice crying out as if he were deeply buried UNDERGROUND. The voice sounded desperate and tortured: he was calling for help. Gradually his voice became less and less audible until it disappeared. It was never heard again. At the spot of his disappearance, there was a circle of whitened grass 20 feet in diameter. (April 1881) **Reference:** "Coscon Files" on the Internet, refers to a book by Strieber; 5.1.1997 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_436 ### Event 1365 (DE22467D) **Date:** 6/11/1881 **Location:** AUSTRALIA at sea between Melbourne and Sydney **Description:** (Translated from French) The two sons of the Prince of Wales aboard "La Bacchante" saw at 04:00, along with the twelve members of the crew, a dull light which they took for a ghost ship. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 141 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_437 ### Event 1366 (393C8492) **Date:** 6/11/1881 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) During a voyage between Melbourne and Sydney \(Australia\), Princes Albert Victor and George, both sons of the Prince of Wales \(future Edward 7\): During the crossing, the lookout reported to them on June 11, 1881, around 4 in the morning, a strange light in the sky, like that of a burning ghost ship. 12 other members of the crew of *La Bacchante* also see it. (June 11, 4 AM) **Reference:** The Cruise of the Bacchante **Reference:** Fort 637 **Reference:** Anatomy 12 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1881.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_196 ### Event 1367 (DA8E13A1) **Date:** 6/11/1881 **Time:** 04:00 **Location:** MELBOURNE TO/FROM SYDNEY, AU **Description:** Prince / Wales and 13. "Phantom vessel all aglow" / sky. / r2p17. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 40) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_127 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "MELBOURNE> Event 1368 (29CA8A00) **Date:** 6/11/1881 **Location:** Between Melbourne and Sydney at sea, AU **Description:** 4:00 a.m. The two sons of the Prince of Wales, one of them the future king of England, were cruising aboard "LaBacchante" when an object resembling a fully lighted ship was seen ("a phantom vessel all aglow"). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_8 ### Event 1369 (F156E1FD) **Date:** 6/11/1881 **Time:** 0400 **Location:** Between Melbourne and Sydney at sea, Australia **Description:** The two sons of the Prince of Wales, one of them the future king of England, were cruising aboard "La Bacchante" when an object resembling a fully lighted ship was seen ("a phantom vessel all aglow"). **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Fort 637; Anatomy 12 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_7 ### Event 1370 (8576608A) **Date:** 6/11/1881 **Description:** At sea at 4:00 a.m. between Melbourne and Sydney, Australia, the two sons of the Prince of Wales, one of them the future king of England, were cruising aboard "La Bacchante" when a flying object resembling a fully lighted ship was seen, "a phantom vessel all aglow." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 180, citing Charles Fort, The Books of Charles Fort, p. 637 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3415 ### Event 1371 (FD77BAF0) **Date:** 8/14/1881 **Location:** FRANCE, MONTPELLIER **Description:** (Translated from French) The aeronaut from Armentières, departed from Montpellier, was lost in the Mediterranean Sea. (August 14, 1881) **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air. Chronicle..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout Université 1967, p. 41 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_438 ### Event 1372 (7B482C2E) **Date:** 10/14/1881 **Location:** USA, Milwaukee, Wisconsin **Description:** (Translated from French) PROFESSOR KING AND J. GEORGE HASHAGEN MADE AN ASCENT IN A FREE BALLOON OF A CAPACITY OF 100,000 CUBIC FEET. THEY REACHED AN ALTITUDE OF 5,000 FEET AND TRAVELED SOUTH-SOUTHWEST TOWARDS PEORIA IN ILLINOIS. At this point the winds caused them to turn back north. They landed in a swamp 70 km north of the Chippewa Falls. (October 14, 1881) **Reference:** "UFO's – A Century of Sightings by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 2 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_439 ### Event 1373 (B2B8AF2B) **Date:** Late 10/1881 **Locations:** Milwaukee; Green Bay; Fort Howard; Sheboygan; Ozaukee County, Wisconsin **Description:** An unusual fall of spider web occurs near the coast of Lake Michigan at Milwaukee, Green Bay, Fort Howard, Sheboygan, and Ozaukee County, Wisconsin. The webs seem to come from “over the lake” and fall from a great height. The strands are from 2 feet to several yards long, strong in texture, and very white. No spiders are seen. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[A Rain of Spider Webs,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015024538491&view=1up&seq=343&skin=2021)” Scientific American 45 \(1881\): 337 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_71 ### Event 1374 (86C35685) **Date:** 11/1881 **Location:** USA, St Joseph (Missouri) **Description:** (Translated from French) At least seven witnesses observed a curious aerial ballet. Nearly fifty lights were seen in the sky and they were arranged like a perfect pyramid near the Moon. The first was first seen in the northeast, while it was moving quickly. It stopped and was soon followed by four others that stopped in turn by aligning on the first. Then the ballet began and dozens of other lights joined those already in place to finally form a triangle that remained stationary for a good half hour in the sky. Finally, each of these lights left the ranks and the phenomenon disappeared in a few seconds. (November 1881) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 141-142 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_440 ### Event 1375 (47DB1AEB) **Date:** 12/10/1881 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Bath **Description:** (Translated from French) The government balloon "Saladin" landed in Bridport, but while its two companions had already set foot on the ground, the balloon suddenly disappeared with Powell on board, as if it had been violently sucked up. The unfortunate aeronaut was never found. The only pieces found in the Channel were a thermometer and a sleeping bag. What is curious is that at the same moment, on the other side of the Channel in Cherbourg, an unidentified flying object was observed. [In reality: the balloon "Saladin" rises by Gardner, Powell and Templar, rises from Bath. Gardner and Templar are projected from the Nacelle at the height of the coast. The balloon, with the corpse of Powell, is found in Spain.] **Reference:** "La conquête de l'air. Chronique..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout Université 1967, p. 42 **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 142 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_441 --- ## Year: 1882, 12 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1376 (3A2FF653) **Date:** 1882 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The Royal Observatory of Greenwich in August 1900. See images/1900-08_Greenwich_ObservatoireRoyal\_Lacey.jpg. **Reference:** Lacey **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1882.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_197 ### Event 1377 (489E749D) **Date:** 2/11/1882 **Location:** Germany, Charlottenburg **Description:** (Translated from French) Baumgarten and Woelfert Experiment with an Electrically Propelled Aerostat. (February 11, 1882) **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air. Chronicle..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 42 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_442 ### Event 1378 (3E07390D) **Date:** 7/3/1882 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Lebanon \(Connecticut\), sighting of 2 luminous triangles for 3 minutes. (July 3) **Reference:** Fort **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1882.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_198 ### Event 1379 (5751BD03) **Date:** 7/3/1882 **Location:** MOON **Description:** 2 luminous/glowing delta/triangle/box-like crafts / upper limb. 2 dark triangles / lower limb 30 minute(s) later. / Charles Fort and more/others. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 41) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_128 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "The Moon", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "MOON:2 LUMn DLTs/UPPER LIMB:2 DRK TRIANGLES/LOWER LIMB 30min later:/C.FORT++", **LatLong:** "90.000004 -0.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "90:00:00 N 00:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/90.000004,-0.000000)", **State/Prov:** "---", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1380 (03A4F2BC) **Date:** 7/6/1882 **Locations:** Jersey City Heights, New Jersey; Ursa Minor; Capricorn **Description:** 10:30 p.m. Amateur astronomer N. S. Drayton in Jersey City Heights, New Jersey, watches a red object without a trail move across the sky from the constellation of Ursa Minor to Capricorn in 45 seconds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** N. S. Drayton, “[A](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000062999472&view=1up&seq=63&skin=2021) [Supposed Meteor,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000062999472&view=1up&seq=63&skin=2021)” Scientific American 47 \(July 22, 1882\): 53 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_72 ### Event 1381 (DF55FC39) **Date:** 7/20/1882 **Location:** USSR, St Petersburg **Description:** (Translated from French) Moshaiski (or Mojaiski) Russian Constructor, would have made a flight on board of a "heavier than air". Proof was never formally provided; one thing is absolutely certain, the inventor would have ordered engines from Great Britain. The press provided descriptions and schemas. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air. Chronicle..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 42 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_443 ### Event 1382 (BA0636C7) **Date:** 10/1882 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The celestial body of January is found on the lower part of the Sun, where it interposes its mass. (October) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1882.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_199 ### Event 1383 (CBFF74B3) **Date:** 10/1882 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Chile, a bright object is seen splitting the sky, the size of a full Moon. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1882.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_200 ### Event 1384 (E06858AE) **Date:** 10/1882 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The celestial body casts its shadow over Wisconsin, causing a total darkness that moves from West to East. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1882.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_201 ### Event 1385 (C7DC399D) **Date:** 11/17/1882 **Location:** GRANDE-BRETAGNE, Greenwich **Description:** (Translated from French) Astronomer Walter Maunder described in the journal "Observatory": a large greenish light disc that moved quickly in the sky. Its circularity was obviously only an effect of perspective, as when passing over the moon it was described as "having the shape of a cigar", "a torpedo", a shuttle, a spindle. The effect lasted nearly two minutes, the color remained similar to that of the northern auroral lights. "It seemed to be a definite body, the movement was too fast to be a cloud but nothing could look less like a meteor shower. The object was at an altitude of 60 to 500 km. Phenomenon also observed in Holland and Belgium. (November 17, 1882) **Reference:** Charles FORT: "The Book of the Damned" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 231, 232 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_444 ### Event 1386 (131C2D6B) **Date:** 11/17/1882 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Astronomer [Walter Maunder](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/MaunderEWalter.html) observes a large, greenish light disc moving from the Royal Observatory in Greenwich \(England\). (November 17) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1882.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_202 ### Event 1387 (D234FA63) **Date:** 11/17/1882 **Locations:** Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London; Hog’s Back, Surrey, England **Description:** 6:00 p.m. An auroral beam is observed from the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London, by astronomer [Edward Walter Maunder](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FWalter%5FMaunder) and by [John Rand Capron](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FRand%5FCapron) from his private observatory on Hog’s Back, Surrey, England, in association with a geomagnetic storm. The beam is described in detail in various ways, including as a “beam,” “spindle,” “definite body” with a Zeppelin-like shape and pale green color, passing from horizon to horizon above the moon. The phenomenon transits the sky in approximately 75 seconds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[November 1882](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November%5F1882%5Fgeomagnetic%5Fstorm) [geomagnetic storm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November%5F1882%5Fgeomagnetic%5Fstorm)”; J. Rand Capron, “[The Auroral Beam of November 17, 1882,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951000614154i&view=1up&seq=326&skin=2021)” Philosophical Magazine, ser. 5, 15 \(1883\): 318–339; Edward Walter Maunder, “[A Strange Celestial Visitor,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101061668685&view=1up&seq=230&skin=2021)” The Observatory 39 \(May 1916\): 213–215; Paul Fuller, “[The Life and Times of John Rand Capron \(1829–1888\),](https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2014AntAs...8...21F)” The Antiquarian Astronomer 8 \(March 2014\): 21–45 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_73 --- ## Year: 1883, 21 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1388 (4C7B3EDD) **Date:** 1883 **Location:** Throughout the world **Description:** (Translated from French) Exceptional year. Astronomer Wolf one evening saw something that obscured a star for 3 and a half seconds. A meteor had been seen in the vicinity, but its trail had only been seen momentarily. The following data is one of the most sensational that I possess, although it is very brief. A dark object was seen by Professor Heis, on eleven degrees of the arc of a circle, and moving slowly across the Milky Way. **Reference:** Charles FORT: "The Book of the Damned" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 161 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_451 ### Event 1389 (20BBD997) **Date:** 1883 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) , coast guards stationed at the Canby \(Oregon\) lighthouse observe the maneuvers of the 26 m long schooner *J.-C. Cousins* heading West. Suddenly, it turns and heads straight for a sandbank, sails correctly trimmed. At the moment of impact against the sandbank, the masts violently oscillate. No silhouette jumps into the water. No distress signal is observed and no boat is launched. When boarding, the deck is deserted. The boats are still on their cradles and everything is in order. In the kitchen, the stove is still warm. The water in which potatoes had been put to boil has evaporated. Furthermore, a meal is served in the cabin, but nobody has touched it. In the crew quarters, the same order reigns and the last entry in the logbook --- dating from the dawn --- does not report anything particular. (On a clear morning) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1883.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_203 ### Event 1390 (2874F394) **Date:** 1883 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Photography of August 12. See images/1883-08-12_Bonilla_Zacatecas\_Mexico.jpg. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1883.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_204 ### Event 1391 (99CDA15A) **Date:** 2/5/1883 **Location:** SWEDEN, Arvika **Description:** (Translated from French) At 18:45 a meteor was observed coming from the SSE towards the NO, when after 18 seconds it changed direction towards the SE. On its trajectory it made several deviations, and its brightness changed from that of a star to that of the sun, emitting a light sometimes white, sometimes yellow and throwing sparks at times. It disappeared after 50 seconds of observation. **Reference:** Inforespace n° 45, May 1979, p.30 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_445 ### Event 1392 (EA7137D6) **Date:** 2/5/1883 **Location:** ARVIKA, SWEDEN **Description:** Huge meteor going northwest / 18s. Turns going southeast. Zigzags / 50 second(s). / Nature March 1883. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 190) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_129 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ARVIKA,SWEDEN:HUGE METEOR > NW/18s:TURNS>SE:ZIGZAGS/50sec:/NATURE MAR.1883", **LatLong:** "59.594447 12.538889", **LatLongDMS:** "59:35:40 N 12:32:20 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/59.594447,12.538889)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1393 (923AB262) **Date:** 2/5/1883 **Locations:** Lake Glasfjorden; Arvika, Sweden **Description:** 6:45 p.m. A witness at Lake Glasfjorden, near Arvika, Sweden, spots a meteor-like object high on the horizon moving from southeast to northwest. It makes several minor course changes, varies its color from white to yellow, and emits some sparks. After 18 seconds, it changes its course to the southeast and is so low to the ground that its light is reflected in the lake. By this time, it has a distinct tail. Total duration is 50 seconds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[On February](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x001485763&view=1up&seq=431&skin=2021) [5, at 6.45 p.m.,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x001485763&view=1up&seq=431&skin=2021)” Nature 27 \(March 1, 1883\): 423 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_74 ### Event 1394 (1D5111D9) **Date:** 2/5/1883 **Description:** A huge fireball flew over Lake Glasfjorden near Arvika, Sweden towards the northwest for 18 seconds. It turned toward the southeast and zigzagged through the sky for an additional 50 seconds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Willy Smith, International UFO Reporter, May-June 1984, p. 4, citing Nature, March 1883 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_694 ### Event 1395 (6511B12B) **Date:** 2/23/1883 **Time:** ~19:00 **Location:** SPACE **Description:** New fourth magnetic/magnitude star maneuvers between Orionis and Sirius. Stops and goes according to L'astronomie. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 19) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_130 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "SPACE:NEW 4RTH MAGN STAR MNVRS BTWN ORIONIS+SIRIUS:STOPS+GOES per L'ASTRONOMIE", **LatLong:** "48.844447 1.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "48:50:40 N 01:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.844447,1.000000)", **State/Prov:** "Paris", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 1396 (5BC4A6B8) **Date:** 5/2/1883 **Location:** CHINA, unspecified **Description:** (Translated from French) …in the night the celestial drums thundered, the sky opened its eyes, a huge bright and multicolored star cast dazzling lights, it was heading from east to west preceded and followed by small stars. Strangely, when the lights reached the ground, a sound like thunder was heard. (May 2, 1883) **Reference:** SHI BO: "China and the Extraterrestrials" ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p.44 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_446 ### Event 1397 (B15910BB) **Date:** 7/3/1883 **Location:** Belgium, Courtrai **Description:** (Translated from French) Morlau (Belgian) and Conta (French) aeronauts take off from Courtrai and head towards Cologne. Above Louvain, the wind changes and pushes them towards the coast. They cross the Channel and land in Bromley (England). They have succeeded, the first ones, in the crossing from the continent to England. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air. Chronicle..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 42 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_447 ### Event 1398 (FFEC7C94) **Date:** 8/1/1883 **Location:** MEXICO, Zacatecas **Description:** (Translated from French) ... a large number of luminous bodies penetrated the solar disk. Mr. Bonilla telegraphed to the observatories of Mexico and Puebla, where they had not been seen. Due to this parallax, Mr. Bonilla located the bodies "relatively close to the earth". But in his language of astronomy, whether it was birds, beetles, a super-Tamerlan or an army of celestial Richard-Coeur de Lions "relatively close to the earth" meant "closer than the Moon". One of these objects was photographed: the document shows a long body surrounded by undefined structures, or by the trembling of wings or of planes in motion. (Charles FORT: "The Book of the Damned" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 175) The astronomer Bonilla with his colleagues from the observatory of Zacatecas, noted in the space of two hours the passage of 283 unknown bodies in front of the solar disk. These objects had the most diverse shapes: often spherical, sometimes oval, moving alone or in pairs. A photograph of the phenomenon was published in "L'Astronomie" of 1885 p. 347. The following morning Bonilla was able to count the passage of 116 new strange bodies. To what invasion was the Earth preparing? It should be noted that it is manifest that these objects must have traveled at a low altitude since the astronomers installed in Mexico and Puebla were never able to observe them. (Frank EDWARDS, "The S.V. Serious Affair" - Trad. Laffont 1967 - p. 34-35) Unfortunately, the application of the optical formula cc' = f² allows to calculate the distance, therefore the dimensions and the real speed of these bodies. And given their appearance and their number, it is simply a flight of migratory birds. (August 1 or 12, 1883) **Reference:** Inforespace n° 49, JANUARY 1980, p.12 article by Dominique Caudron, SOBEPS; see also on the Oncle Dom website the details of this affair **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_448 ### Event 1399 (FB8BD11F) **Date:** 8/12/1883 **Time:** ~08:00 **Location:** ZACATECAS OBSERVER(S), MEXICO **Description:** Astronomer Bonilla. 283 objects pass suns face. Photograph of 1 taken. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 19) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_131 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Mexico", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "2543", **HatchDesc:** "ZACATECAS OBS,MEX:ASTRONOMER BONILLA:283 OBJS PASS SUNS FACE:FOTO OF 1 TAKEN", **LatLong:** "22.733334 -102.533338", **LatLongDMS:** "22:44:00 N 102:32:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/22.733334,-102.533338)", **State/Prov:** "ZCT", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1400 (66272935) **Date:** 8/12/1883 **End date:** 8/13/1883 **Location:** El Cerro de la Bufa Meteorological Observatory in Zacatecas, Mexico **Description:** Astronomer [José Árbol y Bonilla](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9%5F%C3%81rbol%5Fy%5FBonilla)[,](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9%5F%C3%81rbol%5Fy%5FBonilla) director of the El Cerro de la Bufa Meteorological Observatory in Zacatecas, Mexico, is observing the sun by eyepiece projection when he and an assistant see a large number of small bodies crossing the solar disc. Over the course of two days, they count a total of 447 dark objects. They seem bright as they approach the sun but are dark as they pass across its face. He takes several photographs and suspects that they are relatively near the earth. Mexican astronomers in 2011 suggested that a comet may have split into several pieces; these objects were estimated to have had a size of between 150 and 3,350 feet, and to have passed only 334 to 5,000 miles from the Earth; they thought a fragmented Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks was one possibility, in which case Earth barely avoided multiple Tunguska events or even a mass extinction; this was reported in the media and disputed in October 2011; but the source of these objects could also have been comet C/1883 D1 \(Brooks-Swift\) or even a third, unknown comet that year; the event also coincided with the annual Perseid meteor shower; even migrating birds cannot be ruled out. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** José Á. y Bonilla, “[Passage sur le](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015011404251&view=1up&seq=359&skin=2021) [disque solaire d’un essaim de corpuscles,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015011404251&view=1up&seq=359&skin=2021)” L’Astronomie 4 \(1885\): 347–350; Hector Javier Durand Manterola, Maria de la Paz Ramos Lara, and Guadalupe Cordero, “[Interpretation of the Observations Made in 1883 in](https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.2798) [Zacatecas \(Mexico\): A Fragmented Comet That Nearly Hits the Earth,](https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.2798)” Earth and Planetary Astrophysics \(2011\); “[Billion-Ton Comet May Have Missed Earth by a Few Hundred Kilometers in 1883,](https://www.technologyreview.com/2011/10/17/21387/billion-ton-comet-may-have-missed-earth-by-a-few-hundred-kilometers-in-1883/)” MIT Technology Review, October 17, 2011; “[Did a Massive Comet Almost Wipe Out Humans in 1883?](https://theweek.com/articles/480924/did-massive-comet-almost-wipe-humans-1883)” The Week, January 8, 2015; “[OT-](https://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2011/10/ot-1883-zacatecas-observation-of.html) [1883 Zacatecas Observation of Objects before Sun Were Not 12P/Pons-Brooks Fragments,](https://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2011/10/ot-1883-zacatecas-observation-of.html)” October 17, 2011; Phil Plait, “[Did a Fragmenting Comet nearly Hit the Earth in 1883? Color Me Very Skeptical,](https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/did-a-fragmenting-comet-nearly-hit-the-earth-in-1883-color-me-very-skeptical)” Bad Astronomy, October 17, 2011; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 189–207 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_75 ### Event 1401 (CEC3A540) **Date:** 8/12/1883 **Description:** On this day at around 8:00 a.m. Astronomer Bonilla at the Zacatecas Observatory in Zacatecas, Mexico watched as 283 objects passed across the face of the sun. He took a photograph of one of them. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 19; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Serious Business, p. 36; Gordon I. R. Lore and Harold Denault, Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 55 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4926 ### Event 1402 (27EDC79A) **Date:** 8/13/1883 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Bonilla makes similar observations as the day before, and counts 1166 objects between the [Moon](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Moon.html) and the [Earth](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Earth.html). (August 13) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1883.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_205 ### Event 1403 (52B93F6E) **Date:** 8/13/1883 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) During the eruption of Perbuatan, on the island of Krakatau \(Sunda Strait\), 2 astronomers observed a signal emitted from 61 Cygni. Some suggested that extraterrestrial intelligences were trying to communicate with Earth. The explosion pulverized the island. The sound was heard as far as Australia, that is, more than 4000 km away, as if an explosion in New York had been heard from Paris. The gigantic volcanic dust cloud raised into the stratosphere made several laps around the globe in the following months, the first one in a dozen days. The effects of this dust created green suns. Spots in the sky were observed, green-gray, blood red, copper red or light copper... A tsunami, a 40 m high wave, swept the coasts of Java and Sumatra, engulfing 300 cities and drowning 36000 people. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1883.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_206 ### Event 1404 (B0C6E779) **Date:** 8/13/1883 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In France, the Tissendier brothers fly a machine equipped with an electric motor. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1883.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_207 ### Event 1405 (48C231C3) **Date:** 10/8/1883 **Location:** France, Auteuil **Description:** (Translated from French) The Tissandier Brothers succeed in the first ascent on board a motorized airship. They go from Auteuil to Croissy on Seine in 1 hour and 15 minutes. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air. Chronicle..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 42 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_449 ### Event 1406 (61A98BFE) **Date:** 10/16/1883 **Location:** FRANCE, Montussan in Gironde **Description:** (Translated from French) The fall of the matter occurred in the afternoon, in rainy and windy weather. The witness saw "floating" in the sky a thick cloud from which these flakes fell, fraying as they clung to the trees. This "rain" lasted about two hours. The matter, when ignited, burned and carbonized. Seen under the microscope it was composed of intertwined filaments, analogous to the threads of the virgin, of which it could be that the aforementioned cloud was an extraordinary agglomeration. **Reference:** Jean SENNELIER, [cite G. Tessandier]: "Angel hair fallen from the sky" **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_450 ### Event 1407 (3CD2CFDD) **Date:** 11/5/1883 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Chile, a luminous object the size of the Moon is visible for 90 minutes. (November 5) **Reference:** [Fort](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/FortCharlesHoy.html) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1883.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_208 ### Event 1408 (3CE47086) **Date:** 12/27/1883 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** NEWCOMERSTOWN, OH **Description:** Many observer(s). Brilliant square night light going north slowly / Eastern sky. Leaves trail. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 939) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_132 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "246", **HatchDesc:** "NEWCOMERSTOWN,OH:MANY OBS:BRILL.SQR NLT >N SLOWLY/EASTERN SKY:LEAVES TRAIL", **LatLong:** "40.272224 -81.605559", **LatLongDMS:** "40:16:20 N 81:36:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.272224,-81.605559)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "4" --- ## Year: 1884, 10 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1409 (481B4058) **Date:** 3/17/1884 **Location:** USA, OTAY (California) **Description:** (Translated from French) J.J. Montgomery made a series of flights using a glider of his own construction. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air. Chronicle..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 43 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_452 ### Event 1410 (F8247DEC) **Date:** 6/6/1884 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A flaming object falls from the sky above Dundy County in southern Nebraska \(USA\). Agricultural workers rush to the scene of the accident. Upon arriving, they find a burned grass area and sand that has melted into a substance resembling glass. The heat emanating from the strange object is still high several hours after the crash: a man who approached too closely saw his skin blister. Today, this story resembles the description of symptoms resulting from radioactive exposure. For several days, the locals went to the site. Many debris are cold. Those who dare to lift pieces evoke their incredible lightness, as well as their solidity comparable to that of brass. This type of material was unknown in the 1880s. However, the characteristics described correspond to those of many modern metals, such as aluminum alloys. The description of these properties is recurrent in reports on UFO wrecks. (June 6) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1884.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_209 ### Event 1411 (D13F29FE) **Date:** 6/6/1884 **Location:** south-central Dundy County, Nebraska **Description:** 1:00 p.m. Rancher John W. Ellis and some of his ranch hands in south-central Dundy County, Nebraska, allegedly see a blazing object fall from the sky and crash into many pieces, burning the grass and fusing the sand. The light is so intense it blinds one of them. The newspaper suggests it is a “vessel belonging originally to some other planet.” The remains of the object are said to have dissolved in a rainstorm. However, the tale is actually a fictional story written by a correspondent in Benkelman. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[A Celestial Visitor,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27283838/the-nebraska-state-journal/)” Lincoln \(Neb.\) Daily State Journal, June 8, 1884, p. 5; “[The Magical Meteor,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27284576/the-nebraska-state-journal/)” Lincoln \(Neb.\) Daily State Journal, June 10, 1884, p. 4; Jerome Clark, “Spaceship and Saltshaker,” IUR 11, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1986\): 12, 21; Clark III 593 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_76 ### Event 1412 (DAD6974F) **Date:** 6/6/1884 **Location:** About 35 miles northwest of Benkelman, Dundy County, Nebraska **Description:** In 1884, a reported UFO crash in Nebraska was documented in a local newspaper, describing a blazing object falling from the sky. Witnesses encountered scorching heat and dazzling light around the debris. However, later reports indicated that the debris dissolved into a gelatinous mass after a heavy rain, suggesting the incident may have been a hoax. (Chapter 2, Refs 106, 107) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_100 ### Event 1413 (806FF251) **Date:** 7/3/1884 **Location:** NORWOOD, NY **Description:** Saturn-object going [to] slow overhead. Dark rings / center. / Charles Fort and more / r242p129+/ r85.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 50) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_133 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "140", **HatchDesc:** "NORWOOD,NY:SATURN-OBJ > SLO OVHD:DRK RINGS/CENTER:/Ch.Fort+/r242p129+/r85..", **LatLong:** "44.750002 -74.994448", **LatLongDMS:** "44:45:00 N 74:59:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.750002,-74.994448)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1414 (C979EB0B) **Date:** 7/3/1884 **Location:** Norwood, NY **Description:** Saturn-shaped UFO (globe with central ring) flew slowly overhead. \[Credit: Charles Fort, from Science Monthly, 2-136\] (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_9 ### Event 1415 (80EB590D) **Date:** 7/3/1884 **Location:** Norwood, New York **Description:** 8:30 p.m. L. C. Yale of Norwood, New York, watches an object with a long tail move slowly from east to west. It has a “nucleus like a globe, as large as the moon, surrounded by a bright ring, two dark lines crossing the nucleus in vertical direction, the lines larger in the middle, straight on inside, curved on outside, tapering both ways to points.” The general appearance is of a “gigantic sword of fire, moving handle first.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[A Great Meteor,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3093221&view=1up&seq=150&skin=2021)” Illustrated Science Monthly 2 \(1884\): 136 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_77 ### Event 1416 (52B74E9C) **Date:** 8/1884 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The brig *Resolven*, departed from Labrador, is found in the middle of the Atlantic, all sails set, lights and kitchen fires lit, by the cruiser *Mallard*. It is completely deserted. (August) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1884.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_210 ### Event 1417 (B3E70B78) **Date:** 8/9/1884 **Location:** FRANCE, CHALAIS-MEUDON **Description:** (Translated from French) Ch. Renard and A. Krebs made the first circuit, the first true voyage in a dirigible, aboard their apparatus named "La France". They rose from Chalais-Meudon and returned after a voyage of 23 minutes during which they covered 7 km 500. (August 9, 1884) **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air. Chronicle..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 43 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_453 ### Event 1418 (11DF67D9) **Date:** 11/26/1884 **Location:** ENGLAND **Description:** (Translated from French) England embarks balloons, the first, destined for a military operation overseas (Bechuanaland). The expedition arrives at the Cape on December 19. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air. Chronicle..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 43 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_454 --- ## Year: 1885, 19 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1419 (9613520E) **Date:** 1885 **Description:** The Benz Patent-Motorwagen by the German Carl Benz is widely regarded as the world’s first practical modern automobile and was the first car put into series production. **Type:** industrial advance **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benz_Patent-Motorwagen) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_14 ### Event 1420 (EA63D114) **Date:** 1885 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Drawing of Gurlt's "cube", with a groove along its length. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1885.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_211 ### Event 1421 (46A7C725) **Date:** 1885 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Photograph taken through Adamski's telescope, 5 March 1951, see images/austrian_steel_cube.jpg. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1885.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_212 ### Event 1422 (440A70D0) **Date:** 2/16/1885 **Locations:** Pennsylvania; Delaware River; Port Jervis, New York **Description:** Night. During a severe snowstorm, a bright light suddenly flashes in the high rocks on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware River some five miles northwest of Port Jervis, New York. The snow-covered hill glows like red-hot iron for several feet around, gleaming through the storm for several minutes, then growing dim and disappearing. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Mysterious Light,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94251450/)” Wichita \(Kan.\) Beacon, March 25, 1885, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_78 ### Event 1423 (DDCD3A2C) **Date:** 2/24/1885 **Location:** At sea, ASIA **Description:** (Translated from French) Between Yokohama and Victoria at 37° North latitude and 170° East longitude, the captain of the ship "Innerwich" was awakened by his second who had seen something abnormal in the sky. (...) The captain saw the sky on fire "suddenly a large flaming mass appeared above the ship, completely blinding the spectators" and fell into the sea. Its size can be estimated, according to the volume of water it raised and which rushed onto the ship with a deafening noise, submerging it under a white and roaring foam. The captain declared that the horror of the spectacle defied all description. It is said that this large ball of fire rose near Cape Race at 150 m in height. Captain Moore of the English steamer Siberian declared that the object moved against the wind before disappearing and that he had already seen such apparitions in the same place. (February 24, 1885) **Reference:** Charles FORT: "The Book of the Damned" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 212, 213 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_455 ### Event 1424 (FCC415C8) **Date:** 2/25/1885 **Locations:** North Pacific; Victoria, British Columbia **Description:** 5:00 a.m. Sailing in the North Pacific some 800 miles west of Victoria, British Columbia, Captain John Waters of the barque Innerwick and his mate see the sky turning fiery red. Suddenly a large fireball appears above the ship and falls hissing into the sea about 150 feet away from them, causing a wave of water to impact the ship. Electrical discharges run through the rigging and the masts. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Frightful Experience at Sea,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92227998/)” Sacramento \(Calif.\) Record-Union, March 3, 1885, p. 1; “[Notes and News,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31822008757627&view=1up&seq=266&skin=2021)” Science 5 \(1885\): 242–243; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 2, Anomalist, 2021, pp. 177–199 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_79 ### Event 1425 (5F62CB2E) **Date:** 8/22/1885 **Time:** 08:20 **Location:** OFF SAIGON, VTNM **Description:** Men / ship. Large red night light maneuvers in and out / clouds. / L'Astronomie and more / r2p20. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 51) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_134 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Vietnam", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "off SAIGON,VTNM:MEN/SHIP:LRG RED NLT MNVRS IN+OUT/CLOUDS:/L'Astronomie+/r2p20", **LatLong:** "10.833334 106.800005", **LatLongDMS:** "10:50:00 N 106:48:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/10.833334,106.800005)", **State/Prov:** "SAI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1426 (5FBF9EAB) **Date:** 8/27/1885 **Location:** BERMUDA **Description:** (Translated from French) At 8:30 in the morning, Mrs. Adelina Bassett saw "a strange object coming from the south in the middle of the clouds". She called her friend, Mrs. L. Lowell, and both of them, not without some alarm, saw the triangular-shaped object, similar to a canoe sail and with chains hanging from it, seeming to land, then move away over the sea, and finally disappear very high in the clouds. (Charles FORT: "The Book of the Damned" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 205) The following observation briefly mentioned a strange round object noticed in the sky above the Bermudas. It was reported in the "Royal Gazette" of this archipelago. (August 27, 1885) **Reference:** Donald KEYHOE: "Flying Saucers Are Real" ed. Corrêa Paris 1951, p80 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_456 ### Event 1427 (49447584) **Date:** 11/1885 **Location:** TURKEY, Andrinople **Description:** (Translated from French) A luminous red craft in the shape of a cigar was seen, its color changing from an intense brightness to an almost imperceptible red, and it was huge and seemed to float and stop in the middle of the air. **Reference:** Frank EDWARDS: "Les S.V. affaire sérieuse - trad. Laffont 1967 - p. 21 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_459 ### Event 1428 (AF62EE15) **Date:** 11/1/1885 **Location:** TURKEY, Andrinople **Description:** (Translated from French) At around 9:30 PM a huge flying disc was observed by numerous witnesses; among them an astronomer. (Henry DURRANT: "The Black Book of UFOs" - Laffont 1970 - p.67-68) "An elongated and very bright" object was visible. It seemed to "float in the air". Its dimensions were four to five times larger than those of the full Moon. (November 1, 1885) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "The Chronicle of UFOs" - Delarge 1977 - p. 144 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_457 ### Event 1429 (E7C8180B) **Date:** 11/1/1885 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** ADRIANOPLE, TURKEY **Description:** Slow saucer = 4-moons diameter. Lights campsite. / r221p16+/ r2p20. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 51) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_135 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Turkey", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "ADRIANOPLE,TURKEY:SLOW SCR=4-MOONS Diam:LITES CAMPSITE:/r221p16+/r2p20", **LatLong:** "41.683335 26.583335", **LatLongDMS:** "41:41:00 N 26:35:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.683335,26.583335)", **State/Prov:** "EDI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1430 (0F1A5159) **Date:** 11/1/1885 **Description:** A huge disc-shaped object was seen in Edirne, Turkey at 9:30 p.m. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Charles Fort, Book of the Damned, p. 275; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers Are Real, p. 59; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 227; Flying Saucers, November 1973, p. 36 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7363 ### Event 1431 (4986048B) **Date:** 11/2/1885 **Location:** TURKEY, Sartari **Description:** (Translated from French) In the morning, a very bright flame, initially bluish, then rather green, moved at an altitude of barely six meters around the ferry dock of Sartari. The "meteor" remained in the sky for one minute and thirty seconds and disappeared into the waves, without any noise accompanying this immersion. (November 2, 1885) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 144 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_458 ### Event 1432 (6325900C) **Date:** 11/2/1885 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Scutari \(Turkey\), a luminous object circles around the port, at an altitude of 5 or 6 m. It illuminates the entire city for 1 h 30, like a blue-green flame, then plunges into the sea. It made several circles above the ferry-boat dock. (November 2, at dawn) **Reference:** LDLN 48 **Reference:** Anatomy 14 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1885.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_213 ### Event 1433 (73ACEB4F) **Date:** 11/2/1885 **Time:** ~07:00 **Location:** SCUTARI, TURKEY **Description:** Fireball-saucer circles pier / 6M altitude. Blinding lights. Sinks quietly. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 21) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_136 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Turkey", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "SCUTARI,TURKEY:FBL-SCR CIRCLES PIER/6M ALT:BLINDING LITES:SINKS QUIETLY", **LatLong:** "41.016669 29.033335", **LatLongDMS:** "41:01:00 N 29:02:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.016669,29.033335)", **State/Prov:** "KDK", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 1434 (61524BDA) **Date:** 11/2/1885 **Location:** Scutari, Turkey **Description:** Dawn. A luminous object circled the harbor. Altitude: 5-6 m. Illuminated the whole town. Duration: 1 1/2 min, as a bluish-green flame. Then plunged into the sea. Made several circles above the ferry-boat pier. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_10 ### Event 1435 (42AC0051) **Date:** 11/2/1885 **Time:** dawn **Location:** Scutari, Turkey **Description:** A luminous object circled the harbor. Altitude: 5-6 m. Illuminated the whole town. Duration: 1 1/2 min, as a bluish-green flame. Then plunged into the sea. Made several circles above the ferry-boat pier. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** LDLN 48; Anatomy 14 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_8 ### Event 1436 (86D39F95) **Date:** 11/2/1885 **Description:** Scutari, Albania (then called Uskudar, a part of Ottoman Turkey). At dawn a luminous object circled the harbor at an altitude of 56 meters for 90 seconds. It illuminated the entire town with a bluish-green glow. It made several circles above the ferryboat pier then plunged into the sea. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Ivan Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 34; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 181 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7409 ### Event 1437 (974EB33E) **Date:** 11/12/1885 **Description:** Cape Race, Atlantic Ocean - A huge sphere of fire was observed rising out of the ocean by witnesses aboard the ship "Siberian." It rose to an altitude of 16 meters, flew against the wind, and came close to the ship, then "dashed off" toward the southeast. The sighting lasted five minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 181; Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 27 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7603 --- ## Year: 1886, 12 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1438 (541A13A7) **Date:** 1886 **Description:** French novelist [Jules Verne](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules%5FVerne) publishes Robur the Conqueror, which describes the appearance of mysterious objects and strange lights in the sky all over the world. It turns out that the sightings are of a flying machine, invented by the novel’s anti-hero Robur, who kidnaps people and takes them on board the airship. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Robur the Conqueror](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November%5F1882%5Fgeomagnetic%5Fstorm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_80 ### Event 1439 (C316F401) **Date:** 3/19/1886 **Location:** USA, Oshkosh (Wisconsin) **Description:** (Translated from French) At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, a darkness as total as midnight descended upon Oshkosh. This caused general consternation; people ran in all directions in the streets, horses panicked, women and children sought refuge in cellars. (...) This darkness lasted from 8 to 10 minutes, moved from west to east and was followed by almost immediate light. Shortly afterwards it was reported that the same phenomenon had occurred to the west of Oshkosh. (...) (March 19, 1886) **Reference:** Charles FORT: "The Book of the Damned" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 182 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_460 ### Event 1440 (412C918E) **Date:** 5/3/1886 **Location:** FRANCE **Description:** (Translated from French) In February, Maillot presented his 72 square meter kite to the French Society of Aerial Navigation. On May 3, he successfully experimented with his kite. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air. Chronicle..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 43 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_461 ### Event 1441 (69C2E7E9) **Date:** 9/12/1886 **Location:** France, Boulogne **Description:** (Translated from French) H. Herve and Alluard, "National" Balloon, lifted off from Boulogne and landed in England only after an unusual duration of ascent: 24 hours 30 minutes, during which they travelled only 300 km. They used submerged deviators, invented by Herve, to change the direction of their balloon several times during this ascent. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air. Chronicle..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 43-44 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_462 ### Event 1442 (B1E8F49D) **Date:** 10/24/1886 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) To the editors of *Scientific American*. The brief report that follows, concerning a recent and strange meteorological phenomenon, may interest your readers as a new example to add to the list of electrical eccentricities. During the night of October 24th last, marked by rain and even a storm, a family of 9 people sleeping in a cabin a few kilometers from Maracaibo was awakened by a dull buzzing and a dazzling light that brightly illuminated the inside of the house. Completely terrified and believing --- as they said --- that the end of the world had come, its occupants threw themselves to their knees to pray, but their devotion was almost immediately interrupted by violent nausea, while swellings spread over the upper parts of their body, mainly the face and lips. It should be noted that the bright light was not accompanied by any sensation of heat, although the air was apparently charged with smoke with a particular smell. The next morning, the swellings had decreased, leaving large blackish patches on the face and body.

No particular pain was felt, until the 9th day when, the skin beginning to peel, the pustules transformed into painful raw wounds. Hair fell out on the side that had been directly exposed to the phenomenon, the body being most affected on that side. What is remarkable about this phenomenon is that the house was absolutely intact, all doors and windows being closed at the time of the facts. No trace of lightning was observed in the rest of the dwelling and all the victims declare that there was no detonation, but only this already mentioned low buzzing. Another strange circumstance is that the trees around the house showed no particular sign before the 9th day, the date on which they withered quickly, almost all, while the wounds appeared on the occupants of the house. There may be a coincidence there, but it is still surprising to observe that animal and vegetable organisms react in the same way, and in the same time frame, to electrical effects.

I went to visit the victims in one of the hospitals of this city; although their appearance is really horrible, it is to be hoped that these wounds will not be fatal to them. Signed: Walter Cogwill, Consulate of the United States, Maracaibo, Venezuela, November 7, 1886.

What these 9 people are experiencing resembles strong radiation and is closer to the effects of nuclear power than to the "mysteries" of electricity. (October 24th) **Reference:** Letter from the American Consul in Maracaibo - Venezuela - published in *Scientific American* of December 18th, 1886 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1886.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_214 ### Event 1443 (12FF4766) **Date:** 10/24/1886 **Time:** 23:00? **Location:** MARACAIBO, VNZ **Description:** Humming and penetrating light. Family / 9 vomits. Burnt. Very radiation/radioactivity sick. / Scientific American. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 871) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_137 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NFO:** No craft seen, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **RDA:** Radiation/high energy fields detected, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Venezuela", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "MARACAIBO,VNZ:HUM+PENETRATING LITE:FAMILY/9 VOMITS:BURNT:VERY RDA SICK:/Sci.Am", **LatLong:** "10.666667 -71.616670", **LatLongDMS:** "10:40:00 N 71:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/10.666667,-71.616670)", **State/Prov:** "MRC", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 1444 (599586B7) **Date:** 10/24/1886 **Location:** Maracaibo, Venezuela **Description:** During the night, which was rainy and tempestuous, a family of nine persons, sleeping in a hut a few leagues from Maracaibo, were awakened by a loud humming noise and a vivid, dazzling light, which brilliantly illuminated the interior of the house. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_11 ### Event 1445 (5CA8AB02) **Date:** 10/24/1886 **Locations:** Maracaibo, Venezuela; 10 miles from Maracaibo, Venezuela **Description:** Night. Nine persons who are sleeping in a hut some 10 miles from Maracaibo, Venezuela, are awakened by a loud humming noise and a dazzling light that illuminates the interior. The people begin to pray but they start vomiting as extensive swellings appear on the upper part of their bodies, especially around the face and lips. They feel no heat, although the light has a smoky appearance and a peculiar smell. The next morning, the swellings subside but leave black blotches. By November 2, the skin peels off and the blotches are round sores. Portions of their hair falls off. Trees around the hut show no damage until November 2, when they suddenly wither. The symptoms are similar to those of ionizing radiation syndrome. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Warner Cowgill, “[Curious Phenomenon in](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000062999540&view=1up&seq=351&skin=2021) [Venezuela,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000062999540&view=1up&seq=351&skin=2021)” letter, Scientific American 55 \(December 18, 1886\): 389; Clark III 949; Patrick Gross, [UFO Reports](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/ancrep01.htm) [from the Past](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/ancrep01.htm) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_81 ### Event 1446 (A4B972CD) **Date:** 10/24/1886 **Description:** On this night a loud humming noise awakened a family of nine in a hut in a village in Maracaibo, Venezuela. A vivid, dazzling light illuminated the inside of the hut. The family suffered symptoms of apparent radiation exposure, including vomiting, hair loss, swelling, black blotches, and sores. Trees in the area withered and died nine days later. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Scientific American, December 1886, p. 18; APRO Bulletin, July-August 1972, p. 6; N. M. H. Turner, FSR Case Histories, December 1970, p. 15; Gordon David Kaswell, UFO Magazine, August 2002, p. 44; John F. Schuessler, UFO-Related Human Physiological Effects, p. 17 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7066 ### Event 1447 (F0FEF267) **Date:** 11/1886 **Description:** Heinrich Hertz became the first person to transmit and receive controlled radio waves. **Type:** scientific advance **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Hertz) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_15 ### Event 1448 (6B1B3D9E) **Date:** 11/3/1886 **Location:** NORWAY, Hamar **Description:** (Translated from French) A white cloud emitting blinding rays of light traversed the sky, maintaining its initial shape the whole time. (Charles FORT: "The Book of the Damned" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 226) It was between 8 and 9 PM, a very dark night. Suddenly a white cloud appeared in the sky, sailing towards the northeast, and from time to time this cloud emitted bright rays of light in all directions. The cloud maintained its original shape during the entire observation and in the end disappeared into the night. **Reference:** NATURE, 16 Dec 1886, 159; Bullard: MYSTERIES IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER., 1982, 191 and THE AIRSHIP FILE., 1982, 379, cfr listing of Ole Jonny Braenne **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_463 ### Event 1449 (4162EDDF) **Date:** 11/3/1886 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Hamar, Norway, it is pitch black when suddenly a bright white cloud appears in the sky, moving towards the Northeast and occasionally emitting bright beams of light in various directions. During the observation the cloud always maintains its original shape, then disappears into the darkness. (November 3, from 8-9 PM) **Reference:** \[Nature, December 16, 1886, 159\] \[Bullard: Mysteries in the Eye of the Beholder, 1982, 191\] \[The Airship File, 1982, 379\] **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1886.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_215 --- ## Year: 1887, 10 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1450 (035DDA81) **Date:** 3/19/1887 **Location:** ATLANTIC OCEAN **Description:** (Translated from French) At 37°39' North latitude and 57° West longitude, in the middle of the Atlantic, Captain C.D. Sweet of the Dutch ship "J P A" saw, during a severe storm, two objects crossing the sky above his vessel. One was luminous, but the second was dark. One of them, or both, fell into the sea with a rumble and a splash of waves. Immediately afterwards, blocks of ice were seen falling. (1887, 19th March) **Reference:** Charles FORT: "The Book of the Damned" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 222, 223 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_464 ### Event 1451 (9A188592) **Date:** 3/19/1887 **Locations:** North Atlantic; 590 miles northeast of Bermuda **Description:** 5:00 p.m. Captain Cornelis Dirks Swart of the Dutch bark J.P.A. sees a “meteor in the shape of two balls” during a storm in the North Atlantic about 590 miles northeast of Bermuda. One ball is black and the other is luminous and oblong. The luminous object descends with a roar and lights up the ship and surrounding water. The crew feels heat from the object even as solid lumps of ice fall on the deck and the rigging becomes iced. The side of the ship where it falls turns partially black and the copper plating is blistered. The wind increases to “hurricane force.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Rare Electrical Phenomenon at Sea,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hxgnys&view=1up&seq=120&skin=2021)” American Meteorological Journal 4 \(July 1887\): 98–99; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History, 2015, pp. 205–217; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 2, Anomalist, 2021, pp. 201–210 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_82 ### Event 1452 (0AD7CEDA) **Date:** 8/1887 **Location:** SPAIN, Banjos **Description:** (Translated from French) Farmers working in the fields saw a boy and a girl come out of a cave with skin the color of green leaves from a tree. They spoke in an unknown language and were handed over to the justice of the peace Ricardo da Calno. They wanted to remove the green color, but it was not makeup, it was the real pigmentation of the skin. They had certain Negroid features and Asian-type eyes. For 5 days they refused the food that was offered to them, finally they ate freshly cut beans. The boy, too weak, died, but the girl survived. The green color gradually disappeared and she then had a normal complexion for a white race being. She learned Spanish and worked as a maid in the judge's house. Questioned, her explanations thickened the mystery: she came from a sunless country separated from a luminous country by a wide river. There was suddenly a whirlpool and a terrible noise that had taken the children and deposited them in the cave. The girl survived 5 years, then died. (Jacques BERGIER: "Les E.T. dans l'histoire" - J'AI LU - 1970 - p. 156, 157) IN REALITY: The Barcelona Zoological Museum gave no details and directed the investigation towards a Spanish magazine dealing with non-traditional sciences. Javier Sierra of the magazine "Mâs Allâ" conducted an investigation into the case. It turns out that the village of Banjos never existed in Spain and that the only place with a name more or less similar is Banyoles, where the story is not known. He also found indications of a British legend from the 13th century, telling a similar story. **Reference:** (c) 1997 Jeroen Slurf and Jeroen Kümeling. UFO nieuwsbrief jaargang 2, nummer 1 et ALFRA, Humanoid research group. **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_465 ### Event 1453 (D08708F6) **Date:** 11/12/1887 **Location:** At sea, Nova Scotia (CANADA) **Description:** (Translated from French) Captain Moore of the British ship "Siberian" saw around midnight an object of red color rising from the sea. The UFO climbed up to about twenty meters, then, against the wind, it moved towards the ship and stopped a few meters away. After five minutes of observation the sailors saw the object depart towards the southeast and disappear. Total duration of the observation: five minutes. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 146 **Reference:** Frank EDWARDS: "Les S.V. affaire sérieuse - trad. Laffont 1967 - p. 21 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_466 ### Event 1454 (C19D1E49) **Date:** 11/12/1887 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Cap Race \(Atlantic Ocean\), several passengers of the *Siberian* ship observed a huge sphere of fire coming out of the ocean. It reached an altitude of 16 m, flew against the wind, and approached the boat. The observation lasted 5 minutes, before it disappeared towards the South-East. (November 12th, 0:00) **Reference:** BSAF, 1887 **Reference:** LDLN 48 **Reference:** Anatomy 14 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1887.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_216 ### Event 1455 (0F2A94ED) **Date:** 11/12/1887 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** OFF CAPE RACE, NFL **Description:** Ship crew. Red fireball going up / sea. Going [to] against wind. Dives going down. / r33p7+/ r44p28. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 53) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_138 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "off CAPE RACE,NFL:SHIP CREW:RED FBL ↑/SEA:>AGNST WIND:DIVEs ↓:/r33p7+/r44p28", **LatLong:** "46.583336 -53.000003", **LatLongDMS:** "46:35:00 N 53:00:00 W", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.583336,-53.000003)", **State/Prov:** "Newfoundland", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 1456 (A72F98BF) **Date:** 11/12/1887 **Location:** Cape Race, Atlantic Ocean **Description:** Midnight. A huge sphere of fire was observed rising out of the ocean by witnesses aboard the "Siberian." It rose to an altitude of 16 m, flew against the wind, and came close to the ship, then "dashed oft" toward the southeast. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_12 ### Event 1457 (858517EC) **Date:** 11/12/1887 **Time:** 2400 **Location:** Cape Race, Atlantic Ocean **Description:** A huge sphere of fire was observed rising out of the ocean by witnesses aboard the "Siberian." It rose to an altitude of 16 m, flew against the wind, and came close to the ship, then "dashed oft" toward the southeast. Duration: 5 min. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** LDLN 48; Anatomy 14 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_9 ### Event 1458 (B0EE8657) **Date:** 11/12/1887 **Locations:** Cape Race, Newfoundland; 10 nautical miles off Cape Race, Newfoundland **Description:** Midnight. Captain R. F. Moore of the English steamer [SS Siberian,](http://www.norwayheritage.com/p%5Fship.asp?sh=sibe1) sailing 10 nautical miles off Cape Race, Newfoundland, watches an enormous fireball rising from the sea to the height of 15 feet. It travels against the strong wind and comes close to the ship, then turns to the southeast and disappears. The object is seen for about 2 minutes. Moore says he has seen this phenomenon before and considers it a sign of stormy weather. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Globular Lightning,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31822008898835&view=1up&seq=354&skin=2021)” Science 10 \(1887\): 324; Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, “[On Globular Lightning,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112111968191&view=1up&seq=483&skin=2021)” American Meteorological Journal 6 \(February 1890\): 437, 442–443; Theo Paijmans, “Fiery Objects Rising from the Oceans,” Charles Fort Institute Blogs, July 6, 2007; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 2, Anomalist, 2021, pp. 151–174 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_83 ### Event 1459 (FE9BB455) **Date:** 11/23/1887 **Location:** MOON **Description:** Night lights converge / Plato crater. Form "marching triangle". / Charles Fort and more / l'Astronomie. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 53) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_139 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "The Moon", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "MOON:NLTS CONVERGE/PLATO CRATER:FORM "MARCHING TRIANGLE":/C.Fort+/l'Astronomie", **LatLong:** "0.000000 -0.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "00:00:00 S 00:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/0.000000,-0.000000)", **State/Prov:** "PLT", **Strangeness:** "6" --- ## Year: 1888, 7 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1460 (8329EA51) **Date:** 1888 **Location:** Northern California **Description:** Reports of anomalous Victorian-era airships, including streamlined metallic vehicles with no apparent propulsion and otherworldly occupants, have perplexed observers. These occurrences, some predating the 1896 California airship wave, feature instances where futuristic craft landed and discharged large, hairy, man-like creatures known to local tribes as "Crazy Bear." These creatures allegedly arrived in small moon-like craft alongside beings resembling Indians, wearing shiny clothing, creating a mysterious connection between UFOs, Bigfoot-like entities, and native folklore. (Chapter 2, Ref 92) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_86 ### Event 1461 (4A37B301) **Date:** 1888 **Location:** Near Grundy, Texas **Description:** A teenager near Grundy, Texas, allegedly witnessed the crash of an aerial object, leading to the discovery of an injured man amid debris. The man, who spoke an unintelligible language, consumed water and food but died within hours. Neighbors gathered to see the fallen "man from the sky," and the debris included lightweight, unscratchable metal pieces of two types—silver-gray and dark blue—which remained heat-resistant even when placed on a hot stove. (Chapter 2, Refs 108) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_101 ### Event 1462 (27C15004) **Date:** 5/1888 **Location:** USA, Darlington County (South Carolina) **Description:** (Translated from French) A wave of "snakes" in the sky was observed. They emitted a whistling sound. **Reference:** Christiane PIENS: "Les Ovni du passé" - Marabout 1977 - p.91, 92 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_467 ### Event 1463 (4E4ACD3B) **Date:** 5/4/1888 **Location:** NEW ZEALAND **Description:** (Translated from French) An object with an oval nucleus and black striped flames, suggestive of a structure. (Charles FORT: "The Book of the Damned" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 226) ... an oval disk, advancing at great speed was reported. **Reference:** Donald KEYHOE: "Flying Saucers Exist" ed. Corrêa Paris 1951, p 81 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_468 ### Event 1464 (FF15A397) **Date:** 5/4/1888 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In New Zealand, observation of an oval-nucleus object with black-striped flames suggestive of a structure. (May 4) **Reference:** *Nature*, 42-402 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1888.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_217 ### Event 1465 (C2732B75) **Date:** 7/30/1888 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Fireballs disappearing without a sound near Saint Petersburg, see images/febchin.jpg. [1888](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/1888.html) (July 30th) **Reference:** Painting, Mary Evans Picture Library **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1888.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_218 ### Event 1466 (71D90F41) **Date:** Early 9/1888 **Location:** Winsted, Connecticut **Description:** 3:15 p.m. During a severe thunderstorm, after a flash of lightning and a peal of thunder, witnesses see a huge flame at Highland Lake, near Winsted, Connecticut. The water is parted for yards by a huge ball of fire at least 10 feet in diameter, and billows rise on either side to a height of 20 feet. The light moves toward the head of the lake with great velocity. When it is within 100 yards of the shore, another flash of lightning strikes, and the fireball disappears. The waters of the lake remain disturbed for hours. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[A Ball of Fire on a Lake,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91956638/)” Hagerstown \(Ind.\) Exponent, September 12, 1888, p. 3 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_84 --- ## Year: 1889, 8 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1467 (95FC5411) **Date:** 1889 **Location:** HIMALAYA **Description:** (Translated from French) Major M. A. Waddel was the first European to report in 1889 that he had seen large footprints in the Himalayan snow, to the northeast of the Sikkim protectorate, at an altitude of about 5200 m. However, he did not see the Yeti making these tracks and he had to rely on the word of the porters who assured him that what he was seeing there were the tracks of the Yeti. **Reference:** Jean FERGUSON: "The Humanoids..." ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1977, p.120 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_470 ### Event 1468 (D2526E0A) **Date:** 2/7/1889 **Locations:** Oella, Maryland; Patapsco River **Description:** 6:00 p.m. A cylindrical luminous object passes over Oella, Maryland, at only several hundred feet altitude. It lights up the village “as brilliantly as if by a strong electric lamp.” It curves and appears to descend to the ground one mile away. It follows the course of the Patapsco River to the north for several seconds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[A Brilliant](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91956694/) [Meteor,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91956694/)” Washington \(D.C.\) Evening Star, February 9, 1889, p. 6 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_85 ### Event 1469 (FB5BB281) **Date:** 2/14/1889 **Description:** On this evening in Catonsville, Maryland near Baltimore a luminous cylindrical object passed overhead, then appeared to descend nearthe village while following the course of the Patapsco River. The landscape beneath the object was lit up as bright as a carbon-arc light, causing alarm among the residents. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jerome Clark, International UFO Reporter, Spring 2003, p. 21 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_911 ### Event 1470 (210AF5C1) **Date:** 4/20/1889 **End date:** 4/30/1945 **Description:** German dictator Adolf Hitler, who initiated World War 2 and was closely involved in military operations throughout the war, and was central to the perpetration of the Holocaust, is born in Austria-Hungary. **Type:** historical figure **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_16 ### Event 1471 (CA8149E8) **Date:** 6/1889 **Location:** CONGO BELGE **Description:** (Translated from French) At MATADI, the Belgians are conducting tests of an aerial post using hot air balloons. (June 1889) **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air. Chronicle..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout Université 1967, p. 44 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_469 ### Event 1472 (1327F1B4) **Date:** 6/13/1889 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** LEICESTER, LEICS **Description:** Observer(s) = F. T. Mott. 'Meteor' zigzags across sky. Going quickly [to] under clouds! / Nature. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The UFO REGISTER. CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK. (annual sightings catalog.) (Index 76) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_140 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "76", **HatchDesc:** "LEICESTER,LEICs:OBS=F.T.MOTT:'METEOR' ZIGZAGS ACRS SKY:>>UNDER CLOUDS!/NATURE", **LatLong:** "52.600003 -1.133333", **LatLongDMS:** "52:36:00 N 01:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.600003,-1.133333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 1473 (302E805A) **Date:** 6/13/1889 **Description:** On this night in 1889, in Leicester, England a fireball zigzagged across the sky under the cloud cover. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** J. B. Delaire, UFO Register, volume 7, 1976 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3452 ### Event 1474 (63E2A88D) **Date:** Winter 1889 **Description:** Nikola Tesla’s experiments at his Experimental Station on wireless electricity transmission in Colorado Springs **Type:** scientific event **Reference:** [link](https://teslauniverse.com/nikola-tesla/landmarks/colorado-springs-experimental-station) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_17 --- ## Year: 1890, 5 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1475 (1D94842C) **Date:** 1890's **Description:** The experimental proof of Maxwell’s equations was demonstrated by Heinrich Hertz in a series of experiments. After that, Maxwell’s equations were fully accepted by scientists. **Type:** scientific advance **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Maxwell%27s_equations) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_18 ### Event 1476 (CB89ECAF) **Date:** 1890 (approximate) **Location:** Netherlands Indies **Description:** (Translated from French) Approximately two years after (note from vog: after May 4, 1888) several aerial bodies were seen hovering above the Netherlands Indies. Most reports say they were roughly triangular, having about thirty meters at the base, and seventy meters on the sides. Some were narrow with a rounded base (...). (Around 1890) **Reference:** Donald KEYHOE: "Flying Saucers are Real" ed. Corrêa Paris 1951, p 81 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_472 ### Event 1477 (35EAA8B6) **Date:** 1890 **Location:** Mt. Carmel, Illinois **Description:** Edward J. Pennington, a successful manufacturer, claimed to be an airship inventor and intended to create a large aluminum airship propelled by hydrogen gas and a gasoline engine-powered propeller, capable of speeds up to 250 miles per hour. (Chapter 1, Refs 73, 74) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_71 ### Event 1478 (AD2B34AD) **Date:** 12/24/1890 **Location:** USA, South Bend (Indiana) **Description:** (Translated from French) The Lerch family had invited about twenty friends to celebrate the holiday. The youngest son, Olivier Lerch, 20 years old, was particularly joyful as his fiancée and her parents were among the guests. Around 10 pm, Mrs. Lerch asked Olivier to fetch some water from the well in the farm's courtyard. He took two buckets and went out. A few minutes later, a horrible scream was heard outside, where everyone rushed. They distinctly heard "Help! Help! They're taking me!" and these cries came from above. This lasted for another 5 minutes. Near the well was a bucket, apart from that there was nothing in the courtyard. Afterwards, the well was dredged, but there was no trace of Oliver who never reappeared. (December 24th to 25th, 1890) **Reference:** Jimmy GUIEU: "Black-out sur les S.V." - FLEUVE NOIR 1956 - p. 210 à 212 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_471 ### Event 1479 (2813B846) **Date:** 12/24/1890 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Not far from the small town of South Bend \(Indiana\), Tom Lerch, his family and his neighbors' friends were gathered in the big farm kitchen for the Christmas Eve vigil. Mrs. Lerch asked her 11-year-old son Oliver to go to the well to get some water, and handed him an empty bucket. Oliver put on a scarf, as it was freezing outside. Less than 10 seconds later, after he had closed the door behind him, Oliver screamed outside, calling for help, freezing everyone. Everyone immediately thought a wolf had appeared. Once outside, there was no wolf nor little boy. They were all frozen in horror when they heard the desperate screams of little Oliver, somewhere in the night, but above their heads. The child was invisible in the black sky. Oliver shouted Help! They're holding me! Help! The screams and calls continued to tear the air for about 1 minute, but decreasing in intensity, as if the child was going up, up... Stupefied, the audience only reacted when the pastor decided to follow the little one's tracks. In the fresh snow, the tracks were normal and showed that the child had headed towards the well. But, about 20 m from the house and 10 m from the well, the tracks suddenly stopped, as if the child had been lifted off the ground. The bucket was found 2 m further. The investigation led to nothing. (December 24th, 11 PM) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1890.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_219 --- ## Year: 1891, 8 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1480 (A56B5432) **Date:** 1891 **Location:** GERMANY **Description:** (Translated from French) German engineer Hermann Ganswindt, known as the inventor of the autogyro, the free wheel of the bicycle, a dirigible airship and many other things, presented in 1891 a project for a spacecraft propelled by the reaction of dynamite cartridges. He unfortunately fell into ridicule. **Reference:** "The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 40 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_473 ### Event 1481 (B26C870F) **Date:** 1891 **Location:** Germany, Grosskreuz **Description:** (Translated from French) Otto Lilienthal builds his first glider. The successful test takes place in Grosskreuz. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air. Chronicle..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 46 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_474 ### Event 1482 (D160F6AF) **Date:** 1891 **Location:** USA, California **Description:** (Translated from French) In 1891, Californian Thomas Blot wrote a small book in which he recounts his encounter with a Martian who suddenly appears before his eyes at his rural home. This Alien speaks to the man in English and provides him with abundant information about his planet, all of which was obviously false. **Reference:** Jean SIDER: "Ovni, les envahisseurs démasqués", ed. RAMUEL 1999, p 89 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_475 ### Event 1483 (57905F81) **Date:** 1891 **Location:** Chicago **Description:** Edward J. Pennington demonstrated a 30-foot unmanned model of his airship inside a Chicago exhibition hall, which circled at 25 feet and achieved a speed of six miles per hour. Despite public enthusiasm, his attempt to scale up the model for a full-sized airship faced challenges, leading to the failure of the Mt. Carmel Aeronautic Navigation Company. (Chapter 1, Ref 75, 76, 77) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_72 ### Event 1484 (E7691712) **Date:** 6/13/1891 **Location:** Dublin, Texas **Description:** Day. An unnamed witness claims to see a “meteor” explode with a loud noise over the Wasson & Miller flour mill and cotton gin in Dublin, Texas. The object looks like “a bale of cotton suspended in the air after having been saturated in kerosene oil and ignited, except that it created a much brighter light” that dazzles people standing several hundred feet away. The object shatters into pieces before it hits the ground, the fragments setting the grass and weeds on fire. In addition to the fragments is a scrap of paper with writing in a strange language. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Dublin](http://roswellbooks.com/museum/?page%5Fid=143) [1891,](http://roswellbooks.com/museum/?page%5Fid=143)” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, February 5, 2014 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_86 ### Event 1485 (92851231) **Date:** 7/12/1891 **Locations:** Theodore Street; Ottawa, Ontario **Description:** 7:00 p.m. Residents of Theodore Street in Ottawa, Ontario, see over the rifle range a cigar-shaped balloon with a bright light on one end and a fan on the other traveling from south to north. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** MacLeod \(Ont.\) Gazette, July 16, 1891; Clark 45 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_87 ### Event 1486 (D9507283) **Date:** 8/14/1891 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** TOPONAS, CO **Description:** / old diary. Large round glowing object maneuvers about dark clouds. Fast. Going quickly northeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FARISH, Jucius: UFO NEWSCLIPPING SERVICE: $5/Monthly. Plumerville, AR. (Index 297) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_141 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "2524", **HatchDesc:** "TOPONAS,CO:/OLD DIARY:LRG ROUND GLOWING OBJ MNVRS ABOUT DARK CLOUDS:FAST:>>NE", **LatLong:** "40.061113 -106.805561", **LatLongDMS:** "40:03:40 N 106:48:20 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.061113,-106.805561)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 1487 (9178A307) **Date:** 9/2/1891 **Location:** Coyote Canyon [now within the Sandia National Laboratory complex], New Mexico **Description:** 8:00 p.m. [Alonzo M. Swan](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62790371/alonzo-m-swan) and L. D. Dodson \(an equestrian recovering from an illness\) are camped in Coyote Canyon \[now within the Sandia National Laboratory complex\], New Mexico, to benefit from the mineral springs there when they see a brilliant light rise above a mountain to the south. As it moves closer against the wind, they see it has a series of “electric arc lights” around it and a “pole” or rudder that is similarly lit. The object is in view for nearly two hours. Another lighted object appears from the southwest and approaches the first object, but clouds prevent any further observation. Swan sees a lighted object again on September 4, although this time it could be a star. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Strange Mid Air Ships,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91956824/)” Albuquerque \(N.Mex.\) Weekly Citizen, September 12, 1891, p. 3; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 219–237 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_88 --- ## Year: 1892, 12 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1488 (D23AE163) **Date:** 1892 **Location:** Waters near Jamaica **Description:** In 1892 in the Caribbean waters, witnesses aboard the ship "The Green" observed two large, glowing, house-sized objects emerging from the ocean next to the ship. The ship's crew, including the captain, was unable to explain this phenomenon, and the objects remained alongside the ship for a time before descending into the water. This incident introduces the concept of Unidentified Submersible Objects (USOs) alongside the traditional UFO sightings. (Chapter 2, Ref 94) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_88 ### Event 1489 (9CC8E518) **Date:** 1/1892? **Location:** west coast of Baja California, Mexico **Description:** [George W. Crusselle](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87522539/george-washington-crusselle) and S. D. Cuthereil from the [USS Thetis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FThetis%5F%281881%29) are wandering among the salt water lagoons on the west coast of Baja California, Mexico, when they see a luminous object with smooth edges about 30 feet in diameter approaching from the ocean at an altitude of 50 feet. It changes shape from circular to an hourglass and moves swiftly to the surface of a lagoon, covering it with a “brilliant halo of light.” It rises moments later, changing its shape frequently, and moving swiftly in a zigzag fashion. After 15 minutes it disappears inland. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** George W. Crusselle, “[The Coast Survey,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/80150245/ufo-sighting-1892/)” Atlanta Constitution, April 10, 1892, p. 9 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_89 ### Event 1490 (01768909) **Date:** 3/7/1892 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** DOMBROVNO AND AREA, POL **Description:** 'Balloon' follows railroad/railway going northeast against wind. Bright beam. Returns going southwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 351) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_142 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Poland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "60", **HatchDesc:** "DOMBROVNO+AREA,POL:'BALLOON' FOLOS RR >NE AGAINST WIND:BRITE BEAM:RETURNS >SW", **LatLong:** "50.333336 19.166668", **LatLongDMS:** "50:20:00 N 19:10:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.333336,19.166668)", **State/Prov:** "KTW", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1491 (BD123384) **Date:** 3/22/1892 (approximate) **Time:** 20:00? **Location:** KOVNO = KUANAS, LITH **Description:** 'German' balloon going [to] over Russian fort. Hovers. Turns back going west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 351) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_143 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Estonia, Latvia& Lithuania", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "60", **HatchDesc:** "KOVNO=KUANAS,LITH:'GERMAN' BALLOON > OVR RUSSIAN FORT:HVRS:TURNS BACK >W", **LatLong:** "54.666669 23.916668", **LatLongDMS:** "54:40:00 N 23:55:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/54.666669,23.916668)", **State/Prov:** "Lithuania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1492 (CDA9C451) **Date:** 3/23/1892 **Time:** ~22:00 **Location:** WARSAW, POL **Description:** Balloon going east. Sweeps intense beam around. Hovers until O100hrs. Going west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 351) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_144 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Poland", **Credibility:** "13", **Duration:** "180", **HatchDesc:** "WARSAW,POL:BALLOON > E:SWEEPS INTENSE BEAM AROUND:HVRS UNTIL O100hrs:>W:", **LatLong:** "52.250002 21.066668", **LatLongDMS:** "52:15:00 N 21:04:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.250002,21.066668)", **State/Prov:** "Warsaw", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1493 (2A77DEA5) **Date:** 3/23/1892 **Locations:** Warsaw, Poland; Kaunas Fortress, Lithuania; Modlin Fortress (in Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki), Sosnowiec, Dąbrowa Górnicza, and Dąbrowice, Poland **Description:** Evening–1:00 a.m. Residents of Warsaw, Poland, watch a balloon over the city that casts rays of light from an electrical apparatus. It remains stationary until 1:00 a.m., then it takes off to the west. Other supposed balloons are seen March 22 or earlier over Kaunas Fortress, Lithuania; and Modlin Fortress \(in Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki\), Sosnowiec, Dąbrowa Górnicza, and Dąbrowice, Poland. As they remain stationary for as long as 40 minutes, some assume they are piloted by German spies. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Spying by Balloon,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91956862/)” New York Evening World, March 25, 1892, p. 1; “[Balloons As German Spies,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1892/03/26/104092834.pdf?pdf%5Fredirect=true&ip=0)” New York Times, March 26, 1892, p. 3; “[Steering Military Balloons,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91956933/)” Birmingham Daily Post, March 31, 1892, p. 8; Clark 45; Brett Holman, “[The Phantom Balloon Scare of 1892,](https://airminded.org/2009/07/11/the-phantom-balloon-scare-of-1892/)” Airminded, July 11, 2009 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_90 ### Event 1494 (E7C293CC) **Date:** 4/1892 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) On a Saturday night in Skien \(Norway\), people saw a ball of fire wrapped in a bright blue halo, with a long red trail, enter the room they were in and move very quickly. (April) **Reference:** DRAMMENS TIDENDE OG BUSKERUDS BLAD, 10 Apr 1992, 27 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1892.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_220 ### Event 1495 (33EEB508) **Date:** 4/16/1892 **Location:** Przemyśl Fortress, Poland **Description:** Witnesses at Przemyśl Fortress, Poland, see a bright point of light in the north that seems to be a sphere emitting searchlight beams above and below it. The object is hovering at an altitude of 2,100 feet and begins circling. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Poland 7–8 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_91 ### Event 1496 (F082AE45) **Date:** 6/1/1892 **Location:** Newark, New Jersey **Description:** Night. A large balloon carrying a searchlight and four passengers passes over Newark, New Jersey, descending as low as 20 feet from the ground. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Trenton \(N.J.\) Times, June 2, 1892; Clark III 70 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_92 ### Event 1497 (AF1FD674) **Date:** 6/19/1892 **Location:** Conyers, Georgia **Description:** Night. J. L. Shaw of Conyers, Georgia, sees a mysterious light in the sky from which balls of fire fall to the ground near him. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Saw Balls of Fire,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7130411/the-atlanta-constitution/)” Atlanta Constitution, June 21, 1892, p. 10 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_93 ### Event 1498 (1ABCA06B) **Date:** 8/30/1892 **Location:** Waxahachie, Texas **Description:** 11:00 p.m. Several people in Waxahachie, Texas, see a “kind of balloon” with colored lights passing over the northern part of the city after hearing a man shouting a greeting. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[What Was It?](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91957076/)” Galveston \(Tex.\) Daily News, September 2, 1892, p. 6; Clark III 70 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_94 ### Event 1499 (0597BCC1) **Date:** 9/20/1892 **Location:** Gainesville, Florida **Description:** Large quantities of a white, thread-like substance fall from the sky during a rainstorm at Gainesville, Florida. Samples are sent to arachnologist [George Marx](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FMarx) of the US Department of Agriculture, who performs a chemical analysis that shows it to be from migrating spiders. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Spider Web from the Clouds,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000062999687&view=1up&seq=325&skin=2021)” Scientific American 67 \(1892\): 325 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_95 --- ## Year: 1893, 7 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1500 (B1C7C79D) **Date:** 1893 **Location:** Australia **Description:** In 1893, an Australian farmer had a lasting encounter with a saucer-shaped UFO. After approaching the landed craft, a being in unusual attire emerged and directed a light beam at him, rendering him stunned and eventually leading to a permanent paralysis in his hand. The incident left a lasting impact on his life. (Chapter 2, Ref 95) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_89 ### Event 1501 (32D798EB) **Date:** 1893 **Location:** Chicago World's Fair **Description:** In the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, outside the Columbian Exposition, an attraction named "Men from Outer Space" displayed the bodies of four purported occupants recovered from a crashed aerial object. Accounts of this display are based on recollections from visitors at the time, describing the bodies as about three feet tall, hairless, and with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, all preserved in glass containers filled with formaldehyde. (Chapter 2, Refs 109) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_102 ### Event 1502 (C59E5E0F) **Date:** 2/24/1893 **Time:** ~22:00 **Location:** CHEJU ISLANDS, KOREA **Description:** HMS Caroline. Formation / disks going north. Brown colored contrails. Seen against mountains. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLAMMONDE, Paris: UFO EXIST!; Ballentine Books, NY 1976. PB 480pp. (Index 71) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_145 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Korea(both sides)", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "120", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "CHEJU ISLS,KOREA:HMS CAROLINE:FORMn/DISKS >N:BRN CONTRAILS:seen against mtns", **LatLong:** "33.333335 126.416673", **LatLongDMS:** "33:20:00 N 126:25:00 E", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.333335,126.416673)", **State/Prov:** "SKR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1503 (7040A82E) **Date:** 2/24/1893 **End date:** 2/25/1893 **Locations:** Jeju Island, South Korea; Korea Strait; Hallasan volcano on Jeju; Port Hamilton [now the Korean islands of Geomundo] **Description:** 10:00 p.m. [Charles James Norcock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FJames%5FNorcock), captain of the corvette [HMS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS%5FCaroline%5F%281882%29) [Caroline](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS%5FCaroline%5F%281882%29), is sailing about 16 miles south of Jeju Island, South Korea, in the Korea Strait when the officer of the watch observes some round lights resembling “Chinese lanterns festooned between the masts of a lofty vessel.” They are moving slowly north and appear to be in the air between the ship and the Hallasan volcano on Jeju. They are visible until roughly 12:00 midnight, sometimes appearing as a mass, other times strung out more in an irregular line. The ship’s crew observes them again the next night as they are sailing east from Port Hamilton \[now the Korean islands of Geomundo\]. This time they are visible until dawn. Although there are some odd characteristics of this observation, the likeliest explanation is that they are inferior mirages of distant fishing boats, as atmospheric conditions are favorable on these dates. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Charles J. Norcock, “[An Atmospheric Phenomenon in the North China](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951000299489e&view=1up&seq=122&skin=2021) [Sea,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951000299489e&view=1up&seq=122&skin=2021)” Nature 48 \(1893\): 76–77; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 253–281 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_96 ### Event 1504 (F1704B55) **Date:** 8/18/1893 **Locations:** Leslie; Cumberland County, Kentucky **Description:** Sunrise. People living near the small hamlet of Leslie in Cumberland County, Kentucky, notice that the sun has a peculiar color. Thousands of small discs, seemingly about the size of a wagon wheel, appear in the sky, all of them in motion. They appear round in shape from far away, but when closer to the ground they change to triangles, squares, or odd forms. Their colors vary: Some are bright red, others green or black, but when they are close to the ground they are all a deep purple color. All are silent. The phenomenon lasts about one hour, during which time the villagers fear it is judgment day. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Judgment Day,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91957197/)” St. Louis Globe-Democrat, August 20, 1893, p. 9 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_97 ### Event 1505 (E0857D7B) **Date:** 8/26/1893 **Description:** In Leslie, Kentucky thirty minutes after sunrise the sun took on a "peculiar color" and the sky became filled with thousands of discs, the size of wagon wheels, in motion. They would change shape into triangles, squares, and odd forms. They were various colors, including red, green, black, and red. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jerome Clark, International UFO Reporter, April 2003, p. 19, citing the Arizona Republic, August 27, 1893 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5350 ### Event 1506 (E3E5A825) **Date:** 12/20/1893 **Location:** , VA TO NORTH CAR **Description:** Hundreds / observer(s). Huge noisy saucer maneuvers. Stops / 15 minute(s). Continues going south. / r221p16. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLAMMONDE, Paris: UFO EXIST!; Ballentine Books, NY 1976. PB 480pp. (Index 69) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_146 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HST:** Historical account, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "50", **HatchDesc:** ",VA to N.CAR:100s/OBS:HUGE NOISY SCR MNVRS:STOPS/15min:CONTINUES >S:/r221p16", **LatLong:** "37.000002 -77.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "37:00:00 N 77:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.000002,-77.000004)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" --- ## Year: 1894, 9 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1507 (867B6B8B) **Date:** 1894 **End date:** 1895 **Description:** The first practical radio [transmitters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmitter) and [receivers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_receiver) invented in by [Guglielmo Marconi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo_Marconi) using radiotelegraphy **Type:** industrial advance **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_telegraphy) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_19 ### Event 1508 (803350F5) **Date:** 2/1894? **Locations:** Gulf of Mexico; West Coast of Florida **Description:** Capt. Corning of the British schooner W. and H. Witherspoon sees several lights rise from the Gulf of Mexico off the west coast of Florida. They ascend to a height of 25 feet, explode, and disappear. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Cum Grano](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94251865/) [Salis,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94251865/)” Lowell \(Mass.\) Daily Sun, February 8, 1894, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_98 ### Event 1509 (7B87D8F7) **Date:** 5/1894 **Location:** Flagstaff, Arizona **Description:** During the opposition of Mars, the idea that [Schiaparelli](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni%5FSchiaparelli)’s canali are really irrigation canals made by intelligent beings is first hinted at, and then adopted as the only intelligible explanation, by American astronomer [Percival](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percival%5FLowell) [Lowell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percival%5FLowell) in Flagstaff, Arizona, and a few others. The visible seasonal melting of Martian polar icecaps fuels speculation that an advanced alien race indigenous to Mars has built the canals to transport the water to drier equatorial regions. Newspaper and magazine articles about Martian canals and “Martians” capture the public imagination. Lowell publishes his views in three books: Mars \(1895\), Mars and Its Canals \(1906\), and Mars As the Abode of Life \(1908\). He remains a strong proponent for the rest of his life of the idea that the canals were built for irrigation by an intelligent civilization. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Martian canal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian%5Fcanal)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_99 ### Event 1510 (3810AC4A) **Date:** 6/7/1894 **Locations:** Lowell Observatory; Flagstaff, Arizona; Mars **Description:** Astronomers [Percival Lowell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percival%5FLowell) and [William H. Pickering](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FHenry%5FPickering) at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, see two “dazzling white specks” for a few moments on the south polar cap of Mars. The most likely explanation is the reflection of sunlight from ice on the surface or ice crystals in clouds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Percival Lowell, Mars, Houghton, Mifflin, 1897 ed., [pp. 86–87](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112114019349&view=1up&seq=114&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_100 ### Event 1511 (4D14A8A8) **Date:** 7/19/1894 **Location:** GREECE, Boiai **Description:** (Translated from French) At noon a fireball descended at great speed. It suddenly stopped and remained suspended in the atmosphere leaving behind a bright line accompanied by smoke. After five minutes of suspension, at 12:12, a terrifying noise was heard and the fireball headed towards the summit of Mount Crithen. Continuing its march it fell into the sea with a new noise. On the same day and almost at the same time, the fall of fireballs and meteorites was reported in different points of Crete (Candia). An isolated black cloud having exploded, a luminous body having the shape of an inverted cone was seen, which, moving from southeast to northwest, fell into the sea near Heraklion. (...) A fireball, having an apparent length of two meters, passed very close to the prefectural house and descended to a certain point, almost at ground level then, changing direction and moving very quickly, parallel to the ground, disappeared towards the northwest. (July 19, 1894) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 147 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_476 ### Event 1512 (57B05043) **Date:** 7/20/1894 **Locations:** Marriott-Slaterville; Utah; Ogden **Description:** Sunset. Bernard Parry and his wife are near Marriott \[now Marriott-Slaterville\], Utah, when they see a “small black cloud” in the northeast quickly approaching them. It grows bigger, then smaller, as they watch it. When it is only 450 feet away, it stops and hovers. Its sides seem to be folded up toward the center. Many small black-and- white objects \(birds?\) are moving in its center. Suddenly the object pivots to the east and moves away toward Ogden. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ogden \(Utah\) Standard, July 26, 1894 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_101 ### Event 1513 (0AC2E881) **Date:** 8/16/1894 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Wales **Description:** (Translated from French) In North Wales.. a disc from which an elongated flat fish-like orange body was projected, is reported by Admiral Ommaney. **Reference:** Charles FORT: "The Book of the Damned" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 225 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_477 ### Event 1514 (7733BBD6) **Date:** 8/20/1894 (approximate) **Location:** GREECE, between Athens and Phalères **Description:** (Translated from French) On August 26th 1894, an English admiral reported having seen a large disc, projecting like a tail... (Donald KEYHOE: "Flying Saucers are Real" ed. Corrêa Paris 1951, p 81) C. Maltezos also recounts how at around 8:40pm, while travelling by train from Athens to Phalère, he saw "a meteorite with the aspect of a large white globe, surrounded by a greenish atmosphere, and moving at a very slow speed." (August 20th (26th?), 1894) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "The Chronicle of UFOs" - Delarge 1977 - p. 147 which dates it to August 20th **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_478 ### Event 1515 (E3B2DC5F) **Date:** Late 11/1894 **Location:** Manchester, Kansas **Description:** 11:00 p.m.–2:00 a.m. Mennonite farmers [Henry W. J. Smith](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/94975449/henry-w-smith) and [Benjamin W. Blue](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/76841437/benjamin-w-blue) see a luminous ball in the northeastern sky about 30° above the horizon some 3 miles west of Manchester, Kansas. The object, in the shape of a “casket,” shoots toward the west 3° then returns to its original position. As it maneuvers near them, it opens several times, revealing various entities each time, from a crowned man to a “haughty woman” and a military leader. The original report appears in the Evangelical Visitor. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Battle in the Heavens,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95283371/)” Wilkes-Barre \(Pa.\) Times, October 6, 1894, p. 6 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_102 --- ## Year: 1895, 10 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1516 (A1C34BE9) **Date:** 1895 **Location:** PERU **Description:** (Translated from French) If we ignore a more than legendary Peruvian, named Pedro E. Paulet, who, according to foreign press information not confirmed, would have already conducted experiments with liquid fuel rocket engines around 1895-1897... (...) (1895-1897) **Reference:** "The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 45 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_482 ### Event 1517 (90A526E6) **Date:** 1895 **Location:** Mars **Description:** French parapsychologist [Albert de Rochas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%5Fde%5FRochas) is asked to hypnotize a family friend, “Mireille,” who is suffering from some ailment. In one of her sessions, Mireille describes how she is rising in space, which she describes as luminous and peopled with phantoms. Subsequent sessions reveal that she has visited Mars and other planets in astral form. Mars has canals, of course, but also Martians who are less intelligent than earthlings. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Hilary Evans, “Martians of the 1890s,” IUR 11, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1986\): 8–9 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_103 ### Event 1518 (E2348DF4) **Date:** 6/27/1895 **Location:** NORWAY, Alen **Description:** (Translated from French) At night, fishermen saw a luminous object fall into the lake Hesjoen, about 1 km from their position. **Reference:** FJELD-LJOM, 8 Jul 1895; AFTENPOSTEN, 3 Apr 1990, 3 and UFO, 1/1991, 36, cfr listing of Ole Jonny Braenne **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_479 ### Event 1519 (31F7555F) **Date:** 6/27/1895 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A night in Ålen \(Norway\), fishermen see a luminous object fall into Hesjøen lake, 1 km away. (June 27) **Reference:** \[FJELD-LJOM, 8 Jul 1895\] \[AFTENPOSTEN, 3 Apr 1990, 3\] \[UFO, 1/1991, 36\] **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1895.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_221 ### Event 1520 (F0FFB861) **Date:** 8/1895 **Location:** Onondaga County, New York **Description:** US psychical researcher [James Hyslop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FHyslop) begins investigating a case of automatic writing by [Sarah Harper](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/158229771/sarah-harper-cleaveland) [Cleaveland](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/158229771/sarah-harper-cleaveland) \(“[Mrs. Smead](https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/smead-mrs-ca-1902)”\) in Onondaga County, New York. She keeps records of her planchette experiments and puts them at Hyslop’s disposal. In August, she makes several references to the planet Mars and Jupiter. She provides a crude map of Jupiter’s surface, and the planet is said to be the “babies’ heaven.” At the next sitting, she draws a map of Mars, the different zones named in the Martian language; she gives several communications about the inhabitants and the canals. Martian revelations cease for another 5 years until September 1900, when the communications return in a developed state. She draws men, boats, houses, and flowers, named in Martian and written in hieroglyphic characters. Some of the sketches \(a self-winding double clock\) are very ingenious, while others \(a Martian airship\) are peculiar but unconvincing. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Hilary Evans, “Martians of the 1890s,” IUR 11, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1986\): 6–7 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_104 ### Event 1521 (85199D49) **Date:** 8/31/1895 **Time:** 20:00? **Location:** OXFORD, ENGL **Description:** Luminous disk bigger / Venus. Rises from trees and crosses sky. Going quickly east / Jan Murray. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLAMMONDE, Paris: UFO EXIST!; Ballentine Books, NY 1976. PB 480pp. (Index 72) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_147 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "OXFORD,ENGL:LUM DISK BIGGER/VENUS:RISES fm TREES+CROSSES SKY:>>E/JAN MURRAY", **LatLong:** "51.716669 -1.266667", **LatLongDMS:** "51:43:00 N 01:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.716669,-1.266667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1522 (E15D34CE) **Date:** 8/31/1895 **Locations:** Oxford, England; London; Margate, Kent **Description:** 8:00 p.m. Oxford English Dictionary lexicographer [James Murray](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FMurray%5F%28lexicographer%29) watches a “brilliant luminous body” move slowly over the Oxford University campus in Oxford, England, toward the east. At roughly the same time, other observers in London see a similar meteor pass over slowly for about 5 minutes, and A. Warren Melhuish sees it at Margate, Kent, around 10:15 p.m. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** J. A. H. Murray, “[Remarkable Meteoric \(?\) Appearance,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/76737507/murray-james-remarkable-meteoric/)” London Times, September 4, 1895, p. 3; “[Remarkable Meteoric Appearance,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91957509/)” London Times, September 6, 1895, p. 8 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_105 ### Event 1523 (44510DCE) **Date:** 10/16/1895 **Location:** ETHIOPIA, near Adoua **Description:** (Translated from French) The Ethiopian army, marching towards Adoua where a battle was to take place, was frightened by the passage in the sky of something of a green color, leaving behind it a long trail of smoke and making a thunderous noise. This is what the Englishman Afework, chronicler and great friend of Negus Menelik, recounts. (October 16, 1895) **Reference:** Henry DURRANT: "The Black Book of UFOs" - Laffont 1970 - p. 68 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_480 ### Event 1524 (B87D887C) **Date:** 11/8/1895 **Description:** X-Rays discovered **Type:** scientific advance **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_20 ### Event 1525 (D1264996) **Date:** 12/16/1895 **Location:** FRANCE, Audruicq (Pas de Calais) **Description:** (Translated from French) M. Vanvinck Reniez presented the sketch of a slow bolide observed that day: of a vaporous appearance, yellow-reddish, it progressively doubled in volume and suddenly disappeared. **Reference:** M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: "Ovni, premier dossier complet..." - éd. Alain LEFEUVRE 1979, p. 40 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_481 --- ## Year: 1896, 83 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1526 (6556FCB3) **Date:** 1896 **Location:** SWITZERLAND, Arolla (Zermatt) **Description:** (Translated from French) The author Aleister Crowley was mountain walking when suddenly he saw two small men. He waved to them but they did not seem to pay attention and disappeared among the rocks. **Reference:** UFOs in Heidi, cfr GREPI, Switzerland, 1997 **Reference:** Magic without tears by Crowley **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_491 ### Event 1527 (8612DC73) **Date:** 1896 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Drawing published in the *San Fransisco Call* depicting the aircraft observed that year. See image at images/1896.jpg. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1896.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_222 ### Event 1528 (A2B6030A) **Date:** 1896 **Location:** Arolla (near Zermatt), Swiss Alps **Description:** Aleister Crowley was walking in the mountains when he suddenly saw two little men. He made a gesture to them, but they did not seem to pay attention and disappeared among the rocks. (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_13 ### Event 1529 (159D5D70) **Date:** 1896 **Location:** Arolla, near Zermatt, Swiss Alps **Description:** Author Aleister Crowley was walking in the mountains when he suddenly saw two little men. He made a gesture to them, but they did not seem to pay attention and disappeared among the rocks. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Magic Without Tears, by A. Crowley ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_10 ### Event 1530 (FAFBB724) **Date:** 1896 **Location:** San Luis, California **Description:** In the 1896 California incidents preceding the 1897 airship wave, a sailor in San Luis Obispo claimed to have been taken on an airship ride by a Spanish-speaking pilot and a female companion. This adventurous exception involved a flight experience in an airship. (Chapter 1, Ref 48) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_46 ### Event 1531 (2550DF33) **Date:** 1896 **Location:** Missouri **Description:** In 1896, a saucer-shaped UFO visited a Missouri farm, appearing as a circle of flashing lights that descended and hovered over their barn. The family observed the blinding lights before taking shelter in their house out of fear. The next day, they discovered three dead steers in the pasture, drained of blood with puncture wounds on their throats. This incident, paralleled by similar reports in the area that night, left behind burned grass and an enduring mystery that resonates with cattle mutilation cases. (Chapter 2, Ref 96) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_90 ### Event 1532 (530820D6) **Date:** 1/6/1896 **Location:** FRANCE, Domrémy **Description:** (Translated from French) On this anniversary of Joan of Arc, a magnificent meteor, coming from distant regions, crossed the Meuse Valley, stopped above the church of Domrémy, inclined to the left and came to rest in front of the heroine's door. It illuminated the facade for a few moments and disappeared without leaving a trace. The meteor seemed like a star as big as a child's head, it was followed by a luminous trail one meter long, ended by three stars arranged in a triangle. **Reference:** M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: "Ovni, premier dossier complet..." - éd. Alain LEFEUVRE 1979, p. 40 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_483 ### Event 1533 (2581307D) **Date:** 5/6/1896 **Location:** USA, WASHINGTON **Description:** (Translated from French) A scale model airplane (13 kg) built by Langley, powered by a steam engine, flew in Washington. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air. Chronicle..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 49 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_484 ### Event 1534 (915A659A) **Date:** Summer 1896 **Location:** USA, Trenton (Montana) **Description:** (Translated from French) .. letters from C. N. Crotsenburg, from Crow Agency. The observer was employed in the mail wagons and had long experience with all the phenomena related to his post. One day, as his train was moving north from Trenton, he and another employee saw in the darkness of a heavy rain, a light of round appearance and a pinkish color, which seemed to be thirty cm in diameter, floating 30 m from the ground, then rising "halfway between the horizon and the zenith". The wind was blowing hard from the east, but the light continued to go north. Its speed varied. Sometimes it exceeded the train, very considerably, other times it seemed to be lagging behind. The postal employees watched it until they reached Linville, in Iowa. The light disappeared behind the depot of this town and was never seen again. It had not stopped raining. (1896, Summer) **Reference:** Charles FORT: "The Book of the Damned" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 236 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_486 ### Event 1535 (9E192F15) **Date:** 7/1/1896 **Location:** Winnipeg, Manitoba **Description:** 6:00 p.m. A mysterious balloon passes over Winnipeg, Manitoba, to the east at an estimated 2,000 feet. It is lost to view after 20 minutes **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “A Mysterious Balloon,” Winnipeg Manitoba Morning Free Press, July 2, 1896, p. 4; “[They Think It’s Andreé’s,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91957590/)” Chicago Tribune, July 2, 1896, p. 1; Clark III 70 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_106 ### Event 1536 (11DFA1D8) **Date:** 7/3/1896 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** NEAR HAZELTON, BC **Description:** 1+several observer(s). Dark object emerges / clouds and maneuvers / 120M altitude. Vibrant bright lights. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 16) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_148 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "94", **HatchDesc:** "nr HAZELTON,BC:1+SVRL OBS:DARK OBJ EMERGES/CLOUDS+MNVRS/120M alt:VBRITE LITES:", **LatLong:** "55.250003 -127.666673", **LatLongDMS:** "55:15:00 N 127:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Tundra", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/55.250003,-127.666673)", **RelAlt:** "120", **State/Prov:** "British Columbia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1537 (52734A88) **Date:** 7/3/1896 **Locations:** Blackwater Lake, British Columbia; Skeena River, British Columbia **Description:** The chief of the Kispiox people and a group of Canadian trappers see a brightly lit balloon traveling north near Blackwater Lake, British Columbia. The same day, a First Nations boy sees something similar at the Skeena River, British Columbia. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “It Was No Dream,” Winnipeg Manitoba Morning Free Press, August 13, 1896, p. 2; Brett Holman, “[Believing Is Seeing,](https://airminded.org/2010/05/02/believing-is-seeing/)” Airminded, May 2, 2010 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_107 ### Event 1538 (30A07E2C) **Date:** Mid 7/1896 **Locations:** Princeton, Missouri; Lineville, Iowa **Description:** Night. [Chester N. Crotsenburg](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/187071523/chester-n%5F-crotsenburg)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/187071523/chester-n%5F-crotsenburg) a postal clerk on the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railway, is on a train heading north from Princeton, Missouri, when he notices a round, dull-rose-colored light low on the western horizon. It then rises in height to 45°, and appears to be pacing the train, keeping a half-mile or one mile distance. After the train reaches Lineville, Iowa \(13.7 miles away\), it passes out of sight behind buildings. Possibly the moon. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Ball Lightning,” Monthly Weather Review 26 \(August 1898\): 358; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 291–304 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_108 ### Event 1539 (0CC1FAD5) **Date:** 8/11/1896 **Location:** San Francisco, California **Description:** [Charles Abbott Smith](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89166775/charles-abbott-smith) of San Francisco, California, is granted a patent for a cylindrical airship with a cone- shaped bow, “two wings hinged at the upper part of the vessel,” and a compartment for machinery and passengers. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** US Patent, “[Air-ship,](https://patents.google.com/patent/US565805)” granted August 11, 1896 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_109 ### Event 1540 (64C604A8) **Date:** 8/20/1896 **Location:** USA **Description:** (Translated from French) CH. Lamson launches a kite carrying a mannequin weighing 68 kg. The rope breaks, but the apparatus glides and gently lands 800 m away. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air. Chronicle..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 49 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_485 ### Event 1541 (72500882) **Date:** 10/1896 **Locations:** Telegraph Avenue; Oakland, California **Description:** Evening. A Miss Hagstrom is riding a bicycle on Telegraph Avenue in Oakland, California, when she notices an object with a powerful headlight moving toward the west and gradually descending. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Saw the Mystic Flying](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3825843/possible-ufo/) [Light,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3825843/possible-ufo/)” San Francisco Call, November 22, 1896, p. 13 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_110 ### Event 1542 (D4F17CC4) **Date:** 10/25/1896 (approximate) **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** BOWMAN, CA **Description:** 2 separate observer(s). 3 very bright lights 8' apart going quickly east / 100MPH. In sight / several min. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1896. Self published 1974, 87 (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_149 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "494", **HatchDesc:** "BOWMAN,CA:2 SEP.OBS:3 VERY BRITE LITES 8' APART >>E/100MPH:IN SIGHT/SVRL MIN:", **LatLong:** "38.933335 -121.066672", **LatLongDMS:** "38:56:00 N 121:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.933335,-121.066672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 1543 (9378975A) **Date:** Late 10/1896 **Location:** Bowman, California **Description:** Fruit rancher [Constant T. Musso](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43562144/constant-thomas-musso) and his family in Bowman, California. watch three bright lights moving toward the east at about 100 mph. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Mission of the Aerial Ship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3883819/the-san-francisco-call/)” San Francisco Call, November 25, 1896, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_111 ### Event 1544 (50803FB3) **Date:** 10/31/1896 (approximate) **Time:** ~08:00 **Location:** BOLINAS RIDGE, CA **Description:** Man hunting. 'Airship' / morning sky. 100M away over trees. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLAMMONDE, Paris: UFO EXIST!; Ballentine Books, NY 1976. PB 480pp. (Index 77) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_150 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "396", **HatchDesc:** "BOLINAS RIDGE,CA:MAN HUNTING:'AIRSHIP'/MORNING SKY:100M away OVR TREES:NFD", **LatLong:** "38.000002 -122.800006", **LatLongDMS:** "38:00:00 N 122:48:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.000002,-122.800006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1545 (9521CCE7) **Date:** 11/1896 **Location:** Between Lodi and Stockton, California **Description:** Two men near Lodi and Stockton, California, witnessed three unusually tall, seven-foot beings with slender bodies. The beings appeared graceful and otherworldly, covered in a soft and unique growth. They carried egg-sized objects emitting intense light and attempted to communicate with guttural chants. Later, these beings approached a massive airship resting above the Woodbridge Canal, which they entered and departed with a swaying motion, leaving the witnesses awestruck. (Chapter 2, Ref 102) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_96 ### Event 1546 (57F566BE) **Date:** Early 11/1896? **Locations:** Sutro Heights estate; Sutro Heights Park; Richmond District; San Francisco, California **Description:** Evening. Some of the employees at the Sutro Heights estate \[now Sutro Heights Park in the Richmond District\] of San Francisco, California, Mayor [Adolph Sutro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolph%5FSutro) watch a brilliant light approaching from the sea at a height of 500 feet. Two lights are visible, one a “misty-looking mass” and the other a searchlight. The object disappears in the direction of the city and turns to the north just before it passes from view. Another report suggests that the object passe over Seal Rocks and shone its searchlight on the seals. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[The Apparition of the Air,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3107284/the-san-francisco-call/)” San Francisco Call, November 24, 1896, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_112 ### Event 1547 (F7F76DDF) **Date:** Early 11/1896 **Location:** Woodland, California **Description:** 8:00 p.m. [Louis Charmak](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/142541517/louis-charmak) and one other person in Woodland, California, notice three bright lights in the southwestern sky moving toward the northeast. As they reach Main Street, they rise another 100 feet in the air. They are close together and followed by a white trail of light. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Was It an Airship?](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95280123/)” Woodland \(Calif.\) Daily Democrat, November 24, 1896, p. 3 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_113 ### Event 1548 (106F96F3) **Date:** 11/5/1896 (approximate) **Time:** ~21:00 **Location:** SAN FRANCISCO, CA **Description:** Great airship over Sutro House. Beams going down / Seal Rock. Seals dive. Going quickly east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1896. Self published 1974, 87 (Index 1) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_151 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "SAN FRANCISCO,CA:Gt AIRSHIP OVR SUTRO HOUSE:BEAMS ↓/SEAL ROCK:SEALS DIVE:>>E", **LatLong:** "37.794446 -122.516673", **LatLongDMS:** "37:47:40 N 122:31:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.794446,-122.516673)", **RelAlt:** "20", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1549 (F287EB2F) **Date:** 11/15/1896 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** SUISUN BAY, CA **Description:** Telegraph lineman. 'Powered balloon' flies into wind. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1896. Self published 1974, 87 (Index 3) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_152 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "SUISUN BAY,CA:TELEGRAPH LINEMAN:'POWERED BALLOON' FLIES INTO WIND", **LatLong:** "38.066668 -122.033339", **LatLongDMS:** "38:04:00 N 122:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.066668,-122.033339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1550 (6D3373FE) **Date:** 11/15/1896 **Description:** At 9:00 p.m. a telegraph lineman in Suisun City, California saw a "powered balloon" flying into the wind. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. & Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 191; Loren E. Gross, The UFO Wave of 1896, p. 3 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7681 ### Event 1551 (5A1EADFE) **Date:** 11/17/1896 **Location:** USA, Sacramento **Description:** (Translated from French) Hundreds of people observed a "mysteriously powered electric arc lamp". **Reference:** "UFO's – A Century of Sightings by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 1 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_487 ### Event 1552 (DD3D0A45) **Date:** 11/17/1896 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** SACRAMENTO, CA **Description:** 90M cylinder/cigar-shape with searchlight flies into wind / 30 min and more. Back 21 November. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1896. Self published 1974, 87 (Index 1) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_153 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "SACRAMENTO,CA:90M CGR W/SEARCHLIGHT FLIES INTO WIND/30 MIN+:BACK 21NOV", **LatLong:** "38.583335 -121.466672", **LatLongDMS:** "38:35:00 N 121:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.583335,-121.466672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1553 (DDE4E83C) **Date:** 11/17/1896 **Locations:** Oak Park neighborhood of Sacramento; Sacramento; California **Description:** Afternoon and evening. A mystery airship wave begins in California when residents of the Oak Park neighborhood of Sacramento see a high-flying object moving slowly in a circle, leaving a trail of smoke. Around 6:30 p.m., a light resembling an electric arc lamp appears in the night sky above Sacramento. Horse trainer David Carl notices it close to the ground and hears a voice saying, “We are too low down here. Send her up higher.” Hundreds watch as it passes at low altitude for 30 minutes, avoiding buildings and hills. Some people claim to hear voices, either arguing or singing. R. L. Lowry sees four men pushing the vessel by its wheels. The witnesses include streetcar workers Charles Lusk and [Granville C. Snider](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/201181347/granville-c%5F-snider)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/201181347/granville-c%5F-snider) who watch the object rise and fall as it moves southwest. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Mystery airship](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery%5Fairship)”; “[Voices in the Sky,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91957944/)” Sacramento \(Calif.\) Evening Bee, November 18, 1896, p. 1; “[Strange Craft of the Sky,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91957907/)” San Francisco Call, November 19, 1896, p. 1; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs: A](http://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1896.pdf) [History, 1896](http://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1896.pdf)[,](http://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1896.pdf) The Author, 1974; Thomas E. Bullard, The Airship File, The author, 1982; Clark III 70–75 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_114 ### Event 1554 (275A70D0) **Date:** 11/18/1896 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) An object similar to the one observed the day before, dark, equipped with a projector and 4 large wings that seemed to be powered by compressed air, passed over Oak Park and Sacramento. (November 18) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1896.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_223 ### Event 1555 (5F52493C) **Date:** 11/18/1896 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** Sacramento CA **Description:** On November 18, a peculiar aerial phenomenon was observed in Sacramento, where an electric arc lamp-like object moved through the sky in an erratic manner, seemingly propelled by an unknown force. Witnesses claimed to hear human voices emanating from the object, giving directions to avoid collisions with structures, and guiding its ascent when it neared the ground. The incident left citizens astonished by the unusual sight and audible interactions in the sky. (Chapter 1, Ref 1) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_1 ### Event 1556 (7F385DBD) **Date:** 11/20/1896 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In the evening, a kind of balloon with a headlight at the front, a mobile ventral projector and 2 pairs of wings in front and behind is observed in the sky of Oakland \(California\). (November 20) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1896.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_224 ### Event 1557 (FF7330AA) **Date:** 11/20/1896 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Alleged inventors of the device soon claim its paternity. However, several [airships](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Airships.html) will continue to fly over California until the end of the year, as well as some flying lights. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1896.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_225 ### Event 1558 (94B73A1A) **Date:** 11/20/1896 **Time:** 14:00 **Location:** TAGUS, CA **Description:** Farmer and 1 observer(s). Strange 'spread-out canvas sheet' / 2K' altitude floats going quickly northeast and away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1896. Self published 1974, 87 (Index 5) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_154 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "90", **HatchDesc:** "TAGUS,CA:FARMER+1 OBS:STRANGE 'SPREAD-OUT CANVAS SHEET'/2K'alt FLOATS>>NE+AWAY", **LatLong:** "36.283335 -119.727783", **LatLongDMS:** "36:17:00 N 119:43:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.283335,-119.727783)", **RelAlt:** "600", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 1559 (EAB29D97) **Date:** 11/20/1896 **Location:** Tagus, California **Description:** Afternoon. D. H. Risdon is working in an orchard near Tagus, California, when he spots an object “like an immense sheet” moving against the wind at a “considerable elevation.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Saw the Mystic Flying Light,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3825843/possible-ufo/)” San Francisco Call, November 22, 1896, p. 13 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_115 ### Event 1560 (1FA101F3) **Date:** 11/20/1896 **Locations:** Oakland, California; San Francisco; Folsom; Sacramento; Modesto; Manteca; Sebastopol **Description:** 5:30 p.m. Passengers on a streetcar in Oakland, California, notice a “peculiar-looking contrivance” high in the sky and moving in a westerly direction toward San Francisco. It has a powerful headlight and another light on the bottom. It is also seen over Folsom, San Francisco, Sacramento, Modesto, Manteca, Sebastopol, and several other cities later in the evening and is reportedly viewed by hundreds of witnesses. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Saw the Mystic](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3825843/possible-ufo/) [Flying Light,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3825843/possible-ufo/)” San Francisco Call, November 22, 1896, p. 13; Wikipedia, “[Mystery airship](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery%5Fairship)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_116 ### Event 1561 (8EFFF2D2) **Date:** 11/22/1896 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A group of passengers on an Oakland \(California\) tramway observe a winged cigar projecting a bright beam of light and capable of flying against the wind. (November 22) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1896.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_226 ### Event 1562 (88A26FC4) **Date:** 11/22/1896 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Similar phenomena, featuring mysterious aircraft, are then observed by hundreds of witnesses across 19 states of the country. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1896.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_227 ### Event 1563 (B8384DA7) **Date:** 11/22/1896 **Time:** ~18:00 **Location:** KNIGHTS FERRY, CA **Description:** 2 ministers. Fireball skims ground. Rises. Half-circle maneuver. Speeds away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1896. Self published 1974, 87 (Index 8) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_155 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "61", **HatchDesc:** "KNIGHTS FERRY,CA:2 MINISTERS:FBL SKIMS GND:RISES:HALF-CIRCLE MNVR:SPEEDS AWAY", **LatLong:** "37.311113 -120.655561", **LatLongDMS:** "37:18:40 N 120:39:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.311113,-120.655561)", **RelAlt:** "1", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 1564 (696E634E) **Date:** 11/22/1896 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** RED BLUFF AND CHICO AND LEESVILLE, CA **Description:** Several observer(s). Fast 30M cylinder/cigar-shape going [to] over mountains. Several turns. Going northeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 13) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_156 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "95", **HatchDesc:** "RED BLUFF+CHICO+LEESVILLE,CA:SVRL OBS:FAST 30M CGR > ovr MTNS:SVRL TURNS:>NE", **LatLong:** "40.183335 -122.238895", **LatLongDMS:** "40:11:00 N 122:14:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.183335,-122.238895)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1565 (644FB1C9) **Date:** 11/22/1896 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** SAN LEANDRO, CA **Description:** Several observer(s). Large dark cylinder/cigar-shape beams long sharp light going down. 20mph. Going quickly south / Hayward. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 13) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_157 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "35", **Elev:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "SAN LEANDRO,CA:SVRL OBS:LRG DRK CGR BEAMS LONG SHARP LITE ↓:20mph:>>S/HAYWARD", **LatLong:** "37.716668 -122.150006", **LatLongDMS:** "37:43:00 N 122:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.716668,-122.150006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1566 (CD6502CB) **Date:** 11/22/1896 **Locations:** San Francisco; California; Maine; Oroville; Oakland; Havana, Cuba **Description:** San Francisco attorney [George D. Collins](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87584075/george-daniel-collins) announces that he represents the airship inventor, a “very wealthy man who has been studying the subject of flying machines for fifteen years” and who moved to California from Maine in 1889. He claims the airship is a 150-foot metal contraption with two canvas wings 18 feet wide and shaped like a bird’s tail. It has been built in Oroville and is now hidden in the San Francisco, California, area as the inventor deals with technical problems. However, people in Oroville sense a hoax, as they know of no such inventor. On November 24, Collins complains to the San Francisco Call that another newspaper, the San Francisco Examiner, has been printing falsehoods about him, including an interview with another attorney, Frederick Bradley. Suspicion falls on an itinerant dentist from Maine, Elmer H. Benjamin, who insists his only inventions are dental fittings. A prominent citizen of Oakland, [George H. Carleton](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/95652037/george-henry-carleton), claims to know the inventor but has been sworn to secrecy. Former California Attorney General [William H. H. Hart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FH.%5FH.%5FHart) soon claims to represent the mystery inventor, who has fired Collins for talking too much. But Hart is also blabbing prolifically, saying that two or three airships exist \(a second built in an eastern state\) and his role is to “consolidate both interests.” Hart asserts that the airship can carry four men and 1,000 pounds of dynamite for dropping on Havana, Cuba. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 71–73; “[A Lawyer’s Word for That Airship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/10130333/sightings-in-sacramento-san-francisco/)” San Francisco Chronicle, November 22, 1896, p. 36; “[Collins Sticks to His Airship Story,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91958082/)” San Francisco Chronicle, November 23, 1896, p. 12; San Francisco Chronicle, November 24, 1896, p. 9; “[Have We Got ‘Em Again?](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/55256553/the-sacramento-bee/)” Sacramento Bee, November 23, 1896, p. 1; “[Coy Mr. Collins and His Airship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28007746/san-francisco-chronicle/)” San Francisco Chronicle, November 24, 1896, p. 9; “[The Apparition of the](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3107284/the-san-francisco-call/) [Air,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3107284/the-san-francisco-call/)” San Francisco Call, November 24, 1896, p. 1; “[Mission of the Aerial Ship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3883819/the-san-francisco-call/)” San Francisco Call, November 25, 1896, p. 1; “[Hart Stands by His Ship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3991203/air-craft-1896-b1/)” “[Hart Confirms the Story from Sacramento,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3991215/air-craft-1896-b2/)” San Francisco Call, November 26, 1896, p. 1; “[Three Airships, Says Hart,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91958305/the-san-francisco-call/)” San Francisco Call, November 29, 1896, p. 1; Michael Busby, Solving the 1897 Airship Mystery, Pelican, 2003, pp. 249–315 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_117 ### Event 1567 (4C8D2275) **Date:** 11/22/1896 **Location:** Sacramento, California **Description:** 5:30 p.m. Another mystery light moving in a wavering fashion toward the southwest is seen in Sacramento, California, by many people. At times it disappears, then flashes out again with renewed brilliance. Edward Carragher, owner of the Saddle Rock Restaurant, views the light through binoculars and is able to see a large object supporting an arc lamp. Cigar store vendor Jacob Zemansky watches the undulating light through a telescope until it fades into nothingness. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Have We Got ‘Em Again?](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/55256553/the-sacramento-bee/)” Sacramento Bee, November 23, 1896, p. 1; “[A Winged Ship in the Sky,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91982788/)” San Francisco Call, November 23, 1896, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_118 ### Event 1568 (5E5E298D) **Date:** 11/22/1896 **Locations:** Market and 8th streets in San Francisco, California; Golden Gate; Twin Peaks downtown; Pierce Street hill; Ashbury Street; Oakland; Alameda; San Leandro; San Jose, California; Tacoma, Washington **Description:** 7:05 p.m. M. H. Cohen, a conductor on the Hayes Street line, sees an aerial light at about 300–400 feet altitude when he is at Market and 8th streets in San Francisco, California. Other people on the streetcar also watch the light, which is moving across the Golden Gate and flashing periodically. When the streetcar disembarks at 1st Street at 7:13 p.m., Cohen and the others see the light over the Twin Peaks downtown. At the top of Pierce Street hill, Cohen sees it returning from Twin Peaks, and at 7:51 p.m. he watches it from Ashbury Street. Airships are seen later at Oakland, Alameda, San Leandro, San Jose, California, and Tacoma, Washington. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[The Apparition](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3107284/the-san-francisco-call/) [of the Air,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3107284/the-san-francisco-call/)” San Francisco Call, November 24, 1896, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_119 ### Event 1569 (59599F97) **Date:** 11/23/1896 **Location:** USA, Oakland and surrounding areas **Description:** (Translated from French) In Oakland it was described as a 45 m long craft with four bright rotors. On Monday the 23rd the mysterious airship was spotted above Oakland, Berkley, Antioch and Chico. The "San Francisco Call" of November 1986 published a drawing of the airship while it was hovering above St Mary's College in Oakland. (November 23, 1896) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 156 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_488 ### Event 1570 (E137F7FB) **Date:** 11/23/1896 **Time:** 22:10 **Location:** STOCKTON, CA **Description:** Several observer(s). Fast bright night light exits shadow-ovoid. Dips low near buildings. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1896. Self published 1974, 87 (Index 13) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_158 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "STOCKTON,CA:SVRL OBS:FAST BRITE NLT EXITS SHADOW-OVOID:DIPS LOW nr BLDGS", **LatLong:** "37.950002 -121.266672", **LatLongDMS:** "37:57:00 N 121:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.950002,-121.266672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1571 (C99F02A9) **Date:** 11/23/1896 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** SAN JOSE, CA **Description:** Several observer(s). Bright night light going south. Again going quickly north one hour later. Back 26 November / 'good observer(s)'. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1896. Self published 1974, 87 (Index 17) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_159 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "61", **Elev:** "26", **HatchDesc:** "SAN JOSE,CA:SVRL OBS:BRITE NLT> S:AGAIN >>N 1hr LATER:BACK 26NOV/'GOOD OBS'", **LatLong:** "37.333335 -121.883339", **LatLongDMS:** "37:20:00 N 121:53:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.333335,-121.883339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 1572 (D84C189F) **Date:** 11/23/1896 **Locations:** Chico, California; Red Bluff, California **Description:** 7:00 p.m. A bright light is seen west of Chico, California, traveling to the northwest. The same or similar light is seen west of Red Bluff, California flying west at about 2,000 feet. After a few minutes it descends to 1,000 feet. It disappears over the Coast Range. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Mission of the Aerial Ship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3883819/the-san-francisco-call/)” San Francisco Call, November 25, 1896, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_120 ### Event 1573 (2EDBDF7D) **Date:** 11/23/1896 **Description:** Several observers in Stockton, California witnessed a fast moving, bright light in the sky that had exited from a shadowy ovoid object at 10:10 p.m.; it dips low near buildings in the city. There were several other reports this evening from Antioch, Chico, Lathrop, Oakland, San Francisco, and San Jose, California. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Stockton (CA) Daily Independent, November 24, 1896; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 164, citing Loren E. Gross, The UFO Wave of 1896, p. 13 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7832 ### Event 1574 (4A83DC12) **Date:** 11/24/1896 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** VISALIA, CA **Description:** Several observer(s). 'Vessel' / sky at train speed. Up-down-left-right. Going quickly northwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1896. Self published 1974, 87 (Index 21) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_160 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "99", **HatchDesc:** "VISALIA,CA:SVRL OBS:'VESSEL'/SKY at TRAIN SPEED:UP-DOWN-LEFT-RIGHT:>>NW", **LatLong:** "36.316668 -119.300006", **LatLongDMS:** "36:19:00 N 119:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.316668,-119.300006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1575 (46C67C5D) **Date:** 11/24/1896 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** MT. RAINIER, WA **Description:** 2 observer(s). Object beams variable-colored lights / all directions. Going quickly southeast. Examines mountain peak. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1896. Self published 1974, 87 (Index 26) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_161 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "4392", **HatchDesc:** "Mt RAINIER,WA:2 OBS:OBJ BEAMS VARI-CLRD LITES/ALL DIRS:>>SE:EXAMINES MTN PEAK", **LatLong:** "46.855558 -121.761117", **LatLongDMS:** "46:51:20 N 121:45:40 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.855558,-121.761117)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1576 (0C75B774) **Date:** 11/24/1896 **Locations:** San Francisco; Oakland, California; Broadway **Description:** 6:45 p.m. Several passengers on a train crossing the bay from San Francisco to Oakland, California, see an airship alternately stop, hover, and move on. Minutes later, 6th Street in Oakland is overflowing with onlookers as the object passes above Broadway, flashing its light. One spectator is watching through binoculars and says the airship’s turns causes the searchlight to shine in different directions. Among the witnesses are Col. [Thomas F. Garrity](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/88735448/thomas-f-garrity)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/88735448/thomas-f-garrity) city electrician [George H. Carleton](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/95652037/george-henry-carleton)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/95652037/george-henry-carleton) [George Hatton](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/203384845/george-f.-hatton) of the Oakland Tribune, and [Melvin](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51421324/melvin-webster-holmes) [Holmes](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51421324/melvin-webster-holmes)[.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51421324/melvin-webster-holmes)  **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Mission of the Aerial Ship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3883819/the-san-francisco-call/)” San Francisco Call, November 25, 1896, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_121 ### Event 1577 (7FCF472A) **Date:** 11/24/1896 **Description:** Many witnesses in Red Bluff, California witnessed a light maneuvering in the sky for several minutes at 7:00 p.m. In Visalia, California several observers saw a "vessel" in the sky moving at the speed of a train; it moved up-and-down and left-and-right, and departed quickly to the northwest. At 11:30 p.m. two witnesses in Tacoma, Washington watched a flying object beam vari-colored rays of light in all directions. It then flew to the southeast and examined the Mount Rainier mountain peak. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Oakland Tribune, November 25, 1896; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. & Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, pp. 8-9; Loren E. Gross, The UFO Wave of 1896, p. 21, 26 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7864 ### Event 1578 (C306C1AD) **Date:** 11/25/1896 **Location:** USA, California **Description:** (Translated from French) In the Oakland Tribune it was read: Redbluff, November 26th. Several inhabitants affirmed to have seen the presumed space vessel in their neighborhood last night. It was seen for the first time around 7 pm and was taken for a bright star that moved quickly in the direction of the southwest towards the mountains behind which it disappeared. (vog: this space vessel thus only appeared as a very bright point high in the sky...) Shortly after a telegram from Chico announced that the vessel was passing over that city around 1 am in the night. It was then seen again in Red Bluff. Another telegram from Leesville announced that the object had taken the direction of Red Bluff, but after having made some turns it left from where it had come. Several citizens told us that at first only a light was seen, but that later the body of the egg-shaped object became visible and that it moved quickly in the sky. (...) Charles White, from East Oakland affirms for his part that he saw an aerial vessel last night. Around 6:15 pm it arrived from the direction of San Francisco. It approached quickly and caught up with the ferry-boat that was crossing the bay. It went so fast that it was already above Alameda while the ferry was only docking. Mr. A.B. Parker, ferry driver, confirmed the whole story as well as other passengers. (...) A young electrician from Oakland declared to us on his honor that he had seen the space vessel very close and that he can describe it with precision. The young man is Case Gillson, one of the professor Gillson's sons (..) His testimony is confirmed by other young people (..) Gillson and his friends saw the object twice in the evening of Thursday, at 8 pm and 8:30 pm. The sky was perfectly clear and a strong wind was blowing from the northwest. The aerial vessel moved quickly from the southeast to the north, against the wind. No light was visible, only the now well-known silhouette that was outlined against the starry sky. (...) It was heading towards Lorin at 300 to 450 m of altitude and looked like a large black cigar with a fish tail. If it had propellers, they must have been turning very quickly because Gillson couldn't see them. The body had a length of about 30 m and a kind of triangular panel was attached to it. The surface of the aerial vessel was like made of aluminum that had blackened from the wind and the bad weather. (...) it was moving at an incredible speed" Why does this machine never appear in broad daylight, nobody knows and so the incredulous will continue to make fun of it until then". (1896, November 25th and 26th) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 156-157-158 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_489 ### Event 1579 (BEC00B0E) **Date:** 11/25/1896 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** FRESNO, CA **Description:** Airship with lights / both ends. Beams in odd directions. High-altitude going quickly northwest 2-7 minute(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1896. Self published 1974, 87 (Index 21) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_162 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "89", **HatchDesc:** "FRESNO,CA:AIRSHIP W/LITES/BOTH ENDS:BEAMS IN ODD DIRECTIONS:HI-ALT >>NW 2-7min", **LatLong:** "36.750002 -119.783339", **LatLongDMS:** "36:45:00 N 119:47:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.750002,-119.783339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1580 (0B7B887D) **Date:** 11/25/1896 **Time:** 21:00? **Location:** AUBURN, CA **Description:** Several observer(s). Barrel-shape / high-altitude passes with sinuous motion up and down / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1896. Self published 1974, 87 (Index 17) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_163 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "385", **HatchDesc:** "AUBURN,CA:SVRL OBS:BARREL-SHAPE/HI-ALT PASSES WITH SINUOUS MOTION UP+DOWN/NEWS", **LatLong:** "38.866669 -121.083339", **LatLongDMS:** "38:52:00 N 121:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.866669,-121.083339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1581 (6D5DFA6E) **Date:** 11/25/1896 **Locations:** Sacramento, California; Galt, California **Description:** Evening. A mystery light flies in circular patterns around Sacramento, California, at a rapid rate of speed. Observers include Deputy Secretary of State George A. McCalvy, District Attorney [Frank D. Ryan](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33677782/frank-desailes-ryan), and E. D. McCabe, the governor’s personal secretary. It is three times as large as Venus, also visible. The light is observed for 20 minutes then reappears later in the evening. A Professor Dodge of Galt, California, claims he can make out the “outlines of a dark body” just above the light. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 73; “[Hart Confirms the Story from](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3991215/air-craft-1896-b2/) [Sacramento,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3991215/air-craft-1896-b2/)” San Francisco Call, November 26, 1896, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_122 ### Event 1582 (E6C2F94B) **Date:** 11/25/1896 **Location:** Lodi, California **Description:** 6:00 p.m. Col. H. G. Shaw and Camille Spooner are riding in a carriage near Lodi, California, when their horse stops suddenly. Looking up, they see three slender beings about 7 feet tall. Shaw walks up to them and asks them where they are from; they reply in an odd warbling language. He notes that they are hairless and wear no apparent clothing. The eyes are large and lustrous, and they each seem to be carrying and egg-shaped light and a breathing apparatus under the left arm. Shaw claims the beings try to lift him but they are not strong enough. They then notice a 150-foot airship hovering 20 feet above the water close to a bridge. The three beings float to the craft, open a door in the side, and disappear inside. The ship flies quickly out of sight. Shaw speculates that the beings are from Mars. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Three Strange Visitors,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91983371/)” Stockton \(Calif.\) Evening Mail, November 27, 1896, p. 1; Patrick Gross, [UFOs in the Daily Press](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/press/stocktoneveningmail27nov1896.htm) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_123 ### Event 1583 (C8EB8550) **Date:** 11/26/1896 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Peak of the observation wave. (November 26) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1896.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_228 ### Event 1584 (B8831BC1) **Date:** 11/26/1896 **Time:** 10:30 **Location:** MODESTO, CA **Description:** Several at bank. Night lights fly going quickly northwest / great altitude. Called Great Airship.. . **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1896. Self published 1974, 87 (Index 21) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_164 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "28", **HatchDesc:** "MODESTO,CA:SVRL at BANK:NLTS FLY >>NW/GREAT ALT.:called Great Airship...", **LatLong:** "37.650002 -120.983339", **LatLongDMS:** "37:39:00 N 120:59:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.650002,-120.983339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 1585 (7EC32318) **Date:** 11/26/1896 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** BAKERSFIELD, CA **Description:** Several separate observer(s). Huge red night light. Back gliding going south / 27 November with lights. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1896. Self published 1974, 87 (Index 22) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_165 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "122", **HatchDesc:** "BAKERSFIELD,CA:SVRL SEP.OBS:HUGE RED NLT::BACK GLIDING >S/27NOV W/LITES", **LatLong:** "35.383335 -119.016672", **LatLongDMS:** "35:23:00 N 119:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.383335,-119.016672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 1586 (508C82E9) **Date:** 11/26/1896 **Locations:** Monroe Street; San Jose, California **Description:** 7:00 p.m. Farmer John Bawl and his family see an airship moving to the southwest over his residence on Monroe Street near Franklin Street in San Jose, California. It is lunging sharply from side to side and has a pair of flapping wings and a red light on the bottom. Musician and President of the University of the Pacific [Moses Smith](https://hymnary.org/tune/resignation%5Fcross) [Cross](https://hymnary.org/tune/resignation%5Fcross) also sees the strange aerial light when he is visiting a colleague two blocks away. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[It Flitted over San](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91984009/) [Jose,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91984009/)” San Francisco Call, November 28, 1896, p. 1; “[Three Airships, Says Hart,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91958305/the-san-francisco-call/)” San Francisco Call, November 29, 1896, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_124 ### Event 1587 (B4B682A3) **Date:** 11/26/1896 **Locations:** Oakland, California; San Francisco **Description:** 8:00 p.m. Electrician Case Gilson and three other men see an unlighted airship in a clear sky 1,000 feet over Oakland, California. It is flying northward against the wind and looks like a “great black cigar with a fishlike tail.” The body is at least 100 feet long and looks as if it is made of darkened aluminum. It is seen again at 8:30 p.m. and disappears in the direction of San Francisco. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 73; “[Says He Saw It,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91984509/)” Oakland \(Calif.\) Tribune, December 1, 1896, p. 1; “[Saw the Airship at Close Range,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91984306/)” San Francisco Call, December 2, 1896, p. 14 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_125 ### Event 1588 (691D92A5) **Date:** 11/26/1896 **Location:** San Francisco Bay Area, CA **Description:** An enigmatic craft appeared over San Francisco Bay. Described as a large, black cigar-shaped object with a fish-like tail, the approximately 100-foot-long airship exhibited high-speed movement and maneuverability that far surpassed known technologies of the time, like dirigibles. The witnesses were astonished by the object's unprecedented features, as it defied the technological norms of 1896 and foreshadowed a series of subsequent mysterious airship sightings across California, setting the stage for a broader national phenomenon in the following year. (Chapter 1, Ref 2) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_2 ### Event 1589 (6BFADDF3) **Date:** 11/27/1896 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** SAN FERNANDO VALLEY, CA **Description:** Many observer(s). Night light plays / sky. 2 night lights / Los Angeles / 30 November. Southeast going quickly northwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1896. Self published 1974, 87 (Index 23) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_166 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "295", **HatchDesc:** "SAN FERNANDO VALLEY,CA:MANY OBS:NLT PLAYS/SKY:2 NLTS/LOS ANGELES/30NOV:SE>>NW", **LatLong:** "34.250002 -118.383339", **LatLongDMS:** "34:15:00 N 118:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.250002,-118.383339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 1590 (770EC770) **Date:** 11/27/1896 **Location:** Woodland, California **Description:** 10:00 p.m. A prominent attorney and others in Woodland, California, see a cluster of lights attached to an apparent airship moving at an altitude of about 500 feet at about 25 mph. It remains visible for an hour. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[More](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95280529/) [Airship Stories,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95280529/)” Woodland \(Calif.\) Daily Democrat, November 29, 1896, p. 2 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_126 ### Event 1591 (1EC8C852) **Date:** 11/28/1896 **Location:** USA, Potomac (Washington) **Description:** (Translated from French) Langley's Steam Airplane travels 1600 meters in 1 minute 45 seconds above the Potomac (Washington) and ends its flight and career in the waters of the river. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air. Chronicle..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 49 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_490 ### Event 1592 (6C996653) **Date:** 11/28/1896 **Location:** Oakland, California **Description:** Percy Drew watches an enormous airship with a red light over Oakland, California. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Says He Saw It,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91984509/)” Oakland \(Calif.\) Tribune, December 1, 1896, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_127 ### Event 1593 (5379DB90) **Date:** 11/29/1896 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** TULARE AND DELANO, CA **Description:** 100+observer(s). Airship. Descends. Rises. Shoots going quickly west toward(s) Hanford, CA. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1896. Self published 1974, 87 (Index 23) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_167 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "288", **HatchDesc:** "TULARE+DELANO,CA:100+OBS:AIRSHIP:DESCENDS:RISES:SHOOTS >>W TWRD HANFORD,CA", **LatLong:** "36.205557 -119.344450", **LatLongDMS:** "36:12:20 N 119:20:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.205557,-119.344450)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1594 (A6769E76) **Date:** 11/29/1896 **Description:** Over a hundred witnesses in Tulare, California watched an airship descend, then rise, and finally shoot off to the west toward Hanford, California. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The UFO Wave of 1896, p. 23 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8023 ### Event 1595 (565669E3) **Date:** 11/30/1896 **Time:** 20:20 **Location:** ANDERSON AND POTTER VALLEY, CA **Description:** Several separate observer(s). Airship west beams / light. Horses panic. Going southwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1896. Self published 1974, 87 (Index 25) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_168 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "40", **HatchDesc:** "ANDERSON+POTTER VALLEY,CA:SVRL SEP.OBS:AIRSHIP W BEAMS/LITE:HORSES PANIC:>SW", **LatLong:** "40.450002 -122.294450", **LatLongDMS:** "40:27:00 N 122:17:40 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.450002,-122.294450)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1596 (70348444) **Date:** 11/30/1896 **Description:** In Anderson, Shasta County, California several independent witnesses saw an airship fly over emitting beams of light; horses panicked during the overflight as the unknown craft flew off to the southwest. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, The UFO Wave of 1896, p. 25 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8063 ### Event 1597 (491D136B) **Date:** 12/1/1896 **Locations:** Rumsey, California; Davis, California; Los Angeles **Description:** [Harry Lytle](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40646913/harry-lytle) watches an airship as it flies toward the southwest over the Coast Ranges 3 miles north of Rumsey, California. He claims to recognize it as an “aircycle,” kind of a winged balloon with a pedal-driven propellor, plans for which he submitted to [E. W. Brown](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/112350040/e-w-brown) of Davis, California, and which they constructed in 1893. He calls it the Nonesuch. On an alleged test flight to Los Angeles on March 2, 1893, the device was stolen by some “hoboes.” He assumes the airship is his stolen invention. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[The Mystery Solved,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/112350040/e-w-brown)” Woodland \(Calif.\) Daily Democrat, December 8, 1896, p. 3 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_128 ### Event 1598 (BEB773FF) **Date:** 12/1/1896 **Location:** Sandy Beach, CA **Description:** During the late 19th Century airship mystery, an electrician named John A. Horen claimed to have witnessed a functioning airship in California. He recounted an encounter with an inventor aboard the airship, describing its noiseless and swift flight, and claimed it could travel to places like Honolulu and back within about 48 hours at a speed of around 100 miles per hour. (Chapter 1, Ref 80) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_75 ### Event 1599 (9C0DCFC3) **Date:** 12/2/1896 **Description:** On this day in 1896 an airship descended from the sky 15 miles north of Pacific Grove, California and landed on the Pacific Ocean. Three human occupants aboard guided it to shore and then hid it in the woods, according to the two witnesses. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** San Francisco Call, December 3, 1896; Philip Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 31; Jerome Clark, The Unidentified, p. 141 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8119 ### Event 1600 (B0808BF7) **Date:** 12/4/1896 **Locations:** Dixon; Elmira, California **Description:** 6:30 p.m. Travelers on a freight train between Dixon and Elmira, California, see two large, bright lights moving parallel with them at about 1,000 feet altitude. The lights outdistance the train and disappear to the southwest. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 74; “[The Airship Again,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91984777/)” Woodland \(Calif.\) Daily Democrat, December 7, 1896, p. 3 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_129 ### Event 1601 (B1942007) **Date:** 12/7/1896 **Description:** A large airship flew over the small town of Camptonville, Yuba County,California and landed nearby at 9:00 p.m. Five men went out to investigate, and found the ship with its sole occupant, a bearded man who appeared to be deaf and mute. Some written communication was attempted, in response the man produced an "alphabet" and spelled out a message saying he lived in the Montezuma Mountains with his wife and two children. He declined to answer any further questions, so the five men left. The craft was seen flying off the next day. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** San Francisco Examiner, December 8, 1896; Jerome Clark, The Unidentified: Notes toward Solving the UFO Mystery, p. 142; Philip L. Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 12 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8251 ### Event 1602 (88A059BC) **Date:** 12/7/1896 **Time:** evening **Location:** Camptonville, California **Description:** Residents were alerted by cries when a large airship was flying over their town. The craft appeared to land nearby, and a group of five men investigated, finding a bearded man on board who communicated using an "alphabet." The man indicated he lived in the Montezuma Mountains with his family but declined further questioning. The airship was observed flying off the next day. (Chapter 1, Ref 27) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_27 ### Event 1603 (E38B8D0F) **Date:** 12/10/1896 (approximate) **Time:** ~18:00 **Location:** BATTLE MOUNTAIN, NV **Description:** Strange light north / town heads going quickly west. Rises straight up. / local paper. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1896. Self published 1974, 87 (Index 30) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_169 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1381", **HatchDesc:** "BATTLE MOUNTAIN,NV:STRANGE LITE N/TOWN HEADS>>W:RISES STRAIGHT UP:/LOCAL PAPER", **LatLong:** "40.644446 -116.933339", **LatLongDMS:** "40:38:40 N 116:56:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.644446,-116.933339)", **State/Prov:** "Nevada", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 1604 (6DC18EFF) **Date:** 12/10/1896 (approximate) **Time:** ~18:00 **Location:** ELKO, NV **Description:** 50 observer(s). Strange night light rises / north and goes going quickly west. Fast and steady. Too slow for meteor. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1896. Self published 1974, 87 (Index 30) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_170 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1540", **HatchDesc:** "ELKO,NV:50 OBS:STRANGE NLT RISES/NORTH+GOES>>W:FAST+STEADY:TOO SLOW FOR METEOR", **LatLong:** "40.833335 -115.755561", **LatLongDMS:** "40:50:00 N 115:45:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.833335,-115.755561)", **State/Prov:** "Nevada", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 1605 (77C374CF) **Date:** 12/10/1896 **Description:** At 6:00 p.m. in 1896, in both Battle Mountain and Elko, Nevada a strange light was seen flying to the west. Moving too slowly to be a meteor, it suddenly shot straight up through the atmosphere. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8291 ### Event 1606 (C99C207F) **Date:** 12/15/1896 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Last observation of this first wave, above San Francisco. In the space of a good month, a UFO made headlines in an industrialized country generating some 220 testimonies. (December 15) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1896.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_229 ### Event 1607 (DE3CD5A7) **Date:** 12/15/1896 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Arolla, near Zermatt \(Swiss Alps\), author Aleister Crowley is walking in the mountain when he suddenly sees 2 small men. He waves to them, but they don't seem to pay attention to him and disappear into the rocks. **Reference:** Aleister Crowley, *Magic Without Tears* **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1896.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_230 ### Event 1608 (08922354) **Date:** 12/26/1896 **Locations:** Wilmington, Delaware; Salt Lake City; Cuba **Description:** Early morning. Dairy farmer Ezekiel Sergeant and a hired man have just finished milking their cows near Wilmington, Delaware, when they hear strains of music in the air. Then a bottle falls at Sergeant’s feet and breaks into pieces. He sees an enormous, fish-shaped airship with extended wings, a large tail, and a bright searchlight. Amid the shattered glass he finds a slip of paper allegedly written by Capt. James Dashiel and Thomas Murphy on the airship Icarus that is sailing from Salt Lake City to Cuba. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Saw an Air-Ship](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91985189/),” Philadelphia \(Pa.\) Times, December 28, 1896, p. 5 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_130 --- ## Year: 1897, 412 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 1609 (1FFBD8DB) **Date:** 1897 **Location:** Omaha, Nebraska **Description:** In Omaha, John O. Preast was speculated to be the inventor behind the mysterious airship sightings. Known for his experiments with airships over the past decade, Preast was suspected of working on a functioning model. The airship's sightings near his residence further fueled these speculations. (Chapter 1, Ref 71) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_69 ### Event 1610 (DEFA127D) **Date:** 1897 **Location:** Nebraska **Description:** An individual named Anton Pallardy claimed that the airship sightings in Nebraska were real and not a myth. He suggested that the airship was constructed in the remote Mauvais Terres region and described its appearance as resembling a large umbrella with a transparent covering. (Chapter 1, Ref 72) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_70 ### Event 1611 (AE572ED5) **Date:** 1897 **Location:** Texas **Description:** Amidst the airship mystery, an 1897 report suggested a potential connection between the mysterious airship sightings and government experiments. It was speculated that the U.S. government, employing a high-salary aeronaut, might be working on airship-related experiments at Fort Logan near Denver, leading to theories about government involvement in the phenomenon. (Chapter 1, Ref 79) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_74 ### Event 1612 (1D6ADCF5) **Date:** 1897 **Time:** 04:00 **Location:** 3 miles south of Aurora, Texas **Description:** The Aurora UFO incident of 1897, involving the crash of an alleged airship from another world, has faced skepticism due to inconclusive metal fragment analysis and denied access to the cemetery for potential remains. However, recent testimony from individuals who lived in the Aurora area at the time adds some corroboration to the story, describing a low-flying cigar-shaped airship with a white light that crashed and caused an explosion on Judge J. S. Proctor's farm. (Chapter 2, Refs 111) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_104 ### Event 1613 (59B24508) **Date:** 1897 **Time:** night **Location:** Lewisville, Texas **Description:** In the aftermath of the Aurora UFO incident, eyewitnesses from the Lewisville area recounted that an airship was seen approaching from Dallas, crashing near Judge Proctor's well and exploding. The airship was destroyed, and the pilot's body was badly torn up, leaving the crowd of sightseers unable to identify the unknown metal the craft was made of or provide a detailed description of the pilot's body. (Chapter 2, Refs 112) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_105 ### Event 1614 (45F1A416) **Date:** 1897 **Location:** Aurora, Texas **Description:** In the wake of the crash in Aurora, witnesses recall the explosion of the airship, with the pilot being torn up and killed in the incident. The townspeople who gathered his remains noted he was a "small man," and the event generated fear and excitement among the locals who were unfamiliar with regular airplanes or airships at the time. (Chapter 2, Refs 113) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_106 ### Event 1615 (DA77477C) **Date:** 1/1897 **Location:** 40 miles south of Hastings, near Kansas border **Description:** A prayer group south of Hastings reported a sighting of a conical-shaped object with a bright headlight, six smaller lights, and two sets of wings on each side, along with a large fan-shaped rudder. (Chapter 1, Ref 4) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_4 ### Event 1616 (F5DCFD3A) **Date:** 1/1897 **Location:** Everest, Kansas **Description:** The town of Everest had a detailed sighting of an airborne craft that hovered over the area for 80 minutes. The craft was described as having a 25-to-30-foot-long car resembling an Indian canoe with light wings, including two triangular ones. It appeared to be powered by the same source that provided light, with the brightness changing as the craft's altitude varied, and observers noted variations in the color of the light. (Chapter 1, Ref 6) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_6 ### Event 1617 (E7A91F4D) **Date:** 1/1897 **Location:** Iowa **Description:** A farmer in Iowa had a close encounter with a mystery airship equipped with incandescent lamps on its sides. As the craft maneuvered overhead, a grappling rope from the car hooked onto the farmer's trousers, but he managed to grab a tree and avoid being taken away. Despite skepticism from neighbors, the farmer stood by his account due to his reputation for honesty. (Chapter 1, Ref 7) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_7 ### Event 1618 (8A548416) **Date:** 1/1897 **Location:** Western Iowa **Description:** A dairy farmer encountered a dark, lighted aerial object resembling a long car with a cigar-shaped bag floating above it. The sighting was interrupted when the witness' team of horses panicked, causing him to be thrown into a ditch. Upon recovering, he saw the object ascend and vanish into the night. (Chapter 1, Ref 8) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_8 ### Event 1619 (F16C2E7E) **Date:** Mid 1/1897 **Location:** Acampo, California **Description:** Just after sunset. People in Acampo, California, see an airship the size of a small house, seemingly built of canvas, and moving to the southeast. It looks “like a cigar box with a spark of fire in it.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Airship Reported](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91985381/) [Again,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91985381/)” Stockton \(Calif.\) Evening Mail, January 22, 1897, p. 5 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_131 ### Event 1620 (33EC26A4) **Date:** 1/22/1897 **Location:** USA **Description:** (Translated from French) Hugh. D. Wise of the 9th infantry regiment, made a flight with a cellular kite. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air. Chronicle..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 50 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_492 ### Event 1621 (5387EED4) **Date:** 1/24/1897 **Location:** USA, Hastings (Nebraska) **Description:** (Translated from French) In the "Kansas Semi Weekly Capital" of March 31st 1897 it is written: The UFO was seen in the morning of Sunday, January 24th 1897. Several people believed that an experimenter was testing an "airship" of his invention about 16 km west of the town. This UFO circled for a few minutes before flying off to the north. In the "Omaha, Nebraska Bee" of February 2nd 1897 the report is somewhat different: Several inhabitants of Hastings reported having seen an airship or something of the same kind, to the west of the town. It was seen for the last time floating at about 175 meters above the ground, after having stayed stationary for 30 minutes. Then it took a circular flight heading north for 2 miles, returning to the place of its stationary position, where it finally descended in a straight line. It was not seen again until the evening, when it reappeared at an altitude of 275 to 300 meters, stationary a few miles to the west of Hastings. At first glance it appeared like an immense star. On closer inspection it was noticed that the fantastic coloring of the light must have been produced by a very powerful dynamo. At 9:30 pm on Monday, January 25th, the great light was observed circling for several minutes before descending to an altitude of 70 to 80 meters, circling at an amazing speed on an axis of nearly 2 miles. This lasted about 15 minutes, the speed decreased and suddenly the light disappeared as mysteriously as it had appeared. (1897, January 24th and 25th) **Reference:** Ufo Roundup, vol. 2 n° 4 of 26.1.1997, Joseph Trainor **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_493 ### Event 1622 (0591A0C3) **Date:** 1/25/1897 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Last Monday, at 9:30 PM, we saw the light make circles for a few minutes, then descend to about 60 m from the ground while continuing its rotations at an incredible speed... We await its eventual reappearance. (January 25th, 9:30 PM) **Reference:** *Omaha Daily Bee* of February 2nd, 1897 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1897.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_231 ### Event 1623 (CB699DDC) **Date:** 1/30/1897 **Time:** ~18:00 **Location:** HASTINGS, NEBR **Description:** "Sober observer(s)". 12M great airship. Days later seen 40 mile(s) south = Invale, northeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 9) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_171 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "598", **HatchDesc:** "HASTINGS,NEBR:"SOBER OBS":12M Gt.AIRSHIP:DAYS LATER SEEN 40mi S=INVALE,NE", **LatLong:** "40.588891 -98.388894", **LatLongDMS:** "40:35:20 N 98:23:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.588891,-98.388894)", **State/Prov:** "Nebraska", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1624 (05A566F3) **Date:** 1/30/1897 **Description:** A mystery airship with an immense artificial bright light was sighted in the early evening by several "sober observers" in Hastings, Nebraska. It was estimated to be 12 meters in length, and perhaps 800 feet in the air. Days later it was seen 40 miles south of Invale, Nebraska. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Omaha Bee, February 2, 1897; Philip Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 3; Loren E. Gross, Charles Fort, the Fortean Society, and UFOs, p. 9 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_595 ### Event 1625 (4CAFDC60) **Date:** 1/30/1897 **Location:** Hastings, Nebraska **Description:** A mysterious airship was repeatedly spotted near Hastings, a farming community in Nebraska, in January 1897. Witnesses observed the object hovering at varying altitudes, displaying powerful artificial lights and performing maneuvers at remarkable speeds before vanishing as mysteriously as it had appeared. (Chapter 1, Ref 3) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_3 ### Event 1626 (3AAE0CC0) **Date:** 1/31/1897 **Location:** Hastings, Nebraska **Description:** 9:30 p.m. A “large, glaring light,” apparently from an airship, is seen for nearly 30 minutes west of Hastings, Nebraska, hovering, ascending, descending, and moving at a “most remarkable speed.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[See an Air](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91985640/) [Ship at Hastings,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91985640/)” Omaha \(Neb.\) Daily Bee, February 2, 1897, p. 2 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_132 ### Event 1627 (68DE0D1D) **Date:** 2/1897 **End date:** 7/1897 **Locations:** Nebraska; Colorado; Texas; Ohio **Description:** The mystery airship wave continues, from Nebraska and Colorado to Texas and Ohio. Hoaxes and pranks pollute the information pool in a major way during this era and the planet Venus and other celestial objects undoubtedly play a major role, but many airship reports emanate from manifestly sober, puzzled citizens, and they continue long after the initial excitement subsides. To all appearances, they are objects of some kind, but since newspapers rarely question witnesses critically about details at this time, little can be deduced from the mass of reports. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Mystery of Unidentified Flying Objects—A Prelude, 1896–1949](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-Mystery-of-UFOs-A-Prelude.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-Mystery-of-UFOs-A-Prelude.pdf) The author, 1971; Roger L. Welsch, “[This Mysterious Light Called an Airship: Nebraska Saucer Sightings, 1897,](https://web.archive.org/web/100/https://history.nebraska.gov/sites/history.nebraska.gov/files/doc/publications/NH1979UFOs.pdf)” Nebraska History 60 \(1979\): 92–113; Daniel Cohen, The Great Airship Mystery, Dodd, Mead, 1981; Thomas E. Bullard, The Airship File, The author, 1982; Jerome Clark, “Airships: Part I,” IUR 16, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1991\): 4–23; Jerome Clark, “Airships: Part II,” IUR 16, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1991\): 20–21, 24; Michael Busby, Solving the 1897 Airship Mystery, Pelican, 2004; Jerome Clark, “UFOs or Mystery Airships?” IUR 31, no. 4 \(March 2008\): 8–14, 29; J. Allen Danelek, The Great Airship of 1897, Adventures Unlimited, 2009; Dennis Crenshaw and P. G. Navarro, The Secrets of Dellschau: The Sonora Aero Club and the Airships of the 1800s, Anomalist, 2009; Clark III 75–90 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_133 ### Event 1628 (4C7933E1) **Date:** 2/1/1897 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Several inhabitants of Hastings \(Nebraska\) said they had seen an aircraft or something similar, sailing in the air to the West of the city. It first stayed still for half an hour, floating in the air about 150 m from the ground, before making circles; it headed North for about 3 km, then returned to its starting point before finally disappearing. \(...\) At first glance, it looked like a big star, but on closer inspection, the light emanating from it seemed artificial. It must have been lit by very powerful electric dynamos; the light emanating from it was extraordinary. (February 1st) **Reference:** *Omaha Daily Bee* of February 2nd, 1897 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1897.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_232 ### Event 1629 (9E7585AC) **Date:** 2/1/1897 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Drawing of a "phantom airship" observed during the 1897 wave. See image at images/1897.jpg. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1897.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_233 ### Event 1630 (21103218) **Date:** 2/1/1897 **Description:** A large glaring light circled for a few minutes in the sky over Hastings, Nebraska at 9:30 p.m. It then descended to an altitude of 200 feet, traveled at a remarkable speed, slowed, and again circled for 15 more minutes. Finally, it descended once more and disappeared mysteriously. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Philip L. Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 3 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_649 ### Event 1631 (AFF4AC14) **Date:** 2/4/1897 **Locations:** Inavale, Nebraska; Big Springs, Nebraska **Description:** Night. A dozen people returning home from a prayer meeting in Inavale, Nebraska, see a bright light passing overhead. Six smaller lights are placed at intervals around a larger dark body. After 10 minutes it returns at a lower altitude, now visible as a conical object 30–40 feet long with two sets of wings and a large rudder. Voices can be heard plainly. \(“[Air Ship Is](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91993112/) [Seen at Inavale,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91993264/)” Omaha \(Neb.\) Daily Bee, February 6, 1897, p. 6\) February 17 —Night. Hy Smith, Charles Braternitz, and Harry Reese see a bright light moving to the east just west of Big Springs, Nebraska. The light repeatedly rises up about 300 feet then descends quickly, sending out sparks. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Seen](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91993491/) [near North Platte,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91993491/)” Kearney \(Neb.\) Hub, February 18, 1897, p. 3 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_134 ### Event 1632 (5DDE8B99) **Date:** 2/5/1897 **Location:** USA, Invale (Nebraska/Kansas) **Description:** (Translated from French) The "Ohama Bee" newspaper of February 5, 1897 reported that the UFO had reappeared. It was people from a small farm, returning from the temple, who observed it. The thing seemed conical in shape and was 30 to 40 feet long, with a large headlight and six smaller lights, three on each side. On one side the object seemed to have a winged structure as well as a large rudder in the shape of a fan. The witnesses said they heard a buzzing sound as well as the voices of the occupants of this craft. (February 5, 1897) **Reference:** Ufo Roundup, vol. 2 n° 4 of 26.1.1997, Joseph Trainor **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_494 ### Event 1633 (E00995B6) **Date:** Mid 2/1897 **Location:** Valley Falls, Kansas **Description:** Residents of Valley Falls, Kansas, can see the outlines of an airship behind a large light that passes over the town. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[The Supposed Kansas Airship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91993796/)” Atchison \(Kan.\) Daily Globe, February 27, 1897, p. 4 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_135 ### Event 1634 (38E71086) **Date:** Late 2/1897 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Aircraft sighting reports begin to resurface, but this time focusing on the center of the United States, between Texas and Michigan. (Late February) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1897.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_234 ### Event 1635 (6BFF900F) **Date:** 2/26/1897 **Locations:** Falls City, Nebraska; Stella; Beatrice; Wymore; Hastings; Kenesaw; Hartwell **Description:** 10:15 p.m. People at the railway depot in Falls City, Nebraska, see an object with a large searchlight in the northern sky. According to dispatcher Ike Chidsey, it is moving west at 60 mph and also has a red light. Chidsey alerts other Missouri Pacific train stations to the west. Over the next four and a half hours, the object is seen over Stella, Beatrice, Wymore, Hastings, Kenesaw, and Hartwell. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[The Supposed Kansas Airship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91993796/)” Atchison \(Kan.\) Daily Globe, February 27, 1897, p. 4 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_136 ### Event 1636 (27F1C6BC) **Date:** 3/13/1897 **Location:** North Loup, Nebraska **Description:** Night. A bright fireball appears in the west over North Loup, Nebraska, moving up and down erratically. It occasionally throws out sparks. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[That Strange Light Again,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91995167/)” Lincoln Nebraska State Journal, March 16, 1897, p. 5 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_137 ### Event 1637 (D8422B03) **Date:** 3/14/1897 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** OMAHA, NEB **Description:** Many observer(s). Glowing object southwest going quickly northeast / 30 minute(s). 29 March hundreds / observer(s). Big airship news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** CLARK, Jerome & COLEMAN, Joren: THE UNIDENTIFIED; Warner PBs, NY 1975 (Index 143) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_172 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "312", **HatchDesc:** "OMAHA,NEB:MANY OBS:GLOWING OBJ SW>>NE/30min::29MAR 100s/OBS:BIG AIRSHIP NEWS", **LatLong:** "41.266669 -95.933338", **LatLongDMS:** "41:16:00 N 95:56:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.266669,-95.933338)", **State/Prov:** "Nebraska", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1638 (E974EED8) **Date:** 3/14/1897 **Location:** South Omaha, Nebraska **Description:** 9:30 p.m. An object with a “big engine headlight” flies over South Omaha, Nebraska, and remains visible for 30–40 minutes. It is moving to the west and disappears behind some buildings. One of the witnesses is [Isaac J.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49750977/isaac-joel-copenharve) [Copenharve](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49750977/isaac-joel-copenharve)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49750977/isaac-joel-copenharve) a compositor for the Omaha Bee. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Visions of an Air Ship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91995407/)” Omaha \(Neb.\) Daily Bee, March 16, 1897, p. 7 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_138 ### Event 1639 (25E6E9DE) **Date:** 3/23/1897 **End date:** 3/26/1897 **Locations:** Belleville, Kansas; Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad depot **Description:** Night. Residents of Belleville, Kansas, watch a lighted airship moving at 75 mph and “lighting up the houses and city like an immense meteor.” It hovers for 20–30 minutes, changes direction, and is seen on four nights in succession. At 9:20 p.m. on March 25, workers at the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad depot and others in Belleville watch a bright light pass above the city for 45 minutes. It disappears to the northwest and reappears two more times. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Say They Saw an Air-Ship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91995633/)” Kansas City \(Mo.\) Times, March 27, 1897, p. 5; “[It](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19654799/kansas-city-journal/) [Flies at Night,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19654799/kansas-city-journal/)” Kansas City \(Mo.\) Journal, March 28, 1897, p. 2 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_139 ### Event 1640 (EE8663A8) **Date:** 3/26/1897 **Location:** USA - Near Sioux City (Iowa) **Description:** (Translated from French) Mr. Robert Hibbard was grabbed by an anchor suspended from a rope coming from some kind of aerial ship. The unfortunate man was dragged for about ten meters before he could free himself. When the grapple let go, he fell heavily to the ground. (..) He clearly saw a dark object lit up on each side by electric incandescent lamps, coming from the south at an altitude of about 1500 meters. When it reached his height, the object changed direction and descended towards the ground before returning in its original direction, trying to kidnap him with a grapple. "A magnificent ball of fire was seen in the clouds, shining for a moment before it went out a short time later (The Hudson Post)... [note from vog: see: 1843, July 16 FRANCE, NANTES, true story taken up by the Americans 50 years later to fill their newspapers with fantasy...] **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 52-160-161 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_495 ### Event 1641 (84E15CE3) **Date:** 3/26/1897 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Robert Hibbard, a farmer living 22 km north of Sioux City \(Iowa\), observed an "aircraft" but also an anchor at the end of a rope attached to the craft that grabbed him by his clothes and dragged him for a distance of 6 or 8 m before dropping him to the ground when his clothes tore. (March 26, Night) **Reference:** FSR 66, 4 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1897.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_235 ### Event 1642 (9E5696F0) **Date:** 3/26/1897 **Location:** Sioux City, IA **Description:** Approximate date. Robert Hibnight bard was caught by an anchor dropped from an unknown flying machine 22 km north of the town. He was dragged over 10 m and fell as his clothes were torn. (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_14 ### Event 1643 (0356FA50) **Date:** 3/26/1897 **Time:** night **Location:** Sioux City, Iowa **Description:** Approximate date. Robert Hibbard was caught by an anchor dropped from an unknown flying machine 22 km north of the town. He was dragged over 10 m and fell as his clothes were torn. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** FSR 66, 4 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_11 ### Event 1644 (5F0D93CF) **Date:** 3/26/1897 **Description:** On or about this date Robert Hibbard in Sioux City, Iowa was caught by an anchor dropped from an unknown flying machine 22 km north of the town. He was dragged over 10 meters and fell as his clothes were torn. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 140 & 182, case 11 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1668 ### Event 1645 (A9DBD419) **Date:** 3/27/1897 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** TOPEKA, KS **Description:** Many observer(s). Huge night light and cylinder/cigar-shape seen / several evenings. Hovers over Belleville / 19 Apr. '87. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 10) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_173 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "231", **Elev:** "300", **HatchDesc:** "TOPEKA,KS:MANY OBS:HUGE NLT+CGR SEEN/SVRL EVEs:HVRs OVR BELLEVILLE/19APR87", **LatLong:** "39.050002 -95.666671", **LatLongDMS:** "39:03:00 N 95:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.050002,-95.666671)", **State/Prov:** "Kansas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1646 (187CB222) **Date:** 3/27/1897 **Location:** Topeka, Kansas **Description:** 8:30 p.m. A blood-red light appears in the western sky over Topeka, Kansas, moving northward parallel with the horizon until after 20 minutes it disappears “with a flicker.” Among the witnesses is Kansas Gov. [John W.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FW.%5FLeedy) [Leedy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FW.%5FLeedy)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FW.%5FLeedy) who describes it as a “very strange light.” [Harold T. Chase](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15035364/harold-t%5F-chase), editor of the Topeka Capital, is on the State House steps with Leedy and says the object is a large, oblong shape. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Strange Light in the Sky,” Topeka \(Kan.\) Daily Capital, March 28, 1897, p. 1; “[Neither Star Nor Planet,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91996540/)” Kansas City \(Mo\) Times, March 29, 1897, p. 1; “[Airship Is Seen by Gov. Leedy,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26488596/chicago-tribune/)” Chicago Tribune, March 29, 1897, p. 4 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_140 ### Event 1647 (D14CF660) **Date:** 3/28/1897 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Omaha \(Nebraska\), most of the population sees an object coming from the South-East. It looks like a huge light source, flying slowly towards the North-West, at a low altitude. The crowd gathers at the corner of a street to observe it \(185\). (March 28th, 10:30 PM) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1897.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_236 ### Event 1648 (840F1321) **Date:** 3/28/1897 **Location:** Omaha, NE **Description:** 10:30 p.m. The majority of the population observed an object arriving from the southeast. It looked like a huge light, flew northwestward slowly, came to low altitude. A crowd gathered at a street corner to watch it. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_15 ### Event 1649 (61F4134C) **Date:** 3/28/1897 **Time:** 2230 **Location:** Omaha, Nebraska **Description:** The majority of the population observed an object arriving from the southeast. It looked like a huge light, flew northwestward slowly, came to low altitude. A crowd gathered at a street corner to watch it. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 185 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_12 ### Event 1650 (DB0F12F6) **Date:** 3/28/1897 **Description:** The majority of the population of Omaha, Nebraska observed an object arriving from the southeast at 10:30 p.m. It looked like a huge light, flew northwestward slowly, came to low altitude. A crowd gathered at a street corner to watch it. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 181, citing the Chicago Times-Herald, March 30, 1897 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1706 ### Event 1651 (778C6855) **Date:** 3/30/1897 **Description:** In 1897 in Denver, Colorado a mysterious light was seen flying through the night sky. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** New York Herald, April 12, 1897 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1724 ### Event 1652 (86ACE248) **Date:** 4/1897 **Location:** Kansas City, Kansas **Description:** Residents observed a bright light with changing colors, emitting a beam of light akin to a searchlight, exhibiting controlled movement rather than comet-like motion, and alternating between northwest and opposite directions. (Chapter 1, Ref 5) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_5 ### Event 1653 (8562F1E6) **Date:** 4/1897 **Location:** Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Nora, Illinois **Description:** An electrician in Chillicothe, Missouri, was summoned to recharge an airship's fuel supply during the night, and a railway worker assisted in repairing a faulty steering mechanism for an airship near Nora, Illinois. (Chapter 1, Ref 55) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_53 ### Event 1654 (D1539709) **Date:** 4/1897 **Location:** Appleton, Wisconsin **Description:** A letter found near Appleton, Wisconsin, claimed to be from the occupants of an airship named "Pegasus." The letter described their successful aerial navigation experiments, achieving speeds of 150 miles per hour and reaching a height of 2,500 feet. They stated the airship was propelled by steam, lit by electricity, and had a carrying capacity of 1,000 pounds. (Chapter 1, Ref 67) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_65 ### Event 1655 (1B8BC20E) **Date:** 4/1897 **Location:** Newport, Kentucky **Description:** A message reportedly dropped from an airship named "Pegasus" was found by Miss L. Remme in her yard. The note claimed the airship had traveled 200 miles at 40 miles an hour since 4:30 Friday afternoon and intended to reach Nashville by Sunday at 3:30. (Chapter 1, Ref 68) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_66 ### Event 1656 (8BF0B63E) **Date:** 4/1897 **Location:** Fort Wayne, Indiana **Description:** During the same period, an object described as "pear-shaped with the apex downward" was witnessed flying rapidly over Fort Wayne, Indiana. Another observer noted a slightly different configuration, describing it as round with a V-shaped tail emitting bright yellow rays of light from the main body. (Chapter 2, Ref 99) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_93 ### Event 1657 (B36FE2C1) **Date:** 4/1/1897 **Location:** USA, Kansas City **Description:** (Translated from French) At 8:15 PM thousands of people observed the mysterious light above Kansas City. Flying sometimes at high altitude, sometimes at the level of the daisies, the object moved from west to north, then from south and finally disappeared towards the north. The glow seemed to have the dimensions of a large street lamp and must have been at the height of the clouds. At one point a beam of light came out of it, somewhat like a projector. Its color changed from white to bright red, it moved in various directions, at a regular speed. (April 1, 1897) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 161-162 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_496 ### Event 1658 (E207F09E) **Date:** 4/1/1897 **Location:** USA, Everest (Kansas) **Description:** (Translated from French) That same night the citizens of Everest (Kansas) followed the maneuvers of the (same?) craft for 80 minutes: "At one point and for five minutes the airship flew along the lower part of the clouds which were very low in the sky and it was then that the powerful lights it carried were reflected on the cloud masses, thus illuminating the flying object whose every detail could be seen. The basket or gondola must have been between 7.50 and 9 meters long and its shape evoked that of an Indian canoe. Four luminous wings emerged from the gondola, two of them being triangular. A large dark frame was visible immediately above the basket and the witnesses thought it was a balloon inflated with gas. That it was the same source that powered the headlights and the propulsion of the craft seems obvious, since these lights weakened when the object gained speed and became very bright when it hovered at low altitude. One of the witnesses saw a blue glow, others saw it rather white or red." (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 161-162) The object was first observed around 9:30 pm by two or three people, but they only saw the bright headlights. A few minutes later, when the object approached, its huge frame was visible. It was like an immense cigar and half the town's inhabitants were watching it. The airship seemed to make erratic movements. Instead of moving in a straight line, it undulated and leaned once to the left, once to the right, but all this apparently under absolute control. The airship came from the north and was observed for a quarter of an hour before disappearing towards the south. The town's inhabitants propose to look at the sky very often in the hope of seeing this phenomenon again, because for some time now it has been appearing often in the early evening and returning very early in the morning. (April 1, 1897) **Reference:** Ufo Folklore Center - Roundup vol 2 n° 14 of April 6, 97 - Joseph Trainor **Reference:** from: Evening Times of Pawtucket of April 2, 1897 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_497 ### Event 1659 (5D1FB681) **Date:** 4/1/1897 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The mysterious aircraft that has been seen in Kansas in recent weeks was observed again last night in Everest, Brown County, in the Northwest of the state... The aircraft had an unpredictable trajectory. Instead of moving in a straight line, it went up, down, sometimes to the right, sometimes to the left, but apparently always in an extremely controlled way... The ship arrived from the North in the early evening, then left again in the early morning. Many inhabitants of Everest will spend the night outside in the hope that it will return and they can see the mysterious visitor again.. (April 1st) **Reference:** *Evening Times* of Patucket, Rhode Island **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1897.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_237 ### Event 1660 (3A6A0B38) **Date:** 4/1/1897 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Alexander Hamilton, a wealthy farmer from Kansas, rises in the middle of the night, having heard his animals making a commotion. He then sees an engine about 100 m long flying above the farm. A cable drops and wraps around the head of a heifer that bellows and desperately tries to free itself. Engine and heifer quickly disappear into the sky. Many people, forced to believe his story, vouch for his mental stability. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1897.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_238 ### Event 1661 (12CEE755) **Date:** 4/1/1897 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** EVEREST, KS AND MORE/OTHERS **Description:** Object lights ground and clouds and buildings / huge lamps. Zigzags. Going up / extremely fast. Type unknown. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 10) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_174 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "351", **HatchDesc:** "EVEREST,KS++:OBJ LITES GND+CLOUDS+BLDGs/HUGE LAMPS:ZIGZAGS:↑/XFAST:TYPE UNKN", **LatLong:** "39.677780 -95.422227", **LatLongDMS:** "39:40:40 N 95:25:20 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.677780,-95.422227)", **State/Prov:** "Kansas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1662 (E6BE39F7) **Date:** 4/1/1897 **Location:** Everest, KS **Description:** 9:00 p.m. The whole town saw an object fly under the cloud ceiling. It came down slowly, then flew away very fast to the southeast. When directly over the town it swept the ground with its powerful light. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_16 ### Event 1663 (37B4226B) **Date:** 4/1/1897 **Time:** 2100 **Location:** Everest, Kansas **Description:** The whole town saw an object fly under the cloud ceiling. It came down slowly, then flew away very fast to the southeast. When directly over the town it swept the ground with its powerful light. It was seen to rise up at fantastic speed until barely discernible, then to come down again and sweep low over the witnesses. At one point it remained stationary for 5 min at the edge of a low cloud, which it illuminated. All could clearly see the silhouette of the craft. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** FSR 66, 4 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_13 ### Event 1664 (82835346) **Date:** 4/1/1897 **Location:** Kansas City, Kansas **Description:** 8:00 p.m. Strange lights appear in the sky south of Kansas City, Kansas, zigzagging and crossing the horizon. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Air Ship Headed toward Omaha,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91997282/)” Omaha \(Neb.\) Daily Bee, April 3, 1897, p. 9 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_141 ### Event 1665 (6217CD70) **Date:** 4/1/1897 **Locations:** Everest, Kansas; Commercial Hotel **Description:** 9:00 p.m. J. E. Gunn, proprietor of the Commercial Hotel, and other residents of Everest, Kansas, watch a 30- foot-long object that looks like a canoe suspended from a balloon. Two wings are visible on each side. Its light appears to dim when the object is moving and glows brightly when hovering. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Air Ship Headed toward Omaha,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91997282/)” Omaha \(Neb.\) Daily Bee, April 3, 1897, p. 9 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_142 ### Event 1666 (F829E361) **Date:** 4/1/1897 **Location:** Galesburg, Michigan **Description:** Night. Residents of Galesburg, Michigan, see a brilliant white light passing overhead. It is attached to a black object that emits a crackling sound. Human voices are heard distinctly. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[The Airship Story Spreads,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91997656/)” Cedar Rapids \(Iowa\) Evening Gazette, April 2, 1897, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_143 ### Event 1667 (1320642E) **Date:** 4/1/1897 **Description:** The whole town of Everest, Kansas saw an object fly in under the cloud cover. It came down slowly, then flew away very fast to the southeast. When directly over the town it swept the ground with a powerful searchlight. It was seen to rise up at a fantastic speed until barely discernible, then to come down again and sweep low over the witnesses. At one point it remained stationary for five minutes at the edge of a low cloud, which it illuminated. All said they could clearly see the silhouette of the craft. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 181, citing Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1966; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr.& Harold Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 15 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1777 ### Event 1668 (301551E0) **Date:** 4/2/1897 **Time:** 02:00 **Location:** CHICAGO, IL **Description:** Great airship. Enormous. Seen from skyscraper. Has very strong beacon. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 22) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_175 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "25", **Elev:** "300", **HatchDesc:** "CHICAGO,IL:GREAT AIRSHIP:ENORMOUS:SEEN from SKYSCRAPER:HAS VERY STRONG BEACON.", **LatLong:** "41.850002 -87.650004", **LatLongDMS:** "41:51:00 N 87:39:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.850002,-87.650004)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1669 (4473DA95) **Date:** 4/2/1897 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** WESLEY, IA **Description:** Several reliable observer(s). Conic airship. Bright light / windows. / news / L. Farish. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** STEIGER, Brad & WHRITENOUR, Joan: FLYING SAUCER INVASION. Award Books, NY 1969. 156pp PB. 15 Essays + catalog. (Index 27) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_176 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "388", **HatchDesc:** "WESLEY,IA:SVRL RELIABLE OBS:CONIC AIRSHIP:BRITE LITE/WINDOWS:/news/L.Farish", **LatLong:** "43.088891 -93.988893", **LatLongDMS:** "43:05:20 N 93:59:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.088891,-93.988893)", **State/Prov:** "Iowa", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1670 (598FEE5A) **Date:** 4/2/1897 **Location:** Wesley, Iowa **Description:** Evening. People in Wesley, Iowa, view a cone-shaped object with windows in the side through which light is visible. It is traveling slowly toward the northwest. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Wesley Saw the Air Ship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91997876/)” Algona \(Iowa\) Republican, April 7, 1897, p. 8 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_144 ### Event 1671 (51B5F4F1) **Date:** Early 4/1897 **Locations:** Elburn, Illinois; Pacific; Atlantic; Chicago and North Western Railway **Description:** An airship allegedly lands near Elburn, Illinois, where some farmers run across it. It is made of “some light substance like aluminum.” Two aeronauts are repairing the vehicle and will only say that they are flying from the Pacific to the Atlantic by following the Chicago and North Western Railway. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “That Blooming Ship,” Rockford \(Ill.\) Daily Republic, April 12, 1897, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_146 ### Event 1672 (EDC022F1) **Date:** 4/3/1897 **Location:** USA, Wesley, Iowa **Description:** (Translated from French) "Reliable witnesses declared under oath to have seen what they assumed to be an aerial vessel. (...) It had the shape of a cone with lit windows on the side. They could not make out how the craft was propelled...(..) it seemed to be navigating at no more than a few tens of meters above the ground. Sometimes it moved slowly, sometimes it went really fast. Sounds were heard coming from the object. Some said it was human voices, others that it was simply the noise of the machinery. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 161-162 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_498 ### Event 1673 (A8D8FB5B) **Date:** 4/3/1897 **Location:** USA, between Lancaster and Baltimore **Description:** (Translated from French) A landing took place around 8:00 PM. The object landed less than 100 m away from the witness, who preferred to remain anonymous. Inside the object were two characters conversing in a strange language. One of the occupants was of oriental type, while the other spoke English with a British accent. In speaking with the witness they said that the craft was called "Aeribarque" (sic) and that they were finishing an experimental flight. They often landed in isolated places or approached cities when they had to get provisions. They demonstrated the electrical equipment to the witness and then asked him to leave. They revealed nothing about the propulsion, but the witness is convinced that they must have used some volatile substance capable of counteracting the Earth's gravitational force. (April 3rd, 1897) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD - Inforespace #36 p. 39 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_540 ### Event 1674 (3386E21E) **Date:** 4/4/1897 **Locations:** Wolf Creek Township, Iowa; Sioux City **Description:** 12:15 a.m. Dairy farmer [Dick Butler](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/182841533/richard-butler) is returning to his farm in Wolf Creek Township, Iowa, after delivering milk in Sioux City when he notices an electric-like light on his right about 200 feet away in a cornfield. He can see a dark object with light coming through its windows. It appears to be a “long, narrow car, resembling a corset box in shape,” some 30–35 feet long and 6–7 feet high. Above the car floats a cigar-shaped bag about the same length and 8–10 feet thick. When his horses see the object, they bolt and tumble his wagon into the ditch. By the time Butler recovers, the object is moving briskly in a descent to the south. He watches it as it moves out of sight. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Air Ship Again,” Marshalltown \(Iowa\) Evening Times-Republican, April 9, 1897, p. 3 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_145 ### Event 1675 (D3F46173) **Date:** 4/5/1897 **Location:** USA, Omaha (Nebraska) **Description:** (Translated from French) About a hundred inhabitants saw at the same time a round flying object with a diameter of 12 feet. It was night. The object became so bright that people who were sleeping woke up, and a panic began to spread among the population. **Reference:** "Ufo's – A century of Sightings by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 3 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_499 ### Event 1676 (6FA52B3C) **Date:** 4/5/1897 **Time:** 20:00? **Location:** OMAHA, NEBR **Description:** Great airship back. Ridicule abates when all see its large shape. Going north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLAMMONDE, Paris: UFO EXIST!; Ballentine Books, NY 1976. PB 480pp. (Index 101) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_177 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "25", **Elev:** "312", **HatchDesc:** "OMAHA,NEBR:GREAT AIRSHIP BACK:RIDICULE ABATES WHEN ALL SEE ITS LRG SHAPE:>N", **LatLong:** "41.266669 -95.950005", **LatLongDMS:** "41:16:00 N 95:57:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.266669,-95.950005)", **State/Prov:** "Nebraska", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1677 (C164BA50) **Date:** 4/6/1897 **Location:** USA, Guthrie (Oklahoma) **Description:** (Translated from French) At around 11:00 PM, Mr. Trumbull, the owner of the Arlington Hotel, saw a dark object moving above the town. Soon he saw that the object had a bright light on its front and was using it like a projector, sweeping the sky in different directions. Several other witnesses followed the movements of the craft for a few minutes. The following night it was observed above Belle Plaine (Iowa). **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 163 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_500 ### Event 1678 (C7817E9C) **Date:** 4/6/1897 **Locations:** Peru, Nebraska; Missouri River; Cuba **Description:** 2:00 a.m. James Southard gets lost on his ranch near Peru, Nebraska, looking for strayed cattle. He notices a light on a bar in the Missouri River, and it turns out to be on a landed airship 200 feet long, whose crew are apparently repairing its searchlight. The aeronauts answer all of Southard’s questions, telling him that “the craft is loaded with several tons of dynamite and is bound for Cuba” to bomb Spanish ships. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Boarded the Airship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91998275/)” Auburn \(Neb.\) Granger, April 9, 1897, p. 3 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_147 ### Event 1679 (7F5692FB) **Date:** 4/6/1897 **Location:** Peru, Nebraska **Description:** A man encountered an airship on a small island in the Missouri River. The airship's crew explained that they had landed for repairs on a searchlight. The ship was described as cigar-shaped, about 200 feet long, and operated by large gasoline engines connected to steel snail shell-shaped devices for propulsion. (Chapter 1, Ref 51) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_49 ### Event 1680 (205F93C8) **Date:** 4/7/1897 **Time:** ~20:00 **Location:** SIOUX CITY, IA **Description:** Great airship looks like cigar-balloon. 35' X 12' size estimated. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLAMMONDE, Paris: UFO EXIST!; Ballentine Books, NY 1976. PB 480pp. (Index 102) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_178 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "335", **HatchDesc:** "SIOUX CITY,IA:GREAT AIRSHIP LOOKS LIKE CIGAR-BALLOON:35' X 12' SIZE ESTM.", **LatLong:** "42.500002 -96.400005", **LatLongDMS:** "42:30:00 N 96:24:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.500002,-96.400005)", **State/Prov:** "Iowa", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1681 (4C42BDD4) **Date:** 4/7/1897 **Location:** Bethany, Missouri **Description:** In a letter to a Missouri newspaper, a witness reported witnessing an airship crash near Bethany. The two occupants were fatally injured, and the letters found on them indicated a possible origin from San Francisco or Omaha. (Chapter 1, Ref 58) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_56 ### Event 1682 (D71CE058) **Date:** 4/8/1897 **Location:** USA, Cedar Rapids **Description:** (Translated from French) An object was seen moving along the railway. It was first spotted in Cedar Rapids (9:00 PM) before disappearing an hour later. The object had a bright and dazzling light that illuminated a metallic hull and wings on either side. It glided through the air emitting a whistling sound. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 163 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_501 ### Event 1683 (A6BF3054) **Date:** 4/8/1897 **Locations:** West Liberty; Cedar Rapids, Iowa **Description:** 8:00 p.m. Many people in towns along the Burlington, Cedar Rapids, and Northern Railroad from West Liberty to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, see an object with a “bright glaring headlight,” a glistening steel body, and wings on either side. It makes a hissing noise as it glides through the air. By 10:00 p.m., it fades from view to the north of Cedar Rapids. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Airship Appears in Iowa,” Chicago Record, April 9, 1897, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_148 ### Event 1684 (401E4785) **Date:** 4/8/1897 **Description:** A dark bulk with a narrow, rectangular shape and illuminated windows flew over a dairy farm in the western part of Iowa after midnight. It was 30 to 35 feet long and 6 or 7 feet wide. Over the rectagular shaped was a cigar-shaped bag, about the same length but 10 feet thicker in width. The two horses of a carriage being driven by a dairy farmer spooked at the sight of the craft and bolted, throwing the man into a ditch. The object rose vertically on its departure. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Philip Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 5 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1892 ### Event 1685 (1ED5AF5A) **Date:** 4/9/1897 **Location:** USA, Chicago **Description:** (Translated from French) The inhabitants saw the ship cross Lake Michigan, heading towards the land, slowly veering northwest and disappearing into the darkness. "...The main body of the nocturnal flying object must have been 20 m long, it was of pleasant proportions and seemed to be very fragilely constructed. Attached to this body was a searchlight and other lights. Some observers claimed to have seen, at a short distance above this main body, structures resembling wings or sails. These latter must have been 6 m wide." Another railroad story took place near Chicago. The driver of an express mail train, Mr. F. L. Bullard, suddenly saw his locomotive overtaken and then passed by "a dirigible moving at least 240 km/hour". **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 163 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_502 ### Event 1686 (51C09F47) **Date:** 4/9/1897 **Location:** USA, in the Midwest **Description:** (Translated from French) One of the most curious describes an incident that began on April 9. In the Midwest, a huge cigar-shaped craft was seen flying at a very high altitude. Short wings protruded laterally, according to astronomers who observed it through a telescope. ... On April 16, the object disappeared from the Midwest. (1897, starting April 9) **Reference:** Donald KEYHOE: "Flying Saucers Are Real" ed. Corrêa Paris 1951, p 81 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_503 ### Event 1687 (2D3BE71A) **Date:** 4/9/1897 **Locations:** Chicago; Evanston; Niles Center; Schermerville; South Chicago **Description:** 8:30 p.m. Hundreds of people in Chicago, Evanston, Niles Center, and Schermerville, Illinois, see an airship earing multicolored lights and swinging a huge white searchlight from side to side. Nearly 800 witnesses on Davis Street in Evanston watch the object, estimated to be 400 feet in length. Using binoculars, the outline of a structure can be seen behind the powerful light. By 9:30 p.m., the airship is last seen over South Chicago. Northwestern University astronomer [George W. Hough](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FW.%5FHough), director of the Dearborn Observatory, tells the newspapers he is sure the airship is the star Alpha Orionis \(Betelgeuse\). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[See Airship](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26486756/chicago-tribune/) [or a Star,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26486839/chicago-tribune/)” Chicago Tribune, April 10, 1897, pp. 1–2; “[California Airship on the Wing,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/73244355/california-airship-on-the-wing/)” Chicago Tribune, April 11, 1897, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_149 ### Event 1688 (AF136EB9) **Date:** 4/10/1897 **Location:** USA, Newton (Iowa) **Description:** (Translated from French) 2000 citizens of Newton observed from 8:00 PM on this Saturday evening of April 10 the mysterious aerial craft that flew over their city for nearly 40 minutes. Heading towards the northwest, it at one point released a kind of "parachute" to which a light was attached. That night it was also seen above Eldon (7:25 PM), Ottumwa (7:40 PM), Albia (8:10 PM), Wausau and Fort Atkinson (Wisconsin) and Winemac (Indiana). It was also observed for a quarter of an hour in Galesburg (Illinois). The object had a very bright white light and flew over the city at an altitude of about 1200 m. (April 10, 1897) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 165 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_504 ### Event 1689 (65640F2D) **Date:** 4/10/1897 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Observation of a "ship" hovering and throwing "probes" over Newton \(Iowa\). In several places, this wonderful thing was observed by several people equipped with small telescopes or binoculars \(...\). According to these people, the main body of the nocturnal flying object must have been 20 m long, it is of pleasant proportions and seems to be built very fragilely. Attached to this body is a projector and other lights. Some observers claim to have seen, at a short distance above this main body, structures resembling wings or sails. These latter must have been 6 m wide. (April 10) **Reference:** *Chicago Chronicle* **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1897.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_239 ### Event 1690 (42645BAE) **Date:** 4/10/1897 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Drawing of an observation. See image at images/1897-04-12.jpg. **Reference:** *Chicago Times Herald*, April 12th 1897 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1897.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_240 ### Event 1691 (8E2A17E4) **Date:** 4/10/1897 **Time:** 14:30 **Location:** CARLINVILLE, IL **Description:** Domed cylinder/cigar-shape lands / field. Flies as observers approach. / r221p17. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 22) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_179 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "18", **Elev:** "189", **HatchDesc:** "CARLINVILLE,IL:DOMED CGR LANDS/FIELD:FLIES AS OBSs APPROACH:/r221p17", **LatLong:** "39.283335 -89.883338", **LatLongDMS:** "39:17:00 N 89:53:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.283335,-89.883338)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 1692 (D2370EF6) **Date:** 4/10/1897 **Time:** ~20:00 **Location:** CHICAGO, IL **Description:** Cylinder/cigar-shape? / wavy motion going quickly west from lake. Red and green rotating lights. / r129p11. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLAMMONDE, Paris: The AGE of FLYING SAUCERS; Hawthorne Books, NY 1971 (Index 105) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_180 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "180", **HatchDesc:** "CHICAGO,IL:CGR?/WAVY MOTION>>W fm LAKE:RED+GRN ROTATING LITES:/r129p11", **LatLong:** "41.833335 -87.650004", **LatLongDMS:** "41:50:00 N 87:39:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.833335,-87.650004)", **RelAlt:** "99", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1693 (87948833) **Date:** 4/10/1897 **Location:** Marshfield, Wisconsin **Description:** Evening. Witnesses in Marshfield, Wisconsin, see a cone-shaped airship with a bright headlight moving south of town. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Hides in the Woods,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91999102/)” Chicago Chronicle, April 11, 1897, p. 3 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_150 ### Event 1694 (9BF76AA3) **Date:** 4/10/1897 **Location:** Platte City, Missouri **Description:** 10:00 p.m. A noise draws residents of Platte City, Missouri, outside where they can see a hovering object 100 feet long and 20 feet wide. Two immense wings on either side are moving up and down. Greenish light beams shine down on Main Street from its back and front. Suddenly there is a hissing sound and explosions and the object moves away to the northeast. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Saw the Airship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92007835/)” Buffalo \(N.Y.\) Enquirer, April 12, 1897, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_151 ### Event 1695 (ED7C0B7D) **Date:** 4/10/1897 **Location:** Jacksonville, Illinois **Description:** 10:30 p.m. Policemen, firemen, and many other residents of Jacksonville, Illinois, see a bright light moving swiftly from east to west a few hundred feet in the air. The light sways from side to side and throws out beams several hundred feet in length. When it is above the city, the object the light is attached to can be seen as metallic and long with possible wings. Some witnesses can hear voices. The object reverses direction over Jacksonville, throwing its searchlight in all directions, and disappears to the east. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “The Airship over Quincy,” Quincy \(Ill.\) Morning Whig, April 11, 1897, p. 8 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_152 ### Event 1696 (86E74809) **Date:** 4/10/1897 **Locations:** Quincy, Illinois; Mississippi River; South Park **Description:** 11:00 p.m. A bright white light with red and green lights on either side of it is observed by many residents of Quincy, Illinois, flying low above the Mississippi River on the city’s west side. At one point it is no more than 400–500 feet above the ground. The light is attached to a metallic cigar-shaped object. Two wings extend from the sides and on top is some kind of superstructure. Witnesses estimate its length to be 50–100 feet. The object ascends, moves east, then south, then west, hovers above South Park for a few minutes, then moves north and stops again. It reverses direction and leaves toward the south at “tremendous speed.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “The Airship over Quincy,” Quincy \(Ill.\) Morning Whig, April 11, 1897, p. 8 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_153 ### Event 1697 (92AF740A) **Date:** 4/10/1897 **Location:** Lanark, Illinois **Description:** A farmer reported an airship crash during a blizzard near Lanark. Two occupants were killed, and a third, dressed in a unique manner, survived and claimed to be from Mars. The farmer charged people to view the "Martian" until he recovered and repaired his craft. (Chapter 1, Ref 59) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_57 ### Event 1698 (DF9F2A72) **Date:** 4/10/1897 **Location:** Omaha, Nebraska **Description:** In Nebraska, especially near Hastings, rumors of an airship inventor circulated in 1897. The individual was said to be working on an airship and keeping their identity hidden to prevent theft of their invention by unscrupulous individuals. (Chapter 1, Ref 70) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_68 ### Event 1699 (E337A409) **Date:** 4/11/1897 **Location:** USA, Chicago **Description:** (Translated from French) The New York Herald announced the reappearance of a spacecraft above Chicago: "The famous airship now above Chicago. The city is excited by the appearance of lights moving quickly in the sky. Astronomers are incredulous. They think that these lights come from a star in the constellation of Orion. It is a dirigible balloon, said Max Harmar, secretary of the Aeronautical Association of Chicago. **Reference:** Henry DURRANT: "The Black Book of S.V."-Laffont 1970 - p. 68, 69 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_505 ### Event 1700 (F709AFD5) **Date:** 4/11/1897 **Location:** USA, Norman, (Oklahoma) **Description:** (Translated from French) Almost 400 citizens of Norman saw a brightly lit craft at low altitude above a lake near Evanston. It navigated in all directions above the city before finally heading west. At the same time it was seen in Niles Center, Schemerville and Kankakee. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 163 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_506 ### Event 1701 (DC47FDD6) **Date:** 4/11/1897 **Location:** USA, Holland (Michigan) **Description:** (Translated from French) Hundreds of inhabitants saw the craft hovering above Black Lake at 8:35 PM: "it was a huge dark mass lit up by lights of all colors". After hovering for a few minutes it departed in a zigzag pattern towards the northwest. That same night the same phenomenon was seen in Milwaukee and above Chicago where a photo was even taken. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 166 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_507 ### Event 1702 (BD413198) **Date:** 4/11/1897 **Location:** USA, Sioux City **Description:** (Translated from French) More than 800 km west of Holland, Mr. Butler observed around midnight a strange flying apparatus. "At the top there was like a large balloon in the shape of a cigar. It was about ten meters long, three meters wide and it was tilted to the side. Below there was a gondola that looked like those of a Ferris Wheel. There was also a row of windows on the side. (...) The object emitted a sound like a flock of quail taking off. In four or five minutes the airship was out of sight, disappearing to the south." (April 11, 1897) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 166 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_508 ### Event 1703 (A3970AE9) **Date:** 4/11/1897 **Time:** ~09:00 **Location:** ROGERS PARK, IL **Description:** W. McCann and 3. Big cylinder/cigar-shape going north. 2 photographs taken / clear skies. No further details. / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The AUSTRALIAN UFO BULLETIN; Qtrly. Judith MAGEE Ed. VUFORS PO Box 43, Moorabin, VIC 3189 Australia. (Index 952) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_181 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "179", **HatchDesc:** "ROGERS PARK,IL:W.McCANN+3:BIG CGR >N:2 FOTOS TAKEN/CLEAR SKIES:NFD:/news", **LatLong:** "42.016669 -87.666671", **LatLongDMS:** "42:01:00 N 87:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.016669,-87.666671)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1704 (E0BF568F) **Date:** 4/11/1897 **Location:** Hawarden, Iowa **Description:** 12:30 a.m. John Peterson, E. K. Rowley, [George Moody](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/127708002/george-moody)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/127708002/george-moody) [Bayard Taylor French](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/122596748/bayard-taylor-french)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/122596748/bayard-taylor-french) and other residents of Hawarden, Iowa, see a conical object about 60 feet long with four sets of 15-foot wings. It is flying so low \(about 600 feet\) that they can hear machinery, voices, and laughter. Two red lights are positioned on the tail end and a large searchlight is in the front. After three minutes it moves off to the north. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Another Wonderful Tale,” Des Moines \(Iowa\) Leader, April 13, 1897, p. 3 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_154 ### Event 1705 (D6D1E640) **Date:** 4/11/1897 **Location:** 4356 East Ravenswood Park in Rogers Park, Chicago, Illinois **Description:** 5:30 a.m. An alleged photo of an airship is taken at 4356 East Ravenswood Park in Rogers Park, Chicago, Illinois, by an ex-policeman named [Walter R. McCann](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/188309760/walter-r%5F-mccann) and George A. Overrocker, who provide copies to several newspapers. The Chicago Tribune photo editor pronounces it a fake because it looks like it is taken by a Kodak with a small lens that cannot achieve a panoramic view. A later report claims that McCann has photographed a piece of canvas on which an airship is painted. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Airship Myth Yet Soars,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92011690/)” Chicago Tribune, April 12, 1897, p. 5; “[Airship Is All a Joke,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/82861909/the-chicago-chronicle/)” Chicago Chronicle, April 13, 1897, p. 2; Wautauga \(N.C.\) Democrat, April 27, 1897, p. 1; Clark III 78; Wikimedia Commons, “Mystery airship 1897” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_155 ### Event 1706 (107077F0) **Date:** 4/11/1897 **Location:** Bloomington, Illinois **Description:** 12:15 p.m. Gary Carlton Jr. watches a flat object looking like a “big piece of yellow canvas” pass over Bloomington, Illinois, at a high altitude toward the northeast. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[The Air Ship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92012692/)” Bloomington \(Ill.\) Daily Pantagraph, April 12, 1897, p. 5 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_156 ### Event 1707 (6B8818B9) **Date:** 4/11/1897 **Location:** Benton Harbor, Michigan **Description:** 7:45 p.m. [John Lee](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/96589508/john-hawkins-lee) and others in Benton Harbor, Michigan, watch an airship rapidly moving north-northwest for 15 minutes. With the naked eye it looks like a huge ball of fire, but through opera glasses it resembles a cluster of soft yellow lights. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Air Ship Seen Here,” Benton Harbor \(Mich.\) Evening News, April 12, 1897, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_157 ### Event 1708 (A7166A1F) **Date:** 4/11/1897 **Locations:** 3126 Fourth Avenue South; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Lake Minnetonka **Description:** 8:00 p.m. R. G. Adams and his parents at 3126 Fourth Avenue South in Minneapolis, Minnesota, watch a lighted, cigar-shaped object flying low towards the southwest. Through binoculars it appears to be 18–20 feet long. A square light that changes from white to green to red, depending apparently on its speed, is on top. Hundreds of other people also see the object over the next four hours, maneuvering above Lake Minnetonka and eventually receding into the northeast. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Does He Hail from Mars?” St. Paul \(Minn.\) Pioneer Press, April 12, 1897, p. 4; “[Wonder!](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26129671/star-tribune/) [Mysterious Airship Seen by Stuart Mackroth,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26129800/star-tribune/)” Minneapolis Tribune, April 13, 1897, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_158 ### Event 1709 (5309B1AF) **Date:** 4/11/1897 **Locations:** Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Lake Michigan **Description:** 9:00 p.m. An airship approaches Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from the northeast over Lake Michigan and heads toward the southwest. It stops and hovers 1,000 feet above City Hall for 15 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Airship Myth Yet Soars,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92011690/)” Chicago Tribune, April 12, 1897, p. 5 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_159 ### Event 1710 (9DBD9D51) **Date:** 4/11/1897 **Location:** Minnetonka Mills, Minnesota **Description:** After 10:30 p.m. Stuart Mackroth is riding a bicycle just east of Minnetonka Mills, Minnesota, when a flying machine “shaped like an ordinary boat” passes overhead. It has red and green lights on each side and a powerful electric light in front. Inside he can see men, women, and children, all moving about “as if very busy.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Wonder!](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26129671/star-tribune/) [Mysterious Airship Seen by Stuart Mackroth,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26129800/star-tribune/)” Minneapolis Tribune, April 13, 1897, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_160 ### Event 1711 (24E729C3) **Date:** 4/11/1897 **Location:** Decatur, Illinois **Description:** 11:15 p.m. A bank clerk in Decatur, Illinois, sees an object “like two monster cigars with three bright headlights” moving to the north. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Saw the Air Ship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92014281/)” Decatur \(Ill.\) Evening Republican, April 12, 1897, p. 8 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_161 ### Event 1712 (9C88B2F6) **Date:** 4/11/1897 **Description:** On this night a farmer in Lock Mills, Indiana claimed he was visited by a man in an airship who projected pictures onto the side of his barn. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Philip Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 10 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1946 ### Event 1713 (8CF3A0F6) **Date:** 4/11/1897 **Description:** At 9:00 p.m. an airship hovered near Milwaukee, Wisconsin and was witnessed by a man named Mayer. He reported that their was an occupant visible inside the craft. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 19 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1947 ### Event 1714 (77A32741) **Date:** 4/11/1897 **Description:** At 10:30 p.m. another airship sighting with occupants aboard was made in Minnetonka, Minnesota by a man named MacKroth. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0013, citing the Minneapolis Tribune **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1948 ### Event 1715 (3127ED81) **Date:** 4/11/1897 **Location:** Lock Mills, Indiana **Description:** During April 1897, amidst the airship sightings, some witnesses reported observing low-flying airships with visible occupants. In Lock Mills, Indiana, a man claimed to have been visited by an airship operator who projected "magic lantern" pictures on the side of his barn. (Chapter 1, Ref 20) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_20 ### Event 1716 (F7018C1D) **Date:** 4/11/1897 **Time:** 19:45 **Location:** Benton Harbor, Michigan **Description:** During the 1897 mystery airship wave, witnesses in Benton Harbor, Michigan, reported a non-dirigible-shaped UFO on April 11th. Described as a massive ball of fire, the object emitted various colored lights that transformed when observed through opera glasses, as reported in a local newspaper on the following day. (Chapter 2, Ref 97) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_91 ### Event 1717 (DFB02300) **Date:** 4/12/1897 **Location:** USA, Nilwood (Illinois) **Description:** (Translated from French) On Monday the 12th, a huge cigar-shaped craft topped with a dome landed around 2:30 PM on the property of Mr. Z. Thacker, 19 km from Carlinville. Three witnesses, Messrs. Edward Teeples, William Street and Franklin Metcalf, wanted to approach it, but before they could reach the craft, it slowly rose up and majestically flew off to the north. (April 12, 1897) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 166-167 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_509 ### Event 1718 (7D4EA911) **Date:** 4/12/1897 **Location:** USA, Girard (Illinois) **Description:** (Translated from French) At around 6:00 PM, several miners saw an unknown flying object 3 km north of Green Ridge and 4 km south of Girard. The night service agent of the Chicago-Alton railway line, Mr. Paul MacCramer, stated that he had gotten close enough to the craft to see a man come out and repair the machinery. Numerous traces of the object were found, which was very elongated and topped with a double dome. The object then took off in a northerly direction, towards the Great Lakes. (April 12, 1897) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 167 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_510 ### Event 1719 (617C14DA) **Date:** 4/12/1897 **Location:** USA, Fontanella (Iowa) **Description:** (Translated from French) A flying vessel was seen in this town around 8:30 PM. It was coming from the southeast, moving at an altitude of barely sixty meters above the tree tops. Its speed was low, less than 20 km/h. The machine was clearly visible. It was described as having a length of 18 m and with wings that vibrated. An indistinct noise of an engine and music could be heard, as if there was an orchestra in the sky. It moved towards the north and, increasing its speed, it quickly disappeared. Almost the entire population saw it (...) The weather was very cloudy and it had lightly rained all evening, so that no stars were visible. One was also observed above Shermann at 8:00 PM and Williamsville at 8:45 PM. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 167 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_511 ### Event 1720 (0374B48C) **Date:** 4/12/1897 **Location:** USA, Battle Creek (Michigan) **Description:** (Translated from French) At least twenty people were observing the maneuvers of an "airship" above the Battle Creek sanatorium. The craft had extinguished all its lights. One of the witnesses, Mr. Dixon, stated: "The upper part of the object had the shape of a cone and suspended from it there was something cylindrical and rather dark. At the back of this last body, there was something like a wheel emitting a buzzing sound which was very clearly heard". Suddenly there was an explosion. Sparks flew in all directions and the craft began to descend from an altitude of 1500 m to 800 m. A new explosion soon resounded, flames came out of the "wheel" and the craft then began to rise again. At the same time, it extinguished the two lights it had lit (one red at the front and one blue at the back) and disappeared from the view of the spectators. (April 12, 1897) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 167-168 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_512 ### Event 1721 (5DE828F7) **Date:** 4/12/1897 **Location:** USA, Kalamazoo **Description:** (Translated from French) Approximately 40 km east of Kalamazoo, George W. Somers and William Chadburn observed an illuminated object flying overhead at almost the same time. A dull explosion was heard, soon followed by a series of detonations. The next morning, various debris was found scattered 3 km away in Scotts, including a large coil of metal wire likely intended for electrical use. (April 12, 1897) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 167-168 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_513 ### Event 1722 (26FADD35) **Date:** 4/12/1897 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** GIRARD AND NILWOOD, IL **Description:** 2 separate landings. Cylinder/cigar-shape with dome. Men exit and make repairs. Going quickly north. Traces. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** PHILLIPS, Ted: Study of PHYSICAL TRACES ASSOCIATED with UFO SIGHTINGS; CUFOS 1975. (Index 3) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_182 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "204", **HatchDesc:** "GIRARD+NILWOOD,IL:2 SEP.LANDINGS:CGR W/DOME:MEN EXIT+MAKE REPAIRS:>>N:TRACES", **LatLong:** "39.777780 -89.783338", **LatLongDMS:** "39:46:40 N 89:47:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.777780,-89.783338)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 1723 (D9A4451B) **Date:** 4/12/1897 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** NORTHWEST / SALISBURY, MO **Description:** Several observer(s). Cylinder/cigar-shape going [to] against wind. Abrupt turn going quickly northeast and upward. Lights / sides. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The AUSTRALIAN UFO BULLETIN; Qtrly. Judith MAGEE Ed. VUFORS PO Box 43, Moorabin, VIC 3189 Australia. (Index 952) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_183 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "230", **HatchDesc:** "NW/SALISBURY,MO:SVRL OBS:CGR > AGNST WIND:ABRUPT TURN >>NE+UPWARD:LITES/SIDES", **LatLong:** "39.422224 -92.800004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:25:20 N 92:48:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.422224,-92.800004)", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1724 (086912DB) **Date:** 4/12/1897 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** FONTANELLE, IA **Description:** All / town. Great airship southeast going north overhead / 10mph. Engine noise and music heard. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: DIMENSIONS, A Casebook of Alien Contact Ballentine, NY 1989. PB (Index 41) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_184 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "379", **HatchDesc:** "FONTANELLE,IA:ALL/TOWN:GREAT AIRSHIP SE>N OVHD/10mph:ENGINE NOISE+MUSIC HEARD", **LatLong:** "41.288891 -94.561116", **LatLongDMS:** "41:17:20 N 94:33:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.288891,-94.561116)", **State/Prov:** "Iowa", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 1725 (839DB456) **Date:** 4/12/1897 **Location:** Nilwood, IL **Description:** 2:30 p.m. On the property of Z. Thacker, 19 km north of Carlinville, an unknown object landed. Before the three witnesses could reach it, the craft, which was shaped like a cigar with a dome, rose slowly and left majestically toward the north. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_17 ### Event 1726 (B9135EED) **Date:** 4/12/1897 **Location:** Girard (near Green Ridge), IL **Description:** 6:00 p.m. A large crowd of miners saw an unknown object land 3 km north of Green Ridge and 4 km south of Girard. The night operator of the Chicago-and- Alton Railroad, Paul McCramer, stated that he came sufficiently close to the craft to see a man emerge from it to repair the machinery. Traces were found over a large area. The object itself was elongated like a ship with a roof and a double canopy. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_18 ### Event 1727 (6EC43A2A) **Date:** 4/12/1897 **Time:** 1430 **Location:** Nilwood, Illinois **Description:** On the property of Z. Thacker, 19 km north of Carlinville, an unknown object landed. Before the three witnesses could reach it, the craft, which was shaped like a cigar with a dome, rose slowly and left majestically toward the north. Witnesses: Edward Teeples, William Street and Franklin Metcalf. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 186; Anatomy 12 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_14 ### Event 1728 (3FB761BB) **Date:** 4/12/1897 **Time:** 1800 **Location:** Girard, near Green Ridge, Illinois **Description:** A large crowd of miners saw an unknown object land 3 km north of Green Ridge and 4 km south of Girard. The night operator of the Chicago-and-Alton Railroad, Paul McCramer, stated that he came sufficiently close to the craft to see a man emerge from it to repair the machinery. Traces were found over a large area. The object itself was elongated like a ship with a roof and a double canopy. It left toward the north. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 186,187 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_15 ### Event 1729 (2DC05C4C) **Date:** 4/12/1897 **Locations:** Chicago; Burlington; Quincy Railroad; Lisle, Illinois **Description:** Morning. F. L. Bullard, engineer on the Fast Mail train on the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad, says he caught sight of an airship moving parallel with the train shortly after his Engine 950 left downtown Chicago. The train is moving at 70 mph, and by the time it reaches Lisle, Illinois, the object is far ahead. Bullard estimates it is moving at 100–150 mph. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Air-Ship Distances a Train,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/73038174/air-ship-distances-a-train-st/)” St. Louis \(Mo.\) Globe-Democrat, April 13, 1897, p. 6 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_162 ### Event 1730 (AF29B138) **Date:** 4/12/1897 **Locations:** Lincoln, Illinois; Pulaski Street **Description:** 8:00 p.m. During a rainstorm in Lincoln, Illinois, more than 50 people stand on Pulaski Street to watch a light moving to the northeast. John Fitzgerald sees a V-shaped object with a bright searchlight moving rapidly toward Lincoln. It changes course, the light changes from white to green, and the object disappears behind clouds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Was It the Airship?” Lincoln \(Ill.\) Weekly Courier, April 13, 1897, p. 8 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_163 ### Event 1731 (43953525) **Date:** 4/12/1897 **Description:** A few days before the crescendo in a wave of "airship" sightings across the United States and Canada, there were 65 reports of "airships" on this day, including 25 in Illinois alone. Below are summarized two of the more interesting close encounter cases. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1960 ### Event 1732 (558AF723) **Date:** 4/12/1897 **Description:** Nilwood, Illinois - At 2:30 p.m. on the property of Z. Thacker, 19 kilometers north of Carlinville, an unknown object landed. Before Edward Teeples, William Street and Franklin Metcalf could reach it, the craft, which was shaped like a cigar with a dome, rose slowly and left toward the north. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 182; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomena, p. 12 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1961 ### Event 1733 (D297B957) **Date:** 4/12/1897 **Description:** At 6 p.m. a large crowd of miners in Girard, near Green Ridge, Illinois saw an unknown object land three kilometers north of Green Ridge and 4 km south of Girard. The night operator of the Chicago and Alton Railroad, Paul McCramer, stated that he came close enough to the craft to see a man emerge from it to repair the machinery. Traces were found over a large area. The object was elongated like a ship, with a roof and a double canopy. It left toward the north. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 182, citing the Chicago Times-Herald, April 14, 1897 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1962 ### Event 1734 (38AF68D1) **Date:** 4/12/1897 **Location:** Kalamazoo, Michigan **Description:** Witnesses claimed to have observed an illuminated airship that suddenly exploded with a loud noise, leaving behind evidence like a coil of heavy wire and partially-fused propeller blades. The witnesses described the object's rapid movement and subsequent explosion. (Chapter 1, Ref 56) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_54 ### Event 1735 (6FC30335) **Date:** 4/12/1897 **Time:** night **Location:** Lincoln, Illinois **Description:** The night after the Benton Harbor incident, over 50 people in Lincoln, Illinois, witnessed a brightly-lit V-shaped object flying over the town. (Chapter 2, Ref 98) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_92 ### Event 1736 (29145F2E) **Date:** 4/13/1897 **Location:** USA, Pennfield (Michigan) **Description:** (Translated from French) In the evening, Mr. and Mrs. Parks saw a very bright object buzzing overhead their farm. At one point, this body ejected a flaming piece which crashed. Terrified, Mrs. Parks forbade her husband to approach it, but the next morning George Parks and his brother Benjamin returned to the spot and discovered a large aluminum propeller of nearly one meter in diameter. (April 13, 1897) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 168 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_514 ### Event 1737 (7139DE86) **Date:** 4/13/1897 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Laughter and music sometimes come from his side --- as if there had been an orchestra in the sky. (April 13) **Reference:** *Chicago Chronicle* **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1897.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_241 ### Event 1738 (C5BA5D06) **Date:** 4/13/1897 **Time:** ~21:00 **Location:** LAKE ELMO, MN **Description:** Figure with lantern searching around. Runs going [to] trees. Grey object flies off. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** CLARK, Jerome: UFO ENCOUNTERS & BEYOND; Signet Books 1993. 192pp. (Index 27) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_185 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **TRC:** Physical traces, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "284", **HatchDesc:** "LAKE ELMO,MN:FIGURE W/LANTERN SEARCHING AROUND:RUNS>TREES:GREY OBJ FLIES OFF", **LatLong:** "45.000002 -92.850004", **LatLongDMS:** "45:00:00 N 92:51:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.000002,-92.850004)", **State/Prov:** "Minnesota", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 1739 (1A1C23BA) **Date:** 4/13/1897 **Location:** two miles south of Louisville, Kentucky **Description:** Before sunrise. Augustus Rodgers, a farmer living two miles south of Louisville, Kentucky, goes outside to attend to his livestock. He sees an oblong object, some 40 feet long by 15 feet tall, flying about 400 feet in the air at 100 mph. His wife comes out to watch it with him, and they both see “a form like that of a man” standing in the front and directing its course. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Airship Passed in the Night,” Louisville \(Ky.\) Evening Post, April 13, 1897, p. 6 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_164 ### Event 1740 (9578D7DF) **Date:** 4/13/1897 **Location:** Canton, South Dakota **Description:** Night. Mayor [Charles Merritt Seely](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56960145/charles-merritt-seely) and other people in Canton, South Dakota, watch a winged airship passing to the north over the town with a red light in front and a green light in back. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Airship Is Seen by](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92015262/) [Moonlight,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92015262/)” Omaha \(Neb.\) Daily Bee, April 15, 1897, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_165 ### Event 1741 (A4F81AC5) **Date:** 4/13/1897 **Locations:** Lake Elmo, Minnesota; one mile west of Lake Elmo, Minnesota **Description:** 11:15 p.m. Frederick Chamberlain and O. L. Jones are riding one mile west of Lake Elmo, Minnesota, when they notice a figure in a clearing, walking around as if he is looking for something. They turn off the road to investigate and hear a cracking sound followed by a rushing noise. A moment later they notice a gray-white object that looks like the top of a covered wagon. It has two rows of four red or green lights. The object rises quickly at a sharp angle to clear the treetops. They can make out no machinery or wings or rudders or even an outline of the object. In the mud, Chamberlain finds 14 footprints, each 2 feet long, 6 inches wide, “arranged seven on each side, and in an oblong pattern.” Adam Thielen, a nearby farmer, independently sees a dark object with red and green lights flying overhead about the same time. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Adam Saw the Airship Light,” St Paul \(Minn.\) Pioneer Press, April 15, 1897, p. 5 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_166 ### Event 1742 (9C649EBB) **Date:** 4/13/1897 **Description:** A telegraph operator between Girard, Illinois and Carlinville got a message from Carlinville, Illinois that an airship was headed his way. He went out and saw a 100 foot long object that landed near the railroad track. It had what looked like a large "M" on its side, and several occupants in the cupola. The craft rose vertically, and then flew off quickly toward the north. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Philip L. Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 13, citing Official UFO, July 1976, p. 37 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2000 ### Event 1743 (E5CE513D) **Date:** 4/13/1897 **Description:** At 11:15 p.m. two men, Chamberlain and Jones, saw a very large figure walking around in a clearing looking for something near Lake Elmo, Minnesota. Nearby was a grayish white cylindrical object with two rows of lights, red and green. It took off with a rushing sound. Fourteen giant footprints, two feet long by six inches wide, were found at the site. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Philip L. Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 42, Dennis Stacy, Field Guide to UFOs, p. 84; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0017; St. Paul Pioneer-Press, April 15, 1897 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2001 ### Event 1744 (F722F464) **Date:** 4/13/1897 **Time:** 20:55 **Location:** Battle Creek, Michigan **Description:** Michigan became a focal point for mysterious airship sightings in mid-April, with around 50 witnesses in Battle Creek reporting a strange aerial object resembling an airship. The object emitted sparks and buzzed as it descended, then ascended in a perpendicular manner before vanishing, leaving reputable citizens puzzled about its nature and identity. (Chapter 1, Ref 9) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_9 ### Event 1745 (FB13C1C0) **Date:** 4/13/1897 **Location:** Girard, Illinois **Description:** A telegraph operator received a message that an airship was approaching. A craft around 100 feet long and 25 feet wide, with a large letter "M" on its side, landed nearby. Witnesses observed several occupants in the "control car" before the airship rapidly ascended and flew northward. (Chapter 1, Ref 28) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_28 ### Event 1746 (87719B4B) **Date:** 4/13/1897 **Location:** Battle Creek, Michigan **Description:** A bright object seen near Battle Creek, Michigan, was described as a meteor-like airship that dropped a part resembling a large aluminum wheel with a turbine shape. The wheel was discovered by witnesses in a field and kept as a memento on a local farm. (Chapter 1, Ref 57) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_55 ### Event 1747 (28932551) **Date:** 4/14/1897 **Location:** USA, Casstown **Description:** (Translated from French) While he was feeding the pigs on his farm at 6:00 in the morning, James Mc Kenzie heard a curious noise as if a flock of geese was passing over him. Looking up, he then saw an astonishing giant bird flying towards the southwest at 50 meters altitude. The object had wings and some kind of tail or rudder. It emitted a musical sound and Mc Kenzie distinctly heard a human voice as the bird passed. Something very large and white fell from the craft, but Mc Kenzie had no reaction that day. When he went to look the next day with friends, he found nothing. (April 14, 1897) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD - Inforespace n° 36, p. 37 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_515 ### Event 1748 (4F2FD0DA) **Date:** 4/14/1897 **Location:** USA, Gas (Indiana) **Description:** (Translated from French) At around 3 pm in the afternoon an object landed 2 km south of Gas on John Roush's property, frightening the farmers and causing horses and cattle to flee. Six occupants emerged and seemed to take bearings or make some repairs. Before the witnesses could approach, the craft quickly flew off to the east. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 169 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_516 ### Event 1749 (984BE676) **Date:** 4/14/1897 **Location:** USA, Reynolds (Michigan) **Description:** (Translated from French) An hour and a half later, 300 km north of Gas, an object shaped like a balloon is said to have landed near Reynolds after having remained suspended in the sky for an hour. A strange 3 m tall figure emerged from it, almost naked, and even injured one of the witnesses of the phenomenon. Around 9 pm the aerial vessel was seen above Weatherford, Corsicana and Fort Worth. (April 14, 1897) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 169 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_517 ### Event 1750 (462ABE9D) **Date:** 4/14/1897 **Location:** USA, Cleveland (Ohio) **Description:** (Translated from French) Joseph Singler, captain of the Sea Wing, was fishing with S. M. Davis from Detroit when they saw on the lake what they took to be a boat about 13 m long with a dome-like structure. A man in his twenties wearing a hunting jacket and a cap was fishing from the deck of the object. Near him was a young woman and a ten-year-old child. When the Sea Wing approached the craft, a large colored balloon emerged from it and the whole thing rose to an altitude of 150 m. There it made some turns "like a falcon" and eventually flew away into the distance. (April 14, 1897) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 169 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_518 ### Event 1751 (0D3C48FC) **Date:** 4/14/1897 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** SOUTH / GAS CITY, IN **Description:** Object lands / farm. 6 men exit and make repairs. Livestock stampedes. Going quickly east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 16) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_186 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "260", **HatchDesc:** "S/GAS CITY,IN:OBJ LANDS/FARM:6 MEN EXIT+MAKE REPAIRS:LIVESTOCK STAMPEDES:>>E", **LatLong:** "40.466669 -85.611115", **LatLongDMS:** "40:28:00 N 85:36:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.466669,-85.611115)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 1752 (7BF7A366) **Date:** 4/14/1897 **Location:** Gas City, IN **Description:** 3:00 p.m. An object landed 2 km south of Gas City on the property of John Roush, terrifying the farmers and causing the horses and cattle to stampede. Six occupants of the ship came out and seemed to make some repairs. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_20 ### Event 1753 (0C2E7BB6) **Date:** 4/14/1897 **Location:** Cleveland, OH **Description:** Joseph Singler, captain of the "Sea Wing," was fishing with S. H. Davis, of Detroit, when they saw on the lake what they thought was a ship, about 13 m long, with a canopy. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_23 ### Event 1754 (87CA6E5A) **Date:** 4/14/1897 **Time:** 1500 **Location:** Gas City, Indiana **Description:** An object landed 2 km south of Gas City on the property of John Roush, terrifying the farmers and causing the horses and cattle to stampede. Six occupants of the ship came out and seemed to make some repairs. Before the crowd could approach the object, it rose rapidly and flew toward the east. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 188 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_16 ### Event 1755 (D9F7CF27) **Date:** 4/14/1897 **Location:** Cleveland, Ohio **Description:** Joseph Singler, captain of the "Sea Wing," was fishing with S. H. Davis, of Detroit, when they saw on the lake what they thought was a ship, about 13 m long, with a canopy. A man, about 25 years old, wearing a hunting jacket and a cap, was fishing from the deck of the object. Near him were a woman and a 10-year old child. When the "Sea Wing" came close to the craft, a large, colored balloon rose from the object, which flew up with it to an altitude of about 150 m and circled "like a hawk" before flying away. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 189 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_17 ### Event 1756 (D5BD5083) **Date:** 4/14/1897 **Locations:** Burlington; Frankfort, Indiana; Middle Fork of Wildcat Creek **Description:** Early morning. Marble merchant [David W. Paul](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/28961108/david-w%5F-paul) is traveling with a party of workmen from Burlington to Frankfort, Indiana. When they are at the middle fork of Wildcat Creek, they hear a “swishing, roaring sound” and see an object with a blinding white searchlight and smaller green and yellow lights. The object is cigar-shaped with wings or fins. It descends to just above the treetops, hovers there for a moment, then rises and noisily shoots off to the southwest. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “That Mysterious Airship,” Indianapolis Sentinel, April 15, 1897, p. 6 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_167 ### Event 1757 (8E836C98) **Date:** 4/14/1897 **Locations:** Howard City, Michigan; 3 miles northwest of Howard City, Michigan **Description:** 4:30 a.m. Farmers see an airship land about 3 miles northwest of Howard City, Michigan, and some go to investigate. Inside the craft is a “strange man” dressed in heavy furs although he seems “to have no use for them, as he was almost naked and seemed to be suffering from the heat.” The man is 9.5 feet tall and speaks in a musical language that, however, sounds like bellowing. One farmer gets too close, and the giant kicks him severely enough to break his hip. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Trip of the Airship,” Saginaw \(Mich.\) Courier-Herald, April 17, 1897, p. 5 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_168 ### Event 1758 (DC9D4DB3) **Date:** 4/14/1897 **Location:** Gas City, Indiana **Description:** 3:00 p.m. An airship looking like an “immense bird” approaches Gas City, Indiana, from the northwest. As it draws nearer, witnesses see that it is cigar-shaped and “propelled by broad canvas wings.” The object lands briefly one mile from town, terrifying some farm animals. As a crowd rushes toward it, it takes off and vanishes to the east. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[In Daylight,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26569062/the-cincinnati-enquirer/)” Cincinnati \(Ohio\) Enquirer, April 15, 1897, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_169 ### Event 1759 (43AAA436) **Date:** 4/14/1897 **Location:** Marion, Indiana **Description:** 3:00 p.m. A brownish cigar-shaped object with wings passes south of Marion, Indiana, coming from the northwest. Six passengers can be seen on board. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Six Men Seen in the Airship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92016406/)” Cincinnati \(Ohio\) Enquirer, April 15, 1897, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_170 ### Event 1760 (0C1B70AE) **Date:** 4/14/1897 **Locations:** Birmingham, Iowa; meadow three-quarters of a mile west of Birmingham, Iowa **Description:** 7:30 p.m. An airship 100 feet long and 20 feet high in the center lands in a meadow three-quarters of a mile west of Birmingham, Iowa. A large crowd of men and boys sets out to examine the object, but when they are within several hundred feet, it rises with a loud whirring sound and moves away to the northwest. Two men can be distinctly seen inside, one carrying a lantern that he waves as the airship ascends. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Airship Positively Seen,” Burlington \(Iowa\) Hawk-Eye, April 16, 1897, p. 2 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_171 ### Event 1761 (DE9CB423) **Date:** 4/14/1897 **Location:** Casstown, Ohio **Description:** 8:00 p.m. James McKensie is feeding hogs on his farm north of Casstown, Ohio, when he hears an odd noise like a flock of geese passing overhead. Looking up, he sees an object with wings and a rudder flying slowly along about 150 feet in the air, and he distinctly hears music. As it disappears, he thinks he hears a human voice, and something large and white is thrown overboard. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Talking Heard by the Citizens,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19519082/the-cincinnati-enquirer/)” Cincinnati \(Ohio\) Enquirer, April 16, 1897, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_172 ### Event 1762 (112A4ECA) **Date:** 4/14/1897 **Locations:** Jefferson Street; Springfield, Illinois **Description:** Just after 9:00 p.m. Farmhand John Halley and vintner Adolf Wenke see an airship land on Jefferson Street three miles west of Springfield, Illinois. They supposedly converse with one of its occupants, a bearded scientist who is outside the craft. Inside, they can see another man and a woman. The scientist says little other than “as soon as Congress recognizes Cuban belligerency his air ship would be heard from.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Mystery Solved,” Springfield \(Ill.\) News, April 15, 1897, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_173 ### Event 1763 (1EE89D10) **Date:** 4/14/1897 **Location:** Mount Vernon, Illinois **Description:** Night. Many persons in Mount Vernon, Illinois, including Mayor [Barton C. Wells](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/58962586/barton-charles-wells)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/58962586/barton-charles-wells) allegedly see an object “resembling the body of a huge man swimming through the air with an electric light on his back.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Airship’s Travels,” Cincinnati \(Ohio\) Commercial Tribune, April 16, 1897, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_174 ### Event 1764 (FA655222) **Date:** 4/14/1897 **Location:** Denton, Texas **Description:** Night. A man in Denton, Texas, is watching the stars with binoculars when he notices a shadow crossing the Moon. It is caused by a large cigar-shaped object with wings moving slowly to the southeast. In the front it has a powerful searchlight, and along the side appear a row of lighted windows. It remains in sight for 20 minutes. A woman also sees possibly the same object “bounding along through space like a balloon.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “The Air Ship Again,” Dallas \(Tex.\) Morning News, April 15, 1897, p. 4 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_175 ### Event 1765 (6FF0FADA) **Date:** 4/14/1897 **Locations:** Rio Grande Railroad; Cresson, Texas **Description:** Night. The Rio Grande Railroad operator at Cresson, Texas, sees an object about 60 feet long and “resembling the top of a passenger coach in shape” with a powerful searchlight in the front and several smaller lights on the sides. It is moving to the southwest at a “terrific rate of speed” and has wings “something like that of a bat.” It turns to the southeast after passing the station and disappears in the clouds after a few minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Sighting the Air Ship,” Dallas \(Tex.\) Morning News, April 16, 1897, p. 5 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_176 ### Event 1766 (C7B9E0C4) **Date:** 4/14/1897 **Description:** This was the day before the peak date in a wave of "airship" sightings around the United States and Canada. There were 48 reports of "airships" on this day, including 13 in Michigan alone. Below are summarized two of the more interesting cases involving occupants. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2006 ### Event 1767 (75F72F20) **Date:** 4/14/1897 **Description:** At three o'clock in the afternoon in Gas City, Indiana an object landed two kilometers south of Gas City on the property of John Roush, terrifying the farmers and causing the horses and cattle to stampede. Six occupants of the ship came out and seemed to make some repairs. Before the crowd could approach the object, it rose rapidly and flew toward the east. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 182, citing Chicago Chronicle, April 15, 1897 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2007 ### Event 1768 (F93F0B09) **Date:** 4/14/1897 **Description:** Joseph Singler, captain of the "Sea Wing", was fishing on Lake Erie near Cleveland, Ohio with S. H. Davis, of Detroit, Michigan when they saw what they thought was a ship, about 13 meters long, with a canopy. A man, looking to be about 25 years old, wearing a hunting jacket and a cap, was fishing from the deck of the object. Near him were a woman and a 10-year-old child. When the "Sea Wing" came close to the craft, a large, colored "balloon" rose from the object, which flew up with it to an altitude of about 150 meters and circled "like a hawk" before flying away. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 182, citing the Chicago Tribune, April 16, 1897 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2008 ### Event 1769 (D71DF3F7) **Date:** 4/14/1897 **Time:** 00:30 **Location:** Bay City, Michigan **Description:** Residents witnessed a sizable, conical-shaped airship with red lights at both ends, gradually descending from the sky around 12:30 AM. The object was described as being around 50 to 75 feet long, one-third as wide, and emitted a dull red glow, although no visible means of propulsion could be identified. (Chapter 1, Ref 11) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_11 ### Event 1770 (3B4B2D4E) **Date:** 4/14/1897 **Time:** 02:30 **Location:** Saginaw Michigan **Description:** Two policemen in Saginaw, Michigan, encountered a similar cigar-shaped object around 30 feet long with a red and yellow light shining through canvas, moving at approximately 25 miles per hour in a southerly direction. The officers were drawn to the scene by a drum-like noise, and the object had a distinct feature hanging about 10 feet below its main body. (Chapter 1, Ref 12) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_12 ### Event 1771 (106CA502) **Date:** 4/14/1897 **Time:** evening **Location:** Casstown, Ohio **Description:** A farmer spotted a bird-shaped object resembling an enormous flying creature, with wings and a substantial tail or rudder, flying at around 150 feet above the ground. The witness heard what seemed like distant music and a human voice from the object before it disappeared into the evening twilight. (Chapter 1, Ref 13) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_13 ### Event 1772 (7C87E525) **Date:** 4/14/1897 **Location:** Lake Erie near Cleveland **Description:** Two men on a fishing boat encountered a 40-foot-long object with a canopy that initially appeared to be another ship. A young man was seen fishing from the deck, accompanied by a woman and a child. As the fishing boat approached, the other craft released a large colored "balloon," ascended to around 500 feet, circled briefly, and then flew away. (Chapter 1, Ref 30) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_30 ### Event 1773 (9621FF4C) **Date:** Mid 4/1897 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** near Vernon, Kansas **Description:** A news story of a UFO sighting, a cattle being taken, and the parts being found the next day, was published in the Woodson County Advocate of April 23, 1897. On a Monday evening around 10:30, a noise from the cattle lot awoke farmer Alexander Hamilton of Vernon. Expecting it might be his bulldog causing mischief, he was stunned to see an airship descending above the cow lot. Joining him with axes, Gib Heslop, his tenant, and his son Wall approached the craft, which hovered about 30 feet above the ground. This airship had a cigar-shaped section estimated to be 300 feet long with a transparent carriage below. Within the brightly lit carriage were six unusual occupants: two men, a woman, and three children speaking an unintelligible language. The vessel itself had parts that weren't transparent tinted in a dark reddish hue. Suddenly, a loud noise drew the beings' attention, and they shined a light on the humans. Reacting swiftly, they activated a large turbine wheel beneath the vessel, making it ascend gracefully. As it hovered about 300 feet overhead, the observers noticed a bawling heifer entangled in a red cable connected to the airship. Despite their efforts to free the animal, the ship and the cow both soared away and vanished into the northwest. The next day, parts of the cow were found by Lank Thomas in Coffey County, puzzling him as there were no tracks on the soft terrain surrounding it. The harrowing experience haunted the narrator, who was tormented by nightmares of the peculiar ship and its occupants, questioning if they were devils, angels, or something else entirely. **Type:** ufo sighting, cattle abduction, cattle mutilation **Reference:** [_Mystery Stalks the Prairie_, by Donovan and Wolverton (1976)](https://ia902800.us.archive.org/28/items/mysterystalkstheprairierobertadonovankeithwolverton/MYSTERY%20STALKS%20THE%20PRAIRIE%20Roberta%20Donovan%20Keith%20%20Wolverton.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_956 ### Event 1774 (7C513E66) **Date:** 4/15/1897 **Location:** USA, Linn Grove (Iowa) **Description:** (Translated from French) "... Thursday morning they saw a large object moving slowly in the sky towards the north and seeming to want to land. Five people (...) decided to pursue it. They found the craft on the ground about 6 km north of the town and approached it to within less than 700 m. Suddenly the object extended four gigantic wings and rose towards the north, letting out two large stones of unknown composition which were exhibited in the village. There were two strange people on board who tried in vain to hide. Evans and Croskey say that these occupants had the longest beards they had ever seen in their lives." **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 169 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_519 ### Event 1775 (B89ACC1C) **Date:** 4/15/1897 **Location:** USA, Springfield (Illinois) **Description:** (Translated from French) At the same time, a craft landed. Two farmers, Adolph Winkle and John Hull, attested in writing and under oath that they had seen a strange craft land in a field to repair some electrical devices on board. They claimed to have spoken with the occupants, two men and a woman, who revealed to them that the machine had flown from Quincy to Springfield (160 km away) in just thirty minutes. These characters also declared that they would "make a report on all this to the government when Cuba is free". ?? (April 15, 1897) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 170 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_520 ### Event 1776 (BE735DA5) **Date:** 4/15/1897 **Location:** USA, Pine Lake **Description:** (Translated from French) Witness William Megiveron recounted how that night he had been awoken by knocks on a window of his house. When he opened his eyes, a strong light blinded him. He immediately got out of bed and went to look outside: that's when he heard a voice above him. This voice explained to him that the glow was coming from an aerial ship that had been hidden behind the clouds since the afternoon. A burst of lead from a duck hunter had then suddenly damaged one of its wings and the occupants had had to repair it immediately. The voice asked the witness to go and get four dozen eggs, sandwiches, and a coffee pot for the crew. After Megiveron had complied, a large bucket containing Canadian coins was lowered for payment. According to the witness the craft must have been at an altitude of 90 m. He could not make out its shape due to the projector that was blinding him. Megiveron repeatedly asked to be allowed on board, but was met with laughter each time. He supposes that the crew must have been drinking as they had also asked for a corkscrew... **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 170-171 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_521 ### Event 1777 (9D817574) **Date:** 4/15/1897 **Location:** USA, Dunkirk **Description:** (Translated from French) At Dunkirk, railroad workers, including Messrs. French and Willis Mahon, saw at 8:15 PM an airship so close to the ground that they could hear the occupants speaking. They said that "the thing was as big as a wagon and it had wings that extended on the sides with some kind of engine at each end. In front there was a clearly visible red light and at the back there was a yellow-green lamp." **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD - Inforespace n° 36 p. 37 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_522 ### Event 1778 (6533532D) **Date:** 4/15/1897 **Location:** USA, Fair Field **Description:** (Translated from French) Farmers Byron Rutter and Billy Schneider saw an object dark in shape like a cigar with two pairs of large wings fly over them. Rutter specified: "It was inclined at an angle of 45°, which made me think it had landed not far away and had just taken off." **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD- Inforespace n° 36 p. 37 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_523 ### Event 1779 (66014319) **Date:** 4/15/1897 **Location:** USA, Hillsboro Texas **Description:** (Translated from French) At 9pm Spencer Bounds, a lawman, was surprised by the glare of a bright light coming from a projector that lit up above him. The surrounding landscape became as visible as in broad daylight. His horse was so terrified that it reared, backed away, and started to act as if it had gone mad, trembling like a leaf. **Reference:** Jean SIDER: "Ovni, les envahisseurs démasqués" - ed. Ramuel 1999, p 149 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_524 ### Event 1780 (31FA3F2D) **Date:** 4/15/1897 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A "aerial vehicle" is spotted at the same time in multiple states. (April 15) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1897.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_242 ### Event 1781 (BEE95C9A) **Date:** 4/15/1897 **Location:** DENTON, TX AND OTHER TOWNS **Description:** Cigar with 2 blinding searchlights. Great wings. Goes going quickly southwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** CLARK, Jerome & COLEMAN, Joren: THE UNIDENTIFIED; Warner PBs, NY 1975 (Index 144) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_187 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "196", **HatchDesc:** "DENTON,TX+OTHER TOWNS:CIGAR W/2 BLINDING SEARCHLITES:GREAT WINGS:GOES>>SW", **LatLong:** "33.238890 -97.200005", **LatLongDMS:** "33:14:20 N 97:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.238890,-97.200005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1782 (FCCC587B) **Date:** 4/15/1897 **Time:** ~10:00 **Location:** LINN GROVE, IA **Description:** 5+many. Large object going north. Lands. 2 figure(s) hide. Object spreads 4 wings and flies! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 18) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_188 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "383", **HatchDesc:** "LINN GROVE,IA:5+MANY:LRG OBJ >N:LANDS:2 FIGs HIDE:OBJ SPREADS 4 WINGS+FLIES!", **LatLong:** "42.888891 -95.244449", **LatLongDMS:** "42:53:20 N 95:14:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.888891,-95.244449)", **State/Prov:** "Iowa", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 1783 (639EFA73) **Date:** 4/15/1897 **Time:** ~20:00 **Location:** HOWARD TO/FROM ARTESIAN, SD **Description:** Strange object descends. Follows locomotive / engineer. / FSR'66#4. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 19) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_189 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "440", **HatchDesc:** "HOWARD> Event 1784 (A7C8F863) **Date:** 4/15/1897 **Location:** Linn Grove, IA **Description:** Morning. A large object was seen to fly slowly toward the north. It seemed ready to land and five men drove toward it. About 7 km north of Linn Grove, they found the craft on the ground, came within 700 m of it but it "spread its four giant wings and rose towards the North." Two strange figures aboard the craft made efforts to conceal themselves. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_24 ### Event 1785 (90EC2904) **Date:** 4/15/1897 **Location:** Howard-Artesian, SD **Description:** Nightfall. A flying object coming closer and closer to the ground followed a train, as reported by the engineer, Joe Wright (Magonia #19, FSR 66,4) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_26 ### Event 1786 (3FB45EF6) **Date:** 4/15/1897 **Location:** St. Louis, MO **Description:** 7:45 p.m. This is the first report from the entire period to be declared a possible UFO. Dr. Eddie Bullard provided this report to Brad Sparks in Dec. 2006. A Medical doctor/amateur astronomer observed a cigar shaped object with a telescope. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [18970415](http://www.nicap.org/stlouis18970415dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_27 ### Event 1787 (1C1A68E2) **Date:** 4/15/1897 **Location:** Perry Springs, MO **Description:** 9:00 p.m. A passenger train on the Wabash line, going toward Quincy, was followed by a low-flying object for 15 min between Perry Springs and Hersman. All the passengers saw the craft, which had a red and white light. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_28 ### Event 1788 (D3904919) **Date:** 4/15/1897 **Location:** Springfield, IL **Description:** Two farm workers, Adolph Winkle and John Hulle, saw a strange craft in a field. They had a discussion with its occupants, a woman and two men, and were told the ship-had flown from Quincy to Springfield in 30 min and that the crew was making electrical repairs. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_29 ### Event 1789 (ED659204) **Date:** 4/15/1897 **Time:** morning **Location:** Linn Grove, Iowa **Description:** A large object was seen to fly slowly toward the north. It seemed ready to land and five men (F. G. Ellis, James Evans, David Evans, Joe Croaskey, Benjamin Buland) drove toward it. About 7 km north of Linn Grove, they found the craft on the ground, came within 700 m of it but it "spread its four giant wings and rose towards the North." Two strange figures aboard the craft made efforts to conceal themselves. Witnesses were surprised at the length of their hair. Most residents of Linn Grove saw the craft in flight. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 190 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_18 ### Event 1790 (7693B0EA) **Date:** 4/15/1897 **Time:** nightfall **Location:** Howard-Artesian, South Dakota **Description:** A flying object coming closer and closer to the ground followed a train, as reported by the engineer, Joe Wright **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** FSR 66,4 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_19 ### Event 1791 (94CB46A6) **Date:** 4/15/1897 **Time:** 2100 **Location:** Perry Springs, Missouri **Description:** A passenger train on the Wabash line, going toward Quincy, was followed by a low-flying object for 15 min between Perry Springs and Hersman. All the passengers saw the craft, which had a red and white light. After Hersman it flew ahead of the train and disappeared rapidly, although the train was then running at 65 km/h. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 190 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_20 ### Event 1792 (9B0C4A10) **Date:** 4/15/1897 **Location:** Springfield, Illinois **Description:** Two farm workers, Adolph Winkle and John Hulle, saw a strange craft in a field. They had a discussion with its occupants, a woman and two men, and were told the ship-had flown from Quincy to Springfield in 30 min and that the crew. was making electrical repairs. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** FSR 65,1 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_21 ### Event 1793 (E012F3EF) **Date:** 4/15/1897 **Locations:** 7 miles west of Cisco, Texas; Cuba **Description:** Late evening. Telegraph repairman [Patrick C. Byrnes](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113775966/patrick-christopher-byrnes) is operating a railroad handcar about 7 miles west of Cisco, Texas, when he sees a light a little distance from the track on the south side. Knowing there is no farmhouse in the area, he goes to investigate. It is a landed cigar-shaped airship about 200 feet long and 50 feet across at its widest point. Several men are repairing its searchlight, and they tell him that the craft is loaded with several tons of dynamite for bombing Spanish troops and ships in Cuba. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Oft-Seen Air-Ship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/71160503/oft-seen-air-ship/)” Fort Worth \(Tex.\) Register, April 18, 1897, p. 11 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_177 ### Event 1794 (0C82E4EB) **Date:** 4/15/1897 **Locations:** Eau Claire, Wisconsin; farmhouse belonging to Melvin Bannister **Description:** Night. An airship with red, green, and white lights lands on a farm near Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Five witnesses see an odd-looking man in a fur coat emerge and walk to a farmhouse belonging to [Melvin Bannister](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/68901211/melvin-bannister), whose dogs are barking fiercely. The stranger points a lantern-like device at them and sends them running. Bannister answers the door and converses awkwardly with the man, who is speaking an odd language, but loans him a hammer, some nails, and a can of skim milk. The man returns the tools, along with a strange coin. The airship takes off with a whizzing sound. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Brunswick and Drammen,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92018245/)” Eau Claire \(Wis.\) Leader, April 17, 1897, p. 7 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_178 ### Event 1795 (52E6E49E) **Date:** 4/15/1897 **Location:** Dunkirk, Ohio **Description:** 8:15 p.m. [Willie Mahon](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/41677884/william-p%5F-mahon)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/41677884/william-p%5F-mahon) ex-Marshal French, and other residents of Dunkirk, Ohio, watch a winged object “as large as a wagon bed” pass over the town toward the east. It has propellers on each end, a red light in front, and a greenish-yellow light on the tail. Voices can be heard coming from the object. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Seen at Dunkirk,” Kenton \(Ohio\) News-Republican, April 16, 1897, p. 4 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_179 ### Event 1796 (27516D4A) **Date:** 4/15/1897 **Location:** Farmersville, Texas **Description:** 9:00 p.m. Residents of Farmersville, Texas, notice a dim light traveling toward the city from the south at 60– 80 mph. Thinking it might be a meteor heading toward the Earth, more people gather outside to watch. City Marshal Brown is in the western part of town making his rounds, and the “ship or balloon” passes overhead about 200 feet in the air. Brown can see two men in the object and something like a large Newfoundland dog. He can hear them talking but cannot understand what they are saying. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Airship Seen in Galveston,” Galveston \(Tex.\) Daily News, April 18, 1897, p. 2 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_180 ### Event 1797 (D756EA8E) **Date:** 4/15/1897 **Location:** Emerson, South Dakota **Description:** Between 9:00 and 10:00 p.m. A cigar-shaped airship with a row of red lights along the sides passes above Emerson, South Dakota. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[That Ubiquitous Airship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92019574/)” Sioux City \(Iowa\) Journal, April 17, 1897, p. 6 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_181 ### Event 1798 (1F0AF055) **Date:** Mid 4/1897 **Location:** Homan, Arkansas **Description:** 3:00 p.m. Railroad conductor Capt. Jim Hooton is hunting near Homan, Arkansas, when he hears a loud mechanical sound like an air brake. Investigating, he discovers an airship undergoing repairs. The aeronauts are not very communicative, so once the repairs are complete, they reenter the airship and take off with a loud hissing sound. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Saw the Air Ship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26617085/daily-arkansas-gazette/)” Little Rock Arkansas Gazette, April 22, 1897, p. 3 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_182 ### Event 1799 (D720412C) **Date:** Mid 4/1897 **Locations:** Grinnell, Iowa; Barr Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana; Springfield (Ill.); Fort Wayne, Indiana **Description:** Early evening. J. W. Lansing sees a cigar-shaped airship twice in Grinnell, Iowa. It moves in various directions, sometimes against a strong wind. \(“He Saw It,” Springfield \(Ill.\) News, April 26, 1897, p. 1\) Mid-April – Night. F. Crocker is sitting near the window of his apartment on Barr Street in Fort Wayne, Indiana, when he notices a yellowish light coming from the west. It seems attached to a pear-shaped object with the apex pointed downward. Two yellow rays of light come from its sides as it sways to and fro in the air. He calls R. J. \(or R. T.\) and J. L. Tretheway, who live in the apartment below his, and they also glimpse the object, which is in sight for 20 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Sighted Here,” Fort Wayne \(Ind.\) Weekly Gazette, April 15, 1897, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_183 ### Event 1800 (A0C6E359) **Date:** Mid 4/1897 **Location:** Eldridge, North Dakota **Description:** Between 9:00 and 10:00 p.m. A man in Eldridge, North Dakota, sees an airship that looks like a car attached to a large, kite-shaped structure with wings. It stops and changes course. At one point the man is close enough to hear a humming sound. Some of the time it displays colored lights; at other times it is completely dark. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[He Saw](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92029256/) [the Air Ship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92029256/)” Jamestown \(N. Dak.\) Weekly Alert, April 22, 1897, p. 8 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_184 ### Event 1801 (CD8C2550) **Date:** 4/15/1897 **Description:** This was the peak date in a wave of "airship" sightings around the United States and Canada. There were over fifty reports of "airships" on this day, including 18 in Michigan alone. There were six humanoid reports, two in Iowa and one each in Texas, Wisconsin, Illinois and Michigan. Two of these reports invovled communication with quite human-looking people. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2011 ### Event 1802 (BB849B30) **Date:** 4/15/1897 **Description:** A large object was seen in Linn Grove, Iowa in the morning hours of this day in 1897 flying slowly toward the north. It seemed ready to land and five men--F. G. Ellis, James Evans, David Evans, Joe Croaskey, Benjamin Buland--drove toward it in a buckboard wagon. About seven kilometers north of Linn Grove they found the craft on the ground. They came within 700 meters of it but it "spread its four giant wings and rose towards the North". Two figures with shoulder-length hair were seen aboard the craft and made efforts to conceal themselves. Most residents of Linn Grove saw the craft in flight. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 183, citing Chicago Times-Herald, April 16, 1897 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2012 ### Event 1803 (F5360F71) **Date:** 4/15/1897 **Description:** Two farm workers, Adolph Winkle and John Hulle, saw a strange craft in a field near the city of Springfield, Illinois around midday. They had a discussion with its occupants, a woman and two men, and were told the ship had flown from Quincy to Springfield in 30 minutes and that the crew was making electrical repairs. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 183, citing Flying Saucer Review, January 1965 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2013 ### Event 1804 (1D742C17) **Date:** 4/15/1897 **Description:** At nightfall the same day a flying object followed a train traveling from Howard to Artesian, South Dakota in Miner County. It came closer and closer to the ground as it did, reported the engineer, Joe Wright. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 183, citing Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1966 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2014 ### Event 1805 (07D2227E) **Date:** 4/15/1897 **Description:** At around 9:00 p.m. a passenger train on the Wabash line heading toward Quincy, Illinois had just passed Perry Springs, Missouri when a low-flying object started following it. All the passengers saw the craft, which followed the train for fifteen minutes. It had one red and one white light. It flew ahead of the train and disappeared quickly, although the train was then moving at 65 mph. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Chicago Times-Herald, April 15, 1897 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2015 ### Event 1806 (DC51F30B) **Date:** 4/15/1897 **Description:** At 11:00 p.m. a cigar-shaped airship without wings and with yellow lights at the bow and stern flew to the north over Hudson, Michigan. It flew at an estimated altitude of 500 feet, and was clearly visible in the bright moonlight. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Lucius Farish newspaper clipping files **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2016 ### Event 1807 (9C3BB1A0) **Date:** 4/15/1897 **Location:** Dunkirk Ohio **Description:** A flying object with wings, propellers, and lights was observed by two witnesses in a railroad tower, who reported hearing voices from it due to its proximity to the ground. Described as the size of a wagon bed, the object had a red light in the front and a greenish-yellow light at the back. (Chapter 1, Ref 14) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_14 ### Event 1808 (3778F9DF) **Date:** 4/15/1897 **Location:** Fairfield County, Ohio **Description:** On the same night, farmers in Fairfield County, Ohio, witnessed a cigar-shaped object with two pairs of canvas wings attached to it. The object appeared to be at an angle of around 45 degrees, as if it had recently landed and was ascending to avoid lower wind currents. (Chapter 1, Ref 15) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_15 ### Event 1809 (0E1E1F24) **Date:** 4/15/1897 **Location:** Outside Springfield, Illinois **Description:** Two farm workers claimed to have witnessed an airship landing, with a bearded man emerging from it and inquiring about the place. Another man and a woman were inside the car. The bearded occupant mentioned that the crew rested on the ground during the day and had just flown from Quincy to Springfield in 30 minutes. He pointed to the letter "M" on the car and stated his intention to report to the government when Cuba became free. After their conversation, the man reentered the craft, pressed a button, and the airship departed. (Chapter 1, Ref 29) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_29 ### Event 1810 (2D0DF337) **Date:** 4/15/1897 **Location:** Lynn Grove, Iowa **Description:** An airship flew over Lynn Grove, Iowa, and seemed to land just outside town on the 15th. Local residents investigated, but the airship took off again, and witnesses reported seeing two men on board, along with four wings on the craft. (Chapter 1, Ref 31) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_31 ### Event 1811 (CFB4F02C) **Date:** 4/15/1897 **Location:** Cisco, Texas **Description:** A man encountered a landed airship approximately 200 feet long with crewmen repairing a searchlight. Similar to a previous incident, the witness was informed that the airship was heading to Cuba with a cargo of dynamite. (Chapter 1, Ref 52) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_50 ### Event 1812 (82871B94) **Date:** 4/15/1897 **Location:** Pine Lake, Michigan **Description:** An airship crew stopped at Pine Lake, Michigan, for repairs and provisions. A witness reported being awakened by a tap on his window and a bright light, and the crew requested egg sandwiches and coffee, which they hoisted on board in exchange for payment. The witness observed the ship with a brilliant searchlight and red lights at each end, noting its departure towards the city just before daylight. (Chapter 1, Ref 53) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_51 ### Event 1813 (EE60EAED) **Date:** 4/15/1897 **Location:** Chattanooga, Tennessee **Description:** Local citizens in Chattanooga, Tennessee encountered an airship that had landed on a mountain spur for repairs. The crew explained that their machinery was out of order and one of the men identified himself as Professor Charles Davidson, claiming the ship had been traveling across the country after leaving Sacramento a month earlier. (Chapter 1, Ref 54) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_52 ### Event 1814 (04CE6494) **Date:** 4/16/1897 **Location:** USA, Aurora (Kansas) **Description:** (Translated from French) In the "Dallas Morning News" of April 18 and 19 and the "Houston Post" of April 20 and 22, a certain E.E. Haydon, witness to the affair, wrote at the time: "Around 6:00 a.m. the inhabitants of Aurora were surprised by the sudden appearance of the airship (...) It was advancing facing north and very close to the ground. It was quickly understood that part of its machinery was out of service, which is why its speed did not exceed 20 km/h and it was gradually approaching the ground. It sailed over the public park and when it reached the bottom of the town, it crashed against the windmill of Judge Proctor. Immediately there was an explosion, debris flew in all directions, the windmill and a water tank were destroyed, as well as the wonderful flower garden of the judge. The pilot of the aircraft must have been alone on board and although he was terribly disfigured by this accident which cost him his life, it was nevertheless realized that he was not a inhabitant of this world. Mr. T. J. Weems, the officer of the U.S. Signal Service of Aurora and an authority in astronomy, declared that in his opinion it must have been a native of Mars. The papers found on him, probably the account of his travels, were written with unknown hieroglyphs and could not be deciphered. The aircraft was really in too bad a condition to form an opinion about it. It was built in an unknown metal, somewhat resembling an alloy of aluminum and silver and it must have weighed several tons. Today the crowd is filled with a crowd come to look at the accident site. Everyone is trying to find debris from the device to keep as a souvenir. The funeral of the pilot will take place tomorrow April 18 at noon." [IN REALITY: Everyone is convinced that it is one of the many hoaxes of the time, this one mounted by the journalists. Some ufologists sought, around 1966, evidence for the veracity of the story, with varying success. However, investigators had to discover that there had never been a windmill there, as certified by the current owner of the site, the local mayor. Obstinate, some wanted to search the cemetery a few years ago to find the bones of the burned pilot... The local council opposes it, of course.] **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 172-173 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_525 ### Event 1815 (00EA7205) **Date:** 4/16/1897 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** EAST / SPRINGFIELD, MO **Description:** 1 observer. Great airship on ground. 2 classic nordics. Odd speech. See reference. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The AUSTRALIAN UFO BULLETIN; Qtrly. Judith MAGEE Ed. VUFORS PO Box 43, Moorabin, VIC 3189 Australia. (Index 953) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_190 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "395", **HatchDesc:** "E/SPRINGFIELD,MO:1 OBS:Gt.AIRSHIP ON GND:2 CLASSIC NORDICS:ODD SPEECH:see ref.", **LatLong:** "37.250002 -93.250004", **LatLongDMS:** "37:15:00 N 93:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.250002,-93.250004)", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 1816 (4BE0A67E) **Date:** 4/16/1897 **Location:** Downs Township, IL **Description:** Approximate date. While working in his field, Haney Savidge saw an aerial craft land near him. Six people emerged from it and spoke to him for a few minutes before leaving again.(Magonia #22, 191) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_30 ### Event 1817 (D3721150) **Date:** 4/16/1897 **Location:** Vincennes, IN **Description:** 9:00 p.m. A mysterious airship passed over the city twice on the night of Friday, April 16. According to the Vincennes Morning Commercial, the airship first appeared about nine oclock, traveling along the extreme eastern portion of the horizon (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [18970416](http://www.nicap.org/vincennes18970416dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_31 ### Event 1818 (B4E12011) **Date:** 4/16/1897 **Location:** Downs Township, Illinois **Description:** Approximate date. While working in his field, Haney Savidge saw an aerial craft land near him. Six people emerged from it and spoke to him for a few minutes before leaving again. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 191 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_22 ### Event 1819 (5510B59B) **Date:** 4/16/1897 **Location:** Danvers, Illinois **Description:** 12:03 a.m. An airship and a smaller “trailer which followed it very closely” are seen by residents of Danvers, Illinois. The objects are made of aluminum-like material, and its “occupants were dressed in western style.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[The](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/72179339/the-pantagraph/) [Aerial Mystery,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/72179339/the-pantagraph/)” Bloomington \(Ill.\) Daily Pantograph, April 17, 1897, p. 5 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_185 ### Event 1820 (D9362CFB) **Date:** 4/16/1897 **Locations:** Bay City, Michigan; Center Avenue **Description:** 12:30 a.m. A group of people returning home from a lodge meeting in Bay City, Michigan, notice a large conical object approaching from the south and slowly descending to about 50 feet altitude above Center Avenue. A red light appears at either end of a body that is apparently 50–75 feet long. It shines with a dull red glow, as if there are lights on its upper side. The object moves away to the northeast. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Air Ship a Reality,” Saginaw \(Mich.\) Courier-Herald, April 16, 1897, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_186 ### Event 1821 (642A24D3) **Date:** 4/16/1897 **Location:** Linn Grove, Iowa **Description:** Morning. A large object passes slowly over Linn Grove, Iowa, heading north. Five men—[James Evans](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72453749/james-evans)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72453749/james-evans) F. G. Ellis, [Ben Buland](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44719046/benjamin-buland)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44719046/benjamin-buland) [David Evans](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/28007773/david-evans)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/28007773/david-evans) and [Joe Croskey](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44729877/joseph-l%5F-croskey)—jump into a rig and follow it 4 miles north of town where it has landed. But when the pursuers get within 2,100 feet of the airship, it spreads out four massive wings and ascends again. The two occupants have extremely long beards and make desperate efforts to conceal themselves. They toss two enormous boulders “of unknown composition” out of the airship. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[More Air Ship Fakes,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26312370/the-indianapolis-journal/)” Indianapolis Journal, April 17, 1897, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_187 ### Event 1822 (347CC7A8) **Date:** 4/16/1897 **Locations:** Springfield, Missouri; east of Springfield, Missouri **Description:** While wandering in the hills east of Springfield, Missouri, [W. H. Hopkins](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/129777746/w%5F-h%5F-hopkins), a traveling insurance agent, spots a landed airship in a clearing. Next to it is a nude female with hair down to her waist. As she picks flowers, she speaks in an unknown language with a musical voice and fans herself as if the day is hot. In the shade cast by the craft lies a naked man with shoulder-length hair and a long beard. After a few minutes, Hopkins approaches the woman, who shrieks and runs toward the man. Hopkins speaks soothingly and the two aeronauts relax. Hopkins asks where they come from, and they point upward, pronouncing a word that sounds like “Mars.” The two examine Hopkins’s clothing, hair, and watch with great curiosity. They show him the interior of the ship but take off shortly afterward, “laughing and waving their hands.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Golden Haired Girl Is in It,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27731160/st-louis-post-dispatch/)” St. Louis \(Mo.\) Post- Dispatch, April 19, 1897, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_188 ### Event 1823 (F37B1AE3) **Date:** 4/16/1897 **Locations:** Ohio; Marion, Ohio **Description:** 8:00 p.m. [Howard R. Bolander](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/185391302/howard-r-bolander), superintendent of the Ohio Bicycle Works in Marion, Ohio, is looking at the night sky when he sees the light from a cigar-shaped object moving to the southwest. Its light looks like an incandescent lamp. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Is Your Credulity in Condition for the Only True Airship Story?](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26923788/the-marion-star/)” Marion \(Ohio\) Daily Star, April 17, 1897, p. 9 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_189 ### Event 1824 (5CD4FC23) **Date:** 4/16/1897 **Location:** Hillsboro, Texas **Description:** Night. Judge [John Spencer Bounds](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/24971064/john-spencer-bounds) is riding in a buggy in Hillsboro, Texas, when his horse whirls around in fright. A brilliant light as if from an arc lamp shines on him for less than a minute and then moves over to a nearby field. The light suddenly ascends to an altitude of 1,000 feet. As he watches, the searchlight blinks out and smaller lights surrounding a dark object become visible. The object moves slowly to the south and disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Seen near Hillsboro,” Dallas \(Tex.\) Morning News, April 17, 1897, p. 8 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_190 ### Event 1825 (A02CB94B) **Date:** 4/16/1897 **Locations:** Greenville, Texas; New York State **Description:** 12:00 midnight. C. G. Williams is walking across a field two miles south of Greenville, Texas, when he comes across a brilliant light and a large, cigar-shaped object resting on the ground. Three aeronauts emerge from it; two go to work on the ship, and the third approaches Williams and asks him to mail some letters. The man tells him that the airship runs on electricity and that his invention was perfected in a small town in New York State. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “C. G. Williams Saw It,” Dallas \(Tex.\) Morning News, April 19, 1897, p. 5 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_191 ### Event 1826 (D23C942B) **Date:** 4/16/1897 **Description:** At 12:30 a.m. in Bay City, Michigan a large object was sighted high in the sky. It gradually descended and was estimated to be around 50 to 70 feet in length. It had a red light at each end, that gave the conical shaped craft a dull red glow. It moved at a rapid pace, then slowed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Lucius Farish newspaper files; Saginaw (MI) Courrier Herald, April 16, 1897 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2043 ### Event 1827 (0656DC4E) **Date:** 4/16/1897 **Description:** Shortly before 3:00 a.m. police heard a drumming noise in Saginaw, Michigan and then spotted a 30-foot long cigar-shaped airship with something hanging down ten feet below it. It flew at a speed of 25 miles per hour to the south, and carried red and yellow body lights. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Lucius Farish newspaper files; Saginaw (MI) Evening News, April 17, 1897; Philip L. Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 7 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2044 ### Event 1828 (2C1495C0) **Date:** 4/16/1897 **Description:** While working in his field in Downs Township, Illinois farmer Haney Savidge saw an aerial craft land near him. Six people emerged from it and spoke to him for a few minutes before leaving. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 22, citing Chicago Times-Herald, April 17, 1897 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2045 ### Event 1829 (880368D1) **Date:** 4/16/1897 **Description:** On that night there was a sudden flash in the sky over Logan, Ohio and then a 40-foot long dark shape flew over the town slowly. Witnesses thought they could hear voices coming from the object. Some followed it three miles south of town in a buggy. The craft descended to about 50 feet altitude, then rose swiftly and flew out of sight. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Philip L. Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 8 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2046 ### Event 1830 (DBF5B1E3) **Date:** 4/16/1897 **Description:** On the same night a man named Williams in Greenville, Texas came upon a landed airship. He described it as an "immense cigar-shaped vessel" with large wings, and having a "sidewheel like a steamboat" in front, with a fish tail at the rear. He claimed it was 75 feet long and 30 feet wide, and he encountered three men performing repairs on the craft. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Philip L. Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 39, citing the Dallas Morning News, April 19, 1897 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2047 ### Event 1831 (1BBAC58D) **Date:** 4/16/1897 **Location:** Hudson, Michigan **Description:** A group of around 25 credible witnesses observed a cigar-shaped airship with yellow lights at the bow and stern. The object exhibited a mechanical arrangement for propulsion, moving from the west in a northerly direction at varying altitudes and becoming a topic of discussion in the city due to the reliability of the observers. (Chapter 1, Ref 10) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_10 ### Event 1832 (6E2ACD8B) **Date:** 4/16/1897 **Location:** Logan, Ohio **Description:** Continuing the pattern of anomalous events, a group in Logan, Ohio, witnessed a sudden flash of light followed by a large, dark, slow-flying shape over the town. The object was close enough to be heard, prompting three members of the group to pursue it in a buggy. They managed to get within 50 feet of the object, which was described as a black, boat-shaped airship about 40 feet long, before it swiftly rose and vanished into the night, with the witnesses reporting hearing voices from inside it. (Chapter 1, Ref 16) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_16 ### Event 1833 (108729F9) **Date:** 4/16/1897 **Location:** Upper Sandusky, Ohio **Description:** A distinct airship was spotted, described as being "40 feet in length, shaped like an auger, and having large windmill-like wings." The object, equipped with purple, yellow, and green lights, was seen diving towards the ground before ascending again and flying northward. (Chapter 1, Ref 17) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_17 ### Event 1834 (9BEEB776) **Date:** 4/16/1897 **Location:** Springfield, Missouri **Description:** A traveling agent claimed to encounter an airship with a beautiful woman and a bearded man. He described their appearance and interactions in great detail, including their gestures and the inside of the airship. His account was supported by his employer and family members who vouched for his reliability. (Chapter 1, Refs 32, 33, 34) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_32 ### Event 1835 (545693FB) **Date:** 4/16/1897 **Location:** Elburn Illinois **Description:** Farmers encountered a landed airship with two occupants who claimed to be traveling from the Pacific to the Atlantic coast along the Northwestern railway. The machine was described as lightweight and made of aluminum-like material. (Chapter 1, Ref 35) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_33 ### Event 1836 (D616F9E0) **Date:** 4/16/1897 **Location:** Bluffton, Indiana **Description:** A cigar-shaped airship descended in the village with two men and a boy on board. The villagers interacted with them, and some members of the fire department were taken on a short ride. The airship eventually departed with lanterns lit, heading towards Camden. (Chapter 1, Ref 49) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_47 ### Event 1837 (3E0A10AD) **Date:** 4/16/1897 **Location:** Greenville, Texas **Description:** A man encountered a landed airship near Greenville Texas, described as a large cigar-shaped vessel with wings, a wheel at the front, and a fish-like tail at the rear. The crew claimed to be experimenting with the vessel and planning to revolutionize travel and transportation using electrical machines for propulsion and lights. (Chapter 1, Ref 81) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_76 ### Event 1838 (1FC4A5B4) **Date:** 4/16/1897 **Location:** Decatur, Illinois **Description:** During the late 19th century, a newspaper reporter from Decatur, Illinois, claimed to have been taken on an airship ride by inventor C. Devonbaugh. The airship featured a cabin suspended beneath gas-filled cylinders, powered by a new electricity-based process. The reporter described a high-speed nighttime trip to Chicago with colorful electric lights and mentioned the inventor's offer to assist Cuban rebels with the airship's capabilities. (Chapter 1, Ref 82) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_77 ### Event 1839 (6FDD447B) **Date:** 4/17/1897 **Location:** Aurora, TX **Description:** Aurora, TX: An “airship” crashed into Judge Proctor’s windmill and disgorged the mangled body of a little man. **Type:** ufo crash **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_21 ### Event 1840 (8F0AE633) **Date:** 4/17/1897 **Location:** USA **Description:** (Translated from French) Early in the morning of Saturday, April 17th around 6:15 a.m. M.C.T. Smith, on his way to work, stumbled upon a metal piece to which an envelope was attached. Inside was a distress message: "To whoever finds this: we are 750 meters above sea level, facing north at the time of writing these lines. While testing our airship we got lost and are now unable to control it. Please alert people by telling them that we are somewhere above Michigan. Signed: Arthur B. Coats, Laurel, Missouri C.C.Harris, Gulport, Missouri C.W.Rich, Richburg, Missouri." (April 17, 1897) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 172 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_526 ### Event 1841 (59612FF3) **Date:** 4/17/1897 **Location:** USA, Stephenville (Texas) **Description:** (Translated from French) Several authorities of the city (including the judge) had discussed for a few moments with the occupants of a curious object. They were called S. E. Tilman and A. E. Dolbear. The latter prevented the witnesses from approaching the machine, even specifying that the capitalists of New York were financing them and that aerial navigation would soon be an established fact to reveal to the public. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 172 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_527 ### Event 1842 (5A065595) **Date:** 4/17/1897 **Location:** USA, Sandusky **Description:** (Translated from French) An interesting observation of this flying object was made in the morning. The object had purple, yellow, and green lights. The witness E.T. Kenan described it as "a trough about twelve meters long, with wings like those of a 16th century windmill(?)" **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD, Inforespace n° 36 p. 38 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_528 ### Event 1843 (0C058A43) **Date:** 4/17/1897 **Location:** USA, Williamston (Michigan) **Description:** (Translated from French) In the morning, twelve farmers saw a craft for at least an hour before it landed. A humanoid about 3 m tall, visibly suffering from the heat, seemed to be piloting the craft. Its almost musical voice seemed to be a series of lowing. One of the farmers approached it and received a blow that broke his hip. **Reference:** Christiane PIENS: "Les Ovni du passé" - Marabout 197 - p.99 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_529 ### Event 1844 (A46C78A2) **Date:** 4/17/1897 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) An aircraft has stirred up the region... The stranger occupying it claims he had to land to make some repairs and that he will resume his aerial journey today... The man is armed with a rifle to prevent people from examining the machine too closely. He claims he is going around the world, but was forced to land for repairs. If people don't believe he can fly, let them wait: they will get a free demonstration!. **Reference:** *Evening Times* of Paxtucket, Rhode Island **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1897.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_243 ### Event 1845 (B20C4B98) **Date:** 4/17/1897 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) An mysterious object crashes in the town of Aurora \([Texas](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/lieux.html\#Texas)\) where it explodes into many small fragments. The occupant is a martian the size of a child, greenish, and hieroglyphs are found on the site/in the device. The pilot's body is supposed to have been buried in the town cemetery. Although the case is considered a hoax, a new investigation has allowed the recovery of a sample of a curious alloy which was analyzed by the McDonnell Aircraft Company. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1897.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_244 ### Event 1846 (EA47212A) **Date:** 4/17/1897 **Time:** 06:00 **Location:** WATERLOO, IA **Description:** 13M airship lands. Aviator does not request money. All amazed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO ROUNDUP weekly email of UFO news: Joseph Trainor. http://www.digiserve.com/ufoinfo/roundup/ .. (Index 120) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_191 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "255", **HatchDesc:** "WATERLOO,IA:13M AIRSHIP LANDS:AVIATOR DOES NOT REQUEST MONEY:all amazed", **LatLong:** "42.500002 -92.333338", **LatLongDMS:** "42:30:00 N 92:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.500002,-92.333338)", **State/Prov:** "Iowa", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 1847 (201635C5) **Date:** 4/17/1897 **Time:** ~10:00 **Location:** WILLIAMSTON, MI **Description:** 12+observer(s). Object maneuvers / 50 minute(s). Lands. 9' man exits. Bellows. Injures farmer. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 23) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_192 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **GNT:** Giant: Large/tall alien, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "280", **HatchDesc:** "WILLIAMSTON,MI:12+OBS:OBJ MNVRS/50min:LANDS:9'MAN EXITS:BELLOWS:INJURES FARMER", **LatLong:** "42.677780 -84.283337", **LatLongDMS:** "42:40:40 N 84:17:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.677780,-84.283337)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 1848 (73A080B0) **Date:** 4/17/1897 **Location:** Williamston, MI **Description:** Morning. At least a dozen farmers saw an object maneuver in the sky for an hour before it landed. A strange man near 3 m tall, almost naked and suffering from the heat, was the pilot of the craft. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_32 ### Event 1849 (A9581DF5) **Date:** 4/17/1897 **Time:** morning **Location:** Williamston, Michigan **Description:** At least a dozen farmers saw an object maneuver in the sky for an hour before it landed. A strange man near 3 m tall, almost naked and suffering from the heat, was the pilot of the craft. "His talk, while musical, seemed to be a repetition of bellowings." One farmer went near him and received a blow that broke his hip. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 196 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_23 ### Event 1850 (573790EA) **Date:** 4/17/1897 **Location:** Beaumont, Texas **Description:** 1:30 a.m. R. E. Draughon, a night watchman at a lumber plant in Beaumont, Texas, sees a “globular” object with a bright light the size of a star in one end. It is moving to the northwest at a high altitude. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Seen at Beaumont,” Dallas \(Tex.\) Morning News, April 18, 1897, p. 4 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_192 ### Event 1851 (DF3A8C67) **Date:** 4/17/1897 **Locations:** Aurora, Texas; Fort Worth; Aurora Cemetery **Description:** 6:00 a.m. An airship is said to collide with the tower of Judge [James Spencer Proctor](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35443870/james-spencer-proctor)’s windmill in Aurora, Texas, causing it to explode and strew debris over several acres. The pilot \(reportedly “not of this world,” or a “Martian” according to an alleged Army Signal Service officer named [Thomas Jefferson Weems](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17165126/thomas-jefferson-weems) from nearby Fort Worth\), does not survive the crash and is [buried](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/206580789/alien-unknown) “with Christian rites” at the Aurora Cemetery. Wreckage from the crash site is either dumped into a nearby well located under the damaged windmill or ends up with the alien in the grave. Adding to the mystery is the story of [Brawley Oates,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43968438/brawley-hoyle-oates) who purchases Judge Proctor’s property around 1935. Oates cleans out the debris from the well in order to use it as a water source, but later develops an extremely severe case of rheumatoid arthritis, which he claims is the result of contaminated water from the wreckage dumped into the well. As a result, Oates seals up the well with a concrete slab and places an outbuilding on the spot in 1945. The entire yarn is widely regarded as a hoax, although Proctor’s windmill apparently did exist. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Aurora, Texas, UFO incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora%2C%5FTexas%2C%5FUFO%5Fincident)”; “A Windmill Demolishes It,” Dallas Morning News, April 19, 1897, p. 5; Donald B. Hanlon, “[Texas Odyssey of 1897,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201966%20V%2012%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1966\): 9–10; H. Michael Simmons, “[Once upon a Time in the West,](http://magoniamagazine.blogspot.com/2013/11/once-upon-time-in-west.html)” Magonia, no. 20 \(August 1985\); Wallace O. Chariton, The Great Texas Airship Mystery, Wordware, 1991; Thomas E. Bullard, “Defending UFOs,” IUR 34, no. 2 \(March 2012\): 8–10; Clark III 316–318, 592–593; “[Aurora 1897,](http://roswellbooks.com/museum/?page%5Fid=89)” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, February 5, 2014; Mutual UFO Network, “[Aurora, TX Crash, 1897](https://mufon.com/2021/05/14/aurora-tx-crash-1897/),” May 14, 2021 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_193 ### Event 1852 (39AB6C49) **Date:** 4/17/1897 **Location:** Trenton, Tennessee **Description:** 8:30 p.m. A large white light attached to a cigar-shaped object passes over Trenton, Tennessee, at an altitude of about 1,500 feet. It has a red light on the left side and a green light on the right. The object remains in sight for 5 minutes then disappears to the east. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Trenton Has ‘Em,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92030155/)” Memphis \(Tenn.\) Commercial Appeal, April 18, 1897, p. 4 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_194 ### Event 1853 (F6F85B1D) **Date:** 4/17/1897 **Locations:** Manchester Street; Cincinnati Southern Railway trestle bridge; Lexington, Kentucky **Description:** 9:00 p.m. George Alverson, Alex Oxford, and Charley Hunter are walking on Manchester Street near the Cincinnati Southern Railway trestle bridge in Lexington, Kentucky. An airship lands and settles in a vacant lot about 600 feet away. They hurry forward but are stopped by a man who has just emerged from the machine. He is carrying a bucket, which he fills with water from a nearby spring. He declines to answer any of their questions, reenters the airship, and flies away to the southeast. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Talked with the Airship Man,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92030217/)” Cincinnati \(Ohio\) Enquirer, April 19, 1897, p. 5 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_195 ### Event 1854 (31BDE7F9) **Date:** 4/17/1897 **Description:** At least a dozen farmers in Williamston, Michigan saw an object maneuver in the morning sky for an hour before it landed. A strange man nearly 3 meters (10 feet) tall, almost naked and suffering from the heat, was the pilot of the craft. "His talk, while musical, seemed to be a repetition of bellowings". One farmer went near him and received a blow that broke his hip. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 184, citing Lansing State Republican, April 18, 1897 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2073 ### Event 1855 (FF76C710) **Date:** 4/17/1897 **Location:** Texas **Description:** A prison official witnessed a landed airship resembling a large "whaleback ship" with wings and fins. The craft displayed colored banners and dazzling lights before rapidly ascending and disappearing. (Chapter 1, Ref 36) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_34 ### Event 1856 (886D6093) **Date:** 4/17/1897 **Location:** Conroe Texas **Description:** Three strangers who claimed to have landed their airship in Conroe, Texas, interacted with locals at a restaurant, stating they were flying from San Francisco to Cuba. After their departure, a brightly-lit airship was seen flying over the town. (Chapter 1, Ref 37) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_35 ### Event 1857 (A1B975E0) **Date:** 4/17/1897 **Location:** McKinney Bayou, Arkansas **Description:** A judge in Arkansas encountered a landed airship near Texarkana, manned by three men who spoke a foreign language, possibly Japanese. The judge explored the ship and noted it was made of aluminum, with gas used to control its altitude. (Chapter 1, Ref 38) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_36 ### Event 1858 (40F053F7) **Date:** 4/17/1897 **Time:** evening **Location:** Lexington, Kentucky **Description:** Three men witnessed an airship landing. They saw a man around 40 years old from the craft collecting water from a stream. Despite their attempts to converse, the man remained silent and soon departed in the airship. (Chapter 1, Ref 43) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_41 ### Event 1859 (C62F0651) **Date:** 4/17/1897 **Time:** evening **Location:** Upland, Indiana **Description:** An airship landed at a feed mill near Upland, Indiana. A heavyset man with long whiskers emerged, bought cattle feed, and upon returning to the ship, he pressed a button that caused the airship to take off and depart. (Chapter 1, Ref 44) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_42 ### Event 1860 (9BFCCCB2) **Date:** 4/17/1897 **Location:** Muncie, Indiana **Description:** an airship landed near Muncie, and one of the occupants requested milk from a farmer. After receiving the milk, the man pulled on a cord, and the airship took off and flew away. (Chapter 1, Ref 45) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_43 ### Event 1861 (C0D32494) **Date:** 4/17/1897 **Location:** Near Williamston, Michigan **Description:** An unidentified flying object landed near Williamston, Michigan, as reported by local newspapers. The craft was seen by multiple farmers before landing, piloted by a peculiar figure described as almost 9.5 feet tall and almost naked. The being emitted a musical, bellowing-like sound and attempted to communicate. An attempt to approach the being resulted in injury, further adding to the mysterious nature of the event. (Chapter 2, Ref 103) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_97 ### Event 1862 (E2C0392D) **Date:** 4/17/1897 **Time:** morning **Location:** Aurora, Texas **Description:** During the 1897 airship wave, in the small town of Aurora, north Texas, a mysterious airship collided with a windmill tower and exploded on April 17. Witnesses reported that the pilot, the presumed sole occupant, was not from Earth and was disfigured in the crash. Papers found on the pilot were written in indecipherable hieroglyphics, sparking speculation about extraterrestrial origin, and the town gathered to view the wreckage and debris. (Chapter 2, Refs 110) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_103 ### Event 1863 (71C80164) **Date:** 4/18/1897 **Location:** USA, Cutler **Description:** (Translated from French) The inhabitants observed a huge flying machine with wings and a projector. It moved quickly in the sky emitting a sound of "gasoline engine". **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD, Inforespace n° 36 p. 38 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_530 ### Event 1864 (8A1575A3) **Date:** 4/18/1897 **Locations:** Ohio River; Sistersville, West Virginia **Description:** 8:30 p.m. W. E. Roe, captain of the Ohio River packet T. M. Barnsdall, as well as watchman Elmer Hardy and engineer Litus Kinnard, sees a light high in the air above the river as the riverboat is lying at Sistersville, West Virginia. It seems to be moving to the northwest but at other times it retraces its course. Around 12:00 midnight it disappears over a hill to the west. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “The Airship Seen near Marietta,” Marietta \(Ohio\) Daily Register, April 19, 1897 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_196 ### Event 1865 (5BF124A9) **Date:** 4/18/1897 **Locations:** Lyons, Nebraska; Bancroft **Description:** 9:30 p.m. An object with lights on both ends is seen southeast of Lyons, Nebraska, traveling to the northwest. Some young observers estimate it is moving at 4–6 mph. When the object is south of Bancroft it makes 2–3 large circles and then moves to the southwest. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Airship’s Lamp Is Lighted,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92030321/)” Omaha \(Neb.\) Daily Bee, April 20, 1897, p. 5 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_197 ### Event 1866 (94AC6A46) **Date:** 4/18/1897 **Description:** A cigar-shaped UFO hovered over the town of Sisterville, West Virginia at 8:30 p.m.. It directed brilliant searchlights down toward the ground. It appeared to have large fins or wings, and flashing red, white and green lights on the sides and on each end. Several witnesses estimated the length of the object to be 180 feet long. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Gordon I.R. Lore, Jr. and Harold Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 21 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2102 ### Event 1867 (10BD286D) **Date:** 4/18/1897 **Location:** Sistersville, West Virginia **Description:** A mysterious airship caused excitement in Sistersville, West Virginia, by hovering over the town and casting bright searchlights down. Described as cigar-shaped with large wings, the object featured flashing red, white, and green lights on its sides and ends. Those viewing it from a hill estimated its size to be around 180 feet in length and approximately 50 feet in diameter at the widest point. (Chapter 1, Ref 18) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_18 ### Event 1868 (BB2C20E6) **Date:** 4/19/1897 **Location:** USA, Sistersville (West Virginia) **Description:** (Translated from French) That morning, early, the town of Sisterville was awakened by whistles from the sawmill. Those who came out of their homes had a curious sight. From an object in the shape of a torpedo, which was crossing the sky, dazzling beams of light were directed downwards, exploring the countryside. The object seemed to have about seventy meters in length, and a diameter of about fifteen. It had truncated wings, as well as red and green lights on the sides. The aerial visitor circled around the town for about ten minutes, then disappeared in the direction of the east. (Donald KEYHOE: "Flying Saucers are Real" ed. Corrêa Paris 1951, p. 82) A gigantic, shining red object coming from the northwest, resembling a huge cigar, shooting at least two spotlights on Sistersville. "Through binoculars it seemed to be a large cone-shaped object of more than 50 m in length, with large fins on each side". Thirty minutes later, another object was seen in Longview (Texas). (April 19, 1897) **Reference:** Frank EDWARDS: "Flying Saucers are Serious Business" - trad. Laffont 1967 - p. 23 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_531 ### Event 1869 (BA138262) **Date:** 4/19/1897 **Location:** USA, LeRoy (Kansas) **Description:** (Translated from French) At around 10:30 PM an extraordinary event occurred in LeRoy. The affair was reported by the Farmers Advocate of Yates Center, one of the witnesses being an old settler Alex Hamilton who told the reporter: "We were awakened by a noise coming from the cattle enclosure. I immediately got up thinking it might be my bulldog playing around. But when I got to the door, to my great surprise, I saw an aerial vessel descending slowly above my cows, two hundred meters from the house. I called Gid Heslip, my farmer, and my son Wall. We grabbed some axes and rushed towards the corral. Meanwhile the flying machine had slowly descended to an altitude of about ten meters. It was there, fifty meters away from us, in the shape of a large cigar that was at least one hundred meters long. Underneath there was a kind of box made of glass panels or some other transparent material, separated by strips of another material. It was brightly lit from the inside and everything was clearly visible. There were three lights: one like a huge projector and two smaller ones, one red and the other green. The largest of them seemed to be able to be pointed in any direction. This kind of gondola was occupied by six of the strangest beings I had ever seen. There were two men, a woman and three children. They were jabbering among themselves, but I was unable to understand a single syllable. Every part of the vessel that was not transparent had a dark reddish hue. We remained speechless with astonishment and fear, when suddenly a noise drew our attention and they immediately turned their projector towards us. Having spotted us, they started some unknown power and a large turbine propeller (about ten meters in diameter) began to buzz quickly while just a moment before it had been turning slowly above the machine. Soon the craft rose as lightly as a bird. When it was about ten meters above us, it seemed to stop and hovered just above a three-year-old heifer that was crying and jumping around like crazy. Going in its direction we found a cable about a good centimeter in diameter made of the same red material and that was tied around the animal's neck with a slip knot, the other end going towards the machine where it was connected by a metal wire. We tried to untie it, but without success. We then wanted to cut it but to our astonishment the machine and the cow rose slowly into the sky and disappeared to the northwest. We went back home but I was so scared that I couldn't sleep. On Tuesday morning I left at dawn on my horse to look for traces left by my cow. Coming back in the evening to LeRoy I learned that Lank Thomas, who lives in Coffee County, about six kilometers west of LeRoy, had found the skin, legs and head of the animal in his field. He had thought that someone had butchered a stolen beast and had brought the skin to town for identification. The fact of not finding any trace on the spot had however seriously worried him. I returned home last night, but I still can't sleep, constantly remembering that cursed thing with its big lights and its hideous occupants. I don't know if they are messengers from the devil or angels, but in any case we all saw them, and my family and I never wish to have anything to do with them again." (Frank Edwards: "Serious UFO Cases" - trans. Laffont 1967 - p. 18, 19) IN REALITY: Pete.Porro, FIDONET.ORG, GREAT AIRSHIP HOAX Date: 31 Dec 93, which refers to the book: "UFO's and the Limits of Science" Ronald D. Story 1981, Pages 39-40. On January 28, 1943, 46 years later, an article in the Buffalo Enterprise published the letter of E.F. Hudson, who was in 1897, editor of the Yates Center Farmer's Advocate. He admitted to having set up the hoax with Mr. Hamilton, they were both members of the "Ananias" club (Liars' Club). [note from vog: see also "L'Atmosphere", by Camille Flammarion, 1888, explaining the vogue of dirigibles since... at that time, a hundred years already and confirmed in.] (April 19, 1897) **Reference:** "Ufo's - A century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 5 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_532 ### Event 1870 (1013B728) **Date:** 4/19/1897 **Location:** USA, Groesbeck and Belton **Description:** (Translated from French) At Belton, the aerial ship damaged a large tent intended for shows and on board were seen "about ten people talking among themselves but in an incomprehensible way due to the speed of the object". That same night it was also seen above Richmond (Texas). **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 178 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_533 ### Event 1871 (D6963EA9) **Date:** 4/19/1897 **Location:** USA, Beaumont (Texas) **Description:** (Translated from French) In the newspapers, the following account was read: "Mr. J. R. Ligon, local agent of the Magnolia Brewery of Houston and his son Charly observed the famous airship in the evening of Monday, April 19th around 11:00 PM. They saw lights in the farmer Johnson's field and went to the place to see what it was. They then saw four small men circling around a large dark object. Contact was made and the men asked for two buckets of water from Ligon. One of these men said his name was Wilson, he led Ligon and his son to the machine which measured 41 meters long and 6 meters wide. It was powered by four gigantic wings, two on each side. The energy was of electrical origin. The hull of the craft is made of steel and is divided into compartments in which compressed air is injected during flight. The ballast contains water. This is pumped forward to approach the ground or backward when one wants to rise. Wilson further specified to Ligon that this machine was only one of the five machines they had developed and built in a peaceful village in Iowa". (April 19, 1897) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 175-176 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_534 ### Event 1872 (F4BF26AC) **Date:** 4/19/1897 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A. and W. Hamilton and their farmer Gid alerted by a noise of beasts see a dirigible descending slowly above my herd at about 40 perches \(200 m\) from the house. The object thus has a cigar shape, emits red and green lights, and descends to 10 m, carrying 6 of the strangest creatures I have ever seen. A heifer hooked to a red cable rises slowly with the engine. (April 19) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1897.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_245 ### Event 1873 (C26F76F8) **Date:** 4/19/1897 **Time:** 19:10 **Location:** SISTERSVILLE, WV **Description:** 55M cone and cylinder/cigar-shape. Both flash multicolor beams. / r204p134+/ r210v25#7. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLAMMONDE, Paris: UFO EXIST!; Ballentine Books, NY 1976. PB 480pp. (Index 111) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_193 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "197", **HatchDesc:** "SISTERSVILLE,WV:55M CONE+CGR:BOTH FLASH MULTICLR BEAMS:/r204p134+/r210v25#7", **LatLong:** "39.500002 -81.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:30:00 N 81:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.500002,-81.000004)", **State/Prov:** "Western Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1874 (563FCA97) **Date:** 4/19/1897 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** BEAUMONT, TX **Description:** Farmer and son. Cylinder/cigar-shape lands / field. 4 riders out repairing it. Ask for water. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** CLARK, Jerome & COLEMAN, Joren: THE UNIDENTIFIED; Warner PBs, NY 1975 (Index 149) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_194 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "BEAUMONT,TX:FARMER+SON:CGR LANDS/FIELD:4 RIDERS OUT REPAIRING IT:ASK FOR WATER", **LatLong:** "30.083335 -94.083338", **LatLongDMS:** "30:05:00 N 94:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.083335,-94.083338)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 1875 (7E67FDA9) **Date:** 4/19/1897 **Location:** Leroy, KS **Description:** 10:30 p.m. Alexander Hamilton was awakened by a noise among the cattle and went and saw an elongated cigar-shaped object, about 100 m long with a transparent cabin underneath showing narrow reddish bands, hovering 10 m above ground. Inside it were "six of the strangest beings" the witness had seen, also described as "hideous." A cow was dragged away by the object with the help of a strong red cable; it was found butchered in a field the next day. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_34 ### Event 1876 (5D288434) **Date:** 4/19/1897 **Time:** 2230 **Location:** Leroy, Kansas **Description:** Alexander Hamilton was awakened by a noise among the cattle and went out with his son and his tenant. They saw an elongated cigarshaped object, about 100 m long with a transparent cabin underneath showing narrow reddish bands, hovering 10 m above ground. They approached within 50 m of it. It was illuminated and equipped with a searchlight. Inside it were "six of the strangest beings" the witness had seen, also described as "hideous." They spoke a language no witness could understand. A cow was dragged away by the object with the help of a strong red cable; it was found butchered in a field the next day. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Anatomy 16; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_24 ### Event 1877 (895AB38A) **Date:** 4/19/1897 **Locations:** Armory Hall; Natchitoches, Louisiana **Description:** 1:30 a.m. As people are returning from a party at the Armory Hall in Natchitoches, Louisiana, they see a bright light attached to a massive airship in the form of a balloon with a cigar-shaped undercar. The light dims while it is over the city and intensifies again when it has passed beyond it. It moves in undulations and is visible for 30 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[The Airship Seen in Louisiana,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95279509/)” New Orleans Daily Picayune, April 21, 1897, p. 6 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_198 ### Event 1878 (DC0F1BDB) **Date:** 4/19/1897 **Location:** El Paso, Texas **Description:** 2:00 a.m. A man in El Paso, Texas, sees a cigar-shaped object with lighted portholes on each side. The object approaches from the east and passes overhead at 500 feet. Voices from the craft are heard. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[The Air Ship Seen in](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92030378/el-paso-herald/) [El Paso,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92030378/el-paso-herald/)” El Paso \(Tex.\) Herald, April 20, 1897, p. 4 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_199 ### Event 1879 (B754F71F) **Date:** 4/19/1897 **Locations:** Harlem Prison Farm; Fort Bend County, Texas; Lake Charles, Louisiana; Fort Worth, Texas **Description:** 12:00 noon. George Dunlap, a man known to [Davis H. Tucker](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62522267/davis-halsey-tucker)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62522267/davis-halsey-tucker) physician at the Harlem Prison Farm \[now the Jester State Prison Farm\] in Fort Bend County, Texas, is riding in the country near Lake Charles, Louisiana, when he sees an airship moving toward him about half a mile distant. It makes a loud whistling noise, scaring his horses and causing him to be thrown from the buggy. As the horses flee, the ship lands, a rope comes down, and two men rush over to apologize. They are the owner Mr. Wilson \(formerly of Fort Worth, Texas\) and his friend Scott Warren. The man is taken into the airship and introduced to two others, a Mr. Waters and a Hispanic man. Wilson tells him the airship is sustained by a gas, and that several of them have been built. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Was Aboard an Airship,” Dallas \(Tex.\) Morning News, May 16, 1897, p. 18 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_200 ### Event 1880 (CC8A3EF7) **Date:** 4/19/1897 **Locations:** Cochransville; Monroe County, Ohio **Description:** 9:00 p.m. A bright light moves from the northwest over Cochransville \[now a ghost town\], Monroe County, Ohio, where it hovers for 20 minutes, flashing red, white, and green lights. Through binoculars a cone-shaped object with large fins on either side can be discerned. It is apparently 180 feet long. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Hovered over the Town,” Cincinnati \(Ohio\) Commercial Tribune, April 20, 1897, p. 2 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_201 ### Event 1881 (D6E8ED5D) **Date:** 4/19/1897 **Location:** Yates Center, Kansas **Description:** 10:30 p.m. Rancher [Alexander Hamilton,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/24128929/alexander-hamilton) his son Will, and his hired hand Gid Heslip are awakened by a noise in the cattle pen of their ranch at Yates Center, Kansas. They watch as a 300-foot-long, cigar-shaped airship with a carriage underneath descends to about 30 feet above the ground. Two men, a woman, and three children are heard talking in the carriage. They see a calf caught in a nearby fence with a cable knotted around its neck that connects to the airship above. They cut the cable and the airship floats away. A few weeks later, Hamilton admits he made the story up. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 130, 593; Jerome Clark, “The Great Airship Hoax,” Fate 30, no. 2 \(February 1977\): 94–97; Jerome Clark, “[The Leroy, Kansas, Calfnapping Hoax of 1897,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201976%20V%2022%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 22, no. 6 \(April 1977\): 26; Daniel Cohen, The Great Airship Mystery, Dodd, Mead, 1981, [pp. 92–102](http://www.spaceshipsofezekiel.com/html/misc-kansas-airship-cownapping.html) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_202 ### Event 1882 (5614AE04) **Date:** 4/19/1897 **Locations:** Houston; Beaumont, Texas; Gulf of Mexico; Iowa; Beaumont **Description:** After 11:00 p.m. [John R. Ligon](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38196324/john-rudolph-ligon)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38196324/john-rudolph-ligon) an agent for a brewery in Houston, and his son [Charley](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/106767425/charles-e-ligon) notice lights in a pasture a few hundred yards away near Beaumont, Texas. They walk over and discover four men moving around a large dark object, who ask for water. They accompany Ligon to his house, each bringing two baskets, which they fill and return. One of the men identifies himself as “Wilson” and says they are traveling in a flying machine that has been over the Gulf of Mexico and is now headed toward Iowa. Ligon says the airship is 130 feet long and 20 feet wide, propelled by four large wings and powered by electricity. Wilson gives Ligon a tour of the ship and says it is one of five built in a small Iowa town. Rabbi [Aaron Levy](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/41239517/aaron-levy) of Beaumont also claims to have met aeronauts from a landed airship near the city around the same time. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Inspected the Air Ship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26383442/the-houston-post/)” Houston \(Tex.\) Daily Post, April 21, 1897, p. 2; “[The Airship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26726900/the-times-picayune/)” New Orleans Daily Picayune, April 25, 1897, p. 7; Jerome Clark, “Mystery Aeronauts of Texas,” IUR 33, no. 3 \(December 2010\): 5–6; Clark III 81–82 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_203 ### Event 1883 (AA6CE7EB) **Date:** 4/19/1897 **Description:** Mr. Sisson, a postmaster, was walking in the woods on this afternoon in Greenfield, Illinois when he saw an airship in the sky, estimated to be only 150 feet up in the air. He could see a woman on the deck of the object catching pigeons with a net. That same day a man nine miles away found a letter with "Airship Co., Oakland, California" letterhead. The note read, "Having delightful time…Mollie…catching [pigeons] with a net," and went on to describe 200 mph jaunts to St. Louis, Chicago, and Kansas City." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0039, citing the St. Louis (MO) Star, April 20, 1897; Carrollton (IL) Patriot, April 23, 1897; Philip Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 10 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2130 ### Event 1884 (11C69047) **Date:** 4/19/1897 **Location:** Greenfield, Illinois **Description:** The postmaster of Greenfield, Illinois, witnessed an airship flying about 150 feet above him in the woods. He reported seeing a woman on a deck at the front of the craft, using a net to catch pigeons. (Chapter 1, Ref 21) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_21 ### Event 1885 (DA8382F9) **Date:** 4/19/1897 **Location:** 9 miles from Greenfield, Illinois **Description:** A piece of paper with a message was found about nine miles from the April 19, 1897 Greenfield, Illinois sighting. The message was written on a letterhead from "Airship Co., Oakland, Cal.," describing a successful scheme of catching birds with a net and indicating the incredible speed of the airship, which had traveled between St. Louis, Chicago, and Kansas City in remarkably short periods of time. If accurate, this would indicate a speed of over 200 miles per hour, far beyond 19th-century norms. (Chapter 1, Ref 22) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_22 ### Event 1886 (0EFB5DA7) **Date:** 4/19/1897 **Location:** near Norway, Wisconsin **Description:** A boy claimed to witness an airship landing on a farm. He reported seeing several occupants leaving the craft to gather water, which they poured into a container that resembled a boiler on the ship. (Chapter 1, Ref 42) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_40 ### Event 1887 (23CB3788) **Date:** 4/19/1897 **Location:** Beaumont, Texas **Description:** Approximate date. A rabbi in Texas encountered an airship that had landed on a farm near Beaumont. He spoke briefly with one of the occupants who mentioned traveling and testing the machine but couldn't recall specific details about the inventor or the place of origin. (Chapter 1, Ref 66) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_64 ### Event 1888 (71B4103A) **Date:** 4/19/1897 **Location:** near the Texas-Louisiana border **Description:** In 1897, a man named Wilson frequently appeared in connection with occupants of landed airships. Near the Texas-Louisiana border, an airship landed, and two occupants introduced themselves as Mr. Wilson and Scott Warren. The witness was invited aboard the airship, where he saw an 8-by-14-foot cabin with reclining chairs, incandescent lamps, and a unique propulsion system powered by a secret gas. Wilson explained navigation techniques involving magnetic wheels and propellers. The airship was around 75 by 25 feet and had a top speed of approximately 160 miles per hour. (Chapter 1, Ref 87) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_82 ### Event 1889 (792B4AC9) **Date:** 4/19/1897 **Location:** Beaumont, Texas **Description:** In another incident in 1897, a farmer and his son discovered a landed airship near Beaumont, Texas. The airship, measuring around 130 feet long and 20 feet wide, had four men outside, including one named Wilson. Wilson explained that the ship used water ballast for landing and described its propulsion system involving large wings and propellers powered by electricity. He mentioned that the airship was made of steel and contained compartments for compressed air, and it was on its way from a flight over the Gulf of Mexico to Iowa. (Chapter 1, Ref 88) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_83 ### Event 1890 (762B01FA) **Date:** 4/20/1897 **Location:** USA, Uvalde, (Texas) **Description:** (Translated from French) At around 10 pm Sheriff H. W. Baylor heard voices and saw a strange light behind his house. That's when he saw three men near a craft. One of the characters gave his identity: Wilson, from Groshen (New York) and asked for news of the previous sheriff, a certain C.C. Akers, whom he had known very well. (??) Here we find the citizen Wilson, alleged "inventor" of the airship. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 178-179 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_535 ### Event 1891 (02AA3180) **Date:** 4/20/1897 **Location:** USA, Homan (Arkansas) **Description:** (Translated from French) It is probably from this Tuesday, April 20, that the fabulous adventure of Captain James Hooton, train driver, dates. He had gone that day to Texarkana (Texas) and having free time in front of him, he had decided to go to Homan. He recounts: "It was about 3:00 pm when I arrived at Homan. Around 6:00 pm, after having spent a good afternoon at my favorite sport, I set off to reach the station. As I advanced in the bushes, my attention was drawn to a familiar sound, that of the whistle of the air pump of a locomotive. I then headed in the direction from which the noise came and there, in a kind of clearing, I saw the object that emitted the whistle. I was more than surprised and immediately understood that it was the famous flying ship that had been seen across the country. There was a man of medium build on board and I noticed that he was wearing dark glasses. He was repairing what seemed to be the back of the ship and as I approached, he was so stunned that he could not speak. (...) While I addressed him a few words, three or four other men came out of what must have been the keel of the flying ship. A close examination showed me that this part was divided into two (...) there were three large wheels on each side, they were metal bars folded in a concave shape. - I beg your pardon, I said, but it seems to me that the noise I hear is very similar to that of the Westinghouse brake. - It is quite possible, I was answered, we use airplanes and compressed air but you will soon know more. I also observed that a tube of about 3 cm section, began to send steam on the wheels and that these began to turn. The machine rose little by little emitting a whistle. It soon accelerated and in less time than it takes to say, they disappeared from my sight". (April 20, 1897) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 179, witness drawing p. 180 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_536 ### Event 1892 (A0AC64E9) **Date:** 4/20/1897 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The skin, legs and head of the heifer taken away the day before were found several miles away. **Reference:** [GEPAN](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/GEPAN.html), Information Note No. 2, 1981 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1897.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_246 ### Event 1893 (36C7F246) **Date:** 4/20/1897 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) One of the mysterious aircrafts that flew over the United States that year. The witness who drew the strange vessel even claimed to have been able to talk to the occupants. See image at images/1897-2.jpg. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1897.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_247 ### Event 1894 (3DBBE9BD) **Date:** 4/20/1897 (approximate) **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** NNW / LANCASTER, OH **Description:** Airship going down / field. Horse spooked. 2 riders show observer(s) craft. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Newspaper account: Lancaster, OH 1897: Cincinnati Enquirer, 25APR1897. http://home.fuse.net/ufo/Aeribarque.html (via Kenny Young) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_195 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "262", **HatchDesc:** "NNW/LANCASTER,OH:AIRSHIP ↓/FLD:HORSE SPOOKED:2 RIDERS SHOW OBS CRAFT:", **LatLong:** "39.766669 -82.666671", **LatLongDMS:** "39:46:00 N 82:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.766669,-82.666671)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 1895 (A99B418C) **Date:** 4/20/1897 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** UVALDE, TX **Description:** Airship lands. Crew / 3 ask sheriff / water. Inquire about local man.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** CLARK, Jerome & COLEMAN, Joren: THE UNIDENTIFIED; Warner PBs, NY 1975 (Index 149) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_196 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **MIB:** Men in Black, **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "276", **HatchDesc:** "UVALDE,TX:AIRSHIP LANDS:CREW/3 ASK SHERIFF/WATER:INQUIRE ABOUT LOCAL MAN..", **LatLong:** "29.216668 -99.783338", **LatLongDMS:** "29:13:00 N 99:47:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.216668,-99.783338)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 1896 (836C268F) **Date:** 4/20/1897 **Location:** Homan, AR **Description:** 6:00 p.m.Capt. James Hooton was hunting in the vicinity of Homan when he heard the noise of a steam engine and found an object in a clearing. It looked like a cylinder with pointed ends, lateral wheels, and horizontal blade over it. Hooton spoke with a man who wore dark glasses and walked behind the craft. There were three or four occupants. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_37 ### Event 1897 (EDF95023) **Date:** 4/20/1897 **Time:** 1800 **Location:** Homan, Arkansas **Description:** Capt. James Hooton was hunting in the vicinity of Homan when he heard the noise of a steam engine and found an object in a clearing. It looked like a cylinder with pointed ends, lateral wheels, and horizontal blade over it. Hooton spoke with a man who wore dark glasses and walked behind the craft. There were three or four occupants. The witness was told this was indeed "The Airship" and that it used compressed air for propulsion. Hooton saw the wheels spin as the craft rose and flew away. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** FSR 66, 4; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_25 ### Event 1898 (6442DAF5) **Date:** 4/20/1897 **Location:** Elkton, South Dakota **Description:** [Henry Heintz](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21985845/henry-heintz) of Elkton, South Dakota, patents an airship consisting of a cigar-shaped balloon and a structure for passengers beneath it. At some point he allegedly brings his invention out for a test flight in front of the Elkton blacksmith shop. The airship rises 8 feet into the air before plopping to the ground. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** US Patent, “[Air Ship,](https://patents.google.com/patent/US580941A/)” granted April 20, 1897; Ruth Becken, A History of Elkton, \[City of Elkton,\] 2000, p. 94 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_204 ### Event 1899 (46755C96) **Date:** 4/20/1897 **Locations:** Uvalde, Texas; Goshen, New York; Eagle Pass, Texas; San Angelo; Getty Street in Uvalde; Galveston; Fort Worth **Description:** 10:00 p.m. Sheriff [Henry W. Baylor](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33531179/henry-weidener-baylor) of Uvalde, Texas, sees a bright light and hears strange voices behind his house. He finds a landed airship and its crew of three men, one of whom is named “Wilson” \(from Goshen, New York\), who inquires after an acquaintance, [C. C. Akers](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/160043209/christopher-columbus-akers) of Eagle Pass, Texas. After procuring water from a hydrant in Baylor’s yard, the men board the airship, which speeds away northward toward San Angelo. County Clerk Henry J. Bowles sees the airship as it passes over Getty Street in Uvalde. Akers tells a reporter in Galveston that he knew a New Yorker named Wilson when he lived in Fort Worth in 1876–1877. Baylor’s seemingly compelling testimony disintegrates after he confesses in late May to making the whole story up, possibly in collusion with Akers. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “The Airship in West Texas,” Galveston \(Tex.\) Daily News, April 24, 1897, p. 3; “[The](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92031234/) [Airship at Uvalde,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92031234/)” Weimar \(Tex.\) Mercury, May 1, 1897, p. 6; “[Airship Story Exploded,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/17770700/the-weimar-mercury/)” Weimar \(Tex.\) Mercury, May 22, 1897, p. 7; Jerome Clark, “Mystery Aeronauts of Texas,” IUR 33, no. 3 \(December 2010\): 6–7; Clark III 82–83 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_205 ### Event 1900 (DEE6851F) **Date:** 4/20/1897 **Description:** Capt. James Hooton was hunting in the vicinity of Homan, Arkansas when he heard the noise of a steam engine and found an object in a clearing. It looked like a cylinder with pointed ends, lateral wheels, and had a horizontal blade overhead. Hooton spoke with a man who wore dark glasses and walked behind the craft. There were three or four occupants in total. The witness was told this was indeed "The Airship" and that it used compressed air for propulsion. Capt. Hooton saw the wheels spin when the craft rose and flew away. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 184; Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1966 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2149 ### Event 1901 (07D9142F) **Date:** 4/20/1897 **Location:** Uvalde, Texas **Description:** A Texas sheriff encountered a landed airship on his property near Uvalde. The airship's occupants, including one named Wilson, requested water for their craft. Wilson mentioned being from Goshen, New York, and inquired about an acquaintance named Sheriff Akers. This incident brought to mind previous interactions with a man named Wilson who had been working on aerial navigation and inventions related to airships, leading to suspicions that this might be the same person. After loading water, the airship's wings and fins were set in motion, and it departed northward toward San Angelo. (Chapter 1, Ref 89) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_84 ### Event 1902 (62ED0022) **Date:** 4/21/1897 **Location:** USA, Harrisburg (Arkansas) **Description:** (Translated from French) In the night, around 1:00 AM, former senator Harris was awoken by a curious noise. Looking outside, he then saw a strange object in the sky, heading west. He immediately got up, dressed, and went outside with binoculars. Immediately he realized it was the wonderful flying ship that had been talked about so much in the newspapers. He could clearly make out its shape as the object drew closer. The mysterious craft slowed and gradually descended until it reached an altitude of a few meters above the ground, very close to the field where Harris was. The latter said there were on board an elderly man, a woman, and two young people. The old man had a long black beard that reached down to his waist. He had black eyes like jet and an expression of great firmness. Having approached, Harris called out to the old man. The latter seemed at first surprised to see someone outside at such a late hour, but he politely answered him. After drinking some fresh water, he said: "Well, you seem to be a very intelligent man and if you promise not to divulge my secret with the intention of harming me, I will tell you the whole story, except for what concerns the propulsion mechanism." After receiving assurances from Harris, he continued: "..you will surely remember that 26 years ago, what is now called the St Louis Republic was then the St... it became... and later it was the..., about 26 years ago it was exclusively the St Louis Times, an exposition concerning a scientific invention made by a gentleman whose name I cannot mention and thanks to which the laws of gravity were purely and simply defied. He received offers of large sums of money from several syndicates of the country and other offers even came from Paris, London and many other places. Meanwhile he suddenly fell seriously ill and died in a few weeks leaving his invention in secret in a chest. That man was my uncle and he had partly confided his secret to me. Not enough however for me to do something. After 19 years I managed to obtain the original file and since I had a lot of money I then spent seven years experimenting with the flying ship that you see here. I have not yet finished my tests and that is why I continue to fly at night so that I am not spotted. I will try to reach the planet Mars before making this invention public. Weight is not a problem for me. I eliminate all the effects of gravity by placing spires of metal wire around the object. You see on board I have embarked a Hotchkiss cannon of 4 tons and about 20 tons of ammunition. I was preparing to go to Cuba to demolish the Spanish troops if hostilities did not cease, but now my plans have changed and I am going to the aid of the Armenians. To power the weapon you see here it is enough to place the cartridges in a kind of hopper and press a button so that it fires 63,000 shots per minute. No, really, gravity is not my problem. I place my metal wire around this 4-ton gun and I can then pick it up with one hand. Distances are almost no longer important; thus, at 12:10 less than an hour ago, we were above Dallas and yet we traveled very slowly. I will have my breakfast here, do my shopping in Paris and I will be back here for dinner without any inconvenience. The man then saluted Harris, boarded the flying ship and in a few seconds it was gone towards the stars, hidden by the darkness of the night. (April 21, 1897) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 181-182 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_537 ### Event 1903 (953AA031) **Date:** 4/21/1897 **Location:** USA, Rockland. **Description:** (Translated from French) 23:00: John M. Barclay had gone to bed when he heard his dog barking furiously, with plaintive cries in its throat. He went out and saw a curious body, oblong in shape, with wings and other various pieces on each side. There were bright lights that illuminated much more than electric bulbs. When he first saw it, the object seemed stationary less than five meters from the ground; it then made some circles in the sky and finally landed in a meadow near the house. The witness then took his Winchester and went to see what it was. The object had now turned off all its lights. As he was about thirty meters from the craft, he encountered an ordinary mortal who asked him to lower his weapon because no harm would be done to him. Then a conversation ensued.

- Who are you and what do you want? - My name is not important, call me Smith. I would like some lubricating oil and a pair of cold scissors if you can find them, as well as a sharpening stone. Here is a ten dollar bill, go get these items and keep the change for your trouble. - What are you doing here and what kind of device is this? Let me go and see. - No, we cannot allow you to approach any closer, but if you wish and because of your kindness, we will call you one of these days to take you for a ride in the air. Barclay brought back the requested items (except the sharpening stone which he could not get), the man thanked him by shaking his hand. As he was leaving, Barclay asked him where he was coming from and where he was going. The man replied: - From nowhere, but we will be in Greece in two days. He then boarded, there was a sound of a wheel turning and the object took off immediately. It disappeared at lightning speed, as a rifle bullet would add Barclay. (April 21, 1897) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 180-181 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_538 ### Event 1904 (631B7179) **Date:** 4/21/1897 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Rockland.. (April 21) **Reference:** *Houston Daily Post* of April 22, 1897 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1897.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_248 ### Event 1905 (18263B17) **Date:** 4/21/1897 **Time:** 01:00 **Location:** HARRISBURG, AR AND HOMAN, AR / 20 APRIL AND MCKINNEY SPRS / 23 APRIL **Description:** Great airship lands 3X / 4 days. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 209) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_197 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "136", **Elev:** "84", **HatchDesc:** "HARRISBURG,AR+HOMAN,AR/20APR+McKINNEY Sprs/23APR:GREAT AIRSHIP LANDS 3X/4DAYS", **LatLong:** "35.566668 -90.716671", **LatLongDMS:** "35:34:00 N 90:43:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.566668,-90.716671)", **State/Prov:** "Arkansas", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 1906 (E38A806B) **Date:** 4/21/1897 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** ROCKLAND, TX **Description:** Cylinder/cigar-shape with vibrant bright lights lands. Pseudo-human/entity asks / gets tools. Goes extremely fast. R224p38. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: DIMENSIONS, A Casebook of Alien Contact Ballentine, NY 1989. PB (Index 42) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_198 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **MIB:** Men in Black, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "39", **HatchDesc:** "ROCKLAND,TX:CGR W/VBRITE LITES LANDS:PSH ASKS/GETS TOOLS:GOES XFAST:r224p38", **LatLong:** "31.016668 -94.383338", **LatLongDMS:** "31:01:00 N 94:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.016668,-94.383338)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 1907 (DC89E549) **Date:** 4/21/1897 **Location:** New Orleans, Louisiana **Description:** 12:30 a.m. An employee of the Picayune newspaper in New Orleans, Louisiana, steps outside the office and sees an airship, 50–60 feet long and bearing a powerful searchlight. He returns to tell his colleagues, but by the time they come out, the airship is gone. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[The Airship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95260852/)” New Orleans Picayune, April 21, 1897, p. 9 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_206 ### Event 1908 (7D5F5D62) **Date:** 4/21/1897? **Locations:** Lancaster; Baltimore, Ohio **Description:** 8:00 p.m. A man is riding his horse between Lancaster and Baltimore, Ohio, when something scares his horse. He sees an object with two brilliant white lights on either end landing in a nearby field. He tethers his horse and approaches the object, which seems as large as a house. Inside he can see two men conversing, so he walks up to ask them questions. One of the aeronauts seems to be Japanese and the other speaks English with a British accent. The craft is called the Aeribarque, and they are on a test flight. The aeronaut says that they often land in remote areas and come to nearby towns for supplies or mechanical parts, posing either as tourists or “harmless cranks trying to invent perpetual motion.” After giving the witness a demonstration of the electrical lighting system, they take off into the sky. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Aeribarque, That’s It’s Official Name,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92031315/)” Cincinnati \(Ohio\) Enquirer, April 25, 1897, p. 9 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_207 ### Event 1909 (F1AD0FF7) **Date:** 4/21/1897 **Locations:** Erie, Pennsylvania; Lake Erie **Description:** 11:00 p.m. Confectioner [John S. Scheer](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9511205/john-s%5F-scheer), [Frank King](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6019275/frank-a%5F-king), and Frank Mulick of Erie, Pennsylvania, watch a cigar- shaped, winged object moving north at a relatively high rate of speed. It has a large propeller on its tail end, but it flies silently and disappears over Lake Erie. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Passed over Erie,” Erie \(Pa.\) Daily Times, April 22, 1897, p. 8 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_208 ### Event 1910 (E10B52E5) **Date:** 4/21/1897 **Location:** Harrisburg, Arkansas **Description:** An ex-senator encountered an airship crew who revealed their craft's anti-gravity operation. The crew consisted of an elderly man with a long beard, two younger men, and a woman. The crew shared their ability to suspend gravity using a wire, and after a polite conversation, they flew off in their airship. (Chapter 1, Ref 46) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_44 ### Event 1911 (47C0030F) **Date:** 4/21/1897 **Location:** Near Ogdin, West Virginia **Description:** A witness reported an encounter with remarkably tall occupants of a well-lit object that landed near Ogdin, West Virginia. The witness described the eight beings as being between 11 and 12 feet tall, with oversized heads. They claimed to be exploring Earth, consumed small pills, and "drank air" before departing in their craft after an hour. (Chapter 2, Ref 104) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_98 ### Event 1912 (83B1E42A) **Date:** 4/22/1897 **Location:** USA, Josserand (Texas) **Description:** (Translated from French) Frank Nichols, a distinguished farmer living about 3 km east of Josserand, was awakened a little before midnight by a humming of machinery. He then saw outside like a strange vessel with bright lights that landed in a cornfield. Nichols went out and approached. Before reaching the ship he was approached by two men with buckets who asked him to take some water from his well. Nichols was invited on board and he spoke freely with the crew composed of six or eight individuals. The machinery was so complicated that in the short conversation that followed, he could hardly understand the mechanism. However, one of the men told him that the problem of aerial navigation had been solved. The hull of the aircraft was built with a new material that had just been discovered and had the property of staying in the air by itself. As for the motive force, it was highly condensed electricity. He was informed that five of these flying machines had been built in a small town in Iowa and that soon this invention would be made public. Others are being built and within a year the use of these flying vessels will be generalized. Nichols will convince any skeptic by showing him the place where the flying object landed. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 183 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_539 ### Event 1913 (BF89A57A) **Date:** 4/22/1897 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) To explain this aircraft, there are as many explanations as there are individuals. Those who have not seen it think it is a hoax, but it must be said that the personality of the witnesses does not confirm this point of view. A number of people think that this machine belongs to a gang of criminals who have secured the collaboration of scientists for their misdeeds. With the projector and X-rays, they inspect the inside of houses and can even see what the bank vaults contain \(...\). Another solution proposed is that it would be an exploration mission from another planet. But the most plausible theory is that it is a brilliant inventor who has solved the problem of air navigation and who is carrying out tests with friends. (April 22) **Reference:** Houston Post **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1897.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_249 ### Event 1914 (003CA989) **Date:** 4/22/1897 **Location:** Rockland, TX **Description:** John M. Barclay was intrigued when his dog barked furiously and a high-pitched noise was heard. He went out, saw a flying object circling 5 m above ground. Elongated with protrusions and blinding lights, it went dark when it landed. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_39 ### Event 1915 (5D2178AF) **Date:** 4/22/1897 **Location:** Josserand, TX **Description:** Midnight. Frank Nichols, who lived 3 km east of Josserand and was one of its most respected citizens, was awakened by a machine noise. Looking outside, he saw a heavy, lighted object land in his wheat field. He walked toward it, was stopped by two men who asked permission to draw water from his well. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_41 ### Event 1916 (6AF33972) **Date:** 4/22/1897 **Location:** Rockland, Texas **Description:** John M. Barclay was intrigued when his dog barked furiously and a high-pitched noise was heard. He went out, saw a flying object circling 5 m above ground. Elongated with protrusions and blinding lights, it went dark when it landed. Barclay was met by a man who told him his purpose was peaceful and requested some common hardware items to repair the craft. He paid with a ten-dollar bill and took off "like a bullet out of a gun." **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 192; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_26 ### Event 1917 (5DB24CDD) **Date:** 4/22/1897 **Time:** 2400 **Location:** Josserand, Texas **Description:** Frank Nichols, who lived 3 km east of Josserand and was one of its most respected citizens, was awakened by a machine noise. Looking outside, he saw a heavy, lighted object land in his wheat field. He walked toward it, was stopped by two men who asked permission to draw water from his well. He then had a discussion with a half-dozen men, the crew of the strange machine. He was told how it worked but could not follow the explanation. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 193; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_27 ### Event 1918 (D9B2DE25) **Date:** 4/22/1897 **Location:** Kenly, North Carolina **Description:** 7:30 p.m. Prominent citizens, including the mayor, observe a low-flying airship heading slowly southwest above Kenly, North Carolina. Its sails “resembled mosquito netting to the naked eye.” The outlines of two people aboard are plainly visible. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Men Seen in the Airship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92031390/)” Raleigh \(N.C.\) News and Observer, April 25, 1897, p. 4 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_209 ### Event 1919 (EDEE4060) **Date:** 4/22/1897 **Location:** Kokomo, Indiana **Description:** 10:10 p.m. A ball of fire is seen moving slowly and horizontally from southwest to northeast over Kokomo, Indiana. Some people can distinguish the faint outlines of a cigar-shaped object and wings. The light is white with a reddish tint and no more than 300 feet in altitude. The witnesses include [Harry M. Grimes](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/45505516/harry-m%5F-grimes), [William E.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/45520445/william-e%5F-sollenberger) [Sollenberger](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/45520445/william-e%5F-sollenberger)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/45520445/william-e%5F-sollenberger) and banking executive [Frank McCarty](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/45505516/harry-m%5F-grimes). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “The Mysterious Air Ship,” Kokomo \(Ind.\) Daily Tribune, April 23, 1897, p. 4 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_210 ### Event 1920 (C0F88352) **Date:** 4/22/1897 **Location:** Rockland, Texas **Description:** 11:00 p.m. [John M. Barclay](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/76038714/john-mack-barclay) wakes up when he hears a whirring noise that causes his dogs to bark wildly outside his home near Rockland, Texas. He goes outside and sees an oblong airship with wings and brilliant lights. When he first sees it, the object is hovering 150 feet above the ground. It circles a few times then lands in a nearby pasture. Barclay goes down to investigate with his Winchester rifle, but the lights go out as he gets closer. Some 90 feet away from the airship he is stopped by a man who asks him to put his rifle down. He identifies himself as “Smith” and gives Barclay $10 to purchase lubricating oil, two chisels, and bluestone. When Barclay returns with the materials, the aeronaut will only say he is from “anywhere,” adding that “we will be in Greece tomorrow.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Supplies for Airship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26495409/the-houston-post/)” Houston \(Tex.\) Post, April 25, 1897, p. 13 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_211 ### Event 1921 (128FA090) **Date:** 4/22/1897 **Locations:** Josserand, Texas; Iowa town **Description:** 12:00 midnight. Frank Nichols, a farmer living 2 miles east of Josserand, Texas, is awakened by a whirring noise. Outside, he sees a huge airship in his cornfield. Before he can get close, two men with buckets ask him if they can draw water from his well. Nichols consents and in return they give him a tour of the vessel, whose motive power is “highly condensed electricity.” One aeronaut tells him that five airships have been built in an Iowa town. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[That Airship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26234423/the-houston-post/)” Houston \(Tex.\) Post, April 26, 1897, p. 2 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_212 ### Event 1922 (DE6F3CEE) **Date:** 4/22/1897 **Description:** John M. Barclay of Rockland, Texas was intrigued when his dog started barking furiously at 11:30 p.m. and he heard a high-pitched noise. He went outside and saw a flying object circling five meters above the ground. It was elongated with protrusions and blinding lights. It went dark when it landed. A man who told him his purpose was peaceful met Barclay and requested some common hardware items to repair the craft. He paid with a ten-dollar bill. The craft took off "like a bullet out of a gun." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Houston Post, April 22, 1897 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2203 ### Event 1923 (C819F896) **Date:** 4/22/1897 **Description:** On or about this same night Frank Nichols, who lived two miles east of Josserand, Texas and was one of its most respected citizens, was awakened around midnight by the noise from a machine. Looking outside, he saw a heavy, illuminated object land in his wheat field. He walked toward it but was stopped by two men who asked permission to draw water from his well. He then had a discussion with a half-dozen men who were the crew of the strange craft. He said they told how it worked but he could not follow the explanation. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Houston Post, April 26, 1897; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 184-185 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2204 ### Event 1924 (86982602) **Date:** 4/22/1897 **Location:** Stephensville, Texas **Description:** An airship landed near Stephensville, Texas, with a 60-foot-long cigar-shaped object manned by two men, S.E. Tillman and A.E. Dolbear. Despite curiosity from local residents, the pilots declined to allow anyone to examine the airship, ultimately flying away. (Chapter 1, Ref 39) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_37 ### Event 1925 (CDD7EA19) **Date:** 4/22/1897 **Location:** Texas **Description:** A farmer encountered an airship with bright lights and wings that landed on his property. The occupant of the airship requested lubricating oil and tools, offering money in exchange. The occupant declined to allow the farmer to approach the airship but promised to reciprocate the kindness by taking him on a future trip. The farmer managed to gather some items, and upon his return, the aeronaut thanked him, shook his hand, and mentioned flying to Greece in a matter of days before taking off at high speed. (Chapter 1, Ref 47) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_45 ### Event 1926 (1047F8FE) **Date:** 4/22/1897 **Location:** Lorain, Ohio **Description:** A note allegedly dropped from an airship named "Airoia" was found by a prominent townsman. The note claimed the airship had traveled across various states, fished in the Great Lakes, and was piloted by William R. Harris, along with his wife and child. The writer mentioned plans to return to New Mexico and construct a larger boat to cross the sea. (Chapter 1, Ref 69) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_67 ### Event 1927 (3FDEAFFD) **Date:** 4/22/1897 **Location:** Josserand, Trinity County, Texas **Description:** A Texas farmer observed a large, brightly lit vessel in his cornfield and spoke with a crew of six or eight individuals. The crew claimed the aerial navigation problem had been solved using a newly discovered self-sustaining material and highly condensed electricity for propulsion. They mentioned building five such ships in Iowa and forming a stock company for the invention's public release. (Chapter 1, Ref 83) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_78 ### Event 1928 (AFD3C1ED) **Date:** 4/23/1897 **Location:** USA, Texarkana (Texas) **Description:** (Translated from French) On Friday, April 23, 1897, Judge Mc Kinney Bayou was assessing a piece of land when he saw a singular device on the ground. The witness specified that the device was occupied by three men who were speaking a foreign language. According to their appearance, they must have been Japanese. The apparatus was made of aluminum and operated with compressed air. (April 23, 1897) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 183 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_541 ### Event 1929 (FA115DDB) **Date:** 4/23/1897 **Location:** USA, Burton (near Flint, Detroit) **Description:** (Translated from French) In a farm in Burton, a certain Daniel Gray heard a noise that was a mix of a whistle and a rumble. Soon he saw a dark object with flashes of light pass over him. Suddenly he saw an object fall to the ground near him: it was a newspaper from Toronto (Canada) dated October 5, 1896... **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p.183-184 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_542 ### Event 1930 (D31ACB07) **Date:** 4/23/1897 **Location:** USA, Newport **Description:** (Translated from French) From the newspaper "The Kentucky Post" 24.4.1897, page 3: "Here's The Latest" Airship Passes Over City Of Newport 'A Mysterious Message' Dropped From The Skies By Captain Pegasus. On Friday, April 23, the airship passed over Newport around 8 o'clock. Mrs. Pilling from No. 18 West Third Street said she saw it. It had the shape of a cigar and carried an intense light. Miss L. Remme, an artist and sister of Ed Remme, the cashier of the German National Bank - living at No. 22 West Third Street, found a small muslin bag filled with sand in her garden. There was also a message written on a piece of paper: "We passed over Newport at 40 miles an hour. We have traveled 200 miles since 4:30 pm on Friday afternoon. We hope to be in Nashville on Sunday at 3:30. CAPTAIN PEGASUS." **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_543 ### Event 1931 (A85C0D77) **Date:** 4/23/1897 **Location:** McKinney Bayou, AR **Description:** Judge Lawrence A. Byrne of Texarkana, Arkansas, was surveying a tract of land when he saw a peculiar object anchored on the ground. "It was manned by three men who spoke a foreign language, but judging from their looks one would take them to be Japs." (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_43 ### Event 1932 (EAA67E5D) **Date:** 4/23/1897 **Location:** McKinney Bayou, Arkansas **Description:** Judge Lawrence A. Byrne of Texarkana, Arkansas, was surveying a tract of land when he saw a peculiar object anchored on the ground. "It was manned by three men who spoke a foreign language, but judging from their looks one would take them to be Japanese." **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Farish, in Allende Letters - Award Special, 1968 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_28 ### Event 1933 (EFAC1BA0) **Date:** 4/23/1897 **Location:** Kountze, Texas **Description:** Night. [Henry A. Hooks](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11296433/henry-allen-hooks) and [A. W. Hodges](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39090302/armenous-will-hodges) of Kountze, Texas, allegedly meet two aeronauts named Wilson and Jackson when their airship suffers a gas leak and lands. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[That Airship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/8357294/the-houston-post/)” Houston \(Tex.\) Post, April 25, 1897, p. 5 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_213 ### Event 1934 (CD5E2016) **Date:** 4/23/1897 **Description:** Judge Lawrence A. Byrne of Texarkana, Arkansas was surveying a tract of land when he saw a peculiar object anchored on the ground. "It was manned by three men who spoke a foreign language, but judging from their looks one would take them to be Japs." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 185 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2249 ### Event 1935 (9033BEC1) **Date:** 4/23/1897 **Description:** According to the Houston Post, two men reported that they had discovered a landed airship near the town of Kountze, Texas. It was cigar shaped, 50 feet long and 20 feet wide. They talked to the two human occupants of the airship, named Jackson and Wilson, who were allegedly repairing a punctured "air compartment." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Houston Post, April 25, 1897; Donald B. Hanlon, Flying Saucer Review, January-February 1967, p. 25; Philip L. Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 49 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2250 ### Event 1936 (8700A1F2) **Date:** 4/23/1897 **Location:** Kountze, Texas **Description:** Two individuals claimed to have found a landed airship near Kountze, Texas. The airship had a cigar-shaped appearance, measuring about 50 feet in length and 20 feet in width. The occupants of the craft, introduced as Jackson and Wilson, were in the process of repairing a punctured "air compartment." Interestingly, there was also a member named Wilson mentioned among the California Aero Club members identified by Charles Dellschau in his notebooks, although this might be a mere coincidence. (Chapter 1, Refs 90, 91) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_85 ### Event 1937 (735D19D6) **Date:** 4/24/1897 **Location:** USA, Chattanooga (Tennessee) **Description:** (Translated from French) Two workers encountered a certain Professor Charles Davidson near a "cigar" lying on the ground. According to this "professor", the craft had left Sacramento last month and had been travelling around the country since then. On the same day, in Waxaxie (Texas) while they were fishing, Judge Love and his friend Beatty saw a strange machine in the woods. Around it there were five men dressed very warmly. One of them, who spoke English well, explained to the two witnesses that this flying ship came from certain regions of the North Pole where, contrary to what is believed, there is a vast inhabited land. He also explained that his people were one of the ten lost tribes of Israel. As they could not find wood in their inhospitable lands, they had built aerial vessels. According to the character, there were currently twenty of these craft above the United States and Europe, they were all supposed to be at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition in Nashville on the 18th and 19th of June. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p. 175 **Reference:** according to the "Dallas Morning News of 19.4.1897 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_544 ### Event 1938 (DF1CE971) **Date:** 4/24/1897 **Locations:** Stringers Ridge; Chattanooga, Tennessee; Sacramento, California **Description:** An airship in need of repairs lands near Stringers Ridge on the other side of the river from Chattanooga, Tennessee. An unnamed journalist talks to one of the aeronauts, who identifies himself as Prof. Charles Davidson of Sacramento, California, the inventor of the airship, which can travel as fast as 93 mph. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Is This a Reality?](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92031801/)” Knoxville \(Tenn.\) Morning Tribune, April 25, 1897, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_214 ### Event 1939 (494FC27F) **Date:** 4/24/1897 **Location:** Toledo, Ohio **Description:** 11:00 p.m. Howard Warn is outside his home in Toledo, Ohio, when he notices bright, multicolored lights moving rapidly toward the southwest. The lights are attached to a cigar-shaped object at an altitude of 500 feet. He calls his father, [Milo S. Warn](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/150324144/milo-s-warn)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/150324144/milo-s-warn) and they watch the lights until the object disappears into heavy clouds to the southwest. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Say They Saw the Airship,” Cleveland \(Ohio\) Plain Dealer, April 28, 1897, p. 5 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_215 ### Event 1940 (92A926A1) **Date:** 4/24/1897 **Description:** A man in Louisville, Kentucky heard a buzzing noise, looked up, and saw a cigar-shaped craft 200 feet up. He could see the form of a man standing at the stern. "He looked at me, and I waved my hat. Two other men were sitting in the helm." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Louisville Courier Journal, April 25, 1897 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2269 ### Event 1941 (E582D7A4) **Date:** 4/24/1897 **Time:** evening **Location:** Louisville, Kentucky **Description:** A man observed a buzzing sound and spotted a cigar-shaped airship at an altitude of around 200 feet. The witness noticed a man standing at the stern of the craft, and two other men sitting in the helm, before the airship departed toward the south. (Chapter 1, Ref 23) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_23 ### Event 1942 (9EBBFC97) **Date:** 4/25/1897 **Location:** USA, Merkel (Texas) **Description:** (Translated from French) Houston Daily Post of April 26: "Groups returning from church last night noticed a heavy object dragging a rope attached to it. They followed it until, crossing the railroad track, the rope got caught in a rail. Looking up, people saw what they supposed to be an aerial vessel. It was not close enough for them to get a good idea of its dimensions. Lights could be seen in some portholes, and there was a very bright headlight in the front, resembling that of a locomotive. After about ten minutes, a man was seen sliding down the rope. He got close enough for them to see him clearly; he was wearing a blue sailor's suit and was of small stature. He stopped when he saw the groups near the anchor, cut the rope beneath him and the vessel moved off in a north-easterly direction. The anchor is now on display in the blacksmiths' shop of Elliot and Miller and is attracting the attention of hundreds of people." **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p.52-53 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_545 ### Event 1943 (43B015A2) **Date:** 4/25/1897 **Location:** Merkel, TX **Description:** Evening. People returning from church observed a heavy object being dragged along the ground by a rope attached to a flying craft. The rope got caught in a railroad track. The craft was too high for its structure to be visible but protrusions and a light could be distinguished. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_45 ### Event 1944 (CA85056B) **Date:** 4/25/1897 **Time:** evening **Location:** Merkel, Texas **Description:** People returning from church observed a heavy object being dragged along the ground by a rope attached to a flying craft. The rope got caught in a railroad track. The craft was too high for its structure to be visible but protrusions and a light could be distinguished. After about 10 min a man came down along the rope cut the end free, and went back aboard the craft, which flew away toward the northeast. The man was small and dressed in a lightblue uniform. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 194; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_29 ### Event 1945 (2857072E) **Date:** 4/25/1897 **Location:** Merkel, Texas **Description:** Evening. As some residents of Merkel, Texas, are leaving a church service, they notice a heavy, anchor- shaped object being dragged by a large rope that is attached to an airship in the sky not far above them. After 10 minutes, a small figure dressed in a blue sailor suit starts climbing down the rope. But when he sees people watching him, he cuts the rope and returns to the airship, which moves away to the northeast. The anchor goes on exhibit at a local blacksmith shop. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Anchor of the Airship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/25149804/the-houston-post/)” Houston \(Tex.\) Post, April 28, 1897, p. 5 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_216 ### Event 1946 (21909DF0) **Date:** 4/25/1897 **Location:** Sunbury (Ohio) **Description:** Night. [William F. Whittier](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/34031943/william-francis-whittier), editor of the Sunbury \(Ohio\) News-Item, sets up his camera in the printing office to take lightning photographs. He manages to take a photo of a nearby lightning strike and develops it the following morning. The negative shows not only the lightning but the outline of what seems to be an airship. Whittier makes many copies of the photo and sells them to Sunbury residents. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Fairy Story: A Sunbury Editor Takes a Photograph,” Dayton \(Ohio\) Daily Journal, April 28, 1897 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_217 ### Event 1947 (CC275319) **Date:** 4/25/1897 **Description:** People returning from church in Merkel, Texas observed a heavy object being dragged along the ground by a rope attached to a flying craft. The rope got caught in a railroad track. The craft was too high for its structure to be visible but protrusions and a light could be distinguished. After about ten minutes a man came down along the rope and cut the end free. He climbed back aboard the craft, which flew away toward the northeast. The man was small and dressed in a light blue uniform. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Houston Daily Post, April 28, 1897; Donald B. Hanlon, Flying Saucer Review, January-February 1967, p. 24; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 185 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2287 ### Event 1948 (3BF44525) **Date:** 4/25/1897 **Location:** Merkel, Texas **Description:** Witnesses returning from church observed a heavy object being dragged along by a rope, which eventually caught on a railroad rail. Upon looking up, they believed they saw an airship with lights in several windows, including a bright front light resembling a locomotive headlight. A man was seen descending the rope and cutting it when he noticed people nearby, before sailing off in a northeast direction, leaving the anchor on display at a local blacksmith shop. (Chapter 1, Ref 24) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_24 ### Event 1949 (BA836E9D) **Date:** 4/25/1897 **Location:** Lancaster, Ohio **Description:** A prominent individual claimed to have encountered a massive airship with two occupants. The craft had brilliant lights and unique features, including tubular wires that were both strong and lightweight. The inventor, referring to the craft as an "aeribarque," demonstrated its anti-gravity capabilities, advanced temperature control, and colorful lights before ascending and departing rapidly. (Chapter 1, Ref 84) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_79 ### Event 1950 (CFE7760D) **Date:** 4/26/1897 **Location:** USA, Aquila (Texas) **Description:** (Translated from French) In the evening a lawman saw a luminous object in flight. His horse became scared, panicked and almost overturned the carriage when a very powerful searchlight suddenly lit up. The cigar-shaped object turned off and on several times this beacon before disappearing behind a hill as if wanting to land. As the witness was less than a kilometer from Hillsboro, he saw the craft take off from the ground. It headed northeast at a speed greater than 150 km/h. From time to time it flashed several bright lights. Between the two observations an hour had passed. (April 26, 1897) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p.184 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_546 ### Event 1951 (E5FAF21F) **Date:** 4/26/1897 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Merkel, Texas. Groups returning from church last night noticed a heavy object being pulled by a rope attached to it. They followed it until, crossing the railroad tracks, the rope got caught in a rail. Looking up, they saw what they supposed to be the airship. They were not close enough to give an idea of its dimensions. Light could be seen from some portholes; there was a very bright one in the front, resembling the headlight of a locomotive. After about 10 minutes, a man was seen sliding down the rope. He got close enough for them to see him clearly; he was wearing a blue sailor suit and was of small stature. He stopped when he saw the groups near the anchor, cut the rope beneath him and went back in a north-east direction. The anchor is now on display at the Elliot and Miller blacksmith shop and is attracting the curiosity of hundreds of people. (April 26) **Reference:** *Houston Daily Post* of April 28, 1897 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1897.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_250 ### Event 1952 (88A7360F) **Date:** 4/26/1897 **Time:** 21:00? **Location:** MERKEL, TX **Description:** Airship anchor caught / railroad/railway tracks. Small humanoid (or Grey) descends. Cuts rope / men appear. Going quickly northeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: DIMENSIONS, A Casebook of Alien Contact Ballentine, NY 1989. PB (Index 41) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_199 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey" **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "3", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "570", **HatchDesc:** "MERKEL,TX:AIRSHIP ANCHOR CAUGHT/RR TRACKS:OID DESCENDS:CUTS ROPE/MEN APPR:>>NE", **LatLong:** "32.472224 -100.011116", **LatLongDMS:** "32:28:20 N 100:00:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.472224,-100.011116)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 1953 (168768C5) **Date:** 4/26/1897 **Location:** Aquila-Hillsboro, TX **Description:** Approximate date. A lawyer was surprised to see a lighted object fly over. His horse was scared and nearly toppled the carriage. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_46 ### Event 1954 (BC28150A) **Date:** 4/26/1897 **Location:** Aquila-Hillsboro, Texas **Description:** Approximate date. A lawyer was surprised to see a lighted object fly over. His horse was scared and nearly toppled the carriage. When the main light was turned off, a number of smaller lights became visible on the underside of the dark object, which supported an elongated canopy. It went down toward a hill to the south, 5 km from Aquila. When the witness was on his way back one hour later he saw the object rising. It reached the altitude of the cloud ceiling and flew to the northeast at a fantastic speed with periodic flashes of light. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 195 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_30 ### Event 1955 (92241555) **Date:** 4/26/1897 **Description:** A lawyer was surprise to see a lighted object fly over as he was driving his carriage three miles north of Aquila, Texas. His horse shied and nearly toppled the carriage. When the main light was turned off, a number of smaller lights became visible ont he underside of the dark object, which supported an elongated carriage. The airship went down toward a hill to the south, five kilometers from Aquila, Texas. When the witness was on his way back, one hour later, he saw the object ascending. It reached the altitude of the cloud ceiling and flew to the northeast at a fantastic speed with periodic flashes of light. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 30; Dallas Morning News, April 28, 1897 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2327 ### Event 1956 (0464DDC0) **Date:** 4/26/1897 **Description:** At 5:15 a.m. in Barring Cross, Arkansas a photograph of a structured flying object was taken. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jerome Clark, Flying Saucer Review, July 1967, p. 22 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2328 ### Event 1957 (3DD432EC) **Date:** 4/26/1897 **Description:** At 11:00 p.m. in Sidnaw, Michigan several people saw a green ball of light fly overhead. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Marquette (MI) Mining Journal, May 1, 1897 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2329 ### Event 1958 (ACD6B30B) **Date:** 4/27/1897 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** Elkton, Kentucky **Description:** A family was startled by their barking watchdog and saw a large cigar-shaped object with white wings in the sky. The object had visible guy ropes and rods, and three men were seen aboard, waving their hands as the machine flew a zig-zag course, suggesting it might have been malfunctioning. (Chapter 1, Ref 25) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_25 ### Event 1959 (E409416F) **Date:** 4/27/1897 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** Pennsylvania **Description:** A flying machine resembling a large cigar was observed by reputable witnesses, who noted three visible men aboard the craft. The airship flew at an altitude of approximately 2,000 feet and appeared to be under the complete control of its operators, as reported by a local newspaper. (Chapter 1, Ref 26) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_26 ### Event 1960 (6CE4E765) **Date:** 4/28/1897? **Locations:** Deadwood, Texas; Beaumont **Description:** 8:00 p.m. [Hiram C. LaGrone](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20794337/hiram-clark-lagrone) hears a disturbance among his horses on his ranch at Deadwood, Texas. Stepping outside, he sees a brilliant, multicolored light approaching from the southwest. It slows, hovers, then lands in a field. LaGrone walks up and discovers five men, two of whom take rubber bags and procure water from his well. The other three tell him that this is one of five airships touring the country \(and the same one that landed in Beaumont on April 19\). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[The Airship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/8357123/the-houston-post/)” Houston \(Tex.\) Post, April 30, 1897, p. 7 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_218 ### Event 1961 (4BAE88BF) **Date:** 4/29/1897 **Location:** USA, Cincinnati **Description:** (Translated from French) John Ringer, a police officer, witnessed a curious spectacle at around 10pm: "I was standing at the corner of 8th Street when my attention was drawn to a string of lights moving across the sky. In front of them was a brighter light, like a projector. Behind it was a row of smaller lights, barely bigger than stars, in a line. It seemed so high up that I couldn't make out the shape of the object. It was all moving quickly towards the southwest and I was able to follow it until it disappeared. Beside me, a dozen people also observed this very strange thing..." **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD - Inforespace n° 36 p. 40 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_547 ### Event 1962 (85ACD7C9) **Date:** 4/29/1897 **Location:** USA, Holton (Michigan) **Description:** (Translated from French) On Thursday, April 29th there was a new observation. In the night, around 11:30 PM, a huge illuminated object coming from the north flew over Holton. It is said to have come very close to the ground and many people heard the commotion of passengers on board. During the 55 minutes of the flight, one could hear conversations and music. The craft measured 100 m in length and was followed by a kind of tail of about ten meters, as for its width and thickness, they were close to 30 m. At one point this tail began to spin and the "beings" threw overboard a hook that caught one of the witnesses, who was brought back on board. (?) The next day this aerial traveler returned by train from White Cloud. (April 29, 1897) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p.184-185 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_548 ### Event 1963 (B5AA0684) **Date:** 4/30/1897 **Time:** ~03:00 **Location:** YONKERS, NY **Description:** 3 locals. 'Great airship' with partially covered spotlight. Going north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLAMMONDE, Paris: UFO EXIST!; Ballentine Books, NY 1976. PB 480pp. (Index 115) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_200 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "YONKERS,NY:3 LOCALS:'GREAT AIRSHIP' WITH PARTIALLY COVERED SPOTLITE:>N", **LatLong:** "40.933335 -73.894448", **LatLongDMS:** "40:56:00 N 73:53:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.933335,-73.894448)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1964 (4BEEB332) **Date:** 5/1897 **Location:** USA **Description:** (Translated from French) USA First Great Kite Contest in the United States: 50 Competitors Participated. The Highest Altitude Reached Was 1429 Meters. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air. Chronicle..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 50 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_549 ### Event 1965 (E5A423C4) **Date:** 5/1897 **Location:** Marble, Washington **Description:** In northeast Washington, the town of Marble experienced an air of excitement in May 1897 when an airship was spotted over the mountains in the southern part of town. The airship, recognized by its fans and a rotating front apparatus, moved rapidly in a northeasterly direction before disappearing from view, leaving the mill crew and townspeople stirred by the sight. (Chapter 1, Ref 19) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_19 ### Event 1966 (642F9AB5) **Date:** 5/1/1897 **Location:** USA **Description:** (Translated from French) The Saginaw Evening News of this day reported the discovery of a shoe of gigantic proportions near the O'Donnel railway line. This curious find was of course supposed to have fallen from an aerial vessel. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p.185 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_550 ### Event 1967 (5ACCC95B) **Date:** 5/1/1897 **Time:** 21:00? **Location:** WINNIPEG, MBA **Description:** Many observer(s). Airship follows river going east. Turns sharply going north over hospital. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO ROUNDUP weekly email of UFO news: Joseph Trainor. http://www.digiserve.com/ufoinfo/roundup/ .. (Index 121) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_201 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "228", **HatchDesc:** "WINNIPEG,MBa:MANY OBS:AIRSHIP FOLOS RIVER > E:TURNS SHARPLY >N ovr HOSPITAL", **LatLong:** "49.900002 -97.116671", **LatLongDMS:** "49:54:00 N 97:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.900002,-97.116671)", **State/Prov:** "Manitoba", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1968 (0C662475) **Date:** 5/1/1897 **Description:** On this evening a mystery airship flew over Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It followed the river to the east, then made a sharp turn over a hospital. Also on the same night a well-lighted flying object with a clear outline flew over Shiloh, Ohio and was reported by a Mr. Chamberlain. It was supported by a narrow, 70 foot long cylindrical vessel that looked to be inflated. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** (1) Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 206, citing UFO Roundup; Philip L. Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 46, citing the Ashland Press, May 13, 1897 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2435 ### Event 1969 (5E99EA0C) **Date:** 5/1/1897 **Location:** Shiloh, Ohio **Description:** Residents of Shiloh, Ohio, reported witnessing a well-lit, cylindrical airship with sails and propellers, apparently created by an unnamed inventor. The airship was described as rising into the air and moving swiftly against the wind. (Chapter 1, Ref 86) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_81 ### Event 1970 (C92AB29A) **Date:** 5/2/1897 **Location:** Cassville, Indiana **Description:** 1:00 a.m. Edwin Shaffer is driving a rig about one-half mile west of Cassville, Indiana, when he encounters a landed airship 40 feet long. The object spooks his horse, which will not run past it. Shaffer claims the airship is crewed by midgets who speak no English. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “The Air Ship at Cassville,” Kokomo \(Ind.\) Daily Tribune, May 4, 1897, p. 8 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_219 ### Event 1971 (183A7A3B) **Date:** 5/3/1897 **Location:** Cassville, Indiana **Description:** During the 1896-1897 mystery airship sightings, most occupants were described as regular-looking humans, but there were exceptions. In a specific incident near Cassville, Indiana, on May 3, 1897, a man encountered a cigar-shaped craft in a gravel pit, occupied by a crew of smaller-than-average individuals who spoke an unfamiliar language. (Chapter 2, Ref 101) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_95 ### Event 1972 (D13E3B51) **Date:** 5/4/1897 **Location:** USA, Garfield, Cincinnati **Description:** (Translated from French) From the "The Cincinnati Enquirer, 5.5.1897": "AIRSHIP" Said To Have Been Seen Passing Over This City Last Night: many people saw around 9 o'clock last night the famous airship. Dr. Louis Domhoff, 112 Garfield Place, made a sketch of the light which had the shape of an egg and was red in color and of which part seemed to be obscured as by a curtain, the beams of light escaping from the center and from each side. The phenomenon arrived from Price Hill and then took the direction of the southeast. The airship could be observed for 5 minutes before disappearing from view and in this time it seemed to have traveled a distance of 20 miles on a zigzag trajectory, going up and down. Bus driver J.C. Gaupel saw it in Monmouth street, also W.J. Klein, attorney living in Mitchell Building, and Fred Porter, from the Methodist bookstore and a lot of other people. (May 4, 1897) **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_551 ### Event 1973 (946555F4) **Date:** 5/4/1897 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** JENNY LIND, ARK **Description:** Whole town. Airship northeast going southwest. Lands! Pseudo-human/entity speak English. "Catch birds". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The AUSTRALIAN UFO BULLETIN; Qtrly. Judith MAGEE Ed. VUFORS PO Box 43, Moorabin, VIC 3189 Australia. (Index 953) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_202 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "128", **HatchDesc:** "JENNY LIND,ARk:WHOLE TOWN:AIRSHIP NE>SW:LANDS!:PSH SPEAK ENGLISH:"CATCH BIRDS"", **LatLong:** "35.250002 -94.316671", **LatLongDMS:** "35:15:00 N 94:19:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.250002,-94.316671)", **State/Prov:** "Arkansas", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 1974 (11E4C224) **Date:** 5/4/1897 **Location:** Cincinnati, Ohio **Description:** 9:00 p.m. Louis Dumhoff, a physician living at 112 Garfield Place in Cincinnati, Ohio, sees a red, egg-shaped light, “the rays escaping in the center and at each end.” It passes to the southeast in about 5 minutes, moving in a zigzag, up-and-down course. Conductor J. C. Gaupel and attorney W. J. Klein also see the light in the same neighborhood. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Airship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92049767/)” Cincinnati \(Ohio\) Enquirer, May 5, 1897, p. 7 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_220 ### Event 1975 (DB387EFE) **Date:** 5/4/1897 **Description:** The whole town of Jenny Lind, Arkansas watched an airship fly over from the northeast to the southwest at 7:30 p.m. It landed, and a human looking occupant got out. He spoke English, and told them he was out to "catch birds." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** St. Louis Post Dispatch, May 5, 1897; Jerome Clark, The Unidentified: Notes Toward Solving the UFO Mystery, p. 147; Philip L. Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 24 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2498 ### Event 1976 (8EA03884) **Date:** 5/4/1897 **Location:** Jenny Lind, Arkansas **Description:** Three bicyclists encountered a landed airship with two occupants named George Autzerlitz and Joseph Eddleman. They conversed with the pilots, who claimed to have dined on birds caught in flight. One of the bicyclists was offered and accepted a ride in the airship, flying to the nearby town of Huntington. (Chapter 1, Ref 50) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_48 ### Event 1977 (9F73D759) **Date:** 5/4/1897 **Time:** evening **Location:** Cincinnati, Ohio **Description:** On the evening of May 4th, several citizens in Cincinnati, Ohio, reported an egg-shaped, red object emitting rays. The object appeared to have a curtain-like covering, with rays escaping from the center and both ends, and it moved in a zigzag course, alternating between upward and downward motions. (Chapter 2, Ref 100) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_94 ### Event 1978 (D0F42AA2) **Date:** 5/6/1897 **Location:** USA, Hot Springs (Arkansas) **Description:** (Translated from French) At almost the same time, two policemen, Sumpter and Mc Lemore, observed one of these flying objects on the ground. The newspapers published an affidavit of the two witnesses. It mentions an object in the shape of a cigar and occupants with long black beards. Again, a conversation took place with the witnesses and, as always, it was of a disconcerting banality. "(...) Our horses refused to move forward. About 100 m in front of us we saw two people moving. A man with a long black beard advanced with a lantern in his hand (...) he and the others, a young man and a woman, were traveling in an aerial ship in the country. It was dark, it was raining, the young man was filling a large bag of water about 10 m from us, while the woman was standing in the shadows. She was sheltered under an umbrella. The man with the whiskers invited us to come with him, to take us to a place where it did not rain. We told him that we preferred to be wet. (May 6, 1897) **Reference:** Jacques VALLEE: "Other Dimensions" - trad. Robert Laffont 1989, p. 63, 64 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_552 ### Event 1979 (9683A132) **Date:** 5/6/1897 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Meeting with Deputy Sheriff [McLemore](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/temoins.html\#McLemore), from Hot Springs \(Arkansas\). (May 6) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1897.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_251 ### Event 1980 (D0960E7D) **Date:** 5/6/1897 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** HOT SPRINGS, ARK **Description:** 2 cops. Airship lands. Riders gather water. Woman rider hides. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** CLARK, Jerome & COLEMAN, Joren: THE UNIDENTIFIED; Warner PBs, NY 1975 (Index 143) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_203 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **MIB:** Men in Black, **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "193", **HatchDesc:** "HOT SPRINGS,ARK:2 COPS:AIRSHIP LANDS:RIDERS GATHER WATER:WOMAN RIDER HIDES", **LatLong:** "34.750002 -92.500004", **LatLongDMS:** "34:45:00 N 92:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.750002,-92.500004)", **State/Prov:** "Arkansas", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 1981 (AC1A226A) **Date:** 5/6/1897 **Location:** Hot Springs, AR **Description:** Two policemen, Sumpter and McLenore, were riding northwest of Hot Springs when they saw a bright light in the sky. About 7 km farther they saw the light again coming down to the ground. One km farther the horses refused to walk. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_48 ### Event 1982 (1D917C8E) **Date:** 5/6/1897 **Location:** Hot Springs, Arkansas **Description:** Two policemen, Sumpter and McLenore, were riding northwest of Hot Springs when they saw a bright light in the sky. About 7 km farther they saw the light again coming down to the ground. One km farther the horses refused to walk. Two men were seen carrying lights. The lawmen took their rifles, called the strangers, and were told that they crossed the country with a flying craft. The silhouette of the machine, about 2O m long, could be seen in the clearing. There was a woman with an umbrella nearby. It was raining, and the younger of the men was filling a large container with water. The elder man had a beard and suggested that the policemen fly with them "to a place where it does not rain." The same witness went back through the same spot 40 min later and found nothing. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** FSR 66, 4; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_31 ### Event 1983 (4FC9D56E) **Date:** 5/6/1897 **Locations:** Hot Springs, Arkansas; five miles west of Hot Springs, Arkansas; Nashville, Tennessee **Description:** During a rainstorm five miles west of Hot Springs, Arkansas, Deputy Sheriff John McLemore and Constable John J. Sumpter Jr. see a light in the sky descend behind a hill one half-mile away. After seeing two persons carrying lights, they draw their rifles and demand to know who is there. A man with a long, dark beard tells them that he and two others are traveling around the country in an airship and hope to end up in Nashville, Tennessee. He invites the officers to take a ride and transport them to somewhere dry, but they tell him they prefer to get wet. They return to the spot 40 minutes later and the airship is gone. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Swore They Saw It,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92049879/)” Little Rock Arkansas Gazette, May 9, 1897, p. 1; “[Swear They Saw It,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26231659/the-southern-standard/)” Arkadelphia \(Ark.\) Southern Standard, May 14, 1897, p. 2 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_221 ### Event 1984 (C986B517) **Date:** 5/6/1897 **Description:** Two policemen, Sumpter and McLenore, were riding northwest of Hot Springs, Arkansas when they saw a bright light in the sky. About seven km farther they saw the light again coming down to the ground. One km farther the horses refused to walk. Two men were seen carrying lights. The lawmen took their rifles, called the strangers, and were told that they crossed the country with a flying craft. The profile of the 20-meter long machine could be seen in the clearing. There was a woman with an parasol or umbrella nearby. It was raining, and the younger man was filling a large container with water. The elder man had a beard and suggested to the policemen that they fly with them "to a place where it does not rain." The same witness went back to the same spot 40 minutes later but found nothing there. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 186, citing Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1966 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2573 ### Event 1985 (4C899E48) **Date:** 5/6/1897 **Location:** Hot Springs, Arkansas **Description:** A constable and a deputy sheriff near Hot Springs, Arkansas, encountered a cigar-shaped airship with occupants consisting of a man with a long beard, a young man, and a woman. The bearded man explained that they were traveling in the airship, and they invited the officers to take a ride. The witnesses left and returned later, but the airship had departed. (Chapter 1, Ref 41) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_39 ### Event 1986 (D3B35FCB) **Date:** 5/9/1897 **Location:** Norwalk, Ohio **Description:** 8:00 p.m. Abe Parker of Norwalk, Ohio, sees an object with 10–12 bright white and red lights moving slowly over the town for about 10 minutes. Other witnesses report hearing music coming from it. An unnamed young witness, who follows the object out of town for about one mile after it passes over Main Street, says the shadow cast by the object is round. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “That Airship Again,” Cleveland \(Ohio\) Plain Dealer, May 11, 1897, p. 3 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_222 ### Event 1987 (E78A723B) **Date:** 5/11/1897 **Location:** Sandusky, Ohio **Description:** 10:00 a.m. [John E. Hopley](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/81287132/john-edward-hopley) is one of a small group of people in Sandusky, Ohio, who watch a “fleecy white bulk” floating far away to the west. Through binoculars the object looks like a white bird with long black wings. Hopley guesses that it is 1–2 miles high, 20 miles away, and 60–80 feet long. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[The Air Ship: John E. Hopley](https://www.newspapers.com/image/600597764) [Sees This Modern Invention,](https://www.newspapers.com/image/600597764)” Bucyrus \(Ohio\) Evening Telegraph, May 11, 1897, p. 4 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_223 ### Event 1988 (B56FC019) **Date:** 5/13/1897 **Location:** Homan, Arkansas **Description:** Captain Jim Hooton, a railroad conductor, reported encountering an airship near Homan, Arkansas. He observed a man aboard the ship wearing smoked glasses, and the ship's design included bulging sides, sharp edges, and rotating wheels that propelled it upward with a hissing sound before disappearing from sight. (Chapter 1, Ref 40) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_38 ### Event 1989 (1E8EF553) **Date:** 5/13/1897 **Location:** Savannah, Ohio **Description:** A wealthy recluse residing near Savannah, Ohio, who had recently returned from Nebraska, was suspected by his neighbors of experimenting with an airship, potentially linking him to the local airship sightings. (Chapter 1, Ref 85) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_80 ### Event 1990 (E6AA497B) **Date:** 5/15/1897 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) End of this wave of testimonies concerning aircraft. (May 15) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1897.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_252 ### Event 1991 (44657577) **Date:** 5/17/1897 **Location:** USA, Covington (Kentucky) **Description:** (Translated from French) From the "The Kentucky Post" of 18.5.1897, page 5: HE SAW IT, A Covington Man Wants To Make An Affidavit That He Beheld the Airship Hovering Over Eleventh Street "Mike Sheridan, well known in the city and residing in Eleventh Street, presented himself at Squire Wheeler's office in Scott Street this morning to testify to his observation of the airship Tuesday evening around 11 o'clock. The phenomenon passed over the intersection of Eleventh and Scott Streets. Mr. Sheridan said it was a cigar-shaped machine and, with all sails out, it presented a triangular shape. According to his best estimate, the vessel measured about 5 meters and was at very low altitude, about 15 to 18 meters. Sheridan adds that he clearly heard the engines. The witness is a middle-aged man of temperate habits who does not tend to play tricks on people. He has always lived in Covington and has a very good reputation there. " **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_553 ### Event 1992 (98B16679) **Date:** 7/4/1897 **Location:** Lexington, Kentucky **Description:** 7:45 p.m. Hundreds of witnesses in Lexington, Kentucky, see a lighted object silhouetted against a storm cloud in the southwest moving to the north at 500 feet altitude. When it nears the city, the light goes out and it disappears after passing over the western part of the city. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[The Air Ship or Its Twin Brother Passes over](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92051598/) [Lexington,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92051598/)” Lexington \(Ky.\) Morning Herald, July 5, 1897, p. 5 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_224 ### Event 1993 (0D0AAB71) **Date:** 7/10/1897 **Time:** 02:50 **Location:** RIVERS INLET, BC **Description:** 2 observer(s). Luminous 'pear' rises slow. Strong light. Unaffected by wind. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 17) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_204 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "65", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "RIVERS INLET,BC:2 OBS:LUMn.'PEAR' RISES SLOW:STRONG LITE:UNAFFECTED BY WIND", **LatLong:** "51.677780 -127.250006", **LatLongDMS:** "51:40:40 N 127:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.677780,-127.250006)", **State/Prov:** "British Columbia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1994 (07734661) **Date:** 7/11/1897 **Location:** NORWAY, SPITZBERG ISLAND **Description:** (Translated from French) S.A. Andree, Strindberg, and Fraenkel ascend in the balloon "Oernen" from Spitzberg Island in an attempt to cross the polar cap. They land on July 14 at 82° 55' 7" N 29° 32' W, 480 km from their departure point and 800 km from the Pole. On August 6, 1930, fishermen on White Island find the remains of the expedition: Andree and Strindberg's notes, as well as the expedition's photographic apparatus. The negatives, developed after more than 30 years, yield some excellent shots. Fraenkel's body is also found a few days later, along with his notes. **Reference:** "La conquête de l'air. Chronique..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout Université 1967, p. 50 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_554 ### Event 1995 (B30AEFFC) **Date:** 7/12/1897 **Time:** 02:00 **Location:** KAMLOOPS, BC **Description:** Several observer(s). Fireball rises / hill. Moves side-side. Beams light shoot out. Going quickly southwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 18) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_205 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "120", **Elev:** "346", **HatchDesc:** "KAMLOOPS,BC:SVRL OBS:FBL RISES/HILL:MOVES SIDE-SIDE:BEAMS LITE SHOOT OUT:>>SW", **LatLong:** "50.766669 -120.250006", **LatLongDMS:** "50:46:00 N 120:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.766669,-120.250006)", **State/Prov:** "British Columbia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1996 (F32D7FFD) **Date:** 7/29/1897 **Location:** Whitemouth, Manitoba **Description:** Sunset. Farmer [Andrew Henderson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/133414894/andrew-henderson) sees a large, unlighted, oblong object with a suspended car and a huge sail drifting to the northeast over his farm three miles from Whitemouth, Manitoba. He estimates it is only a half-mile away. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Could It Be Andree?” Winnipeg Manitoba Free Press, July 31, 1897, p. 1; “Big Balloon Story,” Winnipeg Manitoba Free Press, August 2, 1897, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_225 ### Event 1997 (4662899D) **Date:** 8/1/1897 **Time:** 02:00 **Location:** COLDSTREAM, BC **Description:** 3 observer(s). Night light rises / Mt. Skirt. Goes going quickly northwest over railroad/railway station against wind. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 18) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_206 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "416", **HatchDesc:** "COLDSTREAM,BC:3 OBS:NLT RISES/Mt SKIRT:GOES>>NW OVR RR STATION AGAINST WIND:", **LatLong:** "50.266669 -119.200006", **LatLongDMS:** "50:16:00 N 119:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.266669,-119.200006)", **State/Prov:** "British Columbia", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 1998 (43DF1A86) **Date:** 8/11/1897 **Time:** ~18:00 **Location:** ROSSLAND, BC **Description:** Several observer(s). Luminous fireball hovers / red mountain / 15 minute(s). Flashes color(s). Circles. Shoots going quickly south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 19) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_207 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "1138", **HatchDesc:** "ROSSLAND,BC:SVRL OBS:LUM.FBL HVRS/RED Mtn/15min:FLASHES CLRS:CIRCLES:SHOOTS>>S", **LatLong:** "49.066669 -118.816672", **LatLongDMS:** "49:04:00 N 118:49:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.066669,-118.816672)", **State/Prov:** "British Columbia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 1999 (5778C43D) **Date:** 8/11/1897 **Description:** At around 6:00 p.m. in Rossland, British Columbia, Canada a luminous red fireball hovered for 15 minutes over a nearby mountain. It flashed colors, circled, then shot off to the south. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 207, citing Loren E. Gross, Charles Fort, the Fortean Society, and UFOs, p. 19 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4854 ### Event 2000 (1193E532) **Date:** 8/14/1897 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Have you seen the light in the sky? If not, you're not in style. Many witnesses have seen it hovering above Vancouver almost every night this week. It was last seen on Friday night, maybe we'll see it again tonight, or maybe not. Last night, the mysterious object was spotted north of the city; it was heading east. The fireball, or aircraft as some call it, was observed closely. It approached very quickly, paused in the air, colored glows came out of it, and then it headed northeast. Sometimes it looked like a fireball, as its brightness faded and small sparks came out of its glowing mass.. **Reference:** *Daily World* of Vancouver, Canada **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1897.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_253 ### Event 2001 (161B5885) **Date:** 8/14/1897 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The crew of a ship near Norway sees an air balloon. **Reference:** Bullard: _Mysteries in the Eye of the Beholder_, 1982, 226 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1897.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_254 ### Event 2002 (52AAD013) **Date:** 8/14/1897 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Publication of *The War of the Worlds* by Herbert G. Wells. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1897.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_255 ### Event 2003 (8C43F705) **Date:** 8/14/1897 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin begins construction of his first airship, which he will fly for the first time in [1900](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/1900.html). **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1897.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_256 ### Event 2004 (F9F48017) **Date:** 8/16/1897 **Time:** 00:40 **Location:** HERON BAY, ON **Description:** 2 observer(s) and more. Great airship follows train as it turns going north inland. Lights and beams. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** STEIGER, Brad & WHRITENOUR, Joan: FLYING SAUCER INVASION. Award Books, NY 1969. 156pp PB. 15 Essays + catalog. (Index 34) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_208 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "229", **HatchDesc:** "HERON BAY,ON:2 OBS+:Gt.AIRSHIP FOLOS TRAIN AS IT TURNS >N INLAND:LITES+BEAMS", **LatLong:** "48.650002 -86.283337", **LatLongDMS:** "48:39:00 N 86:17:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.650002,-86.283337)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2005 (91C7F8AC) **Date:** 8/16/1897 **Description:** On this night at 12:40 a.m. a giant airship followed a train as it rounded a bend in the tracks around Heron Bay, Ontario, Canada and then flew off inland to the north >N inland. It had body lights and light beams. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 208, citing Brad Steiger **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5069 ### Event 2006 (B9315225) **Date:** 8/26/1897 **Locations:** Asheville, North Carolina; Grove Street **Description:** 6:45 p.m. An airship with an attached car is seen moving steadily southwest above Asheville, North Carolina, by Dr. [Willard P. Whittington](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/76743448/willard-porter-whittington) and two other men who are standing on Grove Street. It is about one mile in altitude. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Maybe It Was Andree on His Return?](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92052256/)” Charlotte \(N.C.\) Observer, August 27, 1897, p. 3 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_226 ### Event 2007 (A88A4E9B) **Date:** 8/28/1897 **Location:** Carlisle, Pennsylvania **Description:** 3:00 a.m. [Luther Myers](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55527533/luther-m.-myers) hears dogs barking outside his home in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. When he looks through the window, he sees a rapidly moving airship with a light on each end. It has a propeller and rotates as it moves forward. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Our Closeby](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92052496/) [Neighbors,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92052534/)” Chambersburg \(Pa,\) Valley Spirit, September 1, 1897, p. 5 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_227 ### Event 2008 (A1EF8CB3) **Date:** 9/7/1897 **Location:** Ellsworth (between Sherman and Denison), Texas **Description:** 2:00 p.m. V. H. Hollingsworth and his family in Ellsworth \(between Sherman and Denison\), Texas, see an unusual object approaching from the east. It has a fan-like wheel on front and fin-like projections on the side. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[The Air Ship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92052647/)” Marshall \(Tex.\) Evening Messenger, September 9, 1897, p. 2 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_228 ### Event 2009 (2ABB100C) **Date:** 9/17/1897 **Location:** ANTSIFEROVA, SIBERIA **Description:** Several observer(s). Round object flies going northwest. Seen / 5 min. No further details. / r84p33. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 204) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_209 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Russia", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "ANTSIFEROVA,SIBERIA:SVRL OBS:RND OBJ FLIES >NW:SEEN/5 min:NFD:/r84p33", **LatLong:** "50.483336 155.816674", **LatLongDMS:** "50:29:00 N 155:49:00 E", **Locale:** "Tundra", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.483336,155.816674)", **State/Prov:** "SIB", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 2010 (25389E39) **Date:** 9/17/1897 **Description:** In the far eastern reaches of Siberia several people witnessed a round UFO flying toward the northwest. It was seen for five minutes in Antsiferova, Russia. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Luminieres dans la Nuit, issue # 204; FSR, January-February 1969, p. 27; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 214 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6037 ### Event 2011 (E99C4805) **Date:** 10/14/1897 **Location:** PARIS, Versailles **Description:** (Translated from French) At Camp de Satory, Clement Ader attempted in very bad conditions (wind, rain) the first flight of an airplane. The wind blowed with force from behind first, then across. The "Airplane N° 3" took off, travelled a distance of 2 to 300 m. then made a forced landing on an unprepared terrain. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air. Chronicle..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 50 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_555 ### Event 2012 (4FF7132C) **Date:** 11/2/1897 **Location:** Dartmouth, Nova Scotia **Description:** 12:45 p.m. Engineer Charles W. West sees a balloon of unusual size passing southwest above Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. It looks like an inclined cylinder with rounded ends and has a car suspended from it. After 20 minutes it passes out of sight. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Saw the Man Who Saw the Ship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/78376981/the-boston-globe/)” Boston Daily Globe, November 5, 1897, p. 3 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_229 ### Event 2013 (F03B4099) **Date:** 11/17/1897 **Location:** Sacramento, California **Description:** Despite theories of an alien origin, the prevailing belief surrounding the mystery airships of the late 19th century pointed to an earthly source. The prevailing notion was that an unknown inventor or inventors within the United States had achieved breakthroughs in flight technology. Reports of airship inventors date back to the earliest days of the phenomenon, as exemplified by a telegram from a New York entrepreneur in 1896 claiming plans to fly his invention to California. (Chapter 1, Ref 60) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_58 ### Event 2014 (63924758) **Date:** 11/19/1897 **Locations:** Kellogg, Iowa; Colfax, Iowa **Description:** 11:00 p.m. A telegraph operator in Kellogg, Iowa, sees a bright, bluish light moving rapidly to the southwest. He notifies the operator at Colfax, Iowa, and people in the depot there also see it. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[See the Airship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92053408/)” Chicago \(Ill.\) Chronicle, November 20, 1897, p. 2 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_230 ### Event 2015 (46AE699C) **Date:** 11/22/1897 **Location:** San Francisco, California **Description:** A San Francisco lawyer initially claimed to know the inventor behind the mystery airship, describing it as a metal machine with wings and a rudder, capable of ascending and descending gracefully. The inventor was identified as E. H. Benjamin, a former dentist from Maine. However, the story took confusing turns as the lawyer's statements were retracted, replaced by another lawyer's claims of multiple airships under development, with details of their potential capabilities. Eventually, all pronouncements ceased, and no airship was publicly presented for inspection. (Chapter 1, Ref 61) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_59 ### Event 2016 (609FCDD9) **Date:** 11/22/1897 **Location:** San Francisco, California **Description:** An individual claimed to have encountered an airship in the Tamalpais range of mountains near San Francisco. The witness described meeting six men working on the ship, which was said to be the source of the mysterious lights seen in the sky. The ship was reported to make trial trips at night and return before daylight as it continued its development. (Chapter 1, Ref 62) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_60 ### Event 2017 (7BE76CA8) **Date:** 12/2/1897 **Location:** San Francisco, California **Description:** Two fishermen near San Francisco claimed to have witnessed an airship descending and landing on the ocean surface. They observed the crew guiding the craft to shore, and despite being initially ordered to leave, they were later allowed to observe the crew making repairs and share a meal from the airship's provisions. (Chapter 1, Ref 63) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_61 ### Event 2018 (6C4D9A8A) **Date:** 12/5/1897 **Locations:** Northern Minnesota; Deerwood **Description:** Early morning. Engineer John J. Hussey and fireman John Henderson of the Great Northern Railroad in northern Minnesota see a “large, white long light which seemed surrounded by some dark objects” near Deerwood. Other employees of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railways also view the light **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Was It an](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7273788/the-saint-paul-globe/) [Air-Ship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7273788/the-saint-paul-globe/)” Saint Paul \(Minn.\) Globe, December 7, 1897, p. 2 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_231 ### Event 2019 (F3A11D68) **Date:** 12/6/1897 **Location:** Watertown, CA **Description:** Residents of Watertown reported seeing a large airship with a bright light narrowly avoiding collision with the town's post office, providing potential corroboration for a letter writer's account of the airship's presence in the area. (See Dec. 7, 1897.) (Chapter 1, Ref 65) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_63 ### Event 2020 (15BB948F) **Date:** 12/7/1897 **Location:** Fresno, California **Description:** A letter in a Fresno newspaper claimed that the airship was present in Fresno County and mentioned details about its construction and functionality. The letter indicated that the airship's inventor had faced involuntary challenges during its flight and was planning to bring the airship to Fresno for public viewing pending favorable news from Washington. (Chapter 1, Ref 64) **Type:** mystery airship **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_62 --- ## Year: 1898, 19 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 2021 (6ECB4893) **Date:** 1898 **Locations:** Surrey; London; southern England **Description:** English author [H. G. Wells](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.%5FG.%5FWells) publishes The War of the Worlds, one of the earliest stories to portray a conflict between humans and an extraterrestrial race. The novel is the first-person narrative of both an unnamed protagonist in Surrey and his younger brother in London as southern England is invaded by Martians. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[The War of the Worlds](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%5FWar%5Fof%5Fthe%5FWorlds)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_232 ### Event 2022 (2E431E12) **Date:** 1/2/1898 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** ROMONT, SWZL **Description:** Fireball changes color(s) over Gros-Mont. Maneuvers all directions / high altitude. Going [to] behind mountains. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Database/website: Chez HEIDI site: Alain Stauffer. GREPI / Switzerland http://home.worldcom.ch/~dbenaroy/heidi.html **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_210 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Switzerland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "ROMONT,SWZL:FBL CHANGES CLRS OVR GROS-MONT:MNVRS ALL DIRs/HI alt:> BHND MTNS", **LatLong:** "46.700002 6.916667", **LatLongDMS:** "46:42:00 N 06:55:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.700002,6.916667)", **State/Prov:** "FRB", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 2023 (B70B302B) **Date:** 1/3/1898 **Location:** FRANCE, Vannes **Description:** (Translated from French) In the "Comptes rendus" of the Academy of Sciences, one can read, on the date of January 17, 1989, under the title Meteorology: observation of a double bolide in the sky of Vannes, the account of Commander Georget: "On January 3, I was returning to my home around 6:30 pm when I saw, to the northeast, at an altitude of 30 to 40 degrees, a luminous bolide of red color crossing the sky at a low speed. It disappeared towards the north in a point...(...) I observed the phenomenon with the "Soulier" telescope of 30 mm for a short moment. This bolide was formed of two distinct bodies "A" and "B" located at the same altitude "B" preceding "A". Remarkable particularity, the body "B" was affected by sudden oscillations which lasted only a few seconds. I counted from 4 to 5 oscillations per minute." (January 3, 1898) **Reference:** Jean François BOEDEC: "Les OVNI en Bretagne, Anatomie d'un Phénomène" ed. Fernand Lanore, Paris 1978, p. 27 and 28 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_556 ### Event 2024 (4CBF411E) **Date:** 1/3/1898 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** VANNES, FR **Description:** Cmdnt Georget / (seen thru) telescope. 2 slow-low meteors going north / 6 minute(s). 1 / oscillate/oscillation maneuvers. / r3p04. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BOEDEC, Jean-Francois: Les OVNI EN BRETAGNE, Anatomie d'un Phenomene. 1978 Editions Fernand Lanore, Paris. (Index 27) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_211 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "VANNES,FR:Cmdnt GEORGET/TSCOPE:2 SLOW-LOW METEORS >N/6min:1/OSC MNVRS:/r3p04", **LatLong:** "47.700002 -2.766667", **LatLongDMS:** "47:42:00 N 02:46:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.700002,-2.766667)", **State/Prov:** "Morbihan", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 2025 (8420F0D6) **Date:** 1/10/1898 **Location:** Rome, Georgia **Description:** 9:00 p.m. Residents of Rome, Georgia, watch a blue light “attached to some dark and indistinguishable object” as it flies from the northwest to the east. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Star-Gazing in Rome,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92053856/)” Atlanta \(Ga.\) Constitution, January 11, 1898, p. 4 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_233 ### Event 2026 (CD42869B) **Date:** 2/4/1898 **Location:** Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state, Germany **Description:** Mid-day. The postmaster of Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state, Germany, and 11 other persons see an object crossing the Sun’s disk. They watch the object approach the Sun for 15 minutes, take one hour to pass, and stay visible for another hour until clouds obscure it. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Martin Brendel, “[Ueber ein 1898 Febr. 4 in](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106020672595&view=1up&seq=175&skin=2021) [Greifswald beobachtetes Phänomen,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106020672595&view=1up&seq=175&skin=2021)” Astronomische Nachrichten 145 \(1898\): 333–334 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_234 ### Event 2027 (89EBEA96) **Date:** 4/25/1898 **Time:** ~21:00 **Location:** BELGRADE OBSERVER(S), SERBIA **Description:** Astronomer. Meteor stops still / 6 min. Then continues. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 25) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_212 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Former Yugoslavia", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "BELGRADE OBS,SERBIA:ASTRONOMER:METEOR STOPS STILL/6 MIN:THEN CONTINUES:NFD", **LatLong:** "44.800002 20.533334", **LatLongDMS:** "44:48:00 N 20:32:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.800002,20.533334)", **State/Prov:** "SRB", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 2028 (7E803BE3) **Date:** 4/25/1898 **Description:** Astronomer Michailovitch at the Belgrade Observatory in Serbia, Yugoslavia sighted a fireball at 9:32 p.m. that stopped still in the sky and hovered in one spot for six minutes before continuing on. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 17; Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 196 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2288 ### Event 2029 (1944A863) **Date:** 5/2/1898 **Location:** Pearson building in downtown New Castle, Pennsylvania **Description:** Dusk. Bystanders in front of the Pearson building in downtown New Castle, Pennsylvania, notice a bright arc light moving in from the southwest just below the clouds and remaining visible for 5 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[A Mysterious](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92054278/) [Light,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92054278/)” New Castle \(Pa.\) News, May 4, 1898, p. 10 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_235 ### Event 2030 (828E2773) **Date:** 6/1/1898 **Location:** Emporia, Kansas **Description:** 8:30 p.m. [Harry McCandliss](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99605907/harry-e.-mccandliss) is riding in the country near Emporia, Kansas, when he sees a cigar-shaped object flying toward the northwest at about 300 feet. It is suspended from a balloon and is peppered with electrical lights. At one point the lights go out then reappear. A searchlight beam in the front skitters in different directions. It ascends to 600 feet and is lost to view. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** \[[News note](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92054428/)\], Emporia \(Kan.\) Gazette, June 2, 1898, p. 4 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_236 ### Event 2031 (F235634B) **Date:** 6/29/1898 **Time:** 01:00 **Location:** FR ASTRONOMER LIBERT **Description:** Very bright slow white meteorite. 60 second(s) from Hercules to Ursa Major. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: CHALLENGE to SCIENCE, The UFO ENIGMA; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine Books, NY 1974. PB (Index 6) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_213 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "FR ASTR LIBERT:V BRITE SLOW WHT METEORITE:60 SEC FRM HERCULES TO URSA MAJOR", **LatLong:** "48.850002 2.316667", **LatLongDMS:** "48:51:00 N 02:19:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.850002,2.316667)", **State/Prov:** "Paris", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 2032 (A722F92E) **Date:** 7/4/1898 **Time:** 07:10 **Location:** PARIS **Description:** Astronomer Libert. Gold-yellow bolide seen / 12 minute(s) and 44 second(s). Speeds up at the end! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: CHALLENGE to SCIENCE, The UFO ENIGMA; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine Books, NY 1974. PB (Index 6) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_214 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "13", **HatchDesc:** "PARIS:ASTRONOMER LIBERT:GOLD-YLW BOLIDE SEEN/12min+44sec:SPEEDS UP at the END!", **LatLong:** "48.850002 2.350000", **LatLongDMS:** "48:51:00 N 02:21:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.850002,2.350000)", **State/Prov:** "Paris", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 2033 (0D93AAC2) **Date:** 7/8/1898 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Kiel, an object reddened by the [Sun](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Sun.html), as large as a rainbow, at a height of 12°, remained bright for 5 minutes, then faded, remained almost stationary and disappeared after 8 minutes. (July 8) **Reference:** *Nature*, 58-294 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1898.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_257 ### Event 2034 (A646B158) **Date:** 7/8/1898 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A Professor Michailovitch from the Belgrade Observatory is following a "comet" that remains stationary in the sky for 6 minutes. **Reference:** [Vallée](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/ValleeJacques.html), 1965, p. 35 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1898.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_258 ### Event 2035 (CFAD9008) **Date:** 7/8/1898 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Publication of [*The War of the Worlds*](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/warworlds/warw.html), by Herbert George Wells. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1898.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_259 ### Event 2036 (36292BEC) **Date:** 10/4/1898 **Locations:** Italy; Greenville; Garland; Blossom, Texas; Sherman **Description:** 9:00 p.m. A brilliant object passes over Italy, Greenville, Garland, and Blossom, Texas. Initially moving in an easterly direction, it seems to change course and shoot upwards then burst, throwing out three distinct objects, one red, the other white, and the last one blue. The red and blue lights die out, but the white one continue a few seconds before it too bursts, emitting a shower of sparks. Blossom merchant Dick Moore says the light is so glaring that he thinks his “house was falling on him.” About 2.5 miles north of Sherman, 12-year-old George Campbell is riding with his father when they see the fireball descending, apparently coming as close as 3 feet above the ground before moving upward; they can hear a buzzing noise and think the object is about 10 feet in diameter. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Aerial Phenomena in Texas,” Dallas \(Tex.\) Morning News, October 5, 1898; “The Meteor,” Dallas Morning News, October 7, 1898; Theo Paijmans, “High Strangeness in Texas,” Fortean Times 286 \(May 2012\): 30 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_237 ### Event 2037 (97FFA31F) **Date:** 10/4/1898 **Alternate date:** 10/3/1898 **Location:** Fort Washita, Oklahoma **Description:** Night. At Fort Washita, Oklahoma, Mrs. William Peveto \(possibly [Mary Peveto](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6822240/mary-e-peveto)\) watches a fireball \(probably the same one as October 4\) descend. A few minutes later, distracted by the meteor, she is standing in her kitchen when a “female ghost” appears and chats with her for a few minutes, saying that if she would follow her, she will lead her to a fortune. Peveto becomes terrified, and the entity flees through a closed door. The entity visits her again on other nights, again talking about treasure in the basement. They continue until February 1899 when they occur nightly. At one point the ghost claims to have been murdered years ago in Fort Washita and shows her strangle marks around her neck. Poltergeist phenomena \(tables moving\) occur and a male ghost also talks to her. Peveto becomes ill and apparently moves away from the place. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Ghosts at Old Fort Washita,” Dallas \(Tex.\) Morning News, October 20, 1898; “Old Fort Washita Ghosts: Mrs. Peveto Contributes Another Uncanny Chapter to the Record,” Dallas \(Tex.\) Morning News, March 26, 1899; Theo Paijmans, “High Strangeness in Texas,” Fortean Times 286 \(May 2012\): 30–31 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_238 ### Event 2038 (8C5628EB) **Date:** 10/27/1898 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** WICKLOW CO, IRELAND **Description:** Extra 3 / 4 moon going [to] over mountain / 5 minute(s). Also seen / Wales / r156#18p17. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_215 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "200", **HatchDesc:** "WICKLOW co,IRELAND:EXTRA 3/4 MOON >OVR Mtn/5min::also seen/Wales/r156#18p17", **LatLong:** "53.000003 -6.166667", **LatLongDMS:** "53:00:00 N 06:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.000003,-6.166667)", **State/Prov:** "Ireland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2039 (9F7676C8) **Date:** 11/2/1898 **Location:** SWITZERLAND, Geneva **Description:** (Translated from French) "Hélène Smith" upon waking around 6:15, noticed that a strange reddish light enveloped her entirely. A Venusian presented himself, she visited Venus with him, learned the Venusian language, etc. [note from Vog: I studied this Venusian: a mix of French and Yiddish, with syntax completely identical to that of the French language. Book to read: Theodore Flournoy: "Hélène Smith", ed. 1900, re-edited by KARDEC] (1898, 2 November) **Reference:** Jean FERGUSON: "Enigmes du temps présent", ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1979, p.102, 103 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_557 --- ## Year: 1899, 16 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 2040 (6976439F) **Date:** 1899 **Locations:** Colorado Springs, Colorado; Europe; Mars **Description:** Serbian-American inventor [Nikola Tesla](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola%5FTesla) is working in his laboratory near Colorado Springs, Colorado, when he observes unusual signals from his receiver that he speculates are communications from another planet. He mentions them in a letter to a reporter in December 1899 and to the Red Cross Society in December 1900. Reporters treat it as a sensational story and jump to the conclusion Tesla is hearing signals from Mars. In 1901, Tesla writes that it has not been immediately apparent to him that he is hearing “intelligently controlled signals” and that the signals could have come from Mars, Venus, or other planets. It is possible that he is intercepting [Guglielmo Marconi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo%5FMarconi)’s European experiments in July 1899—Marconi may have transmitted the letter S \(dot dot dot\) in a naval demonstration, the same three impulses that Tesla hinted at hearing in Colorado—or signals from another experimenter in wireless transmission. [Brian Dunning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%5FDunning%5F%28author%29) of the Skeptoid podcast attributes Tesla’s signals to pulsars, which are not identified until 1968. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Nikola Tesla, “[Talking with the Planets,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112109670726&view=1up&seq=154&skin=2021)” Colliers Weekly 26 \(February 9, 1901\): 4–5; Margaret Cheney, Tesla: Man Out of Time, Dorset Press, 1989 ed., [pp. 111–113](https://archive.org/details/teslamanoutoftim00chen/page/110/mode/2up); Daniel Blair Stewart, Tesla: The Modern Sorcerer, Frog, 1999, [p. 372](https://archive.org/details/teslamodernsorce0000stew/page/372/mode/2up); Michael D. Swords, “Radio Signals from Space, Alien Probes, and Betty Hill,” IUR 29, no. 4 \(July 2005\): 11; W. Bernard Carlson, Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age, Princeton University, 2013, [p. 315](https://archive.org/details/teslainventorofe0000carl/page/314/mode/2up); Brian Dunning, “[The Black Knight Satellite,](https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4365)” Skeptoid podcast, no. 365, June 4, 2013 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_239 ### Event 2041 (9AC3FF85) **Date:** 1899 **Locations:** Switzerland; Basel, Switzerland **Description:** Swiss psychologist [Carl Jung](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%5FJung) investigates his 15-year-old cousin, [Hélène Preiswerk](http://jungcurrents.com/helen-preiswerk) \(“S.W.”\), in Basel, Switzerland, who claims to be a spiritualist medium. Her trances frequently involve journeys to other planets. She claims that Martians have flying machines, and they irrigate the land with canals and artificial lakes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Hilary Evans, “Martians of the 1890s,” IUR 11, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1986\): 7–8 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_240 ### Event 2042 (F47704A7) **Date:** Mid 1/1899 **Location:** McMahan, Texas **Description:** Late night. People returning from a dance near McMahan, Texas, see a group of stars in formation, moving in one direction. A few miles further east, hunters camping on a hilltop see the full outline of an airship with headlights and windows. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Dallas \(Tex.\) News, January 25, 1899; Clark III 86 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_241 ### Event 2043 (87C6D46D) **Date:** 1/26/1899 **Location:** McAlester, Oklahoma **Description:** 11:00 p.m. People outside the opera house in McAlester, Oklahoma, watch an airship “like a railway car suspended from a large balloon-like arrangement” pass overhead. It shines a bright searchlight along the ground. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** \[[News note](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92056263/)\], Garfield County \(Okla.\) Democrat, February 9, 1899, p. 4 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_242 ### Event 2044 (D7B6156E) **Date:** 4/27/1899 **Location:** FRANCE, Baye (Marne) **Description:** (Translated from French) In 1973, Mr. Tyrode of the "Lumières dans la nuit" group met with Mr. A. Houley, then aged 83, who was a witness to the event. "This Thursday, the two children were playing with a top on the RN 51 in the center of the agglomeration. They were suddenly pulled out of their game by a very bright light that appeared to them in the sky in the direction of the northeast. They looked up and A. Houley was surprised to see a huge red ball, like a sphere of fire of an incandescent red, crossing the street obliquely. It was moving relatively slowly, without any perceptible noise, despite its apparent proximity. They estimated its altitude to be between 200 and 250 m, an altitude that was corroborated by older people, including their teacher, in relation to the length of the visible trajectory. The size was compared to the width of the road, which was 10 m. A. Houley sometimes gives the diameter as equal to five times that of the Moon, which corresponds to this diameter at this altitude. The ball was extended by a short tail of about 5 m. The object was flying at a very regular speed, as if sliding in the air and disappeared from the sight of the witnesses hidden by the houses bordering the road to the southwest. The total duration of the observation was about 9 seconds. (...) A. Houley felt nothing particular when the object passed, but Mr. Bergère felt a general tingling on the surface of his skin, tingling that lasted a good quarter of an hour. He also felt very nervous. After the passage of this phenomenon, the children rushed to their parents to tell them the adventure. They were believed on their word, although no one saw anything positive, but many people noticed the intense light and an old lady "La Mélie" was very affirmative and her statements supported the children's story. A. Houley recorded his observation in a notebook and never spoke of this matter again. Hearing about UFOs, he was lucky enough to find his 74-year-old notes. " **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p.150-151 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_558 ### Event 2045 (F4951370) **Date:** 4/27/1899 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** BAYE, FR **Description:** 2 kids and many. 10M red ball crosses N51 / steady trajectory going southwest. Lights area red. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 129) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_216 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "BAYE,FR:2 KIDS+MANY:10M RED BALL CROSSES N51/STEADY TRAJ >SW:LITES AREA RED", **LatLong:** "48.872225 3.761111", **LatLongDMS:** "48:52:20 N 03:45:40 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.872225,3.761111)", **State/Prov:** "Marne", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2046 (E249D06B) **Date:** 4/27/1899 **Description:** At four o'clock in the afternoon a 10 meter in diameter red ball crossed highway N51 near the town of Baye, Marne department, France on a steady trajectory. It illuminated the surrounding area a red color, and went off to the southwest. There were many witnesses. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 129 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2360 ### Event 2047 (8B2FA9A1) **Date:** 5/6/1899 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** PARIS **Description:** Astronomer Libert. Very very slow bolide. Shape = tadpole-head. Fast waving tail. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: CHALLENGE to SCIENCE, The UFO ENIGMA; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine Books, NY 1974. PB (Index 6) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_217 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "PARIS:ASTRONOMER LIBERT:VV SLO BOLIDE:SHAPE=TADPOLE-HEAD:FAST WAVING TAIL.", **LatLong:** "48.833336 2.350000", **LatLongDMS:** "48:50:00 N 02:21:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.833336,2.350000)", **State/Prov:** "Paris", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 2048 (A8BB4035) **Date:** 6/1/1899 **Locations:** Kamen-Rybolov, Primorsky Krai, Russia; Lake Khanka **Description:** Late evening. Observers in Kamen-Rybolov, Primorsky Krai, Russia, see a blue sphere about 28 inches in diameter flying silently from south to north near the steamboat Kazak Ussuriyskiy moored on Lake Khanka. It is seen for 20 minutes, then it returns later in the evening flying north to south at greater speed, disappearing 11 minutes later. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, p. 113 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_243 ### Event 2049 (065336C8) **Date:** 7/4/1899 **Location:** Spokane, Washington **Description:** 4:30 p.m. A mystery balloon floats across the sky in Spokane, Washington, from southwest to northeast. Before it disappears, it ascends so high that “nothing but a small black ball far up in the heavens could be discerned.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Who Owns the Big Balloon?](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92056412/)” Spokane \(Wash.\) Chronicle, July 5, 1899, p. 2 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_244 ### Event 2050 (48CB62B4) **Date:** 8/10/1899 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Torcy-Sedan, Jules Jarlot observed a red fireball for 10 minutes. (August 10) **Reference:** BSAF, 1900 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1899.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_260 ### Event 2051 (05A4B325) **Date:** 8/10/1899 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) [Nikola Tesla](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/TeslaNikola.html) perceived in his radio receiver strange rhythmic sounds that seemed to him to be signals from elsewhere. The thought crossed my mind that the disturbances observed could be due to some intelligent control, he will note, and he will remain convinced of having been the first to hear the greeting of an inhabitant of another planet. It is Mars that is signaling to America, he will affirm. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1899.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_261 ### Event 2052 (05E6584F) **Date:** 9/1899 **Location:** Mexico, northern part of the country **Description:** (Translated from French) In January 1996, Jorge Hernandez, dying, insisted on making a declaration to the Catholic priest, Father Joel de Mola, in Nacozari de Garcia. Jorge made an extraordinary confession saying that he was present when the American lawman Dave Mather disappeared in northern Mexico. Jorge added that Mather had been abducted by extraterrestrials. Dave Mather had been a friend of Wyatt Earp and his brothers, of Bat Masterson, of Doc Holliday and Kate Elder at the end of the 1870s in Dodge City, then the wildest of the cities of Kansas. Earps left the city and went to Arizona in 1880, and Mather left for Tucson, Arizona. In August 1899, the farmers of the Sierrita mountains, southwest of Tucson, began to complain about missing cattle. Mather formed a team and went to track down the thieves. Jorge Hernandez, then 14 years old, was part of the team, which was led by an Apache Indian from the San Carlos reservation, and they followed a trail into Mexico. About 80 km southwest of Nogales (Sonora) they saw an "enormous silver bowl in the sky". This UFO preceded the pursuers in bursts, always staying about half a mile ahead of them. Mather then suggested spreading out in a fan to try to find out where this "damned airship" was going. Jorge soon found himself alone on a path. Suddenly "a small man with silver clothes" was facing him, "threatening" him with a hollow tube. Jorge's horse reared and whinnied in terror. Jorge ended up on the sand, screaming he immediately fired a shot from his Colt 45, and repeated the shots as fast as he could. The six bullets hit the mark. But the "little man was flaming like a torch and disappeared." Jorge hurriedly ran to find the others and tell them about his encounter. The gringos laughed skeptically, only the Indian believed Jorge and even showed fear. Finally Mather volunteered to go back to the path. He would fire a shot if he met anyone. So the team waited for more than an hour. Then they saw the silver bowl rising from the earth to the sky, then taking off at lightning speed towards the horizon. Finally they set out to search for Mather: they found his horse in a state of extreme nervousness. Mather's Winchester was still in its leather case, the canteen was half full, there was no sign of violence or blood anywhere, but Mather was nowhere to be found. The Indian guide then remarked that there were only the marks of the horse's hooves, but no boot prints of Mather in the sand. Then the Indian mounted his horse and returned to San Carlos without a word of explanation, only saying "It is the people of the sky". The team stayed two more days in the area, but Mather remained missing. Father de Mola said in 1996 in a television program that Jorge Hernandez firmly believed until his death that the spaceship had been sent by God. **Reference:** UFO ROUNDUP, Volume 4, Number 19, August 31, 1999; Editor: Joseph Trainor **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_559 ### Event 2053 (02F5DE34) **Date:** 9/1899 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** SOUTHWEST / NOGALES, MX **Description:** Silver bowl follows Posse. 1 sees small humanoid (or Grey) / silver suit. Posse leader vanishes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO ROUNDUP weekly email of UFO news: Joseph Trainor. http://www.digiserve.com/ufoinfo/roundup/ .. (Index 227) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_218 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **ABD:** Human or animal abduction, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Mexico", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "120", **Elev:** "1300", **HatchDesc:** "SW/NOGALES,MX:SLVR BOWL FOLOS POSSE:1 SEES OID/SLVR SUIT:POSSE LEADER VANISHES", **LatLong:** "30.750001 -111.750005", **LatLongDMS:** "30:45:00 N 111:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.750001,-111.750005)", **RelAlt:** "2", **State/Prov:** "Sonora", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 2054 (6994EDA9) **Date:** 9/1899 **Location:** Mountains of northern Mexico south of Tucson, Arizona **Description:** A young Mexican boy claimed to have encountered a small humanoid in silver-colored clothing while searching for stolen cattle in the mountains. Feeling threatened, he shot at the creature, which disappeared. Later, a lawman from the group investigating the incident disappeared after approaching a UFO. Despite searching, no trace of the lawman was found, leaving behind an intriguing and unexplained story. (Chapter 2 Refs 114) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_107 ### Event 2055 (1C87569D) **Date:** 10/1899 **Location:** Fosston, Minnesota **Description:** Midnight. Physician Malcom McKinnon is driving home to Fosston, Minnesota, in his carriage when a dazzling ball of white light crosses the road ahead about one-quarter of a mile away, lighting up the road like daylight. It resembles an electric arc lamp and moves slowly from north to southeast about 3 feet above the ground, throwing the field furrows into visible relief. As it passes closer, McKinnon sees that it is clearly “disk shaped, about the size of an umbrella.” It is in sight for 30 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Minneapolis Minnesota Journal, October 25, 1899; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 239–251 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_245 --- ## Year: 1900, 13 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 2056 (8ECF56BE) **Date:** 1900 **Location:** SWITZERLAND, Emmishofen **Description:** (Translated from French) Pyrotechnician Karl Muller developed paragrêle rockets. They rose to altitudes of 1000 to 1500 meters and exploded there. In the 1950s, in Switzerland, such rockets were still fired into the clouds when hail threatened. The resulting atmospheric currents caused the hail to transform into snow. Under the effect of a second or third rocket, the snowflakes changed into raindrops. Muller's rockets had a length of 25 to 50 cm, a diameter of 3 to 4 cm and were propelled by ordinary black powder. (...) Each rocket had an effective area of about 1 km². **Reference:** "The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, pp. 19 and 20 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_560 ### Event 2057 (56BFC909) **Date:** 1900 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A Hanging Rock near Melbourne \(Australia\), the teenage Miranda McKay and 3 other girls, along with their Scottish governess from Appleyard College, disappear. **Reference:** UFO Roundup 4-36 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1900.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_262 ### Event 2058 (E5933BF8) **Date:** 1900 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin flew his first airship for the first time, the construction of which had begun in 1897. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1900.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_263 ### Event 2059 (BEB1183F) **Date:** 1900 **Location:** Geneva, Switzerland **Description:** Psychic medium [Catherine-Elise Müller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9l%C3%A8ne%5FSmith) \(under the pseudonym “Hélène Smith”\) of Geneva, Switzerland, becomes famous with the publication of Des Indes à la Planete Mars \(From India to the Planet Mars\) by [Théodore Flournoy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9odore%5FFlournoy)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9odore%5FFlournoy) professor of psychology at the University of Geneva. The medium and the psychologist remain very close until 1900, when the book is first published, documenting her various series of somnambulatory trances in which she experiences a civilization on Mars and her former lives: the “Martian” cycle, “Ultramartian” cycle, “Hindu,” “Oriental,” and “royal” cycles. She writes out the Martian communications on paper and translates them into French, popularizing automatic writing. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Society for Psychical Research, PSI Encyclopedia, “[Hélène Smith](https://web.archive.org/web/100/https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/helene-smith)”; Hilary Evans, “Martians of the 1890s,” IUR 11, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1986\): 4–6 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_246 ### Event 2060 (27DFDCEF) **Date:** 1900 **Location:** Wisconsin **Description:** During the first two decades of the 20th century, UFO reports continued to include a mix of both dirigible-like airships and more futuristic-looking "spaceships," resembling the diversity seen in the late 19th century. An example from 1900 in Wisconsin described a dirigible-shaped object displaying unusual characteristics, such as trees bending and a swishing sound as it passed low overhead, impacting a teenager and his horse. (Chapter 3, Ref 142) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_136 ### Event 2061 (669E747B) **Date:** Summer 1900 **Location:** Cadwst, Denbighshire, Wales **Description:** Dusk. A 12-year-old girl is walking back to her farm from Cadwst, Denbighshire, Wales, when a large disc- shaped object about 14 feet in diameter silently passes above her and over a nearby meadow. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 13–14 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_247 ### Event 2062 (EF123941) **Date:** Mid Summer 1900 **Location:** Reedsburg, Wisconsin **Description:** 3:00 a.m. [Perrian A. McGilvra](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/166409902/perrian-a-mcgilvra), 14, is returning on horseback from a dance near Reedsburg, Wisconsin, when his horse begins acting up. He sees a large, dark, dirigible-shaped object passing over a grove of poplar trees. The trees bend like they are in a strong windstorm, but he notices no wind. The object flies over his head with a whooshing sound. The horse remains frightened even after the object leaves. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 1161 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_248 ### Event 2063 (FFB61D33) **Date:** 7/2/1900 **Location:** Switzerland, Lake Constance **Description:** (Translated from French) Launch of the Airship "L.Z. 1", the first airship of a long series. Built by Count Zeppelin or under his name by the "Zeppelin Company". This "L.Z. 1" flew over the Lake of Constance. Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, a former general, will build other airships which, between 1910 and 1914, will provide regular flights in Central Europe. During the 1914-18 war, more than 100 Zeppelins will be built by the Navy, numbered L.Z = Luftschiff Zeppelin. The balloons are contained in an aluminum structure covered with canvas, they have a Maybach water-cooled inline engine, between January 1915 and August 1919 the Zeppelins will carry out 51 bombing raids on England killing 557 people and injuring 1358 others. (July 2, 1900) **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air. Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 52 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_561 ### Event 2064 (9CD04E84) **Date:** 8/21/1900 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Telemark \(Norway\), a man is astonished when a glowing ball explodes near him. (21 August) **Reference:** Bord/Bord: _Modern Mysteries of the World_, 1989, 346 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1900.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_264 ### Event 2065 (697D7CA6) **Date:** 9/23/1900 **Location:** GERMANY, BERLIN **Description:** (Translated from French) The balloon "The Giant of Berlin", 8000 cubic meters, rises from the German capital, carrying Berson, Suring, Alexander and Zekeli. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air. Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 52 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_562 ### Event 2066 (B4938150) **Date:** 9/30/1900 **Location:** From France to Russia **Description:** (Translated from French) For the first time a French balloon, the "Centaure", landed in Russia (at Bresc-Konyaski) after a 21 hour 34 minute ascent (1237 km). The pilot was H. de la Vaulx, alone on board. (September 30, 1900) **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air. Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 53 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_563 ### Event 2067 (29573AB5) **Date:** 10/9/1900 **Location:** FROM FRANCE TO RUSSIA **Description:** (Translated from French) H. de La Vaulx and Castillon de St Victor established an official record for spherical balloons: 35 hours 45 minutes, during which they traveled 1925 km from Paris to Korostychev with the balloon "Centaure". **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air. Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout Université 1967, p. 53 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_564 ### Event 2068 (4DE9EEDE) **Date:** 12/1900 **Locations:** Lowell Observatory; Flagstaff, Arizona; Mars **Description:** [Percival Lowell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percival%5FLowell) at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, records a shaft of light that projects from a “well-known geographical point” on Mars for 70 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Science Notes,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951001389778y&view=1up&seq=185&skin=2021)” Scientific American 84 \(1901\): 179 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_249 --- ## Year: 1901, 14 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 2069 (C62A15C5) **Date:** 1901 **Location:** Italy, Ruvo (Bari) **Description:** (Translated from French) The two sons of Mauro Pansini, an architect, experienced several astounding experiences. One day when they were in Ruvo around 9 o'clock in the morning, they were found at 9:30 in the morning at the Capuchin convent of Malfatti, 50 km away. Another time they were transported from Ruvo to Trani in the house of a relative, where they were found in a deep hypnotic state. Another day they realized they were falling into a boat moored in the port, where the owner was already present. **Reference:** Jean SIDER: "Ovni, the unmasked invaders" - ed. Ramuel 1999, p 161 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_565 ### Event 2070 (2630CDEF) **Date:** 1901 **Location:** Britain **Description:** In 1901, a British child had an interactive encounter with a box-shaped UFO in their garden. Two small entities resembling men emerged from the craft, wearing uniforms and caps with antennae. After a signal to move away, the entities reentered the craft, which then ascended with a bright flash and a loud noise. (Chapter 3, Ref 143) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_137 ### Event 2071 (6537B1F4) **Date:** 3/1901 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Norway on a full moon night, a round silver object came from the South-East and passed high in the sky above the witnesses, at half the speed of a meteor, leaving no trail or sparks behind it. It disappeared to the West. (Mars, 21 h 30) **Reference:** Flying Saucer Review, February 1956 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1901.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_265 ### Event 2072 (7F55EA54) **Date:** 3/7/1901 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** PINOS ALTOS, NM **Description:** Man photographs airship. 3 cylinders lashed together with 1 suspended beneath. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The UFO REGISTER. CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK. (annual sightings catalog.) (Index 76) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_219 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "2133", **HatchDesc:** "PINOS ALTOS,NM:MAN FOTOS AIRSHIP:3 CYLS LASHED TOGETHER W/1 SUSPENDED BENEATH", **LatLong:** "32.866668 -108.222227", **LatLongDMS:** "32:52:00 N 108:13:20 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.866668,-108.222227)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2073 (5C36B00B) **Date:** 3/7/1901 **Description:** On this afternoon in 1901, newspaper accounts report a flying machine was photographed in Silver City, New Mexico. The photograph "has the appearance of three cigar-shaped objects, which seemed to be lashed together, the one hanging below the other two." Unfortunately, the photograph was later lost. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jerome Clark & William Corliss, UFO Calendar 1999 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1360 ### Event 2074 (CDF00261) **Date:** 4/4/1901 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In the Persian Gulf, aboard the steamer *Kilwa*, Captain Hoseason scans the sea that stretches out in all directions when, suddenly, he sees vast luminous ripples appear on the surface of the water. These ripples have a faint luminosity and fade away 1/4 of an hour later, after having moved approximately at 10 km/h. (April 4th, in the dead of night) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1901.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_266 ### Event 2075 (9DE4F4C0) **Date:** Summer 1901 **Location:** Bournbrook, West Midlands, England **Description:** Day. A 10-year-old boy is walking home to Bournbrook, West Midlands, England, through a path behind his family’s garden when he comes upon a large box-shaped device with a small, centrally placed turret. The only opening is a door, through which two small men \(less than 4 feet tall\) in military uniforms \(but no insignia\), each wearing an odd-looking cap with a wire sticking up on both sides, step out. One stays by the door, but the other walks toward the boy and waves him away. The beings go back in the craft, a bright flash surrounds it, and it shoots into the air with a whooshing sound. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 261; Jenny Randles and Philip Barnet, “[Humanoids](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201979%20V%2024%20N%205.pdf) [Encountered in 1901?](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201979%20V%2024%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 24, no. 5 \(March 1979\): 28–29; “[UFO Britannia: Part 1, The Early](https://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread909654/pg1) [Years,](https://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread909654/pg1)” Above Top Secret, December 19, 2012; Jenny Randles, “The ‘Wes’ Effect 1: The Hut That Flew,” Fortean Times 309 \(Christmas 2014\): 27 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_250 ### Event 2076 (010B6658) **Date:** 7/12/1901 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Alberto Santos-Dumont pilots his airship No. 6 around the Eiffel Tower, in front of the crowd. 33 meters long and 622 cubic meters, the apparatus returns to its starting point after 29 minutes and 30 seconds. See image at images/1901-07-12_Santos-Dumont_airship.jpg. (July 12) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1901.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_267 ### Event 2077 (1380107B) **Date:** 7/12/1901 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A Sart \(Belgium\) An unusual substance, "smelling of glue" falls from a clear sky. **Reference:** UFO Roundup 4-36 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1901.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_268 ### Event 2078 (FB4C7332) **Date:** 7/12/1901 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Bournebrook \(West Midlands, England\), a "hut" is seen landing in a field, occupied by small men wearing metal helmets. The "hut" then rises into the sky. **Reference:** Mysterious Britain **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1901.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_269 ### Event 2079 (6EBA3413) **Date:** 8/1901 (approximate) **Time:** 14:00 **Location:** BOURNEBROOK, ENG **Description:** Boy. Small domed box / backyard. 4' small humanoids (or Greys) exit and re-enter and fly. / r80p12. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 293) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_220 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey" **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "116", **HatchDesc:** "BOURNEBROOK,ENG:BOY:SML DOMED BOX/BACKYARD:4'OIDS EXIT+RE-ENTER+FLY:/r80p12", **LatLong:** "52.438891 -1.938889", **LatLongDMS:** "52:26:20 N 01:56:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.438891,-1.938889)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 2080 (42F81CC3) **Date:** 10/19/1901 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The Deustch prize of 50,000 francs is awarded to Alberto Santos-Dumont, instituted by oil magnate Henri Deutsch de La Meurthe, to be delivered to the first man who, between May 1 [1900](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/1900.html) and October 1 [1903](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/1903.html), would fly around the Eiffel Tower, taking off and landing on the Saint-Cloud field. (October 19) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1901.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_270 ### Event 2081 (FF63F111) **Date:** 10/25/1901 **Location:** MOON **Description:** Astronomer Bolton. Anomalous luminous lines cross crater Marius. No explanation. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** PINDEVIC, Thierry: Le NOEUD GORDIEN ou la FANTASTIQUE HISTOIRE des OVNI. Editions France-Empire, Paris 1979. (Index 51) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_221 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NFO:** No craft seen, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "The Moon", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "MOON:ASTRONOMER BOLTON:ANOMALOUS LUMN.LINES CROSS CRATER MARIUS:no explanation", **LatLong:** "90.000004 -0.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "90:00:00 N 00:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/90.000004,-0.000000)", **State/Prov:** "CMR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2082 (94C8936B) **Date:** 12/21/1901 **Time:** 00:50 **Location:** HAWORTH AND KEIGHLEY AND SHIPLEY, YORKS **Description:** 2 cops. Green 'tip-cat' lights area. Maneuvers / 15 minute(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FARISH, Jucius: UFO NEWSCLIPPING SERVICE: $5/Monthly. Plumerville, AR. (Index 308) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_222 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "303", **HatchDesc:** "HAWORTH+KEIGHLEY+SHIPLEY,YORKs:2 COPS:GRN 'TIP-CAT' LITES AREA:MNVRS/15min", **LatLong:** "53.833336 -1.933333", **LatLongDMS:** "53:50:00 N 01:56:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.833336,-1.933333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" --- ## Year: 1902, 14 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 2083 (91DCFD41) **Date:** 2/9/1902 **Time:** 19:40 **Location:** LE HAVRE, FR **Description:** Astronomer Libert. Meteor turns and loops and curves / 12 second(s). Tail lasts 90 second(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: CHALLENGE to SCIENCE, The UFO ENIGMA; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine Books, NY 1974. PB (Index 7) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_223 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "Le HAVRE,FR:ASTRONOMER LIBERT:METEOR TURNS+LOOPS+CURVES/12sec:TAIL LASTS 90sec", **LatLong:** "49.516669 0.100000", **LatLongDMS:** "49:31:00 N 00:06:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.516669,0.100000)", **State/Prov:** "Paris", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 2084 (CC3B746C) **Date:** 2/9/1902 **Description:** At 7:40 p.m. a "meteor" turned, looped, and curved for 12 seconds over Paris, France. Its tail lasted 90 seconds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, p. 5 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_765 ### Event 2085 (D31A0D9B) **Date:** 5/13/1902 **Location:** Austin, Texas **Description:** 8:00 p.m. A blue-colored fireball appears over Austin, Texas, and ascends into the sky until it disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Austin \(Tex.\) Daily Tribune, May 14, 1902; Clark III 1168 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_251 ### Event 2086 (ABF40DF1) **Date:** 9/2/1902 **Time:** ~07:00 **Location:** OFF LOWESTOFT, ENGL **Description:** Girl and several observer(s). Large grey silent cylinder/cigar-shape with fins going north offshore. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 28) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_224 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "off LOWESTOFT,ENGL:GIRL+SVRL OBS:LRG GRY SLNT CGR W/FINS >N OFFSHORE:", **LatLong:** "52.466669 1.750000", **LatLongDMS:** "52:28:00 N 01:45:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.466669,1.750000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2087 (1FA1B92F) **Date:** 9/19/1902 **Location:** BALTIC SEA **Description:** (Translated from French) The cylindrical balloon of the Swedes Unge and Wikander, baptized "Svenske", crossed the Baltic Sea. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air. Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 55 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_566 ### Event 2088 (FE8E1417) **Date:** 10/4/1902 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Oslofjorden \(Norway\), people on a boat saw a rounded sea monster, about 60 feet long. (4 October) **Reference:** Bord/Bord: Modern mysteries of the world, 1989, 346 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1902.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_271 ### Event 2089 (B697B031) **Date:** 10/28/1902 **Location:** AFRICA, at sea, Gulf of Guinea. **Description:** (Translated from French) In the middle of the night, at 03:05, while the ship "Fort Salisbury" was in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean (05°31' south latitude, 04°42' west longitude), the second officer Raymer observed, together with another officer and two other people, an immense object sinking into the ocean. This clearly solid body was estimated to be nearly 180 m long and 30 m wide. Shortly after, the witnesses saw this object moving underwater, with a machinery noise. Two orange lights were lit at the front and two other blue-green lights shone at the other end. After the ship passed over this underwater phenomenon, nothing else was observed. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p.197 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_567 ### Event 2090 (952E2C87) **Date:** 10/28/1902 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In the South Atlantic, sailors from the *Fort Salisbury* spot a long dark object a few tens of meters away from the ship in a calm sea and under a starry sky. The lookout man having alerted them, the object is quickly located by A. H. Haymer. He will later recount: It was a bit frightening. The darkness prevented us from observing the details, but it was long, from 150 to 180 m. There was a fire at each end. Some kind of mechanism - fins maybe - stirred the water. The object seemed to sink slowly. No one thought for a moment that it could be a ship capsizing as the surface was not smooth as it could have been, but seemed "scaly". Although checks were made afterwards, nothing allowed to determine the nature of this strange object. (October 28th, a few hours before sunrise) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1902.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_272 ### Event 2091 (74EDB636) **Date:** 10/28/1902 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Above Boschof, Oranjevrystaat \([South Africa](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/ZA.html)\), unusual explosions in the sky can be heard. **Reference:** UFO Roundup 4-36 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1902.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_273 ### Event 2092 (99CEA853) **Date:** 10/28/1902 **Time:** 03:10 **Location:** 1200MI.S / GHANA, AFR **Description:** British ship. 100M metallic cylinder/cylindrical object lights / ends. Sinks slowly. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v18#3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 28) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_225 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "1200mi.S/GHANA,AFR:BRIT.SHIP:100M MTLC CYL LITES/ENDS:SINKS SLOWLY:/FSR v18#3", **LatLong:** "-5.516667 -4.700000", **LatLongDMS:** "05:31:00 S 04:42:00 W", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-5.516667,-4.700000)", **State/Prov:** "AFR", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 2093 (F80BABF3) **Date:** 10/28/1902 **Location:** At sea, Gulf of Guinea **Description:** 3:05 a.m. Three persons aboard the "Fort Salisbury," including Second Officer A. H. Raymer, saw a huge, dark object bearing lights in the sea ahead. It was observed sinking slowly. Estimated length: 200 m. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_50 ### Event 2094 (F0F8496D) **Date:** 10/28/1902 **Time:** 0305 **Location:** Gulf of Guinea **Description:** Three persons aboard the "Fort Salisbury," including Second Officer A. H. Raymer, saw a huge, dark object bearing lights in the sea ahead. It was observed sinking slowly. Estimated length: 200 m. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Fort 641; Anatomy 20 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_32 ### Event 2095 (68C44DD5) **Date:** 10/28/1902 **Description:** Three men aboard the "Fort Salisbury" steaming in the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean, including Second Officer A. H. Raymer, saw a huge, dark object bearing two lights in the sea ahead. It was observed submerging slowly. Its estimated length was 150-200 meters. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jerome Clark, FSR, May-June 1972, p. 18; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 32; Charles Fort, The Complete Books of Charles Fort, p. 642 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7213 ### Event 2096 (784B1C58) **Date:** 11/20/1902 **Location:** ADELAIDE OBSERVATORY, SOUTH AUS **Description:** Astronomer. Fireball lasts / 4 minute(s)! / Charles Fort / IURv9#3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 190) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_226 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "ADELAIDE OBSERVATORY,S.AUS:ASTRONOMER:FBL LASTS/4min!:/C.FORT/IURv9#3", **LatLong:** "-34.866668 139.183340", **LatLongDMS:** "34:52:00 S 139:11:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-34.866668,139.183340)", **State/Prov:** "South Australia", **Strangeness:** "5" --- ## Year: 1903, 14 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 2097 (C918DC6E) **Date:** 1903 **Location:** URSS, Kalouga **Description:** (Translated from French) The Russian physicist Tsiolkovsky exposed and scientifically demonstrated his "research on the exploration of the universe with reaction devices". It was the first serious work on interplanetary rocketry. On paper, the cosmic ship was born. **Reference:** "Astronautics" Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 9 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_568 ### Event 2098 (7FCB3BC8) **Date:** 1903 **Location:** USA, Iola, Kansas **Description:** (Translated from French) An extraterrestrial 2m10 tall, stout, with long hair, horns and huge bulging eyes, appeared and was chased away by the workers of Iola. **Reference:** A CENTURY OF UFO's - UFO Roundup Dec. 1999, ed. Joseph Trainor **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_571 ### Event 2099 (D2BB4262) **Date:** 1903 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Iola \(Kansas\), large beings 7 feet tall with long hair, horns and huge protruding eyes appear and are chased by coal miners. **Reference:** UFO Roundup 4-36 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1903.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_274 ### Event 2100 (6DE8566D) **Date:** 1903 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Ham Common \(London\), witnesses saw an [airship](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Airships.html) with lights at the front and back. They described the pilots as "a Yankee and a German". **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1903.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_275 ### Event 2101 (FBF4AD83) **Date:** 1903 **Location:** Helmer, Indiana **Description:** In 1903, a farm family in Indiana observed a large, glowing object resembling a cucumber with tapered ends and rows of lighted windows. The object hovered before darting off in a zigzag pattern across the sky. (Chapter 3, Ref 144) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_138 ### Event 2102 (6A1B3490) **Date:** 1/27/1903 **Location:** COMMUGNY TO/FROM/BETWEEN COPPET, SWZ **Description:** 2 observer(s). Area lit. Bluish circular fireball going [to] straight going down. / B. Mancusi. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Newspaper account: Commugny, Vaud, SWZ. Le Bouquet: 07 FEB 1973. clipping Bruno Mancusi, Switzerland. **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_227 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Switzerland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "COMMUGNY<>COPPET,SWZ:2 OBS:AREA LIT:BLUISH CIRC.FBL >STRAIGHT↓:/B.MANCUSI", **LatLong:** "46.316669 6.183334", **LatLongDMS:** "46:19:00 N 06:11:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.316669,6.183334)", **State/Prov:** "Vaud", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 2103 (24C7DA22) **Date:** 3/17/1903 **Location:** USA, Helmer (Indiana) **Description:** (Translated from French) Madge Brosius Allyn and her parents observed a large, cucumber-shaped object hovering above their farm at sunset. The object seemed to be self-luminous, with eight windows on each side in two rows of four. The father estimated the length of the object to be 100 feet and the width to be 30 feet. The phenomenon departed in a strange zigzag motion. (March 17, 1903) **Reference:** "UFO's – A Century of Sightings by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 6 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_569 ### Event 2104 (95626203) **Date:** 3/17/1903 **Location:** Helmer, IN **Description:** During the early evening a family watched a brilliantly glowing cigar-shaped object hovering at treetop level. It had two rows of evenly spaced windows. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_51 ### Event 2105 (2C105D2F) **Date:** 3/17/1903 **Location:** Helmer, Indiana **Description:** Mid-evening. [Madge Brosius,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87360939/madge-leota-allyn) 12, and her father [Charles](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/48121456/charles-hiram-brosius) see a “huge object like a gigantic ripe cucumber with slightly tapered ends” over the family farm in Helmer, Indiana. Its inside is illuminated, and it has 8 windows in two rows of four each. Her father estimates it is 100 feet long. It begins moving away from him as he moves toward it, zigzagging like a child’s balloon losing air. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Madge Brosius Allyn, “The Flying Cucumber of 1903,” Fate 24, no. 3 \(March 1971\): 45–47; Clark III 1162 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_252 ### Event 2106 (527B6D29) **Date:** 3/17/1903 **Description:** On this evening a father and daughter observed a glowing 100 foot long cigar shaped object with two rows of four equally spaced windows. It was hovering just behind some trees over a farm in Helmer, Indiana. As the man ran toward the object it moved away, and zigzagged across the sky at great speed, accelerating away toward the west. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Coral E. Lorenzen & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 14; Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 5, citing Jerome Clark **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1533 ### Event 2107 (482D1384) **Date:** 9/13/1903 **Location:** USA, Stratford (Indiana) **Description:** (Translated from French) E.A. Perkings, President of the Indiana Labor Federation, was observing with his wife and binoculars a strange object gliding through the air over Stratford. There were no signs or numbers on the phenomenon, which also did not seem to have an engine. There was a dome and inside one could see silhouettes. (September 13, 1903) **Reference:** "Ufo's – A century of Sightings by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 6 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_570 ### Event 2108 (73EBE821) **Date:** 9/29/1903 **End date:** 10/3/1903 **Locations:** Van Meter, Iowa; Mather & Gregg’s building **Description:** An implement dealer named [U. G. Griffith](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/157186810/u-grant-griffith) is on his way home in Van Meter, Iowa. As he approaches, he notices a strange point of light like a spotlight emanating from the top of the Mather & Gregg’s building. He approaches cautiously, but the light sails across the street. He tells others about the experience, and over the next few days several people report a half-human, half-animal entity with large bat-like wings. The townsfolk chase the creature toa local mine shaft, down which it disappears, never to be seen again. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 1216–1218; Craig Woolheater, “The Van Meter Visitor,” Cryptomundo, May 9, 2013; Chad Lewis, Noah Voss, and Kevin Lee Nelson, The Van Meter Visitor, On the Road, 2013 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_253 ### Event 2109 (CF314743) **Date:** 12/17/1903 **Location:** 4 miles south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina **Description:** Inventors [Orville and Wilbur Wright](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright%5Fbrothers) make the first controlled, sustained flight of a powered, heavier- than-air aircraft with the Wright Flyer 4 miles south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Wright Flyer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright%5FFlyer)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_254 ### Event 2110 (AB8CC7EE) **Date:** 12/24/1903 **Description:** A priest named Ivanku Petrovszky saw a glistening ball of light illuminate the countryside in Szuhabaranka, Hungary. The object landed and shadowy figures returned to it. A man who had gone to a well at the same time was never seen again. The case of his disappearance was closed ten years later but still unsolved. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 255, citing the UFO Report Annual 1983, p. 43 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8583 --- ## Year: 1904, 19 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 2111 (2A50F90F) **Date:** 1904 **Location:** FRANCE, in the Deux-Sèvres **Description:** (Translated from French) In a meadow a child saw a glowing ball on the ground. He kicked it. It exploded killing 11 cows, but leaving the child unharmed. [note from vog: this seems to me to be a really a case of ball lightning] **Reference:** Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 330 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_572 ### Event 2112 (F6E3CCDB) **Date:** 1904 **Location:** ROMANIA, Transylvania **Description:** (Translated from French) For a long time after midnight a farmer was still in his fields with his wagon and it is confirmed that he was not asleep. Suddenly he saw a wheel of fire in front of the Apusendi Mountains descending towards the ground. The wheel approached quickly, spinning around the farmer who remained standing in place without any help. When it was very close to him, it transformed, taking a human form: a creature that examined the peasant for a long time without saying a word. **Reference:** Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: "Les OVNI en URSS et dans les pays de l'Est - trad. Laffont 1976 - p. 289 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_573 ### Event 2113 (561A3E6B) **Date:** 1904 **Location:** USA, Dixboro (Michigan) **Description:** (Translated from French) After sunset, two men, Wirt Covert and Arthur Eldert, observed a large dark flying object moving from east to west at low altitude. Each described it as a boat with a flat top and with a mast or something else standing on top. A bright light emanated from windows on the sides of the craft. The object passed between the tower of a church and a row of small hills, rising just enough to avoid collision, before flying away. **Reference:** "UFO's – A Century of Sightings by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 6 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_578 ### Event 2114 (E325ADFF) **Date:** 1904 **Location:** GERMANY **Description:** (Translated from French) Engineer A. Maul developed at great expense a photographic rocket. It rose vertically up to 500 meters and carried a photographic apparatus which then descended to the ground using a parachute. The version that had the most success was built in Austria: The entire apparatus weighed 40 kilograms, the camera weighed 1 kilogram. The altitude reached was 1000 meters. A 6 m long rod was used for flight stabilization. (1904 to 1914) **Reference:** "Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 21 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_579 ### Event 2115 (C04C5FB3) **Date:** 1904 **Location:** Rolling Prairie, IN **Description:** Tom Darby, with his brother and mother, saw two whitish-blue objects about 400 m away, from a point situated 3 km north of Rolling Prairie. The objects hovered 2 or 3 m above ground, flew toward a barn, came closer to each other, and were hidden from view by a hill. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_52 ### Event 2116 (4ED4EC1E) **Date:** 1904 **Location:** Rolling Prairie, Indiana **Description:** Tom Darby, with his brother and mother, saw two whitish-blue objects about 400 m away, from a point situated 3 km north of Rolling Prairie. The objects hovered 2 or 3 m above ground, flew toward a barn, came closer to each other, and were hidden from view by a hill. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Hartle 164 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_33 ### Event 2117 (7FAAB9C4) **Date:** 1904 **Locations:** Dixboro, Michigan; Dixboro United Methodist Church **Description:** Late afternoon. [Wirt M. Covert](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39986191/wirt-manley-covert), 17, and [Arthur B. Eldert](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/225043237/arthur-b-eldert) are returning on horseback from a grocery store in Dixboro, Michigan, when they see a large object in the air moving west behind the steeple of the Dixboro United Methodist Church. He compares its shape to the Confederate ironclad Virginia and it has a thick mast sticking up from its center and orange light shining through some windows. Suddenly it rises at about a 60° angle over the hills, tipping its mast back, and disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP case file **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_255 ### Event 2118 (0C4E4895) **Date:** 1904 **Location:** At sea between San Francisco and Hawaii **Description:** In 1904, crewmembers of an American ship reported encountering "remarkable meteors" while at sea between San Francisco and Hawaii. The meteors initially appeared near the horizon and below the clouds, flying directly toward the ship in a formation. The objects' shapes and colors were described in detail, with the largest meteor being egg-shaped with a jagged leading end and the others being round. (Chapter 3, Ref 145) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_139 ### Event 2119 (FA0A2A81) **Date:** 2/24/1904 **Location:** ATLANTIC OCEAN **Description:** (Translated from French) The report was published by the American "Weather Review". In the March 1904 issue, page 115, there is an account of a curious observation made at sea. On February 24, 1904, a mysterious light was seen above the Atlantic by sailors on the American ship "Supply". It moved quickly and evidently at a high altitude. The report was signed by Lieutenant Frank H. Schofiels of the United States Navy. (Donald KEYHOE: "Les Soucoupes volantes existent" ed. Corrêa Paris 1951, p. 82) Report drawn from the observations of three members of its crew by Lieutenant Frank M. Schofield, of the American ship "Supply" (Weather Review, March 1904- 115): Three luminous objects, of different sizes, the largest having a diameter of 6 suns, appeared at low altitude below the clouds of an estimated height of 2 km. They fled or turned around, rising in one movement from the clouds from which they had come. But this unity of movement does not change their difference in size and their different susceptibilities to the forces of the earth and air. (Charles Fort: "The Book of the Damned" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 236) At 6:10 local time, on board the USS "Supply", Frank Schofield, future admiral commanding the American Pacific Fleet (in 1930) observes meteors flying in formation. The largest, egg-shaped, passes under the clouds. At this moment its apparent diameter is equal to that of 6 suns. (February 24, 1904) **Reference:** Jean-Gabriel GRESLE: OVNI, a pilot speaks "ed. Guy Trédaniel, 1993, p.27 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_574 ### Event 2120 (CB434242) **Date:** 2/28/1904 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Off the coast of Northern California, part of the crew of the *USS Supply*, a Pacific Fleet replenishment vessel commanded by [Frank Schofield](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/SchofieldFrankH.html), can follow the movements of objects resembling [meteors](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Meteore.html) and rushing in small tight groups towards their ship. The trajectories of the bright red objects are unpredictable, diving and then suddenly bouncing towards the clouds before disappearing to the Northwest-Northwest. [Frank Schofield](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/SchofieldFrankH.html) tried to describe them: one, egg-shaped, seemed to lead the squadron, was 6 times larger than the Sun. Others were the size of the Sun. (February 28) **Reference:** Lieutenant Frank M. Schofield's Report **Reference:** *Monthly Western Review* **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1904.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_276 ### Event 2121 (A9AED5F3) **Date:** 2/28/1904 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Late at night. In Transylvania \(Romania\), a farmer is in the fields \(...\). Suddenly he sees a wheel of fire above the Muntii Apuseni mountains. The wheel is coming towards him at great speed. The farmer looks, powerless. When the wheel is near him, it transforms into a living being that stares at him for a long time without saying anything. (Night) **Reference:** Article by Lucian Belaga in *Hronicul si cîntecul vîrstelor* 1965 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1904.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_277 ### Event 2122 (F63A77E9) **Date:** 2/28/1904 **Time:** 06:10 **Location:** USS SUPPLY AT SEA **Description:** 3 observer(s). 3 bright ovoids quickly going down [to] below clouds. Rise away going quickly southeast. / IURv9#3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 13) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_228 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "USS SUPPLY at SEA:3 OBS:3 BRITE OVOIDS ↓↓ BELOW CLOUDS:RISE AWAY >>SE:/IURv9#3", **LatLong:** "35.966668 -128.600006", **LatLongDMS:** "35:58:00 N 128:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.966668,-128.600006)", **State/Prov:** "NPC", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 2123 (ADB14641) **Date:** 2/28/1904 **Location:** San Francisco (North Pacific off), CA **Description:** Formation of three objects sighted by U.S.S. Supply in North Pacific off San Francisco. (NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall, II) (These were apparently fireball meteors. See report and analysis by Brad Sparks.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [19040228](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/040228USS%5FSupplydir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_53 ### Event 2124 (D1382DF2) **Date:** 2/28/1904 **Locations:** Guam; San Francisco, California; 300 miles west-southwest of San Francisco **Description:** Mid-evening. The steamer [USS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FSupply%5F%281872%29) [Supply](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FSupply%5F%281872%29) is transporting the ill Governor of Guam, [William Elbridge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FElbridge%5FSewell) [Sewell,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FElbridge%5FSewell) from Guam to San Francisco, California. About 300 miles west-southwest of San Francisco, commanding Lt. [Frank Herman Schofield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FHerman%5FSchofield) observes three objects “beneath the clouds, their color a rather bright red.” As they approach the ship they appear to soar, passing above the broken clouds. After rising above the clouds, they appear to “be moving directly away from the earth. The largest had an apparent area of about six suns. It was egg-shaped, the larger end forward. The second was about twice the size of the sun, and the third, about the size of the sun. Their near approach to the surface appeared to be most remarkable.” The objects are in sight for over two minutes by three people. [Barry Greenwood](http://www.noufors.com/Barry%5FJ%5FGreenwood.htm) thinks they are meteors, but [Bruce Maccabee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%5FMaccabee) is not so sure. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Frank H. Schofield, “Remarkable Meteors,” Monthly Weather Review 32 \(March 1904\): 115; Bruce Maccabee, “Even More Remarkable,” IUR 9, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1984\): 14–15; Bruce Maccabee, “[Meteors? Even More Remarkable,](http://brumac.mysite.com/RemarkableMeteors/Remarkable.html)” 2005; NICAP, “[Three Red Objects Sighted from USS Supply](http://www.nicap.org/040228pacific%5Fdir.htm)”; Barry Greenwood, “[The USS Supply Sighting of](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr02.pdf) [1904,](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr02.pdf)” UFO Historical Revue, no. 2 \(September 1998\): 2–6; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 329–351 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_256 ### Event 2125 (90CDC3B7) **Date:** 2/28/1904 **Description:** At 35.97 N 128.60 W in the Pacific Ocean between Honolulu and San Francisco at 6:10 a.m., three large dull red bodies flew in from the northwest over the U.S.S. Navy ship Supply. The largest one was egg or pear shaped, and six times the apparent size of the sun. The objects flew in an eschelon formation, flying very fast below the clouds. They gained altitude, turned, and travelled off to the west-northwest while climbing above broken clouds. There were at least three sailors as witnesses, including the main witness named Schofield. The duration of the event was more than two minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** New York Herald, March 9, 1904; Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 6; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 36; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. and Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 90; Bruce Maccabee, International UFO Reporter, September 1984, p. 14 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1170 ### Event 2126 (6C5A3775) **Date:** 6/1904 **Location:** Rolling Prairie, Indiana **Description:** 10:00 p.m. When Tony Darby goes outside to the well on his farm 5 miles north of Rolling Prairie, Indiana, he notices two round, orange-colored, silent objects hovering 5–6 feet from the ground near the barn. He estimates they are the size of wagon wheels. One of the objects is 2 feet behind and to the left of the other. Running back to the house, he calls for his mother and brother, and all three walk toward the objects, which move away slightly then stop when the witnesses stop. Soon the objects move steadily away to the northeast, still maintaining their relative positions, at about the speed of a man walking. They pause briefly in a small hollow, then continue over a small hill and out of sight. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lore and Deneault, [pp. 91–92](https://archive.org/details/mysteriesofskies0000lore/page/90/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_257 ### Event 2127 (1463E9B2) **Date:** 8/3/1904 **Location:** USA, OAKLAND (California) **Description:** (Translated from French) T.S. Baldwin undertook a flight aboard a motorized airship, the "Curtiss". **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air. Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, Marabout Université 1967, p. 60 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_575 ### Event 2128 (5A5D344A) **Date:** 9/1904 **Location:** FRANCE, Paris **Description:** (Translated from French) First public demonstration of flight with the Wright Brothers at the Bois de Boulogne. (September 1904) **Reference:** Sciences et Avenir, September 1998, page 80 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_576 ### Event 2129 (EDC930C7) **Date:** 9/10/1904 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Everton (Liverpool) **Description:** (Translated from French) (cf: autumn 1877) Last sighting of Spring Heel Jack, who held thousands of spectators in suspense, leaping from roof to roof, jumping a distance of 10 meters in a single bound. After the exhibition which lasted a good quarter of an hour, he jumped beyond a row of terraced houses, and has never been reported anywhere since. (September 10, 1904) **Reference:** Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDEL: "The World's Greatest Ufo Mysteries" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p. 86 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_577 --- ## Year: 1905, 24 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 2130 (9835E22D) **Date:** 1905 (approximate) **Location:** Germany, Dresden **Description:** (Translated from French) An unknown craft passed through the sky of Dresden at the speed of a modern jet from the 1990s. The object made no noise and flew in a straight line at an altitude of barely 40 feet. Witnesses noted that the object was self-luminous in green and red around the edge and had an erect tail. (1905, Unknown Date) **Reference:** "UFO's - A Century of Sightings by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 7 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_583 ### Event 2131 (12CA954E) **Date:** 1905 **Locations:** Yreka, California; Mount Shasta, California **Description:** [Frederick Spencer Oliver](https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Oliver-4617)’s book A Dweller on Two Planets is published posthumously. It is a narrative channeled by Oliver in Yreka, California, through automatic writing and mental dictations by a spirit calling itself Phylos the Tibetan, an Atlantean who reveals his story from 1883 to 1886. The book deals with deep esoteric subjects including karma and reincarnation and describes Phylos’s final incarnation in 19th century America where his Atlantean karma plays itself out. In that incarnation \(as Walter Pierson, gold miner and occult student of the Theo-Christic Adepts\) he travels to Venus in an astral body while his physical form remains at a temple inside Mount Shasta, California. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[A Dweller on Two Planets](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%5FDweller%5Fon%5FTwo%5FPlanets)”; Frederick Spencer Oliver, [A Dweller](https://archive.org/details/dwellerontwoplan00oli) [on Two Planets](https://archive.org/details/dwellerontwoplan00oli)[,](https://archive.org/details/dwellerontwoplan00oli) Baumgardt, 1905 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_258 ### Event 2132 (10036645) **Date:** 1905 **Location:** California's Imperial Valley **Description:** There were Witnesses observed a brilliant light in the sky, which revealed the form of a 70-foot-long airship with wing-like propulsion. The sighting left observers awestruck, with some describing the craft as resembling a gigantic bird in flight. (Chapter 3, Refs 115,116) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_109 ### Event 2133 (AD463813) **Date:** 1905 **Location:** Romanian province of Bucovina **Description:** In 1905, a doctor in Romania witnessed a large, brilliantly-lit saucer-shaped aerial object in the province of Bucovina, causing him significant concern. The object was observed flying westward before disappearing from view. (Chapter 3, Ref 146) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_140 ### Event 2134 (203ACE3D) **Date:** 1/1905 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A bright ball is seen in the East of [France](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/FR.html). It was also reported in [England](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/UK.html) \(illuminating the ground with a powerful projector\), in the east of Europe and in Russia where it was even shot at with a gun. (January or February) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1905.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_278 ### Event 2135 (68C50A7E) **Date:** 2/5/1905 **Location:** USA, OAKLAND (California) **Description:** (Translated from French) T.S. Baldwin, aboard an airship of his own construction, raced against a "Pope" automobile over a distance of 16 km. The automobile was beaten by 3 minutes. (February 5, 1905) **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air. Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 61 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_580 ### Event 2136 (9CC0F409) **Date:** 3/22/1905 (approximate) **Location:** NEAR BARMOUTH, WALES **Description:** Night lights follow car / 1 mile. Turn up side road. Return as car continues. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 26) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_229 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "271", **HatchDesc:** "nr BARMOUTH,WALES:NLTS FOLO CAR/1mi:TURN UP SIDE ROAD:RETURN AS CAR CONTINUES", **LatLong:** "52.722225 -4.050000", **LatLongDMS:** "52:43:20 N 04:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.722225,-4.050000)", **State/Prov:** "WLS", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2137 (DC54957E) **Date:** 3/23/1905 **Description:** On or about this night a small red sphere of light, accompanied by two white lights which danced about it, paced in front of an automobile being driven by a man named Jones in Egyryn, Wales. There was also a female passenger in the car, also with the last name of Jones. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Roger Sandell, FSR, March-April 1972, p. 31, citing the Barmouth Advertiser, March 23, 1905 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1617 ### Event 2138 (15439F60) **Date:** 3/29/1905 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** CARDIFF, WALES **Description:** Large red luminous cylinder/cylindrical object or light beam hangs vertical and lights sky. / IFS#33. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 28) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_230 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "16", **HatchDesc:** "CARDIFF,WALES:LRG RED LUMN.CYL or LITE BEAM HANGS VERTICAL+LITES SKY:/IFS#33", **LatLong:** "51.500002 -3.300000", **LatLongDMS:** "51:30:00 N 03:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.500002,-3.300000)", **State/Prov:** "WLS", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2139 (8C311A7C) **Date:** 3/29/1905 **Description:** A large luminous cylindrical object hung in the sky in a vertical orientation over Cardiff, Wales, U.K. on this day at 10:00 o'clock in the evening. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Computer Catalog, case 248 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1716 ### Event 2140 (3F234EA1) **Date:** 4/1/1905 **Location:** CHERBOURG, FR **Description:** Glowing disk with corona seen over town 10 nights in succession. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** INFORESPACE Journal. SOBEPS Group, Belgium; bimonthly (Index 33) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_231 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "176", **HatchDesc:** "CHERBOURG,FR:GLOWING DISK W/CORONA SEEN OVR TOWN 10 NITES IN SUCCESSION.", **LatLong:** "49.633336 -1.600000", **LatLongDMS:** "49:38:00 N 01:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.633336,-1.600000)", **State/Prov:** "Manche", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2141 (AA1533F7) **Date:** 4/2/1905 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Cherbourg \(France\)\[FR.html\], one can see, coming from the sea and at an altitude that cannot be determined even approximately, an enormous luminous ball which, after describing a curve above the city. (20 h) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1905.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_279 ### Event 2142 (04200E51) **Date:** 4/2/1905 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The ball disappeared in the direction it had come from. The Vice Admiral-Maritime Prefect activated the electric spotlights of the breakwater, but their rays were not powerful enough and the attempt was unsuccessful. Some people, including naval officers, claimed to have seen the light of this [meteor](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Meteore.html) take on red and green hues. At the Arsenal Observatory, people were lost in conjecture and, just in case, Vice Admiral Besson gave orders for the torpedo boats to be ready to sail the next and following nights if this mysterious visitor reappeared, and to follow its movements in order to try to penetrate its mystery. In a drawing that occupied him entirely, the cover of issue 1985 of another periodical - *Le Bon Journal* of April 16th - showed a large crowd gathered on the docks. The crescent Moon was clearly visible, as well as a much larger sphere, which was undoubtedly close, that a spotlight vainly tried to reach. The object is described as "an enormous Moon whose colors are changing.. All the port authorities held a council and, for 3 nights, kept watch on Place Napoleon. From their observations, it was concluded that the hypothesis of a balloon or signals at sea had to be abandoned, and that it was undoubtedly a cosmic phenomenon to which human participation was completely foreign. Many newspapers and publications reported the event, including the Bulletin of the French Astronomers Society, which considered that this large luminous object was none other than the planet [Venus](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Venus.html). (11pm) **Reference:** *Le Matin*, April 3 **Reference:** *Le Matin*, April 9 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1905.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_280 ### Event 2143 (A47E29E9) **Date:** 4/11/1905 **Location:** FRANCE **Description:** (Translated from French) The "Figaro" of April 15 reported that on this date of April 11, the guardians of the La Blanche lighthouse observed a white, illuminated balloon in the sky. They made signals to it and it disappeared. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p.198 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_581 ### Event 2144 (142AE527) **Date:** Summer 1905 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Doctor I. P. de Craovia sees in Horodnicul de Sus \(Romania\) near Radauti an elongated object in the shape of a saucer, bigger than the Moon. It emits powerful light of its own and flies horizontally towards the West. (Summer Evening) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1905.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_281 ### Event 2145 (7EABA70E) **Date:** 8/2/1905 **Location:** USA, Silsbee (California) **Description:** (Translated from French) Very early (1:30 am) J. A. Jackson, a well-known citizen of Silsbee, saw a bright light in the sky just above him. As the light drew closer, it revealed itself to be an aerial vessel about 20 m long, with a searchlight at the front and several other lights on board. The mysterious machine seemed to be driven by wings that beat like those of a giant bird. Apparently there was no balloon as is usually the case with dirigibles. Jackson, who was near Wilsie's house, went to wake him up and he was still able to see the lights just before they disappeared. The same night, H. E. Abott, postmaster of Imperial, was abruptly awakened from his sleep by the appearance of a bright light. It looked like a fire in the sky. It was then 1:30 am and one can think that this blinding light was probably the beam of the aerial vessel's searchlight. (August 2, 1905) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p.200 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_582 ### Event 2146 (A18EA92C) **Date:** 8/2/1905 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) J. A. Jackson, a respectable citizen of Silshee \(California\), was heading to his "outdoor facilities" when he saw a very bright light in the sky. It seemed to be attached to a 20m "aircraft" with wings. The mysterious machine seemed to be powered by its wings alone, it rose and fell in rhythm with its wing beats like a giant bird. Other inhabitants of the area also claim to have seen the same thing. (August 2nd, 1:30) **Reference:** *Brawley News* August 4th **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1905.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_282 ### Event 2147 (291EFC12) **Date:** 8/3/1905 **Locations:** Silsbee; El Centro; Imperial, California; Northeast **Description:** 1:30 a.m. Farmer John A. Jackson is driving a herd of hogs from Silsbee \(a former settlement 6 miles southwest of El Centro\) to Imperial, California, when a bright light flashes on him from above. He is momentarily blinded, and the hogs start running away. Jackson sees it is a searchlight from an airship about 100 feet long and propelled by wings that move up and down. It has smaller lights along the sides. Jackson wakes up W. E. Wilsie, who lives nearby, and they watch it disappear to the northeast. Another farmer, A. J. Morey, also glimpses the airship. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Aerial Navigation in Imperial Valley,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/602649/the-imperial-press/)” Imperial \(Calif.\) Press, August 5, 1905, p. 4 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_259 ### Event 2148 (A925FA4A) **Date:** 8/4/1905 **Time:** 01:30 **Location:** BRAWLEY AND IMPERIAL, CA **Description:** Several separate observer(s). 21M airship with searchlight. Large wings! / r203p108. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 6) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_232 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "-36", **HatchDesc:** "BRAWLEY+IMPERIAL,CA:SVRL SEP.OBS:21M AIRSHIP W/SEARCHLITE:LRG WINGS!:/r203p108", **LatLong:** "32.983335 -115.527783", **LatLongDMS:** "32:59:00 N 115:31:40 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.983335,-115.527783)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 2149 (6E74851F) **Date:** 9/2/1905 **Location:** LLANGOLLEN, NORTH WALES **Description:** Intensely dark object flies / 2 miles altitude. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LESLIE, Desmond & ADAMSKI,G: Flying Saucers Have Landed; British Book Center, NY 1956 (Index 34) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_233 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "423", **HatchDesc:** "LLANGOLLEN,N.WALES:INTENSELY DARK OBJ FLIES/2mi ALTITUDE:NFD", **LatLong:** "52.955558 -3.166667", **LatLongDMS:** "52:57:20 N 03:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.955558,-3.166667)", **RelAlt:** "2", **State/Prov:** "WLS", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 2150 (FD5D40FD) **Date:** 9/2/1905 **Description:** An intensely dark object flew over Llangollen, Gwynedd, Wales at an altitude over two miles. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Desmond Leslie, Flying Saucers Have Landed, p. 34 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5561 ### Event 2151 (CEF29689) **Date:** 9/6/1905 **Description:** Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity paper published **Type:** scientific advance **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_relativity) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_22 **Attributes:** Einstein ### Event 2152 (DD77CBAF) **Date:** 11/29/1905 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A bolide of lunar diameter is visible for 2 h. (November 29) **Reference:** BSAF, 1906 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1905.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_283 ### Event 2153 (A53A8790) **Date:** 11/29/1905 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Portland, Oregon, a "strange object" descends from the high clouds and hovers over the city. **Reference:** UFO Roundup 4-36 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1905.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_284 --- ## Year: 1906, 19 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 2154 (D6FBE29B) **Date:** 1906 **Location:** GERMANY, Meppen **Description:** (Translated from French) The tests attempted before the Great War, with a view to using the rocket again for military purposes, did not give any satisfactory results: this was the case with the work carried out from 1906 to 1909 at Krupp in Meppen. [see 1906 to 1914 Sweden] (From 1906 to 1909) **Reference:** "Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 22 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_584 ### Event 2155 (C467F1C8) **Date:** 1906 **Location:** SWEDEN **Description:** (Translated from French) No more satisfaction in experiences made by Swedish Colonel Unge or experiences by German Navy with Marine Torpedo-rockets. (From 1906 to 1914) **Reference:** "The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 22 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_585 ### Event 2156 (F8277096) **Date:** 1906 **Location:** FRANCE, La Celle-sous-Gouzon **Description:** (Translated from French) The witness, Jules B., was 18 years old at the time. He was interviewed by Ian d'Aigure, an investigator for the Lumières dans la Nuit (LDLN #129, Nov. 1973, p.24 ref.182) and passed away in January 1977. "I was 18 years old at the time, it was late in the season and I was an apprentice carpenter in Gouzon. I had just put a window in a property in La Celle and I was returning. I was hurrying because I had stayed a long time talking with the farm girl.. You know what that's like. It was pitch black but the weather was clear. (...)" So it could have been 10 pm and he was hurrying with a light heart. Suddenly, as he reached the junction of the path leading to the Manaly estate, what was his surprise, his stupor even, to discover a curious assembly of characters. There were 10 or 12 of them, sitting in a circle on the path. The witness passed 10 m away from them. They all looked at him pass in silence, and those who had their backs to him turned around when he passed. They were there, sitting, without saying a word, without talking to each other, otherwise the witness would have heard them in the silence of the night. It was this silence that "frightened" Jules B., who hastened to continue on his way without looking back. "You understand, he said, if they had been normal people, they would have said good evening, nodded or waved to me... But there, nothing. Ah! I can assure you I didn't feel proud." The observation was therefore brief, about ten seconds. The witness could not detail the individuals, but he is certain of the following points: they were all men. They were neither too young nor too old. They all seemed to be dressed the same way, in a kind of gray uniform, neither too light nor too dark. Near them there was no source of light, no fire, no object (bag, package) and no vehicle. However, the witness had the impression that the characters were sitting in a circle, on or around some kind of large cloth (or tablecloth) laid on the ground. Apart from this curious impression felt by the witness in front of these curious noctambules, nothing seemed to prove their "extraterrestrial" origin. This was pointed out to him. Jules B. interrupted us by saying:

- "Yes, but then I saw the other one flying!" Not at all calm, the witness was therefore walking away at a pace close to running. He had barely gone a hundred meters when suddenly he saw a "Martian flying" emerge at the level of the trees. The being was flying fast and it almost passed right over his head. He had his body stretched horizontally and his head raised forward ("Straight ahead as if to see where he was going"). His legs were stretched and joined. His arms were not visible but the being had like two immobile wings like spread arms (in terms of their size). The being passed quickly and silently, it was just that the witness heard a slight rustling of air. - "And the funniest thing," concluded Jules B., "is that this 'Martian flying' flew straight to the place where I had seen the others. That's what makes me say they must have all had some kind of rendezvous. But hey! I didn't try to find out more.. I didn't hang around..." (...) He often took the same path (later) but he never saw anything there again... **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 200 to 202 **Reference:** next: 1930, Toulx Ste Croix **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_587 ### Event 2157 (ADC04158) **Date:** 1906 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Syracuse \(New York\), a mysterious [meteor](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Meteore.html) is performing strange aerial maneuvers. **Reference:** *UFO Roundup* 4-36 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1906.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_285 ### Event 2158 (3861CCA9) **Date:** 1906 **Location:** Mitchell, South Dakota **Description:** [Herbert Vern DeMott,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/148816945/herbert-vern-demott) 10, watches an object come down near his family’s water well in Mitchell, South Dakota. As he approaches it, a door rolls back and he is welcomed inside by two human-like occupants who are sitting inside on camp stools. They converse with him fluently, but he does not know where they come from. He sees a lever that apparently can cut off the earth’s “magnetism,” allowing the object to rise. The occupants take water from the farm’s horse trough to be “used in making electricity.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[DeMott Rock Study Crosses Continents,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92060822/)” Albany \(Oreg.\) Democrat-Herald, August 27, 1973, p. 11; Clark III 261; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1906-usa-mitchell.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1906-usa-mitchell.htm) July 22, 2009 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_260 ### Event 2159 (8E2F1767) **Date:** 1906 **Location:** South Dakota **Description:** A farm boy in South Dakota claimed to have witnessed a strange craft landing near his family's well. He stated that he was invited inside by normal-looking men who explained that the craft's outer shell contained helium gas. They mentioned using a lever to cut off earth's magnetism and collected water for producing electricity before departing. (Chapter 3, Ref 117) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_110 ### Event 2160 (8C09315A) **Date:** 1906 **Location:** In the North Atlantic between Greenland and Newfoundland **Description:** In 1906, the crew of a cargo ship in the North Atlantic reported encountering a large, saucer-shaped meteor that exhibited non-meteor-like characteristics. The object was seen falling in a zigzag manner with a rocking motion, leaving a red streak in its wake. The captain described it as a huge meteor weighing several tons and being 10-to-15 feet in diameter. (Chapter 3, Ref 147) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_141 ### Event 2161 (55C2CC4C) **Date:** 1906 **Location:** Anadarko, Oklahoma **Description:** In 1906, near Anadarko, Oklahoma, five farm workers witnessed a peculiar aerial procession around dusk. The objects resembled a 16-foot long stovepipe with a diameter of 9 or 10 inches. Initially, one object was seen flying around 60 feet high, but it descended and flew by them at eye level. Another followed, identical in appearance. The men watched multiple such objects pass by for nearly 20 minutes. (Chapter 9, Ref 390) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_378 ### Event 2162 (F2A93F71) **Date:** 1/1906? **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** LA CELLE-SOUS-GOUZON, FR **Description:** 10+'martians' stand / road. 1 flies overhead! / r30p45. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 129) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_234 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NFO:** No craft seen, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "LA CELLE-sous-GOUZON,FR:10+'MARTIANS' STAND/ROAD:1 FLIES OVHD!:/r30p45", **LatLong:** "46.216669 2.211111", **LatLongDMS:** "46:13:00 N 02:12:40 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.216669,2.211111)", **State/Prov:** "Creuse", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 2163 (27A1BB61) **Date:** 1/4/1906 **Locations:** Paia, Maui, Hawaii; Wailuku Mountains; Mount Haleakala **Description:** Night. Martin Meyerson is on the beach at Paia, Maui, Hawaii, when he sees a green object with the shape and diameter of the full moon appear from behind the southern slopes of the Wailuku Mountains. It is so bright it illuminates the cane fields below, then travels like a “slow-pitched baseball” and disappears behind Mount Haleakala to the southeast. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 1168 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_261 ### Event 2164 (A114D377) **Date:** 5/1906 **Location:** USA, Cambridge (Massachusetts) **Description:** (Translated from French) Walter Landry was three years old and had just lost his mother. He was told she had gone away and would come back one day. On the day of the funeral, a nurse was looking after the child when she heard him screaming from downstairs. She rushed down and pointing, he said: "There's Mommy!" Later he explained that she had tried to take him in her arms. Question: why was this child so scared when he saw his mother, when no one had ever talked to him about ghosts or spirits? **Reference:** Jane and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World", Guild Publishing London, 1989, p. 79 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_586 ### Event 2165 (63D60303) **Date:** 6/2/1906 **Location:** GULF OF OMAN **Description:** Mr. Carnagie aboard ship. Spokes / light rotate / water near ship. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LESLIE, Desmond & ADAMSKI,G: Flying Saucers Have Landed; British Book Center, NY 1956 (Index 34) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_235 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Indian Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "GULF OF OMAN:Mr CARNAGIE ABOARD SHIP:SPOKES/LITE ROTATE/WATER NEAR SHIP", **LatLong:** "24.533335 58.366669", **LatLongDMS:** "24:32:00 N 58:22:00 E", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/24.533335,58.366669)", **State/Prov:** "GOM", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2166 (0BD4CE6E) **Date:** 9/16/1906 **Locations:** Indianapolis, Indiana; Irvington **Description:** Late afternoon. Hundreds of people in Indianapolis, Indiana, see a “cigar-shaped object” like an airship pass over the city. It is seen first in Irvington and then floats over the southern side of the business district where it is distinctly seen from downtown. Some estimate it to be 2,000 feet in the air; the watchman at the courthouse tower looks at it through binoculars but cannot see any detail. It disappears to the west. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Ship Founders in Air,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92061086/)” Indianapolis Star, September 17, 1906, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_262 ### Event 2167 (21CF9E0C) **Date:** 10/7/1906 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** INDIANAPOLIS, IN **Description:** Numerous observer(s). Cylinder/cigar-shape rises / southeast horizon. Sudden turn going quickly east and away. / Bullard'82. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 6) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_236 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "215", **HatchDesc:** "INDIANAPOLIS,IN:NMRS OBS:CGR RISES/SE HORIZON:SUDDEN TURN >>E+away:/Bullard'82", **LatLong:** "39.766669 -86.100004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:46:00 N 86:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.766669,-86.100004)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2168 (05ADDE89) **Date:** 10/7/1906 **Location:** Indianapolis, Indiana **Description:** 5:00 p.m. An airship again floats over the southeastern portion of Indianapolis, Indiana, and is seen by many as it turns northeast and disappears in the distance. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Ship Floats over City: Hundreds See It in Flight](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/25075407/the-indianapolis-star/),” Indianapolis Star, October 8, 1906, p. 3 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_263 ### Event 2169 (9CCC4075) **Date:** 10/10/1906 **Location:** CHINA, Lingzhou (Yongnin) **Description:** (Translated from French) A large star like a bushel appeared in the east, rose in height and headed west to finally fall into the Helan mountain range. It produced a rumble like a thunderclap. Fires and lights rose very high in the sky and extinguished long after. **Reference:** SHI BO: "China and the Extraterrestrials" ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p. 41 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_588 ### Event 2170 (2A9B1D30) **Date:** 10/30/1906 **Time:** ~16:00 **Location:** 600M NORTHEAST / CAPE RACE, NFLD **Description:** Crew / steamship St. Andrew. Fireballs zig-zag and descend into sea. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SANDERSON, Ivan: INVISIBLE RESIDENTS; World Publishing HB 1970 & Avon Books PB 1973 (Index 27) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_237 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "600M NE/CAPE RACE,NFLD:CREW/SS St.ANDREW:FBLs ZIG-ZAG+DESCEND INTO SEA.", **LatLong:** "52.000002 -44.000002", **LatLongDMS:** "52:00:00 N 44:00:00 W", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.000002,-44.000002)", **State/Prov:** "NFL", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 2171 (1D1EE8D8) **Date:** 11/1906 **Location:** 10 miles southeast of Anadarko, Oklahoma **Description:** Dusk. Roy Russell and four other cotton-pickers are taking a brief respite from work 10 miles southeast of Anadarko, Oklahoma, when they see a fiery object shaped like a stovepipe. From an initial altitude of 60 feet, the object sinks down, comes toward them, and passes within 16 feet at eye level. Then it seems to flatten out and just blacks out. Another similar object follows and then several others. Russell watches them for 20 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Recalls](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92061376/) [Fiery 1906 U.F.O.,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92061376/)” Des Moines \(Iowa\) Tribune, May 4, 1966, p. 36 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_264 ### Event 2172 (7573F63B) **Date:** 11/12/1906 **Location:** France, Paris **Description:** (Translated from French) Santos-Dumont struggled penibly in his airship to cover the distance between Saint-Cloud and the Eiffel Tower (Jean-Gabriel Gresle: OVNI, a Pilot Speaks, ed. Guy Trédaniel, 1993, p. 27) (vog: false information, it was a biplane, bad note for the pilot...) First official flight in the presence of commissioners of the Aero Club of France, by Alberto Santos Dumont. On board the 14 Bis equipped with a 50 HP Antoinette engine. It was a canard type biplane with wings at the rear and horizontal tail at the front. (Jérôme Palmade, Sciences et Avenir, Sept. 98, p. 80) 1901, October 19 France, ST CLOUD The inventor and pilot SANTOS-DUMONT, flew with his first hydrogen-filled machine from ST CLOUD to the EIFFEL TOWER and back in 29 MINUTES. He received a prize of 100,000 francs of the time for this feat. [except that this author is wrong about the year, month, etc...] **Reference:** "Ufo's – A century of Sightings by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 6, 7 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_589 --- ## Year: 1907, 18 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 2173 (897D5F11) **Date:** 1907 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Photography of observation in Norway. Probably a cloud, as other similar ones can be seen in the background. See image at images/1907.jpg. **Reference:** *La Domenica del Corriere*, 20 March 1967 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1907.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_286 ### Event 2174 (CE3D3DF0) **Date:** 1907 **Location:** Burlington, Vermont **Description:** In 1907, in Burlington, Vermont, prominent citizens, including a clergyman, ex-Governor Moodbury, and Mr. A.A. Buell, witnessed a remarkable aerial event. They were startled by a loud explosion and upon looking eastward, saw a torpedo-shaped object suspended about 50 feet above the buildings, approximately 300 feet away. The object was around six feet long and eight inches in diameter, with a dark shell from which red-hot, copper-like flames sporadically emerged. Initially stationary, the object began moving southward over Dolan Brothers' store, emitting intense red flames from ruptures on its surface. It was surrounded by a dim halo of light roughly 20 feet in diameter. The phenomenon left no noticeable odor or damage. The clergyman expressed a fervent hope to never witness such an event again. (Chapter 9, Ref 391) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_379 ### Event 2175 (0D6BABE1) **Date:** 3/14/1907 **Location:** At sea, STRAIT OF MALACCA **Description:** (Translated from French) S.C. Patterson, second mate of the steamer "Delta" reported that he saw for half an hour "rays that seemed to revolve around a center, like the spokes of a wheel: they seemed to measure 300 m in length. **Reference:** Charles FORD: "The Book of the Damned" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 215 **Reference:** Royal Meteorological Society Journal 32-294 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_590 ### Event 2176 (548576F8) **Date:** 3/14/1907 **Location:** STRAITS / MALACCA **Description:** Pacific and Orient Steamship Line steamship orient. 270M shafts / light / water near ship. Turn like spokes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LESLIE, Desmond & ADAMSKI,G: Flying Saucers Have Landed; British Book Center, NY 1956 (Index 34) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_238 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Malaysia", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "STRAITS/MALACCA:P&O SS ORIENT:270M SHAFTS/LITE/WATER nr SHIP:TURN LIKE SPOKES", **LatLong:** "1.750000 102.333338", **LatLongDMS:** "01:45:00 N 102:20:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/1.750000,102.333338)", **State/Prov:** "MLC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2177 (2F1F1585) **Date:** 4/5/1907 **Location:** FRANCE **Description:** (Translated from French) L. Blériot successfully completes his first flight in a monoplane of his own design. (April 5, 1907) **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air. Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, Marabout Université 1967, p. 65 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_591 ### Event 2178 (62C76432) **Date:** 4/20/1907 **End date:** 4/26/1907 **Locations:** Nashville; central Tennessee **Description:** The Nashville American prints some tall tales about encounters with occupants of a balloon who land briefly in various places \(usually near a spring\) around central Tennessee. The witnesses include a farmer named W. A. Smith, Walter Stephenson, Herman Schubert, Asa Hickerson, and A. Mollycoddle. The aeronauts are dressed strangely, play music, and speak a foreign language. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Nashville \(Tenn.\) Sunday American, April 21–23, 28, 1907; “[Here’s a Weird Tale,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95281356/)” Cincinnati \(Ohio\) Enquirer, April 25, 1907, p. 6; Theo Paijmans, “The Tennessee Aeronaut Flap of 1907,” Fortean Times 313 \(May 2014\): 28–29 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_265 ### Event 2179 (DE1903A5) **Date:** 6/2/1907 **Location:** ITALY, ROME **Description:** (Translated from French) At ROME, celebrating the Italian Constitution Anniversary: Ulivelli rises from the Ponte-Milvio Square. A very visible flash for the spectators touches the balloon at 900 m altitude. The balloon explodes above the Mediterranean Sea. (June 2, 1907) **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air. Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 65 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_592 ### Event 2180 (097FEFCB) **Date:** Early 6/1907 **Location:** ITALY, Bosa (Sardinia) **Description:** (Translated from French) Just before 10 PM, an oval object about thirty meters long and eight meters in diameter, hovered for a few seconds at low altitude above Bosa. [note from vog: maybe the balloon from the previous item?] (June, early 1907) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 202 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_593 ### Event 2181 (9DC332BF) **Date:** Summer 1907 **Location:** Vilppula [now Mänttä-Vilppula], Finland **Description:** While playing along the shore of a lake near Vilppula \[now Mänttä-Vilppula\], Finland, a group of boys see a light come from over the water and settle on the beach nearby. A door opens, and human-like beings emerge, sending the youths running. Searchers who come to the site later find traces and footprints. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 261; Center for UFO Studies, [HUMCAT Index 1900-1909](http://www.cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1900-1909.pdf), p. 7 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_266 ### Event 2182 (E61A9384) **Date:** 7/2/1907 **Location:** USA, Burlington (Vermont) **Description:** (Translated from French) (around 2 pm) ... a strange explosion occurred in the sky near Burlington. Some witnesses spoke of a torpedo-shaped craft, which was spinning at altitude. Shortly after this observation, a round and luminous object fell from the sky and exploded (Weather Review 1907, page 310). (Donald KEYHOE: "Les Soucoupes volantes existent" ed. Corrêa Paris 1951, p. 82) Bishop John S. Michaud saw a strange luminous torpedo-shaped craft. "I was standing at the corner of Church and College streets, facing the Howard Bank and looking eastward, engaged in conversation with ex-Governor Woodbury and Mr. A.A. Bluell, when, without the slightest warning, we were startled by what seemed to be a terrific and unusual explosion, evidently very near. Looking up along College Street, I noticed a torpedo-shaped body, a hundred yards away, which seemed to be hovering in the air, fifteen feet above the highest buildings. It was about two meters long and thirty centimeters in diameter, its outer part seemed to be of a dark color, and from it tongues of fire, like red-hot irons, were shooting out. Soon after, the object began to move, rather slowly, and disappeared southward, over the Dolan stores. As it moved, the wall seemed to open in places, letting out intense flames. (July 2, 1907) **Reference:** Charles Fort: "Le livre des damnés" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 230, 231 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_594 ### Event 2183 (69B3B5FD) **Date:** 7/2/1907 **Location:** BURLINGTON, VT **Description:** 1 observer. Flying torpedo shoots flames / all directions. Stops. Going quickly south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BOUGARD, Michel: SOUCOUPES VOLANTES; SOBEPS Group, Belgium 1976. HB (Index 28) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_239 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "339", **HatchDesc:** "BURLINGTON,VT:1 OBS:FLYING TORPEDO SHOOTS FLAMES/ALL DIRECTIONS:STOPS:>>S", **LatLong:** "44.483335 -73.200003", **LatLongDMS:** "44:29:00 N 73:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.483335,-73.200003)", **State/Prov:** "Vermont", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2184 (19284D4C) **Date:** 7/2/1907 **Locations:** Burlington, Vermont; Church and College streets; College Street **Description:** Just before 12:00 noon. Bishop [John Stephen Michaud](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FStephen%5FMichaud) is talking with Vermont ex-governor [Urban A.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban%5FA.%5FWoodbury) [Woodbury](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban%5FA.%5FWoodbury) at the corner of Church and College streets in Burlington, Vermont, when they hear a loud explosion and see a torpedo-shaped object about 6 feet long and 8 inches in diameter suspended in the air about 300 feet away. It is dark, with several tongues of flame issuing from it at various points, as if its covering is ruptured. It slowly begins to move to the southeast. The explosion has either knocked down or stunned a horse in College Street. A strong downpour of rain ensues shortly afterward. Although described as a “possible case of ball lightning,” the object appears more likely to have been an exploded balloon that someone has attached fireworks to in preparation for a Fourth of July celebration. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** William H. Alexander, “[A Possible Case of Ball Lightning,](https://www.google.com/books/edition/Monthly%5FWeather%5FReview/mMBGAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=William%2BH.%2BAlexander%2C%2B%E2%80%9CA%2BPossible%2BCase%2Bof%2BBall%2BLightning%2C%E2%80%9D%2BMonthly%2BWeather%2BReview&pg=PA310&printsec=frontcover)” Monthly Weather Review 35 \(July 1907\): 310–311; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 354–372, reprinted in “Revisiting the Bishop’s Torpedo,” Fortean Times 387 \(Christmas 2019\): 44–51 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_267 ### Event 2185 (13259649) **Date:** 7/2/1907 **Description:** Burlington, Vermont. The Bishop John Michaud was standing on a Burlington street corner around 2 in the afternoon, engaged in a conversation with Ex-Governor Woodbury and Mr. A.A. Buell, when without warning they were startled by what sounded like a nearby explosion. Looking eastward along College Street they observed a torpedo-shaped object, some 300 feet away, hovering in the air about 50 feet over the tops of the buildings. It was estimated to be about 6 feet long and 8 inches in diameter. It was dark, with red flames being emitted from spots on the surface resembling unburnished copper. The object began to move slowly toward the south. As it moved the surface seemed to be rupturing in places, and through these ruptures came the intense red flames. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Charles Fort, The Complete Books of Charles Fort. New York: Dover, 1974, pg. 292. **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3783 ### Event 2186 (217013E8) **Date:** 7/7/1907 **Location:** Phoenix, Arizona **Description:** 6:40 p.m. W. E. Thomas is watching a vivid sunset in Phoenix, Arizona, when he sees a “blue disk floating in the heavens apparently close to the sun.” It passes in front of the sun, completely covering it. Other discs appear until there are seven of them. His wife also sees the objects, which are constantly in motion, changing directions and sometimes moving in a straight-line formation. The disks are visible for another hour until sunset, when they are last seen as blue blotches. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Phoenix Man Sees Blue Stars,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92063113/)” Tucson \(Ariz.\) Citizen, July 11, 1907, p. 4 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_268 ### Event 2187 (B357C3EF) **Date:** 7/27/1907 **Location:** NORWAY, Drobak **Description:** (Translated from French) An opaque object flew above a ship and was photographed. **Reference:** QUFO, v 1/n 13.; Winkler: CATALOG OF UFO-LIKE DATA BEFORE 1947 - PART I., 1984, 35, cfr listing of Ole Jonny Braenne **Reference:** Photograph not seen, possibly first photo incident. **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_595 ### Event 2188 (5F12E845) **Date:** 7/27/1907 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) \(1909 ?\) : At Drøbak \(Norway\), photograph of a stationary opaque phenomenon above a ship \(see below\).. (July 27) **Reference:** \[QUFO, v 1/n 13\] \[Winkler: Catalog of UFO-like data before 1947 - Part I., 1984, 35\] **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1907.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_287 ### Event 2189 (A58B5544) **Date:** 7/27/1907 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In the Malacca Strait, Mr. S. C. Patterson, of the steamer *Delta*, observed for 30 minutes light rays that seemed to rotate around a center, like the rays of a wheel: they seemed to measure 300 m long. Then, in the South China Sea, a rotation of lightning was noticed: It was like a horizontal wheel, spinning quickly above the water and producing a deep feeling of unease among the crew. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1907.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_288 ### Event 2190 (75A79CA0) **Date:** Autumn 1907 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Tviberg \(Norway\), Theodor Tviberg and two of his friends see a round, bright object coming from the North-East heading South-East. The speed is higher than any device of 1980. The sky is clear with some clouds at 200 m. The Moon is a few degrees above the mountains to the East. The object passes between the Moon and the mountains. (Autumn) **Reference:** UFO, 1/1983, 38 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1907.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_289 --- ## Year: 1908, 58 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 2191 (128AE84E) **Date:** 1908 **Location:** Austria **Description:** (Translated from French) Dr. Igo Etrich flies his first airplane; like Bleriot he is a strong advocate of the tractor propeller and the monoplane. In 1910 he negotiates a license agreement with the Rumpel Company. **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Sequoia Elsevier Brussels 1979 edition **Reference:** See August 1910, Austria **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_596 ### Event 2192 (340B3FAE) **Date:** 1908 **Location:** BULGARIA, Sofia **Description:** (Translated from French) Between 1:00 PM and 1:30 PM there was one day a gathering on Marie-Louise Square because a very luminous spherical object, the size of a rugby ball, was moving slowly in the air at a high altitude. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 202 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_597 ### Event 2193 (46647B03) **Date:** 1908 **Location:** At sea, DE **Description:** The English ship "Mohican," piloted by Capt. Urghart, was going to Philadelphia when it was surrounded by a thick, luminous cloud which "magnetized" everything on board. The compass was observed to swing wildly. (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_54 ### Event 2194 (B325551B) **Date:** 1908 **Location:** Coast of Delaware **Description:** The English ship "Mohican," piloted by Capt. Urghart, was going to Philadelphia when it was surrounded by a thick, luminous cloud which "magnetized" everything on board. The compass was observed to swing wildly. When seamen tried to move some chains on the bridge, they found that they were glued to the metal floor. Suddenly the cloud rose and was seen above the sea for some time. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 197 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_34 ### Event 2195 (28CFE425) **Date:** 1908 **Location:** New England **Description:** During the New England mystery airship wave of 1908-1909, alongside sightings of dirigible-like objects, there were reports of airplane-type craft that were technologically ahead of their time. **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_116 ### Event 2196 (74DDEEC7) **Date:** 1/1908 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Mousehead (Norfolk) **Description:** (Translated from French) Employees of the Norwich Transportation Company saw a dark globular object moving quickly against the wind. Its movements seemed controlled. It was twice as big as a bird of prey. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 202 **Reference:** according to the Eastern Daily Press of 28 January 1908 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_599 ### Event 2197 (29DF185E) **Date:** 1/13/1908 **Location:** FRANCE, ISSY LES MOULINEAUX **Description:** (Translated from French) Englishman H. FARMAN on a "Voisin" aircraft completed the first kilometer. He crossed a distance of 500 meters marked on the ground, made a turn in flight, and returned to his starting point. He officially flew 1000 meters, but in reality, around 1500 meters. For the first time, officially, an aviator made a turn in flight. [note from vog: no doubt that to succeed in this exploit, he made many attempts outside the competition...] (January 13, 1908) **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air. Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 68 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_598 ### Event 2198 (0F36397D) **Date:** 1/28/1908 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Norfolk \(England\), employees of the *Norwich Transportation Company* on night duty see a dark globular object moving at high speed with some kind of structure on its side. (January 28) **Reference:** Mysterious Britain **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1908.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_290 ### Event 2199 (0891DDDC) **Date:** 2/4/1908 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** KENT, WA **Description:** Trainload / observer(s). Red cylinder/cigar-shape north going quickly south over drawbridge. Night lights / several days. / r203p109. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 27) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_240 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "120", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "KENT,WA:TRAINLOAD/OBS:RED CGR N>>S OVR DRAWBRIDGE:NLTS/SVRL DAYS:/r203p109", **LatLong:** "47.383336 -122.233339", **LatLongDMS:** "47:23:00 N 122:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.383336,-122.233339)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2200 (D8ABB1D7) **Date:** 3/12/1908 **Location:** USA **Description:** (Translated from French) First Flight of the "Red Wing" First Aircraft Built for "Aerial Experiment Association". The aircraft is designed by Selfridge and piloted by F.W. Baldwin. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air. Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 69 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_600 ### Event 2201 (EBD22362) **Date:** 3/30/1908 **Location:** Queens Park, Chester, England **Description:** 10:15 p.m. F. W. Longbottom in Queens Park, Chester, England, is photographing the Whirlpool Galaxy \(NGC 5194\) in Canes Venacti with a 12.25-inch reflector. When the plate is developed, it shows an unknown nebulous object some 25 minutes of arc northeast of the galaxy. He does not see the object when he examines the same spot again on April 6. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** F. W. Longbottom, “[Comet or ———?](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101061668602&view=1up&seq=231&skin=2021)” The Observatory 31 \(1908\): 215–216 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_269 ### Event 2202 (2D9DF99B) **Date:** 4/1/1908 **Location:** NORWAY, Notodden **Description:** (Translated from French) An ovoid object made of an unknown metal, occupied by two pilots from Mars, makes a forced landing and is unable to take off again. [IN REALITY: probably the first Norwegian hoax and "April Fool's"] **Reference:** FRI PRESS, Apr 1908, SYN OG SEGN, 1947, 127-8.,BA, 30 Mar 1983.UFO-OBSERVATOREN, 5/1983, 8; cfr listing of Ole Jonny Braenne **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_601 ### Event 2203 (89553A15) **Date:** 4/1/1908 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Notodden \(Norway\), an egg-shaped aircraft made of an unknown metal, containing two occupants from Mars, landed in distress and could not take off again \(described as a hoax\). (April 1st) **Reference:** \[FRI Presse, April 1908\] \[SYN OG SEGN, 1947, 127-8\] \[BA, 30 Mar 1983\] \[UFO-OBSERVATØREN, 5/1983, 8\] **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1908.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_291 ### Event 2204 (67C0F063) **Date:** 4/30/1908 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN **Description:** (Translated from French) Moore Brabazon makes the first flight in an airplane in England by an English pilot on a "Delagrange-Farman". **Reference:** "Conquest of the Air. Chronology.. A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 69 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_602 ### Event 2205 (0E2E3B1C) **Date:** 5/1908 **Location:** Great River, Long Island, New York **Description:** Late evening. Helen C. Peterson sees a string of lighted beads in the sky over Great River, Long Island, New York. The first light stops and as the others reach it, they seem to bump into it. It grows a little bigger, appearing like a large star. Suddenly it begins to spin like a pinwheel, but without sparks. The motion stops and what looks like a very bright star takes off at great speed toward the southeast. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 1168–1169 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_270 ### Event 2206 (96C35C54) **Date:** 5/1/1908 **Location:** FRANCE, Vittel **Description:** (Translated from French) Between 8:00 PM and 9:00 PM an object surrounded by a halo, of the apparent diameter of the Moon, was observed. At 9:00 PM a dark "arm" appeared above the object and moved obliquely through it before disappearing. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 202 **Reference:** Cosmos vol. 58 p. 535 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_603 ### Event 2207 (100BC945) **Date:** 5/1/1908 **Location:** VITTEL, FR **Description:** Moon-size luminous disk with glowing corona. Grows slanting black band. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LESLIE, Desmond & ADAMSKI,G: Flying Saucers Have Landed; British Book Center, NY 1956 (Index 34) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_241 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "VITTEL,FR:MOONSIZE LUM.DISK W/GLOWING CORONA:GROWS SLANTING BLK BAND", **LatLong:** "48.200002 5.966667", **LatLongDMS:** "48:12:00 N 05:58:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.200002,5.966667)", **State/Prov:** "Vosges", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2208 (EE81BAAD) **Date:** 5/14/1908 **Location:** USA **Description:** (Translated from French) Wilbur Wright piloting his aircraft, carried his first passenger, XH. Furnas, an employee of his company. The flight lasted 7 minutes 29 seconds, the distance covered was 8050 m. **Reference:** "Conquest of the Air. Chronology.. A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 70 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_604 ### Event 2209 (512A9E64) **Date:** 5/16/1908 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN **Description:** (Translated from French) S.F. Cody performs the first flight achieved with an airplane built in England. (May 16, 1908) **Reference:** "Conquest of the Air. Chronology.. A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 70 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_605 ### Event 2210 (A3350B57) **Date:** 5/19/1908 **Location:** USA **Description:** (Translated from French) On the "White Wing", the second aircraft of A.G. Bell for the Aerial Experiment Association, T.E. Selfridge was the first military man to pilot a heavier-than-air craft. (May 19th, 1908) **Reference:** "Conquest of the Air. Chronology.. A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout Université 1967, p. 70 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_606 ### Event 2211 (98489299) **Date:** 5/22/1908 **Location:** USA **Description:** (Translated from French) G. Curtiss made his first flight aboard the White Wing and crossed 615 feet, landed, took off without stopping and crossed, in total, 1017 feet in 19 seconds. (May 22, 1908) **Reference:** "Conquest of the Air. Chronology.. A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 70 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_607 ### Event 2212 (10D4BC2F) **Date:** 5/23/1908 **Location:** ITALY **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of a "Voisin" airplane in Italy by Delagrange. (May 23, 1908) **Reference:** "Conquest of the Air. Chronology.. A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 70 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_608 ### Event 2213 (7956E451) **Date:** 5/29/1908 **Location:** Italy, Centocello **Description:** (Translated from French) Delagrange on "Voisin" Brings Italy Its First Records: Closed Circuit Distance 12,750 km; Duration: 15 Minutes 25 Seconds, Altitude Reached from 3 to 5 Meters **Reference:** "Conquest of the Air. Chronology.. A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 69 **Reference:** from three to five meters, no more... **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_609 ### Event 2214 (23A57164) **Date:** Summer 1908 **Location:** Denmark **Description:** Repeated sightings of unidentified airships, sometimes flying against the wind, take place in Denmark. They usually have wings and searchlights; on one occasion, an antenna is seen jutting from the front end. Other reports are of oddly shaped clouds from which a searchlight emanates, sweeping the ground. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Willy Wegner, “[The](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/UFO%20Register%20%28UK%20Contact%29/UFO%20Register%20-%20Vol%2008%20parts%201-2%201977.pdf) [Mystery ‘Airship’ over Denmark in 1908,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/UFO%20Register%20%28UK%20Contact%29/UFO%20Register%20-%20Vol%2008%20parts%201-2%201977.pdf)” The UFO Register 8, no. 1 \(November 1977\): 3–8; Clark III 1163 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_272 ### Event 2215 (6168957F) **Date:** 6/27/1908 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** AALBORG, DK AND AREA **Description:** Several separate observer(s). Cylinder/cigar-shape with antennas. Bright beams straight going down [to] and going up. Going quickly northwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The UFO REGISTER. CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK. (annual sightings catalog.) (Index 76) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_242 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "240", **HatchDesc:** "AALBORG,DK + AREA:SVRL SEP.OBS:CGR W/ANTENNAS:BRITE BEAMS STRAIGHT ↓+↑:>>NW", **LatLong:** "57.000003 10.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "57:00:00 N 10:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/57.000003,10.000000)", **State/Prov:** "Danemark", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 2216 (A80221F8) **Date:** 6/30/1908 **Location:** USSR, Siberia, Tunguska **Description:** (Translated from French) Explosion of a power greater than the atomic bombs on Hiroshima or Nagasaki. Meteor? Black hole (Peter Hawkins hypothesis in the 1970s)? Something else? The discussion is not closed. **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_610 ### Event 2217 (9184823B) **Date:** 6/30/1908 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) [Tunguska Explosion](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/1908-06-30\_Tunguska.html) \(Siberia\). See the damage caused by the Tunguska explosion, in photo images/1908\_250.jpg. (7:15) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1908.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_292 ### Event 2218 (15340983) **Date:** 6/30/1908 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) 5 hours after this explosion at the end of the world, Britain is dazzled by a sparkling sunset. The *Times* will report the event: the night is so clear that Londoners can read their newspaper in the street, at midnight, without resorting to the city lighting! A journalist thus describes this night of June 30th: The sky was as clear as in broad daylight and streaked with pink light clouds; in my life, I have never witnessed anything so amazing. (0 h) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1908.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_293 ### Event 2219 (215DF3EB) **Date:** 6/30/1908 **Time:** 07:20 **Location:** TUNGUSKA NORTH / VANAVARA, RUSSIA **Description:** Huge blast flattens area. Meteor going quickly northwest? No crater found. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO CHRONICLES of the SOVIET UNION; Ballentine Books HB 1992. 212pp. (Index 65) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_243 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **RDA:** Radiation/high energy fields detected, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **HST:** Historical account, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Russia", **Credibility:** "15", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "TUNGUSKA N/VANAVARA,RUS:HUGE BLAST FLATTENS AREA:METEOR>>NW?:NO CRATER FOUND", **LatLong:** "61.177781 102.250005", **LatLongDMS:** "61:10:40 N 102:15:00 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/61.177781,102.250005)", **State/Prov:** "EVE", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2220 (53A457C0) **Date:** 6/30/1908 **Location:** Podkamennaia Tunguska, Russia **Description:** Tunguska event. Mainstream scientists generally hold that it was a comet or asteroid (in actuality a comet could not have survived to such low altitude, but a stony asteroid might have, but the radioactivity remains unexplained). (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_55 ### Event 2221 (D113F250) **Date:** 6/30/1908 **Location:** Podkamennaia Toungouska, USSR **Description:** Unexplained explosion in the taiga, equivalent to a thermonuclear blast, sometimes interpreted as the crash of an interstellar vehicle. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Anatomy 18; Challenge 99 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_35 ### Event 2222 (497D0B8C) **Date:** 6/30/1908 **Locations:** Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate [now Krasnoyarsk Krai], Russia; Lake Baikal; Eastern Siberian taiga **Description:** 7:14 a.m. A large explosion takes place near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate \[now Krasnoyarsk Krai\], Russia. Evenki natives and Russian settlers in the hills northwest of Lake Baikal observe a column of bluish light, nearly as bright as the sun, moving across the sky. About 10 minutes later, there is a flash and a sound similar to artillery fire. Eyewitnesses closer to the explosion report that the source of the sound moves from the east to the north of them. The sounds are accompanied by a shock wave that knocks people off their feet and breaks windows hundreds of kilometers away. The explosion over the sparsely populated eastern Siberian taiga flattens 770 square miles of forest and possibly causes up to three human casualties. The event is generally attributed to the air burst of a meteoroid. It is classified as an impact event, even though no impact crater has been found. The object disintegrates at an altitude of 3–6 miles rather than hitting the surface of the Earth. The area is so remote that the site is not inspected until 1927 by a team led by Russian mineralogist [Leonid Kulik](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid%5FKulik), who finds a zone about 5 miles across where trees are scorched and devoid of branches but still standing upright. More exotic explanations for the event include a black hole impact, antimatter, a UFO crash \(as recently as 2004 by Russian ufologist Yuri Labvin\), a nuclear explosion, and an inadvertent experiment by [Nikola Tesla](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nikola%5FTesla). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Tunguska event](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska%5Fevent)”; Hobana and Weverbergh 10–30; John Baxter and Thomas Atkins, [The Fire Came By: The](https://archive.org/details/firecamebyri00baxt%5F0) [Riddle of the Great Siberian Explosion](https://archive.org/details/firecamebyri00baxt%5F0)[,](https://archive.org/details/firecamebyri00baxt%5F0) Doubleday, 1976; Surendra Verma, The Mystery of the Tunguska Fireball, Thriplow, 2005; Vladimir Rubtsov, The Tunguska Mystery, Springer, 2009; Phil Plait, “[Aliens Saved](https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/aliens-saved-tunguska) [Tunguska!](https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/aliens-saved-tunguska)” Bad Astronomy, May 29, 2009; Mark Peplow, “[Rock Samples Suggest Meteor Caused Tunguska](https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2013.13163) [Blast,](https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2013.13163)” Nature, June 10, 2013 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_271 ### Event 2223 (8130FD80) **Date:** 6/30/1908 **Description:** On this morning at 7:17 a.m. the Tunguska, Russia explosion occurred in a remote region of the Siberian taiga, which brightened the pre-dawn sky as far away as London and had the equivalent energy of a 15 to 40-megaton nuclear explosion. Detailed scientific analysis shows that the object that caused the devastation exploded above an altitude of three miles and left an area of destruction for more than 850 square miles, in a heart-shaped pattern. It is widely thought to have been either an asteroid or comet impact, but it has sometimes been interpreted as the crash or mid-air explosion of an alien spaceship. Several anomalies still remain to be explained if the explosion was caused by a celestial body entering Earth's atmosphere. For example, why was radioactive Cesium 137 found in 1908 tree rings from the area. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** William R. Corliss, Remarkable Luminous Phenomena in Nature, p. 281; Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 63 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3739 ### Event 2224 (C3EBEB74) **Date:** 6/30/1908 **Location:** Tunguska, Russian Siberia **Description:** The Tunguska event of 1908 was a mysterious and powerful explosion that occurred in a remote area of Russian Siberia. On June 30th, a massive blast with the force of a nuclear explosion flattened over a thousand square miles of forest, creating seismic shockwaves felt hundreds of miles away. The explosion was accompanied by a blinding flash of light that turned night into day across vast distances and a mushroom-shaped cloud. Eyewitness accounts described a fiery ball in the sky, followed by a massive explosion that sent shockwaves through the region.\nVarious theories have been proposed to explain the event, including the impact of a comet, meteor, or asteroid. However, some researchers have suggested the possibility of an errant nuclear-powered spacecraft that exploded in the atmosphere. This theory is supported by evidence such as the absence of a typical impact crater, the presence of elevated radioactivity levels in the aftermath, and unique fused globules associated with nuclear explosions found in the area. Despite extensive research, the exact cause of the Tunguska event remains debated, leaving it one of the most intriguing and unexplained events in history. (Chapter 3, Ref 153) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_143 ### Event 2225 (BE1DC1A1) **Date:** 6/30/1908 **Location:** Tunguska, Russian Siberia **Description:** Some eyewitnesses reportedly observed a cylindrical-shaped object flying over the area and changing course several times before finally exploding in the air. (Chapter 3, Ref 154) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_144 ### Event 2226 (727C1398) **Date:** 7/1908? **Time:** 13:00 **Location:** SOFIA, BULGARIA **Description:** All present. Basketball-size and shape going [to] overhead very slow / great altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HOBANA Ion & WEVERBERGH,Julien: UFO'S from BEHIND the IRON CURTAIN; Bantam Books,1975. 308pp. (Index 192) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_244 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Bulgaria", **Credibility:** "14", **Duration:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "SOFIA,BULGARIA:all present:BASKETBALL-SIZE+SHAPE >OVHD VSLOW/GREAT ALT", **LatLong:** "42.716669 23.333334", **LatLongDMS:** "42:43:00 N 23:20:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.716669,23.333334)", **State/Prov:** "Sofia", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 2227 (340C447B) **Date:** 7/1908 **Location:** Bristol, Connecticut **Description:** A large airship was reportedly seen over Bristol, Connecticut. The craft had an elongated gas bag with a suspended framework and a propeller. Witnesses observed a single person aboard and speculated on its intentions, but the identity of the airship remained unknown as it changed course and disappeared over Wolcott Mountain. (Chapter 3, Ref 118) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_111 ### Event 2228 (F84FEF8D) **Date:** 7/6/1908 **Location:** USA **Description:** (Translated from French) Englishman H. Farman on a "Voisin" biplane wins the "Quarter-Hour Prize": a duration record, he stays in the air for 20 minutes 19 seconds and 3/5; L. Bleriot on a "Bleriot VIII" completes a flight of 8 minutes. **Reference:** "Conquest of the Air. Chronology.. A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 71 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_611 ### Event 2229 (D75223C8) **Date:** 7/11/1908 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The famous Russian explorer V. K. Arsenyev was walking along the Gobilli River when he made this encounter: I saw a trace on the path that looked like a human footprint. My dog Alpha stopped, then growled, and suddenly something stirred close by, dragging itself with a heavy step among the bushes. Yet this thing did not flee, it stopped right next to us, invisible, perfectly still. We stayed like this for several minutes... Then I bent down, picked up a stone and threw it towards the bushes. Then something unexpected happened: I heard a flapping of wings. Something big and black emerged from the fog and flew over the river. An instant later, this thing had disappeared into the thick mist. My dog, completely terrified, huddled at my feet. After supper, I spoke of this incident to the men and of the Udehe tribe. They launched into a very animated story about a man who could fly in the air. Hunters had often seen his traces that suddenly vanished, in such a way that the only possible explanation was that "the man" had landed on the ground before taking off again. (July 11) **Reference:** Yuri B. Petrenko, Forerunner of the Flying "Lady" of Vietnam ? in FSR vol. 19, N° 2, March-April 1973, p. 29-30 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1908.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_294 ### Event 2230 (15A582DB) **Date:** 7/11/1908 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Bridgewater \(Massachusetts\), John E. Flynn, Philip S. Prophett and others saw a black spherical object with lights hovering and stationary over the town. **Reference:** UFO Roundup 4-36 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1908.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_295 ### Event 2231 (EB90CE05) **Date:** 7/11/1908 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Foundation of the Bureau of Investigation, which would later become the [FBI](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/FBI.html). **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1908.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_296 ### Event 2232 (87C24CA3) **Date:** 7/11/1908 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Sofia \(Bulgaria\), people gathered in Marie-Louise Square because a very bright object the size of a football was slowly flying at a different altitude. (Between 1pm and 1:30pm) **Reference:** Paris Match, January 1960 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1908.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_297 ### Event 2233 (93AE5D19) **Date:** 7/11/1908 **Location:** GOBILLI RIVER, RUSSIA **Description:** Explorer. Small humanoid (or Grey) hides / bushes. Observer(s) throws rock. Small humanoid (or Grey) flies to river. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 204) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_245 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NFO:** No craft seen, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Russia", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "GOBILLI Rvr,RUSS:EXPLORER:OID HIDES/BUSHES:OBS THROWS ROCK:OID FLIES TO RIVER", **LatLong:** "49.266669 138.050007", **LatLongDMS:** "49:16:00 N 138:03:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.266669,138.050007)", **State/Prov:** "SIB", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 2234 (98775515) **Date:** 7/25/1908 **Location:** USA, Bristol, Connecticut **Description:** (Translated from French) Witnesses said they observed high in the sky "an elongated gas bag". Under the sausage-shaped phenomenon was suspended a grating with a "motor". **Reference:** "UFO's – A century of Sightings by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p.9 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_612 ### Event 2235 (620979B1) **Date:** 7/25/1908 **Locations:** Forestville neighborhood of Bristol, Connecticut; Lake Compounce; Massachusetts **Description:** About 6:00 p.m. A “large airship sailing very high” is seen passing from north to south over the Forestville neighborhood of Bristol, Connecticut. It seems to be an elongated gas bag under which a framework with a propeller is suspended. After “maneuvering” a while, it stops and circles over Lake Compounce then changes course toward the southwest. An East Bristol man named Wilson later claims it was a pig-shaped balloon he had sent up for his daughter’s birthday party, but “balloon” sightings continue in Massachusetts through December. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Large Airship Seen Sailing over East Part of Bristol, Ct.,” Boston Herald, July 26, 1908, p. 16; “The Lake Compounce Airship,” Willimantic \(Conn.\) Daily Chronicle, July 29, 1908, p. 26; Clark III 1163 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_273 ### Event 2236 (2CEC2134) **Date:** 7/26/1908 **Description:** A special agent force in the Department of Justice, forerunner of the FBI, is created by Attorney General [Charles Bonaparte.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FJoseph%5FBonaparte) Its first chief is [Stanley Finch.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley%5FFinch) Attorney General [George W. Wickersham](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FW.%5FWickersham) renames the force the Bureau of Investigation in March 1909. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Federal Bureau of Investigation, [Timeline](https://www.fbi.gov/history/timeline)[,](https://www.fbi.gov/history/timeline) March 31, 2002 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_274 ### Event 2237 (F5F18339) **Date:** 8/4/1908 **Location:** Germany, from Mainz to Lake Constance **Description:** (Translated from French) Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin made an 11-hour flight aboard the LZ-4. In reality, Zeppelin wanted to make a much longer flight of 24 hours, but engine troubles forced him to land in Mainz for repairs. He made the return journey over a hundred miles and again the engine failed, forcing the airship to land near Echterdingen; however, caught in a storm, the airship was finally damaged. (August 4, 1908) **Reference:** "UFOs - A Century of Sightings by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 9 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_614 ### Event 2238 (B1CE6139) **Date:** Late Summer 1908 **Location:** CANADA, Duncan (British Columbia) **Description:** (Translated from French) Two young girls of about twelve years old were able to observe one evening a very bright light in the sky. Soon a dark mass appeared in front of the stars: one could distinguish a row of red, blue and green lights. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 203) I am unable to resist writing about a little incident that happened to me in Duncan, BC away back in 1908 when I was 12 years old. (note de vog: so, this person is writing her story in 1997, when she would be 101 years old? Or did she write it before? All this is not very clear) It is one thing in my life I shall never forget. As we had never heard of UFOs or flying saucers in those days, I have never claimed to have seen one until I heard just recently that an old neighbor of ours, Mrs. Campbell, claimed to have seen a UFO away back in the early days and I think it would have been about the same year that I saw mine. She described it almost exactly the same as mine but like me she didn't tell anyone (..) As I was about to shut the door the whole opening was filled with a flash of very bright light. I jumped back stunned, my eyes on the light. It rose on an angle to about 30 feet, judging by trees in the background, and then it changed to a dark mass with a cluster of red, blue and green lights on it, not bright enough to cast a glow. And then in a changed direction it moved quite slowly for maybe 200 or 300 feet and just disappeared. There was no sound or heat that I remember. I was absolutely in a panic. I ran into the dark house and lay down on the floor under a window so the thing couldn't see me, I suppose - but that's panic! (...) ( 1908, late summer) **Reference:** collected on the Internet in May 1997 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_613 ### Event 2239 (AFB79242) **Date:** 9/6/1908 **Location:** France **Description:** (Translated from French) Delagrange held air for 29 minutes 53 seconds 3/5 on "Bleriot". (September 6, 1908) **Reference:** "Conquest of the Air. Chronology.. A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 72 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_615 ### Event 2240 (B3F5ED8A) **Date:** 9/9/1908 **Location:** USA, Fort Myer **Description:** (Translated from French) O. Wright made three consecutive flights. On the first one he stayed in the air for 57 minutes and 31 seconds, which was 57 laps of the circuit. On the second one he exceeded an hour. On the third one he took a passenger, Lieutenant F.P. Lahn. (September 9, 1908) **Reference:** "Conquest of the Air. Chronology.. A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 72 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_616 ### Event 2241 (052BF5E2) **Date:** 9/14/1908 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Northfield (Worcestershire). **Description:** (Translated from French) David Packer managed to photograph this light: the object was large and resembled a Moon. The document was published in "English Mechanic" vol. 88 p. 21 but we have not been able to find it (according to Contry Queries and Notes, 1-138, 417). David Packer testified: "At 8:40 pm in the sky lit by the Moon I observed a bright horizontal cloud in the anterior part of the Great Bear and which was just above a dark cloud masking certain stars. The bright cloud constantly varied in brightness, quickly lit up and then became duller, a bit like the stars that twinkle. Its color was pale white and it remained stationary during the entire observation. At 8:45 pm, a meteor from the Perseids penetrated the cloud, at the eastern end of it and there it burned very brightly releasing a string of small luminous nuclei". **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 203 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_617 ### Event 2242 (51C061F6) **Date:** 10/1908 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, at sea 60 km from Lowestoft (Suffolk) **Description:** (Translated from French) The captain of the fishing vessel "Superb" saw, on a clear night, a large star approach the boat. Immediately the ship shone a red light in the direction of the phenomenon and to his great astonishment, it immediately lit a fire of the same color. When a white lamp was lit, the object which had the shape of a "sausage", this time responded with a blue colored fire. The observation lasted between twenty and thirty minutes. [IN REALITY: also see ZEPPELINS from 1900, July 2] **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 203 **Reference:** East Anglian Times of 20.5.1909 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_618 ### Event 2243 (E46B19F9) **Date:** 10/1908 **Locations:** North Sea; Lowestoft, Suffolk, England; Netherlands **Description:** Skipper J. H. Stockman of the smack Superb is fishing in the North Sea 35 miles out of Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, when he sees a large “star” rise out of the water and approach his ship. He signals it with a red flare, and to his surprise he is immediately answered with a red flare above him. He then shows a white flare and receives a blue flare in response. The object appears sausage-shaped and carries a single light. It disappears in the direction of the Netherlands. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** East Anglian Daily Times, May 20, 1909; Norfolk News, May 22, 1909; Clark III 1163; David Clarke, “[Scareships over Britain: The Airship Wave of 1909,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/avistamientos%5Fovnis/Casos%20OVNI%201909%2CAirship.htm)” Fortean Studies 6 \(1999\); Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1908-10-uk-lowestoft.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1908-10-uk-lowestoft.htm) August 17, 2013 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_275 ### Event 2244 (BDE4517A) **Date:** 10/1908 **Location:** Bridgewater, Massachusetts **Description:** Two men observed an airship over Bridgewater, Massachusetts. They watched as it moved closer to the earth and noticed the outline of the large balloon. The airship exhibited unusual movements, rising and falling as if controlled by an individual, and then it moved steadily eastward, maintaining a straight line instead of dropping down. (Chapter 3, Ref 119) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_112 ### Event 2245 (9AE7969C) **Date:** 10/1908 **Location:** 35 miles at sea near the British Isles **Description:** In October 1908, British fishermen encountered a "sausage-shaped" aircraft at sea and attempted communication by exchanging flares with the unidentified object before it flew away towards the open sea. (Chapter 3, Ref 123) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_117 ### Event 2246 (547F914D) **Date:** 10/1/1908 **End date:** 5/26/1927 **Description:** The Ford Model T is an automobile that was produced by the Ford Motor Company. It is generally regarded as the first affordable automobile, which made car travel available to middle-class Americans. The relatively low price was partly the result of Ford’s efficient fabrication, including assembly line production instead of individual handcrafting. **Type:** industrial advance **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Model_T) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_23 ### Event 2247 (E147FB69) **Date:** 10/30/1908 **Location:** France from Mourmelon to Reims **Description:** (Translated from French) H. Farman on "Voisin" Makes the First City to City Flight in History: He Flies from Mourmelon to Reims Non-Stop, 27 km in 20 Minutes at 75 km/h and at 40 Metres Altitude. **Reference:** "Conquest of the Air. Chronology.. A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 72 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_619 ### Event 2248 (835F1E95) **Date:** 10/31/1908 **Location:** USA, Bridgewater, Massachusetts **Description:** (Translated from French) Another cigar-shaped craft was reported at low altitude above Bridgewater. (...) It had searchlights that explored the ground. After a few moments it rose almost vertically and the searchlights went out. (Donald KEYHOE: "Les Soucoupes volantes existent" ed. Corrêa Paris 1951, p 82) Before dawn, at three in the morning, John E. Flynn and Philip S. Prophett, workers, were driving a cart pulled by a horse on Main Street (west of Bridgewater) towards the center. Flynn recounts: "We saw the light, not a searchlight, but a kind of large lantern about 60 to 80 cm in diameter, quite unusual, above the Stanley factory. We stopped to look at it for about ten minutes and saw the light descending more and more towards the ground. Finally, we were able to make out the shape of a balloon. We shouted, but no response came, nor any noise. The balloon descended and the light moved, as if someone was carrying a lantern. Then, slowly, the light rose and went off to the east, a bit towards the southeast. We followed it with our eyes for a long time. Even when I was already back home, I could still see it through the window, for another three quarters of an hour to an hour. I was waiting to see it descend, because at 25 miles it would reach the sea. But it did not descend and continued on a straight trajectory. I noticed this because I was looking at the light between two branches of a large tree: the trajectory was straight. I'm sure it wasn't an ordinary balloon! (note from vog: and why not???) It was turning in a perfect circle above the Stanley factory at about 30 meters altitude and then, this straight horizontal trajectory..." (October 31, 1908) **Reference:** UFO ROUNDUP, Volume 2, Number 41,October 26, 1997, Joseph Trainor **Reference:** The Brockton, Mass. Times for October 31, 1908, "Mysterious Balloon Over Bridgewater," page 1; the weekly Bridgewater, Mass. Independent for November 6, 1908, "A Mysterious Air Ship," page 1; and the New York Times for November 1, 1908, "Can't Find Strange Balloon," page 1. See also THE COMPLETE BOOKS OF CHARLES FORT, Dover Press, N.Y. 1974, page 507. **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_620 --- ## Year: 1909, 204 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 2249 (6C3E5BD8) **Date:** 1909 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Main observation sites of "dirigibles" over England. See image at images/1909.jpg. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1909.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_298 ### Event 2250 (33ED0B0D) **Date:** 1909 **Location:** East Frisia, Lower Saxony, Germany **Description:** Night. [Frederick G. Hehr](https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/frederick-g-hehr-as-a-fortean) sees a bright white light executing a “curious dance” over a village one mile away in East Frisia, Lower Saxony, Germany. A minute later the light suddenly streaks in his direction, coming within 300 feet as it passes by at 60 feet altitude. Three seconds later it is gone. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Report from the Readers,” Fate 4, no. 5 \(July 1951\): 95–96; Clark III 1169 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_276 ### Event 2251 (753F1606) **Date:** 1909 **Location:** London **Description:** Amid speculation that foreign entities, particularly Germans, were behind the mystery airship sightings, an Englishman named Dr. M.B. Boyd came forward to claim responsibility. According to a contemporary London newspaper, Boyd stated that he had been working on airship inventions for eight years and revealed that his airship was responsible for several reported sightings. He described his airship as 120 feet long, powered by powerful gasoline engines, and capable of long flights. Despite his claims, Boyd never provided concrete evidence of his aircraft, and the mystery of the sightings persisted, with doubts raised about his assertions. The German theory was also questioned, as the German dirigibles of the time did not match the reported speeds and capabilities of the mystery airships. (Chapter 3, Ref 129) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_123 ### Event 2252 (D2649215) **Date:** 1909 **Location:** Reval, Russia **Description:** Mysterious airship sightings were not limited to the British Isles but extended to continental Europe. In August, a British newspaper's Russian correspondent reported an incident in which an unidentified controllable airship circled over the city of Reval (now Tallinn) and then departed towards Finland, causing significant excitement in the area. (Chapter 3, Ref 130) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_124 ### Event 2253 (61DFEBB0) **Date:** 1909 **Location:** New Zealand **Description:** Under bright moonlight, a single witness reported seeing a large, boat-shaped object with two individuals inside before it swiftly departed at a fast pace. (Chapter 3, Ref 134) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_128 ### Event 2254 (1354C0E7) **Date:** 1909 **Location:** Onslow, Australia **Description:** A daylight sighting in Australia near Onslow described an object that appeared compact like a dirigible balloon but squarer and more like an aeroplane. The object reflected flashes of light from what seemed like revolving metalwork or reflective surfaces. (Chapter 3, Ref 141) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_135 ### Event 2255 (0983C74F) **Date:** 1909 **Location:** La Porte, Indiana **Description:** In 1906, the crew of a cargo ship encountered a large, saucer-shaped meteor exhibiting zigzag movements and non-meteor-like characteristics. Three years later in 1909, churchgoers in Indiana witnessed a strange craft resembling two bowls joined at the rims, with rows of lights in the middle. The craft emitted an eerie light that terrified both people and horses before disappearing suddenly. (Chapter 3, Ref 148) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_142 ### Event 2256 (E381905C) **Date:** 1909 **Location:** New Haven, Connecticut **Description:** Phantom fliers refer to reports of seemingly ordinary airplanes behaving anomalously. Just a few years after the Wright brothers' inaugural flight, when most air travels were low-altitude and nighttime flights were rare, mysterious high-flying planes were spotted, especially during nighttime. On one Christmas Day, observers in New Haven reported a mysterious aircraft circling the city at a great height. Its exact appearance, pilot, and mechanics remained unclear, but its distinct flight pattern set it apart from known balloons or dirigibles. Though many had seen conventional planes, this sighting was unique. The aircraft was believed to be the same one spotted over New England for several months. (Chapter 9, Ref 355) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_348 ### Event 2257 (296B99A4) **Date:** 1909 **Location:** Worcester, Massachusetts **Description:** A mysterious craft was observed at nighttime over Worcester, Massachusetts, with its silhouette resembling a monoplane similar to those used by European aviators Latham and Bleriot. The craft, witnessed by many, flew as low as 100 feet and rose up to 1,000 feet. Some observers reported seeing two men aboard, with one near a bright headlight and the other by a dimmer light. The aircraft demonstrated speeds of up to 80 miles per hour and could remain stationary in the air for up to 15 minutes, a capability not present in contemporary fixed-wing aircraft. (Chapter 9, Ref 356) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_349 ### Event 2258 (C2EBA054) **Date:** 1909 **Location:** Worcester, Massachusetts **Description:** After mysterious aircraft sightings in New England, a Worcester man named Wallace E. Tillinghast came forward, claiming he had invented and built an advanced aeroplane. This aircraft could carry three passengers up to a distance of 300 miles at speeds of 120 miles an hour. Tillinghast's monoplane had a 72-foot wingspan, weighed 1,550 pounds, and was powered by a 120-horsepower gasoline engine he designed. Unique features of his plane included its uncapsizable design, the placement of occupants on the machine's body, and an acetylene gas headlight. Tillinghast kept many details secret, especially its location, as he intended to compete in upcoming Boston aviation contests. He emphasized that his machine was no prototype and had been successfully tested at night. (Chapter 9, Ref 357) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_350 ### Event 2259 (1188041A) **Date:** 1909 **Location:** Area of Worcester, New England **Description:** Conflicting reports surround Tillinghast's claimed aeroplane. A businessman stated he saw and sat in Tillinghast's craft, describing it as a large boat-like aircraft with wings, powered by a 125-horsepower engine. Meanwhile, a journalist's investigation led to a secluded estate connected to Paul B. Morgan, a known associate of Tillinghast. The journalist believed the estate's large shed might house the mysterious aeroplane but was arrested before confirming this. Paul B. Morgan's past investment in a failed Swedish aviator's project and his connection to Tillinghast further fueled speculations. Contrarily, Tillinghast's promise to showcase his invention at an airshow fell flat when neither he nor his aircraft appeared. (Chapter 9, Refs 358, 359) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_351 ### Event 2260 (0F8E5024) **Date:** 1/12/1909 **Location:** Germany, Magdeburg **Description:** (Translated from French) First Flight of a German Pilot, Grade. (January 12, 1909) **Reference:** "Conquest of the Air. Chronology.. A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 75 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_621 ### Event 2261 (574102B6) **Date:** 2/23/1909 **Location:** CANADA, Nova Scotia **Description:** (Translated from French) J.A.D. McCurdy took off from the frozen surface of Lake Mas d'Or on the "Curtiss Silver Dart" and landed at Baddeck Bay. (February 23, 1909) **Reference:** "Conquest of the Air. Chronology. A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout Université 1967, p. 76 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_622 ### Event 2262 (17F41E1A) **Date:** 2/25/1909 **Location:** BELGIUM, Bascoup Road - Anderlues (Hainaut) **Description:** (Translated from French) Mr. Bailly, a teacher, noticed a yellowish globe of 20 to 30 meters in diameter going towards him, against the wind, at an altitude of 700 m. Before disappearing, the object turned left, disappearing above a path leading to a disused railway. (February 25, 1909) **Reference:** J.G. DOHMEN: "To Identify and the Adamski Case" - ed. Guy Dohmen, Biarritz 1972, p. 152 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_623 ### Event 2263 (D80C6408) **Date:** 2/25/1909 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** ANDERLUIS, BELGIUM **Description:** Teacher. 25M sphere glides down road. Turns into small path.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The UFO REGISTER. CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK. (annual sightings catalog.) (Index 75) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_246 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ANDERLUIS,BELGIUM:TEACHER:25M SPHERE GLIDES DOWN ROAD:TURNS INTO SMALL PATH..", **LatLong:** "50.400002 4.266667", **LatLongDMS:** "50:24:00 N 04:16:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.400002,4.266667)", **State/Prov:** "Belgium", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 2264 (6832F030) **Date:** 2/25/1909 **Description:** On this night in Anderlues, Belgium a teacher sighted a 25-meter in diameter sphere glide down a road, and then turn and go down a small path. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** SOBEPS, case 163 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1093 ### Event 2265 (997BC91F) **Date:** 3/1909 **Location:** London, Britain **Description:** A policeman witnessed a high-powered engine sound overhead and saw an oblong, dark body outlined against the stars, with a powerful light about 1,200 feet above the ground. The object, which he described as oblong and narrow, was traveling at high speed and eventually disappeared in the northwest. (Chapter 3, Ref 124) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_118 ### Event 2266 (EBB4357E) **Date:** 3/4/1909 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Lambourne, Birkshire, a large airship in the form of a torpedoe is seen by a named Charles Maberly over the city. The craft, which flies at an estimated altitude about 60 m, head west and is equipped of a headlamp. Once the airship is out of sight, the witness hears in the sky 3 explosions at regular intervals (March 4, 8.25 p.m.) **Reference:** London Evening News of 18 May 1909 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1909.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_299 ### Event 2267 (D9039B06) **Date:** 3/4/1909 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** LAMBOURNE, BERKSHIRE **Description:** Large torpedo-dirigible going quickly west / 60M altitude. 3 booms / regular intervals. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 198) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_247 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "LAMBOURNE,BERKSHIRE:LRG TORPEDO-DIRIGIBLE >>W/60M alt:3 BOOMS/REGLR.INTERVALS", **LatLong:** "51.500002 -1.533333", **LatLongDMS:** "51:30:00 N 01:32:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.500002,-1.533333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2268 (58818D8C) **Date:** 3/4/1909 **Location:** St. Michael’s Church in Lambourne, Berkshire, England **Description:** 8:25 p.m. Charles Maberly, an organist at St. Michael’s Church in Lambourne, Berkshire, England, is returning home from choir practice when he sees a bright searchlight attached to a torpedo-shaped dirigible heading west at 200 feet altitude. He walks for about 50 yards watching it. As it passes out of sight, he hears three explosions at regular intervals. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** London Evening News, May 18, 1909; Carl Grove, “[The Airship Wave of 1909:](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%206.pdf) [A Preliminary Survey,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1970\): 9 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_277 ### Event 2269 (7768704B) **Date:** 3/22/1909 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Peterborough \(Northamptonshire\), Miss Gill and two other people returning from the theatre saw a dark object with a light flying over the city. (22 March) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1909.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_300 ### Event 2270 (D3E86BCF) **Date:** 3/23/1909 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Peterborough (Northampton) **Description:** (Translated from French) A police officer, Mr. Kettle, saw an elongated dark object masking the stars. He heard a motor sound and saw a light on the mass which, quite quickly, moved towards the northwest. The same night, Miss Gill, who was returning from the theatre with two friends, also saw a bright light on a dark object moving slowly. [IN REALITY: also see ZEPPELIN from 1900, July 2] **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 204 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_624 ### Event 2271 (2FA18413) **Date:** 3/23/1909 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Peterborough \(Northamptonshire\), sighting of an aircraft \(engraving below\). A policeman by the name of P. C. Keetle testified: I was on duty in Cromwell Road and I was coming out of Cobden Street to get into that street, when I heard what I first took to be a car about 400 yards away from me. I went down Cromwell Road, expecting to see the headlights of a car, but nothing of the sort happened. Yet, I still heard the regular humming of a powerful engine, when suddenly I was struck by the fact that the sound was coming not from the road but from above it! I looked up and my gaze was then drawn to a powerful light which must have been about 350 yards above the ground. A dark body stood out against the stars \(...\) of rather narrow and oblong shape \(...\). It was moving at very high speed and, as I watched it, the engine noise gradually diminished. The craft disappeared in the direction of the North-East. All in all, I would say I saw it for about 3 minutes. (March 23) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1909.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_301 ### Event 2272 (66CA9D1A) **Date:** 3/23/1909 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Drawing depicting the observation of March 23. See image at images/1909-03-23\_200.jpg. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1909.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_302 ### Event 2273 (46E866FA) **Date:** 3/23/1909 **Time:** 05:10 **Location:** PETERBOROUGH, ENGL **Description:** Separate observers. Silent cylinder/cigar-shape searches railway / strong light. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v6#4. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 29) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_248 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "PETERBOROUGH,ENGL:SEP.OBSs:SLNT CGR SEARCHES RAILWAY/STRONG LITE:/FSR v6#4", **LatLong:** "52.583336 -0.233333", **LatLongDMS:** "52:35:00 N 00:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.583336,-0.233333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2274 (1C6648E6) **Date:** 3/23/1909 **Locations:** Peterborough, England; Cromwell Road **Description:** 5:15 a.m. Police Constable James Kettle of Peterborough, England, sees a powerful light about 1,200 feet in the air above Cromwell Road making an engine-like buzz. The light is on a dark, fast-moving oblong object. It is in view for about 3 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Peterborough Advertiser, March 27, 1909; “[Aerial Mystery](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/press/thestandard17may1909.htm),” London Standard, May 17, 1909, p. 7; Carl Grove, “[The Airship Wave of 1909: A Preliminary Survey,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1970\): 9; David Clarke, “[Scareships over Britain: The Airship Wave of 1909,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/avistamientos%5Fovnis/Casos%20OVNI%201909%2CAirship.htm)” Fortean Studies 6 \(1999\) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_278 ### Event 2275 (4A24610F) **Date:** 3/23/1909 **Description:** An unidentified object with a very strong searchlight flew over Peterborough, England at 5:10 a.m. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 20; Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1960, p. 12 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1618 ### Event 2276 (846AE574) **Date:** 3/25/1909 **Location:** ENGLAND, March (Northampton) **Description:** (Translated from French) A 10 km east of Peterborough, a machinist A.J. Banyard followed a light heading west. (Michel BOUGARD: "La Chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 204) On March 25, 1909, at 5:10 am, two policemen (in two different points of Peterborough) saw an object resembling a large, brightly lit cigar flying over the city making a motor noise. [IN REALITY: also see ZEPPELIN from 1900, July 2] **Reference:** Jimmy GUIEU: "Les S.V. viennent d'un autre Monde" Fleuve Noir 1954 - Réédition Omnium Littéraire 1972 p. 223 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_625 ### Event 2277 (3F8D031D) **Date:** 4/1909 **Location:** Norfolk Countryside **Description:** A farmhand observed a long, dark airship with a bright light flying low above the trees. The airship had a hanging platform with two men, and its searchlight illuminated the surroundings as it traveled swiftly against the wind before disappearing within a few minutes. (Chapter 3, Ref 125) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_119 ### Event 2278 (010B03D5) **Date:** 4/1909 **Location:** Northhamptonshire **Description:** Three motorists in Northamptonshire heard a loud report in the air followed by the sound of a swiftly-running motor engine. Looking up, they saw a dark oblong airship with lights in front and behind, flying swiftly through the sky. The airship appeared to be about 500 or 600 feet up, at least 100 feet long, and they could see a torpedo shape and what appeared to be men on a platform below. (Chapter 3, Ref 126) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_120 ### Event 2279 (89B91255) **Date:** 4/1909 **Location:** London **Description:** In a London park, two witnesses had an extraordinary encounter with an unusual airship. The craft had a distinct appearance, resembling a series of large cigar boxes connected together. Estimated to be around 200 to 250 feet in length, the airship had landed close to where the witnesses were sitting. The witnesses described two occupants on the airship: the first, who looked like a clean-shaven Yankee, was situated in a steel wire cage with handles in front of him, while the second, resembling a German, was standing in the middle of the craft and smoking a calabash pipe. The airship's searchlight was suddenly turned on, blinding the witnesses, but it allowed them to see the details of the occupants. The German occupant requested tobacco from the witnesses, which they provided, and in exchange, he gave them a pipe. The German also had a map in front of him, marked with red discs resembling pins. The witnesses noted that parts of the airship were constructed from light-colored metal, possibly aluminum. The airship was not like a traditional balloon but rather had an aeroplane-like structure, with steel rods supporting it and keeping its propellers off the ground. The German occupant leaned over a wire railing to speak to the witnesses, and as they watched, the taller occupant pulled a lever down, switching off the searchlight. Within a mere 10 seconds, the airship vanished from sight, leaving the witnesses astounded by the rapid departure and its mysterious nature. (Chapter 3, Ref 127) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_121 ### Event 2280 (42A813C3) **Date:** 4/1909 **Location:** On a mountaintop in Wales **Description:** A witness encountered an airship on a mountaintop in Wales. The craft was tube-shaped and had two men dressed in heavy fur coats and caps. The witness observed them engaged in some activity, and when they noticed the witness, they appeared alarmed and began speaking to each other in an unfamiliar language. The men quickly got into a small carriage suspended from the craft, which then rose into the air in a zigzag pattern, displaying lights akin to electric lamps. The craft eventually flew away in the direction of Cardiff. The witness noted the presence of wheels on the carriage's bottom and a fan at the tail end of the craft. (Chapter 3, Ref 128) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_122 ### Event 2281 (4881BBC2) **Date:** 4/24/1909 **Time:** 09:20 **Location:** FIRENZE, ITL **Description:** Numerous observer(s). White ovoid passes. 2 men dressed / white inside. / La Nazione. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO - Rivista di informazione Ufologica; 2 issues/year CISU. Giovanni Settimo ed.; C.P.82, 10100 Torino, ITALY. (Index 7) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_249 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "50", **HatchDesc:** "FIRENZE,ITL:NMRS OBS:WHT OVOID PASSES:2 MEN dressed/white inside:/La Nazione", **LatLong:** "43.766669 11.250001", **LatLongDMS:** "43:46:00 N 11:15:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.766669,11.250001)", **State/Prov:** "Firenze", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 2282 (A97AA3A6) **Date:** 4/24/1909 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** IPSWITCH, SUFFOLK **Description:** Crowd / observer(s). Silent balloon with very strong light. Flies into wind. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 198) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_250 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "IPSWITCH,SUFFOLK:CROWD/OBS:SLNT BALLOON W/VSTRONG LITE:FLIES INTO WIND", **LatLong:** "52.050002 1.150000", **LatLongDMS:** "52:03:00 N 01:09:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.050002,1.150000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2283 (82C811BE) **Date:** 4/24/1909 **Description:** At 9:20 in the morning a white ovoid shaped flying object was seen in the skies over Florence, Italy. Two men dressed in white suits were seen inside. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 254 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2270 ### Event 2284 (B06CD5DA) **Date:** 5/2/1909 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Lowestoft (Suffolk) **Description:** (Translated from French) The whole family observed an egg-shaped object, the large end pointed towards the sky, quickly passing between the clouds in the direction of the west. [IN REALITY: also see ZEPPELINS from 1900, July 2] **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 204 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_626 ### Event 2285 (9A90A84D) **Date:** 5/2/1909 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK **Description:** Several observer(s). Egg-shape quickly passes clouds going quickly west. / r221p22. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 198) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_251 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "LOWESTOFT,SUFFOLK:SVRL OBS:EGG-SHAPE QUICKLY PASSES CLOUDS >>W:/r221p22", **LatLong:** "52.466669 1.700000", **LatLongDMS:** "52:28:00 N 01:42:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.466669,1.700000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2286 (A09E2194) **Date:** 5/7/1909 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Clacton-on-Sea (Essex) **Description:** (Translated from French) At around 10:30 pm, Egerton S. Free saw a long, sausage-shaped dirigible without lights heading northeast. The next day, the witness's wife discovered a metal piece at the spot where it had been flown the night before. It was a wheel rimmed with rubber, weighing 16 kg and with a diameter of around one meter. On the side of the object was written "Muller Fabrik Bremen". It was the perfect calling card and E. S. Free immediately thought of a German spy dirigible. Yet, several weeks later, the wheel was identified as a piece of a target used in British naval artillery fire. The full account of this case was published on May 15 by the "Evening News" and the day after the newspapers came out, two men "speaking a foreign language" came to inspect the area around the spot where the famous wheel had fallen for at least five hours. [IN REALITY: see also ZEPPELIN from 1900, July 2] **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 205 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_627 ### Event 2287 (8C4031A2) **Date:** 5/8/1909 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The witness's wife, Egerton S. Free, discovers a kind of metal wheel surrounded by rubber on the side of which is written *Muller Fabrik Bremen* in the area flown over by the mysterious airship. The Germans are then accused of spying on the country with their already famous zeppelins. It will only be later that it will be realized that this was a target commonly used by the Royal Navy. Furthermore, this idea does not hold up due to the care taken by the pseudo-dirigibles to show themselves, to make noise and to fly at low altitude. (May 8th) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1909.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_303 ### Event 2288 (83F6E919) **Date:** 5/9/1909 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Northampton **Description:** (Translated from French) At around 9:00 PM, Mr. and Mrs. Kelf observed the passage of an object in the shape of a torpedo, equipped with lights, above the city. [IN REALITY: also see ZEPPELIN from 1900, July 2] **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 205 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_628 ### Event 2289 (A47455CF) **Date:** 5/9/1909 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Stamfort **Description:** (Translated from French) At around 11:00 PM, W. Cole saw a projector turn off and on a dozen times in different directions. He then saw a dark, oval-shaped object that stayed visible for 10 minutes before disappearing towards Peterborough. [IN REALITY: also see ZEPPELINS from 1900, July 2] **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 205 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_629 ### Event 2290 (B32702C4) **Date:** 5/9/1909 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Southend-on-Sea (Essex) **Description:** (Translated from French) At 11:20 PM Miss H. Boville observed to the northeast a very large dark torpedo-shaped object moving slowly towards Shoeburyness. After remaining motionless for a few minutes it rose and quickly departed to the west, in the direction of London. At that moment two powerful searchlights lit up at the ends of the silent object. [IN REALITY: also see the ZEPPELINS from 1900, July 2] **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 205 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_630 ### Event 2291 (B96E5F6F) **Date:** 5/9/1909 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** STAMFORD, LINCS **Description:** 1 observer. Large ovoid / city park flashes searchlight 9X. Going quickly [to] Peterborough. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 198) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_252 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "STAMFORD,LINCs:1 OBS:LRG OVOID/CITY PARK FLASHES SEARCHLITE 9X:>>PETERBOROUGH", **LatLong:** "52.650003 0.477778", **LatLongDMS:** "52:39:00 N 00:28:40 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.650003,0.477778)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2292 (9E0E1F53) **Date:** 5/9/1909 **Time:** 23:20 **Location:** SHOEBURYNESS, ESSEX **Description:** Silent torpedo going west / Southend and hovers / 4 minute(s). 2 strong beams. Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v16#6. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** TRENCH, Brinsley Le Poer: MYSTERIOUS VISITORS - the UFO Story; Stein & Day, NY 1971-73 (Index 99) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_253 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "SHOEBURYNESS,ESSEX:SLNT TORPEDO >W/SOUTHEND+HVRS/4min:2 STRONG BEAMS:FSR v16#6", **LatLong:** "51.550002 0.800000", **LatLongDMS:** "51:33:00 N 00:48:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.550002,0.800000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2293 (F80367F5) **Date:** 5/9/1909 **Locations:** Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England; London **Description:** 11:20 p.m. Miss H. M. Boville notices from her bedroom window at Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England, a “large dark object looming out of the sky” and traveling slowly from the east. After a few seconds it remains nearly stationary for a few minutes in front of her window, and she sees the outline of a torpedo-shaped airship about 1,300 feet in altitude. It rises higher then travels swiftly to the west toward London. It shows two powerful searchlights at each end very briefly. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** London Evening News, May 15, 1909; Carl Grove, “[The Airship Wave of](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%206.pdf) [1909: A Preliminary Survey,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1970\): 10; David Clarke, “[Scareships](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/avistamientos%5Fovnis/Casos%20OVNI%201909%2CAirship.htm) [over Britain: The Airship Wave of 1909,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/avistamientos%5Fovnis/Casos%20OVNI%201909%2CAirship.htm)” Fortean Studies 6 \(1999\) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_279 ### Event 2294 (C86C27E3) **Date:** 5/9/1909 **Description:** At 11:00 p.m. a Mr. Cole sighted a large ovoid object over the city park in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England. It flashed its searchlight nine times, and then flew off quickly toward Peterborough. At 11:20 p.m. a witness named Boville in Shoeburyness, Essex, England said a torpedo-shaped airship flew silently to the west toward Southend-on-Sea. It hovered for four minutes, and emitted two strong beams. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Carl Grove, FSR, November-December 1970, p. 10 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2672 ### Event 2295 (BC035AD9) **Date:** 5/12/1909 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Terrington March (Norfolk) **Description:** (Translated from French) A farm worker, Fred Harrison, suddenly saw a light illuminating the road for nearly 200 meters in front of him. Looking up, he saw an oval, cigar-shaped object moving sideways against the wind, accompanied by a clicking noise. An hour later, not far away, another witness heard a whistling sound coming from the sky but was unable to determine its origin. [IN REALITY: also see ZEPPELINS from 1900, July 2] **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 205 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_631 ### Event 2296 (99079D44) **Date:** 5/12/1909 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Similar observation to Terrington March \(Norfolk\) where clicking and whistling noises are heard. (May 12) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1909.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_304 ### Event 2297 (70422AFB) **Date:** 5/12/1909 **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** TERRINGTON, NORFOLK **Description:** 1 observer. Cylinder/cigar-shape west searchlight. Rattling motor sound. Going north. Back / 2230hrs. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 198) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_254 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "40", **HatchDesc:** "TERRINGTON,NORFOLK:1 OBS:CGR W SEARCHLITE:RATTLING MOTOR SOUND:>N:BACK/2230hrs", **LatLong:** "52.766669 0.283333", **LatLongDMS:** "52:46:00 N 00:17:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.766669,0.283333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2298 (FAD8B924) **Date:** 5/12/1909 **Description:** A cigar-shaped airship with a searchlight was seen flying over Terrington Marsh, Norfolk, England at 9:45 p.m. It made a rattling motor sound and flew off to the north. It was back again at 10:30 p.m. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Carl Grove, FSR, November-December 1970, p. 10 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2752 ### Event 2299 (B14A2067) **Date:** 5/13/1909 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Kelmarsh **Description:** (Translated from French) Three witnesses saw an oblong shape flying quickly towards the northeast in the direction of Peterborough. The craft, equipped with lights at the front and back, emitted a motor sound. The witnesses were even able to make out a kind of platform at the bottom of the object, on which passengers seemed to be standing. That same evening, an aerial ship was also seen above Sandringtham (Norfolk) and Peakirk (Northants). [IN REALITY: also see ZEPPELINS from 1900, July 2] **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 205-206 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_632 ### Event 2300 (9621CD37) **Date:** 5/13/1909 **Time:** 09:00? **Location:** KELMARSH, NORTHANTS **Description:** 3 / car. Fast ovoid east / lights front and rear. Engine sound. Going [to] east-northeast / 20mph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 198) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_255 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "KELMARSH,NORTHANTs:3/CAR:FAST OVOID E/LITES FRONT+REAR:ENGINE SOUND:>ENE/20mph", **LatLong:** "52.405558 0.916667", **LatLongDMS:** "52:24:20 N 00:55:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.405558,0.916667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2301 (5609BBDC) **Date:** 5/13/1909 **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** SANDRINGHAM HOUSE, ENG **Description:** Several separate observer(s). Black 30M blimp with beams going down. Motor noise. / r65. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 198) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_256 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "SANDRINGHAM HOUSE,ENG:SVRL SEP.OBS:BLK 30M BLIMP W/BEAMS ↓:MOTOR NOISE:/r65", **LatLong:** "52.833336 0.516667", **LatLongDMS:** "52:50:00 N 00:31:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.833336,0.516667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2302 (5A4DEAE1) **Date:** 5/13/1909 **Location:** King's Lynn, UK **Description:** 9:45 PM. A cigar-shaped object illuminated the terrain brightly in King's Lynn. Looking up, he saw the airship-like object speed overhead, two men visible in an undercarriage, and disappear in the distance within a few minutes. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_56 ### Event 2303 (CCC95073) **Date:** 5/13/1909 **Locations:** Kelmarsh; Northampton; England; Peterborough **Description:** Night. C. W. Allen and two other men are motoring through Kelmarsh, Northampton, England, when they hear a loud explosion in the air followed by the rumbling of an engine. Allen sees an oblong dark shape, perhaps 100 feet long, with lights in front and behind moving at an altitude of 500–600 feet. They dimly perceive some men on a platform below it. It passes out of sight at 20 mph northeast toward Peterborough. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** East Anglian Daily Times, May 13, 1909; Carl Grove, “[The Airship Wave of 1909: A Preliminary Survey,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1970\): 11; David Clarke, “[Scareships over Britain: The Airship Wave of 1909,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/avistamientos%5Fovnis/Casos%20OVNI%201909%2CAirship.htm)” Fortean Studies 6 \(1999\) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_280 ### Event 2304 (A8D8FC49) **Date:** 5/13/1909 **Location:** King's Lynn, Norfolk, England **Description:** 9:45 p.m. Fred Harrison of King’s Lynn, Norfolk, England, sees a “long, dark object” moving swiftly overhead just above treetop level. It carries a searchlight that illuminates the road, farm buildings, trees, and everything it touches. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Mystery of the Air,” London Daily Express, May 14, 1909, p. 1; David Clarke, “[Scareships over Britain: The Airship Wave of 1909,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/avistamientos%5Fovnis/Casos%20OVNI%201909%2CAirship.htm)” Fortean Studies 6 \(1999\) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_281 ### Event 2305 (1B6F677B) **Date:** 5/13/1909 **Description:** There were several independent witnesses of a brightly illuminated, 80 to 100 foot long, dark airship, flying over King's Lynn, Norfolk, England at 9:45 p.m. Two men were visible in some sort of carriage underneath the object. The object travelled fast, made a whirring sound, and had a searchlight that lit up the road below it. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 7 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2788 ### Event 2306 (AD7058CE) **Date:** 5/14/1909 **Location:** in the NORTH SEA **Description:** (Translated from French) The crew of the Norwegian ship "St. Olaf" which was off the coast of Blyth (Norhumberland) observed the passage of an immense dirigible equipped with five searchlights. It stayed for a few moments above the ship, violently illuminating the deck, then, according to Captain Egenes, it headed towards another boat, illuminated it in turn and then flew off at full speed towards the south. [IN REALITY: also see ZEPPELINS from 1900, July 2] **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 205-206 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_633 ### Event 2307 (8036C0F3) **Date:** 5/14/1909 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In the North Sea, off Blyth in Northumberland, the sailors of the Norwegian ship *St. Olaf* saw an immense dirigible equipped with 5 searchlights floating above their boat and illuminating it as if it were broad daylight. A little later, the craft left the *St. Olaf* to repeat its maneuver not far away above another ship, before disappearing at full speed towards the South. (May 14) **Reference:** statement of Captain Egenes **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1909.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_305 ### Event 2308 (8B389562) **Date:** 5/14/1909 **Location:** OFF BLYTHE, ENGL **Description:** Cylinder/cigar-shape aims 5 beams / ships bridge. Does same to different ship. Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v17#1. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** TRENCH, Brinsley Le Poer: MYSTERIOUS VISITORS - the UFO Story; Stein & Day, NY 1971-73 (Index 99) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_257 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "off BLYTHE,ENGL:CGR AIMS 5 BEAMS/SHIPS BRIDGE:DOES SAME TO DIFF.SHIP:FSR v17#1", **LatLong:** "55.183336 -1.450000", **LatLongDMS:** "55:11:00 N 01:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/55.183336,-1.450000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2309 (821854EB) **Date:** 5/14/1909 **Description:** On this night a witness named Egenes reported that a cigar-shaped object directed five beams of light at a ship's bridge off the coast of Blyth, Northumberland, England. It then shot away a mile to another ship, and did the same thing again. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Carl Grove, FSR, November 1970, p. 17 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2823 ### Event 2310 (96EA1480) **Date:** 5/15/1909 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Newport (Monmouth). **Description:** (Translated from French) At around 01:00 in the night two witnesses saw a dark object in the shape of a cigar hovering above Newport Bridge. Spotlights illuminated each end of the bridge. After about ten minutes one of the lights went out and the craft flew off towards Stow Hill. [IN REALITY: also see ZEPPELINS from 1900, July 2] **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 205-206 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_634 ### Event 2311 (4D290D74) **Date:** 5/15/1909 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Broome **Description:** (Translated from French) At around 7:45 PM, Captain Hervey saw a balloon like a cigar heading against the northeast wind towards Lowestoft. [IN REALITY: also see ZEPPELINS from 1900, July 2] **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 205-206 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_635 ### Event 2312 (05746AA0) **Date:** 5/15/1909 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Raglan **Description:** (Translated from French) Near Monmouth Oliver Jones saw an aerial craft coming from Usk and Raglan and seeming to head towards Chepstow. The object then turned to its right and slowly departed in the direction of Raglan. This craft, also in the shape of a cigar, was equipped with four headlights at the front and one at the rear. Four other witnesses confirmed this observation which lasted more than an hour and a half. [IN REALITY: also see ZEPPELIN from 1900, July 2] **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 205-206 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_636 ### Event 2313 (6B6076EC) **Date:** 5/15/1909 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Lowestoft (Suffolk) **Description:** (Translated from French) In the night, around 11:30 PM Mrs. Wigg was woken up by a noise of an engine. Through the window she then saw a dark, elongated bottle-shaped object quickly passing at low altitude in the direction of the southwest. Several other inhabitants observed flashes of light and heard engine noises that night. [IN REALITY: also see ZEPPELINS from 1900, July 2] **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 205-206 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_637 ### Event 2314 (0E4143BF) **Date:** 5/15/1909 **Time:** 01:00 **Location:** CASNEWYDD, SOUTH WALES **Description:** Cylinder/cigar-shape hovers still. 2 lights scan Newport Bridge / 10 minute(s). Flies away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** TRENCH, Brinsley Le Poer: MYSTERIOUS VISITORS - the UFO Story; Stein & Day, NY 1971-73 (Index 99) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_258 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "CASNEWYDD,S.WALES:CGR HVRS STILL:2 LITES SCAN NEWPORT BRIDGE/10min:FLIES AWAY", **LatLong:** "51.594447 -2.950000", **LatLongDMS:** "51:35:40 N 02:57:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.594447,-2.950000)", **State/Prov:** "WLS", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2315 (83B5E94E) **Date:** 5/15/1909 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** LOWESTOFT, ENGL **Description:** 1 observer. Motor sound. Bottle shape going [to] overhead. Driver / front. Flash. / r221p24. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 205) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_259 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "LOWESTOFT,ENGL:1 OBS:MOTOR SOUND:BOTTLE SHAPE>OVHD:DRIVER/FRONT:FLASH:/r221p24", **LatLong:** "52.466669 1.683333", **LatLongDMS:** "52:28:00 N 01:41:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.466669,1.683333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 2316 (04E5CDDE) **Date:** 5/15/1909 **Description:** Shortly after 1:00 a.m. two witnesses watched as a cigar-shaped object hovered still over Casnewydd, Wales. Two lights from the object scanned the Newport Bridge for 10 minutes, then it flew away. At 11:30 p.m. an observer on the shore in Lowestoft, Norfolk, England heard a motor sound, then watched a bottle-shaped object fly overhead. There was a pilot sitting in the front. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** (1) Carl Grove, FSR, November 1970, p. 17; Brinsley Le Poer Trench, Mysterious Visitors, p. 99; (2) Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 265, citing FSR, January 1971 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2848 ### Event 2317 (27642A58) **Date:** 5/16/1909 **Time:** 01:00 **Location:** SOUTHWEST / MONMOUTH, WALES **Description:** 5 observer(s). Cylinder/cigar-shape maneuvers going up [to] going down [to] and turns. Perfect control. Lights / ends. / r221p24. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 205) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_260 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "12", **Elev:** "70", **HatchDesc:** "SW/MONMOUTH,WALES:5 OBS:CGR MNVRS↑↓+TURNS:PERFECT CONTROL:LITES/ENDS:/r221p24", **LatLong:** "51.783336 -2.766667", **LatLongDMS:** "51:47:00 N 02:46:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.783336,-2.766667)", **State/Prov:** "WLS", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2318 (24075741) **Date:** 5/16/1909 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** BROME, SUFFOLK **Description:** Government inspector. Cylinder/cigar-shape flies into strong wind going quickly NNE toward(s) Lowestoft. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 205) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_261 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "BROME,SUFFOLK:GOVT INSPECTOR:CGR FLIES INTO STRONG WIND >>NNE TWRD LOWESTOFT", **LatLong:** "52.350002 1.133333", **LatLongDMS:** "52:21:00 N 01:08:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.350002,1.133333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2319 (A5F3A312) **Date:** 5/16/1909 **Locations:** Belle Vue Park; Yarmouth Road; Lowestoft; Suffolk; England **Description:** 1:30 a.m. A Mrs. Wigg, who lives near Belle Vue Park on Yarmouth Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, wakes up to an engine-like sound. She looks out her window and sees a long, dark, bottle-shaped object pass by at a low altitude. She thinks she can see a man in front, steering the craft. Other people in Lowestoft hear engine sounds and flashes of light around the same time. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** East Anglian Daily Times, May 18–19, 1909; Norfolk News, May 19, 1909, p. 13; David Clarke, “[Scareships over Britain: The Airship Wave of 1909,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/avistamientos%5Fovnis/Casos%20OVNI%201909%2CAirship.htm)” Fortean Studies 6 \(1999\) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_282 ### Event 2320 (F75A0560) **Date:** 5/16/1909 **Description:** At 1:00 a.m. five people driving in the mountains from Monmouth to Treginach, Gwent, Wales spotted a cigar-shaped object in the sky that maneuvered up and down and with turns. It seemed under perfect control, and had lights on the ends. At 7:45 p.m. a government inspector named Hervey in Broome, Suffolk, England reported that a cigar-shaped airship flew into a strong wind to the north-northeast toward Lowestoft. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Carl Grove, FSR, November-December 1970, p. 17 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2882 ### Event 2321 (1300A928) **Date:** 5/17/1909 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** BELFAST, NORTH IREL **Description:** Many observer(s). Silent cylinder/cigar-shape with light flashes several times. Rises high and shoots going east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 205) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_262 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "9", **HatchDesc:** "BELFAST,N.IREL:MANY OBS:SLNT CGR W/LITE FLASHES SVRL TIMES:RISES HIGH+SHOOTS>E", **LatLong:** "54.583336 -5.933334", **LatLongDMS:** "54:35:00 N 05:56:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/54.583336,-5.933334)", **State/Prov:** "Northern Ireland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2322 (8A28A2F5) **Date:** 5/17/1909 **Locations:** Great Yarmouth, England; Lambeth North **Description:** The subject of mystery airships is brought up in a debate in the House of Commons. [Arthur Fell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%5FFell), MP for Great Yarmouth, England, had asked Secretary of State for War [Richard Haldane](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FHaldane%2C%5F1st%5FViscount%5FHaldane) if he could give the number of dirigibles, either built or in progress of being built, in Germany. Haldane replies that 7 dirigible airships have been built and another 5 are under construction. [Horatio Myer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio%5FMyer)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio%5FMyer) MP for Lambeth North, follows up by asking Haldane: “Will the honourable gentleman, in any report he may circulate, tell us about a certain dirigible supposed to be hovering about our coast?” The question is greeted with laughter and Haldane does not reply. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Neil R. Storey, Zeppelin Blitz: The German Air Raids on Great Britain during the First World War, History Press, 2015 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_283 ### Event 2323 (61653DF9) **Date:** 5/17/1909 **Description:** At 10:00 p.m. many witnesses in Belfast, Northern Ireland observed a silent cigar-shaped flying object with a light that flashed several times. It rose higher and shot away to the east. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Carl Grove, FSR, November-December 1970, p. 17 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2913 ### Event 2324 (8954BC23) **Date:** 5/18/1909 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Caerphilly (Wales) **Description:** (Translated from French) This new event seemed to confirm the hypothesis that it was a foreign dirigible come to spy on British territory. Around 11:00 C. Lethbridge was returning home when, on the outskirts of a deserted hill called Cerphilly Mountain, he was confronted with an unusual sight. At the top of the slope, to the right of the road, a large cylindrical object was resting on the ground and near it were two young men dressed as officers and wearing fur. When these characters saw the witness, they argued violently in a foreign language, picked something up off the ground and got into some kind of gondola that was under the machine. It then rose in a zigzag, two spotlights came on and with a terrible noise of machinery the object headed towards Cardiff, more towards the south. As soon as C. Lethbridge had told his story, investigators came to the scene and found a whole series of footprints attesting to the presence of characters in the place indicated by the witness. In addition to these traces, a red label was found attached to a small metal rod. It was a piece of French tire valve that was not yet on the British market at that time. On the label there were instructions written in French. A piece of letterhead from a London stockbroker was also found, where the following text could be read with difficulty: "... provincial centers ... be assured that we will not ... the fullest confidence ... this letter is fully justified .." Of course, the agency in question claimed to know nothing of this document. Around the area, a whole series of scraps of paper and newspaper clippings on the mysterious aerial ships that had been seen in the region for some time were also found. A large quantity of stamps of a pasty material resembling papier mâché and two dozen small pieces of blue paper covered with drawings and inscriptions were also discovered. To close this inventory that a surrealist would not deny, one must also add a kind of polished tin lid. During the investigation, a resident of Cardiff revealed that on May 16 he had seen five strangers inspecting the Caerphilly Mountain area. They went from one corner to another in two carts and took pictures with cameras mounted on the seats of their vehicles. [IN REALITY: also see ZEPPELIN from 1900, July 2] **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 207 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_638 ### Event 2325 (A935B4FD) **Date:** 5/18/1909 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Similar observation to Caerphilly Mountain \(near Cardiff\) where a loud machinery noise is heard. (May 18) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1909.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_306 ### Event 2326 (38179367) **Date:** 5/18/1909 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** CAERPHILLY, WALES **Description:** 2 men by landed cylinder/cigar-shape. Gibberish. Board and zigzag upward. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v17#1. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 29) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_263 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **MIB:** Men in Black, **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "12", **Elev:** "87", **HatchDesc:** "CAERPHILLY,WALES:2 MEN by LANDED CGR:GIBBERISH:BOARD+ZIGZAG UPWARD:/FSR v17#1", **LatLong:** "51.555558 -3.255556", **LatLongDMS:** "51:33:20 N 03:15:20 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.555558,-3.255556)", **State/Prov:** "WLS", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 2327 (18F2336C) **Date:** 5/18/1909 **Location:** Caerphilly, Wales, UK **Description:** 11:00 p.m. Mr. Lethbridge was walking along a road near the mountains when he saw on the grass a large tubelike machine. Aboard were two men wearing furs and talking excitedly in a language the witness could not understand. The grass was found depressed at the site after the object had flown off. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_58 ### Event 2328 (6F352AE2) **Date:** 5/18/1909 **Time:** 2300 **Location:** Caerphilly, Wales **Description:** Mr. Lethbridge was walking along a road near the mountains when he saw on the grass a large tubelike machine. Aboard were two men wearing furs and talking excitedly in a language the witness could not understand. The grass was found depressed at the site after the object had flown off. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 198; Anatomy 21 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_36 ### Event 2329 (42010464) **Date:** 5/18/1909 **Locations:** Senghenydd; Cardiff, South Wales; Caerphilly Mountain **Description:** 11:00 p.m. Charles Lethbridge \(part-time dock worker and Punch-and-Judy showman\) is traveling on a “spring cart” from Senghenydd on his way home to Cardiff, South Wales. At the summit of Caerphilly Mountain he sees a long, tube-shaped object sitting on the grass by the roadside, with two men busily working on something. They are wearing heavy fur coats and fur caps that fit tightly over the heads. Lethbridge proceeds to about 60 feet of them when they notice him and start jumping up and jabbering in a foreign language. They quickly pick up something from the ground, then jump into a little carriage suspended from the object \(with wheels at the bottom\), which rises into the air in a zig-zag fashion. When it clears the telegraph wires, two electric lights shine out and the craft heads toward the southeast. Lethbridge returns to the site with a newspaper reporter and they find signs of trampling in the grass for about 45 feet. They also pick up a small red French military label, letterhead from a London stockbroker, many newspaper clippings with references to airships or the German army, and a tin box with paste for polishing metal. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Airship Mystery,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31883490/1909-cardiff-mystery-airship/)” The Guardian \(London\), May 20, 1909, p. 7; “Mystery of the Air,” London Daily Express, May 20, 1909, p. 1; Nick Redfern, “[UFOs over Wales: A 1909 Wave,](https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2016/05/ufos-over-wales-a-1909-wave/)” Mysterious Universe, May 23, 2016; Brett Holman, “[What the Showman Saw,](https://airminded.org/2014/11/17/what-the-showman-saw/)” Airminded, November 17, 2014 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_284 ### Event 2330 (20B1B831) **Date:** 5/18/1909 **Description:** Mr. Lethbridge was walking along a road around 11 p.m. near the mountains in Caerphilly, Wales when he saw on the grass a large tube-shaped machine. Aboard the craft were two men wearing furs and talking excitedly in a language the witness could not understand. There was a depression in the grass at the site after the object had flown off. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 187; Jacques Vallee, Challenge to Science, the UFO Enigma, p. 99 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2949 ### Event 2331 (52C9DB0A) **Date:** 5/19/1909 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Maindee (Cardiff) **Description:** (Translated from French) In the morning, around 8:00, a little girl saw what she called a "big chicken that sometimes flapped its wings". This strange bird came from the coast and remained motionless for half an hour. Two other witnesses also saw an object in the sky and one of them, examining it through a telescope, noticed the presence of three men on board. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 209 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_639 ### Event 2332 (B59AF7C5) **Date:** 5/19/1909 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Similar observation in Cardiff where a mechanical wheel noise is heard. (May 19) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1909.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_307 ### Event 2333 (905597C4) **Date:** 5/19/1909 **Time:** 01:10 **Location:** CARDIFF, WALES **Description:** Several / docks. Cylinder/cigar-shape curves up and down coast. Whirring sound. Fast. 2 lights. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 205) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_264 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "CARDIFF,WALES:SVRL/DOCKS:CGR CURVES UP+DOWN COAST:WHIRRING SOUND:FAST:2 LITES", **LatLong:** "51.483336 -3.283333", **LatLongDMS:** "51:29:00 N 03:17:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.483336,-3.283333)", **State/Prov:** "WLS", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2334 (CC008747) **Date:** 5/19/1909 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** SOUTH NEWPORT, WALES **Description:** 3+observer(s) / (seen thru) telescope. 12M object with 3 men aboard hovers and maneuvers. 'Flaps about'. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 205) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_265 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "S.NEWPORT,WALES:3+OBS/TSCOPE:12M OBJ W/3 MEN ABOARD HVRS+MNVRS:'FLAPS ABOUT'", **LatLong:** "51.566669 -3.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "51:34:00 N 03:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.566669,-3.000000)", **State/Prov:** "WLS", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 2335 (45DDB3A4) **Date:** 5/19/1909 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** PONTYPOOL, WALES **Description:** Several observer(s). Graceful cylinder/cigar-shape with quivering light makes 90-turn going north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 205) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_266 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "129", **HatchDesc:** "PONTYPOOL,WALES:SVRL OBS:GRACEFUL CGR W/QUIVERING LITE MAKES 90-TURN >N", **LatLong:** "51.700002 -3.016667", **LatLongDMS:** "51:42:00 N 03:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.700002,-3.016667)", **State/Prov:** "WLS", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2336 (1360FA1A) **Date:** 5/19/1909 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** NORWICH AND THURSTON, ENGL **Description:** Vibrant bright light searches ground. Framework seen. High and fast. Sounds? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 205) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_267 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "NORWICH+THURSTON,ENGL:VBRITE LITE SEARCHES GND:FRAMEWORK SEEN:HI+FAST:SOUNDS?", **LatLong:** "52.650003 1.316667", **LatLongDMS:** "52:39:00 N 01:19:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.650003,1.316667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2337 (3AF5ACFE) **Date:** 5/19/1909 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** WROXHAM, NORFOLK **Description:** Globe / light going [to] overhead. Motorcycle headlight malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). OK after. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v17#1. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RODEGHIER, Mark/CUFOS: UFO REPORTS INVOLVING VEHICLE INTERFERENCE; CUFOS 1979. Available as CUFOS UFO Archive #1 CD-ROM. http://www.cufos.org/Pubform.pdf (Index 1) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_268 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "WROXHAM,NORFOLK:GLOBE/LITE >OVHD:MOTORCYCLE HEADLITE EMES:OK AFTER:/FSR v17#1", **LatLong:** "52.705558 1.405556", **LatLongDMS:** "52:42:20 N 01:24:20 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.705558,1.405556)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 2338 (8F801B31) **Date:** 5/19/1909 **Locations:** King's Junction; Queen Alexandra Dock; Cardiff, Wales; Bristol Channel; Weston-super-Mare **Description:** 1:15 a.m. Robert Westlake, railroad signalman at King’s Junction in the Queen Alexandra Dock at Cardiff, Wales, sees a cigar-shaped object flying swiftly at perhaps 2,600 feet and making a whizzing noise. It has two lights and is moving eastward. Some dock workers who are loading the SS Arndale also see the object for “a minute or two.” It passes over the Bristol Channel towards Weston-super-Mare. Aeronaut [Percival G. Spencer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percival%5FG.%5FSpencer) says that he recently sold several of his “man-lifting” 25-foot-long model airships to advertising firms in the UK, one of them in Cardiff. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** London Globe, May 19, 1909; Brett Holman, “[Wednesday, 19 May 1909,](https://airminded.org/2009/05/19/wednesday-19-may-1909/)” Airminded, May 19, 1909; London Standard, May 21, 1909; Brett Holman, “[Friday, 21 May 1909,](https://airminded.org/2009/05/21/friday-21-may-1909/)” Airminded, May 21, 2009 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_285 ### Event 2339 (67953D5C) **Date:** 5/19/1909 **Location:** Wroxham, Norfolk, England **Description:** 11:30 p.m. A lone motorcyclist observes a glowing light traveling in a straight trajectory overhead near Wroxham, Norfolk, England. As it passes, the motorcycle headlight fails. It begins working again after the UFO passes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** East Anglian Daily Times, May 21, 1909; Norfolk News, May 22, 1909; Mark Rodeghier, [UFO Reports](http://www.cufos.org/books/UFO%5FREPORTS%5FINVOLVING%5FVEHICLE%5FINTERFERENCE.pdf) [Involving Vehicle Interference](http://www.cufos.org/books/UFO%5FREPORTS%5FINVOLVING%5FVEHICLE%5FINTERFERENCE.pdf), CUFOS, 1981, p. 1; Brett Holman, “[Saturday, May 22, 1909,](https://airminded.org/2009/05/22/saturday-22-may-1909/)” Airminded, May 22, 2009 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_286 ### Event 2340 (70FA2FA8) **Date:** 5/19/1909 **Locations:** Tharston, Norfolk, England; Norwich **Description:** 12:00 midnight. A Mr. Chatten, grocer’s assistant, is cycling home to Tharston, Norfolk, England, when he is dazzled by a bright light with a bluish tinge overhead. It switches off for a few seconds, and Chatten can see a long, cigar-shaped object 300–400 feet above him, moving rapidly toward Norwich. On its underside is a framework with a yellow light at each end. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Airship Mystery,” London Daily Telegraph, May 21, 1909, p. 12; Brett Holman, “[Saturday, May 22, 1909,](https://airminded.org/2009/05/22/saturday-22-may-1909/)” Airminded, May 22, 2009 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_287 ### Event 2341 (1EE71119) **Date:** 5/19/1909 **Description:** At 1:15 a.m. several witnesses on the docks in Cardiff, Wales observed a cigar-shaped airship that curved up and down the coast, making a whirring sound. It was described at fast, with two lights. At 9:30 p.m. several observers in Pontypool, Wales saw a graceful cigar with a quivering light make a 90 degree turn to the north. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Carl Grove, FSR, November 1970, pp. 18, 21 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2967 ### Event 2342 (52F39FB2) **Date:** 5/19/1909 **Description:** In Wroxham, Norfolk county, England a searchlight from a white globe of light traveling overhead in a straight trajectory caused the headlamp on a motorcycle to fail at 11:30 p.m. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** East Anglican Daily Times, May 21, 1909; Carl Grove, FSR, November 1970, p. 19; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 1 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2968 ### Event 2343 (7EDA4088) **Date:** 5/20/1909 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** DONNYBROOK AND CENTRAL DUBLIN / MIDNIGHT **Description:** 2 separate observer(s). Cylinder/cigar-shape with headlights goes going quickly southwest fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 205) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_269 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "240", **Elev:** "55", **HatchDesc:** "DONNYBROOK+CENTRAL DUBLIN/MIDNITE:2 SEP.OBS:CGR W/HEADLITES GOES>>SW FAST:", **LatLong:** "53.300003 -6.266667", **LatLongDMS:** "53:18:00 N 06:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.300003,-6.266667)", **State/Prov:** "Ireland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2344 (32FD3A54) **Date:** 5/21/1909 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Britain Invaded! Aircrafts in East Anglia, Wales and the Midlands. Norwich and Southend are in a tight spot. The air fleet invading England has been very active in the night of Friday. We use the word "fleet" because, according to our correspondents, there seem to be not one, but several mysterious cigar-shaped machines with blinking lights and buzzing mechanisms. Wednesday night, they could be observed in places as different as Southend-on-Sea, Birmingham and Norwich.. (May 21) **Reference:** *East Anglian Daily Times* **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1909.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_308 ### Event 2345 (92A89DD8) **Date:** 5/22/1909 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** ABERYSTWYTH, WALES **Description:** 14 observer(s). Night lights and beams 2 miles offshore search Cardigan Bay. Going quickly southeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 205) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_270 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "ABERYSTWYTH,WALES:14 OBS:NLTS+BEAMS 2mi OFFSHORE SEARCH CARDIGAN BAY:>>SE", **LatLong:** "52.411114 -4.083334", **LatLongDMS:** "52:24:40 N 04:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.411114,-4.083334)", **State/Prov:** "WLS", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 2346 (7287AD7E) **Date:** 5/22/1909 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** MAESTEG, SOUTH WALES **Description:** Numerous observer(s). Lit object overhead. 1 observer with telescope sees figures aboard. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 205) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_271 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "164", **HatchDesc:** "MAESTEG,S.WALES:NMRS OBS:LIT OBJ OVHD:1 OBS W/TELESCOPE SEES FIGURES ABOARD", **LatLong:** "51.600002 -3.650000", **LatLongDMS:** "51:36:00 N 03:39:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.600002,-3.650000)", **State/Prov:** "WLS", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 2347 (36E80390) **Date:** 5/30/1909 **Location:** Germany **Description:** (Translated from French) The airship "L.Z. 5" travels 1194 km in 38 h 40 minutes. An accident deprives it of the front part. On a single engine, after a makeshift repair, it returns to its base. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air. Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 77 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_640 ### Event 2348 (11D3BF49) **Date:** 6/1909 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) As he strolled across the deck of the East Danish company's cruise ship, the *Bintang*, Captain Gabe saw through the Malacca Strait a sphere of moving lights, below sea level. Long arms seemed to draw circles from the same center: it was so big that only part of it was visible, the other being hidden by the horizon. Captain Gabe then made sure that these lights could only have come from the sea. The *Bintang* itself could not emit such brightness and, above all, the light beams were too long and their origin was opposite the ship. Soon, the immense sphere slowly approached the cruise ship, fading and disappearing into the waters. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1909.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_309 ### Event 2349 (A98B8E64) **Date:** 6/3/1909 **Time:** 03:00 **Location:** STRTS / MALACCA, MLYS **Description:** Danish steamship Bintang. Large bright wheel surfaces and spins in air. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 30) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_272 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Malaysia", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "12", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "STRTS/MALACCA,MLYS:DANISH SS BINTANG:LRG BRIGHT WHEEL SURFACES+SPINS IN AIR", **LatLong:** "3.000000 100.750005", **LatLongDMS:** "03:00:00 N 100:45:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/3.000000,100.750005)", **State/Prov:** "MLC", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 2350 (5C2E4DAC) **Date:** 6/10/1909 **Location:** Malacca Strait, at sea **Description:** (Translated from French) Captain Gabe of the Danish steamer "Bintang" saw, at around 3:00, a luminous wheel spinning close to the ocean's surface. As the center was close to the horizon, only half of it could be seen, and it remained visible for 15 minutes. The movements of the wheel were not in sync with those of the ship. (June 10, 1909) **Reference:** "UFOs - A Century of Sightings by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 10 which places the observation on June 3, 1909, and which insists by saying that 13 days later, on June 16, there was an observation in Vietnam **Reference:** Charles FORT: "The Book of the Damned" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 216 **Reference:** "Scientific American", 106-51 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_641 ### Event 2351 (635AEFF4) **Date:** 6/16/1909 **Location:** VIETNAM, Phu-Lien **Description:** (Translated from French) The first remarkable observation was made in Dong Hoi, Annam, by Mr. Delingette, chief inspector of the local meteorological station. At Dong Hoi, at 04:10, a bolide of elongated shape with truncated ends flew over the city in a west-east direction emitting a bright light. The witnesses, Hoang Nic (from Dong Hoi), Tran Nonh (from Sa Dong Danh), Quyen (from Dong Duong Hoi) and Dan Lui (from the same village) were fishing at sea when, at the same time, they saw an object that remained visible for 8 to 10 minutes before sinking into the depths about 6 km from the coast. [note from vog: a white light that illuminated the tops of the trees, before falling into the sea] (June 16, 1909) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 211 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_642 ### Event 2352 (E2BD7784) **Date:** 6/16/1909 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A long, truncated-ended bolide flew over the city of Dong Hoi \(North Vietnam\) emitting a bright light, following a West-East trajectory. The presence of a strong light source leads to the belief that it was a false dirigible rather than a standard cylindrical UFO. (June 16, 04:10) **Reference:** M. Beljonne, Phu-Lien Observatory, quoted in L'Astronomie, 1909, pp. 519-520 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1909.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_310 ### Event 2353 (B6A637C7) **Date:** 6/16/1909 **Time:** 04:10 **Location:** DONG HOI, VTNM **Description:** Weatherman and more/others. Cylinder/cigar-shape hovers / 9 minute(s). Dives / sea 6km offshore. / r44p35+/ r2p30. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 7) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_273 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Vietnam", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "DONG HOI,VTNM:WEATHERMAN++:CGR HVRS/9min:DIVES/SEA 6km OFFSHORE:/r44p35+/r2p30", **LatLong:** "17.416667 106.700005", **LatLongDMS:** "17:25:00 N 106:42:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/17.416667,106.700005)", **State/Prov:** "NVT", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 2354 (52BAF029) **Date:** 6/16/1909 **Location:** Donghoi, Annam **Description:** 4:10 a.m. An elongated object following a west to east trajectory flew over the town. It gave off a strong light and was seen by two fishermen to plunge into the sea 6 km away from the coast, after a steady flight of about 9 min. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_61 ### Event 2355 (A981D916) **Date:** 6/16/1909 **Time:** 0410 **Location:** Donghoi, Annam **Description:** An elongated object following a west to east trajectory flew over the town. It gave off a strong light and was seen by two fishermen to plunge into the sea 6 km away from the coast, after a steady flight of about 9 min. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Anatomy 21 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_37 ### Event 2356 (C6A246F1) **Date:** 6/16/1909 **Description:** An elongated object flew toward the east over the town of Donghoi at 4:10 a.m. in Vietnam. It gave off a strong light and was seen by two fishermen to plunge into the sea six kilometers away from the coast after a steady flight lasting about nine minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 21; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 187 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3509 ### Event 2357 (72F2592A) **Date:** 7/1909 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) New Zealand is experiencing a wave of sightings similar to those that occurred in England the previous month. At this time, no airship flights have yet taken place in this part of the world on the opposite side of the British Isles. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1909.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_311 ### Event 2358 (811D6FE6) **Date:** 7/1909 **End date:** 8/1909 **Locations:** New Zealand; South Island; Australia **Description:** A mystery airship wave begins in New Zealand with numerous sightings of unusual nocturnal lights and airships seen in both daytime and nighttime. The sightings are at first most intense over the southern end of South Island. In the following weeks the reports appear to move northward and by August, Australia also falls under the grip of what press accounts call “aerialitis.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Bill Chalker, “[Early Australian Historical Encounters,](http://www.project1947.com/forum/bcausenc.htm)” 1997; Tony Brunt, “[The New Zealand UFO Wave of 1909,](https://ufocusnz.org.nz/2020/07/22/the-new-zealand-ufo-wave-of-1909/)” Ufocus NZ, July 22, 2020; Clark III 65–67; Brett Holman, “[Scareships over Australia—1,](https://airminded.org/2010/10/20/scareships-over-australia-i/)” Airminded, October 20, 2010; Brett Holman, “[Scareships over Australia—II,](https://airminded.org/2010/10/23/scareships-over-australia-ii/)” Airminded, October 23, 2010; Brett Holman, “[Scareships over Australia—III,](https://airminded.org/2010/10/25/scareships-over-australia-iii-2/)” Airminded, October 25, 2010; Robert E. Bartholomew, “[The Great Zeppelin Scare of 1909,](https://skeptics.nz/journal/issues/47/the-great-zeppelin-scare-of-1909)” NZ Skeptics, May 1, 1998; Hilary Evans and Robert E. Bartholomew, Outbreak!, Anomalist, 2009, pp. 479–483 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_288 ### Event 2359 (B9515C34) **Date:** 7/15/1909 **Location:** Australia and New Zealand **Description:** In 1909, New Zealand became a hotspot for mystery airship sightings, with many reports describing flying boat-like structures. Witnesses, including two workmen, observed a large boat-shaped object floating in the air that appeared to be approaching them, dipping and ascending in motion. The sightings occurred over a two-month period and sparked intrigue in the region. (Chapter 3, Ref 132) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_126 ### Event 2360 (900A9286) **Date:** 7/23/1909 **Location:** NEW ZEALAND, Kelso **Description:** (Translated from French) Students and their teachers saw an aerial ship in the shape of a cigar flying over their school for a few minutes. A thorough investigation was conducted with the young children. When questioned separately, they all described the object in the same way. [note from vog: in reality there was probably great confusion in Oceania, see the date of November 18, 1909, when in small steps a "Wright" biplane was brought from England to Sydney - Australia] [vog: shape of a torpedo or airplane fuselage with triangular wings attached, below a rectangular structure and some kind of rotor] (July 23, 1909) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 211-212 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_643 ### Event 2361 (1E6BA3CE) **Date:** 7/23/1909 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Mrs. Russel, a teacher accompanying a group of children to Kelso \(South of New Zealand\), suddenly saw a kind of black flash fly over the hill on the left and apparently head straight for her. Then it suddenly veered and swerved above the trees and disappeared from her sight. She felt intense fear when she saw it. It looked like a black boat. She only saw it for a few minutes. When it arrived, it was moving at great speed but when it turned, it lost altitude and slowed down somewhat.. (Saturday, July 23rd, 12 PM) **Reference:** *The Evening Star*, July 30th 1909 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1909.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_312 ### Event 2362 (12125861) **Date:** 7/23/1909 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** KELSO, NZ **Description:** Several observer(s). Airship going down. Hovers over school / several min. Several drawings match / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 180) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_274 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "KELSO,NZ:SVRL OBS:AIRSHIP ↓:HVRS ovr SCHOOL/SVRL min:svrl drawings match/news", **LatLong:** "-45.905558 169.216675", **LatLongDMS:** "45:54:20 S 169:13:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-45.905558,169.216675)", **State/Prov:** "SI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2363 (99B5D5DE) **Date:** 7/23/1909 **Location:** Kelso, New Zealand **Description:** 12:00 noon. Mrs. James Russell and several schoolchildren in Kelso, New Zealand, see an airship shaped like a boat that flies toward them from the east, circles above the school, and returns in the same direction. It seems to have a propeller. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Bill Chalker, “[Early Australian Historical Encounters,](http://www.project1947.com/forum/bcausenc.htm)” 1997; Bryan Dickeson, “[The ‘1909](https://ufocusnz.org.nz/2020/07/22/the-1909-kelso-airships-of-new-zealand/) [Kelso Airships’ of New Zealand,](https://ufocusnz.org.nz/2020/07/22/the-1909-kelso-airships-of-new-zealand/)” Ufocus NZ, July 22, 2020 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_289 ### Event 2364 (A2261018) **Date:** 7/24/1909 **Location:** NEW ZEALAND, Riwaka **Description:** (Translated from French) After nearly a thousand kilometers north of Kelso, in Riwaka a witness observed the following phenomenon: "The object was first seen in the direction of Urville Island. It then crossed the bay and approached Motueka. It then changed direction and went towards Farewell Split where I lost sight of it. The object zigzagged, rising or descending at regular intervals. The observation lasted twenty minutes. At the same time, near Kaka Point, dozens of children playing on the beach saw a large illuminated object in the sky. The craft flew very low and was "as big as a house". (July 24, 1909) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 212 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_644 ### Event 2365 (7292302C) **Date:** 7/24/1909 **Location:** NEW ZEALAND, Kaka Point **Description:** (Translated from French) In the evening of Saturday the 24th, children playing on the beach saw a large illuminated object in the sky, near Mr. Bates' house. It seemed to be trying to land and its lights were reflected mostly on the roof of the Fitzgerald farmhouse. The object was as big as a house, continued on its trajectory around the rocks. It disappeared shortly after. The following evening the mysterious object was again seen around 8:30 pm by George Smith and his neighbor Poulter. They observed it through binoculars. It glided through the air and flew towards Kaitangata, and began to sway from right to left before disappearing. But around 10:30 pm, the object was again visible, above the sea. Its superstructure was smooth and dark, it had a powerful headlight at the front and two smaller lights on either side. (July 24th and 25th, 1909) **Reference:** Ufo Roundup, vol. 2 no. 29 of July 20th, 1997, Joseph Trainor **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_645 ### Event 2366 (30D239FF) **Date:** 7/24/1909 **Location:** TASMAN BAY, NZ **Description:** Night light southwest / Riwaka. Zigzags and maneuvers all over. Rises and falls. Going quickly north and away. R224p37. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** CATHIE, Bruce: HARMONIC 33. A. & A. Reed, Wellington, NZ (Index 122) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_275 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "TASMAN BAY,NZ:NLT SW/RIWAKA:ZIGZAGS+MNVRS ALL OVR:RISES+FALLS:>>N+AWAY:r224p37", **LatLong:** "-41.083335 173.166675", **LatLongDMS:** "41:05:00 S 173:10:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-41.083335,173.166675)", **State/Prov:** "SI", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 2367 (7BB8BBCB) **Date:** 7/24/1909 **Time:** 21:00? **Location:** KAKA POINT, NZ **Description:** 6 boys / beach. House-sized luminous/glowing airship glides and maneuvers / rocks. Going north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 180) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_276 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "KAKA POINT,NZ:6 BOYS/BEACH:HOUSE-SIZED LUMn AIRSHIP GLIDES+MNVRS/ROCKS:>N", **LatLong:** "-46.383336 169.777786", **LatLongDMS:** "46:23:00 S 169:46:40 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-46.383336,169.777786)", **State/Prov:** "SI", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 2368 (5B196561) **Date:** 7/24/1909 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** GORE, NZ AND MORE/OTHERS **Description:** Numerous observer(s). Airship. 2 lights / ends. 2 figure(s) seen. Quickly going up [to] going quickly southeast. / MJ#177+/ r212p124. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** CHALKER,Bill: The OZ FILES. Australian Sightings. 1996 Duffy & Snellgrove. NSW,Australia. ISBN 1-875989-04-8 (Index 30) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_277 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "GORE,NZ++:NMRS OBS:AIRSHIP:2 LITES/ENDS:2 FIGs SEEN:↑↑ >>SE:/MJ#177+/r212p124", **LatLong:** "-46.083336 168.933341", **LatLongDMS:** "46:05:00 S 168:56:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-46.083336,168.933341)", **State/Prov:** "SI", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 2369 (620390C1) **Date:** 7/24/1909 **Description:** At Kaka Point, southwest of Riwaka, New Zealand six boys on the beach sighted a house-sized luminous dirigible-shaped airship at around 9:00 p.m. It glided and maneuvered near some rocks on the coast, zigzagged, rose and fell, then shot away to the north. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 180; Xenolog, November 1975, p. 10; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 280, citing Bruce Cathie, Harmonic 33, p. 122 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4340 ### Event 2370 (7713E2AA) **Date:** 7/25/1909 **Location:** CROSSING OF THE ENGLISH CHANNEL **Description:** (Translated from French) Louis Bleriot, on the airplane "Bleriot", achieves the first crossing by airplane of the English Channel, from Calais to Dover. He wins the "Daily Mail" prize. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air. Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 78 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_646 ### Event 2371 (E6844906) **Date:** 7/25/1909 **Location:** NEW ZEALAND, Port-Molyneux **Description:** (Translated from French) At Port Molyneux, the object is said to have even landed and some occupants of Asian type reportedly conversed with the witness. (July 25, 1909) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 212 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_647 ### Event 2372 (54B24E7D) **Date:** 7/27/1909 **Location:** NEW ZEALAND, Pukepeto and Lyttleton **Description:** (Translated from French) Around 10:00 in the morning, this Tuesday, Allan Mitchell and his son from Lambourne, accompanied by Alex Riach, were busy working near the mouth of the Pomahaka River when they saw, above the village of Pukepeto, a large body in the shape of a boat floating in the air. It was heading in the direction of the Blue Mountains. It rose and fell in the sky very easily at about 4 km from them. As it approached, the witnesses saw a long stick at its upper part. It continued to zigzag in the sky, then changed direction, turning left, to cross the river. It finally disappeared above Whitelea. That same evening a bright star was seen coming from the south and flying over the town of Broken River near Lyttleton, for almost an hour. (July 27, 1909) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 213 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_648 ### Event 2373 (FA24B59B) **Date:** 7/27/1909 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Some young boys were playing on the beach at Kaka Point, saw a huge bright object moving in the air. It seemed about to land... The boys, thinking it was attracted to their lantern, left it on the beach. The ship then hovered around the rocks of the old boating base and came almost to their level. It disappeared shortly after. According to them, it was as big as a house.. A journalist from the *Daily Times* even went to Kelso to meet the witnesses: We separately interviewed all the students who saw the ship and asked them to draw what they had seen. The degree of resemblance between the 6 drawings was simply extraordinary. (Tuesday 27th July) **Reference:** when they **Reference:** *Clutha Leader* of Balclutha, South Island, New Zealand **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1909.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_313 ### Event 2374 (4C46188F) **Date:** 7/27/1909 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** NEAR BALCLUTHA, NZ **Description:** 2 observer(s). Flying boat going [to] overhead toward(s) mountains. Dips and swerves and turns back. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 180) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_278 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "nr BALCLUTHA,NZ:2 OBS:FLYING BOAT > OVHD twrd MTNs:DIPS+SWERVES+TURNS BACK", **LatLong:** "-46.300002 169.800008", **LatLongDMS:** "46:18:00 S 169:48:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-46.300002,169.800008)", **State/Prov:** "SI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2375 (C32B35C2) **Date:** 7/27/1909 **Description:** At around ten o'clock in the morning a flying object shaped like a boat flew overhead toward the mountains in Lambourne, New Zealand. It dipped, swerved in the sky, and turned back. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Xenolog, November 1975, p. 12; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 180 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4422 ### Event 2376 (9B809F8B) **Date:** 7/28/1909 **Location:** NEW ZEALAND, Dunedin **Description:** (Translated from French) At around 2:00 am the witness was awoken by a noise like an earthquake. (...) It sounded like a ship dragging its anchor on the ground or like gears turning without being greased. Then I saw an enormous thing in the sky, all black, with a searchlight. On the same day, other sightings occurred at Kauroo Hill and Maheno. (July 28, 1909) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 213 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_649 ### Event 2377 (6F46816C) **Date:** 7/29/1909 **Location:** Sweden, Stockholm **Description:** (Translated from French) First Flight of an Airplane in Sweden by the Frenchman Lagagneux on "Voisin". **Reference:** "Conquest of the Air. Chronology.. A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 78 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_650 ### Event 2378 (CE8A3778) **Date:** 7/29/1909 **Location:** NEW ZEALAND, Greymouth **Description:** (Translated from French) That same evening, on the west coast, the passengers of the Hokitika train observed a similar phenomenon as they approached Greymouth. It was a light that moved in a wavy motion in the sky. When the train arrived at Nelson Creek station, the passengers who had gotten off the platform to better observe the phenomenon's movements, saw that it came very close to the cliffs on the coast's edge, then continued on its way, still rising and falling regularly, in the direction of Port Elizabeth, moving against a strong wind. (July 29, 1909) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 213-214 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_651 ### Event 2379 (891C2311) **Date:** 7/29/1909 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) There are no less than 6 remarkable observations in New Zealand between 12 PM and 12 AM. 3 of them mention "cigar-shaped" flying objects or aircrafts, all equipped with projectors, headlights or colored lights. Another one, made by inhabitants of Mount Rochefort and Christchurch, concerns a UFO shaped like a "cone". As for the last two observations, they refer to lights whose aerial behavior defies natural laws. (Thursday, July 29th) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1909.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_314 ### Event 2380 (0DC53C2D) **Date:** 7/29/1909 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A cigar-shaped object appears multiple times above Dunedin and smaller towns along the Otago Coast of South Island \(New Zealand\). **Reference:** UFO Roundup 4-36 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1909.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_315 ### Event 2381 (1F184B64) **Date:** 7/30/1909 **Location:** NEW ZEALAND, Waikaka **Description:** (Translated from French) At around 5:00 in the Waikaka Valley, a few kilometers north of the town of Gore: "Two lights crossed the fog and then an object was seen, narrow in shape like a ship, with two figures on board. The craft approached very close to a dredge on the river, circling around for several minutes. Sometimes it flew very fast, sometimes very slowly, and it seemed to be having fun flying like a fly, diving up into the sky at will. The object disappeared into the fog leaving a yellowish halo, reappeared for a moment towards Otakarama, and then vanished." (July 30, 1909) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 214 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_652 ### Event 2382 (4BD370D6) **Date:** 7/30/1909 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) 2 men working in the Waikaka Valley, a few km North of the town of Gore \(South of New Zealand\), suddenly spot an unknown flying object in the shape of a rather narrow boat hull, with a projector at each of its ends. It loses altitude and circles above the river for several minutes. What is remarkable according to the witnesses is the strangeness of its maneuvers: the [airship](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Airships.html) seems to be able to brake and accelerate suddenly, a bit like a fly, according to F. Green's expression, one of the 2 witnesses. They also claim to have seen the silhouettes of 2 people on board. (Friday, July 30th, 5am) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1909.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_316 ### Event 2383 (105C59B0) **Date:** 7/30/1909 **Time:** ~03:00 **Location:** GREENDALE, SI, NZ **Description:** Farmers. Rumble. Horses spooked. Airship 50 overhead. Lights / front and rear. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 181) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_279 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "GREENDALE,SI,NZ:FARMERS:RUMBLE:HORSES SPOOKED:AIRSHIP 50 OHVD:LITES/FRONT+REAR", **LatLong:** "-43.583335 172.083342", **LatLongDMS:** "43:35:00 S 172:05:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-43.583335,172.083342)", **State/Prov:** "SI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2384 (33DAEAAF) **Date:** 7/30/1909 **Time:** 05:00 **Location:** WAIKAKA VALLEY, NZ **Description:** 3 / boat. Shell saucer wobbles. 2 pseudo-human/entity / dome! Quickly going down [to] and quickly going up [to] and going southwest toward(s) Otakaramu. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 181) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_280 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "WAIKAKA Vly,NZ:3/BOAT:SHELL SCR WOBBLES:2 PSH/DOME!:↓↓+↑↑+>SW twrd OTAKARAMU", **LatLong:** "-46.050002 169.050008", **LatLongDMS:** "46:03:00 S 169:03:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-46.050002,169.050008)", **State/Prov:** "SI", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 2385 (F3559582) **Date:** 7/30/1909 **Location:** Mataura River north of Gore, New Zealand **Description:** 5:00 a.m. Two men working on a dredge on the Mataura River north of Gore, New Zealand, see a lighted object descend out of the mist. It appears to be a narrow, boat-shaped craft that circles the dredge over a period of several minutes, rising and falling like a bird, and varying its speed. Two figures can be seen inside. It disappears into the mist, leaving behind a yellow glare. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Bill Chalker, “[Early Australian Historical Encounters,](http://www.project1947.com/forum/bcausenc.htm)” 1997; Tony Brunt, “[The New Zealand UFO Wave of 1909,](https://ufocusnz.org.nz/2020/07/22/the-new-zealand-ufo-wave-of-1909/)” Ufocus NZ, July 22, 2020 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_290 ### Event 2386 (06899312) **Date:** 7/30/1909 **Description:** At 3:00 a.m. several farmers in Greendale, New Zealand heard a rumbling sound. Horses out to pasture were spooked by an airship that flew low overhead. It had lights in the front and rear. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Lumieres dans la Nuit, Issue 181 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4497 ### Event 2387 (DE9F2D01) **Date:** 7/30/1909 **Description:** At 5:00 a.m. in the Waikaia Valley north of Gore, New Zealand two men witnessed a shell-shaped domed disc descend through the mist with a wobbling motion. Two human appearing occupants could be seen inside the clear dome. It circled, it ascended upwards, and flew off toward Otakarama. It had a yellow glow. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Xenolog, December 1975, p. 12; Paul Norman, FSR, April 1977, p. 15; Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 7 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4498 ### Event 2388 (EAE5827B) **Date:** 7/31/1909 **Location:** NEW ZEALAND, Greendale **Description:** (Translated from French) In the morning of this Saturday, July 31, while he was feeding his horses, a farmer heard a sound like that of a wheel spinning violently. The animals became scared and it was then that the witness saw above him an aerial vessel about 45 m long with lights at the front and back. (July 31, 1909) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 214 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_653 ### Event 2389 (740A9746) **Date:** 7/31/1909 **Location:** NEW ZEALAND, Gore **Description:** (Translated from French) At around 10:30 PM, a couple observed the maneuvers of an aerial craft, illuminated by various lights and equipped with wings. (July 31, 1909) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 214 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_654 ### Event 2390 (2B5B44B2) **Date:** 7/31/1909 **Location:** USA, Middletown, Goshen (Delaware) **Description:** (Translated from French) The "Morning News" of Wilmington, in its August 1, 1909 edition, reported the observation of a high-altitude airship that caught the eye due to the intense light it carried. Those who saw the craft say it had the shape of a balloon, with wings on either side, and carried a cigar-shaped gondola. The sound of an engine could be heard distinctly. (July 31, 1909) **Reference:** "UFO's – A Century of Sightings by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 11 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_655 ### Event 2391 (97BBCB07) **Date:** 7/31/1909 **Time:** ~05:00 **Location:** GREENVALE, NZ **Description:** Farm hand. Whirr sound. Animals scared. 50M airship overhead. Away very fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 7) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_281 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "GREENVALE,NZ:FARM HAND:WHIRR SOUND:ANIMALS SCARED:50M AIRSHIP OVHD:AWAY VFAST", **LatLong:** "-45.883336 169.055564", **LatLongDMS:** "45:53:00 S 169:03:20 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-45.883336,169.055564)", **State/Prov:** "SI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2392 (90EB549F) **Date:** 7/31/1909 **Time:** ~13:00 **Location:** DUNEDIN, NZ **Description:** 1 observer. Flying airship. Brilliant light from mast / antenna on top. / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 181) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_282 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "DUNEDIN,NZ:1 OBS:FLYING AIRSHIP:BRILL.LITE from MAST/ANTENNA on top:/news", **LatLong:** "-45.816669 170.500008", **LatLongDMS:** "45:49:00 S 170:30:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-45.816669,170.500008)", **State/Prov:** "SI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2393 (5B24680F) **Date:** 7/31/1909 **Time:** 16:50 **Location:** NEAR FAIRFAX, NZ **Description:** Dark fat cylinder/cigar-shape going [to] over hills. Boxy cabin / bottom-center. Going quickly west. / r96#70. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 181) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_283 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "nr FAIRFAX,NZ:DRK FAT CGR > OVR HILLS:BOXY CABIN/BOTTOM-CENTER:>>W:/r96#70", **LatLong:** "-46.233336 168.050008", **LatLongDMS:** "46:14:00 S 168:03:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-46.233336,168.050008)", **State/Prov:** "SI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2394 (70C92348) **Date:** 7/31/1909 **Description:** In Greenvale, New Zealand a farmhand saw an "airship" about 150-feet long at dawn. It had a light at each end, and made a strange whirring noise that frightened the horses. A flying fuselage-shaped airship flew over Dunedin, New Zealand later that morning. A brilliant light shone from atop a mast antenna. That afternoon a dark, fat, cigar-shaped object flew over the hills around Fairfax, New Zealand. It had a box-shaped cabin on the bottom, center, and it flew on towards the west. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 7, citing Matsura Ensign, August 1, 1909; Xenolog, December 1975, p. 14; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 181 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4517 ### Event 2395 (A6E1A956) **Date:** 8/1909 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The [airships](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Airships.html) move from South to North of the archipelago, where they manifest themselves. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1909.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_317 ### Event 2396 (001B173C) **Date:** 8/1909 **Location:** Near Middletown, New York **Description:** Residents near Middletown, New York reported seeing a mysterious airship that flew only at night. The airship was described as having a balloon-like shape with wings on each side and a cigar-shaped car underneath. Witnesses heard the sound of a motor as the airship flew at a high speed. (Chapter 3, Ref 120) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_113 ### Event 2397 (09E0A65D) **Date:** 8/1909 **Location:** Waipawa, New Zealand **Description:** A man near Waipawa reported seeing a large, grey, torpedo-shaped airship passing overhead. He claimed to have heard three occupants aboard the airship, one of whom shouted in an unknown language. The airship eventually rose to a great height, displayed lights at its ends, circled around, and then disappeared behind a hill. (Chapter 3, Ref 136) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_130 ### Event 2398 (743FE175) **Date:** 8/1909 **Location:** Glen Innes, Australia **Description:** Mystery airship sightings in Australia, spanning from August to October, included a sighting near Glen Innes where residents described an object shaped like an inverted top with a lighted lower portion that revolved, casting a flashlight-like beam on the land beneath it. (Chapter 3, Ref 140) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_134 ### Event 2399 (55935083) **Date:** 8/2/1909 **Description:** In Oamaru, near Sumpter's Hill, Otago, New Zealand a large boat-shaped flying object with three lights was observed at 3:00 a.m., clearly illuminated by the moon. Two figures were visible inside the craft, and the object flew "at a fast rate." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 8 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4587 ### Event 2400 (3B521C6B) **Date:** 8/2/1909 **Location:** Mount Bruce, New Zealand **Description:** A New Zealand fisherman encountered an airship near Marlborough Sound that dropped hissing "missiles" into the water, which fizzed upon impact and sank. Although he didn't witness occupants aboard the airship, he described a hostile encounter involving these mysterious objects. (Chapter 3, Ref 137) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_131 ### Event 2401 (0C1AE79A) **Date:** 8/3/1909 **Location:** NEW ZEALAND, Waipawa **Description:** (Translated from French) A man saw a grey UFO shaped like a torpedo. The craft was occupied by three occupants. (note from vog: see November 18, 1909 Sydney) One of them addressed the witness in an unknown language. (August 3, 1909) **Reference:** Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 345 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_656 ### Event 2402 (C6F97F2B) **Date:** 8/3/1909 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) He \(the witness\) was riding near the racecourse \(of Waipawa\) when his horse became unruly. He discovered that the cause of this behavior was the presence of a large torpedo-shaped craft hovering overhead. The aircraft, he said, was painted gray and three people were visible on board. One of them shouted something to him in an unknown language. The vessel rose to a great height, lit up lights at its bow and stern, then, after making a circle, disappeared behind a hill. That same night, another inhabitant saw a boat-shaped craft at a high altitude emitting a powerful hum. (August 3) **Reference:** *Hawkes Bay Herald*, August 6, 1909 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1909.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_318 ### Event 2403 (FB5503F9) **Date:** 8/3/1909 (approximate) **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** WAIHI, NZ **Description:** Dark silent cylinder/cigar-shape going [to] straight & level flight slow. Windows / side. Intense blue-green light / front. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 181) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_284 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "WAIHI,NZ:DRK SLNT CGR > S&L SLOW:WINDOWS/SIDE:INTENSE BLU-GRN LITE/FRONT:", **LatLong:** "-37.500002 175.983342", **LatLongDMS:** "37:30:00 S 175:59:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-37.500002,175.983342)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2404 (85C959EC) **Date:** 8/3/1909 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** WAIPAWA, NZ **Description:** Grey torpedo with 3 men circles. 1 shouts gibberish. / FSRv22#6+/ MJ#177. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO RESEARCH AUSTRALIA NEWSLETTER. (Details missing) (Index 832) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_285 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **CVS:** Conversation/communication **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "WAIPAWA,NZ:GRY TORPEDO W/3 MEN CCLs:1 SHOUTS GIBBERISH:/FSRv22#6+/MJ#177", **LatLong:** "-39.938891 176.600008", **LatLongDMS:** "39:56:20 S 176:36:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-39.938891,176.600008)", **State/Prov:** "NI", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 2405 (8C110DCE) **Date:** 8/3/1909 **Location:** Waipawa, New Zealand **Description:** Night. A man is riding in Waipawa, New Zealand, when his horse becomes nervous. He sees a large, gray, torpedo-shaped object passing overhead. Three persons are visible in it, one of whom shouts to him in an unknown language. The object rises to a great height, showing lights fore and aft. After circling around, it disappears behind a hill. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 261; Hawkes Bay Herald, August 6, 1909; Tony Brunt, “[The New Zealand](https://ufocusnz.org.nz/2020/07/22/the-new-zealand-ufo-wave-of-1909/) [UFO Wave of 1909,](https://ufocusnz.org.nz/2020/07/22/the-new-zealand-ufo-wave-of-1909/)” Ufocus NZ, July 22, 2020 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_291 ### Event 2406 (D6AA08C2) **Date:** 8/3/1909 **Description:** A dark silent cigar-shaped object flew slowly at a low altitude over Waihi, New Zealand at 8:30 p.m. It had windows on each side and an intense blue-green light in front. Later that same evening a man was thrown from his horse in Waipawa, New Zealand when a gray cigar or torpedo-shaped object hovered overhead and frightened the animal. Three human looking figures stood on deck, and one waved and shouted. The craft had lights at both ends. It rose to a higher altitude, circled, and then went behind hill. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Luminieres dans la Nuit, issue 181; Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century [1900-1946], p. 8 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4620 ### Event 2407 (9D9924D6) **Date:** 8/4/1909 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** North Otago, New Zealand **Description:** During a multiple-witness sighting in New Zealand, a detailed description of the object emerged. Witnesses saw a vessel resembling a black boat with supports on each side, a rapidly revolving wheel at the rear, and a box beneath the body. The object exhibited swift movement and sudden turns during the encounter. (Chapter 3, Ref 133) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_127 ### Event 2408 (535F8069) **Date:** 8/5/1909 **Location:** NEW ZEALAND, Wanganui **Description:** (Translated from French) I very distinctly saw, around 11:30 PM, a large craft flying above the river. It came from Aramoho and disappeared towards Castlecliff. It was moving at an altitude of 60 m and two large wings were easily discernible, emitting a whistling sound. Its speed was at least 150 km/h. There was a powerful light at the front and two others on the sides. Already at 6:45 PM, children had seen a similar object heading towards Mosstown." **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 215 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_657 ### Event 2409 (5B85D34E) **Date:** 8/6/1909 **Location:** Hawkes Bay, New Zealand **Description:** Two dredge operators near Gore spotted two figures aboard a boat-shaped airship with lights at both ends, which circled their location for a few minutes before rapidly departing, leaving a yellow glare in its wake. (Chapter 3, Ref 135) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_129 ### Event 2410 (3825559F) **Date:** 8/7/1909 **Location:** Goulburn, New South Wales **Description:** 10:30 p.m. Four young men at brick kilns near the railway station in Goulburn, New South Wales, see a bright, pale blue light arise from behind some hills to the east. After ascending, it circles back in the direction it came from. The object is said to be visible every night from August 5–10. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[The Goulburn ‘Airship,’](https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/15081292)” Sydney \(N.S.W.\) Morning Herald, August 11, 1909, p. 10; Bill Chalker, “[Historical Australian UFO Reports,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/UFO%20Research%20Australia%20Newsletter/UFO%20Research%20Australia%20newsletter%20vol%204%20no%203.pdf)” UFO Research Australia Newsletter 4, no. 3 \(Nov.–Dec. 1983\): 27 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_292 ### Event 2411 (97670F3C) **Date:** 8/8/1909 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Observation of a light above Goulburn \(New South Wales, Australia\), of blue color and performing back and forth in the night. (5-8 August) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1909.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_319 ### Event 2412 (582184FB) **Date:** 8/9/1909 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Observations abruptly cease in New Zealand. (August 9) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1909.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_320 ### Event 2413 (2CA17EE5) **Date:** 8/9/1909 **Locations:** Concord, New Hampshire; Vale Perkins, Quebec **Description:** 7:30–8:00 p.m. A flying object with lights on its front and back sails at a great altitude from west to east over Concord, New Hampshire, eventually disappearing into a cloud. Capt. [Lyman Jackman](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/104299568/lyman-jackman) at first thinks it is a balloon, but its estimated speed of 45–50 mph against the wind leads him to think otherwise. \(“Air Ship or Meteor,” Concord \(N.H.\) Evening Monitor, August 10, 1909, p. 3\) At about the same time, Bertha Niles of Vale Perkins, Quebec, watches a similar lighted object moving west to east. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Air Ship or What?” Concord \(N.H.\) Evening Monitor, August 13, 1909, p. 7 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_293 ### Event 2414 (287E62DA) **Date:** 8/9/1909 **Location:** Moss Vale, New South Wales **Description:** Night. Residents of Moss Vale, New South Wales, watch a large lighted object like an airship float over the town. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Is It an Airship?](https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/1511365)” Sydney \(N.S.W.\) Morning Herald, August 10, 1909, p. 7 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_294 ### Event 2415 (84D1441C) **Date:** 8/13/1909 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Glen Innes, witnesses can follow with binoculars the evolution of a UFO resembling an upturned roof whose lower part was lit up, and which directs a beam towards the ground. (August 13th, 11 PM) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1909.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_321 ### Event 2416 (59AFEB9E) **Date:** 8/13/1909 **Description:** At 11:00 p.m. a top-shaped object was observed through a night glass as it moved in a northerly direction over Glen Innes, New South Wales, Australia. Its lower portion was lighted while the upper portion was dark, and as the body of the object revolved a light kept turning on to the terrain beneath. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 8, citing Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 31 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4957 ### Event 2417 (B1864F87) **Date:** 8/18/1909 **Location:** Fishers Island, New York **Description:** 2:30 a.m. Four men \(Capt. Edward P. Sisson, Ernest T. Newton, Prentice Lanphear, and Edward M. Knapp\) at the Coast Guard life-saving station on the south side of Fishers Island, New York, see a winged airship 60 feet long and 20 feet wide. Moving swiftly against the wind, it moves in from the northeast, its engines whirring and a dazzling white light at its head. Two dark figures can be seen in the center of the object. Visible for 3 minutes, the object moves off to the west. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Fishers Islanders See Big Aeroplane,” Providence \(R.I.\) Journal, August 19, 1909, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_295 ### Event 2418 (28612124) **Date:** 8/22/1909 **Location:** France, Reims **Description:** (Translated from French) Great Champagne Week or Reims Aerial Meeting (Airplanes!). There were 36 registered aircraft, 36 pilots. (August 22-29, 1909) **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air. Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout Université 1967, p. 79 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_658 ### Event 2419 (9F2BCA34) **Date:** 8/22/1909 **Location:** Upper Montclair, New Jersey **Description:** Evening. Residents of Upper Montclair, New Jersey, watch a mystery airplane that emits a large puff of smoke. It descends and flies off to the north. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Airship over Montclair,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1909/08/24/101892917.pdf)” New York Times, August 24, 1909, p. 2 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_296 ### Event 2420 (FF0012AE) **Date:** 8/22/1909 **Description:** The night after a similar sighting, a torpedo shaped object with searchlights was seen again at ten p.m. in Colebrook, Tasmania, Australia. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Keith Roberts, Australasian Ufologist, January 2001, p. 43 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5214 ### Event 2421 (B650149B) **Date:** 8/24/1909 **Location:** TALLINN, ESTONIA **Description:** Many observer(s). Great airship circles town twice. Going quickly north toward(s) Finland. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 195) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_286 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Estonia, Latvia& Lithuania", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "TALLINN,ESTONIA:MANY OBS:GREAT AIRSHIP CIRCLES TOWN TWICE:>>N TWRD FINLAND", **LatLong:** "59.433336 24.733335", **LatLongDMS:** "59:26:00 N 24:44:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/59.433336,24.733335)", **State/Prov:** "EST", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2422 (A8959CAB) **Date:** 9/1909 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The phenomenon reappears in New Zealand for a few appearances, then completely disappears. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1909.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_322 ### Event 2423 (D8AA9EB7) **Date:** 9/1909 **Locations:** South Windham, Connecticut; Windham Center Road **Description:** 7:30 p.m. E. B. Hanna of South Windham, Connecticut, watches a high-flying, meandering “searchlight” along Windham Center Road for about an hour. After heading toward him, it changes direction and moves southward. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “What Mr. Hanna Saw May Have Been the Worcester Airship,” Willimantic \(Conn.\) Chronicle, December 14, 1909, p. 8 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_297 ### Event 2424 (B9CEDD39) **Date:** 9/1909 **Location:** Gothenburg and Osthammer, Sweden **Description:** A large elliptical-shaped aircraft with wings was observed flying over the Swedish cities of Gothenburg and Osthammer at an altitude of 300 feet. The aircraft was later seen heading westward, leaving observers intrigued by its presence. (Chapter 3, Ref 131) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_125 ### Event 2425 (9309E205) **Date:** 9/1909 **Location:** Port Molyneux, New Zealand **Description:** A local man had a friendly encounter with the occupants of an airship that landed at Port Molyneux. He described them as looking like Japanese and mentioned that they conversed with him in English. (Chapter 3, Ref 138) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_132 ### Event 2426 (A851C9AB) **Date:** 9/1/1909 **Location:** NEW ZEALAND, everywhere. **Description:** (Translated from French) It was seen again in Dargaville, Invercargill, across the whole island. "An object resembling an aerial vessel was observed above Gore around 4:30 PM. It was moving in a wavelike motion towards the Tapanui Hills and gradually disappeared behind the horizon above Kelso. The witnesses were two well-known people from Gore and their account is authentic. They described the object as a cigar with some kind of vehicle attached to it, but they were unable to see any occupants. It remained visible for a few minutes before disappearing at a high speed. Other inhabitants of the town also observed the curious craft. Between 5:45 PM and 6:00 PM it was also seen above the eastern hills of Otaraia." (September 1, 1909) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 216 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_659 ### Event 2427 (B3CD222E) **Date:** 9/1/1909 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) An object resembling an aircraft was observed above Gore around 4:30 PM. It was moving in a wavelike fashion towards Tapanui Hills and gradually disappeared on the horizon above Kelso. The witnesses were two well-known people from Gore and their account is authentic. They described the object as a cigar with some kind of vehicle attached to it, but were unable to see its occupants. It remained visible for a few minutes before disappearing at a high speed. Other inhabitants of the town also observed the curious machine. Between 5:45 PM and 6 PM, it was also seen above the hills to the East of Otaraia. (September 1st, 4:30 PM) **Reference:** *The New Zealand Herald*, September 10, 1909 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1909.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_323 ### Event 2428 (4CA6FAEA) **Date:** Early 9/1909 **Location:** Gore, New Zealand **Description:** The final airship sightings in New Zealand occurred in early September. Two prominent residents of Gore observed a cigar-shaped aircraft with an attached "car" drifting over nearby hills before disappearing from sight. Another sighting report described the airship appearing over the hills, moving back and forth at a rapid pace, and then disappearing towards the Gore racecourse. (Chapter 3, Ref 139) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_133 ### Event 2429 (1F8D38B0) **Date:** 9/3/1909 **Location:** Bloomingdale, Indiana **Description:** 9:00 a.m. Several hundred residents of Bloomingdale, Indiana, see a “dirigible balloon” pass over the city for 15 minutes. The car beneath the gas bag is plainly visible. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Sights Strange Airship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92090779/)” Indianapolis Star, September 4, 1909, p. 5 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_298 ### Event 2430 (0AC3DC56) **Date:** 9/20/1909 **Locations:** Meudon Observatory, Paris, France; Pic du Midi Observatory, French Pyrenees **Description:** During the opposition of Mars, astronomer [Eugène Antoniadi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.%5FM.%5FAntoniadi) uses the 83cm aperture telescope at Meudon Observatory in Paris, France, to observe Mars. He sees no canals. The outstanding photos of Mars taken at the new Baillaud dome at the Pic du Midi Observatory in the French Pyrenees also bring formal discredit to the Martian canal theory, and the notion of canals begins to fall out of favor. Around this time, spectroscopic analysis also begins to show that no water is present in the Martian atmosphere. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Martian canal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian%5Fcanal)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_299 ### Event 2431 (CBEF70AA) **Date:** 9/24/1909 **Location:** SWEDEN, Grason, Osthammar, Gothenburg **Description:** (Translated from French) A large, elliptical-shaped flying machine with wings flew over Gothenburg at an altitude of 100 m. It was 18:00, but earlier in the day a similar object had passed over Grason and Osthammar, coming from the northeast and disappearing to the west. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 216) IN REALITY: THE ZEPPELIN Z. II AIRSHIP COVERED 230 KM IN 4 H 10 MINUTES **Reference:** "Conquête de l'air. Chronologie.. A. Van Hoorebeeck, éd. Marabout Université 1967, p. 79 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_660 ### Event 2432 (20131A3C) **Date:** 9/24/1909 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** GOTEBORG AND OSTHAMMAR, SWD **Description:** Winged ovoid over forest. Glowing balloon drops night light / 02 December. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEEL, John: OPERATION TROJAN HORSE; Putnam's Sons, NY 1970. (Index 110) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_287 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "GOTEBORG+OSTHAMMAR,SWD:WINGED OVOID OVR FOREST:GLOWING BALLOON DROPS NLT/02DEC", **LatLong:** "57.683336 12.000001", **LatLongDMS:** "57:41:00 N 12:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/57.683336,12.000001)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2433 (A7228348) **Date:** 9/30/1909 **Locations:** Edinburgh, Indiana; Taylorsville **Description:** Evening. A balloon “supposed to be from Chicago” passes over Edinburgh, Indiana. Its anchor somehow gets entangled in high-tension wires of the traction station for the Indianapolis, Columbus, and Southern interurban rail. It moves south to Taylorsville a few minutes later, and it is so low to the ground that the occupants are able to talk to passersby. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Tramp Balloon Snaps Wires,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92091176/)” Indianapolis Star, October 1, 1909, p. 9 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_300 ### Event 2434 (61FF056C) **Date:** 10/1909 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** LA PORTE, IN **Description:** Bowl saucer beams going down / wagon. Horses panic. More beams. Lights / rim. Vanishes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 8) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_288 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "245", **HatchDesc:** "La PORTE,IN:BOWL SCR BEAMS ↓/WAGON:HORSES PANIC:MORE BEAMS:LITES/RIM:vanishes", **LatLong:** "41.616669 -86.733337", **LatLongDMS:** "41:37:00 N 86:44:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.616669,-86.733337)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2435 (FC7743CC) **Date:** 10/1909 **Location:** La Porte, Indiana **Description:** 10:30 p.m. Rev. Ruth Smith and some church members are riding in a wagon in La Porte, Indiana, when the horses rear and a blinding light splashes across the road. A large structure resembling two inverted bowls, separated by a row of lights, is hovering, with several phosphorescent beams extending to the ground. It is encircled in a corona of light and begins moving slowly. After 15 minutes, it blinks out. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lore and Deneault, [p.](https://archive.org/details/mysteriesofskies0000lore/page/96/mode/2up) [97](https://archive.org/details/mysteriesofskies0000lore/page/96/mode/2up); Clark III 1169 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_301 ### Event 2436 (2099050B) **Date:** 10/25/1909 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** MINDEROO STATION, WEST AUS **Description:** 1+3 observer(s). Mystery airship = squarish blimp. Reflective flashes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** CHALKER,Bill: The OZ FILES. Australian Sightings. 1996 Duffy & Snellgrove. NSW,Australia. ISBN 1-875989-04-8 (Index 32) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_289 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "MINDEROO Stn.,W.AUS:1+3 OBS:MYSTERY AIRSHIP=SQUARISH BLIMP:REFLECTIVE FLASHES", **LatLong:** "-22.016668 115.083339", **LatLongDMS:** "22:01:00 S 115:05:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-22.016668,115.083339)", **State/Prov:** "Western Australia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2437 (394A07BD) **Date:** 10/25/1909 **Description:** A blimp shaped aerial object was sighted over Minderoo Station in Western Australia on this day. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 32 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7108 ### Event 2438 (AE19B6DD) **Date:** 11/18/1909 **Location:** Australia, Sydney **Description:** (Translated from French) A Wright biplane was brought to Sydney. The team consists of Tait Impresario, Defries Pilot, Marc Pourpe Mechanic. (November 18, 1909) **Reference:** "Conquest of the Air. Chronology.. A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 79 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_661 ### Event 2439 (67E2454B) **Date:** 12/13/1909 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** MABELVALE, AR **Description:** 1 observer. Beam / light going south fast. Going up and down [to] under overcast. Back 19 December. / r224p39. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 171) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_290 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "95", **HatchDesc:** "MABELVALE,AR:1 OBS:BEAM/LITE>S FAST:↑+↓ UNDER OVERCAST:BACK 19DEC:/r224p39.", **LatLong:** "34.750002 -92.300004", **LatLongDMS:** "34:45:00 N 92:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.750002,-92.300004)", **State/Prov:** "Arkansas", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 2440 (51F1CDC2) **Date:** 12/13/1909 **Location:** Mabelvale, Arkansas **Description:** 10:00 p.m. A. W. Norris of Mabelvale, Arkansas, sees a bright, bobbling light moving through the air about 300 feet above him from the south. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Airship Flies near Little Rock, Perhaps,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92091497/)” Little Rock Arkansas Gazette, December 15, 1909, p. 7 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_302 ### Event 2441 (CF549D0A) **Date:** 12/16/1909 **Location:** In December 1909, there were sightings of mysterious airships in Massachusetts **Description:** Witnesses in Marlboro reported two sightings, one by ex-councilman B.W. Johnson who claimed to have seen the airship come down so low that he could hear a man talking from the craft. Another witness named Beauregard stated that the airship landed on the southern side of Lake Williams on the same night. (Chapter 3, Ref 121) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_114 ### Event 2442 (373A76CF) **Date:** 12/22/1909 **Location:** USA, Providence and Pawtucket (Rhode Island) **Description:** (Translated from French) At 1:15 a.m. a very large UFO flew over the two cities. Among the witnesses were Mr. and Mrs. William S. Forsythe of 85 Evergreen Street, Providence, R.I. "The Forsythes were decorating their Christmas tree when Mrs. Forsythe's attention was drawn outside and she looked out the window. There were two strange red lights. She called her husband and both of them watched. The two lights had a variable trajectory, sometimes closer to the ground, sometimes rising to gain altitude, but constantly heading south. Despite the great speed of the phenomenon, the couple had a glimpse of a shape bearing the lights. Whatever it was, they were convinced it could only be an airship. They watched until the lights were no longer visible due to their distance on the horizon. The next morning, they told their observation to anyone who wanted to hear it. (December 22, 1909) **Reference:** See the Providence, R.I. Journal for December 22, 1909. Ufo Roundup vol. 2 n° 49 21.12.1997, Joseph Trainor **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_662 ### Event 2443 (4A89942F) **Date:** 12/22/1909 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) 6 years after *Kitty Hawk*, newspapers from New York to Chicago are astonished by reports coming from all over the country regarding a huge flying aircraft seen by thousands of people. It crashed to the West of Chicago, but was never found. The story made national headlines in the major newspapers of the country. (December 22) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1909.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_324 ### Event 2444 (EC10B78D) **Date:** 12/22/1909 **Location:** Worcester, MA **Description:** "Mysterious Airship" emitting a bright beam of light appeared moving SE to NW, hovered over city, moved away. Seen again two hours later; hovered, moved away to south and turned east. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_62 ### Event 2445 (F5EDBCB0) **Date:** 12/22/1909 **Locations:** Worcester, Massachusetts; Marlboro; Boston; New York City **Description:** 6:30 p.m. Many residents of Worcester, Massachusetts, see a “brilliant ray” emitted by a large black object 1,000 feet high in the southwestern sky. After circling over the town, the object heads to the west, where it is seen over Marlboro. It returns to Worcester between 7:00 and 7:30 p.m., flying at low altitude and sporting a searchlight. One policeman thinks he sees enormous wings; others detect one or two figures inside. The airship is attributed to a Worcester businessman named [Wallace E. Tillinghast,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace%5FTillinghast) who has told the Boston Herald on December 12 that he has invented a heavier-than-air monoplane and has made more than 100 test flights at night to Boston and New York City. But Tillinghast never offers his aircraft for public viewing, and people gradually realize it is a hoax. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Tells of Flight 300 Miles in Air,” Boston Herald, December 13, 1909, p. 1; “[Airship Seen in](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92091755/) [Two Cities,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92091755/)” Boston Globe, December 23, 1909, p. 1; Clark III 1165; Stephen Whalen and Robert E. Bartholomew, “[The Great New England Airship Hoax of 1909,](https://www.jstor.org/stable/1559788)” New England Quarterly 75, no. 3 \(September 2002\) :466–376; Hilary Evans and Robert E. Bartholomew, Outbreak!, Anomalist, 2009, pp. 483–486 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_303 ### Event 2446 (5EB186E1) **Date:** 12/23/1909 **Location:** USA, Boston (Massachusetts) **Description:** (Translated from French) When the conductor of the "Evening Limited" train took out his pocket watch and shouted "All Aboard!" at Boston's North Station that evening, he had no idea that the train was about to go on an adventure with a UFO. The heavy steam locomotive Belching was spewing black smoke. Near the town of Ayer, 48 km northwest, a cigar-shaped UFO descended from the sky to the west to meet the train. The powerful beam of the craft illuminated all the train cars and this lasted until they arrived in Fitchburg. During the stop in the station, the object was lost from sight, but as soon as they left, the journey resumed together. (The Fitchburg, Mass. Sentinel for December 24, 1909.) Police Inspector Frank Metcalf (Springfield, Mass.) was among the passengers. All he could see of the airship was the powerful beam. All the passengers were very interested in the thing and regretted not having a closer view of the airship. (December 23, 1909) **Reference:** The Springfield, Mass. Union-News for December 25, 1909.; Ufo Roundup vol. 2 n° 48, 14.12.1997, Joseph Trainor. **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_663 ### Event 2447 (9DB05E3C) **Date:** 12/23/1909 **Locations:** Boston, Massachusetts; Revere **Description:** 10:00 p.m. Thousands of citizens of Boston, Massachusetts, and neighboring communities see an airship with lights flying at an altitude of around 400 feet. Alex Randall of Revere reports wings, tail, and propeller, but other observers only see a cylindrical shape at most. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Skyship of Mystery Flies above Boston,” Boston Journal, December 24, 1909, p.1; Clark III 1165 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_304 ### Event 2448 (E174A807) **Date:** 12/23/1909 **Time:** evening **Location:** Boston **Description:** On December 23, 1909, an aerial display captivated thousands of Christmas shoppers in Boston. Two strong searchlights were observed moving quickly over the city, initially mistaken for bright stars. The lights, which appeared to be on an aerial craft, exhibited distinct behaviors, including a reflective appearance resembling automobile headlights and a vague outline of the craft itself. The lights remained stationary at an altitude of about 600 feet for a short time before disappearing. (Chapter 3, Ref 122) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_115 ### Event 2449 (7DD00619) **Date:** 12/24/1909 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Wallace Tillinghast, a resident of Worcester \(Massachusetts\) decides to make a publicity stunt taking advantage of the event. Vice-president of a factory, he declares to have built a monoplane, running on gasoline, capable of transporting him and two mechanics. The lair of the mysterious vessel had finally been discovered! 14 men working for Paul Morgan, from the Morgan Construction Company of Worcester, were assigned to a secret task... two years ago, Morgan paid 15000$ for an airplane of a Swedish aviator. It is probably this machine, perfected with the help of Tilinghast, that was seen flying over New England.. But other newspapers are more skeptical. (December 24th) **Reference:** *Wilimantic Chronicle* of Connecticut **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1909.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_325 ### Event 2450 (A3873DB5) **Date:** 12/24/1909 **Time:** 01:50 **Location:** LIMERICK, IREL **Description:** Amateur astronomer. Luminous saucer goes south slowly. Turns and goes back going north. / r85p35. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BOUGARD, Michel: SOUCOUPES VOLANTES; SOBEPS Group, Belgium 1976. HB (Index 30) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_291 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "32", **Elev:** "28", **HatchDesc:** "LIMERICK,IREL:AM.ASTRONOMER:LUM.SCR GOES S SLOWLY:TURNS+GOES BACK>N:/r85p35", **LatLong:** "52.650003 -8.616667", **LatLongDMS:** "52:39:00 N 08:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.650003,-8.616667)", **State/Prov:** "Ireland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2451 (5CF5CE17) **Date:** 12/24/1909 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** RHAYADER, WALES **Description:** Boy abduction / farm Christmas party. Screams. Tracks / snow end. Gone for good. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** STEIGER, Brad: STRANGERS from the SKIES; Award Books, NY 1966. (Index 33) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_292 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NFO:** No craft seen, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **ABD:** Human or animal abduction, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **TRC:** Physical traces, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "303", **HatchDesc:** "RHAYADER,WALES:BOY ABD/FARM XMAS PARTY:SCREAMS:TRACKS/SNOW END:GONE FOR GOOD", **LatLong:** "52.300002 -3.516667", **LatLongDMS:** "52:18:00 N 03:31:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.300002,-3.516667)", **State/Prov:** "WLS", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 2452 (E238B45A) **Date:** 12/24/1909 **Location:** Providence, Rhode Island **Description:** In Providence, Rhode Island, author [H. P. Lovecraft](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.%5FP.%5FLovecraft) sees what people are claiming is Tillinghast’s airplane bearing a powerful searchlight, but he identifies it as the planet Venus. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “City Is Airship Mad,” Providence \(R.I.\) Journal, December 25, 1909, p. 2; “Providence Men See Searchlight in Sky,” Providence \(R.I.\) Journal, December 25, 1909, p. 14; H. P. Lovecraft, Collected Essays, Volume 3: Science, ed. S. T. Joshi, Hippocampus, 2005, p. 99; Clark III 1165 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_305 --- ## Year: 1910, 56 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 2453 (27E0C9F1) **Date:** 1910 **Location:** Germany **Description:** In the years preceding World War I (1910-1919), enigmatic dirigible-type mystery airships, which had been appearing in the skies since 1896, saw their final prominence as Germany's zeppelins matched their capabilities. This period marked the convergence of known and unknown airship technology before the outbreak of the war in 1914. (Chapter 4) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_145 ### Event 2454 (A4DA3156) **Date:** 1910 **Location:** Fulton County, Arkansas **Description:** In 1910, a young brother and sister had an enigmatic encounter near their home in Fulton County, Arkansas. They observed a silver-colored, zeppelin-shaped object hovering above the trees without anything hanging from its underside. The object vanished after taking off, leading the witnesses to believe it wasn't a conventional balloon as they initially thought. (Chapter 4, Ref 165) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_156 ### Event 2455 (CC36CF92) **Date:** 1910 **Location:** Balitomore, Maryland **Description:** In 1910, witnesses in Baltimore reported seeing a cigar-shaped metallic UFO hovering over a baseball field with strange occupants inside. The craft had colorful windows, and about 20 small creatures wearing fur-like clothing and conical helmets were observed taking turns peering out, each with small eyes and slitlike mouths. (Chapter 4, Ref 174) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_164 ### Event 2456 (50FDACF7) **Date:** 1910 **Location:** New York City, New York **Description:** In 1910, an unidentified aircraft made a nocturnal pass over Manhattan. A New York newspaper reported that a "long, black object" with the sound of a motor was spotted flying at a low altitude. As it approached, it resembled a biplane and gracefully circled around the illuminated Metropolitan Life Insurance Company tower, its silhouette visible against the building's window lights. (Chapter 9, Ref 360) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_352 ### Event 2457 (490131D6) **Date:** 1/1910 **Location:** NEW ZEALAND, Invercargill **Description:** (Translated from French) At around 11pm, the priest, the mayor, a policeman and other people saw an object shaped like a cigar hovering around thirty meters above Invercargill. A figure then appeared at a side door and they heard him shout some words in an unknown language. The opening quickly closed, the object accelerated and it was lost from sight. (January end 1910) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 218 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_668 ### Event 2458 (286B9065) **Date:** 1/1910 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** INVERCARGILL, NZ **Description:** Several observer(s). Cylinder/cigar-shape hovers / 100alt. Man / door. Shouts gibberish. / r229'83#2. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 38) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_293 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **CVS:** Conversation/communication **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "INVERCARGILL,NZ:SVRL OBS:CGR HVRS/100alt:MAN/DOOR:SHOUTS GIBBERISH:/r229'83#2", **LatLong:** "-46.416669 168.450008", **LatLongDMS:** "46:25:00 S 168:27:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-46.416669,168.450008)", **State/Prov:** "SI", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 2459 (360F5AB6) **Date:** 1/1910 **Location:** Invercargill, New Zealand, AU **Description:** 11:00 p.m. Several witnesses among them the vicar, the Mayor, and a policeman saw a cigar-shaped object hovering at 30 m altitude. A man appeared at a lateral door and was heard shouting some words in an unknown language. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_63 ### Event 2460 (116FBC29) **Date:** 1/1910 **Time:** 2300 **Location:** Invercargill, New Zealand **Description:** Several witnesses among them the vicar, the Mayor, and a policeman -saw a cigar-shaped object hovering at 30 m altitude. A man appeared at a lateral door and was heard shouting some words in an unknown language. The opening closed, and the object accelerated and was lost to sight. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Stuart 24 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_38 ### Event 2461 (FA6E0FC6) **Date:** 1/1910 **Location:** Chattanooga area, Tennessee and Huntsville Alabama **Description:** In the beginning of the decade, an unusual white cigar-shaped object, resembling a large airship, appeared in the skies over east Tennessee. Witnesses reported its presence for three consecutive days in January 1910, describing it as traveling at around 30 miles per hour, emitting engine-like noises, and featuring flickering blue flames along its underside. The craft eventually flew towards Alabama and was spotted again over Huntsville, around 75 miles from its initial sighting location. (Chapter 4, Ref 155) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_146 ### Event 2462 (2BD06A43) **Date:** 1/1910 **Location:** Knoxville, Tennessee **Description:** During this period, a newspaper in Knoxville, located north of Chattanooga, documented that two notable residents witnessed a sizable airship flying southward. The observers noted sparks emanating from its engines and could discern the sound of machinery. The described airship had the characteristics of a dirigible balloon. (Chapter 4, Ref 156) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_147 ### Event 2463 (8F709F86) **Date:** 1/1/1910 **Location:** France **Description:** (Translated from French) The pilot's license is established. During the year 1909 16 licenses were awarded: 9 French, 3 American, 1 Brazilian, 3 English. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air. Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, pp. 81-82 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_664 ### Event 2464 (B34D890F) **Date:** 1/1/1910 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) If the wonderful flying machine is indeed the fruit of Tilinghast's brain... this gentleman is right to want to keep the secret. Compared to his invention, the flying machine of the Wright brothers, hitherto considered the leaders of aeronautics, seems quite rudimentary.... Tilinghast responds by announcing that he will present his machine at the Boston Air Show in February... but in fact it will never be seen. (1st January) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1910.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_326 ### Event 2465 (B74398E6) **Date:** 1/1/1910 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Photo taken in France. See image at images/1910\_France.jpg. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1910.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_327 ### Event 2466 (6D91010A) **Date:** 1/12/1910 **Location:** USA, Chattanooga (Tennessee), Huntsville (Alabama) **Description:** (Translated from French) The inhabitants saw at 9:00 a huge whitish object in the shape of a cigar moving slowly at 50 km/h above their city. The witnesses distinctly heard the sound of the engines and spotted a series of small blue flames at the lower part of the object and along its entire length. Before leaving in the direction of the nearby mountains, it circled around the city for some time. At 9:15, 120 km from Chattanooga, the people of Huntsville saw a similar object, very fast in the sky. (January 12, 1910) **Reference:** Frank EDWARDS: "Les S.V. affaire sérieuse - trad. Laffont 1964 - p. 24, 25 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_665 ### Event 2467 (95840FC5) **Date:** 1/12/1910 **Time:** 09:00 **Location:** CHATTANOOGA, TN **Description:** Thousands / observer(s). White cylinder/cigar-shape going quickly southeast fast in still wind. Motor noise / r214p53. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 8) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_294 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "13", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "206", **HatchDesc:** "CHATTANOOGA,TN:1000s/OBS:WHT CGR >>SE FAST in still wind::MOTOR NOISE/r214p53", **LatLong:** "35.050002 -85.300004", **LatLongDMS:** "35:03:00 N 85:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.050002,-85.300004)", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2468 (A67DE792) **Date:** 1/12/1910 **Location:** Chattanooga, Tennessee **Description:** 9:30 a.m. An unknown cigar-shaped aircraft is seen moving over Chattanooga, Tennessee, to the northeast. It returns on January 13. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Airship in the Air,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92092637/)” Chattanooga \(Tenn.\) Daily Times, January 13, 1910, p. 7; “[Another Airship Flying,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92092750/)” Chattanooga \(Tenn.\) Daily Times, January 14, 1910, p. 6; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1910-01-13-usa-chattanooga.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1910-01-13-usa-chattanooga.htm) February 20, 2013 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_306 ### Event 2469 (032CCC88) **Date:** 1/12/1910 **Locations:** Huntsville, Alabama; Chapman Mountain **Description:** 4:30 p.m. An unknown airship flies high over Huntsville, Alabama, against the wind, from southwest to northeast, disappearing over the crest of Chapman Mountain. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Strange Airship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92092987/)” Huntsville \(Ala.\) Journal, January 13, 1910, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_307 ### Event 2470 (3C3B516C) **Date:** 1/13/1910 **Location:** USA, Chattanooga (Tennessee) **Description:** (Translated from French) The mysterious craft returned to Chattanooga around 11:00. Even a man was seen on board the craft, taking about twelve minutes to fly over the city in a northerly direction, disappearing into the mist of the Tennessee River. **Reference:** Frank EDWARDS: "Les S.V. affaire sérieuse - trad. Laffont 1964 - p. 25 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_666 ### Event 2471 (0128A873) **Date:** 1/13/1910 **Description:** Several thousand people in Chattanooga, Tennessee watched a white cigar-shaped object that passed rapidly over the city at around 11:00 a.m. at 500 to 1,000 feet altitude. It disappeared into a bank of smoke along the river. "Flags on the custom house hung limp [so the wind]…would not have propelled a...balloon." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers Are Real, p. 61; Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 8; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Serious Business, p. 27 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_291 ### Event 2472 (603BCA5A) **Date:** 1/14/1910 **Locations:** Summit Hill; Knoxville, Tennessee **Description:** 6:55 p.m. Two men on Summit Hill in Knoxville, Tennessee, see a large airship moving south. Its outlines are distinct. The men hear a hum of machinery and see sparks from “its motors.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Positive That They Saw an](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92093414/) [Airship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92093414/)” Knoxville \(Tenn.\) Journal, January 15, 1910, p. 7 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_308 ### Event 2473 (FF7AB859) **Date:** 1/15/1910 **Location:** USA, Paragould (Arkansas) **Description:** (Translated from French) A large, very white flying machine was observed. Even three or four occupants were seen on board the object, equipped with a powerful searchlight. It passed from north to south at an altitude of 300 m. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 218 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_667 ### Event 2474 (00B0483A) **Date:** 1/15/1910 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** PARAGOULD, ARK **Description:** Airship with strong beam north going quickly south / 300M altitude. 3-4 figure(s) aboard. / L. Farish. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** STEIGER, Brad & WHRITENOUR, Joan: FLYING SAUCER INVASION. Award Books, NY 1969. 156pp PB. 15 Essays + catalog. (Index 41) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_295 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "91", **HatchDesc:** "PARAGOULD,ARK:AIRSHIP W/STRONG BEAM N>>S/300M alt:3-4 FIGS ABOARD:/L.Farish", **LatLong:** "36.066668 -90.500004", **LatLongDMS:** "36:04:00 N 90:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.066668,-90.500004)", **RelAlt:** "300", **State/Prov:** "Arkansas", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 2475 (276686AC) **Date:** 2/1910 **Location:** Greer Idaho **Description:** During the second decade of the 20th century, in addition to unknown dirigible-like crafts, witnesses reported sightings of more aerodynamic and advanced aerial objects reminiscent of modern UFOs. In February 1910 near Greer, Idaho, a young boy observed a large yellow globe with a diameter of around half a mile, moving slowly and emitting a golden light. The object traveled at low altitudes, exhibited precise control, and produced a strong draft while making minimal sound. (Chapter 4, Ref 164) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_155 ### Event 2476 (AE26A2B7) **Date:** 2/5/1910 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** NORTHWEST / GREER, ID **Description:** 2 prospector. Huge brilliant gold globe maneuvers going southeast / Clearwater River Canyon. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_296 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "0", **Elev:** "333", **HatchDesc:** "NW/GREER,ID:2 PROSPECTOR:HUGE BRILL.GOLD GLOBE MNVRS >SE/CLEARWATER Rvr CANYON", **LatLong:** "46.433336 -116.216672", **LatLongDMS:** "46:26:00 N 116:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.433336,-116.216672)", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2477 (4FA54FB5) **Date:** 3/21/1910 **Location:** Australia, Melbourne **Description:** (Translated from French) Houdini, the Great Music Hall Star, nicknamed the "King of Handcuffs" for his spectacular escapes on stage, bought a "Voisin" airplane and made a 7 km flight in 7 min. 45 sec. in Melbourne. This is the first officially recorded flight in Australia. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air. Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 83 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_669 ### Event 2478 (24ECBE68) **Date:** 5/4/1910 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Dr. I. Plemely, professor of mathematics at Cirnovti \(USSR\), sees a bright celestial body approaching from the South with increasing speed. The object rises 40° and after reducing speed it goes towards North-North-West, disappearing in a cloud at an elevation of 20°. The object shone for 3 minutes. Professor van Hepperberg from Vienna calculated the parabolic details based on 3 positions that the observer drew and came to the conclusion that it could have had a diameter of 100m. Victor Anestin, editor-in-chief of the scientific magazine Orion in which the story appears, emphasizes the fact that the object could not have been a bolide \(meteor\) due to the speed elements, deceleration, change of direction, angle of fall from 45 to 20°, disappearance and ascent, etc..** 26th May:** Dr. Prudhomme, a doctor practicing in Nancy \(East of [France](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/FR.html)\) sees, like 3 other witnesses, something comparable moving slowly and silently in the sky. He states that some sudden changes in the movement of this light seemed to be due to a rudder. (4th May, in the evening) **Reference:** Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh archive **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1910.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_328 ### Event 2479 (B302D372) **Date:** 5/4/1910 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At the Salzburg Museum \(Austria\), no trace of the metal cube discovered in [1885](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/1885.html) can be found anymore. Furthermore, the museum's archives for the period from [1886](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/1886.html) to [1910](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/1910.html) have also vanished. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1910.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_329 ### Event 2480 (8FC39FE0) **Date:** 5/4/1910 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A large cigar-shaped object is observed above Huntsville, Alabama and Chattanooga \(Tennessee\), illuminating the cities with its powerful searchlight. **Reference:** UFO Roundup 4-36 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1910.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_330 ### Event 2481 (D7B4E3C9) **Date:** 5/4/1910 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** CANTILLANA, SPAIN **Description:** Loud bangs. Then stones shoot up into sky / 2 hours. No explanation. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 89) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_297 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NFO:** No craft seen, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "120", **HatchDesc:** "CANTILLANA,SPAIN:LOUD BANGS:THEN STONES SHOOT UP INTO SKY/2hrs:NO EXPLANATION", **LatLong:** "37.600002 -5.850000", **LatLongDMS:** "37:36:00 N 05:51:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.600002,-5.850000)", **State/Prov:** "SVL", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 2482 (066F23A5) **Date:** 5/4/1910 **Time:** 19:00? **Location:** CHERNOVTSY, UKRAINE **Description:** Star-like body enters 100M cloud. Maneuvers. / r221p30. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HOBANA Ion & WEVERBERGH,Julien: UFO'S from BEHIND the IRON CURTAIN; Bantam Books,1975. 308pp. (Index 280) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_298 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Ukraine", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "CHERNOVTSY,UKRAINE:STARLIKE BODY ENTERS 100M CLOUD:MNVRS:/r221p30", **LatLong:** "48.316669 25.866668", **LatLongDMS:** "48:19:00 N 25:52:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.316669,25.866668)", **State/Prov:** "CHR", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 2483 (F1C1345C) **Date:** Summer 1910 **Location:** Vernal, UT **Description:** A man on horseback at night dismounted when his horse became disturbed, and walked to the edge of a clearing in the woods. There he saw a low-hovering disc with a row of lights. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_64 ### Event 2484 (7D48A25C) **Date:** Summer 1910 **Location:** Violetville neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland **Description:** Morning. Lawrence J. Crone is playing on a baseball field in the Violetville neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, when he sees a metallic, brown, blimplike object, more than 100 feet long, hovering above a pine tree 200 feet away. It has a row of colored, rectangular windows. Through one he can see as many as 20 strange entities taking turns looking at him. Their heads are pointed, and they are dressed in light-colored garments with a fur-like texture. Each has small dots for eyes and a slit for a mouth. Two other young men also see the object and are badly frightened. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 262; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1910-usa-violetville.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1910-usa-violetville.htm) February 20, 2013 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_309 ### Event 2485 (27034C70) **Date:** Summer 1910 **Location:** Vernal, Utah **Description:** Night. Carl H. Darden is riding near Vernal, Utah, when he notices that his horse is acting strangely. He dismounts and walks the horse into a clearing, where he sees a row of lights a few feet above the ground. They are attached to a huge, hovering disc. After watching it a while, he steps toward it, and it makes a buzzing sound as if in warning. As he advances, it rises slowly into the sky until it reaches an altitude of several hundred feet, when it suddenly streaks off to the north. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 1169 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_310 ### Event 2486 (58B3E152) **Date:** 6/27/1910 **Location:** ENGLAND **Description:** (Translated from French) Doctor Harris saw an intensely black object 400 km long and 50 km wide, standing out against the lunar disc "it looked like a crow perched on the moon, as close as possible". Clouds interrupted the observation. "I can't help but think," wrote Doctor Harris, "that a strange phenomenon had just occurred". [note from vog: in their books, authors Michel BOUGARD and Antonio RIBERA repeat this data in 1912, June 27. Ribera reduces the measurements to 400 m x 50 m and Bougard cites 400 km and 80 km... : in science fiction, Nelson Bond exploited this information in 1960, by publishing "And Lo! The bird!"] (June 27, 1910) **Reference:** Charles FORT: "The Book of the Damned" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 162 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_670 ### Event 2487 (D476F1D4) **Date:** 7/1910 **Location:** FRANCE, at sea **Description:** (Translated from French) Sailing from the coast of Normandy to the English Channel, the witnesses on a fishing boat saw, in broad daylight, a huge object falling from the sky into the sea, resembling a black bird. (Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 165) The "Weekly Dispatch" of July 10th reported the observation of the crew of the French fishing boat "Jeune Frédéric" off the coast of Normandy. These sailors saw a large black object shaped like a bird that plunged into the ocean, immediately emerged again before falling again and disappearing without a trace. (July 1910) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 219 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_671 ### Event 2488 (5F26F312) **Date:** 7/1910 **Location:** At sea, off the coast of Florida **Description:** (Translated from French) Three fishing boats sailing off the coast of Florida reported that they had observed a large black pear-shaped object illuminated by the Moon and swaying above the coast. **Reference:** Jean PRACHAN: "Le triangle des Bermudes base secrète des Ovni" - Belfond 1972 - p. 102 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_672 ### Event 2489 (B4EA07BD) **Date:** 8/1910 **Location:** Austria, Various Licenses **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the military two-seater aircraft Etrich Taube, 115 km/h, ceiling 3000m. End of production in 1915. (August 1910) **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 edition **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_673 ### Event 2490 (4B97299F) **Date:** 8/1910 (approximate) **Time:** ~19:00 **Location:** GREEN BAY, WI **Description:** Summer Eve. Procession of white saucers goes west going east. Clearly defined. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LORENZEN, Coral: FLYING SAUCERS, the Starting Evidence; Signet Books, NY 1962 & 1966. 278pp. Originally "The Great F. S. Hoax". (Index 26) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_299 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "178", **HatchDesc:** "GREEN BAY,WI:SUMMER EVE:PROCESSION of WHT SCRS GOES W>E:CLEARLY DEFINED", **LatLong:** "44.500002 -88.033338", **LatLongDMS:** "44:30:00 N 88:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.500002,-88.033338)", **State/Prov:** "Wisconsin", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2491 (1A3057DD) **Date:** 8/1910 (approximate) **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** VERNAL, UT **Description:** Disk hovers very low / desert. Buzz and slow ascent. Then streaks away. / CLARK'92. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 9) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_300 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1540", **HatchDesc:** "VERNAL,UT:DISK HVRS VLOW/DESERT:BUZZ+SLOW ASCENT:then streaks away:/CLARK'92", **LatLong:** "40.405557 -109.533339", **LatLongDMS:** "40:24:20 N 109:32:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.405557,-109.533339)", **RelAlt:** "3", **State/Prov:** "Utah", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 2492 (3482CA2C) **Date:** 8/12/1910 **Location:** South China Sea **Description:** (Translated from French) Captain Breyer of the Dutch vessel "Valentijn" saw at midnight, in the south of the South China Sea, a rotation of flashes. "It was like a horizontal wheel, turning quickly above the water" and producing in the crew "a deep feeling of unease". **Reference:** Charles FORT: "The Book of the Damned" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967 - p. 216 **Reference:** Danish Meteorological Institute **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_674 ### Event 2493 (B5109C53) **Date:** 8/12/1910 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** SOUTH CHINA SEA **Description:** Dutch steamship Valentijn. Bright spinning wheel close to surface. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 30) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_301 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "S.CHINA SEA:DUTCH SS VALENTIJN:BRITE SPINNING WHEEL CLOSE TO SURFACE:NFD", **LatLong:** "5.000000 110.000005", **LatLongDMS:** "05:00:00 N 110:00:00 E", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/5.000000,110.000005)", **RelAlt:** "-1", **State/Prov:** "SCS", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 2494 (921DCE27) **Date:** 8/12/1910 **Description:** At around midnight in the South China Sea a bright spinning wheel was see in the ocean, close to surface by four members of the crew of the Dutch ship S. S. Valentijn. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p. 265; Flying Saucers magazine, June 1970, p. 8, citing National Fisherman, May 1967; Flying Saucer Review, September-October 1967, p. 9 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4927 ### Event 2495 (DF8CE73A) **Date:** 8/17/1910 **Location:** GERMANY, Dassau **Description:** (Translated from French) Day laborers were sawing trees when they saw in the sky a device they took for a balloon. Suddenly the balloon ignited and what seemed to be a gondola detached and fell into the forest. It was to be searched for in vain in the days following the incident. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 219 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_675 ### Event 2496 (1F9FB185) **Date:** 8/30/1910 **Location:** USA, New York, Manhattan Island **Description:** (Translated from French) At 8:45 PM a long dark object flew over Manhattan Island. Hundreds of people saw it approach Madison Square, make a turn, and then disappear. It should be remembered that at this time aviation was still in its infancy. In 1910 there were 36 licensed pilots and the few aircrafts were well known. The following night it was seen again around 9:00 PM, still above Madison Square. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 219) There were already more than 200 licensed pilots and many others had to prove themselves by making numerous flights before obtaining a license. Also, on August 20th, 1910, at Sheepshead Bay (New York) Lieutenant J.E. Fickel fired at a ground target from an airplane in flight, using a '30 caliber rifle (August 30th and 31st, 1910) **Reference:** Conquête de l'air. Chronologie..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout Université 1967, p. 85 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_676 ### Event 2497 (A99EAD38) **Date:** 8/30/1910 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** MANHATTAN, NY **Description:** Many observer(s). Long black object circles buildings. Engine sound. Back / 31 August. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEEL, John: OPERATION TROJAN HORSE; Putnam's Sons, NY 1970. (Index 120) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_302 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "27", **HatchDesc:** "MANHATTAN,NY:MANY OBS:LONG BLACK OBJ CIRCLES BLDGs:ENGINE SOUND:BACK/31AUG", **LatLong:** "40.800002 -73.950004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:48:00 N 73:57:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.800002,-73.950004)", **RelAlt:** "100", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2498 (7118453C) **Date:** 8/30/1910 **Description:** A long black object circled buildings in downtown Manhattan around Madison Square Park in New York City, New York making an engine sound at 8:45 p.m. There were hundreds of witnesses. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** John Keel, FSR, May 11, 1970; John Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 120; Ralph Blum, Beyond Earth: Man's Contact with UFOs, p. 60 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5483 ### Event 2499 (82559B9D) **Date:** 9/22/1910 **Description:** On this evening a UFO landed remotely at the Dunkirk Waterworks in Chautauqua County, New York. It was witnessed by a Mr. D. Ready. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Peter Rogerson, World-Wide Catalog of Type 1 Reports, citing FSR, May-June 1970, p. 11 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6216 ### Event 2500 (F9FB57C3) **Date:** 10/1910 **Location:** Atlantic Ocean **Description:** (Translated from French) In 1907, the wealthy American adventurer Walter Wellman ordered a dirigible balloon from Paris. He named it "AMERICA". He set off from Atlantic City towards Europe in October 1910. The propulsion of the balloon was underestimated. Wellman traveled around a thousand miles without being able to control the balloon to direct it against the winds above the Atlantic. After a three-day flight, it finally fell into the ocean near a British warship. **Reference:** "Ufo's – A century of Sightings by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 8 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_677 ### Event 2501 (964C60C1) **Date:** 10/25/1910 **Location:** Minderoo Station, Western Australia **Description:** 5:30 p.m. A mystery airship is seen at Minderoo Station, Western Australia, by Mrs. A. J. Roe, wife of the station manager. She says it “looked compact, like a dirigible balloon, but it appeared to be squarer and more like an aeroplane. The sun shone on it, and flashes came from it, as though reflected from something revolving, or from metal work.” Three station hands also see the object. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Mysterious Airship Sighted at Onslow,](https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/15192789)” Sydney \(N.S.W.\) Morning Herald, December 5, 1910, p. 9; Bill Chalker, “[Early Australian Historical Encounters,](http://www.project1947.com/forum/bcausenc.htm)” 1997; Brett Holman, “[Scareships over Australia—IV,](https://airminded.org/2010/10/27/scareships-over-australia-iv/)” Airminded, October 27, 2010 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_311 ### Event 2502 (6F38CC25) **Date:** 10/27/1910 **Locations:** Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada; Irvine, Alberta; Medicine Hat, Alberta **Description:** An unidentified flying machine with red and green lights at the rear and a strong headlight was observed by people in Swift Current and Irvine. The machine flew over Swift Current around 1:10 AM at an altitude of approximately 600 feet. The sighting continued as the object was seen heading west from Irvine, Alberta, at 4:45 AM. Additionally, a sizable balloon was reported traveling in a south-westerly direction along the C.P.R. line east of Medicine Hat, as witnessed from Crane Lake and Maple Creek, shortly before dawn on the same day. **Type:** ufo sightings **Reference:** [newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/article/calgary-herald/100695931/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_988 ### Event 2503 (5CA518F1) **Date:** 10/27/1910 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** SWIFT CURRENT, SSK **Description:** Cylinder/cigar-shape flies overhead. Red and green lights / rear. Bright headlight / front. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 9) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_303 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "755", **HatchDesc:** "SWIFT CURRENT,SSK:CGR FLIES OVHD:RED+GRN LITES/REAR:BRITE HEADLITE/FRONT:NFD", **LatLong:** "50.283336 -107.766672", **LatLongDMS:** "50:17:00 N 107:46:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.283336,-107.766672)", **State/Prov:** "Sasketchewan", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2504 (8B854275) **Date:** 10/27/1910 **Locations:** Swift Current, Saskatchewan; Irvine, Alberta; Medicine Hat, Alberta **Description:** 1:10 a.m. An airship with a powerful headlight and red and green taillights is seen flying at 600 feet above Swift Current, Saskatchewan. Observers at Irvine, Alberta, see it at 4:45 a.m. going west. It is also seen at Medicine Hat, Alberta, flying southwest. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Unknown Aeronaut in Alberta,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100695931/)” Calgary \(Alberta\) Herald, October 27, 1910, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_312 ### Event 2505 (7C8E1215) **Date:** 10/27/1910 **Description:** A cigar-shaped object with red and green lights on the rear and a bright headlight flew overhead on this morning in Swift Current, Saskachewan, Canada at an estimated altitude of 600 feet. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century, p. 9 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7177 ### Event 2506 (1C990269) **Date:** 10/29/1910 **Location:** East Providence, Rhode Island **Description:** 5:30 a.m. Two objects flying at a great altitude are seen over East Providence, Rhode Island, by newspaper workers and others up early. They are too distant to be recognized as dirigibles or balloons, but they resemble luminous pumpkins. One is far ahead of the other, but both are “cutting pigeon wings, looping aerial loops, circling and diving like birds and generally doing skylark stunts.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Aviators Seen High Up in Air near City,” Providence Journal, October 30, 1910, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_313 ### Event 2507 (84EBA2C0) **Date:** 11/1910 **Location:** USA **Description:** (Translated from French) Graham White, invited to visit President Taft of the USA, traveled there by airplane and landed in the street in front of the Federal Government palace. (November 1910) **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air. Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 87 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_679 ### Event 2508 (88EA62B9) **Date:** 11/14/1910 **Location:** USA, HAMPTON ROADS **Description:** (Translated from French) For the first time an aircraft takes off from a ship: Ely on "Curtiss" from SS "Birmingham". **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air. Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 87 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_678 --- ## Year: 1911, 8 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 2509 (898BD5BF) **Date:** 1911 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In New York, a mysterious aircraft flew over the Brooklyn Bridge. **Reference:** UFO Roundup 4-36 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1911.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_331 ### Event 2510 (B05152F5) **Date:** 1911 **Location:** Chatham Township, Ontario **Description:** In 1911, an enigmatic aircraft, described as enormous and lacking visible wings, captivated the Canadian province of Ontario. Several witnesses reported the UFO's prolonged presence in the sky, displaying the ability to stay aloft for days and maneuver without landing. The craft emitted brilliant lights, floated at low altitudes, and then ascended rapidly before disappearing into the distance. (Chapter 4, Ref 157) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_148 ### Event 2511 (9E1EBA16) **Date:** 1/9/1911 **Locations:** Harvard; Boston **Description:** Harvard astronomer [William H. Pickering](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FHenry%5FPickering) tells the Boston Post that he believes Venus is populated by “huge monsters and lizards such as roamed the earth ages ago.” He adds that “If human life exists on Venus, the people do not live as we do.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Olden Monsters Inhabit Venus?](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92094291/)” Chicago Tribune, January 9, 1911, p. 8 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_314 ### Event 2512 (13FACEA0) **Date:** 1/15/1911 **Location:** USA **Description:** (Translated from French) Attempted air bombing by Myron S. Crissy and P. O. Parmalec on "Wright" Airplane. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air. Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 88 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_680 ### Event 2513 (D93442E4) **Date:** 1/18/1911 **Location:** USA, SAN FRANCISCO, Selfridge Base **Description:** (Translated from French) E. Ely on biplane "CURTISS" taking off from San Francisco, landed at 11:01 AM in the bay on the platform set up at the back of the battleship "PENNSYLVANIA". At 11:58 he took off again and returned to his departure aerodrome. (January 18, 1911) **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air. Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 88, 89 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_681 ### Event 2514 (CC257A6C) **Date:** 5/5/1911 **Locations:** St. George, Queensland, Australia; 18 miles from St. George, Queensland, Australia **Description:** 5:00 p.m. William Nixon is working at his father’s sawmill 18 miles from St. George, Queensland, Australia, when he sees a flying machine carrying two men, one of whom is dressed in dark clothing. He estimates it is traveling from south to northwest at about 1,000 feet. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Mysterious Airships,](https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/26340141)” Perth West Australian, May 15, 1911, p. 5 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_315 ### Event 2515 (52B2F696) **Date:** 7/22/1911 **Location:** Durango, Colorado **Description:** Evening. A ball of fire the size of the full moon is seen for several hours at Durango, Colorado. For a time it grows even larger, then diminishes in size until it disappears entirely. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Large Ball of Fire Is Seen in the Sky,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100814091/)” Reno \(Nev.\) Evening Gazette, July 25, 1911, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_316 ### Event 2516 (D21A7724) **Date:** 8/3/1911 **Locations:** Brinkerhoff Avenue; Mansfield, Ohio **Description:** 9:00 p.m. [Adam H. McCullough](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/114293354/adam-hale-mccullough) and his wife [Carrie](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/114293216/carrie-a-mccullough) are driving on Brinkerhoff Avenue in Mansfield, Ohio, when they notice a light, as brilliant as an arc light, in the northern sky. It has an apparent size of 6 inches and looks to be about 50 feet up. It remains visible for several minutes then fizzles out. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[A](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100820908/) [Phenomenon,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100821009/)” Mansfield \(Ohio\) News, August 4, 1911, p. 10 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_317 --- ## Year: 1912, 25 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 2517 (CCDBC9CD) **Date:** 1912 **Location:** USA, Worcester (Massachusetts) **Description:** (Translated from French) The theoretical and practical research undertaken by Robert Hutchins Goddard on rockets dates back to 1912. His first publication "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes" published in 1919, summarizes the results of his previous research in achieving a high altitude rocket. **Reference:** "Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 43 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_691 ### Event 2518 (4738D3F2) **Date:** 1912 **Location:** Alameda, California **Description:** In 1912, three teenagers in Alameda, California witnessed a group of UFOs flying in precise vertical formation. The objects were pale green and perfectly round, appearing like discs on edge rather than spherical. They were sizable, about 75 to 100 feet in diameter, and exhibited no noise or vapor trails as they flew, leaving a lasting impression on the witnesses. (Chapter 4, Ref 166) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_157 ### Event 2519 (F1A3E62E) **Date:** 1912 **Location:** Western Canada **Description:** In 1912, a young boy in western Canada reported a close encounter with UFO occupants. He claimed a round craft landed on his family's farm, and he described the ufonauts as short beings with round feet, lacking knees or elbows. The witness also stated that they communicated with him through telepathy. (Chapter 4, Ref 175) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_165 ### Event 2520 (C7FDB47F) **Date:** 1/27/1912 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) I saw an object of intense black, like a raven, cut out against the Moon. I estimated its dimensions to be 400 km long and 150 km wide. I can't help but think that this was a very interesting phenomenon. (January 27th, Night) **Reference:** Dr. F. B. Harris, *Popular Astronomy* **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1912.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_332 ### Event 2521 (40D2D82A) **Date:** 1/27/1912 **Location:** ASTRONOMER F.B.HARRIS **Description:** 50 mile(s) wide intense-black object crosses moon's bright side. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: The FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY; Henry Holt, NY 1955; HC (Index 74) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_304 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "The Moon", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "ASTRONOMER F.B.HARRIS:50mi WIDE INTENSE-BLACK OBJ CROSSES MOON'S BRITE SIDE:", **LatLong:** "90.000004 -0.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "90:00:00 N 00:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/90.000004,-0.000000)", **State/Prov:** "Unknown", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2522 (9DDBFEC5) **Date:** 2/1912 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the two-seater Reconnaissance Bomber BE-2 (Blériot Experimental), maximum speed 113km/h, ceiling about 3048m, delivery to the armies February 1913. Built by at least 22 firms whose total production far exceeds the 3535 copies that have been traced. (February 1912) **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_683 ### Event 2523 (5B709858) **Date:** 2/14/1912 **Location:** GERMANY **Description:** (Translated from French) First ascent of the airship "L.Z.11" "Victoria Louise". This Zeppelin would make a total of 384 flights (838 hours) until October 31, 1913, carrying 8135 passengers. It was dismantled on October 1, 1915. (February 14, 1912) **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air. Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 95 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_682 ### Event 2524 (58145D4D) **Date:** 3/6/1912 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A Warmley, an aeroplane splendidly lit flew over the village, travelling at full speed in the direction of Gloucester. (6 March) **Reference:** Fort **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1912.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_333 ### Event 2525 (38537DE9) **Date:** 3/6/1912 **Time:** 20:00? **Location:** BATH, AVON **Description:** 'Splendidly lit craft' passes over Warmley Village. Going quickly north very fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 13) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_305 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "133", **HatchDesc:** "BATH,AVON:'SPLENDIDLY LIT CRAFT' PASSES OVR WARMLEY VILLAGE:>>N VFAST", **LatLong:** "51.400002 -2.350000", **LatLongDMS:** "51:24:00 N 02:21:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.400002,-2.350000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2526 (E4068BE2) **Date:** 3/6/1912 **Description:** A "splendidly lit craft" passed over Warmley Village, Bath, England at eight o'clock in the evening. It flew very fast to the north. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p. 249; Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 13 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1327 ### Event 2527 (9E15297A) **Date:** 3/10/1912 **Location:** TURKEY **Description:** (Translated from French) Italian Airships "P.2" and "P.3" (Engineer Forlanini) flew over Turkish positions and dropped some bombs. On april 13 they each accomplished a 13-hour mission above Turkish positions. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air. Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 95 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_684 ### Event 2528 (31C686E7) **Date:** 4/8/1912 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Chisbury (Wiltshire) **Description:** (Translated from French) Charles Tilden Smith saw in the sky "something different from anything I have ever seen before, although I have for many years studied the sky in all its aspects." He saw two stationary spots on clouds that were moving rapidly. They were in the shape of a triangular fan and of various sizes, but kept the same position while cloud after cloud passed beneath them, and this for a half hour. (April 8, 1912) **Reference:** Charles FORT: "The Book of the Damned" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 206, 207 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_685 ### Event 2529 (B01151AD) **Date:** 4/8/1912 **Location:** Little Bedwyn, Wiltshire, England **Description:** Sunset. Charles Tilden Smith at Little Bedwyn, Wiltshire, England, observes the apparent fan-shaped shadow of a stationary object 45° in the sky against the altostratus cloud layer. The dark patch remains stationary against the moving clouds and is visible for 30 minutes. Meteorologist [Charles John Philip Cave](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FJohn%5FPhilip%5FCave) suspects the object is a pilot balloon. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Charles Tilden Smith, “[Clouds and Shadows,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x001485680&view=1up&seq=176&skin=2021)” Nature 89 \(1912\): 168; Charles J. P. Cave, “[Clouds](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x001485680&view=1up&seq=276&skin=2021) [and Shadows,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x001485680&view=1up&seq=276&skin=2021)” Nature 89 \(1912\): 268 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_318 ### Event 2530 (E431ADBD) **Date:** 4/15/1912 **Description:** Sinking of the Titanic **Type:** disaster **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Titanic) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_24 ### Event 2531 (FEC18415) **Date:** 6/7/1912 **Location:** USA, COLLEGE PARK **Description:** (Translated from French) First test shooting of an aircraft with a Lewis machine gun by Ch. de Forrest Chandler on a "Wright B" piloted by T. D. Milling at College Park. (June 7, 1912) **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air. Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 96 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_686 ### Event 2532 (C0359C4E) **Date:** 7/2/1912 **Location:** USA, Atlantic City **Description:** (Translated from French) The "Akron" Airship of the Goodyear Tire Company was flying for the first time in 1912 and every flight was well documented and supported by adequate advertising. Unfortunately, the airship exploded a few minutes after taking off again on July 2 in Atlantic City. (July 2, 1912) **Reference:** "Ufo's – A century of Sightings by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 9 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_687 ### Event 2533 (35631911) **Date:** 9/4/1912 (approximate) **Location:** SELATTYN, SHROPS **Description:** 2 observer(s). Orange bottle-shape with cylinder/cylindrical object neck upwards drifts going west slowly. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GIBBONS, Gavin: The COMING of the SPACE SHIPS; Neville-Spearman, London HB 1956. 13s.6d (Index 51) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_306 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "180", **HatchDesc:** "SELATTYN,SHROPs:2 OBS:ORG BOTTLE-SHAPE W/CYL.NECK UPWARDS DRIFTS>W SLOWLY.", **LatLong:** "52.894447 -3.088889", **LatLongDMS:** "52:53:40 N 03:05:20 W", **Locale:** "Oil & Coal", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.894447,-3.088889)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 2534 (F9466E0E) **Date:** Fall 1912 **Location:** Alameda, California **Description:** About 2:30 p.m. C. F. Rowling, 15, and two friends see three perfectly round, pale-green objects less than a mile away in the northern sky over Alameda, California. They are traveling in parallel with the horizon in a vertical formation \(one atop the other\) and heading west. They are completely silent and 75–100 feet in diameter. He watches them for 10 seconds before they pass behind some trees. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 1170 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_319 ### Event 2535 (077D01D6) **Date:** 10/7/1912 **Location:** GERMANY **Description:** (Translated from French) Commissioning of the Zeppelin Type L airship, 158 m long, 14.78 m in diameter, with a volume of 22500 m3. Maximum speed 84 km/h, ceiling 3500 m, range approximately 1290 km for this early type, armed with 2 or 3 Parabellum machine guns of 7.92 mm and about 1000 kg of bombs. (October 7, 1912) **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 edition **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_688 ### Event 2536 (CD4212C0) **Date:** 10/12/1912 **Location:** AUSTRALIA, between Bombala and Bemboka (New South Wales) **Description:** (Translated from French) A man driving on the track saw a strange humanoid creature drinking water from a creek. Was it a "Yahoo" or a "Yowie" as the Aborigines call it? **Reference:** Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing 1989, p. 307 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_689 ### Event 2537 (792A0CE2) **Date:** 10/12/1912 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Sheerness \(Kent\), a large dark object, buzzing strangely, passes over the town. The *EastChurch Naval Flying School* is nearby. Reports of the incident lead to a strengthening of air defences. (October 12th, Evening) **Reference:** Mysterious Britain **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1912.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_334 ### Event 2538 (D7E19FF8) **Date:** 10/12/1912 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) [Winston Churchill](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/ChurchillWinston.html) launches the first government investigation into UFOs, following the wave of sightings of mysterious airships. **Reference:** Mysterious Britain **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1912.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_335 ### Event 2539 (8BAEBF0E) **Date:** 10/12/1912 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At the Struma Valley prison \(Bulgaria\) \(...\) a strange atmospheric phenomenon appeared. The Sun had just dipped behind the Albanian mountains and the sky was bright at the zenith when suddenly a huge astral fireball came and fell towards the Greek border. At that moment all the prisoners of the Struma Valley looked as it slowly glided through the golden face of the setting sun, as slowly as if it were controlled by a parachute **Reference:** \[George Topîcreanu, poet then prisoner, Opere alese Vol. 2 page 169\]. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1912.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_336 ### Event 2540 (E6F848D8) **Date:** 10/14/1912 **Locations:** Sheerness, Kent, England; Eastchurch **Description:** 7:00 p.m. Noise from an unseen aircraft startles the residents of Sheerness, Kent, England. Nearby at Eastchurch, residents light flares to guide the craft in case it needs to land. The incident comes up in a debate in Parliament on November 21. MP [William Joynson-Hicks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FJoynson-Hicks%2C%5F1st%5FViscount%5FBrentford) asks First Lord of the Admiralty [Winston Churchill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston%5FChurchill) whether the government has any zeppelins capable of traveling at 60 mph, but Churchill answers no. However, some authorities conclude that the incident is caused by the intrusion of the [LZ 13](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ%5F13%5FHansa) [Hansa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ%5F13%5FHansa) Zeppelin over British airspace. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[The Alleged Visit of a Foreign Airship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92094843/)” London Times, November 22, 1912, p. 8; Brett Holman, “[The](https://airminded.org/2007/10/14/the-sheerness-incident/) [Sheerness Incident,](https://airminded.org/2007/10/14/the-sheerness-incident/)” Airminded, October 14, 2007; Brett Holman, “[Secrets of the German Aërial Fleet—I,](https://airminded.org/2013/05/29/secrets-of-the-german-aerial-fleet-i/)” Airminded, May 29, 2013; Hilary Evans and Robert E. Bartholomew, Outbreak!, Anomalist, 2009, pp. 486–487; UFOFiles2, [p. 6](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n15/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_320 ### Event 2541 (C6076130) **Date:** 12/3/1912 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Portsmouth **Description:** (Translated from French) In the night, an aerial vessel with four occupants came to hover over Portsmouth. After staying stationary for fifteen minutes above the city, it departed back to the north from where it had come. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 221 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_690 --- ## Year: 1913, 73 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 2542 (20C89E6F) **Date:** 1913 **Location:** FRANCE **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the two-seater reconnaissance aircraft with the possibility of shooting and dropping bombs Morane-Saulnier L. 115km/h, ceiling 4000m, range 450 km. In April 1914 the Morane-Saulnier N will come, 165 km/h, range 225 km, small fighter line very simple. From the A version, very modern parasol fighter, 1121 units will be built. (1913,) **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 edition **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_692 ### Event 2543 (8EB3DBCA) **Date:** 1913 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the armed two-seat Scout Vickers EFB-1 biplane, 113 km/h, ceiling 2743m, range about 386 km or 4 hours of flight. On November 30, 1917 came the VIMY type, heavy three-seat bomber and then several others until 1957. **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_710 ### Event 2544 (6CF9ABEA) **Date:** 1913 **Location:** USA, Winfield (Kansas) **Description:** (Translated from French) W.L. Shelley was returning from church with his parents, uncle, aunt and two cousins. They saw in the perfectly clear sky a strange object flying in the air from north to south. The UFO was not moving very fast and the witnesses were able to observe it for a good minute. It was black, about thirty meters long and seemed to have a particular structure at its base. The altitude was estimated at 1000 m. Shelley's uncle then thought, although no movement of wings could be seen, that it must be some kind of large tropical bird! **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 224 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_711 ### Event 2545 (FFE86169) **Date:** 1913 **Location:** GERMANY-NETHERLANDS **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the single-seat reconnaissance fighter Fokker E. The young Dutchman Anthony Fokker built his first plane in 1912, a single-seat with a large dihedral and no lateral control. The English disdain it and Fokker offers it to the Germans, where it is built in large numbers and undergoes considerable evolution. **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 edition **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_712 ### Event 2546 (33A2FE10) **Date:** 1913 **Location:** ITALY **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the heavy bomber Quadriplace Aproni CA-1, maximum speed of 151 km/h, ceiling 4100 m. From transformation and improvement it will become the CA-133 type used as a bomber and colonial transport in 1932, the CA 135, medium bomber with 5 seats in 1935 with 3 turrets for machine gunners. **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_713 ### Event 2547 (896469EA) **Date:** 1913 **Location:** Lansing, Michigan **Description:** In 1913, an unidentified aerial object captured attention in Lansing, Michigan, as it swiftly passed through the sky during sunset. Witnesses described it as elongated, lacking lights, and too fast for an ordinary balloon. An eyewitness highlighted its golden hue and estimated its diameter to be over 100 feet, moving silently at a speed of 100 to 200 miles per hour. The object's characteristics aligned more with the modern concept of a UFO than a traditional dirigible-type airship. (Chapter 4, Refs 167, 168) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_158 ### Event 2548 (B465A9FB) **Date:** 1913 **Location:** Koyuk, Alaska **Description:** Around 1913, in a remote Eskimo village near Koyuk, Alaska, an unusual account describes a landed UFO and its small occupants. According to native stories passed down through generations, these three ufonauts became stranded there about a century prior when their flying "silvery disc" was disabled. These beings, who gained strength despite their size, integrated with the Eskimo community, learned the native language, and were described as elderly by 1913, suggesting they likely passed away a few years later. (Chapter 4, Ref 176) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_166 ### Event 2549 (9E71A075) **Date:** 1/1913 **Location:** Britain **Description:** By 1913, the phenomena of mystery airships had transitioned to the British Isles. In January of that year, two individuals, including a policeman, noticed an unfamiliar aerial presence as they heard the sound of a motor near the English coast. A civilian witnessed an accompanying airborne light. The policeman's report suggested that the aircraft must have possessed strong engines and required skilled piloting to navigate in challenging weather conditions. (Chapter 4, Ref 158) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_149 ### Event 2550 (45D0D504) **Date:** 1/4/1913 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Dover, 3 witnesses see a dirigible, with a light, approach the sea and fly in a Northeasterly direction. It flies at a high speed despite a strong West wind. (4 January) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1913.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_337 ### Event 2551 (5FF8D2C4) **Date:** 1/4/1913 **Time:** 05:00 **Location:** DOVER, KENT **Description:** Cop and 2. Airship with lights going quickly southeast toward(s) sea. 'Motors' heard. R224p42 / Farish. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 31) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_307 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "DOVER,KENT:COP+2:AIRSHIP W/LITES >>SE TWRD SEA:'MOTORS' HEARD:r224p42/Farish", **LatLong:** "51.150002 1.316667", **LatLongDMS:** "51:09:00 N 01:19:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.150002,1.316667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2552 (E95754F5) **Date:** 1/4/1913 **Location:** Dover, England **Description:** 5:00 a.m. Council worker John Hobbs hears aerial motors at Dover, England, and sees a light speeding toward him from the sea in a northeasterly direction. It is moving steadily despite a gale-force wind. Two other people, tradesman Mr. Langley and Police Constable Pierce, hear the noise but do not see the object. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Unknown](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92106401/) [Aircraft over Dover,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92106401/)” London Times, January 6, 1913, p. 6; “Mysterious Airship,” London Daily Telegraph, January 6, 1913; Brett Holman, “[Monday, 6 January 1913,](https://airminded.org/2013/01/06/monday-6-january-1913/)” Airminded, January 6, 2013 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_321 ### Event 2553 (D2B256FF) **Date:** 1/4/1913 **Description:** An airship with lights was spotted by three witnesses including police as it flew over Dover, Kent, England southeast toward the sea; "motors" were heard. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Lucius Farish, newspaper clipping, January 6, 1913; Desmond Leslie & George Adamski, Flying Saucers Have Landed, p. 36 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_80 ### Event 2554 (9BDD263A) **Date:** 1/6/1913 **Location:** Lavernock Battery, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales **Description:** 10:00 p.m. Two lights “thought to be the lamps of an airship” maneuver in the sky over Lavernock Battery, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Mystery Airships,” London Daily Express, January 7, 1913, p. 5; Brett Holman, “[Friday, 10 January 1913,](https://airminded.org/2013/01/10/friday-10-january-1913/)” Airminded, January 10, 1913 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_322 ### Event 2555 (FCF3C025) **Date:** 1/17/1913 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Captain L. Lindsay, police commissioner of Glamorganshire, sees a dirigible flying over Cardiff, trailing a large mass of smoke and notices it is much bigger and faster than the local Willow-brand dirigible. 30 minutes later, Steven Morgan sees a similar craft trailing smoke over Merthyr, 48 km away --- implying a very high speed of travel for a dirigible of the time. (January 17th, 4:45 PM) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1913.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_338 ### Event 2556 (B3A7739E) **Date:** 1/17/1913 **Time:** 16:50 **Location:** CARDIFF, WALES **Description:** Chief Constable. Vague airship leaves (something behind) dense trail / smoke. Goes fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** STEIGER, Brad & WHRITENOUR, Joan: FLYING SAUCER INVASION. Award Books, NY 1969. 156pp PB. 15 Essays + catalog. (Index 42) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_308 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "16", **HatchDesc:** "CARDIFF,WALES:CHIEF CONSTABLE:VAGUE AIRSHIP LVS DENSE TRAIL/SMOKE:GOES FAST.", **LatLong:** "51.500002 -3.283333", **LatLongDMS:** "51:30:00 N 03:17:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.500002,-3.283333)", **State/Prov:** "WLS", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2557 (35EBC3EC) **Date:** 1/17/1913 **Locations:** Glamorganshire; Cardiff, Wales **Description:** 4:45 p.m. Capt. [Lionel Lindsay](https://www.peoplescollection.wales/items/7295), chief constable of Glamorganshire, watches a large, fast-moving object above Cardiff, Wales, leaving in its wake a dense volume of smoke. Other witnesses see the light moving west from Cardiff at considerable speed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[An Airship over Cardiff,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92106660/)” London Times, January 21, 1913, p. 10; Brett Holman, “[Tuesday, 21 January 1913,](https://airminded.org/2013/01/21/tuesday-21-january-1913/)” Airminded, January 21, 2013 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_323 ### Event 2558 (6E07F9E0) **Date:** 1/24/1913 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** BRISTOL AND LIVERPOOL, ENG **Description:** Brilliant lights / sky sweep hills. No planes up. / r224p42 / Farish. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LESLIE, Desmond & ADAMSKI,G: Flying Saucers Have Landed; British Book Center, NY 1956 (Index 36) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_309 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NFO:** No craft seen, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "47", **HatchDesc:** "BRISTOL+LIVERPOOL,ENG:BRILL.LITES/SKY SWEEP HILLS:NO PLANES UP:/r224p42/Farish", **LatLong:** "51.466669 -2.583333", **LatLongDMS:** "51:28:00 N 02:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.466669,-2.583333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 2559 (7270B55D) **Date:** 1/25/1913 **Location:** Clubmoor neighborhood of Liverpool, England **Description:** 7:00–8:30 p.m. Several people see a mysterious aircraft over the Clubmoor neighborhood of Liverpool, England. It is traveling about 25 mph and carries a brilliant light. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Aircraft over Liverpool,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92106821/)” London Times, January 28, 1913, p. 13; Brett Holman, “[Tuesday, 28 January 1913,](https://airminded.org/2013/01/28/tuesday-28-january-1913/)” Airminded, January 28, 2013 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_324 ### Event 2560 (2D940EFC) **Date:** 1/25/1913 **Locations:** Chancery, Ceredigion, Wales; Carmathenshire **Description:** 8:25 p.m. Villagers of Chancery, Ceredigion, Wales, watch a mystery airship with searchlights that turns south and leaves in the direction of Carmathenshire. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Mystery Airship,” London Daily Express, January 30, 1913, p. 1; Brett Holman, “[Thursday, 30 January 1913,](https://airminded.org/2013/01/30/thursday-30-january-1913/)” Airminded, January 30, 2013 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_325 ### Event 2561 (B7DCB022) **Date:** Late 1/1913 **Location:** Cardiff Wales **Description:** A peculiar sighting occurred in Cardiff, Wales. A policeman recounted observing a large, fast-moving object in the dusky and foggy sky, which left behind a thick trail of smoke. The witness compared it to the Willows airship but noted its larger size. The object vanished swiftly after being spotted by both the policeman and a bystander. (Chapter 4, Ref 159) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_150 ### Event 2562 (127A7AA6) **Date:** 1/27/1913 **Locations:** Stretford, Greater Manchester, England; Eccles; Liverpool **Description:** 9:00 p.m. A resident of Stretford, Greater Manchester, England, sees an aircraft “like a huge ball” passing silently overhead in a southerly direction. He estimates its speed at 40 mph and its altitude as 700 feet. It has a yellowish light that later turns light red. When it is over Eccles, it turns westward in the direction of Liverpool. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Is It a German Airship?” London Daily Express, January 31, 1913, p. 5; Brett Holman, “[Friday, 31 January](https://airminded.org/2013/01/31/friday-31-january-1913/) [1913,](https://airminded.org/2013/01/31/friday-31-january-1913/)” Airminded, January 31, 2013 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_326 ### Event 2563 (30570B3C) **Date:** 1/29/1913 **Locations:** Iași, Romania; Focşani; Brăila; Târgovişte **Description:** 8:00 p.m. An airplane with a powerful searchlight is seen over Iași, Romania, coming from the direction of Russia. It maneuvers over the town for 10 minutes and then moves toward the barracks. Troops are mustered out and signals are given for the aviator to land. Two warning shots are fired, but the lights go out and the object disappears. Other mystery aircraft are seen this month at military barracks in Focşani, Brăila, and Târgovişte. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [\(“‘Russian Aeroplane’ Scare in Roumania,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92106958/)” Manchester Guardian, January 31, 1913, p. 9; Romania 8–9\) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_327 ### Event 2564 (88CB83BB) **Date:** 2/1913 **Location:** FRANCE, VARIOUS LICENSES **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the Farman Longhorn, training, utility and bombing and reconnaissance, max. speed 95 km/h, ceiling 4000 m. In October 1931 the FARMAN F 220 will also make its first flight, heavy bomber with a crew of 5 men. It will remain in service until 1945. **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_693 ### Event 2565 (3D399B5D) **Date:** 2/1913 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Observations in Yorkshire. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1913.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_342 ### Event 2566 (1A63CE85) **Date:** 2/1913 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) First observations in Belgium and the Netherlands. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1913.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_343 ### Event 2567 (D4E981C8) **Date:** 2/1913 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In France, German dirigibles are accused of spying on the Eastern border. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1913.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_344 ### Event 2568 (A80CBA05) **Date:** 2/1913 **Location:** Wales **Description:** In February, other eyewitnesses in Wales were able to determine the outline of the mystery object that was spotted in Cardiff. It was, they said, dirigible-shaped. (Chapter 4, Ref 160) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_151 ### Event 2569 (8D50418B) **Date:** 2/1913 **Location:** England **Description:** Throughout the month of Feb., a dirigible-like object was observed multiple times in the nighttime skies of England. One instance involved the craft hovering over a town for about 20 minutes, illuminating houses with a searchlight before departing rapidly. (Chapter 4, Ref 161) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_152 ### Event 2570 (DA381BC8) **Date:** 2/1913 **Location:** British Isles **Description:** A fishing boat's crew reported an airship encircling their trawler twice while directing a powerful searchlight onto them. (Chapter 4, Ref 162) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_153 ### Event 2571 (4A2427D8) **Date:** 2/1/1913 **Locations:** Lvov, Ukraine; Ternopil, Ukraine **Description:** Evening. A Russian airplane equipped with a searchlight is seen maneuvering over Lvov, Ukraine. Another mystery plane, making signals, is spotted over Ternopil, Ukraine. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** London Globe, February 4, 1913, p. 3; “Airplane Fired at,” London Daily Express, February 3, 1913, p. 7 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_328 ### Event 2572 (07FED8E7) **Date:** 2/2/1913 **Locations:** Aberavon, Wales; Swansea Bay; The Mumbles **Description:** 7:30 p.m. Police Constable Church at Aberavon, Wales, watches an airship flying for an hour over Swansea Bay and the Mumbles. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Another Mysterious Airship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92107029/)” London Times, February 3, 1913, p. 6; Brett Holman, “[Monday, 3 February 1913,](https://airminded.org/2013/02/03/monday-3-february-1913/)” Airminded, February 3, 2013 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_329 ### Event 2573 (0753CD89) **Date:** 2/2/1913 **Location:** East Croydon, England **Description:** 8:45 p.m. Mr. Trubshaw of East Croydon, England, sees an airship come in from the southeast and disappear rapidly to the northwest. Rays of light stream from it on the right and the left and downward. Others see the object, said to be moving with the wind. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Mysterious Fly-by-Night,” London Daily Express, February 3, 1913, p. 7 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_330 ### Event 2574 (634750EB) **Date:** 2/2/1913 **Location:** Framfield, East Sussex, England **Description:** 9:25 p.m. Robert Lawrence Thornton sees an airship pass over his house in Framfield, East Sussex, England. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “The Mystery Airships,” London Daily Express, February 4, 1913, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_331 ### Event 2575 (BDE480DB) **Date:** 2/5/1913 **Locations:** Newport; Cardiff; Neath, South Wales **Description:** Evening. Numerous witnesses in Newport, Cardiff, and Neath, South Wales, watch a “dirigible” carrying a bright light pass in a northwesterly direction. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[The ‘Mysterious Airship,’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92107322/)” Manchester Guardian, February 6, 1913, p. 9; Brett Holman, “[Thursday, 6 February 1913,](https://airminded.org/2013/02/06/thursday-6-february-1913/)” Airminded, February 6, 2013 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_332 ### Event 2576 (924D8083) **Date:** 2/9/1913 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A procession of [meteors](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Meteore.html) in formation is observed passing horizontally above Canada and the Eastern United States. They remain visible on a journey of over 9000 km. Throughout their journey, loud explosions, detonations, and seismic shocks are heard. (February 9th, night) **Reference:** Professor Chant, Toronto **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1913.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_339 ### Event 2577 (50F63087) **Date:** 2/9/1913 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A city in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan is the scene of a parade of glowing lights observed by hundreds of witnesses. People are beginning to talk about ghost planes rather than dirigibles as in previous years. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1913.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_340 ### Event 2578 (6EC3F4C2) **Date:** 2/9/1913 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A large cigar-shaped object slowly flew over Milwaukee and Sheboygan \(Wisconsin\), flashing its spotlights on the streets and homes, then retreating towards Lake Michigan. **Reference:** UFO Roundup 4-36 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1913.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_341 ### Event 2579 (CDC1CEC7) **Date:** 2/9/1913 **Locations:** Canada; northeastern United States; Bermuda; Brazil; Michigan; New York; Pennsylvania; Ontario; Toronto **Description:** 9:00 p.m. An earth-grazing meteor procession is seen from locations across Canada, the northeastern United States, and Bermuda, and from many ships at sea, including eight off Brazil, giving a total recorded ground track of over 7,000 miles. The meteors are particularly unusual in that there is no apparent radiant—no point in the sky from which the meteors appear to originate. Witnesses are surprised to see a procession of between 40 and 60 bright, slow-moving fireballs moving from horizon to horizon in a practically identical path. Individual fireballs are visible for at least 30 to 40 seconds, and the entire procession takes some 5 minutes to cross the sky. Subsequent observers also note a large, white, tailless body bringing up the rear, but the various bodies making up the procession continue to disintegrate and travel at different rates throughout their course, so that by the time observations are made in Bermuda, the leading bodies are described as “like large arc lights in appearance, slightly violet in colour,” followed closely by yellow and red fragments. Research carried out in the 1950s by [Alexander D. Mebane](https://rr0.org/people/m/MebaneAlexander/) uncovers a handful of reports from newspaper archives in the northern United States. At Escanaba, Michigan, the Press states the “end of the world was apprehended by many” as numerous meteors travel across the northern horizon. In Batavia, New York, a few observers see the meteors and many people hear a thundering noise, while other reports are made in Nunda and Dansville, New York \(where several residents again think the world is ending\) and Osceola, Pennsylvania. The observations are analyzed in detail later in 1913 by the astronomer [Clarence Chant,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence%5FChant) leading him to conclude that as all accounts are positioned along a great circle arc, the source is a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth. One curious feature of the reports, highlighted by Mebane, is that several appear to indicate a second meteor procession on the same course around 5 hours later, although the Earth’s rotation means that there is no obvious mechanism to explain this. One observer, A. W. Brown from Thamesville, Ontario, reports seeing both the initial meteor procession and a second one on the same course at 2:20 a.m. the next day. Chant’s original report also refers to a series of three groups of “dark objects” that pass on the same course as the previous meteors from west to east over Toronto on the afternoon of February 10, which he suggests are “something of a meteoric nature.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[1913 Great Meteor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1913%5FGreat%5FMeteor%5FProcession) [Procession](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1913%5FGreat%5FMeteor%5FProcession)”; Clarence A. Chant, “[An Extraordinary Meteoric Display,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000089857886&view=1up&seq=173&skin=2021)” Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada 7 \(1913\): 145–191; Alexander D. Mebane, “[Observations of the Great Fireball Procession of](https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1956Metic...1..405M) [1913 February 9, Made in the United States,](https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1956Metic...1..405M)” Meteoritics 1, no. 4 \(1956\): 406–421; Condon, [pp. 570–571](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/570/mode/2up); Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 31–35; “[Sample Press](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr12.pdf) [Coverage of the 1913 Meteor Procession,](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr12.pdf)” UFO Historical Revue, no. 12 \(September 2006\): 7; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 383–385 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_333 ### Event 2580 (41D45223) **Date:** 2/9/1913 **Description:** At 9:02 p.m. a formation of lights resembling an express train in the sky was seen over Eesterhazy, Mortlach and other parts of southeastern Saskatchewan. It emerged from the northwest, and continued across the sky in several successions for more than three minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** William R. Corliss & Jerome Clark, UFO Calendar 1999; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 42; citing Sky & Telescope; George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 283, citing The Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1913, p. 145 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_766 ### Event 2581 (68BB1760) **Date:** 2/21/1913 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Lights and craft are observed above Warnwickshire and Norfolk. An airship is observed by two men dredging the River Ouse at Beningborough \(Yorkshire\). The men re-see the airship at 4 AM the following day and observe it for half an hour. (February 21, 9 or 9:30 PM) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1913.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_345 ### Event 2582 (780BC264) **Date:** 2/21/1913 **Locations:** Selby, North Yorkshire, England; Church Fenton railway station **Description:** Evening. An airship is seen at several locations around Selby, North Yorkshire, England. It alternately flies and hovers, flashing a searchlight and skirting the roofs of houses before vanishing to the north at “great speed.” At one point a group of businessmen waiting for a train at the Church Fenton railway station are treated to the sight of a powerful searchlight running along the tracks. Other witnesses hear the whir of motors as the vehicle passes by. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “The Fly-by-Night,” London Daily Express, February 24, 1913, p. 7; “Night Raids by Air,” London Daily Express, February 25, 1913, p. 1; Brett Holman, “[Monday, 24 February 1913,](https://airminded.org/2013/02/24/monday-24-february-1913/)” Airminded, February 24, 2013; Brett Holman, “[Tuesday, 25 February 1913](https://airminded.org/2013/02/25/tuesday-25-february-1913/),” Airminded, February 25, 2013 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_334 ### Event 2583 (D214C770) **Date:** 2/25/1913 **Locations:** Hornsea, Yorkshire, England; Hull; Paragon Interchange **Description:** 8:00 p.m. Coast guards at Hornsea, Yorkshire, England, see a bright light traveling to the west and report it to the Admiralty. [Roberrt Falconer Jameson](http://george-powell.co.uk/family/1395.htm) watches it through binoculars and sees that the lights are attached to a cone-shaped craft. A little later, the object appears over Hull, seen by crowds in the city center and Paragon Interchange for over an hour. It alters its course frequently and hovers occasionally. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Airship Mystery,” London Daily Telegraph, February 26, 1913, p. 11; Brett Holman, “[Wednesday, 26 February 1913,](https://airminded.org/2013/02/25/tuesday-25-february-1913/)” Airminded, February 26, 2013 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_335 ### Event 2584 (72FC9E23) **Date:** 2/28/1913 **Description:** At 8:15 p.m. the trawler S.S. Othello was returning to port of was 120 miles from the coast of Humberside, England in the North Sea when an airborne object with a powerful searchlight dipped down from the night sky and circled the trawler twice at the height of the ship's masthead, with the searchlight focused on the ship. The UFO made a whirring sound as it flew. The main witness was named Parker. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Hull Daily Mail, March 4, 1913; Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 9 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1171 ### Event 2585 (DD1D547B) **Date:** 3/4/1913 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The appearances start in Germany. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1913.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_346 ### Event 2586 (B9123780) **Date:** 3/4/1913 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A dirigible visits Tarnowitz \(Prussia\). **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1913.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_347 ### Event 2587 (2571E3AA) **Date:** 3/4/1913 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Lake Schwielow, a burning airship is observed crashing into the nearby forest. However, after serious searches, no wreckage is found. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1913.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_348 ### Event 2588 (28B6E00A) **Date:** 3/4/1913 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Express Train whose windows are illuminated. **Reference:** W. F. Denning, SRAC Astronomer **Reference:** Pottier, 1974 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1913.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_349 ### Event 2589 (424AD3D4) **Date:** 3/13/1913 **Locations:** Schwielowsee; Caputh; Ferch; Brandenburg; Germany; Potsdam; Leipzig; Döberitz **Description:** 6:00 p.m. Two women walking along a forest road by the Schwielowsee between Caputh and Ferch, Brandenburg, Germany, observe an airship catch fire and explode. The fire brigades of three villages, 40 riflemen from a local garrison, and several police officers and medical attendants rush to the scene. They search the woods south of Potsdam until early morning but find nothing. Though the women are considered trustworthy, they are accused later of hoaxing the report. Later, airman Lt. Zwickau claims that he was firing rockets while flying from Leipzig to Döberitz in order to see his way in the night. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “An Airship Catastrophe near Potsdam?” Berliner Tageblatt, March 13, 1913, p. 3; “The Tale of the Airship,” Berliner Tageblatt, March 13, 1913, p. 4; “Phantom Airships,” London Daily Telegraph, March 14, 1913, p. 15; “[Mysterious Airship near Berlin,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92118298/)” Manchester Guardian, March 14, 1913, p. 8; Brett Holman, “[Friday, 14 March 1913,](https://airminded.org/2013/03/14/friday-14-march-1913/)” Airminded, March 14, 2013 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_336 ### Event 2590 (C088692A) **Date:** 4/1913 **Location:** Cardiff, Britain **Description:** In April, the mystery airship made a reappearance in Cardiff. A local policeman calculated its speed to be between 60 and 70 miles per hour, a remarkable velocity for dirigibles during that era. (Chapter 4, Ref 163) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_154 ### Event 2591 (D6782A77) **Date:** 4/8/1913 **Location:** USA, Fort Worth (Texas) **Description:** (Translated from French) A strange shadow was observed on clouds in Fort Worth. (...) It seemed to be caused by some vast object hovering without moving above the clouds. Although the clouds moved, the shadow stayed in the same place. Then it narrowed and faded, as if the object had risen vertically. The Weather Review of this year No. 4-599 gave an account of it. (Donald KEYHOE: "Les Soucoupes volantes existent" ed. Corrêa Paris 1951, p 83) The shadow in the sky of an invisible object, supposed to be a cloud, moves with the setting sun. Two observers saw a triangular object crossing the sky with a considerable parallax for 6 nights in a row. It was very close to the ground. (April 8, 1913) **Reference:** Charles FORT: "The Book of the Damned" - ed. Eric Losfeld 1967, p. 207, 208 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_694 ### Event 2592 (20FC6B4B) **Date:** 4/8/1913 **Location:** Cardiff, Wales **Description:** 8:23 p.m. An airship reappears over Cardiff, Wales, once again seen traveling at high speed to the southwest by Chief Constable [Lionel Lindsay](https://www.peoplescollection.wales/items/7295). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[The Cardiff Aerial Mystery Again,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92118519/)” Manchester Guardian, April 9, 1913, p. 9; Brett Holman, “[Wednesday, 9 April 1913,](https://airminded.org/2013/04/09/wednesday-9-april-1913/)” Airminded, April 9, 2013 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_337 ### Event 2593 (48BCBB87) **Date:** 5/1913 **Location:** USSR, Kiev **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the Sikorsky Ilya Mourometz, heavy bomber and transport aircraft, biplane, 4 to 7 crew members; 137 km/h, Ceiling from 2000 to 3200 m, Autonomy 349 km. FIRST FOUR-ENGINE AIRCRAFT IN THE WORLD, Wingspan 29.80 m, Length 16.80 m. (May 1913) **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, Author Bill Gunston, Edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_698 ### Event 2594 (66EDFD9B) **Date:** 5/1913 **Alternate date:** 5/1914 **Location:** 2.5 miles west of Farmersville, Texas **Description:** Morning. [Silbie J. Latham,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40678857/silbie-j-latham) 12, is working with his brothers [Sid](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40678906/sid-latham) and [Clyde](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35653494/clyde-latham) on a cotton farm 2.5 miles west of Farmersville, Texas. Their two dogs, on the other side of a picket fence 50–75 feet away, begin barking and howling. The boys stop work and go to investigate. They see a little man, dark green in color and 18 inches high, who “looked like he was sitting on something.” His arms are hanging down by his sides. He has a Mexican-looking hat on, but no other clothes. Right after the boys get there, the two dogs jump him and tear him to pieces. Blood and internal organs spew out, but it doesn’t cry out. The boys go back and check the spot the next day, but the remains are gone. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 262; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1913-05-usa-farmersville.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1913-05-usa-farmersville.htm) October 19, 2006 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_338 ### Event 2595 (DDC9CD1C) **Date:** 5/17/1913 **Location:** PORTUGAL, Cova da Iria-Fatima **Description:** (Translated from French) The 3 children were tending to their sheep. It was noon. They saw a flash of light in the sky and a luminous figure appeared near a tree. **Reference:** "Intervencao Extraterrestre em Fatima" by Joaquim Fernandes and Fina D'Armada **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_695 ### Event 2596 (FAEAA733) **Date:** 5/18/1913 **Location:** PORTUGAL, Cova da Iria-Fatima **Description:** (Translated from French) Several people, including the 3 children, observed the fall of "angel hair". **Reference:** Joaquim Fernandes and Fina D'Armada **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_696 ### Event 2597 (DAF34D47) **Date:** 5/23/1913 **Location:** PORTUGAL, Cova da Iria-Fatima **Description:** (Translated from French) Again a fall of angel hair was observed. **Reference:** Joaquim Fernandes and Fina D'Armada **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_697 ### Event 2598 (03BD90A0) **Date:** 5/24/1913 **Location:** PORTUGAL, Cova da Iria-Fatima **Description:** (Translated from French) New fall of angel hair. **Reference:** Joaquim Fernandes and Fina D'Armada **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_699 ### Event 2599 (CCE87C29) **Date:** 6/17/1913 **Location:** PORTUGAL, Cova da Iria-Fatima **Description:** (Translated from French) The three children had another contact with the entity they call "Saint Virgin". Before she appeared there was a thunderclap, and when she left there was a sound of a rocket. (June 17, 1913) **Reference:** "Intervencao Extraterrestre em Fatima" by Joaquim Fernandes and Fina D'Armada **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_700 ### Event 2600 (D84A53A0) **Date:** Summer 1913 **Location:** CHINA **Description:** (Translated from French) In the summer of 1913, I was a schoolboy. One afternoon, the sky was dotted with a few clouds after a light rain. Suddenly, in the southeast sky, three rings were noticed, each three or four times the size of a full moon. They constantly emitted red and blue lights. Arranged in a perfect triangle, they remained motionless for a few minutes. Later, the three rings lined up and flew slowly in single file. The schoolboys shouted and our teacher came out to see what was happening. Then we went to class and we did not know how the three rings disappeared. Two days later, at night, villagers were returning from the fair passing through the mountain pass 2 km from the village: they all saw a shiny thing on the ground. It looked like a grain mill, had a diameter of 3 or 4 m. They were all scared, stepped back and took another path to go home. (1913, Summer) **Reference:** SHI BO: "China and the Extraterrestrials" ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p.74 **Reference:** continued in 1919 in Beijing **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_701 ### Event 2601 (A599428F) **Date:** Summer 1913 **Location:** USA, Lafayette (Indiana) **Description:** (Translated from French) In the middle of the afternoon, three strange "electric" lights were observed above the Wabash River valley. These lights sometimes flew very slowly (6mph) and sometimes at very high speed. They seemed to be controlled in a "rotary" movement and among the maneuvers observed, there were right-angle turns, and following the terrain, "jumping" merrily over trees and other obstructions on their route. (1913, Summer) **Reference:** "Ufo's – A century of Sightings by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 13 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_705 ### Event 2602 (B6E1B19C) **Date:** Summer 1913 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Moravia \(Czechoslovakia\), a 20 year old man travelling from Brnoyto Zidence on a clear night sees 6 very high objects in the sky resembling large, flaming red stars, moving silently around a fixed point in a clockwise direction. This formation of "stars" follows an elliptical orbit with an apparent diameter of 1 m \(the witness determines this by stretching out his arm\). He observes the phenomenon for 6 to 8 minutes, then continues on his way without waiting for the end. (End of summer, between 9 and 10 PM) **Reference:** Henri Xhaloupek, Spatial Phenomena \#11, 1967; drawing p. 209 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1913.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_350 ### Event 2603 (565501E3) **Date:** 6/29/1913 **Location:** Lansing, Michigan **Description:** Sunset. An aerial object passes over Lansing, Michigan, from southeast to northwest at a great height. It moves swiftly, taking only 3 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Strange Aircraft Passes over Lansing at Great Rate of Speed Sunday,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/10767547/lansing-state-journal/)” Lansing \(Mich.\) State Journal, June 30, 1913, p. 3; Clark III 1167 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_339 ### Event 2604 (BFB6EE78) **Date:** 7/1913 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN-USSR **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the single or two-seater Avro 504 at 504N, maximum speed 132 km/h, ceiling 3950 m, production ended around mid 1933. (July 1913) **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_703 ### Event 2605 (AE5E4303) **Date:** 7/1913? **Location:** STRUMA VALLEY, BULGARIA **Description:** Fireball descends slow as a parachute. Going south. Lights entire sky. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HOBANA Ion & WEVERBERGH,Julien: UFO'S from BEHIND the IRON CURTAIN; Bantam Books,1975. 308pp. (Index 192) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_310 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Bulgaria", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "STRUMA VALLEY,BULGARIA:FBL DESCENDS SLOW AS A PARACHUTE:>S:LITES ENTIRE SKY", **LatLong:** "42.500002 23.166668", **LatLongDMS:** "42:30:00 N 23:10:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.500002,23.166668)", **State/Prov:** "BLG", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 2606 (5267DDB4) **Date:** 7/17/1913 **Location:** PORTUGAL, Cova da Iria-Fatima **Description:** (Translated from French) Third contact of the 3 children with the entity, who announces that it will perform a miracle in October to convince everyone. **Reference:** "Intervencao Extraterrestre em Fatima" by Joaquim Fernandes and Fina D'Armada **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_702 ### Event 2607 (7FAD11EA) **Date:** 8/1913 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the Royal Aircraft Factory FE2 two-seater combat aircraft: 130 km/h, ceiling 2743 m, last delivery end of 1916. (August 1913) **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_704 ### Event 2608 (D132B146) **Date:** Late Summer 1913 **Location:** CZECHOSLOVAKIA, Moravia **Description:** (Translated from French) François Zatloukal was travelling from Brno to Zidenice when between 9:00 PM and 10:00 PM he observed in the clear sky six large red stars that were turning without noise, mixing with each other, following the direction of the clock hands, along an ellipse whose apparent diameter was about one meter with arm outstretched. The witness observed this phenomenon for eight minutes, then left before it ceased. (1913, late summer) **Reference:** Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: "Les OVNI en URSS et dans les pays de l'Est" - translation Laffont 1976 - p. 264 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_706 ### Event 2609 (A6B53383) **Date:** 9/1913 (approximate) **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** NEAR BRNO, MORAVIA, CZK **Description:** 6 fiery red 'stars' circle point very high / sky clockwise. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HOBANA Ion & WEVERBERGH,Julien: UFO'S from BEHIND the IRON CURTAIN; Bantam Books,1975. 308pp. (Index 214) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_311 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Czech and Slovak Republics", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "nr BRNO,MORAVIA,CZK:6 FIERY RED 'STARS' CIRCLE POINT VHIGH/SKY CW:NFD", **LatLong:** "49.333336 16.583334", **LatLongDMS:** "49:20:00 N 16:35:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.333336,16.583334)", **State/Prov:** "MRV", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 2610 (38E5BBDB) **Date:** 9/17/1913 **Location:** PORTUGAL, Cova da Iria-Fatima **Description:** (Translated from French) On August 17, 1913 the 3 children were contacted, in the same way as the previous month. On September 17, thousands of people saw the "sphere of light" used by the entity to reach the meeting place. According to the general vicar of Leira, the entity arrived in an "airplane of light", an immense globe, flying east at a moderate speed immensely luminous. A few other witnesses saw an entity come out of the globe which, after a few minutes, left in the direction of the sun. (September 17, 1913) **Reference:** "Intervencao Extraterrestre em Fatima" by Joaquim Fernandes and Fina D'Armada **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_709 ### Event 2611 (03E494C2) **Date:** Autumn 1913 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the Sopwith Tabloid reconnaissance biplane, 7.70m wingspan, 6.20m long, 148 km/h, ceiling 4600m, range 510 km. In December 1915 the STRUTTER, a multi-purpose combat aircraft, was released, in February 1916 the other single-seater PUP, in May of the same year the TRIPLANE, single-seater scout etc... Tommy Sopwith with the pilot Harry Hawker then became the famous Hawker Aircraf and then the Hawker Siddeley group. (1913, Autumn) **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 edition **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_707 ### Event 2612 (DC5690CE) **Date:** Autumn 1913 **Location:** NORWAY, Auggedal **Description:** (Translated from French) A luminous ball emitting a whistling sound, came from the south, straight towards the witnesses and passed between them and the large one at 10 meters. The object had the size of a football and was at 5 or 6 meters from the ground. It then rose up to disappear behind a hill. The witnesses were P.O. Moller, Tor Flatum and Gunn Berget. It was around 8 pm and the whole observation took about 40 seconds, during which the ball traveled a distance of about 10 km. (1913, Autumn) **Reference:** UFO REPORT FORM, 31 Mar 1965, cfr listing of Ole Jonny Braenne **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_708 ### Event 2613 (3DF36656) **Date:** Autumn 1913 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Auggedal \(Norway\), people saw a bright ball coming from the South with a whistling sound towards them. It passed between them and a barn, at 10 m. The ball was the size of a rugby ball, and the passage between the barn and the witnesses was at a height of 5 to 6 m above the ground. Then the ball went up and disappeared above a hill. The object shone brightly. The witnesses were P.O. Møller, Tor Flatum and Gunn Berget. The whole observation lasted about 40 seconds, during which the bright ball traveled about ten kilometers. (Autumn, 8 PM) **Reference:** UFO report form, March 31, 1965 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1913.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_351 ### Event 2614 (19618F5B) **Date:** 10/1913 **Locations:** Geneva Observatory, Switzerland; Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona; Paris Observatory **Description:** Swiss astronomer Fritjof Le Coultre at the Geneva Observatory in Switzerland reports seeing “bluish-white flashes” on Mars for 17 consecutive nights. Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, also observes them. However, astronomer [Guillaume Bigourdan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume%5FBigourdan) at the Paris Observatory thinks the flashes are merely “auto- suggestion.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Is Mars Trying to Signal Us?](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92119005/)” Santa Cruz \(Calif.\) Evening News, November 24, 1913, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_340 --- ## Year: 1914, 59 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 2615 (CC164317) **Date:** 1914 **Location:** FRANCE **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the Voisin I biplane, two-seater, with a propeller propulsion of 120 km/h, ceiling of 2980m, range of 330 km. (1914, beginning) **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_715 ### Event 2616 (89422F6F) **Date:** 1914 **Location:** FRANCE **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the two-seater reconnaissance and bombing Caudron G, with a machine gun on a mobile mount at the front of the observer, speed 131 km/h, ceiling 4260 m. End of production in 1918 **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_717 ### Event 2617 (181DF969) **Date:** 1914 **Location:** BRESIL, Cordilheira dos Parecis **Description:** (Translated from French) Explorer Lt. Colonel P.H. Fawcet, in the region near Bolivia, reported: "I whistled and a huge creature, covered in fur like a dog, ran to its 'barn', took a big stick and came towards us, dancing on one foot then the other, until it was less than 3 meters away. It made growling noises like "Eugh! Eugh!" and stayed there, dancing. Suddenly the whole forest around us was filled with these hideous human-simian creatures, all growling "Eugh! Eugh!", dancing like the first one and holding sticks in their fists. (note from vog: 70 years before Disney's long animated feature...). The situation seemed delicate for us. I tried to talk to them kindly in Maxubi, but they paid no attention to what I said. Human language seemed not accessible to them." Fawcet ended the situation by shooting first on the ground, then in the air. The creatures then threw their sticks at them and the intruders (the explorers) had to retreat. The local population was aware of the existence of these creatures and called them "Maricoxis". **Reference:** Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 197 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_726 ### Event 2618 (912F76A7) **Date:** 1914 **Location:** Pawtucket, Rhode Island **Description:** 3:00 p.m. Hans M. Schnitzler, 7, is sitting in his front yard in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, when he hears a musical humming sound and sees a 30-foot domed object about 25 feet away hovering about 10 feet above the ground across the street in front of a church. An opening appears and eight small entities emerge and begin singing a melody over and over again. Then they return inside. The object rises slowly and disappears behind the church. He remembers the melody and plays it on his harmonica years later. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Correspondence,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1982-83%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV3.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 6 \(Dec. 1982/Jan. 1983\): 3 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_341 ### Event 2619 (BABC9F0A) **Date:** 1914 **Location:** Romania **Description:** During the early years of World War I, a village in Romania encountered a week-long series of visits by a UFO. The object, described as football-shaped with an "exhaust pipe," emitted a reddish glow and left trails of glowing sparks. It flew at low altitudes, generating a whistling noise and bending trees, and during one incident, it caused burns to a woman inside a house it had hovered over. (Chapter 4, Ref 169) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_159 ### Event 2620 (2B22052E) **Date:** 1914 **Location:** Welland Canal, Canada **Description:** In 1914, amidst the tensions of World War I, Canadians believed they were being surveyed from the sky, suspecting German involvement. Despite the fact that no German aircraft could conduct a trans-Atlantic raid at that time, sightings persisted. A newspaper from the Niagara area reported that Captain Scobell and his soldiers guarding the Welland Canal witnessed unidentified airships with red lights flying over the city on multiple nights. One such aircraft even dropped a large rocket, which was later found by the soldiers. On one occasion, an airship flew so close to the city that the soldiers could clearly see its framework. (Chapter 9, Ref 361) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_353 ### Event 2621 (A58473E9) **Date:** 1914 **Location:** Niagara Falls **Description:** A month after initial sightings, there were continued reports of a mysterious airship over Niagara Falls. These reports caused concern among the locals, especially given the wartime environment. Military personnel were on high alert, watching for the unidentified craft at night. In response to these sightings and the ongoing war, the Canadian government prohibited the use of any aeroplanes, whether private or public. Despite this, many residents claimed to have heard the noise of an aircraft at night and reported seeing lights moving across the sky, believed to be from the mysterious flying machine. (Chapter 9, Ref 362) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_354 ### Event 2622 (735A7148) **Date:** 1/1914? **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** LEON, SPAIN **Description:** Several observer(s). 2 men with devices on their backs. They fly away. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BALLESTER OLMOS, Vicente-Juan: CATALOG of 200 TYPE-1 EVENTS in SPAIN & PORTUGAL; CUFOS 1976. (Index 1) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_312 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NFO:** No craft seen, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "LEON,SPAIN:SVRL OBS:2 MEN W/DEVICES ON THEIR BACKS:THEY FLY AWAY:NFD", **LatLong:** "42.633335 -5.550000", **LatLongDMS:** "42:38:00 N 05:33:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.633335,-5.550000)", **State/Prov:** "LEO", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 2623 (8CF367D4) **Date:** 1/1/1914 **Location:** St. Petersburg, FL **Description:** The world’s first scheduled passenger airline service took off from St. Petersburg, FL and landed at its destination in Tampa, FL, about 17 miles (27 kilometers) away. The St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line was a short-lived endeavor — only four months — but it paved the way for today’s daily transcontinental flights. **Type:** aerospace **Reference:** [link](https://www.space.com/16657-worlds-first-commercial-airline-the-greatest-moments-in-flight.html) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_25 ### Event 2624 (B40FFB39) **Date:** 1/1/1914 **Location:** USA-USSR **Description:** (Translated from French) Inauguration of a Regular Service, by means of "Benoist" Hydroplanes between St. Petersburg and Tampa in the USA. Pilot: Tony Jannus. Jannus will receive his Transport Pilot's License on August 10, 1914. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air. Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 103, 108 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_714 ### Event 2625 (CB154151) **Date:** 2/23/1914 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the single-seat reconnaissance aircraft Bristol Scout Type 1, maximum speed of 161 to 177 km/h depending on the engine, ceiling 4267m **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_716 ### Event 2626 (8D384B8B) **Date:** 3/1914 (approximate) **Location:** ST. LEONARD DE NOBLAT, FR **Description:** Green round object rests / hilltop. Figure(s) outside. Going up [to] and away fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 313) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_313 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "St.LEONARD de NOBLAT,FR:GRN ROUND OBJ RESTS/HILLTOP:FIGS OUTSIDE:↑+AWAY FAST", **LatLong:** "45.833336 1.500000", **LatLongDMS:** "45:50:00 N 01:30:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.833336,1.500000)", **State/Prov:** "Haute-Vienne", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 2627 (DEC46897) **Date:** 3/1914 **Location:** Lajoumard, Haute-Vienne, France **Description:** Twilight. A farmer is returning to his house at Lajoumard, Haute-Vienne, France, when he sees a round, green, luminous object hovering just above a hilltop. Several small beings emerge, walk around the machine, and go back inside. The object takes off. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 262; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1914-03-france-lajoumard.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1914-03-france-lajoumard.htm) March 3, 2013 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_342 ### Event 2628 (66AB49E8) **Date:** 6/1914 **Location:** GERMANY, Hamburg **Description:** (Translated from French) One fine morning in June, around 4:00 a.m., Gustav Herwagen opened the door of his home in Hamburg. He then saw in a nearby field a shiny object in the shape of a cigar with illuminated windows. Next to this craft there were four or five dwarves, no taller than 1.20 m and wearing light-colored clothing. As soon as the witness approached them, these characters entered the object, a door closed and the craft took off silently, vertically. (June 1914) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 224 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_720 ### Event 2629 (B294D099) **Date:** 6/1914 **Time:** 04:00 **Location:** HAMBURG, GER **Description:** Cylinder/cigar-shape / lit windows / field. 4-5 dwarfs reboard. Vertical ascent. / r8#39. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 10) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_314 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "HAMBURG,GER:CGR/LIT WINDOWS/FIELD:4-5 DWARFS REBOARD:vertical ascent:/r8#39", **LatLong:** "53.550003 10.066667", **LatLongDMS:** "53:33:00 N 10:04:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.550003,10.066667)", **State/Prov:** "SCH", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 2630 (EE1831DB) **Date:** 6/1914 **Location:** Hamburg, Germany **Description:** 4:00 a.m. Gustav Herwagen opened the door of his house and saw in a field a shining cigar- shaped object with illuminated windows. Near it were four or five dwarfs 1.20 m tall, clad in light clothing. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_65 ### Event 2631 (ACBB3B56) **Date:** 6/1914 **Time:** 0400 **Location:** Hamburg, Germany **Description:** Gustav Herwagen opened the door of his house and saw in a field a shining cigarshaped object with illuminated windows. Near it were four or five dwarfs 1.20 m tall, clad in light clothing. He approached them, but they went aboard the object as soon as they appeared to be aware of his presence. A door closed, and the craft took off silently, climbing vertically. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Nachrichten April, 62 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_39 ### Event 2632 (63531413) **Date:** 6/1914 **Location:** Hamburg, Germany **Description:** 4:00 a.m. Gustav Herwagen sees a cigar-shaped object with luminous portholes in a field next to his house in Hamburg, Germany. Near it are 4–5 dwarfs about 4 feet tall. He walks toward them, but they flee inside the ship, which ascends and disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 262; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1914-06-germany-hamburg.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1914-06-germany-hamburg.htm) November 28, 2007 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_344 ### Event 2633 (30078794) **Date:** 6/1914 **Location:** Hamburg, Germany **Description:** In 1914, near Hamburg, Germany, a less than friendly encounter involved a UFO landing. A local man observed four or five approximately four-feet-tall occupants near a glowing, cigar-shaped craft with illuminated windows. As the man approached, the occupants entered the craft, which then ascended vertically without any sound. (Chapter 4, Ref 177) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_167 ### Event 2634 (84EFB945) **Date:** Summer 1914 **Location:** Mount Lyndhurst Station, South Australia **Description:** Mid-afternoon. For about 60 minutes at Mount Lyndhurst Station, South Australia, an unusual substance floats by at a constant altitude. Some pieces, 6–8 inches long, fall to earth and leave no trace. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keith Basterfield, “Angel Hair: An Australian Perspective,” IUR 27, no. 1 \(Spring 2002\): 6 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_343 ### Event 2635 (3AD23F35) **Date:** 6/23/1914 **Location:** GERMANY **Description:** (Translated from French) On "rumpler" the pilot Basser held the air for 18h 12 min. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air. Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 104 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_718 ### Event 2636 (EE00C0B4) **Date:** 6/26/1914 **Location:** GERMANY, **Description:** (Translated from French) W. Landmann on "Albatros" establishes new flight duration record: 21 hours, 48 min. 45 sec. (June 26, 1914) **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air. Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 104 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_719 ### Event 2637 (C2C235C1) **Date:** 7/28/1914 **End date:** 11/11/1918 **Description:** World War 1 **Type:** war **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_26 ### Event 2638 (54E417A8) **Date:** 8/1914 **Time:** 02:00? **Location:** GEORGIAN BAY, ONT **Description:** 8 observer(s). Sphere/orb/globe floats / bay. Small humanoids (or Greys) draw water / hose. Scared away / deer! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LORENZEN, Coral & Jim: FLYING SAUCER OCCUPANTS; Signet Books, NY 1967. (Index 19) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_315 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "176", **HatchDesc:** "GEORGIAN BAY,ONT:8 OBS:ORB FLOATS/BAY:OIDS DRAW WATER/HOSE:SCARED AWAY/DEER!", **LatLong:** "45.250002 -80.833337", **LatLongDMS:** "45:15:00 N 80:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.250002,-80.833337)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 2639 (0967BAFE) **Date:** 8/1914 **Location:** Georgian Bay, CAN **Description:** William J. Kiehl and seven other persons saw a spherical craft on the surface of the water. On its deck were two small men wearing green-purple clothes. They seemed to be busy with a hose, plunging it into the water. (This was shown to be as a hoax a long time ago.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_67 ### Event 2640 (2F86EA34) **Date:** 8/1914 **Location:** Georgian Bay, Canada **Description:** William J. Kiehl and seven other persons saw a spherical craft on the surface of the water. On its deck were two small men wearing green-purple clothes. They seemed to be busy with a hose, plunging it into the water. On the opposite side were three men dressed in light brown, wearing square masks down to their shoulders. Seeing the witnesses, they reentered the craft except for one dwarf, wearing shoes with a curved, pointed tip, who remained outside while the craft rose 3 m above the water and shot upward, leaving a short trail. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** 199 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_40 ### Event 2641 (1A448038) **Date:** 8/1914 **Locations:** Georgian Bay, Ontario; small cove along the shore of Georgian Bay, Ontario **Description:** William J. Kiehl, 18, is with seven others in a small cove along the shore of Georgian Bay, Ontario. They see a strange machine on the surface of the lake. Two little men wearing square masks and purple-green coveralls are working with a hose leading from the water to inside the UFO. Three other figures, dressed in khaki, are adjusting some rods that are pulsating with various colors. The beings notice the group watching them and run into the machine, which starts vibrating with colors. It starts to ascend, but one being has not made it inside and is hanging on. After hovering 12 feet in the air to balance itself, it rapidly accelerates upward. A likely hoax. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Old-Timer](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/36323797/the-news/) [Tells of Outer Spacemen in Letter to Wanaque Police Officer,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/36323797/the-news/)” Paterson \(N.J.\) News, August 15, 1966, p. 9; Clark III 262; Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, Berkley Medallion, 1976 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_345 ### Event 2642 (C54C6ED2) **Date:** 8/1914 **Location:** Georgian Bay near the Canadian side of Lake Huron **Description:** In August 1914, a purposeful UFO landing occurred on Georgian Bay near Lake Huron's Canadian side, witnessed by nine individuals. A peculiar craft, about nine feet high and 12 feet long, landed. Two small figures in green and purple attire, wearing square yellow masks on their shoulders, were seen on top of the craft. They manipulated a hose from a porthole, later joined by three more creatures adjusting rods on the ship's upper part. After a few minutes, the beings entered the craft through the porthole, and as it ascended, water was sucked up, leaving a mist. The craft changed color, turned left, and flew away. (Chapter 4, Ref 178) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_168 ### Event 2643 (A1C5E3EB) **Date:** 8/2/1914 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Stavanger \(Norway\), an unknown nationality biplane was observed flying \(making circles\) above Tungeneset south of Stavanger. It disappeared behind a hill and was not seen again (2 August) **Reference:** \[MORGEMBLADET, 3 Aug 1914, 4\] \[Bullard: *The airship file* - Supplement I., 1983, 36\]. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1914.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_352 ### Event 2644 (CA4143A9) **Date:** 8/3/1914 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Mo i Rana/Helgeland \(Norway\), it is confirmed that an aircraft flew over the city and left Monday night after dark. It flew very high (Monday 3rd August) **Reference:** \[MORGENBLADET, 6 Aug 1914, 3\] \[Bullard: *The airship file* - Supplement I., 1983, 36\]. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1914.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_353 ### Event 2645 (FC8EDE59) **Date:** 8/10/1914 **End date:** 8/11/1914 **Locations:** Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England; Vickers shipyard **Description:** Night. Maj. Becke, commander of defenses at Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England, reports that two or three cigar-shaped airships are seen above the Vickers shipyard. Soldiers fire upon them with machine guns and the only anti-aircraft battery on the west coast. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOFiles2, [p. 7–8](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n19/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_346 ### Event 2646 (08037287) **Date:** 8/11/1914 **End date:** 9/9/1914 **Location:** South Africa **Description:** Many British residents in South Africa observe a mystery monoplane that is assumed to be on a German reconnaissance mission. Most of the sightings are at night and at a distance. The government issues a statement on August 29 that there are no Union airplanes in South Africa, so any mystery aircraft are assumed to be enemies and should be fired upon. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “The Aeroplane,” Cape Times, August 21, 1914; “Aeroplanes in the Union,” Cape Times, August 22, 1914, p. 7; “Mysterious Airship at Sanday,” Pretoria News, August 24, 1914, p. 5; “Aeroplane Mystery,” Johannesburg Star, August 26, 1914, p. 4; “The Mysterious Aeroplane,” Cape Argus, August 27, 1914, p. 5; “Aviator Discusses Air Visitors,” Cape Times, September 5, 1914, p. 5; Hilary Evans and Robert E. Bartholomew, Outbreak! Anomalist, 2009, pp. 487–489 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_347 ### Event 2647 (D60032E5) **Date:** 8/13/1914 **Location:** ELSTREE, HERTFORDS, ENG **Description:** 'Horrible bunching dumb-bell-like things over town'. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LESLIE, Desmond & ADAMSKI,G: Flying Saucers Have Landed; British Book Center, NY 1956 (Index 36) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_316 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "ELSTREE,HERTFORDs,ENG: 'HORRIBLE BUNCHING DUMB-BELL-LIKE THINGS OVR TOWN'", **LatLong:** "51.650002 -0.266667", **LatLongDMS:** "51:39:00 N 00:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.650002,-0.266667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 2648 (5326683F) **Date:** 8/13/1914 **Location:** Sweaburg, Ontario **Description:** 7:30 p.m. High Constable Hobson and numerous residents of Sweaburg, Ontario, see “two large aeroplanes” pass from east to west. Sporadic sightings of mystery airplanes continue in the region for the next two weeks. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Reports Aeroplanes over Oxford Village,” London Free Press, August 13, 1914, p. 2; “Three Aeroplanes Scan Topography of the Province, London \(Ont.\) Free Press, September 5, 1914, p. 8; Barry Greenwood, “[And Yet](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr12.pdf) [More in 1914!](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr12.pdf)” UFO Historical Revue, no. 12 \(September 2006\): 6; Hilary Evans and Robert E. Bartholomew, Outbreak! Anomalist, 2009, p. 491 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_348 ### Event 2649 (18E91AF9) **Date:** 8/14/1914 **Location:** CANADA, Georgia Bay **Description:** (Translated from French) After a boat ride several people rested on the shore of Georgia Bay on Lake Ontario. A little girl saw a deer on the shore and the animal was facing the lake. The child looked in the same direction and remained silent in surprise. After a moment she called her parents. A spherical object with a platform at the base rested on the lake about 16 feet from the shore. Two small men were busy around a colored pipe, green. Their clothes seemed luminous, their size did not exceed 3'3 '' feet. They wore a kind of box-shaped helmet. Then three other small beings with tubular objects were engaged in an enigmatic task before disappearing? Shortly after, the first two put their pipe into an opening on the side of the device. At a height of 20 feet above the lake, the device tilted and took off at a lightning speed. (Jean FERGUSON: "All about Flying Saucers" ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1972, p.187) William J. Kiehl and seven other people observed an extremely unusual phenomenon at Georgia Bay on Lake Huron. At 150 m from the shore, an object shaped like a flattened globe at the top and carrying a kind of square structure at the base was resting on the water. Two human creatures, 1.20 m tall and dressed in tight-fitting purple-green clothes, were standing on a kind of bridge encircling the device. These beings manipulated a green pipe that plunged into the water. After a while three other small characters appeared at the upper part of the globe. They were dressed this time in khaki and wore, like the first two, a kind of square mask to the shoulders. Meanwhile, the other two had recovered their pipe, pushing it through a kind of hatch. As one of these beings had not yet had time to enter the interior of the object, it suddenly rose from the surface of the lake, forcing the unfortunate to cling energetically to a chromed ramp and it quickly disappeared from the sight of the witnesses. (August 14, 1914) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "The Chronicle of UFOs" - Delarge 1977, p. 224 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_721 ### Event 2650 (7B109BA8) **Date:** 8/14/1914 **Location:** SOUTH AFRICA **Description:** (Translated from French) Hundreds of witnesses saw for days a mysterious unidentified flying object, carrying a powerful projector. This incredible aircraft was visible in Williston and Fraserburg on August 14, in Vryburg on the 18th, in Vredenburg and Hopefield on the 19th, in Cape Town on the 20th, again in Vryburg on the 29th (with flashes of light) and above Graaff-Reinet (all night). On September 2 it was seen again in Vryburg, on the 3rd it was the turn of Taungs and Pokwani to be visited. It was reported in the Transvaal at Warmbaths on September 6, it flew over the village of Utrecht on the 11th and Vryburg on the 13th. It was spotted one last time above Port Shepstone on October 27, 1914. (August 14 to October 27, 1914) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 225 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_722 ### Event 2651 (25417C8D) **Date:** 8/14/1914 **Locations:** Montpelier, Vermont; Winooski River; C. P. Gill stone cutting plant **Description:** Afternoon. A large ball of fire sweeps over the southeast portion of Montpelier, Vermont, seen by employees of the C. P. Gill stone cutting plant near the Winooski River. It is accompanied by a loud noise. One man says the heat of the object has scorched his hands. The plant motor stops as the object passes over, and insulation from some electrical wires is found burned off. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Great Ball of Fire,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92120990/)” Rutland \(Vt.\) Daily Herald, August 18, 1914, p. 5 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_349 ### Event 2652 (3BE6725E) **Date:** 8/17/1914 **Location:** WORCESTER, RSA **Description:** 15 observer(s). Strong searchlight / sky. Many report(s) to August / 1914. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HIND, Cynthia: UFO'S, AFRICAN ENCOUNTERS; Gemini Books, Salisbury, Zimbabwe 1982. 236pp (Index 163) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_317 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Republic of South Africa", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "WORCESTER,RSA:15 OBS:STRONG SEARCHLITE/SKY:MANY Rpts to AUG/1914:NFD", **LatLong:** "-33.583335 19.516668", **LatLongDMS:** "33:35:00 S 19:31:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-33.583335,19.516668)", **State/Prov:** "CAP", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 2653 (8DE5CA24) **Date:** 9/1914 **Location:** Caerphilly Mountain, South Wales **Description:** Two schoolboys named Uden and Hopkins are wandering along Caerphilly Mountain, South Wales, when they encounter an unexpected mist. Two white humanoid figures with piercing eyes and unusually tall hats are standing at the edge of it. They approach, and the boys take off. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 262–263; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1914-09-uk-caerphilly.htm), March 5, 2013; Center for UFO Studies, [HUMCAT Index 1910–1939,](http://www.cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1910-1939.pdf) p. 9 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_351 ### Event 2654 (FCFC2E0E) **Date:** 9/6/1914 **Description:** Flight Commander C. E. Rathbone of the Felixstowe Naval Air Station, Suffolk, England returned from an early morning patrol in his seaplane to make perhaps the first report of a UFO sighting by a military officer. He reported that, "At 5:35 a.m. whilst on patrol, I sighted an airship steering south-southeast with a silver-colored envelope on the horizon, while flying at 1,300 feet, 27 miles south of Orfordness." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Wordwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 118, citing David Clarke **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5671 ### Event 2655 (CD44F48C) **Date:** 9/9/1914 **Locations:** West Norwood, south London, England; Ashstead, Surrey **Description:** Mid-day. Amateur astronomer [William Herbert Steavenson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FHerbert%5FSteavenson) points his 3-inch refracting telescope in West Norwood, south London, England, at the planet Mercury, then about 8° distant from the Sun, when a round, luminous object the apparent size of the planet, but brighter, speeds across his field, passing centrally from south to north in about 3 seconds. A few seconds later, another appears going in the same direction. More follow, and the display continues until at least 3:00 p.m. when the sky becomes overcast. He watches several hundred bodies pass; about half are perfectly round and the rest are dumbbell shaped. All the objects are well defined and intrinsically brighter than Venus. The prevailing color is yellowish white. Steavenson sends a telegram to the Rev. [T. E. R. Phillips](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.%5FE.%5FR.%5FPhillips) at Ashstead, Surrey, but the sky is now overcast and he cannot confirm the observation. Steavensen thinks high-altitude seeds are the most likely explanation. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** W. H. Steavenson, “[Bright Objects](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b2924638&view=1up&seq=48&skin=2021) [Observed near the Sun,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b2924638&view=1up&seq=48&skin=2021)” Journal of the British Astronomical Association 25 \(1914\): 36–38 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_352 ### Event 2656 (380D4D75) **Date:** 9/17/1914 **Location:** NORWAY, Alta **Description:** (Translated from French) It is reported from the town of Alta that in the evening of Thursday, between 9 and 10 o'clock, a very strange luminous phenomenon was observed by several people and in various districts of the town. The sky was completely covered by low clouds. It was pitch dark when a light point, shining like a big star, appeared in the east of Elvebakken. The phenomenon passed over Bosekop, disappeared behind Skoddevarre, reappeared at Kvaenvik where, after various maneuvers, it disappeared in the direction of Talvik. The white light partially changed from red to blue. On board the SS "Sina" the phenomenon was observed with binoculars. Most of the observers obviously thought of an airplane. But only one person seems to have heard the sound of an airplane, without however observing the light. The phenomenon moved at various altitudes and generally at a slow speed, except at the moment of its disappearance. [note from vog: for me this is probably an airplane, this is not strictly speaking the observation of a UFO, or is it?] (September 17, 1914) **Reference:** MORGENBLADET, 24 Sep 1914, 2.; Bullard: THE AIRSHIP FILE - SUPPLEMENT I., 1983, 37, cfr listing of Ole Jonny Braenne **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_723 ### Event 2657 (DBC52EB0) **Date:** 9/17/1914 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Alta \(Norway\) a strange and unexplained light phenomenon is observed by many people in many neighborhoods. The sky is completely covered and it is total darkness when a light point like a big star appears in the East above Elvebakken, going above Bosekop, disappearing behind Skoddevarre, coming back to Kvænvik and after various other movements disappears towards Talvik. The light is generally white but shifts partly to red and blue. It is also observed with a telescope from the small steamboat *Sina*. It is thought to come from an airplane. A man would have heard a fast sound in the air, but without seeing anything however. The light moves at different altitudes and generally without great particular speed, except when it disappears. (Thursday, September 17, 9 pm to 10 pm) **Reference:** \[MORGENBLADET, 24 Sep 1914, 2\] \[Bullard: *The airship file* - Supplement I., 1983, 37\] **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1914.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_354 ### Event 2658 (215F3434) **Date:** Autumn 1914 **Location:** ROMANIA, Bujoreanca. **Description:** (Translated from French) D. S. Ionescu was then 14 years old. One evening, while the family was seated in the garden, they all saw an object of the apparent size of a football, glowing red, moving from east to west at about thirty meters. At the back there was something like an exhaust pipe, whose breath violently shook the tops of the nearby trees. From this kind of tube also came a trail of sparks about ten meters long. A week later the same phenomenon was seen again, this time emitting a characteristic whistle. It flew over various houses, disappearing suddenly. After lingering above one of these dwellings, a lady was found there covered in burns. (Autumn 1914 or 1915) **Reference:** Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: "Les OVNI en URSS et dans les pays de l'Est" - trad. Laffont 1976, p. 291 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_729 ### Event 2659 (336C99E6) **Date:** Autumn 1914 **Alternate date:** 1915 **Location:** Bujoreanca, Romania **Description:** Dusk. A man is having an outdoor meal with his family in Bujoreanca, Romania, when they see a reddish object moving to the east 60 feet above the ground, causing trees to bend from its movement, and making a whistling noise. It leaves a trail of glowing sparks and reappears for 6–7 days in the same position. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Hobana and Weverbergh 224 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_350 ### Event 2660 (7B310323) **Date:** 10/5/1914 **Description:** At Silver Bell Siding in Tasmania, Australia a lighted object appeared traveling from MacQuarie Heads to Mount Dundas. Two lights were distinctly visible, and intermittent rays of light were thrown to the ground. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Australasian Ufologist, January 2001, p. 43 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6561 ### Event 2661 (06F33986) **Date:** 10/10/1914 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** MANCESTER, ENGL **Description:** 1 observer. Absolute(ly) black spindle crosses sun. Halo fluctuates / front end. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Periodical: English Mechanic #100 (16 Oct. 1914) pg. 256: Albert Alfred Buss: "Cosmic and Terrestrial Flosam and Jetsam" http://www.resologist.net/lands224.htm#N_3_ **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_318 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "73", **HatchDesc:** "MANCESTER,ENGL:1 OBS:ABS.BLACK SPINDLE CROSSES SUN:HALO FLUCTUATES/FRONT END", **LatLong:** "53.483336 -2.233333", **LatLongDMS:** "53:29:00 N 02:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.483336,-2.233333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2662 (0E9756C5) **Date:** 10/10/1914 **Location:** Manchester, England **Description:** Afternoon. Albert Alfred Buss is observing the sun using a spectrographic telescope at Manchester, England, when he sees an “absolutely black spindle-shaped object” against the sun. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Albert Alfred Buss, “[Cosmic](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924069709578&view=1up&seq=314&skin=2021) [and Terrestrial Flotsam and Jetsam,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924069709578&view=1up&seq=314&skin=2021)” English Mechanic 100 \(October 14, 1914\): 256 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_353 ### Event 2663 (704B8A66) **Date:** 10/22/1914 **Location:** NORWAY, Bodo **Description:** (Translated from French) "From Knaplund, (near) Saltstrømmen, it is reported that last night, around 9 pm, an "airship" was seen, flying east. There were about ten witnesses, who heard at the same time a quite considerable noise. The object had the shape of a cigar and was clearly visible in the night sky. Our correspondent has collected the names of several adults who observed this phenomenon." [vog: do you get the impression that it is a UFO? not me.] (October 22, 1914) **Reference:** MORGENBLADET, October 23, 1914, 4.; Bullard: THE AIRSHIP FILE - SUPPLEMENT I., 1983, 38, cfr listing of Ole Jonny Braenne **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_724 ### Event 2664 (388606D1) **Date:** 10/22/1914 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) From Knaplund, near Saltstrømmen, in Bodø \(Norway\), 9 to 10 "reliable" adults \(who will give their name to the correspondent\) see an aircraft passing to the East. The witnesses hear the sound of an engine. The aircraft has the shape of a cigar and is clearly visible in the evening sky (October 22, 9 PM) **Reference:** \[MORGENBLADET, October 23, 1914, 4\] \[Bullard: *The airship file* - Supplement I., 1983, 38\]. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1914.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_355 ### Event 2665 (3CA9D0CD) **Date:** 11/1914 **Location:** GERMANY **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the two-seater reconnaissance aircraft, Aviatik Type I. Maximum speed 105 km/h, ceiling approx. 2500 m. (November 1914) **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_727 ### Event 2666 (5F78ED82) **Date:** 11/16/1914 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Tjølta \(Norway\), many "mature" witnesses simultaneously saw in the sky a light to the East of "De Syv Søstre". It moved from West to East, sometimes quite slowly, making pauses, diving and rising, and then returning at great speed (November 16th and 17th) **Reference:** \[MORGENBLADET, 19 Nov 1914, 2\] \[Bullard: *The airship file* - Supplement I., 1983, 38\]. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1914.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_356 ### Event 2667 (E32E0CA0) **Date:** 11/21/1914 **Location:** NORWAY, Tjolta **Description:** (Translated from French) A Mindlandet (Tjolta) it was seen Saturday night, a kind of glider flying above the Skjaervaer lighthouse, which it illuminated with its projector. The glider, which was then about 700 m high, descended to 400 meters, height from which it sent a beam of its projector towards a passing ship at sea. Then it descended even further. More than 20 people were watching it" (November 21, 1914) **Reference:** the text says it well: a kind of glider ... **Reference:** MORGENBLADET, 25 Nov 1914, 2; Bullard: THE AIRSHIP FILE - SUPPLEMENT I., 1983, 38, cfr listing of Ole Jonny Braenne **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_725 ### Event 2668 (5D9648AF) **Date:** 11/21/1914 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Mindlandet in Tjølta \(Norway\), between 20 and 30 people simultaneously observe a flying object near the Skjærvær lighthouse, which has a searchlight. The aircraft, at an altitude of about 700 m, descends to about 400 m, from where it sweeps its searchlight over a boat passing through the area. Afterwards it rises again (Saturday, November 21st, evening) **Reference:** \[MORGENBLADET, 25 Nov 1914, 2\] \[Bullard: *The airship file* - Supplement I., 1983, 38\]. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1914.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_357 ### Event 2669 (0ABC8348) **Date:** 11/21/1914 **Locations:** Skjaervser lighthouse; Mindlandet, Nordland, Norway **Description:** Some 20–30 people watch an airship flying at 2,300 feet descend to about 1,300 feet and shine a searchlight on a passing ship near Skjaervser lighthouse on the island of Mindlandet, Nordland, Norway. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Airship at Tjølta,” Morgenbladet, November 25, 1914, p. 2; Clark III 1167–1168 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_354 ### Event 2670 (F7764536) **Date:** End of 1914 **Location:** FRANCE **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the Nieuport XI (the XVII in 1916, the 298 in June 1917) single-seater biplane reconnaissance fighter, 156 km/h, ceiling 4600m, range approximately 230 km. (1914, end of year) **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 edition **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_728 ### Event 2671 (EB06560B) **Date:** 12/15/1914 **Locations:** Hull; Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England; Lincolnshire **Description:** 4:10 p.m. The crew of a Hull trawler, the SS Ape, is streaming toward Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, when they see a “black object astern” which gradually approaches them. It turns and heads for the Lincolnshire coast where it vanishes in the fog. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOFiles2, [p. 8](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n19/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_355 ### Event 2672 (FBFF1639) **Date:** 12/20/1914 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Skien \(Norway\) many people, including the Solum sheriff, "reliable" sources, have seen an aircraft. The sheriff is watching it with a telescope. It is at an astonishing height and is moving inside the country, then turns south and heads towards the sea. (December 20th, 8pm) **Reference:** \[MORGENBLADET, 22 Dec 1914, 3\] \[Bullard: *The airship file* - Supplement I., 1983, 38\] **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1914.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_358 ### Event 2673 (C2C6A073) **Date:** 12/20/1914 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) 3 luminous objects flying at low altitude over *Benton Harbor* \(Michigan\). **Reference:** UFO Roundup 4-36 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1914.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_359 --- ## Year: 1915, 34 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 2674 (A1FF17C6) **Date:** 1915 **Location:** Norway **Description:** In a 1915 Norway landing case, a witness encountered two small, seemingly friendly humanoids emerging from a dark bell-shaped object that landed behind a hill. One of the humanoids, around three feet tall, approached the witness, displaying distinctive features such as a large head, wavy hair, gray skin, and a smile. The beings returned behind the hill before the object ascended and departed rapidly. (Chapter 4, Ref 179) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_169 ### Event 2675 (E4C53842) **Date:** Early 1915 **Location:** Buffalo, New York **Description:** In early 1915, the mysterious aircraft was sighted during daylight over Buffalo, New York. Witnesses could clearly see its outline, noting its rapid pace and its erratic movements, at times heading towards the Canadian shore before quickly changing direction. This sighting caused a significant stir and excitement among local residents. (Chapter 9, Ref 363) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_355 ### Event 2676 (BE56D64E) **Date:** 2/9/1915 **Time:** 05:00 **Location:** BIGFORK, MT **Description:** 1 observer. Large dark airship / low altitude. Buzzes. Going quickly southwest. Flathead Courier 11.2.15. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The UFO REGISTER. CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK. (annual sightings catalog.) (Index 77) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_319 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "905", **HatchDesc:** "BIGFORK,MT:1 OBS:LRG DARK AIRSHIP/LO ALT:BUZZES:>>SW:Flathead Courier 11.2.15", **LatLong:** "48.050002 -114.072228", **LatLongDMS:** "48:03:00 N 114:04:20 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.050002,-114.072228)", **State/Prov:** "Montana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2677 (11DFE145) **Date:** 2/9/1915 **Description:** A large dark airship flew at a low altitude near Bigfork, Montana around five o'clock in the late afternoon. It headed off toward the southwest. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, volume 8 (1977), citing the Flathead Courier, February 11, 1915 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_767 ### Event 2678 (A0D11083) **Date:** 2/14/1915 **Locations:** Brockville, Ontario; Morristown, New York; Gananoque, Ontario; Ottawa; Parliament Hill; Ottawa **Description:** 9:15 p.m. The mayor and three city constables of Brockville, Ontario, see the lights of unknown aircraft crossing the St. Lawrence River heading for Ottawa. They can hear the sound of motors. A second flying machine is heard as it crosses the river from the direction of Morristown, New York. Three balls of fire drop from it into the river. Two more objects pass from the east and west ends of Brockville. The mayor, who has seen one of the planes flash a searchlight beam that lights up a city block, tells the police chief to alert the mayor and police chief in Ottawa. At 9:30 p.m., the mayor of Gananoque, Ontario, reports that two invisible aircraft are heard flying over his town. Prime Minister [Robert Borden](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FBorden) hears about the reports and orders the lights on Parliament Hill to be turned off at 11:15 p.m. The entire city follows suit 5 minutes later. The airplanes do not reappear, but Ottawa is placed on high alert. Later, Brockville police find two paper balloons that might explain the sightings. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Ottawa in Darkness Awaits Airplane Raid,” Toronto Globe, February 15, 1915, pp. 1–2; “[Scare in Ottawa over an Air](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1915/02/15/100139294.pdf) [Raid,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1915/02/15/100139294.pdf)” New York Times, February 15, 1915, p. 1; Brett Holman, “[The Air Raid That Didn’t,](https://airminded.org/2014/02/13/the-air-raid-that-didnt/)” Airminded, February 13, 2014; Hilary Evans and Robert E. Bartholomew, Outbreak! Anomalist, 2009, pp. 492–493; Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 36–38 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_356 ### Event 2679 (E34A03EF) **Date:** 2/15/1915 **Locations:** Toronto, Ontario; Guelph; Ontario Agricultural College **Description:** Early morning. Residents in a Toronto, Ontario, suburb notify police of a “strange aeroplane” hovering above their homes. Later, a man in Guelph sees “three moving lights passing over” the Ontario Agricultural College. He alerts other residents in his boarding house and they watch the silent lights until dawn. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 37–38 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_357 ### Event 2680 (F69FA5C8) **Date:** 4/1915 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Lucia, 8 years old, is saying her rosary near Fatima when she sees a white, translucent cloud and a human form. This will happen again a second time, then a third in October. (April) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1915.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_360 ### Event 2681 (DDFCAAC1) **Date:** 4/26/1915 **Locations:** United States; Fort Lee, New Jersey **Description:** Possibly the first UFO film ever made, The Mysterious Airship premieres in the United States. A lost two-reel French short produced by the Ideal Film Company in Fort Lee, New Jersey, and distributed by United Film Service, the film does involve a mysterious airship built by aeronauts, but it is more of a murder mystery. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[United Film Service,](https://archive.org/details/movingpicturewor24newy/page/806/mode/2up)” The Moving Picture World 24 \(May 1, 1915\): 806; Barry Greenwood, “[UFO Feature](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr12.pdf) [Film: In 1914!](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr12.pdf)” UFO Historical Revue, no. 12 \(September 2006\): 2–4; Barry Greenwood, “[The Mysterious](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr14.pdf) [Airship](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr14.pdf)[: An Early Silent Film, Update,](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr14.pdf)” UFO Historical Revue, no. 14 \(May 2015\): 1–3; Internet Movie Database, “[The Mysterious Airship](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1407257/)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_358 ### Event 2682 (E423978F) **Date:** 5/24/1915 **Description:** The Allied Powers (Britain, France, and Russia) jointly issued a statement which for the first time ever explicitly charged a government, the Ottoman Empire, with committing a "crime against humanity" in reference to that regime's persecution of its Christian minorities, including Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks. **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocides_in_history_(World_War_I_through_World_War_II) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_27 ### Event 2683 (8B8FE48C) **Date:** 6/1915 **Location:** FRANCE **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the three-seater reconnaissance and escort fighter Caudron R-11. It already had a relatively aerodynamic line, speed 183 km/h, absolute ceiling 5950 m, used by the French aviation, more than 500 copies were built. (June 1915) **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_730 ### Event 2684 (CD6B1F5E) **Date:** Summer 1915 **Location:** NORWAY, Sulitjelma **Description:** (Translated from French) A dark object, bell-shaped, descended from the sky to the west and landed. Two humanoids appeared from the back of the object, during the landing phase. They walked towards a road, then turned around and headed towards the witness. One of the humanoids stopped and smiled at the witness, Bjarne Westvand. The boy, aged 6 at the time, said that the humanoid was the same size as him, about 1 m tall. He had long dark hair, flowing in the wind. His skin was gray and he had a big head compared to his stature. The two creatures wore tight dark brown clothing. They then went behind the hill and shortly after the bell-shaped object rose and quickly disappeared into the sky (1915, Summer) **Reference:** RAPPORTNYTT, 4/1981, 3, cfr, listing of Ole Jonny Braenne **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_731 ### Event 2685 (BB4BBBC7) **Date:** Summer 1915 **Location:** PORTUGAL, Cabeco **Description:** (Translated from French) During the summer of 1915 a flying man was reported above Cabeco. (1915, Summer) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 226 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_734 ### Event 2686 (E7F6A2D3) **Date:** Summer 1915 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Sulitjelma \(Norway\), a dark bell-shaped object descended from the western sky and landed. 2 humanoids appeared from behind the hill where the object had landed. They walked towards a road, then turned around, and came towards the witness. One of the humanoids stopped and smiled at the witness, Bjarne Westvand. The humanoid was as tall as the witness, who was 6 years old, that is, 1 m tall. He had long dark wavy hair. The skin was grey, and its head was large in comparison to its body. They were dressed in dark brown/dark suits. The humanoids went behind the hill, and shortly afterwards, the bell-shaped object rose and quickly disappeared into the sky. (Summer) **Reference:** RAPPORTNYTT, 4/1981, 3 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1915.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_361 ### Event 2687 (671B240B) **Date:** Late 6/1915 **Locations:** Ashburton, Devon, England; Haytor rocks on Dartmoor; Hexworthy; Dartington **Description:** Just before dawn. Cecilia Peel Yates of Ashburton, Devon, England, is awakened by her dogs barking. She sees outside her bedroom window a bright light in the sky bearing north. It disappears in the direction of Haytor rocks on Dartmoor. This incident is followed by others at Hexworthy and Dartington in July and August, so much so that British Naval Intelligence sends two officers out to investigate. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Nick Redfern, “[UFOs and the Military,](https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2014/05/ufos-and-the-military-1915-pt-1/) [1915: Pt. 1,](https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2014/05/ufos-and-the-military-1915-pt-1/)” Mysterious Universe, May 7, 2014; Nick Redfern, “[UFOs and the Military, 1915: Pt. 2,](https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2014/05/ufos-and-the-military-1915-pt-2/)” Mysterious Universe, May 8, 2014 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_359 ### Event 2688 (61419256) **Date:** 7/1915 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the single-seater reconnaissance aircraft Airco DH-2, speed 150 km/h, ceiling 4420 m. 100 of them were built in 1915-1916, total production 450 units of which 300 served in France and the others in the Middle East. **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 edition **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_732 ### Event 2689 (FA9615ED) **Date:** 7/13/1915 **Location:** NORWAY, Ostre Slidre **Description:** (Translated from French) Tuesday, at 12:30, four ladies left the Fredheim hotel for a walk on the road going north. At the Valsted farm, they suddenly heard a loud engine noise, so they thought a car was coming. They moved to the side of the road to let the vehicle pass, but to their surprise, no car ever arrived. However, the two ladies who were a bit ahead of the others then saw, for a short moment, an airplane above their heads towards the northwest. One of the ladies, the wife of an officer, who saw the machine, is sure that it was an airplane. But here begins the most singular part of the observation. The two women only had the opportunity to see the plane for a short moment, where the engine seemed to have stopped while the craft descended in a dead leaf, slowly, towards Volbufjorden. That is what they both saw, and in their opinion the plane was crashing. The commander of Ostre Slide was immediately alerted, and with four men he went to investigate, organizing a search from Skogene just outside Rognagardene, to the fjord, without finding any debris. The next day the men were posted on either side of the fjord while the entire Volbufjorden region was combed. At the end of the day the commander gave an interview to the reporters, noting that they still had not found anything of the mysterious plane. (July 13, 1915) **Reference:** VALDRES, Jul 1915.; MORGENBLADET, 16 Jul 1915, 4; Bullard: THE AIRSHIP FILE - SUPPLEMENT I., 1983, 40, cfr listing d'Ole Jonny Braenne **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_733 ### Event 2690 (C01D7E68) **Date:** 7/13/1915 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Østre Slidre \(Norway\), 4 female visitors leave the Fredheim hotel heading North on the main road, and arrive at the Valsted farm when they suddenly hear the loud sound of an engine, thinking a car is approaching. They move away from the road expecting the car to arrive, but are surprised to not see a car; in fact the two women who are a bit ahead of the others see an airplane flying towards them from the North. An officer's wife, who sees the machine, is certain she is not mistaken and that it was an airplane, having seen many airplanes in flight before. However, as the women observe the machine for a short moment the engine stops and the machine falls like lightning in an inclined trajectory, pointing towards Volhufjorden. She sees all this very clearly, and her impression is that the machine and the aviator are about to be destroyed. The sheriff of Østre Slidre is immediately notified of the event and with 4 other people conducts an investigation at Skogene outside Rognagårdene directly in the fjord, without discovering any element. Men are posted on both sides of the fjord while all of Volbufjorden is searched in all directions. In an interview, the sheriff of Østre Slidre indicates that no trace of the mysterious airplane could be found \(once again the officer's wife is questioned\), although she was certain that what she saw was an airplane, and she seemed totally sincere. (Tuesday, July 13th, 12:30 PM) **Reference:** \[VALDRES, Jul 1915\] \[MORGENBLADET, 16 Jul 1915, 4\] \[Bullard: The Airship File - Supplement I., 1983, 40\] **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1915.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_362 ### Event 2691 (330433A5) **Date:** 7/31/1915 **Location:** BALLINASLOE, IRELAND **Description:** Large luminous body going northwest. Stops 45 minute(s). Continues slowly. Seen / 5 hours. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LESLIE, Desmond & ADAMSKI,G: Flying Saucers Have Landed; British Book Center, NY 1956 (Index 36) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_320 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "44", **Elev:** "65", **HatchDesc:** "BALLINASLOE,IRELAND:LARGE LUM.BODY>NW:STOPS 45min:CONTINUES SLOWLY:SEEN/5hrs", **LatLong:** "53.333336 -8.216667", **LatLongDMS:** "53:20:00 N 08:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.333336,-8.216667)", **State/Prov:** "Ireland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2692 (00BA7109) **Date:** 8/1915 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, AMERICAN LICENSE **Description:** (Translated from French) FIRST FLIGHT OF THE TWO-SEATER BOMBER HAVILAND (AIRCO) DH-4, 219 km/h, ceiling 6096 m. End of US Army service in 1932. The DH 9, DH 10, Mosquito, Hornet/Sea Hornet, Vampire, Venom, Canada Caribou, Canada Buffalo complete the HAVILAND range, with the last deliveries then dating back to 1972. **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 edition **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_735 ### Event 2693 (595A9C52) **Date:** 8/7/1915 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** BERLIN, GERMANY **Description:** 2 observer(s) and? Huge glowing blimp hovers / 80 minute(s). Vanishes / 1 minute(s). Buzzes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The UFO REGISTER. CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK. (annual sightings catalog.) (Index 77) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_321 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "80", **HatchDesc:** "BERLIN,GERMANY:2 OBS+?:HUGE GLOWING BLIMP HVRS/80min:VANISHES/1min:BUZZES", **LatLong:** "52.516669 13.400001", **LatLongDMS:** "52:31:00 N 13:24:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.516669,13.400001)", **State/Prov:** "BRL", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2694 (D26F293C) **Date:** 8/10/1915 (approximate) **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** NORTH / CALGARY, ALTA **Description:** Huge blimp with blinding light slowly going south. Hovers then enormous speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 320) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_322 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "224", **Elev:** "1067", **HatchDesc:** "N/CALGARY,ALTA:HUGE BLIMP W/BLINDING LITE SLOWLY >S:HVRS THEN ENORMOUS SPEED.", **LatLong:** "51.083336 -114.083339", **LatLongDMS:** "51:05:00 N 114:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.083336,-114.083339)", **State/Prov:** "Alberta", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 2695 (B3E74B9E) **Date:** 8/20/1915 **Location:** NORWAY, Christianiafjord **Description:** (Translated from French) Friday night, around 10:10 PM, a terrible storm was raging above the Ostlandet fjord. The witness was in his house, looking out the window towards the fjord. Suddenly he saw a dark object appear on the horizon, somewhere near Rauer. And this "cloudy" mass (what he thought it was) was crossing the sky at an incredible speed, which made him think it was not a cloud at all. He took his binoculars and went out into the garden. He observed through the binoculars, the most beautiful Zeppelin he had ever seen. It was hovering above Christianiafjord. He saw that a bright light was in the center of the huge body. After a minute of observation, this lamp went out, and immediately the craft turned and "floated" southward, where it disappeared into the dark night. (August 20, 1915) **Reference:** artifact, assuredly **Reference:** GJENGANGEREN, Aug 1915.; MORGENBLADET, 25 Aug 1915, 4.; Bullard: THE AIRSHIP FILE - SUPPLEMENT I., 1983, 42, cfr listing of Ole Jonny Braenne **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_736 ### Event 2696 (EF11E386) **Date:** 8/20/1915 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Christianiafjord \(Norway\), 20 minutes before 10 - when the violent storm arrived over the fjord and Østlandet, a man stood in front of the window of his house and looked towards the Southeast above the fjord. Suddenly he saw a dark object appear in front of the illuminated horizon, far ahead in the direction of Rauer. What he initially thought to be a small dark cloud moved in the sky with an unusual speed for a cloud, convincing him that it must be something else. He took his telescope \(binoculars\) and went outside into his garden. He turned in the direction where he thought the dark object was and - sure enough - the most beautiful of Zeppelins \(in full power\) floated above Christianiafjord. As he stayed to observe it with the telescope he managed to see a bright light emitted from the center of the large body; it shone intensely for about 1 minute and then it left. Right after he could see the vessel turn and float away to the South and soon disappear into the darkness. (Friday, August 20th, evening) **Reference:** \[GJENGANGEREN, Aug 1915\] \[MORGENBLADET, 25 Aug 1915, 4\] \[Bullard: THE AIRSHIP FILE - SUPPLEMENT I., 1983, 42\] **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1915.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_363 ### Event 2697 (3EDC8A33) **Date:** 8/21/1915 **Location:** TURKEY, Gallipoli **Description:** (Translated from French) During the Dardanelles campaign, the Allied forces were facing the Turkish army in the Gallipoli peninsula. On August 21, a British battalion, the 5th Norfolk Regiment, came to reinforce the Anzac troops (Australian and New Zealand army corps). The attack took place at Coast 60, an elevation of terrain in the south of Suvla Bay. According to the campaign book, the fifth regiment was suddenly enveloped in an unexpected fog, on which the rays of the sun were reflected. The glare was so bright that the artillery observers were dazzled. From that moment, the 250 men were never seen again. "This cloud gave the impression of being solid. A group of 22 men could observe it from their trenches dug about 2,500 m away. After changing position, this singular cloud completely covered a dry torrent bed and we could perfectly distinguish its sides and ends. Its color was light gray, like that of the other clouds. The troop, 400 men, then marched towards Coast 60 and, when they reached the level of the cloud, they plunged into it, never to come out again. After an hour, when it had absorbed the regiment in its entirety, the cloud rose and joined the others perfectly motionless, despite a south wind blowing at a speed of 6 to 7 km/h. The entire formation flew towards the north, towards Bulgaria. The indicated regiment was declared missing or destroyed and when Turkey surrendered in 1918, the first thing England demanded from Turkey was the return of this regiment. Turkey replied that it had never taken this regiment prisoner or even been in contact with it and that it did not know of its existence" (August 21, 1915) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 226-227 **Reference:** extract from Fred Reichart's journal **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_737 ### Event 2698 (235C8E28) **Date:** 8/21/1915 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Dardanelles Expedition: Allied troops fight the Turks in the Gallipoli peninsula. Sapper Reichart, belonging to the 3rd section of the 1st New Zealand Engineer Company, from Matada \(Bay of Plenty district\), observed along with 2 other witnesses an unexplained phenomenon to this day. (August 21) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1915.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_364 ### Event 2699 (9E94F56B) **Date:** 8/21/1915 **Location:** Gallipoli, Turkey **Description:** During severe fighting in the Dardanelles a peculiar cloud engulfed a British regiment which was never seen again. This was observed by 22 men of the First Field Company, NZ Army Corps and stated in an affidavit. (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_69 ### Event 2700 (2D97A49B) **Date:** 8/21/1915 **Location:** Gallipoli, Turkey **Description:** During severe fighting in the Dardanelles a peculiar cloud engulfed a British regiment which was never seen again. This was observed by 22 men of the First Field Company, NZ Army Corps and stated in an affidavit. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Spaceview 45; LDLN 82; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_41 ### Event 2701 (2D442AD7) **Date:** 9/4/1915 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** DARLINGTON, DEVON **Description:** Bright white sphere/orb/globe rises / meadow to 15M altitude. Clear outline. Heads off. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SPENCER, John & EVANS, Hillary (ed): PHENOMENON - 40 YEARS of F.S.; BUFORA/Avon Books, NY 1988 (Index 312) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_323 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "62", **HatchDesc:** "DARLINGTON,DEVON:BRITE WHT ORB RISES/MEADOW TO 15M alt:CLEAR OUTLINE:HEADS OFF", **LatLong:** "50.450002 -3.705556", **LatLongDMS:** "50:27:00 N 03:42:20 W", **Locale:** "Wetlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.450002,-3.705556)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 2702 (B4984C35) **Date:** 9/4/1915 **Location:** Dartmoor, Devon, England **Description:** 9:30 p.m. Two British Naval Intelligence officers, Lt. Col. [William Price Drury](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FPrice%5FDrury) and Lt. C. Brownlow, on Dartmoor, Devon, England, watch a “bright white light, considerably larger in appearance than a planet” ascend steadily from a meadow to a height of 50–60 feet. It then swings 300 feet or so to the left and suddenly vanishes. The officers have been investigating reports of similar lights seen in the region during the summer. In December, GHQ Home Forces issues a 16-page confidential report on the investigation and concludes there is “no evidence on which to base a suspicion that this class of enemy activity ever existed” and that 89% of the reports are explained. Some “moving lights in the air” are attributed to marsh gas. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Nick Redfern, “[UFOs and the Military,](https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2014/05/ufos-and-the-military-1915-pt-1/) [1915: Pt. 1,](https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2014/05/ufos-and-the-military-1915-pt-1/)” Mysterious Universe, May 7, 2014; UFOFiles2, [pp. 11–12](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n25/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_360 ### Event 2703 (8A4AA5DE) **Date:** Autumn 1915 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) \(or 1914\): In the village of Bujoreanca \(Romania\), a teacher was eating with his family in the garden when everyone's attention was drawn to an object of a reddish glow that appeared when it started to get dark. The object was the size of a soccer ball or a man's head with a protruding neck, like an exhaust pipe. It was 20 or 25 m in the air and seemed to move easily, making the acacias and oaks lean due to the wind it created. It left behind a trail of 8 or 10 m long glowing sparks and reappeared again 6 or 7 days later in front of all the villagers. The object made a whistling sound and appeared "out of nowhere" above a particular house 800 m away from where the witness lived, and suddenly disappeared above another residence. Once, it stayed stationary above one of the houses where the body of a woman was found, apparently covered in burns. (Autumn) **Reference:** D. S. Ionescu **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1915.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_366 ### Event 2704 (9BCE29F8) **Date:** Autumn 1915 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Bergen \(Norway\), Henr. Angel Hansen saw a large, bright object twice, as big as the Moon, towards the North. It did not move for 30 s, then descended a bit, pausing again for about 15 seconds. The same action was repeated 2-3 times. Finally it accelerated and moved away to disappear in the horizon towards the West. The color of the object was brown-red and the weather was clear. (One evening around 11 pm) **Reference:** UFO-NYT, 3/1972, 118 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1915.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_367 ### Event 2705 (84032773) **Date:** 10/1915 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Lucia observes a phenomenon similar to [that of April](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/1915.html\#15-04). (October) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1915.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_365 ### Event 2706 (4F71BDB4) **Date:** 11/1915 **Description:** Einstein presents to the Prussian Academy of Science what are now known as the Einstein field equations, which form the core of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity. **Type:** scientific advance **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_relativity) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_28 **Attributes:** Einstein ### Event 2707 (056862E7) **Date:** 12/18/1915 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the heavy night bomber Biplan with a normal crew of three men Handley Page HP-11, 30.48m wingspan, length 19.16m, speed 156 km/h, ceiling 2590m, was supplied to Wing No. 3 RNAS in September 1916. **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_738 --- ## Year: 1916, 49 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 2708 (76E24698) **Date:** 1916 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the Felixstowe flying boat, 29.15m wingspan, 14.10m length, max. speed 154 km/h, ceiling 2926m, endurance: 6 hours. **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_751 ### Event 2709 (D433D4C9) **Date:** 1916? **Location:** Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England **Description:** Mrs. Whiteland of Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England, sees from an open window a “round platform” on which nearly a dozen men wearing blue uniforms and little round hats stand gripping a handrail. It is moving in the air about 30 feet above the house and coming from the direction of a nearby marsh. It moves toward a railway yard and disappears behind some houses. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 263; “[The Aldeburgh Platform,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201969%20V%2015%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1969\), pp. 23–24; “[The Aldeburgh Platform,](http://aldeburghplatform.blogspot.com/)” parts 1–3; David Halperin, “[UFOs, Screen Memories,](https://www.davidhalperin.net/ufos-screen-memories-and-the-aldeburgh-platform-mystery/) [and the Aldeburgh Platform Mystery,](https://www.davidhalperin.net/ufos-screen-memories-and-the-aldeburgh-platform-mystery/)” April 8, 2016; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 299–314 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_361 ### Event 2710 (DAEEAC84) **Date:** 1916 **Location:** France **Description:** During World War I, modern-type UFO sightings were reported in combat zones as well. In 1916, three British infantrymen stationed in France witnessed an object that initially resembled a zeppelin hovering over their trenches. However, the object swiftly accelerated forward at an incredible speed, estimated to be around 200 miles per hour. (Chapter 4, Ref 172) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_162 ### Event 2711 (4CF4BBF0) **Date:** 1916 **Location:** Suffolk, England **Description:** During World War I, around 1916 or 1917, a woman in Suffolk, England, witnessed a peculiar UFO. She saw a round platform with a railing, roughly 13 feet in diameter, flying about 30 feet above the ground. The object, carrying around a dozen "men" dressed in blue uniforms and round hats, came from nearby marshes. As it approached, it turned, vanished behind trees and houses, and emitted no sound. (Chapter 4, Ref 180) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_170 ### Event 2712 (C29AC770) **Date:** 1916 **Location:** Canadian Capitol **Description:** During harsh Canadian winter nights, there were extraordinary sightings of unidentified aircraft, including at night. Due to concerns over these mysterious intrusions, the Canadian government took preventive measures by extinguishing the lights of the parliament buildings in Ottawa to deter potential enemy bombings. These precautions were deemed successful as Ottawa remained unbombed. (Chapter 9, Ref 365) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_357 ### Event 2713 (82EA36D0) **Date:** 1/1916 **Location:** GERMANY **Description:** (Translated from French) AEG KI, GIV, and GV Plane: first flight. Twin-engine, max speed 145 km/h, ceiling 4000m. In production until end of 1918. **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 edition **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_739 ### Event 2714 (2E365CFD) **Date:** 1/1916 **Location:** Stamford, Canada **Description:** In January 1916, a Canadian newspaper reported a large monoplane sighting over Stamford. Many residents witnessed it, especially with the aid of glasses, noting its significant size. The aircraft displayed numerous lights: red and white on each side, totaling 27 lights, and also had a powerful headlight. Initially, it moved in the direction of the Welland Canal, but later changed its path to head westward. (Chapter 9, Ref 364) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_356 ### Event 2715 (208B85F1) **Date:** 1/13/1916 **Location:** NORWAY, Dyfjord **Description:** (Translated from French) A man saw six lights in the sky: one green, one red and four white and he thought he saw a body carrying these lights. After a moment, the four white lights went out and a beam, like that of a projector, was directed downwards. The phenomenon appeared in the south-southwest, flew first towards the east, and finally disappeared towards the southeast. Several people observed it, including the entire rescue team based in Dyfjord, and not one doubted having seen a gigantic "airship". (January 13, 1916) **Reference:** here again, no feeling of strangeness... . **Reference:** FINNMARKSPOSTEN, Jan 1916.; MORGENBLADET, 15 Jan 1916, 2.;Bullard: THE AIRSHIP FILE - SUPPLEMENT I., 1983, 41; listing by Ole Jonny Braenne **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_740 ### Event 2716 (107947A8) **Date:** 1/13/1916 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Dyfjord \(Norway\), a man sees 6 lights, one green, one red and 4 white, and thinks he sees the silhouette of the craft. After a while the 4 white lights go out and a beam like a searchlight is directed downwards. The supposed aircraft emerges in the South-South-West, then moves to the East and finally disappears to the South-East. The observation is made by many credible witnesses, including the entire rescue team based in Dyfjord, and none of them have any doubt of having seen what was a gigantic aircraft. (January 13) **Reference:** \[Finnmarksposten, January 1916\] \[Morgenbladet, 15 January 1916, 2\] \[Bullard: The airship file - Supplement I, 1983, 41\] **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1916.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_369 ### Event 2717 (8267ECBE) **Date:** 1/19/1916 **Location:** NORWAY, Rolvaer **Description:** (Translated from French) Captain Bergfjord of the SS "Ofoten" ship claims that upon his approach to the port of Ofotenfjord, he saw a Zeppelin above Rolvaer flying at an altitude of approximately 500 m. **Reference:** MORGENBLADET, January 19, 1916, 2.; Bullard: THE AIRSHIP FILE - SUPPLEMENT I., 1983, 41; listing of Ole Jonny Braenne **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_741 ### Event 2718 (15A1E33C) **Date:** 1/19/1916 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Rolvær \(Norway\), Captain Bergfjord of the steamship *Ofoten*, as he arrived in Ofotenfjord, saw a Zeppelin above Rolvær at about 500 m high. (January 19) **Reference:** \[MORGENBLADET, January 19, 1916, 2\] \[Bullard: The Airship File - Supplement I., 1983, 41\] **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1916.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_370 ### Event 2719 (5414345F) **Date:** 1/31/1916 **Location:** ENGLAND, near Rochford **Description:** (Translated from French) Local time: 8:45 PM, pilot: Sub Lieutenant J. E. Morgan. Flying at 5000 feet he saw a row of lights resembling windows covered by light shutters, like those of a railway carriage. Believing it to be a German Zeppelin, he fired his Webley Scott at the object, which quickly rose and disappeared. **Reference:** Source: THE GERMAN AIR RAIDS ON ENGLAND, 1914-1918, by Capt. Joseph Morris - London 1925, page 81, cfr Thomas E. Bullard **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_742 ### Event 2720 (7C04DCF0) **Date:** 1/31/1916 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Near Rochford \(England\), Air Force Sub-Lieutenant J. E. Morgan, flying at 1500 m altitude, sees a row of lights similar to the lit windows \(curtains drawn\) of a train. Believing he is dealing with a German Zeppelin, he draws his Webley Scott pistol and fires. The light rises and quickly disappears. (January 31, 8:45 PM) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1916.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_368 ### Event 2721 (B21588F0) **Date:** 1/31/1916 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** ROCHFORT, ENGL **Description:** RAF pilot. Row / windows in sky. Quickly going up [to] and away / pilot shoots. Electro-magnetic effect (EME). / r150. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 10) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_324 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ROCHFORT,ENGL:RAF PILOT:ROW/WINDOWS in sky:↑↑+AWAY/PILOT SHOOTS:EME:/r150", **LatLong:** "51.550002 0.716667", **LatLongDMS:** "51:33:00 N 00:43:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.550002,0.716667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2722 (5DB5C933) **Date:** 1/31/1916 **Location:** Rochford, Essex, UK **Description:** British A/c Encounters Object With Row of Illuminated Windows (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [19160131](http://www.nicap.org/160131rochford%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_70 ### Event 2723 (09B72601) **Date:** 1/31/1916 **Locations:** Romford, Essex, England; Rochford, Essex **Description:** 8:25 p.m. Royal Flying Corps Lieut. [Reginald Maxwell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald%5FMaxwell) is cruising his B.E.2c biplane at 10,000 feet near Romford, Essex, England, patrolling for German Zeppelins. He sees an “artificial light” to the north. He follows it northeast for 20 minutes, but it moves higher and he loses it in the clouds. At the same time, Royal Flying Corps pilot Sub-Lieut. J. Eric Morgan, also flying a B.E.2c at 5,000 feet near Rochford, Essex, and looking for Zeppelins, sees an object about 100 feet away with a row of windows “like a railway carriage with the blinds drawn.” He tries to close on it, but his engine is malfunctioning. When he fires his pistol at it, the lights rise and rapidly disappear. Morgan is forced to make a crash landing. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Capt. Joseph Morris, The German Air Raids on Great Britain, 1914–1918, Sampson, Low, Marston, 1925, [pp. 81–82](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015046869957&view=1up&seq=115&skin=2021); David Clarke, “Britain’s First Military UFO Encounter?” [Part 1](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015046869957&view=1up&seq=115&skin=2021) and [Part 2](http://www.uk-ufo.org/condign/hist19162.htm)[,](http://www.uk-ufo.org/condign/hist19162.htm) The Real UFO Project, 2004; UFOFiles2, [p. 10](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n23/mode/2up); Patrick Gross, “[Pilots UFO](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/acufo-romford31jan1916.htm) [Sightings,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/acufo-romford31jan1916.htm)” August 10, 2021, and “[Near Rochford,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/acufo-31jan1916rochford.htm)” August 2, 2021 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_362 ### Event 2724 (983CF03E) **Date:** 1/31/1916 **Description:** Royal Flying Corps pilot Lt. Morgan was flying at 5000 feet over Rochford, Essex, England on this evening on the lookout for Zeppelins. At 8:25 p.m. he saw an object with a row of lights like the windows on a railway carriage with the blinds drawn. He tried to close but his airplane's engine started malfunctioning. When he fired a pistol at the lights they rose rapidly into the heavens and disappeared out of sight. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 10 citing J. Morris, p. 81; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 6; Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The Secret History of Scotland's UFO Phenomenon, p. 89 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_633 ### Event 2725 (F677B983) **Date:** 2/29/1916 **Location:** Carnegie Coal Dock in Superior, Wisconsin **Description:** 4:30 a.m. John Tullyson, head watchman at Globe Elevators, and John Gustavson at the Carnegie Coal Dock in Superior, Wisconsin, hear an engine noise and see a large flying object “50 feet wide and 100 feet long,” with three lights, “one on each end and one in the middle.” Moving swiftly at 600 feet altitude, the object carries a long rope trailing behind it with a large object attached to it. Three “men” are inside the craft, one of them sitting in the front of the machine. The other two seem to be looking around. Possible Chinese lantern or airplane. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Mysterious Aeroplane Continues Nocturnal Trips over Superior,” Superior \(Wis.\) Telegram, February 29, 1916, p. 5; Clark III 263; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1916-02-29-usa-superior.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1916-02-29-usa-superior.htm) March 16, 2013 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_363 ### Event 2726 (F523DCD7) **Date:** 2/29/1916 **Description:** In Superior, Wisconsin at 4:30 a.m. several dock workers observed the passage of a large flying machine in which three men were clearly visible. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jerome Clark, Anomalist, April 2000, p. 19 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1186 ### Event 2727 (0F90B37B) **Date:** 3/12/1916 **Location:** Lowry, South Dakota **Description:** Early evening. Claude D. McGee is walking home from a trip to a ranch outside Lowry, South Dakota, when he sees a strange glowing light in the hills ahead of him. Suddenly the light swings in a huge arc down into the valley but stays close to the wall of hills where it comes to rest. It stays there a few moments then swings back to where it had been about 2 miles away. It repeats the action twice then disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 1171 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_364 ### Event 2728 (E02D0AD7) **Date:** 3/15/1916 **Location:** NORWAY, Vesteralen **Description:** (Translated from French) A plane was clearly seen flying above Vesteralen. It arrived at a dizzying speed from the sea, first made a complete circle, then was above the Boroy area and finally directly above Stokmarknes. Both on its arrival and on its return flight, the lights it carried continuously changed color, red, blue, white and it seemed like some kind of code. It was 11 pm when this phenomenon appeared and many people observed the unknown visitor, as it was also well lit by the moonlight. (1916, March 15,) **Reference:** NY TID, Mar 1916.; MORGENBLADET, 24 Mar 1916, 4.; Bullard: THE AIRSHIP FILE - SUPPLEMENT I., 1983, 41, listing of Ole Jonny Braenne **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_743 ### Event 2729 (B03E56A1) **Date:** 3/15/1916 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Vesterålen \(Norway\), an aircraft was clearly seen above Vesterålen. It arrived at high speed from the sea, first made a complete circle, then was above the Børøy area, and finally Stokmarknes. During the arrival and return flights a nearly steady light changed from red, blue and white. This looked more like a signal. Many people were able to clearly observe the night visitor in the light of the Moon. (March 15th, 11pm) **Reference:** \[NY TID, March 1916\] \[Morgenbladet, 24 Mar 1916, 4\] \[Bullard: The airship file - Supplement I, 1983, 41\] **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1916.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_371 ### Event 2730 (5FAF19C4) **Date:** Spring 1916 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Lucia is with two of her cousins when the rain starts to fall. The children take refuge in a small cave. After lunch, the rain having stopped, they start to play at the entrance of the cave. Suddenly, they hear the roar of a powerful wind and see a white light hovering in the valley above the treetops. In this light is a young man of remarkable beauty who approaches them and says: "I am the angel of peace". He teaches them a prayer and disappears. The three little ones remain in a trance; they keep mechanically repeating the prayer until they literally fall from exhaustion. (Spring) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1916.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_372 ### Event 2731 (C8B15477) **Date:** 4/1916 **Location:** FRANCE **Description:** (Translated from French) Deperdussin works under the name of Spad Firm and in April 1916 the armed monoplane Spad VII makes its first flight. 192km/h, ceiling 5334m, autonomy 360 km. **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_744 ### Event 2732 (F5D17F6C) **Date:** 4/4/1916 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Jæren \(Norway\), two dockers and a police officer saw a light in the air from the quay towards the West above Jæren, probably a Zeppelin. The light disappeared to the West. (April 4) **Reference:** \[Morgenbladet, April 5, 1916, 4\] \[Bullard: The airship file - Supplement I., 1983, 41\] **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1916.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_373 ### Event 2733 (40BAA9A8) **Date:** 4/16/1916 **Location:** NORWAY, Stavanger **Description:** (Translated from French) The students of Stavanger Folkeskole, aged 9 to 11, saw a black cloud appear in the sky, followed by a red light at the back. The appearance seemed so divine to them that they all believed they saw an angel and a cross. A little later a message appeared written in the sky. (April 16, 1916) **Reference:** STAVANGER AFTENBLAD, Apr 1916, Mar 1917, Mar 1918, 19 Dec 1942, Apr 1943. iorth: LEBESBYMANNEN., 193-?, 45-8. OMVEND DERE FOR JESUS KOMMER SNART., 198-?.UFO, 1/1989, 22-3. Listing d'Ole Jonny Braenne **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_745 ### Event 2734 (335B678F) **Date:** 4/16/1916 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Stavanger \(Norway\), students of Stavanger Folkeskole, aged between 9 and 11, see a black cloud appear in the sky. There is a red light behind it. The observation takes a religious turn when they see an angel with a cross. Later a message appears in the sky. (April 16) **Reference:** \[Stavanger Aftenblad, April 1916, March 1917, March 1918, December 19 1942, April 1943\] \[Hiorth: Lebesbymannen, 193-?, 45-8\] \[Omvend Dere for Jesus Kommer Snart, 198-?\] \[UFO, 1/1989, 22-3\] **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1916.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_374 ### Event 2735 (53E78D13) **Date:** 4/20/1916 **Location:** NORWAY, Stafjorden **Description:** (Translated from French) The SS "Faljir" of The Nordre Bergenhus Company was overflown and passed at 2 o'clock in the morning at Stafjorden, west zone of Svanoen, by a Zeppelin. It was illuminated and the sound of its engines was heard clearly. The craft disappeared in the direction of the north. (April 20, 1916) **Reference:** MORGENBLADET, April 23, 1916, 4. Bullard: THE AIRSHIP FILE - SUPPLEMENT I., 1983, 41. Listing of Ole Jonny Braenne **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_746 ### Event 2736 (8775100A) **Date:** 4/20/1916 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Off Stafjorden to the West of Svanøen \(Norway\), the steamboat *Fjalir* of the Nordre Bergenhus company was passed by a Zeppelin. It was lit up and the buzzing of the engines was clearly heard. It disappeared to the North. (April 20, 2:00) **Reference:** \[Morgenbladet, 23 Apr 1916, 4\] \[Bullard: The airship file - Supplement I., 1983, 41\] **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1916.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_375 ### Event 2737 (25388261) **Date:** 5/1916 **Location:** GERMANY **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the two-seat reconnaissance aircraft Halberstadt, not very remarkable but fitting in with the times: 170 km/h, ceiling 5000 m. (May 1916) **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_747 ### Event 2738 (38A50F56) **Date:** 5/1916 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN and NETHERLANDS **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the two-seater Armstrong Whitworh FK4 reconnaissance bomber; maximum speed 153 km/h, ceiling 3960m. First flight May 1916, delivery to the armies end 1916, end of production 1918. **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_748 ### Event 2739 (6846603E) **Date:** 5/4/1916 **Location:** National Observatory in Córdoba, Argentina **Description:** Evening. Astronomers [Charles Dillon Perrine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FDillon%5FPerrine) and [Anna Estelle Glancy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%5FEstelle%5FGlancy) observe an object resembling a comet at the National Observatory in Córdoba, Argentina. It is moving remarkably fast, moving 10° toward the sun within an hour and passes below the horizon. It has a prominent tail of 8°–10° in length. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Comet or Meteor?](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000063000146&view=1up&seq=421&skin=2021)” Scientific American 115 \(1916\): 493 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_365 ### Event 2740 (39A073F3) **Date:** 6/1916 (approximate) **Time:** ~11:00 **Location:** RENSSELAER, IN **Description:** Dull grey 12M ovoid hovers near ground. Streaks away / 25° angle to 8000kph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 10) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_325 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "212", **HatchDesc:** "RENSSELAER,IN:DULL GRY 12M OVOID HVRS nr GND:STREAKS AWAY/25°ANGLE to 8000kph", **LatLong:** "40.938891 -87.150004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:56:20 N 87:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.938891,-87.150004)", **RelAlt:** "3", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 2741 (813AC0FD) **Date:** Summer 1916 **Location:** GERMANY **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the two-seat reconnaissance Hansa Brandenburg airplane, 170 km/h, ceiling around 5000 m. Improved versions were built until 1926 in Finland and Norway under the designation A-22 (1916, Summer) **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_752 ### Event 2742 (70FA5C97) **Date:** Summer 1916 **Location:** USA, Rensselaer (Indiana) **Description:** (Translated from French) One day in the summer, Roy Gish, between 10 and 11 o'clock in the morning, observed an elongated oval craft at a distance of one mile. The object stopped dead in the air, hovering for a few seconds, before continuing its route passing over the witness's house. "It seemed as solid as a machine part" he said, with a dark gray surface, an estimated length of 40 feet and 8 to 12 feet wide. In a few seconds then the craft left like an arrow and disappeared in about ten seconds, in a cloudless sky. (1916, Summer) **Reference:** "Ufo's – A century of Sightings by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 13, 14 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_753 ### Event 2743 (801B2B67) **Date:** Summer 1916 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) On a hot day, the angel reappears and asks: "What are you doing? Pray! Pray a lot! Offer prayers and sacrifices constantly. How can we make sacrifices? asks Lucia. Sacrifice all that you can... Above all, accept and patiently endure the sufferings that the Lord will send you. He leaves the children completely paralyzed. It is only at nightfall that they regain their senses and start playing again. Here again, as in the previous case, the witnesses did not want to talk about what they had seen, not even among themselves. The next day, they still could not understand their reactions to the apparition: I don't know what's happening to me, said one of the little girls. I can neither speak, nor play, nor sing, and I have no strength to do anything. (Summer) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1916.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_377 ### Event 2744 (87640757) **Date:** 6/24/1916 **Location:** NORWAY, Bergen **Description:** (Translated from French) "At around 11pm, an airplane was seen above Ulrikken. It was a biplane, observed by several people. It flew at such a high altitude that it could only be clearly seen through binoculars. It seemed to be heading towards the sea." (June 24, 1916) **Reference:** BERGENS AFTENBLAD, Jun 1916. MORGENBLADET, 27 Jun 1916, 2. Bullard: THE AIRSHIP FILE - SUPPLEMENT I., 1983, 42. Listing by Ole Jonny Braenne **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_749 ### Event 2745 (F9979D02) **Date:** 6/24/1916 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Bergen \(Norway\), an airplane is observed above Ulrikken. It is a biplane, observed by many people. It flies at such an altitude that it can only be observed with a telescope. It seems to have come from the sea. (Saturday 24th June, 11pm) **Reference:** \[BERGENS AFTENBLAD, Jun 1916\] \[MORGENBLADET, 27 Jun 1916, 2\] \[Bullard: The airship file - Supplement I., 1983, 42\] **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1916.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_376 ### Event 2746 (74380783) **Date:** 7/1916 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, USA **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the four-seater maritime patrol Curtiss H Series (Large America), first in England, then in the USA at the end of the year. It reached 137 km/h, ceiling 3292 m; last delivery in October 1918. **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_750 ### Event 2747 (9AE328FF) **Date:** 7/19/1916 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** HUNTINGTON, WV **Description:** Unidentified luminous blimp going [to] over town. Vanishes and reappears. / r85p36+/ r242p129. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 186) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_326 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "173", **HatchDesc:** "HUNTINGTON,WV:UID LUMn.BLIMP > OVR TOWN:VANISHES+REAPPEARS:/r85p36+/r242p129", **LatLong:** "38.400002 -82.450004", **LatLongDMS:** "38:24:00 N 82:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.400002,-82.450004)", **State/Prov:** "Western Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2748 (CB374D22) **Date:** 7/19/1916 **Location:** Huntington, WV **Description:** Elongated Oval Object Hovers Near Ground (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [160719](http://www.nicap.org/1605XXrensselaer%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_71 ### Event 2749 (4D73A02A) **Date:** 7/19/1916 **Location:** Huntington, West Virginia **Description:** 10:30 p.m. Walter H. Eager and another witness in Huntington, West Virginia, watch a nebulous object in the shape of a dirigible that slowly fades from view. Possibly a light pillar created by a nearby blast furnace. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Walter H. Eager, “[An Unusual Aurora,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000063000146&view=1up&seq=213&skin=2021)” Scientific American 115 \(1916\): 241; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 391–397 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_366 ### Event 2750 (CD3531EB) **Date:** 7/19/1916 **Description:** A luminous blimp-shaped flying object flew over Huntington, West Virginia at eleven o'clock at night. It vanished and reappeared. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Charles Fort, Book of the Damned, p. 278 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4187 ### Event 2751 (8F5A7F12) **Date:** 9/9/1916 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the two-seater Bristol fighter types 14-17, max. speed 201 km/h, ceiling 6096 m, out of operational inventory in 1938. **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_754 ### Event 2752 (81B9705D) **Date:** Autumn 1916 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) "The Angel" appears once again, at the Cave of Cabesco. He gives the children communion. (Autumn) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1916.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_378 ### Event 2753 (3E65656D) **Date:** 10/1916 **Location:** Youngstown, PA **Description:** John Boback, 17, was walking along the railroad tracks between Youngstown and Mt. Braddock when he saw a saucer-shaped object with a platform and rows of lights, sitting in a field 30 m to his left. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_72 ### Event 2754 (C40242B5) **Date:** 11/21/1916 **Location:** FRANCE **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the two-seater day bomber Breguet 14, maximum speed 180 km/h, operational ceiling 6000m; production stopped around 1926. (November 21, 1916) **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_755 ### Event 2755 (DB049E73) **Date:** 11/22/1916 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the experimental S. E. 5A Scout from the Royal Aircraft factory, single-seater reconnaissance, 193 km/h, ceiling 5181m, range 483 km. It is undoubtedly the best warplane ever presented by the firm, easy to fly, dives and climbs quickly, enormous maneuverability, only one flaw: very fragile French engine (Hispano-Suiza). (November 22, 1916) **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 edition **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_756 ### Event 2756 (0F6B1D4C) **Date:** 12/17/1916 **Description:** On the Western front in Europe, Canadian soldier [Maurice Philipp Tuteur](http://www.francaislibres.net/liste/fiche.php?index=99619) and two sergeant majors watch a Zeppelin-like object rise into the clouds in the rear of their lines. It darts ahead at an estimated speed of 200 mph, turns around, darts backward, and shoots up and disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “I Saw a Flying Saucer,” Flying Saucers, May 1959, pp. 6–18, 78; Clark III 1170 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_367 --- ## Year: 1917, 53 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 2757 (C3F92D1A) **Date:** 1917 **Location:** SOUTH AFRICA **Description:** (Translated from French) In 1917, Elizabeth Klarer was 7 years old. With her older sister, she observed a comet coming towards the Earth at great speed and a round metallic disc spinning around the comet and forcing it to deviate from its objective. **Reference:** Mitarbeiter, "Ufo Geheimnisse", Berlin, January 1998 **Reference:** continued 1937 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_757 ### Event 2758 (2298D953) **Date:** 1917 **Location:** GERMANY **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the first junkers j-10, single-seater fighter. it flew at approx. 155 km/h with a ceiling of 4000m. In the Junkers series other types were built until 1942. (1917,) **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 edition **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_764 ### Event 2759 (3351FAE5) **Date:** 1917 **Location:** Belgium, in flight **Description:** (Translated from French) (UFOWEB: The Red Baron is said to have shot down a UFO in 1917.) Bonn, Germany: The flamboyant fighter pilot known as the Red Baron not only shot down 80 enemy aircraft during World War I but he was also the first human to shoot down an extraterrestrial craft. This is what former German Air Force pilot Peter Waitzrik claims, who says he saw, to his surprise, the fighter pilot shoot at a UFO, which had orange undulating lights, above Belgium in 1917. Then, two of the occupants of the downed UFO, came out of their spacecraft and ran into the woods, apparently never to be seen again. "The Baron and I made a full report on the incident back to Headquarters and they told us never to mention this".

The 105 year old former pilot recently spoke to a reporter. "And except to my wife and my grown children, I never said a word. But that was 80 years ago, so what difference would it make now?". He recounts that he and Baron Manfred von Richtofen, nicknamed the Red Baron, were flying on a morning mission above western Belgium during the summer of 1917 when a UFO suddenly appeared in the blue sky, directly above their Fokker triplane. "We were terrified because we had never seen anything like this before, the United States had just entered the war, so we assumed it was something they had sent. The Baron immediately opened fire and the thing fell like a rock, shearing the treetops as it crashed into the woods. Then two little bald-headed guys came out and ran away" Waitzrik says he assumed the silver, glinting craft was some kind of enemy invention until the "flying saucer" panic began in the 1940s and convinced him his colleague had shot down a UFO. "This thing must have been about 40 meters in diameter and looked exactly like those flying saucer shaped spacecrafts everyone has seen during the last 50 years." he says, "so there is no doubt in my mind that it was some kind of spacecraft from another planet, and those little guys running into the woods were not Americans but some kind of extraterrestrials" "You know, sometimes I wonder what happened to those guys" **Reference:** Source: Sighting/ Jim Hickman Translation: Thierry Mallet (Mush) – THEM **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_765 ### Event 2760 (49CBD190) **Date:** 1917 **Location:** Salida, Colorado **Description:** In 1917, a clergyman in Salida, Colorado, observed an unconventional aerial phenomenon through his telescope. He described the object as resembling a wheel that appeared to rotate or move, accompanied by shifting colored lights. (Chapter 4, Ref 170) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_160 ### Event 2761 (9FEC7801) **Date:** 1917 **Location:** France **Description:** In 1917, an American soldier in a French anti-aircraft balloon unit recounted an encounter with a disc-shaped UFO. The object, likened to a giant mess plate, hovered over a field before silently ascending into the clouds. The soldiers were told the sighting was likely a new German "Super Zeppelin", but the witness later began to doubt that explanation due to the object's substantial size, which would have required an exceptionally large zeppelin to carry. (Chapter 4, Ref 173) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_163 ### Event 2762 (33037614) **Date:** 1917 **Location:** Youngstown, Pennsylvania **Description:** In 1917, a Pennsylvania man encountered a "traditional" landed UFO. While walking near railroad tracks between Mt. Braddock and Youngstown, he saw a saucer-shaped object with a dome on top, similar in size to a car, positioned about 100 feet away in a pasture. The craft featured oval or oblong windows through which figures could be seen moving. After observing it, the UFO took off gradually with a high-pitched sound. (Chapter 4, Ref 181) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_171 ### Event 2763 (6BD2818D) **Date:** 2/16/1917 **Location:** Great Britain **Description:** (Translated from French) First Flight of the Naval Reconnaissance Bi or Triplane Fairey Campania, for which the Cunard Line's Campania ship was bought by the British Navy, was converted into an aircraft carrier. It had a large wingspan (18.75m) and very light floats, takeoffs were made on the ship's deck through a droppable cart (...) Later there would be Fairey Fox, Hendon, Battle, Swordfish, Barracuda, Firefly, Gannet etc... (February 16, 1917) **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_758 ### Event 2764 (A0C2BCEA) **Date:** 4/1917 **Location:** African American neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina **Description:** Night. Residents of the African American neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, report hearing strange, motor-like noises in the air at night for several nights. Some have fleeting glimpses of the swiftly moving dark objects that are causing the noise. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[The Colored People Are Seeing Visions](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/745918/the-charlotte-news/)” Charlotte N.C. News, April 11, 1917, p. 13 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_368 ### Event 2765 (8FA017BE) **Date:** 4/13/1917 **Locations:** Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Kittery, Maine **Description:** Early morning. Two National Guardsmen from Company L of the Sixth Massachusetts Infantry are stationed on the bridge linking Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and Kittery, Maine, when they hear the noise of an airplane. They see an unidentified aircraft circling near the bridge. When it descends, apparently to make a pass at the bridge, one of the guardsmen panics and fires his rifle at it. It moves off and disappears in the distance. Other vague reports continue through April 30. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Hunt for Aircraft Base,” Manchester \(N.H.\) Union, April 14, 1917, pp. 1, 3; Hilary Evans and Robert E. Bartholomew, Outbreak! Anomalist, 2009, pp. 496–497 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_369 ### Event 2766 (57EB1292) **Date:** 4/14/1917 **Location:** Beloit, Illinois **Description:** Late at night, a mysterious airplane was observed flying over Beloit, emitting lights that provided clear evidence of its presence. The aircraft was flying at such a height that the sound of its engine couldn't be heard. Numerous Beloit residents, including Patrolman William Van Ostrand, witnessed this unusual sighting. Flying at night in 1917 was very dangerous, making this report even more curious. **Type:** mystery airplane **Reference:** [newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/article/belvidere-daily-republican-mystery-airpl/130543874/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_1002 ### Event 2767 (F414AFBB) **Date:** 4/14/1917 **Location:** USA, Pascataqua (Massachusetts) **Description:** (Translated from French) An unidentified object was flying at 2:30am above the Pascataqua River, alerting the vigilance of three guards of Company L of the Sixth Massachusetts National Guard. They were posted near a point connecting Kittery (Maine) to Portsmouth (New Hampshire) in order to prevent German sabotage. When the craft descended near the bridge, the three men shot at it and the craft quickly disappeared from the area. The incident was notorious, as it occurred in the area of the Portsmouth Naval Ship Yard, the most important base on the East Coast. (April 14, 1917) **Reference:** "UFO's - A Century of Sightings by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 14 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_759 ### Event 2768 (B6D722AA) **Date:** 4/14/1917 **Time:** 02:30 **Location:** PORTSMOUTH, NH **Description:** Guards fire on mystery plane. 'Toy balloon with smoke'. Turns going north going [to] cloud. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: CE-5, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS of the 5th KIND. 1999 Sourcebooks Inc. Naperville, IL ISBN 1-57071-427-4. 242 case files. (Index 181) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_327 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "7", **HatchDesc:** "PORTSMOUTH,NH:GUARDS FIRE ON MYSTERY PLANE:'TOY BALLOON W/SMOKE':TURNS>N>CLOUD", **LatLong:** "43.066669 -70.750003", **LatLongDMS:** "43:04:00 N 70:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.066669,-70.750003)", **State/Prov:** "New Hampshire", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 2769 (5EDDD800) **Date:** 4/17/1917 **Location:** Long Beach, CA **Description:** In Long Beach, two unidentified airplanes were observed flying at a low altitude after midnight. These mystery aircraft paused during their flight to signal three times over a specific section of the ocean before continuing towards Hollywood. A woman witnessed this event and reported it to the police, who confirmed the sighting through other sources. Flying at night in 1917 was very dangerous, making this report even more curious. **Type:** mystery airplane **Reference:** [newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/article/santa-ana-register-mystery-airplane/130542717/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_1001 ### Event 2770 (BCDED1DF) **Date:** 4/17/1917 **Location:** Tucson, AZ **Description:** In Tucson, on April 16, a mystery airplane was observed hovering near the city line. Sheriff Miles of Pima County issued an order to fire upon airplanes flying over the city if they don't identify themselves. There have been numerous airplane sightings over the city without any government communication. Guards reported that a machine even turned a searchlight onto the armory early on Sunday morning. These airplanes were reported to be moving southwest. **Type:** mystery airplane **Reference:** [newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-hanford-sentinel-mystery-airplane/130543005/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_1005 ### Event 2771 (200F56C0) **Date:** 4/18/1917 **Location:** Portsmouth, NH **Description:** Reports confirm the sighting of a mystery airplane over Barnstead. The naval authorities were informed of the flight, and coast guard stations also witnessed the aircraft. This comes after the initial sighting in the city on April 1, prompting government authorities to make multiple attempts to identify and locate the aviator responsible. **Type:** mystery airplane **Reference:** [newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-houston-post-mystery-airplane/130543577/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_1007 ### Event 2772 (F768A75B) **Date:** 4/31/1917 **Location:** Portsmouth, New Hampshire **Description:** An unidentified airplane flying over Portsmouth, New Hampshire, was shot at by National Guardsmen stationed on a bridge. The plane swiftly left the area after the gunfire and could not be located. Naval yard authorities were unable to determine the origin of the airplane. **Type:** mystery airplane **Reference:** [newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/article/belvidere-daily-republican-mystery-airpl/130544262/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_1000 ### Event 2773 (36346B62) **Date:** 5/1917 **Location:** GERMANY **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the Albatros D.V. Reconnaissance Monoplane. Max. speed 187 km/h, ceiling approx. 6250 m, test flight spring 1917, delivery to the armies from May 1917, full production until 1918. **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_760 ### Event 2774 (AEE9FC3A) **Date:** 5/13/1917 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At [Fatima](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Fatima.html) \(Portugal\), 3 young children of Portuguese peasants, Lucia dos Santos \(10 years old\) and her 2 cousins Francisco \(9 years old\) and Giacinta \(7 years old\) Marto, brother and sister, were tending to their flock of sheep after attending mass. They were playing at building a wall around a bush when their attention was drawn to a luminous phenomenon, like a shining globe in the air. They then descended towards their farm, and approached a vast grassy depression called *Cova de Iria* \(literally: Saint Irene's Cave, an ancient sacred place\) to see what was happening. A light then engulfed them and almost blinded them, but allowed them to see in its center a small woman in a white dress. She spoke to them reassuringly and asked them to come back to the same place and same time every month, for 6 months. (Sunday, May 13th, 12pm) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1917.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_379 ### Event 2775 (CD1FBAF2) **Date:** 5/13/1917 **Time:** ~13:00 **Location:** FATIMA, PORTUGAL **Description:** 3 kids. Flash. Small woman appears. Back every month to October. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LOURENCO, Victor: The PORTUCAT CATALOG; (BBS Download). (Index 1) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_328 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **TLP:** Telepathy, **CNT:** Contactee related, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Portugal", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "FATIMA,PORTUGAL:3 KIDS:FLASH:SML WOMAN APPEARS:BACK EVERY MONTH TO OCTOBER", **LatLong:** "39.600002 -8.583334", **LatLongDMS:** "39:36:00 N 08:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.600002,-8.583334)", **State/Prov:** "RBT", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 2776 (6685C66D) **Date:** 5/13/1917 **Locations:** Cova da Iria; Fátima, Portugal **Description:** Three shepherd children at the Cova da Iria in Fátima, Portugal—[Lúcia dos Santos](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister%5FL%C3%BAcia) and her cousins [Francisco](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco%5Fand%5FJacinta%5FMarto) [and Jacinta Marto](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco%5Fand%5FJacinta%5FMarto)—report seeing a woman “brighter than the sun, shedding rays of light clearer and stronger than a crystal goblet filled with the most sparkling water and pierced by the burning rays of the sun.” The woman wears a white mantle edged with gold and holds a rosary in her hand. She asks them to devote themselves to the Holy Trinity and to pray “the Rosary every day.” The children had seen an “angel” at the cove since the spring of 1916. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Our Lady of Fátima](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our%5FLady%5Fof%5FF%C3%A1tima)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_370 ### Event 2777 (CDFA611C) **Date:** 6/1917 **Location:** GERMANY **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the single-seater fighter Pfalz D-III, 165 km/h, ceiling 5200 m. **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_761 ### Event 2778 (0C11F98B) **Date:** 6/1917 **Location:** GERMANY **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the single-seater reconnaissance fighter Siemens-Schuckert, 180 km/h, ceiling 8100m, range 322 km. Delivery completed in 1919. **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_762 ### Event 2779 (06DEE5A9) **Date:** 6/13/1917 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) About fifty people are present at [Fatima](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Fatima.html). They see the little shepherds suddenly kneel and become transfigured. The oldest child, Lucia, 10 years old, speaks to an invisible entity whose answers are not heard. One of the spectators however claims to have heard a very faint voice or the buzzing of a bee. At the end of this dialogue, all the witnesses hear an explosion and see a small cloud rising near a tree. (June 13th, 12 PM) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1917.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_380 ### Event 2780 (2ABB466E) **Date:** 6/13/1917 **Location:** Fátima, Portugal **Description:** The three children at Fátima, Portugal, again see the lady, who reveals that [Francisco and Jacinta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco%5Fand%5FJacinta%5FMarto) will be “taken to heaven” soon, but [Lúcia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister%5FL%C3%BAcia) will live longer to spread the message. The lady also purportedly reveals to the children a vision of hell and entrusts a secret to them, described as “good for some and bad for others.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Our Lady of Fátima](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our%5FLady%5Fof%5FF%C3%A1tima)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_371 ### Event 2781 (69180527) **Date:** Summer 1917 **Location:** GERMANY **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the two-seater fighter hannover, 165 km/h, ceiling 7500 m. (1917, Summer) **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_763 ### Event 2782 (045A9B96) **Date:** 7/13/1917 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The number of witnesses has risen to 4500. A buzzing or humming sound is heard, a decrease in the Sun's brightness and heat, a small white cloud around the tree of apparitions and a powerful noise from the Lady. The children are terrified by "a vision of hell" and receive a specific prophecy announcing "apparitions of unknown lights in the sky: The war will end, but if the peoples do not cease to offend God, there will be another, more terrible war during the reign of Pius XI \(he died in 1939\). When you see the night lit up by an unknown light, know that it is the great sign that God gives you that he will punish the world for its crimes through war, famine and the persecution of the Church and the Holy Father. To prevent this, I will come to ask for the consecration of Russia... If my requests are heard, Russia will be converted and there will be peace. Otherwise, it will spread its errors throughout the world. (July 13th, 12pm) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1917.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_381 ### Event 2783 (BACE48C5) **Date:** 7/13/1917 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) "Angel Hair" recovered in Fatima. See image at images/Fatima.jpg. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1917.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_382 ### Event 2784 (69DB068F) **Date:** 8/11/1917 **Location:** Mojave desert **Description:** The mystery surrounding the appearance of an airplane over the Mojave Desert during the night, which had been reported intermittently for months and doubted by officials, was resolved. Federal officers investigating the matter discovered the airplane in the dry lakebed near Antelope Valley, near the San Bernardino county line. The aircraft was being protected by an armed individual. **Type:** newspaper article **Type:** mystery airplane **Reference:** [newspapers.com](https://t.co/83pZvZy4OW) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_998 ### Event 2785 (86506B68) **Date:** 8/11/1917 **Location:** Mojave desert **Description:** The enigma of a nighttime airplane's unusual presence over the Mojave Desert, which had been periodically reported for months but dismissed as a myth by authorities, was unraveled. Federal officers investigating the matter conveyed that the aircraft had been located in the dry lakebed near Antelope Valley, close to the San Bernardino county line. An armed individual was safeguarding the machine, who stated the plane was owned by 3 men. **Type:** newspaper article **Reference:** [newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-pomona-progress-mystery-airplane/130545093/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_999 ### Event 2786 (13154DA6) **Date:** 8/13/1917 **Location:** Grand Junction, Colorado **Description:** An unidentified airplane caused panic in Salt Lake City when it flew over the area in daring maneuvers with an eerie blue light in the morning. Speculation arises whether the government has a secret airplane base in the LaSalle Mountains of Utah. Residents are alarmed, and the police are investigating the mystery. Sergeant W. S. Keating of the central police station suggests that the government might have established a covert airplane base in southern Utah, while admitting that no concrete evidence is available. Despite a desire to cooperate, the identity of the aircraft remains uncertain. Reports of similar incidents have been received throughout the week. **Type:** mystery airplane **Reference:** [newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-sentinel-mystery-airplane/130545167/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_1006 ### Event 2787 (D1ADC63E) **Date:** 8/13/1917 **Locations:** Fátima; Aljustrel; Portugal; Cova da Iria **Description:** Some 18,000 people have been flocking to Fátima and nearby Aljustrel, Portugal, drawn by reports of visions and miracles. The assembled multitude hears thunder and witnesses lightning in a clear blue sky. Then the sun grows pale and a cloud hovers above the oak tree where the apparitions usually appear. Provincial administrator [Artur de Oliveira Santos](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artur%5Fde%5FOliveira%5FSantos), believing that these events are politically disruptive, takes the children into custody, jailing them before they can reach the Cova da Iria. Santos interrogates and threatens the children to get them to divulge the contents of the secrets. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_372 ### Event 2788 (7DF0986B) **Date:** 8/13/1917 **Description:** A luminous globe was seen spinning through the clouds by over 18,000 witnesses who had assembled at Fatima, in the Cova da Iria, Portugal to see another monthly apparition of the "Lady in Blue", thought to be the Virgin Mary by Roman Catholic faithful. The sky turned rainbow colors including pink, yellow, and blue. There was a perceived lowering of the temperature, and angel hair residue. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, The Invisible College, p. 145 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4958 ### Event 2789 (537F8755) **Date:** Late Summer 1917 **Location:** Youngstown, Pennsylvania **Description:** 12:30 p.m. John Boback is walking along railroad tracks in Youngstown, Pennsylvania, when he hears a swishing sound and sees an elliptical object about 100 feet away on the ground in a pasture. It has portholes emitting ligt from the interior and a smooth surface. Moments later the object ascends smoothly in a gradual climb and flies away to the east. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lore and Deneault, [pp. 104–105](https://archive.org/details/mysteriesofskies0000lore/page/104/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_374 ### Event 2790 (3F44392B) **Date:** 8/19/1917 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The children, released, keep their sheep near Aljustrel when they observe a sudden cooling of the temperature. The Sun becomes yellowish and the countryside is again filled with the colors of the rainbow, which the adults of the surroundings will also observe \(as the inquiry will establish later\). The children see the lightning and a bright glow that settles on a tree near them. In the center stands the entity draped in white and gold. The witnesses fall to their knees and their soul is transported with ecstasy. A dialogue ensues, during which the apparition exhorts them to make sacrifices for the fishermen. 10 minutes later, the Lady of Light slowly departs to the east with a roar of an engine. (August 19th, 4 PM) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1917.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_383 ### Event 2791 (E418447B) **Date:** 8/19/1917 **Locations:** Cova da Iria; Valinhos, Portugal **Description:** Instead of the promised apparition in the Cova da Iria on August 13, the children see the Virgin Mary at nearby Valinhos, Portugal. She asks them again to pray the rosary daily, speaks about the miracle coming in October, and asks them “to pray a lot.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_373 ### Event 2792 (3807B310) **Date:** Early 9/1917 **Location:** Salida, Colorado **Description:** Witnesses at Salida, Colorado, watch distant moving lights flicking on and off over a period of several days. Through a telescope, one light appears to be a revolving wheel with lights on it. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Arlene Shovald, “Edwards’ UFO Sighting Not Salida’s First,” Salida \(Colo.\) Mountain Mail, September 7, 1995; Clark III 1171 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_375 ### Event 2793 (1939AED7) **Date:** 9/13/1917 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The crowd is 30000 people, including two perfectly skeptical priests who have come specially to establish the falseness of the so-called "miracles". The site of the apparitions is a vast amphitheater where most of the crowd has settled to be close to the tree of apparitions. However, the two priests have chosen a location in a higher place from where they can see everything. The Sun then becomes less intense although there are no clouds in the sky. Thousands of people: There she is... look! Everyone sees a globe of light descending slowly down the valley, from East to West, towards the children. It lands on the tree. A white cloud forms and bright white petals start to fall from the empty sky: As people stare at this strange spectacle, they soon notice that, contrary to the laws of perspective, these shining globules that fall become smaller and smaller as they approach them. And when they stretch out their hands and hats to grab them, they realize that, somehow, they have vanished. The children see the entity again at the center of the globe and the dialogue between the Lady and Lucia resumes. The promise of a miracle for October 13th is renewed. Then the luminous globe rises and disappears into the Sun. When one of the priests was asked what kind of globe it seemed to him, he, very impressed, said that it could be a celestial vehicle that was transporting the Mother of God from her throne to the desert down here. (September 13th, 12pm) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1917.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_384 ### Event 2794 (4672F3CF) **Date:** 9/13/1917 **Location:** Cova da Iria, Portugal **Description:** With the three children in attendance, the crowd at the Cova da Iria, Portugal, see a “luminous globe” sail across the sky. A white cloud envelops the children and the oak tree. A rain of white roses is said to have fallen out of the heavens but dissolves just before landing. Behind the cloud, the crowd can see [Lúcia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister%5FL%C3%BAcia) talking to the invisible lady. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_376 ### Event 2795 (75467DB6) **Date:** 10/1917 **Location:** GERMANY **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the single-seater reconnaissance aircraft Albatros D.III, maximum speed 175 km/h, ceiling 5500 m.; delivery to the armies from December 1916, end of production beginning 1918. **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_767 ### Event 2796 (CBA2BB45) **Date:** 10/1917 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The cargo ship *Zebrine* is found completely deserted off the coast of Cherbourg, between Falmouth and Saint-Brieuc. The table is set and laundry is drying on the deck. The logbook is regularly kept. As this disappearance takes place during World War I, the hypothesis of a submarine attack is put forward. The submarine would have fled upon the approach of a ship, fearing to be caught after having boarded the cargo. However, there is no disorder, and the cargo was not sent to the bottom. (October) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1917.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_385 ### Event 2797 (3A9BD4DE) **Date:** 10/1917 (approximate) **Time:** 12:30 **Location:** YOUNGSTOWN, PA **Description:** Swish! 3M saucer / field by railway. Lit windows / dome. Going up [to] slow. Going quickly east. / r8#42. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 11) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_329 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "335", **HatchDesc:** "YOUNGSTOWN,PA:SWISH!:3M SCR/FLD by RAILWAY:LIT WINDOWS/DOME:↑ SLOW:>>E:/r8#42", **LatLong:** "40.283335 -79.361115", **LatLongDMS:** "40:17:00 N 79:21:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.283335,-79.361115)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 2798 (AF62DF74) **Date:** 10/1917 **Location:** Youngstown, Pennsylvania **Description:** John Boback, 17, was walking along the railroad tracks between Youngstown and Mt. Braddock when he saw a saucer-shaped object with a platform and rows of lights, sitting in a field 30 m to his left. He watched the object for 1-2 min until it took off with a high-pitched sound, rising gradually like a slow plane. Its size was that of an average car. The top of the object was a dome with elongated windows through which figures could be seen. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Hartle 157 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_42 ### Event 2799 (18C515B9) **Date:** 10/1917 **Locations:** Connington; KwaZulu-Natal midlands; South Africa **Description:** Seven-year-old [Elizabeth Klarer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%5FKlarer) and her older sister Barbara have their first alleged encounter with a UFO on their parents’ farm Connington in the KwaZulu-Natal midlands, South Africa. While playing outside the farmhouse, Elizabeth claims to witness a giant orange-red wheel rolling across the sky. The plummeting object, also described as a fiery pockmarked meteor or planetoid, is intercepted by a silver disc bathed in a pearly luster. Around this time Elizabeth begins receiving occasional telepathic messages from a friendly space alien named Akon. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 657; Elizabeth Klarer, Beyond the Light Barrier, Howard Timmins, 1980 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_377 ### Event 2800 (DC19A145) **Date:** 10/8/1917 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** western Colorado **Description:** After several weeks without any reports, scores of people observed a mysterious airplane over western Colorado. The aircraft hovered, dipped, and repeated these maneuvers near the presumed Colorado-Utah border. From 7:30 to 8:30 in the evening, the airplane remained visible in the western sky, displaying red, white, and yellow lights that were even discernible with magnification. Eventually, it vanished. Although locals were reassured that the plane wasn't an enemy aircraft according to Uncle Sam, the Federal Government withheld details about its true nature from the public. **Type:** ufo sightings **Reference:** [newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-sentinel-mystery-airplane/130545952/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_991 ### Event 2801 (91340C31) **Date:** 10/13/1917 **Location:** PORTUGAL, Fatima. **Description:** (Translated from French) At noon. Miracle or flying saucers? Everyone will have already read the account and the various hypotheses put forward on various occasions. **Reference:** "UFO's – A Century of Sightings by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 14 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_766 ### Event 2802 (01382BE5) **Date:** 10/13/1917 **Location:** USA, Youngstown (Pennsylvania) **Description:** (Translated from French) John Boback, 17 years old, observed a flying saucer. The young man was walking along the railway when he saw in a field 30 m away from him, an object in the shape of a disc with a platform and rows of lights. After nearly two minutes the craft rose with a shrill sound, slowly, while silhouettes were visible behind what seemed like illuminated windows. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 228 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_768 ### Event 2803 (BFF4E707) **Date:** 10/13/1917 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In front of a crowd of 70000 people despite heavy rain, the vision is preceded by a lightning and a sweet and pleasant smell. The children enter into communication with the Lady. Witnesses observe the great change occurring on the faces of the 3 children, transfigured by the vision. The announced miracle took place at the departure of the Lady of the *Cova da Iria*. The rain that had not stopped falling on the crowd suddenly stops, and the heavy clouds move away. The Sun appears as a shining silver disc, a fantastic disc that spins quickly on its axis and throws beams of colored light in all directions. Red rays shot from the edge of the Sun and colored the clouds, the earth, the trees, the people; then violet, blue, yellow and other colors followed. These colors were described by an objective skeptic as monochromatic sectors that spun endlessly. Reports speak of a flat disc rather than a globe. After a while, it stopped its rotation and plunged down in zigzag -like a dead leaf - towards the earth and the horrified spectators. Most of the observers then believe that their last hour has come. Many of them, including detractors, kneel in the mud and start to publicly confess. Finally, the disc reverses its movement and disappears towards the Sun, the real one, again fixed and dazzling in the sky. The stunned crowd suddenly realizes that their clothes are perfectly dry. (October 13th, 12pm) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1917.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_386 ### Event 2804 (D9DEF619) **Date:** 10/13/1917 **Time:** 13:50 **Location:** FATIMA, PORTUGAL **Description:** 50000 observer(s). Opalescent saucer rotates. Only kids see pseudo-human/entity with silver sphere/orb/globe. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHELL, John: The FLYING SAUCER VISION; Ace-Star Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 95) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_330 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **TLP:** Telepathy, **CNT:** Contactee related, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **HST:** Historical account, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Portugal", **Credibility:** "15", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "FATIMA,PORTUGAL:50000 OBS:OPALESCENT SCR ROTATES:ONLY KIDS SEE PSH W/SLVR ORB", **LatLong:** "39.600002 -8.600000", **LatLongDMS:** "39:36:00 N 08:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.600002,-8.600000)", **State/Prov:** "RBT", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 2805 (02944276) **Date:** 10/13/1917 **Location:** Cova da Iria, Portugal **Description:** After some newspapers report that the Virgin Mary has promised a miracle for the last of her apparitions, a huge crowd, possibly between 30,000 and 100,000, including reporters and photographers, gathers at Cova da Iria, Portugal. What happens then becomes known as the “Miracle of the Sun.” Various claims are made as to what really happened. The three children report seeing a panorama of visions during the event, including those of Jesus, Our Lady of Sorrows, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, and Saint Joseph blessing the people. Father John de Marchi, an Italian Catholic priest and researcher who wrote several books on the subject, included descriptions by witnesses who believe they observed a miracle created by Mary, the mother of Jesus. After a period of rain, the dark clouds break and the Sun appears as an opaque, spinning disc in the sky. It appears significantly duller than normal and casts multicolored lights across the landscape, the people, and the surrounding clouds. The Sun then seems to careen towards the earth before zigzagging back to its normal position. Witnesses report that their previously wet clothes become “suddenly and completely dry, as well as the wet and muddy ground that had been previously soaked because of the rain that had been falling.” Not all witnesses report seeing the Sun “dance.” Some people only see the radiant colors, and others, including some believers, see nothing at all. The only known picture of the Sun taken during the event does not show anything unusual. No unusual solar phenomena are observed by scientists. Some theologians, scientists, and skeptics have offered alternative explanations that include psychological suggestibility of the witnesses, temporary retinal distortion caused by staring at the intense light of the Sun, a sundog, and optical effects caused by natural meteorological phenomena. The Miracle of the Sun is interpreted by others as a UFO event. Investigator [Joe Nickell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%5FNickell) thinks that the effects are “a combination of factors, including optical effects and meteorological phenomena, such as the sun being seen through thin clouds, causing it to appear as a silver disc. Other possibilities include an alteration in the density of the passing clouds, causing the sun’s image to alternately brighten and dim and so seem to advance and recede, and dust or moisture droplets in the atmosphere refracting the sunlight and thus imparting a variety of colors.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Miracle of](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle%5Fof%5Fthe%5FSun) [the Sun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle%5Fof%5Fthe%5FSun)”; Clark III 484–485; “[O Milagre do Fátima,](http://hemerotecadigital.cm-lisboa.pt/OBRAS/IlustracaoPort/1917/N610/N610%5Fitem1/P15.html)” Ilustração Portuguesa, no. 610 \(October 29, 1917\): 353– 355; John de Marchi, [The True Story of Fatima](https://archive.org/details/fatimafullstory00marc/page/n3/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/fatimafullstory00marc/page/n3/mode/2up) St. Paul, Minn.: Catechetical Guild Educational Society, 1956; Joe Nickell, “[The Real Secrets of Fatima,](https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2009/11/22164423/p14.pdf)” Skeptical Inquirer 33, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 2009\): 14–17; Jeffrey S. Bennett, When the Sun Danced, University of Virginia, 2012; Auguste Meessen, “[Apparitions and Miracles of the](https://www.meessen.net/AMeessen/Apparitions%5Fand%5FMiracles%5Fof%5Fthe%5FSun.pdf) [Sun,](https://www.meessen.net/AMeessen/Apparitions%5Fand%5FMiracles%5Fof%5Fthe%5FSun.pdf)” in Science, Religion, and Conscience, Actas do Forum International, Centro Transdisciplinar de Estudos da Consciência, October 23–25, 2003, Santos, 2005 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_378 ### Event 2806 (F3A9AB4E) **Date:** 10/13/1917 **Description:** Approximately 70,000 people crowded the fields surrounding the Cova da Iria, a grotto in Fatima, Portugal to witness a promised miracle. Miraculous events and apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary had been occurring monthly on the 13th of every month since three children--Lucia, Jesus and Marto-- had first met a mysterious lady in blue there in May. Not many of those in the crowd, even those close to the three children, were able to witness the apparition of the Lady on this day, but it is reported that everyone present saw "something." The most common description was of a "gyrating sun" that became a silver disc, and emitted bright rainbow shafts of light, changing colors in succession from red to violet to blue to yellow. The flat silver disc plunged downward toward earth in a zigzag fashion. Catholics present interpreted these events as a sign from God, and the religious event was later sanctioned as a miracle by the Roman Catholic Church. The prophesies revealed that day have been kept secret by the Vatican, but reportedly involve the assassination of "the last Pope." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 12; John A. Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 259; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 149; Jacques Vallee, The Invisible College, p. 143 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6803 ### Event 2807 (7124A1D7) **Date:** 10/18/1917 **Location:** Helena, MT **Description:** The Helena Independent newspaper is offering a $100 reward for any information leading to the identification of the individuals operating an unidentified aeroplane observed around Helena. Reports of an airship flying over the state capital during the early hours have surfaced, and many people in the city, East Helena, and nearby areas have reported similar sightings in the past months. The newspaper staff even heard an airship's sound while hunting, although they couldn't see it. Ranchers in the region have purchased high-power rifles in hopes of targeting the mysterious aircraft they claim to have seen. **Type:** mystery airplane **Type:** newspaper article **Reference:** [newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/article/lewistown-daily-news-mystery-airplane/130546282/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_1004 ### Event 2808 (F2DDD59D) **Date:** 11/1917 **Location:** USA/Great Britain **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the Martin & Handasayde single-seater fighter under the name Martinsyde F-4 Buzzard, 209 km/h, ceiling 7320m, range approximately 650 km. At the armistice, 52 aircraft were delivered. **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_769 ### Event 2809 (2055F91A) **Date:** 12/23/1917 **Location:** Boise, ID **Description:** Alfred Rordame attempts to explain the recent flap of mystery airplane sightings as mere misidentifications of Venus. While he attributes the sightings to the planet's motion and brightness, he disregards the detailed descriptions provided by eyewitnesses. Rordame's dismissal lacks substantial evidence and fails to address the complexity of the reported events. His focus on astronomical principles neglects the possibility of alternative explanations, leaving many unanswered questions. **Type:** mystery airplane **Reference:** [newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-capital-news-mystery-airplanes-p/130547548/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_1003 --- ## Year: 1918, 16 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 2810 (93363EBB) **Date:** 1918 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The *USS Cyclops*, a cargo ship sailing in the Caribbean, disappears without a trace during a storm. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1918.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_387 ### Event 2811 (F0B66D00) **Date:** 1918 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) After the apparitions in Fatima the previous year, the spiritual results are significant, despite the efforts of the Portuguese authorities to minimize and discredit them. The conversions and return to religious practice have taken on such a dimension that the Portuguese regime, very anti-religious, quickly evolves and restores its diplomatic relations with the Holy See in the Vatican. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1918.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_388 ### Event 2812 (A9B3D354) **Date:** 1918 **Location:** Waco, Texas **Description:** In 1918, soldiers stationed at an Army base in Waco, Texas, were startled by the appearance of a UFO. The object, described as cigar-shaped and around 100 to 150 feet long, defied conventional dirigible characteristics. It lacked motors, rigging, and windows, emitted no noise, and had a distinct rose or flame-like color. The soldiers were left puzzled and amazed by the encounter. (Chapter 4, Ref 171) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_161 ### Event 2813 (5E2C89D9) **Date:** Early 1918 **Location:** Waco (near), TX **Description:** Reddish cigar-shaped object, with no motor or rigging, passed silently from SW to NE. (NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_73 ### Event 2814 (18091EEF) **Date:** 1/1918 **Location:** USA, Waco (Texas) **Description:** (Translated from French) A red, cigar-shaped object, without engine or wings, silently passed from southwest to northeast. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 228) It measured between 100 and 150 feet long. The witnesses were military personnel from the base. One of them, Edwin Bauhan, estimated that the object had descended 500 feet and that everyone could see that there was neither engine nor windows, and that it did not resemble the dirigibles they knew well. The object emitted absolutely no sound. It left the area gaining altitude and disappeared in a burst of flames. (January 1918) **Reference:** "Ufo's – A century of Sightings by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 15 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_770 ### Event 2815 (93B73342) **Date:** 3/1/1918 **Locations:** Tahunanui Beach, Nelson, New Zealand; eastern hills **Description:** Early morning. A woman at Tahunanui Beach, Nelson, New Zealand, sees two distinct “seaplanes” flying together near the surface of the water. They soon diverge, one going in the direction of the eastern hills and both getting lost in the clouds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Seaplanes over Tasman Bay,](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TC19180302.2.36)” Nelson Colonist, March 2, 1918, p. 4; Brett Holman, “[The Mystery Aeroplane Scare in New Zealand—1](https://airminded.org/2013/08/28/the-mystery-aeroplane-scare-in-new-zealand-i/),” Airminded, August 28, 2013 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_380 ### Event 2816 (F7917D18) **Date:** 5/13/1918 **Location:** PORTUGAL, Fatima **Description:** (Translated from French) During a pilgrimage, there was a new fall of a substance, described this time as "white balls". (May 13, 1918) **Reference:** Inforespace n° 55, 1981, p.4 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_771 ### Event 2817 (2BD7BA41) **Date:** Summer 1918 **Location:** Malta, Montana **Description:** 7:30 p.m. At an isolated ranch 60 miles from Malta, Montana, 9-year-old [Theodore Warren](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/31960483/theodore-r-warren) sees a cigar- shaped “airship” with windows that shine with greenish light. It flies in from the mountains in the east and hovers above the ranch house. He watches it for a while, and then it “whooshes” away to the northwest. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ione Warren Conway, “A UFO\(?\) from the Past,” IUR 7, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1982\): 16 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_381 ### Event 2818 (FF5F1292) **Date:** 7/16/1918 **Location:** USA, Kelso (Washington) **Description:** (Translated from French) As reported in the "Seattle Times" on July 16th, 1918, "mountain demons" attacked a dam that a prospector had built on a stream near Mount Laurence near Kelso, in the state of Washington. The "demons" were half-human, half-monster. Their size was between 2 and 2.5 meters. They had the power of hypnotism and ventriloquism. In addition, they could disappear at will or become invisible (July 16th, 1918, before) **Reference:** Jean FERGUSON: "The Humanoids..." ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1977, p. 113 **Reference:** sic **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_772 ### Event 2819 (213C6154) **Date:** 8/12/1918 **Locations:** Durie Hill, Whanganui, New Zealand; South Spit; Landguard Bluff **Description:** After 5:00 p.m. Two women at Durie Hill, Whanganui, New Zealand, see an airplane moving swiftly off the South Spit heading toward the south. It disappears behind Landguard Bluff. Other witnesses come forward to corroborate the sighting. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Aeroplane off Wanganui,](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WC19180813.2.17)” Wanganui Chronicle, August 13, 1918, p. 4; Brett Holman, “[The Mystery Aeroplane Scare in New Zealand—IV,](https://airminded.org/2013/10/26/the-mystery-aeroplane-scare-in-new-zealand-iv/)” Airminded, October 26, 2013 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_382 ### Event 2820 (2F057179) **Date:** 8/13/1918 **Location:** Carrington Road, New Plymouth, New Zealand **Description:** Evening. Mr. C. Rawlinson is cycling to a dance on Carrington Road, New Plymouth, New Zealand, when he sees a bright star against some mountains about 6 miles away. It starts flashing red and white and moves closer and downward, then rises to 400–500 feet and performs other maneuvers. He rides home to tell his sisters, who also see the light until about 8:30 p.m., when it moves off to the sea. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Local and General,](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19180814.2.15)” Wellington Dominion, August 14, 1918, p. 4; Brett Holman, “[The Mystery Aeroplane Scare in New Zealand—IV,](https://airminded.org/2013/10/26/the-mystery-aeroplane-scare-in-new-zealand-iv/)” Airminded, October 26, 2013 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_383 ### Event 2821 (0EFB4401) **Date:** 10/1918 **Location:** Tulgas, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia **Description:** During operations against the Bolshevik Army in Tulgas, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, soldiers of the US 339th Infantry Regiment watch a round object the color of burnished copper, with a faint light and vapor obscuring much of its shape. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Letter to J. Allen Hynek; Jan Aldrich **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_384 ### Event 2822 (F932ECCA) **Date:** 10/2/1918 **Location:** USA, Dayton **Description:** (Translated from French) The unmanned aircraft, "The Bug" true guided missile, successfully completed several flights in Dayton. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air. Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p.131 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_773 ### Event 2823 (DADA402F) **Date:** 11/11/1918 **Description:** End of World War 1 **Type:** war **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_29 ### Event 2824 (A3988FE1) **Date:** 11/11/1918 **Location:** CHINA, BEIJING **Description:** (Translated from French) Chinese pilots showing unparalleled skill and daringness fly above Beijing. They fly between the chimneys of the Grand Hotel, then at 5 meters above the crowd on the road. (November 11, 1918) **Reference:** Conquest of the Air. Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 132 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_774 ### Event 2825 (15DC0D7B) **Date:** Winter 1918? **Locations:** Rich Field; Waco, Texas **Description:** Edwin T. Bauhan and other soldiers at Rich Field in Waco, Texas, see a noiseless, flame-colored, cigar-shaped object 100–150 feet long flying overhead at an altitude of 500 feet. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lore and Deneault, [p. 105](https://archive.org/details/mysteriesofskies0000lore/page/104/mode/2up); Clark III 1170; “[1918 Sighting,](http://www.project1947.com/shg/csi/csiv1-4.html)” Civilian Saucer Investigation Quarterly Bulletin 1, no. 4 \(Winter 1954\): 10–11 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_379 --- ## Year: 1919, 24 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 2826 (9398CACD) **Date:** 1919 **Location:** US **Description:** Charles Fort writes in his book "The Book of the Damned": "I suspect that, after all, we're useful.. that something has rights to us, by force, or by having paid out analogues of beads for us to former, more primitive, owners of us.. that all this has been known, perhaps for ages, to certain ones.. a cult or order, members of which function like bellwethers to the rest of us, or as superior slaves or overseers, directing us in accorance with instructions received - from Somewhere else". (See also: abduction phenomenom, Greada Treaty, Eisenhower 1954 Edwards AFB meeting.) **Reference:** [Twitter](https://twitter.com/richgel999/status/1675775173973164032) **Reference:** [The Book of the Damned](http://www.resologist.net/damn12.htm) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_946 ### Event 2827 (C1F4BC04) **Date:** 1919 **Location:** US **Description:** Charles Fort writes in his book "The Book of the Damned": "I think we're fished for. It may be that we're highly esteemed Oby super-epicures somewhere.. I think that we may be of some use after all. I think that dragnets have often come down and have been mistaken forwhirlwinds and waterspouts. Some accounts of seeming structure in whirlwinds and waterspouts are astonishing. And I have data that, in this book, I can't take up at all - mysterious disappearances. I think we're fished for.. or our use to some other mode of seeming that has a legal right to us." (See also: abduction phenomenom, *Missing 411* series.) **Reference:** [Twitter](https://twitter.com/richgel999/status/1684395669367160832) **Reference:** [The Book of the Damned](http://www.resologist.net/damn12.htm) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_947 ### Event 2828 (04B20FF5) **Date:** 1919 **Locations:** Mars; Schenectady, New York **Description:** Wireless inventor [Guglielmo Marconi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo%5FMarconi) claims that he has detected large-wavelength radio signals from Mars. He claims the most frequent signal is the Morse code for “S,” or three short dots. The signals, however, are subsequently traced to an experiment conducted by chemist [Irving Langmuir](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving%5FLangmuir) at the General Electric Laboratories in Schenectady, New York. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[‘Hello, Earth! Hello!’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/68563892/tomahawk-hello-earth-hello/)” White Earth \(Minn.\) The Tomahawk, March 18, 1920, p. 6 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_385 ### Event 2829 (C209C4F1) **Date:** 1919 **Location:** Western Australia **Description:** In 1919, a man in western Australia encountered a landed UFO and its occupant. While walking along a rural road, he found a "man" repairing a peculiar craft. Startled by the witness, the stranger pointed something at him, causing him to lose consciousness. Upon waking up, the stranger and the craft had disappeared. (Chapter 4, Ref 182) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_172 ### Event 2830 (BD0FDA07) **Date:** 1919 **Location:** Webster City, Iowa **Description:** In 1919, a brother and sister on a farm near Webster City, Iowa, encountered unusual visitors. They saw a brown-green object near a tree and ran toward it, noticing a stern-looking figure in green-brown clothes standing by an open door. The figure made strange guttural sounds. A shorter figure appeared, quickly dipped water from the stream in a tin can, and was then hurried into the craft by the larger figure, after which the craft ascended rapidly, hitting tree branches. The craft moved sideways and over a hill with its three legs down, leaving without lights or sound. The children followed but soon lost sight of it. Round marks resembling cane imprints were left on the soil where it had landed. (Chapter 4, Ref 183) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_173 ### Event 2831 (E7A4644D) **Date:** 1/5/1919 (approximate) **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** NEAR NETHERAVON, WILTS **Description:** 3 weird red and orange globes float down. Vanish. Seen since 1917. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 222) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_331 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "nr NETHERAVON,WILTS:3 WEIRD RED+ORG GLOBES FLOAT DOWN:VANISH:SEEN SINCE 1917", **LatLong:** "51.216669 -1.816667", **LatLongDMS:** "51:13:00 N 01:49:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.216669,-1.816667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2832 (AFA4E5CA) **Date:** 1/20/1919 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Zeitoun \(Egypt\), R. Ascar observed the slow progression of an orange light for 45 seconds. (January 20, 10:45) **Reference:** BSAF, 1919 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1919.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_389 ### Event 2833 (07032258) **Date:** 1/20/1919 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Francisco Marto, one of the three little shepherds witness to the observation at Fatima in 1917, dies of the Spanish flu. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1919.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_390 ### Event 2834 (64B79DD6) **Date:** 1/22/1919 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Shuttlewood (Derbyshire) **Description:** (Translated from French) At around 10:10 pm that night, Thomas Hills Harrison had just gone to rekindle the fire in his greenhouse when, heading towards the house, he saw through the living room window his father pointing out a light near the chicken coop, about fifty meters away from the witnesses. Harrison adds: "All the apple trees in the orchard were lit up and cast long shadows in all directions. The night was very dark, particularly quiet and even the chickens were silent when I opened the gate. As soon as I crossed it I could clearly see the luminous globe that remained stationary about 1.40 meters above the ground. At first I thought it was my neighbor Robinson, but not receiving any response to my call, I headed towards this fluorescent light, the size of a tennis ball, perfectly spherical and beautiful to look at, like a pearl out of proportion. I circled it several times, getting closer to less than 2 meters. For about ten minutes I kept staring at it. Finally I decided to pick up a stick that was lying on the ground to touch it and see what would happen. At that moment, as if he had understood what I was going to do, the globe started moving very slowly. I got even closer. The limits of the sphere were not clear, it was like a cottony aura. When it met the fence, the globe fell to the ground as if it were exploding. It quickly regained its normal size and began to climb the trellis in a truly impressive silence. The glow sank about ten meters into Robinson's garden and then returned in my direction at a fast speed this time, suddenly turning to the right. I ran in its direction, I saw it climb the fence again, but I quickly realized that my pursuit was hopeless. When it reached a hawthorn bush, the globe leapt about ten meters high into a gap in the branches. The light stayed there for about three minutes, then disappeared from my view. Thinking that everything was over I went back to the house when I realized that the farmer Shepperd's land was violently lit up. That's when I saw the same glow making the return trip in my direction and at a fairly fast speed. When it was a few meters away from me I felt my hair stand on end for a short moment. The sphere went to the left and stopped in Robinson's garden. I went to knock on Robinson's door and the two of us saw the light globe go north-east, completely crossing the field over a distance of two hundred meters towards Bolsover Road. Then it made several circles around the tops of the roofs of a row of houses in Club Row, finally rising into the sky and disappearing eastward. It was then 10:50 pm. (January 22, 1919) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 232-233 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_775 ### Event 2835 (C84377FE) **Date:** 1/22/1919 **Time:** 20:10 **Location:** SHUTTLEWOOD, DERBYSHIRE **Description:** 40 observer(s). 2 Ft. intense glowing-ball slow / low altitude. Controlled maneuvers. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 245) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_332 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "45", **Elev:** "155", **HatchDesc:** "SHUTTLEWOOD,DERBYs:40 OBS:2 ft.INTENSE GLO-BALL SLOW/LO ALT:CONTROLLED MNVRS", **LatLong:** "53.250003 -1.300000", **LatLongDMS:** "53:15:00 N 01:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.250003,-1.300000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2836 (1D8039DF) **Date:** 1/22/1919 **Location:** Shuttlewood, Derbyshire, England **Description:** After 10:00 p.m. A brilliant light the size of a tennis ball appears in a garden at Shuttlewood, Derbyshire, England. When the witness approaches it, it moves away at a leisurely pace and passes through wire netting. It follows the top of a hedge, turns right, and ascends until it finds a break in the high branches of a tree, where it hovers for 3 minutes before flying on. The witness then notices his neighbor’s farm is illuminated with bright white light. Several minutes later, the sphere returns to the garden, hovers another 3 minutes, then approaches the witness. As it does so, it turns from white to orange. It moves away, stops above a neighbor’s garden, travels along a hedge, traverses a field, and circles a row of houses before soaring into the sky and disappearing. The light is seen for 40 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Mark Ian Birdsall, “The Luminous Pearl of 1919,” Quest International 10, no. 2 \(1991\): 26–27; Clark III 1171 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_386 ### Event 2837 (0AB60165) **Date:** 1/22/1919 **Description:** A two foot wide, intense glowing ball flew slowly at a low altitude over Shuttlewood, Derbyshire, England at 8:10 p.m. It engaged in controlled maneuvers for 45 minutes. There were at least 40 witnesses. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Ananda Sirisena, FSR, March 1975, p. 17 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_404 ### Event 2838 (8474E521) **Date:** 6/1919 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** SCORBE-CLAIRVAUX, FR **Description:** Boy. Shiny metal disk descends. Dims. Goes away horizontally. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 289) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_333 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "SCORBE-CLAIRVAUX,FR:BOY:SHINY MTL DISK DESCENDS:DIMS:GOES AWAY HORIZONTALLY", **LatLong:** "46.972224 0.416667", **LatLongDMS:** "46:58:20 N 00:25:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.972224,0.416667)", **State/Prov:** "Vienne", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2839 (6066E081) **Date:** 6/2/1919 **Location:** Ottertail, Minnesota **Description:** 9:30 a.m. A tiny circular cloud appears in an otherwise cloudless sky over Ottertail, Minnesota. Suddenly it expands to several times its size. Seconds later, the window that the witness is watching through starts to shake and creak. By the time it stops, the cloud has expanded more and now has a ragged appearance, bending toward the earth. A black object shoots out of the bottom of the cloud, leaving a vapor trail, and begins making 6–7 barrel rolls. It then peels off in a straight line, headed north. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 1170; “Supersonic Jet in 1919?” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 6 \(Jan./Feb. 1982\): 14–15 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_387 ### Event 2840 (159C5A50) **Date:** 6/2/1919 **Description:** At 9:00 a.m. a nine-year-old boy in Otter Tail, Minnesota saw a black object emerge from a quick descent, forming an unusual cloud. Windows rattled and the house he was in creaked as the object pealed off, made 6-7 barrel rolls, and left contrails in its wake. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Frontiers of Science, January 1982, p. 14; UNICAT, case # 39 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3217 ### Event 2841 (98EEC81E) **Date:** 6/28/1919 **Description:** Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty signed on 28 June 1919. One of the most important treaties of World War I, it ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Versailles) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_30 ### Event 2842 (8B107D3C) **Date:** 7/1919 **Location:** WEBSTER CITY, IA **Description:** Small humanoid (or Grey) scoops water into can. Sees observer(s) and rushes to UFO and flies. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RANDLES, Jenny: ALIEN CONTACTS & ABDUCTIONS; Sterling Publ., NY 1993. (Index 137) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_334 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "342", **HatchDesc:** "WEBSTER CITY,IA:OID SCOOPS WATER INTO CAN:SEES OBS+RUSHES TO UFO+FLIES.", **LatLong:** "42.472224 -93.816671", **LatLongDMS:** "42:28:20 N 93:49:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.472224,-93.816671)", **State/Prov:** "Iowa", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 2843 (5DBF3FB3) **Date:** 7/1919 **Location:** Webster City, Iowa **Description:** 11:00 a.m. A young brother and sister who live on a farm near Webster City, Iowa, hear a strange chirping sound while out playing. They turn and see a brown-green object under a tree near a creek 75 feet from them. They notice a similarly colored figure standing in a door that has been lowered down. It makes strange guttural sounds. They see another figure running toward the stream leading to a pond. This smaller one dips up some water into a can. The larger figure seems to be hurrying the smaller figure back into the object. The door slams shut with a metallic sound, and the vehicle rises up quickly with its three legs still out and goes over a hill. The soil where the object had been is covered with round spots that resemble cane marks. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 263; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1919-07-usa-webstercity.htm)[,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1919-07-usa-webstercity.htm) July 23, 2009 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_388 ### Event 2844 (C8191065) **Date:** 8/1919 (approximate) **Time:** ~20:00 **Location:** GENEVA, SWZ **Description:** Orange "extra moon" too large! Quickly going down [to] over 2 scared kids. Going quickly [to] away extremely fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Database/website: Chez HEIDI site: Alain Stauffer. GREPI / Switzerland http://home.worldcom.ch/~dbenaroy/heidi.html **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_335 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Switzerland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "GENEVA,SWZ:ORANGE "EXTRA MOON" TOO LARGE!:↓↓ OVR 2 SCARED KIDS:>> AWAY XFAST", **LatLong:** "46.200002 6.166667", **LatLongDMS:** "46:12:00 N 06:10:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.200002,6.166667)", **State/Prov:** "GNV", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2845 (9BDC1E54) **Date:** 8/1919 (approximate) **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** CODIGORO, ITALY **Description:** 25cm orange-red luminous sphere / low altitude. 1 observer moves to let it pass. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 27) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_336 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "CODIGORO,ITALY:25cm ORG-RED LUMn.SPHERE/LO ALT:1 OBS MOVES to let it pass", **LatLong:** "44.816669 12.116667", **LatLongDMS:** "44:49:00 N 12:07:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.816669,12.116667)", **State/Prov:** "FE", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2846 (7EF2C27C) **Date:** Late Summer 1919 **Location:** USA, Rice Lake, Wisconsin **Description:** (Translated from French) One evening, young Harry Anderson (13 years old), his family and friends, went for a ride in his father's new Ford Model T. Around 10 pm, returning towards Eau Claire, the engine made some dissonances. Father Anderson stopped on the south emergency lane of Highway 25. "There's no more oil," he said to his son, handing him a can in his hands, "go see if we can borrow some from a farm". Swinging the can in one hand, Harry went off on the dark road. A road sign told him he was just outside of Barron, 5 miles west of Rice Lake. He saw the roof of a farm in the horizon and took a shortcut to get there. The farmer filled the can and Harry returned to the car. Suddenly he saw about twenty little men, coming towards him, walking in single file. They had bald heads and white skin, wearing short leather pants, held up by suspenders on their shoulders. Stunned, Harry hid behind a tree and from there observed the scene. He heard snippets of their conversations, sounding like childish rhymes:

"We won't stop fighting Till the end of the war In Nineteen-Hundred and Ninety-Four. Sound off--one, two Sound off--three, four Detail, one, two, three, four One--two...three--four! The little column kept walking and disappeared into the woods. Harry remained petrified and his heart still pounding for several minutes. (1919, late Summer) **Reference:** Fate Magazine for November 1978, "Encounters with Little Men," page 85 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_776 ### Event 2847 (E11A56D1) **Date:** Late Summer 1919 **Location:** east of Barron, Wisconsin **Description:** 10:00 p.m. Harry Anderson, 13 \(or 16\), is out riding with his family and two friends when their car runs out of oil east of Barron, Wisconsin. A passing farmer offers to give them some oil, and Harry accompanies him 2 miles away to his farmhouse. Harry walks back to the car alone and sees 20 little men walking in single file towards him. Their heads are bald, and the figures are dressed in leather “knee pants” held up by suspenders. They are mumbling but pay no attention to him. Terrified, he continues and does not look back. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** \[Jerome Clark\], “Encounters with Little Men,” Fate 31, no. 11 \(November 1978\): 83–86; Clark III 263; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1919-usa-barron.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1919-usa-barron.htm) July 24, 2009 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_389 ### Event 2848 (BF053F1C) **Date:** 11/12/1919 **Location:** FROM ENGLAND TO AUSTRALIA **Description:** (Translated from French) The departure of the two-engine biplane CEAOU from Farnborough, which several weeks and 16 landings later, will link Australia. They pass through France, Italy, Greece, Crete, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Pakistan, India, Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra, Timor Island and finally Australia. 75 years later, on board an identical biplane entirely rebuilt, 3 people repeat the same feat with the CEAOW **Reference:** Source and reportage: National Geographic 1994 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_777 ### Event 2849 (27F7345B) **Date:** 12/1/1919 **Description:** Boni & Liveright publishes [Charles Fort](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FFort)’s first book of scientific anomalies, The Book of the Damned. Fort gathers reports of objects or “vessels” that he humorously speculates might be visitors from a multitude of worlds that have come to earth over the centuries. Among his wilder expressions is the suggestion that floating land masses in the sky harbor civilizations and oceans. Fort also speculates that someone is fishing for us and that an alien race considers us its property, warning off all interlopers. It receives positive reviews from [Ben Hecht](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%5FHecht) and [Booth Tarkington](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booth%5FTarkington)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booth%5FTarkington)  **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[The Book of the Damned](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%5FBook%5Fof%5Fthe%5FDamned)”; Clark III 506–507; Jim Steinmeyer, Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural, Tarcher, 2008, pp. 173–174; Ulrich Magin, “The Book of the Damned,” Fortean Times 386 \(December 2019\): 38–43 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_390 --- ## Year: 1920, 30 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 2850 (D1975AF7) **Date:** 1920's **Location:** American Southwest **Description:** During the 1920s, a pioneer pilot engaged in barnstorming in the Southwest reported encountering approximately six UFOs that resembled manhole covers. The pilot's friend recounted that the UFOs maintained a distance of about 200 yards and flew alongside him for around five minutes, effortlessly keeping up with his plane. Eventually, the UFOs altered their course and departed, leaving the pilot amazed and convinced of their genuine existence. (Chapter 6, Ref 189) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_180 ### Event 2851 (26924A0A) **Date:** 1920 **Location:** NORWAY, Oslo **Description:** (Translated from French) A mother and her daughter heard music, like that produced by a harp and went (to see) towards the window. They saw in the sky a red object becoming smaller and smaller, and the music decreased likewise. When the object had gone, the music was no longer heard. **Reference:** RAPPORTNYTT, 3/1980, 1.Listing by Ole Jonny Braenne **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_778 ### Event 2852 (35D362A0) **Date:** 1920 **Location:** FRANCE, Beddes (Berry) **Description:** (Translated from French) J. Algret, a farmer, clearly remembers that one evening he observed one of these UFOs, one meter in diameter, without any shine, flying close to the ground at a dizzying speed. The phenomenon moved over a distance of about 300 m and according to the witness, it was a "red moon". **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 234 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_779 ### Event 2853 (CF6F0074) **Date:** 1920 **Location:** FRANCE, Brest **Description:** (Translated from French) An infirmier from Brest was on Rue Traverse when a passerby pointed out to him an enormous red ball, two to three times bigger than the sun, followed by a black cigar-shaped mass. It was 6 pm, it was summer, and the sky was clear. The objects were moving in the direction of the street towards the south. **Reference:** Jean François BOEDEC: "Les OVNI en Bretagne, Anatomie d'un Phénomène" ed. Fernand Lanore, Paris 1978, p. 29 **Reference:** M. Pierre Gestin, investigator of Gepa **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_780 ### Event 2854 (D18FBEBD) **Date:** 1920 **Location:** USA, Texas **Description:** (Translated from French) Ten people watched four discs move in the sky of Texas. These objects moved quickly, one behind the other, emitting a soft orange glow. From time to time blue or green reflections were visible. Each of the discs was composed of two large silver plates about ten meters in diameter and the whole disappeared in the direction of Austin. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 234) It was around 3 o'clock in the morning when the fisherman C..B. Alves saw four luminous discs. He said they were less than a hundred yards from his boat and looked like two silver plates placed side by side. Each seemed to measure 25 feet in diameter and in the center they were 10 feet thick. **Reference:** "Ufo's – A century of Sightings by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 15 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_781 ### Event 2855 (C4A4A517) **Date:** 1920 **Location:** USA, Mount Pleasant (Iowa) **Description:** (Translated from French) Fishermen saw an egg-shaped UFO, blue in color, descending near Mount Pleasant. **Reference:** A CENTURY OF UFO's - UFO Roundup Dec. 1999, ed. Joseph Trainor **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_782 ### Event 2856 (E6148FD2) **Date:** 1920 **Location:** AUSTRALIA, Bass Strait (Victoria) **Description:** (Translated from French) Two planes were flying over the strait looking for a missing schooner. They saw unusual lights in the sky. One of the planes was approaching to identify them. The plane disappeared into a cloud and never came out. No trace of the schooner either. [note from vog: prelude to the Valentich case…?] **Reference:** Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 310 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_783 ### Event 2857 (6A7A50E4) **Date:** 1920 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Giacinta Marto, one of the 3 little shepherds witness to the observation at Fatima in 1917, dies of pleurisy. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1920.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_391 ### Event 2858 (28068C9D) **Date:** 1920 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Oslo, Norway, a mother and daughter heard the music of a harp and went to the window. They saw a bright red object gradually shrinking, the music becoming increasingly faint. When the object was gone, the music was too. **Reference:** RAPPORTNYTT, 3/1980, 1 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1920.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_392 ### Event 2859 (D52DC399) **Date:** 1920 **Locations:** northern Montana; northwest to southeast **Description:** Day. [Stanley Clason](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60076655/stanley-clason)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60076655/stanley-clason) 10, is walking across his uncle’s pasture in northern Montana when he sees an object traveling from northwest to southeast. It has a “long, slim, pointed shape” and appears “silvery in color.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Report from the Readers,” Fate 7, no. 4 \(April 1954\): 115–116; Clark III 1171 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_391 ### Event 2860 (C35F771E) **Date:** 1920 **Location:** Texas Gulf coast **Description:** In 1920, a man witnessed a sighting of four disc-shaped UFOs near the Texas gulf coast. The UFOs emitted vibrant pink and pale green lights and resembled large silver plates placed together, each around 25 feet in diameter and 10 feet thick at the center. The anomalous event occurred during the man's night fishing activity. (Chapter 5, Ref 184) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_175 ### Event 2861 (8692D52D) **Date:** 1920 **Location:** Between Wathena, Kansas and Rushville, Missouri **Description:** In the same year, around 1920, approximately 200 individuals witnessed a sizeable cylindrical UFO flying at an estimated altitude of 75 feet between Wathena, Kansas, and Rushville, Missouri. The UFO made a sudden maneuver over Rushville, vanishing into a nearby cloud shortly after. (Chapter 5, Ref 185) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_176 ### Event 2862 (E371B316) **Date:** 1920 **Location:** Quebec, Canada **Description:** During the 1920s, various cases of landed UFOs, some reportedly with occupants, were documented. In 1920, a man in Quebec, Canada, encountered a circular UFO while returning home at night. Describing it as around 50 feet in diameter and 16 feet high with a yellow light, he observed small humanoid figures moving rapidly around the craft's exterior, emitting child-like sounds. The UFO subsequently departed with mechanical noises and the sound of rushing air. (Chapter 6, Ref 198) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_189 ### Event 2863 (3391845D) **Date:** 1920 **Location:** Mount Pleasant, Iowa **Description:** In 1920, a fisherman in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, shared a peculiar UFO encounter from his time at a pond. As he fished, a small disc-shaped object emerged from nearby trees and landed about 15 feet away. The object was blue, roughly the size of a five-gallon cream can, and remarkably silent. Intrigued, the man began approaching the craft, but it lifted off gradually over the trees and vanished without making any noise. (Chapter 6, Ref 199) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_190 ### Event 2864 (9E65C0F5) **Date:** 1920 **Location:** Along the Mattawa River, Ontario, Canada **Description:** In 1920, a teenage boy from Ontario, Canada, reported befriending an occupant of a landed UFO near the Mattawa River. Responding to a distress call, he found a blond-haired, blue-eyed boy trapped between rocks. The trapped individual wore a silver, leather-like suit with instruments on the chest. After rescuing the boy, the witness assisted him to a saucer-shaped UFO about 20 feet in diameter resting on three legs. The UFO promptly departed after the occupant reentered it. (Chapter 6, Ref 203) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_194 ### Event 2865 (5704FDC2) **Date:** 1/16/1920 **Description:** First meeting of the League of Nations **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Nations) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_31 **See also:** 4/20/46 ### Event 2866 (AD6B836F) **Date:** 1/31/1920 **Location:** LOXLEY, SOUTH YORKS **Description:** White 'ghost' crosses field going [to] old mines. Back / Jan. '85. Poltergeists. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** DEVEREUX, Paul: EARTH LIGHTS REVELATION. 1989 Blanford/UK & 1991 Biddles Ltd, Guilford, Engl. PB (Index 95) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_337 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NFO:** No craft seen, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "140", **HatchDesc:** "LOXLEY,S.YORKS:WHT 'GHOST' CROSSES FIELD>OLD MINES::BACK/JAN85:POLTERGEISTS", **LatLong:** "53.416669 -1.533333", **LatLongDMS:** "53:25:00 N 01:32:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.416669,-1.533333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 2867 (C1122A8A) **Date:** 6/3/1920 **Time:** 10:30 **Location:** MT. PLEASANT, IA **Description:** 1 / fishing. Metallic blue milk-can lands 15' away. Sits 15 minute(s). Going west. Silent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 12) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_338 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "244", **HatchDesc:** "Mt.PLEASANT,IA:1/FISHING:MTLC BLUE MILK-CAN LANDS 15'AWAY:SITS 15min:>W:SLNT", **LatLong:** "40.961113 -91.555560", **LatLongDMS:** "40:57:40 N 91:33:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.961113,-91.555560)", **State/Prov:** "Iowa", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 2868 (E2A16A03) **Date:** 6/3/1920 **Location:** Mount Pleasant, Iowa **Description:** Day. [Jesse Clark Linch](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/74686285/jesse-clark-linch) is fishing on a pond near Mount Pleasant, Iowa, when he sees a soundless, blue, disc- shaped object emerge from behind a grove of 100-foot-high maple trees. It flies across the pond and lands 15 feet away. Linch gets up and walks toward it, but it rises up, slowly moves over some trees to the west, and disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Mini UFO Landed near Mt. Pleasant in 1920,” The UFO Examiner 2, no. 2 \(June 1978\): 8, 19; “[Man Visited by Strange Object While Fishing in Iowa in 1920,](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/Books%2C%20Manuals%20and%20Published%20Papers/Specialty%20UFO%20Publications/Personal%20Collection%20of%20UFO%20Publications/MUFON%20Journals/2000/02/February%202000.pdf)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 382 \(February 2000\): 12; Clark III 1170 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_393 ### Event 2869 (84F5AD8D) **Date:** 6/3/1920 **Description:** At 10:30 a.m. a small metallic blue, vertical cylinder, shaped like a "milk-can," landed only 15 feet away from the witness, sat on the ground for 15 minutes northeast of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, then took off and flew away to the west. It made no noise. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** MUFON on-site investigation, report dated September 1, 1973; Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 12 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3241 ### Event 2870 (7FE5B148) **Date:** 6/8/1920 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** RUSHVILLE, MO **Description:** 200 observer(s). Cylinder/cylindrical object going quickly northeast / 23m altitude. Abrupt turn going quickly east into cloud. / r231'76. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 12) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_339 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "242", **HatchDesc:** "RUSHVILLE,MO:200 OBS:CYL >> NE/23m alt:ABRUPT TURN >>E INTO CLOUD:/r231'76", **LatLong:** "39.588891 -95.027782", **LatLongDMS:** "39:35:20 N 95:01:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.588891,-95.027782)", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2871 (A25E02CD) **Date:** 6/8/1920 **Description:** At 6 p.m. a cylindrical object flying at only 75 feet altitude, passing over Rushville, Missouri, was seen by two hundred people. It made a 90-degree turn to the east, and disappeared into a cloud. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Skylook, October 1973, p. 16; Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 12; Jay David, The Flying Saucer Reader, p. 12 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3366 ### Event 2872 (D6EA2720) **Date:** Summer 1920 **Location:** Nontron, Dordogne, France **Description:** 11:00 p.m. A group of young people, including sisters Louise and Marie Grasset, returning from a dance at Nontron, Dordogne, France, observe small beings in the air above a wooded area. Luminous balls surround the figures, who are giving off “musical sounds.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 264; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1920-00-00-france-nontron.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1920-00-00-france-nontron.htm) October 3, 2017 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_392 ### Event 2873 (286D2D9F) **Date:** 8/1920 (approximate) **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** BREST, FR **Description:** Red ball 2X sun-size and huge black cylinder/cigar-shape going quickly south parallel to street. / r251p29. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** PHENOMENES SPATIAUX: Group GEPA, Gen. M. Lionel Chassin Paris. Quarterly 1964?-1977. Merged into Grp. GEPAN (Index 24) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_340 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "BREST,FR:RED BALL 2X SUN-SIZE+HUGE BLK CGR >>S parallel to street:/r251p29", **LatLong:** "48.416669 -4.500000", **LatLongDMS:** "48:25:00 N 04:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.416669,-4.500000)", **State/Prov:** "Finistère", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2874 (8C574F54) **Date:** 8/15/1920 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** DAWLISH, DEVON, ENG **Description:** Some kids. 2 red spheres maneuver. Stop. Shoot going quickly southwest over Dartmoor. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RANDLES, Jenny & Warrington, P.: SCIENCE and the UFO'S; Basil Blackwell, NY 1985 (Index 8) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_341 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "DAWLISH,DEVON,ENG:SOME KIDS:2 RED SPHERES MNVR:STOP:SHOOT >>SW ovr DARTMOOR", **LatLong:** "50.577780 -3.850000", **LatLongDMS:** "50:34:40 N 03:51:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.577780,-3.850000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2875 (347B7DB3) **Date:** 10/1920 **Location:** NORWAY, Stavanger **Description:** (Translated from French) At night, around 7:30-7:33 PM, H.B. Rage observed a light so strong that all the shadows of the trees stretched out on the ground to his feet. He observed a kind of red light ball, about the size of a small pea at arm's length, which came out like a red beam of light towards the ground, as if it were a searchlight looking for something. Finally, everything went out. The sky was quite clear, with some scattered clouds, without wind. The red searchlight had illuminated a very large area on the ground. (October 1920) **Reference:** following the next case... **Reference:** UFO REPORT FORM, 27 Dec 1964.UFO-NYT, 5/1966, 188. Listing by Ole Jonny Braenne **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_784 ### Event 2876 (B0309F68) **Date:** 10/1920 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Stavanger \(Norway\) H. B. Rage observed a light reflecting so well that all the shadows of the surrounding trees appeared on the ground in front of him. He turned around and saw a red light ball the size of a pea at an outstretched arm's length from him. A red beam was emitted from the ball, apparently searching for something. Finally, it left. Some clouds, no wind. It illuminated the entire area on the ground (October, 7:30 PM/7:33 PM) **Reference:** \[UFO report form , December 27th 1964\] \[UFO-NYT, 5/1966, 188\]. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1920.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_393 ### Event 2877 (997F851D) **Date:** 10/1920 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Stavanger \(Norway\), Harald B. Rage, descends to the cellar to punish a cat. As he shouts at the cat, a luminous ball arrives through the window - directly through the glass. It is as big as a tennis ball, and has many colors. It dances around making circles, going up and down, while the witness tries to catch it. Finally it disappears through the window again, without damaging it. Its distance from the witness was from 10 to 80 cm. **Reference:** UFO Report form, December 27th 1964 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1920.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_394 ### Event 2878 (DA5F9277) **Date:** Late 10/1920 **Locations:** Freeport, Texas; 50 miles north of Freeport, Texas **Description:** 3:00 a.m. C. B. Alves sees four flying discs 50 miles north of Freeport, Texas, when he is out fishing with some friends. They look like two big silver plates set edge to edge. Each appears to be about 25 feet in diameter and 10 feet thick at the center. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Report from the Readers,” Fate 8, no. 2 \(February 1955\): 122–123; Clark III 1170 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_394 ### Event 2879 (0A8C8E0D) **Date:** 11/2/1920 **Description:** First commercial radio broadcast from KDKA in Pittsburgh PA **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [link](https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/history-of-commercial-radio) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_32 --- ## Year: 1921, 14 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 2880 (17C43F8B) **Date:** 1921 **Location:** USA, New Mexico **Description:** (Translated from French) Paul Villa was born in 1916, and was allegedly instructed by extraterrestrials from his fifth year, that is in 1921 **Reference:** Mitarbeiter, "Ufo Geheimnisse", Berlin, January 1998 **Reference:** following 1953 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_785 ### Event 2881 (C3564ABF) **Date:** 1921 **Location:** FRANCE, between Arleux and Péronne **Description:** (Translated from French) In the afternoon, M. B.G., 8 years old at the time, on a stroll along the banks of the Canal du Nord, suddenly saw two beings emerge from the willows, wearing a kind of flexible diving suit. They dragged him forcibly towards a kind of "tank" and hoisted him into the machine. He started to cry. An opening appeared in the ceiling of the cabin and in a few moments he was outside, on the ground. He had to walk for part of the afternoon to find his way back. **Reference:** M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: "Ovni, premier dossier complet..." ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 46, 47 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_786 ### Event 2882 (91077F0A) **Date:** 1921 **Location:** Marseilles, France **Description:** Undocumented report of an "abduction" by two beings. (Magonia #43, Quincy) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_74 ### Event 2883 (B9749BB9) **Date:** 1921 **Location:** Marseilles, France **Description:** Undocumented report of an "abduction" by two beings. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Quincy ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_43 ### Event 2884 (701BEEF3) **Date:** 1921 **Location:** Marseille, France **Description:** An 8-year-old is playing in the hillocks near a canal in Marseille, France. He is suddenly accosted by two tall, slender men wearing apparent diving suits who drag him into a strange looking “tank.” After a while, an opening appears in the ceiling, and in a few moments he finds himself back on the ground. He must walk all afternoon to get back to the place where the UFO picked him up 5 minutes earlier. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 264; \[Letter\], “J’ai voyagé en soucoupe,” Paris-Match, no. 291, October 23, 1954; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1921-france-marseilles.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1921-france-marseilles.htm) September 7, 2006 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_395 ### Event 2885 (99F1805D) **Date:** 1/31/1921 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) An American 5-masted schooner, the *Carroll A. Deering,* which had passed 48 hours earlier off Cape Zookout, north of the Carolinas at a speed of 5 miles per hour, is found aground on sandbanks, off the coast of Florida, with all its sails set. No distress signal was detected. There is not a soul on board. Empty davits indicate that boats have been launched. Ropes hang along the hull and, finally, only two gray cats are found in the kitchen, dying of hunger. All sails are rigged, except the main staysail, but two slashed arrows are discovered. The ship's papers, logbook, chronometers, clothing in the forecastle before the messroom clock are missing. In the captain's cabin, there is some disorder and drawers have been left open. On the other hand, three pairs of rubber boots in an adjacent locker may indicate that other men have used the cabin. A reserve cabin also seems to have been occupied. The captain's large trunk and canvas bag have disappeared. The steering apparatus is no longer working, the wheel is demolished and the cockpit has been crushed. (January 31) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1921.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_395 ### Event 2886 (F891A57B) **Date:** 1/31/1921 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Sailors of a Peruvian cargo ship, the *Francisco Moreno*, discover an abandoned vessel in the Pacific. However, they observe that the fire of the boilers is still burning in the galley as if it had been lit 2 hours before. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1921.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_396 ### Event 2887 (C2B1DD7A) **Date:** 7/1921? **Location:** MARSEILLE, FR **Description:** Boy / 8 abduction / 2 tall thin figure(s) / diving-suits. Tank with square portholes. / MJ#309. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 314) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_342 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **MST:** Missing time or time anomaly, **ABD:** Human or animal abduction, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "60", **HatchDesc:** "MARSEILLE,FR:BOY/8 ABD/2 TALL THIN FIGS/DIVING-SUITS:TANK W/SQR.PORTS:/MJ#309", **LatLong:** "43.300002 5.400000", **LatLongDMS:** "43:18:00 N 05:24:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.300002,5.400000)", **State/Prov:** "Bouches-du-Rhône", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 2888 (66EBCE19) **Date:** Late 7/1921 **Location:** 39 Highland Road, Southsea, Portsmouth, England **Description:** 2:00 a.m. Annie Baker of 39 Highland Road, Southsea, Portsmouth, England, sees a “strange looking bladder like monster the shape of an airship only much wider” during a thunderstorm. It is luminous and remains stationary for several minutes but moves away and disappears quickly. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOFiles2, [pp. 13–15](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n29/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_396 ### Event 2889 (261683B5) **Date:** 7/29/1921 **Description:** The Council on Foreign Relations is incorporated. Founded by corporate lawyer [Elihu Root,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elihu%5FRoot) the organization brings diplomats, high-level government officials, and academics together with lawyers, bankers, and industrialists to engineer foreign policy. The first issue of Foreign Affairs is published in September 1922. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Council on Foreign Relations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council%5Fon%5FForeign%5FRelations)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_397 ### Event 2890 (AF83C245) **Date:** 9/1921 **Location:** British Air Ministry **Description:** The British Air Ministry has asked the public to submit reports on observations of ball lightning to its Meteorological Office. The results are summarized by geophysicist [Harold Jeffreys](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%5FJeffreys)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%5FJeffreys) who notes very little uniformity in the observations, with little agreement on size, duration, color, or shape. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Harold Jeffreys, “[Results](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3485375&view=1up&seq=590&skin=2021) [of the Ball Lightning Inquiry,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3485375&view=1up&seq=590&skin=2021)” Meteorological Magazine 56 \(September 1921\): 208–211; UFOFiles2, [pp. 13–16](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n29/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_398 ### Event 2891 (12201D07) **Date:** 9/1/1921 **Locations:** Mediterranean Sea; Mars **Description:** J. H. C. Macbeth of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company announces that inventor [Guglielmo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo%5FMarconi) [Marconi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo%5FMarconi) is convinced he has intercepted wireless signals from Mars while cruising in the Mediterranean Sea on his mobile laboratory and yacht, the Electra. The signals are regular and “produced high in the meter band.” One of them resembles the letter “V” in the Marconi Code. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Marconi Sure Mars Flashes Messages,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1921/09/02/107025215.pdf)” New York Times, September 2, 1921, p. 1; Michael D. Swords, “Radio Signals from Space, Alien Probes, and Betty Hill,” IUR 29, no. 4 \(July 2005\): 11 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_399 ### Event 2892 (C70B17BA) **Date:** 9/2/1921 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) [Guglielmo Marconi](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/scientifiques.html\#MarconiGuglielmo) picks up messages from his yacht in the Mediterranean with a 10 times stronger wavelength than any terrestrial station. These messages are emitted on an unknown wavelength and seem to correspond to a code. (2 September) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1921.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_397 ### Event 2893 (5AF62DF1) **Date:** 10/9/1921 **Location:** Harvard University **Description:** Harvard University astronomer [William Henry Pickering](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FHenry%5FPickering) claims that he has discovered, through two years of observation, vegetation growing in lunar craters that contain water and a source of heat. They seem to form strips or “canals” that vary according to season. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Says 2 Crops a Day Grow on the Moon,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1921/10/09/107027707.pdf)” New York Times, October 9, 1921, p. 6 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_400 --- ## Year: 1922, 18 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 2894 (866C237C) **Date:** 1922 **Location:** County Donegal, Ireland **Description:** County Donegal, Ireland: Irish Republic Army man, Lawrence Bradley, wrote to the editor of “Watfordand West-Hersts Post” magazine (4/30/64) that while he was fighting a scattered rear-guard, mostly in the mountains of Donegal, he came upon a cave with vegetation at the entrance that had been scorched. The only occupants in the cave were the sick and the wounded that had been unable to walk. The six able-bodied soldiers that were looking after them said they had been awakened early pre-dawn by a whirring noise outside of the cave and had fired their rifles in the direction of the noise, thinking that it was an armored car. Suddenly the object retaliated by firing jets of flame at the cave entrance. After near suffocation, the soldiers ran out to see the flame throwing UFO ascending into the sky. Clearly visible, it was circular in shape and glowing and of a shiny metal. **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_33 ### Event 2895 (455FA745) **Date:** 1922 (approximate) **Location:** PORTUGAL, Estoraos-Viana do Castello **Description:** (Translated from French) The witness, then aged 15, saw a strange silhouette coming onto the bridge where he himself was walking. This creature passed barely 4 m away from him: it was about 2 meters tall and walked like a monkey. (1922, exact date unknown) **Reference:** collaboration of Larry Fenwick, CUFORN, Joaquim Fernandes, CNIFO, Willy Smith, UNICAT Project; listing by Victor Lourenco **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_790 ### Event 2896 (70769F54) **Date:** 1922 **Locations:** Oregon Canyon Ranch; McDermott, Nevada; King’s River Ranch near Orovada **Description:** Starting this year, ghost lights are seen every year until 1932 in the desert near the Oregon Canyon Ranch, McDermott, Nevada. They look like lanterns or car headlights in the distance. More than 50 of the sheepherders in the area have seen the lights, including Tito Bengoa, the brother of [Frank](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40548723/frank-bengoa) and [Christopher Bengoa](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40548703/christopher-bengoa) of the King’s River Ranch near Orovada. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Kenneth Arnold, “Phantom Lights in Nevada,” Fate 1, no. 3 \(Fall 1948\): 96–98 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_401 ### Event 2897 (B92EB7B7) **Date:** 1922 **Location:** Prairie Grove, Arkansas **Description:** In 1922, a young boy from Prairie Grove, Arkansas, had a lasting UFO encounter. While playing, he noticed a hat-shaped object in the sky, positioned around two or three hundred feet above the shade trees. Comparable in size to automobiles, the object featured a central dome on a circular brim, leaving an enduring impression on the witness. (Chapter 5, Ref 186) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_177 ### Event 2898 (B7448D51) **Date:** 1922 **Location:** Ireland **Description:** In 1922, soldiers hiding in an Irish cave during the civil war shot at an object they mistook for an enemy armored car. The object retaliated by emitting flame jets, forcing the soldiers to retreat due to the heat and smoke. As they left the cave, the object, circular and bright like aluminum, ascended into the sky at dawn. (Chapter 6, Ref 193) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_184 ### Event 2899 (0336651B) **Date:** 1922 **Location:** Hubbell, Nebraska **Description:** In 1922, a Nebraska hunter recounted an extraordinary experience while hunting near Hubbell. He reported hearing crackling sounds and a high-pitched noise before observing a brightly lit circular object descending and landing out of sight behind a hill. What stood out the most was his claim of encountering an enormous, eight-foot-tall "magnificent flying creature" that landed near the circular object. The hunter followed the creature's tracks in the snow for miles but was unable to spot it again. (Chapter 6, Ref 200) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_191 ### Event 2900 (C6A2AD90) **Date:** 2/22/1922 **Location:** USA, Hubbell (Nebraska) **Description:** (Translated from French) Early in the morning William Lamb had gone hunting in the Hubell area. Around 5:00am he suddenly heard a piercing sound at the same time a dark object appeared in the sky, blocking the very bright stars of this winter morning. Just as suddenly the UFO lit up and landed in a hollow in the ground. Just before the craft took off, the witness distinctly saw a man flying about 2.50m high come out and take a few steps in the snow. Lamb followed his footprints but without result. Voices were heard inside the unknown craft. (February 22, 1922) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 234 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_787 ### Event 2901 (BB413BBF) **Date:** 2/22/1922 **Location:** Hubbell, NE **Description:** 5:00 a.m. William C. Lamb was following strange tracks when he heard a high- pitched sound and saw a circular object intercepting starlight. It became brilliantly lighted and landed in a hollow. Soon afterword, a creature over 2.4 m tall was seen flying from the direction where the object had landed. It left tracks in the snow, which Lamb followed without results. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_75 ### Event 2902 (AABE684B) **Date:** 2/22/1922 **Time:** 0500 **Location:** Hubbell, Nebraska **Description:** William C. Lamb was following strange tracks when he heard a high-pitched sound and saw a circular object intercepting starlight. It became brilliantly lighted and landed in a hollow. Soon afterword, a creature over 2.4 m tall was seen flying from the direction where the object had landed. It left tracks in the snow, which Lamb followed without results. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Anatomy 22 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_44 ### Event 2903 (EB4281DA) **Date:** 2/22/1922 **Description:** William C. Lamb was following strange tracks near Hubbell, Nebraska at 5:00 a.m. when he heard a high-pitched sound and saw a circular flying object. It became brilliantly lighted and landed in a hollow. Soon afterward, a creature over eight feet tall was seen flying from the direction where the object had landed. It left tracks in the snow, which Lamb followed without results. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 189; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 22 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1043 ### Event 2904 (2563988D) **Date:** 5/1922 **Location:** FRANCE **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the two-seater bomber Breguet 19, max. speed 220 km/h. ceiling 7000 m; end of production in France in 1928, in other countries in 1930. **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_788 ### Event 2905 (90949FE3) **Date:** Summer 1922 **Locations:** Detroit, Michigan; South Dragoon Street; Vacant Lot **Description:** A teenage couple, William O’Brien and Irma \(later married surname is Hinz\), walking home from a movie in Detroit, Michigan, see a large disc-shaped object hovering above a vacant lot on South Dragoon Street. Rectangular windows surround the perimeter of the UFO’s base. Seated at those windows are 20 or so bald- headed beings with close-set eyes. They stare at the witnesses, who become unnerved and leave. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 264; Center for UFO Studies, [HUMCAT Index 1910–1939,](http://www.cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1910-1939.pdf) p. 21 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_402 ### Event 2906 (B61F4496) **Date:** Summer 1922 **Location:** Warsaw, Poland **Description:** Many witnesses in Warsaw, Poland, see a silvery object, shaped like two hemispheres divided by a rotating ring, that shoots a beam of light and ascends with a loud noise. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Bronislaw Rzepecki, “UFOs and Ufologists in Poland,” IUR 11, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1986\): 15; Poland 8 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_403 ### Event 2907 (456AA760) **Date:** 8/1922 (approximate) **Location:** WARSAW, POL **Description:** Many observer(s). Metallic Saturn-sphere/orb/globe. Ring rotates. Shoots beam. Quickly going up [to] with loud noise. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** INTERNATIONAL UFO REPORTER (IUR) Bimonthly. CUFOS, Chicago. Highly regarded. (Index 134) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_343 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Poland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "WARSAW,POL:MANY OBS:MTLC SATURN-ORB:RING ROTATES:SHOOTS BEAM:↑↑ W/LOUD NOISE", **LatLong:** "52.233336 21.066668", **LatLongDMS:** "52:14:00 N 21:04:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.233336,21.066668)", **State/Prov:** "WAR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2908 (260BF56B) **Date:** 9/9/1922 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Barmouth (Wales) **Description:** (Translated from French) John Morris, a lifeboat rescuer at Barmouth Life Boat, and William James were on a quay in Barmouth looking out to sea. Suddenly they saw a kind of aeroplane falling into the water. They immediately jumped into a motorboat and raced to the spot, in vain, as they found nothing. The investigation that followed was inconclusive, as no aircraft had been reported missing at the time of the event. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 234 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_789 ### Event 2909 (41267AE4) **Date:** 9/9/1922 **Location:** Barmouth, Wales, UK **Description:** John Morris and William James saw an object fall into the ocean so slowly that it was thought to be a plane. A boat was sent out, but nothing was found. (Magonia #45, Fort 639) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_77 ### Event 2910 (776C72C6) **Date:** 9/9/1922 **Location:** Barmouth, Wales **Description:** John Morris and William James saw an object fall into the ocean so slowly that it was thought to be a plane. A boat was sent out, but nothing was found. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Fort 639 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_45 ### Event 2911 (E260DA39) **Date:** 9/9/1922 **Description:** John Morris and William James in Barmouth, Wales saw an object fall into the ocean so slowly that they thought it might have been an airplane. A boat was sent out but nothing was found. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 189; citing Charles Fort, The Books of Charles Fort, p. 639 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5783 --- ## Year: 1923, 16 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 2912 (B7119594) **Date:** 1923 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) [Townsend Brown](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/BrownThomasTownsend.html), who demonstrated at the beginning of the 20th century a link between electricity and gravity, obtained an American patent for a device that could lift objects into the air without using a motor. His mechanism remained largely ignored by the scientific community. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1923.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_398 ### Event 2913 (5414402F) **Date:** 1923 **Location:** Greencastle, IN **Description:** Revolving red object passed over-head from NE to SW. Two witnesses were college professors. (NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_78 ### Event 2914 (B7143F97) **Date:** 1923 **Locations:** DePauw University; Greencastle, Indiana **Description:** Two DePauw University college students, Andrew Wallace Crandall and [Herrick Greenleaf,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20674495/herrick-e%5Fh%5F-greenleaf) watch a revolving red object pass over Greencastle, Indiana. The object, round and glowing, moves silently from northeast to southwest, then vanishes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lore and Deneault, [p. 106](https://archive.org/details/mysteriesofskies0000lore/page/106/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_404 ### Event 2915 (2D437552) **Date:** 1923 **Location:** Sebeş, Romania **Description:** A photograph shows a domed disc hovering near the church tower in Sebeş, Romania. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Romania 10-11 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_405 ### Event 2916 (4C9BF2BF) **Date:** 1923 **Location:** Benton, Illinois **Description:** In 1923, a family residing in Benton, Illinois, witnessed an unexpected aerial display provided by a UFO. The family observed a cloud-like object in the sky, which moved southwards, slowed down, and then performed intricate maneuvers around various landmarks. The object displayed colorful lights around its edge, including red, blue, green, and ecru, with a particularly bright ecru spotlight. After descending and briefly revealing a pillar of light, the object vanished from sight, leaving the witness with a lasting memory of a UFO encounter. (Chapter 5, Ref 187) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_178 ### Event 2917 (4B7739EE) **Date:** 1923 **Location:** Richmond, Indiana **Description:** In 1923, an Indiana farm boy claimed to have encountered a UFO near Richmond. He described a metallic machine with lights all around it, inhabited by five occupants, one of whom was referred to as the commander. The object had a dome-shaped top with holes, stood on three legs, and the occupants were about four feet tall with blond hair. After observing for about five minutes, the craft ascended, retracting its tripod legs and whizzed off to the west. The witness remained convinced that he had encountered a spaceship. (Chapter 6, Ref 201) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_192 ### Event 2918 (5DC4AB32) **Date:** 2/1923 **Location:** PIEVE DI TECO, ITL **Description:** Teen. Copper 'fish' dives going down. 2 portholes. Clear dome. Propeller! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 27) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_344 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "240", **HatchDesc:** "PIEVE di TECO,ITL:TEEN:COPPER 'FISH' DIVES ↓:2 PORTHOLES:CLR DOME:propeller!", **LatLong:** "44.050002 7.933334", **LatLongDMS:** "44:03:00 N 07:56:00 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.050002,7.933334)", **State/Prov:** "IM", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 2919 (75A9047D) **Date:** 5/1923 **Time:** evening **Location:** Benton, Illinois, USA **Description:** In May 1923, in Benton, Illinois, Esther Fay Hungate, a nine-year-old girl, had a close encounter with a UFO. She and her twin brother, Everett, were playing in front of their house when they noticed a strange object in the sky that resembled a small cloud. As they watched, the object approached from the north, flying at a low altitude. It appeared to slow down, circle around an old fairground, and then pass by Grant School before stopping near some electrical poles. At this point, the object emitted a series of colored lights, including red, blue, green, and ecru. The ecru light, in particular, was very bright and forced Esther to cover her closed eyes. After a few minutes, the spotlight turned off, and the object moved closer to the electric poles. It then ascended high into the sky before descending slowly and landing on the other side of the railroad tracks. At this point, the object, which was approximately the height of a telephone pole, emitted four lights and a pillar of light. When Esther looked away briefly and then back, the UFO had disappeared. Despite her account of the event, no one believed Esther at the time. It wasn't until June 1947 when she saw a picture of a UFO in a Sunday newspaper that she realized the object she had seen in 1923 was indeed a UFO. Esther never had another UFO sighting after this encounter. This incident can be categorized as a typical close encounter of the first kind, where a witness observes a UFO at a relatively close distance. Notably, Esther was one of a pair of twins, which has led to speculation that the UFO crew might have been intrigued by the sight of identical human children, one male and one female. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** [archive.org - UFO Roundup - Volume 1, Number 2. February 26, 1996](https://web.archive.org/web/19980224083716/http://www.digiserve.com/ufoinfo/roundup/v01/rnd01_02.shtml) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_1087 ### Event 2920 (F2A85C5B) **Date:** 6/1923 **Location:** USA, Mount Erie, North of Wayne County (Illinois) **Description:** (Translated from French) (Source: Evansville Courier (Indiana, USA) 12.8.1998) Title: "Illinois Man Convinced He Saw a UFO 75 Years Ago" Byline: Len Wells. 75 years ago Norman Massie was driving a pair of horses in the prairie near his Mount Erie home, when he looked up and saw what he believes today to be a spaceship. (...) Massie, now 85 years old, was ten at the time. He is a retired university math professor today, and he said nothing of the event since his father asked him to keep it to himself. That is what he did until 1990. "I opened the gate to let the horses into the prairie. I got them through and I was closing the gate and behind me in the field there was an object surrounded by lights," said Massie. I got close to it, about 50 feet. I was there and I watched the five men who were on board." Massie describes them as being about four feet tall, with blond hair. "I was close enough to hear them talking," said Massie. "One of them was sitting in a chair and the others were calling him 'commander'. The other four were going back and forth in the craft. I didn't know what it was until the end, when I heard one of the men shouting to the commander that 'the repairs were done'. "The machine was metallic and it was on three legs. The top part was dome-shaped with holes in it. It looked like melted glass." Massie said the encounter lasted only five minutes. "In one minute they were hovering, the legs telescoped into the body and it went straight up to 200 feet then went west at the speed of a rifle bullet."... (June 1923) **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_791 ### Event 2921 (34942077) **Date:** 6/1923 **Location:** USA, **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the single-seater fighter-bomber Curtiss Hawk, first version 386 km/h, ceiling 8300 m. This family of aircraft will undergo a huge evolution and will be used by the armies outside the USA for more than 20 years. **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_792 ### Event 2922 (EFFB30BD) **Date:** 6/1923 **Time:** 08:00? **Location:** NEAR EVANSVILLE, IN **Description:** Boy / 10. Saucer / 3 legs / pasture. 4' men move / glass dome. Speak English. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Newspaper account: Evansville, IN Courier: 12AUG98 via Stig Ajermose on Toronto email list. **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_345 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "116", **HatchDesc:** "nr EVANSVILLE,IN:BOY/10:SCR/3 LEGS/PASTURE:4'MEN MOVE/GLASS DOME:speak english", **LatLong:** "38.000002 -87.500004", **LatLongDMS:** "38:00:00 N 87:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.000002,-87.500004)", **RelAlt:** "1", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 2923 (7E6C9719) **Date:** 6/1923 **Location:** Northern Wayne County, IL **Description:** Early Humanoid Report (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases, Code: En, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [2306xx](http://www.nicap.org/2306XXmterie%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_79 ### Event 2924 (9945BAB6) **Date:** Summer 1923 **Location:** BRAZIL, Sao Joa de Porto Alegre. **Description:** (Translated from French) Four young children, Sextina Guerra, Valter Paiva, Mariana Lopes and Anita Becker were returning home at nightfall when they heard a curious noise in the sky, as if gears were turning up there. The noise got closer and the witnesses then saw a brightness that quickly increased in intensity. Against the starry sky, a triangular shape, like a ship's sail, stood out clearly (its apparent diameter was 1.50 m) passing through all the colors of the rainbow. Nearly ten other people were able to observe the phenomenon until it rose into the sky and disappeared on the horizon. (1923, Summer) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 235 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_793 ### Event 2925 (429EF3B8) **Date:** 7/1923 **Location:** USSR, Sosnovka **Description:** (Translated from French) Mr. Volosnikov, on the steamship sailing on the Vyatka River, near his village, saw in the evening an object resembling a flying moon. He watched it for two or three minutes. The object then turned to the right and disappeared. Comparing his notes and documentation with what he had seen, the witness concluded that it must have been "an evil spirit". (Excerpt: Felix Zigel and FSR) At dawn on the Vyatka River, Mr. Volosnikov, a passenger on the steamship, observed for three minutes an oval object flying above a nearby village before turning at a right angle and disappearing into the distance. (July 1923) **Reference:** "UFOs - A Century of Sightings by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 15 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_794 ### Event 2926 (D75A9B3C) **Date:** 7/15/1923? **Time:** ~07:00 **Location:** TYATKA R. NEAR SOSNOVKA, RUSSIA **Description:** Steamship. 'Flying moon' going / 3 min. Makes 90° turn. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO CHRONICLES of the SOVIET UNION; Ballentine Books HB 1992. 212pp. (Index 182) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_346 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Russia", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "TYATKA R. nr SOSNOVKA,RUSS:STEAMSHIP:'FLYING MOON' > /3 MIN:MAKES 90° TURN", **LatLong:** "58.416669 51.416669", **LatLongDMS:** "58:25:00 N 51:25:00 E", **Locale:** "Tundra", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/58.416669,51.416669)", **State/Prov:** "KIR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2927 (F82EBCA4) **Date:** 10/1923 **Description:** Boni & Liveright publishes New Lands by [Charles Fort](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FFort), who writes about odd aerial and astronomical observations: “It seems no more incredible that up in the seemingly unoccupied sky there should be hosts of living things than that the seeming blank of the ocean, should swarm with life.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[New Lands](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%5FLands)”; Jim Steinmeyer, Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural, Tarcher, 2008, pp. 198–199; Clark III 507, 1098 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_406 --- ## Year: 1924, 18 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 2928 (CAC387CC) **Date:** 1924 **Location:** Canada (British Columbia) **Description:** (Translated from French) Albert Ostman, a prospector, recounts: "It happened in the middle of the night. I was half asleep when, all of a sudden, someone grabbed my sleeping bag and lifted me off the ground. I tried to reach my hunting knife, but I couldn't. The beast - if it was a beast - carried me on its shoulder, like a sack of flour, and it walked on two legs. I was scared to death and I couldn't move." Ostman was thus carried for many hours. It was only at the first light of dawn that he was thrown to the ground and taken out of his bag. That's when he saw an incredible thing: a group of creatures surrounding him and talking in an unintelligible way. (...) "It was like a cross between a man and a monkey. These hairy creatures, with prominent muscles, were taller and bigger than men. There was even one that was almost 8 feet tall. They kept me prisoner for six days and I could only escape because one of them got terribly sick after swallowing the contents of my snuff box. He caused an awful commotion in the group." **Reference:** Jean FERGUSON: "The Humanoids..." ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1977, p.121 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_798 ### Event 2929 (2BD53517) **Date:** 1924 **Location:** Lake Okanogan, British Columbia **Description:** In 1924, a man rowing a boat on Lake Okanagan in British Columbia had an eerie encounter with a mysterious object. He observed a pearly silver craft against the remaining twilight, descending to about 300 feet above the water's surface. The object, moving at around 30 to 40 miles per hour, displayed faint dark blue light at the rear and a more intense blue light with a rectangular grid pattern. After a quarter-mile of level travel, the craft abruptly ascended at a steep angle and rapidly accelerated until it vanished from sight. (Chapter 6, Ref 194) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_185 ### Event 2930 (F2797261) **Date:** 1924 **Location:** Dade City, Florida **Description:** In a bizarre incident from 1924 in south Florida, an egg-shaped UFO landed on a Catholic grade school's playground in Dade City. Witnesses, including a young girl, reported that robot-like entities resembling animated flowers emerged from the craft. The entities communicated telepathically, warning about stopping work in the school's science building. Despite efforts to assist, the witness couldn't move their machine. The entities promised to return for her in 35 years, but nothing happened. After hovering briefly, the entities reentered the UFO, which then vanished vertically. Subsequently, the science building was found in a state of disarray, suggesting a possible connection to the entities' warning. (Chapter 6, Ref 202) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_193 ### Event 2931 (124C9FEC) **Date:** 1924 **Location:** Braxton County, West Virginia **Description:** Witnesses near Gem, West Virginia, reported observing a large craft, reminiscent of a battleship, flying erratically and crashing in thick woods. The craft, resembling a fuselage without wings or propellers, was about 75 feet long and filled the clearing. A group of individuals, some dressed in black business suits and others in shiny coveralls, emerged from the craft. Described as small and Oriental in appearance, they spoke a foreign language and appeared to be in distress. One of them assured the witnesses that everyone was okay and promised to report to the sheriff. Later, a man who picked up a metal object from the scene was visited by a U.S. Army officer with a similar appearance to the foreigners, who retrieved the object without explanation. The witnesses found the clearing empty a few days later, with only crushed grass and bushes remaining. The incident of a purported Army officer retrieving evidence may remind readers of the Men in Black phenomenon that emerged after 1947. (Chapter 6, Ref 208) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_199 ### Event 2932 (E6B2DC56) **Date:** 1/1924 (approximate) **Location:** NORTH / ROUILLAC, FR **Description:** Boy / 13. Moon-size sphere/orb/globe descends. Follows N736 until lost in the distance. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LDLN CONTACT LECTEURS: by Series and #. May'68 -JAN'72 (Entire set of 18 issues) LDLN local chapters & individual members' UFO reports. (Index 52) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_347 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "N/ROUILLAC,FR:BOY/13:MOONSIZE ORB DESCENDS:FOLOS N736 until lost/distance", **LatLong:** "45.800002 -0.066667", **LatLongDMS:** "45:48:00 N 00:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.800002,-0.066667)", **State/Prov:** "Charente", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2933 (E16B24EA) **Date:** 1/1924 **Time:** 21:00? **Location:** OSAGE HILLS, OK **Description:** 2 observer(s). Large ovoid aims beams going down / snow. Slight hiss. Blue flame / rear. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 12) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_348 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "275", **HatchDesc:** "OSAGE HILLS,OK:2 OBS:LRG OVOID AIMS BEAMS ↓/SNOW:SLIGHT HISS:BLU FLAME/REAR", **LatLong:** "36.733335 -96.177782", **LatLongDMS:** "36:44:00 N 96:10:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.733335,-96.177782)", **State/Prov:** "Oklahoma", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2934 (8BB4801E) **Date:** 1/1924 **Location:** Unknown City, OK **Description:** White oval-shaped object lit up ground, moved out of sight over horizon. (NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_80 ### Event 2935 (48F816A9) **Date:** 1/1924 **Location:** Osage Hills, Oklahoma **Description:** 1:00 a.m. Perry G. Powers and Duncan Miller are returning to a ranch when they see a beam of light shining on the snow in the Osage Hills, Oklahoma. It emanates from a large oval-shaped object with white dots of light on the side and blue flame at the trailing end. It makes a slight hissing noise and moves out of sight over the horizon in less than 3 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 129](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=141&skin=2021); “[1924 Sighting,](http://www.project1947.com/shg/csi/csiv1-4.html)” Civilian Saucer Investigation Quarterly Bulletin 1, no. 4 \(Winter 1954\): 10 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_407 ### Event 2936 (164417A8) **Date:** 5/13/1924 **Location:** PORTUGAL, Fatima **Description:** (Translated from French) During a pilgrimage, "petals of roses were observed falling from the sun in great quantity." As they approached, they vanished. **Reference:** Inforespace n° 55 - 1981, p. 4 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_795 ### Event 2937 (F342750C) **Date:** 6/24/1924 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** BENEST, FR **Description:** 2 teens. Red glow. Glowing-sphere/orb/globe rises / behind hedge. Moves away / very low altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 327) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_349 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "BENEST,FR:2 TEENS:RED GLOW:GLOW-ORB RISES/BHND HEDGE:MOVES AWAY/VLOW ALT:", **LatLong:** "46.044447 0.455556", **LatLongDMS:** "46:02:40 N 00:27:20 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.044447,0.455556)", **RelAlt:** "1", **State/Prov:** "Charente", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2938 (A560FA3B) **Date:** 7/24/1924 **Location:** Iraq, Baghdad **Description:** (Translated from French) The British headquarters sent Lieutenant Pilot W. T. Day and Co-Pilot Pilot D. R. Stewart on a surveillance mission over the Mesopotamian desert, which was only supposed to last a few hours. The plane did not return. It was discovered the next day in the desert, with enough fuel for the return. It was not damaged. Apart from the landing marks, there were no other tracks leading to or from the plane: no human, animal, or mechanical tracks. The tracks of the two pilots, side by side, were visible for 40 yards and stopped in the sand, without any change of direction or return. **Reference:** Henry DURRANT: "First Investigations on ET Humanoids" - Laffont 1977 - p. 104, 105 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_796 ### Event 2939 (F43BC743) **Date:** 7/24/1924 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In the Mesopotamian desert, the plane of Lieutenant Pilot W. T. Day and Officer Pilot D. R. Stewart is found in perfect working condition. The tracks of the two men lead away from the aircraft for a distance of 36 m, where they abruptly cease. The search will continue for 4 days without result. (July 24) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1924.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_399 ### Event 2940 (0678C906) **Date:** 8/22/1924 **Locations:** US; Washington, D.C.; Amherst College; US Naval Observatory; Washington **Description:** Mars enters an opposition closer to Earth than at any time in the century before. In the US, a National Radio Silence Day is promoted during a 36-hour period in August 21–23, with all radios quiet for 5 minutes on the hour, every hour, just in case the Martians take the opportunity to communicate with Earth. At the US Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., an SE-950 radio receiver is lifted 1.9 miles above the ground in a dirigible tuned to a wavelength between 8 and 9 kilometers, using a “radio photo message continuous transmission machine” recently invented by Amherst College and [Charles Francis Jenkins](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FFrancis%5FJenkins) of Washington. The program is led by retired astronomer [David Peck Todd](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FPeck%5FTodd) with the military assistance of Chief of Naval Operations Adm. [Edward](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FWalter%5FEberle) [Walter Eberle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FWalter%5FEberle)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FWalter%5FEberle) with [William F. Friedman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FF.%5FFriedman) \(US Army chief cryptographer\), assigned to translate any potential Martian messages. The device records radio signals on chemically treated film. One signal consists of a “fairly regular arrangement of dots and dashes along one side” and on the other “at almost evenly spaced intervals … curiously jumped groups each taking the forms of a crudely drawn human face.” Todd tells a reporter, “It may not be a message from Mars, but if it isn’t from Mars, where is it from?” Astronomer [Frederick E. Fowle](https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris%5Fsic%5F14002) of the Smithsonian thinks they are “disturbances introduced by solar or terrestrial causes not yet understood.” Other scientists suggest the images are caused by static discharge from a passing trolley car, malfunctioning radio equipment, or the natural symphonic radio waves produced by Jupiter. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jerome Clark, “Conversations with Martians,” IUR 29, no. 3 \(Fall 2004\): 20; Michael D. Swords, “Radio Signals from Space, Alien Probes, and Betty Hill,” IUR 29, no. 4 \(July 2005\): 11–12; Kristen Gallerneaux, “[Reaching for Mars,](https://www.thehenryford.org/explore/blog/reaching-for-mars)” Past Forward, August 23, 2016; Jessica Leigh Hester, “[Everybody Shut Up! We’re Listening for Mars,](https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/radio-signals-from-mars)” Atlas Obscura, August 3, 2018 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_408 ### Event 2941 (57DD3E7B) **Date:** 8/23/1924 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) For 9 hours, an experiment occupied all the transmitter-receiver posts in the United States. The goal was to record any form of cosmic message proving that extraterrestrial life is not a myth. On that day, Mars was closest to Earth \(this proximity will be repeated in the year 2000\), and both the [US Army](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/USArmy.html) and the [US Navy](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/USNavy.html) agreed to have their transmission services be silent for 5 minutes at the beginning of each hour. A radiocamera used by Dr. David Todd, professor of astronomy at Amherst College, on behalf of the Navy, recorded strange groups of signals that were also picked up in Europe. The *New York Times* reported that the film had shown, in black and white, on the one hand a continuous alignment of signals, and on the other hand, at regular intervals, signals presenting in groups - and curiously scrambled - shapes resembling human faces cruelly emaciated. (Between 21st and 23rd August) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1924.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_400 ### Event 2942 (EF73A7C2) **Date:** Late 8/1924 **Location:** USA, Mattoon (Illinois) **Description:** (Translated from French) An entity was looking through the windows as if it was looking for someone it knew by sight. The witnesses were generally women, some of them said they had fainted when it shone an object on them. It left behind a strange and foul smell. (1924, late August) **Reference:** Jacques VALLEE: "Chronicles of E.T. Appearances" - DENOEL 1972 - coll. J'AI LU p. 121 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_797 ### Event 2943 (8E8FB68B) **Date:** 8/26/1924 (approximate) **Time:** 02:20? **Location:** WORLDWIDE **Description:** Radio signals alternate 25K-75 meters on close approach / Mars.. . **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLAMMONDE, Paris: UFO EXIST!; Ballentine Books, NY 1976. PB 480pp. (Index 130) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_350 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NFO:** No craft seen, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Mars", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "231", **HatchDesc:** "WORLDWIDE:RADIO SIGNALS ALTERNATE 25K-75 METERS on CLOSE APPROACH/MARS...", **LatLong:** "90.000004 -0.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "90:00:00 N 00:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/90.000004,-0.000000)", **State/Prov:** "RDO", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 2944 (0E9945CE) **Date:** 9/1924 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** WELLINGTON BRIDGE, IRE **Description:** 2 boys. Light beam follows roads / several turns. Going west over railroad/railway tracks. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 293) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_351 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "WELLINGTON BRIDGE,IRE:2 BOYS:LITE BEAM FOLOS ROADS/SVRL TURNS:>W ovr RR TRACKS", **LatLong:** "52.266669 -6.766667", **LatLongDMS:** "52:16:00 N 06:46:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.266669,-6.766667)", **State/Prov:** "Ireland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2945 (F4A97199) **Date:** Fall 1924 **Location:** Okanagan Lake, British Columbia **Description:** Dusk. A hunter in a rowboat on Okanagan Lake, British Columbia, sees a faint blue light moving from northeast to southwest. It temporarily disappears behind a mountain but reappears and approaches the boat, passing it at a distance of 200 feet and a speed of 30–40 mph. The object is pearly silver in color with faint dark blue light at the rear. After moving a quarter mile away, it ascends and disappears at terrific speed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 1171–1172 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_409 --- ## Year: 1925, 13 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 2946 (D541BF93) **Date:** 1925 **Location:** SPAIN, La Mancha (New Castille) **Description:** (Translated from French) A man suddenly had the biggest surprise of his life. Returning home he came face to face with a being 1.20 m tall and wearing a green-colored uniform. The character had rigid arms and legs, he had something like a disk in his hands and was standing on a flat object that allowed him to move. The witness approached within two meters of this amazing apparition, but no words were exchanged between him and this entity. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 236 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_801 ### Event 2947 (CA4C968D) **Date:** 1925 **Location:** AUSTRALIA, near Moorea **Description:** (Translated from French) Two young men saw an object made of two discs, face to face, connected by feet, in a paddock. The object shone and had oval windows. They returned to the site a few days later, but there was nothing to see anymore. **Reference:** Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 311 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_802 ### Event 2948 (0DE6C376) **Date:** 1925 **Location:** Moora, Western Australia **Description:** Thomas Green is riding with another young man on a farm near Moora, Western Australia, when they come across an object “like two saucers placed edge on edge” resting on a paddock. Some oval-shaped windows are visible, and it is resting on four legs splayed outwards. The two decide to return home. Several days later they return and find the earth “scuffed about” on the spot. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Bill Chalker, “[Historical Australian UFO Reports,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/UFO%20Research%20Australia%20Newsletter/UFO%20Research%20Australia%20newsletter%20vol%204%20no%203.pdf)” UFO Research Australia Newsletter 4, no. 3 \(Nov./Dec. 1983\): 28 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_410 ### Event 2949 (DE95FBD6) **Date:** 1925 **Location:** Spain **Description:** A UFO of the "open air" type, akin to one observed by an English woman during World War I, was reported in Spain. The circular platform had a railing around its edge, and on it stood a single individual. The witness described the figure as around four feet tall, dressed in a green uniform, and seemingly holding a "blow pipe" in an outstretched hand. (Chapter 6, Ref 204) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_195 ### Event 2950 (1A897489) **Date:** 1925 **Location:** Poison, Montana **Description:** In an event near Poison, Montana, a woman and her son observed a pulsating, roaring noise and witnessed a flaming circular object descending at high speed. The object, around 200 feet in diameter, seemed to hesitate and move before giving off a brilliant white flash upon impact, leaving no subsequent noise or shock wave. (Chapter 6, Ref 209) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_200 ### Event 2951 (88FFB486) **Date:** 1/1925? **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** LA MANCHA, TOLEDO, SP **Description:** 120cm small humanoid (or Grey) / green uniform on vertical saucer.. rolling along! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BALLESTER OLMOS, Vicente-Juan: CATALOG of 200 TYPE-1 EVENTS in SPAIN & PORTUGAL; CUFOS 1976. (Index 1) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_352 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "LA MANCHA,TOLEDO,SP:120cm OID/GREEN UNIFORM ON VERTICAL SCR..ROLLING ALONG!", **LatLong:** "39.666669 -3.916667", **LatLongDMS:** "39:40:00 N 03:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.666669,-3.916667)", **State/Prov:** "TLD", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 2952 (0C6CFB46) **Date:** 6/1925 **Location:** Chicago, Illinois **Description:** 2:30 a.m. A driver stops his Ford Model T to watch a 300-foot-long, cigar-shaped object flying south toward Chicago, Illinois. Red sparks are peeling away from its nose and it has multicolored lights. As it passes in front, the driver feels a heat wave. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** San Diego \(Calif.\) Evening Tribune, August 12, 1965; Clark III 1171 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_411 ### Event 2953 (0B6343DC) **Date:** 7/1925? **Location:** MOORA, WEST AUST **Description:** 2 observer(s). Classic saucer with oval portholes / 4 legs. Traces / dirt. / r65p13. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO RESEARCH AUSTRALIA NEWSLETTER. (Details missing) (Index 822) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_353 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MOORA,W.AUST:2 OBS:CLASSIC SCR W/OVAL PORTHOLES/4 LEGS:traces/dirt:/r65p13", **LatLong:** "-30.583335 116.200006", **LatLongDMS:** "30:35:00 S 116:12:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-30.583335,116.200006)", **State/Prov:** "Western Australia", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 2954 (BC4903F6) **Date:** 7/14/1925 **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** AKRON, OH **Description:** 2 observer(s). 200 Ft. 'comet' hisses. Lights windows / side. Darts going up / incredible speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The UFO REGISTER. CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK. (annual sightings catalog.) (Index 78) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_354 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "315", **HatchDesc:** "AKRON,OH:2 OBS:200 ft. 'COMET' HISSES:LITES WINDOWS/SIDE:DARTS↑/INCRED.SPEED", **LatLong:** "41.083335 -81.516671", **LatLongDMS:** "41:05:00 N 81:31:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.083335,-81.516671)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2955 (D348DE33) **Date:** 7/14/1925 **Description:** A married couple, Mr. & Mrs. Slagle, witnessed a 200 foot long "comet" with illuminated windows on side make a hissing sound as it flew over Akron, Ohio at 9:45 p.m. It then shot up vertically into the sky at an incredible speed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Flying Saucers magazine, January 1962, p. 13; Jerome Clark, Saga UFO Report, October 1975, p. 48; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 362, citing UFO Register, volume 9 (1978 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4043 ### Event 2956 (118DCAFE) **Date:** 8/1925 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** BIRMINGHAM, ENGL **Description:** 2 observer(s). Sphere circles / cloud opening. 2nd and 3rd identical objects do same. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 356) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_355 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "134", **HatchDesc:** "BIRMINGHAM,ENGL:2 OBS:SPHERE CCLS/CLOUD OPENING:2nd+3rd IDENTICAL OBJs DO SAME", **LatLong:** "52.466669 -1.866667", **LatLongDMS:** "52:28:00 N 01:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.466669,-1.866667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2957 (D993952F) **Date:** Late Summer 1925 **Location:** USA, near Warren (Ohio) **Description:** (Translated from French) During the summer of 1925, my mother, who has since passed away, saw on a clear evening two bright objects flying towards each other and collide with a metallic sound. Then the lights went off in opposite directions. She asked my father what it could have been? He replied "wandering stars?" Probably my father had Phil Klass as a teacher! (1925, late summer) **Reference:** Patricia Mason: Cleveland Ufology Project, on the Internet in May 1997 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_799 ### Event 2958 (CAAF1ECD) **Date:** 10/1925 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the two-seat acrobatic Armstrong Whitworth Siskin airplane, maximum speed 251 km/h, ceiling 8230 m; put into service in the army in March 1927, end of production March 1931. It was followed in 1936 by the AW-38 WHITLEY type, and in 1941 by the AW-41 ALBEMARLE type. Last deliveries in December 1944. (October 1925) **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 edition **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_800 --- ## Year: 1926, 30 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 2959 (E1B10AAD) **Date:** 1926 **Location:** Himalaya Mountains **Description:** UFO’s seen around Altai Himalaya **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_34 ### Event 2960 (51501B8C) **Date:** 1926 **Location:** ROMANIA, Colun (Judetul Sibiu) **Description:** (Translated from French) Farmer Ian Brunescu, who was leading his horses to a pasture, saw, around 01:00 in the middle of the night, like a lightning spear as big as the full moon. The object stayed for about ten minutes above the nearby meadows, then came to rest vertically in front of the witness. During this phase, which lasted from 3 to 4 minutes, the witness clearly saw a boat shape that was 3 m long and one or two meters wide. The center of the body was darker than its ends. Soon the device took the direction of Arapasul de Jos, and made a curve above a small wood 3 km from Cirta and then suddenly went out. The UFO emitted a whistle and when it passed, the surroundings were lit up like in broad daylight. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 236-237 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_808 ### Event 2961 (F9B56191) **Date:** 1926 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Doctor Charles F. Bush, B.Sc. and Ph.D., discovers strange properties in a rock called "Lintz Basalt": it would emit more heat than any other and would not accelerate in free fall; let's say it would remain more or less suspended in the air. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1926.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_401 ### Event 2962 (7E793C9D) **Date:** 1926 **Alternate date:** 1927 **Locations:** Brzezie; Ujazd, Poland **Description:** 3:00 p.m. A 14-year-old girl is tending cows in a meadow between Brzezie and Ujazd, Poland. Suddenly the cows become agitated and pull on their halters. She notices three cement-colored spherical objects some 650 feet away in a field to the north. In front of each is a small entity dressed in greenish uniforms. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Poland 9 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_412 ### Event 2963 (D9C8ABDC) **Date:** 1926 **Location:** Salt Lake City, Utah **Description:** In 1926, during the early days of general aviation, an airmail pilot near Salt Lake City, Utah, had a noteworthy encounter with an unconventional aircraft. The pilot reported a cylindrical UFO without wings or a propeller, approximately 90 feet long and 8 to 10 feet in diameter. The UFO repeatedly approached his plane, causing engine issues within a 50-yard proximity. The pilot was forced to land, after which the UFO rapidly departed and vanished within seconds. (Chapter 6, Ref 188) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_179 ### Event 2964 (EE077339) **Date:** 1926 **Location:** Lancashire, Britain **Description:** The son of a British policeman recounted an encounter with three humanoid entities in Lancashire. The beings had pale, lightbulb-shaped heads with small noses, slit-like eyes, and no visible mouths. They wore round, transparent helmets, dark boots, and silver-gray rubber tube-like suits. When they noticed the boy, one of them emitted a strange noise, prompting all three to approach him. Frightened, the witness quickly fled from the scene. (Chapter 6, Ref 205) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_196 ### Event 2965 (A926F7CA) **Date:** 1/1926 **Location:** USA, between Wichita, Kansas and Colorado Springs, Colorado. **Description:** (Translated from French) Acrobatic pilot Bert Anacosta saw "six manhole covers" flying. **Reference:** Source: PROJECT DELTA, by Dr. Richard Haines, page 152. **Reference:** Sometimes the date of 1922 is mentioned, but 1926 is the one in all Finch's documents **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_803 ### Event 2966 (128F01DB) **Date:** 1/1926 **Time:** 13:00 **Location:** (LOC.UNK / WESTERN), KS **Description:** Stunt pilot. 6 huge shiny disks circle light plane. / r65p13. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: PROJECT DELTA; 1994, LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 USA (Index 152) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_356 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "800", **HatchDesc:** "(loc.unk/western),KS:STUNT PILOT:6 HUGE SHINY DISKS CCL LITE PLANE:/r65p13", **LatLong:** "38.000002 -100.000005", **LatLongDMS:** "38:00:00 N 100:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.000002,-100.000005)", **State/Prov:** "Kansas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2967 (EC6ADDB3) **Date:** 1/1926 **Location:** Witicha, KS **Description:** Several Circular Objects Surrounded Plane (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [260100](http://www.nicap.org/2601XXwichita%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_81 ### Event 2968 (E2B8C223) **Date:** 1/1926 **Locations:** Wichita, Kansas; Colorado Springs, Colorado **Description:** Aviator [Bert Acosta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert%5FAcosta) is flying somewhere between Wichita, Kansas, and Colorado Springs, Colorado, when he notices 6 or so objects that look like manhole covers flying off his starboard wing 600 feet away. They keep pace with his plane for 5 minutes. Finally they turn, change course, and fly away. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jacques Vallée, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, Ace ed., 1965, [p. 49](https://archive.org/details/anatomyofphenome00vall/page/48/mode/2up); Patrick Gross, “[Pilots UFO Sightings,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/acufo-wichitajan1926.htm)” August 6, 2021 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_413 ### Event 2969 (FD78775A) **Date:** 3/16/1926 **Location:** USA, Auburn (Massachusetts) **Description:** (Translated from French) The American physicist Goddard launched a liquid fuel rocket. It travelled 26 metres at 96 km/h. ("Astronautics" Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 10) This liquid fuel rocket, the first in the world, was only a small engine, which covered a distance of 60 metres in 2.5 seconds, but the fact that the apparatus had taken off constituted a turning point in the history of rocket development. ("Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 46) It was a strange and fragile engine three metres high. The combustion chamber (60 cm) suspended at the top of a kind of lyre made of two thin tubes bringing liquids from two reservoirs located at the lower part of the device, so as to be kept approximately 1.5 m from the nozzle. (...) It took off with a roar, described a high trajectory and travelled a distance of 56 metres in 2.5 seconds. An average speed of 95 km/h, calculated, proudly, its builder. **Reference:** "Assault on Space" - Georges H. Gallet - ed. of Modern Thought, p. 58 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_804 ### Event 2970 (83D9BE60) **Date:** 6/1926 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** COLUN, CIRTISOARA, ROMN **Description:** Silent 3M ovoid going [to] over / field. Wind blows going down. Going [to] over highway. / LDLN#115. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 60) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_357 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Romania", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "COLUN,CIRTISOARA,ROMN:SLNT 3M OVOID >OVR/FLD:WIND BLOWS ↓:>OVR HWY:/LDLN#115", **LatLong:** "45.783336 24.500001", **LatLongDMS:** "45:47:00 N 24:30:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.783336,24.500001)", **State/Prov:** "SBU", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2971 (CE0BE721) **Date:** 6/1926 **Locations:** Leurda plateau; Colun, Romania; Cârța; River Olt **Description:** After midnight. Farmer Ion Bunescu is with his horses on the Leurda plateau near Colun, Romania, when he sees a light ascend from the village of Cârța. An illuminated globe moves toward him with a light so strong that it brightens the River Olt some 2.5 miles away. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Hobana and Weverbergh 224–225; Romania 9–11 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_414 ### Event 2972 (6C0B92D9) **Date:** 7/24/1926 **Location:** Berlin-Moscow-Beijing and Back **Description:** (Translated from French) Two Junkers G.23 from Deutsche Lufthansa. German Pilots: Schnabel and Polid, Russian pilots: Kosloff and Kudrjanzeff, expedition leader R. Knausz, meteorologist: Seikoff. 20,000km in 140 hours of flight. Study trip in view of the creation of an airline. (July 24th to September 26th, 1926) **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air. Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 176 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_805 ### Event 2973 (AA7851C6) **Date:** 8/1926 **Time:** ~20:00 **Location:** WESTMONT, IL **Description:** Large disk going west. 5 small disks follow. Light reflects / clouds above. / NICAP. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 13) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_358 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "230", **HatchDesc:** "WESTMONT,IL:LRG DISK >W:5 SML DISKS FOLO:LITE REFLECTS/CLOUDS ABOVE:/NICAP", **LatLong:** "41.783335 -87.977782", **LatLongDMS:** "41:47:00 N 87:58:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.783335,-87.977782)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2974 (E35B6B13) **Date:** 8/1926 **Location:** Westmont, Illinois **Description:** Dusk. Frank Tezky and his father watch 6 disc-shaped objects in Westmont, Illinois. Five smaller discs are trailing in a straight line behind a much larger one, moving west beneath cirrus clouds, which reflect the light cast by the objects. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 1170 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_415 ### Event 2975 (BCDDDA9D) **Date:** 8/5/1926 **Location:** USSR - Mongolia, Koukounor **Description:** (Translated from French) "... something remarkable! We were at our camp, in the Koukounor district, not far from the Humboldt chain. In the morning around 9:30, some of our caravaners saw a remarkably large black eagle flying above us. Seven of us began to observe this unusual bird. At the same time, another of our caravaners noticed "there is something far above the bird". And he expressed his astonishment. We all saw, in a direction from north to south, something big and shiny reflecting the Sun, like a huge oval moving at great speed. Crossing our camp, this thing changed direction, from south or southwest. And we saw how it disappeared into the intensely blue sky. We even had time to take our field binoculars and clearly see an oval shape with a shiny surface, one side of which shone in the Sun". (Henry DURRANT: "The Black Book of UFOs" - Laffont 1970 - p.74); (August 5, 1926) **Reference:** Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: "UFOs in the USSR and Eastern Countries", trans. Laffont 1976, p. 273 - they place this in August 1927 **Reference:** he cites Nicholas Roerich, Altaï-Himalaya, New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1929 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_806 ### Event 2976 (19101782) **Date:** 8/5/1926 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Mongolia, explorer Nicholas Roerich and his team observed: We were at our camp, in the district of Koukounor, not far from the Humboldt range. In the morning, around 9:30am, some of our caravaners saw a remarkably large black eagle flying above us. 7 of us began to observe this unusual bird. At the same time, another of our caravaners noticed: "There is something bigger, much higher than the bird." And he expressed his astonishment. We all saw, in a direction from north to south, something big and shiny reflecting the sun, like a huge oval moving at great speed. Crossing our camp, this thing changed direction from south to southwest. And we saw how it disappeared into the intensely blue sky. We had time to take our field binoculars and clearly see an oval shape with a shiny surface, one side shining in the sun. Let us remember that Nicholas Roerich is, by definition, a highly experienced observer and his testimony comes from one of the wildest regions of Asia, where no dirigible has ever flown in the entire history of air conquest. (August 5, 9:30am) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1926.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_402 ### Event 2977 (B8B2F1E6) **Date:** 8/5/1926 **Time:** 09:30 **Location:** NEAR QINGHAI HU, CHINA **Description:** 6 explorers / (seen thru) binoculars. Huge shiny ovoid going quickly south overhead. Turns going quickly southeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 13) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_359 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "China", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "nr QINGHAI HU,CHINA:6 EXPLORERS/BINOCS:HUGE SHINY OVOID >>S OVHD:TURNS >>SE", **LatLong:** "37.000002 100.333338", **LatLongDMS:** "37:00:00 N 100:20:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.000002,100.333338)", **State/Prov:** "QNH", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 2978 (D0018DE2) **Date:** 8/5/1926 **Location:** Northern China **Description:** In 1926, a Russian adventurer in northern China witnessed an unusual event. While observing a large black eagle, he and his companions noticed a massive, shiny oval object reflecting the sun's light, moving swiftly from north to south and then changing direction to southwest. The object had a brilliant surface and disappeared into the blue sky, leaving a lasting impression on the witnesses. (Chapter 6, Ref 195) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_186 ### Event 2979 (98F6F5E8) **Date:** 9/1926 **Location:** Salt Lake City (near), UT **Description:** 11:00 PM. An air mail pilot was repeatedly buzzed by a long, cylindrical object. Each time the object came within about 50 yards, the aircraft engine would begin to sputter and misfire, until the pilot was forced to make an emergency landing in a pasture. (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_82 ### Event 2980 (35AADA58) **Date:** Late 9/1926 **Location:** USA, near Salt Lake City **Description:** (Translated from French) Colin Murphy, a pilot providing air mail transport, had a close encounter one night in September, around 11 pm. He was 70 miles from Salt Lake City where he had taken off when a huge, luminous object flew past his small DH-4 biplane, a survivor of the First World War. It was a cylinder-shaped object, without wings or engines, measuring about 90 feet long and 8 to 10 feet in diameter. Three times this strange object approached the small plane. Each time it was less than 50 yards away and the engine of the plane began to sputter. Finally Colin had no other alternative than to make a forced landing in a sheep meadow. Quite frustrated by the turn of events, Colin got out of the cockpit and looked up. The object shot away like a bullet and disappeared in a few seconds. (September, late 1926) **Reference:** "UFO's – A Century of Sightings by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 15, 16 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_807 ### Event 2981 (9E5E5620) **Date:** 9/25/1926 (approximate) **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** LOCATION UNKNOWN, NV **Description:** Pilot buzzed. 30M cylinder/cylindrical object forces DH-4 airmail-plane to land. / r171+150. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 13) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_360 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "2000", **HatchDesc:** "loc.unk.,NV:PILOT BUZZED:30M CYL FORCES DH-4 AIRMAIL-PLANE TO LAND:/r171+150", **LatLong:** "40.000002 -117.000006", **LatLongDMS:** "40:00:00 N 117:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.000002,-117.000006)", **State/Prov:** "Nevada", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 2982 (9A9AFCF5) **Date:** Late 9/1926 **Location:** Salt Lake City, Utah **Description:** 11:00 p.m. An Air Mail pilot named Colin Murphy is repeatedly buzzed by a huge glowing object one hour after he takes off in his DH-4 biplane from Salt Lake City, Utah. The object is a 90-foot-long cylinder with no wings or propeller. Every time the object approaches closer than 150 feet, his engine sputters and misfires. He is forced to land in a sheep pasture, whereupon the object shoots away to the south. Possible hoax. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[Pilots UFO Sightings,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/acufo-utahsep1926.htm)” August 5, 2021 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_416 ### Event 2983 (B4B58D47) **Date:** 10/27/1926 **Location:** London, England **Description:** Attorney and “telepathist” Hugh Mansfield Robinson, who has been in contact with a female Martian entity named Oomaruru since 1918, convinces the central radio office in London, England, to send out a message, “MMM opesti nipitia secomba” over the airwaves. He intends for it to be picked up by Martian wireless. The next day, he claims that Oomaruru telepathically told him that only the first three letters had been received. Robinson describes the Martians as 7–8 feet tall with large ears, a wealth of black hair, and almond eyes. Over the years he continues receiving messages from Oomaruru while in a trance and attempting to send signals to Mars. Psychic investigator [Nandor Fodor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nandor%5FFodor), who has attended some of Robinson’s séances, calls him “as slippery as a human eel.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Earl J. Johnson, “[Imagination Runs Wild about Visit of Martian Realm,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92244406/)” Pomona \(Calif.\) Bulletin, October 28, 1926, p. 1; “[Doctor Files Mars Message by Radio ‘At Sender’s Risk,’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92244173/)” Vancouver \(B.C.\) Sun, October 28, 1926, p. 18; Nandor Fodor, The Haunted Mind, Garrett, 1959, [pp. 259–269](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x000352645&view=1up&seq=267&skin=2021); Clark III 1018–1019; Marc Hartzman, “[Earth to Mars in the 1920s: The Strange Case of the Man Who Tried to Contact Martians via Radio,](https://www.weirdhistorian.com/the-strange-case-of-the-man-who-tried-to-contact-martians-via-radio/)” Weird Historian, February 22, 2018 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_417 ### Event 2984 (CB88BEC7) **Date:** 11/1926 **Location:** ENGLAND, Bolton (Lancashire) **Description:** (Translated from French) Henry Thomas, the young son of a policeman, had been put to bed early. He wanted to play with his friends who were outside. He sneaked out of the house to join them. They began a game of hide-and-seek in the alleys. Seeing a back door ajar, Henry entered the yard in the hope of finding one of his friends hidden there. In the yard were three normal-sized people, looking through the back window of a house. The trio was dressed in strange costumes, which seemed to be made of gray-silver rubber tubes, and were wearing black boots. They looked like 'skinny' versions of the "Michelin Man". They wore on their heads "transparent dome-shaped helmets". Tubes came out of them to tanks that the creatures carried on their backs. (note from vog: this description really makes me think of people who have put on diving suits for one reason or another...) The men turned to face the boy. They had pale bulb-shaped faces, dark and slanted eyes, almost no nose and no visible mouth. Henry had the impression that they were benevolent despite their frightening appearance. One of them made a gurgling sound and all three began to move towards the terrified boy. **Reference:** "UFO Files", ed. Marshall Cavendish, Paris 1998, Special Issue, p. 7 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_809 ### Event 2985 (45DF3D3E) **Date:** 11/1926 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Bolton \(Lancashire, England\), Henry Thomas, the young son of a policeman, is put to bed. He wants to play with his friends who are outside. He sneaks out of the house to join them. They start a game of hide-and-seek in the alleys. Seeing a back door ajar, Henry enters the yard in the hope of finding one of his friends hidden there. In the yard are 3 normal-sized people, looking through the back window of a house. The trio is dressed in strange costumes that seem to be made of gray-silver rubber tubes, and are wearing black boots. They look like "skinny" versions of the Michelin Man. They wear transparent dome-shaped helmets. Tubes come out of them to tanks that the creatures carry on their backs. The "men" then turn to face the boy. They have pale bulb-shaped faces, dark and slanted eyes, almost no nose and no visible mouth. Henry has the impression that they are benevolent despite their frightening appearance. One of them makes a gurgling sound and all 3 start to move towards the terrified boy. (November) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1926.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_403 ### Event 2986 (C39983CF) **Date:** 11/1926 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Colun Judetul Sibiu \(Romania\), Ion Bunescu is with his horses on the road to a pasture and sees in the night a "illuminated lance" the size of the Moon. The object remains motionless for 5 or 10 minutes above Bunescu's head. It has the shape of a boat 3 m long and 2 m wide. The middle is darker than the ends. After that the object heads towards Arpasul de Jos \(8 km further\) and after going around a small wood 3 km from Cîrta it suddenly goes out \(the place where the witness is is a hill with very good visibility of about 60 km\). The object makes a whistling sound and all the surroundings are lit up as if it were day (1 h) **Reference:** \[Ion Hobana & Julien Weverberg, UFO's Behind the Iron Curtain\]. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1926.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_404 ### Event 2987 (F195C796) **Date:** 11/1926 **Time:** ~21:00 **Location:** BOLTON, LANCASHIRE **Description:** Several kids. 3 helmeted 'men' / silver space-suits hide in alley. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RANDLES, Jenny: ALIEN CONTACTS & ABDUCTIONS; Sterling Publ., NY 1993. (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_361 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **NFO:** No craft seen, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "75", **HatchDesc:** "BOLTON,LANCASHIRE:SVRL KIDS:3 HELMETED 'MEN'/SLVR SPACE-SUITS HIDE in ALLEY:", **LatLong:** "53.566669 -2.433333", **LatLongDMS:** "53:34:00 N 02:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.566669,-2.433333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 2988 (004ECAE5) **Date:** 11/1926 **Location:** Bolton, Lancashire, England **Description:** Early evening. Playing hide-and-seek with friends in Bolton, Lancashire, England, Henry Thomas slips into a backyard and finds three figures dressed in odd suits made of silvery gray rubber tubes. They are looking into a window in the back of a house. A tube extends from their helmets into a tank on each figure’s back. They turn to look at him and he sees their heads are pale and “shaped like lightbulbs” and they have slits for mouths. Thomas runs away. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[1926: Humanoid Hide and Seek,](https://www.thinkaboutitdocs.com/1926-humanoid-hide-and-seek/)” ThinkAboutIt; Clark III 264 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_418 --- ## Year: 1927, 35 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 2989 (05FEF277) **Date:** 1927 **Location:** FRANCE, Creuse **Description:** (Translated from French) The airship LZ 127 Zeppelin flew over the region of the Pierres-Jaumâtres for a long time. At the same time, higher up in the sky, there appeared aircrafts of the same shape, which seemed to be escorting it. [note de vog: IN REALITY: this zeppelin was built in ... 1930. It made trips between Germany and Russia in 1931. It therefore does not belong to those that France received in sharing on November 11, 1918: France receives the LZ 113 (LZ 83), LZ 121 Nordstern which will become "Méditerranée", LZ 114 (L 72) which will become "Dixmude"... THEREFORE, the story would be made up from scratch] **Reference:** Pierre VIEROUDY: "Ces OVNI qui annoncent le surhomme" - Laffont 1979, p. 53 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_817 ### Event 2990 (4A669967) **Date:** 1927 **Location:** AUSTRALIA, near Fernvale (New South Wales) **Description:** (Translated from French) Two brothers saw a UFO in the shape of a curved disc pass above their heads. It illuminated the entire valley and eventually landed. The next day a circle of scorched grass was found at the spot. **Reference:** Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 308 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_820 ### Event 2991 (3857CEEA) **Date:** 1927 **Location:** USA, Scottsbluff, Nebraska. **Description:** (Translated from French) Flying near Scottsbluff, the pilot Barney Oldfield was surrounded by "manhole covers" flying. **Reference:** A CENTURY OF UFO - UFO Roundup Dec. 1999, ed. Joseph Trainor **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_822 ### Event 2992 (17B28E7B) **Date:** 1927 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The first solid-state germanium device \(semiconductor\) of [Henry Moray](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/MorayHenryT.html) is submitted to the United States Patent Office, and is rejected due to the fact that it cannot operate without an excited cathode. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1927.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_405 ### Event 2993 (0AB8D0CC) **Date:** 1927 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) \(or 1928\) **July**: We saw, as did many people, a glowing cylinder flying towards the East above the village of Piatra-Olt \(Romania\) at an incredible speed and without any noise. The object was bigger than the Moon. It was yellow and illuminated the streets so much that it was as if it were midday. It exploded in the air into a fountain of red sparks. **Reference:** Eremencu Petre **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1927.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_406 ### Event 2994 (974AD2A2) **Date:** 1927 **Location:** Fernvale, New South Wales **Description:** For a few weeks, 10-year-old [Cecil “Danny” McGann](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/151868178/cecil-thomas-mcgann), his family, and other farmers in the area of Fernvale, New South Wales, are terrorized by dancing aerial lights during the night, the unusual deaths of their cattle and pigs, mystery intruders, apparitions, circular areas of scorched grass, large and unfamiliar birds, bizarre noises, and strange men in odd suits. McGann is still terrified of this series of events when he relates them to UFO investigator [Bill Chalker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FChalker) in 1985. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 485–491; Bill Chalker, “Physical Traces,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 190 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_419 ### Event 2995 (252C9AF1) **Date:** 1927 **Location:** Marin County, California **Description:** In 1927, a woman in Marin County, California, reported witnessing a dynamic UFO sighting. She described a cigar-shaped craft emerging from a cloud and swiftly moving across the sky toward Tamalpais. While she initially thought it could be a dirigible, she noticed distinct differences in its shape and behavior, as it was elongated and yellow in color, moving at high speed. The craft appeared to alter its shape by contracting and elongating as it passed by her viewpoint. (Chapter 6, Ref 190) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_181 ### Event 2996 (3D494DE4) **Date:** 1927 **Location:** West Frankfort, Illinois **Description:** In 1927, a young individual in West Frankfort, Illinois, had a close encounter with a disc-shaped UFO. The object, which emitted revolving and flashing lights, approached noiselessly, coming to a halt around 100 feet away and hovering above a house. The witness estimated the UFO to be approximately 40 feet in diameter, resembling stainless steel. It featured a gondola-like section with round windows emitting blue-white light. The UFO extended a thin rod or wire, closed its windows like a camera's iris shutter, and then resumed revolving before departing in the opposite direction. (Chapter 6, Ref 191) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_182 ### Event 2997 (54173FDA) **Date:** 1927 **Location:** Romania **Description:** In 1927, two notable UFO sightings occurred in different parts of the world. In the first case, a cylindrical object was witnessed flying over a Romanian village during clear daylight conditions. Multiple observers, including an engineer, reported the object to be around 50 to 65 feet long and 10 to 13 feet in diameter. It was described as smoke gray in color and moved silently at an altitude of less than 1,000 feet. (Chapter 6, Ref 196) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_187 ### Event 2998 (F00B1905) **Date:** 1927 **Location:** New South Wales, Australia **Description:** In 1927, an intriguing UFO event occurred in a remote area of New South Wales, Australia. Two brothers encountered a cylindrical UFO with a dome on top, emanating a dull light. The object suddenly hissed, producing a dazzling light that illuminated the surroundings. It landed on a nearby hill, leaving a scorched area of grass about 30 feet in diameter. The next morning, the brothers discovered the scorched patch, and their neighbors confirmed witnessing the glowing object's descent before it vanished into the darkness. (Chapter 6, Ref 197) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_188 ### Event 2999 (56BB98D5) **Date:** Early 1927 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the two-seater general purpose Westland Wapiti I, 225 km/h, ceiling 6280m, range 580 km. There will be 512 examples for the RAF and 500 for other users, including South Africa which built under license. Metal structure versions, arctic version, ski, floats, 80 Wapiti flying in India survived in 1945. From 1969 the WESTLAND company mainly focused on the construction of helicopters (1927, beginning of the year) **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** Sea King, Scout and Wasp, Wessex, Lynx in collaboration with Aérospatiale of France. **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_810 ### Event 3000 (4833D2EC) **Date:** 2/1927 **Location:** FERNVALE, AUS **Description:** 2 / ranch. Domed saucer seen / days. Burnt grass. Cows scared. Pig missing. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** CHALKER,Bill: The OZ FILES. Australian Sightings. 1996 Duffy & Snellgrove. NSW,Australia. ISBN 1-875989-04-8 (Index 32) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_362 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **ABD:** Human or animal abduction, **OPR:** Operations on humans/animal mutilation/surgery, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "64", **HatchDesc:** "FERNVALE,AUS:2/RANCH:DOMED SCR SEEN/DAYS:BURNT GRASS:COWS SCARED:PIG MISSING", **LatLong:** "-27.450001 152.583341", **LatLongDMS:** "27:27:00 S 152:35:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-27.450001,152.583341)", **RelAlt:** "1", **State/Prov:** "Queensland", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 3001 (F261005A) **Date:** 2/1927 (approximate) **Time:** ~09:00 **Location:** SAUSALITO, CA **Description:** Early / 1927. Cylinder/cigar-shape crosses bay fast going quickly west. Long and thin. Shortens and lengthens! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 40) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_363 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "SAUSALITO,CA:EARLY/1927:CGR CROSSES BAY FAST>>W:LONG+THIN:SHORTENS+LENGTHENS!", **LatLong:** "37.861113 -122.500006", **LatLongDMS:** "37:51:40 N 122:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.861113,-122.500006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3002 (68E9E029) **Date:** 2/8/1927 **Location:** ATLANTIC CIRCUIT **Description:** (Translated from French) By Pinedo, Del Prete and Zachetti, on the hydroplane Savoia-Machetti S.55 "Santa Maria" from Roosevelt (Texas) to Santa Maria II from New York to Rome. (February 8th to June 16th, 1927) **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 184 **Reference:** Summary of the dashboard in the cited book. **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_811 ### Event 3003 (ED50E641) **Date:** 2/19/1927 **Location:** URUGUAY, SOUTH ATLANTIC CROSSING **Description:** (Translated from French) The Uruguayan Dornier-Wal takes off from Marina di Pisa to attempt a round-the-world trip. The crew consists of brothers Taddeo and Gianco Larre-Borges, Ibarra and Rigoli. They reach Casablanca for Dakar, but have to land north of Cape Juby. The crew is kidnapped by the Moors. The aircraft is spotted three days later by French pilots Mermoz and Ville. Guillaumet and Riguelle also spot the seaplane, land and examine the wreckage. The prisoners are released a few days later for ransom by two other French pilots, Reine and Antoine. (February 19, 1927) **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 184 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_812 ### Event 3004 (72A83B2C) **Date:** 4/1927 (approximate) **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** WEST FRANKFORT, IL **Description:** Boy. Bright metallic 12M sphere/orb/globe stops over house. Lit portholes / bottom/underside. Drops line. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_364 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "123", **HatchDesc:** "W.FRANKFORT,IL:BOY:BRITE MTLC 12M ORB STOPS ovr HOUSE:LIT PORTS/BTM:DROPS LINE", **LatLong:** "37.916668 -88.933338", **LatLongDMS:** "37:55:00 N 88:56:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.916668,-88.933338)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 3005 (198CEC98) **Date:** 5/20/1927 **Location:** USA (New York) - FRANCE (Paris) **Description:** (Translated from French) Charles Lindbergh on Ryan "Spirit of St. Louis" first non-stop link from New York to Paris in 33h 30m of flight and record of straight-line distance with 5809 km. He won the Orteig Prize ($25,000). **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p.187 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_813 ### Event 3006 (5268442A) **Date:** Summer 1927 **Location:** USSR, Solovyevka **Description:** (Translated from French) This town is located about 20 km south of Lipetsk. Early in the afternoon, engineer I.V. Surkov saw a milky white disc in the sky to the north. It was twice the size of a full moon, and flew slowly to the east. The weather was warm, and there were many cumulus clouds in the sky. As it approached one of these clouds, the disc "disappeared" into the cloud, which reappeared when the disc had passed through it. This happened with each cloud on the object's trajectory. The observation lasted more than half an hour. (1927, Summer) **Reference:** Felix Zigel and FSR **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_815 ### Event 3007 (BAC5A179) **Date:** Summer 1927 **Location:** Wolfe County, Kentucky **Description:** [Reece Andrew Lacey](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/132622971/reece-andrew-lacey)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/132622971/reece-andrew-lacey) 9, sees a large fish-like object with “big fins extended outward near the front, and small, short ones near the rear” in Wolfe County, Kentucky. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Report from the Readers,” Fate 11, no. 2 \(December 1958\): 111–112; Clark III 1171 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_420 ### Event 3008 (71E16E07) **Date:** 7/1927 **Location:** ROMANIA **Description:** (Translated from French) A group of children who were tending sheep said that "God was walking in the sky". Nicholae Balcescu received from Gheorge Achimescu, an agronomist engineer, this testimony: "While it was very nice and there was no wind, I saw a cylindrical object 15 to 20 m long and 3 to 4 m in diameter pass over the village at an altitude between 200 and 300 m. It was heading from west to east, standing vertically in the sky. Its color was smoke gray, it was not lit. It moved in total silence. Young shepherds who were tending sheep outside the village followed this strange object with their eyes and were convinced that they had just seen God in the sky..." **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 237-238 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_814 ### Event 3009 (0B8ECBEB) **Date:** 7/1927 **Location:** ROMANIA, Piatra-Olt **Description:** (Translated from French) One evening in the month of July 1927 or 1928 we saw with many other witnesses, a radiating cylinder flying in the direction of the east. It passed over the village at a fantastic speed without emitting the slightest sound. This object was bigger than the full moon. Yellow in color, its light illuminated the streets so brightly that it seemed like the middle of the day. It exploded in the air with a projection of red sparks (July 1927 or 1928) **Reference:** Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: "UFOs in the USSR and in the Eastern Countries" - trad. Laffont 1976 - p. 293-294 **Reference:** Petre Eremencu **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_816 ### Event 3010 (F566741D) **Date:** 7/1927? **Location:** CORBOLA, ITL **Description:** Girl / 11. 3M glowing-object dives / river. Emerges and quickly going up. Small humanoid (or Grey) in dome. / r39p27. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO - Rivista di informazione Ufologica; 2 issues/year CISU. Giovanni Settimo ed.; C.P.82, 10100 Torino, ITALY. (Index 7) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_365 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "CORBOLA,ITL:GIRL/11:3M GLOW-OBJ DIVES/RIVER:EMERGES+↑↑:OID IN DOME:/r39p27", **LatLong:** "45.005558 12.083334", **LatLongDMS:** "45:00:20 N 12:05:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.005558,12.083334)", **State/Prov:** "RO", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 3011 (6787CBE9) **Date:** 7/1927 **Locations:** Agricultural engineer; Nicolae Bălcescu, Romania **Description:** Agricultural engineer Gheorghe Achimescu sees a smoke-gray, cylindrical object fly silently from west to east over the village of Nicolae Bălcescu, Romania, at an altitude of 650–950 feet. He estimates it is about 50 feet long with a diameter of 10 feet. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Hobana and Weverbergh 152–153 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_421 ### Event 3012 (1E607281) **Date:** 8/1927 (approximate) **Time:** ~13:00 **Location:** SOLOVYEVKA, RUSSIA **Description:** Disk west going east across / sky. Each cloud in path vanishes and reappears after! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO CHRONICLES of the SOVIET UNION; Ballentine Books HB 1992. 212pp. (Index 183) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_366 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Russia", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "40", **HatchDesc:** "SOLOVYEVKA,RUSS:DISK W>E ACRS/SKY:EACH CLOUD in PATH VANISHES+REAPPEARS AFTER!", **LatLong:** "52.250002 39.566669", **LatLongDMS:** "52:15:00 N 39:34:00 E", **Locale:** "Tundra", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.250002,39.566669)", **State/Prov:** "LIP", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 3013 (FC42C292) **Date:** 8/5/1927 **Location:** Himalayan Mts., Nepal **Description:** We all saw, in the direction north to south, something big and shiny reflecting sun, like a huge oval moving at great speed. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [270805](http://www.nicap.org/270805himalayasdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_84 ### Event 3014 (10990C7B) **Date:** 8/5/1927 **Location:** Qinghai Lake, Tibet **Description:** Explorer [Nicholas Roerich](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas%5FRoerich) and others in his caravan observe a UFO near Qinghai Lake, Tibet. “We all saw, in the direction north to south, something big and shiny reflecting sun, like a huge oval moving at great speed. Crossing our camp this thing changed in its direction from south to southwest, and we saw how it disappeared in the intense blue sky. We even had time to take our field glasses and saw quite distinctly the oval form with the shiny surface, one side of which was brilliant from the sun." **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Nicholas Roerich, Altai-Himalaya, Frederick A. Stokes, 1929, [pp. 361–362](https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.16090/page/n411/mode/2up); Brad Sparks, “[Analysis: Roerich Case, Aug. 5, 1927](http://www.nicap.org/270805himalayasdir.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_422 ### Event 3015 (4413ABC9) **Date:** 8/5/1927 **Description:** At 9:30 in the morning while climbing in the Humbolt Range of the Altai Mountains in Mongolia, explorer Nicholas Roerich and seven companions saw a huge, shiny, flying oval-shaped object that reflected the sunlight. It flew from north to south, then changed direction and flew off to the southeast. The UFO was in view for several minutes and was examined through binoculars. Witnesses of the daylight UFO included members of the mountaineering expedition, Mongols, and Buriat lamas. The lamas believed it was the "Sign of Shambala." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 22; J. Allen Hynek, International UFO Reporter, January 1982, p. 10 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4669 ### Event 3016 (C539C83A) **Date:** Late Summer 1927 **Location:** Oslo, Norway **Description:** Long delayed echoes—radio echoes that return to the sender several seconds after a radio transmission has occurred—are first observed by civil engineer and amateur radio operator Jørgen Hals from his home near Oslo, Norway. The cause of LDEs remains unknown, although A. G. Shlionsky has proposed 15 different explanations. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Long delayed echo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long%5Fdelayed%5Fecho)”; Carl Størmer, “[Short Wave Echoes and the Aurora Borealis,](https://www.nature.com/articles/122681a0)” Nature 122 \(1928\): 681; Sverre Holm, “[The Five Most Likely Explanations for Long Delayed Echoes,](https://www.mn.uio.no/fysikk/english/people/aca/sverre/articles/lde.html)” March 16, 2004; Sverre Holm, “[15 Possible Explanations for Long Delayed Echoes,](https://www.mn.uio.no/fysikk/english/people/aca/sverre/articles/shlionskiy15.html)” November 6, 2007 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_423 ### Event 3017 (D214F22B) **Date:** Autumn 1927 **Location:** USSR, near Omsk **Description:** (Translated from French) A peasant was suddenly awoken in the night by a deafening noise. He jumped out of bed, wondering what could have caused such an infernal racket. The neighing and stamping of hooves on the other side of the wooden partition made him immediately understand where he had to run. The man, thinking of a thief, went out into the courtyard, grabbed his pitchfork and opened the stable door. His two horses, terrified, pushed him, threw him to the ground and galloped off into the fields. Furious, covered in manure, he got up, took a lantern and went back home where he found all the neighbours gathered, alarmed, carrying lights and sticks. The aspect of the stable was astounding. The shack was crossed in all directions by silver wires of various thicknesses, from the ceiling to the walls, from the walls to the floor. And these wires were so strong that it was difficult to cut them, even with an axe, to penetrate the centre of the room. In the middle of the ceiling there was a large hole. It looked as if an enormous rock had gone through the roof, yet looking on the ground there was no trace of stones or pebbles of any kind. But what did all these brave people see when they looked around them? A horrible, terrifying, and undoubtedly living "thing" was hanging from a bundle of hay: a whitish mass the size of a pumpkin. It contracted and expanded in sequence like an open heart. The "thing" started to move, it turned around to advance towards those who, rooted to the spot, were looking at it. As it turned, it showed that its entire mass resembled a human face. From this monster, which was nothing but a head without a body, long tentacles stretched out towards those who were watching it, their teeth chattering. Those who were too scared ran away screaming prayers. The bravest threw themselves on the abominable thing and managed to reduce it to an amorphous, sticky, bluish-white mass. (1927, Autumn) **Reference:** Peter KOLOSIMO: "Shadows on the Stars" - Albin Michel 1970, p. 340, 341 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_818 ### Event 3018 (EAEE0A2E) **Date:** 10/18/1927 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** BAKERSFIELD, CA **Description:** 1 observer. Metallic object rises / ground. Lens-like protrusions. Sand / ground fused! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** PHILLIPS, Ted: Study of PHYSICAL TRACES ASSOCIATED with UFO SIGHTINGS; CUFOS 1975. (Index 4) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_367 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "123", **HatchDesc:** "BAKERSFIELD,CA:1 OBS:MTLC OBJ RISES/GND:LENS-LIKE PROTRUSIONS:SAND/GND FUSED!", **LatLong:** "35.350002 -119.016672", **LatLongDMS:** "35:21:00 N 119:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.350002,-119.016672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 3019 (49515599) **Date:** 10/18/1927 **Location:** Bakersfield, California **Description:** Richard Sweed is driving west on the outskirts of Bakersfield, California, when he sees a bluish-gray metallic disc with portholes take off from the ground at a 45° angle. It is about 60 feet in diameter and makes a whining sound. He examines the spot where the object had rested and finds the sand “fused like glass crystals.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 18 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_424 ### Event 3020 (D8EDFFF9) **Date:** 10/18/1927 **Description:** A man by the man of Sweed witnessed a hexagonal flying craft with rivets and a dome that was flying low over a road in Bakersfield, California. A human looking occupant was seen inside a window. The object shot away extremely fast. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 18 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6946 ### Event 3021 (4BE60ADE) **Date:** 10/28/1927 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Zanesville \(Ohio\), [Thomas Townsend Brown](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/BrownThomasTownsend.html) performs experiments at his Experimental Physics Laboratory on the force acting on charged conductors. The device takes two forms, as described in a manuscript entitled *Tapping Cosmic Energy* dated this day, which at the time is submitted for publication to the magazine *Physical Review*, but rejected. (October 28) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1927.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_407 ### Event 3022 (29B7A01D) **Date:** 11/1927 **Location:** GERMANY, Obernigk (Silesia) **Description:** (Translated from French) Tests of model aircraft powered by a powder rocket were carried out from various sides, including by the "Gesellschaft Fur Raketenforschung" in November 1927 in Obernigk. (November 1927) **Reference:** "The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 69-70 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_819 ### Event 3023 (CD3E2C6C) **Date:** 12/1927 **Location:** GERMANY, Erzgebirge **Description:** (Translated from French) Testing of model airplanes powered by rockets. **Reference:** "The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 70 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_821 --- ## Year: 1928, 23 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 3024 (4AAF2355) **Date:** 1928 **Location:** USA, near Yakima (Washington) **Description:** (Translated from French) Floyd Dillon, 17 years old, was driving a car on a dirt road about 15 km from Yakima. It was 4 o'clock. As he reached the top of a small hill, he saw the craft appear in the sky. It was flying 20 m above the ground and moving slowly. The object looked like a metal hexagon, topped with a dome of dull olive color. It was about 7 m long and 2 m high. Dillon could see rivets along a vertical section and a window of one meter by 75 cm, embedded in the metal frame. In this window he observed the head and torso of a man dressed in a dark blue uniform who "could pass for an Italian in this world". The object moved slowly, without stopping, while the occupant looked intensely in the direction of the car. Then the object turned on itself, crossed the road and suddenly moved away at a terrifying speed. (April/May 1928) **Reference:** Jacques VALLEE: "Confrontations" - Laffont 1991, pp. 185-188 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_824 ### Event 3025 (4FE455A9) **Date:** 1928 **Location:** USA, Griffith Park, California **Description:** (Translated from French) Leo Bentz, a former car manufacturer, stated that he and a friend had witnessed, in 1928, at Griffith Park, a confidential demonstration of an aerial craft model, in the shape of a saucer. The inventor was George De Bay, who was looking for new principles of aerial propulsion. He had drawn the plans of a craft that was to move through the air like a flat stone, or rather like an overturned saucer, and use the principle of vacuum for its propulsion, which required ten times less energy than was being spent at that time for airplanes. It is thought that De Bay went to the USSR **Reference:** to be verified if possible... **Reference:** F. Scully: "The Mystery of Flying Saucers", ed. Del Duca, Paris "Les Editions Mondiales" 1951, p. 171, citing the "Los Angeles Examiner" of July 5, 1947, title "A test of "flying saucer" took place in California in 1928" **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_830 ### Event 3026 (A924545A) **Date:** 1928 **Location:** Germany **Description:** (Translated from French) Testing of Aircraft Propulsion by Rocket by the "Rhön-Rositten Company in 1928 and by Engineer Rudolf Kollmorgen from 1929. The latter, with a fully metallic scale model, with a span of 3 meters, reached speeds of 360 km/h during very short tests. Most of the scale models could not withstand the propulsive force of the rockets: they would deteriorate in flight or be destroyed upon landing. (1928, 1929) **Reference:** "The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 70 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_831 ### Event 3027 (384B3A7A) **Date:** 1928 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) [T. Townsend Brown](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/BrownThomasTownsend.html) discovers the electrogravitic capacitance effect. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1928.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_408 ### Event 3028 (5FC5AEED) **Date:** 1928 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The two scientists Carl Stürmer and Balthus Van der Pol receive echoes of their own transmissions at various times. These echoes last for several seconds or a few minutes after the signals are sent. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1928.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_409 ### Event 3029 (AF3908B2) **Date:** 1928 **Location:** Milton, North Dakota **Description:** In 1928, two brothers herding cattle across the prairie near Milton, North Dakota, encountered a UFO resembling an inverted soup bowl. The craft, positioned around 15 to 20 feet above the ground, emitted several light rays ahead of it. The witnesses described the UFO as being 20 to 25 feet in diameter, made of polished metal. At one point, the object came close to them, and they heard a noise resembling air escaping from a tube emanating from the craft. (Chapter 6, Ref 192) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_183 ### Event 3030 (AE35E6B6) **Date:** 1928 **Location:** Leicester, England **Description:** A young girl from England shared an encounter with an extraordinary occupant and craft near Leicester. The being was described as black, five feet tall, with a large head and remarkably long arms. It was observed beside an object resembling an upright, massive egg, supported by three legs extending to the ground. When the girl returned with her father, both the entity and the object had disappeared. (Chapter 6, Ref 206) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_197 ### Event 3031 (DD2D3AAC) **Date:** 1/3/1928 **Location:** Kansas **Description:** Kansas journalist [Charles Benedict Driscoll](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FBenedict%5FDriscoll) begins writing about ball lighting in his syndicated column, “The World and All,” keeping the subject alive for many years. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Charles B. Driscoll, “[The World and All,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92248083/)” Lexington \(Ky.\) Herald, January 3, 1928, p. 4 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_425 ### Event 3032 (D10E5E7B) **Date:** 3/12/1928 **Location:** GERMANY, Rüsselsheim **Description:** (Translated from French) Valier succeeded in interesting the industrialist Fritz von Opel, automobile manufacturer, in his tests. March 12, 1928 is the significant day when, for the first time in history, he made a vehicle propelled by rocket carrying a man (the former racer Kurt c. Volkhart). The test, which passed unnoticed by the public, was undertaken on the special track of the Opel firm in Russelshim near Mainz. (...) The rockets were supplied by the engineer Sander, from Wesermunde. **Reference:** "The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 66 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_823 ### Event 3033 (2906E984) **Date:** 5/1928 (approximate) **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** WEST / YAKIMA, WA **Description:** 1 / car. Domed hexagon with rivets scouts road. Pseudo-human/entity inside window. Going [to] extremely fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: CONFRONTATIONS, A Scientists Search..; Ballentine Books, NY 1990+91.PB (Index 133) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_368 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "325", **HatchDesc:** "W/YAKIMA,WA:1/CAR:DOMED HEXAGON W/RIVETS SCOUTS ROAD:PSH INSIDE WINDOW:>XFAST", **LatLong:** "46.600002 -120.650006", **LatLongDMS:** "46:36:00 N 120:39:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.600002,-120.650006)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 3034 (79A72C75) **Date:** 5/1928 **Location:** America **Description:** Mystic and white supremacist [William Dudley Pelley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FDudley%5FPelley) claims he has an out-of-body experience in which he travels to other planes of existence devoid of corporeal souls. He describes his experience in an American Magazine article titled “My Seven Minutes in Eternity,” expanded to a book 1933 as Seven Minutes in Eternity. In later writings, he describes the experience as “hypo-dimensional.” During this event, he meets with God and Jesus, who instruct him to undertake the spiritual transformation of America. He later claims that the experience gives him the ability to levitate, see through walls, and have out-of-body experiences at will. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** William Dudley Pelley, [“Seven Minutes in Eternity” with Their Aftermath](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112052129936&view=1up&seq=5&skin=2021)[,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112052129936&view=1up&seq=5&skin=2021) Robert Collier, 1929; Clark III 1285 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_426 ### Event 3035 (E5E8DB0C) **Date:** 6/1928 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the first day biplane bomber Hawker, Hart series. (There will be subsequent series Fury (Biplane and Monoplane), Typhoon, Tempest, Hurricane, Meteor, and Hawker Siddeley Sea Hawk, Hunter, Javelin, Vulcan, Sea Vixen, Buccaneer, Harrier, Hawk, Nimrod). The 1928 type had a max. speed of 170 km/h, ceiling around 5000 m. (June 1928) **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_825 ### Event 3036 (A3EEF174) **Date:** 6/13/1928 **Location:** Miami, Florida **Description:** 9:00–10:00 p.m. Something like a “great blurred electric light” appears over Miami, Florida, for more than 30 minutes. One witness, amateur astronomer R. C. Fahrion, describes it as a comet without a tail, but it does not move, is of an “enormous size,” and disappears very suddenly. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Miami Astronomers Unable to Identify Light in](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92249976/) [Sky,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92249976/)” Miami Herald, June 14, 1928, p. 1; “[Miamians Watch Sky Mystery, Mistaken for Tailless Comet,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92250138/)” Miami News, June 14, 1928, p. 12; Clark III 1172 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_428 ### Event 3037 (EECD9BDA) **Date:** Summer 1928 **Location:** Anstey Lane, Leicester, England **Description:** A 6-year-old girl sees a black, faceless, 5-foot-high figure with a large head and dangling arms in a field off Anstey Lane, Leicester, England. She thinks it is a scarecrow but notices a “large globe on legs” near the figure. She wakes up her father \(who is resting in the open air\) but when she turns around, the scarecrow and the globe are gone. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Pauline Berger, “[The Disappearing Scarecrow,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201969%20V%2015%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1969\): 29; Clark III 264 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_427 ### Event 3038 (268FCBD3) **Date:** 6/25/1928 **Location:** USA **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the Boeing F4B/P-12, single-seat pursuit fighter, cruising speed 241 km/h, ceiling 8320 m, mass production since May 1929, last delivery on February 28, 1933. Remained in service until the end of 1945, and in 1976 some were still flying. (June 25, 1928) **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_826 ### Event 3039 (174DB1AF) **Date:** 7/11/1928 **Location:** GERMANY, Wasserkuppe (Rhön) **Description:** (Translated from French) The first world flight with a human on board by rocket, from the top of the Wasserkuppe. The pilot was F. Stamer, an enthusiast of gliding flight. He used a "duck" type glider from the Rhon-Rositten test institute, in which two Sander slow combustion rockets with a thrust of 12 and 15 kilos were mounted. The launch was made at Sandow, in the manner of gliders. The two rockets were then to be electrically ignited one after the other. It was finally the third attempt, the first two having failed, which carried the aircraft to approximately 1300 meters in an approximate time of 60 to 80 seconds. (July 11, 1928) **Reference:** "Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 70 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_827 ### Event 3040 (DE557C3D) **Date:** 8/1928 **Location:** CHINA, Jonhong (Anhui) **Description:** (Translated from French) One night in August 1928, I was taking the air outside with the villagers. The moonless sky was starry, there were no flashes of lightning. Around 8 o'clock, we saw above the Dabi mountain range, an enormous and very long white snake heading towards us. Silver, this flying snake, head raised, flew over the mountains and the countryside and came straight towards us. But as it flew just above my head, the snake extinguished all its lights and disappeared mysteriously. My observation lasted five minutes and the witnesses number in the hundreds. The white snake was at a few thousand meters altitude, people were gaping at this phenomenon. The head and tail of the flying object were luminous; it looked very much like a snake standing straight up in the sky. It measured more than 200 m and moved without twisting. Its apparent diameter measured more than one meter. **Reference:** SHI BO: "China and the Extraterrestrials" ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p. 75 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_828 ### Event 3041 (F09F4184) **Date:** 10/1928 **Location:** Antarctica **Description:** Richard E. Byrd’s first expedition to Antarctica. He set up a large base on the Ross Ice Shelf, called Little America. This was the first of the American bases on the continent and was well-equipped. **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [link](https://captainantarctica.com.au/exploration/admiral-byrd/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_35 ### Event 3042 (A98F4AA6) **Date:** 11/1928 **Location:** USA, Milton (North Dakota) **Description:** (Translated from French) A UFO round like an upturned saucer flew over the area emitting powerful light rays that scared the livestock. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 238) Two brothers accompanying the livestock near Milton, saw a craft shaped like an upturned saucer, flying at very high speed, at less than 20 feet altitude. The object had 4 or 5 lights on its belly, bright enough to light up the whole area. The passage of the object was accompanied by a sound resembling the passage of air through a tube. (November 1928) **Reference:** "Ufo's – A century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 16 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_829 ### Event 3043 (74A46571) **Date:** 11/1928 **Location:** Milton, ND **Description:** A UFO, round "like an inverted soup plate," sped overhead emitting rays of light which illuminated the ground and startled cattle. (NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_85 ### Event 3044 (6C4AAC6D) **Date:** Early 11/1928 **Location:** Milton, North Dakota **Description:** 10:30 p.m. [Norman H. Sabie](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/114843467/norman-sabie) and [Thorsten Sabie](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/114842471/thorsten-sabie) are driving cattle near Milton, North Dakota, watch a round, metallic object, like a “soup bowl turned upside down,” speed by at a low altitude \(15–20 feet\), emitting 4–5 rays of light that illuminate the ground and startle cattle. It makes a sound like air pouring through a tube. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 129](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=141&skin=2021); Clark III 1170 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_429 ### Event 3045 (E4C5700A) **Date:** 11/5/1928 (approximate) **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** MILTON, ND **Description:** 2 observer(s). 6-7M silver bowl-saucer beams rays going down / field. Vacuum cleaner sound. / r78p152. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_369 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "482", **HatchDesc:** "MILTON,ND:2 OBS:6-7M SLVR BOWL-SCR BEAMS RAYS↓/FLD:VAC.CLEANER SOUND:/r78p152", **LatLong:** "48.627780 -98.044449", **LatLongDMS:** "48:37:40 N 98:02:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.627780,-98.044449)", **State/Prov:** "North Dakota", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 3046 (B2F89CAF) **Date:** 11/28/1928 **Location:** Rodez, Aveyron, France **Description:** French diplomatic scholar [Henri Pensa](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri%5FPensa) writes that a silvery object trailing fire is seen in Rodez, Aveyron, France, coming from the “direction of Mars.” He says that in the winter of 1927–1928, he has seen a bright light, usually between 8:00 and 11:00 p.m., that brightens the landscape. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Giuseppe Stilo, “[Francia, 1928:](https://web.archive.org/web/100/https://cieloinsolito.com/?p=724) [Marte Attacca?](https://web.archive.org/web/100/https://cieloinsolito.com/?p=724)” Cielo Insolito, October 2, 2019 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_430 --- ## Year: 1929, 21 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 3047 (A8594F32) **Date:** 1929 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Major Stock Market and Economic Crisis in the United States. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1929.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_410 ### Event 3048 (0737A468) **Date:** 1929 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Photo taken in April by Edward Pline. See image at images/1929-04_SlideWard_Colorado.jpg. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1929.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_411 ### Event 3049 (EF12D4FB) **Date:** 1929 **Locations:** Hertford, England; Orchard **Description:** In Hertford, England, a 5-year-old girl and her 8-year-old brother have such an unsettling experience that they do not talk about it themselves until about 1960, and the woman herself does not reveal it to outsiders until 1970. They are playing in a garden when they hear engine sounds and see a tiny \(12 or 15 inches wide\) biplane coming over the fence from the direction of an orchard. It swoops down, nearly hitting a trash can, and lands for a few seconds before resuming its flight. While it is stationary, the girl can see a “perfectly proportioned tiny pilot wearing a leather flying helmet, who waved to us as he took off.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Gordon Creighton, “[A Weird Case from the](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%204.pdf) [Past,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1970\): 30; Clark III 1173 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_431 ### Event 3050 (24E36FB2) **Date:** 1929 **Location:** Fermeneuve, Quebec, Canada **Description:** A man from Quebec, Canada, had an encounter with a landed UFO and its occupants. While driving near Fermeneuve at night, he spotted a peculiar dark cloud with a yellow light inside resting on a hillside. Approaching closer, he realized the light emanated from a circular craft around 50 feet in diameter. He observed several small, yellow-colored humanoid figures moving around the craft's exterior before the UFO took off with a sound likened to a milk separator. (Chapter 6, Ref 207) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_198 ### Event 3051 (E5CC37A2) **Date:** Spring 1929 **Location:** Bainbridge Island, WA **Description:** SAUCER SIGHTED YEAR WALL STREET COLLAPSES - Larry Reynolds of San Francisco, California saw a mysterious object in the clouds. The day was early spring and occasional clouds hid the oval-shaped craft from time to time. At times it was clearly visible and Reynolds judged its size to be tremendous. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Fate Magazine 1952 (Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3 ff5)) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_36 ### Event 3052 (F558D3A6) **Date:** 4/1929 **Location:** Ward, CO **Description:** Possible UFO In Old Photo (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, Code: I, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [2904xx](http://www.nicap.org/2904XXward%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_87 ### Event 3053 (160B0CDC) **Date:** 6/12/1929 **Location:** Fermeneuve, CAN **Description:** 11:00 p.m. Levis Brosseau, 20 was returning home when he saw a dark object with a yellow light and his horse became very nervous. Within 6 m of the object four or five dwarfish figures were running back and forth. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_88 ### Event 3054 (60FCEE65) **Date:** 6/12/1929 **Time:** 2300 **Location:** Fermeneuve, Canada **Description:** Levis Brosseau, 2O was returning home when he saw a dark object with a yellow light and his horse became very nervous. Within 6 m of the object four or five dwarfish figures were running back and forth. He heard their pointed, childlike voices, then saw the dark object take off with a machinelike sound and a rush of air. Estimated size of object: 15 m diameter, 5 m high. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** GEPA Dec., 68 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_46 ### Event 3055 (129D81DC) **Date:** 6/12/1929 **Location:** Ferme-Neuve, Quebec **Description:** 11:00 p.m. As he is driving home at Ferme-Neuve, Quebec, Levis Brosseau, 20, sees something like a black cloud with a yellow light resting on a hillside. He gets out to investigate and discerns a structured object 50 feet in diameter. Outside of it, 4–5 small men of yellowish color are moving quickly about. Soon the object flies overhead, “purring like a milk separator,” and he hears two voices arguing. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Center for UFO Studies, [HUMCAT](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1910-1939.pdf) [Index 1910–1939](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1910-1939.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1910-1939.pdf) p. 31; Clark III 264 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_432 ### Event 3056 (45415843) **Date:** 6/12/1929 **Description:** Levis Brosseau, age 20, was riding home in Fermeneuve, Quebec on horseback at 11:00 p.m. when he saw a dark object with a yellow light landed on the ground. His horse became very nervous. The object was estimated to be 15 meters in diameter and 5 meters high, and he witnessed four or five dwarfish figures running back and forth within 6 meters of the object. He heard their sharp, childlike voices. The dark object then took off with a machine-like sound and rush of air. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, pg. 189 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3431 ### Event 3057 (D83C0A6A) **Date:** 6/15/1929 **Location:** CANADA, Fermeneuve (200 km from Montreal) **Description:** (Translated from French) At around 11:00 PM, Lévis Brosseau was returning home. "When I reached the top of the hill, just before the fork in the road, I saw a large blackness on top of the rocky hill you can see there. A kind of black cloud with a yellowish opening inside... like you could see a flash of lightning through it. I thought a storm was coming and I urged my horse on, as I didn't want to get caught in the rain. When I got to the stable, at the bottom of the valley, I quickly unhitched him and led him by the bridle towards the small bridge that crossed the stream at the time, to take him to the pasture that started around here. (..) So I was climbing the hill, when, when I emerged here, I saw on the left my yellowish light in the middle, like dandelions... then blackness all around and I heard a confused noise... At that moment, my horse started to get agitated and to neigh, raising his head. I was still climbing, looking at this black mass with a large yellow circle in the center. And it seemed to be resting on the ground, about 150 feet from me. I said to myself: "tell me... it's stopped!" And I vaguely distinguished in the night four or five little guys who seemed to be running around... in a radius of about twenty feet. I heard their high voices confusedly and I thought "Well! The little Legaults went fishing with the little Browns - it was the time of the bullhead in the lake - That's funny! Why did they pass by here? They always used to pass by the small bridge..." When I opened the gate... my horse took off like an arrow... At that moment I no longer saw the little guys. But the black mass suddenly rose from the ground with a sound of a centrifugal machine, a purring of a cream separator: "iiiii..." It passed over me, at about fifty miles an hour, at the height of the barn, not very high since it caused a displacement of air and a slight trembling of the earth. (...) It seemed round to me and then, passing over me, it spoke inside. It spoke in a small voice, then a loud voice... As if someone was answering themselves ""u... A ...u... A..." (...) It spoke loudly. Then I followed it with my eyes, it was going towards Lac des Journalistes and towards the village. (...) It was round and quite large, about fifty feet, and the luminous circle with the squares about fifteen feet in diameter. (...) In any case it was lighting me up. It was yellowish, a bit like the sun. And then, there were "things" all around. Let's say, every three feet, it was almost like what they show us on television [note from vog: like a lattice of diamonds on the black border] (June 15, 1929) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 239-241 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_832 ### Event 3058 (90F6CECD) **Date:** 6/15/1929 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** FERME-NUEVE, QB **Description:** 15M saucer lands. 4-5 small humanoids (or Greys) scurry. High voices scare man and horse. / r54p40. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** PHENOMENES SPATIAUX: Group GEPA, Gen. M. Lionel Chassin Paris. Quarterly 1964?-1977. Merged into Grp. GEPAN (Index 18) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_370 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "236", **HatchDesc:** "FERME-NUEVE,QB:15M SCR LANDS:4-5 OIDS SCURRY:HI VOICES SCARE MAN+HORSE:/r54p40", **LatLong:** "46.705558 -75.433337", **LatLongDMS:** "46:42:20 N 75:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.705558,-75.433337)", **State/Prov:** "Quebec", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 3059 (9EBFA276) **Date:** 7/1929 **Location:** Robsart, CAN **Description:** Five persons among them Einar Rostivold, saw a huge ball of light giving off fiery colors, 25 km from Robsart. It landed slowly, vanished gradually after illuminating the whole countryside for 30 min. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_91 ### Event 3060 (97E01230) **Date:** 7/1929 **Location:** Robsart, Canada **Description:** Five persons among them Einar Rostivold, saw a huge ball of light giving off fiery colors, 25 km from Robsart. It landed slowly, vanished gradually after illuminating the whole countryside for 30 min. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Fate Jan., 58 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_47 ### Event 3061 (DDE4A8F7) **Date:** 7/17/1929 **Location:** USA, Auburn, Massachusetts **Description:** (Translated from French) Goddard used a new propulsion rocket again. The fuel used was gasoline and liquid oxygen. The rocket carried a camera and a barometer, and both devices returned to the ground unharmed, supported by a parachute. Around this time, Colonel Lindbergh, the famous aviator who first crossed the Atlantic, intervened in favor of Goddard's tests. He obtained a donation from Guggenheim (King of Copper) which allowed Goddard to continue his research near ROSWELL (New Mexico) in more favorable conditions. On the new experimental field an workshop was erected and, in the vicinity, a tower 7 meters high was built to serve as a test bench. About 25 km away was a second tower, 20 m high, serving as a launch tower. (July 17, 1929) **Reference:** "Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 47 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_833 ### Event 3062 (CBCD611D) **Date:** Late 7/1929 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Casablanca, Marcel Clairac, Counselor \(H\) of the Rabat Court, report of 11/12/1969, Jean Clairac, pilot of the Latécoère Toulouse-Cap Juby line, observed, for 10 minutes at high altitude, above the Marseille and Bouskoura streets, 20 large cigars of the size of a zeppelin, progressing from east to west quite quickly in triangular formation, point forward. (Late July (1929, 1930 or 1935), 11:45 PM) **Reference:** \[BSAF\]\[LDLN 329\] **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1929.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_412 ### Event 3063 (73E01E72) **Date:** 8/1929 **Location:** At sea, Atlantic Ocean, 650 km off the coast of Virginia **Description:** (Translated from French) The "Coldwater" of the South Atlantic Steamship Line was more than 650 km off the coast of Virginia. One of the sailors of the ship, Thomas Stuart, recounts: "A luminous object appeared in the sky. It seemed very large, like a gigantic airplane. It was moving at a speed that I estimate to be 160 km/h in the direction of the Bermudas". At that time there was no transoceanic flight.. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 239-241) (note from vog: except e.a.... the world tour in 4 stages, with crossing of the North Atlantic, by the airship "Graf Zeppelin" (...) departure on August 8th 1929 at Lakehurst, arrival Friedrichshaven on the 10th, departure on the 15th arrival in Tokyo on the 19th, departure on the 23rd arrival in Los Angeles on the 26th, departure on the 27th and return to Lakehurst on August 29th.... **Reference:** "La conquête de l'air. Chronologie..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, éd. Marabout Université 1967, p. 214, 215 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_834 ### Event 3064 (41BC30B2) **Date:** 9/1929 **Location:** Oak Park, Illinois **Description:** Medical student William Walton is crossing a street in Oak Park, Illinois, when he sees a very bright yellowish-white light like two saucers pressed together. It approaches his position, and he hears a humming sound like the throbbing of a turbine and feels heat and pressure. The object passes over him at about 100 feet altitude, but the force knocks him to his knees. After it passes, he detects an odor of sulfur. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Linda Zimmerman, More Hudson Valley UFOs, Eagle Press, 2017 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_433 ### Event 3065 (49F1090C) **Date:** 9/30/1929 **Location:** Germany, Frankfurt **Description:** (Translated from French) Fritz von Opel took off from the airfield to attempt a flight with rockets, causing a great sensation among the public. After two failed preliminary attempts, he succeeded in the afternoon of the same day in a flight of 1500 meters. The take-off already took place with the help of a rocket. The aircraft was driven by a set of rockets ignited two by two and reached a speed of 120 km/h. (...) **Reference:** "The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 71 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_835 ### Event 3066 (992C1EB1) **Date:** 10/4/1929 **Location:** New York City, New York **Description:** US stock market crashes **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Crash_of_1929) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_37 ### Event 3067 (D89F0C07) **Date:** 11/29/1929 **Location:** Antartica **Description:** Richard E. Byrd and his companions would become the first to fly over the South Pole. The flight took 19 hours to fly from Little America to the Pole and return. **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [link](https://captainantarctica.com.au/exploration/admiral-byrd/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_38 --- ## Year: 1930, 28 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 3068 (2039632D) **Date:** 1930's **Location:** Scandinavia **Description:** Mystery aircraft engaged in dangerous maneuvers that were considered improbable for pilots of the time, such as flying in blizzards at night and circling at very low altitudes with engines off. These aircraft were often described as being larger than known planes of the period, with one sighting reporting eight propellers. When the Swedish air force launched a search mission involving 24 planes in response to these sightings, they found no trace of the phantom fliers. Instead, two of their own planes crashed due to challenging conditions, while no reports emerged of the phantom fliers experiencing crashes or needing repairs throughout the entire wave of sightings. (Chapter 9, Ref 369) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_361 ### Event 3069 (D57310CD) **Date:** 1930 **Location:** GREECE, Mouzaci **Description:** (Translated from French) An object in the shape of a blue diamond passed slowly through the sky, emitting flashes and moving without sound towards Phici and Larisa. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 242 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_836 ### Event 3070 (EFB6E526) **Date:** 1930 **Location:** USA, High Bridge, (New Jersey) **Description:** (Translated from French) Howard Menger, aged 8 (born February 17th 1922) often observed disks in the sky with his classmates. **Reference:** Jean-Francis CROLARD: "The Enigma of the E.T." - ed. Guy Trédaniel 1995, p. 145 **Reference:** Continued in 1931, June-July **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_839 ### Event 3071 (722B5784) **Date:** 1930 **Location:** AUSTRALIA, Mandurah **Description:** (Translated from French) Suddenly, in the evening, in the paternal house of Beryl Hickey, appeared a small bald entity, with large ears, a wide slit mouth without lips, globular eyes, shining all over its body as if it was greased, with small hands and well-formed little pink feet, like those of a baby, about 50 cm tall. Her father, who was a very religious man, thought it was the devil. He threw a net over this creature to evacuate it outside. It started to scream like a mouse. It was forbidden to Beryl to talk about this event to anyone, but she nevertheless confided her secret to a friend. This one reminded her of it when they left the movie "ET". (Janet and Colin BORD: Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 147) Small humanoids appear in a farm in Mandurah and ask for water. The terrified farmer shot them with gunfire **Reference:** A CENTURY OF UFO - UFO Roundup Dec. 1999, ed. Joseph Trainor **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_840 ### Event 3072 (9B8672C5) **Date:** 1930 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The 30 inhabitants of the small Inuit village of Angikumi \(Canada\) disappear. In this region, living conditions are particularly harsh, and only a half-dozen dogs are still tied up, dead from hunger. The graves have even been opened and the corpses they contained have also disappeared. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1930.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_413 ### Event 3073 (9BB321CA) **Date:** 1930 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) An aircraft carrying business people enters a dark cloud - the only one in the sky. Farmers suddenly see it fall back, one wing partly torn off. The fuel tanks detach and fall. There was no lightning or thunder, and the drama happened in silence. As lightning cannot tear off an airplane wing, what happened? Did the plane encounter a solid body inside the dark cloud, which it hit? **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1930.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_414 ### Event 3074 (C727049D) **Date:** 1930 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Doctor Henry Coanda begins his work on lenticular aerodynamic shapes. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1930.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_415 ### Event 3075 (0DA6AB7B) **Date:** 1930 **Locations:** Texas; Colorado **Description:** 10:00 a.m. A woman is driving the family car in an isolated hilly area of Texas when she rounds a curve and sees a huge object about 100 feet across by the side of the road. A small door is open with steps leading down to the ground. One side of the object is braced up by two slender legs with round plates for feet. A man of normal size comes walking toward her and forces her to stop. He seems to speak to her telepathically, telling her to leave the road and make a shortcut through a gully. Some 8–10 other figures walk forward, much smaller and with slanted eyes. They are wearing tan coveralls and tight caps. Despite potential damage to her car, she drives through the gully as the larger man walks alongside. The next thing she remembers is walking up to her porch at her home 15 miles away. It is around 12:00 midnight. In March 1968, having read Interrupted Journey about the Betty and Barney Hill case, she writes to the Colorado project and offers herself for hypnosis and research. [Edward Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon) files the letter under “psychological” and does not respond. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael D. Swords, “Too Close for Condon: Close Encounters of the 4th Kind,” IUR 28, no. 3 \(Fall 2003\): 4–5; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1930-00-00-usa-texas.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1930-00-00-usa-texas.htm) August 29, 2019 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_434 ### Event 3076 (2D50EB0F) **Date:** 1930 **Locations:** Barton Hill Academy; Bristol, England **Description:** Day. Schoolboys and teachers at the Barton Hill Academy in Bristol, England, watch a cigar-shaped metallic object speed across the sky faster than a dirigible. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 16–19 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_435 ### Event 3077 (B4E8BD69) **Date:** 1930 **Location:** Tomintoul, Scotland **Description:** 9:30 p.m. Two men walking along a lane at Tomintoul, Scotland, see a white light “like a meteor.” When it gets brighter, they can see figures moving inside it. The witnesses think it is a ghost light. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 264; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1930-00-00-uk-tomintoul.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1930-00-00-uk-tomintoul.htm) September 20, 2018 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_436 ### Event 3078 (E42CE32B) **Date:** 1/1930? **Location:** TOULX-STE.CROIX, FR **Description:** Small humanoid (or Grey) glides across road / angle. Legs still! Vanishes in place! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 186) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_371 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NFO:** No craft seen, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "TOULX-Ste.CROIX,FR:OID GLIDES ACRS ROAD/ANGLE:LEGS STILL!:vanishes in place!", **LatLong:** "46.266669 2.216667", **LatLongDMS:** "46:16:00 N 02:13:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.266669,2.216667)", **RelAlt:** "1", **State/Prov:** "Creuse", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 3079 (2FA033D9) **Date:** 1/1930? **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** PIETERMARITZBURG, RSA **Description:** Long object rotates / sky. (Cross-section = plus sign! ). Flies off. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 195) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_372 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Republic of South Africa", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "40", **HatchDesc:** "PIETERMARITZBURG,RSA:LONG OBJ ROTATES/SKY:(CROSS-SECTION=PLUS SIGN!):FLIES OFF", **LatLong:** "-29.600001 30.383335", **LatLongDMS:** "29:36:00 S 30:23:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-29.600001,30.383335)", **State/Prov:** "KwaZulu-Natal", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 3080 (B46450E9) **Date:** 2/1930 (approximate) **Location:** SOUTH AFRICA, PieterMaritzburg (Natal) **Description:** (Translated from French) Summer (so January, February, southern hemisphere) UFO sighting: "a massive plate of shining metal, with each movement, a great flash of light came out from each side." This thing was observed for 40 minutes. At the end of this time it rose up quickly and disappeared. (Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 351) From 11 january to 24 february the English Greet and board commanding a squadron of 4 Fairey III F, left Cairo for the Cape. On 15 January they participated in manoeuvres at Entebbe, on 21 at Tabora. They arrived at the Cape on 1 February and left again on 4 February accompanied by 4 Fairey of the South African Air Force. Return to Cairo after a journey of 17600 km. (1930, February (approximate date)) **Reference:** "La conquête de l'air. Chronologie..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout Université 1967, p. 222 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_837 ### Event 3081 (685D6BAC) **Date:** Spring 1930 **Alternate date:** Spring 1931 **Location:** Newberry, Michigan **Description:** 7:00 p.m. As he walks down a country road near Newberry, Michigan, high school student Ralph Newman sees a “distinctly green fireball” in the low eastern sky that moves from south to north. About the size of the full moon, its light brightens the countryside, then it vanishes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 1175 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_437 ### Event 3082 (FEAF298A) **Date:** 4/15/1930 **Time:** 05:30 **Location:** LARGENTIERE, FR **Description:** Several observer(s). 12M orange-glowing cone lands very close. Shoots rays. Flies. Traces. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 315) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_373 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "LARGENTIERE,FR:SVRL OBS:12M ORG-GLO CONE LANDS VCLOSE:SHOOTS RAYS:FLIES:TRACES", **LatLong:** "44.538891 4.288889", **LatLongDMS:** "44:32:20 N 04:17:20 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.538891,4.288889)", **State/Prov:** "Ardèche", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 3083 (89988EE8) **Date:** 4/15/1930 **Description:** A farmer in Largentiere, France saw a bright orange glowing, cone-shaped object on the ground at 5:30 a.m. The object took off slowly and flew away. The grass was flattened where the object had been. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century, p. 14, citing Dominique Weinstein **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2017 ### Event 3084 (03102681) **Date:** 5/1930 **Location:** Greensboro, North Carolina **Description:** Day. A top-shaped object 40 feet wide lands in a garden in Greensboro, North Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Rankin and their two daughters can see the head and shoulders of a figure inside wearing a tight-fitting outfit and helmet. Some 5–10 minutes later the object ascends quietly and is gone. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Center for UFO Studies, [HUMCAT](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1910-1939.pdf) [Index 1910–1939](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1910-1939.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1910-1939.pdf) p. 33; Clark III 264; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1930-05-00-usa-greensboro.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1930-05-00-usa-greensboro.htm) September 15, 2018 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_438 ### Event 3085 (3E02363B) **Date:** 5/21/1930 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Caterham **Description:** (Translated from French) A child's balloon rises from Caterham. It will be found on June 4, 1930 in New York. **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air. Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout Université 1967, p. 225 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_841 ### Event 3086 (410B278C) **Date:** Summer 1930 **Location:** FRANCE, Valence "Eperviers" **Description:** (Translated from French) At the age of 8 or 10, living with his father (his mother having passed away), Mr. J.R. had gone out to attend to a natural need about ten meters from the house, on the other side of the courtyard, behind a hedge of privet, on the edge of a small stream. He was partially hidden by the hedge and when he stood up he saw in the courtyard, 5 or 6 meters away from him, a small man about 50 to 60 cm tall (much smaller than him) who was coming in his direction. He seemed to be wearing some kind of gray uniform. When he saw the young witness, he turned around and ran away at full speed through the vegetable garden and disappeared into the night. (1930 or 1932, Summer) **Reference:** M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: "Ovni, Premier dossier complet.." ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 642 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_844 ### Event 3087 (182895F4) **Date:** 7/25/1930 **Location:** KARDHITSA, GREECE **Description:** News report. Silent metallic disk / 2km altitude flies overhead. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Von LUDVIGER, Illobrand ed. UFO's-SEUGEN UND ZEICHEN. Berlin 1995 edition q-Verlags GmbH ISBN 3-86124-300-8. (Index 142) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_374 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Greece and Island nations", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "KARDHITSA,GREECE:NEWS Rpt:SLNT METALLIC DISK/2km alt FLIES OVHD:NFD", **LatLong:** "39.383335 21.950001", **LatLongDMS:** "39:23:00 N 21:57:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.383335,21.950001)", **State/Prov:** "GRC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3088 (7F54C58A) **Date:** 8/1930 **Time:** ~08:00 **Location:** MONTEBENICHI, ITL **Description:** Top saucer lands. Door drops. 2 small humanoids (or Greys) going down / ladder and steal calze steso! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 27) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_375 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "MONTEBENICHI,ITL:TOP SCR LANDS:DOOR DROPS:2 OIDS ↓/LADDER+STEAL CALZE STESO!", **LatLong:** "43.400002 11.533334", **LatLongDMS:** "43:24:00 N 11:32:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.400002,11.533334)", **State/Prov:** "RO", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 3089 (12E3DABE) **Date:** 10/1930 (approximate) **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** 6 MILE(S) NORTH / CHATHAM, VA **Description:** Metal disk / ground. 4 small humanoids (or Greys) take soil samples. Ignore numerous motorists! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_376 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "220", **HatchDesc:** "6mi.N/CHATHAM,VA:MTL DISK/GND:4 OIDS TAKE SOIL SAMPLES:IGNORE NMRS MOTORISTS!", **LatLong:** "36.922224 -79.383337", **LatLongDMS:** "36:55:20 N 79:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.922224,-79.383337)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 3090 (16FC05EF) **Date:** 11/1930 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) On the occasion of the Idu earthquake \(Japan\), lights were seen for 1 hour after it occurred. They were sometimes irradiated like the rays of the rising sun, sometimes like the lights of a projector, sometimes like balls of fire, reported Frank Lane. Very bright balls of light were also seen, arranged "in line", bluish, yellow or purple. They shone with such brilliance that at a distance of fifty kilometers from the epicenter, they appeared brighter than the Moon, and in Tokyo, many witnesses declared that they could make out "objects" under their light. These lights can be seen from a distance of 110 km. (November) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1930.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_416 ### Event 3091 (7B8674D1) **Date:** 11/1930 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Setermoen \(Norway\), Ranveig Alstad observed 2 luminous objects making circles above Setermoen and Lifjell. (In 1930 or later, one dark evening) **Reference:** \[FREMOVER, 10 Dec 1966\] \[UFO-NYT, 1/1967, 10\] **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1930.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_417 ### Event 3092 (3CD56B7F) **Date:** 11/1930 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Observation in Norway. (In the 1930s) **Reference:** ØVRE SMÅLENENE, 10 Nov 1966, or later **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1930.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_418 ### Event 3093 (415F41EF) **Date:** Late Autumn 1930 **Location:** FRANCE, Toulx-Sainte-Croix (Creuse) **Description:** (Translated from French) (cf: 1906: La Celle sous Gouzon) Jules B. was returning to the village by the road. It was between 9 pm and 10 pm. The witness saw a small being cross the road, about forty meters away from him. The character was walking at the normal pace of a man, but his legs were motionless, vertically stuck together and he was sliding on the ground. When he arrived on the other side of the road, this strange little man instantly vanished in place. (1930, late autumn) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 243 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_838 ### Event 3094 (E758627D) **Date:** End of 1930 **Location:** SPAIN, Barcelona **Description:** (Translated from French) (Source: Ufo Roundup vol. 3 no. 15 of April 12th) The Spanish magazine "Enigmas" published by Iker Jiminez, devotes an article to Ribera. The famous Spanish ufologist Antonio Ribera claims to have had contact with an extraterrestrial at the end of 1930, when he was ten years old. Today, Ribera, 78 years old, claims that it happened in his bedroom in Barcelona. A very powerful green light, coming from nowhere, appeared. The young Antonio Ribera then saw "an entity of small size, corpulent, and quadruped". He could not distinguish arms, chest, or legs. He was not really scared, but was dazed and very curious. This extraterrestrial explained to the boy that space travel had now reached the point of coming to "calm contact" with selected humans. Ribera, who has written more than 40 books, claims that he was chosen, received knowledge, and had to instruct the population.... (1930, end of year) **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_843 ### Event 3095 (942AF7EC) **Date:** 12/12/1930 **Location:** USA, Mescalero, Roswell **Description:** (Translated from French) R. H. Goddard rocket test, altitude 600 meters. **Reference:** Ref. GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958 p. 248 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_842 --- ## Year: 1931, 40 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 3096 (EAA2328B) **Date:** 1931 **Location:** FRANCE **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the 5-seat reconnaissance bomber, Amiot 143, produced in series from 1935, cruising speed 270 km/h, ceiling 9000 m. **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_846 ### Event 3097 (3F9DC0F4) **Date:** 1931 **Location:** HUNGARY **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of Weiss Manfred Solyom's Budapest prototype, 320 km/h, range 675 km, two-seater tactical reconnaissance aircraft. (1931,) **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_848 ### Event 3098 (C64FF08C) **Date:** 1931 **Location:** end of March in CANNES (France) **Description:** (Translated from French) in May in SARDINIA (Italy) in June in MELLE (Belgium, near Ghent) Various witnesses observed silent luminous balls or grayish ovoid objects. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 243 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_850 ### Event 3099 (1E58068F) **Date:** 1931 **Location:** ENGLAND **Description:** (Translated from French) In 1931, an English pilot reported having seen a strange "object" in the sky. At that time, this isolated phenomenon did not attract the attention of the public... **Reference:** nor really ours... **Reference:** Jimmy GUIEU: "Les S.V. viennent d'un autre Monde" Fleuve Noir 1954 - Réédition Omnium Littéraire 1972 p. 222 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_861 ### Event 3100 (CF3975C7) **Date:** 1931 (approximate) **Location:** FRANCE, St Cirgues en Montagne **Description:** (Translated from French) "The farmer from Dizonnanches will tell you that once, returning from the fair of Saint Cirgues, on horseback, with his wife on the saddle, between 8 and 9 o'clock, when they arrived at the Devil's stream, not far from Paradise, they saw a light like that of a large lantern descending along the stream, carried by a large cauldron, which ran without noise, but quickly, quickly, like a hare. And suddenly it went to get lost in the Clape of the Loire, not far from there." (1931?) **Reference:** M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: "Ovni, Premier dossier complet.." éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 642 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_862 ### Event 3101 (B4FFDAD6) **Date:** 1931 **Location:** Over the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand **Description:** Aviator Sir Francis Chichester reported encountering a UFO resembling an airship while flying over the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand. He observed a gray-white airship-like object with flashes of light, but the object vanished and reappeared before ultimately becoming translucent, reminiscent of descriptions of flying saucers. (Chapter 6, Ref 215) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_206 ### Event 3102 (ADFA9706) **Date:** 1/1/1931 **Time:** 01:00 **Location:** COBDEN, ONT **Description:** Saucer going south. Searches trees / bright beam. Maneuvers and going quickly north again. / r78p152+/ r242. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_377 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "144", **HatchDesc:** "COBDEN,ONT:SCR > S:SEARCHES TREES/BRITE BEAM:MNVRs+>>N again:/r78p152+/r242", **LatLong:** "45.622224 -76.888893", **LatLongDMS:** "45:37:20 N 76:53:20 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.622224,-76.888893)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3103 (D936425F) **Date:** 1/1/1931 **Location:** Cobden, Ont, CAN **Description:** UFO sighted in early morning, had bright light on front which lit up tree-tops, flashing lights on rear. Object made sweeping curve, sped up and climbed out of sight. (NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_92 ### Event 3104 (D200EC66) **Date:** 1/1/1931 **Locations:** Cobden, Ontario; Muskrat Lake **Description:** 1:00 a.m. J. Stewart Childerhose and his brother, two farmers of Cobden, Ontario, see an object with a brilliant white light on its front illuminating treetops on the shore of Muskrat Lake. Green and white lights twinkle on its tail end. It moves in a rectangular path, then speeds up suddenly and climbs out of sight. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lore and Deneault, [p. 108](https://archive.org/details/mysteriesofskies0000lore/page/108/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_439 ### Event 3105 (14693F22) **Date:** 1/26/1931 **Location:** Savoy-Plaza Hotel in New York City **Description:** Author [Tiffany Thayer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiffany%5FThayer) founds the Fortean Society during a dinner with [Charles Fort](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FFort) in the Savoy-Plaza Hotel in New York City in order to promote his books and ideas. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Fortean Society](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortean%5FSociety)”; Jim Steinmeyer, Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural, Tarcher, 2008, pp. 239–241 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_440 ### Event 3106 (EF0B9B48) **Date:** 2/1931 **Description:** [Charles Fort](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FFort) writes in Lo!, published this month, that “Unknown, luminous things, or beings, have often been seen, sometimes close to this earth, and sometimes high in the sky. It may be that some of them were living things that occasionally come from somewhere else.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Lo!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo!)”; Jim Steinmeyer, Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural, Tarcher, 2008, pp. 235–243; Clark III 507–508, 1098 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_441 ### Event 3107 (EF11A799) **Date:** 2/2/1931 **Location:** AUSTRIA, Graz (Steiermark) **Description:** (Translated from French) Oberth in the USA had a project for a transoceanic mail rocket. But it was demonstrated by the Austrian engineer Friedrich Schmiedl that mail rockets could also be used conveniently for short distances, for example for the supply of mountain villages with difficult access. On February 2, the first mail rocket named "V7" left the vicinity of Graz (between Hochtrotz and Semriach) carrying 102 postal shipments. They were franked with regular postage stamps but private "rocket stamps" and special seals were also added. After the rocket landed, the official postal services took charge of the transmission and delivery of the letters to the recipients. (...) But an official and regular postal service by rockets was never organized. ("Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 72, 73) The service lasted for several years and it must be noted that Schmiedl's rockets functioned remarkably. They were only simple powder rockets 1.7 m long and 25 cm in diameter with three stabilizing fins at the rear. The total weight of 30 kg included a bit more than 20 kg of propellant. The mail carried was lodged in the penetration cone at the front. Their parachute never failed to open and not a single letter was lost. (February 2, 1931) **Reference:** "Assault on Space" Georges H. Gallet, Ed. de la Pensée Moderne p. 53 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_845 ### Event 3108 (9EF52E3B) **Date:** 2/21/1931 **Location:** GERMANY, Dessau **Description:** (Translated from French) Launch of a Winkler rocket, test failed, altitude 3 meters it was the first liquid fuel rocket in Europe. **Reference:** Ley 1958, p. 145 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_847 ### Event 3109 (925173C8) **Date:** 3/1931 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) On a hot night, several sailors aboard the Yangtze gunboat make a strange observation in the Gulf of Oman. As their ship, the *Doudart de Lagrée*, heads towards Colombo, and is between Gardafu and the Maldives, these men see immense yellowish light beams rising from the depths. These beams seem to rotate around an axis located at a very great distance from the ship. (March) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1931.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_419 ### Event 3110 (D26CC964) **Date:** 3/1931 **Location:** NORTH / MALDIVES **Description:** Fr. ship crew. Laser like beams radiate going up [to] from sea. Water glows and boils. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** PHENOMENES SPATIAUX: Group GEPA, Gen. M. Lionel Chassin Paris. Quarterly 1964?-1977. Merged into Grp. GEPAN (Index 32) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_378 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Indian Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "N/MALDIVES:FR.SHIP CREW:LASER LIKE BEAMS RADIATE ↑ FROM SEA:WATER GLOWS+BOILS", **LatLong:** "10.000000 70.000003", **LatLongDMS:** "10:00:00 N 70:00:00 E", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/10.000000,70.000003)", **RelAlt:** "-1", **State/Prov:** "ARB", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3111 (6A62D196) **Date:** 3/14/1931 **Location:** Germany, Dessau-Grosskühnau **Description:** (Translated from French) The first liquid fuel rocket powered by methane and liquid oxygen, designed by engineer Winkler, took off from Dessau. ("Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 78) It deviated from the vertical and remained below 500 meters. **Reference:** Ley 1958, p. 145 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_849 ### Event 3112 (D251A49A) **Date:** Late 3/1931 **Location:** FRANCE, Cannes **Description:** (Translated from French) The witness, who was driving a bus, suddenly saw on the road a kind of mound with a "luminous cascade" that split in two to reveal the "virgin". She was tall, 1.8 m, and stood in the middle of the road like someone waiting. The clothing was tight, long and white, with a wide blue belt, a panel falling on the side. The apparition had a veil on her head, not covering her eyes. The features of the face did not move, she simply extended her arms towards the witness, then she rose from the ground and merged into a round cloud that was next to her. It left silently and at full speed. It took an ovoid shape and disappeared in less than forty seconds, leaving behind a luminous trail. It was observed during its passage over Nice (1931, late March) **Reference:** Erich ZURCHER: "Les apparitions d'Humanoïdes" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 209 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_851 ### Event 3113 (6BE1CE0B) **Date:** 3/30/1931 (approximate) **Location:** CANNES TO/FROM/BETWEEN LA BOCCA, FR **Description:** 2M blessed virgin appears. Going quickly [to] to round white saucer-cloud! Quickly going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 195) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_379 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "CANNES<>La BOCCA,FR:2M BLESSED VIRGIN APPEARS:>> to RND WHT SCR-CLOUD!:↑↑", **LatLong:** "43.533335 6.950000", **LatLongDMS:** "43:32:00 N 06:57:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.533335,6.950000)", **State/Prov:** "Alpes Maritimes", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 3114 (812E81AD) **Date:** 4/1931 **Location:** GERMANY, Berlin (Tempelhof airfield) **Description:** (Translated from French) Engineer Reinhold Tiling had secretly designed (but with the hidden support of the German government) powder rockets with a pair of retractable wings, in the body of the rocket. An automatic device triggered at the top of the trajectory, which the rocket then extended in a gliding flight, considerably increasing its range. From April 1934 he made numerous successful public demonstrations, notably on a lake near Osnabrück. But in Berlin a gust of wind caused one of the rockets to deviate and fall among the spectators. (April 1931) **Reference:** "To the Assault of Space" Georges H. Gallet, ed. of Modern Thought, p. 37 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_853 ### Event 3115 (5A7469D9) **Date:** 4/15/1931 **Location:** GERMANY, Osnabruck (Lower Saxony) **Description:** (Translated from French) The experiments of engineer Teinhold Tiling conducted around 1931 deserve special attention. Tiling built powder rockets in the shape of torpedoes, which were automatically piloted and equipped with wings. During the ascent, the wings were folded into the tail and held in place by a locking device. At the peak of its trajectory, after the propellant charge had been burned, a timed rocket released the locking device. The wings then unfolded and brought the rocket back to the ground in a gliding flight. With his models, Tiling would have reached a maximum altitude of 800 meters. The horizontal range must have been close to 8000 meters. He conducted hundreds of tests with models and organized countless days of rocket flight for the public. (April 15, 1931) **Reference:** "The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 72 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_852 ### Event 3116 (F572CF31) **Date:** 5/1931 **Time:** 16:30 **Location:** PAULILATINO, SARDINIA **Description:** 2 observer(s). Fake soccer ball west going east slow and level / 1M altitude toward(s) ruins. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 28) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_380 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "280", **HatchDesc:** "PAULILATINO,SARDINIA:2 OBS:FAKE SOCCER BALL W>E SLO+LEVEL/1M alt TWRD RUINS", **LatLong:** "40.100002 8.750000", **LatLongDMS:** "40:06:00 N 08:45:00 E", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.100002,8.750000)", **RelAlt:** "1", **State/Prov:** "Cagliari", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3117 (1FD00523) **Date:** 5/1931 **Locations:** Paulilatino, Sardinia, Italy; Nuraghe Trudumeddu **Description:** 4:30 p.m. Pasquale Masala is out riding his horse with a friend a few miles southeast of Paulilatino, Sardinia, Italy. When they reach a megalithic tomb known as Nuraghe Trudumeddu, they dismount to enjoy the view. Suddenly, a strange object the size and shape of a football emerges from the partially blocked entrance of the tomb. It travels at a height of about 3 feet above the ground at a constant speed of about 10–15 mph and enters a thick patch of undergrowth. Marsala runs after it for about a half mile and notices that the bushes part in front of the object and close up after it passes. His companion is frightened and insists on returning to the village. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Mary Boyd, “[An Early Italian Cross-Country Case,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201974%20V%2020%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 3 \(December 1974\): 21; 1Pinotti 13– 14 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_442 ### Event 3118 (E7B99ACE) **Date:** 5/7/1931 **Location:** Germany, Berlin Reinickendorf **Description:** (Translated from French) In 1930, the municipal administration made available to the Junkers factories the terrain of an old shooting range, which was converted into the first world rocket launching site (Raketen-Flugplatz). Klaus Riedel built a simpler liquid fuel rocket, of the tractive type, designed for only 1 kilo of fuel. In order to distinguish it from the others, it was called "Repulsor". The first Repulsor took off on May 7 from the Raketenflugplatz. Further work allowed them to soon reach altitudes of a thousand meters. **Reference:** "The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 75 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_854 ### Event 3119 (5F236D51) **Date:** 5/23/1931 **Location:** GERMANY, Berlin, Reinickendorf **Description:** (Translated from French) Launch of Repulsor No. 2, fuel-oxygen, altitude 60 meters, range 600 m. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958 p. 148 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_855 ### Event 3120 (10760C83) **Date:** 6/1931 **Location:** GERMANY, Berlin, Reinickendorf **Description:** (Translated from French) Launch of Repulsor No. 3, test, altitude 450 meters. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958 p 150 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_856 ### Event 3121 (51F9E1B5) **Date:** 6/1931 **Location:** USA, High Bridge (New Jersey) **Description:** (Translated from French) Howard B. Menger, 9 years old and his brother, Alton Menger, 7 years old, saw two flying saucers in broad daylight. "It was in the meadows, one of those hot days of June or July that I began to have different sensations, difficult to explain. It was at this moment that we began to see saucers in the sky. My brother and I saw these bright lights in the sky and one day one of them landed in the field where we were playing. The object had the shape of a disc and measured about 3 meters in diameter. Curious and intrigued, we approached it. Meanwhile, we saw in the sky another bright light hovering as if to observe us. With our hearts pounding but courageous, we kept advancing and when we were about 25 meters from the disc on the ground, the one in the sky suddenly disappeared. We tried to be brave but the disc on the ground began to vibrate and then, in a dazzling flash and at an incredible speed, it flew away." (1931, June or July) **Reference:** Howard Menger: "From Outer Space to You" Saucerian Books, Clarksburg, W.V., 1959, pages 20 and 21. **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_858 ### Event 3122 (1330E374) **Date:** 6/6/1931 **Locations:** New Zealand; Australia; Tasman Sea **Description:** Aviator [Francis Chichester](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%5FChichester) sees a dull gray-white “airship” as he is making the first solo flight in a Gypsy Moth seaplane from New Zealand to Australia over the Tasman Sea. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Francis Chichester, The Lonely Sea and the Sky, Hodder and Stoughton, 1964, [p. 165](https://archive.org/details/lonelyseasky0000chic/page/164/mode/2up); Keith Basterfield, “[Aviator Francis Chichester’s Classic Sighting: Is the](https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2018/05/aviator-francis-chichesters-classic.html) [Date Wrong?](https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2018/05/aviator-francis-chichesters-classic.html)” Unidentified Aerial Phenomena–Scientific Research, May 29, 2018; Patrick Gross, “[Francis](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/chichester1931.htm) [Chichester Sighting, 1931](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/chichester1931.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_443 ### Event 3123 (E1DE7029) **Date:** 6/10/1931 **Location:** AUSTRALIA, Tasman Sea **Description:** (Translated from French) In the afternoon Sir Francis Chichester saw a "flashing" boat when he flew in his "Gypsy Moth" plane. He published his observation for the first time in 1932. **Reference:** THE OZ FILES, William Chalker; THE LONELY SEA AND THE SKY, Sir Francis Chinchecster ed.Pan, London, 1964, page 185. **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_857 ### Event 3124 (B1B11848) **Date:** 6/10/1931 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Sir Francis Chichester \(known for his legendary journey around the world of 119 days alone on board his transformed aircraft, Gypsy Moth IV in 1966-1967 when he was nearly 65 years old\) a historic flight over the Tasmanian Sea, from Australia to New zealand. During the flight, he is suddenly alarmed by bright lights moving irregularly and great gait in the sky. One of them is a kind of silver pearl which shines as a headlamp or a helograph. This strange object approaches his device, moves in front of The carggine, then disappears as suddenly as it appeared. His The testimony will be first published in 1932 and then again. in 1964 in a book of memoirs. (June 10) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1931.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_420 ### Event 3125 (688D9E77) **Date:** 6/10/1931 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Francis Chichester. See image at images/ChichesterFrancis.jpg. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1931.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_421 ### Event 3126 (02A84015) **Date:** 6/10/1931 **Time:** 15:00? **Location:** ?? / TASMAN SEA **Description:** Sir F. Chichester / plane. Dull grey-white airship. Flashes. / r65p15. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** CHALKER,Bill: The OZ FILES. Australian Sightings. 1996 Duffy & Snellgrove. NSW,Australia. ISBN 1-875989-04-8 (Index 34) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_381 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "??/TASMAN SEA:SIR F.CHICHESTER/PLANE:DULL GRY-WHT AIRSHIP:FLASHES:/r65p15", **LatLong:** "-35.000002 160.000008", **LatLongDMS:** "35:00:00 S 160:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-35.000002,160.000008)", **State/Prov:** "TSS", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3127 (CC951A30) **Date:** 6/10/1931 **Description:** About the middle of the afternoon Sir F. Chichester spotted a dull grayish-white airship while flying over the Tasman Sea, off the coast of Australia. The object reflected light off its front surface. It appeared to draw closer, but then dimished in size, seemed to become transparent, and disappeared. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** James E. McDonald investigation files, case 004 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3402 ### Event 3128 (AFD01F74) **Date:** Summer 1931 **Locations:** Auckland, New Zealand; Mount Wilson Observatory in Pasadena, California **Description:** Alice May Williams of Auckland, New Zealand, begins writing letters over a two-year period to [Edison Pettit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edison%5FPettit) and [Seth Barnes Nicholson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth%5FBarnes%5FNicholson)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth%5FBarnes%5FNicholson) astronomers at the Mount Wilson Observatory in Pasadena, California, describing her encounters with telepathic aliens who fly in a circular machine “like a great big lamp.” She writes that “The Planet mars is inhabited by human spirits like us can talk eat & drink wear clothes, but have great power. They are something people of this earth have never seen.” Their ships “are round like the moon with airtight shutter at the front, glass. The machine must be built with some light material, airproof fireproof, waterproof. The inside must be like a room, 2 beds tables & chairs.” Much of her information seems to be derived from articles in the Auckland Star about conditions elsewhere in the solar system. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** David Herkt, “[Who No: Letters from Alice May](https://publicaddress.net/speaker/who-no-letters-from-alice-may-williams/) [Williams,](https://publicaddress.net/speaker/who-no-letters-from-alice-may-williams/)” Speaker: Public Address, September 3, 2012 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_444 ### Event 3129 (0337C86D) **Date:** 8/1931 **Location:** POLAND **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the single-seater fighter PZL P-11, 360 km/h, ceiling 11000m, and range (in cruise speed without combat) 810 km. The P-23 series (three-seater bomber) flew as early as August 1934, and the Karàs series in June 1936. **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_859 ### Event 3130 (AFD3AA12) **Date:** 8/1931 **Location:** GERMANY, Reinickendorf, Berlin **Description:** (Translated from French) Launch of Repulsor 1 s, test, altitude 990 meters, assisted landing by parachute. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958 p. 150 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_860 ### Event 3131 (49240EEE) **Date:** 10/10/1931 **Time:** 14:30 **Location:** PT PLEASANT, WV **Description:** Several observer(s). 'Flaming blimp' going south over river. Big search = nothing. / r171. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 45) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_382 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "172", **HatchDesc:** "Pt PLEASANT,WV:SVRL OBS:'FLAMING BLIMP' >S OVR RIVER:BIG SEARCH=NOTHING:/r171", **LatLong:** "38.833335 -82.116671", **LatLongDMS:** "38:50:00 N 82:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.833335,-82.116671)", **State/Prov:** "Western Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3132 (B693205E) **Date:** 11/1/1931 **Location:** Unknown City, WV **Description:** Flaming, one-hundred foot blimp (Page 6 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_93 ### Event 3133 (CB01505B) **Date:** 11/19/1931 **Location:** Netherlands, Friesland **Description:** (Translated from French) One of the rockets launched from Wandergooge on the East Friesland Islands had exceeded 9500 m in altitude. (November 19th, 1931) **Reference:** "A l'Assaut de l'Espace" Georges H. Gallet, éd. de la Pensée Moderne, p. 37 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_863 ### Event 3134 (385ABE87) **Date:** End of 1931 **Location:** CZECHOSLOVAKIA **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the single-seater fighter Avia 34, maximum speed 400 km/h, ceiling 10600m. In August 1933 it was followed by the type 534 and remained in service beyond 1938. (1931, end of year) **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_864 ### Event 3135 (8A02D91C) **Date:** 12/6/1931 **Location:** HAMMONTON, NJ **Description:** Cops and 200 search swamps for 'dropped parachute'. Nothing found. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 45) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_383 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "HAMMONTON,NJ:COPS+200 SEARCH SWAMPS FOR 'DROPPED PARACHUTE':NOTHING FOUND", **LatLong:** "39.638891 -74.805559", **LatLongDMS:** "39:38:20 N 74:48:20 W", **Locale:** "Wetlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.638891,-74.805559)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "5" --- ## Year: 1932, 36 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 3136 (A941F0B5) **Date:** 1932 **Location:** ITALY, SPANISH LICENSE **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the single-seater fighter Fiat CR 42, 350 km/h, ceiling 9000m, range 850 km. Last deliveries in October 1939. In the meantime the Fiat CR-42 FALCO had taken over in 1932, the last ones were delivered in 1942. Etc... **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_872 ### Event 3137 (B7271DB1) **Date:** 1932 **Location:** USA, Hogh Bridge (New Jersey) **Description:** (Translated from French) (cf. 1930, same location, same person) Howard Menger, aged 10, encounters in the woods a beautiful and luminous woman who indicates his mission on Earth, making him glimpse future wars and destructions on our planet. **Reference:** Mitarbeiter, "Ufo Geheimnisse", Berlin, January 1998 **Reference:** Jean-Francis CROLARD: The Enigma of the E.T. - ed. Guy Trédaniel 1995, p. 145 **Reference:** continued in 1942, USA, Juarez, New Mexico **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_873 ### Event 3138 (AE00D158) **Date:** 1932 **Location:** GREENLAND, east coast **Description:** (Translated from French) Observation in broad daylight by pilots LTC Peter Grunnet and LT Tage Anderson, of the Royal Danish Air Force. "One of the earliest observations by Danish aviators took place in 1932 when 8 H.E. planes were sent to the east coast of Greenland for a photogrammetric survey. At that time, the planes were not equipped with heating and the aviators did not yet have an insulating suit. So the strongest and bravest were sent. Lt. Col. Peter Grunnet had Lt. Tage Anderson as co-pilot, who later became commander-in-chief of the RDAF and who died in 1961. Wrapped in long parkas and numb from the cold, they saw their breath condense in front of their faces. At that moment they were flying over a glacier, shining like a mirror. Suddenly they saw a second shadow added to that of their plane in this "mirror". "I looked back and saw something incredible," said Anderson. A mile behind them they were followed by a flying object on the same route. Then Grunnet made a turn to get a better view of the unknown plane. "It did not look like anything known at the time," said Grunnet, "it was hexagonal in shape, flat, apparently made of aluminum or another metal, without openings, without anything, all smooth, no bolts or rivets. I had a strange feeling, as if something or someone in this unknown object was hostile to me. I cannot explain this feeling. It was only in the following years that I realized that this object was in the shape of a saucer. **Reference:** "THE SAGA UFO REPORT" for October 1977, article "UFO Crisis over Greenland" by Rufus Drake. **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_874 ### Event 3139 (1B868586) **Date:** 1932 **Location:** USA, Roswell (New Mexico) **Description:** (Translated from French) After a period of laboratory work, Goddard continued his rocket launch tests in New Mexico in September 1934. He turned his attention to the development of an automatic guidance device to ensure his rockets an impeccable vertical ascent. His rockets weighed from 26 to 35.5 kg approximately and reached extreme speeds of 1126 meters/second. (1932-1934) **Reference:** "The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 47 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_875 ### Event 3140 (43965614) **Date:** 1932 **Location:** AUSTRALIA, near Nambour (Queensland) **Description:** (Translated from French) A young boy saw a small disk, about 30 cm in diameter, hovering close to him. The disk made a faint buzzing sound and was surrounded by a white mist. The boy became ill and had huge blisters on his hands. (Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 309) ... The boy grabbed the object but had to let go, he was severely burned on his hands. (1932 or 1933) **Reference:** Does this sound suspiciously like a ball of lightning, or what? **Reference:** A CENTURY OF UFO - UFO Roundup Dec. 1999, ed. Joseph Trainor **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_876 ### Event 3141 (43C19A7F) **Date:** 1932 **Alternate date:** 1933 **Location:** Oakland, CA **Description:** About seven brilliant objects in a group flew from 30 degrees elevation in the east to 45 degrees elevation in the west, in an arc. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_94 ### Event 3142 (8B3A4B80) **Date:** 1932 **Alternate date:** 1933 **Location:** Hawthorne, CT **Description:** The object was cigar-shaped, emitting a pink glow at its front and a light swirl of grey smoke along its sides. It was huge compared to any other plane, and it had no rudder, \[wings,\] or elevator. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [32 or 33](http://www.nicap.org/hawthorne32xxxxdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_95 ### Event 3143 (C2D31FB0) **Date:** 1932 **Location:** Eastern Greenland **Description:** Danish pilots Lt. Col. Peter Grunnet and Lt. Tage Andersen are flying an H.M.II \(Heinkel HE 8\) seaplane over eastern Greenland as part of a photogrammetric survey. Suddenly, Andersen notices they are being followed by a hexagonal metallic object about a mile behind them. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Rufus Drake, “UFO Crisis over Greenland,” Saga, October 1976, pp. 36–38, 54, 60; Patrick Gross, “[Pilots UFO Sightings,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/acufo-greenland1932.htm)” August 8, 2021 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_445 ### Event 3144 (BDB65565) **Date:** 1932 **Location:** On the shore of the Long Island Sound, Connecticut **Description:** Around 1932 or 1933, two witnesses observed a strange cigar-shaped aerial device over the Connecticut shore of Long Island Sound. The object emitted a pink glow at the front and a light swirl of gray smoke along its sides, moving at great speed. It lacked conventional aircraft features like rudders, wings, or elevators and disappeared towards the northwest. (Chapter 6, Ref 210) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_201 ### Event 3145 (37B89CD0) **Date:** 1932 **Location:** Greenland **Description:** Two Danish air force pilots flying over Greenland encountered a hexagonal, flat craft made of metal, which they described as unlike any flying machine of their time. They felt a sense of hostility from the craft and later believed that it resembled a flying saucer. (Chapter 6, Ref 216) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_207 ### Event 3146 (74E9501A) **Date:** 1/1932 **Location:** USA **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the 4-5 seat medium bomber Martin 123, 342 km/h, ceiling 7500m, range with bomb load 1250 km, nose turret, rear gunner's cockpit. In 1956 152 of these planes were delivered. There were smaller siblings, the Maryland (three seat bomber), the Baltimore (light four seat bomber), the Marauder (five seat bomber) the Mariner (patrol and anti-submarine seaplane with a nine man crew, followed by the Marlin seaplane **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** 1948 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_865 ### Event 3147 (D0427A62) **Date:** 1/29/1932 **Location:** Unknown City, NJ **Description:** Aluminum-like disc with periphery of yellowish lights or "portholes" on underside. (NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_96 ### Event 3148 (9F4BDFF8) **Date:** 3/1932 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In the United States, more than 13 million unemployed, and almost all banks are closed. (March) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1932.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_422 ### Event 3149 (0F03F482) **Date:** 3/20/1932 **Location:** USA **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the single-seat day fighter Boeing P-26, cruising speed 322 km/h, ceiling 8350m. Some of these planes were still in service with the Guatemalan Air Force until 1955. **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 edition **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_866 ### Event 3150 (B9B1B1AD) **Date:** 3/25/1932 **Time:** ~10:00 **Location:** EAST / WAGON MOUND, NM **Description:** Several / car. Fiery disks spin and light sky. Back / good Friday / 1941+1975. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 914) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_384 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1870", **HatchDesc:** "E/WAGON MOUND,NM:SVRL/CAR:FIERY DISKS SPIN+LITE SKY:BACK/GOOD FRIDAY/1941+1975", **LatLong:** "35.133335 -104.516672", **LatLongDMS:** "35:08:00 N 104:31:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.133335,-104.516672)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3151 (0D297025) **Date:** 4/1932 (approximate) **Location:** NAMBOUR, AUSTRALIA **Description:** Small object buzzes boy. Boy faints. Feels sick. Gets blisters. OK later. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO RESEARCH AUSTRALIA NEWSLETTER. (Details missing) (Index 822) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_385 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "NAMBOUR,AUSTRL:SML OBJ BUZZES BOY:BOY FAINTS:FEELS SICK:GETS BLISTERS:OK LATER", **LatLong:** "-26.800001 153.000007", **LatLongDMS:** "26:48:00 S 153:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-26.800001,153.000007)", **State/Prov:** "Queensland", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 3152 (9D45CD0B) **Date:** 4/1932 **Alternate date:** 5/1932 **Location:** Durham, NY **Description:** Airplane. (Page 6 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_97 ### Event 3153 (46ABD443) **Date:** 4/1932 **Alternate date:** 5/1932 **Location:** Durham, New York **Description:** Terry F. Lapeza sees an aluminum-like disc with yellowish lights or “portholes” on the underside, about 100 feet in diameter over Durham, New York. It is moving north at about 300 mph. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 129](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=141&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_446 ### Event 3154 (5257EECA) **Date:** 4/19/1932 **Location:** USA, Mescalero, Roswell **Description:** (Translated from French) R. H. Goddard launched a rocket, testing gyro control by gas pressure, which fell back the same day. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958 p. 248 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_867 ### Event 3155 (5B314DDB) **Date:** 5/1932 **Location:** Paris, OH **Description:** Sutton photo of domed disc (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [320500](http://www.nicap.org/parisoh.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_98 ### Event 3156 (5360A16E) **Date:** 5/3/1932 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Death of [Charles Fort](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/FortCharlesHoy.html). (3 May) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1932.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_423 ### Event 3157 (EE47E8C0) **Date:** 5/4/1932 **Description:** During a time of personal crises, the witness, now a retired pastor, found himself in a city of 16,000 located 150 miles west of Toronto, Ontario. On this particular night he was standing on a street lit up by a brilliant white light from above. Looking up, he saw the light came from a round cloud with a scalloped edge, about 200 yards overhead. From the cloud-like object streamed down a light like a laser beam. He next saw a young man with golden hair standing beside him, dressed in a suit of a similar color. The man had radiant blue eyes, and was about 5.5 feet tall. He smiled at the witness and told him that his work would be in that city, and reminded him that “the cottages in the rear of the mansion are as important as those who dwell in the mansion.” He told him the witness would reside there for six years and would then work his way to the west coast. According to the man’s account, the prophecies were fulfilled. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1932-01 (A0103), citing John Musgrave & Ted Bloecher **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2499 ### Event 3158 (D54B0D0B) **Date:** 6/1932 **Location:** Wattsburg, Pennsylvania **Description:** Evening. [Reuben D. Knight](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56347611/reuben-d-knight) is standing on the porch of his farmhouse near Wattsburg, Pennsylvania, when he notices a bright speck of light approaching from some woods to the south. Growing in size, it comes to within 4 feet of him and appears as a silvery-blue ball about 14 inches in diameter. It travels in a loop and circles back to the woods in a steady path of 35–40 mph. After it circles past him again, he calls his wife and she sees the ball make a final loop before it disappears in the woods. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP case file; Clark III 1175; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1932-06-00-usa-wattsburg.htm), August 19, 2018 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_448 ### Event 3159 (3C2D30A3) **Date:** Early Summer 1932 **Alternate date:** Early Summer 1933 **Location:** Oakland, California **Description:** 7:30 p.m. Teenager Fred W. Van Sant and his brother Milton see 7–8 “meteors flying in a bunch” over hills east of Oakland, California. They maintain the same altitude from east to west in a great arc. The objects are silent and are so bright they seem to be emitting their own light. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP case file; Clark III 1175 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_447 ### Event 3160 (9E5E3AB5) **Date:** 6/19/1932 **Location:** FRANCE **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the single-seater fighter Dewoitine Series D-500, 360 km/h and ceiling at 10790m., entire structure in light alloy and working coating, last deliveries beginning 1938. **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_868 ### Event 3161 (1560B05A) **Date:** Summer 1932 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Photo taken in St. Paris \(Ohio\) in summer. See photo at images/1932-Summer_StParis_Ohio.jpg. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1932.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_424 ### Event 3162 (38B7CAF8) **Date:** Summer 1932 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Oradea \(Romania\), a yellow disc is observed between 200 and 300 m in altitude, moving towards the Southwest above the park. The disc is illuminated and leaves a trail behind it. The observation lasts 2 or 3 s. and is experienced by other people. (Between 7 pm and 8 pm) **Reference:** Lucaci Victor, economist, Bucharest **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1932.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_425 ### Event 3163 (DA3D8BE2) **Date:** Summer 1932 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Off the coast of Greenland, Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Grunnet and Lieutenant Tage Anderson's plane from the [RDAF](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/RDAF.html) was followed by a UFO. It was nothing like the machines of the time, Grunnet remembers, it was hexagonal, flat, made of aluminium, with a completely smooth surface and no rivets. It gave me the chills, I don't know why. Whatever being was on board the ship, it was like I could feel its presence... a hostile presence... **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1932.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_426 ### Event 3164 (F64A7724) **Date:** 7/1932 **Location:** GERMANY **Description:** (Translated from French) Launch of the "Mirak II" rocket by Germany. (1932, July and August) **Reference:** "The Conquest of the Air. Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout Université 1967, p. 246 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_869 ### Event 3165 (9DADD1E7) **Date:** 10/1932 **Location:** CANADA, Joliette (Quebec) **Description:** (Translated from French) Five young Canadians were approaching the entrance of the town around 7:00 PM when they saw a figure of about 3 m tall crossing a nearby cemetery. He was wearing a white suit and walking at a good pace. Taken by panic, the driver of the car immediately accelerated while the being had come within 2 m of the vehicle, not seeming to be at all concerned by the presence of the witnesses. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 244 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_870 ### Event 3166 (7805AF9A) **Date:** 10/1932 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** JOLIETTE, QB **Description:** 5 / car. 8' giant / white space-suit walks clumsily. No UFO seen. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUSGRAVE, John Brent: UFO OCCUPANTS & CRITTERS; Global Communications, NY 1979. 8x11 66pp. (Index 41) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_386 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **NFO:** No craft seen, **GNT:** Giant: Large/tall alien, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "50", **HatchDesc:** "JOLIETTE,QB:5/CAR:8'GIANT/WHT SPACE-SUIT WALKS CLUMSILY:NO UFO SEEN:NFD", **LatLong:** "46.033336 -73.433337", **LatLongDMS:** "46:02:00 N 73:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.033336,-73.433337)", **State/Prov:** "Quebec", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 3167 (113BDE2E) **Date:** 10/1932 **Time:** ~19:00 **Location:** NEAR PLAINSBORO, NJ **Description:** Aero engineer and 1 / car. 30M blue-glowing disk quickly going down. Levels. Quickly going up. / International UFO Reporter (CUFOS Group, USA) v23#4. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_387 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "24", **HatchDesc:** "nr PLAINSBORO,NJ:AERO ENGINEER+1/CAR:30M BLU-GLO DISK ↓↓:LEVELS:↑↑:/IUR v23#4", **LatLong:** "40.333335 -74.600004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:20:00 N 74:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.333335,-74.600004)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3168 (EEBCC425) **Date:** 11/1932 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Re-election of [Roosevelt](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/RooseveltFranklinDelano.html). (November) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1932.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_427 ### Event 3169 (1C8AD4FA) **Date:** 11/29/1932 **Location:** BELGIUM, Beauraing (Namur) **Description:** (Translated from French) Beginning of the thirty apparitions. Around 6:45 PM Mrs. Hennicken, Jacquemin, Dubois and Delruche, who were children at the time, observed an elongated object surrounded by stars and emitting no sound. The object, which was white in color, stopped above an embankment of the railway. This phenomenon occurred during the "miracles" (cf. Notre Dame de Beauraing) - which is still a pilgrimage site today. (List by Daniel BUKENS, Remicourt, Belgium) The witness was praying on the spot, when suddenly she saw a red luminous ball 1.5 meters in diameter. It burst and, inside, the Virgin Mary immediately appeared. **Reference:** Erich ZURCHER: "The Apparitions of Humanoids" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 200 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_871 ### Event 3170 (AC1E376A) **Date:** 12/1932 (approximate) **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** MT. GAMBIER, SOUTH AUSTRALIA **Description:** Blunt-nosed torpedo going [to] fast. Orange light / rear. Flashes lightening. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Database/website: BASTERFIELD, KEITH: AUFORN group, with Diane Harrison. http://www.fan.net.au/~tkbnetw/new **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_388 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "Mt.GAMBIER,S.AUSTRL:BLUNT-NOSED TORPEDO > FAST:ORG LITE/REAR:FLASHES LITENING", **LatLong:** "-37.500002 140.850007", **LatLongDMS:** "37:30:00 S 140:51:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-37.500002,140.850007)", **State/Prov:** "South Australia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3171 (0EFED9D7) **Date:** 12/8/1932 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** ARROYOMOLINOS DE LEON, SP **Description:** Fireball explodes with damage. 2nd fireball maneuvers / 1800hrs. / r50p01. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 122) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_389 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "ARROYOMOLINOS DE LEON,SP:FBL EXPLODES W/DAMAGE:2ND FBL MNVRS/1800hrs:/r50p01.", **LatLong:** "38.022224 -6.411111", **LatLongDMS:** "38:01:20 N 06:24:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.022224,-6.411111)", **State/Prov:** "HLV", **Strangeness:** "4" --- ## Year: 1933, 59 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 3172 (B7BE9A5B) **Date:** 1933 **Location:** Antartica **Description:** Richard E. Byrd’s 2nd expedition to Antarctica. In 1934 he spends 5 months alone in a hut, 100’s of km’s from the nearest support, in total darkness. He almost dies from carbon monoxide poisoning. **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [link](https://captainantarctica.com.au/exploration/admiral-byrd/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_39 ### Event 3173 (1DAB9E5A) **Date:** 1933 **Location:** USSR **Description:** (Translated from French) Alert by Tsiolkovsky on the work of the American Goddard, the USSR launches its first liquid fuel rockets. **Reference:** "Astronautics" Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 11 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_877 ### Event 3174 (E1CA4225) **Date:** 1933 **Location:** HIMALAYA, MONT EVEREST **Description:** (Translated from French) Frank Smythe recounts this adventure: "Strange, to say the least. It was, most likely, a hallucination due to the lack of oxygen which affects not only physical faculties, but also mental faculties. I was descending towards Camp IV when chance had me look up. I saw two black objects floating in the blue sky. Their shape was that of observation sausages, except that one of them seemed to have short fins. Gliding, motionless, they seemed to swell and deflate alternately, as if they were breathing. I stared at them, dumbfounded, with extreme interest. I had the feeling that my brain was functioning normally, but to test myself, I looked away. The objects disappeared from my view, but when I looked back, they were still there. A second time I looked elsewhere, but this time, to test my mental faculties, I identified by name various details of the landscape. And yet, when I looked for them again, the objects were still visible. A few minutes later, a fog drifted across the north-east shoulder of Everest, above which they were suspended. It thickened, gradually masking the objects, and they disappeared from my view. A few more minutes passed and the fog dissipated. I looked again, expecting to see them, but they had vanished as mysteriously as they had appeared (...) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 244-245 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_878 ### Event 3175 (5BF6F97B) **Date:** 1933 **Location:** CANADA, Nipawin (Saskatchewan) **Description:** (Translated from French) In the northwest of the region made up of hills and marshes, many lights were observed at night. Two men and a woman approached as close as possible to the area around midnight, the rest of the way being done on foot. They then saw that the light came from an oval object topped with a dome, resting on stilts. Through the central door there was a back and forth of about a dozen shapes that went up and down a kind of ladder. These beings were small, dressed in silver uniforms and their activity was carried out in an impressive silence. The orange-tinted light illuminated the entire region. After half an hour of observation, the witnesses returned to the truck. A few nights later, the witnesses had the opportunity to return to the scene. The UFO was not present. But there were traces: 6 squares of 45 cm on each side, spaced 2.5 to 3 m apart, 5 to 7 cm deep, forming a rectangle in the center of which was a circle of burned grass. **Reference:** John Brent Musgrave in FSR Vol. 22 n° 6 of 1976 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_883 ### Event 3176 (B0BA42B8) **Date:** 1933 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Adolf Hitler takes power. All German scientists are forced to work for the Nazis. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1933.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_428 ### Event 3177 (639895E0) **Date:** 1933 **Locations:** Fort Washakie, Wyoming; Wind River Indian Reservation **Description:** Earl J. Duncan and a Native American boy are in a truck near Fort Washakie, Wyoming, on the Wind River Indian Reservation. As they reach the crest of a hill, they see three perfectly round, pulsating, orange-red balls about 900 feet away. They are moving “in absolute alignment” about 20 feet from the ground toward the nearest mountain range. After 5 minutes of silent movement they disappear over a nearby mountain. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAp case file; Clark III 1175 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_449 ### Event 3178 (0A52637D) **Date:** 1933 **Location:** Near Allentown, PA **Description:** A Pennsylvania motorist encountered a landed UFO near Allentown while fixing a flat tire. He approached a field where he saw an eerie purple light and found a bell-shaped craft about six feet tall and 10 feet in diameter. The craft had a circular door emitting the light, and the witness briefly entered the dome-shaped interior with instrumentation and cold, ammonia-scented air. After inspecting it for around 10 minutes, he left to finish changing his tire. (Chapter 6, Ref 211) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_202 ### Event 3179 (2D5E3C63) **Date:** 1933 **Location:** Sussex, England **Description:** Four British Royal Air Force fighters encountered a large, circular lighted object during a training flight over Sussex, England. The object dropped into the center of their formation, causing two planes to experience engine failures and one pilot to sustain burns to his face and hands. (Chapter 6, Ref 217) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_208 ### Event 3180 (0388E44E) **Date:** 1933 **Location:** Near Tobin Lake, Saskatchewan **Description:** Residents near Tobin Lake in Canada's Saskatchewan province observed strange lights attributed to swamp gas, until three witnesses approached a glowing, oval-shaped object on the ground. The craft had humanoid figures, short in stature, moving around it, and upon returning the next day, the witnesses found deep impressions and a burned circular area where the object had been. (Chapter 6, Ref 222) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_213 ### Event 3181 (828C3B89) **Date:** 1933 **Time:** daytime **Location:** Near Tobin Lake, Saskatchewan **Description:** Around the same time, a woman had a potentially unsettling daylight encounter in the same area, witnessing "little green men" wearing silvery suits near a pond. Her memory of the event was vague, leading her to suggest the possibility of abduction. (Chapter 6, Ref 223) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_214 ### Event 3182 (76E7B9EA) **Date:** 1933 **Location:** Australia **Description:** In Australia, a woman claimed to have experienced a UFO abduction when a shining egg-shaped craft descended from the sky. Gray-skinned beings emerged, temporarily paralyzed her with an instrument, and took her aboard the craft, where she was examined while strapped to a table. (Chapter 6, Ref 224) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_215 ### Event 3183 (95842C18) **Date:** 1933 **Location:** Milan, Italy **Description:** In the 1930s, there are reports of UFO crashes outside the United States. Limited information is available on these incidents. Documents from the early 1930s in Italy suggest instructions from Benito Mussolini regarding UFO information, including a reference to a crashed UFO near Milan in 1933. (Chapter 6, Ref 230) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_221 ### Event 3184 (33714253) **Date:** 1/1933 **Location:** BELGIUM, Banneux **Description:** (Translated from French) 18 apparitions between January and March, of an entity which the witnesses took to be the Virgin Mary. (1933, January to March) **Reference:** Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 311 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_880 ### Event 3185 (C9041F43) **Date:** 1/1933? **Time:** ~00:00 **Location:** DISCOVERY WELL, WEST AUS **Description:** Large shiny egg going down. Greys exit. Aborigine woman abduction and experimented upon. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** CHALKER,Bill: The OZ FILES. Australian Sightings. 1996 Duffy & Snellgrove. NSW,Australia. ISBN 1-875989-04-8 (Index 20) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_390 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **ABD:** Human or animal abduction, **OPR:** Operations on humans/animal mutilation/surgery, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "DISCOVERY WELL,W.AUS:LRG SHINY EGG↓:GREYS EXIT:ABO.WOMAN ABD+EXPERIMENTED UPON", **LatLong:** "-20.316668 123.800006", **LatLongDMS:** "20:19:00 S 123:48:00 E", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-20.316668,123.800006)", **State/Prov:** "Western Australia", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 3186 (95DE7D5B) **Date:** 1/21/1933 **Time:** 22:50 **Location:** BONDY, FR **Description:** 2 observer(s). Luminous/glowing white observer(s) 12cm / arms length. Hovers / minutes. Rises and shoots overhead. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 316) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_391 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "BONDY,FR:2 OBS:LUMn WHT OBS 12cm/ARMS LENGTH:HVRS/mins:RISES+SHOOTS OVHD", **LatLong:** "48.900002 2.483333", **LatLongDMS:** "48:54:00 N 02:29:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.900002,2.483333)", **State/Prov:** "SSD", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3187 (279E1C19) **Date:** 1/21/1933 **Description:** At 10:50 p.m. a luminous white object, with the apparent size of a 12 cm coin held at arms length, hovered over Bondy, Seine-St-Denis, France for five minutes, rose higher in the air, then shot overhead. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 316 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_398 ### Event 3188 (CD3878EC) **Date:** 1/30/1933 **Location:** Germany **Description:** Hitler is made Chancellor of Germany. **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler's_rise_to_power) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_40 ### Event 3189 (86BE7C0D) **Date:** 3/3/1933 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) During the Sankiru earthquake \(Japan\), the sea receded to reveal to the amazed spectators a luminescent halo resting on the ocean floor. Its color was bluish. Several years before, the same phenomenon had occurred. The crest of the waves, according to Frank Lane, emitted a faint continuous light. The entire surface of the sea sparkled as it broke on the shore, the waves illuminating the entire coast with a soft bluish light. In one of his works, Peter Kolosimo publishes a vaguely representing picture of this magical fire which only appears at certain times of the year in the sea in Japan. At the same time, luminous phenomena are also reported in the sky. (March 3) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1933.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_429 ### Event 3190 (E2BE167A) **Date:** 3/4/1933 **End date:** 4/12/1945 **Location:** Washington DC **Description:** President Franklin D. Roosevelt in office. **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_41 ### Event 3191 (1D60D2E1) **Date:** 3/24/1933 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The largest [meteor](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Meteore.html) ever observed crosses 9 states of the United States. According to thousands of witnesses, its passage lasts a few terrifying hours. According to a photo, the large luminous sphere in the center of the image measures 9600 m in diameter, and the trail behind it is 1600 m wide, which Ninïger verified. An odor of sulfur persists for hours. The [meteor](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Meteore.html) seems to disappear suddenly at 27 km from the [Earth](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Terre.html), without exploding or disintegrating. (March 24) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1933.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_430 ### Event 3192 (7770F311) **Date:** 3/24/1933 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) \(or [1934](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/1934.html)\) Witnesses on a beach in Ubatuba \(Brazil\) see a disc dive into the ocean and explode, covering the surroundings with a rain of silver fragments of very pure magnesium. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1933.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_431 ### Event 3193 (767A0C15) **Date:** 3/24/1933 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Beginning of a wave of ghost flier observations in Norway \(240 observations\), Sweden \(96 observations\) and Finland \(157 observations\), lasting until [1939](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/1939.html). **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1933.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_432 ### Event 3194 (A09F4586) **Date:** 5/1933 **Location:** USA, New York **Description:** (Translated from French) Model of rocket copied from the Germans, but heavier, the Rocket 2 of the Aluminium Company of America, launched towards the sea at the entrance of the Port of New-York, would have approached the speed of sound, a few weeks before those of Dr. Goddard. (...) The Following Tests Were Very Disappointing **Reference:** "To the Assault of Space" - Georges H. Gallet - Ed. of Modern Thought, p. 62, 63 **Reference:** Insufficient Cooling e.a. **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_881 ### Event 3195 (7E349C91) **Date:** 6/1/1933 **Time:** ~10:00 **Location:** MT. EVEREST **Description:** Climber. 2 black ovoids hover / wind. Expand and contract. Lost in mist. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** PHENOMENES SPATIAUX: Group GEPA, Gen. M. Lionel Chassin Paris. Quarterly 1964?-1977. Merged into Grp. GEPAN (Index 24) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_392 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Himalayan states", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "Mt.EVEREST:CLIMBER:2 BLK OVOIDS HVR/WIND:EXPAND+CONTRACT:lost in mist.", **LatLong:** "28.000001 86.950004", **LatLongDMS:** "28:00:00 N 86:57:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/28.000001,86.950004)", **State/Prov:** "EVR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3196 (0AF182C5) **Date:** 6/1/1933 **Location:** Himalaya Mountains of Nepal **Description:** English mountaineer [Frank Smythe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FSmythe)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FSmythe) during the British Mount Everest Expedition in the Himalaya Mountains of Nepal, is heading for camp at 27,500 feet when he sees two dark objects floating in the blue sky. In shape they resemble kite balloons, except that one appears to possess short squat wings. As they hover motionless, they seem to pulsate in and out as though they are breathing. A minute or two later they disappear behind mountain mist. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Frank S. Smythe, Camp Six: An Account of the 1933 Mount Everest Expedition, Hodder and Stoughton, 1937, [pp. 264–265](https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.6684/page/n301/mode/2up); Barry Greenwood, “[UFOs on Mt. Everest in 1933,](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr05.pdf)” UFO Historical Revue, no. 5 \(July 1999\): 2–3 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_453 ### Event 3197 (2BF092A4) **Date:** 6/13/1933 **Locations:** Magenta; Milan, Italy; Vergiate, Varese **Description:** An unknown aircraft allegedly crashes at Magenta, just west of Milan, Italy. The Italian government establishes a top-secret group, Gabinetto Ricerche Speziale/33, to examine the craft. It is headed by Prime Minister [Benito Mussolini](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito%5FMussolini), Foreign Minister [Galeazzo Ciano](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galeazzo%5FCiano), and Air Marshal [Italo Balbo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo%5FBalbo), with scientific support from [Guglielmo Marconi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo%5FMarconi) and astronomer [Gino Cecchini](http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/gino-cecchini%5F%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/)[.](http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/gino-cecchini%5F%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/) Debris is reportedly stored in the hangars of the SIAI- Marchetti aircraft company in Vergiate, Varese. Journalists are ordered to keep silent about the incident due to national security. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Good Need, [pp. 12–15](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/12/mode/2up); Roberto Pinotti and Alfredo Lissoni, Gli “X-Files” del Nazifascismo, 2001; 2Pinotti 179–197 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_454 ### Event 3198 (769CD119) **Date:** Summer 1933 **Location:** USA, between Chrysville and Morreston (Pennsylvania) **Description:** (Translated from French) A man observed a faint violet light in a field between Chrysville and Morreston. Advancing towards it, he realized it was an ovoid object 3 m in diameter and 2 m in height, with an opening resembling a safe door. The witness pushed the door and found a cavity filled with a violet light and various instruments while an ammonia smell filled the air. (1933, Summer) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 245 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_882 ### Event 3199 (5E21240C) **Date:** Summer 1933 **Location:** Cherryville, PA **Description:** Morning. A man observed a faint violet light in a field between this town and Morrestown. Walking to it, he found an ovoid object 3 m in diameter and 2 m thick with a circular opening similar to a vault door. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_99 ### Event 3200 (D48E5BF4) **Date:** Summer 1933 **Time:** Morning **Location:** Cherryville, Pennsylvania **Description:** A man observed a faint violet light in a field between this town and Morrestown. Walking to it, he found an ovoid object 3 m in diameter and 2 m thick with a circular opening similar to a vault door. Pushing it, he found the room full of violet light and observed many instruments, no occupant. Smell of ammonia. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** APRO Jul., 64 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_48 ### Event 3201 (0193BBB4) **Date:** Summer 1933 **Locations:** Tobin Lake, Saskatchewan; Napawin **Description:** For weeks, strange lights in the sky are reported around Tobin Lake, Saskatchewan. Curious about the reports, two young men and a woman drive to the lake from Napawin. On their way they see a glow near the horizon, so they park and trek a quarter mile into the woods where they can see a large, oval-shaped craft sitting on legs. From an open central doorway shines a bright orange glow; a ladderlike stairway extends downward with a dozen figures dressed in silver suits moving up and down the steps. They appear to be repairing the craft. The witnesses watch for 30 minutes when they decide to return to their truck and get closer. Two nights later they return and find imprints and burn marks, which they photograph. Two of them write an article that they submit to magazines, which refuse to publish what they consider outlandish fiction. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** John Brent Musgrave, “[Saskatchewan, 1933: UFO](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201976%20V%2022%20N%206.pdf) [Stops for ‘Repairs,’](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201976%20V%2022%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 22, no. 6 \(April 1977\): 16–17; Clark III 264; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1933-canada-nipawin.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1933-canada-nipawin.htm) July 15, 2009 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_450 ### Event 3202 (9E1050E1) **Date:** Summer 1933 **Location:** Cherryville, Pennsylvania **Description:** 2:30 a.m. A man who still insists on anonymity in 1964 is driving near Cherryville, Pennsylvania, when his car gets a flat tire. As he is jacking it up, he sees a faint violet light in the field on his right. Curious, he walks about 200 feet toward the light and sees a bell-shaped object about 10 feet in diameter and 6 feet high on the grass. Light is issuing from a circular door about 1 foot in diameter. He pushes it and it swings open. Putting his head inside, he cannot see much because of the peculiar light coming from the ceiling. The chamber inside is about 6 feet in diameter, 4 feet high, and full of tubing and dials on a console. An ammonia scent pervades the room, which is notably chilly. The man then walks around the object, touching the surface, which is slick, metallic, and cold. After 10 minutes, he goes back to the car, replaces the tire, and drives home. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Flying Saucer](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92254566/) [Spotted in 1933,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92254610/)” Allentown \(Pa.\) Sunday Call-Chronicle, February 16, 1964, pp. B1–B2; Clark III 1175–1176; “[1933 Sighting Reported,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201964%2007%2000%20-%20July.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, July 1964, pp. 7–8; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1933-usa-chrysville.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1933-usa-chrysville.htm) July 16, 2009 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_451 ### Event 3203 (DC55CC24) **Date:** Summer 1933 **Location:** Beach Haven, New Jersey **Description:** Night. Frank Van Keuren is fishing with others along the waterway off Beach Haven, New Jersey. Suddenly they are illuminated by a searchlight coming from an object moving slowly and silently about 1,000 feet in the air. It goes on to circle some radio towers about 8 miles away, flooding them with light. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 19–20 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_452 ### Event 3204 (E18995FE) **Date:** 7/4/1933 **Location:** Germany **Description:** The Nazis become the only political party left in Germany, after all other parties are banned or split up. **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler's_rise_to_power) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_42 ### Event 3205 (C47278EA) **Date:** 7/5/1933 **Location:** ENGLAND, Sussex **Description:** (Translated from French) In the night, four Hawker Fury I biplanes flying in formation, encountered an enormous circular light above them. It descended into the middle of their formation. The engine of the plane piloted by Capt. Niger Tompkins of the RAF, failed, forcing him to make an emergency landing. Then it was the turn of the plane piloted by Bruce H. Thomas. The light passed so close that not only was he forced to land, but he had his hands and face burned, as if by a radiating heat. **Reference:** "Ufo's – A century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p 16 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_879 ### Event 3206 (F5D67881) **Date:** 7/5/1933 **Location:** Sussex, UK **Description:** Gigantic light (Page 6-7 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_100 ### Event 3207 (15947F9A) **Date:** 7/5/1933 **Location:** Sussex, England **Description:** Evening. Four RAF Hawker Fury I biplanes flying over Sussex, England, encounter a gigantic light that shines directly into the center of their formation from a higher altitude. Two Hawkers experience mechanical trouble and separate. Capt. Nigel Tompkins and Lt. Bruce H. Thomas make emergency landings when both their planes’ engines quit. On his way down, Thomas passes so close to the light that it causes burns on his face and hands. Probable hoax. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** History of the III Fighter Squadron, RAF, London Press, 1947; Jan Aldrich, “[Aircraft/UFO](http://www.project1947.com/47cats/jan42.htm) [Encounters Prior to 1942,](http://www.project1947.com/47cats/jan42.htm)” Project 1947; Patrick Gross, “[Pilots UFO Sightings,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/acufo-sussex5july1933.htm)” August 3, 2021 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_455 ### Event 3208 (D0F53CF3) **Date:** 7/5/1933 **Description:** A huge circular object dropped down into the center of a formation of RAF fighter aircraft over Sussex, England. Two of the planes suffered engine failure and were forced to make emergency landings. One pilot suffered burns to his face and hands after his airplane passed close by the object. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century, p. 16 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3834 ### Event 3209 (9C47AA61) **Date:** 7/31/1933 **Alternate date:** 8/1/1933 **Locations:** Butt Valley Reservoir; Humbug Valley, California **Description:** 9:15 p.m. Somewhere between Butt Valley Reservoir and Humbug Valley, California, high- school science teacher Paul M. Barry Jr. is skywatching when he sees two objects shoot across the sky. They are solid, prolate spheroids with a green luminescence. Their brightness changes considerably as they approach the zenith and diminish as they approach the horizon. He thinks they are 8–10 miles distant. The two objects disappear and are followed by a third. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 1175 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_456 ### Event 3210 (B0155E59) **Date:** 8/1933 (approximate) **Time:** 02:30 **Location:** NORTHWEST / NAZARETH, PA **Description:** Violet glow / field. 3M sphere / ground. Door ajar. Dials and controls inside. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 775) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_393 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "155", **HatchDesc:** "NW/NAZARETH,PA:VIOLET GLOW/FIELD:3M SPHERE/GND:DOOR AJAR:DIALS+CONTROLS INSIDE", **LatLong:** "40.750002 -75.416670", **LatLongDMS:** "40:45:00 N 75:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.750002,-75.416670)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 3211 (D822F02C) **Date:** 8/1933 (approximate) **Time:** ~07:00 **Location:** NORTHWEST / NIPAWIN, SSK **Description:** 3 observer(s). Saucer / 6 legs. Small humanoids (or Greys) going up [to] going down [to] ladder / 30m. Photographs / physical traces. / IFS#35 / r210v25#9. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 270) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_394 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "358", **HatchDesc:** "NW/NIPAWIN,SSK:3 OBS:SCR/6 LEGS:OIDS ↑↓LADDER/30m:FOTOS/TRCs:/IFS#35/r210v25#9", **LatLong:** "53.366669 -104.000005", **LatLongDMS:** "53:22:00 N 104:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Tundra", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.366669,-104.000005)", **State/Prov:** "Sasketchewan", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 3212 (803D55B0) **Date:** 8/1933 (approximate) **Time:** ~18:00 **Location:** NEAR TUCKERTON, NJ **Description:** Disk going [to] overhead slow. Lights 2 observer(s) / strong beams. Lights radio towers.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 53) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_395 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "7", **HatchDesc:** "nr TUCKERTON,NJ:DISK >OVHD SLOW:LITES 2 OBS/STRONG BEAMS:LITES RADIO TOWERS..", **LatLong:** "39.600002 -74.333337", **LatLongDMS:** "39:36:00 N 74:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.600002,-74.333337)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 3213 (B5110532) **Date:** 8/1933 (approximate) **Time:** 21:00? **Location:** KRASNYYE CHETAI, RUSSIA **Description:** 1934? 'Star' going west / satellite speed / 10 minute(s). Turns going northwest! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO CHRONICLES of the SOVIET UNION; Ballentine Books HB 1992. 212pp. (Index 183) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_396 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Russia", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "KRASNYYE CHETAI,RUSS:1934?:'STAR' > W /SATELLITE SPEED/10min:TURNS >NW!", **LatLong:** "55.700003 46.150002", **LatLongDMS:** "55:42:00 N 46:09:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/55.700003,46.150002)", **State/Prov:** "CHB", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 3214 (1638863F) **Date:** 8/1933 **End date:** 12/1933 **Location:** East Coast United States, East Coast **Description:** East Coast and Britain, mysterious aircraft (Page 7 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_101 ### Event 3215 (97BFEED9) **Date:** Fall 1933 **Location:** Contra Costa County, California **Description:** 11:45 p.m. A chemist in Contra Costa County, California, hears a humming sound outside coming from the northeast. Looking out the window, he sees the yard bathed in a steady blue-purple light. Suddenly the light goes out and the humming ends with a “pow” sound. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, UFOs; The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 19 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_457 ### Event 3216 (410C05A4) **Date:** 10/1933 **Location:** USSR **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the single-seater fighter Polikarpov I-15, 360 km/h, ceiling 10000m, range 720km. The Polikarov I-16 model (seen from the side resembling a large cylinder with a rounded tail) flies from December 1933, 360 km/h, ceiling 9000m, range 800 km. It was originally a single-seater fighter **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_884 ### Event 3217 (86ECCE74) **Date:** 11/1933 **Location:** GERMANY **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the single-seater fighter Arado AR-68, max. speed 310 km/h, ceiling 7400m, probably ended production in 1937. **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_885 ### Event 3218 (767F1290) **Date:** Late 11/1933 **Location:** lake Fjosoken, Sorsele, Sweden **Description:** After sunset. A lone observer sees what appears to be an aircraft land on ice-covered lake Fjosoken, Sorsele, Sweden. It takes off and circles the lake for one hour, during which time it projects a powerful searchlight on the lake’s surface. However, local police interview the witness and suspect that he was looking at Venus. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 361 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_458 ### Event 3219 (D69C8822) **Date:** 12/16/1933 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** TARNABY, SWEDEN **Description:** Several observer(s) / news. Mystery aircraft passes going quickly west. Turns over Joesjo, Norway. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 196) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_397 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "TARNABY,SWEDEN:SVRL OBS/NEWS:MYSTERY AIRCRFT PASSES>>W:TURNS OVR JOESJO,NORWAY", **LatLong:** "65.700003 15.283334", **LatLongDMS:** "65:42:00 N 15:17:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/65.700003,15.283334)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 3220 (9DF48AB4) **Date:** 12/18/1933 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** ONKERZELE, BELGIUM **Description:** Hundreds / observer(s). Fatima like solar apparition. Sparks and flames / 'sun'. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The UFO REGISTER. CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK. (annual sightings catalog.) (Index 75) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_398 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "ONKERZELE,BELGIUM:100s/OBS:FATIMA LIKE SOLAR APPARITION:SPARKS+FLAMES/'SUN'", **LatLong:** "50.755558 3.911111", **LatLongDMS:** "50:45:20 N 03:54:40 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.755558,3.911111)", **State/Prov:** "Belgium", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 3221 (CF520BE3) **Date:** 12/18/1933 **Description:** At ten o'clock in the morning hundreds of witnesses in Onkerzeele, Belgium watched a Fatima like solar apparition, with sparks and flames from a dancing "Sun". **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing SOS-OVNI France, Phenomena magazine, issue # 12 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8484 ### Event 3222 (D374EA3E) **Date:** 12/24/1933 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** KALIX, SWEDEN **Description:** 'Mystery plane' searches area with strong lights. Going quickly west. / r203 p128. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 195) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_399 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "KALIX,SWEDEN:'MYSTERY PLANE' SEARCHES AREA W/STRONG LITES:>>W:/r203 p128", **LatLong:** "65.850003 23.166668", **LatLongDMS:** "65:51:00 N 23:10:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/65.850003,23.166668)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3223 (1361A57E) **Date:** 12/24/1933 **Location:** Kalix, Sweden **Description:** Beam of light coming from machine (Page 7 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_102 ### Event 3224 (DC14C8BD) **Date:** 12/24/1933 **Locations:** Kalix, Norrbotten, Sweden; Scandinavia **Description:** 6:00 p.m. Witnesses in Kalix, Norrbotten, Sweden, see beams of light coming from a machine that seems to be searching the ground below. The beams are “blinding.” The sighting is part of a wave of “ghost flier” reports of gray monoplanes without identifying markings that are reported over rural areas of Scandinavia from November 15, 1933, through February 11, 1934. The Swedish Military Record Office accumulates 96 reports from Sweden, 234 from Norway, and 137 from Finland, and the Swedish Air Force undertakes at least two reconnaissance missions in search of the mystery planes. More than 50% of the reports take place between 5:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m., when Venus is low over the horizon. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Strange Company 7; Hilary Evans and Robert E. Bartholomew, Outbreak! Anomalist, 2009, pp. 497–499; Swords 361–363; Anders Liljegren, “[Ghost Flier](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Sweden/AFU%5FNewsletter/AFU%5F2001%5F41.pdf) [Mystery Still Unresolved,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Sweden/AFU%5FNewsletter/AFU%5F2001%5F41.pdf)” AFU Newsletter 41 \(September 2001\): 1–3 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_459 ### Event 3225 (98054CB2) **Date:** 12/26/1933 **Time:** 09:30 **Location:** MANHATTAN, NY **Description:** Many observer(s). Mystery flier circles city / heavy snowstorm / 5 hours. / r203p128. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 195) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_400 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "44", **Elev:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "MANHATTAN,NY:MANY OBS:MYSTERY FLIER CCLS CITY/HEAVY SNOWSTORM/5hrs:/r203p128", **LatLong:** "40.750002 -73.966670", **LatLongDMS:** "40:45:00 N 73:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.750002,-73.966670)", **RelAlt:** "300", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 3226 (12513851) **Date:** 12/28/1933 **Time:** 18:00? **Location:** HATTEFJALLSDALEN AND LANGMO, NORWAY **Description:** Series mystery fliers. High. 3 lights visible only. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 196) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_401 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "53", **HatchDesc:** "HATTEFJALLSDALEN+LANGMO,NORWAY:SERIES MYSTERY FLIERS:HIGH:3 LITES VISIBLE ONLY", **LatLong:** "65.600003 13.933334", **LatLongDMS:** "65:36:00 N 13:56:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/65.600003,13.933334)", **State/Prov:** "Norway", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 3227 (CAED83C0) **Date:** 12/28/1933 (approximate) **Time:** 18:00? **Location:** MUOIJEVAARA, SWED **Description:** 2 separate drivers. Mystery craft goes 30M over highway. No planes up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 196) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_402 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MUOIJEVAARA,SWED:2 SEP.DRIVERS:MYSTERY CRAFT GOES 30M ovr HIGHWAY:NO PLANES UP", **LatLong:** "67.144448 20.650001", **LatLongDMS:** "67:08:40 N 20:39:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/67.144448,20.650001)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3228 (EAA6A2A0) **Date:** 12/28/1933 **Description:** The 4th Swedish Flying Corps begins an investigation of the ghost flyers. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** John A. Keel, “[Mystery](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%204.pdf) [Aeroplanes of the 1930s, Part 2,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1970\): 12 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_460 ### Event 3229 (061C0F74) **Date:** 12/30/1933 **Location:** Unknown City, Sweden **Description:** Low-flying aeroplane (Page 7 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_103 ### Event 3230 (0483B4A7) **Date:** 12/30/1933 **Location:** Sweden **Description:** Swedish customs sends a request for air support to Gen. [Eric Virgin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%5FVirgin%5F%28officer%29)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%5FVirgin%5F%28officer%29) head of the Swedish Air Force, to help apprehend the ghost fliers who could be smuggling liquor into Sweden. However, he is cautious and wants more information to evaluate. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 361–362; Good Above, [p. 13](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/12/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_461 --- ## Year: 1934, 49 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 3231 (784C1BA8) **Date:** 1934 **Location:** Fort Washakie, WY **Description:** INDIAN RESERVATION HAS THREE SPACE VISITORS - Earl J. Duncan of Chamblee, Ga., saw three bright round orange objects in the sky above Shoshone Indian Reservation near Fort Washakie. They were soundless and moved at a snail's pace. Duncan's sighting has many things in common with the January 29, 1952 sighting over Korea by Army planes, as appeared in Life Magazine, April 7 1952. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3 ff5) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_43 ### Event 3232 (DEA6C75D) **Date:** 1934 **Location:** USA, Peoria (Illinois), Cleveland (Ohio) **Description:** (Translated from French) The Peoria Rocket Association, under the direction of engineer Ernest Loebel, was also involved in the development and testing of liquid propellants. It had a well-equipped test site in Cleveland and was able to develop a reliable rocket engine during numerous tests. For cooling, it was surrounded by a spiral-shaped tubing through which oxygen passed before being injected into the combustion chamber. **Reference:** "Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 81 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_894 ### Event 3233 (8242F063) **Date:** 1/1934 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) We receive daily more than 40 testimonies from above the region of Sweden and Norway where no plane should be. (January) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1934.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_433 ### Event 3234 (B4EB9F4A) **Date:** 1/1934 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The Germans produce unmanned devices. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1934.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_434 ### Event 3235 (48BFF414) **Date:** 1/1934 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) \(or 1933\) Witnesses on a beach in Ubatuba \(Brazil\) see a disc dive into the ocean and explode, covering the surroundings with a rain of silver fragments of very pure magnesium. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1934.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_435 ### Event 3236 (30ECD3CE) **Date:** 1/1934 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Tibet, Nicolas Roerich observed a silver disc. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1934.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_436 ### Event 3237 (97D5D1B5) **Date:** 1/1934 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) *US Communication Act*. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1934.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_437 ### Event 3238 (83A36B14) **Date:** 1/1934 **Location:** 758 Manzanita Drive, Laguna Beach, California **Description:** [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) who has been a lecturer and counselor on spiritual topics since about 1928, opens the Monastery of the Royal Order of Tibet at 758 Manzanita Drive, Laguna Beach, California. The monastery serves as his home and headquarters until 1940. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** George M. Eberhart, “George Adamski—New Age Meets the Space Age,” IUR 21, no. 2 \(Summer 1996\): 20; “[Laguna Beach, 1932–1940: From Temple to Ranch,](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-life/laguna-beach/)” The Adamski Case, September 27, 2019 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_462 ### Event 3239 (2DEACAAB) **Date:** 1/1934 **Location:** At sea near Norway **Description:** The crew of a Norwegian freighter reported a close encounter with an unidentified aircraft at sea. An airplane suddenly approached their vessel, flying very close before banking away. It then circled above the ship, illuminating the deck with a bright searchlight. The aircraft was described as large, gray, and without any markings. The captain compared it to a plane used by polar explorer Roald Amundsen, noting he could even see the pilot's goggles and hooded jacket. (Chapter 9, Ref 367) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_359 ### Event 3240 (A7E15DA5) **Date:** 1/1/1934 **Location:** SWEDEN, Umeä **Description:** (Translated from French) Listeners heard in their speakers conversations giving information about mysterious flying objects (...) The conversations were broadcast on the Umeä radio program's wavelength. This pirate radio was heard by other people in Norbyskar, Hedesunda, Nordmaling and Halsingtuna that month on bands of 230-275m. In some cases the ghost speakers spoke a disjointed Swedish. **Reference:** this author is not yet devoid of fantasy, he will tell us more... **Reference:** J.A. Keel: "Mysterie Aeroplanes of the 1930s" FSR July/August 1970 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_886 ### Event 3241 (135C9D2F) **Date:** 1/1/1934 **Time:** 03:50 **Location:** SORSELE, SWD **Description:** 1 observer. Plane roars overhead going east. Bigger / any known. Circles railroad/railway station/depot/facility 3X. Going north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 196) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_403 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "SORSELE,SWD:1 OBS:PLANE ROARS OVHD > E:BIGGER/ANY KNOWN:CIRCLES RR STn 3X:>N", **LatLong:** "65.516670 17.700001", **LatLongDMS:** "65:31:00 N 17:42:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/65.516670,17.700001)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3242 (267051E6) **Date:** 1/1/1934 (approximate) **Time:** 18:00? **Location:** STORUMAN AND TARNA AND STENSELE, SWD **Description:** Wave / night lights etc. beam lights up and down over lakes and towns and more/others. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 196) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_404 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "53", **HatchDesc:** "STORUMAN+TARNA+STENSELE,SWD:WAVE/NLTS etc BEAM LITES UP+DOWN OVR LAKES+TOWNS++", **LatLong:** "65.105559 17.133334", **LatLongDMS:** "65:06:20 N 17:08:00 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/65.105559,17.133334)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 3243 (33B6723C) **Date:** 1/2/1934 **Location:** Sorsele, Västerbotten, Sweden **Description:** 3:45 a.m. Olof Hedlund is taking a walk in Sorsele, Västerbotten, Sweden, when he hears an engine above him. There is a full moon and visibility is good. He sees an airplane fly over the city from the west, passing directly above the train station. It turns three times in wide circles, then it takes off to the north, following the railroad tracks. It is at about 1,300 feet altitude and visible for 15 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** John A. Keel, “[Mystery Aeroplanes of](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%204.pdf) [the 1930s, Part 2,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1970\): 12 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_463 ### Event 3244 (D8DD88A4) **Date:** 1/9/1934 **Location:** Västerbotten province, Sweden **Description:** A mystery airplane is seen again over Västerbotten province, Sweden. The Swedish Air Force loses two aircraft trying to discover where the plane is based. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Mystery Plane Reported,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1934/01/10/94483337.pdf)” New York Times, January 10, 1934, p. 11; Strange Company 7–8 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_464 ### Event 3245 (3FB8B8D0) **Date:** 1/10/1934 **Locations:** Upper Norrland, Sweden; Norrbotten County; Norrbotten **Description:** Gen. [Pontus Reuterswärd](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontus%5FReutersw%C3%A4rd)[,](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontus%5FReutersw%C3%A4rd) chief of armed forces in Upper Norrland, Sweden, recommends to officials of Norrbotten County that they request assistance from the Air Force to deal with the ghost fliers. Norrbotten administrator Bernard Gärde is skeptical of the “vague and unreliable” reports at first. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 361–362 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_465 ### Event 3246 (ADBDF25B) **Date:** 1/22/1934 **Location:** Boden, Norrbotten, Sweden **Description:** A mystery aircraft flies over the military fortress at Boden, Norrbotten, Sweden, seen by 30 soldiers, and [Reuterswärd](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontus%5FReutersw%C3%A4rd) alerts the press that planes had flown over restricted military areas. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** John A. Keel, “[Mystery](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201971%20V%2017%20N%204.pdf) [Aeroplanes of the 1930s, Part III—The Landings,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201971%20V%2017%20N%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 17, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1971\): 17; Swords 362 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_466 ### Event 3247 (A7AE62E8) **Date:** 1/23/1934 (approximate) **Location:** NORWAY (at sea) **Description:** (Translated from French) The Norwegian cargo ship "Tordenskiold" was leaving the port of Kabelvag to return to Tromsö. On the way, as Captain Sigvard Ulsen confirmed, the crew suddenly saw an aircraft approach with a powerful searchlight that swept the deck. The object was dark gray, without any markings, and on board what could only be interpreted as an airplane, there was a pilot wearing a cape or anorak, he had large glasses and a kind of hood on his head. After making a complete circuit around the ship in about twenty seconds, the aircraft disappeared as suddenly as it had appeared. (1934, January 23 (28?)) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 247-248 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_887 ### Event 3248 (DBEDD536) **Date:** 1/27/1934 **Description:** Swedish MP [Arvid Lindman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arvid%5FLindman) puts a question to Prime Minister [Per Albin Hansson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per%5FAlbin%5FHansson)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per%5FAlbin%5FHansson) asking what action the government plans to take about the ghost fliers. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 362 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_467 ### Event 3249 (B9EE3EB0) **Date:** 1/28/1934 **Location:** OFF TROMSO, NORWAY AND MORE/OTHERS **Description:** Mystery plane lights ship like day. Unmarked. No try to hide. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 208) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_405 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "off TROMSO,NORWAY++:MYSTERY PLANE LITES SHIP LIKE DAY:unmarked:no try to hide", **LatLong:** "69.700003 19.000001", **LatLongDMS:** "69:42:00 N 19:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/69.700003,19.000001)", **State/Prov:** "Norway", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 3250 (7E8C1295) **Date:** 2/1/1934 **Location:** central London, England **Description:** Night. A mystery aircraft flies in circles for two hours over central London, England. Its engine is noisy, and its course can be clearly seen by its lights. On February 6, Under-Secretary of State for Air [Philip Sassoon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%5FSassoon) claims that it was an RAF plane carrying out a training exercise in coordination with ground forces. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** John A. Keel, “[Mystery Aeroplanes of the 1930s, Part 2,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1970\): 13 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_468 ### Event 3251 (10BEF5AF) **Date:** 2/2/1934 **Description:** Prime Minister [Hansson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per%5FAlbin%5FHansson) tells the Swedish Parliament that most ghost flier sightings are misidentifications or fantasy, while others are unsolved. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 362 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_469 ### Event 3252 (25D49C31) **Date:** 2/2/1934 **Locations:** eastern Finland; Helsinki; Vyborg; Finland; Sweden; Norway **Description:** Night. A large unidentified airplane is seen over eastern Finland close to the Russian frontier, apparently scouting the district. Flights of ghost planes and mysterious lights have been seen for the past month over Helsinki and Vyborg, Finland, as well as Sweden and Norway. The Scandinavian mystery fliers continue to be seen into 1935. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Finnish Alarm Grows over ‘Ghost’ Planes,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1934/02/04/94488205.pdf)” New York Times, February 4, 1934, p. 9; Strange Company 8–9 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_470 ### Event 3253 (983AF50C) **Date:** 2/3/1934 **Location:** Sweden, Northern Finland, Norway, Various **Description:** Ghost aviators (as reported by the New York Times) (Page 8 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_104 ### Event 3254 (8F071E39) **Date:** 2/5/1934 **Location:** MOEN = MALSELV, NORW **Description:** Object crashes / Fager Mountains. Only footprints and traces found. FSRv17#4. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** PHILLIPS, Ted: Study of PHYSICAL TRACES ASSOCIATED with UFO SIGHTINGS; CUFOS 1975. (Index 4) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_406 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MOEN=MALSELV,NORW:OBJ CRASHES/FAGER Mtns:ONLY FOOTPRINTS+TRACES FOUND:FSRv17#4", **LatLong:** "69.166670 18.583334", **LatLongDMS:** "69:10:00 N 18:35:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/69.166670,18.583334)", **State/Prov:** "Norway", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 3255 (F1C1F2EA) **Date:** 2/5/1934 **Description:** On this evening an unknown mysterious airplane made an emergency landing on Fager Mountain in Malsev, Troms, Norway. Two men were seen clearing away snow, and the engine noise was heard throughout the valley. Parallel marks in found in the snow, 75 meters in length, as well as two sets of footprints. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** John A. Keel, FSR, July-August 1971, p. 18; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0107 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_695 ### Event 3256 (56772BFA) **Date:** 2/7/1934 **Location:** NORWAY, near Tromso **Description:** (Translated from French) In the evening, an unknown aircraft crashed or made a forced landing in the Fager mountains during a snowstorm. The valley population followed the descent of the aircraft on the mountain. The next morning, the aircraft was motionless on the snow and two men visible next to it. A little later the aircraft attempted to take off twice without success. Eight inhabitants of the valley climbed the slopes with difficulty and discovered two parallel tracks in the snow near the point where the aircraft had been spotted. These tracks were 75 m long and 80 cm wide and were accompanied by footprints. But the aircraft remained untraceable. (February 7, 1934) **Reference:** Pierre VIEROUDY: "These UFOs that announce the Superman" - Laffont 1979, p. 54 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_888 ### Event 3257 (74936E79) **Date:** 2/12/1934 **Location:** Norrbotten, Sweden **Description:** Norrbotten, Sweden, administrator Bernard Gärde officially requests assistance of the Air Force with the ghost fliers. But air surveillance has actually been taking place since early January. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 362 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_471 ### Event 3258 (A97ECB3C) **Date:** 3/1934 **Location:** Norway **Description:** During the 1930s, Scandinavia experienced a surge in "phantom flier" sightings, with numerous reports of unidentified aircraft, often seen at night and in challenging winter conditions. While some of these incidents might have astronomical explanations, others seemed to be intelligently-controlled objects. In one such incident from March 1934, a Norwegian teenager reported seeing a fast-moving, elongated object with multiple lights of various colors, distinguishing it from stars and the northern lights. The object was traveling southward at a high speed. (Chapter 9, Ref 366) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_358 ### Event 3259 (5818BBB9) **Date:** 3/4/1934 **Location:** Sweden **Description:** Sweden calls off its hunt for the ghost fliers, although sightings are still being reported. Even though 24 airplanes participated in the search, no Swedish pilot has seen a ghost flier. Soldiers on the ground occasionally report sound from a motor or lights in the sky. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 362–363 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_472 ### Event 3260 (5538D220) **Date:** 4/1/1934 **Location:** SWEDEN, Altenfjord **Description:** (Translated from French) Five witnesses suddenly saw a very large airplane descend in the moonlight towards the surface of the water, stopping its engines. Instead of landing, it began to make large circles, allowing the spectators to observe the presence of eight propellers. The windows of the cabin were brightly lit. **Reference:** Pierre VIEROUDY: "These UFOs that announce the Superman" - Laffont 1979, p. 54 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_889 ### Event 3261 (7C74DBAD) **Date:** 4/1/1934 **Location:** Oslo, Norway **Description:** A very large aeroplane with eight propellers (Page 8 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_105 ### Event 3262 (60366539) **Date:** 4/30/1934 **Description:** Gen. [Reuterswärd](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontus%5FReutersw%C3%A4rd) tells the press that several ghost flier reports in January had been of real, unidentified aircraft involved in a violation of Sweden’s airspace. MP [Elof Lindberg](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elof%5FLindberg) accuses him of not being competent enough to draw such a conclusion. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Good Above, [p. 13](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/12/mode/2up); Swords 363 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_473 ### Event 3263 (63590947) **Date:** 6/1934 **Time:** ~18:00 **Location:** WATTSBURG, PA **Description:** 1+1 observer(s). 35cm ball / light exits woods. Makes U-turn 6' away. Away and back. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 28) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_407 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "393", **HatchDesc:** "WATTSBURG,PA:1+1 OBS:35cm BALL/LITE EXITS WOODS:MAKES U-TURN 6' AWAY:AWAY+BACK", **LatLong:** "42.005558 -79.811115", **LatLongDMS:** "42:00:20 N 79:48:40 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.005558,-79.811115)", **RelAlt:** "2", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 3264 (C745AA76) **Date:** 6/11/1934 **Location:** London, England **Description:** Night. Two mystery airplanes circle around London, England: “The machines were low enough for their outlines, as well as their navigation lights, to be clearly visible against the sky.” Regulations prohibit RAF planes from flying over London at less than 5,000 feet. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** John A. Keel, “[Mystery Aeroplanes of the 1930s, Part 2,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1970\): 13 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_474 ### Event 3265 (3083E060) **Date:** 6/19/1934 **Location:** Washington DC **Description:** The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is established, replacing the Federal Radio Commission. **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [link](https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/history-of-commercial-radio) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_44 ### Event 3266 (E815631B) **Date:** Summer 1934 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Skår/Osterøy \(Norway\), Berit Clemmensen, 7 years old, observed a luminous object descending from a nearby mountain to the East - at 300 or 400 m away - while she was lying in a haystack. She watched it for a few seconds as it approached, and then she doesn't remember what happened next \("missing time"\). (Summer) **Reference:** UFO, 1/1992, 11 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1934.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_438 ### Event 3267 (F23F6581) **Date:** Summer 1934 **Location:** Barron, Wisconsin **Description:** Day. 9-year-old [Coral E. Lightner](http://www.noufors.com/Jim%5Fand%5FCoral%5FLorenzen.htm) and two friends watch a white object “like an open umbrella without the ribs or spurs” glide silently through the sky from the west-southwest to the northwest over Barron, Wisconsin. It moves silently with a slight undulation before it disappears after 20 seconds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, FS Hoax, [pp. 15–16](https://archive.org/details/1966CoralLorenzenFlyingSaucersTheStartlingEvidenceOfTheInvasionFromOuterSpacenotOCR/page/n11/mode/2up); “[The Wisconsin Flying Saucer That Changed UFO Research Forever,](https://www.wisconsinfrights.com/coral-lorenzen-ufo-research/)” Wisconsin Frights, September 20, 2018 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_475 ### Event 3268 (F326F517) **Date:** 7/14/1934 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Ringwood (Southampton) **Description:** (Translated from French) After spending the afternoon of July 14th on various sports activities, Paul Faiveley had returned to his room around 11:30 pm. As he was reading a few pages before going to sleep, he realized he had lost a small wallet containing the remainder of his savings for his stay in Great Britain. He immediately went out, heading towards the nearby swimming pool's bath cabins, in the hope of finding the precious object in the one he had occupied in the late afternoon. Relieved to have recovered his money, he was returning home when suddenly the sky seemed to light up and the witness clearly saw the silhouette of his body outlined on the slope of the terrain. He stopped and turning around, he saw almost vertically a dazzling disc moving slowly in a sky of exceptional purity. After a few seconds the phenomenon stopped, and then he was surrounded by a blue glow. For two minutes he remained thus motionless, then the blue ring began to fade, while the disc changed from white to a golden yellow, then to a bright red. At this moment the object started moving very slowly. It quickly accelerated, keeping this red hue and projecting yellow and bright spots. In about ten seconds the phenomenon had disappeared, rising into the sky towards the south-southwest. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 248 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_890 ### Event 3269 (F5424BB8) **Date:** 7/14/1934 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** NNE / RINGWOOD, ENGL **Description:** Student / France. Large saucer hovers and glows. Windy sound no wind! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** PHENOMENES SPATIAUX: Group GEPA, Gen. M. Lionel Chassin Paris. Quarterly 1964?-1977. Merged into Grp. GEPAN (Index 32) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_408 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "NNE/RINGWOOD,ENGL:STUDENT/FRANCE:LRG SCR HVRS+GLOWS:WINDY SOUND no wind!:", **LatLong:** "50.866669 -1.666667", **LatLongDMS:** "50:52:00 N 01:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.866669,-1.666667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3270 (27229DC3) **Date:** 7/14/1934 **Description:** On a clear evening a perfectly circular, vividly white disc-shaped object hovered directly over a French tourist in the New Forest, north-northeast of Ringwood, Dorset, England at 8:30 p.m. A blue halo formed around the object for one minute, and then the UFO changed color from white to yellow to orange to red, whereupon it took off at high speed with a rushing sound. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Paul Faiveley, Phenomenes Spatiaux, June 1972, p. 22; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 416; Jean-Claude Bourret, The Crack in the Universe, p. 61; Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), citing Jerome Clark **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4044 ### Event 3271 (3F2D805A) **Date:** 7/29/1934 **Location:** Elizabeth, NJ **Description:** Ufologist and nuclear physicist Stanton T. Friedman is born in Elizabeth, NJ. **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanton_T._Friedman) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_45 ### Event 3272 (1E7321C6) **Date:** 8/1934 (approximate) **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** BARRON, WI **Description:** Young Coral Lorenzen. Silent white hemisphere going northwest over horizon. / r210v30#5. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LORENZEN, Coral: FLYING SAUCERS, the Starting Evidence; Signet Books, NY 1962 & 1966. 278pp. Originally "The Great F. S. Hoax". (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_409 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "339", **HatchDesc:** "BARRON,WI:YOUNG CORAL LORENZEN:SLNT WHT HEMISPHERE >NW OVR HRZN:/r210v30#5", **LatLong:** "45.400002 -91.850004", **LatLongDMS:** "45:24:00 N 91:51:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.400002,-91.850004)", **State/Prov:** "Wisconsin", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3273 (33C9454D) **Date:** 8/9/1934 **Locations:** Keuka Lake; western New York **Description:** Around 5:00 a.m. Musician [Leon M. Thompson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64262206/leon-miller-thompson) is boating on Keuka Lake in western New York when he notices an odd cloud on the west side of the lake. It is in the form of an elongated cone some 60–75 feet in length and 10–15 feet in diameter at its largest point. Suddenly the sky lights up in a flash and the cloud emits a fireball that arcs across the lake to the east and leaves a fiery train. It falls on a cottage and throws up a cloud of mist or steam that slowly dissipates. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Ball of Fire Brings Thrill to Fisherman,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92277834/)” Elmira \(N.Y.\) Star-Gazette, August 4, 1934, p. 5; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 315–328 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_476 ### Event 3274 (75546256) **Date:** Autumn 1934 **Location:** GERMANY, YUGOSLAV LICENSE **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight (monoplane) of the three-seat medium bomber Dornier DO-17, 355 km/h, ceiling 5100 m. This aircraft was named "flying pencil". The DORNIER family of aircrafts then gave other types of bombers, fighters and three-engine reconnaissance seaplanes (1934, Autumn) **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircrafts, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** DO-24 first flight in July 1937 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_891 ### Event 3275 (9AD9D730) **Date:** 10/1/1934 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** GARGANTA LA OLLA, SP **Description:** Small humanoid (or Grey) telepaths message. "Grandson is born". Granny checks. True! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BALLESTER OLMOS, Vicente-Juan: CATALOG of 200 TYPE-1 EVENTS in SPAIN & PORTUGAL; CUFOS 1976. (Index 1) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_410 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **TLP:** Telepathy, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NFO:** No craft seen, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "GARGANTA la OLLA,SP:OID TELEPATHS MSG:"GRANDSON IS BORN":GRANNY CHECKS:TRUE!", **LatLong:** "40.116669 -5.766667", **LatLongDMS:** "40:07:00 N 05:46:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.116669,-5.766667)", **State/Prov:** "CCR", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 3276 (F2E8EB12) **Date:** 10/7/1934 **Location:** USSR **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the Tupolev Type SB 1, 410 km/h ceiling 9500 m, range with load 1200km, with maximum fuel 1600 km. Built in large quantities in the 1930s. Of the type SB 2, medium bomber three-seater, more than 6000 will be built. The heavy bomber TB 3 has been flying since December 1930, with a crew of 10 men at the start, later reduced to 6 men. The TUPOLEVs will have a long line of series. **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_892 ### Event 3277 (D324B957) **Date:** 12/1934 **Location:** GERMANY, Borkum (island) **Description:** (Translated from French) Launch of aggregate 2 "Max", first shot, altitude 2000 meters. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958 p. 201 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_895 ### Event 3278 (F46A1C3E) **Date:** 12/1934 **Location:** GERMANY, Borkum (island) **Description:** (Translated from French) Launch of aggregate 2 "Moritz", 2nd shot, altitude 2000 meters. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958 p. 201 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_896 ### Event 3279 (968FB577) **Date:** End of 1934 **Location:** ITALY **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the bomber 4 or 5 seats Savoia-Marchetti S.M.-79 SPARVIERO, 430 km/h, ceiling 7000m, autonomy with bombs 2000 km. Firing from the glazed nose in front of the cockpit, glazed firing post dorsal behind the cockpit, glazed firing post at the back. (1934, end of year) **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_893 --- ## Year: 1935, 41 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 3280 (1AA79DF3) **Date:** 1935 **End date:** 1937 **Location:** Ethiopia **Description:** UFO activity around Second Italo-Ethiopian War **Type:** UFO activity **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_46 ### Event 3281 (46865555) **Date:** 1935 **Location:** USA, near Rosswel **Description:** (Translated from French) Guggenheim allowed Goddard to continue his works, at the Mescalero Ranch where a large workshop was built for him and his four collaborators. In 1935 his rockets reached 2500m in altitude and exceeded 1100 km/h in speed. (...) His devices, 3m to 4.50m long, weighing 30 to 40 kilos, were launched from a 18m high tower. They had a gyroscopic stabilization system for correcting the trajectory. The oscillations disappeared while the rocket gained speed on its trajectory. **Reference:** "Assault on Space" - Georges H. Gallet, ed. of Modern Thought, p. 63, 64 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_897 ### Event 3282 (7680CCC7) **Date:** 1935 **Location:** USA **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the consolidated Vultee patrol sea plane Model 28 Catalina, crew of 7 men, maximum speed 134 km/h, ceiling 5550m. The two 825 hp engines are placed very close to each other on the wing, itself placed on a pylon above the fuselage. Last delivery in 1946. **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_904 ### Event 3283 (678FEDAD) **Date:** 1935 **Location:** URSS **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the four-seat bomber and torpedo launcher Ilyouchine II-4, first of a long line of increasingly performing Ilyouchines. The first one reaches 410 km/h, its operational ceiling is 10,000m. **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_909 ### Event 3284 (E656D156) **Date:** 1935 **Location:** CZECHOSLOVAKIA **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the LETOV S-328, two-seat reconnaissance bomber and utility aircraft, max. 280 km/h, ceiling 7200 m, range 700km. **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_910 ### Event 3285 (CB92B454) **Date:** 1935 **Location:** ITALY, Chiarotorre **Description:** (Translated from French) Theresa-Maria Vanucci was 17 years old when she saw, in a place called "Giuncaia", around 5 o'clock, a globe of light containing a woman. **Reference:** Erich ZURCHER: "Les apparitions d'Humanoïdes" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 200 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_914 ### Event 3286 (3BBCEEAA) **Date:** 1935 **Location:** GERMANY, Peenemunde Island **Description:** (Translated from French) Beginning of multiple tests for rocket launching. After the V-1, the V-2 officially emerged on October 3rd, 1942. **Reference:** "Astronautics" Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 11 **Reference:** see this date **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_915 ### Event 3287 (3B41DEF9) **Date:** 1935 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A Toten \(Norway\), manifestation of poltergeists. **Reference:** Bord/Bord: MODERN MYSTERIES OF THE WORLD., 1989, 346 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1935.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_439 ### Event 3288 (C45F8AAE) **Date:** 1935 **Locations:** Panama Canal Zone; Pacific; Atlantic **Description:** 10:00 p.m. Edward Winters of the US 4th Coast Artillery Regiment watches a dull-red, Zeppelin-shaped object flying over the Panama Canal Zone at high speed from the Pacific to the Atlantic for about 30 minutes. Later it returns, moving in the opposite direction farther away. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP case file **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_477 ### Event 3289 (A758F1FE) **Date:** 1935 **Description:** Astronomer [Arthur M. Harding](https://chancellor.uark.edu/about/presidents-chancellors/arthur-m-harding.php) writes that “Surely there must be some forms of life on Venus that are not so very different from what we find on earth.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Arthur M. Harding, Astronomy: The Splendor of the Heavens Brought Down to Earth, Garden City Publishing, 1935, [p. 408](https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.168383/page/n423/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_478 ### Event 3290 (8C732BF5) **Date:** 1935 **Location:** Seville, Spain **Description:** In Spain, a farmer witnessed a large, illuminated round object descending to hover above the ground, from which small beings emerged and walked around the craft in 1935. (Chapter 6, Ref 225) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_216 ### Event 3291 (E1D65F34) **Date:** 1/10/1935 **Location:** Lima, Ohio **Description:** Charles Spayde, the operator of a telegraph station west of Lima, Ohio, claims that he has been receiving a “series of strange, unintelligible signals” that are broad in wavelength and “come in all over the dial.” He is convinced they are not static or mechanical disturbances and they do not originate on this planet. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jerome Clark, “Conversations with Martians,” IUR 29, no. 3 \(Fall 2004\): 20 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_479 ### Event 3292 (BF1B60CD) **Date:** 1/22/1935 **Alternate date:** 1/23/1935 **Location:** Vienna, Virginia **Description:** 8:00 p.m. A woman in Vienna, Virginia, sees a lightning-like flash in the southwest that flares up several times then dies down. It seems to come from a “great blazing light, almost a ball of fire,” that is moving around the horizon. It is lost to view in the southeast. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “A correspondent from Vienna, Va., writes,” Science 81 \(1935\): 294 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_480 ### Event 3293 (2569F354) **Date:** 2/1935 **Location:** GERMANY **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the medium bomber 4 or 5 seats, glider towing and missile launcher. 415 km/h, ceiling 5000m. Machine gun turret in the nose fairing, in the dorsal turret, in the ventral gondola. This is a twin-engine version with elliptical wings, whose bomber version flies secretly, will make its appearance a year later as a civil aircraft. (February 1935) **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_898 ### Event 3294 (7E87A415) **Date:** 3/1935 **Location:** BELGIUM, Mechelen **Description:** (Translated from French) Lucien Aerts was able to observe from his home, at the corner of Koolstraat and Dageraadstraat, an enormous object made of aluminum that shone in the darkness. This device had the shape of an overturned basin and was stationary at 70° elevation above a large neighboring building. What is more extraordinary is that from the back of this disc two dwarfs dressed in metal then appeared, floating in the air. These characters seemed to inspect the perimeter of the object and carry out some repairs. According to the witness they were wearing a kind of cubic-shaped helmet and they moved in jerks like automatons or robots. After a few moments the two beings disappeared behind this windowless craft which flew off to the southeast. **Reference:** J.G. DOHMEN: "A Identifier et le Cas Adamski" - ed. Guy Dohmen, Biarritz 1972, p. 153 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_899 ### Event 3295 (9B4494B3) **Date:** Spring 1935 **Location:** GERMANY **Description:** (Translated from French) After the test flights of this bomber Henschel HS-123 Monoplane, it was presented to the public on May 8th, 345 km/h, ceiling 9000m. The HS-129 version flew early 1939, 408 km/h, ceiling 9000m. (1935, Spring) **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_900 ### Event 3296 (5DF6C6F2) **Date:** Spring 1935 **Location:** Mechelen, Belgium **Description:** Night. A Mr. Aerts sees a brilliant circular object “like aluminum” in the sky above the roofs of nearby houses in Mechelen, Belgium. It lands and he sees two small occupants come out of the rear; they wear square helmets with short antennas and are apparently examining the exterior surface. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Center for UFO Studies, [HUMCAT Index](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1910-1939.pdf) [1910–1939](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1910-1939.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1910-1939.pdf) p. 42; Clark III 265 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_481 ### Event 3297 (96D393FF) **Date:** 3/28/1935 **Location:** USA, Mescalero, Roswell **Description:** (Translated from French) R. H. Goddard's rocket, gyro stabilization test, altitude 1400 meters, range 3900 meters. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958 p. 248 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_901 ### Event 3298 (B1D78D1C) **Date:** 4/1935 **Location:** USA **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the single-seater with two cockpits and fixed landing gear, civil training North American NA-16, 341 km/h, ceiling 7338m, range 1400 km. It will have a numerous family in single-seater, two-seater and in 1940 the fighter bomber Mustang will come out. **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_905 ### Event 3299 (0432F131) **Date:** 4/1935 (approximate) **Time:** 23:00? **Location:** NEAR ANTWERP, BELGIUM **Description:** 1 observer. Aluminum pan / rooftop altitude. Robot(s)/android(s) float out and examine exterior. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The UFO REGISTER. CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK. (annual sightings catalog.) (Index 75) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_411 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **RBT:** Possible robot or "Grey", mechanical motions, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "nr ANTWERP,BELGIUM:1 OBS:ALUM.PAN/ROOFTOP ALT:RBTS FLOAT OUT+EXAMINE EXTERIOR", **LatLong:** "51.216669 4.416667", **LatLongDMS:** "51:13:00 N 04:25:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.216669,4.416667)", **State/Prov:** "Belgium", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 3300 (C021FA19) **Date:** Early 4/1935 **Location:** SPAIN, Aznalcazar (Seville) **Description:** (Translated from French) As twilight appeared, around 7:30 pm, a certain Mora was in his property in Aznalcazar when he saw a large, round, and very bright object descend towards the ridge of Cerro de Torres, about 500 m away from him. The UFO stopped very close to the ground and some small beings then circled it several times. This strange apparition would forever mark the witness, who saw it as a supernatural vision that God had kindly granted him the favor of, and until his death he often recalled the adventure he had experienced one April evening in 1935. (April, early 1935) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 250 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_906 ### Event 3301 (7FF91DBC) **Date:** 4/5/1935 (approximate) **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** AZNALCAZAR, SP **Description:** Large brilliant saucer going down / just over ground. Small humanoids (or Greys) exit and walk around it! / r50p1. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** PHENOMENES SPATIAUX: Group GEPA, Gen. M. Lionel Chassin Paris. Quarterly 1964?-1977. Merged into Grp. GEPAN (Index 28) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_412 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "AZNALCAZAR,SP:LRG BRILL.SCR ↓/JUST OVR GND:OIDS EXIT+WALK AROUND IT!:/r50p1.", **LatLong:** "37.316668 -6.250000", **LatLongDMS:** "37:19:00 N 06:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.316668,-6.250000)", **State/Prov:** "SVL", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 3302 (8B89DD09) **Date:** 4/5/1935 **Location:** Aznalcázar, Seville, Spain **Description:** Dusk. A farmer named Mora sees a large, round, brilliant object descend and hover just above the ground near his property in Aznalcázar, Seville, Spain. Several small beings appear and stroll around it. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 264–265; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1935-04-05-spain-aznalcazar.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1935-04-05-spain-aznalcazar.htm) April 9, 2007 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_482 ### Event 3303 (39476733) **Date:** 4/5/1935 **Description:** In Aznalcazar, Spain a large brilliant, round object descended from the sky 450 meters away and hovered just above the ground in a field. Several small beings got out and walked around for ten minutes. The witness, Mr. Mora, thought he had seen an emanation from God. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Alfredo Moacyr Uchoa, Phenomenes Spatiaux, June 1971, p. 17; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case no. 5 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1839 ### Event 3304 (40A42FC2) **Date:** 5/1935 **Locations:** Olt River; Drăgășani, Romania **Description:** Radu Popescu and his cousin are walking by the Olt River near Drăgășani, Romania, when they come upon what seems to be a Romany wagon. They see five figures—one next to the object, two farther away, and another two next to a boat on the shore. Suddenly the figures run toward the object, something black covers it, an antenna appears, and it rises up above the river. It turns to a white color as it moves away. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Romania 121–122 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_483 ### Event 3305 (620CE0E2) **Date:** 5/31/1935 **Location:** USA, Roswell (New Mexico) **Description:** (Translated from French) The greatest altitude was reached by a rocket launched by Goddard: IT WAS 2250 METERS. **Reference:** "Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 48 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_902 ### Event 3306 (85AF9D69) **Date:** Summer 1935 **Location:** NEW ZEALAND, Timaru **Description:** (Translated from French) Ms. Isabele Walmsley was working as a nurse and one night she was suddenly awoken by a loud noise, like a roar mixed with a whistle, passing over her home. A few days later one of her neighbors told her that he had seen a huge light passing over her house that night. (1935, during the summer) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 250 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_908 ### Event 3307 (67D9EA72) **Date:** Summer 1935 **Location:** CANADA, Nipawin (Saskatchewan) **Description:** (Translated from French) Witnesses saw a UFO land and saw several small entities dressed in silver suits going up and down a ladder. Square imprints and burned areas were discovered the next day and photographed. (1935, Summer) **Reference:** Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 320 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_911 ### Event 3308 (D2AC50F5) **Date:** 7/1/1935 **Description:** The US Division of Investigation officially becomes the Federal Bureau of Investigation. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Federal Bureau of Investigation, [Timeline](https://www.fbi.gov/history/timeline)[,](https://www.fbi.gov/history/timeline) March 31, 2002 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_484 ### Event 3309 (48A6DDF6) **Date:** 7/8/1935 **Locations:** Sweden; Norway; Finland **Description:** The Swedish Chief of Staff releases its final report on ghost fliers. After concluding that 42 of the 487 reports investigated by Sweden, Norway, and Finland are of actual aircraft violating borders, the military admits the phenomenon is at least partially real. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 363 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_485 ### Event 3310 (1DEB9A3C) **Date:** 7/28/1935 **Location:** USA **Description:** (Translated from French) First high altitude bomber flight with six to ten men crew, Boeing B-17 Fortress, cruising speed 293 km/h, ceiling 10670 m, final delivery to the army in April 1945, but the B-17E model was the first plane of the 8th Bomber Command and started its day-time strategic bombing missions on Germany or occupied Europe as early as August 17, 1942. It was soon replaced by the B-17F model, built in 3405 copies. The Boeing factory in Seattle alone produced 16 copies per day, the total production of B17 reached 12,731 copies! (July 28, 1935) **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 edition **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_907 ### Event 3311 (334BE437) **Date:** 9/1935 **Time:** ~20:00 **Location:** PETRIOSKIY GATE / MOSCOW **Description:** Slow luminous sphere north going south twice / low altitude. Straight and level trajectory / each pass. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO CHRONICLES of the SOVIET UNION; Ballentine Books HB 1992. 212pp. (Index 183) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_413 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Russia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "PETRIOSKIY GATE/MOSCOW:SLOW LUMn.SPHERE N>S TWICE/LO ALT:S/L TRAJ./EACH PASS", **LatLong:** "55.716669 37.633335", **LatLongDMS:** "55:43:00 N 37:38:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/55.716669,37.633335)", **State/Prov:** "MOS", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3312 (B631D283) **Date:** Early 9/1935 (approximate) **Location:** GERMANY **Description:** (Translated from French) Flight of the Messerschmitt BF 109, single-seat fighter, but often fighter-bomber, 570 km/h, ceiling 8000m, normal autonomy on internal tanks around 700 km. Many other versions until 1941. (1935, beginning of September?) **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 edition **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_903 ### Event 3313 (DF3A0EB2) **Date:** 10/1935 **Location:** USA **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the first heavy bomber Douglas B-18, with manually retractable nose, dorsal and ventral turrets. It flew at 349 km/h, ceiling 7265m. In December of the same year the military DC 3 (370 km/h, ceiling 7000m) made its first flight. It was followed on October 29, 1938 by the Douglas DB-7 and derivatives up to... today. It had been preceded in July 1935 by the Douglas Dauntless, a two-seat dive bomber, biplane silhouette, with very wide wings. (October 1935) **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 edition **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_912 ### Event 3314 (33EEAF04) **Date:** 10/1935 **Location:** ETHIOPIA, Addis Ababa **Description:** (Translated from French) In the blue, cloudless sky, shone a kind of motionless silver-colored disk. The camera was soon in position but, upon sighting, Ichac had to admit that the object was too small: only a vague overexposed spot would be seen. (...) The disk was rigorously motionless. It remained so for several tens of minutes. (...) Nobody saw it leave. At one moment it was there, the next it was gone. ("Lueurs sur les Soucoupes volantes" - Aimé Michel, ed. Maison MAME 1954, page 122) In the chronicles of the French student Pierre Ichac, travelling in Ethiopia, one can read that he observed, together with other witnesses, an object in the shape of a disk hovering above the sands near Addis Ababa. **Reference:** "Ufo's – A century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p 17 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_913 ### Event 3315 (1FCD21C2) **Date:** 10/1935 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** ADDIS ADDABA, ETH **Description:** Italian air raid expected. Silver saucer hovers instead. (Balloon?) **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: The TRUTH ABOUT FLYING SAUCERS; S. G. Phillips 1956 & Pyramid Books, NY 1967. (Index 104) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_414 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Ethiopia", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "ADDIS ADDABA,ETH:ITALIAN AIR RAID EXPECTED:SLVR SCR HVRS INSTEAD:(balloon?)", **LatLong:** "9.033334 38.727780", **LatLongDMS:** "09:02:00 N 38:43:40 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/9.033334,38.727780)", **State/Prov:** "ADD", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 3316 (7746C39E) **Date:** 10/10/1935 **Location:** NEWCASTLE, NSW **Description:** Military observer(s) / Nobby's Head photographs definite circular object. Details visible. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** CHALKER,Bill: The OZ FILES. Australian Sightings. 1996 Duffy & Snellgrove. NSW,Australia. ISBN 1-875989-04-8 (Index 35) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_415 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "NEWCASTLE,NSW:MIL.OBS/NOBBY'S HEAD FOTOS DEFINITE CIRC.OBJ:DETAILS VISIBLE:NFD", **LatLong:** "-32.916668 151.733341", **LatLongDMS:** "32:55:00 S 151:44:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-32.916668,151.733341)", **State/Prov:** "NSW", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3317 (64E1EF87) **Date:** 10/10/1935 **Description:** A military witness at Nobby's Head, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia took a photograph of a circular flying object at ten p.m. The object, seen revolving on its vertical axis, had clearly visible details, and flew off to the north. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 35 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6695 ### Event 3318 (8FC79342) **Date:** 10/15/1935 **Time:** 15:00? **Location:** MENA, ARK **Description:** Woman on porch temporarily paralyzed as saucer hovers 30M away. Feels cold. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 171) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_416 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "366", **HatchDesc:** "MENA,ARK:WOMAN ON PORCH TEMP.PARALYZED AS SCR HVRS 30M AWAY:FEELS COLD.", **LatLong:** "34.588891 -94.238893", **LatLongDMS:** "34:35:20 N 94:14:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.588891,-94.238893)", **RelAlt:** "35", **State/Prov:** "Arkansas", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 3319 (C9C8E537) **Date:** 11/24/1935 **Location:** Palestine, TX **Description:** Bright shaft of light (Page 10 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_106 ### Event 3320 (ABE64CD7) **Date:** 12/1935 **Location:** Unknown City, Brazil **Description:** Snake-like shafts of light hanging motionless in sky (Page 10 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_107 --- ## Year: 1936, 34 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 3321 (A70718B5) **Date:** 1936 **Location:** NORWAY, Gjersjoen **Description:** (Translated from French) An object landed on the road, blocking two cars coming in opposite directions. One of the witnesses was 37 years old at the time. Neither of the two drivers ever attempted, either during the incident or afterwards, to make contact with each other. The object on the road eventually rose up and disappeared into the sky. The witnesses were approximately 20 meters away from the phenomenon. (1936/1937) **Reference:** I would have liked to read what this object was like, its shape, its color, its dimensions... **Reference:** Letter from Eldbjørg Fjeldberg, 16 Nov 1976. Listing from Ole Jonny Braenne **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_925 ### Event 3322 (4B373F27) **Date:** 1936 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Second wave of UFO \(*ghost rockets*\) sightings in Scandinavia \(Norway, Sweden, Finland\). **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1936.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_440 ### Event 3323 (56F0C39D) **Date:** 1936 **Description:** Atmospheric physicist [William Jackson Humphreys,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FJackson%5FHumphreys) after examing 280 cases, argues that ball lightning is caused by persistence of vision, meteorites, will-o’-the-wisp, brush discharge, and other natural phenomena. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** W. J. Humphreys, “[Ball Lightning,](https://www.jstor.org/stable/984750?refreqid=excelsior%3A6a5b4e7a4b1a89bfc652ddb14931cc97)” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 76 \(1936\): 613–626 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_486 ### Event 3324 (E5C3EBCB) **Date:** 1936 **Locations:** Canal Zone; Miraflores Lake, Panama **Description:** Late evening. Mrs. E. P. Higgins and another member of the Canal Zone Astronomical Society observe a moving orange-red star passing from north to south near Miraflores Lake, Panama. Suddenly it halts and travels in three small circles from right to left. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lore and Deneault, [pp. 112–113](https://archive.org/details/mysteriesofskies0000lore/page/112/mode/2up); Clark III 1176 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_487 ### Event 3325 (DCDBEA98) **Date:** 1936 **Location:** Italy **Description:** A confidential report to Benito Mussolini described two types of UFO sightings in Italy. The first was a polished, metallic disc with reflective properties, and the second was a gray or slate-colored metallic tube resembling an aerial torpedo with windows and alternating lights. Additionally, two hat-shaped craft, resembling priest's hats, were observed following the torpedo-like object. (Chapter 6, Ref 219) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_210 ### Event 3326 (FDC1148F) **Date:** 1936 **Location:** Malta **Description:** Witnesses near Malta observed a "zeppelin-shaped" object flying at high speed just off the shore. Despite its appearance, the object was not a known dirigible, as all zeppelins and other airships from various nations were accounted for at the time. Some observers claimed to have seen people with strange helmets inside a gondola on the craft. (Chapter 6, Ref 220) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_211 ### Event 3327 (7495304D) **Date:** 1936 **Location:** Black Forest region, Germany **Description:** A crashed UFO was reportedly recovered. (Chapter 6, Ref 231) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_222 ### Event 3328 (288C2890) **Date:** 1/1936 (approximate) **Time:** 06:00 **Location:** PAVLODAR, KAZAKH **Description:** Flying man comes within 40M / schoolgirl. Absolute(ly) black! Rumbles and away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 292) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_417 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NFO:** No craft seen, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Kazakh Republic", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "PAVLODAR,KAZAKH:FLYING MAN COMES WITHIN 40M/SCHOOLGIRL:ABS BLACK!:RUMBLES+AWAY", **LatLong:** "52.283336 77.383337", **LatLongDMS:** "52:17:00 N 77:23:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.283336,77.383337)", **State/Prov:** "PVL", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 3329 (00E6DFE1) **Date:** 1/1936 **Locations:** Laguna Beach, California; Long Beach; Los Angeles **Description:** [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski)’s Royal Order of Tibet publishes Universal Jewels of Life as a free monthly newsletter for those attending his meetings in Laguna Beach, California. Besides Adamski, talks are also given by Marguerite Weir, Alice Wells, and others. Beginning in May, the Royal Order has a weekly 15-minute slot on local radio stations KFOX in Long Beach and KMPC in Los Angeles. He also publishes Wisdom of the Masters of the Far East, a summary of his “ageless wisdom” teachings. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Laguna Beach, 1932–1940: From Temple to Ranch,](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-life/laguna-beach/)” The Adamski Case, September 27, 2019 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_488 ### Event 3330 (997ABDF2) **Date:** 2/1936 **Location:** USA, Greenwood (border of N.Y and N.J. states) **Description:** (Translated from French) Tests of particularly large flying models, equipped with liquid fuel rocket engines, were undertaken by Willy Levy on the frozen Greenwood Lake. The two models were made of aluminium, measured 4 m in length and were called "Gloria". Their wings, slightly V-shaped, were placed in the middle of the rocket body and had a wingspan of 5 meters. A 30° inclined catapult was provided for launching. **Reference:** "The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 81 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_916 ### Event 3331 (4F96ABCD) **Date:** 2/14/1936 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** CODY, WY **Description:** Numerous observer(s). Mystery plane circles several times / heavy snowstorm. Never lands. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 195) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_418 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "70", **Elev:** "1551", **HatchDesc:** "CODY,WY:NMRS OBS:MYSTERY PLANE CIRCLES SVRL TIMES/HEAVY SNOWSTORM:NEVER LANDS", **LatLong:** "44.500002 -109.050005", **LatLongDMS:** "44:30:00 N 109:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.500002,-109.050005)", **State/Prov:** "Wyoming", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 3332 (A16092B5) **Date:** 3/5/1936 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the first of the supermarine Spitfire series, 580 km/h, internal tank range 637km. This is the first fighter aircraft with working skin built in Great Britain. **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 edition **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_917 ### Event 3333 (F98AF628) **Date:** 4/25/1936 **Location:** FRANCE **Description:** (Translated from French) Winner of an Army Air Force three-seat fighter program, the Potez Series 63 is a two-seat day and night fighter, 440 km/h, ceiling 10,000m. **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 edition **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_918 ### Event 3334 (CB1839E5) **Date:** 5/1936 **Location:** JAPAN **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the light attack biplane Misubishi KI-15, 450 km/h, ceiling 8600 m, it was followed in November 1936 by the Ki-21, heavy bomber with 7 seats while the AM began in 1935, followed by the A6M Zero-Sen in 1939 and so many others. **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 edition **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_919 ### Event 3335 (12469837) **Date:** 5/1936 (approximate) **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** NEAR WARWICK, RI **Description:** Family / car. 12 disks / instant accelerations. Hover and maneuver. Assemble / stack formation. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT; Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 118) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_419 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "nr WARWICK,RI:FAMILY/CAR:12 DISKS/INSTANT ACCELS:HVR+MNVR:ASSEMBLE/STACK FORMn", **LatLong:** "41.700002 -71.383337", **LatLongDMS:** "41:42:00 N 71:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.700002,-71.383337)", **State/Prov:** "Rhode Island", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 3336 (01ADC019) **Date:** Late Spring 1936 **Location:** USA, unspecified **Description:** (Translated from French) Richard Keller and his family saw on a Sunday afternoon, in very cloudy weather, ten or twelve UFOs. At about 5° south they had been watching for 10 minutes the maneuvers of "airplanes" which suddenly converged as if to a signal towards a point below the clouds. They placed themselves one above the other, rose in a spiral through the clouds. During the previous 10 minutes, some had been hovering, motionless, others were flying in all directions in an area of perhaps 150 m in diameter. They were all identical to each other in size, shape and color. (1936 or 1937, late spring) **Reference:** J. Allen HYNEK: "New Report on UFOs" - Belfond 1979, p. 118, 119 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_926 ### Event 3337 (B86534B4) **Date:** 6/26/1936 **Location:** Germany **Description:** Heinrich Focke designed the world’s first practical, stable transverse twin rotor helicopter **Type:** aerospace **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrich_Focke) **Reference:** [link](https://upperlimitaviation.edu/when-was-the-first-helicopter-invented/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_47 ### Event 3338 (59D79B3D) **Date:** 7/1936? **Location:** AYLMER LAKE, NWT **Description:** Pilot / ground. Light aluminum cylinder/cigar-shape silent and still / several min. Turns and zips going quickly east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FARISH, Jucius: UFO NEWSCLIPPING SERVICE: $5/Monthly. Plumerville, AR. (Index 299) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_420 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "7", **Elev:** "375", **HatchDesc:** "AYLMER LAKE,NWT:PILOT/GND:LITE ALUM CGR SILENT+STILL/SVRL MIN:TURNS+ZIPS>>E", **LatLong:** "64.450003 -108.366672", **LatLongDMS:** "64:27:00 N 108:22:00 W", **Locale:** "Tundra", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/64.450003,-108.366672)", **State/Prov:** "Northwest Territories", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3339 (8A7380A5) **Date:** 7/2/1936 **Location:** USA (McAllen, Texas), Mexico (Reynosa) **Description:** (Translated from French) Professor Goddard carried out the first international rocket mail link between the USA and Mexico. ("Rockets, vehicles of the future" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 86) a rocket was launched from the American side, then another from the Mexican side, each carrying 300 letters. **Reference:** "Assault on Space" Georges H. Gallet, ed. of Modern Thought, p. 54 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_920 ### Event 3340 (5F86C68B) **Date:** 7/15/1936 **Location:** CHINA **Description:** (Translated from French) The night was advanced and the heat was stifling. After midnight, all the members of my family were sleeping, except my father who was still taking the cool air on the balcony. The night was calm and the sky was pitch black. Suddenly the sky, facing my father, became as bright as day and one could even count the tiles of the roof of the kiosk "Sinfengting" perched on the crest of the Yushan mountain, to the west. Between the kiosk and the balcony, there was 400 m. Suddenly, in the northwest sky, a small black ball appeared, heading east at great speed. When the black ball was above Bailangcang Street, 130 m from the balcony, it stopped and remained 20 m from the ground. My father looked at it carefully and he noticed that its diameter was 1.5 m. Then the ball began to open from the bottom, very widely, and to spew out a thick, blood-red liquid. This liquid was going straight down, but my father did not know if it touched the ground because the roofs opposite prevented him from seeing well; The red blood column was very large and measured about 3 m wide. Surprised, my father called my mother, who came out to see this unusual spectacle, but when she arrived on the balcony, the blood column had already shrunk, becoming as thin as a bamboo. Suddenly the red liquid disappeared and the lights went out. Everything sank into darkness. My father's observation lasted three minutes (July 15, 1936) **Reference:** SHI BO: "China and the Extraterrestrials" ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p.76, 77 **Reference:** no trace the next day **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_921 ### Event 3341 (55FFBBD9) **Date:** 8/1936 **Location:** JAPAN **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the two-seater bomber Aichi D3A, average speed 450 km/h, ceiling 9500 m, production ended in 1944. **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_922 ### Event 3342 (C09ED88C) **Date:** 8/17/1936 **Locations:** Venice, Italy; Mestre, Veneto **Description:** A metallic disc with a diameter of 33–40 feet is seen flying soundlessly near Venice, Italy. It has windows and alternating white and red lights. Two fighters from a nearby air base attempt to intercept it but cannot reach it. After maneuvering for an hour and passing above Mestre, Veneto, it appears more like a torpedo-shaped object. Two other smaller, domed discs are also seen following it. A report on the incident is sent to Foreign Minister [Galeazzo Ciano](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galeazzo%5FCiano)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galeazzo%5FCiano)  **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Good Need, [p. 12](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/12/mode/2up); Roberto Pinotti and Alfredo Lissoni, Gli “X-Files” del Nazifascismo, 2001 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_489 ### Event 3343 (ABF33AE1) **Date:** 9/1936 **Location:** Staffordshire, England **Description:** A young girl in Staffordshire, England had a close encounter with a brown, cigar-shaped craft with portholes that descended near her as she was about to draw water from a well. She felt paralyzed during the encounter and later found that she had drawn water from the well without remembering doing so. (Chapter 6, Ref 218) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_209 ### Event 3344 (1859A75F) **Date:** 9/1/1936 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** STONE, STAFFS **Description:** Cylinder/cigar-shape / 5 portholes very close / farm girl. Missing time. Can't recall drawing water. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SPENCER, John: The UFO ENCYCLOPEDIA; BUFORA/Acon Books, NY. 1991. 340pp. (Index 287) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_421 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MST:** Missing time or time anomaly, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "76", **HatchDesc:** "STONE,STAFFs:CGR/5 PORTHOLES VCLOSE/FARM GIRL:MST:CANT RECALL DRAWING WATER", **LatLong:** "52.900003 -2.150000", **LatLongDMS:** "52:54:00 N 02:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.900003,-2.150000)", **RelAlt:** "10", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 3345 (AEA78CC8) **Date:** Fall 1936 **Locations:** Texarkana, Arkansas; Bowie County, Texas; Red River Army Depot **Description:** Before 12:00 midnight. [Louie R. Lindblad](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5664788/louie-roland-lindblad) and five companions from Texarkana, Arkansas, are fox hunting in Bowie County, Texas \[around the current site of the Red River Army Depot\] when they observe numerous star- like objects in a circular formation. Occasionally a light would fly across the circle and take up another position until they all seem to relocate. They watch the display for about 30–40 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** MUFON UFO Journal, no. 150, August 1980, p. 12 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_490 ### Event 3346 (2B5B6A49) **Date:** 10/1936 **Locations:** Eklutna, Alaska; Anchorage **Description:** Night. Holger Berg and another worker at the Civilian Conservation Corps in Eklutna, Alaska, are walking south toward Anchorage when the see a light approaching them from the south. It is attached to a cigar-shaped object embedded in a blue-green haze and making a strange buzzing noise. As the object passes directly overhead, they notice it actually has a triangular shape and multicolored lights on its tail end. Frightened, they dive into a nearby snowbank then run back to Eklutna. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Marler 64–66 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_491 ### Event 3347 (A79FD0C4) **Date:** 10/2/1936 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In the Basque province of Guipuzcoa, about 120 km from San Sebastian, Valentine Williams, an English novelist and former soldier, and two other people, after leaving General Franco's HQ in Burgos to go to Biarritz, jumped in surprise at seeing what they thought was a flare or tracer projectile, describing an angle trajectory from the road and heading north at great speed. Williams described it as a white smoke banner... Then it burst into orange flames. There was no sound or explosion. Upon arriving in Biarritz, they told their story. Tom Dupree, from the British Consulate in Hendaye, claims to have been in San Sebastian \(about 48 km west of Biarritz\) at the same time and to have seen the same object. (October 2, 4:18 PM) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1936.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_441 ### Event 3348 (E9FF4804) **Date:** 10/2/1936 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Gjersjøen \(Norway\), an object landed on the road, blocking two cars coming from opposite directions. Neither of the drivers \(one of 37 years old\) made any attempt to contact the other, after the object, which was 20 m away, rose and disappeared. ((or 1937)) **Reference:** Letter from Eldbjørg Fjeldberg, November 16th, 1976 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1936.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_442 ### Event 3349 (E617CEF0) **Date:** 10/10/1936 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** PORTOFERRAIO, ITL **Description:** 3 military pilots. Flaming jet going quickly north / 770 kph. Pilot follows. Beams / side. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_422 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "PORTOFERRAIO,ITL:3 MIL.PILOTS:FLAMING JET >>N/770 kph:PILOT FOLOS:BEAMS/SIDE", **LatLong:** "42.816669 10.316667", **LatLongDMS:** "42:49:00 N 10:19:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.816669,10.316667)", **State/Prov:** "TSC", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 3350 (07210B2D) **Date:** 10/10/1936 **Locations:** Orbetello, Grosseto, Italy; Talamone, Italy; Elba **Description:** 4:15 a.m. Capt. Mario Rossi, flight instructor at the airfield at Orbetello, Grosseto, Italy, is flying a Savoia- Marchetti SM.62 at 12,465 feet over Talamone, Italy, when he sees an unusual light ahead of his plane. He follows the light, which is at a slightly higher altitude and moving at nearly 440 mph. Rossi loses it after flying into a cloud for 12 minutes and finding himself over Elba. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ernesto Thayaht, “[Three Sightings in Italy,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1955%2CJul-Aug%2CV%201%2CN%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 1, no. 3 \(July/Aug. 1955\): 6; 1Pinotti 15–16; “[Pilots UFO Sightings,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/acufo-formichedigrosseto10oct1936.htm)” August 7, 2021 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_492 ### Event 3351 (8C396A1F) **Date:** 10/15/1936 **Location:** JAPAN **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the single-seat interceptor fighter Nakajima KI-27, 460 km/h, ceiling approximately 10500m, range 625 km. It was the most maneuverable military aircraft of the time. It was them who shot down 90% of the 1252 Soviet aircraft downed in 1939 after the Nomonham incident. The three-seat bomber Nakajima B5N followed quickly as well as other versions. **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_923 ### Event 3352 (A2A7A7F2) **Date:** 11/17/1936 **Time:** 18:00? **Location:** NEAR TROMSO, NORWAY **Description:** Several report(s). Night lights and mystery flyers. Beams and radio signals. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEEL, John: OPERATION TROJAN HORSE; Putnam's Sons, NY 1970. (Index 135) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_423 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "87", **HatchDesc:** "nr TROMSO,NORWAY:SVRL RPTS:NLTS+MYSTERY FLYERS:BEAMS+RADIO SIGNALS:NFD", **LatLong:** "69.633337 19.000001", **LatLongDMS:** "69:38:00 N 19:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/69.633337,19.000001)", **State/Prov:** "Norway", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3353 (FB983569) **Date:** Winter 1936 **Location:** KAZAKHSTAN, Pavlodar **Description:** (Translated from French) Ms. E. E. Loznaya was 15 years old at the time. One morning, on her way to school she saw, flying quickly through the air, a humanoid figure dressed in black. It was at mid-height and its clothes covered it completely. In place of the head something like a square helmet, it had massive, square arms, very close to the body. She saw neither hands nor feet, but noticed on its back something oval, like a backpack. In place of the face, the surface was entirely black and as it passed near her it made a rumbling noise. It was less than 30 m away from her. Frightened, she looked around for help. In that short period of time the flying man had disappeared. (1936, Winter) **Reference:** Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 148 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_924 ### Event 3354 (1E718608) **Date:** Winter 1936 **Locations:** Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France; Alps **Description:** Robert Damion, an astronomer of Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France, who has a private observatory in the Alps, claims that for several nights a “certain portion of the sky in the vicinity of Mars” has been lit up with a deep bluish tint for 40 seconds each time. He is convinced that Mars is trying to signal Earth. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Strange Light from](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92280807/) [Mars Called Signal to Earth,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92280807/)” Ogden \(Utah\) Standard-Examiner, March 11, 1936, p. 12 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_493 --- ## Year: 1937, 44 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 3355 (0AA41117) **Date:** 1937 **Location:** SOUTH AFRICA, Drakensbergen **Description:** (Translated from French) (cf: 1917) Elizabeth Klarer flies in a sports plane over the Drakensbergen, when a blue glowing object flies towards her aircraft, turns and moves away. Later Elizabeth Klarer will work for the British secret services in the context of aerial phenomena "Foo-Fighters", "Spirit Hunters and Various Lights. [note from vog: never read this anywhere else, the author "Mitarbeiter" = collaborator (anonymous) seems to be the only one informed of this state of affairs... ] **Reference:** Mitarbeiter, "Ufo Geheimnisse", Berlin, January 1998 **Reference:** continued 1954 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_927 ### Event 3356 (139F7BE5) **Date:** 1937 **Location:** Eastern Turkey **Description:** During WWII, there were reports of crashed UFOs in Italy, Germany, and Poland. Given the political alliances and invasions, it is believed that the information from these crashes could have been acquired by Nazi scientists for potential research into flying saucers. Separately, a 1937 German archaeological expedition in Turkey was told of a metallic "house" that had fallen from the sky many generations prior. This object was described as a disc-shaped craft, about 80 feet in diameter. Upon hearing about it, a German team was dispatched to retrieve the mysterious object, which they did, and it was eventually transported to a facility near Munich for further examination. (Chapter 7, Ref 296) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_288 ### Event 3357 (9D31209B) **Date:** 1/1937? **Location:** NEAR VAN BUREN, MO **Description:** Private plane chases flying disk. Pilot now state government official. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RUTLEDGE, Harley D. Ph.D.: PROJECT IDENTIFICATION; Prentice-Hall, NJ 1981. (Index 213) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_424 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "197", **HatchDesc:** "nr VAN BUREN,MO:PRIVATE PLANE CHASES FLYING DISK:PILOT NOW STATE GOVT OFFICIAL", **LatLong:** "37.000002 -91.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "37:00:00 N 91:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.000002,-91.000004)", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3358 (0C34D2AD) **Date:** 1/1937 **Locations:** Missouri; Van Buren, Missouri **Description:** A man who later becomes an administrator in a Missouri state agency chases a disc-shaped object in his private aircraft over Van Buren, Missouri. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Harley D. Rutledge, Project Identification: The First Scientific Field Study of UFO Phenomena, Prentice-Hall, 1981, [p. 213](https://archive.org/details/rutledge-project-identification/page/213/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_494 ### Event 3359 (DFF6A9BE) **Date:** 1/1/1937 **Location:** USA, border between North Carolina and Virginia. **Description:** (Translated from French) At noon, Howard S. Behr, LTC, USAF, was flying south at an altitude of 3000 feet. An object shaped like a gondola and of the appearance of metal from a revolver or pistol crossed his path. At that time he was making a private flight in a civilian Curtis Wright Sedan. **Reference:** CUFOS files. Credit: Jerry Clark. **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_928 ### Event 3360 (31D0CA95) **Date:** 1/1/1937 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** WARREN CO, NC **Description:** Private pilot. 12M metallic gondola going southeast / 250kph. No windows or propeller! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique; UAP: 80 Years of Pilot Sightings Privately published. 7 avenue Bartholome. 75015 Paris, FRANCE. (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_425 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "136", **HatchDesc:** "WARREN co,NC:Pvt.PILOT:12M MTLC GONDOLA >SE/250kph:NO WINDOWS or PROPELLER!", **LatLong:** "36.500002 -78.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "36:30:00 N 78:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.500002,-78.000004)", **State/Prov:** "North Carolina", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3361 (62459404) **Date:** 1/1/1937 **Location:** Unknown City, NC **Description:** 30-40 foot in diameter object, no propellers, gun metal color (Page 10-11 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_108 ### Event 3362 (0328A33E) **Date:** 1/1/1937 **Locations:** Virginia; Raleigh, North Carolina **Description:** Noon. Pilot Howard S. Behr is flying a Curtiss-Wright CW-15 Sedan at 3,000 feet over Virginia on his way to Raleigh, North Carolina. Suddenly he sees an object beginning to cross his flight path about 1,000 feet below him. It looks like a gondola, gun-metal gray in color, with both of its ends turned up. He estimates it is about 35– 40 feet long and traveling at 150 mph. It moves off to his left and disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jerome Clark, Strange Skies: Pilot Encounters with UFOs, Citadel, 2003, p. 6; Patrick Gross, “[Pilots UFO Sightings,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/acufo-virginia1jan1937.htm)” August 7, 2021 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_495 ### Event 3363 (24C1B444) **Date:** 1/1/1937 **Description:** At around noon on this day a gondola-shaped object, the color of gun metal, crossed the path in front of a aircraft flying near the Virginia-North Carolina border **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 17 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_0 ### Event 3364 (97299278) **Date:** 1/4/1937 **Location:** Boden, Norrbotten, Sweden **Description:** New ghost flier sightings around the fortress at Boden, Norrbotten, Sweden, have prompted Gen. [Pontus](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontus%5FReutersw%C3%A4rd) [Reuterswärd](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontus%5FReutersw%C3%A4rd) to alert Minister of Defence [Janne Nilsson](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janne%5FNilsson) about the possibility of foreign spies. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 363 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_496 ### Event 3365 (DB0A8E9A) **Date:** Late 1/1937 **Locations:** Västerbotten, Sweden; Umeå; Dorotea; Stensele **Description:** Ghost fliers return to Västerbotten, Sweden. A light is seen wandering near the horizon east of Umeå. A light brighter than a headlight is reported from a community near Dorotea. A light similar to position lights on an aircraft flies over a village outside Stensele. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 363 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_497 ### Event 3366 (22418D07) **Date:** 2/11/1937 **Location:** NORWAY, near the port of Kvalsik **Description:** (Translated from French) At around 9:00 PM the fishing boat "Fram" left the port of Kvalsik. Not far from the port there is a cape covered with high hills that must be circumnavigated to reach the open sea. As the ship was making this maneuver, the crew saw what looked like a giant airplane resting on the water. Believing the craft to be in distress, the captain of the "Fram" headed in its direction. Immediately the red and green lights that illuminated the object went out and a cloud of smoke surrounded it. When it dissipated, the craft had disappeared. (February 11, 1937) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 251 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_929 ### Event 3367 (56A39329) **Date:** 2/11/1937 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** KVALSVIK, NORW **Description:** Fishermen. Large plane going down / sea. Lights out. Blows fog. Vanishes. / r203p135. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 165) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_426 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "KVALSVIK,NORW:FISHERMEN:LRG PLANE ↓/SEA:LITES OUT:BLOWS FOG:VANISHES:/r203p135", **LatLong:** "62.366670 5.566667", **LatLongDMS:** "62:22:00 N 05:34:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/62.366670,5.566667)", **State/Prov:** "Norway", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 3368 (D6647C69) **Date:** 2/11/1937 **Location:** Kvalsik, Norway **Description:** Large aeroplane with red and green glowing lights (Page 11, Ref. 1) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_109 ### Event 3369 (59DBF987) **Date:** 2/11/1937 **Location:** Kvalsvik, Norway **Description:** 9:00 p.m. The crew of the fishing vessel Fram is departing Kvalsvik, Norway, when they notice a “large aeroplane” with red and green glowing lights resting on top of the water. The captain turns the boat around to offer assistance, but the object’s lights go out and it is cloaked in a “cloud of smoke” and vanishes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Strange Company 11 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_498 ### Event 3370 (3ABBA82C) **Date:** 2/11/1937 **Description:** Several fisherman off the coast of Kvalsik, Norway watched what looked like a large plane descend toward the sea around 9:00 p.m. It extinguished its lights and produced a cloud or fog cover, then vanished. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** John A. Keel, FSR, September-October 1971, p. 22 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_816 ### Event 3371 (80F0ECA3) **Date:** 2/15/1937 **Locations:** Swedish Parliament; Northern Region **Description:** MP [Elof Lindberg](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elof%5FLindberg) demands in the Swedish Parliament that a commission with civil experts, not military, should investigate the ghost flier intrusions. He suspects the military has embellished the reports to direct more resources to the northern region and to the Air Force in general. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 363 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_499 ### Event 3372 (AFDB47F3) **Date:** 3/1937 **Location:** BRAZIL, region of the Rio Araguaia **Description:** (Translated from French) In March and April 1937 the telegraph of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo carried strange stories about a huge simian monster, the "mapinguary", emerging from nowhere and spreading terror throughout the regions near the Araguaia River. At Barra do Garcas, 500 km east of Cuiaba, the monster made descents on the fazendas and ranches roaring in the night like the father of a thousand devils coming out of hell. The farmers said "We all stayed inside all night, trembling with fear to find dozens of yellow cows (of Spanish origin) dead in the pampas, their tongues widely out of their mouths. Of course, the jaguars were already there to devour them. But there were large footprints resembling feet of at least 46 cm long." Along the Aracargas River: "Night was falling and again we heard that roar coming from the darkness. Our nerves gave way, and at dawn, a whole band of panicked Brazilians took their gear to go to the nearest civilized post." There were even reports from distant regions 240 km away like Ponte Branca. "No dead animal bore any marks of a possible struggle with what had come out of the dark Mato Grosso to kill them." This wave of terror lasted three weeks making the headlines of the newspapers of Rio and Sao Paulo. Then everything returned to normal. (1937, March and April) **Reference:** "O Globo" of Sao Paulo of 28.3.1937; "Secret Cities of Old South America" by Harold T. Wilkins, copyright 1952, reprinted 1998 by Adventures Unlimited Press, Kempton, Illinois, pages 304 and 305. **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_930 ### Event 3373 (B2244E8C) **Date:** 4/1937 **Location:** ITALY, Naples, San Pietro a Patierno **Description:** (Translated from French) Two customs security agents were near the Capodichino airport at around 2 o'clock in the morning when a cry was heard: "The guard! Let's run!" probably coming from smugglers who were leaving the area. One of the customs agents G.R. (29 years old) was pointing a beam of light from his electric torch in the direction of the voice to discover a disc-shaped object "like the moon" quickly approaching the ground. It had the shape of two plates overturned one on the other, with a diameter of about 25 m and a height between 4 and 6 meters. The object was heading towards Vesuvius, flying over the airport, and dragging a white-bluish luminous tail accompanied by a kind of low humming. The object was illuminated by itself, with a kind of opaque white-silver luminescence not dazzling. The lower part was more rounded and had a small turret at its base, while the upper part had something dark and hard to define. On the entire surface there were three rows of portholes from which a faint light from white to pink was coming out. The lower part seemed to be the only one rotating. The observation lasted about thirty seconds. **Reference:** letter from the witness to the CISU, report of the SOLARIS group, cfr CISU, archives D. n° 37001 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_931 ### Event 3374 (CB369C9B) **Date:** 4/1937 **Time:** 02:00 **Location:** CAPODICHINO, ITL **Description:** Customs men. Classic 25M saucer quickly going up [to] from ground. Spins. Portholes and dome. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Database/website: Maurizio VERGA: ITACAT Catalog online: http://www.ufo.it/english/main.htm **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_427 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "CAPODICHINO,ITL:CUSTOMS MEN:CLASSIC 25M SCR ↑↑ FROM GND:SPINS:PORTHOLES+DOME", **LatLong:** "40.883335 14.266667", **LatLongDMS:** "40:53:00 N 14:16:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.883335,14.266667)", **State/Prov:** "NA", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 3375 (DD65B7BB) **Date:** 5/1937 **Location:** ITALY **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the medium bomber CRDA CANT-Z 1007 Alcione, four or five seats, maximum speed 448 km/h, ceiling 8100 m, with 4 machine guns distributed in the dorsal turret, the ventral turret and the two side bays at mid-fuselage. Manufactured in series in 1939 and put into service the same year. **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 edition **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_932 ### Event 3376 (633D5DA2) **Date:** 5/19/1937 **Description:** [Lindberg](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elof%5FLindberg)’s request for a civilian ghost flier investigation is rejected by Swedish Minister of Defence [Janne](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janne%5FNilsson) [Nilsson](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janne%5FNilsson)[,](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janne%5FNilsson) who explains that no new facts have surfaced and few new observations have been reported. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 363 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_500 ### Event 3377 (DD636628) **Date:** 5/30/1937 **Location:** Nashville, Tennessee **Description:** Amateur astronomer [Latimer J. Wilson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/128149374/latimer-james-wilson) of Nashville, Tennessee, is observing Mars through a 12-inch reflector when he sees a series of intermittent bright flashes across the south polar cap. A line of tiny white spots seems to extend across the cap, some coalescing to swell in a brilliant white spot that quickly becomes yellow, then red- yellow, the “phenomenon passing from left to right across the polar cap.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Latimer J. Wilson, “[Apparent Flashes](https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1937PA.....45..430W) [Seen on Mars,](https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1937PA.....45..430W)” Popular Astronomy 45 \(1937\): 430; Walter H. Haas, “[Flashes on Mars Observed in 1937 and](https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2003JALPO..45a..43H) [Some Random Remarks,](https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2003JALPO..45a..43H)” The Strolling Astronomer 45, no. 1 \(Winter 2003\): 43–45 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_501 ### Event 3378 (9471DE2F) **Date:** 6/1937 **Location:** FRANCE, Vendée **Description:** (Translated from French) One evening in June, around 11:00 PM, Mr. and Mrs. Barbot, accompanied by their daughter and son-in-law Mr. Bénéteau, were driving on the road that connects Xanton to Chassenon. Suddenly, coming diagonally from their right, the four witnesses saw an enormous luminous mass, as big as two hay carts and of a yellow-greenish hue. Mr. Barbot stopped the car and the witnesses who got out were then literally blinded by this intense light that surrounded them for a second and continued its route at great speed following a perfectly straight trajectory. The next day Mr. Barbot noticed that his headlights were not working anymore: the bulbs were burned out. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 251-252 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_933 ### Event 3379 (DC338037) **Date:** 6/1937 **Time:** ~21:00 **Location:** XANTON-CHASSENON, FR **Description:** 4 / car. Silent luminous green ball studies each observer(s)! / LDLN#312. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** PHENOMENES SPATIAUX: Group GEPA, Gen. M. Lionel Chassin Paris. Quarterly 1964?-1977. Merged into Grp. GEPAN (Index 32) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_428 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "XANTON-CHASSENON,FR:4/CAR:SLNT LUMn.GRN BALL STUDIES EACH OBS!:/LDLN#312", **LatLong:** "46.455558 -0.700000", **LatLongDMS:** "46:27:20 N 00:42:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.455558,-0.700000)", **State/Prov:** "Vendée", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3380 (22E17BA7) **Date:** Summer 1937 **Location:** BELGIUM, Anderlues (Hainaut) **Description:** (Translated from French) Henri Houck recounts his adventure thus: "It was during a beautiful summer night in 1937, I was returning home to the northwest of Anderlues. Taking a shortcut leaving the road behind me, I entered a narrow path bordered on one side by hedges and brambles, and on the other by a barbed wire fence. The difficult path was barely 80 cm wide. Raising my head and looking at the end of the path, I suddenly saw a light shining above the passage... At first I took it for a cigarette butt, but soon I saw that it was not, as it was too big. I was very intrigued and I approached. During my advance, this thing began to swell, reaching the size of a football. I was only one meter away from it when this luminous sphere deformed, lengthened and flattened, completely blocking the passage. It remained motionless about 50 cm from the ground. I could have jumped over this form with well-defined edges, tinted white and orange.. But suddenly, a sudden feeling of insecurity overwhelmed me and I hurried back. " Henri Houck, very tall, of very robust physical constitution, feared neither God nor devil yet... Arriving near the road he turned around, the worrying phenomenon had disappeared. (1937, Summer) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 252 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_939 ### Event 3381 (A5168EE1) **Date:** Summer 1937 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Czernica \(East Germany, now part of Poland\), a multicolored UFO in the shape of a ball or globe is seen falling into a field \(or near a field\) belonging to Eva Braun's parents \(Hitler's future mistress\). The area is cordoned off by SS troops from the town of Jelenia Gora \(known as Hirschberg at the time\). The crashed disc is taken to the SS base in Hirschberg and kept under very tight guard and extremely high security. It is 7.6 m in diameter and 3.8 m high, consisting of a large dome "covering" encircled by a thin outer ring, with a smaller flattened dome on top and a flat lower section. The top of the dome is also flat and large. The craft has 6 oval-shaped structures resembling openings but not transparent, or apparatus emitting some kind of light, located near the base of the upper dome. On the underside of the outer ring the craft has 12 lights. The color of the disc is a matte metallic gray. There is an insignia on the dome resembling the letter "T" with 2 vertical supports on its sides. The entrance to the disc is found on the top of the upper dome. The general shape of the disc resembles that of a German soldier's helmet with a slight bulge underneath. Inside the circular cabin are 3 small seats, and control panels around the dome, as well as 3 extraterrestrial beings: 1 is dead, and the other 2 alive. One of the extraterrestrials alive dies shortly after the crash. The 2nd remains under guard for about 1 and a half months and dies. The extraterrestrials were small dwarves, about 0.9 m to 1 m tall, with large hairless pear-shaped heads, slightly dystrophic-looking bodies, long thin hands with 4 fingers, grayish skin and large dark slanted eyes. The Germans fear moving the disc to a more distant location, for fear that it might explode during a long journey during transport. So a research laboratory is built nearby. From Hirschberg the disc is moved to a safer place which, more likely, is called "Der Riese", a Nazi complex in the nearby Gory Sowie mountains \(now in southwestern Poland\), which is also a site used to extract uranium ore. This complex has an extensive network of underground hangars, connected by tunnels. The bodies of the occupants and the living extraterrestrial are also moved to this complex. The extraterrestrial who lived for a month apparently provided some kind of information to the Germans and desperately asked for the help of the Nazi doctors, but they could not help him due to the different biological structure of his body. The extraterrestrial dies of an unknown illness. The origin of the crashed craft is apparently the double star RA known on Earth as 78 mu-1, Cygni, at 73.1 al away. Among the information given to the Germans by the surviving extraterrestrial is the fact that they have built underground bases in the polar region of the Canadian Territories, perhaps Baffin Island. This data is provided to Hitler himself. But no substantial technical data is actually provided by the extraterrestrial that could help the Nazi scientists to compete with extraterrestrial technology, despite their desperate attempt to obtain this data \[Robert K Lesniakiewicz, Milos Jesensky *Wunderland, Extraterrestrial Technologies*, Anton Anfalov, Lenura A Azizova, Iryna V Volyk & Sergey V Kovalevskiy\]. (Summer) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1937.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_445 ### Event 3382 (A96A6985) **Date:** Summer 1937 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Statement of Dr. [Frank Halstead](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/scientifiques.html\#HalsteadFrank) in favor of the extraterrestrial origin of UFOs. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1937.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_446 ### Event 3383 (3E27F611) **Date:** Summer 1937 **Locations:** Langenau [now Czernica, Poland]; Wernher von Braun's laboratory **Description:** An object allegedly falls from the sky in Langenau \[now Czernica, Poland\] into a field belonging to [Eva](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva%5FBraun) [Braun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva%5FBraun)’s family and is retrieved by German soldiers. It supposedly winds up in [Wernher von Braun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher%5Fvon%5FBraun)’s laboratory, but the story is probably mythical. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Poland 116–117 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_502 ### Event 3384 (4CC097DF) **Date:** 7/1937 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Nazi leaders \(Hitler, Goering\) begin to send special teams of their elite forces to collect all kinds of supernatural, scientific and religious objects related to the supernatural, occult and fringe sciences. During the search for Noah's Ark, along the borders of Turkey and Persia in the Ararat mountain range, the team is faced with a story by some of the oldest members of the village near the Tigris river. The story is that 200 generations ago a strange bright house fell from the sky, making such a noise that it woke everyone in the village. Some time after, a man travelling from one village to another comes across the object, which he describes as having "sang", was warm to the touch, had a foul smell and seemed like the trading material used by the stone-hatted men. The story is reported back to the investigating team in Germany. (July) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1937.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_443 ### Event 3385 (9678C8CA) **Date:** 7/1937 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A month later, two additional teams arrive. One is a group of scientists, arriving before the division of Hitler's special weapons machine. This group of men manages to find the "house", in fact an extraterrestrial vessel. The disc is 25 m in diameter, 8 m in height. It is solid without an apparent entrance, and surprisingly reactive to external forces, i.e. it seems to float a few meters above the ground, and requires a small effort to move it. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1937.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_444 ### Event 3386 (19649838) **Date:** 7/15/1937 **Location:** GERMANY **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the six-seat reconnaissance seaplane blohm UND VOSS BV-138, maximum speed 275 km/h, ceiling 5,000m, delivery to the Army type A1 in January 1940, type C1 in January 1941. **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 edition **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_934 ### Event 3387 (3C4C0912) **Date:** 7/20/1937 **Location:** London, UK **Description:** Light (Nicknamed Ghost Flier) (Page 11 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_110 ### Event 3388 (66CFCEE9) **Date:** 7/22/1937 **Location:** 500 miles off US coast, In Air Space **Description:** Lights of alleged aircraft (Page 11 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_111 ### Event 3389 (697CD360) **Date:** 7/29/1937 **Location:** USA **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the Lockheed Model 414 Hudson, reconnaissance bomber and utility aircraft. Nose gun turret with 4 portholes on each side (2 upper, 2 lower), two dorsal turrets, speed 397 km/h, ceiling 7468 m, range 3150 km. From the same firm, various other models come out one after the other (July 29, 1937) **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** with variants of the C130 HERCULES.. **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_935 ### Event 3390 (8D970EFB) **Date:** 8/1937 **Location:** USA, near Penobscot Bay (Maine) **Description:** (Translated from French) In the night, the crew of a barge on a route to Deer Island, saw a "pack of electric lights" approach the boat. Two of the lights came really close, one of them making a tour around the boat, the other remaining stationary in the air for three minutes, before leaving the area. **Reference:** "Ufo's – A century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p 17 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_937 ### Event 3391 (A69A9620) **Date:** 8/1937 **Location:** USSR **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the two-seat tactical bomber Sukhoi SU-2, 455 km/h, ceiling 8800m, range with 400 kg of bombs: 1200km. **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_938 ### Event 3392 (623F4714) **Date:** 8/1937 (approximate) **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** NORTHWEST / ANDERLUES, BELGIUM **Description:** 1 observer. Small glowing-ovoid blocks footpath. 'Smart and determined'. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 110) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_429 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "NW/ANDERLUES,BELGIUM:1 OBS:SML GLO-OVOID BLOCKS FOOTPATH:'smart+determined'", **LatLong:** "50.400002 4.250000", **LatLongDMS:** "50:24:00 N 04:15:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.400002,4.250000)", **State/Prov:** "Belgium", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 3393 (4B89D985) **Date:** 8/1/1937 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the two-seater Boulton Paul P-82 Defiant fighter, with dorsal turret, max. speed 488 km/h, ceiling 9300m, series production July 30 1939, delivery December 1939. **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_936 ### Event 3394 (DED4B547) **Date:** 9/1937 **Location:** New York City **Description:** [Tiffany Thayer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiffany%5FThayer) publishes the first issue of the Fortean Society Magazine \(retitled Doubt in 1944\) in New York City. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Fortean Society Magazine [1, no. 1](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Fortean%20Society%20Magazine%20%28Fortean%20Society%29/Fortean%20Society%20Magazine%20-%20No%2001.pdf) \(September 1937\); Clark III 516 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_503 ### Event 3395 (F6C94E12) **Date:** 9/10/1937 **End date:** 9/12/1937 **Location:** Laguna Beach, California **Description:** [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski)’s Royal Order of Tibet organizes a festival in Laguna Beach, California, dramatizing the “teachings of the universal masters” and a round-table discussion focusing on the “present day needs in unifying all mankind.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Laguna Beach, 1932–1940: From Temple to Ranch,](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-life/laguna-beach/)” The Adamski Case, September 27, 2019 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_504 ### Event 3396 (BA351B5E) **Date:** 10/1937 **Location:** FRANCE **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the single-seater fighter Bloch MB-152C, maximum speed 520 km/h, ceiling 10,000m. 593 Blochs were built until the end of the capitulation in 1918. At that time, the founder of the company changed his name: Marcel Bloch became Marcel Dassault. **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels edition 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_940 ### Event 3397 (2F011D0E) **Date:** Late 1937 **Location:** German-Polish border, In Air Space **Description:** Objects described as coffins and swords (Page 11 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_112 ### Event 3398 (0CA3FB0C) **Date:** End of 1937 **Location:** BRAZIL, Galipolis (Rio Grande do Sul) **Description:** (Translated from French) Mr. Vergani was involved in the construction of a house in Quarta Legua near Galipolis. One day, between 12:00 and 15:00, Vergani, along with six work companions, his wife and their child, had his attention drawn to a group of about ten shapeless objects in the sky. These bodies had the color of samambaia leaves (very light brown), with an apparent size of about one meter and they moved in a wavy motion. At the beginning of the observation the formation was 200 m away from the witnesses. At one point the objects approached the ground, one of them seeming to even land behind a fold in the terrain while the others continued on their way. Vergani and some masons went to the presumed landing site but found nothing. The objects moved silently and were not shiny. (1937, end of year) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 253 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_941 --- ## Year: 1938, 53 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 3399 (4BA14E28) **Date:** 1938 **Location:** SPAIN, Madrid **Description:** (Translated from French) While the Civil War reigned in Spain, Franco's troops had implemented "propaganda rockets". These were rescue rockets at sea, whose hollow head carried large quantities of propaganda tracts on extremely thin paper. Above the enemy lines, a detonating charge of grain powder caused the explosion of the rocket head and scattered the tracts over a large area. **Reference:** "The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 93 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_947 ### Event 3400 (F342F73F) **Date:** 1938 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN **Description:** (Translated from French) In England, an inventor, Harry Grindell Matthews, proposed rockets capable of "launching an aerial minefield in the sky around London and other cities." He envisaged 76 mm rockets, 3.50m to 4.50m long with gyroscopic stabilizer and fins. At a predetermined altitude they were to launch a series of parachutes to each of which would be suspended 300 m of metal wire intended to entangle in the propellers of attacking aircraft. This project was not carried out. **Reference:** "Assault on Space" Georges H. Gallet, ed. of Modern Thought, p. 38 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_952 ### Event 3401 (CA5A838B) **Date:** 1938 **Location:** PORTUGAL, Baiao (Alto Duro) **Description:** (Translated from French) The boy Bonifacio is said to have met several times at the top of a mountain, a "lady". On the day and time set by her for the meeting, small things were seen falling from above, which flew away in the wind. It looked like snow. People ran to catch it, but it disappeared between their fingers. (1938,) **Reference:** Inforespace n° 55 - 1981, p. 5 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_953 ### Event 3402 (B4B7A919) **Date:** 1938 **Locations:** Washington, D.C.; New York **Description:** The Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation begin contributing large amounts of money to the Council on Foreign Relations. They create various Committees on Foreign Relations throughout the country, which later become governed by the American Committees on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C., funded by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation. Influential men are chosen in several cities and are brought together for discussions in their own communities as well as participating in an annual conference in New York. These local committees serve to influence local leaders and shape public opinion to build support for the council’s policies, while also acting as “useful listening posts” through which the Council and US government can “sense the mood of the country.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Council on Foreign Relations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council%5Fon%5FForeign%5FRelations)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_505 ### Event 3403 (833FB738) **Date:** 1938 **Location:** Minneapolis, Minnesota **Description:** Harvey L. Sperry, 13, sees a white, vapor-like object moving at 5–10 mph at less than 100 feet altitude from north to south in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Its rim seems to be “composed of two interwoven parts revolving and moving in opposite directions.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lore and Deneault, [p. 136](https://archive.org/details/mysteriesofskies0000lore/page/136/mode/2up); Clark III 1176 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_506 ### Event 3404 (2E6EFCCB) **Date:** 1938 **Location:** La Grange, Georgia **Description:** A witness in La Grange, Georgia, reported observing a large, domed, saucer-shaped object flying over the area during daylight hours. The object was estimated to be as large as modern commercial airliners, displaying what appeared to be portholes. The witness estimated its altitude at 4,000 to 5,000 feet and its speed at nearly 1,000 miles per hour. (Chapter 6, Ref 212) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_203 ### Event 3405 (7D62803D) **Date:** 1938 **Location:** Idaho **Description:** A man in Idaho witnessed a high-speed UFO during daylight hours. While working as a surveyor near Boise, he observed a disc-shaped craft that appeared to be rotating rapidly, causing a blurred effect at its edges. The UFO had no visible engines, cockpit, or exhaust trail, and it moved across the sky so quickly that the witness had difficulty keeping it in focus. The estimated height of the object was around 4,000 feet when it vanished from sight. (Chapter 6, Ref 213) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_204 ### Event 3406 (35AF7678) **Date:** 1938 **Location:** Arbuckle, Texas **Description:** A witness in Arbuckle, Texas, reported seeing a large, gray, dirigible-shaped UFO. The object had no visible undercarriage but featured a row of windows reflecting sunlight. The UFO then rapidly shot off sideways and vanished from view. (Chapter 6, Ref 214) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_205 ### Event 3407 (25BD6BE1) **Date:** 1938 **Location:** Norway **Description:** A witness in Norway had a close encounter with a disc-shaped UFO. He heard an electrical generator-like sound, saw a blue object with a reddish halo rise from the ground, and felt stinging exhaust fumes that resembled burned rubber. The UFO exhibited curious movement patterns, including rising and settling like a falling leaf, before flying off silently. (Chapter 6, Ref 221) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_212 ### Event 3408 (BB61B2BC) **Date:** 1938 **Location:** Guadalajara, Spain **Description:** Two Spanish soldiers had a close encounter with a lens-shaped UFO in Guadalajara in 1938. They observed two figures descending from the craft on a platform, experienced a blue beam striking them, and witnessed the occupants and platform being drawn back into the object before it took off. (Chapter 6, Ref 226) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_217 ### Event 3409 (5859E5DE) **Date:** 1938 **Location:** Northern Greece **Description:** In northern Greece in 1938, a witness encountered two tall humanoid occupants near an egg-shaped UFO. The occupants entered the craft, which took off vertically without flames or noise. A mysterious bottle left behind by the occupants spontaneously combusted when touched, setting fire to nearby vegetation. (Chapter 6, Ref 227) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_218 ### Event 3410 (2C19FFD4) **Date:** 1938 **Location:** Northern British Columbia **Description:** In 1938, a Canadian provincial policeman claimed to have discovered the bodies of five small humanoid creatures in a remote cave in northern British Columbia. The beings were described as having large heads and long fingers, dressed in tight-fitting spacesuit-like garments. The officer shared this story with UFO investigators before his death in 1997. (Chapter 6, Ref 228) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_219 ### Event 3411 (55EB3581) **Date:** 1938 **Location:** Somerville, Massachusetts **Description:** In 1938, a man in Somerville, Massachusetts reported encountering a UFO with strange occupants. He initially mistook the object for a blimp but noticed that it lacked typical features. He then saw lighted windows and the silhouette of a thin, spindly entity with a long head and stooped shoulders staring down at him from one of the windows. The object disappeared behind clouds, ending the encounter. (Chapter 6, Ref 229) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_220 ### Event 3412 (68CE7063) **Date:** 1938 **Location:** In Poland near the border with Germany **Description:** A third retrieval of a crashed UFO in Europe. (Chapter 6, Ref 232) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_223 ### Event 3413 (FDAAD53A) **Date:** 1938 **Location:** Near Tibetan border **Description:** In 1938, Chinese archaeologists discovered aligned graves in remote caves near the Tibetan border, containing small humanoid skeletons with large heads. Drawings of figures wearing helmets and a celestial map were found, along with over 700 engraved stone discs that vibrated and contained embedded alloys. The inscriptions suggested an ancient extraterrestrial astronaut story, connecting to indigenous legends of small beings from the clouds. (Chapter 6, Ref 233) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_224 ### Event 3414 (7DBEA26D) **Date:** 1/1938 **Location:** USA **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the classic single-seater fighter or embarked brewster F-2A Buffalo, with four machine guns: two in the fuselage and two in the wings, max. speed 483 km/h, practical ceiling 9300m. End of production in 1942. **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_942 ### Event 3415 (08E29CCF) **Date:** 2/1938 **Location:** Chicago, Illinois **Description:** [Raymond A. Palmer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%5FA.%5FPalmer) is hired as editor of Amazing Stories magazine, owned by Ziff-Davis in Chicago, Illinois. He immediately sets out to enliven the periodical, which is close to folding. Concentrating on “space opera” stories, he expands its size to more than 200 pages and encourages readers to contribute content. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Raymond A. Palmer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%5FA.%5FPalmer\#Career)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_507 ### Event 3416 (C1D8A555) **Date:** 2/5/1938 **Location:** Spain, Penon de la Mata (Granada) **Description:** (Translated from French) Militias with orders to defend the position, in the midst of a civil war, saw at around 7 o'clock in the morning, in a clear sky, a kind of object in the shape of a Mexican sombrero clearly defined and having the appearance of matte aluminum. Despite the distance of the object its outline was well defined, and the sun reflected off its surface. It was at an altitude of about 200 meters. All eyes (at least 65 men) were fixed on a row of windows in the center which curved to the sides, following the shape of the object. On its base was like a "photographic lens" which seemed to suggest a certain depth and was darker. A kind of dark vapor was escaping all around the perimeter. (February 5, 1938) **Reference:** ABC, Seville, 1980, 1981 "UFOs in Andalucia", by Manuel Ramirez, No. 62 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_944 ### Event 3417 (19DD4A68) **Date:** 2/6/1938 (approximate) **Location:** RINGWOOD, HAMPS **Description:** 2+4 observer(s). 'Huge brass shield lit / searchlight'. Spheres fly. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 48) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_430 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "RINGWOOD,HAMPs:2+4 OBS:'HUGE BRASS SHIELD LIT/SEARCHLITE':SPHERES FLY", **LatLong:** "50.850002 -1.777778", **LatLongDMS:** "50:51:00 N 01:46:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.850002,-1.777778)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3418 (3CAD7703) **Date:** 2/8/1938 **Location:** Unknown City, UK **Description:** Things like glowing spheres that were floating in the British sky (Page 11-12 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_113 ### Event 3419 (928ECCE2) **Date:** 3/16/1938 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Chamonix, J. Payot observed the slow horizontal progression of a bolide from the north to the east. The object was magnificent, conical, as big as the Moon, orange in front and round, with red flames at the back. Drawing. (March 16) **Reference:** BSAF, 1938 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1938.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_447 ### Event 3420 (81BBE8A5) **Date:** Summer 1938 **Location:** USA, Boston (Massachusetts) **Description:** (Translated from French) When Malcolm B. Perry (22 years old) got off the Metropolitan Transit Authority bus (currently the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority - MBTA) at Somerville Avenue at midnight, he was returning from a date on the other side of the Boston River. The night was beautiful, with the smell of vegetation after a light rain. Some small clouds were being pushed west by a light wind, it was a full moon night. The streets were quiet. As he was walking, Perry suddenly felt a strange chill, as if he was being watched by eyes he could not see. He looked over his shoulder: there were only houses and street lights. He stopped and listened for footsteps: he heard nothing. He started walking again and again this strange feeling came over him. That's when he looked up at the sky, where to his surprise he saw a flying object barely a few meters above him. "At first the object was behind me and near the moon. I was walking east to west and the object was flying in the same direction (from the Bunker Hill monument to Cambridge). I thought it was a Navy dirigible and I kept walking without worrying about it. Looking again to my left, I saw it flying steadily west. I started looking more closely, expecting to see a gondola or propellers, but there were none. This balloon was flying against the wind, always at the same slow pace. Its shape was well defined and it looked like a 50 cm school ruler held at arm's length. The craft seemed much thinner than a conventional dirigible. The two ends were pointed and there were four rectangular portholes on the side that I could see. An orange light was coming from these portholes. That's when I saw the dark silhouette of a person looking out at me. "What a person! Tall, gaunt, almost skeletal, with a long head, drooping shoulders, and thin arms hanging down. The entity seemed to be leaning on the edge of the porthole to look at him. Because of the orange light in the background, Perry could not see the details of the face. "I had a terrible urge to wave to him, but I resisted the temptation, just looking around the street to see if anyone else was there to share this strange vision. Unfortunately, there was no one. Again I looked at the craft and behind the other portholes there must have been people: I could see them changing places and coming to look out the porthole in turn. That's when the craft disappeared into a cloud and I never saw it again. The next day I looked through the newspaper to see if anyone had reported the sighting of this unusual object, but nothing of the kind was published. So I decided not to tell anyone about it." (1938, Summer) **Reference:** Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective by Gordon I.R. Lore Jr. and Harold H. Denault Jr., Prentice Hall Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1968, pages 135 to 137. **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_943 ### Event 3421 (471A000B) **Date:** Summer 1938 **Location:** NORWAY, Herne **Description:** (Translated from French) Sverre Brevik was 21 years old at the time. The night was warm and he couldn't sleep, so he went outside for some fresh air. Suddenly he heard a sound like that of a generator spinning faster and faster. The whole area was illuminated. The noise became unbearable, causing him a headache. He then saw, at about twenty meters away, a bluish object rising from the ground. The object was surrounded by a reddish halo and had, around its perimeter, openings from which blue and whitish-bluish light was emitted. He remembers that the smell was horrible: it reminded him of burnt rubber. His eyes and throat were irritated. The object rose without making any noise, then fell back softly. It measured 20 to 25 meters in diameter and 2 to 3 meters in height. The witness felt like he was being watched. The object then rose again, spinning in the sky and illuminating a large part of the area with the lights coming from its perimeter. Suddenly, it disappeared to the north. Ten years later, the witness observed a similar phenomenon. (1938, Summer) **Reference:** HJEMMET. UFO-NYT, 4/1970, 159-60. Liljegren: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF REFERENCES TO UFO INCIDENTS DURING WORLD WAR II., 1987, 2. Listing by Ole Jonny Braenne **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_946 ### Event 3422 (607C79B6) **Date:** Summer 1938 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Herne \(Norway\), Sverre Brevik, 21, couldn't sleep. He went out to relax and appreciate the view of nature. Suddenly he noticed a sound, like a generator increasing its speed. The whole area then became illuminated, the sound gaining in strength, making his head hurt. About 20 m away from him, a bluish object rose up. It had a reddish halo around it, and what seemed to be openings around it that blew out a blue-white exhaust. The smell was horrible, reminding him of burnt rubber. His eyes and throat stung. The object rose without any sound, then fell like a feather \(falling leaf motion\). It measured between 20 and 25 m in diameter, and 2 to 3 m high. The witness felt like he was being observed by the object. It rose again and circled the area, again illuminated by the things resembling exhaust, as it disappeared without a sound in the direction of the North. 10 years later he would observe an identical object. (Summer, on a hot night) **Reference:** \[HJEMMET\] \[UFO-NYT, 4/1970, 159-60\] \[Liljegren: A bibliography of references to UFO incidents during World War II, 1987, 2\] **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1938.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_448 ### Event 3423 (C1729D06) **Date:** Summer 1938 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Orson Welles in CBS Studios. See photo at images/welles.jpg. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1938.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_449 ### Event 3424 (E17A5842) **Date:** Summer 1938 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In the mountainous region of Bayan-Khara Uula \(on the border of China and Tibet\), Chinese archaeologist Tschi Pu-tei discovers a number of mysterious tombs. Their walls are decorated with engravings of beings wearing round helmets and they contain skeletons of small size \(about 1.30 m\) with an unusually large skull. Even better, the Chinese researcher finds 716 "discs" thick 2 cm and the size of a 33 rpm vinyl, pierced in the center and covered with a thin layer of cobalt. These discs present double track spirals starting from the center to the outside, spirals inside which are engraved some kind of hieroglyphs forming a narrative. The mysterious text will remain untranslatable for about 20 years before yielding to the determination of a certain Professor Tsum Um-nui, from the Beijing Prehistory Academy, and 4 of his colleagues. Its publication will only be authorized in 1963, relating the landing of extraterrestrials in -10000. The description of the discs strangely resembles that of a Nepalese plate dating from -2000 \(see this date\). **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1938.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_450 ### Event 3425 (FC7A6A7E) **Date:** Summer 1938 **Location:** Unknown City, MA **Description:** Silvery object with rectangular portholes (Page 12 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_116 ### Event 3426 (E86A44DA) **Date:** Summer 1938 **Location:** Somerville, Massachusetts **Description:** Midnight. Artist Malcolm B. Perry sees what looks like a Navy blimp moving east to west over Somerville, Massachusetts. It has apparent portholes in the sides, and he can see the silhouette of someone looking at him. Other figures are taking turns looking through portholes. It disappears below some low clouds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 20–21; “1938: Perry’s Alien,” UFO Roundup 5, no. 37 \(September 4, 2000\); Clark III 265 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_508 ### Event 3427 (14D22CE8) **Date:** 7/1938 **Location:** GERMANY **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the three-seat reconnaissance and close support aircraft Focke-Wulf 189 UHU, 350 km/h, ceiling 7300m. Last deliveries in August 1944. This aircraft appeared strange, it was the \"flying eye\" discovered by the Allies in 1941. Already on July 27, 1937 another aircraft of this brand, the FOCKE-WULF FW 200 CONDOR made its first flight, with a forward dorsal turret, a ventral gondola. This aircraft established an impressive series of records on the air routes from New York to Tokyo. (July 1938) **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_945 ### Event 3428 (824FB72C) **Date:** 7/25/1938 **Location:** SPAIN, Guadalajara **Description:** (Translated from French) At around 8:30 PM, still in the midst of the civil war, military personnel at the front made an astonishing observation. As they were descending a talwag at night, a lieutenant accompanied by his aide were suddenly illuminated by a dazzling white light. Believing it to be the beam of an enemy projector, they attempted to escape as quickly as possible, but as soon as they did the light went out. It was then that they made out an object about 60 m away from them, dark in color and lenticular in shape, estimated diameter of 10 m, height of 5 m, seeming to be suspended 2 m above the ground. It looked like two plates joined by their edges and separated by a slightly darker line of section. Suddenly, without a sound, from the center of the lower part of the object a column with a platform descended and touched the ground. On this part, the witnesses thought they could make out the presence of small figures. One of these beings raised its arm and a bluish light beam was projected in a circle that reached the witnesses. Immediately, without knowing if it was fear or the action of this new light, the two military personnel felt a sensation of cold. Soon the beam went out, the platform went back up and a few seconds later sparks of various colors shot out from underneath the craft. The witnesses then had the impression that the two plates were spinning in opposite directions. Immediately the object was surrounded by an intense white light and it disappeared, moving away at great speed. (July 25, 1938) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 254 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_948 ### Event 3429 (72F3E426) **Date:** 7/25/1938 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** NEAR GUADALAJARA, SPN **Description:** 11M saucer hovers low. 2 small humanoids (or Greys) ride going down / platform! See drawing. / r50p2. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** PHENOMENES SPATIAUX: Group GEPA, Gen. M. Lionel Chassin Paris. Quarterly 1964?-1977. Merged into Grp. GEPAN (Index 28) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_431 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "nr GUADALAJARA,SPN:11M SCR HVRS LOW:2 OIDS RIDE ↓/PLATFORM!:see drawing:/r50p2", **LatLong:** "40.666669 -3.166667", **LatLongDMS:** "40:40:00 N 03:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.666669,-3.166667)", **State/Prov:** "GUA", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 3430 (A3220130) **Date:** 7/25/1938 **Location:** Guadalaraja, Spain **Description:** Soldiers at the Spanish Civil War battlefront were illuminated by a bright glow, then saw an oval object about 10-12 meters in diameter shaped like “two inverted plates” hovering near the ground. A cylindrical column came down from the center and two beings emerged. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_114 ### Event 3431 (8AA8FD60) **Date:** 7/25/1938 **Location:** Guadalajara, Spain **Description:** 11:30 p.m. A lieutenant and his aide see a strong light coming from a hovering lens-shaped object near Guadalajara, Spain. It is over 35 feet in diameter and 15 feet high. A platform with two moving figures is lowered from underneath. A blue beam from the object shines on the witnesses, who feel a sudden chill. The platform rises back up, and the object glows with an intense white light and flies away. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, [A](http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue%5Fof%5F200%5FType%5FI%5FUFO%5FEvents%5Fin%5FSpain%5Fand%5FPortugal.pdf) [Catalogue of 200 Type I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal](http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue%5Fof%5F200%5FType%5FI%5FUFO%5FEvents%5Fin%5FSpain%5Fand%5FPortugal.pdf), CUFOS, 1976, p. 2; Clark III 265 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_509 ### Event 3432 (593EC860) **Date:** 7/25/1938 **Description:** A lieutenant in the Spanish Army in Guadalajara, Spain saw a dark, lens-shaped UFO descend toward the ground at 11:30 p.m. The disc was eleven meters in diameter and the top and bottom secions spun in opposite directions. A transparent column from underneath the object came down slowly, and two figures could be seen moving around inside the column. A blue beam of light was projected at the witness by the UFO, and he felt a chilling cold sensation. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4371 ### Event 3433 (56BEE2A5) **Date:** 8/1938 (approximate) **Time:** ~05:00 **Location:** MALAKHOVA OIL STATION/DEPOT/FACILITY, RUSSIA **Description:** Oval greyish cloud rushes past man. Big. Diffuse. Whistles. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO CHRONICLES of the SOVIET UNION; Ballentine Books HB 1992. 212pp. (Index 183) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_432 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Russia", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MALAKHOVA OIL STN,RUSS:OVAL GREYISH CLOUD RUSHES PAST MAN:BIG:DIFFUSE:WHISTLES", **LatLong:** "55.633336 38.016668", **LatLongDMS:** "55:38:00 N 38:01:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/55.633336,38.016668)", **State/Prov:** "MOS", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3434 (ED6F648B) **Date:** 8/27/1938 (approximate) **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** MARLE-SUR-SERRE, FR **Description:** 30M fuselage going west. Turns going north / 250M altitude / 250kph. Whistles. Rectangular windows. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 169) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_433 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MARLE-sur-SERRE,FR:30M FSLG > W:TURNS >N/250M alt/250kph:WHISTLES:RECT.WINDOWS", **LatLong:** "49.733336 3.766667", **LatLongDMS:** "49:44:00 N 03:46:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.733336,3.766667)", **State/Prov:** "Aisne", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3435 (85F56B01) **Date:** 8/27/1938 **Description:** A 30-meter long fuselage-shaped object flew toward the west over Marle-sur-Serre, France at six o'clock in the evening. It turned toward the north at an estimated speed of 250 kilometers per hour. It had rectangular windows and made a whistling sound. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 169 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5386 ### Event 3436 (E77BF1BA) **Date:** 9/4/1938 (approximate) **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** SOMERVILLE, MA **Description:** Thin silver blimp going west very low overhead. Thin figure(s) move / portholes. Going [to] clouds. / r65p17. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO ROUNDUP weekly email of UFO news: Joseph Trainor. http://www.digiserve.com/ufoinfo/roundup/ .. (Index 298) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_434 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "SOMERVILLE,MA:THIN SLVR BLIMP >W VLO OVHD:THIN FIGs MOVE/PORTS:>CLOUDS:/r65p17", **LatLong:** "42.400002 -71.100003", **LatLongDMS:** "42:24:00 N 71:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.400002,-71.100003)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 3437 (9D8BC68C) **Date:** Autumn 1938 **Location:** ESTONIA, Juminda **Description:** (Translated from French) Two people reportedly saw at this time an astonishing "frog-man" one meter tall, with a round head, no neck and some kind of hump on the front of the body. The mouth was only a straight slit and the eyes were very narrow, almond-shaped. The skin was olive-colored, tending towards brown, but the hands were normal. The creature moved by nodding its head up and down, while the legs seemed to hesitate to move. As soon as it felt pursued, the thing accelerated so quickly that its feet became invisible. After 100 m of running, this creature completely disappeared. (1938, Autumn (or 1939)) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 254 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_951 ### Event 3438 (F64F3868) **Date:** Fall 1938 **Location:** Juminda, Estonia **Description:** Two persons saw a strange "frog-man" 1 m tall with a round head, no neck, and a hump in front of the body. The mouth was a large, straight slit, the eyes were like smaller slits. (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_117 ### Event 3439 (8DAEA1C4) **Date:** Fall 1938 **Location:** Juminda, Estonian coast **Description:** (Or following year.) Two persons saw a strange "frog-man" 1 m tall with a round head, no neck, and a hump in front of the body. The mouth was a large, straight slit, the eyes were like smaller slits. The skin was brown-green, compared to pegamoid, hands normal. The creature walked in a peculiar "but elegant" fashion, the head waving up and down while the legs moved "carefully." When pursued, the creature accelerated very fast, with feet "fluttering." About 100 m away it vanished completely'. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_49 ### Event 3440 (FB2F148E) **Date:** 10/1938 **Location:** Alger, Ohio **Description:** Dusk. A man is in a cornfield with his father near Alger, Ohio, when an object moves up and hovers about 500 feet above the field. The tractor motor stops running. The object is about 100 feet in diameter and has a ring of pulsating, multicolored lights around it. Soon it makes a right-angle turn and vanishes in the sky, after which they get the tractor working again. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael D. Swords, “The Timmerman Files,” IUR 26, no. 4 \(Winter 2001–2002\): 14 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_510 ### Event 3441 (9E577799) **Date:** 10/15/1938 (approximate) **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** WOLFVILLE, NS **Description:** College girl. Silent manta saucer east going quickly west. Horizon to horizon / 10 second(s). No trail etc. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LEDGER, Don: MARITIME UFO FILES: 1998 Nimbus Publ. Ltd. Halifax, NS. ISBN 1-55109-269-7 162pp. trade paper. (Index 16) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_435 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "95", **HatchDesc:** "WOLFVILLE,NS:COLLEGE GIRL:SLNT MANTA SCR E>>W:HRZN to HRZN/10sec:no trail etc", **LatLong:** "45.083335 -64.383336", **LatLongDMS:** "45:05:00 N 64:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.083335,-64.383336)", **State/Prov:** "Nova Scotia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3442 (6FE52FD5) **Date:** 10/22/1938 **Description:** Italian Lt. Col. [Mario Pezzi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario%5FPezzi%5F%28aviator%29) reaches a record altitude of 56,850 feet in a Caproni Ca.161. It is still the highest a manned, propeller-driven biplane has gone. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Mario Pezzi \(aviator\)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario%5FPezzi%5F%28aviator%29)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_511 ### Event 3443 (EDEA34C0) **Date:** 10/30/1938 **Location:** New York City, New York **Description:** Orson Welles “War of the Worlds” radio broadcast performed and broadcast live over the CBS Radio Network. The episode is famous for inciting a panic by convincing some members of the listening audience that a Martian invasion was taking place, though the scale of panic is disputed. **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1938_radio_drama)) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_48 ### Event 3444 (E00AD063) **Date:** 10/30/1938 **Location:** USA **Description:** (Translated from French) Actor Orson Welles reads and tells on the radio the drama "The War of the Worlds" based on the book by H.G. Wells. It was a total success: for many listeners the imaginary piece became a reality and in panic thousands of Americans fled their homes out of fear of the invasion of extraterrestrials. **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_950 ### Event 3445 (4F0D3C6A) **Date:** 10/30/1938 **Locations:** New York City; US; Germany; Russia **Description:** 8:00 p.m. “The War of the Worlds” episode of the American radio drama anthology series The Mercury Theatre on the Air, directed and narrated by actor and future filmmaker [Orson Welles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson%5FWelles), is an adaptation of [H. G.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.%5FG.%5FWells) [Wells](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.%5FG.%5FWells)’s novel The War of the Worlds \(1898\). It is performed and broadcast live in New York City as a Halloween episode over the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network. The episode becomes famous for allegedly causing panic among its listening audience, though the scale of that panic is disputed as the program has relatively few listeners. In the days after the adaptation, widespread outrage is expressed in the media. The program’s news-bulletin format is described as deceptive by some newspapers and public figures, leading to an outcry against the broadcasters and calls for regulation by the FCC, which declines. Some government agencies in the US, Germany, and Russia take note of how segments of the population are easily manipulated into thinking fiction is fact. According to [Annie Jacobsen,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie%5FJacobsen) the confusion allegedly inspires [Joseph Stalin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FStalin) to create a similar scenario with a fake alien crash in the US. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[The War of the Worlds](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%5FWar%5Fof%5Fthe%5FWorlds%5F%281938%5Fradio%5Fdrama%29) [\(1938 radio drama\)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%5FWar%5Fof%5Fthe%5FWorlds%5F%281938%5Fradio%5Fdrama%29)”; John Gosling, Waging the War of the Worlds: A History of the 1938 Radio Broadcast and Resulting Panic, Including the Original Script, McFarland, 2009; Jacobsen, Area 51, [pp. 22](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/22/mode/2up), [211](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/210/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_512 ### Event 3446 (DFC301D9) **Date:** 11/20/1938 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Pont-Saint-Vincent, J. Bessemoulin, head of the Nancy-Essey ONM station, observed an ovoid object, with a brightness and diameter comparable to that of the Moon, slowly progressing while leaving behind a luminous trail for 1'15". The object emitted a faint whistle, had mauve stripes in front of its round front, and pale blue flames at its conical back. Drawing identical to that of Chamonix, on March 16. (November 20, 5 PM) **Reference:** BSAF 1938 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1938.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_451 ### Event 3447 (A64246EA) **Date:** 12/1938 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The disk recovered by the Germans in July/August 1937 is brought into the hands of the highest German scientists north of Munich. In the surrounding mountains an old salt mine is converted into a facility to study and reproduce, as much as possible, the device. It quickly becomes apparent that this vessel is not a top secret apparatus of any other nation on Earth. The Nazi scientists have incredible success in dissecting and understanding the vessel and its contents. No other nation is aware. (December) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1938.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_452 ### Event 3448 (7FC7E474) **Date:** 12/1938 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) *Canadian Radio Act*. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1938.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_453 ### Event 3449 (B7313ECC) **Date:** 12/1938 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) \(Or 1939\) In Juminda, Estonia, an object 1 m long and brown-greenish was followed by 2 observers until it suddenly disappeared. **Reference:** Vallée, Passport to Magonia, page 189 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1938.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_454 ### Event 3450 (36ABA673) **Date:** End of 1938 **Location:** ITALY, **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the small single-seater fighter I.A.R. 80 with a wingspan of 10m and a length of 8.16m, maximum speed 550 km/h, operational ceiling 10500m, 950 km range. 250 of these aircraft were built, half of which survived until 1949. (1938, end of year) **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 edition **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_949 ### Event 3451 (04E62AA0) **Date:** 12/17/1938 **Locations:** Berlin, Germany; Kaiser Wilhelm Institut für Chemie **Description:** The process of nuclear fission is discovered by chemist [Otto Hahn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto%5FHahn) and his assistant [Fritz Strassmann](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz%5FStrassmann) at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institut für Chemie in Berlin, Germany, producing barium by bombarding uranium with neutrons. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Atomic Heritage Foundation, “[Atomic Timeline](https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/timeline)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_513 --- ## Year: 1939, 41 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 3452 (1B44B986) **Date:** 1939 **End date:** 1941 **Location:** Antartica **Description:** Richard E. Byrd’s third Antarctic expedition. President Roosevelt asked Byrd to command the U.S. Antarctic programme. This time they again used the Little America base but also set up on Stonington Island, near the Antarctic Peninsula. This expedition would complete extensive studies of Antarctic geology, biology, meteorology and continue exploring new areas. Due to the impending involvement of America in the Second World War, Byrd was recalled to active duty in 1940 and assigned to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. The expedition continued without him. **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://captainantarctica.com.au/exploration/admiral-byrd/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_50 ### Event 3453 (35349DE2) **Date:** 1939 **Location:** CHINA, Wu T'ai **Description:** (Translated from French) An English tourist visiting near Wu T'ai, a sacred Chinese mountain near the Himalayas, observed a formation of luminous balls in the sky. John Blofeld saw countless fiery spheres moving a few tens of meters away from him. The inhabitants of the region were not particularly surprised, as such phenomena occurred relatively frequently in the country, most often between midnight and 2:00 a.m. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 256 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_961 ### Event 3454 (127D4429) **Date:** 1939 (approximate) **Location:** GERMANY **Description:** (Translated from French) German engineer Andreas Epp declares: "I absolutely do not believe in the 'saucers' that come to us from Mars or Venus, but on the other hand, I believe in mine, those that I have built myself, or those that I intend to build. (...) The idea of making engines resembling two overlapping plates, the hollow part inside - was exploited by the military aeronautical offices. (...) Italian, Russian, German, and English technicians built kinds of bombs launched by means of special catapults. These weapons appeared during the Spanish Civil War. They were quickly stopped using because of the lack of precision of their shots. (...) Andreas Epp imagined a plate with eight propellers for suspension and two jet engines for flight, while Schriever and Habermohl built a vehicle consisting of a central pilot cabin, surrounded by a wide and flat ring. This ring rotated at a fantastic speed. It was made up of segments to which the desired inclination was given by maneuvering the device. Miethe and Belluzo invented flying saucers 42 meters in diameter, the edges of which were equipped with adjustable reactors. [continued on February 14, 1945 - Prague] [invention that all this, there were no more German saucers than Congolese rockets...] (1939-1940?) **Reference:** Peter KOLOSIMO: "Shadows on the Stars" - Albin Michel 1970, p. 323, 324 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_962 ### Event 3455 (EE1835AC) **Date:** 1939 **Location:** USSR **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the Petlyakov PE-2, attack bomber, speed 504 km/h, ceiling 8800 m range with normal load of 830kg of armament 1200 KM. **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, Author Bill Gunston, Edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_963 ### Event 3456 (40605751) **Date:** 1939 **Location:** USSR **Description:** (Translated from French) In 1939 the USSR attempted to launch liquid-fueled rockets. These rockets had two stages. **Reference:** "Astronautics" Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 11 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_964 ### Event 3457 (55A4633C) **Date:** 1939 **Location:** USA, unspecified location **Description:** (Translated from French) In his book Dana Howard claims to have had a first sighting (of the Venusian extraterrestrial: Diane) in 1939. [followed in 1953, USA, unspecified location] **Reference:** Jean SIDER: "Ovni, les envahisseurs démasqués", ed. RAMUEL 1999, p 78 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_965 ### Event 3458 (4B2C6E21) **Date:** 1939? **Locations:** Washington, D.C.; Greenwich, Ohio **Description:** Sisters [Lucile](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42196628/anna-lucile-andrew) and [Allene Holt](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/137657953/margaret-allene-gramly)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/137657953/margaret-allene-gramly) daughters of Rev. [Turner Hamilton Holt](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30140414/turner-hamilton-holt), claim they are separately told by their father, a cousin of Secretary of State [Cordell Hull](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordell%5FHull)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordell%5FHull) that Hull personally showed Holt a wrecked circular craft of some kind and glass jars holding unknown creatures. These are stored in a sub-basement of the US Capitol building in Washington, D.C. Both sisters are told the story when Holt is a minister at the Shenandoah Christian Church in Greenwich, Ohio, before 1947, but researchers can find no confirmation in any of Hull’s papers or memoirs. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** William E. Jones and Eloise G. Watson, “Pre–World War II ‘Creature’ Retrieval?” IUR 26, no. 4 \(Winter 2001–2002\): 6–9, 12 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_514 ### Event 3459 (D97365DC) **Date:** 1/1939 **Location:** JAPAN **Description:** (Translated from French) First flight of the long-range escort aircraft (at first) Kawasaki KI-45 Toryu, 540 km/h, ceiling 10000m, range 2000 km. **Reference:** Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_954 ### Event 3460 (D056EC4D) **Date:** 1/13/1939 **Location:** Stockholm, Sweden **Description:** The process of nuclear fission is explained theoretically in Stockholm, Sweden, by [Lise Meitner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise%5FMeitner) and her nephew [Otto Robert Frisch,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto%5FRobert%5FFrisch) who compares it to the biological fission of living cells. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Atomic Heritage Foundation, “[Atomic Timeline](https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/timeline)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_515 ### Event 3461 (8BB642F9) **Date:** 1/25/1939 **Locations:** Columbia University; Pupin Hall; New York City **Description:** A Columbia University team conducts the first nuclear fission experiment in the US in the basement of Pupin Hall on the south side of 120th Street in New York City. The experiment involves placing uranium oxide inside an ionization chamber and irradiating it with neutrons, then measuring the energy released. The results confirm that fission is occurring and hints strongly that it is the isotope uranium-235 that is undergoing fission. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Simon & Schuster, 1986, [pp. 267–270](https://archive.org/details/makingofatomicbo00rhod/page/266/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_516 ### Event 3462 (8B1C8F99) **Date:** 1/26/1939 **Locations:** Carnegie Institution of Washington; Fifth Washington Conference on Theoretical Physics; D.C. **Description:** The Carnegie Institution of Washington holds a press conference at the Fifth Washington Conference on Theoretical Physics in D.C. to announce the discovery of nuclear fission. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Atomic Heritage Foundation, “[Atomic](https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/timeline) [Timeline](https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/timeline)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_517 ### Event 3463 (583A3408) **Date:** 2/1939 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) An American steamship, the *Tulsa*, picks up distress messages from a ship communicating: Here, P.E.C.C., P.E.C.C. We have just been attacked by an unknown submarine. S. O. S., S. O. S., S. O. S... 2 ships immediately head towards the source of the calls which is located about 550 km south of the Azores. It is the British steamship *Empress of Australia* and the Greek cargo ship *Mont Pelion*. When they arrive at the scene of the drama, they find nothing. No wreckage, no boats, no corpses or injured, no traces of oil or fuel. The two ships then form spirals on the sea, increasingly wider. They send radio messages without interruption. In vain. An investigation takes place: no submarine was in this region at the time of the drama. The distress calls had lasted only a few moments. Fishermen, in Horta, near the Azores, bring testimonies contradicting the official statements that this disappeared ship had never existed and that the radio operators had been victims of an error of interpretation. These fishermen had observed mysterious shapes resembling submarines on the surface in the vicinity of the disappearance. (February) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1939.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_455 ### Event 3464 (8A4EAC0F) **Date:** 2/1939 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In China, paleontologist and science-fiction writer [Ivan Efremov](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/ScienceFiction.html) sees dinosaur skulls pierced with a neat hole, which he describes as the hole of a bullet. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1939.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_456 ### Event 3465 (B06A9E3C) **Date:** Spring 1939 **Location:** JAMAICA **Description:** (Translated from French) The British War Office was preparing a serious war machine which proved to be among the most effective weapons of the war and whose secret was not revealed until 1944. This first rocket was developed after seven years of experimentation by Dr. Alwyn Douglas Crow, director of ballistic research at the Woolwich Arsenal. His tests were carried out in Jamaica. Modestly called UP (Non-Rotating Projectile) it was ready just in time for the Blitz of the summer and autumn of 1940. About 1.20m long and 76mm in diameter, they had the explosive power of an anti-aircraft shell of 94mm. Propelled by a tubular charge of cordite pellets, they were fired in salvos of six, by means of a crude launching device called the "Z Gun" or "Mattress" (1939, Spring) **Reference:** "Assault on Space" Georges H. Gallet, ed. of Modern Thought, p. 38, 39 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_955 ### Event 3466 (C63C9404) **Date:** 6/1939 **Time:** 11:00 **Location:** MT. BAYARD, 39, FR **Description:** M. Tabard / 13. Metallic top-saucer spins / spinning sound. West going east. Turns going quickly north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 308) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_436 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "Mt.BAYARD,39,FR:M.TABARD/13:MTLC TOP-SCR SPINS/SPINNING SOUND:W > E:TURNS>>N", **LatLong:** "46.400002 5.883334", **LatLongDMS:** "46:24:00 N 05:53:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.400002,5.883334)", **State/Prov:** "Jura", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3467 (2FCF0694) **Date:** Summer 1939 **Location:** Germany, Essen **Description:** (Translated from French) A most strange event occurred in the city of Essen. At rush hour, all that was electric or mechanical stopped - cars, buses, trams, motorcycles, clocks. (...) At the most anxious moment of this stoppage which lasted ten minutes, no car could give the slightest honk. (1939, Summer) **Reference:** Leonard STRINGFIELD: "General UFO Alert" ed. France - Empire, 1978, p. 105 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_957 ### Event 3468 (208498F9) **Date:** Summer 1939 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Sandefjord \(Norway\), Mrs. Edvardsen and her friend\(s\) saw at 300 or 400 m 3 or 4 luminous objects towards the North. The objects were as big as a barn, and moved like insects. Their color was described as the fire of a cigarette. (During the War, Summer, Late Afternoon) **Reference:** Letter from Arne Foss, 22 Oct 1977 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1939.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_462 ### Event 3469 (13D053FF) **Date:** 7/1939 **Location:** Unknown City, PA **Description:** Resembled a modern day jet airliner without wings; weird glow (Page 14 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_118 ### Event 3470 (654FD1F1) **Date:** 8/1939 **Location:** Germany **Description:** The turbojet powered Heinkel He 178, the world’s first jet aircraft, made its first flight **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_aircraft) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_49 ### Event 3471 (5AA0380F) **Date:** 8/1939 **Location:** ESSEN, GERMANY **Description:** Everything mechanical and electric stops / 10 minute(s). Even car horns. No UFO seen. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** STRINGFIELD, Leonard: SITUATION RED - The UFO Siege. Fawcett Crest, NY 1977 (Index 94) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_437 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NFO:** No craft seen, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "ESSEN,GERMANY:EVERYTHING MECH+ELECTRIC STOPS/10min:EVEN CAR HORNS:NO UFO SEEN", **LatLong:** "51.433336 6.983334", **LatLongDMS:** "51:26:00 N 06:59:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.433336,6.983334)", **State/Prov:** "NRW", **Strangeness:** "13" ### Event 3472 (C946F841) **Date:** 8/2/1939 **Location:** Washington DC **Description:** Einstein’s atomic bomb warning letter to President Roosevelt stating "it may be possible to set up a nuclear chain reaction in a large mass of uranium, by which vast amounts of power and large quantities of new radium-like elements would be generated. Now it appears almost certain that this could be achieved in the immediate future... This new phenomenon would also lead to the construction of bombs" **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://www.atomicarchive.com/resources/documents/beginnings/einstein.html) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_51 **Attributes:** Einstein ### Event 3473 (30743A76) **Date:** Early 8/1939 **Locations:** Armășești, Romania; Bucharest **Description:** George Pârvu and four other schoolchildren are playing in an open field in Armășești, Romania, when they see a bright light in the sky moving in a zigzag fashion. It circles a few times then descends in their direction, getting bigger and brighter. The egg-shaped object hovers silently at an altitude of 230–260 feet. Suddenly it becomes a dull coppery color and lands about 140 feet away. Two of the children flee but Pârvu and two others remain. The bottom of the object has a ring of small turbine blades that look like paddles in a water mill. It seems to be 16 feet high. A hatch opens and two little men about 4 feet tall come out, dressed in gray diving suits. They walk toward the children, one of them holding a rectangular box pointing at the ground. The children approach them, holding hands, but when they are about 23 feet away the other man points a thick stick-like device at them and they are no longer able to move forward. The little men bow in their direction, waist deep, then turn around and reenter the object, which takes off. The children find a circular area of yellowed grass where the object had been. Pârvu feels energized, but one of the other boys is temporarily sick. Pârvu encounters what he perceives to be the same object in August 1944, August 1949, and the summer of 1954 \(in the center of Bucharest\). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** George Pârvu, La voia destinului, CNI Coresi, 2011; Romania 124–128 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_519 ### Event 3474 (B46B63D4) **Date:** 8/2/1939 **Locations:** Hungary; Germany; United States **Description:** Hungarian-American physicist [Leo Szilárd](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo%5FSzilard) writes a confidential letter to [President Roosevelt,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%5FD.%5FRoosevelt) in consultation with fellow Hungarian physicists [Edward Teller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FTeller) and [Eugene Wigner.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene%5FWigner) He has persuaded [Albert Einstein](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%5FEinstein) to sign it as well. The letter warns that Germany might develop atomic bombs and suggests that the United States should start its own nuclear program. It results in the establishment of research into nuclear fission by the US government, and ultimately to the creation of the Manhattan Project. Delayed by the outbreak of war in Europe, the letter is eventually hand-delivered to Roosevelt by economist [Alexander Sachs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%5FSachs) on October 11. Roosevelt gives the letter to his aide, Brig. Gen. [Edwin “Pa” Watson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin%5F%22Pa%22%5FWatson) with the instruction: “Pa, this requires action!” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Einstein–Szilard letter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein%E2%80%93Szil%C3%A1rd%5Fletter)”; Atomic Heritage Foundation, “[Atomic Timeline](https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/timeline)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_520 ### Event 3475 (18CFB218) **Date:** Late Summer 1939 **Location:** USA, San Diego (California) **Description:** (Translated from French) A military transport was leaving the San Diego (California) airbase for a routine flight to Honolulu. Three hours later, various distress calls from the plane were received, then silence. Later the plane was found, having made a forced landing. When the base personnel entered the aircraft, they found the crew dead, including the pilot (having survived long enough to land). Author KEEL continues: "each body showed large gaping wounds and those who touched the outside of the plane were affected by a mysterious skin infection. One of the most unusual aspects was that the charges of the 45 automatic weapons were missing, and the shells were found on the ground. An odor of rotten eggs pervaded the plane. [note from vog: wow! so many shells fired plus the smell of some corpses... Jerome Clark and John Keel, inspired by an old fiction story in a 1939 magazine to establish this incredible story... Flying Saucer Review] (1939, late summer) **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_958 ### Event 3476 (6A661B05) **Date:** Late Summer 1939 **Location:** Fort Worth, Texas **Description:** A girl sleeping in the back yard of her home in Fort Worth, Texas, is awakened by a whirring noise. She sees a small object approaching from the east at an altitude of 20–30 feet. When it gets close, it descends to the level of her bed and hovers briefly at the foot, so close that she can touch it. It has the shape of an “old-time Mississippi steamboat with a deck around the bottom.” Strata or veins run through it, and a soft, blue-green glow surrounds it. It is 3 feet around and 1 foot high. It rises suddenly and disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Woman Says Strange Object](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92336504/) [Flew by Her Bed in Yard,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92336504/)” Fort Worth \(Tex.\) Star-Telegram, March 24, 1950, p. 23; Clark III 1176 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_518 ### Event 3477 (BBB8DCFB) **Date:** 8/27/1939 **Location:** GERMANY, Rostock **Description:** (Translated from French) Since April 1936 working on the construction of a reactor (...) the test flight, at the factory, of this first German reaction aircraft, the HE 178, took place on ASugust 27. The aircraft was only for experimental purposes. **Reference:** "Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" -Hans K. Kaiser, Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 117, 118 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_956 ### Event 3478 (90C63554) **Date:** 8/27/1939 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Less than a week before the start of the war, Germany enters the era of jet aviation with the first flight of the Heinkel He-178. (August 27) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1939.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_457 ### Event 3479 (B16705C9) **Date:** 8/27/1939 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Kristiansand \(Norway\), Linnea observed a bright cross in the western sky. **Reference:** \[UFO-NYT, 4/1969, 162\] \[Liljegren: A bibliography of references to UFO incidents during World War II, 1987, 2\] **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1939.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_458 ### Event 3480 (1DCDFD06) **Date:** 9/1/1939 **End date:** 9/2/1945 **Description:** World War 2 **Type:** war **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_52 ### Event 3481 (16FD5E68) **Date:** Autumn 1939 (approximate) **Location:** NORWAY, Roskeland/Osteroy **Description:** (Translated from French) Berit Clemmensen and Dagveig Berntsen - both aged 12 to 13 at the time - were walking home together on a dark and damp evening. A strange light illuminated the area around them for a few seconds. It was a peculiar light, unlike any they had seen before. They felt as if they were "trapped" in the light and could not determine its source or from which direction it was coming. They were both excited and scared, but the phenomenon did not last long. They remember that it was raining and there was a kind of fog. (1939 (1940?) Autumn) **Reference:** UFO, 1/1992, 11; 2/1992, 9. Listing by Ole Jonny Braenne **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_960 ### Event 3482 (B7DD49EF) **Date:** Autumn 1939 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Røskeland/Osterøy \(Norway\), Berit Clemmensen and Dagveig Berntsen - both aged around 12-13 at this time - witnessed the surrounding area getting lighted when walking home one dark and moist evening. The strange light lasted for a few seconds, and was unlike any other kind of light they knew. They felt themselves enclosed by this light, and they were unable to determine its source or direction. They were very afraid and excited when the light finally disappeared. There were rain and fog this evening. (Autumn (or Autumn 1940)) **Reference:** UFO, 1/1992, 11; 2/1992, 9 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1939.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_459 ### Event 3483 (5031C349) **Date:** Autumn 1939 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) *Canadian Official Secret Act*. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1939.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_460 ### Event 3484 (258AA221) **Date:** Autumn 1939 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Otterøy/Namsfjorden \(Norway\), Lorentz Johnsen saw on the island small discs or luminous balls, capable of performing evasive maneuvers. (During the war) **Reference:** UFO-NYT, 2/1973, 56 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1939.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_461 ### Event 3485 (CB2712E0) **Date:** 10/1939 **Location:** Wisconsin Rapids, WI **Description:** Egg-shaped object with spots like portholes observed through an astronomical reflector telescope. (Ref. 3; Report in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_119 ### Event 3486 (06480191) **Date:** 10/1939 **Location:** Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin **Description:** An egg-shaped object with 8 spots like portholes is observed through an astronomical reflector telescope at Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold, UFO Research Coalition, 2007, p. 17 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_521 ### Event 3487 (03EB5BF8) **Date:** 10/21/1939 **Locations:** Washington, D.C.; National Bureau of Standards; Carnegie Institution of Washington; Columbia University **Description:** After reading [Szilárd](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo%5FSzilard)’s letter, [Roosevelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%5FD.%5FRoosevelt) creates an Advisory Committee on Uranium, which meets for the first time at the National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C. The committee consists of NBS Director [Lyman James Briggs,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyman%5FJames%5FBriggs) Army Lt. Col. [Keith F. Adamson,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8789273/keith-frazee-adamson) and Navy Cmdr. [Gilbert C. Hoover.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert%5FC.%5FHoover) It is attended by physicists [Fred L. Mohler](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/149090915/fred-l-mohler) from the National Bureau of Standards and [Richard Brooke Roberts](http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/roberts-richard-b.pdf) from the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and Szilárd, [Wigner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene%5FWigner), and [Teller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FTeller). [Einstein](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%5FEinstein) is invited but declines to attend. Adamson is skeptical about the prospect of building an atomic bomb, but is willing to authorize $6,000 \(equivalent to $107,000 in 2018 dollars\) for the purchase of uranium and graphite for Szilárd and [Enrico Fermi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico%5FFermi)’s experiments into producing a nuclear chain reaction at Columbia University. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[S-1 Executive Committee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-1%5FExecutive%5FCommittee)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_522 ### Event 3488 (C2C9341C) **Date:** 11/10/1939 **Location:** CHINA **Description:** (Translated from French) After the fall of Nanking, a regiment of three thousand men commanded by Colonel Li Fu Sien was sent to stop the advance of the Japanese. The regiment completely disappeared and its radios stopped transmitting. Weapons and traces of campfires were found. **Reference:** Jacques BERGIER: "Les E.T. dans l'Histoire" - J'AI LU- 1970 - p. 151, 152 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_959 ### Event 3489 (B3F98CB8) **Date:** 11/13/1939 **Time:** ~06:00 **Location:** BROCKWORTH, GLOUCS, ENG **Description:** Humming. Grey bell-shape over field. Solid green light retracts! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RANDLES, Jenny & Warrington, P.: SCIENCE and the UFO'S; Basil Blackwell, NY 1985 (Index 3) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_438 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "84", **HatchDesc:** "BROCKWORTH,GLOUCs,ENG:HUM:GRY BELL-SHAPE ovr FIELD:SOLID GRN LIGHT RETRACTS!", **LatLong:** "51.844447 -2.150000", **LatLongDMS:** "51:50:40 N 02:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.844447,-2.150000)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 3490 (7F8C13E6) **Date:** 11/13/1939 **Location:** Brockworth, UK **Description:** Motorist heard high-pitched humming sound, saw a gray bell-shaped object hovering over a field, dark window-like patches visible on its side. (Ref. 3; Jenny Randles & Peter Warrington, Sience & The UFOs, 1985, p. 3.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_120 ### Event 3491 (5DEFCAD9) **Date:** 11/13/1939 **Location:** Brockworth, Gloucester, England **Description:** 7:00 a.m. A building foreman is driving past a deserted farm near Brockworth, Gloucester, England, when he hears a high-pitched humming sound. He watches a gray, bell-shaped object hovering about 20 feet above a field 100 feet away. He estimates it is about 25 feet across. Dark window-like patches are visible on the side. A “curtain” of blue-green light emanates from the underside. After about two minutes, the green light retracts into the base of the object. The object then tilts to an angle of about 80° and moves away without a sound. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jenny Randles and Peter Warrington, Science and the UFOs, Basil Blackwell, 1985, [p. 3](https://archive.org/details/scienceufos0000rand/page/2/mode/2up); Jenny Randles, “Beam Me Up,” Fortean Times 381 \(July 2019\): 29–30 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_523 ### Event 3492 (72F93390) **Date:** 11/13/1939 **Description:** In 1939 a building foreman drove past a deserted farm in the early morning in Brockworth, England 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. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO reports in the Early 20th Century, p. 17 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7623 --- ## Year: 1940, 43 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 3493 (8C3C95B4) **Date:** 1940 **Location:** FRANCE, Toulx-Sainte-Croix (Creuse) **Description:** (Translated from French) M. B. was awoken by an intense light that illuminated his room. Going to the window, he saw a luminous globe moving slowly and silently to the north of the village. The size of a full moon, the object then moved in various directions, stopping from time to time. The inside of the globe was dotted with multicolored luminous points. It remained visible for about half an hour. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p.257 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_966 ### Event 3494 (C9C57A0C) **Date:** 1940 **Location:** CANADA, Dalesville (Québec) **Description:** (Translated from French) Walter and William Gunn were observing at around 10:30 PM, a luminous object rising from a hill about 350 m away from them. With an apparent size equivalent to a full moon, this body seemed to be the lower part of a much larger dark mass on which two or three small lights were also visible. With a regular noise, it rose at an estimated speed of 80 km/h above the witnesses, brightly illuminated some nearby barns and disappeared between the mountain peaks. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p.259 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_970 ### Event 3495 (FA4F4F39) **Date:** 1940 **Location:** ZAIRE (then Belgian Congo), Kisangani (formerly Stanleyville) **Description:** (Translated from French) M. Bracoval was suddenly woken from his sleep in the middle of the night. More than two thousand people in the bush were thus awakened by the noise that echoed for 60 km around. For the next half hour, it was as bright as day. What is more curious is that all the clocks and watches stopped at the precise time of the phenomenon and many of them never worked correctly again. The next day, bush runners were dispatched, but nothing abnormal was detected. (November/December 1940) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p.259 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_971 ### Event 3496 (A39F1D17) **Date:** 1940 **Location:** USA, Montana **Description:** (Translated from French) (Author: Warren P. Aston) Case Udo Wartena, unpublished until 1997. Landing of a large vessel and conversation of two hours with humanoid beings explaining their mission, personal details, the propulsion system capable of going faster than light. **Reference:** Mufon Ufo Journal n° 353, p. 16, Sept. 97 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_973 ### Event 3497 (BD4B4455) **Date:** 1940 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Re-election of [Roosevelt](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/RooseveltFranklinDelano.html) to the Presidency of the United States. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1940.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_463 ### Event 3498 (EFE7BAA9) **Date:** 1940 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) [James Forrestal](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/ForrestalJamesVincent.html) is the United States Secretary of [Navy](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/USNavy.html). **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1940.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_464 ### Event 3499 (F4DE223E) **Date:** 1940 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The yacht *Gloria Colite*, from Saint-Vincent, is discovered in the Gulf of Mexico, completely deserted. Everything is in order and the sea was calm. The investigators admit they are powerless to find an explanation: Nothing indicated the cause of the abandonment. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1940.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_465 ### Event 3500 (738A833D) **Date:** 1940 **Description:** Astronomer Royal [Harold Spencer Jones](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%5FSpencer%5FJones) publishes Life on Other Worlds, an essay on the cosmos, the possibility of life arising, science’s tools, the development of the Earth, solar system bodies without atmospheres, the giant gas planets, Venus, Mars, the origin of solar systems, and possibilities for life beyond the solar system. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** H. Spencer Jones, [Life on Other Worlds](https://archive.org/details/lifeonotherworld031516mbp)[,](https://archive.org/details/lifeonotherworld031516mbp) Macmillan, 1940; Michael D. Swords, “SETI/ETI and UFOs,” JUFOS 5 \(1994\): 141–142 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_524 ### Event 3501 (E5DBD353) **Date:** 1940 **Location:** Hinsdale, Illinois **Description:** A man saw five disc-shaped aircraft flying overhead at 100-200 mph. They entered a cloud and didn't emerge on the other side. (Chapter 7, Ref. 234) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_225 ### Event 3502 (22831A64) **Date:** 1940 **Location:** Montana **Description:** In 1940, a Montana miner reported an encounter with a UFO near Helena. He described the craft as a 100-foot disc, resembling two soup plates of stainless steel. A staircase descended, and a man emerged, asking to draw water from a nearby stream. Invited onboard, the miner was told by the occupants they were 609 years old from a distant planet. Their ship used hydrogen from water as fuel and created its gravitational field with flywheels. After the meeting, he watched the craft ascend and depart rapidly. (Chapter 7, Ref 304) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_295 ### Event 3503 (9DEC7438) **Date:** 1940 **Location:** St. Clair, PA **Description:** A young man encountered an apparent UFO and its small occupants while walking on a rural road. Drawn by a loud sound from nearby woods, he saw an "aluminum building" where none should be. Nearby, he noticed "six small men" searching the ground. Upon returning later, both the beings and the object had disappeared. (Chapter 7, Ref 305) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_296 ### Event 3504 (258FE37A) **Date:** 1/8/1940 **Location:** Canada, near Lake Abitibi **Description:** (Translated from French) (Note from vog: brief summary) L. Hormidas and Damase Landry were around 2:30 in the afternoon and -60° Fahrenheit on an expedition, snowshoeing through the snow. First they saw a nearly white wolf come out of the pine forest, the wolf stopped and sat on the snow looking at the pine forest from where it came. It was less than 35 meters away from the witnesses. Six small men, all the same, dressed in dark green, with slanted eyes and yellowish faces, came out of the woods. The wolf was bristling. The small men didn't seem to see the witnesses. They turned towards the wolf and pointed at it. They spoke very quickly among themselves. One of them advanced, up to a few feet from the wolf, raised his hand while pronouncing words. The wolf threw itself at the small man and tore him apart: limbs, entrails, all of it fell on the snow. No steam or vapor rose from the killed being, the 5 survivors didn't move and watched. Their breath didn't make any vapor either. Damase threw a dead branch towards the wolf which left howling. One of the small men took out a kind of bag from his clothing and started to gather the scattered pieces of the small creature killed. L. Hormidas, unable to take it anymore, vomited from disgust. The 5 small men left towards the pine forest. The two witnesses put on their snowshoes and followed them. It was easy: they left very small marks in the snow. They arrived at a big hollow in the ground, free of snow, and the tracks stopped there. On their way back to the scene of the drama, Damase found a small gelatinous rubber piece of the same color as the creatures' clothing. He wanted to give a piece to Hormidas, but he was unable to, even with an axe, cut it in two. (1940, January 8th to 10th) **Reference:** Jean FERGUSON: "Enigmes du temps présent" éd. Leméac, Ottawa, 19 79, p. 75 à 82 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_967 ### Event 3505 (B9DCB63B) **Date:** 3/1940 **Locations:** Laguna Beach; Valley Center, California; Palomar Observatory **Description:** [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) moves from Laguna Beach to a property along the Star Route in Valley Center, California, about 9 miles from where Palomar Observatory is under construction to set up a spiritual retreat. He acquires a 15-inch telescope to create an interest in astronomy. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Palomar Mountain, 1940–1960: From Obscurity to World](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-life/mount-palomar/) [Fame,](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-life/mount-palomar/)” The Adamski Case, September 22, 2019 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_525 ### Event 3506 (12B58756) **Date:** 3/1940 **Locations:** US; Columbia University **Description:** US physicist [John R. Dunning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FR.%5FDunning) and colleagues at Columbia University verify the hypothesis of Danish physicist [Niels Bohr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels%5FBohr) that fission is more readily produced in the rare uranium-235 isotope than the abundant uranium-238 isotope. Dunning begins investigating gaseous diffusion as a process for enriching uranium. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Atomic Heritage Foundation, “[Atomic Timeline](https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/timeline)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_526 ### Event 3507 (6DFC3AA1) **Date:** 3/1940 **Locations:** University of Birmingham in England; Australia **Description:** [Otto Robert Frisch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto%5FRobert%5FFrisch) and [Rudolf Peierls,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf%5FPeierls) two researchers at the University of Birmingham in England—who ironically have been assigned to investigate nuclear weapons by Australian physicist [Mark Oliphant](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%5FOliphant) because, as enemy aliens in Britain, they are ineligible to participate in secret war work—issue the Frisch-Peierls memorandum. It contradicts the common thinking of the time that many tons of uranium would be needed to make a bomb, requiring delivery by ship. The calculation in the memorandum shows that a bomb might be possible using as little as 1–10 kilograms of pure uranium-235, which would be quite practical for aircraft to carry. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Frisch–Peierls memorandum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisch%E2%80%93Peierls%5Fmemorandum)”; Atomic Heritage Foundation, “[Atomic Timeline](https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/timeline) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_527 ### Event 3508 (239CF2DB) **Date:** Spring 1940 **Location:** Hinsdale, IL **Description:** William T. Powers (later associated with the Center for UFO Studies) saw five disc-shaped objects traveling at about 100-200 m.p.h. They disappeared into a cloud and did not re-emerge. (Ref. 3; Jerry Clark Encyclopedia, 1992, Vol. II, p. 380.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_121 ### Event 3509 (712FEDAB) **Date:** Spring 1940 **Location:** Hinsdale, Illinois **Description:** Afternoon. Walking down a street in Hinsdale, Illinois, William T. Powers sees five disc-shaped objects in the northern sky. They are traveling together at 100–200 mph and disappear into a cloud. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 1177 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_529 ### Event 3510 (0E428C78) **Date:** 3/22/1940 **Description:** [Franklin D. Roosevelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%5FD.%5FRoosevelt) signs Executive Order 8381, creating the three security levels for the most important documents: Restricted, Confidential, and Secret. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** US President, Executive Order No. 8381, “[Defining Certain](https://irp.fas.org/offdocs/eo/eo-8381.htm) [Vital Military and Naval Installations and Equipment,](https://irp.fas.org/offdocs/eo/eo-8381.htm)” March 22, 1940 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_528 ### Event 3511 (57BB7083) **Date:** 4/1940 (approximate) **Time:** ~14:00 **Location:** HINSDALE, IL **Description:** 1 observer. 5 disks / 200kph. Enter cloud.. never exit. No further details. / Letter to Hynek. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 18) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_439 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "221", **HatchDesc:** "HINSDALE,IL:1 OBS:5 DISKS/200kph:ENTER CLOUD..never exit:NFD:/Letter to Hynek", **LatLong:** "41.800002 -87.950004", **LatLongDMS:** "41:48:00 N 87:57:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.800002,-87.950004)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3512 (E74CD209) **Date:** 4/10/1940 **Locations:** England; Royal Society committee room in Burlington House, London **Description:** The first meeting of the MAUD Committee in England, established in response to the Frisch-Peierls memorandum to determine if an atomic bomb is feasible, meets in the Royal Society committee room in Burlington House, London. The original members are physicists [George Paget Thomson,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FPaget%5FThomson) [James Chadwick,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FChadwick) [John](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FCockcroft) [Cockcroft,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FCockcroft) [Mark Oliphant,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%5FOliphant) and [Philip Burton Moon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%5FBurton%5FMoon); physicists [Patrick Blackett,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%5FBlackett) [Charles Drummond](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FDrummond%5FEllis) [Ellis,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FDrummond%5FEllis) and chemist [Norman Haworth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman%5FHaworth) are subsequently added, along with a representative of the Director of Scientific Research at the Ministry of Aircraft Production \(MAP\). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[MAUD Committee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAUD%5FCommittee)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_530 ### Event 3513 (3B8C16F8) **Date:** Mid 5/1940 **Location:** Fairbank, Iowa **Description:** 9:00 a.m. [Lavern P. Zewiske](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/146523030/lavern-paul-zewiske) and his father [Paul](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/146523087/paul-edward-zewiske) are checking some recently planted corn on their farm near Fairbank, Iowa. A gray object with multiple hooked “hairs or tentacles” moving around on the bottom passes overhead at 500–1,000 feet. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Out of the Past,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1984-85%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV5.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 5 \(Oct./Nov. 1984\): 6 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_531 ### Event 3514 (FA2F5C72) **Date:** 5/16/1940 **Location:** BELGIUM, Liège **Description:** (Translated from French) Mr. and Mrs. Delsa, ambulance drivers, returning from a mission, in an ambulance, were driving along Quai St Léonard at around 2:00 a.m. "The night was dark, the blackout being in effect. That's when I saw in the sky a luminous shape like two overturned plates, very large, followed by a long tail of fire. The object must have been about 300 meters high and its diameter was twice that of the full moon. Seeing this thing rushing straight towards us, I screamed in fear and asked my husband to accelerate. At that moment the object deviated from its trajectory, the trail disappeared and it seemed to pause. I didn't know what to think anymore, I was trembling all over. The phenomenon soon resumed its initial trajectory and the luminous trail reappeared. It disappeared in the south, towards the center of Liège. My husband had stopped the ambulance to try to calm me down because I had started to cry out of fear. I beg you to believe that that night I did not close my eyes." (May 16, 1940) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p.257-258 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_968 ### Event 3515 (672F6A58) **Date:** 5/21/1940 **Description:** President [Franklin D. Roosevelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%5FD.%5FRoosevelt) authorizes the FBI to conduct electronic surveillance and wiretapping on US spies, saboteurs, or suspicious individuals. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Warrantless FBI Electronic Surveillance,](https://sites.google.com/site/cointelprodocs/warrantless-fbi-electronic-surveillance\#sec2b1)” US Senate, Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, Final Report, April 23, 1976, pp. 271–351 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_532 ### Event 3516 (D76E97DE) **Date:** 5/26/1940 **End date:** 6/4/1940 **Location:** Dunkirk **Description:** Dunkirk evacuation (Operation Dynamo) **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunkirk_evacuation) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_53 ### Event 3517 (831F2A3D) **Date:** 5/30/1940 **Time:** 06:00 **Location:** TOLEDO, OH **Description:** Dark ellipsoid going northeast. 90° turn. Sizzle sound. Changes color(s) red going [to] orange going [to] yellow. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 18) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_440 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "185", **HatchDesc:** "TOLEDO,OH:DRK ELLIPSOID >NE:90°TURN:SIZZLE SOUND:CHANGES CLRS RED>ORG>YLW", **LatLong:** "41.666669 -83.566671", **LatLongDMS:** "41:40:00 N 83:34:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.666669,-83.566671)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3518 (1D09E1D6) **Date:** 5/30/1940 **Location:** Toledo, OH **Description:** At sunrise a dark ellipse was seen moving northeast, then making a 90-degree turn. Color visible on the dark object changed from red to orange to yellow. (Ref. 3; Report in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_122 ### Event 3519 (0E509639) **Date:** 5/30/1940 **Description:** During the morning in Toledo, Ohio a dark ellipsoid object flew toward the northeast making a sizzling sound, then made a 90 degree turn. Its flame-like color changed from red to orange and then to yellow. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Hall: From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 18 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3162 ### Event 3520 (B17542D9) **Date:** 6/1940 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** HOY ISLAND, SCOTLAND **Description:** Military observer(s) with range finder. Ovoid at 38K'. Swift level flight. / r65p18. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RANDLES, Jenny & Warrington, P.: SCIENCE and the UFO'S; Basil Blackwell, NY 1985 (Index 9) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_441 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "251", **HatchDesc:** "HOY ISL,SCOTL:MIL.OBS W/RANGE FINDER:OVOID @38K':SWIFT LVL FLIGHT:/r65p18", **LatLong:** "58.850003 -3.283333", **LatLongDMS:** "58:51:00 N 03:17:00 W", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/58.850003,-3.283333)", **RelAlt:** "11400", **State/Prov:** "Scotland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3521 (1BB69163) **Date:** 6/1940 **Location:** Hoy Island, The Orkneys, Scotland **Description:** On a bright sunny day an anti-aircraft unit member focused a height- and range- finder on a flattened sphere moving rapidly on a horizontal course and tracked it for 10 seconds. It's height was computed to be 38,000 feet. (Ref. 3; Randles & Warrington, 1985, p. 9.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_123 ### Event 3522 (80B8BED0) **Date:** Summer 1940 **Location:** DENMARK, Jutland **Description:** (Translated from French) In the middle of the afternoon, a 15 year old boy was going to the watering hole with some cows, when he suddenly saw three curious characters advancing from the northeast. They were dressed in a dark green one-piece suit that even covered their neck and a good part of their face. The face seemed to be protected by a glass plate. From the shoulders to the feet there were two thick bulges of about ten centimeters. The three beings were of normal size but they were progressing by slightly swinging their arms in the manner of robots, the witness specified. At about thirty meters from the young Dane, they suddenly turned south and disappeared behind a hill. Our witness then rushed to this place and saw a shiny hemispherical object on the ground: near him, the three characters. Suddenly, without seeing any door open, the witness noticed that these characters had disappeared. The object emitted a sharp whistle like the one produced by quickly spinning a metal rod at high speed. The UFO rose slowly and after 6 to 7 seconds it took the direction of the southeast where it disappeared. (1940, Summer) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p.258 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_969 ### Event 3523 (C6C52BF5) **Date:** Summer 1940 **Location:** NORWAY, Sandefjord **Description:** (Translated from French) Mrs. Edvardsen and her friend saw 3-4 luminous objects in the sky to the northeast. It was late afternoon on a summer day. These objects were as big as barns, and moved like flying insects. Their color was described as that of the head of a lit cigarette. The distance of the witnesses from the phenomenon was about 300 to 400 meters. (1940, Summer) **Reference:** Letter from Arne Foss, 22 Oct 1977. Listing by Ole Jonny Braenne **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_972 ### Event 3524 (D6847173) **Date:** Summer 1940 **Alternate date:** Summer 1941 **Location:** St. Clair, Pennsylvania **Description:** Near St. Clair, Pennsylvania, as he is walking along a country road, young Frank Sever hears a loud noise in the nearby woods. He sees something like an “aluminum building” partly concealed in the trees. A short distance from it he sees “six small men milling about or looking for something on the ground.” Thinking they are ghosts, he runs. Later he comes back and confirms there is no building on the spot. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 265 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_533 ### Event 3525 (16365877) **Date:** 7/10/1940 **End date:** 10/31/1940 **Location:** Britain **Description:** Battle of Britain **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Britain) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_54 ### Event 3526 (8CE0D2C1) **Date:** 7/10/1940 **Description:** Einstein security clearance approved by the Office of Naval Intelligence, 16 days before the US Army G-2 turned him down. **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [link](https://books.google.com/books?id=weECGK2rChcC&pg=PA41&lpg=PA41&dq=Einstein+cleared+by+the+Office+of+Naval+Intelligence+to+work+on+sub+warfare+and+high+explosives+projects&source=bl&ots=dOj5bHKA38&sig=ACfU3U29cLMN28JMmHEVhZ1yH_8cicl53w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjno9nW8a38AhUmF1kFHQ49BOcQ6AF6BAgFEAM#v=onepage&q=Einstein%20cleared%20by%20the%20Office%20of%20Naval%20Intelligence%20to%20work%20on%20sub%20warfare%20and%20high%20explosives%20projects&f=false) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_55 **Attributes:** Einstein ### Event 3527 (A7A2CADD) **Date:** 8/11/1940 **Locations:** Holland; Ruhr Valley of Germany **Description:** The RAF Bomber Command issues a report on “Phenomena Connected with Enemy Night Tactics” concerning unidentifiable aircraft observed by bombing crews over the coast of Holland and the Ruhr Valley of Germany. The report suggests the sightings are either due to observer strain or German “experimental apparatus.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Strange Company 16–17 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_534 ### Event 3528 (0FBF5325) **Date:** 8/18/1940 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) President [Roosevelt](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/RooseveltFranklinDelano.html) and Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King make the Ogdensburg Declaration, for joint defense between the [United States](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/USA.html) and [Canada](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/CA.html), with the establishment of the [PJBD](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/PJBD.html). (August 18) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1940.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_466 ### Event 3529 (A3945F21) **Date:** 8/18/1940 (approximate) **Location:** BATA, HUNGARY **Description:** Flaming cartwheel seen / days. Called ball-lightning. WSW / Baja. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HOBANA Ion & WEVERBERGH,Julien: UFO'S from BEHIND the IRON CURTAIN; Bantam Books,1975. 308pp. (Index 198) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_442 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Hungary", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "232", **HatchDesc:** "BATA,HUNGARY:FLAMING CARTWHEEL SEEN/DAYS:CALLED BALL-LIGHTNING:WSW/BAJA.", **LatLong:** "46.127780 18.777779", **LatLongDMS:** "46:07:40 N 18:46:40 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.127780,18.777779)", **State/Prov:** "TLN", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3530 (40794CD4) **Date:** 9/15/1940 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** BRUGINE, ITALY **Description:** Several observer(s). Lens saucer passes. Power fails. Light wind. / and Tabloid account. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 29) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_443 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "BRUGINE,ITALY:SVRL OBS:LENS SCR PASSES:POWER FAILS:LITE WIND:/+Tabloid acct", **LatLong:** "45.294447 12.000001", **LatLongDMS:** "45:17:40 N 12:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.294447,12.000001)", **State/Prov:** "PD", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3531 (5ADECEE5) **Date:** 10/15/1940? **Time:** ~20:00 **Location:** 2 MILES EAST / WEST BEND, IA **Description:** Brad Steiger. Small humanoid (or Grey) stands / pail and watches parents / kitchen window. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** STEIGER, Brad: The UFO ABDUCTORS. Berkley Books, NY 1988 (Index 145) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_444 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NFO:** No craft seen, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "2", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "365", **HatchDesc:** "2mi E/WEST BEND,IA:BRAD STEIGER:OID STANDS/PAIL+WATCHES PARENTS/KITCHEN WINDOW", **LatLong:** "42.955558 -94.411116", **LatLongDMS:** "42:57:20 N 94:24:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.955558,-94.411116)", **State/Prov:** "Iowa", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 3532 (B424C17C) **Date:** 11/10/1940 **Time:** 10:00? **Location:** COVENTRY, ENGL **Description:** Intense blackness. Writhing 2' fireball at observer(s)' feet. Rises and explodes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 235) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_445 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "76", **HatchDesc:** "COVENTRY,ENGL:INTENSE BLACKNESS:WRITHING 2'FBL AT OBS' FEET:RISES+EXPLODES", **LatLong:** "52.416669 -1.483333", **LatLongDMS:** "52:25:00 N 01:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.416669,-1.483333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 3533 (13DF8203) **Date:** 12/1940 **Time:** 02:30 **Location:** NEAR INDIO, CA **Description:** 4 / car. Red light / valley. Moon-size near car. "Communication with aliens". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SCHUESSLER, John F.: UFO-RELATED HUMAN PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS. 1996 J. Schuessler, POB 58485, Houston, TX 77258 (Index 18) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_446 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **TLP:** Telepathy, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "nr INDIO,CA:4/CAR:RED LITE/VALLEY:MOONSIZE nr CAR:"COMMUNICATION W/ALIENS"", **LatLong:** "33.750002 -116.250006", **LatLongDMS:** "33:45:00 N 116:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.750002,-116.250006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" --- ## Year: 1941, 54 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 3534 (3F0193A7) **Date:** 1941 **Description:** Charles Fort’s four famous books **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fort) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_56 ### Event 3535 (5C99DAA0) **Date:** 1941 **Location:** Bakersfield, CA **Description:** Physicist and his wife north of Bakersfield, California watch a long slender UFO traveling at 50mph, 200–300 feet altitude **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [link](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201957%2001%2000%20-%20January.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_57 ### Event 3536 (E8AA94AF) **Date:** 1941 **Location:** SWITZERLAND, Alps **Description:** (Translated from French) They found footprints of mountaineers that mysteriously stopped in the center of a triangle of 13 m side formed by three holes in the snow. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p.259 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_979 ### Event 3537 (F3C35D9C) **Date:** 1941 **Location:** Spain, between Belmez and Valsequillo (Cordoba) **Description:** (Translated from French) Mrs. Concepcion Cuenca, widow of Contador from Seville, was 13 years old in 1941. Walking with her father and brother on the road between Belmez and Valsequillo at 5 o'clock in the morning, they were suddenly illuminated by a light that seemed to be in the air. The intensity and brightness exceeded anything she had seen as light since. The phenomenon lasted only a second in total. All three intrigued, yet none made any comment as they continued on their way. **Reference:** investigation by Ignacio Benvenuty Cabral, Seville **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_980 ### Event 3538 (688B612B) **Date:** 1941 **Location:** Germany **Description:** (Translated from French) German aviator Hannah Reisch saw a UFO flying at an altitude of 20,000 meters while she was on a test flight with an aircraft that would become the future Messerschmitt 163 Komet. **Reference:** A CENTURY OF UFO's - UFO Roundup Dec. 1999, ed. Joseph Trainor **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_981 ### Event 3539 (DA19977C) **Date:** 1941 **Location:** GERMANY **Description:** (Translated from French) Austrian inventor, Victor Schauberger, who lived from 1885 to 1958, is said to have built the first saucers for the Third Reich. The first models had a diameter of 1.50 m and weighed 135 kg. More advanced models followed, with a saucer designed for a crew of three as early as 1945-1946. At the liberation (end of the Second World War), the Americans seized both the work and the person of Schauberger, who was forced to work on a military base in Texas until his death. [note from vog: this is what is called voluntary and anonymous disinformation] (1941-1942) **Reference:** Nazi Flying Saucers - no named author - document on the Internet in 1996 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_982 ### Event 3540 (C8386163) **Date:** 1941 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Switzerland, a rescue team searching for 3 mountaineers who had not been heard from in some time found after days of difficult efforts the footprints of the 3 men. They followed them and noticed that they stopped in the center of a snowy field. No crevasse could have swallowed them and beyond, the snow remained untouched. However, from the last traces, 3 irregular holes forming an equilateral triangle of 12.80 m side were discovered. The investigation concluded in a triple disappearance in circumstances that the facts did not allow to establish clearly.. **Reference:** Schweizer Zeitung \< Peter Kolosimo 1958 \< Guieu, [Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/ValleeJacques.html) 1965 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1941.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_467 ### Event 3541 (E55473BA) **Date:** 1941 **Location:** MANCHURIA **Description:** Many photographs / Japanese Air Force. Glowing-orbs and ovoids pace and buzz planes and airfields.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** DONG, Paul: UFO's Over MODERN CHINA. 1983 UFO Photo Archives; P. O. Box 17206; Tucson, AZ 85710. (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_447 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **MIL:** Military investigation, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "China", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "156", **HatchDesc:** "MANCHURIA:MANY FOTOS/JAPANESE AF:GLO-ORBS+OVOIDS PACE+BUZZ PLANES+AIRFIELDS..", **LatLong:** "45.000002 125.000006", **LatLongDMS:** "45:00:00 N 125:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.000002,125.000006)", **State/Prov:** "MNC", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 3542 (D1E670CE) **Date:** 1941 **Location:** US Highway 99 north of Bakersfield, California **Description:** A physicist and his wife are traveling notrh on US Highway 99 north of Bakersfield, California, and pull off to the side to watch a long, slender object of a blazing red, green, and yellow color moving about 8 miles east of them. It is traveling at about 50 mph at an altitude of 200–300 feet and is clearly outlined against the foothills. It seems to be several times longer than a bomber. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Recent Sightings,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201957%2001%2000%20-%20January.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, January 1957, p. 5 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_535 ### Event 3543 (C1897E96) **Date:** 1941 **Location:** Norway **Description:** Or 1942. Two women observed a silver, disc-shaped craft, about 33 feet in diameter, rise from the ground. The UFO revolved and trailed three haycocks behind it. After moving horizontally for a short distance, the object dropped the haycocks and vanished. A local farmer later confirmed that three of his haycocks were missing. (Chapter 7, Ref. 249) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_240 ### Event 3544 (F45A535F) **Date:** 1941 **Location:** Cape Girardeau, Missouri **Description:** A UFO crash was reported near Cape Girardeau, Missouri in 1941. A local minister, brought to the scene by police, described it as unlike any craft he'd seen, with a unique design and a shiny metallic finish. Inside, he observed what seemed like a metal chair with a panel filled with unfamiliar dials and gauges. Among the first responders were police officers, plainclothes individuals, and military personnel. Three non-human bodies were discovered at the crash site. The minister, who prayed over these bodies, described them as small-framed, similar in size to children, but with large heads and long arms. Their appearance was notable for their large, oval eyes, absence of noses and lips, and a body covering resembling wrinkled aluminum foil. The beings had no evident injuries despite the crash. (Chapter 7, Ref 300) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_291 ### Event 3545 (0452E28C) **Date:** 2/1941 **Location:** AUSTRALIA, Wearyan River **Description:** (Translated from French) A nurse went to an isolated village to treat a man who had been shot in the leg. While she was treating the wound, two men appeared, dressed in white robes as if they had come from a theater scene, and assisted her. When she looked up to thank them, they had disappeared. Several Aborigines witnessed this phenomenon. **Reference:** Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 309 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_974 ### Event 3546 (421CDD07) **Date:** 2/1941 **Location:** WEARYAN RIVER, NT, AUS **Description:** Nurse. 2 pseudo-human/entity appear and perform operation / injured man! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Database/website: BASTERFIELD, KEITH: ENTCAT97.DOC: Catalog of Australian Entity and related reports: October 1997 **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_448 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NFO:** No craft seen, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **OPR:** Operations on humans/animal mutilation/surgery, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "WEARYAN RIVER,NT,AUS:NURSE:2 PSH APPEAR+PERFORM OPERATION/INJURED MAN!", **LatLong:** "-16.050001 136.833340", **LatLongDMS:** "16:03:00 S 136:50:00 E", **Locale:** "Rainforest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-16.050001,136.833340)", **State/Prov:** "Northern Territory", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 3547 (604CCF6D) **Date:** 3/1941 **Location:** English Channel **Description:** The Chain Home radars placed around the English coastline detect a formation of blips moving across the English Channel. RAF fighters are sent to intercept, but their crews see nothing and the blips fade. The radar returns are characterized as radar “angels,” invisible targets in the clear atmosphere. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** David Clarke, “The Radar Angels,” Fortean Times 195 \(May 2005\): 36–37 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_537 ### Event 3548 (E1E7A875) **Date:** Early Spring 1941 **Location:** Cape Girardeau, Missouri **Description:** 9:00–9:30 p.m. Rev. [William Guy Huffman](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13590056/william-guy-huffman) of the Red Star Baptist Church in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, is summoned to an apparent airplane crash one Saturday. When he arrives at the scene, about 15 miles from town, he finds a weird-looking craft “broken and scattered all around,” but smooth and rounded without edges or seams. A cockpit with a chair facing an instrument panel remains intact. Police officers, military men, and plain-clothes individuals are sifting through the wreckage. He also sees three non-human bodies about 4 feet tall with long arms, oversized heads, and large eyes. He says a prayer for them, and afterward sees someone take a photo of an alien propped up by the arms between two plainclothesmen. The following evening, he is given a copy of the photo by a member of his congregation \(thought to be [Garland D. Fronabarger](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15533576/garland-d-fronabarger)\), but he loans it later to someone who never returns it. Huffman’s wife [Floy](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/27616322/floy-m%5F-huffman) reveals the story to her granddaughter, Charlette Mann, on her deathbed in 1984, who relates the story to ufologist [Leonard Stringfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 343–344; Paul Blake Smith, MO41: The Bombshell before Roswell, W&B Publishers, 2015; Billy Booth, “1941 Cape Girardeau, Missouri Crash,” liveabout.com, February 5, 2019; Kevin Randle, “[Cape Girardeau UFO Crash, 1941,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2019/12/cape-girardeau-ufo-crash-1941.html)” A Different Perspective, December 5, 2019 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_536 ### Event 3549 (87149704) **Date:** 3/17/1941 **Location:** West Coast **Description:** US Army establishes the Western Defense Command for coordinating the defense of the Pacific Coast **Type:** military **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Defense_Command) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_59 ### Event 3550 (B1765644) **Date:** 3/17/1941 **Location:** Pacific Coast **Description:** The Western Defense Command is established as the command formation of the US Army responsible for coordinating the defense of the Pacific Coast and training soldiers prior to their deployment overseas. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Western Defense Command](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western%5FDefense%5FCommand)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_538 ### Event 3551 (6BC382FA) **Date:** Spring 1941 **Location:** Canada, Lac Beauport, Quebec **Description:** (Translated from French) The beginning of the story of contactee Arthur Matthews, born in 1892, who met Nicola Tesla in the city of Quebec, on St Joachim Street. The extraterrestrials chose him as a friend of Tesla to visit him and take him to their planet. This happened every two years until 1961. (...) (1941, Spring) **Reference:** Jean FERGUSON: "Enigmes du temps présent" ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1979, pp.107-115 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_976 ### Event 3552 (945EC168) **Date:** Spring 1941 **Location:** Cape Girardeau, MO **Description:** Charlotte Mann, a Texas woman whose grandfather was a pastor of the Red Star Baptist Church, told Leonard Stringfield, that her grandfather was called out to give last rights to some crash victims, who were described as from a crashed object. There were three bodies. All described as "not human". (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_124 ### Event 3553 (24C01689) **Date:** 4/5/1941 **Location:** Charleston, MS **Description:** Farmer abducted into submarine on Mississippi (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [410405](http://www.nicap.org/charleston410405dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_125 ### Event 3554 (F6DB432A) **Date:** Late 4/1941 **Location:** Cape Girardeau, MO **Description:** Cape Girardeau, MO Crash Retrieval (MO41) **Type:** UFO crash retrieval **Reference:** [link](https://www.kfvs12.com/2021/05/26/alleged-ufo-crash-cape-girardeau-area/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_58 ### Event 3555 (6CBE182F) **Date:** 5/1941 **Locations:** Mitchel Field near Uniondale, New York; Riverside, California **Description:** With the help of the American Legion, volunteers are recruited into the Aircraft Warning Service, the civilian arm of the Army’s Ground Observer Corps. On the east coast, the AWS is under the auspices of the Army Air Force’s 1st Interceptor Command based at Mitchel Field near Uniondale, New York. On the west coast, the AWS is under the auspices of the 4th Interceptor Command based in Riverside, California. On both coasts, observation posts, information centers, and filter centers are established. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Aircraft Warning Service](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft%5FWarning%5FService)”; Project 1947, “[Aircraft Warning Service \(AWS\): Freeman Observation Post \#52](http://www.project1947.com/fig/freeman52.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_539 ### Event 3556 (B50B005C) **Date:** 5/27/1941 (approximate) **Time:** ~10:00 **Location:** NORTHEAST / FOUGERES, FR **Description:** Several kids. 2 silent gold rails zigzag / several 90° turns across N177 going northwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LDLN CONTACT LECTEURS: by Series and #. May'68 -JAN'72 (Entire set of 18 issues) LDLN local chapters & individual members' UFO reports. (Index 52) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_449 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "NE/FOUGERES,FR:SVRL KIDS:2 SLNT GOLD RAILS ZIGZAG/SVRL 90°TURNS ACRS N177 >NW", **LatLong:** "48.372225 -1.177778", **LatLongDMS:** "48:22:20 N 01:10:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.372225,-1.177778)", **State/Prov:** "Ille-et-Vilaine", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 3557 (A94144B4) **Date:** 6/1941 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Germans test the prototype of the flying disc *Schriever-Habermohl Model I*. (June) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1941.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_468 ### Event 3558 (BB3B1A82) **Date:** 6/1941 **Location:** KAISER MOUNTAIN, CA **Description:** 150M disk / mountainside / 2 weeks. Seen flying away? Original object gone. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The UFO REGISTER. CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK. (annual sightings catalog.) (Index 78) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_450 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "40", **Elev:** "3000", **HatchDesc:** "KAISER Mtn,CA:150M DISK/MOUNTAINSIDE/2 WEEKS:SEEN FLYING AWAY?:ORIG.OBJ GONE.", **LatLong:** "37.316668 -119.166672", **LatLongDMS:** "37:19:00 N 119:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.316668,-119.166672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3559 (05307460) **Date:** 6/20/1941 **Description:** The Army Air Corps becomes the US Army Air Forces to provide the air arm greater autonomy. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[United States Army Air Forces](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%5FStates%5FArmy%5FAir%5FForces)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_540 ### Event 3560 (ECC9DD7C) **Date:** Summer 1941 **Location:** NORWAY, Maroy/Nordhordland **Description:** (Translated from French) Irene Skram and her cousin, and independently the husband of the cousin and a friend, saw a silver disc around 11 o'clock in the morning, while the whole company was outside, admiring the plantations. The disc was rising from the ground to 300 m from the witnesses, to the northeast of their position. Turning slowly on itself, it was rising gently up to about 100 m, altitude from which it seemed to descend again somewhat. It was followed by three opaque trails in the shape of a thin spiral.

These things were falling towards the ground, detaching themselves from the disc. The two women then saw the disc disappear. But the two men, being at another point of the property, were heading towards the place where the "trails" had fallen, at about a hundred meters from the house. They found at this place, only three heather cocks, stunned, but still alive. Knowing that their neighbors were raising birds, they went to ask if they were missing three? It was the case. The witnesses did not talk about the flying saucer with the neighbors. The saucer had been seen for about two minutes, it seemed to have 10 m in diameter. The "trails" each had a length of about 12 to 15 meters, and were separated from each other by 5 to 6 meters. (1941 (or 1942) Summer) **Reference:** Ole Jonny Brænne **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_977 ### Event 3561 (F2501D68) **Date:** Summer 1941 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) It was in Le Mans, at the beginning of summer 1941. The *Luftwaffe* had occupied the old aerodrome of Le Mans, at the Circuit de la Sarthe, and maintained several groups of *Messerschmitt* 109s, not very fast, but excessively maneuverable. The German pilots were in a permanent state of alert and, several times, I observed from quite close up the take-offs in groups of the *Messerschmitts* in broad daylight. The weather was magnificent, a Sunday as far as I remember, and around 1 PM, the very clear sky contained only a few large cumulus clouds, clouds which were moreover very far apart from each other. Around 1 PM, the whole city heard the roar of the planes taking off in haste and I could see that the cause of the alert seemed to be in one of the large cumulus clouds which, at that moment, was flying very slowly over the aerodrome. One could see the Messerschmitts whirling around like mad around the cloud, diving into it at full speed, coming out in a loop or sideways, and starting their maneuvers again, a spectacle which was truly very pretty, but which must have been terribly dangerous for the pilots. Was it an exercise ordered by the commander of the camp or an alert? I never knew, but it was curious to observe the terrified airs of the German soldiers and officers quartered in the city, who followed the spectacle from the windows of the houses. I could then observe that the cloud which, upon its arrival, seemed to have its base at 300 m and to culminate at 1000 m, began to swell and, when it moved away from the aerodrome to move away from the city, it had taken the shape of a very high pyramid, with perfectly sharp contours and brilliantly lit by the sun; its very sharp peak must have been probably at 3000 m, according to a height visible on the horizon and its probable place on the ground. My observation point was 4 km from the aerodrome and the cloud was approximately 5 km away when I observed its summit. (Beginning of Summer, Sunday, 1 PM) **Reference:** scientific review *La Nature* **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1941.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_469 ### Event 3562 (0C163BDF) **Date:** 6/22/1941 **Location:** GERMANY-RUSSIA **Description:** (Translated from French) The propaganda staffel reported that the Nebelwerfer Batteries (smoke launchers) had fired 800,000 rocket-shells in the first twenty minutes of the German attack on Russia. However, the advance guard tanks which had reached the terminals of the Moscow Tramways were crushed under a prodigious deluge of rocket-shells from the "Stalin Organs". **Reference:** "Assault on Space" Georges H. Gallet, ed. of Modern Thought, p. 41 **Reference:** Rocket launchers = multi-tube howitzers. **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_975 ### Event 3563 (3AE3059F) **Date:** Late 6/1941 **Location:** Odessa, Ukraine **Description:** About 5:30 p.m. Helen Michailoff and her mother are in Odessa, Ukraine, when they see a raspberry-red object slowly moving east and emitting smoke. Thinking it is a bomb, they rush to the basement, but there is no explosion. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Out of the Past,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1983-84%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV4.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 5 \(Oct./Nov. 1983\): 4 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_543 ### Event 3564 (BD22C1DC) **Date:** 6/26/1941 **Description:** The first draft of the final report of the MAUD Committee is written by [George Paget Thomson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FPaget%5FThomson) and circulates among committee members. It concludes that an atomic bomb is feasible. [Vannevar Bush](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar%5FBush) receives a copy. Without the help of the MAUD Committee the Manhattan Project would have started months behind. Instead, they are able to begin thinking about how to create a bomb, not whether it is possible. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[MAUD](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAUD%5FCommittee) [Committee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAUD%5FCommittee)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_541 ### Event 3565 (52B33AC4) **Date:** 6/28/1941 **Description:** [Roosevelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%5FD.%5FRoosevelt) establishes the Office of Scientific Research and Development; [Vannevar Bush](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar%5FBush) is appointed director. It subsumes the National Defense Research Committee, whose Uranium Committee becomes the Uranium Section of the OSRD, soon renamed the S-1 for security reasons. To the S-1 Section, Vannevar Bush adds American physicist [Samuel King Allison](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%5FKing%5FAllison)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%5FKing%5FAllison) Russian-American physicist [Gregory Breit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory%5FBreit), American physicist [Edward Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon) physicist [Lloyd P. Smith](https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/1.2811130), and [Henry DeWolf Smyth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%5FDeWolf%5FSmyth). American physicist [Ross Gunn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross%5FGunn) is dropped in line with an NDRC policy not to have Army or Navy personnel in the sections. [Lyman James Briggs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyman%5FJames%5FBriggs) remains the chairman, with American physicist [George B. Pegram](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FB.%5FPegram) as the vice chairman. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Office of Scientific](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office%5Fof%5FScientific%5FResearch%5Fand%5FDevelopment) [Research and Development](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office%5Fof%5FScientific%5FResearch%5Fand%5FDevelopment)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_542 ### Event 3566 (F242DEFF) **Date:** 7/1941 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A German scientist travels to the USA, revealing the secret of a saucer recovered by the Germans in 1937. The US military intelligence, under the code name *Oz*, takes control of the Nazi installation containing the disk, and brings it back to the USA, narrowly missing the Soviet troops, who will learn of the disk's existence 6 months later \(likely from captured German scientists\). (July) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1941.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_473 ### Event 3567 (E315C8C7) **Date:** 7/1941 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Marøy/Nordhordland \(Norway\), Irene Skram and her cousin see a silver disc. It rises from the ground to the South-East of the witnesses, at about 300 m away. Three grey coils follow the disc, rotating on their own axis. It slowly rises to a height of about 100 m, when it seems to descend again, and the three coils following the disc fall about 100 m north of the witnesses' house. The disc disappears. Two men, who also saw the disc \(the cousin's husband and his friend\) come to retrieve the coils, and bring back 3 haystacks. Nothing seems strange about these haystacks. They ask their neighbor to the South without talking to him about the disc, and he confirms that 3 haystacks are missing from his property. The object was observed for 2 minutes, and its size was about 10 m in diameter. The diameter of each haystack is 12 to 15 m, and the separation between each is 5 to 6 m. (July/August (or July/August 1942), 11 PM) **Reference:** \[UFO report form, 6 January 1965\] \[UFO-NYT, 5/1966, 188-9\] \[Bertelsen: UFO-80., 1980, 65\] \[Liljegren: A bibliography of references to UFO incidents during World War II, 1987, 8\] **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1941.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_474 ### Event 3568 (A35EDE5D) **Date:** 7/3/1941 **Locations:** Baker Dry Lake; Mojave Desert, California **Description:** The Northrop N-1M, an experimental “flying wing” aircraft with a 38-foot wingspan, is first flown at Baker Dry Lake in the Mojave Desert, California, by test pilot [Vance Breese](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vance%5FBreese) for several hundred yards. He reports that the aircraft can fly no higher than 5 feet. After this is corrected, the N-1M takes another 28 flights through November. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Northrop N-1M](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop%5FN-1M)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_544 ### Event 3569 (80264881) **Date:** 7/11/1941 **Description:** [Roosevelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%5FD.%5FRoosevelt) establishes the Office of the Coordinator of Information, a forerunner of the Office for Strategic Services, headed by lawyer [William J. Donovan.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FJ.%5FDonovan) It is tasked with collecting and analyzing national security information. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Office of the Coordinator of Information](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office%5Fof%5Fthe%5FCoordinator%5Fof%5FInformation)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_545 ### Event 3570 (8EDD0DC7) **Date:** 9/1941 **Location:** Indian Ocean **Description:** Greenish globe. Non-US military **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973_, by Richard Dolan](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/mode/2up) **Source:** Dolan, **ID:** Dolan_0 ### Event 3571 (C462A6B4) **Date:** 9/1941 **Location:** Mozambique Channel **Description:** Night. Seaman Mar Doroba, Anthony Kornilak, and others on the British troopship [SS Pulaski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS%5FCzar) in the Mozambique Channel see a “strange globe glowing with greenish light, about half the size of the full moon.” They watch it for more than an hour before it disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Strange Company 17; Lore and Deneault, [pp. 130–131](https://archive.org/details/mysteriesofskies0000lore/page/130/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_546 ### Event 3572 (8E8B86E0) **Date:** Autumn 1941 **Location:** NORWAY, Skar/Osteroy **Description:** (Translated from French) People had gone to the cinema. The evening was calm, the sky clear and well starred. Suddenly they saw a luminous phenomenon to the west, flying towards the northwest, at very high speed. The phenomenon looked like a huge ball of fire and at first, they thought it was a bolide. But then, the phenomenon slowed down and seemed to hover above Osterfjorden - in reality, from their position, the witnesses overlooked the phenomenon and saw it below them. It was visible for about half a minute, no sound was heard. [note from vog: Peenemunde is not so far away, is it?] (1941, Autumn) **Reference:** UFO, 2/1992, 9. Listing of Ole Jonny Braenne **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_978 ### Event 3573 (D2917115) **Date:** Autumn 1941 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Skår/Osterøy \(Norway\), a relative of Berit Clemmensen is with some friends at the local cinema. The night is clear and full of stars. Suddenly they see a luminous phenomenon to the West, heading towards the North-West at great speed. It can be described as a luminous fireball, resembling a bolide at first glance. It seems to fly very low above Osterfjorden. It is visible for at least 1/2 minute, and no sound is heard. The witnesses are quite excited by this experience. (Autumn Evening) **Reference:** UFO, 2/1992, 9 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1941.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_472 ### Event 3574 (26FFA51B) **Date:** 10/2/1941 **Locations:** Germany; Peenemünde **Description:** German test pilot [Heini Dittmar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heini%5FDittmar) attains an unofficial airspeed record of 623 mph in a rocket-powered Messerschmidt Me 163A at Peenemünde, Germany. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Heini Dittmar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heini%5FDittmar)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_547 ### Event 3575 (F7230E53) **Date:** Early 10/1941 **Locations:** North Carolina; Uwharrie National Forest **Description:** A possible UFO crash/retrieval takes place during preparations for the US Army’s Carolina maneuvers in south central North Carolina \(possibly in or around the Uwharrie National Forest\). The sketchy story is based on the participation of Pvt. [Guy B. Simeone](https://library.uta.edu/digitalgallery-beta/img/20035245), who relates a few details about a crash and dead “little people” to his family in a letter and phone call. [Walter N. Webb](http://www.nicap.org/bios/NICAP-Bios/Webb.htm) reports on his investigation of the incident in 1996. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Walter N. Webb, “An Anecdotal Report of a UFO Crash/Retrieval in 1941: Part 1,” IUR 21, no. 4 \(Winter 1996\): 20–28; Walter N. Webb, “An Anecdotal Report of a UFO Crash/Retrieval in 1941: Part 2,” IUR 22, no. 1 \(Spring 1997\): 28–32 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_548 ### Event 3576 (32383368) **Date:** 10/9/1941 **Description:** [Roosevelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%5FD.%5FRoosevelt) approves an atomic weapons program after meeting with Office of Scientific Research and Development Director [Vannevar Bush](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar%5FBush) and Vice President [Henry A. Wallace.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%5FA.%5FWallace) On Bush’s advice, Roosevelt chooses the US Army to run the project rather than the Navy, although the Navy has shown far more interest in the field, and is already conducting research into atomic energy for powering ships. Bush’s negative experiences with the Navy has convinced him that it would not listen to his advice and cannot handle large-scale construction projects. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Cameron Reed, “Manhattan Project Mystery,” Forum on the History of Physics, Spring 2012 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_549 ### Event 3577 (BDFF81D6) **Date:** 12/1941 **Location:** Mozambique, Africa **Description:** Mozambique and Island of Madagascar strange globe glowing with greenish light about half the size of full moon. (Page 17 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_126 ### Event 3578 (257D2901) **Date:** 12/1941 **Location:** Unknown City, GA **Description:** Light moving in counterclockwise circles (Page 17-18 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_127 ### Event 3579 (114F53D9) **Date:** Early 12/1941 **Location:** Georgia countryside **Description:** Army Lt. Walter Hanson and his wife are stranded in the Georgia countryside when they run out of gas. They see a star-like object that swiftly moves in circles counterclockwise. Suddenly it stops and takes off obliquely. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Strange Company 17–18; Lore and Deneault, [p. 140](https://archive.org/details/mysteriesofskies0000lore/page/140/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_550 ### Event 3580 (A931F2DB) **Date:** 12/7/1941 **Location:** [U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Naval+Station+Pearl+Harbor,+Joint+Base+Pearl+Harbor-Hickam,+HI/@21.3537311,-157.9730976) **Description:** The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, just before 8:00 a.m. (local time) on Sunday. The United States was a neutral country at the time; the attack led to its formal entry into World War II on the side of the Allies the next day. The Japanese military leadership referred to the attack as the Hawaii Operation and Operation AI and as Operation Z during its planning. (Author Moira McGhee wrote in her book "Alien Gene" that the Pearl Harbor attacks were being observed by one or more UFO's.) **Type:** attack **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_932 ### Event 3581 (33BE7930) **Date:** 12/7/1941 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. (7 December) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1941.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_470 ### Event 3582 (487AC8F4) **Date:** 12/8/1941 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) [Roosevelt](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/RooseveltFranklinDelano.html) asks the US Congress to declare war on Japan and directs all national effort towards the global war. (December 8) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1941.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_471 ### Event 3583 (7AEBAB4B) **Date:** 12/8/1941 **Locations:** Honolulu, Hawaii; Pearl Harbor **Description:** Around noon. Red Cross volunteer [Yoshio Taketa](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/116296634/yoshio-taketa) is resting on the lawn of the Kuhio School in Honolulu, Hawaii, with 9 others. The smoke is still rising from the Pearl Harbor attack to the west. One of them notices a round white object at about 20,000 feet overhead. It floats away slowly. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 501 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_551 ### Event 3584 (443EF39F) **Date:** 12/18/1941 **Locations:** S-1 Section; Columbia; Princeton; University of Chicago **Description:** With the US at war, funding for an atomic bomb is now available in amounts undreamed of the year before. At the S-1 Section meeting, American physicist [Ernest Lawrence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest%5FLawrence) asks for $400,000 for electromagnetic separation, and the section immediately recommends granting it. MIT physicist [Karl Taylor Compton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%5FTaylor%5FCompton) is allocated $340,000 for nuclear reactor research at Columbia and Princeton, and $278,000 at the University of Chicago. Another $500,000 is earmarked for raw materials. His proposed schedule is no less breathtaking: to produce a nuclear chain reaction by July 1942, and an atomic bomb by January 1945. In January 1942, he creates the Metallurgical Laboratory, centralizing the work at the University of Chicago. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[S-1 Executive](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-1%5FExecutive%5FCommittee) [Committee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-1%5FExecutive%5FCommittee)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_552 ### Event 3585 (AE3733AD) **Date:** 12/22/1941 **Location:** Unknown City, NY **Description:** Round sharply outlined object with bright aluminum or chrome finish (Patrick, delete single quotes) (Page 18 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_128 ### Event 3586 (D6891335) **Date:** 12/22/1941 **Locations:** St. Agnes Avenue; Pleasant Street; Utica, New York **Description:** Electrical engineer George Bogner stops his car at the corner of St. Agnes Avenue and Pleasant Street in Utica, New York, to watch a round, metallic object speed silently across the sky. He estimates it at 100 feet in diameter and moving at 300 mph. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Strange Company 18; Lore and Deneault, [pp. 140–141](https://archive.org/details/mysteriesofskies0000lore/page/140/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_553 ### Event 3587 (951B7FF6) **Date:** 12/22/1941 **Description:** At 2:15 p.m. a gleaming aluminum or chrome colored disc-shaped object sped silently across the skies of Utica, New York from west to east. It disappeared in 10 seconds. There were two independent witnesses. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. & Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 141 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8559 --- ## Year: 1942, 149 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 3588 (5989CDAE) **Date:** 1942 **Location:** GERMANY, Peenemunde **Description:** (Translated from French) Launch of a V-2 No. 1, inert model. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, Walter Domberger **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_989 ### Event 3589 (BE8A2BD6) **Date:** 1942 **Location:** GERMANY, Peenemunde **Description:** (Translated from French) Launch of V-2 No. 8, for training of the team. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, Walter Domberger **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_990 ### Event 3590 (6BF4D9C5) **Date:** 1942 **Location:** YUGOSLAVIA, Rasanac **Description:** (Translated from French) An object like a flame moved horizontally near the Prentov bridge which spans the Koselska river. A certain Péro Krstanovski who was returning from Bitolj to Ohrid at that time, suddenly saw his team of horses become agitated at the appearance of the phenomenon. As soon as it disappeared, the horses regained their calm. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 263-264 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1002 ### Event 3591 (2EBF3EB1) **Date:** 1942 **Location:** USA, South Coast, on a small island offshore **Description:** (Translated from French) Sergeant Dick Wylie saw a bright object dive into the sea and reappear ten minutes later. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 264 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1003 ### Event 3592 (CB794D3B) **Date:** 1942 **Location:** USA-MEXICO: Juarez **Description:** (Translated from French) (cf. 1932, High Bridge - same person) In Juarez Menger meets a man with blond hair, who presents himself as "from his People". Then he sees a man in khaki uniform, who tells him he will have many extraterrestrial contacts (Mitarbeiter, "Ufo Geheimnisse", Berlin, Janar 1998) Howard Menger is doing his military service. He sees UFOs in the sky, then is approached successively by two men, one of whom is military. They declare to him, like the woman met in 1932, that they come from another planet whose inhabitants formerly gave to the Aztecs secrets, lost with their civilization, concerning the use of sound and light. **Reference:** Jean-Francis CROLARD: "L'énigme des E.T." - ed. Guy Trédaniel 1995, p. 145, 146 **Reference:** continued 1944 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1004 ### Event 3593 (681D64CA) **Date:** 1942 **Location:** Tientsien, Hopeh Province, N. China **Description:** China (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [420000](http://www.nicap.org/china42.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_129 ### Event 3594 (F51EFB77) **Date:** 1942 **Description:** Naval Intelligence Officer Bernard M. Baruch Jr. develops a submarine reporting network, Communication Instruction for Reporting Enemy Sightings on which CIRVIS is modeled in 1948. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** US Naval War College, [Master Script for “Communication Instruction for Reporting Enemy Sightings,”](https://www.usnwcarchives.org/repositories/2/archival%5Fobjects/4101) undated; NICAP, “[Capt. Bernard](http://www.nicap.org/bios/NICAP-Bios/Baruch.htm) [Baruch Jr.](http://www.nicap.org/bios/NICAP-Bios/Baruch.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_554 ### Event 3595 (ECCCE93C) **Date:** 1942 **Location:** Prouvy, Nord, France **Description:** 1:00 a.m. A woman returning home in Prouvy, Nord, France, finds herself face-to-face with three small entities with large round heads and short beards. They have large, luminous yellow eyes and wear tight, one-piece suits with a metallic sheen that leave only their faces exposed. The beings stare at her without moving, so she goes inside to get her husband, but by the time they return the entities have gone. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Center for UFO Studies, [HUMCAT](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1940-1949.pdf) [Index 1940–1949](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1940-1949.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1940-1949.pdf) p. 3; Clark III 265; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1942-france-prouvy.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1942-france-prouvy.htm) September 26, 2007 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_555 ### Event 3596 (839A167C) **Date:** 1942 **Location:** Lafayette and Newton, New Jersey **Description:** Three New Jersey motorists observed a UFO with rows of colorful windows emitting fluorescent lights. They watched for about 10 minutes before it silently and slowly took off. They had the impression of hearing laughter or happy voices. Later, they saw the same cigar-shaped object again, which rapidly disappeared. (Chapter 7, Ref. 235) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_226 ### Event 3597 (D584D56D) **Date:** 1942 **Location:** Los Angeles **Description:** In a notable UFO incident of that year, over Los Angeles, anti-aircraft defenses and searchlights engaged what were initially thought to be Japanese intruders. Despite heavy firepower, a large, orange UFO hovered above the city, unaffected. Fighter planes were dispatched, but they couldn't damage it either. Official explanations varied from wartime anxiety-induced hallucinations to suspicions of enemy aircraft spreading fear. The incident led to speculation about censorship and secrecy surrounding the event. (Chapter 7, Ref. 236) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_227 ### Event 3598 (ABB9291D) **Date:** 1942 **Time:** afternoon **Location:** Over the Bass Strait between Australia and Tasmania **Description:** A pilot from the Royal Australian Air Force reported encountering an unusual glistening bronze-colored airfoil over the Bass Strait. The object, approximately 150 feet long and 50 feet in diameter, had a beak-like prow and a rippled surface. A dome on its upper side seemed to reflect sun flashes, possibly from a helmet inside. The craft emitted greenish-blue flashes from its keel and displayed an image of a grinning Cheshire cat on the dome. Flying alongside the pilot for a while, the object eventually turned, showing four fin-like structures on its underside, before diving rapidly into the Pacific, creating a whirlpool-like disturbance as it submerged. (Chapter 7, Ref. 253, Also see [here](https://archive.ph/8Urpx).) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_245 ### Event 3599 (8FC23F0A) **Date:** 1942 **Location:** Timor Sea near New Guinea **Description:** While on lookout for enemy planes above a Dutch naval warship in the Timor Sea, a crew member spotted a large illuminated disc flying at a high speed about 4,000 to 5,000 feet overhead. The mysterious object circled the ship, the cruiser Tromp, for several hours. Despite efforts, officers onboard couldn't identify it as any recognized aircraft. Eventually, the disc sped off at an astonishing speed of around 3,000 to 3,500 miles per hour, vanishing from view. (Ref. 254) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_246 ### Event 3600 (68E71AC9) **Date:** 1942 **Time:** morning **Location:** Over the island of Tulagi, Solomons Islands **Description:** During a bright morning, a U.S. Marine sergeant was alerted by an air raid warning. Expecting the familiar sound of enemy planes, he was taken aback by an unfamiliar mighty roar. Looking up, he observed a large formation of over 150 silvery objects flying overhead in straight lines. The objects moved slightly faster than typical enemy aircraft, appeared wingless, wobbled occasionally, and shimmered in the sun, resembling polished silver. (Chapter 7, Ref. 255) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_247 ### Event 3601 (E03CF0AA) **Date:** 1942 **Location:** German air base in Norway **Description:** Over a German air base in Norway, radar detected an unknown object, prompting the launch of a fighter for closer examination. The pilot reported seeing a luminous, streamlined vessel approximately 300 feet long and 50 feet in diameter at around 10,000 feet. Initially flying horizontally, the UFO abruptly ascended vertically and vanished at a remarkable speed. (Chapter 7, Ref. 261) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_253 ### Event 3602 (A7BC85A0) **Date:** 1942 **Time:** daytime **Location:** Bay of Biscay off the coast of France **Description:** While on a daytime anti-submarine patrol in the Bay of Biscay, an American bomber was approached by a UFO that flew alongside it for 15 minutes. The crew described the object as a large, wingless cylinder. Before departing with a rapid 180-degree turn, one of the airmen captured a photograph of the UFO. Although the image was given to military intelligence, it was never publicly disclosed. (Chapter 7, Ref. 267) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_259 ### Event 3603 (0D772FCD) **Date:** 1942 **Location:** German-occupied Czechoslovakia **Description:** During WWII, there were reports that Hitler's aeronautical engineers tested radical aircraft designs in German-occupied territories. A source stationed at an airbase claimed that circular aircraft were tested, with him never witnessing them directly due to windows being blacked out and strict security measures. However, he frequently heard an unusual, "deafening" engine noise distinct from regular airplanes. (Chapter 7, Ref 290) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_282 ### Event 3604 (4C56EFE1) **Date:** 1942 **Location:** California **Description:** In 1942, a broadcast company executive claimed to have observed multiple UFOs at a military base in California. Speaking to a civic group in Colorado years later, the man detailed his alleged experience inside one of the saucers. According to him, these UFOs are giant flywheels with metal skins, powered by electrostatic turbines. They feature pressurized cabins in the center with an atmosphere composed of 30% oxygen and 70% nitrogen. The craft employs a magnetic field, generated by the flywheel, allowing it to achieve tremendous speeds. The saucers are constructed in five sections and can be easily disassembled. He recounted being inside a saucer measuring 100 feet in diameter and 18 feet thick, describing the crew's sleeping quarters as tube-like with capped ends and a pressurized, air-conditioned cabin. (Chapter 7, Ref 301. This is the head of Pike's Peak Broadcasting Company, Joseph Rohrer. In USMC Naval Aviator Donald Keyhoe's 1953 book, the Air Force discussed threatening Rohrer into silence.) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_292 ### Event 3605 (2B0AACA4) **Date:** 1942 **Location:** Western Greece **Description:** A young shepherd girl heard a peculiar noise from a metallic flying object shaped like two plates glued together, with a width of 6-9 feet. This object landed on a hill nearby. On approaching, she observed a three-foot tall gray humanoid, resembling a robot, wearing a suit and a silver helmet. The entity roamed around the landing site. Overwhelmed by fear, she fled. When she returned later, both the craft and the being were gone, but her agitated dogs remained. (Chapter 7, Ref 306) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_297 ### Event 3606 (36A78771) **Date:** 1942 **Location:** East coast of England **Description:** In 1942, while guarding a radar station on the east coast of England, a man saw an aerial light approaching from a cloud. Suddenly, an object descended and emitted a beam, pulling him aboard. Inside, he encountered both small and average-sized beings. The average-sized ones wore thick goggles. He was made to lay on a table for a physical examination. Later, he found himself back at his post. (Chapter 7, Ref 308) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_299 ### Event 3607 (D131DB66) **Date:** 1/1942? **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** TIANJIN, CHINA **Description:** Street vendor photographs hat saucer over busy street. People stare. See reference. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** DONG, Paul: UFO's Over MODERN CHINA. 1983 UFO Photo Archives; P. O. Box 17206; Tucson, AZ 85710. (Index 20) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_451 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "China", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "TIANJIN,CHINA:STREET VENDOR FOTOS HAT SCR OVR BUSY STREET:PEOPLE STARE:see ref", **LatLong:** "39.150002 117.216672", **LatLongDMS:** "39:09:00 N 117:13:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.150002,117.216672)", **State/Prov:** "TNJ", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3608 (671D6645) **Date:** 2/1942 **Location:** HIMALAYAS **Description:** (Translated from French) Slavomir Rawicz had just escaped from a Siberian camp with six of his companions and was trying to reach India. He crossed the Himalayas between Bhutan and Sikkim. For more than two hours the seven escapees stopped to observe two strange creatures. "They were at least 2.50m tall; one of them was smaller (...) Their heads were rather square without apparent ears. The chest seemed powerful and the arms long reaching down to the knees. In profile, the neck fitted directly into the shoulders (...)". **Reference:** Jean FERGUSON: "The Humanoids..." ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1977, p. 121, 122 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_985 ### Event 3609 (98CFAD3B) **Date:** 2/24/1942 **End date:** 2/25/1942 **Location:** Los Angeles, CA **Description:** Battle of LA **Type:** military **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Los_Angeles) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_60 ### Event 3610 (0260F937) **Date:** 2/24/1942 **End date:** 2/25/1942 **Locations:** Los Angeles, California; Los Angeles County; Pacific coast; Southern California **Description:** The Battle of Los Angeles takes place, a rumored enemy attack and subsequent anti-aircraft barrage over Los Angeles, California. Air raid sirens sound throughout Los Angeles County on the night of February 24. A total blackout is ordered, and thousands of air raid wardens are summoned to their positions. At 3:16 a.m., the 37th Coast Artillery Brigade begins firing .50 caliber machine guns and 12.8-pound anti-aircraft shells into the air at reported aircraft; more than 1,400 shells are eventually fired. Pilots of the 4th Interceptor Command are alerted, but their aircraft remain grounded. The artillery fire continues sporadically until 4:14 a.m. The “all clear” is sounded and the blackout order lifted at 7:21 a.m. Several buildings and vehicles are damaged by shell fragments, and five civilians die as an indirect result of the anti-aircraft fire. Three are killed in car accidents in the ensuing chaos and two die of heart attacks attributed to the stress of the hour-long action. The incident is front-page news along the Pacific coast and earns some mass media coverage. Within hours of the end of the air raid, Secretary of the Navy [Frank Knox](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FKnox) holds a press conference, saying the entire incident was a false alarm due to anxiety and “war nerves.” Knox’s comments are followed by statements from the Army on February 26 that reflect General [George C. Marshall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FMarshall)’s belief that the incident was caused by commercial airplanes used as a psychological warfare campaign to generate panic. Some contemporary press outlets suspect a cover-up. Rep. [Leland M. Ford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland%5FM.%5FFord) \(R-Calif.\) calls for a congressional investigation, saying, “none of the explanations so far offered removed the episode from the category of ‘complete mystification’ ... this was either a practice raid, or a raid to throw a scare into 2,000,000 people, or a mistaken identity raid, or a raid to lay a political foundation to take away Southern California’s war industries.” The Japanese government, after the war ended, declares that they had flown no airplanes over Los Angeles during the war. In 1983, the US Office of Air Force History attributes the event to a case of “war nerves” triggered by a lost weather balloon and exacerbated by stray flares and shell bursts from adjoining batteries. A number of fake documents about this incident have been circulated by [Timothy S. Cooper](https://majesticdocuments.waskosky.com/about/investigation-team/timothy-s-cooper/). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Battle of](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%5Fof%5FLos%5FAngeles) [Los Angeles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%5Fof%5FLos%5FAngeles)”; Clark III 1176–1177; NICAP, “[Battle of Los Angeles](http://www.nicap.org/losangeldir.htm)”; Lore and Deneault, [pp. 74–87](https://archive.org/details/mysteriesofskies0000lore/page/74/mode/2up); Good Above, [pp. 15–17](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/14/mode/2up); Good Need, [pp. 17](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/16/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/16/mode/2up) [31](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/30/mode/2up); “No Bombs Dropped, No Planes Shot Down,” Los Angeles Herald Express, February 25, 1942, p. 1; “[Japanese Carry War to California Coast,](https://books.google.com/books?id=ck4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA19&dq=%22Japanese%2BCarry%2BWar%2Bto%2BCalifornia%2BCoast%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiT8NrRjar1AhVZCM0KHWTFBEYQ6AF6BAgTEAI%23v%3Donepage&q=%22Japanese%20Carry%20War%20to%20California%20Coast%22&f=false)” Life, March 9, 1942, pp. 19–23; Brett Holman, “[New Light on the Battle of Los Angeles,](https://airminded.org/2011/04/20/new-light-on-the-battle-of-los-angeles/)” Airminded, April 20, 2011; David Marler, “[The Battle of LA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh9AM2AzYOk) [UFO Incident,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh9AM2AzYOk)” OpenMindsTV YouTube channel, October 9, 2018; Strange Company 19–22; Robert Wood, “[‘Leaked’ Documents Shed New Light on Outcome of ‘Battle of Los Angeles,’](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/Books%2C%20Manuals%20and%20Published%20Papers/Specialty%20UFO%20Publications/Personal%20Collection%20of%20UFO%20Publications/MUFON%20Journals/2010/06/June%202010.pdf)” MUFON UFO Journal, June 2010, pp. 3–7; US Office of the Chief of Military History, “History of the Western Defense Command, 17 March 1941–30 September 1945,” five ms. vols., Appendix no. 5, “Chronology of Enemy Operations on Pacific Coast of Continental United States,” pp. 25–27; History, Fourth Anti-Aircraft Command, January 9, 1942, to July 1, 1945, pp. 112–124; Wesley Frank Craven and James Lea Cate, The Army Air Forces in World War II: Vol. 1, Plans and Early Operations, Office of Air Force History, 1948, [pp. 283–286](https://archive.org/details/Vol1PlansAndEarlyOperations/page/n331/mode/2up); Lorraine Boissoneault, “[The Great Los](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/great-los-angeles-air-raid-terrified-citizenseven-though-no-bombs-were-dropped-180967890/) [Angeles Air Raid Terrified Citizens—Even Though No Bombs Were Dropped,](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/great-los-angeles-air-raid-terrified-citizenseven-though-no-bombs-were-dropped-180967890/)” Smithsonian Magazine, January 19, 2018; Patrick Gross, “[Los Angeles, February 25, 1942](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/la1942.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_556 ### Event 3611 (74E9A982) **Date:** 2/25/1942 **Location:** USA, Los Angeles **Description:** (Translated from French) At precisely 2:00 am, diners at the Trocadero Club in Hollywood were surprised to see all the lights go out while sirens screamed the alarm throughout and around Los Angeles. Searchlights began to scan the sky, anti-aircraft batteries opened fire. In the following hours more than 1400 shots were fired at a single unidentified object, slowly passing through the sky. It resembled a blimp or a balloon. It was the 65th Coast Artillery (Anti-Aircraft) Regiment from Inglewood and the 205th Anti-Aircraft Regiment from Santa Monica that were shooting. The "cigar-shaped white" object received some bullets, but continued its imperturbable flight towards the east. Ground observers would have counted up to 25 silver UFOs. The editor of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Peter Jenkins, wrote: "I clearly saw the V-formation of 25 'silvery planes' (silver planes) slowly passing through the sky towards Long Beach." The Chief of Police of Long Beach, J.H. McClelland, also looked at the sky. He did not see the "planes" but younger people assured him that they saw them. A veteran of the army was looking through Carl Zeiss binoculars and in the beam of the searchlights, he counted nine. The objects passed from one searchlight beam to another, from one salvo to another, without flinching and continued towards Redondo Beach and Inglewood, then towards Santa Ana and Huntington Beach. "The shots were so loud that we could not hear the sound of the engines of the 'planes'. At 2:21 a.m., Lt. Gen. John L. DeWitt declared a ceasefire. (February 25, 1942) **Reference:** BEYOND EARTH: MAN'S CONTACT WITH UFOs by Ralph Blum, Bantam Books, New York, April 1974, page 68. The Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner and the Long Beach Press-Telegram for February 25, 1942. All newspaper quotes taken from "The Battle of Los Angeles, 1942" by Terrenz Sword, which appeared in Unsolved UFO Sightings, Spring 1996 issue, pages 57 through 62. **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_983 ### Event 3612 (81BD73FC) **Date:** 2/25/1942 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) [Battle of Los Angeles](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/1942-02-25\_LosAngeles.html). (February 25) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1942.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_475 ### Event 3613 (95011772) **Date:** 2/25/1942 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Los Angeles, sirens designed to give an alert in case of an air raid start to wail. Anti-aircraft groups are on alert. Panic sets in in the city, which goes into a blackout. (2 h 25) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1942.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_476 ### Event 3614 (AC1E2ACE) **Date:** 2/25/1942 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Anti-aircraft artillery \(AAA\) batteries begin firing at unidentified objects coming from the ocean, which searchlights attempt to corner in the sky. There appear to be at least two types of objects involved in the incident. Witnesses see small, red or silver objects flying at high altitude, moving quickly, appearing in formation and then seeming to weave through the AAA fire at speeds up to 8 km/s --- that's 29000 km/h. There is also a large object that remains stationary for a time, then is caught in the searchlight beams above Culver City, and then moves at a constant speed of 100 km/h to the Santa Monica coast and then south towards Long Beach before being lost from sight. This large object, according to reports, was hit by numerous projectiles. The AAA continues to fire at it. (3:16) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1942.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_477 ### Event 3615 (08E5B99C) **Date:** 2/25/1942 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The AAA stops shooting. No bombs were dropped by the unknown aircrafts and no aircrafts were shot down. (4:14) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1942.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_478 ### Event 3616 (947724C7) **Date:** 2/25/1942 **Location:** Los Angeles, CA **Description:** Multiple UFOs; anti-aircraft fire. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973_, by Richard Dolan](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/mode/2up) **Source:** Dolan, **ID:** Dolan_1 ### Event 3617 (C087E7F1) **Date:** 2/25/1942 **Time:** 02:30 **Location:** CULVER CITY, CA **Description:** 1430 Anti-Aircraft guns/teams shells fired / huge silent saucer. Not hurt. 18000mph! / r153p14. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GOOD, Timothy: ABOVE TOP SECRET; Sidgewick & Jackson, London 1987 & Quill Books, 1988. 592pp. (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_452 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **HST:** Historical account, **MIL:** Military investigation, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "119", **Elev:** "27", **HatchDesc:** "CULVER CITY,CA:1430 AA SHELLS FIRED/HUGE SLNT SCR:NOT HURT:18000mph!:/r153p14", **LatLong:** "34.000002 -118.383339", **LatLongDMS:** "34:00:00 N 118:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.000002,-118.383339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3618 (4C6D5924) **Date:** 2/25/1942 **Location:** Los Angeles, CA **Description:** Los Angeles, CA, searchlight case (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [420225](http://www.nicap.org/losangeldir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_130 ### Event 3619 (D99105DF) **Date:** 2/25/1942 **Description:** At around 2:30 a.m. on this night in Los Angeles County, California a formation of 6-9 luminous white balls of light flying in a triangular formation flew in from the northwest, moving very slowly. They also appeared as steady radar blips coming in from the sea. As they flew over aircraft factories and this was shortly after the United States entry into World War II, widespread panic resulted, and five people were killed by the anti-aircraft fire hitting the ground and in subsequent traffic accidents. In the evening in Santa Monica, California a white disc was sighted hovering high in the sky. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Preston E. Dennett, UFOs over Topanga Canyon, p. 263; Gordon I. R. Lore and Harold Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 74 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1094 ### Event 3620 (42A55288) **Date:** 2/26/1942 **Location:** Washington DC **Description:** Secret Memo to the President from Chief of Staff, G. C. Marshall stating: UFO's appeared over Los Angeles, CA, yesterday morning. The 37th Brigade (AA) expended 1430 rounds of ammunition against them. No bombs dropped, no casualties among our troops, no planes (UFOs) shot down, no AA or Navy planes were inaction. (AA Document, OCS 21347–86.) **Type:** secret memo **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p17, 446) **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Los_Angeles) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_61 ### Event 3621 (F35C4E9B) **Date:** 2/26/1942 (approximate) **Location:** AUSTRALIA, TIMOR SEA **Description:** (Translated from French) At around 3:00am, the crew of the Dutch Royal Navy warship "Tromp" could observe "like a large aluminum disc" which was approaching at a great speed - estimated at 6000 km/h - of the ship, it circled around it and then moved away towards the open sea. For three hours it circled at altitude above the cruiser and finally disappeared at a very high speed. (Henry DURRANT: "Le livre noir des S.V." - Laffont 1970 - p.84). (1942, February 26 (or 6?)) **Reference:** "UFO's, a century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 18, which places the date at 6.2.42 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_984 ### Event 3622 (5AAC8904) **Date:** 2/26/1942 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) General [Marshall](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/MarshallGeorgeCattlet.html) reports to President Roosevelt regarding the incidents of the previous day in Los Angeles. (February 26) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1942.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_479 ### Event 3623 (EFADC4A9) **Date:** 2/26/1942 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Bright objects photographed in the middle of a formation of Tahikawa Ki 36 reconnaissance planes. See image at images/foofig\_1.jpg. **Reference:** \[Jean-Luc Chaumeil, *Le temps et les OVNI*\] **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1942.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_480 ### Event 3624 (7C1EBF67) **Date:** 2/26/1942 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At the secret airbase of Banak \(Finnmark province, Norway\) the guard post gives the alarm; the men go to their combat posts, the pilots to their aircraft. Through binoculars, the observers see an engine approaching silently. Hauptmann Fischer \(engineer in civilian life\) takes off in a Messerschmitt 109 \(fighter\) to intercept it. At 3500 m altitude he approaches it, observes it, and gives a description over the radio: it is an enormous streamlined body, without any visible wings or openings; its length is about 100 m and its diameter about 15 m; at one end a group of rods resembling radar antennas. The "air whale" as Captain Fischer immediately nicknames it, maintains a horizontal position; suddenly it rises vertically at great speed and disappears; the pilot concludes that it cannot be a man-made engine. The report is signed by Captain Fischer, countersigned by the base commander. When, in Berlin, Air Marshal Hermann Goering reads it, he concludes that the harsh solitude of the Far North has played a nasty trick on his pilot. (5:35 PM) **Reference:** Report sent to the Oberkommando der Luftwaffe, Durrant 1973 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1942.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_481 ### Event 3625 (79770CC8) **Date:** 2/26/1942 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A Banak \(Norway\), Fischer observed a large cigar-shaped object \(apparently a hoax\). **Reference:** \[Durrant 1970, 84\] \[OVNI Presence, 28/Dec 1983, 30/Jun 1984\] \[Liljegren: A bibliography of references to UFO incidents during World War II, 1987, 8\] **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1942.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_482 ### Event 3626 (7B6601F4) **Date:** 2/26/1942 **Location:** Timor Sea **Description:** Illuminated disk; terrific speed. Non-US military. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973_, by Richard Dolan](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/mode/2up) **Source:** Dolan, **ID:** Dolan_2 ### Event 3627 (19804C79) **Date:** 2/26/1942 **Time:** 12:10 **Location:** TIMOR SEA **Description:** Dutch Navy men / (seen thru) binoculars. Large aluminum disk circles cruiser / 3 hours and more. Away / 5000kph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 42) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_453 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Indian Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "200", **HatchDesc:** "TIMOR SEA:DUTCH NAVY MEN/BINOCS:LRG ALUM.DISK CCLS CRUISER/3hrs+:AWAY/5000kph", **LatLong:** "-12.666667 125.000006", **LatLongDMS:** "12:40:00 S 125:00:00 E", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-12.666667,125.000006)", **State/Prov:** "TMR", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3628 (201B49AA) **Date:** 2/26/1942 **Locations:** Roosevelt; Los Angeles **Description:** Army Chief of Staff [George C. Marshall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FMarshall) writes [Roosevelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%5FD.%5FRoosevelt) that as many as 15 unknown commercial aircraft, flying at various speeds up to 200 mph and at elevations from 9,000 to 18,000 feet, were responsible for the Battle of Los Angeles. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** presidentialufo.com, “General George Marshall Secret Memo to President Roosevelt about the Unidentified Objects over Los Angeles on February 25, 1942”; Good Above, [pp. 17](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/16/mode/2up), [446](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/446/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_557 ### Event 3629 (1924BB4C) **Date:** 2/26/1942 **Locations:** Royal Netherlands Navy; Australia; Battle of Badung Strait; Bali; Indonesia; Timor Sea **Description:** Royal Netherlands Navy cruiser [HNLMS Tromp,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HNLMS%5FTromp%5F%281937%29) returning to Australia after the Battle of Badung Strait \(off Bali in Indonesia\), reports a large, aluminum disc speeding above it in the Timor Sea and maneuvering for nearly 4 hours. It departs at an estimated 3,500 mph. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Australasia,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1957%2CNov-Dic%2CV%203%2CN%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 3, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1957\): 6 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_558 ### Event 3630 (BA1CE3E0) **Date:** 2/27/1942 **Location:** Timor Sea, At Sea **Description:** Large disc; departed location at 3,500 miles per hour (Page 23 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_131 ### Event 3631 (3B622E4E) **Date:** 3/1942 **Location:** Zuider Zee, Holland **Description:** Luminous object closely following plane; fired rounds, Non-US military **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973_, by Richard Dolan](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/mode/2up) **Source:** Dolan, **ID:** Dolan_3 ### Event 3632 (8EBBB68C) **Date:** 3/5/1942 **Locations:** Middle River; Essex, Maryland **Description:** Benjamin Smith, formerly of the Army Air Corps, sees several blinking lights moving slowly over the Middle River adjacent to Essex, Maryland. They circle the river two or three times then disappear. Smith reports the incident to local police, who then inform Naval Intelligence. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Towson \(Md.\) Union News, March 6, 1942; Jan Aldrich **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_559 ### Event 3633 (596F2E4D) **Date:** 3/9/1942 **Description:** The Air Service Command becomes a major Army Air Forces unit to support logistical functions. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Air Materiel Command](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%5FMateriel%5FCommand\#Air%5FService%5FCommand)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_560 ### Event 3634 (AA31601B) **Date:** 3/14/1942 **Location:** NORWAY, Banak (Finnmark) **Description:** (Translated from French) Report of observation from the secret air base of Banak, addressed to the Oberkommando der Luftwaffe in Berlin. At 5:35 PM the watch post gave the alarm; the men went to their combat posts, the pilots to their aircraft. Through binoculars, the observers saw an engine approaching silently. Hauptman Fischer (an engineer in civilian life) took off in a Messerschmitt 109 (fighter) to intercept it. At 3,500 meters altitude he approached it, observed it, and gave a description by radio: it was an enormous streamlined body, without any support plane, without any visible opening; its length was about 100 meters and its diameter about 15 meters; at one end (front?) a group of rods resembling radar antennas. The aerial whale, as Captain Fischer immediately nicknamed it, maintained itself horizontally; suddenly it rose vertically at great speed and disappeared. The pilot concluded that it could not be a machine made by human hands. Report signed by Captain Fischer, countersigned by the base commander. When Hermann Goering in Berlin took cognizance of it, he concluded that the harsh solitude of the Far North had played a nasty trick on his pilot. [IN REALITY: the whole affair would be nothing but a HOAX for the needs of the author... OVNI PRESENCE, 28/Dec 1983, 30/Jun 1984. Liljegren: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF REFERENCES TO UFO INCIDENTS DURING WORLD WAR II., 1987, 8. Listing by Ole Johny Braenne] **Reference:** Henry DURRANT: "Le livre noir des S.V." - Laffont 1970 - p.84 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_986 ### Event 3635 (2ACB6323) **Date:** 3/14/1942 **Time:** 17:40 **Location:** NEAR BANAK, NORWAY **Description:** Ground RADAR and German pilot. 100M cylinder/cigar-shape 15M diameter hovers. Quickly going up / impossibly. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** CUFON UFO Network Site (former BBS) various downloads. http://www.cufon.org (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_454 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "nr BANAK,NORWAY:GND RDR+GERMAN PILOT:100M CGR 15M diam HOVERS:↑↑/IMPOSSIBLY:", **LatLong:** "70.050003 24.983335", **LatLongDMS:** "70:03:00 N 24:59:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/70.050003,24.983335)", **State/Prov:** "Norway", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3636 (3C27A582) **Date:** 3/14/1942 **Description:** Ground radar and German pilot flying in Banak, Finnmark, Norway at 5:35 p.m. detected a 100m long cigar-shaped object, 15m in diameter, that first hovered, and then shot straight up at an impossible speed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Claude Poher, Etudes Statistiques Portant sur 1000 Temoignag, case # 417; Dale Goudie, CUFON **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1467 ### Event 3637 (5ED38B9D) **Date:** Spring 1942 **Location:** Unknown City, KY **Description:** Powerful searchlight shining down, emanating from unidentifiable object; sometimes remained motionless (Page 23 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_133 ### Event 3638 (C8EE7A94) **Date:** Spring 1942 **Location:** Unknown City, IL **Description:** Light gray, sharply defined rectangle; gray in color (Page 23 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_134 ### Event 3639 (E3EAB34B) **Date:** Spring 1942 **Locations:** Seabury-Western Theological Seminary; Evanston, Illinois; Northern part of town **Description:** Rev. Robert H. Moore and six other persons attending the Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois, watch a small, light-gray, rectangular object over the northern part of town for 10 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lore and Deneault, [p. 142](https://archive.org/details/mysteriesofskies0000lore/page/142/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_561 ### Event 3640 (260860CA) **Date:** 3/25/1942 **Location:** NETHERLANDS, above the Zuiderzee **Description:** (Translated from French) Commander-pilot Roman Sobinski was returning from a bombing operation above Essen (Germany, Ruhr). Passing above the Zuiderzee north of Holland, his tail gunner signaled him an orange-colored luminous disc that was following them. After various maneuvers to get rid of it, the order was given to the gunner to shoot: several projectiles seemed to penetrate the luminous circle, but without result, although the object was at a good range (about 150 m). Finally, the flying disc disappeared at great speed. **Reference:** Henry DURRANT: "The Black Book of UFOs" - Laffont 1970 - p.76 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_987 ### Event 3641 (2AFAC6CB) **Date:** 3/25/1942 **Time:** 00:00 **Location:** ZUIDER ZEE, NETH **Description:** 2 airmen. British bomber followed / orange-glowing disk. Away / 1600km / HR. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 330) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_455 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "ZUIDER ZEE,NETH:2 AIRMEN:BRIT.BOMBER FOLLOWED/ORG-GLO DISK:AWAY/1600km/HR", **LatLong:** "52.666669 5.416667", **LatLongDMS:** "52:40:00 N 05:25:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.666669,5.416667)", **State/Prov:** "Netherlands", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3642 (385FB396) **Date:** 3/25/1942 **Location:** Zuider Zee, Holland **Description:** An RAF bomber returning from a raid on Essen, Germany, was followed by a luminous orange disc or sphere. As it came closer the tail gunner opened fire on it, to no apparent effect. Finally it sped away at an estimated 1,000 m.p.h. (Ref. 3; Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1962.) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_132 ### Event 3643 (DC94D300) **Date:** 3/25/1942 **Description:** At midnight U.S. Airman Sobinski and another Army Air Force crewman sighted a luminous orange object closely following their warplane over the Zuider Zee, North Holland, The Netherlands. They fired several rounds at the object. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 6, citing Jerome Clark; Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 19; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 396 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1647 ### Event 3644 (B8E55969) **Date:** 4/1942 **Location:** ARJEPLOG, SWEDEN **Description:** Observer(s) = Thorander. UFO and humanoid seen. Electro-magnetic effect (EME). No further details. / S. Aggestad 1981. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_456 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ARJEPLOG,SWEDEN:OBS=Thorander:UFO+HUMANOID SEEN:EME:NFD:/S.Aggestad 1981", **LatLong:** "66.050003 17.900001", **LatLongDMS:** "66:03:00 N 17:54:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/66.050003,17.900001)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 3645 (8D5D6D84) **Date:** 4/1/1942 **Description:** The Materiel Division of the Air Service Command assumes responsibility for R&D and procurement and is redesignated as the Air Corps Materiel Command. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Air Materiel Command](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%5FMateriel%5FCommand\#Air%5FService%5FCommand)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_562 ### Event 3646 (A013B987) **Date:** 4/4/1942 **Location:** ALGERIA, Ouallen (Adrar-En-Ahmet) **Description:** (Translated from French) One fine morning, the weather station's sub-officer observed an object directly above him, like a small, bright point of aluminum white. About forty people were able to observe the phenomenon. One of the witnesses recounts: "Observed more precisely with our field binoculars and with the theodolite's telescope, the "planet" looked like a small moon or a five franc coin. It had pale, metal white reflections and seemed to be suspended at an altitude of 5 to 6000 m. Apparently it stayed still, but a prolonged examination with the theodolite revealed that it was moving in a slow rotation: we were thus able to observe three rotations in eight hours. The next morning it was still there, always directly above us and we began to get used to it, thinking it was some lost star or a new satellite captured by the Earth's attraction. At dawn of the third day, everything had disappeared..." (the author cites Aimé Michel: **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "The Chronicle of UFOs" - Delarge 1977- p.260-261 **Reference:** "Glimpses of Flying Saucers" - Aimé Michel, ed. Maison MAME 1954, pages 122, 123 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_988 ### Event 3647 (63310848) **Date:** 4/7/1942 (approximate) **Time:** ~08:00 **Location:** OUALLEN, ALGERIA **Description:** Legionaires and weatherman. Metallic disk hovers / 2 days. Rotates 3X / 8 hours. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: The TRUTH ABOUT FLYING SAUCERS; S. G. Phillips 1956 & Pyramid Books, NY 1967. (Index 105) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_457 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Algeria", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "240", **HatchDesc:** "OUALLEN,ALGERIA:LEGIONAIRES+WEATHERMAN:MTLC DISK HVRs/2 DAYS:ROTATES 3X/8hrs", **LatLong:** "24.716668 1.250000", **LatLongDMS:** "24:43:00 N 01:15:00 E", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/24.716668,1.250000)", **State/Prov:** "SAH", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3648 (55C1E394) **Date:** 4/27/1942 **Location:** Germany **Description:** Nazi Amerikabomber long range bomber project study completed **Type:** project study **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerikabomber) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_62 ### Event 3649 (41380FA0) **Date:** 5/1942 **Location:** Miraflores, Peru **Description:** 3:00 p.m. Abdon Gonzales Tello, 13, and other boys see a silvery, cigar-shaped object in the sky to the west of Miraflores, Peru. Its ends are cut off at sharp angles, and it takes 20 seconds to proceed to the south and out of sight. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 22 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_563 ### Event 3650 (58588155) **Date:** 5/2/1942 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** LIVERPOOL, ENG **Description:** Clothes on lines float upwards. Drift going north. (Wind goes going south slowly.) **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 89) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_458 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NFO:** No craft seen, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "LIVERPOOL,ENG:CLOTHES ON LINES FLOAT UPWARDS:DRIFT>N:(WIND GOES > S. SLOWLY)", **LatLong:** "53.416669 -2.866667", **LatLongDMS:** "53:25:00 N 02:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.416669,-2.866667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 3651 (D0335ED0) **Date:** 6/1942 (approximate) **Time:** 13:00 **Location:** FROSON, SWD **Description:** Telepathy / hypnosis? Boy / 12 goes / town for mystery package. Gives it to pseudo-human/entity. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 320) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_459 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **TLP:** Telepathy, **NFO:** No craft seen, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "FROSON,SWD:TLP/HYPNOSIS?:BOY/12 GOES/TOWN for MYSTERY PACKAGE:GIVES IT TO PSH", **LatLong:** "63.166670 14.583334", **LatLongDMS:** "63:10:00 N 14:35:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/63.166670,14.583334)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 3652 (5693ED75) **Date:** 6/1942 **Description:** Col. [James C. Marshall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FC.%5FMarshall) is selected to head the Manhattan Project. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Manhattan Project](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan%5FProject)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_564 ### Event 3653 (CB989B89) **Date:** 6/13/1942 **Location:** Washington DC **Description:** The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), predecessor of the CIA, begins operations **Type:** historical **Reference:** [link](https://www.cia.gov/legacy/cia-history/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_63 ### Event 3654 (E9DCBA3F) **Date:** 6/13/1942 **Location:** GERMANY, Peenemunde Island **Description:** (Translated from French) The first ascent of an "A4" ("V-2"). 14 meters long, diameter of 1.75m, 1000 kilograms of explosives, 3000 kilograms of fuel in the upper tank, 6000 kilograms of liquid oxygen in the lower tank, turbo pump running at 4000 revolutions for a power of 500 to 600 HP, total weight 12,000 kg, launch engine with a thrust of 12,000 kg. The rocket, slightly oscillating, rose up and disappeared into the low cloud layer. For several seconds more the roar of the rocket engine was heard. Then suddenly it stopped and a few moments later the rocket reappeared, without tailfins, swaying horizontally, after which it sank into the sea with a terrific explosion. **Reference:** The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" -Hans K. Kaiser, Amiot-Dumont 1954, pp. 100 to 108 **Reference:** Following on from August 16, 1942 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_991 ### Event 3655 (353ACE83) **Date:** 6/13/1942 **Description:** [Roosevelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%5FD.%5FRoosevelt) establishes the Office of Strategic Services, a wartime intelligence agency, with Gen. [William J.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FJ.%5FDonovan) [Donovan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FJ.%5FDonovan) at its head. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Office of Strategic Services](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office%5Fof%5FStrategic%5FServices)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_565 ### Event 3656 (88E3B078) **Date:** 6/19/1942 **Description:** [Roosevelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%5FD.%5FRoosevelt) abolishes the S-1 Section and replaces it with the S-1 Executive Committee, tasked with the technical and contractual aspects of producing an atomic bomb, while the Army handles engineering, construction, and site selection. American chemist [James B. Conant](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FB.%5FConant) is appointed as its chairman, and [Lyman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyman%5FJames%5FBriggs) [James Briggs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyman%5FJames%5FBriggs)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyman%5FJames%5FBriggs) [Karl Taylor Compton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%5FTaylor%5FCompton)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%5FTaylor%5FCompton) [Ernest Lawrence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest%5FLawrence)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest%5FLawrence) and American chemists [Eger V. Murphree](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eger%5FV.%5FMurphree) and [Harold C.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%5FUrey) [Urey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%5FUrey) as its other members. Roosevelt approves the committee’s recommendation to move to the pilot plant stage and build piles to produce plutonium and electromagnetic, centrifuge, and gaseous diffusion plants to produce uranium-235. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[S-1 Executive Committee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-1%5FExecutive%5FCommittee)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_566 ### Event 3657 (76D06991) **Date:** Summer 1942 **Location:** AUSTRALIA, Tasmania **Description:** (Translated from French) (After the Japanese attack of February 19th 1942.) A major of the Royal Australian Air Force noted in his report: "We were given orders, after the Japanese attack on Darwin, to patrol the Bass Strait where fishermen had reported mysterious nocturnal lights. At around 5:50 PM, at the very beginning of twilight, we were flying a few kilometers east of the Tasmanian peninsula, when suddenly, from a bank of clouds, a strange craft emerged. It was bronze and shining and must have been 45 meters long and 15 meters in diameter. There was something like a beak or a spur at the front and the surface of the object seemed to vibrate. At the top there was a dome or a cupola from which flashes of blue and green light emerged. The other end of the craft ended in a fin. It circled around us, turning very sharply, and I was then surprised to see, at the front of the dome, a white circle inside of which I thought I recognized the image of a grimacing cat. (note of vog: in my opinion, this story should be taken with a grain of salt. The pilot must have known, for example, the Martin Marauder, Martin Mariner and other planes - which had emblems - shark heads, cats and others, on their noses... ) Then this damned craft flew parallel to us for a few minutes. It then suddenly made a U-turn, presenting four fins on its ventral side. It left at an incredible speed and plunged into the Pacific, disappearing under the water which was stirred by regular waves. As if it were a submarine! No, it is not possible that the Japanese could have such craft, nobody could have built such a mysterious amphibious bird!". (1942, Summer) **Reference:** See FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED by Harold T. Wilkins, Citadel Press, New York, NY 1955, pages 224-255. **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_993 ### Event 3658 (2A9C90C8) **Date:** Summer 1942 **Location:** Bass Strait, Tasman Peninsula **Description:** A singular airfoil of glistening bronze color; domed upper surface; possible crew member, Cheshire cat emblem on dome. (Page 29 Ref 1) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_143 ### Event 3659 (9C615FEA) **Date:** Summer 1942 **Locations:** Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania; Bass Strait **Description:** 5:50 p.m. An RAAF pilot is on flying patrol off the Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania, following reports by fishermen of strange lights on the waters of Bass Strait. A “singular airfoil of glistening bronze color” appears out of a cloudbank. It’s about 150 feet long, 50 feet in diameter, and has a dome on top. It accompanies his plane for a few minutes before departing at “a hell of a pace.” It turns again and dives into the ocean, throwing up a “whirlpool of waves.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Bill Chalker, “[Australian A.F. UFO Report Files,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201982%2010%2000%20-%20Vol%2030%20No%2010.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 30, no. 10 \(October 1982\): 6–7 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_569 ### Event 3660 (FE631B6B) **Date:** Late 6/1942 **Location:** FRANCE, Cussey-sur-l'Ognon (Haute-Saône) **Description:** (Translated from French) Or early July (or 1943). On this day it was hot and Mr. and Mrs. Bonardi had taken the afternoon to rest not far from a wheat field where some peasants were busy. Around 4:00 pm, the witnesses suddenly had their attention drawn to a bright light filtering through the foliage of the undergrowth. At the same time they felt a wave of heat. Soon an oval object of dark blue color topped with a dome of silver gray like aluminum appeared. On the dome there were two vertical tubes, in the center of which a more slender antenna could be distinguished. The witnesses clearly saw portholes and a tripod arranged at the base of the object. Astonished by the appearance, the peasants stopped working. The object was then about fifty meters from the Bonardi, hovering a few tens of cm above the ground while emitting a fan noise while turning on itself. Suddenly lights came out of the portholes at a regular rhythm: "as if they were sending us Morse code" said the witnesses. When they were about twenty meters from the strange object, Mrs. Bonardi heard a muffled sound, like murmurs of conversation. The peasants were getting more and more agitated. The UFO continued its slow course at the edge of the grass, then suddenly it took off vertically and disappeared into the sky. At the place of the almost landing a circle of about 1.50 m in diameter was found, where the grass was trampled in all directions. The object must have had dimensions between 2 m and 2.50 m. The duration of the observation was 6 to 10 minutes. [note from vog: I would almost put my hand in the fire that it was a helicopter...] (1942, late June) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p.261-262 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_992 ### Event 3661 (89A86C33) **Date:** 6/25/1942 **Location:** Unknown City, Holland **Description:** Shining copper object, like setting sun, the size of a full moon (Page 23-25 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_135 ### Event 3662 (797A5910) **Date:** Late 6/1942 **Location:** Cussey-sur-l'Ognon, Doubs, France **Description:** Several witnesses heard a motor-like sound and saw a blue-gray oval object with a dome on top hovering just above the ground in a wooded area. (Ref. 3; Michel Bougard, Des Soucoupes Volantes aux OVNI, 1977.) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_136 ### Event 3663 (4CF60FEC) **Date:** 6/25/1942 **Alternate date:** 3/25/1942 **Locations:** Ruhr Valley, Germany; Zuiderzee in Holland **Description:** Midnight. Flight Lt. Roman \(Ray\) Sabiński of the 301 Polish Bomber Squadron is flying an RAF Wellington bomber after returning from a run on the Ruhr Valley, Germany; he sees a bright copper-colored light the “size of the moon” following the aircraft over the Zuiderzee in Holland. When it gets within 200 yards, the rear gunner shoots at it with all four machine guns. After two minutes, it moves at terrific speed to the port side, and the front gunner starts firing at it. Sabiński takes evasive action, but the object keeps pacing him. Finally, it moves in front of the bomber, stays there a while, then takes off at fantastic speed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Strange Company 23–25; Gordon W. Creighton. “[Foo Fighters,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1962%2CMar-Apr%2CV%208%2CN%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 8, no. 2 \(March/April 1962\): 15; Patrick Gross, “[Pilot Reports](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/zuidersee25mar1942.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_567 ### Event 3664 (D10A8225) **Date:** 7/1942 (approximate) **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** SOUTHEAST / CUSSAY, FR **Description:** 2 observer(s). Wave / heat. Domed saucer with antennas and portholes. Light signals / code. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 128) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_460 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "SE/CUSSAY,FR:2 OBS:WAVE/HEAT:DOMED SCR W/ANTENNAS+PORTHOLES:LITE SIGNALS/CODE", **LatLong:** "47.322224 5.961111", **LatLongDMS:** "47:19:20 N 05:57:40 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.322224,5.961111)", **State/Prov:** "Doubs", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 3665 (7C9B29A8) **Date:** 8/1942 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In the Solomon Islands, Sergeant-Chief Stephen Brickner reported 150 UFOs flying in rectangular formation, 15 on the length and 10 on the width. (August) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1942.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_483 ### Event 3666 (DCE9F07A) **Date:** 8/1942 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Observation \(pictured to the right\) at Tientsien, in the province of Hopeh \(Northern China\). See image at images/1942.gif. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1942.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_484 ### Event 3667 (DE57C619) **Date:** 8/1942 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Two young aviators on a simple surveillance mission take to the air in a dirigible to patrol along the California coast. Later, two fishermen spot the drifting craft, the gondola door open. There is no one on board. After investigation, it is learned that the dirigible had entirely risen above the clouds and was seen by an airplane, then descended again. Four ships saw it fly over a suspicious oil slick and suddenly rise back into the clouds. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1942.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_485 ### Event 3668 (F675A031) **Date:** 8/1942 (approximate) **Time:** 17:50 **Location:** BASS STRAIT, AUS **Description:** 50M domed ovoid paces RAAF plane. Turns 2X. Dives / sea. / r107p225. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 19) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_461 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "2", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "BASS STRAIT,AUS:50M DOMED OVOID PACES RAAF PLANE:TURNS 2X:DIVES/SEA:/r107p225", **LatLong:** "-40.250002 146.500007", **LatLongDMS:** "40:15:00 S 146:30:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-40.250002,146.500007)", **State/Prov:** "TSM", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 3669 (BC6FA56D) **Date:** 8/1942 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** WEST / OUEZZANE, MAROC **Description:** 3 / car. Desert road lit. Extra moon hovers / N. sky. Shoots going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 344) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_462 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc. **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Morocco", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "W/OUEZZANE,MAROC:3/CAR:DESERT ROAD LIT:EXTRA MOON HVRS/N.SKY:SHOOTS >>W", **LatLong:** "34.133335 -5.250000", **LatLongDMS:** "34:08:00 N 05:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.133335,-5.250000)", **State/Prov:** "TNJ", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3670 (DF21986F) **Date:** 8/1942 **Time:** 23:00? **Location:** SOUTHWEST / KOBLENZ, GERM **Description:** 2 Fr. prisoners of war. Moonless night. Crescent moon swings like pendulum! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LDLN CONTACT LECTEURS: by Series and #. May'68 -JAN'72 (Entire set of 18 issues) LDLN local chapters & individual members' UFO reports. (Index 52) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_463 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "SW/KOBLENZ,GERM:2 FR.POWs:MOONLESS NITE:CRESCENT MOON SWINGS LIKE PENDULUM!", **LatLong:** "50.000002 7.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "50:00:00 N 07:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.000002,7.000000)", **State/Prov:** "RHP", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 3671 (527C18DF) **Date:** 8/1942 **Time:** 23:00? **Location:** NEWBIGGIN-ON-SEA, ENGL **Description:** RADAR sentry. Night light. Missing time. Small humanoids (or Greys) and medical exam. Scar and rash. / r243p18. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 107) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_464 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **MST:** Missing time or time anomaly, **ABD:** Human or animal abduction, **OPR:** Operations on humans/animal mutilation/surgery, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "NEWBIGGIN-on-SEA,ENGL:RDR SENTRY:NLT:MST:OIDS+MEDICAL EXAM:SCAR+RASH:/r243p18", **LatLong:** "55.166669 -1.533333", **LatLongDMS:** "55:10:00 N 01:32:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/55.166669,-1.533333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 3672 (9AA70AB7) **Date:** 8/1942 **Locations:** Lafayette Township; Newton, New Jersey; Ogdensburg, New Jersey **Description:** Evelyn M. Howell and two other adults see a huge cigar-shaped object hovering near them between Lafayette Township and Newton, New Jersey. It has “two rows of windows” that give off blue, green, white, and red fluorescent lights. They watch it for 10 minutes, after which it silently and slowly takes off. Howell and her husband see a similar object on the drive home to Ogdensburg, New Jersey. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 1178 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_571 ### Event 3673 (B88159FE) **Date:** 8/5/1942 **Location:** Unknown City, Solomon Isl **Description:** Saucer shaped cigar with round dome on top; approximately ninety feet in diameter (Page 27 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_137 ### Event 3674 (3CC986BE) **Date:** 8/5/1942 **Locations:** Solomon Islands; Guadalcanal **Description:** Early morning. The Navy destroyer [USS Helm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FHelm%5F%28DD-388%29) is on its way to the Solomon Islands in preparation for the Guadalcanal landings. A radio blackout is in effect. An aircraft approaches, a full alert is sounded, and three cruisers \([Vincennes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FVincennes%5F%28CA-44%29)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FVincennes%5F%28CA-44%29) [Quincy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FQuincy%5F%28CA-39%29)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FQuincy%5F%28CA-39%29) [Astoria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FAstoria%5F%28CA-34%29)\) and seven other ships open fire on it. The object is not hit and proceeds to circle around the fleet. An anonymous sailor on security detail on the Helm watches it through binoculars and sees it as 90 feet in diameter, oval, with a round dome on top. The ships continue to fire on the UFO, which attains extremely high speeds. Commanding Officer [Chester Edward Carroll](http://abbot.us/captains/carroll.shtml) later hears that the aircraft is neither German nor Japanese. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Strange Company 27–28 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_572 ### Event 3675 (3D604E9A) **Date:** 8/11/1942 **End date:** 8/12/1942 **Location:** Aachen (near), Germany **Description:** A phenomenon described as a bright white light (Page 29-30 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_138 ### Event 3676 (0C5CA141) **Date:** 8/12/1942 **Location:** Tulagi Island (Solomon Islands) west of Guadalcanal **Description:** (Translated from French) Around 10 in the morning, with a beautiful sky containing high altitude fluffy clouds, Stephen J. Brickner, Sergeant of the Marine Division, was cleaning his rifle when the alarm was sounded. He immediately entered his foxhole sitting, facing the sky. He heard the formation before he saw it, but did not recognize the sound which resembled some kind of echo in the air. A few seconds later the formation of silver objects passed overhead. The sergeant was very excited, it was only his fifth day at the front in the war against the Japanese and he immediately thought that they were Japanese planes. It was a formation of 150 flying objects not in a V formation, but in straight lines of 10 or 12 objects, one behind the other, their speed slightly higher than that of the usual Japanese planes. This formation quickly disappeared out of sight. None of these objects had wings or a tail and they seemed to sway slowly, shining in the sun like silver. **Reference:** Jeroen Wierda - Pufori - The Mysterious Foo Fighters of WWII - 19.5.1997 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_994 ### Event 3677 (B7A23062) **Date:** 8/12/1942 **Location:** Pacific Ocean **Description:** Large formation; no wings; not Japanese planes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973_, by Richard Dolan](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/mode/2up) **Source:** Dolan, **ID:** Dolan_4 ### Event 3678 (A9E7E984) **Date:** 8/12/1942 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** TULAGI, SOLOMONS **Description:** Rows / 10-12 saucers. Dull roar not engine noise. Wobble / high altitude. / r114. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SPENCER, John: The UFO ENCYCLOPEDIA; BUFORA/Acon Books, NY. 1991. 340pp. (Index 53) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_465 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "100", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "TULAGI,SOLOMONs:ROWS/10-12 SCRS:DULL ROAR not engine noise:WOBBLE/HI ALT:/r114", **LatLong:** "-9.100000 160.100008", **LatLongDMS:** "09:06:00 S 160:06:00 E", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-9.100000,160.100008)", **State/Prov:** "SOL", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 3679 (D611C4B4) **Date:** 8/12/1942 **Location:** Unknown City, Solomon Isl **Description:** Formation of silvery objects directly overhead, numbering close to 150; mighty roaring sound (Page 28 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_139 ### Event 3680 (16B44B30) **Date:** 8/12/1942 **Locations:** Tulagi; Solomon Islands **Description:** Day. Sgt. Stephen J. Brickner of the 1st Marine Division on Tulagi in the Solomon Islands is cleaning his rifle when an air-raid warning is sounded. He dives into his foxhole looking to the sky. He hears a roaring sound unlike that of an aircraft. Soon he sees a formation of more than 150 silvery objects, in straight lines of 10 or 12. The objects seem to wobble slightly. They are flying faster than Japanese planes and are soon out of sight. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Good Above, [p. 18](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/18/mode/2up); Strange Company 28–29 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_573 ### Event 3681 (97DB3F31) **Date:** 8/12/1942 **Description:** At ten a.m. a large formation of as many as 150 aerial objects with no wings was seen from Tulagi Island in the Soloman Islands in the Pacific. They were flying in an equally spaced formation, ten across and fifteen deep, in a perfect square. They were definitely not Japanese planes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Gordon I. R. Lore and Harold Denault, Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 126; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 55; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 396 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4928 ### Event 3682 (C0E099CB) **Date:** 8/13/1942 **Location:** Manhattan Engineering District **Description:** The Manhattan Engineering District, with Brig. Gen. [James C. Marshall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FC.%5FMarshall) as district engineer, is established by Chief of the US Army Corps of Engineers Maj. Gen. [Eugene Reybold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene%5FReybold)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene%5FReybold)  **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Manhattan Project](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan%5FProject)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_574 ### Event 3683 (9D4C5483) **Date:** 8/13/1942 **Description:** Sixty-eight UFOs were seen over the Capitol in Washington, D.C. on this night around 11:00 p.m. Photographs were taken, and a big CAA investigation followed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 126 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4959 ### Event 3684 (59911E7A) **Date:** 8/15/1942? **Time:** 14:00 **Location:** TULA PROVINCE, RUSSIA **Description:** 20 Germans / battle. Silent 300M blimp going down / cloud. Hovers / 1 minute(s). Away extremely fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 291) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_466 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Russia", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "TULA Prov.,RUSS:20 GERMANS/BATTLE:SLNT 300M BLIMP ↓/CLOUD:HVRS/1min:AWAY XFAST", **LatLong:** "53.750003 37.333335", **LatLongDMS:** "53:45:00 N 37:20:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.750003,37.333335)", **State/Prov:** "TLA", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 3685 (F93453E2) **Date:** Mid 8/1942 **Location:** Tula Region, near Moscow, Russia **Description:** Huge cigar-shaped object something like a Zeppelin, but much bulkier and rounder at the front; aluminum hued color. (Page 30-31, Ref 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_141 ### Event 3686 (CF66866A) **Date:** Late Summer 1942 **Locations:** Cresswell radar station; Newbiggin-by-the-Sea; Northumberland; England; North Sea **Description:** Pvt. Albert Lancashire, 27, is standing guard at Cresswell radar station near Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, Northumberland, England, when he sees a cloud-enshrouded light approaching from the North Sea. As it descends, he is drawn up into it by a beam. Small men grab him and carry him into the craft, where he sees other human figures of normal height, including an apparent captain with dark hair and goggles. He is made to lie down on a couch or table. He has only vague memories of what happens next, but he thinks a medical exam is performed. He wakes up back at his sentry post. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Center for UFO Studies, [HUMCAT Index 1940–1949](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1940-1949.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1940-1949.pdf) p. 4; “New Time Lapse Case from England Uncovered,” MUFON UFO Journal 107 \(October 1976\): 1–18; Clark III 265 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_570 ### Event 3687 (3822FBDA) **Date:** 8/16/1942 **Location:** Germany, Peenemunde **Description:** (Translated from French) (cf. June 13, 1942) At the second launch, in very clear weather, the ascending trajectory of the A4 could be clearly followed up to several kilometers in altitude. But this test failed prematurely. The horizontal range was 10 kilometers. **Reference:** "The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" -Hans K. Kaiser, Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 108 **Reference:** Following October 3, 1942 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_995 ### Event 3688 (AFAC618B) **Date:** 8/17/1942 **End date:** 8/18/1942 **Location:** Osnabruk, Germany **Description:** A rocket with a long white tail of light (Page 30 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_140 ### Event 3689 (1C1EC562) **Date:** 8/29/1942 **Location:** Columbus, MS **Description:** Two round reddish objects; extreme maneuverability. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973_, by Richard Dolan](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/mode/2up) **Source:** Dolan, **ID:** Dolan_5 ### Event 3690 (CE3BEA3D) **Date:** 8/29/1942 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** COLUMBUS, MS **Description:** Military Air Traffic Controllers / (seen thru) binoculars. 2 red saucers drop / airbase. Hover and speed away. / r242p129. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLAMMONDE, Paris: UFO EXIST!; Ballentine Books, NY 1976. PB 480pp. (Index 428) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_467 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "61", **HatchDesc:** "COLUMBUS,MS:MIL.ATCs/BINOCs:2 RED SCRS DROP/AIRBASE:HVR+SPEED AWAY:/r242p129", **LatLong:** "33.500002 -88.416671", **LatLongDMS:** "33:30:00 N 88:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.500002,-88.416671)", **State/Prov:** "Mississippi", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3691 (9A1BF488) **Date:** 8/29/1942 **Location:** Columbus, MS **Description:** Control tower operator at Army Air Base saw two round reddish objects hover over field. \[NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall, III\] (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_142 ### Event 3692 (E8422684) **Date:** 8/29/1942 **Location:** Columbus, Mississippi **Description:** Army Air Corps control tower operator Pvt. Michael Solomon sees two small reddish objects descend near the AAC Advanced Flying School at Columbus, Mississippi, then speed away. He later contacts government officials and officers from the school in attempting to confirm his sighting. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 1177; Jan Aldrich **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_575 ### Event 3693 (F0CFEBDE) **Date:** 8/29/1942 **Description:** At around 7:00 p.m. two soldiers in the air traffic control tower at the Army Air Corps Flying School in Columbus, Mississippi observed the rapid descent of two red round glowing objects that demonstrated extreme maneuverability and then hovered over the woods at the end of the runway. They next experienced an episode of missing time as well as sensory dislocation: they found themselves out in a field with no memory of how they got there. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 396; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 129; Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 20; Jerome Clark, The Anomalist, April 2000, p. 20, citing NICAP **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5453 ### Event 3694 (45E76483) **Date:** 9/1942 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Newbiggin-on-Sea (Northumberland) **Description:** (Translated from French) (end of summer) Albert Lancashire was on guard near the radar post. The night was dark and the soldier was standing in front of his guardhouse about thirty meters from the sea. Suddenly a light lit up in the sky at 100 meters altitude and began to move above the water. All around there was a dark cloud and Albert Lancashire wondered what the Germans had invented again. He immediately went back into his guardhouse to try to observe without being spotted. The yellow light seemed to roll over itself. Soon a second light appeared less than a meter above the witness's head. That's when the story becomes "incoherent". Albert Lancashire followed a kind of beam of light and found himself on board an aerial vessel. There he met a crew of people with a human appearance whose captain had jet black hair and wore thick glasses. The witness was invited to lie down on a table above which shone a very soft blue light. He saw one of these beings dressed like a doctor approach him with a smile. Lancashire remains convinced that he must have undergone some medical examination at that moment, but he no longer remembers the details of the events. All he remembers is that he found himself back in his guardhouse shortly after. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p.262-263 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_996 ### Event 3695 (15561CD9) **Date:** 9/1942 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Near Cresswell, Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, Northumberland \(England\), on an unusually cold night, Albert Lancashire \(27 years old\), armed with a rifle with a bayonet on the barrel, guards a radar base on the coast of the North Sea. A light appears on the horizon, then disappears behind a cloud. Then a second light appears, yellow, apparently a beam shot from the edge of a circular object. The beam, about 30 cm in diameter, oscillates around and then darts on Lancashire's face. The soldier drops his gun and raises his hands. He feels a strange floating sensation and loses consciousness. When he comes to a few minutes later, he lies a few meters from where he had seen the light. He remains shocked and dazed for 5 or 10 minutes before feeling fully recovered and able to resume his watch. In the years following this incident, Lancashire will have a number of strange dreams. In one of them, he will remember having been on board the object he saw, and having observed the sea below from a large window; a man in white told him he had to take him on board the craft. In another dream, Lancashire was still in the device and met a red-haired woman, wearing a skirt that stopped at the calves \(in fashion in 1942\) who handed him a pair of glasses. Years later, Lancashire came to think that the best explanation for his 1942 experience was that he had been abducted by extraterrestrials. He only reported the incident from his 70s. **Reference:** Mysterious Britain **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1942.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_486 ### Event 3696 (99493FFA) **Date:** 9/1942 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Photo above the Sea of Japan. See images/1942\_MerDuJapon.jpg. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1942.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_487 ### Event 3697 (6E136DC5) **Date:** 9/17/1942 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) General Brehon Somervell informs Colonel Leslie Richard Groves that his assignment outside of American territory is cancelled, and assigns him to the [Manhattan](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Manhattan.html) project. (September 17, 10:30) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1942.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_488 ### Event 3698 (AB7BC21C) **Date:** 9/18/1942 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Groves orders the purchase of 1250 tons of high quality uranium from the Belgian Congo. (September 18) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1942.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_489 ### Event 3699 (63E6D026) **Date:** 9/19/1942 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Groves purchases 52000 acres of land for the future site of [Oak Ridge](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/OakRidgeAFB.html). (September 19) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1942.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_490 ### Event 3700 (B227AA09) **Date:** 9/23/1942 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Groves is promoted to Brigadier General. (September 23) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1942.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_491 ### Event 3701 (3C147019) **Date:** Fall 1942 **Location:** Long Branch, NJ **Description:** A research engineer saw a dark elliptical object sharply outlined against the star field in the night sky. A flickering light was visible at the trailing end as it sped from horizon to horizon in 10-15 seconds. "I saw a nose view, side view, and tail view", the witness said. (Ref. 3; Report in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_144 ### Event 3702 (528D74D2) **Date:** 9/23/1942 **Description:** Col. [Leslie Groves](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie%5FGroves) is promoted to brigadier general and becomes director of the Manhattan Project. The Military Policy Committee, consisting of [Vannevar Bush](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar%5FBush) \(with [James B. Conant](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FB.%5FConant) as his alternative\), Maj. Gen. [Wilhelm D. Styer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm%5FD.%5FStyer)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm%5FD.%5FStyer) and Rear Adm. [William R. Purnell,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FR.%5FPurnell) is created to oversee the project. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Manhattan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan%5FProject) [Project](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan%5FProject)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_576 ### Event 3703 (2F741096) **Date:** 9/25/1942 **Location:** Germany **Description:** RAF Bomber Command’s Operational Research Section releases a report titled “A Note on Pyrotechnic Activity over Germany.” An unnamed Flak Liaison Officer has coordinated the reports from No. 3 and No. 5 Groups and determines there are two types of phenomena: a ball of fire that is shot from the ground and drips multicolored fragments, and multi-part flares. Another type involves “small coloured balls” that climb to 7,000 feet. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Strange Company 32 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_577 ### Event 3704 (B4930B37) **Date:** 9/29/1942 **Locations:** US; Tennessee; Oak Ridge, Tennessee **Description:** US Under Secretary of War [Robert P. Patterson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FP.%5FPatterson) authorizes the Corps of Engineers to acquire 56,000 acres in Tennessee for Site X, which will become the Oak Ridge, Tennessee, laboratory and production site. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Oak Ridge, Tennessee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak%5FRidge%2C%5FTennessee\#Manhattan%5FProject)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_578 ### Event 3705 (84A96B76) **Date:** 10/1942 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Radway Green (Cheshire) **Description:** (Translated from French) At around 8:50 PM, James L. Toft and another person were able to observe a fusiform object topped with a dome. It was equipped with lights at each end and seemed to be heading towards the ground. At the presumed landing site, a circular charred surface and footprints were found. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 263 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_998 ### Event 3706 (A5BFDE1A) **Date:** 10/1942 **Time:** ~18:00 **Location:** RADWAY GREEN, ENGL **Description:** 2 observer(s). Domed saucer going down. Lights / ends. Circular burnt area and footprints found. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 20) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_468 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "107", **HatchDesc:** "RADWAY GREEN,ENGL:2 OBS:DOMED SCR ↓:LITES/ENDS:CIRC.BURNT AREA+FPRINTS found", **LatLong:** "53.083336 -2.333333", **LatLongDMS:** "53:05:00 N 02:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.083336,-2.333333)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 3707 (31EF1F91) **Date:** 10/1942 **Location:** Radway Green, Cheshire, UK **Description:** In the evening two witnesses saw an elongated object with a dome on top and lights at either end descend toward the ground. At the apparent landing site a circular burned area and footprints were found. (Ref. 3; Bougard, 1977.) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_145 ### Event 3708 (622C3B97) **Date:** 10/3/1942 **Location:** Germany **Description:** First German V-2 rocket test to get very close to space, 85–90km **Type:** aerospace **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_64 ### Event 3709 (1F27B55E) **Date:** 10/3/1942 **Location:** Germany, Peenemunde Island **Description:** (Translated from French) (cf. August 16, 1942) The rocket that would become the V-2 was officially born this day. Indeed, today was the final test. It presented itself as a steel rod, 14 meters long and 12 tons in weight. Propulsion was obtained not by the ignition of powder, but by that of alcohol mixed with liquid oxygen. The nozzle was fed by a complex system of pumps and turbines, and the rocket, guided on its trajectory by an equally complex set of gyroscopes and electronic devices. This day it rose to an altitude of 92,000 meters before falling 192 km from its point of departure ("Astronautics" Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 12). Meanwhile, series production was also undertaken, which in the end amounted to around 400 examples per month in the underground factory of "Mittelwerk" in Niedersachswerfen near Nordhausen. (...) In the autumn of 1942 two examples of the other rocket (Rheinbote, test model of 800 kilos) were dropped from an airplane at 6,000 m altitude and then automatically directed during their flat flight; the A9, which was to result from these tests (failed) did not reach the stage of its realization. **Reference:** "The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" - Hans K. Kaiser, Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 109 to 113 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_997 ### Event 3710 (AF76DC8A) **Date:** 10/3/1942 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) After two unsuccessful attempts, third successful launch of a [V-2](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/appareils.html\#V2). (October 3) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1942.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_492 ### Event 3711 (5174931C) **Date:** 10/7/1942 **Locations:** Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Clinton Engineer Works **Description:** Land at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, is acquired by eminent domain for Clinton Engineer Works. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Clinton Engineer Works](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton%5FEngineer%5FWorks)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_579 ### Event 3712 (5377A782) **Date:** 10/9/1942 (approximate) **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** GUADALCANAL ISLAND **Description:** Thousands / observer(s). 25M silver domed saucer circles huge United States Navy (USN) fleet / 10K mph. / r65. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 185) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_469 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "13", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "GUADALCANAL ISL:1000s/OBS:25M SLVR DOMED SCR CCLS HUGE USN FLEET/10K mph:/r65", **LatLong:** "-10.000000 160.000008", **LatLongDMS:** "10:00:00 S 160:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-10.000000,160.000008)", **State/Prov:** "SOL", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3713 (6AE78FE9) **Date:** 10/9/1942 **End date:** 10/10/1942 **Location:** Unknown City, Guadalcanal **Description:** During the Guadalcanal invasion U.S. Navy fleet radar detected an incoming unidentified object which also was observed through binoculars. (Ref. 3; MUFON UFO Journal, No. 185, July 1983; tape-recorded witness interview.) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [421009-10](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/421019guadalcanaldir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_146 ### Event 3714 (81191A54) **Date:** 10/15/1942 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Groves asks [Oppenheimer](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/OppenheimerRobertJulius.html) to take the lead of Project Y, the new central laboratory for physics research for weapon design. (October 15) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1942.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_493 ### Event 3715 (AB16805D) **Date:** Late 1942? **Location:** Europe **Description:** According to records released in August 2010, Prime Minister [Winston Churchill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston%5FChurchill) supposedly classifies for 50 years an alleged UFO incident because of fears it could create mass panic. The incident allegedly involves an RAF reconnaissance plane returning from a mission in Europe. The aircraft is over or near the English coastline when it is allegedly intercepted by a strange metallic object that matches the aircraft’s course and speed for a time before shooting away. The plane’s crew photograph the object, which “hovered noiselessly” near the aircraft before moving off. According to the documents, details of the cover-up emerge when a man writes to the government in 1999 seeking to find out more about the incident. He describes how his grandfather, who served with the RAF, was present when Churchill and Gen. [Dwight Eisenhower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower) discussed how to deal with the encounter. However, the evidence is hearsay and somewhat questionable. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOFiles2, [pp. 20–21](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n39/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_568 ### Event 3716 (0BD574F0) **Date:** 10/19/1942 **Location:** Los Alamos, New Mexico **Description:** [Leslie Groves](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie%5FGroves) approves [J. Robert Oppenheimer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FRobert%5FOppenheimer) to coordinate the scientific research of the Manhattan Project at the Site Y laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Manhattan Project](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan%5FProject)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_580 ### Event 3717 (F09D5724) **Date:** 11/1942 **Location:** At sea, Gulf of Biscay **Description:** (Translated from French) C.J.J. (known identity of Leonard Stringfield) was a member of a squadron patrolling the bay as part of submarine defense. The rear gunner, in the plane, suddenly saw a massive, wingless object appear behind the plane. He alerted the crew, as well as C.J.J. who was in the turret. The thing was visible for 15 minutes and Sergeant M.F.B. took photos of it with a K-20 camera. The object gained altitude, made an abrupt 180° turn and disappeared. Only one of the photos was successful and according to C.J.J. it was clear and perfect. To this day, this photo remains classified top secret. **Reference:** Jeroen Wierda - Pufori - The Mysterious Foo Fighters of WWII - 19.5.1997 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1001 ### Event 3718 (9E363CE5) **Date:** 11/1942 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Observation in Norway. (November) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1942.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_494 ### Event 3719 (D37D07B8) **Date:** 11/1942 **Location:** LOCATION UNKNOWN BAY OF BISCAY **Description:** Military-air crews. Big wingless object. Radio Frequency Interference (RFI). 180° turn away. / Civilian Research, Interplanetary Flying Objects (CRIFO.) **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_470 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "LOC.UNK BAY of BISCAY:MIL-AIR CREWS:BIG WINGLESS OBJ:RFI:180°TURN AWAY:/CRIFO", **LatLong:** "46.000002 -4.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "46:00:00 N 04:00:00 W", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.000002,-4.000000)", **State/Prov:** "BSC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3720 (BFEB4A3C) **Date:** 11/1942 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** BERGAMO, ITL **Description:** Man walking. Small disk scoots / street. Going up and down. Pincers / rear. Zigzags going quickly east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 29) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_471 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "249", **HatchDesc:** "BERGAMO,ITL:MAN WALKING:SML DISK SCOOTS/STREET:↑+↓:PINCERS/REAR:ZIGZAGS >>E", **LatLong:** "45.683336 9.716667", **LatLongDMS:** "45:41:00 N 09:43:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.683336,9.716667)", **RelAlt:** "3", **State/Prov:** "Bergamo", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3721 (69CC190E) **Date:** 11/1942 **Location:** Bay of Biscay, UK **Description:** Thing massive in size; no wings; electronic interference. (Page 35-36 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_148 ### Event 3722 (A1ED57A7) **Date:** 11/9/1942 **Location:** GERMANY, Peenemunde **Description:** (Translated from French) LAUNCH OF V2 NO. 6, TEST, RANGE 14 KM, VERTICAL, HEIGHT 67 KM. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, Walter Domberger **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_999 ### Event 3723 (8CC861F0) **Date:** Mid 11/1942 **Location:** ITALY, Bergamo **Description:** (Translated from French) In the middle of the afternoon, 4:00 PM, Adriano Paris, a librarian, was observing along with other witnesses an object the size of a bicycle wheel in the sky of Bergamo. The UFO was not luminous but it emitted an infernal noise. It moved in a zigzag above the city and disappeared towards the village of Seriate 5 km away. On the cloudy sky, the witness clearly saw two pincers at the front of the object. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 263) Adriano and D. Paris were walking in one of the streets of the old city, when they observed a strange flying object, a few centimeters above the ground, passing along the sidewalk in the street at great speed and causing panic among the pedestrians. The thing was round and flat, in the shape of a pincer head and it flew in undulating motion. It seemed to come from the center and head east, disappearing from their view at the end of the street. On the same date there were other observers of the same kind of phenomenon. (1942, towards mid-November) **Reference:** CISU, archives dossier 4201 - sources Ufo in Italia I, 73, GDM 10, 114, 8 and Ufo Info 12, 48, 17 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1000 ### Event 3724 (4ACEDE9C) **Date:** 11/15/1942 **Locations:** University of Chicago; Stagg Field **Description:** Teams under physicists [Herbert L. Anderson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert%5FL.%5FAnderson) and [Walter Zinn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FZinn) have constructed 16 experimental nuclear reactors under the Stagg Field stands at the University of Chicago. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Metallurgical Laboratory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallurgical%5FLaboratory\#Chicago%5FPile-1)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_581 ### Event 3725 (21FEBE45) **Date:** 11/25/1942 **Location:** Los Alamos, New Mexico **Description:** The Los Alamos site in New Mexico is acquired for Project Y. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Project Y](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%5FY)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_582 ### Event 3726 (592747FC) **Date:** 11/28/1942 **End date:** 11/29/1942 **Location:** Turin, Italy **Description:** Object two to three hundred feet in length 500 mph &.four red lights spaced at equal distances along its body. (Page 34-35 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_147 ### Event 3727 (05B5BEDE) **Date:** 11/28/1942 **Locations:** Turin, Italy; Alps **Description:** 10:40–10:45 p.m. Capt. Lever and the No. 61 Squadron crew of an RAF Lancaster are returning from a bombing raid on Turin, Italy, when about 10–15 miles southwest of the city they see an object 200–300 feet long traveling southeast at a speed of 500 mph. It has four pairs of red lights spaced along its body and is flying on a level course. Five minutes later, as the Lancaster approaches the Alps at 14,000 feet, the crew sees the object again traveling southwest up a valley. It disappears when the red lights go out. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOFiles2, [pp. 25–26](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n47/mode/2up); Strange Company 34–35; Good Need, [pp. 18–19](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/18/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/18/mode/2up) [32](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/32/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_583 ### Event 3728 (A98DD574) **Date:** 11/28/1942 **Description:** On this night a cigar-shaped object flew over Turin, Italy. It was 200-300 feet in length and flew at an estimated 500 mph. It had four red lights spaced at equal distances along its body. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Keith Chester, Strange Company: Military Encounters with UFOs in World War II, p. 34 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7977 ### Event 3729 (FFF30023) **Date:** 12/1942 **Alternate date:** 1/1943 **Location:** Columbia, PA **Description:** THEY FOLLOW THE LEADER - Mrs. A.M. Strickler, while out walking between 9 and 10pm, sighted in the sky over the Susquehanna Bridge, on Route 30, a string of highly illuminated objects which, she says she can best describe as being similar to a train of passenger coaches, seeming to weave in and out in a highly specialized follow-the-leader pattern. Illumination seemed to emanate from an endless string of portholes which were arranged on a straight line or plane and were yellowish like an incandescent bulb. The objects were cigar-shaped, but could have been one side of a flat, saucer-shaped form. Each "coach" was identical in size and shape except the first, which was larger, brighter and seemed to have a proboscis-shaped appendage in front like a figure head. The objects traveled extremely fast, emitting no noise, jet exhaust, or flame. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3 ff5) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_65 ### Event 3730 (27E58157) **Date:** 12/1942 **Time:** 01:00? **Location:** SOMME ESTUARY, FR **Description:** RAF meteor pilot. Night lights rise / ground. Chase plane. Drop and land again! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 330) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_472 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "SOMME ESTUARY,FR:RAF METEOR PILOT:NLTS RISE/GND:CHASE PLANE:DROP+LAND AGAIN!", **LatLong:** "50.200002 1.633333", **LatLongDMS:** "50:12:00 N 01:38:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.200002,1.633333)", **State/Prov:** "Somme", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3731 (3EA0152D) **Date:** 12/1942 **Location:** French coast (mouth of Somme River), At Sea **Description:** Two amber and orange lights, flying in unison; not aircraft. (Page 36 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_149 ### Event 3732 (47F55A56) **Date:** 12/1942 **Locations:** Wright Field; Dayton, Ohio **Description:** A Technical Data Laboratory is established at Wright Field near Dayton, Ohio, as part of the Army Materiel Command. Its operations include the evaluation of foreign aircraft and related equipment. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** US Air Force, “National Air and Space Intelligence Center Heritage,” July 31, 2015 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_584 ### Event 3733 (2F9A7580) **Date:** 12/1942 **Location:** River Somme, France **Description:** 8:00 p.m. RAAF Lt. [Bruce Clyde Lumsden](https://stalag45.rssing.com/chan-58806349/article11-live.html) is flying a Hawker Hurricane heading for the French coast. About 7,000 feet over the mouth of the River Somme, France, he observes two orange lights climbing, one slightly above the other. He completes a full turn, putting the lights behind him on the port side. They now appear brighter and larger. When they reach his altitude, they stop climbing and stay at his altitude. He makes another full turn, but the objects stay with him. Lumsden dives to 4,000 feet, but the lights match his maneuvers. He increases his speed to 260 mph and gradually leaves them behind. His squadron mates do not believe him, but the next night another squadron member has a similar encounter with a green light. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Strange Company 36 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_585 ### Event 3734 (8F234C8C) **Date:** 12/2/1942 **Location:** Germany **Description:** Chicago Pile-1 (CP-1), the first human-made self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction (criticality) was initiated during an experiment led by Enrico Fermi **Type:** scientific advance **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Pile-1) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_66 ### Event 3735 (AF21204A) **Date:** 12/2/1942 **Locations:** Chicago; University of Chicago **Description:** Chicago Pile-1, the first nuclear reactor, goes critical at the University of Chicago under the leadership and design of [Enrico Fermi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico%5FFermi)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico%5FFermi) achieving a self-sustaining reaction just one month after construction was started. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Chicago Pile-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago%5FPile-1)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_586 ### Event 3736 (3556DA51) **Date:** 12/27/1942 **Locations:** Jack Northrop Field; Hawthorne (Calif.) Municipal Airport **Description:** The Northrop N-9M, a prototype flying wing bomber with a wingspan of 60 feet, makes its first test flight at Jack Northrop Field \[now Hawthorne \(Calif.\) Municipal Airport\] with pilot [John Wescott Myers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FWescott%5FMyers). Through May, 44 more flights are made, nearly all terminated by mechanical failures. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Northrop N-](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop%5FN-9M) [9M](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop%5FN-9M)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_587 --- ## Year: 1943, 125 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 3737 (B91C1B33) **Date:** 1943 **Location:** San Diego, CA **Description:** SAUCERS GIVE NAVAL GUNS THE BRUSHOFF - In conversing with a former Navy man who is presently a radio technician for the Santa Fe railroad, he related that sometime in 1943 while he was stationed at San Diego and assigned to a gun crew on a naval destroyer they were alerted to their stations. Shortly five saucers (such as those pictured by George Adamski) appeared over the ship and hovered. Orders were given to fire upon them. He asserted that they could see the tracers and shells heading directly toward the saucers. The shells either exploded or disintegrated before reaching the objects. This attack continued for 10 minutes but nothing affected them. At the approach of naval planes the saucers disappeared. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3 ff 5) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_67 ### Event 3738 (8032D82C) **Date:** 1943 **Location:** BELGIUM, Tombeek (Brabant) **Description:** (Translated from French) Miss Vandevoorde, a nurse, was leaving the Tombeek sanatorium during the day to enter the Rosière wood. From a clear spot, she saw an aerial object coming from the direction of Brussels, having the shape of a priest's hat. It was moving quickly, going up and down as if it was looking for something. The disc was topped with a dome shining like aluminium. When it was closer, it appeared as big as two full moons. Below it, 4 white lights side by side, and she heard a faint buzzing. It was moving away towards the town of Wavre **Reference:** J.G. DOHMEN: "To Identify and the Adamski Case" - ed. Guy Dohmen, Biarritz 1972, p. 155 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1023 ### Event 3739 (5E6530CC) **Date:** 1943 (approximate) **Location:** PORTUGAL, Famalicao-Braga **Description:** (Translated from French) One evening, around 8 o'clock, a mother and her 6-year-old child were looking out the open window to see the father returning from work. The child saw a figure coming, which seemed to float instead of walk. The mother didn't see anything. But the child, in panic, almost had a nervous breakdown when he saw the figure pass in front of the window. The mother immediately closed the shutter to calm him down. (1943, unspecified) **Reference:** "Jornal de Noticias" - Joaquim Fernandes **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1024 ### Event 3740 (08CE4515) **Date:** 1943 **Location:** GERMANY, Peenemunde **Description:** (Translated from French) LAUNCHES OF V2s No. 14, 15 and 17: STORAGE TESTS. LAUNCHES OF V2s No. 27, 32, 35, 37 and 39 WITH EXPERIMENTAL EQUIPMENT. (1943-1944) **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, Walter Domberger **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1025 ### Event 3741 (ED86737E) **Date:** 1943 (approximate) **Location:** Washington, DC **Description:** Sighting of UFO formation by Metropolitan policeman. \[NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_150 ### Event 3742 (15E9D45B) **Date:** 1943 (approximate) **Location:** Unknown City, CA **Description:** Object, international orange in color, elliptical shape; wobbled in unstable manner; no wings, jet exhaust, smoke, or vapor trails. (Page 51 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_169 ### Event 3743 (B4AF54EB) **Date:** 1943 **Location:** Santa Barbara, California **Description:** A California aircraft spotter had a close encounter with a UFO near Santa Barbara. The witness saw a large, dark object approaching and emitting a beam of light that scanned the terrain below. The object flew very low, narrowly missing the witness's house. Despite its size, no motor noise or windows were evident. The experience evoked intense fear in the witness. (Chapter 7, Ref. 237) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_228 ### Event 3744 (F0F40A62) **Date:** 1943 **Location:** Escondido, California **Description:** A woman witnessed a UFO hovering just 15 feet above her roof. The disc-shaped object, around 12 feet in diameter, had a dome with windows. She called her husband and son to join her. The object emitted a humming noise, then its lights went out, and it vanished from sight. (Chapter 7, Ref. 238) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_229 ### Event 3745 (CE5979F6) **Date:** 1943 **Location:** Long Beach, California **Description:** A military flight instructor and his student observed a fast-flying UFO. The object, appearing orange, turned and flew parallel to their plane for about 30 seconds before disappearing at a speed estimated to be 2,000 to 5,000 mph. It had no visible propellers, jet orifice, flame, smoke, or vapor trail. Initially thought to be a jet, it was later realized to be something unexplainable, distinct from the Lockheed P-80. (Chapter 7, Ref. 239) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_230 ### Event 3746 (3B2D7C5A) **Date:** 1943 **Location:** Nebraska **Description:** A couple driving witnessed a large, glowing gold saucer-like UFO that followed them for miles in broad daylight before swiftly departing. Despite being knowledgeable about aircraft of the era, the grandfather advised silence on the event, fearing they'd be deemed insane. (Chapter 7, Ref. 240) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_231 ### Event 3747 (67D075D7) **Date:** 1943 **Location:** Norway **Description:** A group of friends noticed a peculiar light and drove in several cars to investigate. As they neared the light, all car engines stalled simultaneously. On foot, they found the source: an orange, bell-shaped object emitting a whistling sound, akin to compressed air being released. Before they could study it further, the UFO ascended quickly, turning blue, and departed at high speed. At its resting spot, they found a crater in the snow three feet deep and 4-1/2 feet in diameter, surrounded by a larger melted snow area over 50 feet in diameter. (Chapter 7, Ref. 250) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_241 ### Event 3748 (6097BDA0) **Date:** 1943 **Location:** Argentina **Description:** A motorist encountered a landed, large, saucer-shaped UFO glowing with a blue-green light near the road. It emitted a whistling sound before rising vertically and departing at a tremendous speed. Later, a peculiar block of metal was found at the site. (Chapter 7, Ref. 251) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_242 ### Event 3749 (4F4770A1) **Date:** 1943 **Location:** North Atlantic, 300 miles west of Ireland **Description:** While operating in the North Atlantic, about 300 miles west of Ireland, a German submarine, the U-629, detected a fast-approaching aerial object on its radar. As the submarine prepared for an emergency dive, the captain glimpsed the mysterious intruder. He described it as a flying disk, roughly shorter in diameter than the 150-foot length of the submarine. This object had a smooth, silver surface without discernible wings, cockpit, or motors and hovered silently 30-50 feet beside the submarine. Before submerging, the captain noted that the UFO flashed white, yellow, and red lights, seemingly attempting communication. After some time submerged, the submarine resurfaced to find the object gone. (Chapter 7, Ref. 262) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_254 ### Event 3750 (DA16F991) **Date:** 1943 **Location:** Eastern Front, Europe **Description:** A group of Spanish volunteers fighting alongside the Germans observed an aerial dogfight when they spotted a disc-shaped object high in the sky. This UFO appeared to be observing the battle before suddenly accelerating away at a remarkable speed. (Chapter 7, Ref. 263) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_255 ### Event 3751 (9EA242E7) **Date:** 1943 **Location:** RAF Base, southern England **Description:** A woman stationed at an RAF base observed a cigar-shaped object in the sky, approximately as high as a church tower. The object had five or six searchlight-like beams shining down onto the ground. Its shape was similar to a barrage balloon but was narrower at the ends. She chose not to mention it initially and later questioned her own experience due to the lack of UFO discussions during that period. (Chapter 7, Ref. 268) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_260 ### Event 3752 (4A5A3C76) **Date:** 1943 **Location:** Czech Capital **Description:** A German air force pilot claimed to have witnessed a flying disc's test flight at an airfield. Describing the device, he noted it was a disc roughly 16-20 feet in diameter with a large center body. It had four tall, thin legs, an aluminum color, and was nearly as tall as a man. The disc's upper part was shrunken over its upper half, and it had a rim with external rods or perhaps square openings. The pilot, along with his peers, observed the disc emerge from a hangar, its sides began rotating, and it moved slowly and linearly. It rose about three feet in the air, traveled around 1,000 feet, and then made a rough landing. Afterward, custodians pushed it back towards the hangar, but it took off again later, reaching further distances. (Chapter 7, Ref 291. Note the author only lists as a reference "Internet posting", with no URL provided.) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_283 ### Event 3753 (B63BC1EA) **Date:** 1943 **Location:** Germany **Description:** Some believed post-war UFOs originated from Nazi holdouts. In 1943, Admiral Karl Doenitz, leader of the German navy, allegedly told naval cadets that the U-boat fleet had created a secret, fortified refuge for the Fuehrer somewhere in the world. (Chapter 8, Ref 311) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_302 ### Event 3754 (0D47893C) **Date:** 1/7/1943 **Location:** United States **Description:** Nikola Test dies **Type:** death **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_68 ### Event 3755 (26DC9D2E) **Date:** 1/8/1943 **Time:** ~16:00 **Location:** CHAUNY, 02, FR **Description:** Numerous observer(s). Small brilliant silent metallic objects north going quickly south. Groups / 3. Faster / balloons. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 313) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_473 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "150", **HatchDesc:** "CHAUNY,02,FR:NMRS OBS:SML BRILL.SLNT MTLC OBJS N>>S:GROUPS/3:FASTER/BALLOONS", **LatLong:** "49.666669 3.150000", **LatLongDMS:** "49:40:00 N 03:09:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.666669,3.150000)", **State/Prov:** "Aisne", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3756 (44F8D0A4) **Date:** 1/8/1943 **Description:** In the late afternoon in Chauny, France many people witnessed several small brilliant metallic objects fly silently from the north to the south in groups of three. The UFOs moved faster than balloons, and the procession lasted for a period of two and a half hours. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 20 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_189 ### Event 3757 (DE95B771) **Date:** 1/15/1943 **Location:** Cherbourg, Manche, France **Description:** During a US bombing raid over Cherbourg, Manche, France, several crews see “large numbers of projectiles resembling ‘schools of flying fish,’ about a foot long and similar to incendiary bombs, coming up from a direction of the town.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Strange Company 38 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_588 ### Event 3758 (3D8331EB) **Date:** 1/16/1943 **Location:** Hanford, WA **Description:** Approval for the Hanford Site for plutonium production **Type:** nuclear weapons **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_69 ### Event 3759 (6B761DDD) **Date:** 1/16/1943 **Locations:** Washington State; Hanford site **Description:** [Leslie Groves](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie%5FGroves) approves development of the Hanford site in Washington State for plutonium production. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Hanford Site](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford%5FSite)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_589 ### Event 3760 (A7A5A87E) **Date:** 1/25/1943 **Location:** GERMANY, Peenemunde **Description:** (Translated from French) LAUNCH OF V2 NO. 11, TEST, RANGE 105 KM, TOO STEEP RANGE, ROLLING. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, Walter Domberger **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1005 ### Event 3761 (D3F12C2E) **Date:** 2/9/1943 **Locations:** Hanford, Washington; Oak Ridge, Tennessee **Description:** Land for a plutonium production complex is acquired at Hanford, Washington. \(Wikipedia, “[Hanford Site](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford%5FSite)”\) February 18 — Construction begins for Y-12, a massive electromagnetic separation plant for enriching uranium at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Y-12 National Security Complex](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-12%5FNational%5FSecurity%5FComplex)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_590 ### Event 3762 (05A102DE) **Date:** 2/17/1943 **Location:** GERMANY, Peenemunde **Description:** (Translated from French) LAUNCH OF V2 No. 12, TEST, RANGE 196 KM, RANGE TOO LOW. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, Walter Domberger **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1006 ### Event 3763 (9948054E) **Date:** 2/18/1943 **Location:** Oak Ridge, TN **Description:** Construction begins for Y-12 electromagnetic separation plant for enriching uranium at Oak Ridge **Type:** nuclear weapons **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-12_National_Security_Complex) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_70 ### Event 3764 (0BF112D4) **Date:** 3/13/1943 **Location:** Naples, Italy **Description:** Roman candlelights; bright very large red light that looked like a huge irregular mass of neon. (Page 39, Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_151 ### Event 3765 (594F8BA6) **Date:** 3/15/1943 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** MONTECRESTESE, IT **Description:** 2 girls. Saucer lands. 2 small humanoids (or Greys) / helmets speak gibberish. / r39p29. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO - Rivista di informazione Ufologica; 2 issues/year CISU. Giovanni Settimo ed.; C.P.82, 10100 Torino, ITALY. (Index 7) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_474 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MONTECRESTESE,IT:2 GIRLS:SCR LANDS:2 OIDS/HELMETS speak gibberish:/r39p29", **LatLong:** "46.150002 8.316667", **LatLongDMS:** "46:09:00 N 08:19:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.150002,8.316667)", **State/Prov:** "NO", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 3766 (048963A5) **Date:** 3/18/1943 **Location:** GERMANY, Peenemunde **Description:** (Translated from French) LAUNCH OF V2 NO. 18, TEST, RANGE 135 KM, TOO STEEP RANGE, ROTATION **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, Walter Domberger **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1007 ### Event 3767 (64FD2157) **Date:** Spring 1943 **Location:** Laguna Beach, California **Description:** Air Craft warning observer spots a very bright repeatedly flashing light SW of Laguna, P-38 dispatched, flashing stopped **Type:** UFO spotted, P-38 dispatched, UFO got away **Reference:** [link](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201957%2001%2000%20-%20January.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_71 ### Event 3768 (8772F403) **Date:** 4/1/1943 **Location:** Los Alamos, NM **Description:** Los Alamos Laboratory begins operations in New Mexico **Type:** nuclear weapons **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Y#Construction) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_72 ### Event 3769 (299CE9E6) **Date:** 4/1/1943 **Locations:** Los Alamos Laboratory; New Mexico **Description:** Los Alamos Laboratory is established in New Mexico and begins operations. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Project Y](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%5FY\#Construction)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_591 ### Event 3770 (18E7FB5A) **Date:** 4/3/1943 **Time:** 09:50 **Location:** LONG BEACH, CA **Description:** 2 observer(s). Classic domed saucer dives at Army Air Force (AAF) BT13A trainer. Going quickly south. / r150. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 21) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_475 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "9", **HatchDesc:** "LONG BEACH,CA:2 OBS:CLASSIC DOMED SCR DIVES at AAF BT13A TRAINER:>>S:/r150", **LatLong:** "33.783335 -118.183339", **LatLongDMS:** "33:47:00 N 118:11:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.783335,-118.183339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3771 (C624AA29) **Date:** 4/5/1943 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Near Long Beach \(California\), [Gerry Casey](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/pilotes.html\#CaseyGerry) and his student pilot observe an orange UFO. (April 5, 9:50am) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1943.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_495 ### Event 3772 (F0F9FC25) **Date:** 4/5/1943 **Location:** Long Beach, CA **Description:** Flight instructor and student pilot saw a glowing orange disc dive at their aircraft and hover alongside, then accelerate and climb away out of sight. (Ref. 3; Witness report to Jan Aldrich, Project 1947.) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_152 ### Event 3773 (D32FAF35) **Date:** 4/5/1943 **Location:** Long Beach, California **Description:** 9:50 a.m. Flight instructor Gerry A. Casey and a student pilot in a Boeing-Stearman Model 75 watch a radiant- orange, elliptical disc dive at their aircraft near Long Beach, California. There is no propellor and it has a rounded hump above and below. It hovers alongside with a slight wobble, then accelerates, turns from orange to white, and climbs out of sight in 2 seconds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Project 1947, “[UFO Reports, 1943](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1943a.htm\#casey)”; Gerry A. Casey, “UFO: The Time for the Telling Has Come,” Tacoma \(Wash.\) Western Flyer, July 7, 1989, via [UFO Newsclipping Service](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201989%2008%20-%20no%20241.pdf) 241 \(August 1989\), p. 3; Patrick Gross, “[Observation at Long Beach, 1943](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/longbeach1943.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_592 ### Event 3774 (034B93BD) **Date:** 4/5/1943 **Description:** A military pilot reported that over Long Beach, California at 9:50 a.m. a round, orange object flew alongside and then dove at an Army Air Force BT13A trainer aircraft. It subsequently shot away. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 21; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 6 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1840 ### Event 3775 (59733403) **Date:** 4/9/1943 **Locations:** Warsaw Ghetto; Poland; Bonifraterska street; Old Town **Description:** 5:00 p.m. Kazimierz Bzowski and other resistance fighters are monitoring a fire in the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland. They notice a flying object approaching them at about 60 mph. Through binoculars it appears to be a sphere colored with tangled strips of both raspberry and blue-green colors. Bzowski estimates it is at an elevation of 200 feet and is about 25 feet in diameter. They observe German and Lithuanian snipers on Bonifraterska street shooting at it, although the bullets seem to pass through it. The object alters course and heads toward Old Town, then stops dead and shoots away at great speed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Poland 13 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_593 ### Event 3776 (317E9D61) **Date:** 5/1943 **Location:** Princeton, NJ **Description:** Einstein hired by USN to work on sub warfare/high explosives. Dr. Vannever Bush asks Einstein to consult for the OSRD, but apparently Einstein turned him down. **Type:** nuclear weapons **Reference:** [link](https://books.google.com/books?id=weECGK2rChcC&pg=PA41&lpg=PA41&dq=Einstein+cleared+by+the+Office+of+Naval+Intelligence+to+work+on+sub+warfare+and+high+explosives+projects&source=bl&ots=dOj5bHKA38&sig=ACfU3U29cLMN28JMmHEVhZ1yH_8cicl53w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjno9nW8a38AhUmF1kFHQ49BOcQ6AF6BAgFEAM#v=onepage&q=Einstein%20cleared%20by%20the%20Office%20of%20Naval%20Intelligence%20to%20work%20on%20sub%20warfare%20and%20high%20explosives%20projects&f=false) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_73 **Attributes:** Einstein ### Event 3777 (A95498F4) **Date:** 5/1943 **Location:** Norwich, UK **Description:** Sighting of dome-shaped object and humanoid beings. (Ref. 3; Anders Liljegren, AFU Bibliography.) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_153 ### Event 3778 (0D072313) **Date:** 5/1943 **Location:** English Channel, UK **Description:** Large, stationary orange balloon on or near the sea. (Page 41 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_157 ### Event 3779 (08CE9EFB) **Date:** 5/1943 **Location:** English Channel **Description:** Capt. Gordon W. Cammell is flying an RAF Lancaster bomber back over the English Channel when he and his entire crew see a “huge orange ball on or near the sea” 7,000–8,000 feet below them. Over the next 10 minutes, they watch it project a bright and constant light. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Strange Company 41 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_594 ### Event 3780 (4C2BE8A8) **Date:** 5/12/1943 **End date:** 5/13/1943 **Location:** Duisburg, Germany **Description:** Object like meteor; reddish orange in color; emitted a burst giving off a green star. (Ref. 1 Page 39) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_154 ### Event 3781 (48B0C77F) **Date:** 5/14/1943 **Location:** Germany, Peenemunde **Description:** (Translated from French) LAUNCH OF V2 NO. 22, TEST, RANGE 250 KM, FAULTY STOP SWITCH. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, Walter Domberger **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1008 ### Event 3782 (1DDA3E56) **Date:** 5/19/1943 **Locations:** Muroc Army Air Base; Edwards AFB; California **Description:** The Northrop N-9M flying wing bomber prototype crashes 12 miles west of Muroc Army Air Base \[now Edwards AFB\], California, killing its pilot [Max Constant](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/175865483/max-constant)[.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/175865483/max-constant)  **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Northrop N-9M](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop%5FN-9M)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_595 ### Event 3783 (09480ACE) **Date:** 5/23/1943 **End date:** 5/24/1943 **Location:** Dortmund, Germany **Description:** Large number of so-called rockets (Page 39-40 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_155 ### Event 3784 (907B1AF1) **Date:** 5/26/1943 **Location:** GERMANY, Peenemunde **Description:** (Translated from French) LAUNCH OF V2 NO. 25, TEST, RANGE 27 KM, COMBUSTION STOPPED AFTER 40 SECONDS. LAUNCH OF V2 NO. 26, TEST, RANGE 265 KM. ALSO LAUNCH OF F1-103 (V1) TEST, SHORT BALLISTIC SHOT, CRASH **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958 p. 227, and Walter Domberger **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1009 ### Event 3785 (93885D62) **Date:** 5/26/1943 **Location:** Essen, Germany **Description:** Late night. Capt. Ray Smith and copilot Sgt. Gordon N. Cockcroft are flying at 18,000 feet in a Halifax bomber on a run near Essen, Germany, when they see a silvery-gold cylindrical object, larger than their aircraft, on the port side. It has several evenly spaced portholes. It is hovering at a 45° angle. After 20–30 seconds it climbs away at high speed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Correspondence,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1982-83%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV3.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 5 \(Oct./Nov. 1982\): 4–6; Strange Company 40; Project 1947, “[UFO Reports, 1943](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1943a.htm)”; John Hanson and Dawn Holloway, Haunted Skies: The Encyclopaedia of British UFOs: Volume 1, 1940–1959, Fortean Words, 2010 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_596 ### Event 3786 (E41A3D5F) **Date:** 5/27/1943 **Location:** GERMANY, Peenemunde **Description:** (Translated from French) LAUNCH OF V2 NO. 24, TEST, RANGE 138 KM. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, Walter Domberger **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1010 ### Event 3787 (D25815F2) **Date:** 5/27/1943 **Location:** ESSEN, GERM **Description:** Numerous bomber crews. Giant cigarette shape seen. No further details. / BFJ 9'77+AFU Swdn. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 21) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_476 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "ESSEN,GERM:NMRS BOMBER CREWS:GIANT CIGARETTE SHAPE SEEN:NFD:/BFJ 9'77+AFU Swdn", **LatLong:** "51.416669 7.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "51:25:00 N 07:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.416669,7.000000)", **State/Prov:** "NRW", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3788 (2C79D6E9) **Date:** 5/27/1943 **End date:** 5/28/1943 **Location:** Essen, Germany **Description:** Cylindrical object, silvery-gold in color, with several portholes evenly spaced along its side; motionless until speeding away at several thousand miles per hour. (Page 40-41 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_156 ### Event 3789 (D863C8E9) **Date:** 5/27/1943 **Description:** USAAF bomber crews flying over Essen, Germany encountered a giant, cigarrette shaped UFO. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century, p. 21 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3111 ### Event 3790 (AAA56F37) **Date:** 6/1943 **Description:** The Army Air Force’s Air Tactical Service Command asks Lockheed to develop a jet fighter **Type:** aerospace **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_Works) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_74 ### Event 3791 (89E8770D) **Date:** 6/1943 **Location:** CHINA, Kuangsi-Guishou **Description:** (Translated from French) One afternoon, at 3 or 4 o'clock, it was very nice, no clouds in the sky. Having heard a buzzing, we thought that enemy planes (Japanese) were flying over our depot. We went out to see. In the sky, we saw a square object reflecting the sunlight falling. We thought that this object had been dropped by an airplane, but we saw no plane in the air. The buzzing was getting closer and stronger, and the square object was also getting bigger and brighter. (...) It was 1000 m from the ground and remained suspended for a certain time. We clearly saw that the lower part of this square was flat. Each side measured more than a third of a meter/ The height of the object was about 10 cm. (...) No wing, no rudder, no propeller. The object was made of one piece, without opening or porthole. After a moment of suspension in the air, it began to rise straight up into the sky. The noise diminished as it rose. Finally there was only a bright spot (...) My observation lasted almost two hours. (1943, June or July) **Reference:** SHI BO: "China and the Extraterrestrials" ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p.81, 82 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1013 ### Event 3792 (D48CDB46) **Date:** 6/1943 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) And July. At Båttjønndalen/Hessdalen \(Norway\), Jon Aspås and his uncle Martin Lyng saw 3 different lights, the largest being the size of the Moon, and the smallest being the size of a star. After a moment smoke came out of the largest object, masking the lights. When the smoke disappeared, the lights had also disappeared (June) **Reference:** \[Wisth: UFO-Mysteriet I Hessdalen, 1983, 43\] \[Krogh: Hessdalenrapporten, 1984, 11\] \[The Hessdalen report, 1985, 7\] \[Havik: UFO-Fenomenet, 1987, 13\] \[Liljegren: A bibliography of references to UFO incidents during World War II., 1987, 10\] \[Krogh: The Hessdalen report, 1990, 7-8\] **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1943.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_496 ### Event 3793 (EC2A298D) **Date:** 6/1943 **Location:** Burbank, California **Description:** The Army Air Force’s Air Tactical Service Command meets with Lockheed Aircraft Corporation in Burbank, California, to ask them to develop a jet fighter. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Skunk Works](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk%5FWorks)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_597 ### Event 3794 (09890B4A) **Date:** 6/2/1943 **Location:** Oak Ridge, Tennessee **Description:** Construction begins on K-25, the gaseous diffusion plant at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[K-25](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-25)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_598 ### Event 3795 (5DAF5E00) **Date:** 6/4/1943 **Location:** CHAUNY, FR **Description:** 12 brilliant stars maneuver / all directions. Absolute(ly) silent. High altitude. Also others / 13 April and 10 JUN'43. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 338) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_477 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "CHAUNY,FR:12 BRILL.STARS MNVR/ALL DIRS:ABS.SLNT:HI ALT:+others/13APR+10JUN'43", **LatLong:** "49.650002 3.150000", **LatLongDMS:** "49:39:00 N 03:09:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.650002,3.150000)", **State/Prov:** "Aisne", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 3796 (E97713D0) **Date:** 6/4/1943 **Description:** On this day in 1943, 12 brilliant star-like lights were seen maneuvering in all directions over Chauny, France. They flew at a high altitude, and were absolutely silent. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Lumieres dans la Nuit, Vol. 338 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3266 ### Event 3797 (D0327195) **Date:** 6/11/1943 **Location:** GERMANY, Peenemunde **Description:** (Translated from French) LAUNCH OF V2 NO. 29, TEST, RANGE 238 KM. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, Walter Domberger **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1011 ### Event 3798 (BD4738EF) **Date:** 6/15/1943 **Description:** Einstein’s USN work announced in JTA Daily News Bulletin **Type:** scientist **Reference:** [link](https://www.jta.org/archive/prof-einstein-working-on-explosives-for-u-s-navy-department) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_75 **Attributes:** Einstein ### Event 3799 (71F8514E) **Date:** Summer 1943 **Location:** BELGIUM, Herseaux (French-Belgian border) **Description:** (Translated from French) Mr. Delmeire, 41 years old at the time: "I was coming back from work which ended at 7 pm and I remember it was still light. For more than a minute I saw a very bright, red and round object with a shape of a beer barrel. It had an apparent diameter of one meter. It passed about 1 km from me at an altitude of about twenty meters. At first I thought it was an airplane, but it made no noise. As it passed near the roofs it lit them up with an intense light. It left in the direction of Courtrai, towards Wevelgem (1943, Summer) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 264 **Reference:** West Flanders **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1014 ### Event 3800 (0A79B14C) **Date:** 6/25/1943 **Description:** The USAAF First Air Division was flying over the Elbe Estuary in Germany on this day when they saw twelve flat objects, approximately six-feet square, fall like dead leaves. No "flack" or other explosions were noted at the time. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 website **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3647 ### Event 3801 (4781372F) **Date:** 6/29/1943 **Location:** GERMANY, Peenemunde **Description:** (Translated from French) LAUNCH OF V2 NO. 38, TEST, RANGE 3 KM, FALL ON AIRFIELD. LAUNCH ALSO OF V2 NO. 40, TEST, RANGE 236 KM, IMPACT NOT OBSERVED **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, Walter Domberger **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1012 ### Event 3802 (70C0086C) **Date:** 7/1943 **Location:** Burbank, CA **Description:** Skunk Works begins in Burbank CA. Lockheed Engineer Kelly Johnson deliver proposal for the XP-80 jet fighter **Type:** aerospace **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_Works) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_76 ### Event 3803 (1A974D04) **Date:** 7/1943? **Location:** TOMBROEK, BELGIUM **Description:** Nurse. Metallic-domed saucer passes. Moon-size. Going east with slight buzz. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 96) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_478 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "TOMBROEK,BELGIUM:NURSE:MTLC-DOMED SCR PASSES:MOONSIZE:>E with SLIGHT BUZZ", **LatLong:** "50.750002 3.250000", **LatLongDMS:** "50:45:00 N 03:15:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.750002,3.250000)", **State/Prov:** "Belgium", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3804 (0A903B90) **Date:** 7/1943 **Location:** Burbank, California **Description:** Lockheed Engineer [Kelly Johnson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly%5FJohnson%5F%28engineer%29) and other associate engineers hand-deliver a proposal for the XP-80 jet fighter to the Air Tactical Service Command. Two days later, the go-ahead is given to Lockheed to start development, and the Skunk Works is born in Burbank, California, with Johnson at the helm. The name supposedly comes from the L’il Abner comic strip, which has a place called “Skonk Works” where a strong beverage is brewed from skunks, old shoes, and other ingredients. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Skunk Works](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk%5FWorks)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_599 ### Event 3805 (A82D9D68) **Date:** 7/1/1943 **End date:** 3/31/1944 **Description:** Date range of Einstein’s USN pay stubs at National Archives. **Type:** scientist **Reference:** [link](https://weare.guru/albert-einsteins-time-sheets/) **Reference:** [link](https://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2015/03/albert-einstein-part-time-civil-servant.html) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_77 **Attributes:** Einstein ### Event 3806 (D05124A3) **Date:** 7/18/1943 **End date:** 10/15/1944 **Description:** Einstein reports on his “explosives” work to USN **Type:** scientist **Reference:** [link](https://books.google.com/books?id=weECGK2rChcC&pg=PA41&lpg=PA41&dq=Einstein+cleared+by+the+Office+of+Naval+Intelligence+to+work+on+sub+warfare+and+high+explosives+projects&source=bl&ots=dOj5bHKA38&sig=ACfU3U29cLMN28JMmHEVhZ1yH_8cicl53w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjno9nW8a38AhUmF1kFHQ49BOcQ6AF6BAgFEAM#v=onepage&q=Einstein%20cleared%20by%20the%20Office%20of%20Naval%20Intelligence%20to%20work%20on%20sub%20warfare%20and%20high%20explosives%20projects&f=false) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_78 **Attributes:** Einstein ### Event 3807 (CE277093) **Date:** 7/18/1943 **Locations:** Gdynia, Poland; Baltic Sea **Description:** A French prisoner in a German labor camp near Gdynia, Poland, is walking to work along the Baltic Sea when he sees a flat, metallic object embedded in the sand. A human figure is standing next to it, apparently trying to dig it up. When he passes by, the figure, apparently an Asian woman with long blonde hair and dressed in a tight- fitting overall, turns in his direction. The witness assumes she is the famous German aviator [Hanna Reitsch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna%5FReitsch) and helps her dig the experimental aircraft out of the sand. The object is 20 feet in diameter and looks like two metallic saucers put together. The woman touches the witness’s chest with her hand and points to the sky. She touches her belt and a door in the object opens. She crawls inside, the door closes, and the object ascends and departs at a tremendous speed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jean Sider, Ultra Top-Secret: Ces OVNIs qui font peur, Axis Mundi, 1990 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_600 ### Event 3808 (11B2157A) **Date:** 8/1943 (approximate) **Location:** BELGIUM, between Valmeer and Z.Z. Bolder (Limburg) **Description:** (Translated from French) J.V. and his friend, then aged 12 or 13, were looking for shells (after an air attack, while the adults were still in the shelters) and saw a silent and circular object descending to a hundred meters in altitude and 500 or 600 meters away from them. They ran towards the thing, but the fear of being "shot down" (it was war) made them stop at some distance. Meanwhile, the object that seemed to be on the ground (hidden by a fold in the terrain) rose vertically, silently and in a fraction of second it was at 1000 meters altitude. There, at this altitude, were 6 or 7 other balls, the size of a fist held out, which seemed to be waiting for the object that had descended. Together they then disappeared at a higher altitude. More than 50 years later, the witnesses are still stunned by the silence and speed of these objects. Their color was a dirty gray, their diameter 8 to 10 meters, the total height 2 meters, of which 1 meter for the rounded upper part. (1943, August (supposed date)) **Reference:** personal doc. of vog - identities of the witnesses known **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1015 ### Event 3809 (70C37E42) **Date:** 8/1943 **Location:** OITTI, FINLAND **Description:** M. Mustapa. 5 silver disks seen. No further details. / Margit Mustapa 1960+/ AFU Sweden. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 21) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_479 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "OITTI,FINLAND:M.Mustapa:5 SLVR DISKS SEEN:NFD:/Margit Mustapa 1960+/AFU Sweden", **LatLong:** "60.783336 25.033335", **LatLongDMS:** "60:47:00 N 25:02:00 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/60.783336,25.033335)", **State/Prov:** "Finland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3810 (82E3F062) **Date:** 8/15/1943 **Location:** The Philadelphia Teleportation Affair **Description:** (Translated from French) Alias Carlos Allende: The Mystery Man Behind the Philadelphia Experiment The key figure in the bizarre saga of the Philadelphia Experiment is a man known as Carlos Allende, who claimed to witness the teleportation of the USS Eldridge at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard on August 15, 1943. Allende reported his experiences to a UFO book author, and his story became one of the most popular unexplained legends of the 20th century. But who was Carlos Allende? ParaScope is pleased to present this classic article from FATE Magazine, in which Robert A. Goerman revealed the elusive individual to be Carl Allen, a "master leg-puller" from Pennsylvania who single-handedly fabricated the Philadelphia Experiment myth. (in brief: the affair was invented by the author Carl Allen, or Carlos Allende (his pseudonym) and the Philadelphia teleportation affair never took place) First 'Philadelphia Experiment' Crew Reunion 'It Never Happened' By Lacy McCrary The truth is out here. It is in a hospitality room of a boardwalk hotel, with some old salts sitting around white-clothed tables laughing at reports that their ship was involved in a top-secret World War II experiment. Sailors who served on the USS Eldridge, the ship that legend says vanished briefly in 1943 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, met here this week for their first reunion in 53 years and spent part of their time joking about the so-called Philadelphia Experiment. The Eldridge, they said yesterday, may well have been invisible to Philadelphia because it was never in Philadelphia. The ship's log and several veterans who were on the ship from its launching on July 25, 1943, at Port Newark, N.J., say it called on many East Coast ports, but never Philadelphia. Two movies, two books and several Web sites have kept the myth about the Eldridge alive. As the story goes, the destroyer escort was surrounded by a greenish fog, disappeared for a few minutes, then reappeared. But none of the veterans believes it. (…) The legend says the ship became invisible on July 22, 1943, but ship records and the veterans say it was not launched until July 25. The second experiment, in which the Eldridge was sent to Norfolk and back to Philadelphia, was supposed to have occurred on October 28, 1943. The ship's log says it was at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on that date, but did spend two days in the Norfolk Navy Yard in November 1943. **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1016 ### Event 3811 (A9B0FAE8) **Date:** 8/26/1943 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) After the Battle of Kursk, Russian military personnel saw the sky crossed by an engine in the shape of a crescent whose central part dilates and contracts alternately. (August 26) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1943.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_497 ### Event 3812 (5921B519) **Date:** 9/1943 **Location:** ARGENTINA, Oncativa (Laguna Larga) **Description:** (Translated from French) It was very early, 04:00 this morning when René Navarro Ocampo was driving in his car on the road from Rosario to Cordoba. As he passed near Oncativa he suddenly saw an object on the road about 500 m from his vehicle. The object looked like an immense disk, wider than the road and it emitted a light of a bluish-green color. As soon as René Ocampo's car approached, the object began to whistle a bit like a fan. The disk then rose to an altitude of 1000 m and then, turning abruptly at a right angle, it disappeared quickly behind the horizon. When he arrived at the place where this object had been stationed, the witness saw in the beam of his headlights a small metallic body that sparkled on the ground. It was a kind of "paperweight" about 10 cm long. Curiously, it was cold, while the witness expected to find an object overheated by the presence of the UFO. This amazing unexpected gift was analyzed in various laboratories, but the results of these studies have not filtered down to us. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 264 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1017 ### Event 3813 (C80D9339) **Date:** 9/1943 **Location:** CHINA, Qing Nian (Hebei) **Description:** (Translated from French) A UFO with a dome flew at 5 to 8 meters above the ground. A white light was emanating from it. **Reference:** Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 322 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1018 ### Event 3814 (980E0506) **Date:** 9/1943 **Location:** USSR, Pouchkino **Description:** (Translated from French) A UFO in the shape of a disc was observed near Pouchkino by Spanish volunteers of the Azul Division, who were fighting with the Germans on the German-Russian front. While they were in a fort, sheltered from an air battle between German and Soviet aircraft, soldiers Jésus Aria, Pas and Tomas Carbonell noticed an object discoidal that flew around the area somewhat like a spectator of an air conflict and that had to disappear at a fantastic speed. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 265) The Spanish troops of the Azul Division saw a UFO in the shape of a "basin" hovering close by during the battle. **Reference:** A CENTURY OF UFO - UFO Roundup Dec. 1999, ed. Joseph Trainor **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1019 ### Event 3815 (304DC4D1) **Date:** 9/1943 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The Blue Division \(Spanish volunteers fighting with the Germans against Russia\), among them Jesus Arias \(Austuria\), Paz \(Galicia\), Tomas Carbonell \(Allicante\) are in a bunker during a battle between German and Russian air forces when they see an object shaped like a disk above the planes in full combat as if they were watching the battle. Then they disappear with a fantastic acceleration. (September) **Reference:** Oscar Rey Brea, reporter who worked in the early 1970s in the radio test team of La Corona. Antonio Ribera, *Platillos volantes en Iberiamerica Y Espana*, Ed. Pomaire, 1968, pages 411-12 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1943.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_498 ### Event 3816 (DF8E5531) **Date:** 9/1943 **Location:** PUSHKINO, RUSSIA **Description:** Saucers over German and Russian planes watch dogfights. Away incredibly fast. / LDLN#204. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HOBANA Ion & WEVERBERGH,Julien: UFO'S from BEHIND the IRON CURTAIN; Bantam Books,1975. 308pp. (Index 281) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_480 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Russia", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "60", **HatchDesc:** "PUSHKINO,RUS:SCRs ovr GERMAN+RUSS PLANES WATCH DOGFIGHTS:away XXfast:/LDLN#204", **LatLong:** "56.016669 37.850002", **LatLongDMS:** "56:01:00 N 37:51:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/56.016669,37.850002)", **State/Prov:** "MSC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3817 (2C3B7F76) **Date:** 9/1943 **Time:** 04:00 **Location:** NEAR ONCATIVO, ARG **Description:** Large saucer / road. Whistles and quickly going up [to] extremely fast. Odd metal object found. / r215p28+/ r8. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** PHENOMENES SPATIAUX: Group GEPA, Gen. M. Lionel Chassin Paris. Quarterly 1964?-1977. Merged into Grp. GEPAN (Index 18) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_481 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Argentina", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "268", **HatchDesc:** "nr ONCATIVO,ARG:LRG SCR/ROAD:WHISTLES+↑↑XFAST:ODD MTL OBJ FOUND:/r215p28+/r8", **LatLong:** "-31.916668 -63.666670", **LatLongDMS:** "31:55:00 S 63:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-31.916668,-63.666670)", **State/Prov:** "CRD", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 3818 (7B24A7AB) **Date:** 9/1943 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** QUING XIAN EAST / TIANJIN, CHINA **Description:** Several observer(s). Saucer spins. Going quickly [to] 5M overhead. Glows white. Skims roofs. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** DONG, Paul: UFO's Over MODERN CHINA. 1983 UFO Photo Archives; P. O. Box 17206; Tucson, AZ 85710. (Index 31) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_482 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "China", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "QUING XIAN E/TIANJIN,CHINA:SVRL OBS:SCR SPINS:>>5M OVHD:GLOWS WHT:SKIMS ROOFS", **LatLong:** "39.133335 117.300006", **LatLongDMS:** "39:08:00 N 117:18:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.133335,117.300006)", **State/Prov:** "TNJ", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3819 (298E7E86) **Date:** 9/1943 **Location:** Oncativo, Argentina **Description:** 4:00 a.m. Navarro Ocampo, driving between Rosario and Cordoba, saw a large, saucer-shaped object on the ground 500 m to the left of the road. It glowed with a bluish-green light, made a whistling sound, rose to 100 m altitude, then left at fantastic speed. A strange metal block is said to have been found at the spot. (Magonia #50, GEPA Dec., 68) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_158 ### Event 3820 (88576D01) **Date:** 9/1943 **Time:** 0400 **Location:** Oncativo, Argentina **Description:** Navarro Ocampo, driving between Rosario and Cordoba, saw a large, saucer-shaped object on the ground 500 m to the left of the road. It glowed with a bluish-green light, made a whistling sound, rose to 100 m altitude, then left at fantastic speed. A strange metal block is said to have been found at the spot. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** GEPA Dec., 68 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_50 ### Event 3821 (D4604A7A) **Date:** 9/1943 **Locations:** Pushkin; Leningrad; Saint Petersburg; Russia **Description:** During an air battle between the Germans and Russians, a member of the Spanish Blue Division fighting with the Germans near Pushkin outside Leningrad \[now Saint Petersburg\], Russia, notices a disc-shaped object above the planes. It appears to be observing the battle, then disappears at a fantastic speed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Antonio Ribera](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio%5FRibera), Platillos Volantes en Iberoamerica y España, Santiago Pomaire, 1968, pp. 411–412 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_601 ### Event 3822 (548D0D73) **Date:** 9/1943 **Description:** [Ray Palmer,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%5FA.%5FPalmer) editor of Amazing Stories magazine, receives a letter from a reader named [Richard S. Shaver,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FSharpe%5FShaver) who claims to have discovered “Mantong,” a proto-language that is the source of all earthly languages. In Mantong, each sound has a hidden meaning, and by applying this formula to any word in any language, one can decode the secret meaning. Palmer applies the formula to several words and realizes Shaver might be onto something. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Richard Sharpe Shaver](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FSharpe%5FShaver)”; Clark III 609; Walter Kafton-Minkel, Subterranean Worlds, Loompanics, 1989, [p. 136](https://archive.org/details/subterraneanworldswalterkaftonminkel100000yearsofdragonsdwarfsthedeadlostracesufosfrominsidetheearth/page/n139/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_602 ### Event 3823 (975B1ED5) **Date:** 9/6/1943 **Location:** Stuttgart, Germany **Description:** Objects resembling silver discs. (Page 43 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_160 ### Event 3824 (663DC169) **Date:** 9/6/1943 **Location:** Stuttgart, Germany **Description:** 9:50 a.m. During an aerial fight over Stuttgart, Germany, the crews of two aircraft of the 384th Bomb Group, commanded by Capt. Raymond P. Ketelson, observe two round objects “resembling silvery discs” floating downward through the aircraft formation. One hits the wing of a B-17 bomber, setting it on fire. The bomber does not return from the mission. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Strange Company 43 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_603 ### Event 3825 (97433594) **Date:** Fall 1943 **Location:** Unknown City, Holland **Description:** Light moving high in night sky. (Page 84 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_204 ### Event 3826 (28F80A35) **Date:** Autumn 1943 **Locations:** England; Peenemünde, Germany **Description:** A Polish bomber unit based in England claims that silver-blue balls of fire appeared near their wing on six missions when they raided the Nazi V-1 weapons plant in Peenemünde, Germany. RAF intelligence officer [Michael Bentine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%5FBentine) debriefs them later and asks, “But what did it do to you?” They reply, “Nothing.” Bentine points out, “Well it was not a very effective weapon, was it?” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOFiles2, [p. 20](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n39/mode/2up); David Clarke and Andy Roberts, “[The](http://www.uk-ufo.org/condign/histfoo2.htm) [Foo Fighters: The RAF Experience,](http://www.uk-ufo.org/condign/histfoo2.htm)” The Real UFO Project, January 2003 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_604 ### Event 3827 (1B8D6F51) **Date:** 10/1943 **Locations:** Santa Barbara, California; Goleta Valley **Description:** 9:00 p.m. [Wilberta Finley](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87087670/wilberta-murrie-finley), an air spotter for the Civil Air Patrol, notices a “huge dark aerial object approaching” her home in Santa Barbara, California, facing the Goleta Valley. Moving low and soundlessly, it barely skims over a nearby hill. From its front a beam of light shoots down, and at intervals it swings from side to side as if scanning the hills and homes below. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Report from the Readers,” Fate 11, no. 11 \(November 1958\): 116–118; Clark III 1178 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_605 ### Event 3828 (3C369CF3) **Date:** 10/1943 **Alternate date:** 11/1943 **Locations:** Camp Ibis; Dead Mountains Wilderness; Needles, California **Description:** 11:00 p.m. 2Lt [Thomas J. Duzynski](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/608840/thomas-j-duzynski) is stationed at Camp Ibis on the west side of the Dead Mountains Wilderness northwest of Needles, California. Taking a stroll outside his tent, he notices an elliptical- shaped object traveling to the south at high speed parallel to the ground between himself and the mountains. It banks sharply, almost on edge, and gains altitude, disappearing in seconds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 22–23 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_608 ### Event 3829 (F7990250) **Date:** 10/10/1943 **Locations:** Hanford site; Washington **Description:** Construction begins for the first reactor at the Hanford site in Washington. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** US Department of Energy, Office of History and Heritage Resources, “[Hanford Becomes Operational,](https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-history/Events/1942-1944%5Fpu/hanford%5Foperational.htm)” August 7, 2013 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_606 ### Event 3830 (FA43490D) **Date:** 10/14/1943 **Location:** GERMANY, Schweinfurt (in flight) **Description:** (Translated from French) As the 384th Group had just passed the Initial Point, the fighter attacks suddenly ceased. The pilots wondered, as did all the crew members, where they were now and all the men questioned later were categorical in declaring that at that moment there were no enemy aircraft above them. It was then that the pilots and the gunners of the upper turrets, as well as several men of the crews in the Plexiglas nose of the planes, reported on the route they were following like a string of saucers approaching the Fortresses. The exclamations that burst out drew general attention to this phenomenon and everyone on board the aircraft began to discuss it animatedly. The discs in question seemed to be silver, and measured three centimeters thick and nine in diameter. They were easily visible and descended slowly fluttering in a regular string. At that moment the impossible happened: B-17 No. 26 was quickly approaching one of these strings. The pilot tried to avoid hitting it, but his maneuver failed. As he declared at the debriefing, his right wing crossed this string without any effect on the engines or the aircraft body. The intelligence officers tried to learn more and he then added that he had heard one of the discs hit the tail but that no one on board had seen or heard an explosion. He also said that at about 6 meters from the discs, his men and he had seen a number of small bodies of varying sizes in a string from one meter to one meter twenty long. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 265-266 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1020 ### Event 3831 (1AA33C5F) **Date:** 10/14/1943 **Location:** SCHWEINFURT, GRM **Description:** Many 8cm silver disks seen / British B17s. Chaff? flak? / LDLN#338. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GOOD, Timothy: ABOVE TOP SECRET; Sidgewick & Jackson, London 1987 & Quill Books, 1988. 592pp. (Index 28) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_483 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "2", **Duration:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "SCHWEINFURT,GRM:MANY 8cm SLVR DISKS SEEN/BRIT.B17s:chaff? flak?:/LDLN#338", **LatLong:** "50.050002 10.233334", **LatLongDMS:** "50:03:00 N 10:14:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.050002,10.233334)", **State/Prov:** "Bavaria", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 3832 (12D59BD6) **Date:** 10/14/1943 **Location:** Schweinfurt, Germany **Description:** During a bombing run a B-17 crews of the 384th Group noticed, as fighter attacks suddenly fell off, they encountered a cluster of small discs, described as 3" wide by 1" thick. (Martin Caiden/Andy Roberts) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [431014](http://www.project1947.com/articles/arwwr.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_161 ### Event 3833 (37B5699C) **Date:** 10/14/1943 **Location:** Germany **Description:** Night. A group of B-17s from the 384th Bombardment Group are returning from a mission over Germany when they see a cluster of silver-colored discs in the path of their formation and closing with the bombers. The crews talk back and forth, discussing and confirming the sight before them. They describe the objects as “about one inch thick and three inches in diameter…gliding down slowly in a very uniform cluster.” One of the bombers goes directly through the cluster “with absolutely no effect on engines or plane surface,” even though one is heard to strike the tail assembly. A mass of black debris about 3-4 feet long is also observed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 502; Martin Caidin, Black Thursday, Dell, 1962, pp. 188–190; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers—Here and Now! Lyle Stuart, 1967, [pp. 77–78](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersher00edwa/page/76/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_607 ### Event 3834 (D104FC4F) **Date:** 10/24/1943 **Location:** Schweinfurt, Germany **Description:** Discs Put Up Protective Shield Around B-17 Formation ??? (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [431024](http://www.nicap.org/431024schweinfurt%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_162 ### Event 3835 (30CC3D8E) **Date:** Late 10/1943 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) An experiment on the action of a powerful magnetic field aiming to "make disappear" a military vessel is conducted by the US Navy. This experiment is known as "[The Philadelphia Experiment](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Philadel.html)". (Late October-Early November) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1943.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_499 ### Event 3836 (24D32F7B) **Date:** 11/1943 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** N160 / TREMERET NORTH / AMBON, 56, FR **Description:** Teen. Luminous/glowing yellow ball takes off. Arcs slowly going south. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 289) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_484 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "N160/TREMERET N/AMBON,56,FR:TEEN:LUMn YLW BALL TAKES OFF:ARCS SLOWLY >S:NFD", **LatLong:** "47.566669 -2.561111", **LatLongDMS:** "47:34:00 N 02:33:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.566669,-2.561111)", **State/Prov:** "Morbihan", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3837 (3C24A56F) **Date:** 11/1943 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** ESCONDIDO, CA **Description:** Family. Domed disk hovers over house. Figure(s) / windows. Soft humming. Blink and gone. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 22) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_485 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "202", **HatchDesc:** "ESCONDIDO,CA:FAMILY:DOMED DISK HVRS ovr HOUSE:FIGS/WINDOWS:SOFT HUM:BLINK+GONE", **LatLong:** "33.100002 -117.083339", **LatLongDMS:** "33:06:00 N 117:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.100002,-117.083339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 3838 (D075F43D) **Date:** 11/1943 **Location:** Escondido, CA **Description:** On a dark moonless night a family heard a soft humming sound and saw a disc with dome and square windows hovering about 15 feet above the roof of their house. Human-like silhouettes were visible through the windows. When the woman shone a flashlight, the object blinked out and disappeared. (Ref. 3; Greenwood, UFO Historical Revue, June 1998.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_163 ### Event 3839 (EE73B27A) **Date:** 11/1943 **Location:** Mantong **Description:** [Ray Palmer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%5FA.%5FPalmer) publishes an article, “An Ancient Language?” on the language of Mantong in the January 1944 issue of Amazing Stories and enters into correspondence with [Richard S. Shaver](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FSharpe%5FShaver), who responds with a 10,000- word document titled “A Warning to Future Man.” Shaver writes of advanced prehistoric races who built underground cities before abandoning Earth for another planet because of damaging radiation from the Sun. Those ancients also abandoned some of their own offspring here, a minority of whom remained noble and human “Teros,” while most degenerate over time into a population of mentally impaired sadists known as “Deros”— short for “detrimental robots.” Shaver’s robots are not mechanical constructs, but robot-like due to their savage behavior. These Deros still live in the cave cities, according to Shaver, kidnapping surface-dwelling people by the thousands for meat or torture. Deros can be blamed for nearly all misfortunes, from minor “accidental” injuries or illnesses to airplane crashes and catastrophic natural disasters. Though generally confined to their caves, the Deros sometimes travel in spaceships or rockets, and have dealings with equally evil extraterrestrials. Shaver claims to possess first-hand knowledge of the Deros and their caves, insisting he had been their prisoner for several years. The article stirs considerable reader interest, and the pages of Amazing Stories are soon filled with stories and articles about the “Shaver mystery.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Richard Sharpe Shaver](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FSharpe%5FShaver)”; \[Richard\] S. Shaver, \[Letter\], “[An Ancient Language?](https://ia801602.us.archive.org/31/items/Amazing%5FStories%5Fv18n01%5F1944-01%5Fcape1736/Amazing%5FStories%5Fv18n01%5F1944-01%5Fcape1736.pdf)” Amazing Stories 18, no. 1 \(January 1944\): 206–207; \[Ray Palmer,\] “[Mantong:](https://ia802506.us.archive.org/0/items/Amazing%5FStories%5Fv19n01%5F1945-03%5FZiff-Daviscape1736/Amazing%20Stories%20v19n01%201945-03%20%28Ziff-Davis%29%28cape1736%29.pdf) [The Language of Lemuria,](https://ia802506.us.archive.org/0/items/Amazing%5FStories%5Fv19n01%5F1945-03%5FZiff-Daviscape1736/Amazing%20Stories%20v19n01%201945-03%20%28Ziff-Davis%29%28cape1736%29.pdf)” Amazing Stories 19, no. 1 \(March 1945\): 71, 206; Walter Kafton-Minkel, Subterranean Worlds, Loompanics, 1989, [pp. 136–137](https://archive.org/details/subterraneanworldswalterkaftonminkel100000yearsofdragonsdwarfsthedeadlostracesufosfrominsidetheearth/page/n139/mode/2up); Clark III 872; Richard Toronto, War over Lemuria: Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer, and the Strangest Chapter of 1940s Science Fiction, McFarland, 2013 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_609 ### Event 3840 (B77E07BE) **Date:** 11/4/1943 **Locations:** Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Y-12 plant **Description:** The X-10 Graphite Reactor at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, goes critical. The Y-12 plant is separating uranium- 235 from natural uranium, which is 99.3% uranium-238, by using calutrons to perform electromagnetic isotope separation. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[X-10 Graphite Reactor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-10%5FGraphite%5FReactor)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_610 ### Event 3841 (20974C88) **Date:** 11/26/1943 **Description:** Approximate year. During World War Two, on a bombing mission over Bremen, Germany crew members of the United States 8th Air Force reported that green "rings of flame 2 or 3 feet in diameter" corkscrewed through their formation, as if floating. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 website on aerial encounters **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7932 ### Event 3842 (F73E0408) **Date:** 12/1943 **Location:** At around 10:30 pm, a secretary and three of her friends approached a small fjord. Suddenly, the engines of the cars stopped abruptly and the passengers had to continue the rest of the journey on foot. That's when they saw an orange object with blurred outlines, but resembling a church bell. There was a hissing sound and the UFO rose up, taking on a very dark blue hue. It hovered for a few moments then crossed the fjord at great speed. In the snow bordering the small lake, a depression of 1.50 m in diameter and 1 m deep was found. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 266) **Description:** (Translated from French) Some friends were at the table when they saw a light appear above the port. Fearing sabotage, they rushed into their cars, in the direction of the phenomenon. At some distance from the port, the three cars stopped and could not be restarted. So they got out of the vehicles and continued on foot towards the light, which seemed to have the shape of a bell, of orange color, blurred. As they approached, the witnesses then heard a whistle, like air escaping from a compressor. A moment later the object descended to 3 to 6 meters above the water, before catapulting itself at a dizzying speed, without acceleration. At the end of the observation the object took on a color of deep blue. The four witnesses, after the disappearance of the phenomenon, discovered depressions in the snow, in the shape of craters, 4.50 m in diameter and 90 cm deep. All around these craters, the snow had melted over an area of 15 to 16 meters. (December 1943; Norway, Oslo (Oslofjörden)) **Reference:** AUSTRALIAN FLYING SAUCER REVIEW, 7/1968. Phillips: PHYSICAL TRACES ASSOCIATED WITH UFO SIGHTINGS., 1975, 5. RAPPORTNYTT, 4/1979, 4-5. Bertelsen: UFO-80., 1980, 66. Liljegren: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF REFERENCES TO UFO INCIDENTS DURING WORLD WAR II., 1987, 11. Listing of Ole Johnny Braenne **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1022 ### Event 3843 (A4891170) **Date:** 12/1943 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At the Oslofjorden \(Norway\), friends eating see a light appear on the port. Fearing sabotage, they take their cars \(3\) and drive towards the phenomenon. At a certain distance the cars stop by themselves, and cannot start again. They leave their cars and run towards the light, which looks like a church bell, with a strange diffuse orange color. When they approach it, they hear a whistling, like air escaping from a compressor. A moment later the object rises 9 to 18 feet above the water, and takes off at an enormous speed, without any sign of acceleration. The object eventually turns a deep blue color before disappearing above the Oslofjorden. At the moment of its disappearance, the 4 witnesses start searching the area and discover a crater-shaped depression in the snow, about 4.5 feet in diameter and about 3 feet deep. Around it the snow has melted, on a diameter of 54 feet. \[Australian Flying Saucer Review, 7/1968\] \[Phillips: Physical traces associated with UFO sightings, 1975, 5\] \[Rapportnytt, 4/1979, 4-5. Bertelsen: UFO-80., 1980, 66\] **Reference:** Liljegren: A bibliography of references to UFO incidents during World War II., 1987, 11 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1943.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_500 ### Event 3844 (213B4118) **Date:** 12/1943 (approximate) **Time:** ~20:00 **Location:** WEST / TARAWA, GILBERT ISLANDS **Description:** Series / 3 RADAR blips going quickly south / 750mph. Same / several nights running. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Newspaper account: On file here as TARAWA43.TXT from Jan Aldrich. **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_486 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "W/TARAWA,GILBERT Isls:SERIES/3 RDR BLIPS >>S/750mph:SAME/SVRL NITES RUNNING.", **LatLong:** "1.316667 172.333342", **LatLongDMS:** "01:19:00 N 172:20:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/1.316667,172.333342)", **State/Prov:** "KRB", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 3845 (FFDE5232) **Date:** 12/1943 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** OSLO FJORD, NRW **Description:** 4 observer(s). Orange bell going up. 3 cars electro-magnetic effect (EME). Hovers and away. 1.5M dent / snow. / r65p22. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** PHILLIPS, Ted: Study of PHYSICAL TRACES ASSOCIATED with UFO SIGHTINGS; CUFOS 1975. (Index 5) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_487 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "OSLO FJORD,NRW:4 OBS:ORG BELL ↑:3 CARS EME:HVRS+AWAY:1.5M DENT/SNOW:/r65p22", **LatLong:** "59.666670 10.583334", **LatLongDMS:** "59:40:00 N 10:35:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/59.666670,10.583334)", **State/Prov:** "Norway", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 3846 (145CCD01) **Date:** 12/1943 (approximate) **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** CONCHES, 15, FR **Description:** 2 observer(s) on foot. Small red light just over road. Floats northwest. Going quickly southwest. Low altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 338) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_488 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "CONCHES,15,FR:2 OBS ON FOOT:SML RED LITE JUST OVR ROAD:FLOATS NW:>>SW:lo alt", **LatLong:** "45.255558 3.022222", **LatLongDMS:** "45:15:20 N 03:01:20 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.255558,3.022222)", **State/Prov:** "Cantal", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3847 (4CF9528C) **Date:** 12/1943 **Location:** Oslo, Norway **Description:** At 10:30 p.m. four women in a car saw an orange bell-shaped object ascending. Three automobiles in the vicinity experienced EM effects and the engines stalled. A 1.5-meter diameter area of melted snow was found on the ground. (Ref. 3; Australian Flying Saucer Review, No. 7, 1967; cited by Project 1947.) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_165 ### Event 3848 (D601D598) **Date:** 12/1943? **Location:** Mullinix Field [now Bonriki International Airport] on Tarawa Atoll in the Pacific Ocean **Description:** Matt P. Dillingham is on evening duty adjacent to Mullinix Field \[now Bonriki International Airport\] on Tarawa Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. He begins receiving radar plots showing a north-south track to the west moving at 750 mph. It disappears, but two other targets on the same trajectory appear, moving at the same speed. The same targets are repeated for several nights following. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Out of the Past,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1983-84%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV4.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 6 \(Dec. 1983/Jan. 1984\): 6 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_611 ### Event 3849 (DC467B86) **Date:** 12/2/1943 **Location:** Bari, Italy **Description:** Night. Some 105 German Junkers Ju 888 bombers attack the port of Bari, Italy, a key supply center for Allied forces. 28 Allied ships are sunk, including the US Liberty ship [SS John Harvey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS%5FJohn%5FHarvey)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS%5FJohn%5FHarvey) which is carrying mustard gas intended for retaliation in case German forces use chemical warfare. Liquid sulfur mustard from the bombs spills into waters already contaminated by oil from the other damaged vessels. The many sailors who abandoned their ships into the water become covered with the oily mixture. The wounded are pulled from the water and sent to medical facilities whose personnel are unaware of the mustard gas. Medical staff focus on personnel with blast or fire injuries. Within a day, the first symptoms of mustard poisoning appear in 628 patients and medical staff, including blindness and chemical burns. That puzzling development is further complicated by the arrival of hundreds of Italian civilians also seeking treatment, who have been poisoned by a cloud of sulfur mustard vapor that blows over the city when some of John Harvey’s cargo exploded. As the medical crisis worsens, little information is available about what is causing the symptoms, because US military command want to keep the presence of chemical munitions secret from the Germans. By the end of the month, 83 of the 628 hospitalized military victims have died. The number of civilian casualties, thought to have been even greater, cannot be accurately gauged since most have left the city to seek shelter with relatives. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Air raid on Bari](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%5Fraid%5Fon%5FBari)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_612 ### Event 3850 (200996A7) **Date:** 12/11/1943 **Location:** Edmen, Germany **Description:** Unidentified object; size of thunderbolt aircraft; streak-like vapor trail. (Page 51 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_167 ### Event 3851 (13C72F7B) **Date:** 12/11/1943 **Locations:** US; Emden, Germany **Description:** US bombers conduct a daylight raid on Emden, Germany, and observe an unknown object about the size of a Thunderbolt aircraft over the target area. It passes below the bombers in a straight line and at terrific speed, leaving a vapor trail that persists. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Strange Company 51–52 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_613 ### Event 3852 (8237419B) **Date:** 12/14/1943 **Location:** Naples, Italy **Description:** Small round bright light. (Page 52 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_168 ### Event 3853 (9A76C382) **Date:** 12/14/1943 **Location:** Naples, Italy **Description:** Night. British 255 Night Fighter Squadron leader [Patrick Hardy Vesey Wells](http://samilitaryhistory.org/vol095as.html) is flying his Bristol Beaufighter on a patrol mission around Naples, Italy, when he and his navigator notice a small bright light behind them. It stays on their tail, moving from side to side. After 1–2 minutes it goes off in another direction. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Strange Company 52 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_614 ### Event 3854 (4AA896D5) **Date:** 12/14/1943 **Description:** A pilot over Naples, Italy had a dogfight with a bright light that climbed much faster than his aircraft, a RAF Beaufighter with the 255th fighter squadron. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 website, citing A. Roberts **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8387 ### Event 3855 (9661CD95) **Date:** 12/18/1943 **Location:** GERMANY, various cities. **Description:** (Translated from French) A report states that an object was successively reported by the bases of Helgoland, Hamburg, Wittenberg, Neustrelitz. The timing between these bases gives it an average speed of over 3,000 km/h. It was observed above Hamburg by a patrol of two Focke-Wulf 190 fighters, at 12,000 m around 11:15. The object was a cylindrical body with a nose cone at the front, a large hole at the back with a panel. It seemed to be composed of a large number of rings, whose surface seemed convex. Reported on the ground, followed for a few kilometers, it disappeared at great speed. **Reference:** Henry DURRANT: "Le livre noir des S.V." - Laffont 1970 - p.84-85 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1021 ### Event 3856 (B5E82C66) **Date:** 12/18/1943 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) An object is successively reported by the Helgoland, Hamburg, Wittenberg, Neustrelitz bases. The timing between these bases gives it an average speed of over 3000 km/h. It is observed above Hamburg by a patrol of 2 Focke-Wulf 190 fighters, at 12000 m, around 11:15. The object is a cylindrical body, with a nose cone at the front, a large hole at the back with a panel; it seemed to be composed of a large number of rings, whose surface seemed convex. Reported on the ground, followed for a few km, it disappears at great speed. (December 18) **Reference:** Report sent to the Oberkommando der Luftwaffe, Durrant 1973 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1943.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_501 ### Event 3857 (B78F0948) **Date:** 12/18/1943 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A well-armed Japanese division disappears without a trace in New Guinea. The world is left wondering, investigations are conducted, the Japanese government attempts to shed light on this mystery, to no avail. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1943.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_502 ### Event 3858 (72D4CBE6) **Date:** 12/18/1943 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Bright balls of light regularly appear to Allied planes in flight. Moving around the aircrafts, sometimes in formation, undetectable on the onboard radar, they become so familiar to the military that they nickname them [foo-fighters](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/glossair.html\#foofighter). The English set up a small organization to document these objects, led by Lieutenant-General Massey and inspired by the reports of a spy who, in fact, is a double agent working under the orders of the mayor of Cologne. He confirms that the foo-fighters are not German devices, but that the Germans think they are Allied firing instruments and the English know that this is not the case. The project will be classified in 1944. **Reference:** Edwards, pp. 70 and 71 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1943.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_503 ### Event 3859 (71229055) **Date:** 12/18/1943 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) 3 years before its first use in 1945, the father of the H-Bomb [Edward Teller](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/TellerEdward.html) astounded his colleagues by suggesting that the colossal temperatures of the explosion could ignite an air combustion that would set the Earth's atmosphere ablaze. **Reference:** Jean-Marc Fleury, Quebec Sciences 03/2000 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1943.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_504 ### Event 3860 (022CB8C3) **Date:** Winter 1943 **Locations:** central Germany; Phyllis Marie **Description:** Day. While on a bombing mission over central Germany, Sgt. [Louis Kiss](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17898179/louis-kiss), a tail gunner on the Phyllis Marie, a B-17 of the 390th Bombardment Group, sees an odd-looking sphere approach the plane from behind and below. It seems to be the size of a basketball and shimmery gold. The object hovers just above one wing, then passes over the top to the other wing where it hovers again. Soon it moves to the rear and gets caught in the B-17’s backwash and disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[First Official Foo-Fighter Records Discovered,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Just%20Cause%20%28CAUS%29/Just%20Cause%20-%20New%20Series/Just%20Cause%20-%201992%2006%20%20-%20No%2032%20-%20New%20Series.pdf)” Just Cause, no. 32 \(June 1992\): 4–5 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_615 ### Event 3861 (7A14264D) **Date:** Winter 1943 **Locations:** Washington, D.C.; No. 1 Precinct **Description:** 3:00 p.m. Harry G. Barnes, a member of the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department stationed at No. 1 Precinct, sees three oval-shaped objects in V-formation speeding eastward across the northeast sky. The objects have pulsating, greenish-red exhausts that occasionally flare and curl around them. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 64](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=76&skin=2021); Clark III 1177 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_616 --- ## Year: 1944, 264 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 3862 (C628641A) **Date:** 1944 **Description:** During WW2, E.L. (initials), serving as Carpenter Mate, 1st Class, Hqt. Co. 112th Construction Battalion, came across a landed saucer near a wooded ridge, near the beach of Kaneohe, Oahu, Hawaii. Description: 50 ft. diam.; metallic; looked like an igloo; topped with a clear glass dome about a foot high with agold colored weather vane-like device spinning inside. **Type:** scientist **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (A5, B3-C) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_79 ### Event 3863 (BB2910D3) **Date:** 1944 **Description:** Richard Shaver's stories re. UFO **Type:** paranormal phenomenon **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_80 ### Event 3864 (8C3F96CB) **Date:** 1944 **Location:** USA, unspecified location **Description:** (Translated from French) (cf. 1942 Juarez) Howard Menger meets a being dressed in a pink tunic, who informs him of his upcoming trip to Japan, to Okinawa. He warns him against the experience of an atomic bomb. **Reference:** Mitarbeiter, "Ufo Geheimnisse", Berlin, January 1998 **Reference:** continued 1945 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1026 ### Event 3865 (74D24C66) **Date:** 1944 **Location:** HAWAII, Oahu **Description:** (Translated from French) E.L., a First Class Carpenter's Mate in the Headquarters Company of the 112th Construction Battalion, approached a saucer on the ground near Kaneohe Beach on Oahu. Diameter: 50 feet, metallic, igloo-like, with a completely glassed dome above a one-foot high golden-colored screen, inside of which something was rotating. **Reference:** Ufo Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1030 ### Event 3866 (98324A83) **Date:** 1944 **Location:** ROMANIA, Ploiesti **Description:** (Translated from French) The Vega oil refinery had just been destroyed by bombing, when, late in the afternoon, an elongated yellow object came to hover over the devastated region. The UFO was not luminous and left a kind of whitish trail behind it. According to witnesses, the object moved four times faster than the planes they were used to seeing above the city. For 15 minutes various witnesses including engineers Farmacke and Zmeuranu saw this UFO circle the stricken area then depart in the direction it had come from. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 266-267 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1048 ### Event 3867 (C3CEA7CE) **Date:** 1944 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) [Harry Truman](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/TrumanHarryS.html) is elected Vice President of the United States. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1944.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_505 ### Event 3868 (EF8CBA06) **Date:** 1944 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The famous *Messerschmitt* Me-262 twin-engine German fighters form operational fighter squadrons while the Allies still have no jet aircraft to oppose them. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1944.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_506 ### Event 3869 (80A17942) **Date:** 1944 **Locations:** Romania; southwest Ukraine **Description:** During a mission to bomb oil fields in Romania, a Russian Tupolev Tu-2 piloted by Maj. Bajenov and Boris Surikov are flying over southwest Ukraine at an altitude of 3 miles when a large, elliptical object approaches them. The bomber starts shaking, the oil pressure rises, and Surikov feels a strong electrostatic charge. Even after the object passes, the bomber’s wings are covered with glowing discharges. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Good Need, [pp. 21–22](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/20/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_617 ### Event 3870 (FF928F45) **Date:** 1944 **Locations:** Palomar Mountain, California; Palomar Gardens **Description:** [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) and his followers move closer to Palomar Mountain, California, along the Road to the Stars where his long-time associate Alice K. Wells sets up a roadside café, Palomar Gardens. According to coworker Charlotte Blodget, “Each member of the group shared in the manual labor that went into this effort, and since heavy restrictions were still in effect regarding materials \[in the war’s aftermath\], anything available had to serve.” Adamski builds a “small observatory” to house his 15-inch telescope to study the skies. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Palomar](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-life/mount-palomar/) [Mountain, 1940–1960: From Obscurity to World Fame,](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-life/mount-palomar/)” The Adamski Case, September 22, 2019; George M. Eberhart, “Palomar Gardens Café,” IUR 30, no. 3 \(May 2006\): 9 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_618 ### Event 3871 (389B8298) **Date:** 1944 **Location:** Himalaya Mountains, India **Description:** Army Pilot Charles F. Lane reported that his plane motors stopped and the instruments froze when he was approached by one UFO. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up) **Source:** HostileFawcett, **ID:** HostileFawcett_1 ### Event 3872 (5496A427) **Date:** 1944 **Location:** St. Paul, Minnesota **Description:** During WWII, stateside UFO sightings increased. In one instance in 1944, two women near St. Paul, Minnesota, thought they saw an airplane about to crash. However, the craft stopped and hovered just 20 feet above their car. The object, described as a shiny, brown bullet-shaped entity, made a cracking sound before departing at a remarkable speed. (Chapter 7, Ref. 241) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_232 ### Event 3873 (3F8F90A8) **Date:** 1944 **Location:** Apache, Oklahoma **Description:** A man reported an atypical UFO sighting. He described hearing a "rushing wind sound" and then seeing what looked like a silver, streamlined passenger train with nine coaches. This "train" had landing gear resembling inflated pillow-like wheels and made a swishing sound as it moved from east to west. He observed this peculiar object for around 10 minutes as it passed 100 yards from his home, nearly at the height of his 60-foot windmill, before it sped away. (Chapter 7, Ref. 242) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_233 ### Event 3874 (1FDBE336) **Date:** 1944 **Location:** Boston, Massachusetts **Description:** Hundreds of witnesses observed a group of nine saucer-shaped UFOs on two consecutive mid-afternoons. They flew in an echelon formation over Wollaston Beach, occasionally tilting side to side. These objects had reflective surfaces and appeared golden when tilted at specific angles. (Chapter 7, Ref. 243) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_234 ### Event 3875 (C86D7D70) **Date:** 1944 **Location:** Oak Ridge, Tennessee **Description:** A metallic tube-like object was seen hovering near a defense plant. As a crowd gathered in curiosity, the UFO departed. The incident was reported to the FBI due to the plant's involvement in atomic bomb material production. (Chapter 7, Ref. 244) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_235 ### Event 3876 (AB39F53A) **Date:** 1944 **Location:** Salina Kansas **Description:** Approximate date. Airmen observed a puzzling UFO above their base that resembled a dirigible but lacked typical features. The witness, a trained observer, noted no controls on the back end, no "bathtub" underneath, and no visible lights. The UFO was estimated to be three times the size of a B-29 bomber, the largest aircraft of that era. (Chapter 7, Ref. 246) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_237 ### Event 3877 (A292A1ED) **Date:** 1944 **Location:** Czechoslovakia **Description:** A young man spotted what he initially believed to be a dirigible above his village. The object was cigar-shaped, brightly glittering, and lacked typical aircraft features like propellers, rudders, or wings. It measured an estimated 300-500 feet in length with a diameter of about 164 feet. As it caught the sunlight, one side shone silver, while the other blended with the sky's blue. The underside appeared even more illuminated. Puzzled by the presence of such an "obsolete" machine, the observer watched as the object silently descended over seven minutes, then ascended and disappeared. He noted its significant size difference from familiar defensive balloons he had seen before. (Chapter 7, Ref. 252) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_243 ### Event 3878 (0F12E01B) **Date:** 1944 **Location:** Ontario, Canada **Description:** Two individuals were alerted by an unusual hissing noise and, upon looking up, spotted a formation of nine large, disc-shaped UFOs at an altitude of approximately 2,000 feet. The objects were organized in three rows of three, with each subsequent row directly behind the preceding one. (Chapter 7) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_244 ### Event 3879 (C2F9DADB) **Date:** 1944 **Location:** Tokyo, Japan **Description:** A Japanese civilian observed "flying hotcakes" in the sky following bombing raids by American B-29s. These unidentified objects were described as blue or maybe gray and flew noiselessly over the observer's shelter. They were trailed by colored air waves, measuring six feet in width and 30 feet in length. (Chapter 7, Ref. 256) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_248 ### Event 3880 (E70029F2) **Date:** 1944 **Location:** France **Description:** A German infantryman and his company spotted a metallic, silver-white object slowly approaching their position. Believing it might be a new Allied secret weapon, they opened fire. The UFO responded by emitting an intense light and then vanished. (Chapter 7, Ref. 264) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_256 ### Event 3881 (E2824363) **Date:** 1944 **Location:** WW2 European Theater **Description:** The test pilot of a new German jet-powered fighter reported an encounter with a UFO that greatly surpassed his aircraft's speed. He briefly observed the strange craft, which he estimated sped away at over 1,200 miles per hour. The UFO was described as cylinder-shaped, about 300 feet long, with openings along its side and what seemed to be an antennae at the front. (Chapter 7, Ref. 265) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_257 ### Event 3882 (3C378C39) **Date:** 1944 **Location:** Germany **Description:** An American B-17, while en route from England to bomb Berlin, encountered several silver, cylindrical-shaped UFOs over Germany. The plane's crew was informed that these might be experimental aircraft being developed by the Germans. (Chapter 7, Ref. 270) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_262 ### Event 3883 (36E7CD56) **Date:** 1944 **Location:** Munich, Germany **Description:** An American bomber pilot reported seeing a light blue ball of fire, around three feet in diameter, flying about 40 feet off their right wingtip during a raid. This fiery orb accompanied the plane for about 30 seconds, leaving trails of fire. The pilot remained unsure about what the phenomenon was. (Chapter 7, Ref. 274) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_266 ### Event 3884 (782121D2) **Date:** 1944 **Location:** Neustadt, Germany **Description:** American fighter pilots encountered a gold-colored, metallic ball near a German city. One pilot observed it moving slowly, unsure if it was reflecting the sun or emitting its own light. Another described it as a phosphorescent golden sphere, about three-to-five feet in diameter, flying at 2,000 feet. (Chapter 7, Ref 275) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_267 ### Event 3885 (7F307ECB) **Date:** 1944 **Location:** Rhine Valley, Germany **Description:** An American reconnaissance plane pilot over the Rhine Valley observed unfamiliar objects described as silvery footballs off his wing. The objects seemed stationary but kept pace with the plane. Initially thinking they were a German creation, the pilot later dismissed their significance as they exhibited no notable activity. (Chapter 7, Ref 276) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_268 ### Event 3886 (8FE0FA18) **Date:** 1944 **Location:** Indian Ocean **Description:** An American B-29 over the Indian Ocean was closely observed by a UFO. The plane's co-pilot described the object as a bright red or orange sphere, about five or six feet in diameter, with a halo effect, which seemed to throb or vibrate. Assuming it was a radio-controlled device, the co-pilot attempted evasive maneuvers, but the object mirrored their moves for about eight minutes. It eventually made a swift 90-degree turn and vanished into the overcast. (Chapter 7, Ref 277) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_269 ### Event 3887 (1A1B8AD5) **Date:** 1944 **Location:** WW2 European Theater **Description:** Approximate date. Allied fliers in Europe frequently encountered UFOs resembling small saucers. An American bomber pilot recounted how these saucers, about 10-12 feet in diameter and dirty gray in color, would suddenly fly alongside their plane, matching every maneuver perfectly. These saucers lacked cockpits or any signs of life. After shadowing the aircraft for a while, they would rapidly ascend and vanish, reaching speeds believed to be over 5,000 miles per hour. (Chapter 7, Ref 281) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_273 ### Event 3888 (3658DB8E) **Date:** 1944 **Location:** WW2 European Theater **Description:** Approximate date. Allied airmen often speculated that the UFOs they saw over Europe were advanced German weapons. Although the majority believed these "foo fighters" were not a significant threat, certain wartime intelligence reports suggested otherwise. One such account from the records of General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold described an incident where multiple small, silvery discs were seen from B-17 bombers. One of these discs reportedly struck a plane's wing, causing it to catch fire and subsequently, the aircraft did not return. (Chapter 7, Ref 282) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_274 ### Event 3889 (66936DCE) **Date:** 1944 **Location:** Wurtemberg, Germany **Description:** Approximate date. A French agent in Switzerland reported an incident over the German city of Wurtemberg. A circular, apparently "German" aircraft, lacking wings or rudder, quickly overtook a four-engined B-24 Liberator. As it crossed the bomber's path, it emitted small bluish smoke clouds. Shortly after, the American bombers inexplicably ignited and exploded in mid-air. (Chapter 7, Ref 283) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_275 ### Event 3890 (C71082C2) **Date:** 1944 **Location:** On a flight from England to Germany **Description:** Approximate date. During WWII, an undercover Allied informant reported that a dozen American heavy bombers were lost when a strange, hemispherical or circular flying machine attacked them at an incredible speed, destroying them in seconds without using guns. (Chapter 7, Ref 284) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_276 ### Event 3891 (73DECB8C) **Date:** 1944 **Location:** Berlin **Description:** A Polish prisoner of war reported witnessing a UFO-type device being tested near Berlin in 1944. In a 1957 statement summarized by the FBI, he described an incident where a tractor he was on stalled due to a high-pitched noise, similar to a large electric generator. After a brief interaction with an SS guard and a wait, the noise ceased and the tractor resumed normal function. Later in the day, the same prisoner saw a circular enclosure, shielded by a tarpaulin-type wall. From within this enclosure, he witnessed a circular vehicle rise vertically, clear the wall, and then move horizontally. This vehicle, observed from about 500 feet away, had a diameter of 200-300 feet and was roughly 14 feet tall. It had stationary dark gray top and bottom sections and a middle section that moved rapidly, producing a continuous blur. The sound it emitted was similar to the earlier noise, and again, the tractor's engine stalled, resuming only after the noise stopped. (Chapter 7, Ref 289. Note the author only lists as a reference "Internet posting", with no URL provided.) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_281 ### Event 3892 (EC3E5EFF) **Date:** 1944 **Location:** Strait of Malacca in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) **Description:** A German U-boat, sunk by the British in the Strait of Malacca in 1944, was believed to be traveling to or from Japan. Divers later found that the submarine's cargo contained 33 tons of mercury. It's noted that German scientists were exploring a novel propulsion system towards the end of the war, which allegedly used electrified mercury vapor. (Chapter 7, Ref 295. Note the author only lists as a reference "Internet posting", with no URL provided.) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_287 ### Event 3893 (7A3B53E2) **Date:** 1944 **Location:** Britain **Description:** Approximate date. Allied forces during WWII reportedly came into possession of alien technology. A 1955 article by syndicated columnist Dorothy Kilgallen mentioned a mysterious flying object that had crashed. British scientists and airmen, after examining the wreckage, concluded that these were not man-made or optical illusions but were flying saucers from another planet. An unnamed British cabinet-level official was cited as saying that these saucers were believed to be manned by small beings, probably under four feet tall. The same official mentioned that scientists believed such an object couldn't have been constructed on Earth. The British government was said to be withholding an official report on this examination. (Chapter 7, Ref 299) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_290 ### Event 3894 (FC8DAA65) **Date:** 1944 **Location:** Near Kaneohe, Hawaii **Description:** During World War II, a Navy enlisted man stationed in Oahu, Hawaii, reported discovering an igloo-shaped UFO near Kaneohe in 1944. The craft, about 50 feet in diameter, had a transparent dome on top with a spinning gold-colored device inside, resembling a weather vane. Surrounding the craft were entities about 4.5 feet tall, with slight builds, short black hair, large dark eyes, heavy eyebrows, and belts with box-like devices. After a confrontation, the witness took one of these devices. Returning the next day, the beings communicated that they were from a place 21 light years away and were monitoring colonization efforts they initiated long ago. Another sailor observed this interaction and reported it to naval intelligence. After being interrogated, the witness revealed the UFO's location. When the craft attempted to take off, it was allegedly shot down by security forces. The craft was reportedly transported to San Diego, and at least one alien, a female, was captured. The fate of this being remained unknown to the witness. (Chapter 7, Ref 302. Note the author only lists as a reference "Internet posting", with no URL provided.) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_293 ### Event 3895 (69A3E5F7) **Date:** 1944 **Location:** US **Description:** A purported 1944 memo from President Franklin Roosevelt to "The Special Committee on Non-Terrestrial Science and Technology" hints at U.S. acquisition of alien technology. Roosevelt agrees with a proposal backed by Dr. Bush and Professor Einstein to utilize alien knowledge for war weapons but decides to postpone due to financial constraints from the atomic bomb program. He believes that post-war, there may be opportunities to explore this non-terrestrial science. Roosevelt acknowledges discussions with top scientists about the importance of this technology and recognizes the potential for intelligent extraterrestrial life. He hopes the committee understands his wartime priorities in the decision. (Chapter 7, Ref 303) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_294 ### Event 3896 (50F37D6C) **Date:** 1944 **Location:** Rochester, PA **Description:** In 1944, a family in Pennsylvania was awakened by a loud noise and bright flash near their home. Investigating, the head of the family encountered six figures about 4-1/2 feet tall. One wore a brown robe, the others metallic suits that glowed, and all had a halo-like light around them. They had large heads, long arms, thin fingers, and slit-like mouths. The man remembered being taken aboard a nearby craft. The next day, a 25-foot diameter burned area was found next to their house. (Chapter 7, Ref 309) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_300 ### Event 3897 (FBA00B71) **Date:** 1/1944 **Location:** WW2 European Theater **Description:** Mysterious "foo fighter" balls, believed to be a weapon by the Nazis, have been accompanying fighter planes on night missions over enemy territory. These balls of fire suddenly appear and tail the planes for extended distances, seemingly controlled from the ground. An American pilot recounted how a foo fighter trailed him for 20 miles, matching his plane's maneuvers and speed of 260 mph. (Chapter 7, Ref. 273) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_265 ### Event 3898 (DD02A759) **Date:** 1/2/1944 **End date:** 1/3/1944 **Location:** Halberstadt, Germany **Description:** Two rockets; altered course; fiery head and blazing stern. (Page 54 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_170 ### Event 3899 (84BB438A) **Date:** 1/5/1944 **Location:** Kiel, Germany **Description:** Black plate-sized discs. (Page 55 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_171 ### Event 3900 (83F2325B) **Date:** 1/15/1944 **Description:** The Materiel Command becomes the AAF Materiel Command. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Air Materiel Command](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%5FMateriel%5FCommand\#Air%5FService%5FCommand)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_619 ### Event 3901 (5B57AFA9) **Date:** 1/28/1944 **Location:** Somewhere over France, In Air **Description:** Airborne red light. (Page 56 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_172 ### Event 3902 (3D2AE375) **Date:** 1/29/1944 **Location:** Location Unknown, Unknown **Description:** Red ball; yellow/red flames followed aircraft through evasive action. (Page 56 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_173 ### Event 3903 (01AB121F) **Date:** 1/30/1944 **Location:** SOUTHWEST / LANDAU, GERM **Description:** 415th Sqd. 30-cm amber balls follow US fighters. Going quickly [to] chased away.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** PHENOMENA Revue / SOS-OVNI, France; Perry Petrakis ed. B.P 324; 13611 Aix-Cedex 1, Fr. sosovni at pacwan.mm-soft.fr (Index 12) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_489 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "SW/LANDAU,GERM:415th SQD:30-cm AMBER BALLS FOLO US FIGHTERS:>> CHASED AWAY..", **LatLong:** "49.133336 8.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "49:08:00 N 08:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.133336,8.000000)", **State/Prov:** "RHP", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3904 (D4C5EAF5) **Date:** 1/30/1944 **Description:** On this day several 30-cm amber "foo-fighter" balls followed some US fighter planes of the 415th Squadron flying southwest of Landau, Germany. They were chased away. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** SOS-OVNI France, Phenomena, issue 12 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_596 ### Event 3905 (FCCB0A62) **Date:** 2/1944 **Location:** AUSTRALIA, Bass Strait (Victoria) **Description:** (Translated from French) The pilot of a RAAF Beaufort bomber flying at 4500 feet, saw a black shadow flying alongside him, at only 100 to 150 feet away. Flames were coming out of the end of this thing. For 18 to 20 minutes the radio and other onboard instruments of the bomber refused to work. This ended when the UFO accelerated and disappeared. **Reference:** Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 310 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1028 ### Event 3906 (FC83F78A) **Date:** 2/1944 **Time:** 02:30 **Location:** BASS STRAIT, AUSTR **Description:** Object tails bomber / 20 minute(s). Instruments electro-magnetic effect (EME). Away / 700mph. / APRO v30#10. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** CHALKER,Bill: The OZ FILES. Australian Sightings. 1996 Duffy & Snellgrove. NSW,Australia. ISBN 1-875989-04-8 (Index 35) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_490 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "BASS STRAIT,AUSTR:OBJ TAILS BOMBER/20min:INSTRUMs EME:AWAY/700mph:/APRO v30#10", **LatLong:** "-39.666669 145.666674", **LatLongDMS:** "39:40:00 S 145:40:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-39.666669,145.666674)", **State/Prov:** "Victoria", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 3907 (F0FBF232) **Date:** 2/1944 **Location:** Bass Strait, AU **Description:** At 2:30 a.m. a bomber crew at 4,500 feet altitude saw a dark shape pull alongside the plane and pace it at a distance of about 100 feet for about 18-20 minutes. (Ref. 3; Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, 1996, pp. 35-36.) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_174 ### Event 3908 (21D929FC) **Date:** 2/1944 **Location:** Bass Strait, Australia **Description:** 2:30 a.m. An Australian Beaufort bomber is flying at 4,500 feet over Bass Strait, Australia, when it is joined by an object like a “dark shadow” with a flickering flame coming out of its rear. It appears only 100–150 feet away and stays with the bomber for 18–20 minutes, during which time its radio and direction-finding instruments fail. It shoots away at 700 mph. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Bill Chalker, “[Australian A.F. UFO Report Files,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201982%2010%2000%20-%20Vol%2030%20No%2010.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 30, no. 10 \(October 1982\): 7 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_620 ### Event 3909 (626CFE44) **Date:** 2/9/1944 **Description:** RAF No. 5 Group issues a report of its investigation on “Rocket Phenomena,” concluding that the air crews are seeing either rockets fired from aircraft, parachute rockets, or high-explosive projectiles at maximum altitudes of 18,000 feet. Reports of objects changing their course are either defects causing erratic flight or light flak tracers reaching their highest point and descending. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Strange Company 57–58 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_621 ### Event 3910 (22B948C5) **Date:** 2/10/1944 **Location:** 12 miles from the Spanish border **Description:** During a World War II mission on the night of Feb. 10, 1944, while flying B24s near the Spanish border, a crew observed an unusual phenomenon. After finding the intended drop site covered by clouds, they turned back. On their return, the tail gunner reported seeing multiple colored fireballs, referred to as "foo-fighters", following their plane in a perfect arc. Despite the increasing proximity of these mysterious objects, they eventually disappeared. The incident was reported upon returning to base, marking the crew's only encounter with "foo-fighters", a term others had also used to describe such sightings. **Type:** foo fighters **Reference:** [newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/article/tampa-bay-times-foo-fighters/130404053/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_962 ### Event 3911 (0B7E23EC) **Date:** 2/12/1944 **Location:** GERMANY, Kummersdorf **Description:** (Translated from French) At Kummersdorf Test Center, the launch of an experimental rocket in the presence of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, SS Reichsführer Himmler, Heinz Kammler, SS Gruppenführer and Dr Engineer, and senior officers. The tracking camera records the departure. After development and printing of the film, demonstration and critique screening in front of the authorities. Stupefaction: a spherical body, which nobody had seen on the ground, rises at the same time as the rocket, accompanying it by spinning around it. It was thought to be a new type of enemy device and information was requested; but agents of Admiral Canaris in Great Britain reported that similar phenomena were occurring over British bases, and that the Allies believed that these were new devices coming from Germany. [note from vog: IN REALITY and to my knowledge there were no launches yet at Kummersdorf, at that date.... ] **Reference:** Henry DURRANT: "The Black Book of S.V." - Laffont 1970 - p.85 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1027 ### Event 3912 (A844283C) **Date:** 2/12/1944 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At the Kummersdorf Test Center, the launch of an experimental rocket in the presence of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, SS Reichsführer Himmler, Heinz Kammler, SS-Gruppenführer and Doctor of Engineering, and senior officers. The tracking camera records the departure. After development and printing of the film, demonstration and review screening in front of the authorities. Astonishment: a spherical body, which no one had seen on the ground, rises at the same time as the rocket and accompanies it by spinning around it. It is believed to be a new type of enemy device and information is requested; but agents of Admiral Canaris in Great Britain report that similar phenomena are occurring over British bases, and that the Allies believe that these are new devices coming from Germany. (February 12) **Reference:** Report sent to the Oberkommando der Luftwaffe, Durrant 1973 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1944.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_507 ### Event 3913 (45843154) **Date:** 2/12/1944 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** KUMMERSDORF AIR FORCE BASE, GER **Description:** Rocket launch. Film shows sphere circle and follow rocket later. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** CUFON UFO Network Site (former BBS) various downloads. http://www.cufon.org (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_491 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "KUMMERSDORF AFB,GER:ROCKET LAUNCH:FILM SHOWS SPHERE CCL+FOLLOW ROCKET later", **LatLong:** "52.166669 13.350001", **LatLongDMS:** "52:10:00 N 13:21:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.166669,13.350001)", **State/Prov:** "BRN", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3914 (A2F2963F) **Date:** 2/12/1944 **Description:** The test launch of a Nazi rocket from Kummerdorf Airfield in Bremen, Germany with both of the top Nazi leaders Goebbels and Himmler present, occurred at 1:00 p.m. on this day. The tracking film showed an unidentified sphere that circled and followed the rocket. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Claude Poher, Etudes Statistiques Portant sur 1000 Temoignag, case 419; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 498 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_860 ### Event 3915 (88C61D18) **Date:** 2/19/1944 **End date:** 2/20/1944 **Location:** Leipzig-Berlin area, Germany **Description:** Two objects: glowing balls; snake-like motion. (Page 59-60 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_176 ### Event 3916 (91D255E5) **Date:** 2/19/1944 **End date:** 2/20/1944 **Location:** Coblence and Aachen, Germany **Description:** Silvery cigar-shaped object like an airship; appeared to be a line of windows along the bottom of the object. (Page 60 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_177 ### Event 3917 (974871EC) **Date:** 2/20/1944 **Locations:** Guadalcanal; Solomon Islands **Description:** 2:30 a.m. Two guards of the 3rd Marine Division on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands see what they first assume are the headlight beams of a truck coming from a swamp about three-quarters of a mile from their position. It moves laterally about 50 feet and they see it is a circular light about 50–60 feet long and 20 feet high. It then rises into the air about 25 feet and heads in the direction of the guards at about 45 mph. It makes a 45° turn and passes about 100 feet above the trees of a coconut grove. Several days later, a 200-foot cut in the reeds is discovered in the approximate spot where the light originated. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Alvin G. McNish, “[Letter,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1984-85%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV5.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 5 \(Oct./Nov. 1984\): 2 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_622 ### Event 3918 (B2466175) **Date:** 2/23/1944 **Locations:** Germany; Japan **Description:** Brig. Gen. [George C. McDonald](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106278/major-general-george-c-mcdonald/) is appointed assistant chief of staff for intelligence for the newly created US Strategic Air Forces in Europe. “Many months preceding the collapse of Germany, McDonald recognized the imperative need for the creation of a new type of intelligence activity to investigate and exploit air intelligence objectives in Germany and liberated countries. This unique system was established and consisted of a great number of highly qualified technical and scientific personnel to exploit all the worldwide aeronautical research developments of Germany. This resulted in the collection of priority intelligence information of value in the prosecution of the war against Japan; technical and non-technical information of immediate operational significance and value; as well as a substantial portion of important documents and personnel of the German Air Ministry that enabled the US Army Air Forces to undertake long-range research with respect to many valuable- phases of air doctrine, research, employment, organization, procedure, and plans of the German air force.” Among the personalities involved in the operation are some who will become involved in UFO investigations in the future: Col. [John A. O’Mara,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8773069/john-a-o%5Fmara) Col. [Howard H. McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html)[,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html) Col. [Harold E. Watson,](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105276/brigadier-general-harold-e-watson/) and Col. [Malcolm D. Seashore](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49311334/malcolm-d-seashore). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[United States Strategic Air Forces in Europe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%5FStates%5FStrategic%5FAir%5FForces%5Fin%5FEurope)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_623 ### Event 3919 (07530AC1) **Date:** 2/24/1944 **End date:** 2/25/1944 **Location:** St. Quentin, France **Description:** Three silver objects & resembling zeppelins & moving independently of the wind & not interconnected. (Page 60 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_178 ### Event 3920 (2E719B9E) **Date:** 2/24/1944 **Locations:** Southwest of Saint-Quentin, Aisne, France; Schweinfurt, Germany **Description:** Night. Southwest of Saint-Quentin, Aisne, France, three silver objects are seen by an RAF bomber returning from a mission over Schweinfurt, Germany. They resemble Zeppelins but move independently of the wind. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Strange Company 60 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_624 ### Event 3921 (2185E45E) **Date:** 3/1944 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) And April. First test flights of prototypes by German inventors Screiver and Mietehe at the Harz mountain complexes. (March) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1944.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_509 ### Event 3922 (4B9BA63F) **Date:** 3/1944 **Location:** Carlsbad, NM **Description:** Fast, glowing green object; lit cockpit. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973_, by Richard Dolan](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/mode/2up) **Source:** Dolan, **ID:** Dolan_6 ### Event 3923 (B1C23D1C) **Date:** 3/1944 **Location:** CARLSBAD, NM **Description:** B17 pilot. Fast sphere with halo. Brusk maneuvers. Shoots going [to] horizon. / LDLN#303+330. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 129) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_492 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "948", **HatchDesc:** "CARLSBAD,NM:B17 PILOT:FAST SPHERE W/HALO:BRUSK MNVRS:SHOOTS>HRZN:/LDLN#303+330", **LatLong:** "32.416668 -104.233338", **LatLongDMS:** "32:25:00 N 104:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.416668,-104.233338)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3924 (1700BEED) **Date:** 3/1944 **Location:** YAKIMA, WA **Description:** Pilot. 7 pebble-shaped 3M objects in V-formation. / Haines pilot files. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: PROJECT DELTA; 1994, LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 USA (Index 178) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_493 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "320", **HatchDesc:** "YAKIMA,WA:PILOT:7 PEBBLE-SHAPED 3M OBJs in V-FORMn:/HAINES PILOT FILES", **LatLong:** "46.600002 -120.516672", **LatLongDMS:** "46:36:00 N 120:31:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.600002,-120.516672)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3925 (347C9258) **Date:** 3/1944 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** KLIETZ, GERMANY **Description:** Fr. prisoners of war. 3 silent luminous silver objects follow allied bombers. Bigger / planes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 313) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_494 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "KLIETZ,GERMANY:Fr.POWs:3 SLNT LUMn.SLVR OBJS FOLO ALLIED BOMBERS:bigger/planes", **LatLong:** "52.683336 12.550001", **LatLongDMS:** "52:41:00 N 12:33:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.683336,12.550001)", **State/Prov:** "SXA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3926 (4804FBAB) **Date:** 3/1944 **Location:** Carlsbad, NM **Description:** Air Force pilot saw fast-moving UFO speed out of sight over horizon. \[NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall, III\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_179 ### Event 3927 (6B962F37) **Date:** 3/1944 **Location:** Carlsbad, New Mexico **Description:** An Army Air Force pilot flying a B-17 sees a fast-moving, glowing green object light up the cockpit and speed out of sight over the horizon at Carlsbad, New Mexico. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 19](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=31&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_625 ### Event 3928 (E5A0D2AE) **Date:** 3/1/1944 **Location:** Germany **Description:** The first prototype H.IX V1, an unpowered glider with fixed tricycle landing gear, is tested in Germany, but there is an accident when the pilot attempts to land without first retracting an instrument-carrying pole extending from the aircraft. The design is taken from the [Horten brothers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten%5Fbrothers) and given to Gothaer Waggonfabrik. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Horten Ho 229](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten%5FHo%5F229)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_626 ### Event 3929 (5E98C837) **Date:** Spring 1944 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Ranking of the Massey project started in [1943](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/1943.html). The double agent informant is denounced and executed. (Spring) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1944.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_508 ### Event 3930 (3371EC9F) **Date:** Spring 1944 **Alternate date:** 1945 **Location:** mountains near Auberry, California **Description:** Two grammar school teachers are driving in the mountains near Auberry, California, when their car stalls and they see a cigar-shaped object with lighted portholes along the side hovering in a nearby ravine. They watch it for several minutes until it begins moving slowly out of the ravine, ascends, and shoots away to the west at a tremendous speed. The car engine remains stalled for a while, then starts by itself. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Past Sightings Come to](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201968%2001%2000%20-%20January-February.pdf) [Light,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201968%2001%2000%20-%20January-February.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, Jan./Feb. 1968, p. 5 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_627 ### Event 3931 (CDA0A33D) **Date:** 4/1944 **Description:** The first operational jet fighter, the Messerschmitt Me 262, is introduced **Type:** aerospace **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Me_262) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_81 ### Event 3932 (8B79ED23) **Date:** 4/1944 **Location:** Eastern front in western Slovakia **Description:** Late afternoon. Near the Eastern front in western Slovakia, a man is standing on a hill near his home when he sees a dark round object moving at high speed to his right for less than one minute. It moves at a steady speed and is followed by another object about 20 seconds later. As many as 6 others appear, and five are visible at one time, each beginning as a pinpoint of light, growing bigger, then decreasing back to a pinpoint. The display lasts for about 5 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Correspondence,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1982-83%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV3.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 5 \(Oct./Nov. 1982\): 2 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_628 ### Event 3933 (B73CD897) **Date:** 4/5/1944 **Locations:** Oak Ridge; Los Alamos **Description:** The Y-12 plant at Oak Ridge has sent 200 grams of enriched uranium to Los Alamos. Italian-American physicist [Emilio Segrè](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilio%5FSegr%C3%A8) receives the first sample and within 10 days discovers that the spontaneous fission rate is too high for use in a gun-type fission weapon \(because of pu-240 isotope present as an impurity in the pu-239\). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Atomic Heritage Foundation, “[Atomic Timeline](https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/timeline)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_629 ### Event 3934 (F147F5A6) **Date:** 4/11/1944 **Location:** Location unknown, probably, Germany **Description:** Projectiles resembling glider bombs; a large orange glow & smoke trail. (Page 66 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_180 ### Event 3935 (D3E3E182) **Date:** 4/25/1944 **Location:** Unknown City, France **Description:** Black tear-dropped craft; probable Me-163. (Page 63 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_181 ### Event 3936 (96366109) **Date:** 4/26/1944 **Location:** Essen, Germany **Description:** Things; four orange glows; short stubby wings; football-sized¬; looking like large oranges. (Page 64-65 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_182 ### Event 3937 (1048D696) **Date:** 4/26/1944 **Locations:** Essen, Germany; Holland **Description:** Night. RAF pilot Arthur Horton of the 622 Squadron is returning from a bombing mission to Essen, Germany, when he is followed by four orange balls of light with “short stubby wings” and emitting sparks, two on each side of the aircraft. He takes evasive action with his Lancaster, but the objects follow all his maneuvers for 10 minutes. When they reach the coast of Holland, they seem to “burn themselves out.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Strange Company 64–65; UFOFiles2, [pp. 16, 18](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n31/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_630 ### Event 3938 (1A76FE62) **Date:** 4/30/1944 **Description:** On this night at 9:00 p.m. a reddish orange glowing light followed an RAF Beaufighter from the 600th Squadron flying over Anzio, Italy during World War II. The two members of the crew reported that the light appeared to be doing evasive maneuvers. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, case 7, citing Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2416 ### Event 3939 (B6D76A45) **Date:** Late 5/1944 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Pîncota, Arad \(Romania, 800 km from Harz\), a witness reported seeing a German aircraft flying low and staying still in the air for 2 minutes without making any noise before continuing its route (Late May) **Reference:** Gheorghe Lucaci \> Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, *UFO's Behind the Iron Curtain* **Reference:** \[\]. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1944.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_510 ### Event 3940 (FEE74EF5) **Date:** 5/28/1944 (approximate) **Location:** PINCOTA, ROMANIA **Description:** Low-flying German plane stops midair. Hovers silent / 2 minute(s). Flies on. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HOBANA Ion & WEVERBERGH,Julien: UFO'S from BEHIND the IRON CURTAIN; Bantam Books,1975. 308pp. (Index 227) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_495 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Romania", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "PINCOTA,ROMANIA:LO-FLYING GERMAN PLANE STOPS MIDAIR:HVRS SLNT/2min:FLIES ON.", **LatLong:** "46.333336 21.700001", **LatLongDMS:** "46:20:00 N 21:42:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.333336,21.700001)", **State/Prov:** "ARD", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 3941 (14E01F0E) **Date:** 5/29/1944 **Description:** The Aircraft Warning Service is deactivated. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Aircraft Warning Service](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft%5FWarning%5FService)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_631 ### Event 3942 (64BEA88D) **Date:** 6/1944 **Location:** Palmyra Atoll **Description:** A Coast Guard ship receives a message that a Navy plane has been lost at sea, and they were requested to join the search. They searched for almost 24 hours and found nothing. The following night, Ed Ludwig (of Stockton, CA) while on watch notices a brilliant, globalar light in the sky that was absolutely silent. It was about three times brighter than the brightest star or planet, and large enough that he made out its roundness. It appeared stationary for a minute or so, then began to move in slow, slight movements. The witness had the feeling they were being watched, as if the ball was observing the island. It covered an area of the sky approx. 100 degrees. It speeded up and traveled away from the island towards the direction where the plane was lost. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BSRA Round Robin - Sept 1945 Edition, article by John P. Bessor](http://iapsop.com/archive/materials/journal_of_borderland_research/round_robin_v5_n6_sep_1949.pdf) **Reference:** [Twitter](https://twitter.com/richgel999/status/1558663538624892930) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_905 ### Event 3943 (4DAF7DB4) **Date:** 6/1944 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The first [V-1](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/V1.html) rockets are launched against London from the northwest of France. (June) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1944.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_511 ### Event 3944 (0AB16B28) **Date:** 6/1944 **Location:** Normandy, France **Description:** Luminescent discus-shaped object. (Page 67-68 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_183 ### Event 3945 (D46E42C9) **Date:** 6/1944 **Location:** Adriatic Sea, At Sea **Description:** At 11:00 a.m. a flight of three P-38 fighters at 33,000 feet saw above them, at an estimated altitude of 50,000 feet, a silver disc. The object descended to about 40,000 feet and paced the fighters for 3 minutes, then accelerated and sped away. (Ref. 3; Jan Aldrich, Project ACUFOE, from CUFOS report form.) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_184 ### Event 3946 (FAACB11E) **Date:** 6/1944 **Alternate date:** 7/1944 **Location:** Normandy, France **Description:** Spheres approximately the size of a football. (Page 70 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_186 ### Event 3947 (40B8899C) **Date:** 6/1944 **Location:** Torokina Beach, Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea **Description:** 12:30 p.m. [David A. K. Morris,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/180896335/david-aubrey%5Fkaye-morris) a fitter with Service Unit 10 of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, takes a swim with a friend at Torokina Beach, Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea. They see “a huge, dark-gray, seemingly metallic, bulbous mass hanging out of a large cumulus cloud.” It moves silently, its outline fading into the cloud and out of sight. It resembles a Zeppelin or the [R101](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R101) airship, only bigger. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** D. Morris, “[RNZAF Camp UFO](https://ufocusnz.org.nz/2020/07/22/rnzaf-camp-ufo-sighting-of-1944/) [Sighting of 1944,](https://ufocusnz.org.nz/2020/07/22/rnzaf-camp-ufo-sighting-of-1944/)” Ufocus NZ, July 22, 2020 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_632 ### Event 3948 (0C2AF591) **Date:** 6/1944 **Location:** Palmyra Atoll **Description:** Edward W. Ludwig is commanding a small, Coast Guard–manned cargo vessel near Palmyra Atoll. While looking for a lost Navy patrol plane, he observes a bright aerial sphere that alternately moves and stops for 30 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “True Mystic Experiences,” Fate 3, no. 8 \(December 1950\): 82–87 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_633 ### Event 3949 (347F1B2A) **Date:** 6/5/1944? **Time:** 11:00 **Location:** ADRIATIC NORTHEAST / BARI, ITL **Description:** 3 P38 crews. Silver disk / 50k'. Going down [to] and paces / 3 minutes. Going quickly north. / r65p22. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO - Rivista di informazione Ufologica; 2 issues/year CISU. Giovanni Settimo ed.; C.P.82, 10100 Torino, ITALY. (Index 13) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_496 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "ADRIATIC NE/BARI,ITL:3 P38 CREWS:SLVR DISK/50k':↓+PACES/3mins:>>N:/r65p22", **LatLong:** "41.333335 17.166667", **LatLongDMS:** "41:20:00 N 17:10:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.333335,17.166667)", **RelAlt:** "15000", **State/Prov:** "SEA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3950 (6DFD9F39) **Date:** 6/6/1944 **Location:** FRANCE, off the coast of Normandy **Description:** (Translated from French) The USS George E. Badger is anchored off. Gunner Edward Breckel is on watch and sees in the sky an object of dark cigar-like shape, 5 miles from their position. This UFO visible for 3 minutes flew too slowly at 5 m above the water and had no wings. (1944, 6 June) **Reference:** The Mysterious Foo Fighters of WWII. - Jeroen Wierda UPORI, 19.5.1997 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1029 ### Event 3951 (8EA84DCB) **Date:** 6/6/1944 **Location:** Normandy Coast, France **Description:** Dark ellipsoidal object & blunted on each end like sausage. (Page 67 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_185 ### Event 3952 (A2719477) **Date:** 6/6/1944 **Location:** George E. Badger Ship, Normandy, France **Description:** During the Allied landing at Normandy, a crewman on the "George E. Badger" observed a wingless, cigar-shaped UFO flying offshore. The object maintained a circular course approximately 15 feet above the water and moved at a speed too fast for a blimp or dirigible. (Chapter 7, Ref. 269) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_261 ### Event 3953 (2CD48154) **Date:** 6/10/1944? **Locations:** Omaha Beach; Normandy, France **Description:** The Liberty ship [SS George E. Badger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS%5FGeorge%5FE.%5FBadger) is off Omaha Beach in Normandy, France, when gunner [Edward](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23391167/edward-breckel) [Breckel](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23391167/edward-breckel) sees a “dark ellipsoidal object” on the horizon about 5 miles away. “Blunted on each end like a sausage,” the silent craft remains in view for 3 minutes, moving slowly at about 15 feet above the surface of the water. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Strange Company 67; “[The Case for the ‘Sea-Saucer,’](http://cufos.org/Orbit/ORBIT%20Volume%20I%201954-1955R.pdf)” CRIFO Orbit 1, no. 10 \(January 7, 1955\): 5 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_634 ### Event 3954 (77DAC7A3) **Date:** 6/18/1944 **Description:** A man by the name of Langer gave a dramatic account of his encounter with seven belligerent dwarves, 4.5 feet tall, who came from a spherical UFO that had landed on the beach in Oahu near Kaneohe, Hawaii in the morning around 9 a.m. They wore green coveralls. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0120, citing Donald Worley **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3530 ### Event 3955 (A9A6FD61) **Date:** Summer 1944 **Location:** FRANCE, Toulon-sur-Arroux (Saône et Loire) **Description:** (Translated from French) Madeleine Arnoux wrote: "The facts date back to 1944 during the summer. I was then 13 years old and I went by bicycle every week to a farm a few km away to get some "supplies". So I left Toulon-sur-Arroux on the charming RD 42, bordered by woods in the direction of the hamlet called "Verger". Just before arriving there, I got off to pick wild berries that I knew I would find there. At this place, a dirt road leaves the road and goes to the right through the woods. So I advanced on this path, slowly, looking for fruits. Automatically I raised my head... further, a few hundred meters away, the path rises a bit and forms a pronounced curve to the right to disappear from view in the woods. Right at this place "the thing" was stopped. I remember it was very hot, stormy and the sky was quite cloudy. So, there, something was stopped along the woods and beings were standing close by. Now I think the device could have been the size of one of our small current cars (like a Volkswagen) of metallic gray, dull color. I do not remember observing any openings. The beings who were standing next to it must have been less than 1 m tall and were wearing brown jumpsuits. They made no gesture in my direction and for my part I was frozen in place. How long did this mutual observation last? I cannot say but I remember the oppressive atmosphere, further aggravated by the stormy weather and my impression of not being able to move.. Suddenly I could react and wanted to take my bike that lay a few meters away. The time to bend down and, raising my head to look again at the strange apparition, there was nothing left. ... " (1944, Summer) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 267-268 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1031 ### Event 3956 (5AA07B66) **Date:** Summer 1944 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Near Hastings \(Sussex\), Bill Steele observed V-1s surrounded in their progression by discs. (Summer) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1944.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_512 ### Event 3957 (A42A129F) **Date:** Summer 1944 **Location:** Normandy, France **Description:** Los Angeles columnist George Todt, in a party of four Army officers including a Lt. Col., watched a pulsating red fireball sail up to the front lines, hover for 15 minutes, then move away. \[NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall, IV\] (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_189 ### Event 3958 (0611A489) **Date:** Summer 1944 **Location:** Unknown City, Italy **Description:** Egg-shaped, metallically glistening motionless object. (Page 78 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_190 ### Event 3959 (E785C25A) **Date:** Summer 1944 **Locations:** Kamensko Forest; Blovice, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic] **Description:** 5:00 p.m. François Panes watches a cigar-shaped object at an altitude of about 5,000 feet above the Kamensko Forest north of Blovice, Czechoslovakia \[now Czech Republic\], glittering brightly with no wings, no rudder, and no propeller. It is about 150 feet in diameter and 300–400 feet long. The object is lit up from underneath. It slowly descends, after which it rises up again and vanishes into the blue sky after 10–15 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Hobana and Weverbergh 215–216 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_641 ### Event 3960 (9174A567) **Date:** Summer 1944 **Location:** Grand Central Parkway in Queens, New York City **Description:** Fred Wieland and some friends are riding their bicycles on a footpath adjacent to the Grand Central Parkway in Queens, New York City. As they climb a hill, they look up and see a cigar-shaped object “broadside” to them. It is of smooth metallic construction with no windows or openings. They race to the top of the hill for a better look, but by then the object has completely disappeared. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 1178 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_642 ### Event 3961 (A1CD377E) **Date:** Summer 1944 **Locations:** Camp McCain; Grenada, Mississippi **Description:** Mid-day. Franceen Andron is at Camp McCain, southeast of Grenada, Mississippi, when she sees a large, fat, cigar-shaped object that changes from dull black to gray to “fog blue.” It is joined by three smaller discs that appear below it after emerging from a cloud. The large object disappears first, followed by the discs, which race away in different directions. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP case file **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_643 ### Event 3962 (E76EB066) **Date:** Summer 1944 **Locations:** RAF Molesworth; Cambridgeshire, England **Description:** Day. [Asa Howard Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3288411/asa-howard) is outside the barracks at RAF Molesworth in Cambridgeshire, England, when he and other airmen see a pencil-shaped, metallic object moving faster than a jet about a mile away. While watching it for about 2 minutes, they see it pass behind a small cloud before it disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP case file **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_644 ### Event 3963 (57AAD55C) **Date:** 6/22/1944 **Description:** An object was allegedly shot down by the U.S. military as it attempted to depart from the island of Oahu, Hawaii near Kaneohe. One female occupant was captured and flown to Washington, DC. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0122 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3595 ### Event 3964 (6CE868A4) **Date:** 7/1944 **Location:** BREST, FR **Description:** 2 Army. Boxy object going [to] over front lines. No obvious support. Goes going southwest to sea. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 129) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_497 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "BREST,FR:2 ARMY:BOXY OBJ >OVR FRONT LINES:NO OBVIOUS SUPPORT:GOES >SW to SEA", **LatLong:** "48.416669 -4.483334", **LatLongDMS:** "48:25:00 N 04:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.416669,-4.483334)", **State/Prov:** "Finistère", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3965 (1A8FE96F) **Date:** 7/1944 **Location:** Brest, France **Description:** Two men of the 175th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division, saw a large rectangular object with no apparent source of propulsion move steadily over the front lines and out to sea. The UFO at one point passed in front of the moon, briefly obscuring it from view. \[NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall, IV\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_187 ### Event 3966 (9833208A) **Date:** 7/1944 **Location:** Normandy, France **Description:** Targets flying at extremely high altitudes. (Page 81 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_188 ### Event 3967 (A6CA9851) **Date:** Early 7/1944 **Locations:** Loreto; Castelfidardo; Osimo; Ancona province, Italy **Description:** 10:30 a.m. During Allied operations in the area around Loreto, Castelfidardo, and Osimo, in Ancona province, Italy, Antoni Szachnowsky, of the 2nd Polish Artillery Regiment, notices an egg-shaped, glistening, metallic, motionless object. The Polish Army anti-aircraft gun fires on it, then the German batteries join in. Eventually both sides stop, and the object remains motionless for a minute. Then it tilts at a 45° angle, moves rapidly upward, and disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “1944: An Italian Foo-Fighter?” UFO Sightings Italia, no. 2, March 2002 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_635 ### Event 3968 (07114068) **Date:** 7/4/1944 **Location:** Los Alamos **Description:** [Oppenheimer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FRobert%5FOppenheimer) reveals [Segrè](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilio%5FSegr%C3%A8)’s final measurements to the Los Alamos staff, and the development of the gun-type plutonium weapon “Thin Man” is abandoned. Designing a workable implosion design \(Fat Man\) becomes the top priority of the laboratory, and design of the uranium gun-type weapon \(Little Boy\) continues. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Atomic Heritage Foundation, “[Atomic Timeline](https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/timeline)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_636 ### Event 3969 (C362D26D) **Date:** 7/5/1944 (approximate) **Time:** 10:30 **Location:** LORETO, ITL AND MORE/OTHERS **Description:** Allied and German troops. Metallic ovoid hovers / battle lines / strong wind. Quickly going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Book: PAGET, Peter: The Welsh Triangle. Panther PB, Granada Publishing London 1979. **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_498 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "125", **HatchDesc:** "LORETO,ITL++:ALLIED+GERMAN TROOPS:MTLC OVOID HVRS/BATTLE LINES/STRONG WIND:↑↑", **LatLong:** "43.433335 13.600001", **LatLongDMS:** "43:26:00 N 13:36:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.433335,13.600001)", **State/Prov:** "MRC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3970 (A1374D89) **Date:** 7/6/1944 **Location:** Lagerlechfeld, Bavaria, Germany **Description:** German test pilot [Heini Dittmar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heini%5FDittmar) attains an unofficial airspeed record of 702 mph in a rocket-powered Messerschmidt Me 163B at Lagerlechfeld, Bavaria, Germany. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Heini Dittmar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heini%5FDittmar)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_637 ### Event 3971 (F3BD0F4E) **Date:** 7/9/1944 **Location:** Concordia-Vega refinery at Ploești, Romania **Description:** Afternoon. After a successful air strike by the US 449th Bombardment Group against the Concordia-Vega refinery at Ploești, Romania, witness Grigore Zmeuranu sees a round, yellowish object flying from the north at a speed about 3-4 times that of an aircraft. It leaves a short vapor trail, moves over the bombed area, and returns silently in the same direction. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Hobana and Weverbergh 226–227; Strange Company 71 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_638 ### Event 3972 (01E120A4) **Date:** 7/17/1944 **Description:** The Air Service Command and the AAF Materiel Command are placed under AAF Materiel and Services. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Air Materiel Command](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%5FMateriel%5FCommand\#Air%5FService%5FCommand)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_639 ### Event 3973 (43A87842) **Date:** Late 7/1944 **Locations:** Impilahti, Karelia [now Russia]; Lake Ladoga **Description:** Evening. Jaakku Kivistö is serving in the Finnish Army as a noncommissioned medical officer stationed on a farm near Impilahti, Karelia \[now Russia\], by Lake Ladoga. He notices a large object next to the corn-drying building on a steep hillside that he at first takes for a military truck. As he walks closer, he sees it is reddish in color, moving slowly about 150–230 feet in the air, 100 feet long, and has a row of black windows. It moves off quickly in the direction of the lake and vanishes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[A Close Encounter from the Year 1944,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Norway/Nordic%20UFO%20Newsletter%20%28English%20language%29/Nordic%20UFO%20Newsletter%20-%201985%20No%201.pdf)” Nordic UFO Newsletter, 1985, no. 1, pp. 3–5 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_640 ### Event 3974 (90D1589B) **Date:** 8/1944 **Description:** Twelve dismantled V-2 rockets were shipped to Japan. These left Bordeaux in August 1944 on the transport U-boats U-219 and U-195, which reached Jakarta in December 1944. A civilian V-2 expert was a passenger on U-234, bound for Japan in May 1945 when the war ended in Europe. The fate of these V-2 rockets is unknown. **Type:** aerospace **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket#Operational_history) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_82 ### Event 3975 (A2ABB66E) **Date:** 8/1944 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Captain Alvah Reida encounters a "[foo-fighter](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/glossair.html\#foofighter)" while flying over Sumatra in his B-29 bomber. He describes it as a glowing red ball about 2 m in diameter. Captain Reida, flying at 320 km/h at an altitude of about 4000 m, attempts to shake off the light ball, but it maintains its position relative to the plane before disappearing at high speed. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1944.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_513 ### Event 3976 (89F8E3B0) **Date:** 8/1944 **Location:** Sumatra **Description:** Pulsing spherical object paces bomber; maneuvers. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973_, by Richard Dolan](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/mode/2up) **Source:** Dolan, **ID:** Dolan_7 ### Event 3977 (E2CD8F58) **Date:** 8/1944 (approximate) **Location:** MERIDEN, CT **Description:** Summer / 44. Boy / 5 abduction. Telepathy "we visit others. You'll understand.. forget. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FOWLER, Raymond E.: The WATCHERS; Bantam PB, NY 1990 (Index 6) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_499 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **TLP:** Telepathy, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **ABD:** Human or animal abduction, **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "57", **HatchDesc:** "MERIDEN,CT:SUMMER/44:BOY/5 ABD:TLP "WE VISIT OTHERS:YOU'LL UNDERSTAND..FORGET.", **LatLong:** "41.538891 -72.805559", **LatLongDMS:** "41:32:20 N 72:48:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.538891,-72.805559)", **State/Prov:** "Connecticut", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 3978 (12E67D14) **Date:** 8/1944 (approximate) **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** PLOESTI, ROM **Description:** Engineer. Pointed object going quickly south. Stops over burning oil refinery. Zigzags going quickly north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 60) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_500 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Romania", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "PLOESTI,ROM:ENGINEER:POINTED OBJ >>S:STOPS OVR BURNING OIL REFINERY:ZIGZAGS>>N", **LatLong:** "44.950002 26.016668", **LatLongDMS:** "44:57:00 N 26:01:00 E", **Locale:** "Oil & Coal", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.950002,26.016668)", **State/Prov:** "PRH", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3979 (EE88FEB1) **Date:** 8/1944 (approximate) **Time:** 15:30 **Location:** WEST / TOULON-SOUTH-ARROUX, FR **Description:** Grey metal dome going down / dirt road. 3 small humanoids (or Greys) / brown colored suits outside. / r30p47. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 118) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_501 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "W/TOULON-s-ARROUX,FR:GRY MTL DOME↓/DIRT ROAD:3 OIDS/BRN SUITS OUTSIDE:/r30p47", **LatLong:** "46.700002 4.116667", **LatLongDMS:** "46:42:00 N 04:07:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.700002,4.116667)", **State/Prov:** "Saône-et-Loire", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 3980 (8863A283) **Date:** 8/1944 **Time:** 16:20 **Location:** CHRISTCHURCH, NZ **Description:** Saucer by train station/depot/facility. Nurse sees small humanoids (or Greys) / portholes. 1 outside sees her and goes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** CLARK, Jerome: UFO ENCOUNTERS & BEYOND; Signet Books 1993. 192pp. (Index 23) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_502 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "New Zealand", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "CHRISTCHURCH,NZ:SCR by TRAIN STN:NURSE SEES OIDS/PORTS:1 OUTSIDE SEES HER+GOES", **LatLong:** "-43.483335 172.633342", **LatLongDMS:** "43:29:00 S 172:38:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-43.483335,172.633342)", **State/Prov:** "SI", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 3981 (46F4717D) **Date:** 8/1944 (approximate) **Time:** 16:30 **Location:** CHAMPIGNY-SUR-MARNE, FR **Description:** Perfect oval cloud hovers. Shoots quickly going up. Lower part round and black. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LDLN CONTACT LECTEURS: by Series and #. May'68 -JAN'72 (Entire set of 18 issues) LDLN local chapters & individual members' UFO reports. (Index 29) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_503 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "CHAMPIGNY-sur-MARNE,FR:PERFECT OVAL CLOUD HVRS:SHOOTS ↑↑:lower part round+blk", **LatLong:** "48.800002 2.516667", **LatLongDMS:** "48:48:00 N 02:31:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.800002,2.516667)", **State/Prov:** "Val-de-Marne", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3982 (3C8F8560) **Date:** 8/1944 **Time:** 17:20 **Location:** MONT-DE-MARSAN, FR **Description:** 30cm ball enters building. Stops over 5 workers. Passes through 6TH! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 168) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_504 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "MONT-de-MARSAN,FR:30cm BALL ENTERS BLDG:STOPS OVR 5 WORKERS:PASSES THRU 6TH!", **LatLong:** "43.916669 -0.500000", **LatLongDMS:** "43:55:00 N 00:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.916669,-0.500000)", **State/Prov:** "Landes", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 3983 (B2071B34) **Date:** 8/1944 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** GARDOUCH, FR **Description:** Man / farm. Big orange moon going [to] overhead / low altitude. Great heat. Turns white. Going north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 165) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_507 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "GARDOUCH,FR:MAN/FARM:BIG ORG.MOON >OVHD/LO ALT:GREAT HEAT:TURNS WHT:>N", **LatLong:** "43.383335 1.683333", **LatLongDMS:** "43:23:00 N 01:41:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.383335,1.683333)", **State/Prov:** "Haute Garonne", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 3984 (C3545157) **Date:** 8/1944 **Location:** Bt. St. Lo and Vire, France **Description:** Cherry-red light; size of large star; sat motionless in sky before disappearing into clouds. (Page 79-80 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_191 ### Event 3985 (C0D380C2) **Date:** 8/1944 **Locations:** Saint-Lô; Vire; Normandy; France; Omaha Beach **Description:** Night. Officer George Todt of the 38th Regiment, Second Infantry Division, is between Saint-Lô and Vire, Normandy, France, when he sees a cherry-red light one-fifth the size of the moon moving silently west at 120 mph towards Omaha Beach. It stops over the American lines and hovers for 14 minutes. It expands and contracts regularly every few seconds. Col. [Francis Henry Boos](https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/117371) and another officer also observe it. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Strange Company 78– 79 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_645 ### Event 3986 (F8076095) **Date:** 8/1/1944 **Location:** Ploesti, Rumania **Description:** Reddish orange balls, about the size of a baseball; spherical object, probably 5 or 6 feet in diameter, of a very bright and intense red or orange in color. (Page 71-74 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_192 ### Event 3987 (3F9F783C) **Date:** 8/8/1944 **Location:** MATTOON, IL **Description:** Pseudo-human/entity looks through windows. Aims device and people pass out. Odd smell. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 51) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_505 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NFO:** No craft seen, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **MIB:** Men in Black, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **ODR:** Odors associated with UFO's **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "220", **HatchDesc:** "MATTOON,IL:PSH LOOKS THRU WINDOWS:AIMS DEVICE+PEOPLE PASS OUT:ODD SMELL", **LatLong:** "39.483335 -88.372226", **LatLongDMS:** "39:29:00 N 88:22:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.483335,-88.372226)", **RelAlt:** "1", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 3988 (0A0FC0F2) **Date:** 8/10/1944 **Location:** ASIA, between CEYLAN and SUMATRA **Description:** (Translated from French) Captain Alyanb Reida, in command of his B 29, observed on August 1 during a bombing raid on the oil installations of Sumatra, a strange gray and oval flying machine that left behind a grayish-bluish trail and followed him for several minutes. (S. DELLO STROLOGO: "What Governments Hide About UFOs" - De Vecchi 1975, p. 31, which says August 1. In fact it is August 10) "Shortly after midnight, we were returning to Ceylan, after a bombing mission to Palembang in Sumatra. At that moment my co-pilot signaled me an object passing us at 500 m, at that distance it appeared as a spherical object, 5 to 6 feet in diameter, and of a very intense and luminous red-orange color. It seemed to have a halo. This thing seemed to vibrate or pulse constantly and I thought it was a radio-guided thing to locate us, so I made evasive maneuvers constantly changing direction at 90° at 200 feet of altitude. This thing was always behind us, in each maneuver, for 8 minutes. Finally it left, abruptly turning at an angle of 90°, accelerating and disappearing from our sight." **Reference:** The Mysterious Foo Fighters of WWII. - Jeroen Wierda UPORI, 19.5.1997 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1032 ### Event 3989 (A2918EBF) **Date:** 8/10/1944 **Time:** 00:10 **Location:** CEYLON TO/FROM SUMATRA **Description:** B29 / bombing run paced. 2M sphere/orb/globe. 90° turns. Goes quickly going up. / r242p23+/ r65. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Maj Donald: FLYING SAUCERS TOP SECRET; NICAP and G.P. Putnam's Sons, NY 1960 HB. (Index 83) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_506 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Indian Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "CEYLON> Event 3990 (334DC7F9) **Date:** 8/10/1944 **Location:** Unknown City, Sumatra **Description:** Sighting of maneuvering UFO which paced B-29 (Reida case) during mission. \[NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall, III\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_193 ### Event 3991 (5CF4643F) **Date:** 8/10/1944 **End date:** 8/11/1944 **Location:** Palembang, Sumatra **Description:** Reida Case (M) Reddish orange balls, about the size of a baseball; spherical object, probably 5 or 6 feet in diameter, of a very bright and intense red or orange in color. (Page 71-74 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_194 ### Event 3992 (1AE2CB5D) **Date:** 8/10/1944 **Description:** At a few minutes after midnight a bright reddish-orange, pulsing, maneuvering ball of light paced a U.S. Army Air Force B-29 bomber over the ocean between Palembang, Indonesia and Ceylon (Sri Lanka) at a location about 100 miles northwest of Palembang off the island of Sumatra. There were three witnesses on board the aircraft. The sighting lasted less than eight minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume 1), p. 23; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top Secret, p. 83; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 7; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 396 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4815 ### Event 3993 (5E0ADBC7) **Date:** 8/11/1944 **Locations:** Kharagpur, India; Palembang, Sumatra, Indonesia **Description:** Shortly after midnight. Capt. [Alvah M. Reida](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/195591754/alvah-michael-reida) is piloting a B-29 bomber based at Kharagpur, India, on a bombing mission over Palembang, Sumatra, Indonesia, when his right gunner and copilot notice a sphere “probably five or six feet in diameter, of a very bright and intense red or orange in color” that constantly throbs, at about 12,500 feet, pacing them about 1,500 feet off the starboard wing. It keeps up with the B-29, then flying at 210 mph. Reida tries to shake it off his plane, but it stays in the same relative position until, after 8 minutes, it makes an abrupt 90° turn and accelerates rapidly, disappearing in the overcast. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 23](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=35&skin=2021); Strange Company 71–75; Good Above, [p. 19](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/18/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_646 ### Event 3994 (F8023608) **Date:** 8/11/1944 **Locations:** France; La Pallice; La Rochelle; Charente-Maritime **Description:** Night. RAF Warrant Officer Ronald R. Claridge is over France aboard a No. 7 Squadron Lancaster bomber returning from a bombing run on La Pallice, La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France, when his radar screen goes blank. Another crewman shouts to look at a vast disc-shaped object with a long row of lights on their starboard side. They watch it for 3 minutes, then it shoots away in a flash of light. Later he draws a watercolor painting to show how the UFO dwarfed the bomber. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOFiles2, [pp. 26–27](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n47/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_647 ### Event 3995 (FD66F166) **Date:** 8/12/1944 **Location:** Pelice, France **Description:** Enormous disc; circular lights (changing from bright yellow top white) like portholes in a ship; motionless. (Page 75 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_195 ### Event 3996 (5A0B31EF) **Date:** 8/13/1944 **Location:** Kaoe Bay, Indonesia **Description:** Very brilliant light appearing to hover in air for at least five minutes. (Page 76 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_196 ### Event 3997 (A36B7504) **Date:** Mid 8/1944 **Description:** 11:00 a.m. During the Warsaw Uprising in Poland, Zenon Sergisz notices a German bomber passing by, as well as three bright points of light that descend as the bomber moves away. The lights are flattened spheres that move low behind some buildings then rise up at an angle and disappear. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Poland 14–15 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_648 ### Event 3998 (D0395706) **Date:** 8/17/1944 **Description:** The Allied command creates the Combined Intelligence Objectives Subcommittee \(CIOS\), charged in part with investigating the strange balls of fire. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Strange Company 79 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_649 ### Event 3999 (185BAF86) **Date:** Late 8/1944 (approximate) **Location:** FRANCE, in flight, above Brest **Description:** (Translated from French) During the Battle of Brest, the witnesses were two men from the 175th Infantry Regiment, entrenched a good kilometer outside the city. They waited for the Germans to launch the counterattack, the night was clear and peaceful. "I saw this thing flying at the speed of a Piper Cub, in a straight line, silently. I tapped the sergeant Ness's shoulder, signaling him to look at the sky. Seeing this, the sergeant stood up in the trench, forgetting the war. Me too. We were so shocked that we forgot everything. It looked like a railway wagon, rectangular, but five times as big as a wagon. It had no wings, no propellers, no tail on the three sides we saw. It crossed the sky at less than 90 mph. We could follow it with our eyes for a long time before it disappeared in the distance over the sea. For a brief moment the object obscured the entire surface of the moon. Neither the American nor the German antiaircraft opened fire.." (1944, late August (July?)) **Reference:** The Mysterious Foo Fighters of WWII. - Jeroen Wierda UPORI, 19.5.1997 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1033 ### Event 4000 (A2B54396) **Date:** Late 8/1944 **Location:** Brest, Brittany, France **Description:** Sgt. Ness and another man of the mine-laying platoon of the 175th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division, see a large rectangular object “like a railroad boxcar” with no apparent source of propulsion move steadily at about 90 mph over the front lines near Brest, Brittany, France, and out to sea. At one point the object passes in front of the moon, briefly obscuring it from view. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lore and Deneault, [pp. 120–121](https://archive.org/details/mysteriesofskies0000lore/page/120/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_650 ### Event 4001 (3DE9B012) **Date:** Late 8/1944 **Location:** Christchurch, New Zealand **Description:** 4:20 p.m. A nurse, Mrs. E. M. Church, on her way to a tram station in Christchurch, New Zealand, sees an object like an “upturned saucer” resting on the ground near the road. It seems to be 20 feet across and 9 feet high. Two beings, not quite 4 feet tall, are inside, visible through a rectangular window. A third stands motionless, just outside an open door. All three seem to be looking toward the lights of a nearby fairground. The nurse cannot decide if their skin color is green or they are dressed in green, but all are encased in a transparent oblong box. The head takes up half of their bodies and there are no apparent legs or arms. She inadvertently makes a noise, and the outside figure notices her. Its helmet flips over automatically, and it drifts inside the object, which rises up and disappears in the clouds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Center for UFO Studies, [HUMCAT Index 1940–1949](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1940-1949.pdf), p. 12; Clark III 265 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_651 ### Event 4002 (36890E23) **Date:** End of 8/1944 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Mattoon \(Illinois\), several witnesses \(mostly women\) saw a figure looking through the windows as if looking for someone he knew by sight. The figure pointed an object at the witnesses, and some of the women fainted. The figure, very similar to "Jack Spring-heeled" described in [1837](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/1837.html)-[1838](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/1838.html) and [1877](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/1877.html), left leaving a strange and nauseating smell. (End of August) **Reference:** [Vallée](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/ValleeJacques.html) 1988 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1944.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_514 ### Event 4003 (006D82DC) **Date:** End of 8/1944 **Location:** Mattoon, IL **Description:** A mysterious man appeared at windows, as if in search of someone. He stunned witnesses by pointing at them a device that "made consciousness dissolve" and left a strange cloying smell behind (Magonia #51, FSR 61, 3) (Needs to be checked. This did not check out, no newspaper reports could be found. Apparently the entire story was made up many years later. (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_197 ### Event 4004 (BFC4487A) **Date:** End of 8/1944 **Location:** Mattoon, Illinois **Description:** A mysterious man appeared at windows, as if in search of someone. He stunned witnesses by pointing at them a device that "made consciousness dissolve" and left a strange cloying smell behind **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** FSR 61, 3; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_51 ### Event 4005 (2BEDEC0C) **Date:** 8/30/1944 **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** SAINT JEAN, FR **Description:** Girl. White helmet-saucer in field. Turns orange. Going up [to] with great heat. Going quickly west. / r65. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 315) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_508 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "SAINT JEAN,FR:GIRL:WHT HELMET-SCR IN FIELD:TURNS ORG:↑ W/GREAT HEAT:>>W:/r65", **LatLong:** "43.666669 1.500000", **LatLongDMS:** "43:40:00 N 01:30:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.666669,1.500000)", **State/Prov:** "Haute Garonne", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4006 (832874DC) **Date:** 8/30/1944 **Description:** At 9:30 p.m. a big orange moon-shaped object flew overhead at low altitude in Gardouch, Haute-Garronne, France. Great heat was felt when the object turned white. It flew off to the north. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 165; Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 23 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5484 ### Event 4007 (E3F06DF0) **Date:** 8/31/1944 **Location:** USA, Mattoon (Illinois) **Description:** (Translated from French) In the early morning hours, a resident woke up feeling ill and went to the bathroom to vomit. He asked his wife if she could give him a glass of water, but the woman was unable to get up, she was like paralyzed. In another block of Mattoon a woman was woken up hearing her daughter coughing. She got up and could barely walk. The next evening, September 1, Mrs. Bert Kearney, who was sleeping in bed with her three-year-old daughter, was pulled from her sleep by a peculiar smell. "First I smelled a very strong sweat smell that made me nauseous," she said. "I thought it might be coming from the garden. But the smell got stronger and I felt my legs and lower body gradually becoming paralyzed. I was scared and I screamed." Mrs. Kearney's neighbor searched the garden and the neighborhood to detect the source of the foul gas. Without result. The police did the same with a negative result. But at midnight, when Mr. Kearney returned home from work, he had a fleeting vision of what was called "the Mattoon Mad Gasser". According to Mr. Kearney, the stranger was very tall, dressed in dark clothes and wearing a cape. At the moment Mr. Kearney saw him, the stranger was standing on the window sill, and upon seeing Kearney the stranger fled, pursued by Kearney who could not catch him. On September 5 the police had received four more calls for "gas attacks". Each time the people said they had first felt something nauseating that paralyzed them for a period ranging from 40 minutes to an hour and a half. On the night of the 6th there were three new victims. At 10 pm Mrs. Ardell Spangler smelled a fetid odor, felt her throat dry up and had nausea. Shortly after midnight Mrs. Laura Junken experienced something similar and Fred Goble told his neighbor Robert Daniels at 1 am that he had just seen "a man running out of his house". Richard T. Piper, eminent criminologist, told reporters that it was one of the strangest cases in years. The last attack took place at the home of Miss Frances Smith, director of the Columbian Grade School, on September 7. At the moment the smell entered the house, she heard an outside buzzing sound of an engine and she said she thought the madman was using machinery to disperse the noxious gas. This was the last attack, the prankster never showed up again. (1944, August 31 to September 7) **Reference:** MYSTERIOUS AMERICA by Loren Coleman, Faber & Faber Inc., Winchester, Mass. 1983, pages 192 to 200; The Mattoon, Ill. Journal-Gazette for September 2, 1944 and also the Decatur, Ill. Herald for September 8, 1944. **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1034 ### Event 4008 (0F24A173) **Date:** 8/31/1944 **Description:** The Army Air Forces Air Technical Service Command is formed as the result of the merging of the Materiel and Air Service Commands. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Air Materiel Command](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%5FMateriel%5FCommand\#Air%5FService%5FCommand)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_652 ### Event 4009 (D1C04A7D) **Date:** 9/1944 **Location:** CZECHOSLOVAKIA, Blovice **Description:** (Translated from French) François Panes saw around 5:00 PM a kind of shining cigar above the Kamensko forest. The witness, who was 18 years old at the time, initially took the object for a German dirigible, but after observing it for nearly 15 minutes, he quickly changed his mind. [Note from vog: the sketch looks like a mushroom seen from the front, with the stem cut off quite close to the cap] **Reference:** Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: "Les OVNI en URSS et dans les pays de l'Est" - translated by Laffont 1976 - pp. 264-266 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1035 ### Event 4010 (ABE6F20C) **Date:** 9/1944 **Location:** BELGIUM, Antwerp **Description:** (Translated from French) A soldier from the First Canadian Army, Carson Yorke, was about to observe a UFO phenomenon. At the moment the Germans were sending their V-2 missiles to the city, this soldier recounts: "I had gotten out of my vehicle and was looking at the sky. I then saw a luminous globe heading towards the front. It could have been between 90 cm and 1.20 m in diameter. It was made of a material like smoked glass and let out a very soft white light. It was moving at about ten meters in altitude. As soon as it was out of sight, five other similar objects arrived. So I alerted other people so they could see this strange spectacle. We were not impressed, knowing at the time that the Germans had several new weapons; we thought we had seen one of a particular type that night.." (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 270) Carson Yorke, then corporal of the First Canadian Army (...) The object was clearly not pushed by the wind but was directed and was advancing at 30 mph at about 40 feet (15 meters). When it disappeared from view, others emerged from the front line, there were five in total. (...) Later I questioned people and at least five other people also saw these objects. **Reference:** The Mysterious Foo Fighters of WWII. - Jeroen Wierda UPORI, 19.5.1997 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1036 ### Event 4011 (C13C0A54) **Date:** 9/1944 **Location:** FRANCE, Epinal (Vosges) **Description:** (Translated from French) German soldier Erich Immel was entrenched with five comrades near Epinal. They were waiting for the arrival of the Allied troops when they saw above the railway wagons an object white and silver like aluminum, with a diameter slightly less than 2 m. Approaching the soldiers, the UFO took an oval shape. Feeling threatened (what was this new secret weapon of the Allies?), the soldiers opened fire on the object which became luminous like the sun. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 270 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1037 ### Event 4012 (86066F80) **Date:** 9/1944 **Location:** BRUSSELS, BELGIUM **Description:** 1 observer. Transparent ovoid crosses sky west going east / steady altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The UFO REGISTER. CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK. (annual sightings catalog.) (Index 75) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_509 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "BRUSSELS,BELGIUM:1 OBS:TRANSPARENT OVOID CROSSES SKY W>E/STEADY ALTITUDE.", **LatLong:** "50.833336 4.366667", **LatLongDMS:** "50:50:00 N 04:22:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.833336,4.366667)", **State/Prov:** "Belgium", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4013 (BC3CBCE6) **Date:** 9/1944 **Location:** NEAR ANTWERP, BELGIUM **Description:** Canadian soldiers. Glowing 3' cloudy-glass sphere/orb/globe going southwest over front lines. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 55) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_510 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "nr ANTWERP,BELG:CANADIAN GIs:GLOWING 3' CLOUDY-GLASS ORB >SW OVR FRONT LINES", **LatLong:** "51.250002 4.416667", **LatLongDMS:** "51:15:00 N 04:25:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.250002,4.416667)", **State/Prov:** "Belgium", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4014 (BE0AF1B7) **Date:** 9/1944 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** NEAR EPINAL, FR **Description:** 500 troops. 6' aluminum saucer over railroad/railway tracks. Flames and vanishes when shot at. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 48) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_511 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "nr EPINAL,FR:500 TROOPS:6'ALUM.SCR OVR RR TRACKS:FLAMES+VANISHES WHEN SHOT AT", **LatLong:** "48.183336 6.433334", **LatLongDMS:** "48:11:00 N 06:26:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.183336,6.433334)", **State/Prov:** "Vosges", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4015 (D26BC33D) **Date:** 9/1944 (approximate) **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** KAMENSKO FOREST, CZK **Description:** Silent silver 120M blimp-cylinder/cigar-shape going down. No propeller. / r84p215. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** PHENOMENES SPATIAUX: Group GEPA, Gen. M. Lionel Chassin Paris. Quarterly 1964?-1977. Merged into Grp. GEPAN (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_512 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Czech and Slovak Republics", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "KAMENSKO FOREST,CZK:SLNT SLVR 120M BLIMP-CGR ↓:no propeller:/r84p215", **LatLong:** "49.500002 13.500001", **LatLongDMS:** "49:30:00 N 13:30:00 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.500002,13.500001)", **State/Prov:** "ZPD", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4016 (46FA1B11) **Date:** 9/1944 **Location:** Oak Ridge, TN **Description:** Oak Ridge, TN. Metal tube hovers over gaseous diffusion plant (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection, Code: M, Rating: 5, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [440900](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/4409xxoakridge%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_198 ### Event 4017 (E1A2E25C) **Date:** 9/1944 **Location:** Unknown Island, Japan **Description:** White object & egg-shaped & very brilliant. (Page 76 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_199 ### Event 4018 (BCF8C1AC) **Date:** 9/1944 **Location:** Antwerp, Belgium **Description:** Around 9 p.m. in the evening a Canadian soldier, stationed near the front lines close to Antwerp, observed "a glowing globe traveling from the direction of the front line towards Antwerp. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_200 ### Event 4019 (D4E01EDB) **Date:** 9/1944 **Location:** Unknown City, UK **Description:** Bright spherical object & like a rolling ball. (Page 83 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_201 ### Event 4020 (D958AA88) **Date:** 9/1944 **Location:** Antwerp, Belgium **Description:** Glowing globe, cloudy gas with a light inside; & three to four feet in diameter. (Page 82-83 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_202 ### Event 4021 (BDA7CE86) **Date:** 9/1944 **Locations:** Oak Ridge; Oliver Springs, Tennessee; Black Oak Ridge **Description:** Dusk. Three Oak Ridge workers \(a man named Nelson, A. C. Butler, and Albert Profitt\) are driving 2 miles southeast of Oliver Springs, Tennessee, when a strange object appears about 50 feet ahead of them at the level of their windshield. It is glossy white in color and about 30 feet long and 4 feet wide. Nelson eases the car up to the object, but it withdraws; when he stops, it also stops. Soon the light rises high in the air and disappears over Black Oak Ridge. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp, 23–24 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_653 ### Event 4022 (E0D3DB02) **Date:** 9/1944 **Location:** Antwerp, Belgium **Description:** 9:00 p.m. Canadian Army Lance Cpl. Carson Yorke is just outside Antwerp, Belgium, during a German bombardment. He steps out of his vehicle and sees a glowing globe traveling at about 30 mph and 40 feet altitude from the front lines toward the city \(in the same course that the German V-2s are following\). It seems to be 3–4 feet in diameter and looks “as though it was cloudy glass with a light inside.” It disappears from view, then is followed by another, then five others in succession. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jerome Clark and Lucius Farish, “[The Mysterious ‘Foo](http://www.project1947.com/fig/sagafoo.htm) [Fighters’ of WW II,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/sagafoo.htm)” Saga UFO Report, Spring 1975 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_654 ### Event 4023 (CFA5F10B) **Date:** 9/1944 **Location:** Near Antwerp, Belgium **Description:** Aviators weren't the only ones to report mysterious glowing orbs during WWII. A Canadian infantryman described seeing several glowing globes, each 3-4 feet in diameter, with a soft white glow, traveling at an estimated speed of 30 mph and at an altitude of around 40 feet. They appeared powered and controlled, not drifting with the wind. After one was observed, it was followed by six more. Other soldiers also witnessed the event. Given the myriad of new weapons being used at the time, they assumed it was just another German device. (Chapter 7, Ref 279) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_271 ### Event 4024 (ED25C4ED) **Date:** 9/2/1944 **Location:** Philadelphia Navy Yard **Description:** Two chemists are killed, and [Arnold Kramish](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold%5FKramish) almost killed, after being sprayed with highly corrosive hydrofluoric acid while attempting to unclog a uranium enrichment device that is part of the pilot thermal diffusion plant at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Arnold Kramish](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold%5FKramish\#Manhattan%5FProject)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_655 ### Event 4025 (EF75F659) **Date:** 9/6/1944 **Location:** London, England **Description:** The Combined Intelligence Objectives Subcommittee holds its first meeting in London, England. Present are Air Commodore K. C. Buss \(Air Ministry\), Gen. [George C. McDonald](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106278/major-general-george-c-mcdonald/) \(AAF Director of Intelligence\), Lt. Col. [Lewis F. Powell Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis%5FF.%5FPowell%5FJr), Col. [Howard McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html) \(chief of the Air Technical Section\), [Howard P. Robertson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%5FP.%5FRobertson) \(CalTech physicist\), and Cmdr. [Ian Fleming](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%5FFleming) \(Admiralty\). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Strange Company 80 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_656 ### Event 4026 (6F7C3DA0) **Date:** 9/7/1944 **Location:** Germany **Description:** First V-2 rocket attacks begin. Two launched at Paris. V-2’s speed and trajectory made it practically invulnerable to anti-aircraft guns and fighters, as it dropped from an altitude of 100–110 km (62–68 mi) at up to three times the speed of sound at sea level (approximately 3550 km/h). The British government, concerned about spreading panic or giving away vital intelligence to German forces, initially attempted to conceal the cause of the explosions by making no official announcement, and euphemistically blaming them on defective gas mains. The public did not believe this explanation and therefore began referring to the V-2s as “flying gas mains”. **Type:** aerospace **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket#Operational_history) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_83 ### Event 4027 (799A4BF8) **Date:** 9/18/1944 (approximate) **Location:** OAK RIDGE, TN **Description:** Metal tube hovers / atomic plant days after opening. Goes when crowd gathers. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 56) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_513 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "300", **HatchDesc:** "OAK RIDGE,TN:MTL TUBE HVRS/A-PLANT DAYS AFTER OPENING:GOES WHEN CROWD GATHERS", **LatLong:** "36.027779 -84.255560", **LatLongDMS:** "36:01:40 N 84:15:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.027779,-84.255560)", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 4028 (8B08625B) **Date:** Late 9/1944 **Location:** Dover, UK **Description:** Solid black cylindrical-shaped; red glow emitting from rear. (Page 81-82 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_203 ### Event 4029 (B0EBD967) **Date:** 9/29/1944 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Ukraine \(Russia\), similar observation to this one from late May. **Reference:** Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, *UFO's Behind the Iron Curtain* **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1944.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_517 ### Event 4030 (DD937ADE) **Date:** 9/29/1944 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At the Rechlin-Roggenthin Test Center, 12000 m up, a pilot \(identity not provided in the report\) is testing a new Messerchmitt ME 262 Schwalbe \(let us recall that this is where the *Erprobungskommando 162*, commanded by Oberstleutnant Heintz Bär, an ace with over 200 victories, was based; this special group of test pilots was better known as the *Volksjäger-Erprobungskommando*\). His attention is drawn to two luminous points to his right. Diving full throttle, he finds himself in the presence of a cylindrical body over 100 m long; on the side, some round openings in the shape of portholes; from the front to the middle of the length, vertical rods in the shape of antennas; no wings; speed exceeding 2000 km/h. The pilot approaches it to within 500 m for a few seconds and can observe it. He is questioned by the Special Bureau 13 and must draw a sketch of what he saw. It is on this occasion that Prof. Dr. H. Frazer presents his theory of the adjustable protective magnetic field. (10:45) **Reference:** Report sent to the Oberkommando der Luftwaffe, Durrant 1973 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1944.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_518 ### Event 4031 (3FD2216C) **Date:** 9/29/1944 **Time:** 10:50 **Location:** ACHMER AIR FORCE BASE?, GER **Description:** ME252 pilot. 100M cylinder/cigar-shape. Openings / side. Long antennas. Going quickly [to] 1900kph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** CUFON UFO Network Site (former BBS) various downloads. http://www.cufon.org (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_514 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ACHMER AFB?,GER:ME252 PILOT:100M CGR:OPENINGS/SIDE:LONG ANTENNAS:>>1900kph", **LatLong:** "52.366669 7.900000", **LatLongDMS:** "52:22:00 N 07:54:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.366669,7.900000)", **State/Prov:** "LSX", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4032 (2CE52569) **Date:** 9/29/1944 **Description:** At 10:45 a.m. a German Me-262 jet pilot, while in flight over Rechlin Goggenthin, Lower Saxony, Germany sighted a 100 meter long cigar-shaped object with openings on the side and a long antennae. The UFO shot off at a speed in excess of 1,900 km/h. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Dale Goudie, CUFON; Larry Hatch, U computer database, Claude Poher, case # 420 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6409 ### Event 4033 (61406D28) **Date:** 9/29/1944 **Description:** At 6:00 p.m. Soviet forces in Ukraine reported that they had sighted a "German aircraft" that stood still in the air for two minutes and made no noise. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 227 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6410 ### Event 4034 (0FFA46E7) **Date:** 10/1944 **Location:** ITALY, Nago Torbole **Description:** (Translated from French) Mrs. Carolina Vivaldi was awoken in the early hours of the morning, around 4:10, by a strange noise, a kind of "blap-blap" and a strong red light illuminating the open window of her bedroom. She sat up on the bed and noticed that the whole landscape was illuminated by this light. She had a feeling of warmth. From another part of the village, Mrs. Giuseppina Mazzoldi observed a luminous sphere that was advancing in leaps in the sky on a trajectory that led it from Riva to Lake Loppio, at an altitude of a hundred meters. The ball descended towards the lake, stayed there for a moment motionless, then resumed its leaping route towards the north. **Reference:** CISU, archive file no. 4401, sources: investigation by the Bolzano UFO group, etc. **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1038 ### Event 4035 (BCD57716) **Date:** 10/1944 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The Cuban cargo ship *Rubicon* is found off the coast of Florida, in roughly the same area as the *Gloria Colite* 4 years prior. There is only one dog on board, and the ship is in excellent condition: it is not in danger of sinking. All of the crew's belongings are still in place. Only a lifeboat is missing and a broken mooring line hangs from the bow. That month, according to [NOAA](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/NOAA.html) archives, a terrible hurricane with winds reaching 250 km/h ravaged the region. The broken mooring line would have likely held an anchor that broke during the storm, and the crew likely embarked in the missing lifeboat before being swept away by the raging ocean. (October) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1944.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_516 ### Event 4036 (36385D44) **Date:** 10/1944 **Location:** Southeast, Holland **Description:** Field Artillery officer and men saw a brilliant object moving from NW to SW, crossing an arc of about 90 degrees in about 45 minutes. \[NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall, IV\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_205 ### Event 4037 (EB1CE3C0) **Date:** 10/1944 **Locations:** Rochester, Pennsylvania; outskirts of Rochester, Pennsylvania **Description:** Late night. Members of a family who live in an isolated area on the outskirts of Rochester, Pennsylvania, are awakened by a loud noise and flash of light. The father goes to the door, where he sees a 4.5-foot-tall figure dressed in a brown robe. Fifteen feet to its left are five other figures dressed in luminous brown metallic suits. Their heads seem large, with only a slit for a mouth. The arms are long, with long thin fingers. Three of them enter the house and the father accompanies them to a landed craft nearby. He remembers nothing else when he wakes up in the morning. A round, burned circle 20 feet from the house and 25 feet in diameter is found the next day. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 265–266 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_657 ### Event 4038 (4352EB6F) **Date:** 10/1944 **Location:** St. Paul, Minnesota **Description:** Nellie Carlin and another woman are about to drive to work in St. Paul, Minnesota, when they see what seems to be an airplane about to crash. It abruptly stops 20 feet above their heads, revealing itself to be a brown, bullet- shaped object with a flat end “like frosted glass with a bright light behind it.” It makes a crackling noise, turns right, and ascends at great speed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 1178 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_658 ### Event 4039 (78EB6FC8) **Date:** 10/10/1944 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** ALGHULT, SWD **Description:** Bicycle generator hit / beam. Moonlike sphere going up / woods. Hovers. Vanishes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 24) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_515 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "ALGHULT,SWD:BICYCLE GENERATOR HIT/BEAM:MOONLIKE SPHERE ↑/WOODS:HVRS:vanishes", **LatLong:** "57.016669 15.566667", **LatLongDMS:** "57:01:00 N 15:34:00 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/57.016669,15.566667)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4040 (69D3300D) **Date:** 10/10/1944 **Location:** Alghut, Sweden **Description:** At 8:00 p.m. a man on a bicycle was suddenly illuminated by a light beam from the woods, then he saw a large shining sphere rise rapidly from the ground and hover at treetop height. It appeared moon-like; golden in color, and made no sound. After about 5 minutes the object abruptly disappeared. (Ref. 3; Anders Liljegren AFU archives.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_206 ### Event 4041 (D0C155FA) **Date:** 10/10/1944 **Description:** A bicyclist in Alghult, Sweden reported that on this evening a beam of light from a luminous flying sphere struck the small generator used on the bicycle to generate electricity for the headlamp. The UFO hovered over some nearby woods, then vanished. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century, p. 24 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6696 ### Event 4042 (766992D7) **Date:** Late 1944 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In the Kamensko forest in Blovice \(Czechoslovakia\), Francois Panes, an 18 year old man, saw an object shaped like a cigar, 100 to 150 m long, lit up underneath. The object changed from yellow to reddish as the sun set during the 10 to 15 minutes of observation. The object descended for 7 minutes then rose up and left slowly. (Late Summer, 5 PM) **Reference:** Phénomènes Spatiaux n° 15, 1968 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1944.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_515 ### Event 4043 (173FB482) **Date:** Late 1944 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Ploiesti \(Romania\), the Vega refinery is on fire after a bombing and a yellowish, sharp object is observed coming from the North. The object leaves a trail similar to the vapor of an airplane but is shorter and vibrating. Its speed is 3 to 4 times higher than that of the aircrafts often observed above the city. There is no noise and the object circles around the bombed area and then disappears from where it came. The observation lasted 15 minutes. (In the late afternoon) **Reference:** Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFO's Behind the Iron Curtain **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1944.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_527 ### Event 4044 (0FDA4AB6) **Date:** Late 1944 **Location:** WW2 European Theater **Description:** Allied airmen frequently reported encounters with UFOs dubbed "foo fighters." These objects resembled glass or metallic balls, similar to Christmas tree ornaments. They appeared over enemy territory, either alone or in clusters, and were silver or glowing, and sometimes transparent. (Chapter 7, Ref. 272) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_264 ### Event 4045 (A0EE6D4A) **Date:** 10/16/1944 **Location:** Formosa, Taiwan **Description:** Small black dot; hanging stationary. (Page Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_207 ### Event 4046 (BBF7190D) **Date:** 10/20/1944 **Location:** USA, Saint-Paul (Minnesota) **Description:** (Translated from French) At around 6:20 in the morning, Mrs. Helen Paquette and Mrs. Nellie Carlin were terrified when they saw a low-flying, bright brown object approaching them that looked like a saucer. The craft had dark markings like welding marks and on the side a rectangular opening of 30 cm by 15 cm was emitting crackling sparks. Above this part, the witnesses noticed a frosted window that was letting out an orange glow. The disappearance of the phenomenon was sudden, the UFO rising like a bullet into the sky. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 271 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1039 ### Event 4047 (F6725E94) **Date:** 10/20/1944 **Location:** Po Valley, Italy **Description:** Red light appearance of an aircraft light. (Page 84 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_208 ### Event 4048 (402DDAC6) **Date:** 10/20/1944 **Location:** N. Florence, Italy **Description:** Two orange balls diving into the hills. (Page 84 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_209 ### Event 4049 (A767810B) **Date:** 10/25/1944 **Location:** Omura, Japan **Description:** Multiple sightings of possible balloons. (Page 78 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_210 ### Event 4050 (A86724C1) **Date:** Late 10/1944 **Location:** Strasbourg, Germany **Description:** Eight to ten lights in a row, glowing orange, and moving at terrific speed. (Page 95 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_219 ### Event 4051 (B77DBA14) **Date:** Late 10/1944 **Location:** Lingayen Gulf, Philippines **Description:** Bright green globe. (Page 95-96 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_220 ### Event 4052 (BD500790) **Date:** Late 10/1944 **Location:** Weert, Netherlands **Description:** 9:30 p.m. 1Lt. J. B. Douglas Jr. and other soldiers of the 489th Armored Field Artillery near Weert, Netherlands, watch a bright silvery object through field glasses moving silently from northwest to southwest through an arc of 90° in about 30–45 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [pp. 30](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=43&skin=2021), [129](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=141&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_659 ### Event 4053 (6A1F8886) **Date:** 10/28/1944 **Locations:** Europe; Pacific Theater **Description:** Physicist [David T. Griggs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FT.%5FGriggs)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FT.%5FGriggs) a civilian adviser on radar to the War Department, is asked by Gen. [Henry H.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%5FH.%5FArnold) [“Hap” Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%5FH.%5FArnold) to look into incidents of unusual aerial phenomena in Europe and interview pilots. He later moves his investigation to the Pacific Theater. His report to Arnold at the end of the war has never been located. He was interviewed by [James E. McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) on April 10, 1969. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael D. Swords, “David Griggs and the Foo Fighters,” IUR 31, no. 1 \(January 2007\): 17–19 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_660 ### Event 4054 (66B8C5CB) **Date:** 10/29/1944 **Location:** Munich, Germany **Description:** Light blue colored ball of fire approximately three feet in diameter. (Page 85-86 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_211 ### Event 4055 (AA001602) **Date:** 10/30/1944 **End date:** 10/31/1944 **Location:** Cologne, Germany **Description:** A ball of fire; circular, pale orange, clean edged light. (Page 86 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_212 ### Event 4056 (5E869C81) **Date:** 10/30/1944 **Location:** Köln, Germany **Description:** Late night. RAF Flight Engineer Maurice Juberley of the 640 Squadron is returning from a bombing mission over Köln, Germany. His Halifax III is flying at 19,000 feet above the clouds when the rear gunner reports a ball of orange fire closing in on them. He orders an evasive maneuver and loses the light. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Strange Company 86 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_661 ### Event 4057 (98C4226D) **Date:** 11/1944 **Location:** AUSTRIA, Black Forest **Description:** (Translated from French) (Document from June 8, 1967, declassified by the FBI) This paper concerns an individual born on May 3, 1924 in Austria, who immigrated to the USA on January 7, 1952 and was naturalized as an American in 1958. This person was a member of the Luftwaffe in 1943 on the Russian front. At the end of 1944 he was assigned as a test pilot on a top-secret project in the Austrian Black Forest. He was said to have observed an engine in the shape of a saucer 21 feet in diameter, controlled by radio, with several reactors arranged around the outside. The apparatus had a dome in its center, which did not move. He took a photo of the engine in full flight at 7000 m altitude (copy of the negative is attached to the document). He also took a photo of an engine parked in a hangar (copy attached). This engine was designed and built by a German engineer, Mr. ... (...) He gave the following details regarding the fuel and engine: Mixture of N2H4O in methyl alcohol CH3OH rather than in an oxygenated mixture like H2O2; 2 rocket engines 7 m x 1.3 m, smooth flight, speed 2000 m/second. **Reference:** unverifiable, even the supposedly declassified document is not named or reproduced... **Reference:** UECDDS 1997 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1043 ### Event 4058 (6ABED64D) **Date:** 11/1944 **Location:** Austria **Description:** Amber-colored disc paces bomber. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973_, by Richard Dolan](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/mode/2up) **Source:** Dolan, **ID:** Dolan_8 ### Event 4059 (A8EB8949) **Date:** 11/1944 **Location:** Unknown City, France **Description:** 415th Night Fighter Squadron pilot saw formation of round objects. \[NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall, III\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_213 ### Event 4060 (F68CF85D) **Date:** Early 11/1944 **Location:** Germany **Description:** Night. Lieut. Col. [Oris B. Johnson](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106584/major-general-oris-b-johnson/)’s 422d Night Fighter Squadron, equipped with P-61 Black Widow fighters, reports seeing 15–20 mystery objects every night over Germany, either alone or in formations of four. Johnson says he could accept that the reports are rocket planes or night fighter jets. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Strange Company 87 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_662 ### Event 4061 (47C0ED66) **Date:** 11/3/1944 **Locations:** San Pedro, Los Angeles, California; Wyoming; Montana **Description:** The Japanese Army launches the first of some 9,300 Fu-Go bomb-bearing fire balloons intended to land in North America to instill fear and terror. About 300 are found or seen in America. It is likely that more of them land in unpopulated areas. On November 4, a US Navy patrol craft discovers one of the first Fu-Go balloons floating off San Pedro, Los Angeles, California. National and state agencies are placed on heightened alert status when balloons are found in Wyoming and Montana before the end of the month. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Fu-Go balloon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu-Go%5Fballoon%5Fbomb) [bomb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu-Go%5Fballoon%5Fbomb)”; Franklin Matthias, “[Japanese Balloon Bombs Fu-Go,](https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/japanese-balloon-bombs-fu-go)” Atomic Heritage Foundation, August 10, 2016 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_663 ### Event 4062 (40B71FED) **Date:** 11/4/1944 **Locations:** RAF Lancaster bombers; Solingen, Germany **Description:** Night. RAF Lancaster bombers over Solingen, Germany, report what they call “scarecrow” dummy airplanes that explode with a sheet of flame and dense black smoke. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[German Dummy Planes Explode Amid Our](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1944/11/06/84004866.pdf) [Own,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1944/11/06/84004866.pdf)” New York Times, November 6, 1944, p. 3 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_664 ### Event 4063 (4E53C700) **Date:** 11/5/1944 **Location:** Singapore, Malaya **Description:** A long purple-blue parabolic trail. (Page 77-78 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_214 ### Event 4064 (98ABB0B1) **Date:** 11/5/1944 **End date:** 11/6/1944 **Location:** Aachen/Bonn/Cologne, Germany **Description:** Possible jet; single light; 5 free lance visuals on jets, no A.I. or G.C.I. contacts; several flares similar to jets. (Page 86-87 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_215 ### Event 4065 (A8D14C5B) **Date:** 11/8/1944 **Location:** Germany **Description:** Nazis officially announce the V-2 rocket on 11/8/1944 **Type:** aerospace **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket#Operational_history) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_84 ### Event 4066 (DB32A730) **Date:** 11/12/1944 **Locations:** Santiago, Chile; Puente Alto; Valparaíso **Description:** 9:30 p.m. A radio station in Santiago, Chile, broadcasts a version of The War of the Worlds in Spanish in which Martians land in Puente Alto, causing a panic and the death by heart attack of at least one person in Valparaíso. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** John Gosling, Waging the War of the Worlds: A History of the 1938 Radio Broadcast and Resulting Panic, Including the Original Script, McFarland, 2009, pp. 99–102 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_665 ### Event 4067 (C23634CF) **Date:** 11/16/1944 **Locations:** Oro Bay, Papua New Guinea; Leyte Gulf, Philippines **Description:** 11:55 p.m. Lt. J. L. Besmond, officer of the day on the [USS Gilliam,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FGilliam%5F%28APA-57%29) enroute from Oro Bay, Papua New Guinea, to Leyte Gulf, Philippines, observes an unusual object at a distance of 21 miles. Fire Control Officer P. Kendall Bruce describes it as a bright green globe that rises from behind the ship and moves in a “perfect parabola at great speed, finally disappearing behind the horizon to the north.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[UFO Observed from USS](http://www.nicap.org/441116phillipines%5Fdir.htm) [Gilliam](http://www.nicap.org/441116phillipines%5Fdir.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_666 ### Event 4068 (40CAC8C9) **Date:** 11/22/1944 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** NEAR TRONDHEIM, NORW **Description:** 3 / RAF 9th Squadron. Sphere paces plane. Speeds and slows. No further details. / r150. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 24) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_516 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "nr TRONDHEIM,NORW:3/RAF 9th Sqdrn:SPHERE PACES PLANE:SPEEDS+SLOWS:NFD:/r150", **LatLong:** "63.416670 10.366667", **LatLongDMS:** "63:25:00 N 10:22:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/63.416670,10.366667)", **State/Prov:** "Norway", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4069 (B7998E8B) **Date:** 11/22/1944 **Location:** Unknown City, Germany **Description:** Spherical object, fluctuating in brightness, pyrotechnic pink in color, changing speeds violently, swift and jerking movements. (Page 89 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_216 ### Event 4070 (5DFC21EF) **Date:** 11/22/1944 **Description:** At 10:00 p.m. a spherical object followed a plane from the RAF IX Squadron west-southwest of Trondheim, Norway for three minutes. It made a violent acceleration and deceleration. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 website; Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 24; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 7 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7791 ### Event 4071 (1767E387) **Date:** 11/23/1944 **Location:** Germany, between Hagenau and Neustadt **Description:** (Translated from French) Lieutenant-pilot Edward Schluter, of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron of the US Air Force, had taken off from the base in Dijon and observed (on a night patrol above the Rhine) a true formation of about ten luminous discs moving together at a frightening speed. The formation, reported from the ground, was tracked on radar by Lieutenant Radarist Donald J. Meiers, and on board by Lieutenant Intelligence Service F. Ringwald, observer. (Henry DURRANT: "The Black Book of S.V." - Laffont 1970 - p.76) FRANCE, Vosges: The sky was clear that night and the American radars had detected no enemy presence in the sky of the Vosges that they were currently flying over. About 30 km from Strassbourg, Lieutenant Ringwald saw towards the west a linear formation of 8 or 10 red fireballs moving at great speed. **Reference:** Charles GARREAU: "Alert in the Sky: The Abduction File" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1981, p.188 **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "The Chronicle of UFOs" - Delarge 1977- p. 271 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1040 ### Event 4072 (4652F8B1) **Date:** 11/23/1944 **Location:** BELGIUM, southeast of Brussels **Description:** (Translated from French) (Source GESAG, GS 1049) Letter written by John V. Crisp, part of the entourage of a British officer, wrote these notes during his stay at The Cottage, West-End, Essendon, Hertfordshire, England. The notes were transmitted to the authorities through the US Embassy in London: "On November 23, 1944, the men of the British anti-aircraft unit located a B-17 Flying Fortress, a few miles southeast of Brussels, approaching their firing site. It had the landing gear out and was losing speed quickly. The British immediately called the Troop Commander and almost at the same time the B-17 landed in a plowed field, near the machine guns, bouncing on the uneven ground 30 yards from the anti-aircraft position. At the last moment the tip of a wing touched the ground, sinking into it and making the plane spin. The propeller of the nearest engine was thrown into the air, but the other three engines were still running. The shooters waited to see the crew come out and welcome them, but no one came out. They were about to go around the plane and did not notice any sign of life. It was at this point that the Troop Commander called me to the operations room at Erps-Kwerps near Kortenberg. In 20 minutes I was on site and I examined the B-17. I had never had anything to do with planes, but finally I could enter through an entrance under the fuselage. The plane was empty of occupants yet there were signs of presence everywhere. I sat in the pilot's seat to stop the three engines that were still running, which I succeeded in after several attempts. On the navigator's dashboard the logbook was open and the last words written were "Bad Flack" (note of vog: two possible translations "bad flak jacket" or "bad anti-aircraft fire"). With curiosity I traced the route that should have taken the plane from the Ruhr (Germany) to Hertfordshire (England) and I wondered what had happened to the crew. We all started searching systematically and our most extraordinary find was in the fuselage where we found a dozen parachutes neatly folded and ready to use. This made the question about the crew even more mysterious. The Sperry (to follow the bombs) was still in the nose, having suffered no damage and its cover was neatly folded next to it. Behind the navigator's dashboard was the Code book giving the numbers and letters of the day for identification. Several pilot's fur-lined jackets were in the fuselage with some chocolate bars, some of which were partially eaten. No damage could be found on the B-17 except for the landing. So I went straight to the 83rd Tactical Air Force at Everberg to give them my report and the B-17 logbook, several navigation maps, but the story of the landing of an empty B-17 of occupants remained a mystery to this day. The crew was never found. (Martin Cardin, Cape Kennedy, Florida, "Flying Forts" Ballantine Books Inc. Ed. 1968, pages 10-12). . **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1041 ### Event 4073 (4A9CBFED) **Date:** 11/23/1944 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Lieutenant Ed Schlueter, a young, tall and competent pilot from Oshkosh \(Wisconsin\), takes off from Dijon \(France\) for a routine mission of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron: to scan the skies for German planes to shoot down \(he had done this several times before and had been decorated for it\). With him is Lieutenant Radar Observer Donald J. Meiers, as well as Lieutenant Fred Ringwald, the squadron's intelligence officer, flying as an observer. The trio continues their search, traversing the mostly clear night sky, with only a few clouds and a quarter moon, going on either side of the Rhine north of Strasbourg. At one point Ringwald says: I wonder what those lights are over there above the hills. Probably stars Schlueter replies. No, I don't think so, Ringwald replies. Are you sure it's not a reflection of us? Absolutely. Ringwald remembers -- there are no hills in that area. But the "lights" still shine -- 8 or 10 in a line -- orange fireballs flying through the air at an astonishing speed. Schlueter then sees them far at the end of his left wing. He immediately checks with the Allied radar stations. There's nobody else out there, they reply. Are you crazy? And there are no enemy planes visible on Meiers' radar either. Schlueter turns towards the lights, ready for action. They disappear, then reappear further away. 5 minutes later they seem to thin out and disappear for good. The aviators continue their mission, and destroy 7 freight trains behind the German lines. When they return to Dijon, they decide to keep the story to themselves for the moment. A typical observation of [foo-fighters](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/glossair.html\#foofighter). (November 23, 10 PM) **Reference:** McClure 2001, Fortean Studies 7 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1944.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_519 ### Event 4074 (D76BC172) **Date:** 11/23/1944 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Lieutenant pilot Henry Giblin of Santa Rosa \(California\) and Lieutenant radar observer Walter Cleary of Worcester \(Massachusetts\) are flying at an altitude of 1000 feet when they see a huge red light ball 1000 feet above them, moving at 200/h. The men think they have eaten something that didn't agree with them and don't run to report their experience. (A few nights later) **Reference:** McClure 2001, Fortean Studies 7 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1944.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_520 ### Event 4075 (299CF652) **Date:** 11/23/1944 **Location:** BELGIUM LOCATION UNKNOWN **Description:** British Anti-Aircraft guns/teams gunners. US B17 lands. No crew! All 10 parachutes aboard. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 56) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_517 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NFO:** No craft seen, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **ABD:** Human or animal abduction, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "BELGIUM loc.unk:BRIT.AA GUNNERS:US B17 LANDS:NO CREW!:ALL 10 PARACHUTES ABOARD", **LatLong:** "50.333336 4.833334", **LatLongDMS:** "50:20:00 N 04:50:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.333336,4.833334)", **State/Prov:** "Belgium", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 4076 (C680EB65) **Date:** 11/23/1944 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** 20 MI NORTHEAST / STRASBOURG, FR **Description:** US planes paced / 8-10 fast red Foo-Fighters. / LDLN#330p13. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique; UAP: 80 Years of Pilot Sightings Privately published. 7 avenue Bartholome. 75015 Paris, FRANCE. (Index 6) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_518 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "20mi NE/STRASBOURG,FR:US PLANES PACED/8-10 FAST RED FOO-FIGHTERS:/LDLN#330p13", **LatLong:** "48.883336 7.816667", **LatLongDMS:** "48:53:00 N 07:49:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.883336,7.816667)", **State/Prov:** "Bas-Rhin", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 4077 (1E75C74B) **Date:** 11/24/1944 **Time:** ~22:00 **Location:** B17 / KLAGENFURT, AUSTRIA **Description:** Light and heat. Orange saucer paces going quickly southwest. No flak. / r46p193+/ r25p197. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 379) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_519 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Austria", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "B17/KLAGENFURT,AUSTRIA:LITE+HEAT:ORG.SCR PACES >>SW:NO FLAK:/r46p193+/r25p197", **LatLong:** "46.633336 14.300001", **LatLongDMS:** "46:38:00 N 14:18:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.633336,14.300001)", **State/Prov:** "STY", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 4078 (56637217) **Date:** 11/24/1944 **Location:** Unknown City, Italy **Description:** Round amber light, luminous orange-yellow, blinding light; felt unbearable heat. (Page 89-93 Ref.1) (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_217 ### Event 4079 (EAD9681C) **Date:** 11/24/1944 **Locations:** Klagenfurt, Austria; Trieste, Italy; Adriatic Sea **Description:** Capt. [William D. Leet](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/139829263/william-dean-leet)’s B-17 crew \(part of the 2nd Bombardment Group, 5th Wing of the Fifteenth Air Force\) is returning from bombing a target at Klagenfurt, Austria. While flying over northeastern Italy near Trieste, Leet notices a blinding light and feels an intense heat. It goes away quickly, but seconds later he sees a “round amber light” sitting off the left wingtip of the B-17. It is bright and perfectly circular. Leet orders the gunners not to shoot at it. Sgt. Harris, the upper gunner, thinks it is 10 feet in diameter and 150–300 feet away. The object stays with them over the Adriatic Sea for 50 minutes, until it “just turned off” like a light bulb. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Strange Company 90–93 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_667 ### Event 4080 (1FDEB9F3) **Date:** 11/26/1944 **Location:** Mannheim, Germany **Description:** Red light that disappeared in long red streak. (Page 93-94 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_218 ### Event 4081 (FD1A96A9) **Date:** 11/27/1944 **Location:** GERMANY, Mannheim **Description:** (Translated from French) Lieutenants Henry Giblin and Walter Cleary were on a mission above the Mannheim region when, above Speyer, they saw an enormous orange glowing ball moving at a speed of 400 km/h barely 500 m above their aircraft. The radars remained silent.. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 271 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1042 ### Event 4082 (E9CDD05B) **Date:** 11/27/1944 **Location:** SPEYER, GERM **Description:** 2 / fighter crew. Huge orange sphere. Instruments electro-magnetic effect (EME). 250mph / 450M altitude. / r2p33. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** PHENOMENA Revue / SOS-OVNI, France; Perry Petrakis ed. B.P 324; 13611 Aix-Cedex 1, Fr. sosovni at pacwan.mm-soft.fr (Index 12) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_520 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "SPEYER,GERM:2/FIGHTER CREW:HUGE ORG.SPHERE:INSTR'S EME:250mph/450M alt:/r2p33", **LatLong:** "49.300002 8.433334", **LatLongDMS:** "49:18:00 N 08:26:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.300002,8.433334)", **State/Prov:** "RHP", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4083 (B095261C) **Date:** 11/27/1944 **Description:** Two Lieutenants, Giblin and Cleary, pilots of the U.S. Army Air Force 415TH NFS, saw a huge orange sphere while flying a P-70 over Speyer, Germany on this night. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 23; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 7 citing Aeronautical Magazine, February 1986 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7950 ### Event 4084 (1A5ED72D) **Date:** 11/29/1944 **Locations:** Bruce Peninsula; Lake Huron; Georgian Bay, Ontario **Description:** 3:00 p.m. [Reginald Herbert Mortimer](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/104455565/reginald-herbert-mortimer) and his daughter Frances are on the Bruce Peninsula between Lake Huron and Georgian Bay, Ontario, when they hear a hissing sound behind them and see 9 disc-shaped objects pass overhead at approximately 2,000 feet. Moving three abreast in a square configuration, they are lost to sight over the lake. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 1179 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_668 ### Event 4085 (3405068C) **Date:** 11/29/1944 **Locations:** Bristol Beaufighter; Rhine River; Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France; Mannheim, Germany **Description:** Night. A Bristol Beaufighter crew \(pilot Lieut. Edward A. Schlueter and radar observer Lieut. Donald J. Meiers of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron, and intelligence officer Capt. [Fred B. Ringwald](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/135104859/fred-bertrand-ringwald) as observer\) is on a bombing mission and flying above the Rhine River north of Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France. They see “eight to 10 bright orange lights off the left wing…flying through the air at high speed.” Neither the airborne radar nor ground control registers anything nearby. Schlueter and Meiers also see red lights on November 26 above Mannheim, Germany. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Zoe Crasney, “[What Were the Mysterious ‘Foo Fighters’ Sighted by WWII Night Flyers?](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/what-were-mysterious-foo-fighters-sighted-ww2-night-flyers-180959847/)” Smithsonian Air and Space Magazine, August 2016; Strange Company 93–95 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_669 ### Event 4086 (103AE7FB) **Date:** 11/30/1944? **Locations:** Leyte Gulf; Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, Philippines **Description:** As the [USS Gilliam](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FGilliam%5F%28APA-57%29) is transporting troops from Leyte Gulf to Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, Philippines, Lieut. JG Kendall Bruce, fire control officer on the ship, observes a bright green, globe-shaped object rising out of the nearby headlands and disappears to the north, It is too slow for a missile. \[Same event as November 16?\] **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[UFO Observed from USS Gilliam](http://www.nicap.org/441116phillipines%5Fdir.htm)”; Strange Company 95–96 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_670 ### Event 4087 (66886EA2) **Date:** 12/1944 **Location:** Austria, Austria **Description:** B-17 pilot (William D. Leet) and crew, on a lone wolf mission, were followed by an amber-colored disc. \[NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall, III\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_221 ### Event 4088 (411F013E) **Date:** 12/1944 **Location:** Ardennes offensive, Germany **Description:** Amorphous reddish-glow that at times appeared cigar-shaped. (Page 97-98 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_222 ### Event 4089 (390F3F86) **Date:** 12/1944 **Location:** Strasbourg and Manheim Btn., Germany **Description:** Bright fuzzy round ball, twice the size of full moon; yellow, white, red tint that was not solid color; no radar return. (Page 118-119 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_237 ### Event 4090 (24B9EA7F) **Date:** 12/1944 **Location:** Frankfurt and Karlsrhue btn., Germany **Description:** Three to four very bright balls, completely illuminated red, yellow, white and blue in color; size of tennis ball at arms length. (Page 119 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_238 ### Event 4091 (7EC668C3) **Date:** 12/1944 **Location:** Somewhere bt. eastern France and Western Germany, Europe **Description:** String of lights, twelve to fifteen in number, orange to yellow in color, approximately four feet in diameter, stretching twice the length of crews aircraft; no radar contact. (Page 120 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_239 ### Event 4092 (7EC82B9D) **Date:** 12/1/1944 **Location:** USA, Barstow, Camp Irwin (California) **Description:** (Translated from French) FIRING OF 24 PRIVATE "A" ROCKETS BETWEEN 1 AND 16 DECEMBER. (1944, December 1 to 16) **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, p. 250, Galcit Report **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1047 ### Event 4093 (55D89486) **Date:** 12/2/1944 **Location:** Villafranca, Italy **Description:** A steady, seemingly hanging light. (Page 96 Ref.1) Ghedi Airdrome area (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_223 ### Event 4094 (F1B57FA4) **Date:** 12/4/1944 **Location:** USA, Laredo, Texas **Description:** (Translated from French) During the night, a U.S. Air Force pilot landed in Laredo. He showed unmistakable signs of fear, let's call him Lieutenant Fogle. He reported that near 20 km from the Laredo airfield, a light blue object had almost collided with his F 51. At the last moment, the object diverted from its course, narrowly avoiding the aircraft, and disappeared at a terrifying speed. Greatly disturbed, Fogle saw the thing shoot vertically, describe a circle as if it was again rushing towards him. The pilot quickly turned off his position lights and made his aircraft descend in a spiral. The mysterious machine descended to nearly 700 meters, circled above the Laredo airfield, gained altitude and finally disappeared into the night. (December 4, 1944) **Reference:** Donald E. KEYHOE: "Le dossier des Soucoupes Volantes" - ed. Hachette 1952, p.12 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1044 ### Event 4095 (78B4A677) **Date:** 12/5/1944 **Location:** Rhine River area, Germany **Description:** Alleged aircraft that climbed out of range in nothing flat. (Page 96 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_224 ### Event 4096 (163F0CDF) **Date:** 12/13/1944 **Location:** Paris, France **Description:** SHAEF in Paris, France, issues a press release identifying the fireballs as a “new German weapon” and that the Ninth Air Force has reported seeing “many silver balls floating in the air above enemy territory.” An Army Air Force spokesman says on December 20 that the silver balls have “no detectable effects” on Allied planes. He does not know whether or not they are metallic. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Strange Company 96, 101 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_671 ### Event 4097 (F45C6AFB) **Date:** 12/14/1944 **Location:** Supreme Headquarters **Description:** "New German Weapon", Supreme Headquarters: A recent newspaper report from December 13th (NYT) states that a new German weapon has been observed on the western air front by American Air Force pilots. These pilots have encountered silver-colored spheres floating in the air over German territory. These spheres are seen individually or in clusters and sometimes possess a semi-translucent quality. The nature and purpose of these spheres remain unknown. **Type:** newspaper article **Type:** foo fighters **Reference:** [newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/article/fort-worth-star-telegram-silver-colored/130410969/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_1011 ### Event 4098 (02648957) **Date:** 12/14/1944 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In an article titled "The Mysterious Floating Ball is a New German Weapon", the *New York Times* reported: Supreme HQ, Allied Expeditionary Force, Dec 13 - A new German weapon has made its appearance on the Western air front, it was revealed today. American Air Force pilots report their encounters with silver-colored spheres in the sky over German territory. The spheres are encountered alone or in groups. Sometimes they are semi-translucent. (December 14) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1944.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_521 ### Event 4099 (1F695089) **Date:** 12/14/1944 **End date:** 12/15/1944 **Location:** Erstein, Germany **Description:** Brilliant red light & appeared to be 4 or 5 times larger than a star going 200 mph. (Page 96,130 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_225 ### Event 4100 (A74C0089) **Date:** 12/14/1944 **End date:** 12/28/1944 **Location:** Germany **Description:** Numerous balls of light are reported by the Night Fighter Squadrons during bombing raids over Germany. Pilot and operations officer [Charlie Horne](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/53881946/charles-lucius-horne) of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron suggests calling the objects “foo fighters,” a name gleaned from the men’s favorite comic strip, “Smokey Stover” by cartoonist [Bill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FHolman%5F%28cartoonist%29) [Holman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FHolman%5F%28cartoonist%29)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FHolman%5F%28cartoonist%29) The comic follows the escapades of a madcap fire fighter who calls his fire truck the “Foomobile.” Smokey Stover often states, “where there’s foo, there’s fire.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[More Foo-Fighter Records Released,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Just%20Cause%20%28CAUS%29/Just%20Cause%20-%20New%20Series/Just%20Cause%20-%201992%2009%20%20-%20No%2033%20-%20New%20Series.pdf)” Just Cause, new ser., no. 33 \(September 1992\): 2–6; Strange Company 96–111; Swords 3–5; “[The Foo Fighters of World War](https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/foofightersofworldwariipartone.html) [II, Part One,](https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/foofightersofworldwariipartone.html)” Saturday Night UFOria; Clas Svahn, “The Origin of the Expression ‘Foo Fighter,’” IUR 25, no. 3 \(Fall 2000\): 18; Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Hunneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, [pp. 47–49](https://archive.org/details/ufobriefingdocum0000berl/page/46/mode/2up); Barry Greenwood, “[Foo Fighter Archive Donated to UHR,](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr17.pdf)” UFO Historical Revue, no. 17 \(December 2015\): 2–8 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_672 ### Event 4101 (BD96ABD5) **Date:** 12/15/1944 **Location:** ERNSTEIN, GERMANY **Description:** 415th Bomber Squadron. Brilliant fireball / 2K' altitude. 200mph. RADAR malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). / r153p16. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** PHENOMENA Revue / SOS-OVNI, France; Perry Petrakis ed. B.P 324; 13611 Aix-Cedex 1, Fr. sosovni at pacwan.mm-soft.fr (Index 12) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_521 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ERNSTEIN,GERMANY:415th BOMBER SQDR:BRILL.FBL/2K'alt:200mph:RDR EMEs:/r153p16", **LatLong:** "49.316669 9.350000", **LatLongDMS:** "49:19:00 N 09:21:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.316669,9.350000)", **State/Prov:** "RHP", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 4102 (D8408A6C) **Date:** 12/16/1944 **End date:** 12/24/1944 **Location:** Unknown City, Germany **Description:** Amorphous reddish-glow that at times appeared cigar-shaped. (Page 103-104 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_226 ### Event 4103 (DC8287E5) **Date:** 12/17/1944 **Location:** Breisach, Germany **Description:** 5 or 6 flashing red and green lights in T-shape. (Page 100,130 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_227 ### Event 4104 (923954D4) **Date:** 12/18/1944 **Location:** NEAR RASTATT, GERM **Description:** 415th Bombers. 5-6 red and green night lights / T-formation. Sharp turns. Follow planes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** PHENOMENA Revue / SOS-OVNI, France; Perry Petrakis ed. B.P 324; 13611 Aix-Cedex 1, Fr. sosovni at pacwan.mm-soft.fr (Index 12) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_522 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "nr RASTATT,GERM:415th BOMBERS:5-6 RED+GRN NLTS/T-FORMn:SHARP TURNS:FOLO PLANES", **LatLong:** "48.800002 8.216667", **LatLongDMS:** "48:48:00 N 08:13:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.800002,8.216667)", **State/Prov:** "RHP", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4105 (2C094C8F) **Date:** 12/22/1944 **Location:** GERMANY - Hagenau **Description:** (Translated from French) Two pilots from the 415th Fighter Squadron based in Dijon, Lieutenants David MacFalls and Edward Baker, were flying over Hagenau at an altitude of 3000 m. When they were 32 km north of Strasbourg and 26 km west of the Rhine, the pilot made this communication: "It is 18:00. Two very bright lights have left the ground and are heading towards us. They are following us for now." They were two orange spheres that remained in the wake of the plane for two minutes. Then suddenly, these lights left the aircraft and disappeared. Two nights later, on the eve of Christmas 1944, MacFalls and Baker made the same encounter again. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 272) "December 23. More Foo-Fighters were in the air last night...In the vicinity of Hagenau saw 2 lights coming toward the A/C from ground. After reaching the altitude of the A/C they leveled off and flew on tail of Beau (Beaufighter---their aircraft, Ed.) for 2 minutes and then peeled up and turned away. 8th mission---sighted 2 orange lights. One light sighted at 10,000 feet the other climbed until it disappeared. (December 22-24, 1944) **Reference:** Source : microfilm roll containing the Unit History and War Diary of the 415th was obtained from the U.S. Air Force. Frames 1613 and 1614. cfr Just Cause **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1045 ### Event 4106 (7B569C94) **Date:** 12/22/1944 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) David L. McFalls, a pilot of the 415th American Fighter Squadron, and a radar operator return from a mission over Haguenau, when they see 2 large orange lights quickly joining their flight altitude of 3500 m \(10000 feet\). McFalls notes: At 6 PM we observed 2 lights leaving the ground heading towards us. Once at our altitude, they stabilized and stayed behind my tail. The lights had the appearance of large orange glows. After staying 2 minutes with the plane, they detached and flew away, flying in a perfectly controlled manner, and went away. The pilot had dived to try to distance them, but without success. (December 22, 6 PM) **Reference:** McClure 2001, Fortean Studies 7 **Reference:** Lore, Gordon I. R. Jnr., and Deneault, Harold H., Jnr., 'Mysteries of the Skies; UFOs in Perspective' p. 116 Prentice-Hall, New Jersey 1968 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1944.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_522 ### Event 4107 (0B0A2A20) **Date:** 12/22/1944 **Time:** 17:30 **Location:** HAGUENAU, 67, FR **Description:** Orange night lights pace USAF fighters. RADAR malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). Going up [to] and gone. / r150+/ r226#12p18. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 23) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_523 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "HAGUENAU,67,FR:ORG NLTS PACE USAF FIGHTERS:RDR EMEs:↑+GONE:/r150+/r226#12p18", **LatLong:** "48.783336 7.766667", **LatLongDMS:** "48:47:00 N 07:46:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.783336,7.766667)", **State/Prov:** "Bas-Rhin", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4108 (A60CB006) **Date:** 12/22/1944 **End date:** 12/23/1944 **Location:** Hagenau, Germany **Description:** Two lights that appeared to be a large orange glow coming from ground - followed plane - appeared to be under perfect control (Page 102,130 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_228 ### Event 4109 (E88C596E) **Date:** 12/22/1944 **Description:** Two huge orange glowing spheres followed a U.S. Army Air Force warplane from the 415th NFS at 10,000 feet altitude over Hagenau, France in the Bas-Rhine region. The pilots names were McFalls and Baker. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Kenneth Arnold & Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p. 126; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 7; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 23; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. & Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 116 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8560 ### Event 4110 (9C78FCE5) **Date:** 12/23/1944 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) McFalls witnesses another phenomenon, accompanied by his radar observer, Lieutenant Ned Baker of Hemat \(California\). Still at 3500 m \(10000 feet\) altitude, a red glowing ball rushes towards the plane. The pilot recounts: Suddenly, it took the shape of an airplane, which, after making a very tight turn, dove down and then disappeared The army thinks it's a secret German weapon. Yet, after the war, German pilots will claim to have encountered similar phenomena. (December 23-24) **Reference:** \[McClure 2001, Fortean Studies 7\]. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1944.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_523 ### Event 4111 (03909015) **Date:** 12/23/1944 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) During a mission in Romania to bomb the refineries operated by the Germans, Boris Surikov and his commander, Major Bajenov, flew at an altitude of 5000 m above the southwest of Ukraine when they encountered a particularly unusual aircraft. In front of the plane, a large elliptical object flew in our direction \(...\) We had read in the newspapers about new German weapons, but we saw nothing like it. What happened was that our huge 14.5 tonne aircraft began to be shaken, the oil pressure increased, and when I leaned on the window I felt a strong electrostatic discharge. I feared that the plane would catch fire. It passed us and disappeared, but our plane was still affected: I looked at the wings, covered with electric discharges. **Reference:** Interview with Surikov by English television producers Lawrence Moore and Livia Russel in Moscow in 1994 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1944.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_524 ### Event 4112 (7B494CC1) **Date:** 12/23/1944 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Beginning of the supposed operation [Uranus](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/1944\_Uranus.html). **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1944.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_525 ### Event 4113 (32AB3432) **Date:** 12/23/1944 **End date:** 12/24/1944 **Location:** Unknown City, Germany **Description:** Red streak in sky. (Page 103,130 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_229 ### Event 4114 (943A858F) **Date:** 12/23/1944 **End date:** 12/24/1944 **Location:** Unknown City, Germany **Description:** Glowing red object shooting straight up; appeared to be aircraft doing a wingover and going into a dive and disappearing. (Page 103,130 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_230 ### Event 4115 (F9D14D95) **Date:** 12/23/1944 **Locations:** Blackstone; Richmond, Virginia; Naval Air Station Pasco, Washington **Description:** Night. Navy Lt. [George Arents III](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/184270993/george-arents) and copilot Lt. Elon Forster are flying a military DC-3 at 9,000 feet between Blackstone and Richmond, Virginia, when they notice a cigar-shaped object hovering below them at about 4,000 feet. It appears to be 200 feet long and has two horizontal rows of blue-lighted windows and a flaming exhaust coming out of its tail. \(Jan Aldrich\) Late December through February 1945 — Radar operators at Naval Air Station Pasco, Washington, report unusual blips that appear out of nowhere and proceed from northwest to southeast. A Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter is scrambled on at least two occasions with orders to shoot down anything that appears to be hostile, but nothing is seen. In another incident, Lt. JG Clarence R. Clem accompanies Lt. Commander Richard Brown and Ensign C. T. Neal to a waiting aircraft and Brown takes off in pursuit of a ball of fire that quickly leaves him behind as it speeds off to the northwest and is lost to radar. On another occasion, naval officer R. W. Hendershot, flying an SNJ aircraft, is asked by ground radar to make contact with two high-altitude blips flying at the speed of a single- engine Piper Cub. Though he can see nothing, he is convinced the blips are real. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Strange Company 142; Nukes 43–44; Project 1947, “[UFOs over Hanford: Cdr. R. W. Hendershot,](http://www.nicap.org/reports/1945%5Fhanford%5Freport.pdf)” June 22, 2014; Robert L. Hastings, “[Reports](https://www.ufohastings.com/index.php/articles/reports-confirm-ufo-activity-at-the-hanford-nuclear-weapons-plant-during-world-war-ii) [Confirm UFO Activity at the Hanford Nuclear Weapons Plant during World War II,](https://www.ufohastings.com/index.php/articles/reports-confirm-ufo-activity-at-the-hanford-nuclear-weapons-plant-during-world-war-ii)” UFOs & Nukes, August 9, 2015; Headquarters Fourth Air Force, “[Air Defense Measures at Hanford Engineering Company,](https://www.ufohastings.com/storage/files/image/2015-08-08/hanford%5F1945%5F1.png)” January 23, 1945; Robert L. Hastings, “[Former US Navy Pilot Says Huge Fireball Maneuvered above the Hanford Atomic](https://www.ufohastings.com/index.php/articles/former-us-navy-pilot-says-huge-fireball-maneuvered-above-the-hanford-atomic-plant) [Plant during World War II,](https://www.ufohastings.com/index.php/articles/former-us-navy-pilot-says-huge-fireball-maneuvered-above-the-hanford-atomic-plant)” UFOs & Nukes, October 5, 2015 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_673 ### Event 4116 (4FF4F62E) **Date:** 12/24/1944 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** KARLSRUHE, GERM **Description:** Red ball going up [to] and paces US fighters. Can't shake it. Rises and away. News item. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_524 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "KARLSRUHE,GERM:RED BALL ↑+PACES US FIGHTERS:CANT SHAKE IT:RISES+AWAY:news item", **LatLong:** "49.000002 8.383334", **LatLongDMS:** "49:00:00 N 08:23:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.000002,8.383334)", **State/Prov:** "Bade-Wurtemberg", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4117 (D6DB790C) **Date:** 12/24/1944 **Description:** A red ball of light climbed to the altitude of a Beaufighter from the 415TH NFS squadron while it was flying over Karisruhe, Germany on this night. The two man crew, Baker and McFalls, watched the light pace their aircraft for awhile and then climb away from them. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p 126; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. and Harold Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 117 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8584 ### Event 4118 (F7D98973) **Date:** 12/26/1944 **End date:** 12/27/1944 **Location:** Unknown City, Germany **Description:** Multiple sightings: red balls of fire; two yellow streaks of flame & disappeared from view; the crew thought they felt prop wash; a group of lights that made distinct lines, somewhat like arrows; row of vertical white lights. (Page 103,131 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_231 ### Event 4119 (E730D003) **Date:** 12/26/1944 **End date:** 12/27/1944 **Location:** Worms, Germany **Description:** Circular, fiery ball; triangle of ovals three circular, reddish-blue in color, vivid lights, looking like flames, in a tight inverted triangle formation. (Page 104-106 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_232 ### Event 4120 (77437B3E) **Date:** 12/27/1944 **Location:** Luneville, France **Description:** Two sets of three red and white lights. (Page 107-108,131 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_233 ### Event 4121 (ECDAE633) **Date:** 12/27/1944 **Location:** Unknown City, France **Description:** Orange lights, singly and in pairs, suspended in air, moving slowly before disappearing. (Page 108 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_234 ### Event 4122 (BB169054) **Date:** 12/28/1944 **Location:** GERMANY **Description:** (Translated from French) (415th Bombers) The first patrol saw two sets of three red and white lights, one appeared on the right side, the other straight ahead, at an altitude of 1000 to 2000 feet. When (the pilot) Beau put the throttle forward for interception, the lights went out. Nothing on the radar at the moment. Then lights were seen suspended in the sky on a slow erratic trajectory. They were orange in color, appearing singly or in pairs. These lights were observed 4 or 5 times by the patrol. **Reference:** Greenwood, Barry; Just Cause, no. 32, p. 1, June 1992.:Source: microfilm roll containing the Unit History and War Diary of the 415th was obtained from the U.S. Air Force. Frames 1613 and 1614. **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1046 ### Event 4123 (D8643659) **Date:** 12/28/1944 **Location:** Neuwied / Koblenz, Germany **Description:** A green ball about six inches in diameter; motionless and did not appear to have anything supporting it. (Page 108 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_235 ### Event 4124 (1930813E) **Date:** 12/28/1944 **Location:** Ardennes, Belgium **Description:** Large white light; no radar contact; went straight up at a tremendous speed; disappeared. (Page 108-110 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_236 ### Event 4125 (858D58B5) **Date:** 12/31/1944 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) AP journalist Bob Wilson is with the 415th Squadron to investigate the [foo fighters](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/FooFighters.html). He interviews the men until 4am, and appears the next day. (December 31) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1944.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_526 --- ## Year: 1945, 288 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 4126 (5BE54D44) **Date:** 1945 **Location:** Los Alamos, NM **Description:** Green Fireballs seen in Southwestern US **Type:** anomalous phenomenon **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_85 ### Event 4127 (49621FA4) **Date:** 1945 **Location:** New Jersey **Description:** (Approximate date.) Radar signals secretly bounced off the Moon during WW2 according to a public statement by Dr. Oliver J. Lee. **Type:** scientific advance **Reference:** [link](https://medium.com/@richgel99/we-secretly-bounced-radar-signals-off-the-moon-during-ww2-f4699297038f) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_86 ### Event 4128 (EB070EC9) **Date:** 1945 **Location:** Ozyorsk, Russia **Description:** Soviet underground city Ozyorsk starts construction, using 70,000 prisoners from 12 labor camps. Later turned into the “Chelyabinsk-40” atomic bomb project plant opened (Plutonium production, component manufacturing). Now one of the most contaminated places on Earth. **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [link](https://sometimes-interesting.com/the-most-contaminated-place-on-earth-chelyabinsk-40/) **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_209 **See also:** 1947 ### Event 4129 (3B825533) **Date:** 1945 **Location:** USA, High Bridge, New Jersey **Description:** (Translated from French) (cf: 1944, Howard Menger) Howard Menger sees the saucer again with the woman from his very first observation. She tells him she is 500 years old [note from vog: see beginning of April 1946, by another author, who seems to be a bit confused about Menger's itinerary and curriculum] (1945, After the War) **Reference:** Mitarbeiter, "Ufo Geheimnisse", Berlin, January 1998 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1049 ### Event 4130 (9BF89820) **Date:** 1945 **Location:** USA, Kinsport (Tennessee) **Description:** (Translated from French) Charles Hamlet and Edward Cate observed one evening a UFO in the shape of a chimney, very colorful, which crossed the sky at great speed. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 272 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1073 ### Event 4131 (30ADB46B) **Date:** 1945 **Location:** ITALY, Livorno **Description:** (Translated from French) Luigi Donati saw a large, luminous disc topped with a dome illuminated by a greenish light. The UFO emitted a violet smoke and was heading northeast at an altitude of barely 50 m. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 272 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1074 ### Event 4132 (713BC50E) **Date:** 1945 **Location:** BELGIUM, Tongres **Description:** (Translated from French) Jean-Paul Kellens, 10 years old, was in front of his family home, at the crossroads of the road leading from Koninksem, when he saw a luminous rectangular object coming from Saint-Trond, apparently flying at a high altitude. The outlines of the UFO seemed to be surrounded by a halo and its movement from west to east was perfectly silent. As this object arrived directly above the young witness, he was very impressed and immediately went back home. As he ran through a small room, the young boy suddenly began to levitate: he left the ground, rose to the ceiling and immediately fell back onto the floor. This phenomenon took place smoothly, the boy suffering no harm. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 272 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1075 ### Event 4133 (CDF6B1D7) **Date:** 1945 **Location:** FRANCE, Puy-de-Dôme **Description:** (Translated from French) Mr. Pommier (residing on the Issoire road, Landa Observatory) is a passenger in a truck driven by a German prisoner of war. The driver suddenly sees a dazzling light above his vehicle. At the same time, the engine stalls after a few jerks. The two witnesses then simultaneously see an egg-shaped flattened object landing a few meters from the road. After a few moments, the object takes off and the truck can start again. (1945 (or 1946)) **Reference:** M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: "Ovni, Premier dossier complet..." - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 644 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1076 ### Event 4134 (1D5CDE36) **Date:** 1945 **Location:** JAPAN, Nagasaki **Description:** (Translated from French) AMERICAN ATOMIC BOMB DROPPED ON NAGASAKI. **Reference:** Jean-Gabriel GRESLE: UFO, a pilot speaks, ed. Guy Trédaniel, 1993, p.30 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1077 ### Event 4135 (62E8D4A3) **Date:** 1945 **Location:** USA, New Mexico **Description:** (Translated from French) Two successful atomic bomb tests in the USA. **Reference:** Jean-Gabriel GRESLE: OVNI, a pilot speaks, ed. Guy Trédaniel, 1993, p.30 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1078 ### Event 4136 (0FC7A6B5) **Date:** 1945 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Photo of Jack LeMonde circa 1945, showing [what is likely a lamp](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://www.nidsci.org/news/lemonde\_update.php). See image at images/1945_LeMondeJack_2.jpg. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1945.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_528 ### Event 4137 (18A89B1A) **Date:** 1945 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Photo of [Jack LeMonde](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/mailto:jacktar@worldnet.att.net) taken in Burbank \(California\) at Pickwick Riding Stables. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1945.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_529 ### Event 4138 (40EB14EE) **Date:** 1945 **Location:** Habbebishopsheim, Germany **Description:** An American soldier saw a disk-shaped object come down rapidly, oscillate, and land. The site could not be found in the dark. The event took place 35 km northwest of the town. (Magonia #52, Atic) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_240 ### Event 4139 (B92BD63F) **Date:** 1945 **Location:** Hanford Nuclear Plant, WA **Description:** Hanford Nuclear Plant, Washington, (M) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [450000](http://www.nicap.org/45XXXXhanforddir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_241 ### Event 4140 (B7B5A718) **Date:** 1945 **Location:** Okinawa (near), Guam **Description:** Nr. Okinawa, G (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [450000](http://www.nicap.org/45XXXXguamdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_242 ### Event 4141 (7ABBB44E) **Date:** 1945 **Location:** Habbebishopsheim, Germany **Description:** An American soldier saw a disk-shaped object come down rapidly, oscillate, and land. The site could not be found in the dark. The event took place 35 km northwest of the town. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_52 ### Event 4142 (C11E9577) **Date:** 1945 **Location:** Belfast, Maine **Description:** A hunter reportedly saw an elongated UFO land in a clearing in the woods. After briefly resting on the ground, the craft made a humming sound, began revolving, and ascended directly upwards. As it vanished from sight, it released a shower of fine, silvery, thread-like material, later whimsically referred to as "angel hair." (Chapter 7, Ref. 247) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_238 ### Event 4143 (AA3C955F) **Date:** 1945 **Location:** Auberry, California **Description:** Two women driving near a town encountered a hovering, cigar-shaped UFO, during which their car's engine suddenly stalled. When the UFO departed, the engine restarted on its own. The object displayed various colors and glided slowly parallel to the ground before rapidly departing. (Chapter 7, Ref. 248) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_239 ### Event 4144 (ACD5B321) **Date:** 1945 **Location:** Okinawa **Description:** An American artillery officer on Okinawa reported seeing a peculiar aerial phenomenon. On a clear, moonlit night, he observed a bright light coming from the tail of a cigar-shaped object. This object, which emitted no light except from its tail, passed him at a proximity of about 500 yards. He estimated its speed between 200 to 300 mph and its altitude under 400 feet, since it appeared to fly at his eye level while he was around 200 feet above the sea. The object, which lacked wings and visible ports, was roughly 30 to 40 feet in length with a diameter between six to eight feet. It moved silently and consistently along the coast until vanishing from view. (Chapter 7, Ref. 257) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_249 ### Event 4145 (B227586C) **Date:** 1945 **Location:** Near Okinawa **Description:** The crew of a Marine transport plane reported seeing two distinct UFO types. In clear conditions and roughly 1/4 mile away, they identified a large cigar-shaped object accompanied by three smaller, metallic-looking discs. These three discs appeared to merge into the larger structure, which subsequently accelerated at an incredible pace and vanished from sight. (Chapter 7, Ref. 258) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_250 ### Event 4146 (687EA7BF) **Date:** 1945 **Location:** WW2 Pacific Theater **Description:** An Army transport named "Delarof" had a unique UFO encounter when an unidentified object emerged from the ocean and circled the ship. At least 14 crew members witnessed the event, with one estimating the UFO's size to be between 150 and 250 feet in diameter. The object moved silently and smoothly. After circling the ship a couple of times, it flew off in a southerly or southwesterly direction. (Chapter 7, Ref. 259) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_251 ### Event 4147 (DC6B4963) **Date:** 1945 **Location:** WW2 Pacific Theater **Description:** The crew of the aircraft carrier "Essex" detected a UFO on radar approaching at 40,000 feet and 4,000 miles per hour. Recognizing the unusual speed and altitude, which exceeded known aircraft capabilities, the crew observed the UFO make a right angle drop, stopping around 20 feet above the water, near the fleet. The object hovered there, seemingly pacing the fleet. The decision was made to fire upon it. Despite direct hits, all projectiles seemed to explode a short distance away from the UFO, as if stopped by an invisible shield. The UFO then began to move slowly, taking a tour around the fleet. After some time, it abruptly accelerated back to its initial speed, making another right angle turn. Although the event was heavily documented, it was ultimately logged as "an unidentified bogey." The UFO was described as spherical and roughly 100 feet in diameter. (Chapter 7, Ref. 260) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_252 ### Event 4148 (E791F914) **Date:** 1945 **Location:** Near the German-Dutch border **Description:** An American bomber returning from a raid on Berlin encountered a cigar-shaped object near the German-Dutch border. The object observed the B-17 closely. When one of the aircraft's gunners fired at the UFO, there appeared to be no effect, after which the object rapidly departed from their vicinity. (Chapter 7, Ref. 271) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_263 ### Event 4149 (1298F07F) **Date:** 1945 **Location:** Japan **Description:** During raids over Japan, B-29 formations reported being followed by "red balls of fire" roughly the size of a basketball with a phosphorescent glow, some even having blinking tails. These mysterious objects appeared suddenly and were adept at tracking the B-29s through intricate maneuvers, changes in altitude, speed, and even through clouds. The longest an object pursued a B-29 was for 30 miles out to sea, and one was only outpaced when the B-29 accelerated to 295 miles per hour. The origin of these objects was unknown, but there was speculation about some form of radio-direction from the ground or enemy aircraft. (Chapter 7, Ref 278) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_270 ### Event 4150 (6059B495) **Date:** 1945 **Location:** Near Darmstadt, Germany **Description:** Members of a U.S. armored division observed six or seven bright yellow-orange globes flying in formation at about 150 feet above ground. These orbs, each measuring 3-4 feet in diameter, moved erratically, suggesting individual control. They illuminated the trees below as they flew and eventually descended slowly, about 10 mph, disappearing into the forest. The soldiers could track their glow for an additional five minutes before they were out of sight. (Chapter 7, Ref 280) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_272 ### Event 4151 (8D1F4D74) **Date:** 1945 **Location:** US **Description:** During WWII, evidence suggests that the Third Reich's scientists developed advanced aerial devices surpassing the Allies' capabilities. A 1945 memo from a U.S. Army general to an Army Air Force general highlighted that the occupation of German scientific and industrial sites revealed the Allies' significant backwardness in many research fields. The general emphasized the urgent need to seize German technology and expertise to prevent the Allies from lagging behind in technological advancements. (Chapter 7, Ref 285) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_277 ### Event 4152 (76540E3F) **Date:** 1945 **Location:** Bavaria **Description:** During WWII, interrogations of captured German aircraft engineers revealed the development of a rocket-powered aircraft with a semi-circular wing that integrated into the fuselage. This aircraft was being developed at a secret facility in the mountains. (Chapter 7, Ref 286) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_278 ### Event 4153 (D10E543D) **Date:** 1945 **Location:** Harz Mountains **Description:** Approximate date. A former member of the US Army counter-intelligence claimed to have examined an advanced German aerial device in a clandestine facility in the Harz Mountains. The craft was large, cylindrical, painted gray-green, with no insignia, and rested on two wide skids. It appeared to be partially assembled, and it seemed the Germans had hastily removed its propulsion system and other sensitive components as the U.S. Army approached. The craft had a somewhat flat bottom, a rounded top, a rounded nose, thick-glassed front windows (one broken), and porthole windows on its sides. The exterior was smooth with riveted joints. It was vast, larger than any WWII submarine, with an estimated length of several hundred feet. It was believed the Germans designed it for lunar missions and that all operational versions of this craft had been flown to South America and Africa. (Chapter 7, Ref 293. Note the author only lists as a reference "Internet posting", with no URL provided. Also see [this post](https://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/off-topic-forum-cars-trucks-buggies-more-392/9229084-wizard-investigates-german-ww2-technology-2.html).) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_285 ### Event 4154 (D8B8E850) **Date:** 1945 **Location:** Finland **Description:** A woman witnessed a 35-foot bright ball of fire approaching her from over a lake, causing her to take cover. After the anticipated impact didn't occur, she noticed a petrified large dog staring at an unusual "canoe" with two men. One stood wearing green coveralls, while the other sat, seemingly operating an engine within a clear globe. (Chapter 7, Ref 307) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_298 ### Event 4155 (E606401C) **Date:** 1945 **Location:** Argentina **Description:** Admiral Karl Doenitz didn't specify the location of this secret refuge, but speculation primarily focused on South America, particularly due to the presence of large German immigrant communities and sympathetic governments in countries like Argentina and Paraguay. A 1945 U.S. Treasury memo even highlighted Argentina as a potential haven for Nazi criminals and a center for Nazi financial activity in the hemisphere. (Chapter 8, Ref 312) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_303 ### Event 4156 (12788564) **Date:** 1945 **Location:** Argentina **Description:** Approximate date. General Juan Peron's military dictatorship, with his wife Eva ("Evita"), allegedly provided up to 10,000 blank Argentinian passports to clandestine Nazi escape networks in Europe, especially from Italy and Spain, after the war. (Chapter 8, Ref 313) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_304 ### Event 4157 (C6BE4A01) **Date:** 1945 **Location:** Argentina **Description:** Approximate date. Several former members of the Nazi regime wanted for war crimes, including concentration camp director Adolph Eichmann, Auschwitz doctor Joseph Mengele, and Hitler's deputy Martin Bormann, reportedly took refuge in Argentina post-war. Eichmann was later kidnapped by Israeli agents, while Mengele and Bormann are believed to have died in South America during their time in hiding. (Chapter 8, Ref 314) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_305 ### Event 4158 (DF027436) **Date:** 1945 **Location:** Sweden **Description:** Phantom fliers frequently circled strategic installations and inspected them with searchlights. An air force general released a statement confirming illegal air traffic over secret military areas, emphasizing that reliable witnesses made numerous reports. In all cases, no insignias or identifying marks were visible on the aircraft. (Chapter 9, Ref 368) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_360 ### Event 4159 (0100EE72) **Date:** Mid 1940's **Location:** Scandinavia **Description:** Following the Second World War, Scandinavia witnessed thousands of reports of missile-like objects, often termed "ghost rockets," streaking across its skies, with some reportedly impacting the terrain. Concerned by the phenomenon, the U.S. government discreetly sent aviation expert General James Doolittle to investigate, framing it as a business trip. (Chapter 9, Ref 370) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_362 ### Event 4160 (989FCAFC) **Date:** 1/1945 **Location:** Germany **Description:** Three red-white lighted objects pace fighter. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973_, by Richard Dolan](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/mode/2up) **Source:** Dolan, **ID:** Dolan_9 ### Event 4161 (DD3F6672) **Date:** 1/1945 **Location:** France **Description:** Pilot paced by object that zooms into sky. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973_, by Richard Dolan](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/mode/2up) **Source:** Dolan, **ID:** Dolan_10 ### Event 4162 (963FD17C) **Date:** 1/1945 **Location:** Unknown City, Germany **Description:** Another 415th Night Fighter Squadron pilot was followed by three red and white lighted objects over Germany. \[NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall, III\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_243 ### Event 4163 (986301D4) **Date:** 1/1945 **Location:** Lemuria **Description:** [Ray Palmer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%5FA.%5FPalmer) edits, rewrites, and publishes Richard S. Shaver’s description of the cave-dwelling Dero for the March 1945 issue of Amazing Stories under the title “I Remember Lemuria.” The issue sells out and generates quite a response. Between 1945 and 1949, many letters arrive attesting to the truth of Shaver’s claims \(tens of thousands of letters, according to Palmer\). The correspondents claim that they, too, have heard strange voices or encountered denizens of the Hollow Earth. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Richard Sharpe Shaver](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FSharpe%5FShaver)”; Richard S. Shaver, “[‘I](https://ia802506.us.archive.org/0/items/Amazing%5FStories%5Fv19n01%5F1945-03%5FZiff-Daviscape1736/Amazing%20Stories%20v19n01%201945-03%20%28Ziff-Davis%29%28cape1736%29.pdf) [Remember Lemuria,’](https://ia802506.us.archive.org/0/items/Amazing%5FStories%5Fv19n01%5F1945-03%5FZiff-Daviscape1736/Amazing%20Stories%20v19n01%201945-03%20%28Ziff-Davis%29%28cape1736%29.pdf)” Amazing Stories 19, no. 1 \(March 1945\): 12–70; Walter Kafton-Minkel, Subterranean Worlds, Loompanics, 1989, [pp. 137–144](https://archive.org/details/subterraneanworldswalterkaftonminkel100000yearsofdragonsdwarfsthedeadlostracesufosfrominsidetheearth/page/n141/mode/2up); Clark III 872, 1069; Richard Toronto, War over Lemuria: Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer, and the Strangest Chapter of 1940s Science Fiction, McFarland, 2013; David Halperin, “[The](https://www.davidhalperin.net/the-shaver-mystery-richard-shaver-ray-palmer-and-the-quest-for-lemuria-part-1/) [Shaver Mystery—Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer, and the Quest for Lemuria \(Part 1\),](https://www.davidhalperin.net/the-shaver-mystery-richard-shaver-ray-palmer-and-the-quest-for-lemuria-part-1/)” July 4, 2014 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_674 ### Event 4164 (F831EA99) **Date:** 1/1/1945 **Location:** Ardennes, Belgium **Description:** Pair of fog lights; bright yellowish orange; flying in tandem; three feet in diameter. (Page 114-117 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_244 ### Event 4165 (9A553517) **Date:** 1/1/1945 **End date:** 1/2/1945 **Location:** Strasbourg (north of), France **Description:** Foo fighters. (Page 131 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_245 ### Event 4166 (B23091BB) **Date:** 1/2/1945 **Locations:** Netherlands; Northern Germany **Description:** 2:30 a.m. USAAF Lieut. Jack Green and navigator Lieut. Warren Barber, 653rd Bombardment Squadron, are conducting a reconnaissance flight in a Mosquito over the Netherlands and northern Germany when they encounter two balls of fire on three occasions pacing their plane. Barber describes them as a “pair of fog lights, shooting up to 60 or 70,000 feet.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Strange Company 114–116, 208–209 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_675 ### Event 4167 (FB76EEE0) **Date:** 1/2/1945 **Locations:** New York Times; Rhine Valley [Germany] **Description:** The New York Times publishes an article stating that the foo fighters are German weapons. Lieut. Donald J. Meiers of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron says he has been followed by foo-fighters twice. “A foo-fighter picked me up at 700 feet and chased me 20 miles down the Rhine Valley \[Germany\]. I turned to starboard and two balls of fire turned with me. I turned to the port side and they turned with me. We were going 260 miles an hour and the balls were keeping right up with us.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Balls of Fire Stalk U.S. Fighters in Night Assaults over](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1945/01/02/84625631.pdf) [Germany,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1945/01/02/84625631.pdf)” New York Times, January 2, 1945, pp. 1, 4; Strange Company 117–118 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_676 ### Event 4168 (7E0EA851) **Date:** 1/2/1945 **Locations:** Pentagon; Paris **Description:** Col. [Clayton Lawrence Bissell,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayton%5FLawrence%5FBissell) in the Pentagon’s Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, sends SHAEF in Paris a classified message seeking an explanation for the red balls of fire pacing planes. No response has been located to date. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** \[Clayton Lawrence\] Bissell, \[[message](http://www.project1947.com/fig/2%5FJanuary%5F1945%5Fwdgbi.pdf)\], January 2, 1945; Project 1947, “[UFO](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1945a.htm) [Reports, 1945](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1945a.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_677 ### Event 4169 (A35D1684) **Date:** 1/10/1945 **Location:** Iwo Jima, Japan **Description:** An amber light pass parallel and at same altitude. (Page 125 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_246 ### Event 4170 (C8590DE0) **Date:** 1/12/1945? **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** RHINE VALLEY, GERM **Description:** J. Thompson / P51. 4-5 silvery football shapes. A common sight. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_525 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "200", **HatchDesc:** "RHINE VLY,GERM:J.THOMPSON/P51:4-5 SLVRY FOOTBALL SHAPES:a common sight", **LatLong:** "50.000002 8.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "50:00:00 N 08:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.000002,8.000000)", **State/Prov:** "RHP", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4171 (4A2C7622) **Date:** 1/14/1945 **End date:** 1/15/1945 **Location:** Ingweiller, Germany **Description:** A large orange glow in sky approx. 5 ft. in diameter. (Page 131 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_247 ### Event 4172 (A58EE8CD) **Date:** 1/16/1945 **Description:** Lt. Col. [Leavitt Corning Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6360350/leavitt-corning) of the XII Tactical Air Command sends a secret memo to the assistant chief of air intelligence requesting further information on the “Night Phenomenon.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Strange Company 126–127 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_678 ### Event 4173 (0119BBC8) **Date:** 1/18/1945 **Location:** Vancouver Island, CAN **Description:** Large silvery cylinder or balloon that appeared to discharge another balloon or object, each traveling in separate directions. (Page 132 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_248 ### Event 4174 (D12FBF2F) **Date:** 1/20/1945 **Location:** Corning **Description:** First Tactical Air Force Executive Officer Maj. [Samuel V. Boykin](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38941869/samuel-woodson%5Fvenable-boykin) responds to [Corning](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6360350/leavitt-corning) asking for more particulars about the reports. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Strange Company 127 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_679 ### Event 4175 (C7CA4C52) **Date:** 1/22/1945 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** NEAR HEYDEBRECK = KEDZIERZYN, POLAND **Description:** Allied prisoners of war / ground. White football follows bomber / 18K'. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RANDLES, Jenny & Warrington, P.: SCIENCE and the UFO'S; Basil Blackwell, NY 1985 (Index 9) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_526 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Poland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "nr HEYDEBRECK=KEDZIERZYN,POLAND:ALLIED POWS/GND:WHT FOOTBALL FOLOS BOMBER/18K'", **LatLong:** "50.350002 18.177779", **LatLongDMS:** "50:21:00 N 18:10:40 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.350002,18.177779)", **State/Prov:** "UPS", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4176 (64B99645) **Date:** 1/22/1945 **Locations:** German Heydebreck labor camp; Kędzierzyn-Koźle, Poland **Description:** British prisoners being force-marched out of the German Heydebreck labor camp \(near modern Kędzierzyn-Koźle, Poland\) see a four-engine bomber overhead. Behind it is a “brilliant light” that is following it closely. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 503 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_680 ### Event 4177 (C15E66B7) **Date:** 1/22/1945 **Description:** On this afternoon Allied POWs on the ground watched a white, football-shaped object following a bomber at 18,000 feet between Heydebreck and Kedzierzyn, Poland. On the same day there was an unexplained skyquake in Louisville, Kentucky. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** (1) Jenny Randles, Science and the UFOs, p. 9; (2) George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 510, citing Tiffany Thayer, Doubt magazine, 1945, p. 172 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_405 ### Event 4178 (C29D9238) **Date:** 1/29/1945 **Location:** Wissembourg and Landau bt., Germany **Description:** Two amber colored lights about one foot in diameter. (Page 129,131 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_249 ### Event 4179 (4634D328) **Date:** 1/30/1945 **Locations:** Wissembourg, Bas-Rhin, France; Landau, Germany **Description:** 12:10 a.m. A 415th Night Fighter Squadron crew observes two amber-colored “lights in the air at 2,000 feet” between Wissembourg, Bas-Rhin, France, and Landau, Germany. They seem to be about a foot in diameter and 20–50 feet apart. The lights follow their Bristol Beaufighter, closing in to about 1,000 feet before disappearing. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Strange Company 129 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_681 ### Event 4180 (439B028F) **Date:** 1/30/1945 **Description:** Capt. [Fred B. Ringwald](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/135104859/fred-bertrand-ringwald)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/135104859/fred-bertrand-ringwald) intelligence officer for the 415 Night Fighter Squadron, responds to [Corning](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6360350/leavitt-corning)’s January 16 request by offering a summary of 14 foo fighter reports from December 14, 1944, to January 29, 1945. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Strange Company 129–132 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_682 ### Event 4181 (782C554E) **Date:** 2/1945 **Location:** San Diego, CA **Description:** Borderland Sciences Research Association (BSRA) Founded by Meade Layne. Works with expert medium Mark A. Probert. Their motto: "Serving Higher Intelligence since 1945". **Type:** ufological event **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_163 ### Event 4182 (C8AEF773) **Date:** 2/1945 **Location:** Chemnitz, Germany **Description:** Flying wing, giving off a yellowish-red intermittent glow. (Page 149 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_250 ### Event 4183 (A00EEDB2) **Date:** 2/1945 **Location:** San Diego, California **Description:** [Meade Layne](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meade%5FLayne) founds the Borderland Sciences Research Associates in San Diego, California, and publishes the first issue of its newsletter, The Round Robin. Working with local medium [Mark A. Probert,](https://hatch.kookscience.com/wiki/Mark%5FProbert) who channels “etheric” entities from discarnates with advanced knowledge of spirit and cosmos, Layne and BSRA seek to explore the mysteries of the invisible world. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Borderland Sciences Research Associates, \[[History](https://borderlandsciences.org/history/BSRA.html)\]; Clark III 876; Håkan Blomqvist, “[Round Robin](https://ufoarchives.blogspot.com/2014/03/round-robin-and-contactee-history.html) [and Contactee History,](https://ufoarchives.blogspot.com/2014/03/round-robin-and-contactee-history.html)” Håkan Blomqvist’s Blog, March 30, 2014 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_683 ### Event 4184 (4036A93A) **Date:** 2/1/1945 **Location:** Colmar, France **Description:** Unusual green light & moving rapidly. (Page 133 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_251 ### Event 4185 (A791C6E6) **Date:** 2/2/1945 **Locations:** Hanford; Los Alamos **Description:** The first Hanford plutonium arrives at Los Alamos. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Atomic Heritage Foundation, “[Atomic Timeline](https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/timeline)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_684 ### Event 4186 (A16C2D50) **Date:** 2/2/1945 **Locations:** Oranienburg, Germany; Gotha **Description:** The first flight of the H.IX V2 is made in Oranienburg, Germany. All subsequent test flights and development are done by Gothaer Waggonfabrik in Gotha. By this time, the [Horten brothers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten%5Fbrothers) are working on a turbojet-powered design for the Amerika Bomber contract competition and do not attend the first test flight. The test pilot is Leutnant [Erwin Ziller.](http://www.pilotenbunker.de/Unbek%5FHelden/Ziller%5FErwin/ziller%5Ferwin.htm) Two further test flights are made in February. There are reports that during one of these test flights, the H.IX V2 undertook a simulated dogfight with a Messerschmitt Me 262, the first operational jet fighter, and that the H.IX V2 outperformed the Me 262. However, the Me 262 is considered by many as unsuitable for fighter missions, being slow in turning. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Horton Ho 229](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten%5FHo%5F229)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_685 ### Event 4187 (7DEFB409) **Date:** 2/4/1945 **Location:** Frankfurt, Germany **Description:** Two sightings: stationary object of tear-drop shape, resembling a balloon; shiny silver ball looking like a very bright weather balloon with a metal sheen. (Page 59 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_252 ### Event 4188 (09A8372F) **Date:** 2/4/1945 **Location:** Dutch Coast, Holland **Description:** One long black stationary object, similar to a small flak burst floating. (Page 59 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_253 ### Event 4189 (1E5FAABC) **Date:** 2/7/1945 **Locations:** Ulithi Atoll; Caroline Islands **Description:** Afternoon. Several F6F fighters on patrol \(one piloted by Ensign [Norman P. Stark](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/50418180/norman-paul%5Fnorm%5F-stark)\) from the [USS Wasp](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FWasp%5F%28CV-18%29) aircraft carrier anchored at Ulithi Atoll in the Caroline Islands are told to investigate a radar target at 30,000 feet some 10 miles west of the fleet. Before they can reach altitude, the object moves back to the west at high speed. They catch a brief visual glimpse of it. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** LCDR Norman P. Stark, “[A WWII F6F Navy Fighter Pilot’s Experiences](http://www.battleofsaipan.com/Nstark000101.htm\#Liberty%5Fat%5FMog) [in the Pacific,](http://www.battleofsaipan.com/Nstark000101.htm\#Liberty%5Fat%5FMog)” Battle of Saipan, January 1, 2000 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_686 ### Event 4190 (C29FDE01) **Date:** 2/8/1945 **Location:** Frankfurt, Germany **Description:** Silver-colored ball-like object changing stationary. (Page 59 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_254 ### Event 4191 (57EF819C) **Date:** 2/8/1945 **Location:** Strasbourg (near), France **Description:** Yellow light. (Page 133 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_255 ### Event 4192 (43466DA0) **Date:** 2/9/1945 **End date:** 2/10/1945 **Location:** Riegel, Germany **Description:** Very bright light moving slowly. (Page 133 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_256 ### Event 4193 (4DE3F439) **Date:** 2/10/1945 **Locations:** Chicago; Washington **Description:** The Chicago Tribune and Washington Times-Herald reveal [Bill Donovan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FJ.%5FDonovan)’s plans for a postwar intelligence agency and publishes a secret memo he has sent to [Roosevelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%5FD.%5FRoosevelt) proposing its creation. The article compares the proposed agency to the Gestapo. Knowing that Americans want a smaller federal government after the war, Roosevelt is not entirely sold on Donovan’s proposal, although Donovan feels reasonably confident that he can talk the president into the idea. [J. Edgar Hoover](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FEdgar%5FHoover) disapproves of Donovan’s plan, which he sees as a direct threat to FBI authority, even though Donovan has stressed that his agency will operate only abroad, not domestically. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Walter Trohan, “[Super-Spy Idea Denounced As New Deal OGPU,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92406563/)” Chicago Tribune, February 10, 1945, p. 1; Central Intelligence Agency, “[Origins of CIA,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP75B00380R000700080025-4.pdf)” August 3, 2005; Mark Riebling, Wedge: From Pearl Harbor to 9/11, Simon & Schuster, 2002, [pp. 59–61](https://archive.org/details/wedgefrompearlha0000rieb/page/58/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_687 ### Event 4194 (8F50DC5F) **Date:** 2/11/1945 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) [Roosevelt](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/RooseveltFranklinDelano.html) meets [Churchill](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/ChurchillWinston.html) and [Staline](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/StalineJoseph.html) at the Yalta Conference. (February 11) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1945.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_530 ### Event 4195 (75E86B6F) **Date:** 2/11/1945 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Signing of the [Paperclip](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Paperclip.html) Operation Treaty to prepare for the post-war, but in a blatant and early violation of the Yalta agreements. This treaty, concluded by the English, American and Russian heads of state, places the German V2 factory of Dora-Mittlebau under Russian control. Yet, the American secret services decide to take possession of everything that can be taken from the factory. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1945.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_531 ### Event 4196 (04B368BC) **Date:** 2/11/1945 **Description:** Air Commodore [Colin McKay Grierson,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin%5FMcKay%5FGrierson) RAF assistant chief of staff A2, refers [Ringwald](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/135104859/fred-bertrand-ringwald)’s report to the Air Ministry. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Strange Company 133–134 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_688 ### Event 4197 (118107ED) **Date:** 2/13/1945 **Time:** 19:10 **Location:** NEAR RASTATT, GERM **Description:** Several USAAF pilots see 3 groups / night lights at 700M altitude. / Don Berliner and more/others. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique; UAP: 80 Years of Pilot Sightings Privately published. 7 avenue Bartholome. 75015 Paris, FRANCE. (Index 2) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_527 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "nr RASTATT,GERM:SVRL USAAF PILOTS see 3 GROUPS/NLTS @ 700M alt:/D.BERLINER++", **LatLong:** "48.850002 8.250000", **LatLongDMS:** "48:51:00 N 08:15:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.850002,8.250000)", **State/Prov:** "Bade-Wurtemberg", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 4198 (7388533D) **Date:** 2/13/1945 **End date:** 2/14/1945 **Location:** Rastatt and Bishwiller bt., Germany **Description:** Two sets of lights; separated after being attacked and then returned to original position. (Page 136 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_257 ### Event 4199 (3EF2E61A) **Date:** 2/14/1945 **Location:** CZECHOSLOVAKIA, Prague **Description:** (Translated from French) (cf: 1939-1940? Germany) We know, with certainty (note from vog: yes? do you swear to tell only the truth without exaggeration?), that Schriever and Habermohl tried their flying saucer for the first time in Prague on 2.14.45 and that in 3 minutes it reached a height of 12400 meters at a horizontal speed of 2000 km/h. According to the engineers, the speed could have been increased to more than 4000 km/h. It is impossible to make any hypotheses about what was said about these saucers after their tests because all the observations, notes etc... that remained in German offices were sequestered by the Allies when they entered Germany. It is not doubtful that much was expected from them because the Reich had not hesitated to unlock the millions necessary to have materials that could withstand extraordinary speeds and staggering temperatures. (...) [note from vog: I have not found any serious documentation on this subject...] (February 14, 1945) **Reference:** Peter KOLOSIMO: "Shadows on the Stars" - Albin Michel 1970, p. 324 **Reference:** continued 1949, north of Mexico **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1050 ### Event 4200 (6CF8AF1A) **Date:** 2/14/1945 **End date:** 2/15/1945 **Location:** Freiburg, Germany **Description:** String of lights & (1 red one in center, 4 white ones on each side) blinking off and on. (Page 136 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_258 ### Event 4201 (A9DAE883) **Date:** 2/14/1945 **Location:** Prague **Description:** A scientist involved in the development of America's atomic bomb stated that the earliest "flying saucers" were circular, with a 45-yard diameter, and were constructed by specialists Schriever, Habermohl, and Miethe. These crafts first flew over Prague on February 14, 1945, reaching a height of nearly eight miles in three minutes and achieving speeds up to 1,250 miles per hour. This speed was later doubled in subsequent tests. Habermohl is believed to have been captured by the Russians, while Miethe later developed similar crafts for the A.V. Roe Company in the United States. (Chapter 7, Ref 288) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_280 ### Event 4202 (E45DE132) **Date:** 2/15/1945 **End date:** 2/16/1945 **Location:** Pisa, Italy **Description:** Multiple sightings: flare; flare that seemed to spiral. (Page 136 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_259 ### Event 4203 (84C07AD2) **Date:** 2/15/1945 **End date:** 2/16/1945 **Location:** Viareggio, Italy **Description:** Alleged jet; multiple spurts of flame; no radar return. (Page 136 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_260 ### Event 4204 (36E9DC14) **Date:** Mid 2/1945 **Locations:** Biggs Field; Fort Bliss; El Paso, Texas **Description:** As their C-47 prepares to land at Biggs Field, Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas, S/Sgt Ralph Bayer is alarmed to see an aircraft approaching from the left and only 900 feet below them. The object is about 30 feet long and a dull, flat gray in color, and it travels in a straight course 500 feet above the ground until it disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 1178 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_689 ### Event 4205 (D24FAF81) **Date:** 2/16/1945 **Location:** La Spezia, Italy **Description:** Possible jet: dropped what looked like white flares; no radar contact. (Page 136- (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_261 ### Event 4206 (9A057743) **Date:** 2/17/1945 **Location:** ITALY, Central Po Valley **Description:** (Translated from French) - Mission No. 560, from 17:55 to 19:15: "West of Massa at 5-6000 feet altitude, a red ball was observed on a curved trajectory. At first it rose, then it went out and was lost from sight in the valley south of Massa. At the beginning the ball emitted sparks. It was not identified by the Mosquito Mark XXX as a Jet A/C. No other air traffic in the La Spezia - Parma area." - Mission No. 562, from 20:10 to 23:10 hours, GCI patrol Leghorn to La Spezia: "At 20:45 a sparkling light was observed by the Mosquito Mark XXX at a distance, at least 20 miles, too far away to intervene. It seemed to move near La Spezia and was seen for 45 seconds. At 21:30 a white reddish flashing light was seen at a distance of 6 to 8 miles, still near La Spezia, at an altitude of 10,000 feet and traveling towards the NE. It was chased at a speed of 280MPH for a minute and a half. The light took an erratic trajectory and went out. At 21:40, the same light, or another identical one, was observed 10 miles south of La Spezia, flying first towards the north, then towards the east, at 9000 feet altitude. The pilot approached it up to 5 miles, suspecting it to be an Ack Ack trap. At 21:55, 10 miles south of La Spezia another (or the same) one headed towards the city and was chased by the pilot. It went away 10 or 15 miles north of La Spezia, the speed of the plane, 300 MPH, was insufficient to catch up. Information taken: no Ack Ack operation at La Spezia. However, at 22:50, 5 miles south of Pisa, an identical light was seen at a distance of 10 miles. It was chased for about two and a half minutes on its course towards the north. At 10,000 feet, it disappeared beyond the mountains." (February 17, 1945) **Reference:** source CPT C. S. Miller, A. C., Adjudant. cfr Archives Nationales **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1051 ### Event 4207 (8DD4244A) **Date:** 2/17/1945 **Location:** Po Valley (Central), Italy **Description:** Observed two very bright lights appear directly in front of aircraft; fired upon without result. (Page 137 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_262 ### Event 4208 (2913863C) **Date:** 2/17/1945 **Location:** Massa and Po Valley (Central), Italy **Description:** Red ball of fire that did not appear to be Jet A/C. (Page 137 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_263 ### Event 4209 (B9E93E94) **Date:** 2/17/1945 **End date:** 2/18/1945 **Location:** La Spezia, Italy **Description:** Multiple sightings:(1) blinking light; (2) reddish white light going off and on in spurts, faded out during chase; (3) light, a glow alternating between weak and (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_264 ### Event 4210 (3B90E9E5) **Date:** 2/18/1945 **Location:** Gotha, Germany **Description:** Disaster strikes during the third test flight of the H.IX V2 in Gotha, Germany. [Erwin Ziller](http://www.pilotenbunker.de/Unbek%5FHelden/Ziller%5FErwin/ziller%5Ferwin.htm) takes off without any problems to perform a series of flight tests. After about 45 minutes, at an altitude of around 800 meters, one of the Jumo 004 turbojet engines develops a problem, catches fire and stops. Ziller is seen putting the aircraft into a dive and pulling up several times in an attempt to restart the engine and save the precious prototype. He undertakes a series of four complete turns at a 20° angle. Ziller does not use his radio or eject from the aircraft. He already is unconscious as a result of the fumes from the burning engine. The aircraft crashes just outside the boundary of the airfield. Ziller is thrown from the aircraft on impact and dies from his injuries two weeks later. The prototype aircraft is completely destroyed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Horton Ho 229](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten%5FHo%5F229)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_690 ### Event 4211 (1A893C1C) **Date:** 2/19/1945 **Location:** Czechoslovakia **Description:** Austrian scientist Viktor Schauberger, working for the Third Reich, claimed that a "flying saucer" he invented underwent a significant test flight in Czechoslovakia shortly before the war in Europe concluded. This aircraft was tested and achieved a height of about 50,000 feet in three minutes and a horizontal speed of 1,364 miles per hour. The model for this craft was developed in collaboration with top engineers and analysts among the prisoners at Mauthausen concentration camp. Schauberger noted that, as he understood, the machine was ordered to be destroyed by General Keitel towards the war's end. (Chapter 7, Ref 292. Note the author only lists as a reference "Internet posting", with no URL provided.) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_284 ### Event 4212 (757D4E03) **Date:** 2/21/1945 **Location:** Po Valley, Italy **Description:** Alleged flares: cluster of 11 or more colored flares that remained motionless; cluster of 15 orange balls of fire. (Page 139-140 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_265 ### Event 4213 (BA1128F4) **Date:** 2/21/1945 **Location:** Piacenza, Italy **Description:** Two large red balls of fire; hovering. (Page 140 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_266 ### Event 4214 (26077B9E) **Date:** 2/22/1945 **Location:** Leghorn (near), Italy **Description:** Three lights red-orange in color that did not appear to be flares. (Page 141 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_267 ### Event 4215 (136672AA) **Date:** 2/22/1945 **Locations:** Chichijima; Ogasawara (Bonin) Archipelago, Japan **Description:** Night. A B-24 bomber flying near Chichijima in the Ogasawara \(Bonin\) Archipelago, Japan, sees an object trailing exhaust. It is also picked up on radar and follows the plane for about 20 miles before disappearing off the screen. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Project 1947, “[UFO Reports, 1945](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1945a.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_691 ### Event 4216 (9F0E7493) **Date:** 2/27/1945 **Location:** Bologna, Italy **Description:** Chased three lights in shape of triangle observed; no radar contact. (Page 141-142 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_268 ### Event 4217 (B71A2026) **Date:** 3/1945 **Location:** USA, Belfast (Maine) **Description:** (Translated from French) George P. Miller was hunting not far from Belfast when he saw an elongated object flying very slowly, swaying in an inclined position towards the ground. It headed towards a clearing and even broke some branches before landing. The witness found the UFO which had suffered no damage: the object stayed on the ground for a few moments then, with a buzzing sound, it began to spin on itself, releasing a multitude of silver threads. In a few seconds it rose and disappeared into the sky. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 273 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1053 ### Event 4218 (6D558BD1) **Date:** 3/1945 **Location:** Between AUSTRIA and ITALY **Description:** (Translated from French) As he was on his 37th mission above the Brenner Pass, the pilot of a B-25 saw a foo-fighter. The object came like a shooting star and stopped one meter away from the right wing of the aircraft. The size of a basketball and with a bright white color, the UFO accompanied the bomber for two to three minutes, then suddenly it left as it had come, speeding through the sky. Coincidentally, the next day, on his 38th mission, this plane was shot down above the Brenner. All the crew perished, except for the pilot, the main witness of this observation. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 273 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1054 ### Event 4219 (B0975C4B) **Date:** 3/1945 **Location:** Aleutian Islands **Description:** Object rises from ocean, circles ship, departs. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973_, by Richard Dolan](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/mode/2up) **Source:** Dolan, **ID:** Dolan_11 ### Event 4220 (10BE0AE4) **Date:** 3/1945 **Location:** BRENNER PASS, AUSTR-ITL **Description:** Small extremely fast white night light attaches / wing / military plane. Matches maneuvers. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique; UAP: 80 Years of Pilot Sightings Privately published. 7 avenue Bartholome. 75015 Paris, FRANCE. (Index 6) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_528 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Austria", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "BRENNER PASS,AUSTR-ITL:SML XFAST WHT NLT ATTACHES/WING/MIL.PLANE:MATCHES MNVRS", **LatLong:** "47.000002 11.516667", **LatLongDMS:** "47:00:00 N 11:31:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.000002,11.516667)", **State/Prov:** "TRL", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4221 (FC1CB2BA) **Date:** 3/1945 **Location:** BELFAST, ME **Description:** Saucer flies slow / tilt. Hits trees. Lands. Hums on takeoff. Silvery threads. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 53) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_529 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "31", **HatchDesc:** "BELFAST,ME:SCR FLIES SLO/TILT:HITS TREES:LANDS:HUMS ON TAKEOFF:SLVRY THREADS", **LatLong:** "44.422224 -69.016670", **LatLongDMS:** "44:25:20 N 69:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.422224,-69.016670)", **State/Prov:** "Maine", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 4222 (3850BA6D) **Date:** 3/1945 **Location:** Admiralty Islands (near), At Sea **Description:** (IFO-Venus) Sailors and Marines on the Battleship U.S.S. New York near the Admiralty Islands at 1:00 p.m. saw through binoculars and radar detected an object hovering overhead at about 20,000 feet. (Ref. 3; MUFON UFO Journal, No. 203, March 1985.) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 0) **Reference:** NICAP: [450300](http://www.nicap.org/4503XXsouthpacific%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_269 ### Event 4223 (4657BC01) **Date:** 3/1945 **Location:** Belfast, ME **Description:** A man out hunting observed an elongated object flying very slowly, tilted toward the earth. It crashed into some trees at the end of a clearing. (Magonia #53, FS May., 59) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_270 ### Event 4224 (96A10260) **Date:** 3/1945 **Location:** Unknown City, NM **Description:** Object aluminum colored, 12 to 14 feet off ground, motionless ,swept away like dragonfly. (Page 142-143 Ref.1) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_271 ### Event 4225 (C94D123B) **Date:** 3/1945 **Location:** Aleutian Islands, At Sea **Description:** Aboard the US attack transport "Delarof," 14 sailors saw a dark sphere rise out of the ocean, follow a curved trajectory, and fly away after circling their ship. (Magonia #54, Evidence 30) \[NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall, IV\] (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_272 ### Event 4226 (4C892457) **Date:** 3/1945 **Location:** Belfast, Maine **Description:** A man out hunting observed an elongated object flying very slowly, tilted toward the earth. It crashed into some trees at the end of a clearing. The enormous craft seemed undamaged as it rested briefly on the ground, then lifted again with a humming sound, started to spin, released a shower of fine silvery threads, and rose straight up, disappearing in seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** FS May., 59 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_53 ### Event 4227 (DEAD8729) **Date:** 3/1945 **Location:** Aleutian Islands **Description:** Aboard the US attack transport "Delarof," 14 sailors saw a dark sphere rise out of the ocean, follow a curved trajectory, and fly away after circling their ship. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Evidence 30 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_54 ### Event 4228 (C2D578F0) **Date:** 3/1945 **Location:** Oak Ridge, Tennessee **Description:** The K-25 gaseous diffusion plant at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, begins production. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[K-25](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-25)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_692 ### Event 4229 (431BD4F1) **Date:** 3/1945 **Location:** wooded area near Belfast, Maine **Description:** A man is squirrel hunting in a wooded area near Belfast, Maine, when he sees a huge, elongated object just above the trees. He runs after it, thinking it is a dirigible about to crash. The object crashes into the trees at the far edge of a clearing, splitting a huge pine tree down the middle. He smells burned rubber. The object seems to be as big as several B-36 bombers. As he stands there stunned, the lowest end of the craft begins to rise and he hears a humming sound of increasing intensity. After it rises to a horizontal position, it begins to spin faster and faster and the hum becomes very intense. Suddenly one end spews a shower of fine, silvery threads that glint in the sunlight. The object begins to change to a white metallic color and it takes off straight up at fantastic speed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “I Saw a Flying Saucer,” Flying Saucers, May 1959, pp. 6–18, 78; Clark III 1178–1179 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_693 ### Event 4230 (B8E6CB38) **Date:** 3/1945 **Location:** Barto, Pennsylvania **Description:** [Ray Palmer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%5FA.%5FPalmer) travels to Barto, Pennsylvania, and spends a weekend with [Richard Shaver](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FSharpe%5FShaver) and his wife. He witnesses Shaver’s channeling trances and the different voices describing the cavern world that he generates during his sleep. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Richard Sharpe Shaver](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FSharpe%5FShaver)”; Walter Kafton-Minkel, Subterranean Worlds, Loompanics, 1989, [pp. 137–144](https://archive.org/details/subterraneanworldswalterkaftonminkel100000yearsofdragonsdwarfsthedeadlostracesufosfrominsidetheearth/page/n141/mode/2up); Clark III 872, 1069; Richard Toronto, War over Lemuria: Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer, and the Strangest Chapter of 1940s Science Fiction, McFarland, 2013; David Halperin, “[The Shaver](https://www.davidhalperin.net/the-shaver-mystery-richard-shaver-ray-palmer-and-the-quest-for-lemuria-part-1/) [Mystery—Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer, and the Quest for Lemuria \(Part 1\),](https://www.davidhalperin.net/the-shaver-mystery-richard-shaver-ray-palmer-and-the-quest-for-lemuria-part-1/)” July 4, 2014 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_694 ### Event 4231 (8E979BCF) **Date:** 3/1945 **Location:** Dresden, Germany **Description:** A resident observed a UFO hovering noiselessly in the sky. At first, they thought it was an airplane, but noted its round shape and absence of propellers or wings. The object was described as silvery-colored and flat, and it suddenly vanished as if it were a burst soap bubble. (Chapter 7, Ref. 266) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_258 ### Event 4232 (261BC29B) **Date:** Early 3/1945 **Location:** GERMANY, Dresden **Description:** (Translated from French) I had a clear view of the sky from my position. At first I thought it was an airplane, but as it got closer I saw that it was round and flat, not spherical, and it had neither propeller nor wings. It hovered silently in the sky and suddenly disappeared. Like a soap bubble bursting. The object had a silver color. It's the way it disappeared that I can't forget. It was still war time, so I talked about it with a friend, who confirmed having observed the same phenomenon. (1945, late March or early April) **Reference:** The Mysterious Foo Fighters of WWII. - Jeroen Wierda Pufori, 19.5.1997 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1055 ### Event 4233 (F364A4F0) **Date:** 3/3/1945 **Location:** Misburg, Germany **Description:** Two balloon-like silver balls. (Page 143 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_273 ### Event 4234 (853FD063) **Date:** 3/5/1945 **Location:** Either Holland or North Germany, Germany **Description:** Two sightings: (1) large orange ball hanging in air; (2) similar ball that was moving horizontally at same altitude. (Page 145 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_274 ### Event 4235 (5A84DBCB) **Date:** 3/9/1945 **Location:** North Fresian Islands, Germany **Description:** Three lights; had the appearance of white flares dropped in air; called foo fighters. (Page 145-146 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_275 ### Event 4236 (3F75AE7F) **Date:** 3/10/1945 **Locations:** Washington State; Hanford site of the Manhattan Project **Description:** A Japanese Fu-Go balloon strikes a high-tension wire on the Bonneville Power Administration in Washington State. The balloon causes sparks and a fireball that results in the power being cut. Coincidentally, the largest consumer of energy on this power grid is the Hanford site of the Manhattan Project, which suddenly loses power. The officer in charge at Hanford, Col. [Franklin Matthias](https://www.atomicheritage.org/profile/franklin-matthias), says “it shut down the plant cold, and it took us about three days to get it back up to full power again.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Franklin Matthias, “[Japanese Balloon Bombs Fu-Go,](https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/japanese-balloon-bombs-fu-go)” Atomic Heritage Foundation, August 10, 2016 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_695 ### Event 4237 (D643ADE8) **Date:** 3/12/1945 **Locations:** Rhine River; Friedrichroda, Germany; Gothaer Waggonfabrik (Gotha) **Description:** Nearly a week after the US Army launches Operation Lumberjack to cross the Rhine River, the Ho 229 is included in the Jäger-Notprogramm \(Emergency Fighter Program\) for accelerated production of inexpensive “wonder weapons.” The prototype workshop is moved to the Gothaer Waggonfabrik \(Gotha\) in Friedrichroda, Germany. In the same month, work commences on the third prototype, the Ho 229 V3. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Horton Ho](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten%5FHo%5F229) [229](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten%5FHo%5F229)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_696 ### Event 4238 (47CF2DD7) **Date:** 3/13/1945 **Location:** Bologna, Italy **Description:** Two sightings: (1) 100 hundred balls of orange fire; (2) two balls of foo fire. (Page 147 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_276 ### Event 4239 (3895E373) **Date:** Mid 3/1945 **Location:** Unknown City, New Guinea **Description:** Object, silver in color, very shiny & much larger than the brightest star; unaffected by gunfire; departed upward at a fantastic rate of speed . (Page 151-152 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_281 ### Event 4240 (3C15164B) **Date:** 3/17/1945 **Location:** Germany **Description:** Nazis fired eleven V-2 missiles at a bridge, their first use against a tactical target and the only time they were fired on a German target during the war **Type:** aerospace **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket#Operational_history) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_165 ### Event 4241 (059D7408) **Date:** 3/18/1945 **Location:** Florence, Italy **Description:** Chased light, no radar contact, then light disappeared. (Page 148 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_277 ### Event 4242 (B720EE02) **Date:** 3/18/1945 **Description:** [Grierson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin%5FMcKay%5FGrierson) writes to [Samuel V. Boykin](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38941869/samuel-woodson%5Fvenable-boykin) that the Air Ministry thinks the fireballs are either Me-262’s or flak rockets. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Strange Company 147 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_697 ### Event 4243 (E043B915) **Date:** 3/18/1945 **Location:** 25 miles northwest of Florence, Italy **Description:** Night. A 416th NFS crew is flying a Mosquito 25 miles northwest of Florence, Italy. Suddenly a light is flying alongside them at 13,000 feet. It doesn’t appear on the radar screen. The pilot turns the plane toward the light, keeping on its tail, pursuing at 260 mph and climbing to 16,000 feet. Suddenly the light disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Strange Company 148 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_698 ### Event 4244 (5607BB85) **Date:** 3/19/1945 **End date:** 3/20/1945 **Location:** Speyer, Germany **Description:** Saw 2 Foo fighters; one orange and one greenballl. (Page 148 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_278 ### Event 4245 (FEEBF953) **Date:** 3/20/1945 **Time:** 00:50 **Location:** NEAR SPEYER, GERMANY **Description:** Several USAAF pilots. 2 spheres. 1 orange and 1 green. / Don Berliner and Huneeus rp. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique; UAP: 80 Years of Pilot Sightings Privately published. 7 avenue Bartholome. 75015 Paris, FRANCE. (Index 2) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_530 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "nr SPEYER,GERMANY:SVRL USAAF PILOTS:2 SPHERES:1 ORG+1 GRN:/BERLINER+HUNEEUS rp", **LatLong:** "49.333336 8.416667", **LatLongDMS:** "49:20:00 N 08:25:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.333336,8.416667)", **State/Prov:** "RHP", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4246 (4ADD4923) **Date:** 3/22/1945 **Location:** New Guinea **Description:** 1:00 p.m. The [USS New York](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FNew%5FYork%5F%28BB-34%29) is off New Guinea preparing to rejoin the Seventh Fleet. Gunner Cpl. Donald Pratt is preparing for a Japanese attack when he sees a shiny silver object hovering directly over the battleship. It remains stationary over the ship for 30 minutes and is tracked on ship radar. Two antiaircraft guns fire on the object, but it does not move or seem affected. Capt. [Kemp C. Christian Sr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3392277/kemp-c-christian) orders the guns to stop. Immediately the object shoots up and away at a fantastic rate of speed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Strange Company 151–152 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_700 ### Event 4247 (2099FB21) **Date:** 3/23/1945 **Location:** Bergamo/Ghedi, Italy **Description:** 2 balls of foo fire. (Page 150 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_279 ### Event 4248 (19575812) **Date:** 3/23/1945 **Location:** Germersheim, Germany **Description:** Stationary airborne object. (Page 150 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_280 ### Event 4249 (C910FA91) **Date:** 3/24/1945 **Location:** Nagoya, Japan **Description:** Multiple sightings: yellow ball of fire about 6 inches in diameter; orange and red flashes; six white balls of fire; grayish ball of fire about size of soccer ball; red ball of fire. (Page 152-153 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_282 ### Event 4250 (49217BAF) **Date:** 3/25/1945 **Time:** ~22:00 **Location:** SOUTH / DARMSTADT, GERM **Description:** 30 soldiers. 6-7 orange 1M disks maneuver / trees by camp. Slow and silent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 48) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_531 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "S/DARMSTADT,GERM:30 GIs:6-7 ORG.1M DISKS MNVR/TREES by CAMP:SLOW+SLNT:", **LatLong:** "49.833336 8.666667", **LatLongDMS:** "49:50:00 N 08:40:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.833336,8.666667)", **State/Prov:** "HSS", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4251 (6C16458C) **Date:** 3/25/1945 **Location:** Mannheim and Darmstadt bt., Germany **Description:** Six or seven circular, yellowish-orange objects, solid color, and brightness; apparently individually controlled. (Page 153-154 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_283 ### Event 4252 (5310F4E3) **Date:** Late 3/1945 **Location:** Dresden, Germany **Description:** At least two residents of Dresden, Germany, see a round, flat, silver-colored object without propellors or wings hovering silently in the air. It suddenly disappears like a “burst soap bubble.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Weltrundschau,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Switzerland/Weltraumbote/Weltraumbote%20-%20No%2032-33%20-%201958.pdf)” Weltraumbote, no. 32/22 \(July/Aug. 1958\): 14–15; Clark III 503 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_699 ### Event 4253 (EE5D79DE) **Date:** 3/25/1945 **Locations:** Mannheim; Darmstadt, Germany **Description:** Around 10:30 p.m. Company A of the US 44th Armored Infantry Battalion is bivouacked on a hill along the Autobahn between Mannheim and Darmstadt, Germany, when 6–7 circular, glowing, yellow-orange objects approach at 150 feet, roughly following the road. They are not in strict formation and seem individually controlled. John G. Norris recalled that after 5–6 minutes they are hidden by the trees. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Strange Company 153– 154 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_701 ### Event 4254 (CDD8092C) **Date:** 3/26/1945 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** IWO JIMA, JPN **Description:** Night lights follow fighter. 200+RADAR blips going southwest / 650 kts. Chase. Nothing seen. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Database/website: http://www.project1947.com/fig/1945a.htm **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_532 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "IWO JIMA,JPN:NLTS FOLO FIGHTER:200+RDR BLIPS >SW/650 kts:CHASE:nothing seen", **LatLong:** "26.500001 128.000006", **LatLongDMS:** "26:30:00 N 128:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/26.500001,128.000006)", **State/Prov:** "RYU", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4255 (F8A72DFE) **Date:** 3/26/1945 **Location:** Iwo Jima, Japan **Description:** During an air operation, Lieut. [Calvin P. Lamb](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6414390/calvin-powell-lamb) \(pilot\), Lieut. James G. Holmes \(radar observer\), and Sgt. John W. McIsaac \(gunner\) notice lights on an airborne object. The lights follow them through a few turns but move away as the crew orbits north of Iwo Jima, Japan. They give chase, obtaining a slight target on the aircraft radar, then the object pulls out of sight. A similar lighted object is again seen March 28 by Lieut. [William F. Sill](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/202159893/william-floyd-sill) \(pilot\), Flight Officer George W. Hayden \(radar observer\), and PFC William Brasvell \(gunner\). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Project 1947, “[UFO Reports, 1945](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1945a.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_702 ### Event 4256 (A58E2A23) **Date:** 3/26/1945 **Description:** On this evening several lights followed a night fighter aircraft from the 549th NFS squadron over Iwo Jima, Japan, made a few turns, and had slight radar returns. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich, Project 1947, citing the 549th NFS History **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1669 ### Event 4257 (B26F67F8) **Date:** 3/26/1945 **Description:** In the Ruhr Valley, Germany a pink sphere (3' in diameter) passed a RAF Spitfire XI fighter from the 541th Squadron at 340 mph at 11:00 a.m. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 7, citing Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1670 ### Event 4258 (A52E606F) **Date:** 3/27/1945 **Location:** Germany **Description:** Final V-2 rockets used during WW2 **Type:** aerospace **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket#Operational_history) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_166 ### Event 4259 (AC910BBB) **Date:** 4/1945 **Location:** GERMANY **Description:** (Translated from French) Gunner James V. Byrnes observed a "crystal ball" passing the B-24 bomber at less than 20 meters. Years later he confirmed to NICAP that it was not a hallucination at all. **Reference:** The Mysterious Foo Fighters of WWII. - Jeroen Wierda UPORI, 19.5.1997 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1058 ### Event 4260 (5561B986) **Date:** 4/1945 **Time:** 08:00? **Location:** OVER LINZ, AUSTRIA **Description:** Solid crystal ball paces B24 12M from gunner's window. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 53) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_533 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Austria", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "ovr LINZ,AUSTRIA:SOLID CRYSTAL BALL PACES B24 12M from GUNNER'S WINDOW", **LatLong:** "48.316669 14.300001", **LatLongDMS:** "48:19:00 N 14:18:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.316669,14.300001)", **State/Prov:** "UPA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4261 (97671209) **Date:** 4/1945 **Locations:** Okinawa, Japan; Ryukyu Islands **Description:** During operations around Okinawa, Japan, the radar crew on the aircraft carrier [USS Independence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FIndependence%5F%28CVL-22%29) frequently notices strange radar returns that move at slow speeds \(30–70 mph\). Aircraft and destroyers sent to search for them never find anything. These radar ghosts are usually detected 25–30 miles away at an altitude of 1,500 feet, but occasionally 3,500 feet. The primary diagnostic for these false returns is their speed. The Navy nicknames them the “ghost of Nansei-shoto” after the Japanese name for the Ryukyu Islands, of which Okinawa is one. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Strange Company 183–186 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_703 ### Event 4262 (216EB3C2) **Date:** 4/1945 **Location:** Lemuria **Description:** [Ray Palmer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%5FA.%5FPalmer) publishes a second story by [Richard Shaver](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FSharpe%5FShaver)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FSharpe%5FShaver) “Thought Records of Lemuria,” in the June issue of Amazing Stories. Here it is revealed that Shaver’s knowledge of the cave world and Lemuria isn’t really a “racial memory,” as the first story had asserted. Shaver, working in a factory, heard voices speaking to him, apparently through his welding gun. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Richard S. Shaver, “[Thought Records of Lemuria,](https://archive.org/details/Amazing%5FStories%5Fv19n02%5F1945-06.Ziff-Daviscape1736/page/n15/mode/2up)” Amazing Stories 19, no 2 \(June 1945\): 16–52 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_704 ### Event 4263 (ABCB7356) **Date:** 4/1/1945 **Location:** USA, Fort Bliss (Hueco Ran.) **Description:** (Translated from French) FIRING OF 17 PRIVATE "F" ROCKETS BETWEEN APRIL 1 AND 13. (1945, April 1-13) **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, Wp. 251, Galcit Report **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1056 ### Event 4264 (40B5F17C) **Date:** 4/3/1945 **Location:** Kawasaki, Japan **Description:** The records of the 20th Air Force reveal that as early as this date, flying from the Marianas on a night incendiary mission, some crews reported "Balls of Fire followed our aircraft." (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_284 ### Event 4265 (2C9F3E64) **Date:** 4/3/1945 **End date:** 4/4/1945 **Location:** Honshu, Japan **Description:** Multiple balls of fire sightings: size of basketball; streamer of light behind the ball of fire; ball of fire emitting a steady phosphorescent glow; wing in connection with ball of fire &; amber colored searchlight; stream of fire emanating from object, twelve inches in diameter, followed through evasive action. (Page 157-158 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_285 ### Event 4266 (91B3A1DA) **Date:** 4/3/1945 **End date:** 4/4/1945 **Locations:** US; Honshu, Japan **Description:** US B-29 bombers over Honshu, Japan, encounter numerous balls of light tagging along with them. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Strange Company 157–159 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_705 ### Event 4267 (3C35332C) **Date:** 4/7/1945 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** NORTH SEA **Description:** Bombing raid. Fuselage dives / 1000 planes. Stops / midair. Shoots going up / 2000mph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RUTLEDGE, Harley D. Ph.D.: PROJECT IDENTIFICATION; Prentice-Hall, NJ 1981. (Index 250) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_534 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "NORTH SEA:BOMBING RAID:FUSELAGE DIVES/1000 PLANES:STOPS/MIDAIR:SHOOTS↑/2000mph", **LatLong:** "52.000002 2.500000", **LatLongDMS:** "52:00:00 N 02:30:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.000002,2.500000)", **State/Prov:** "NSE", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4268 (E860A652) **Date:** 4/7/1945 **Location:** North Sea, At Sea **Description:** A wingless object, able to stop in mid-flight and travel thousands of miles per hour. (Page 158-159 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_286 ### Event 4269 (3C2B4A6F) **Date:** 4/7/1945 **Location:** Nagoya, Japan **Description:** Ball of fire changing colors; orange to red. (Page 161 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_287 ### Event 4270 (4FB5F318) **Date:** 4/7/1945 **Location:** Göttingen, Germany **Description:** [Walter and Reimar Horten,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten%5Fbrothers) German designers associated with wingless aircraft, are arrested by US troops near Göttingen, Germany. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lance Cole, Secret Wings of World War II: Nazi Technology and the Allied Arms Race, Pen & Sword, 2015 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_706 ### Event 4271 (03BB0D96) **Date:** 4/10/1945 **Locations:** Jeffersontown, Kentucky; Fisherville **Description:** 11:00 p.m. James L. Hendry sees from his porch in Jeffersontown, Kentucky, a bright light that seems to be directly above Fisherville, 3 miles to the east. Its brightness fluctuates and it seems to be moving directly toward his location, casting a light beam downward. After 10 minutes, it goes out “like a snuffed candle.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “A Meteor?” Louisville Times, April 14, 1945; Project 1947, “[UFO Reports, 1945](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1945a.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_707 ### Event 4272 (79E961FB) **Date:** 4/10/1945 **Locations:** Manhattan Project; US **Description:** As part of the Manhattan Project, 18 people in the US are injected with plutonium in doses ranging from 95 to 5,900 nanocuries without their knowledge or consent. The intent is to study how plutonium is absorbed into the digestive tract. The last experiment is conducted on July 18, 1947. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Unethical human](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical%5Fhuman%5Fexperimentation%5Fin%5Fthe%5FUnited%5FStates\#Plutonium%5Fexperiments) [experimentation in the United States](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical%5Fhuman%5Fexperimentation%5Fin%5Fthe%5FUnited%5FStates\#Plutonium%5Fexperiments)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_708 ### Event 4273 (67845251) **Date:** 4/12/1945 **End date:** 1/20/1953 **Location:** Washington DC **Description:** President Harry S. Truman in office **Type:** historical event **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_164 ### Event 4274 (9637F228) **Date:** 4/12/1945 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) [Harry Truman](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/TrumanHarryS.html) is appointed President of the United States following the death of [Franklin Roosevelt](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/RooseveltFranklinDelano.html). (April 12) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1945.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_532 ### Event 4275 (1B0E9C5D) **Date:** 4/12/1945 **Location:** Warm Springs, Georgia **Description:** Roosevelt dies at Warm Springs, Georgia. [Harry S. Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) is sworn in as president. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_709 ### Event 4276 (F365F0A2) **Date:** 4/17/1945 **Location:** Pacific **Description:** Maj. Gen. [James P. Hodges](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106754/major-general-james-p-hodges/) writes a memorandum to Gen. [Henry H. “Hap” Arnold,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%5FH.%5FArnold) saying that infrared devices are now available to take photographs of “balls of fire” in the Pacific. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Project 1947, “[UFO Reports,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1945a.htm) [1945](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1945a.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_710 ### Event 4277 (6E9BCB76) **Date:** 4/18/1945 **Description:** There were two radar-visual UFO reports on this day from the Far East near Iwo Jima. At three o'clock in the morning ground control radar made radar contact with an unknown radar target over the Pacific Ocean at a distance of 18 to 8 miles from the island. The gunner in a P-61B "Black Widow" aircraft attached to the 549th NFS squadron saw a yellow, star-like light approach and lose altitude. Radar contact was then lost. The gunner saw a second light, but no radar contact was made with it. At 4:15 a.m. Ground control again made radar contact with a target. The gunner of a P-61B plane saw a reddish, round light. Contact on the radar screen showed two blips engaging in evasive action, which soon outdistanced the P-61, one of the fastest propeller driven aircraft of its time. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 website **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2103 ### Event 4278 (C96D41A4) **Date:** 4/20/1945 **Location:** FRANCE, between Renève and Poyans **Description:** (Translated from French) While Abbot X. was picking mushrooms around the path connecting Renève (Côte d'Or) to Poyans (Haute Saône), he suddenly saw an astonishing little person of 15 to 17 cm tall pass close to him, completely scared and out of breath. The tiny person had the exact proportions of a human being and was wearing a kind of bordeaux suit that also covered his hands and feet. He seemed to be aged 70 to 75, with grey hair and a sparse beard. A kind of thin, widened at the end, stick was coming out of his back and was exceeding his head by about 2 cm. No words were exchanged, the priest and the humanoid were staring at each other for a few seconds. Then, in the most absolute silence, the person disappeared into the nearby thicket. What or who was it? [IN REALITY: an investigation by the Dijon Association of Ufology and Parapsychology revealed in 1983 that it was a small pet monkey, dressed as a soldier by the soldiers of an African regiment.] **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 274 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1057 ### Event 4279 (431AD26A) **Date:** 4/20/1945 (approximate) **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** RENEVE, FR **Description:** Priest. 17cm perfect midget / grey hair and beard runs into forest. / r30p48. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** PHENOMENES SPATIAUX: Group GEPA, Gen. M. Lionel Chassin Paris. Quarterly 1964?-1977. Merged into Grp. GEPAN (Index 45) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_535 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NFO:** No craft seen, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "RENEVE,FR:PRIEST:17cm PERFECT MIDGET/GRY HAIR+BEARD RUNS into FOREST:/r30p48", **LatLong:** "47.405558 5.416667", **LatLongDMS:** "47:24:20 N 05:25:00 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.405558,5.416667)", **State/Prov:** "Côte-d'Or", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 4280 (ED260FF5) **Date:** 4/20/1945 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** DAXIAN, SICHUAN, CH **Description:** 30cm white fireball flies east going west. Slow enough to run outside and see.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** DONG, Paul: UFO's Over MODERN CHINA. 1983 UFO Photo Archives; P. O. Box 17206; Tucson, AZ 85710. (Index 32) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_536 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "China", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "DAXIAN,SICHUAN,CH:30cm WHT FBL FLIES E>W:slow enough to run outside+see..", **LatLong:** "31.366668 107.450005", **LatLongDMS:** "31:22:00 N 107:27:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.366668,107.450005)", **State/Prov:** "SCH", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 4281 (202DABDD) **Date:** 4/20/1945 **Description:** A priest gathering mushrooms near Reneve, France around 6 p.m. saw a 17 cm tall midget with gray hair and a gray beard. It popped up less than a foot away and ran off into the forest. The tiny being wore dark-red coveralls with a pointed helmet. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Henry-Jean Besset, Phenomenes Spatiaux, September 1975, p. 21 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2150 ### Event 4282 (AC2C8AD5) **Date:** 4/22/1945 **Locations:** Okinawa, Japan; Two miles **Description:** The [USS Lewis Hancock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FLewis%5FHancock) is northeast of Okinawa, Japan, when the SG radar picks up an unidentified target at 6 miles heading their way at 70–115 mph. Its movements are erratic. Two miles out, the ship identifies a “tight formation of more than fifty birds.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Strange Company 184 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_711 ### Event 4283 (6F906CAA) **Date:** 4/24/1945 **Location:** Okinawa, Japan **Description:** The [USS Audubon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FAudubon) is headed for Okinawa, Japan, with US Army passengers and equipment. Radar operators pick up “unidentified aeroplanes” heading their way. The screens show a blip, alternately fuzzy and strong, some 8 miles away headed down the starboard side at 25 mph. Still, nothing can be seen visually, and the radar operator suggests that it is a flock of birds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Strange Company 184–186 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_712 ### Event 4284 (B9CAF60F) **Date:** 4/25/1945 **Locations:** Berchtesgaden, Germany; Kaiserslautern, Germany; Bavarian Alps; England **Description:** 9:45 a.m. Acting Squadron Leader Kit Francis Williams of the RAF 617 Bomber Squadron is flying a Lancaster with 25 other aircraft to bomb Hitler’s headquarters at Berchtesgaden, Germany, in the Bavarian Alps. Just after a turn near Kaiserslautern, Germany, at 16,500 feet, Williams witnesses an object like a large woolly blanket that takes up his entire windshield. He thinks it could be as much as 4–5 miles wide. It moves vertically and is gone in an instant. Suddenly his aircraft loses its electrical power and loses one of its bombs. He and his bomber and engineer get severe headaches. They return to base in England after regaining power. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keith Basterfield, “[Observation by Pilot over Germany, 1945,](https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2016/11/observation-by-australian-pilot-over.html)” Unidentified Aerial Phenomena—Scientific Research, November 14, 2016 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_713 ### Event 4285 (125E8092) **Date:** 4/26/1945 **Description:** Gen. [Curtis LeMay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis%5FLeMay)’s XXI Bomber Command’s Air Intelligence staff produces a 5-page report representing the most up-to-date information and theories on the balls of fire but cannot find a good explanation for them. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Strange Company 162–163 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_714 ### Event 4286 (1AA97AE9) **Date:** 5/1945 **Location:** JAPAN, east of Okinawa **Description:** (Translated from French) The crew of a Navy transport simultaneously observed an object in the shape of a cylinder and discs. This happened a quarter of a mile from their ship, in a clear sky without clouds, where suddenly the elongated object appeared. At first they thought it was a balloon. Then they saw that the cylinder was followed by three small discs of metallic appearance. The discs seemed to enter the cylinder which then took off at lightning speed. (1945, May or June) **Reference:** "UFO's, a century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 22 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1061 ### Event 4287 (FF1C9124) **Date:** 5/1945 (approximate) **Time:** 10:30 **Location:** ST. JAMES, MO **Description:** 10M metallic disk over garage. Pseudo-human/entity / dome! Hums. Follows terrain going away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 26) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_537 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "332", **HatchDesc:** "St.JAMES,MO:10M MTLC DISK ovr GARAGE:PSH/DOME!:HUMS:folos terrain going away", **LatLong:** "37.994446 -91.616671", **LatLongDMS:** "37:59:40 N 91:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.994446,-91.616671)", **RelAlt:** "10", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 4288 (C4EE8C87) **Date:** 5/1945 **Location:** EVERY US B29 BASE IN MARIANAS ISLANDS **Description:** Fireballs maneuver and follow bombers. Often far out to sea. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: CE-5, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS of the 5th KIND. 1999 Sourcebooks Inc. Naperville, IL ISBN 1-57071-427-4. 242 case files. (Index 184) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_538 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "EVERY US B29 BASE in MARIANAS Isls:FBLS MNVR+FOLO BOMBERS:often far out to sea", **LatLong:** "15.000001 145.000007", **LatLongDMS:** "15:00:00 N 145:00:00 E", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/15.000001,145.000007)", **State/Prov:** "SPC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4289 (690FEE18) **Date:** 5/1945 **Locations:** Leonstein, Austria; Linz, Austria **Description:** German scientist [Viktor Schauberger](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor%5FSchauberger)[,](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor%5FSchauberger) who has been using inmates from the Mauthausen concentration camp to help him develop new aircraft and submarine engines, is captured by Allied forces in Leonstein, Austria. Supposedly his devices and documents, which allegedly include a prototype flying saucer, are kept under lock and key. He is released in March 1946 and moves to Linz, Austria, but the Americans do not confiscate his workshop and laboratory materials, although they prohibit him from further military experimentation. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Nazi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi%5FUFOs) [UFOs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi%5FUFOs)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_715 ### Event 4290 (8361335C) **Date:** 5/2/1945 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) [Wernher Von Braun](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/VonBraunWernher.html) and his team are recovered from the Dora-Mittlebau site by the Allies. (May 2) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1945.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_533 ### Event 4291 (34CA7E92) **Date:** 5/2/1945 **Location:** Fala Island, Truk Atoll **Description:** Two airborne objects & red circles of light (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [450502](http://www.nicap.org/450502trukdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_288 ### Event 4292 (E40854EE) **Date:** 5/3/1945 **Time:** ~03:00 **Location:** FALA ISLAND, TRUK **Description:** B29 crew. 2 red circles pace B24 through complex maneuvers going [to] Guam. 1 turns back. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 25) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_539 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "44", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "FALA Isl,TRUK:B29 CREW:2 RED CCLs pace B24 THRU CMPLX MNVRS>GUAM:1 turns back:", **LatLong:** "7.500000 151.783341", **LatLongDMS:** "07:30:00 N 151:47:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/7.500000,151.783341)", **State/Prov:** "SPC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4293 (311F2BD6) **Date:** 5/3/1945 (approximate) **Time:** ~19:00 **Location:** EASTERN PFALZERWALD, GER **Description:** Pilot / 415th Squadron. 5 orange fireballs / delta/triangle/box-like craft-formation. No further details. / r168p84. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Book: De TURRIS, G. & FUSCO, S.: OBIETTIVO sugli UFO (1975) pg. 37. per Edoardo Russo. Gives 03MAY45 date for Eastern Pfalzerwald FBL incident. **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_540 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "EASTERN PFALZERWALD,GER:PILOT/415th SQDrn:5 ORG FBLS/DLT-FORMn:NFD:/r168p84", **LatLong:** "49.250002 8.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "49:15:00 N 08:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.250002,8.000000)", **State/Prov:** "RHP", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4294 (32B97558) **Date:** 5/3/1945 **Locations:** Truk Atoll; Micronesia; Fala Island **Description:** Early morning. Nine B-24’s with the 11th Bombardment Group’s 431st Squadron are heading out on a bombing mission against Japanese air installations on Truk \[now Chuuk\] Atoll in Micronesia. One plane over Fala Island sees two objects at their altitude of 11,000 feet, changing from cherry red to orange then white, then dying out and turning cherry red again. Both follow the B-24 through all sorts of evasive actions. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[B-24 Sights](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr02.pdf) [Circles of Light,](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr02.pdf)” UFO Historical Revue, no. 2 \(September 1998\): 8; Strange Company 163–165; NICAP, “[May](http://www.nicap.org/450502trukdir.htm) [2, Truk Atoll Sighting](http://www.nicap.org/450502trukdir.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_716 ### Event 4295 (B3508E55) **Date:** 5/3/1945 **Description:** In the predawn hours a US Army Air Force B-24 bomber flying over Fala Island in the Truk Atoll, the Pacific Ocean encountered two objects with red circles of light, changing color from cherry-red to orange to white lights, and then back to cherry again; they followed aircraft for over an hour while the bomber performed evasive maneuvers; there were no airborne radar returns picked up from the objects. On this evening five orange spheres flying in a triangular formation were sighted by a 415th NFS fighter pilot east of Pfalzerwald, Germany. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** (1) Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 8; (2) Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 25: Keith Chester, Strange Company: Military Encounters with UFOs in World War II, p. 163 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2463 ### Event 4296 (F29F199C) **Date:** 5/5/1945 **Locations:** Gearhart Mountain; Bly; Southern Oregon; Tokyo, Japan **Description:** A pregnant woman, Elsie Mitchell, and five children are killed when they discover a Japanese Fu-Go balloon bomb that has landed in the forest of Gearhart Mountain near Bly in southern Oregon. \(Wikipedia, “[Fu-Go](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu-Go%5Fballoon%5Fbomb\#Single%5Flethal%5Fattack) [balloon bomb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu-Go%5Fballoon%5Fbomb\#Single%5Flethal%5Fattack)”\) May 23 and 25 — Night. In the wake of two B-29 raids on Tokyo, Japan, both nights, businessman Iomoyo Okado looks up from his air raid shelter and sees slow-moving “roundish objects, like hot cakes, about 20 square yards” in diameter, and silent. They are blue or gray in color. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[‘Flying Hot Cakes’ over Tokyo in 1945,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92430325/)” St. Joseph \(Mo.\) News-Press, July 12, 1947, p. 6; Clark III 503 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_717 ### Event 4297 (EC389D28) **Date:** 5/7/1945 **Time:** ~07:00 **Location:** B17 / PORT LYAUTTEY GOING QUICKLY [TO] DAKAR, SINGLE **Description:** Several observer(s). Shiny metal saucer seen several times. Hovers. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RUTLEDGE, Harley D. Ph.D.: PROJECT IDENTIFICATION; Prentice-Hall, NJ 1981. (Index 250) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_541 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Sahara", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "44", **HatchDesc:** "B17/PORT LYAUTTEY>>DAKAR,SNGL:SVRL OBS:SHINY MTL SCR SEEN SVRL TIMES:HVRS", **LatLong:** "24.500001 -12.000001", **LatLongDMS:** "24:30:00 N 12:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/24.500001,-12.000001)", **State/Prov:** "MAU", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4298 (3EF1966F) **Date:** 5/7/1945 **Description:** Several observers on a morning flight on a B-17 between Port Lyauttey, Mauritania and Dakar, Senegal sighted a shiny metallic saucer seen several times; it hovered. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Harley D. Rutledge, Project Identification, p. 250 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2611 ### Event 4299 (9017AA70) **Date:** 5/14/1945 **Location:** Nagoya, Japan **Description:** Red or flame-colored light, constant position, same size as B-29 landing light. (Page 166 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_289 ### Event 4300 (94C78978) **Date:** 5/16/1945 **Location:** FRANCE, Saint Mexant (Corrèze) **Description:** (Translated from French) At 4:30 pm two inhabitants saw an elongated cone-shaped object, apparently 60 cm long. Of a metallic gray color, the object was moving at high altitude in a NW to SE direction. At its base two red and green lights could be distinguished. **Reference:** in any case this case is not included in the catalogue of Figuet and Ruchon, who have done an excellent job **Reference:** Jimmy GUIEU: "Black-out on the S.V." - Fleuve Noir 1956 - p. 34 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1059 ### Event 4301 (07AA9D05) **Date:** 5/23/1945 **Location:** JAPAN, near Tokyo **Description:** (Translated from French) There were several B-29 raids on Tokyo. A local businessman on the lookout to give the alarm, was able to observe on May 23rd and 25th each time two objects in the shape of discs of gray-blue color. He described them as "circular objects, flat like pancakes, with a diameter of about 20 yards. They passed over the city without emitting the slightest noise". (1945, May 23rd and 25th) **Reference:** "UFO's, a century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 21-22 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1060 ### Event 4302 (D78789D6) **Date:** 5/23/1945 **Time:** 23:40? **Location:** TOKYO, JP **Description:** Japanese and USAF. 15' grey metal saucers chase B29s / bombing raids. Fast and maneuverable. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 60) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_542 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "TOKYO,JP:JAPANESE+USAF:15'GRY MTL SCRS CHASE B29s/BOMBING RAIDS:FAST+MNVRBLE", **LatLong:** "35.700002 139.766673", **LatLongDMS:** "35:42:00 N 139:46:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.700002,139.766673)", **State/Prov:** "Honshu Island", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4303 (92319CFE) **Date:** 5/25/1945 **Location:** Atlantic Ocean, At Sea **Description:** In early morning on a sunny day with intermittent clouds, a B-17 bomber was en route from Morocco to Dakar, Senegal. A silvery disc or ellipse was observed opposite the sun position, estimated to be 5 to 10 miles distant. The object paced the aircraft, hovering at times. (Ref. 3; Harley D. Rutledge, Project Identification, 1981, p. 251.) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_290 ### Event 4304 (AEE34960) **Date:** 5/25/1945 **End date:** 5/26/1945 **Location:** Tokyo, Japan **Description:** Fireball follows a B-29 of the 39th Bombardment Group for 50 miles (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [450525-26](http://www.nicap.org/tokyo450525dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_291 ### Event 4305 (8A6B8CB2) **Date:** 5/31/1945 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Colonel Holger Toftoy's last convoy of trucks leaves the Dora-Mittlebau site, just a few hours before the arrival of Soviet troops. The seized items are first sent to Antwerp, then transported by boat to New Orleans, to finish their secret transit within the Redstone Arsenal in the state of Alabama. To calm the anger of the Soviets, the Americans promise to return what they have taken but instead send a shipment of defective tractor parts. The immediate outcome of the 2nd World War gave the feeling of a relative understanding between Russians and Americans. This bold operation is one of the many incidents that will feed the underground soil of a terrible Cold War. (May 31) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1945.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_534 ### Event 4306 (5B1F9FC0) **Date:** 6/1945 (approximate) **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** OKINAWA **Description:** Plane crew. 3 disks orbit large cylinder/cylindrical object. Enter cylinder/cylindrical object and cylinder/cylindrical object going quickly [to] going [to] away. / Letter going [to] NICAP. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 27) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_543 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "OKINAWA:PLANE CREW:3 DISKS ORBIT LRG CYL:ENTER CYL+CYL >>> away:/Letter>NICAP", **LatLong:** "26.683335 127.733339", **LatLongDMS:** "26:41:00 N 127:44:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/26.683335,127.733339)", **State/Prov:** "OKN", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4307 (2F562D1B) **Date:** 6/1/1945 **Description:** The Army Air Force approves a Northrop-recommended change for installing eight jet engines in each of two modified YB-35 piston-driven flying wings, which are redesignated YB-49s. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Northrop YB-49](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop%5FYB-49)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_721 ### Event 4308 (98095E86) **Date:** 6/1/1945 **Locations:** Morganton, North Carolina; Lake James **Description:** 7:30 p.m. A shiny, tubular object, 5–6 feet long, is observed over Morganton, North Carolina. It streaks toward the northwest, blue flame shooting from the rear. After it vanishes in the mountains near Lake James, witnesses hear an explosion. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Mystery of Unidentified Flying Objects—A Prelude, 1896–1949](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-Mystery-of-UFOs-A-Prelude.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-Mystery-of-UFOs-A-Prelude.pdf) The author, 1971, p. 156 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_722 ### Event 4309 (41F0DD88) **Date:** 6/5/1945 (approximate) **Time:** 14:00 **Location:** MARSHALL TO/FROM/BETWEEN CAROLINE ISLANDS **Description:** 25+observer(s). 60M silver balloon follows military V-ship / 5 hours. 35k' altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: CE-5, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS of the 5th KIND. 1999 Sourcebooks Inc. Naperville, IL ISBN 1-57071-427-4. 242 case files. (Index 185) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_544 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "44", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "MARSHALL<>CAROLINE Isls:25+OBS:60M SLVR BALLOON FOLOS MIL. V-SHIP/5hrs:35k'alt", **LatLong:** "9.000000 -160.000008", **LatLongDMS:** "09:00:00 N 160:00:00 W", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/9.000000,-160.000008)", **State/Prov:** "ISL", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4310 (9C3D728D) **Date:** 6/9/1945 **Locations:** Pacific Theatre; Truk **Description:** XXI Bomber Command Air Intelligence issues an Air Intelligence Report on the balls of fire in the Pacific Theatre. The Truk sighting is attributed to an unknown Japanese experimental aircraft, though not a jet. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Strange Company 177–180 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_723 ### Event 4311 (5AE1B868) **Date:** 6/18/1945 **Location:** Unknown City, Japan **Description:** A fluctuating light round in shape that changed from bright red, to dim orange. (Page 180 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_292 ### Event 4312 (5ACB9ACD) **Date:** 6/19/1945 **Location:** Unknown City, Japan **Description:** B-29 followed by strong white light. (Page 180 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_293 ### Event 4313 (35713161) **Date:** 6/19/1945 **Location:** Fukuoka, Japan **Description:** One bright ball of fire; no fuselage or any wings. (Page 180 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_294 ### Event 4314 (C619ABC9) **Date:** 6/20/1945 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Sørreisa \(Norway\), E. P. B. heard a whistling sound and tried to find its origin. He saw 5 dark objects \(which he initially thought were cannonballs or something else\) moving very quickly, faster than any 1945 aircraft. Seen against a high cloud cover, the objects always kept the same distance between them. They were observed for 15 to 20 seconds, going further and further away, all the time following a wavy trajectory. (After June 20) **Reference:** \[Letters from E. P. B., March 15, 1983, April 18, 1983\] \[UFO report form, April 18, 1983\] **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1945.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_535 ### Event 4315 (817C7A9F) **Date:** Summer 1945 **Location:** Hanford, WA **Description:** Ensign Rolan D. Powell and 5 others, while stationed at US Naval Air Station in Pasco WA, were scrambled in their F6F Hellcats to intercept unknown flying craft the size of three aircraft carriers. These craft where hovering at high altitude above the top-secret Plutonium production facility in Hanford, WA. Pilots were ordered above 42k feet, well above their rated ceiling, but were unable to reach the unknown craft. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** "Alien Base", Timothy Good, page 152 (photos) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_87 ### Event 4316 (2DD89DA6) **Date:** Summer 1945 **Location:** AT SEA, near the Aleutian Islands **Description:** (Translated from French) (or March?) 14 members of the crew of the USAf Delarof saw a dark spherical object emerge from the water. The thing made a turn in the air around the boat before flying away. (Marcel J. Lefèvre - 1968 - Brussels) This event is mentioned as dating from the summer of 1945, then again in March 1945, by: (Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 169, 306) 1945, Summer: At sea, off Adak. The incident was observed by members of the crew of the U.S. Delarof, loaded with ammunition and supplies for Alaska. The witness, author of the report, recently interviewed was Robert S. Crawford, now geological consultant to the Indiana Soil Testing Laboratory of Griffith, Indiana. Crawford is a graduate of the University of North Dakota and, while he was studying, he reported his observation to Professor N.N. Kohanowski, Department of Geology, also advisor to the NICAP ... The Delarof incident occurred in the summer of 1945 while Crawford was serving on board as a military radio. The boat, returning to Seattle, was off after Adak. The sun was setting and Crawford was standing on the starboard side, near the radio cabin, when he heard crew members shouting. He turned around and saw a large round object that had just emerged from the sea. (Several crew members even saw the UFO appear under the sea, about a mile from the Delarof.) The unknown craft, silhouetted darkly against the setting sun, rose almost vertically for a few moments, then curved its flight to come horizontal and began to circle the boat. All the observers were convinced that it was a very large object. Comparing it to the width of a finger held at arm's length, Crawford estimated that it must have been 45 to 75 m in diameter. Turning around the Delarof, the object was within easy reach of its guns. But the gunners did not shoot, while watching for any sign of hostility. The UFO made two or three turns around the boat, flying regularly and without any noise. All the witnesses estimated that it was self-propelled; otherwise the strong wind would have visibly affected its movements. After several minutes, the flying object disappeared towards the south or south-southwest. Suddenly the crew saw three flashes of light coming from the place where it had disappeared. (1945, Summer) **Reference:** Yvan T. SANDERSON: "The Invisibles under the Seas" Albin Michel p.49-50 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1052 ### Event 4317 (A1D9654A) **Date:** Summer 1945 **Location:** JAPAN, Okinawa **Description:** (Translated from French) William A. Mandell was then a captain of artillery and stationed to the north of Okinawa. From their bivouac they were facing east of the China Sea. One evening, by moonlight, he suddenly saw a patch of light coming from the south, flying parallel to the coast. As it got closer he clearly saw the phenomenon, in the shape of a cigar, with a single light at its end. This object passed about 350 m from him, at an altitude of less than 200 meters relative to the sea, since Mandell was at 200 m altitude and saw the thing at eye level. The object was 10 to 15 meters long, with a diameter of 2 m to 2 m 50. It had no wings, no propellers, no portholes, or other openings. It moved in a gentle and constant manner, and silently. (1945, Summer) **Reference:** The Mysterious Foo Fighters of WWII. - Jeroen Wierda PUFORI, 19.5.1997 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1065 ### Event 4318 (2721DCB5) **Date:** Summer 1945 **Location:** Aleutian Islands, At Sea **Description:** Crew saw large round object emerging from sea; 150-20 feet in diameter; object circled ship; three white flashes observed in direction object departed. (Page 188- 189 Ref.1) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_295 ### Event 4319 (499B6068) **Date:** Summer 1945 **Location:** Long Beach, California **Description:** After 5:00 p.m. Future ufologist [Ann Druffel](https://copycateffect.blogspot.com/2020/06/ufologist-ann-druffel-dies.html?fbclid=IwAR3N-uW1ZAkq5p21hxc11siol67dwjxfSq2vLaTl8v0pExaBh0OeTDuLTyc) is on a bus returning from her summer job in Long Beach, California, when she sees out of the left-hand window a bright, stationary, yellowish-white light in the northeastern sky. It looks like Venus but has a yellow color. She gets off the bus and still watches it, walking home. Soon she sees it is moving slowly to the northwest. She gets her mother to view it as well. Druffel thinks it is too high to be a coastal defense balloon. Druffel watches it for 90 minutes, after which it takes on some “activity.” Some 10–15 pieces of light begin separating from it, fading from view after moving several diameters away from the large object. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ann Druffel, “UFO Sightings by UFO Researchers: The ‘Inaccessible Cases,’” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 139 \(September 1979\), pp. 14–15; Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29, no. 2 \(Summer 2004\): 3–4 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_718 ### Event 4320 (031DCEE4) **Date:** Summer 1945 **Location:** Stendal, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany **Description:** Future ufologist [Illobrand von Ludwiger](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illobrand%5Fvon%5FLudwiger) sees an object like a black plate, whose diameter is one-eighth that of the Moon, flying against the wind below the clouds, in Stendal, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, [p. 357](https://archive.org/details/ufoencyclopedia00marg/page/357/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_719 ### Event 4321 (9FA002DE) **Date:** Summer 1945 **Locations:** Adak; Aleutian Islands; Alaska **Description:** Radioman Robert S. Crawford and 13 other sailors aboard the US Army Transport [Delarof](http://www.navsource.org/archives/30/22/22027.htm) see a large, dark sphere rise out of the ocean east of Adak in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. The UFO, showing darkly against the setting sun, climbs almost straight up for a few moments, then it arcs into level flight, and circles the ship two or three times. All the observers are convinced it is a large object. Crawford estimates the UFO is 150–250 feet in diameter. The gun crews hold their fire. After several minutes, it disappears to the south. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Large Object](http://www.nicap.org/45SUMRaleutianisles%5Fdir.htm) [Emerges from Sea near the](http://www.nicap.org/45SUMRaleutianisles%5Fdir.htm) [Delarof](http://www.nicap.org/45SUMRaleutianisles%5Fdir.htm)”; “[The Question of Submerging UFO’s,”](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/041%20MAR%201968.pdf) UFO Investigator 4, o. 5 \(March 1968\): 4 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_720 ### Event 4322 (5C4CFC09) **Date:** 6/26/1945 **Location:** New York City **Description:** United Nations charter signed, goes into full force on 10/24/1945 **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_167 ### Event 4323 (0EFD3B4C) **Date:** 7/1945 **Location:** Hanford AEC Plant, WA **Description:** UFO over AEC plant tracked by radar, F84's scrambled (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [450700](http://www.nicap.org/45XXXXhanforddir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_296 ### Event 4324 (E67905C8) **Date:** 7/1945 **Locations:** Tinian; Northern Marianas; Japan; Iwo Jima **Description:** The 9th Bombardment Group on Tinian in the Northern Marianas: “During our night missions in June and July a UFO phenomenon was reported. Our air crews started sighting balls of fire, i.e., glowing objects about the size of a full moon which flew around in the vicinity of our flying patterns over Japan. One of our crews reported that one of the objects followed their airplane halfway to Iwo Jima. I saw them on two missions. I don’t remember any reports of any hostile action by these objects and the reports of sightings stopped after a couple of months. The object of these reports was dismissed by some experts as the planet Venus. And, after these reports started coming in, some crews did mistake the rising full moon as one of these balls of fire. Some reports speculated that these balls of fire were exhausts from a Japanese development called a Baka Bomb, but exhaust flames can only be seen from the rear; and these objects appeared to have the same size and intensity in whatever direction they were traveling. I have never heard of any official assessment as to what these objects were. I had an occasion to ask General [LeMay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis%5FLeMay) about them several years after the war and he had no explanation. I am sure that what I saw was neither Venus nor the moon nor a Baka Bomb.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 24; Henry C. Huglin, “[Group Commander’s Reminiscences,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop%5FYB-49)” in Lawrence S. Smith, et al., History of the 9th Bombardment Group \(VH\), 9th Bomb Group Association, 1995, pp. 27–28 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_724 ### Event 4325 (1E075738) **Date:** 7/1945 **Locations:** northern Okinawa, Japan; South China Sea **Description:** In northern Okinawa, Japan, on a bluff looking toward the South China Sea, Artillery Capt. [William A. Mandel](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/58851118/william-a%5F-mandel) sees a cigar-shaped object with a lighted tail moving at eye level at about 200 –300 mph at an elevation of no more than 400 feet. He estimates its length at 30–40 feet and its diameter at 6–8 feet. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Project 1947, “[UFO](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1945a.htm) [Reports, 1945](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1945a.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_725 ### Event 4326 (EC614E20) **Date:** 7/1945 **Locations:** Selfridge Field; Selfridge Air National Guard Base; Mount Clemens, Michigan **Description:** When several balloon-shaped objects appear above Selfridge Field \[now Selfridge Air National Guard Base\] near Mount Clemens, Michigan, the base commander asks for a volunteer to attack them as possible Japanese balloon bombs. Jean Kisling, serving with a Free French Air Force detachment as an instructor on P-47 Thunderbolts, accepts the challenge. He chases one “well beyond the service ceiling of the P-47D” and opens fire with 8 machine guns. The object shoots away sideways on edge, leaving a contrail. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Good Need, [p. 24](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/24/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_726 ### Event 4327 (C508147B) **Date:** 7/1945 **Location:** Japan **Description:** Nazi Germany reportedly sent high-tech weapons, including disassembled V-1 guided missiles and jet fighter planes, to its ally Japan via long-range submarines. Most of these arrived too late to be significantly duplicated by Japan during the war. Relevant to UFO discussions is a story shared by the son of a Japanese aircraft industry technician. In mid-1945, after Germany's war had ended, a large German transport submarine delivered to Japan two unique, spherical, wingless devices. Japanese researchers assembled these machines based on German instructions, resulting in a wingless, ball-shaped flying device with unknown operation mechanisms. Upon ignition, the first machine roared into the sky and was never seen again. Startled by the device's unexpected power, the engineers destroyed the second prototype with dynamite and decided to forget the incident. This described device closely aligns with descriptions of the ball of light variant of foo fighters. (Chapter 7, Ref 294) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_286 ### Event 4328 (4D179612) **Date:** 7/1945 **Location:** Argentina **Description:** After World War II, unusual U-boat activity was observed in the South Atlantic. Two German submarines docked in Argentina carrying incomplete cargoes of cigarettes and liquor. The crews were evasive about their last mission. Another German U-boat appeared in Argentina, but this time, its men and cargo vanished. The U.S. ambassador believed they had parts of Germany's secret weapons. Despite tracking $400 million of Nazi funds to Argentina, they found a lack of cooperation from the local government, leading to many unanswered questions about the extent of Nazi infiltration in the region. (Chapter 8, Ref 325) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_315 ### Event 4329 (65FD6F55) **Date:** 7/1/1945 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Creation of the [T-2](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/T2.html) department within the [AAF](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/AAF.html), initiating the movement towards a balanced integration between engineering and technical air intelligence. (July 1st) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1945.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_536 ### Event 4330 (07A4F14A) **Date:** 7/1/1945 **Description:** The Air Technical Service Command is moved into T-2 Intelligence. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Air Materiel Command](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%5FMateriel%5FCommand\#Air%5FTechnical%5FServices%5FCommand)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_727 ### Event 4331 (9381FCA2) **Date:** 7/2/1945 **Location:** Unknown City, Japan **Description:** Several balls of fire much larger than supercharger glow, but of somewhat the same color. (Page 182-183 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_297 ### Event 4332 (886EF13B) **Date:** 7/3/1945 **Location:** USA, Goldstone Range **Description:** (Translated from French) TEST LAUNCH OF WAC CAPORAL "BABY" (1945, July 3-5) **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, Wp. 251, Galcit Report **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1062 ### Event 4333 (C1795BC1) **Date:** 7/4/1945 **Location:** Yokohama (near), Japan **Description:** "After coming away from our bomb drop, we saw the UFO's. I especially recall seeing two groups of them in single file. One group of six were lower than we were and coming towards us from the front, their heading taking them off to or left. The other group was more distant and headed in the opposite direction, but were at about our level. (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [450704](http://www.nicap.org/yokohama450704dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_298 ### Event 4334 (705BECA8) **Date:** 7/7/1945 **Location:** Sasebo, Japan **Description:** Foo fighter; a big ball of fuzzy orange-red light; B-29 fired on object, appearing to hit with no affect. (Page 186 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_299 ### Event 4335 (C704EC28) **Date:** 7/12/1945 **Location:** Honshu, Japan **Description:** Light Phenomenon.Spotted enemy aircraft apparently trailed by large orange light traveling with it at same speed. (Page 186-187 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_300 ### Event 4336 (5FF2598F) **Date:** 7/15/1945? **Time:** ~12:00 **Location:** HANFORD, WA **Description:** RADAR-visual (observation). Huge red saucer / RADAR / 20km altitude. 6 6F6s can't reach. / LDLN#343+/ r150. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 344) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_545 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "74", **HatchDesc:** "HANFORD,WA:RDR-VIS:HUGE RED SCR/RDR/20km alt:6 6F6s CANT REACH:/LDLN#343+/r150", **LatLong:** "46.583336 -119.400006", **LatLongDMS:** "46:35:00 N 119:24:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.583336,-119.400006)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4337 (621B1E99) **Date:** Mid 7/1945 **Location:** Unknown City, WA **Description:** Object was very bright and had saucer-like appearance; was the size of three aircraft carriers, side-by side, oval shaped, very streamlined like a stretched-out egg and, and pinkish in color; Hovered in fixed position and then went straight-up and disappeared. (Page 188 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_301 ### Event 4338 (73A9E855) **Date:** Mid 7/1945 **Locations:** Naval Air Station Pasco, Washington; Hanford facility **Description:** Noon. Pilot Rolan D. Powell and five other F6F Hellcat pilots at Naval Air Station Pasco, Washington, are scrambled after radar reports a fast-moving object over the nearby Hanford facility. They see a bright object with a saucer-like appearance at. It is the size of three aircraft carriers, side-by side, oval shaped, very streamlined like a stretched-out egg and, and pinkish in color. It hovers in a fixed position at 65,000 feet and then goes straight up and disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Huge Saucer over Nuclear Reactor—Radar/Visual](http://www.nicap.org/45XXXXhanforddir.htm)”; Strange Company 188; Patrick Gross, “[Alleged UFO Intercept Attempt at Hanford Nuclear Plant, July 1945](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/hanford1945.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_729 ### Event 4339 (00D98E52) **Date:** Mid 7/1945 **Location:** Hanford, Washington **Description:** A UFO displayed interest in a then-secret nuclear facility producing ingredients for atomic bombs. Fighter planes from a nearby station were dispatched to intercept the large UFO hovering over the plant. Though the object was too high to reach, the pilots closely observed it. One pilot described it as "nothing I've ever seen before," while another noted vapor emanating from portholes or vents. The UFO was described as the size of three aircraft carriers side by side, oval-shaped, streamlined like a stretched-out egg, and pinkish in color. (Chapter 7, Ref. 245) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_236 ### Event 4340 (8C5D5995) **Date:** 7/16/1945 **Location:** White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** First atomic bomb test “Trinity”, 35 miles (56 km) southeast of Socorro, NM (now part of the White Sands Missile Range) **Type:** atomic **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_%28nuclear_test%29) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_168 **Atomic type:** aboveground **Atomic KT:** 18.6 ### Event 4341 (648FE561) **Date:** 7/16/1945 **Location:** ATOMIC BOMB **Description:** (Translated from French) THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB WAS SUCCESSFULLY TESTED IN THE DESERT OF ALAMOGORDO IN NEW MEXICO. **Reference:** "UFO's, A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 22 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1063 ### Event 4342 (51423237) **Date:** 7/16/1945 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) First test of the atomic bomb at Trinity \(Operation *Trinity*\). (July 16, 5:30am) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1945.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_537 ### Event 4343 (A140A694) **Date:** 7/16/1945 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Vetis \(Romania\), an old farmer observed for several nights in a row a cloud moving towards the ground above his field. The cloud was bright red and approached close to the fences. At one fence, two illuminated clouds appeared, moving towards each other, stopping, and then suddenly disappearing. Several people at a distance reported thinking the lights of the object were the lights of their homes and that they were deceived on their way home. **Reference:** Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFO's Behind the Iron Curtain **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1945.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_538 ### Event 4344 (A90E9A2D) **Date:** 7/16/1945 **Time:** 05:40 **Location:** TRINITY SITE, NM (WHITE SANDS PROVING GROUNDS) **Description:** 1st a-bomb test successful. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GENERAL KNOWLEDGE ( various, unreferenced. ) (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_546 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NFO:** No craft seen, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **RDA:** Radiation/high energy fields detected, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "15", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "1409", **HatchDesc:** "TRINITY SITE,NM (WHITE SANDS Prv Gnds):1ST A-BOMB TEST SUCCESSFUL. ", **LatLong:** "33.694446 -106.472227", **LatLongDMS:** "33:41:40 N 106:28:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.694446,-106.472227)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 4345 (07FB2A07) **Date:** 7/16/1945 **Time:** 11:29:21.0 **Location:** 33.6753 -106.4747 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Trinity” Yield: 21KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_0 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "33.6753 -106.4747", **LatLongDMS:** "33:40:31 N 106:28:29 W", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.6753,-106.4747)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.03", **NukeName:** "Trinity", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "21" ### Event 4346 (0E75F973) **Date:** 7/16/1945 **Locations:** Trinity site; White Sands Missile Range; Alamogordo, New Mexico **Description:** The first detonation of a nuclear weapon \(an implosion-style plutonium-based bomb\) takes place at the Trinity site on what is now the White Sands Missile Range near Alamogordo, New Mexico. At this time, the bomb’s price tag, adjusted for inflation, is $28 billion. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Trinity \(nuclear test\)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity%5F%28nuclear%5Ftest%29)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_728 ### Event 4347 (772B2B68) **Date:** 7/20/1945 **Time:** 10:50 **Location:** HOUDAIN, FR **Description:** Fast silent metallic cylinder/cigar-shape going quickly southeast. Shoots flames / front. No trail. Surface glows. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 156) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_547 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "HOUDAIN,FR:FAST SLNT MTLC CGR>>SE:SHOOTS FLAMES/FRONT:NO TRAIL:SURFACE GLOWS", **LatLong:** "50.450002 2.550000", **LatLongDMS:** "50:27:00 N 02:33:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.450002,2.550000)", **State/Prov:** "Pas-de-Calais", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4348 (C181CD12) **Date:** 7/20/1945? **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** LONG BEACH, CA **Description:** Ann Druffel. Night lights exit large object / high altitude. Finally going west. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v37#4. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 140) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_548 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "9", **HatchDesc:** "LONG BEACH,CA:ANN DRUFFEL:NLTS EXIT LRG OBJ/hi alt:FINALLY >W:/FSR v37#4", **LatLong:** "33.800002 -118.183339", **LatLongDMS:** "33:48:00 N 118:11:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.800002,-118.183339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4349 (19C0EFA6) **Date:** 7/20/1945 **Description:** The Joint Chiefs of Staff establish Operation Overcast, a forerunner to Project Paperclip, a secret recruitment program to aid in postwar military research. The Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency is established to conduct the operation. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Operation Paperclip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FPaperclip)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_730 ### Event 4350 (5D19F8DE) **Date:** 7/20/1945 **Description:** At 10:50 a.m. a fast moving, silent cigar-shaped object flew over Houdain, France. Its surface was glowing, it had flames shooting from its front, and it left no contrail. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Lumieres dans la Nuit, p. 156 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4219 ### Event 4351 (F5A67FC1) **Date:** 7/21/1945 **Location:** NORWAY, Sorreisa **Description:** (Translated from French) E.P.B. heard a kind of whistling and went out to see what was causing it. He saw in the sky five dark objects, which he took for shells. They flew very fast, much faster than an aircraft of 1945 could do. The sky was covered with clouds, and the 5 objects stood out well against them, keeping the same distance between them and staying in the same formation. They were observed for 10 to 15 seconds, constantly moving away, on a wavy trajectory. (1945, July 21 or 22) **Reference:** Letters from E.P.B., 15 Mar 1983, 18 Apr 1983. Ole Johnny Braenne's UFO REPORT FORM, 18 Apr 1983 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1064 ### Event 4352 (2A7A89DA) **Date:** 7/24/1945 **Description:** President [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) discloses to Soviet leader [Joseph Stalin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FStalin) that the United States has atomic weapons. Stalin feigns little surprise, since he already knows this through espionage. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Gene Dannen, “[Truman Tells Stalin, July](http://www.dannen.com/decision/potsdam.html) [24, 1945](http://www.dannen.com/decision/potsdam.html)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_731 ### Event 4353 (01ABD7DE) **Date:** 8/1945 **Location:** FINLAND, Langelmavesi **Description:** (Translated from French) Just before 5 o'clock, Ilona Johansson Paasonen was awoken by a strong light. She pulled the curtain to see what it was. From the shore of Shalahti, a dazzling sphere of about 10m in diameter was approaching quickly. She threw herself to the ground, on her back, waiting for the end, as she believed that this ball of fire would destroy everything. Surprised that the collision did not occur, she got up after a few minutes and took a look: the ball of fire had disappeared. But about 300m away, an object shaped like a tree trunk was slowly gliding on the water and approaching the shore. About 2 meters from the jetty stood a strange gray animal that seemed to be in terror. It was standing on its claws, it suddenly turned its head and she saw sharp teeth in the open mouth. Then the tree trunk arrived near the jetty and she saw that it was a narrow boat like a canoe: at the bow stood a tall man of handsome bearing, he was wearing a greenish suit. The boat pivoted a bit and she saw another man operating a motor inside a large transparent bulb. The "Lapp dog" no longer seemed afraid and was leaving. (Pierre VIEROUDY: "These UFOs that announce the Superman" - Laffont 1979, p. 56, 57) (...) (August 1945) **Reference:** Jean FERGUSON: "The Humanoids..." - ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1977, p.50 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1069 ### Event 4354 (8A5B521F) **Date:** 8/1945 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Vulcânesti, Criova \(Romania\), on a clear and warm night, a train station watchman named C. Tîrulescu is on duty. After stopping the train he goes to the office to telephone. As he returns to the platform, everything behind him lights up. He turns around and sees a large red object in the sky, bigger than the Moon and much brighter. It is above the horizon and heading west, at a distance of 70 to 80 m. The train station guard also sees it. By the time Tîrulescu goes inside to get his colleague and comes back outside, the object is gone. (August) **Reference:** Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFO's Behind the Iron Curtain **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1945.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_539 ### Event 4355 (CDCBBD80) **Date:** 8/1945 (approximate) **Time:** ~22:00 **Location:** SOUTHEAST / ADAK ISLAND, AK **Description:** 60M sphere/orb/globe going up / sea. Circles ammunition ship Delarof. Going quickly south. 3 flashes. / r242p129. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 53) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_549 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "SE/ADAK Isl,AK:60M ORB ↑/SEA:CCLS AMMO SHIP DELAROF:>>S:3 FLASHES:/r242p129", **LatLong:** "51.666669 -176.000008", **LatLongDMS:** "51:40:00 N 176:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.666669,-176.000008)", **State/Prov:** "NPC", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 4356 (3CBB2099) **Date:** 8/1945 (approximate) **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** VETIS, ROMANIA **Description:** Farmers. 1M glowing-clouds follow farm fences by border / Hungary. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HOBANA Ion & WEVERBERGH,Julien: UFO'S from BEHIND the IRON CURTAIN; Bantam Books,1975. 308pp. (Index 228) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_550 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Romania", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "174", **HatchDesc:** "VETIS,ROMANIA:FARMERS:1M GLOW-CLOUDS FOLO FARM FENCES by BORDER/HUNGARY", **LatLong:** "47.816669 22.750001", **LatLongDMS:** "47:49:00 N 22:45:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.816669,22.750001)", **State/Prov:** "STM", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4357 (34F1F9FB) **Date:** 8/1945 **Time:** ~23:50 **Location:** VILCANESTI, ROMANIA **Description:** Train stops. Big sphere/orb/globe lights whole station area. Going west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HOBANA Ion & WEVERBERGH,Julien: UFO'S from BEHIND the IRON CURTAIN; Bantam Books,1975. 308pp. (Index 228) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_551 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Romania", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "VILCANESTI,ROMANIA:TRAIN STOPS:BIG ORB LITES WHOLE STATION AREA:>W", **LatLong:** "44.350002 23.950001", **LatLongDMS:** "44:21:00 N 23:57:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.350002,23.950001)", **State/Prov:** "OLT", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 4358 (FE3E230E) **Date:** 8/1945 **Location:** Okinawa, Japan **Description:** Cigar-shaped, metallic, and without markings or visible openings, and 35 to 50 feet in length. (Page 189-190 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_302 ### Event 4359 (513A1514) **Date:** 8/1945 **Description:** The Army Signal Security Agency persuades ITT, RCA, and Western Union to continue the wartime cable intercept program, both foreign and domestic, now called Project SHAMROCK. No courts, no warrants. It remains secret from Congress and the President. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Project SHAMROCK](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%5FSHAMROCK)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_732 ### Event 4360 (D2776CD2) **Date:** 8/1945 **Location:** lake Längelmävesi, Finland **Description:** 5:00 a.m. Ilona Johansson-Paasonen, staying in a sauna along lake Längelmävesi, Finland, wakes up and sees a 35-foot dazzling ball of fire streaking in her direction along the opposite shore. She throws herself to the floor, but when nothing happens she looks outside and sees a big dog, frozen in terror, its gaze fixed on the lake and a dark log-like object, 6 feet long, gliding through the water with a tall, slender man at the prow. He is dressed in a green coverall. On the other side another man sits steering an engine enclosed within a big glass bulb. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ilona Johansson- Paasonen, “[Humanoideja Längelmävedellä?](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Finland/Vimana%20%281967-1972%29/AFU%5F19700000%5FVimana%20no%203-4.pdf)” Vimana 1970, no. 3/4, pp. 22–24; Ilona Johansson-Paasonen, “[Humanoids at Längelmävesi,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-CH%201973%20N%2013.pdf)” FSR Case Histories 13 \(February 1973\): 3–4; Clark III 266 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_733 ### Event 4361 (266169CA) **Date:** 8/5/1945 **Time:** 23:16:02.0 **Location:** 34.3947114 132.4543816 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “littleboy” Yield: 15KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "34.3947114 132.4543816", **LatLongDMS:** "34:23:41 N 132:27:16 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.3947114,132.4543816)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "littleboy", **NukeSource:** "TCARTER", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "15" ### Event 4362 (E16B69BF) **Date:** 8/6/1945 **Location:** Hiroshima, Japan **Description:** First atomic bomb attack at Hiroshima, Japan. 20,000 soldiers killed, 70,000–126,000 civilians killed. **Type:** atomic **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_169 **Atomic type:** aboveground **Atomic KT:** 16 ### Event 4363 (4484E0B6) **Date:** 8/6/1945 **Location:** JAPAN, Hiroshima **Description:** (Translated from French) AN AMERICAN B-29 SUPERFORTRESS DROPS THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB. – THERE WILL BE A SECOND ONE **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1066 ### Event 4364 (468C2247) **Date:** 8/6/1945 **Time:** 08:10 **Location:** HIROSHIMA, JAPAN **Description:** 1st a-bomb in warfare destroys city. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GENERAL KNOWLEDGE ( various, unreferenced. ) (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_552 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NFO:** No craft seen, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **RDA:** Radiation/high energy fields detected, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **HST:** Historical account, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations, **MIL:** Military investigation, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "15", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "HIROSHIMA,JAPAN:1ST A-BOMB IN WARFARE DESTROYS CITY:", **LatLong:** "34.400002 132.450006", **LatLongDMS:** "34:24:00 N 132:27:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.400002,132.450006)", **State/Prov:** "Honshu Island", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4365 (E84BB529) **Date:** 8/6/1945 **Locations:** Hiroshima, Japan; Enola Gay **Description:** 8:15 a.m. An atomic bomb \(a fission weapon containing 64 kilograms of Uranium-235, Little Boy\) is detonated 1,900 feet above Hiroshima, Japan, by the [Enola Gay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enola%5FGay). The weapon is considered very inefficient, with only 1.7% of its material fissioning, but it is enough to obliterate the city. Some 78,000 people die instantly or immediately afterward in the firestorm. By the end of the year, another 25,000 will also sicken and die from radiation exposure. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic%5Fbombings%5Fof%5FHiroshima%5Fand%5FNagasaki\#Bombing%5Fof%5FHiroshima)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_734 ### Event 4366 (2E755083) **Date:** 8/7/1945 **Location:** Hanford Engineer Works in Washington **Description:** During a press conference with the Seattle Times, Col. [Franklin Matthias,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%5FMatthias) officer in charge at the Hanford Engineer Works in Washington, admits the plant has had problems with aerial intrusions, but that radar has been installed and an arrangement made with the Navy to intercept any unidentified aircraft. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Project 1947, “[UFOs over](http://www.project1947.com/fig/hendershot.htm) [Hanford: Commander R. W. Hendershot](http://www.project1947.com/fig/hendershot.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_735 ### Event 4367 (25C19C0D) **Date:** 8/9/1945 **Location:** Nagasaki, Japan **Description:** Second atomic bomb attack at Nagasaki, Japan. 39,000–80,000 killed, At least 150 soldiers killed. **Type:** atomic **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_170 **Atomic type:** aboveground **Atomic KT:** 21 ### Event 4368 (7BC53FE5) **Date:** 8/9/1945 **Time:** 11:00 **Location:** NAGASAKI, JAPAN **Description:** Plutonium bomb destroys city. 2nd of 2. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GENERAL KNOWLEDGE ( various, unreferenced. ) (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_553 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NFO:** No craft seen, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **RDA:** Radiation/high energy fields detected, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **HST:** Historical account, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations, **MIL:** Military investigation, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "15", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "NAGASAKI,JAPAN:PLUTONIUM BOMB DESTROYS CITY:2nd OF 2:", **LatLong:** "32.800002 129.883340", **LatLongDMS:** "32:48:00 N 129:53:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.800002,129.883340)", **State/Prov:** "Kyushu", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4369 (285D14A1) **Date:** 8/9/1945 **Time:** 01:58:00.0 **Location:** 32.7731273 129.8617014 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “fatman” Yield: 21KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_2 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "32.7731273 129.8617014", **LatLongDMS:** "32:46:23 N 129:51:42 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.7731273,129.8617014)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "fatman", **NukeSource:** "TCARTER", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "21" ### Event 4370 (38210C24) **Date:** 8/9/1945 **Locations:** Nagasaki, Japan; Urakami Valley **Description:** 11:01 a.m. Another atomic bomb \(an implosion-type plutonium weapon, Fat Man\) is dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, by [Bockscar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bockscar)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bockscar) Although the bomb is more powerful than the one used on Hiroshima, its effects are confined by hillsides to the narrow Urakami Valley. At least 35,000–40,000 people are killed, and 60,000 others are injured. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic%5Fbombings%5Fof%5FHiroshima%5Fand%5FNagasaki\#Bombing%5Fof%5FNagasaki)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_736 ### Event 4371 (B983D886) **Date:** 8/10/1945? **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** 950KM ESE / KYUSHU, JPN **Description:** USS Bradford. Red-white glowing-object going quickly south / 5000kph. 90° turn going quickly west and quickly going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 53) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_554 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "950km ESE/KYUSHU,JPN:USS BRADFORD:RED-WHT GLOW-OBJ >>S/5000kph:90°TURN>>W+↑↑", **LatLong:** "28.000001 141.500007", **LatLongDMS:** "28:00:00 N 141:30:00 E", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/28.000001,141.500007)", **State/Prov:** "NPC", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 4372 (C69A6446) **Date:** 8/10/1945 **Locations:** East Paterson [now Elmwood Park], New Jersey; Clifton, New Jersey **Description:** 3:00 a.m. Pianist Doris La Fountain is driving home along Market Street after finishing a concert at a night club in East Paterson \[now Elmwood Park\], New Jersey. She is accompanied by music store proprietor [Thomas](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/170049207/thomas-brino) [Brino](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/170049207/thomas-brino) and James Shaw of Clifton, New Jersey. For about 5 minutes they watch a brilliant red and green rectangular object maneuver at ground level about 70 feet away. It shoots off into the sky and disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Seeing Saucer Sweet Music to a Pianist,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92439039/)” New York Daily News, September 8, 1957, Passaic-Bergen Sec., p. 22; Lore and Deneault, [p. 145](https://archive.org/details/mysteriesofskies0000lore/page/144/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_737 ### Event 4373 (621CC3CC) **Date:** 8/16/1945 **Location:** San Antonio, NM **Description:** “Trinity” Crash Retrieval near San Antonio, NM **Type:** crash retrieval **Reference:** [link](https://www.howandwhys.com/astronomer-jacques-vallee-trinity-ufo-crash-encounter/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_171 ### Event 4374 (0BC9BE56) **Date:** 8/16/1945 **Location:** San Antonio, New Mexico **Description:** A UFO allegedly crashes near San Antonio, New Mexico, and is discovered by Jose Padilla, 9, and Remigio Baca, 7, when they are looking for a cow. The crashed saucer has created a gouge, and they can see entities moving around inside. They collect two shiny metal parts from the periphery of the crash site. A recent analysis shows that the metal is of terrestrial origin. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Paola Leopizzi Harris, “[The Reme Baca and Jose Padilla Witness](https://www.theufochronicles.com/2010/11/1945-san-antonio-ufo-crash-witness.html) [Case,](https://www.theufochronicles.com/2010/11/1945-san-antonio-ufo-crash-witness.html)” The UFO Chronicles, November 30, 2010; John Greenewald, “[Analysis of Two Metallic Parts Purportedly](https://www.theblackvault.com/casefiles/analysis-two-metallic-parts-purportedly-crashed-unidentified-aerial-object-san-antonio-new-mexico-august-16-1945/) [from a Crashed Unidentified Aerial Object \(San Antonio, New Mexico, August 16, 1945\),](https://www.theblackvault.com/casefiles/analysis-two-metallic-parts-purportedly-crashed-unidentified-aerial-object-san-antonio-new-mexico-august-16-1945/)” The Black Vault, February 1, 2017; Jacques Vallee and Paola Leopizzi Harris, Trinity: The Best-Kept Secret, StarWorksUSA, 2021; Kevin D. Randle, “[Trinity: The Best Kept Secret](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/06/trinity-best-kept-secret-critique.html)[—A Critique,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/06/trinity-best-kept-secret-critique.html)” A Different Perspective, June 2, 2021; Jacques Vallée, “[The Other Lessons of Trinity,](https://web.archive.org/web/100/https://trinitysecret.com/the-other-lessons-of-trinity/)” Trinity blog, December 6, 2021; Kevin D. Randle, “[Jacques](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/12/jacques-vallee-and-ten-unexplained-ufo.html) [Vallée and Ten Unexplained UFO Cases and Metallic Debris,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/12/jacques-vallee-and-ten-unexplained-ufo.html)” A Different Perspective, December 16, 2021 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_738 ### Event 4375 (5AE55A74) **Date:** 8/20/1945 **Location:** CAROLINE ISLANDS, Ulithi Island **Description:** (Translated from French) The crew of a US Navy ship saw a red light in the sky, like a heated steel bar, with an apparent length of 30 cm. The object moved north towards Japan. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 275) Andrew Cimbala of Duquesne was on watch. It was just at sunset, and it wasn't dark enough yet to see stars. I saw a red line appear in the east. It passed directly overhead, heading west towards Japan. It was visible for more than 40 seconds. It looked like a heated steel bar, 1.5 cm wide and 25 to 30 cm long. Nothing else was visible. There was no flame. **Reference:** The Mysterious Foo Fighters of WWII. - Jeroen Wierda PUFORI, 19.5.1997 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1067 ### Event 4376 (83DBBAF9) **Date:** 8/21/1945 **Locations:** Manhattan Project; Omega Site; Los Alamos Laboratory; New Mexico **Description:** Manhattan Project physicist [Harry Daghlian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FDaghlian) is conducting an after-hours experiment at the remote Omega Site of the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico when his hand slips. The test assembly he has built—a ball of plutonium surrounded by tungsten carbide bricks—goes critical. He sees a momentary blue flash and is struck by a wave of gamma and neutron radiation amounting to more than 500 rem. He disassembles the experiment, walks away, and admits himself to medical care. He falls into a coma and dies on September 15, the first person to die accidentally from close exposure to nuclear fission. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Adam Higginbotham, Midnight at Chernobyl, Simon & Schuster, 2019, pp. 30–31 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_739 ### Event 4377 (44F46E41) **Date:** 8/22/1945 **Location:** Moscow, Russia **Description:** Stalin appoints Lavrentiy Beria to direct Soviet atomic bomb effort **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_172 ### Event 4378 (FD4660B4) **Date:** 8/28/1945 **Location:** JAPAN, Iwo Jima **Description:** (Translated from French) A C 46 transport in difficulty: engine failure and loss of altitude during the observation of 3 UFOs. (Marcel J. Lefèvre - 1968 - Brussels) I was one of the twelve air force specialists of the 5th Army on board a C 46 going from Ie-Shima to Iwo Jima where it was to make a technical stopover... (...) We were approaching, flying at three thousand meters, in a sky of great sunshine, when I saw, to my great astonishment, three pear-shaped objects. They were of a dazzling white, like burning magnesium, and were approaching the C 46 in a parallel course. Suddenly the left engine faltered. I was to learn later that the magnetic needles of the navigation instruments had gone wild. The C 46 was sinking. Oil was spurting from the failing engine. The pilot gave the alarm. The crew and passengers were warned to be ready for the dive. (...) The last fleeting vision I had of the three craft placed them at about 20 degrees in elevation relative to us. However, still in tight formation, they disappeared into a cloud bank. Immediately the failing engine started to run smoothly again. The plane regained altitude (...) **Reference:** Leonard STRINGFIELD: "General UFO Alert", ed. France - Empire, 1978, pp. 27, 28 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1068 ### Event 4379 (12192531) **Date:** 8/28/1945 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Observation of [Leonard Stringfield](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/StringfieldLeonardH.html). (August 28) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1945.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_540 ### Event 4380 (59075B71) **Date:** 8/28/1945 **Location:** Iwo Jima **Description:** Three bright objects pace transport; EM effects. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973_, by Richard Dolan](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/mode/2up) **Source:** Dolan, **ID:** Dolan_12 ### Event 4381 (45376E36) **Date:** 8/28/1945 **Location:** NEAR IWO JIMA, JAPAN **Description:** L. Stringfield and 12 observer(s). 3 white teardrops pace Army Air Force (AAF) C46. / r215p52. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** STRINGFIELD, Leonard: SITUATION RED - The UFO Siege. Fawcett Crest, NY 1977 (Index 25) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_555 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "nr IWO JIMA,JAPAN:L.STRINGFIELD+12 OBS:3 WHT TEARDROPS PACE AAF C46:/r215p52", **LatLong:** "33.000002 139.833340", **LatLongDMS:** "33:00:00 N 139:50:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.000002,139.833340)", **State/Prov:** "IWJ", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4382 (402F6769) **Date:** 8/28/1945 (approximate) **Time:** 05:00 **Location:** LANGELMAYESI, FINL **Description:** 10M fireball going [to] lake toward(s) pier. Observer(s) hides. Strange boat and 2 men land. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 138) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_556 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "LANGELMAYESI,FINL:10M FBL > LAKE twrd PIER:OBS HIDES:STRANGE BOAT+2 MEN LAND", **LatLong:** "61.500003 24.250001", **LatLongDMS:** "61:30:00 N 24:15:00 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/61.500003,24.250001)", **State/Prov:** "Finland", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 4383 (8A226031) **Date:** 8/28/1945 **Location:** Iwo Jima (near), At Sea **Description:** C-46 had engine trouble, lost altitude, as three UFOs were observed from plane. \[2.\] (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_303 ### Event 4384 (EF9C8E70) **Date:** 8/28/1945 **Locations:** Iwo Jima; Ogasawara Islands, Japan **Description:** Twelve 5th Air Force intelligence specialists flying on a C-46 approaching Iwo Jima \(in the Ogasawara Islands, Japan\) see three white, teardrop-shaped objects paralleling the plane. Navigational needles go wild, the engine sputters, and the plane falters until the objects speed away. One of the passengers is future UFO investigator [Leonard Stringfield.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield)  **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977, pp. 9–10; Strange Company 191–193, 209–211; NICAP, “[C-46 Encounters Objects / Magnetic Compasses ‘West Wild’](http://www.nicap.org/450828iwojima%5Fdir.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_740 ### Event 4385 (B1DDBBE7) **Date:** 8/28/1945 **Description:** On this day Leonard H. Stringfield was flying to Iwo Jima island onboard a U.S. Army Air Force C-46 shortly after the end of the war with Japan. Three luminous lights began to follow his C-46 transport plane as they approached the island in the Pacific. The plane's engines faltered, its magnetic compass failed, and its engines temporarily stopped. There were thirteen military witnesses on board. Len Stringfield became a life long UFO investigator as a result of this encounter. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Leonard H. Stringfield, Inside Saucer Post...3-0 Blue, p. 7; NICAP UFO Investigator, December 1965, p. 3; Leonard H. Stringfield, Situation Red: The UFO Siege, p. 9; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 14 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5404 ### Event 4386 (83A307EA) **Date:** 8/28/1945 **Description:** At five o'clock in the morning two women in Langelmayesi, Finland noticed a dark cylindrical object. Inside the prow of object stood a slender man in green coveralls, and another man who was apparently steering the craft inside a glass dome. Their Black Labrador dog reacted in terror. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 138 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5405 ### Event 4387 (D5055CD6) **Date:** 8/28/1945 **Location:** Iwo Jima **Description:** Passenger Leonard J. Stringfield reported that his C-46 developed engine trouble when approached by three luminous blobs of light. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up) **Source:** HostileFawcett, **ID:** HostileFawcett_2 ### Event 4388 (1FA884CA) **Date:** 9/1945 **Location:** Buckner Bay, Okinawa, Japan **Description:** A stationary bluish-whitelight, about the size of a dime at arms length, move and then return to original position. (Page 195-196 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_304 ### Event 4389 (20101CB7) **Date:** 9/1945 **Locations:** Fort Strong in Boston harbor, Massachusetts; Fort Bliss, Texas; White Sands, New Mexico **Description:** The first group of seven German rocket scientists arrive at Fort Strong in Boston harbor, Massachusetts, through Operation Overcast: [Wernher von Braun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher%5Fvon%5FBraun)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher%5Fvon%5FBraun) Erich W. Neubert, Theodor A. Poppel, August Schultze, [Eberhard Rees](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eberhard%5FRees)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eberhard%5FRees) Wilhelm Jungert, and Walter Schwidetzky. By the end of the year, they and two other groups are moved to Fort Bliss, Texas, and White Sands, New Mexico, as “War Department Special Employees.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Operation Paperclip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FPaperclip\#Arrivals)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_741 ### Event 4390 (3C6C7B6A) **Date:** 9/1945 **Locations:** Los Alamos, New Mexico; Oxnard Field, New Mexico; Wendover Field [now Airport], Utah; Sandia Base [now part of Kirtland AFB]; Kirtland Field **Description:** The US Army atomic bomb production unit, Z Division, named for its director, [Jerrold R. Zacharias](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerrold%5FR.%5FZacharias) from Los Alamos, New Mexico, moves to Oxnard Field, New Mexico, from Wendover Field \[now Airport\], Utah, to be closer to Los Alamos. This marks the beginning of Sandia Base \[now part of Kirtland AFB\]. Nearby Kirtland Field is used as a B-29 base for aircraft compatibility and drop tests. By October, all the staff and facilities at Wendover are transferred to Sandia. As reservist officers are demobilized, they are replaced by about 50 hand- picked regular officers. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Manhattan Project](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan%5FProject\#After%5Fthe%5Fwar)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_742 ### Event 4391 (9603EFB9) **Date:** 9/1945 **Description:** Policy adviser [Ferdinand Eberstadt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand%5FEberstadt) writes for Secretary of the Navy [James Forrestal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FForrestal) a report recommending a complete realignment of national security organizations. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Eberstadt Report](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan%5FProject\#After%5Fthe%5Fwar)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_743 ### Event 4392 (514F37D2) **Date:** 9/2/1945 **Description:** End of WW2 **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_173 ### Event 4393 (2300CB1B) **Date:** 9/20/1945 **Location:** FRANCE, Draguignan (Var) **Description:** (Translated from French) While he was tending to his sheep near the Lamothe gate, Mr. F. saw, an hour before daybreak, a perfectly circular yellow light of the apparent size of a football. The phenomenon descended vertically, increasing in intensity, and stopped about thirty meters above the witness. A powerful beam shone on Mr. F., illuminating an area of 50 m in diameter around him. Completely dazzled, dizzy, the shepherd was on the verge of panic. The sheep were frantic and running in all directions. After a time he could not determine, the witness heard a buzzing and saw that the object was slowly rising into the sky. After a few seconds the beam went out and the UFO disappeared. (1945, week of September 20th to 27th) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 275 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1070 ### Event 4394 (665BA570) **Date:** 9/20/1945 **Description:** The OSS is dissolved by Executive Order, effective October 1, scattering personnel through the Departments of State and War. The Research and Analysis Branch is transferred to the State Department. The War Department takes over Secret Intelligence \(SI\) and Counter Espionage \(X2\), which are rolled up into the Strategic Services Unit \(SSU\) headed by Brig. Gen. [John Magruder](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FMagruder%5F%28Brigadier%5FGeneral%29), the former OSS Deputy Director of Intelligence who oversees the OSS liquidation. Most of the other personnel are cashiered. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Office of](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan%5FProject\#After%5Fthe%5Fwar) [Strategic Services](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan%5FProject\#After%5Fthe%5Fwar)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_744 ### Event 4395 (327261B3) **Date:** 9/24/1945 (approximate) **Time:** 04:00 **Location:** DRAGUIGNAN, FR **Description:** Glowing saucer near ground. Beams light / ground. Observer(s) dizzy. Sheep run. / r156#13. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LDLN CONTACT LECTEURS: by Series and #. May'68 -JAN'72 (Entire set of 18 issues) LDLN local chapters & individual members' UFO reports. (Index 52) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_557 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "DRAGUIGNAN,FR:GLOWING SCR nr GND:BEAMS LITE/GND:OBS DIZZY:SHEEP RUN:/r156#13", **LatLong:** "43.533335 6.483334", **LatLongDMS:** "43:32:00 N 06:29:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.533335,6.483334)", **State/Prov:** "Var", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4396 (BF0D8672) **Date:** 9/26/1945 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) TEST LAUNCHES OF WAC CAPORAL. (1945, from September 26th to October 25th) **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, Wp. 253, Galcit Report **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1071 ### Event 4397 (29B2BF2A) **Date:** 9/26/1945? **Location:** Buckner Bay, Okinawa, Japan **Description:** Night. Machinist Mate First Class George M. Reynolds, attached to the submarine tender [USS Beaver](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FBeaver) with Submarine Squadron 45, anchored in Buckner Bay, Okinawa, Japan. He is on the main deck when he sees a bluish light move to the south, turn right, go over to the west, stop, and stand still. When it moves again, it goes back to the general area it started from. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Strange Company 195–196 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_745 ### Event 4398 (609683B4) **Date:** 10/1945 **Location:** Langley, VA **Description:** The temporary successor to the OSS, the Strategic Services Unit (SSU), begins **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [link](https://www.cia.gov/legacy/cia-history/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_174 ### Event 4399 (FCE5160E) **Date:** 10/1945 **Locations:** Bryan; Stryker, Ohio **Description:** 8:00 p.m. While driving a car between Bryan and Stryker, Ohio, [Gerald M. Kryling](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/134038168/gerald-m-kryling) and his wife Thelma approach a bright light about 50 feet in the air and 20 feet from the road near some high-tension wires. It appears to be a 35-foot oval object with an amber-colored opening like a window that has shadows moving around inside. It takes off horizontally at great speed and then moves straight up. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** CUFOS case file **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_746 ### Event 4400 (539336C1) **Date:** 10/2/1945 **Location:** Cuxhaven, Germany **Description:** British Operation Backfire near Cuxhaven: V-2 launch test **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_175 **Rocket type:** V-2 ### Event 4401 (CE140A6C) **Date:** 10/9/1945 **Description:** Brig. Gen. [George C. McDonald](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106278/major-general-george-c-mcdonald/), AAF director of intelligence, writes to Maj. Gen. [Elwood Richard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwood%5FRichard%5FQuesada) [Quesada](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwood%5FRichard%5FQuesada) in answer to a request for the investigation into wartime “balls of fire.” Exhaustive investigations of German technical personnel and US and UK sources reveal no confirmation of German involvement with the phenomena. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Macdonald–Quesada correspondence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan%5FProject\#After%5Fthe%5Fwar)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan%5FProject\#After%5Fthe%5Fwar) October 1945 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_747 ### Event 4402 (A1F9EE1C) **Date:** 10/15/1945 **Location:** Cuxhaven, Germany **Description:** British Operation Backfire near Cuxhaven: V-2 launch test **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_176 **Rocket type:** V-2 ### Event 4403 (D8248D2A) **Date:** 10/15/1945 **Location:** GREAT BRITAIN, Cuxhaven **Description:** (Translated from French) TEST LAUNCH OF A V2, FIRST BRITISH SHOT. SECOND SHOT THE SAME DAY **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, Wp. 254 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1072 ### Event 4404 (3A5E95A6) **Date:** 10/24/1945 **Location:** New York City, New York **Description:** United Nations charter in full force **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_177 ### Event 4405 (668B6611) **Date:** 11/1945 **Description:** Operation Overcast is renamed Project Paperclip. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Operation Paperclip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FPaperclip)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_748 ### Event 4406 (20BADD12) **Date:** 12/1945 **Description:** Lt. Col. Jo Chamberlin’s article on foo fighters appears in American Legion Magazine. Intelligence officers have ordered him not to state his military rank or position, but he is a special aide to Gen. [Henry H. “Hap”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%5FH.%5FArnold) [Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%5FH.%5FArnold)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%5FH.%5FArnold)  **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jo Chamberlin, “[The Foo Fighter Mystery,](https://archive.org/details/americanlegionma396amer%5F0/page/8/mode/2up)” American Legion Magazine 39, no. 6 \(December 1945\): 9, 43–47; “[Foo Fighter Archive Donated to UHR,](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr17.pdf)” UFO Historical Revue, no. 17 \(December 2015\): 2–8 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_749 ### Event 4407 (A6E793D4) **Date:** 12/5/1945 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In the afternoon, disappearance of [Flight 19](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/1945-12-05\_Vol19.html). (December 5) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1945.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_541 ### Event 4408 (98717013) **Date:** 12/5/1945 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Kristiansand \(Norway\), Linnea \(same witness as for the observation in Kristiansand in 1939\) saw 3 "bubbles" of rainbow colors above a hill to the West of the city. They maneuvered around for a moment, then disappeared to the West. (After the War) **Reference:** UFO-NYT, 4/1969, 162 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1945.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_542 ### Event 4409 (F80B73E4) **Date:** 12/5/1945 **Time:** 15:50 **Location:** EAST / FT LAUDERDALE, FL **Description:** 6 Army Air Force (AAF) planes disoriented. Frantic radio. Huge search loses more. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Donald: The FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY; Henry Holt, NY 1955; HC (Index 293) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_558 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NFO:** No craft seen, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "E/Ft LAUDERDALE,FL:6 AAF PLANES DISORIENTED:FRANTIC RDO:HUGE SEARCH LOSES MORE", **LatLong:** "26.000001 -79.500004", **LatLongDMS:** "26:00:00 N 79:30:00 W", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/26.000001,-79.500004)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4410 (91ADF844) **Date:** 12/5/1945 **Locations:** Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Atlantic Ocean; Florida Keys; off the coast of Florida **Description:** A training flight \(Flight 19\) of five TBM Avenger torpedo bombers disappears while over the Atlantic Ocean. The squadron’s flight plan is scheduled to take them due east from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for 141 miles, north for 73 miles, and then back over a final 140-mile leg to complete the exercise. The flight never returns to base. A report by Navy investigators concludes that flight leader Lt. [Charles C. Taylor](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7071436/charles-carroll-taylor) mistook small islands offshore for the Florida Keys after his compasses stopped working, resulting in the flight heading over open sea and away from land. The report is later amended by the Navy to read “cause unknown” to avoid blaming Taylor for the loss of five aircraft and 14 men. One of the search-and-rescue aircraft deployed to look for them, a PBM Mariner with a 13-man crew, also disappears. The report attributes the loss of the PBM aircraft to an explosion in midair while searching for the flight. According to contemporaneous sources, the Mariner has a history of explosions due to vapor leaks when heavily loaded with fuel, as it might have been for a potentially long search-and-rescue operation. A tanker off the coast of Florida sees an explosion and a widespread oil slick when fruitlessly searching for survivors. The weather is becoming stormy by the end of the incident. None of the Avenger bombers have been found. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Flight 19](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight%5F19)”; Larry Kusche, The Bermuda Triangle Mystery— Solved, Harper & Row, 1975, [pp. 97–122](https://archive.org/details/bermudatriangle100kusc/page/96/mode/2up); Larry Kusche, [The Disappearance of Flight 19](https://archive.org/details/disappearanceoff00kusc)[,](https://archive.org/details/disappearanceoff00kusc) Harper & Row, 1980 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_750 ### Event 4411 (64AD50EC) **Date:** 12/5/1945 **Description:** On this fateful day six U.S. Army Air Force planes, which took off from Fort Lauderdale Naval Air Station, Florida disappeared into the Atlantic Ocean Bermuda Triangle. Flight 19, a formation of five TBM avengers became disoriented while flying northeast from Fort Lauderdale, and made increasingly frantic radio calls announcing they were lost and calling for assistance. A huge rescue search operation caused more aboard a Martin Mariner sea rescue plane to be lost. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Miami Herald, December 6, 1945; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 293; Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 125; Vincent H. Gaddis, Invisible Horizons, p. 175 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8192 ### Event 4412 (75CA522B) **Date:** 12/5/1945 **Location:** Fort Lauderdale, Florida **Description:** Five TBM Avenger Bombers and One PBM Martin Mariner with a total of 27 men disappeared without a single trace during a training mission, in good weather and with good radio contact. UFOs were being reported by the news during that period of time. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up) **Source:** HostileFawcett, **ID:** HostileFawcett_3 ### Event 4413 (197F61CC) **Date:** 12/25/1945 **Time:** 06:00? **Location:** FAYETTEVILLE, NC **Description:** Fireballs land / roof. House burns down. 2 escape. 5 kids gone without trace. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 261) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_559 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **ABD:** Human or animal abduction, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "73", **HatchDesc:** "FAYETTEVILLE,NC:FBLS LAND/ROOF:HOUSE BURNS DOWN:2 ESCAPE:5 KIDS GONE W/O TRACE", **LatLong:** "35.050002 -78.877782", **LatLongDMS:** "35:03:00 N 78:52:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.050002,-78.877782)", **RelAlt:** "8", **State/Prov:** "North Carolina", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 4414 (A973C97D) **Date:** 12/25/1945 **Description:** During a blizzard a silver, domed object with a square base landed on the sea off the coast of Ireland. It was surrounded by purple lights, and made a whirring noise. Two beings with squarish shaped feet and wearing diver suits were seen walking on the surface of the water. The craft rose off the surface of the sea and landed in a field on a nearby island, crushing two cows when it came down. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0129, citing Northern Network News, December 1976 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8597 --- ## Year: 1946, 412 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 4415 (C9F8F9F5) **Date:** 1946 **Location:** Scandinavia **Description:** Ghost Rockets seen in Scandinavia **Type:** UFO sightings **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_88 ### Event 4416 (EA5F9030) **Date:** 1946 **Location:** Antarctica **Description:** Admiral Richard E. Byrd’s fourth Antarctic expedition (Operation High Jump). Involved 4,700 men, 13 ships (including the aircraft carrier Philippine Sea), and 25 aircraft. It was the largest Antarctic expedition ever attempted and would map and photograph almost 1,400,000 square km of the Antarctic continent, especially the coastline. Byrd made his second flight over the South Pole and was involved in a number of other flights. In 1948 the U.S. Navy produced a documentary about the operation. It was called The Secret Land and won an Academy Award for best documentary. **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [link](https://captainantarctica.com.au/exploration/admiral-byrd/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_178 ### Event 4417 (1B774BFF) **Date:** 1946 **Location:** Soviet Union **Description:** Soviet “Arzamas-16” atomic bomb project plant opened - the Soviet "Los Alamos" (Weapons design and research, warhead assembly) **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project) **Reference:** [link](https://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Russia/Sovwpnprog.html#Chagan) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_179 ### Event 4418 (1ECDD46B) **Date:** 1946 **Location:** Soviet Union **Description:** Soviet “Sverdlovsk-44” atomic bomb project plant opened (Uranium enrichment) **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_180 ### Event 4419 (E49B678A) **Date:** 1946 **End date:** 1951 **Location:** Launch Complex 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** Between 1946–1951 the Army fires 67 V-2 rockets from the White Sands V-2 Launching Sight, Launch Complex 33 **Type:** aerospace **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Sands_V-2_Launching_Site) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_181 ### Event 4420 (7E675055) **Date:** 1946 **Location:** ITALY, Foligno **Description:** (Translated from French) The young B., 19 years old, on returning home, saw a hat-shaped craft hovering above the roof of his home, after which it landed on telescopic legs. A door opened in the bell-shaped part of the craft and a kind of dwarf emerged, who seemed to be making signs to the witness. The young man rushed back home to warn his mother, and both of them then saw the strange craft, which had already taken off, fly away. **Reference:** CISU: archive file 4601, source "Paese sera" 13.8.77, report by Mr. Cestellini **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1079 ### Event 4421 (1A9BD7E8) **Date:** 1946 **Location:** GRANDE BRETAGNE **Description:** (Translated from French) The secret Haviland D.H. 108 Swallow aircraft, which was meant to prefigure the DH 110 model, lacked stability for the expected Mach 1 speeds. During its test flight it suffered a terrible crash. This made the Americans working on the X-4 project think: it had the same profile as the English aircraft and, rightly so, the USA feared a destabilization at high speed. **Reference:** NASA website, 1997 "On the Frontier" **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1146 ### Event 4422 (DC991274) **Date:** 1946 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) One of the few photographs of the "Ghost Rocket" in 1946, in Sweden. See image at images/1946_GhostRocket_Sweden.jpg. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1946.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_543 ### Event 4423 (3E69235F) **Date:** 1946 **Description:** The US nuclear stockpile consists of 9 atomic bombs. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ryan Crierie, “[U.S. Nuclear Stockpile, 1945–2009](https://web.archive.org/web/100/https://www.alternatewars.com/BBOW/ABC%5FWeapons/US%5FNuclear%5FStockpile.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_751 ### Event 4424 (082DC687) **Date:** 1946 **Location:** Istanbul, Turkey **Description:** Dancers on the roof of a nightclub in Istanbul, Turkey, watch the rapid passage of four square-shaped lights, reddish in color and aligned side by side, moving from the east and disappearing in the west in less than 60 seconds. One witness, meteorologist and RAF pilot George Raymond Leatherbarrow, estimates their altitude at 50,000 feet based on reflections on cirrus clouds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** G. R. Leatherbarrow, “[Two Early UFO Cases from the Middle](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/Awareness%20%28Contact%20UK%29/Awareness%20-%201976%20-%20Vol%2005%20No%203%20-%20Autumn.pdf) [East,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/Awareness%20%28Contact%20UK%29/Awareness%20-%201976%20-%20Vol%2005%20No%203%20-%20Autumn.pdf)” Awareness 5, no. 3 \(Autumn 1976\): 4–5; Clark III 1177 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_752 ### Event 4425 (856F639A) **Date:** 1946 **Description:** American astrophysicist [Charles Greeley Abbot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FGreeley%5FAbbot) writes that he thinks Earth might make contact with Venusians, coming into “fluent communication by wireless with a race brought up completely separate, having their own systems of government, social usages, religions, and surrounded by vegetation and animals entirely unrelated to any here on earth.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Charles Greeley Abbot, The Earth and the Stars, Van Nostrand, 1946, [p. 110](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015074975395&view=1up&seq=150&skin=2021); Roger D. Launius, “[Venus-Earth-Mars: Comparative Climatology and the Search for Life in the Solar System,](https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/2/3/255/htm)” Life 2, no. 3 \(2012\): 255–273 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_753 ### Event 4426 (503FD69F) **Date:** 1946 **Locations:** Westerham, Kent, England; Croydon **Description:** A farmer named Gunyon in Westerham, Kent, England, calls the British Technical Intelligence staff asking that the Air Ministry come and remove one of these “darned contraptions” which has fallen on his farm. The intelligence officers ask for directions and are told to drive from Croydon to Westerham, turning onto a lane when they reach a pub called The White Dog. Amid great security, two staff cars are dispatched, but fail to find the farm. They locate a pub called The White Hart and a farmer named Bunyan, who strenuously denies having made the call. Although the incident appears to be a hoax, few people can reach the Technical Intelligence staff and convince them to make a field visit. Indeed, the intelligence officers believe that former Air Intelligence scientist [Reginald Victor Jones](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald%5FVictor%5FJones), who has been skeptical of foo fighters and ghost rockets, is behind the affair. Jones writes that a signal is received from Gen. [Douglas MacArthur](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%5FMacArthur)’s staff in Tokyo, asking for confirmation of a report that a Russian flying bomb had recently crashed in England. The other Director of Intelligence on the Air Staff, Air Commodore Roland Eugene Vintras, suggests to Jones that this might tie in with the “Westerham Incident.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** R. V. Jones, Most Secret War, Hamish Hamilton, 1978, [pp. 507–513](https://archive.org/details/mostsecretwar0000jone/page/506/mode/2up); “[UFO Britannia: Part 2—World War Foo and](https://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread909885/pg1) [Post War Cover Ups,](https://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread909885/pg1)” Above Top Secret forum, December 19, 2012 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_754 ### Event 4427 (A24A5DF3) **Date:** 1946 **Location:** Antarctic **Description:** 1946-1947. Some believe that remnants of the defeated Third Reich retreated to a hidden underground base in Antarctica. This theory is bolstered by Germany's history of Antarctic explorations, with known expeditions in 1873, 1910, 1925, and 1939. Supporters of this "frozen Fourth Reich" idea often cite Operation High Jump, a 1946-1947 military expedition to Antarctica led by American polar explorer Admiral Richard Byrd. Officially, Byrd stated the operation aimed to train naval personnel and test equipment in frigid conditions. (Chapter 8, Ref 316) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_307 ### Event 4428 (4702C72C) **Date:** 1946 **Location:** Antarctic **Description:** 1946-1947. Rumors emerged that during Operation High Jump, Byrd's expedition encountered hostile disc-shaped aircraft of unknown origin in Antarctica. Despite being equipped for 6-8 months, the operation concluded after just two months. Upon leaving, Byrd made a statement to the media, and a Chilean newspaper reported that he stressed the need for the U.S. to prepare defenses against hostile regions. Byrd was quoted warning of a potential threat from flying objects capable of traveling from pole to pole at astonishing speeds. (Chapter 8, Ref 317) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_308 ### Event 4429 (EA4ADC31) **Date:** 1946 **Location:** Near Falkland Islands **Description:** Shortly after the end of World War II, the Icelandic whaler "Juliana" encountered a large German U-boat near the Falkland Islands in 1946. This U-boat, which surfaced and displayed the German naval flag of mourning, dispatched a boarding party to the "Juliana". The submarine's commander demanded a portion of the whaler's fresh food supply, speaking fluent English and compensating the whaler's captain with U.S. dollars, even adding a bonus for each crew member. As the provisions were transferred, the U-boat's commander informed the captain about the location of a large school of whales, which the "Juliana" later found as indicated. (Chapter 8, Ref 327) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_317 ### Event 4430 (663DABA2) **Date:** 1946 **Location:** Between the southernmost tip of Latin America and the continent of Antarctica **Description:** A French news agency corroborated ongoing rumors, confirming that there were indeed genuine instances of German U-boat activities occurring between the southernmost part of Latin America and Antarctica. (Chapter 8, Ref 328) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_318 ### Event 4431 (C7C1276A) **Date:** 1946 **Location:** Lake Nipissing, Ontario **Description:** A family in Ontario, Canada, observed a group of small, disc-shaped UFOs at Lake Nipissing. Approximately a dozen of these craft landed on the frozen lake surface, roughly 75 feet away from the observers, moving with a rotating motion. These UFOs repetitively ascended a few feet and then descended back onto the ice. When one of the witnesses approached them, the objects swiftly departed at a 45-degree angle, leaving a series of black marks on the ice. (Chapter 8, Ref 333) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_323 ### Event 4432 (29B4A649) **Date:** 1946 **Location:** Portugal **Description:** A large disc-shaped UFO with a green iridescent glow was observed hovering motionless over a town. The object remained for about five minutes before departing in a southerly direction. (Chapter 8, Ref 334) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_324 ### Event 4433 (C9F45AAF) **Date:** 1946 **Location:** Sweden **Description:** Beachgoers in Sweden observed a "projectile trailing luminous smoke" crashing into the sand, leaving a slag-like crater. Descriptions mentioned a cylindrical object between 65 and 100 feet in diameter. Despite the testimony, the Swedish military dismissed the incident, suggesting the witnesses had imagined it. (Chapter 8, Ref 349) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_342 ### Event 4434 (77C3E948) **Date:** 1946 **Location:** Either Arizona and New Mexico **Description:** Or 1947. Three construction company employees, after hearing a loud explosion, discovered the wreckage of an unfamiliar aircraft. Nearby, they saw three small humanoid creatures, one of which seemed injured. Later, they were interrogated by individuals who claimed the incident was related to a secret government project and instructed them to remain silent about what they witnessed. (Chapter 8, Ref 351) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_344 ### Event 4435 (059B730D) **Date:** 1946 **Location:** Sweden **Description:** In 1946, Sweden recorded over 1,000 ghost rocket sightings. A public report by the Swedish military attributed 80% of these sightings to natural celestial phenomena, especially after public interest was piqued. However, some sightings remain unexplained. Collaborations with astronomers suggested that some sightings, particularly those in July and August, were likely meteors or meteorites. Despite efforts to determine the nature of these phenomena, including radar tracking, definite conclusions remained elusive. The debris from supposed crash sites mostly consisted of coke or slag-like materials, and no evidence of any space projectile was found. (Chapter 9, Ref 371) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_363 ### Event 4436 (E34A593E) **Date:** 1946 **Location:** Britain **Description:** Approximate date. A secret British intelligence report analyzed visual observations from Scandinavia and highlighted the projectiles' most notable characteristics: their great speed, intense associated light, silent operation, and approximately horizontal flight. The report noted that if these phenomena are natural, they are unusual. (Chapter 9, Ref 372) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_364 ### Event 4437 (5813A155) **Date:** 1946 **Location:** Peenemunde **Description:** Approximate date. The most widely accepted theory regarding ghost rockets is that they were V-2 rockets or possibly their predecessor, the V-1 guided missile, similar to those used by Hitler during World War II. It was speculated that the Russians were test-flying these from the former German rocket facility at Peenemunde on the Baltic coast. Though this theory was initially dismissed by various governments, a once-classified memo to President Harry Truman from General Hoyt Vandenberg suggested otherwise. The memo revealed that Peenemunde was operational and, based on Swedish radar data, most rocket launchings were traced back to this area. Additionally, reports indicated that a Soviet ship was monitoring these missile passages, and there were warnings against ship travel in parts of the Baltic. It was concluded that the USSR was likely conducting large-scale guided-missile tests in the Baltic region, primarily for scientific purposes. The proximity of Peenemunde's manufacturing facilities, materials, and expertise made it a logical choice for such activities over establishing new facilities in Russia. (Chapter 9, Ref 380) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_370 ### Event 4438 (95097ACF) **Date:** 1946 **Location:** Holland **Description:** Reports emerged of flying fireballs with glowing tails moving noiselessly at high speed during the night over the north and east of Holland. (Chapter 9, Ref 388) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_376 ### Event 4439 (C09DA1E4) **Date:** Early 1946 **Location:** Near Lafayette, New York **Description:** A motorist noticed a gleaming light in the sky and, upon looking up, saw a large, metallic, cigar-shaped object hovering above. The UFO, estimated to be between 300 and 400 feet in length with pointed ends and no protrusions, was observed for a few minutes before it vanished instantly. (Chapter 8, Ref 330) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_320 ### Event 4440 (7F3C4264) **Date:** 1/10/1946 **Location:** New Jersey **Description:** Public announcements of radar signals bounced off Moon **Type:** scientific advance **Reference:** [Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/some-recovered-post-trinity-pre-1947-history-4d653bbff4c3) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_182 ### Event 4441 (8407FD20) **Date:** 1/10/1946 **Location:** Wright Field, Ohio **Description:** The Air Materiel Command at Wright Field, Ohio, issues a restricted-access document, German Flying Wings Designed by Horten Brothers by Capt. N. LeBlanc, detailing the drawings, photos, models, and documents relating to aircraft designed by Nazi aircraft designers the [Horten brothers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten%5Fbrothers) that were recovered in Germany by Allied forces. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** N. LeBlanc, German Flying Wings Designed by Horten Brothers, Air Material Command, Technical Intelligence summary report no, F-SU-1110-ND, January 10, 1946; H. P. Dabrowski, The Horten Flying Wing in World War II: The History and Development of the Ho 229, Schiffer, 1991; Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, “Roswell and the Flying Wing,” IUR 18, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1993\): 3; John Powell, “[The Horten](https://www.warbirdforum.com/horten.htm) [Flying Wings,](https://www.warbirdforum.com/horten.htm)” War Bird Forum, July 2019 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_755 ### Event 4442 (15926050) **Date:** 1/16/1946 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** NEAR CHERBOURG, FR **Description:** Air Force C54 transport pilot. Odd meteor going down. Rebounds going up [to] and descends again. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 132) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_560 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "nr CHERBOURG,FR:AF C54 XPORT PILOT:ODD METEOR ↓:REBOUNDS ↑ +DESCENDS AGAIN.", **LatLong:** "49.633336 -1.616667", **LatLongDMS:** "49:38:00 N 01:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.633336,-1.616667)", **State/Prov:** "Manche", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 4443 (075D65B7) **Date:** 1/18/1946 **Locations:** US; Paris, France **Description:** 11:00 p.m. A US C-54 transport plane is at 7,000 feet over the French countryside on its way to Paris, France. Suddenly the pilot sees a brilliant “shooting star” about 35° above the horizon. It streaks down below the eastern horizon, then reappears and moves in a hyperbola before falling again. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) [History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf), The Author, 1988 ed., p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_756 ### Event 4444 (BC7E4E80) **Date:** 1/22/1946 **Description:** President [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) creates a National Intelligence Authority \(State, War, Navy, Chief of Staff, and a presidential representative with the DCI as a non-voting member\) for policy and coordination and a Central Intelligence Group for operations under it. Rear Adm. [Sidney Souers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney%5FSouers) heads the CIG as Director of Central Intelligence. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[National Intelligence Authority](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%5FIntelligence%5FAuthority)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_757 ### Event 4445 (A2257A93) **Date:** 2/1946 (approximate) **Time:** 00:20 **Location:** JOHANNESBURG, RSA **Description:** 2 observer(s). Sphere/orb/globe passes through disk / 15M altitude. 2 pseudo-human/entity in dome. / r244#17. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 293) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_561 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Republic of South Africa", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "JOHANNESBURG,RSA:2 OBS:ORB PASSES THRU DISK/15M alt:2 PSH in DOME:/r244#17", **LatLong:** "-26.116668 27.916668", **LatLongDMS:** "26:07:00 S 27:55:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-26.116668,27.916668)", **State/Prov:** "TRV", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 4446 (A6396D49) **Date:** 2/21/1946 **Locations:** west Finland; Västerbotten; Västernorrland; Kopparberg [now Dalarna]; Gävleborg; Uppsala; Östergötland; Skaraborg [now Västra Götaland]; Vaasa province, Finland **Description:** 8:30 p.m. One or more meteors are seen in west Finland and the counties of Västerbotten, Västernorrland, Kopparberg \[now Dalarna\], Gävleborg, Uppsala, Östergötland, and Skaraborg \[now Västra Götaland\] in Sweden. It supposedly sets a farmhouse on fire in Vaasa province, Finland. It leaves a long trail of smoke in the sky. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Archives for the Unexplained, “[Case XXX: The Meteor That Did Not Start a Fire](https://web.archive.org/web/100/https://files.afu.se/Downloads/UFO%20reports/Scandinavia/GR%20translations/46-02-21%20Finland%20meteor/1946-02-21%20Report%20Meteor%20over%20Finland%20and%20east%20Sweden.docx)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_758 ### Event 4447 (5AFB0C98) **Date:** 2/26/1946 **Location:** Scandinavia **Description:** Ghost Rocket reports in Scandinavia, Sweden/Finland **Type:** ufo sightings **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_rockets) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_183 ### Event 4448 (A7FFBCA7) **Date:** 2/28/1946 **Location:** USA **Description:** (Translated from French) FIRST FLIGHT OF THE REPUBLIC F-84 (THUNDERJET) SERIES DELIVERED IN MAY 1947, SINGLE-SEAT, FIGHTER-BOMBER REACTION, THIN FUSELAGE, WINGS AT AN ANGLE OF 12°, THE FIRST SERIE REACHED MAX 945 KM/H, CEILING 12500 METERS. [note from vog: isn't this the plane that, according to some, is the object of Kenneth Arnold's observation?] (February 28, 1946) **Reference:** "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft" Bill Gunston - Elsevier Sequoia 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1080 ### Event 4449 (EED55EE2) **Date:** 3/1946 **Description:** The Air Technical Service Command becomes the Air Materiel Command. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Air Materiel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%5FMateriel%5FCommand) [Command](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%5FMateriel%5FCommand)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_759 ### Event 4450 (3F847AF9) **Date:** 3/5/1946 **Location:** BRAZIL, Araçariguama, (Sao Roque de Sao Paolo) **Description:** (Translated from French) Excerpt from the report of Professor Felipe Machado Carrion, president of the Brazilian GGIOANI group: On this March 5, Mardi Gras day, Joao Prestes Filho had invited his 39-year-old friend Salvador dos Santos (still alive in 1971 at the time of the report) to go fishing on the banks of the Tiete. He asked his wife to take his sons to the carnival festivities, telling her to leave one of the windows of the house ajar, through which he could enter upon his return from fishing. Prestes Filho and dos Santos spent the day fishing, joyfully and carefree. Around 7:00 pm, under a light and uniform mist, in a serene atmosphere, not stormy, they returned from the Rio Tiete. They separated at a fork in the road, each heading towards his own house. An hour later, Prestes Filho burst into his sister Maria's house, shouting and in a disjointed way that when he tried to open the window, he received from outside a silent beam of light, against which he protected his eyes and head with both hands. Dazed, he fell to the ground for a few brief moments, without losing consciousness. He got up and started running towards the center of the village, in search of help. Maria's neighbors were immediately called, and Prestes Filho kept telling his story. One of the neighbors, Aracy Gomide, never left Prestes Filho's side from that moment on. His hair, head, eyes, clothes, nothing showed signs of deep or light burns. His eyes were dilated, in terror, his voice excited. Soon the scene turned to horror: Prestes Filho's flesh began to become visible, taking on the same aspect as if it had been cooked for long hours in boiling water. It began to peel off the bones, falling in pieces from the jaw, chest, arms, hands, fingers, lower legs, feet, toes. Some pieces of flesh remained hanging by the tendons, the witnesses not daring to remove them. Then everything deteriorated in an unpredictable way: the teeth and bones were exposed. Prestes Filho energetically refused the water and food that were offered to him, but at no time did he seem to feel any pain. His nose and ears detached, rolling down his body to the ground. A terrifying specter, dislocating from mutilation to mutilation. Eyes wide open in terror. Words already distorted in a mouth that was disarticulating: only sounds remained, whose meanings were lost. In the general confusion, what remained of Prestes Filho's almost decomposed body was loaded onto a cart that was to take him to Santa Casa de Santana de Parnaiba, the nearest hospital. In the sixth hour after the light attack, a corpse returned to Araçariguama, as Prestes Filho died during the journey without reaching the hospital. Until his last moments, guttural sounds came out of his mouth. Was he still telling his story of horrors? As there was no medical examination, the death certificate said "Death by generalized burns". The police made some inquiries that led to nothing that could be added validly to the content of the death certificate. (...)" **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 276 to 278 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1081 ### Event 4451 (6C9C6577) **Date:** 3/5/1946 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** ARACARIGUAMA, BRZ **Description:** Night light zaps man / beam. Flesh falls off! Dies. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v19#2+/ LDLN#138. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** PHENOMENES SPATIAUX: Group GEPA, Gen. M. Lionel Chassin Paris. Quarterly 1964?-1977. Merged into Grp. GEPAN (Index 30) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_562 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "902", **HatchDesc:** "ARACARIGUAMA,BRZ:NLT ZAPS MAN/BEAM:FLESH FALLS OFF!:DIES:/FSR v19#2+/LDLN#138", **LatLong:** "-23.433334 -47.066669", **LatLongDMS:** "23:26:00 S 47:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-23.433334,-47.066669)", **State/Prov:** "São Paulo", **Strangeness:** "12" ### Event 4452 (CA637E62) **Date:** 3/5/1946 **Locations:** Tietê River; Araçariguama, São Paulo, Brazil; Santana di Parnaíba **Description:** 6:00 p.m. João Prestes is returning on foot from a fishery on the banks of the Tietê River to his sister’s home in Araçariguama, São Paulo, Brazil. As he is entering the house, a light from outside strikes and envelopes him. He becomes dizzy and confused but manages to get up and go inside. He summons Araci Gomide, a nurse who has served in the military with him. Gomide describes his friend as being literally cooked, with his flesh detaching from his bones, injuries on his feet and ankles, and his feet clenched like the claws of a bird. His arms are burned and the flesh on his fingers is falling off. His chest, neck, and face also seem to be burned but not charred or red. Prestes dies on the way to a hospital in Santana di Parnaíba at 3:00 a.m. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 166–167; Brazil 17–21; Pablo Villarubia Mauso, “[The Incredible Saga of João Prestes,](https://www.ufocasebook.com/prestes.html)” UFO Casebook **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_760 ### Event 4453 (1088081B) **Date:** 3/5/1946 **Description:** Sr. Joao Prestes Filho, age 40, had anticipated an uneventful day of fishing in Aracariguama, Sao Paulo State, Brazil but he returned home at 7:30 p.m., terrified by his encounter with a beam of light that came from the sky and struck him without warning nor any noise. He went into his house saying that he had been hit by a silent beam of light, which stunned him and knocked him to the ground. A little while later his flesh looked like it had been cooked, as if it had been exposed to intense microwave energy, and started a rapid deterioration. He died from the effects. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Felipe Machado Carrion, FSR, March-April 1973, p. 14; Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact, p. 124 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1307 ### Event 4454 (1300D3AB) **Date:** 3/6/1946 **Location:** Pacific Coast Region, US **Description:** The Western Defense Command, activated on 3/17/1941, is deactivated **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Defense_Command) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_184 ### Event 4455 (E587E036) **Date:** 3/6/1946 **Description:** The Western Defense Command is deactivated. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Western Defense Command](https://www.ufocasebook.com/prestes.html)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_761 ### Event 4456 (A151A25E) **Date:** 3/14/1946 **Locations:** US Highway 136; Havana, Illinois **Description:** Dusk. Paul Cummings Jr. is driving east on US Highway 136 about 10 miles east of Havana, Illinois, with Douglas Gowdy. A bright orange ball appears in the road about 1 mile ahead, gliding down the highway only one foot above the pavement and possibly touching both shoulders of the road. When it is within 2,000 feet, Cummings pulls the car over and stops, and they rush out to lie down in a ditch, fearing an explosion. When they look up again, the object is nowhere in sight. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 26–27 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_762 ### Event 4457 (22E68EFC) **Date:** 3/14/1946 **Description:** Two men, Cummings and Gowdy, driving on a road in Havana, Illinois had a close encounter with a flying saucer at 5:00 a.m. The object buzzed their car ten miles east of town on Highway 136. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 26; Peter Rogerson, World-Wide Catalog of Type 1 Reports, case 157 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1468 ### Event 4458 (E069C90B) **Date:** 3/15/1946 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** First static test fire of V-2 missile at White Sands Pad 33 **Type:** aerospace **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_185 ### Event 4459 (A06A558D) **Date:** 3/15/1946 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) STATIC TEST OF V2 NO. 1 **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1082 ### Event 4460 (2763EEC1) **Date:** Spring 1946 **Location:** CHINA, Dongliangzihe (Hebei) **Description:** (Translated from French) My father told us an astonishing story: Around one o'clock in the night, he got up to satisfy a natural need outside. The night was calm and the sky starry. When he returned to his room, he suddenly saw the sky in the northeast lit up like in broad daylight. (...) He discovered an object neither round nor square flying in his direction. The shining object was as wide as two houses and as high as one floor. When the object passed over his head, it was 3 m away from him, but my father heard no sound. The huge flying machine was heading southwest. After about ten seconds, it had completely disappeared. (...) The next day (...) I learned that two teachers had seen in the night, around one o'clock, a huge luminous object advancing in jerks, going up and down. After three or four seconds, the object was only 50 m away from them. As it approached, the object became bigger and brighter. Frightened, they ran away. (..) But then they heard a loud "Peng" and the object rose to 30 m from the ground. It brightly illuminated the whole school with its bluish light. Even more scared, the two teachers shouted and woke up the teachers and all the boarders (...) But at that moment the luminous object had already disappeared. (1946, Spring) **Reference:** SHI BO: "China and the Extraterrestres", ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p.84, 85 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1091 ### Event 4461 (916A77E7) **Date:** 4/1946 **Location:** JAPAN, Okinawa **Description:** (Translated from French) (cf: 1942, USA, same person) Howard Menger is injured in Okinawa and is in the presence of a man, dressed in military clothing, who tells him that the extraterrestrials continue to prepare him for his mission and predicts the atomic explosion of Hiroshima which took place four months later. [note from vog: this would have already been told to him in 1944, when he was still in the USA.... ] (April, 1946) **Reference:** follow-up in 1955 **Reference:** Jean-Francis CROLARD: "The Mystery of the E.T." - ed. Guy Trédaniel 1995, p. 146 **Reference:** follow-up June 1946, USA, High Bridge **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1083 ### Event 4462 (6AE1A727) **Date:** 4/1946 **Alternate date:** 5/1946 **Locations:** Country Club Road; Lafayette, New York **Description:** Around 12:00 noon. Richard R. Hill and Stanley Ogdrzyiak are driving in an open convertible on the Country Club Road near Lafayette, New York. Suddenly they see a gleaming, metallic, cigar-shaped object in the sky. It remains motionless at 5,000–10,000 feet altitude, which at that height would make it 300–400 feet long. After 2 minutes, it disappears instantaneously. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Case 84,](http://www.cufos.org/Orbit/ORBIT%5FVolume%5FII%5F1955-56%5FS.pdf)” CRIFO Newsletter 2, no. 3 \(June 3, 1955\): 4; Clark III 1179 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_765 ### Event 4463 (453A2B96) **Date:** 4/1946 **Location:** Florida **Description:** Following World War II, there was a surge in UFO sightings worldwide. An American military transport plane pilot reported an encounter over Florida. While flying, he and his crew spotted what they initially believed to be a shooting star. However, as it approached, they realized it was a long, cylindrical object, about twice the size of a B-29, with glowing portholes. The object, estimated to be traveling at 2,000 miles per hour, veered to avoid a collision and vanished over the horizon. (Chapter 8, Ref 329) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_319 ### Event 4464 (E029933A) **Date:** 4/2/1946 **Description:** The Strategic Services Unit is transferred to the new Central Intelligence Group and becomes the Office of Special Operations. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Strategic Services Unit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic%5FServices%5FUnit)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_763 ### Event 4465 (EE0E97DA) **Date:** 4/16/1946 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** First V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, reaching 5.5km altitude (radio cut off after launch, fin 4 failed prior to cutoff) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_186 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 5.5km ### Event 4466 (31886354) **Date:** 4/16/1946 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) At 14:47 TEST LAUNCH OF V2 NO. 2; ALTITUDE 8 KM. RADIO STOP **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952 **Reference:** EMERGENCY **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1084 ### Event 4467 (E406C651) **Date:** 4/20/1946 **Description:** League of Nations dissolved, succeeded by the United Nations (UN) **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Nations) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_187 ### Event 4468 (B3A893FA) **Date:** 4/25/1946 **Location:** Anima Nipissing Lake, Ontario **Description:** While ice fishing at Anima Nipissing Lake, Ontario, Don Cameron and his family watch 12–14 small disc- shaped objects descend at a 45° angle about 75 feet away. They come spinning down on the ice, rise 2 feet into the air, then come down again. Cameron walks toward them, and they ascend and shoot away at the same angle and direction. They find black marks on the snow and ice. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 1179 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_764 ### Event 4469 (A640F40E) **Date:** 5/1946 **End date:** 12/1946 **Location:** Scandinavia **Description:** 2,000 Ghost Rocket sightings in Sweden/Finland **Type:** ufo sightings **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_rockets) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_188 ### Event 4470 (18DD25B0) **Date:** 5/1946 **Location:** SWEDEN, Angelholm **Description:** (Translated from French) A Swedish industrialist, Gösta Carlsson, told journalist Eugen Semitjov (issue no. 44, Allers, 1971): "It was one evening in May 1946. I had gone out to try to find pollen for my bees and I had taken a flashlight because the darkness was already well established. Suddenly I saw a light between the trees: I then thought that someone had just lit a fire. But when I saw that this light was advancing towards a small clearing, I changed my mind. So I headed in its direction and when I arrived at the edge of this open space, I saw something like a disc topped with a dome and resting on the ground. On the dome there were some kind of oval windows and above it was planted a kind of periscope, like for a submarine. Under the disc one could distinguish a large oblong fin extending from the center to the outside of this lateral part. Two landing feet were also visible and from a door located next to the fin-shaped wing, a ladder descended to the ground. The object had approximately 16 m in diameter for a maximum height of 4 m. On the periphery of the disc there were a series of openings like nozzles and besides, when the object left, jets of gas or vapors came out of it which burned the grass. The light that had attracted my attention was on the kind of mast that I assimilated to a periscope. This rod had a length of 5 m and from its top three antennas were leaving. Lower, it was a kind of lampshade that was suspended there. It was from there that this light seemed to pulsate, of a rather curious purple shade and which illuminated not only the object but also one to two meters all around. On the ground, outside this illuminated zone, a man dressed in a tight white suit was standing. It seemed that he was guarding the machine, because having spotted me he pointed his hand in my direction: I was less than 10 m from him and I stopped dead. The man had my size but he was much thinner than me. I saw that there were other people around the object, but what was strange was that they did not say a word. There were three of them working on one of the portholes and two others standing on the side of the machine. I also saw three women. In total I thus spotted the presence of eleven people. They all had black boots and gloves, a belt of the same color around the waist and a transparent helmet on their head. The women had ash-colored hair, but I could not see the shade of those of the men because they wore a kind of dark cap. Their skin was brownish, as if tanned by the sun. I advanced a few more steps, but the guard stopped me again with a gesture of the hand. This character was wearing a black box suspended from a chain around his neck: it looked like an old camera. He turned this device in my direction and I then thought he wanted to take a picture of me. But nothing happened except that I heard a click in my flashlight. This one did not work anymore afterwards, but this may be only a coincidence: when I returned home I noticed that the new batteries were completely discharged. One of the women came out of the cabin of the object holding something in her hand. She approached the edge of the illuminated zone and, through this kind of luminous curtain, she threw the object she was holding: at the same time she laughed ..." Carlsson found this object which had the shape of a stick. An analysis carried out in 1971 revealed that it was silicone with various impurities. After this episode the witness left the place and did not return until about thirty minutes later. He approached by another path and then felt a strong ozone smell in the atmosphere. Before he reached the clearing, a very bright red light came on. With a kind of plaintive noise the object rose slowly above the treetops. At 500 m it seemed to waver a bit, then suddenly the light became brighter and turned purple. The object accelerated and disappeared at full speed. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 279 to 281) 1946, summer, Angelholm A man saw in a wood outside the town, a swollen disc resting on two crutches and a tailplane. All around there were eleven beings of human appearance, of both sexes, dressed in white overalls and wearing spherical helmets. He approached but one being made him a sign to stop. Believing it to be a military secret, the man moved away and observed from a distance the takeoff and the rapid disappearance of the craft. traces were found. **Reference:** Inforespace no. 48 of 1979, p. 29 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1090 ### Event 4471 (8FDA3132) **Date:** 5/1946 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Start of a wave of observations, mainly in Scandinavia, but also in the rest of Europe, and even in North Africa. (May) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1946.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_544 ### Event 4472 (EC57F7C6) **Date:** 5/1946 **Location:** Angelholm, Sweden **Description:** At twilight while walking home, a prominent industrialist saw a light in the woods and went to investigate. He saw a disc with dome and oval windows on the ground. Around it were about 11 beings with transparent helmets and uniform-like clothing apparently working on the craft. Later he saw the craft take off emitting bright red light, then speed away. Burned grass and other trace marks were found at the site. (Ref. 3; Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1972.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_305 ### Event 4473 (27F82745) **Date:** 5/1946 **Location:** LaGrange, FL **Description:** A Navy gunnery and radar officer observed a dark elliptical object which moved slowly overhead, disappearing in a cloud bank. \[NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall, I\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_308 ### Event 4474 (9C779548) **Date:** 5/1946 **Locations:** La Grange; Titusville, Florida **Description:** Day. Navy Lieutenant Andrew A. Titcomb is on leave and picking oranges at his wife’s family home at La Grange, north of Titusville, Florida, when he hears a whistling noise and sees a dark “flying football” directly overhead at about 1,000 feet elevation moving at 125 mph. It appears 15–20 feet in diameter and flies in an arc to the southeast. It disappears in a cloudbank. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 6](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=18&skin=2021); Clark III 1179 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_766 ### Event 4475 (D7660697) **Date:** 5/1946 **Location:** Sweden **Description:** A prominent Swedish businessman witnessed a disc-shaped object with a cupola, oval windows, a mast resembling a submarine's periscope, an oblong fin, landing legs, and a ladder touching the ground. The UFO, approximately 53 feet in diameter, had turbine-like holes from which jet beams emerged, scorching the grass upon departure. The mast emitted a strange pulsating purple light that covered the object and nearby ground. The businessman observed multiple individuals, totaling 11, near the UFO. These individuals wore white overalls, transparent helmets, black boots, gloves, and belts. The women had ashen-colored hair, while the men wore black caps. The beings appeared sunburned. One guard had a black box hanging from his neck, which seemed to drain the battery of the witness's forehead lamp upon being directed at him. The witness briefly left the site but returned to see the UFO ascend and depart rapidly. (Chapter 8, Ref 344) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_337 ### Event 4476 (EBEFB9A4) **Date:** 5/10/1946 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** First nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 112.6km altitude **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_189 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 112.6km ### Event 4477 (A40E9E1D) **Date:** 5/10/1946 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) TEST LAUNCH OF V2 NO. 3, ALTITUDE 112 KM. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1085 ### Event 4478 (BDFBC957) **Date:** 5/13/1946 **Location:** Astrakhan Oblast **Description:** Plans for a new test site for the first Soviet ballistic missiles and atomic bombs at Kapustin Yar test site **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [link](https://curiosmos.com/kapustin-yar-russias-alleged-area-51-10-things-you-should-know/) **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapustin_Yar) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_190 ### Event 4479 (06638ADB) **Date:** 5/13/1946 **Locations:** Kaliningrad; Korolyov; Moscow; Russia **Description:** The Soviets establish a rocket center called NII-88 \[now TsNIIMash\] at Kaliningrad \[now Korolyov\], Russia, northeast of Moscow. Missile designer [Sergei Korolev](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei%5FKorolev) is appointed chief designer of Section 3 on long-range missiles. Stalin declares Korolev’s name a secret, which it remains until his death in 1966. Russia keeps dozens of its captured German scientists here, working on special projects until 1955. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[TsNIIMash](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TsNIIMash)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_767 ### Event 4480 (936918B6) **Date:** 5/13/1946 **Location:** Helsinki, Finland **Description:** A rocket is seen traveling over Helsinki, Finland, in a southwesterly direction at 1,000 feet. It supposedly moves at supersonic speed, emitting a magnesium-like light and a trail of smoke. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jan L. Aldrich, comp., [The](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Digitized%5Fby%5FAFU/Aldrich%2C%20Jan%20-%20The%20Ghost%20Rockets%20File.pdf) [Ghost Rocket File](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Digitized%5Fby%5FAFU/Aldrich%2C%20Jan%20-%20The%20Ghost%20Rockets%20File.pdf)[,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Digitized%5Fby%5FAFU/Aldrich%2C%20Jan%20-%20The%20Ghost%20Rockets%20File.pdf) Fund for UFO Research, 2000, p. 10 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_768 ### Event 4481 (98F8B73D) **Date:** 5/18/1946 **Time:** 18:00? **Location:** ANGELHOLM, SWD **Description:** Domed saucer / ground. 11 pseudo-human/entity fix window. Observer(s) halted / gestures. / FSRv18#2. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 27) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_563 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **OPR:** Operations on humans/animal mutilation/surgery, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "60", **HatchDesc:** "ANGELHOLM,SWD:DOMED SCR/GND:11 PSH FIX WINDOW:OBS HALTED/GESTURES:/FSRv18#2", **LatLong:** "56.244447 12.855556", **LatLongDMS:** "56:14:40 N 12:51:20 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/56.244447,12.855556)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 4482 (011B1968) **Date:** 5/18/1946 **Locations:** Kronoskagen; Ängelholm, Sweden **Description:** 10:45 p.m. [Gösta Carlsson](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6sta%5FCarlsson%5F%28f%C3%B6retagare%29)[,](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6sta%5FCarlsson%5F%28f%C3%B6retagare%29) later to become founder and owner of Cernelle AB, is walking in the forested area of Kronoskagen near Ängelholm, Sweden, when he sees a disc-shaped machine more than 50 feet in diameter. On the top is a cupola with oval windows, and beneath it are an oblong “fan,” two legs, a small ladder, and openings. A man dressed in a white, one-piece outfit gestures to Carlsson to stop. Two other occupants, three of them women, all wearing suits and transparent helmets, are nearby. One of the males points a boxlike device at the witness, who leaves the scene but returns by a different route 30 minutes later, just in time to see the UFO depart. A concrete model of the UFO is dedicated in 1963 as a memorial. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[UFO-Memorial Ängelholm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO-Memorial%5F%C3%84ngelholm)”; Sven-Olof Fredrickson, “[The Ängelholm Landing Report,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201972%20V%2018%20N%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 18, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1972\): 15– 17; Anders Liljegren, “[High-Quality Investigation of 1946 CEIII Case,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Sweden/AFU%20Newsletter%20%28AFU%29/AFU%20Newsletter%20-%20No%2038%20-%201995.pdf)” AFU Newsletter, no. 38 \(March 1995\): 2–3; Clark III 528–529; Clas Svahn, “[Gösta Carlssons möte,](https://www.ufo.se/index.php/gosta-carlsson)” Riksorganisationen UFO-Sverige, July 10, 2018; Håkan Blomqvist, “[UFO-Sweden Memories: Ängelholm 1996,](https://blomqvist62.rssing.com/chan-38075447/latest-article16-live.php)” Håkan Blomqvist’s Blog, July 1, 2020; Clas Svahn and Gösta Carlsson, Mötet i gläntan: Sveriges mest kända närkontakt med UFO, 3rd ed., Parthenon, 2021 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_769 ### Event 4483 (82506FD6) **Date:** 5/21/1946 **Location:** Stora Mellösa, Sweden **Description:** Two motorists report an elongated craft resembling a rocket or Zeppelin over Stora Mellösa, Sweden. One of the witnesses sees two short wings, although the other cannot see any despite watching the object for 5 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 12 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_770 ### Event 4484 (177881EA) **Date:** 5/24/1946 **Location:** SWEDEN, Vasteras and Karlskrona **Description:** (Translated from French) At Vasteras, around 00:05, a witness observed the phenomenon, the size of a full moon in the sky of the SO, at an estimated altitude of 100-200 m and at a maximum distance of 500 m from the witness. This object was descending. At Karlskrona, at 2:20, a rocket was observed coming from the north and going towards the south, towards Copenhagen (Denmark) at a speed of approximately 400 km/h and at an altitude not exceeding 100 m. It flew horizontally, without wings or tail and was observed for 10 seconds. **Reference:** Spökraketerna 1946, Göran Jansson **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1086 ### Event 4485 (CDD50E50) **Date:** 5/24/1946 **Time:** 02:20 **Location:** LANDSKRONA, SWD **Description:** 3+observer(s). Fireball = 6M wingless cylinder/cigar-shape / 90M altitude shoots bursts / sparks. Going quickly southwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 1) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_564 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "LANDSKRONA,SWD:3+OBS:FBL=6M WINGLESS CGR/90M alt SHOOTS BURSTS/SPARKS:>>SW", **LatLong:** "55.883336 12.833334", **LatLongDMS:** "55:53:00 N 12:50:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/55.883336,12.833334)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4486 (2B1C4E96) **Date:** 5/24/1946 **Location:** Landskrona, Sweden **Description:** 2:20 a.m. Witnesses in Landskrona, Sweden, see a wingless, cigar-shaped object, spurting sparks from its tail. About 300 feet above the ground, it is moving at airplane speed toward the southwest. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) [History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf), The Author, 1988 ed., p. 1; Göran Jansson, “[Spökraketerna 1947,](http://www.zenza.se/spokraketerna1946.pdf)” January 2005, p. 6 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_771 ### Event 4487 (21C17BED) **Date:** 5/25/1946 **Location:** SWEDEN, Huddinge, Hässleholm, Uppsala **Description:** (Translated from French) In Huddinge people observe an unknown luminous phenomenon in the sky. In Hässleholm it is 2:10 when a ghost rocket flies at low altitude, around 300 m, at a speed of at least 600 km/h, in a straight trajectory. It is observed for 10 seconds. Around 7 pm, a luminous phenomenon in the shape of a drop of water but with a metallic aspect is observed. **Reference:** Spökraketerna 1946, Göran Jansson **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1087 ### Event 4488 (D43492D7) **Date:** 5/25/1946 (approximate) **Location:** KARLSKRONA AND HUDDINGS AND HAGALUND, SWD **Description:** Wave / silent fireballs and wingless cigars mystify all. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 1) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_565 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "208", **HatchDesc:** "KARLSKRONA+HUDDINGS+HAGALUND,SWD:WAVE/SILENT FBLS+WINGLESS CGRS MYSTIFY ALL", **LatLong:** "56.205558 15.633334", **LatLongDMS:** "56:12:20 N 15:38:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/56.205558,15.633334)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4489 (F1C426A1) **Date:** 5/26/1946 **Location:** SWEDEN, Helsingborg **Description:** (Translated from French) At 11 PM an object was seen in the sky. It had all the characteristics, including sound, of a German V1 bomb. **Reference:** and I wouldn't be surprised if it was one...recovered by the liberators **Reference:** Spökraketerna 1946, Göran Jansson **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1088 ### Event 4490 (5AF207B1) **Date:** 5/28/1946 **Location:** SWEDEN, Erkilstuna and Mellosa **Description:** (Translated from French) At 4:30 pm a rocket of aluminum-like appearance passed over Erkilstuna. At Mellosa a cigar-shaped object, on a hesitant trajectory, headed north at an altitude of 300 to 500 meters and passed over the aerodrome. (Spökraketerna 1946, Göran Jansson) May 29, 1946 USA, White Sands The US Army invited hundreds of journalists, photographers, filmmakers, even scientists, generals, including some British, to a spectacular show. Safely sheltered in bunkers, the guests could admire from a respectful distance a V2 rocket (...) At exactly 2:13 pm, a jet of flames appeared beneath it. The rocket rose with an impressive slowness before accelerating more and more in an awful roar, dragging behind it a 20 m long flaming tail, until it became a small orange star that finally disappeared, leaving only a thin trail of smoke. (...) Three minutes later, the V2, which had been followed by radars and special optical instruments taken from the Germans, after reaching nearly 100 km in altitude, fell back, signaled by an observation plane, at 4000 km/h, about sixty km from its starting point, burying itself in the desert sand amidst a burst of flames. (...) While tests of the V2, more or less modified, continued at a rate of one per week, in 1947 one of them reached the record altitude of 183 km. **Reference:** "To the Assault of Space" - Georges H. Gallet, ed. of Modern Thought, p. 85, 86 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1089 ### Event 4491 (60C07784) **Date:** 5/28/1946 **Location:** Stockholm, Sweden **Description:** The Aftonbladet newspaper in Stockholm, Sweden, is the first to use the term “Spökraket” \(ghost rocket\) in a headline. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 12 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_772 ### Event 4492 (C394C6B0) **Date:** 5/29/1946 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 112.1km altitude **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_191 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 112.6km ### Event 4493 (5D073CA6) **Date:** 5/31/1946 **Time:** 11:40 **Location:** KATRINEHOLM, SWD **Description:** Several observer(s). Plain cylinder/cigar-shape faster / any fighter. Slight rumble. Turns going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 2) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_566 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "KATRINEHOLM,SWD:SVRL OBS:PLAIN CGR FASTER/ANY FIGHTER:SLIGHT RUMBLE:TURNS >>W", **LatLong:** "58.988892 16.194445", **LatLongDMS:** "58:59:20 N 16:11:40 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/58.988892,16.194445)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4494 (458A7424) **Date:** 5/31/1946 **Location:** Katrineholm, Sweden **Description:** 11:43 a.m. A huge, metallic, wingless cigar moves rapidly at 1,000 feet altitude over Katrineholm, Sweden. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf), The Author, 1988 ed., pp. 2–3 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_773 ### Event 4495 (AC256DAF) **Date:** 6/1946 **Location:** USA, High Bridge (New Jersey) **Description:** (Translated from French) (Cfr: 1945, early April, Okinawa) Discharged Howard Menger is in High Bridge and goes into the forest. A saucer lands: two blond men and the woman he had already met 14 years earlier in the same place, disembark. She has not changed and appears to be 25 years old, in fact she tells him, she is over 500 years old. But on the planet from which she and her two companions come, the atmosphere and lifestyle slow down aging. She gives him indications about his future mission and asks him not to reveal his story for 10 years. **Reference:** Jean-Francis CROLARD: "The Mystery of the E.T." - ed. Guy Trédaniel 1995, p. 146 **Reference:** follow-up March 1956, unspecified location, assumed USA **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1095 ### Event 4496 (A3CFD36D) **Date:** 6/1946 **Location:** Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton OH **Description:** A young boy visiting Wright Field claimed to have seen a domed saucer around 20 feet in diameter with three legs in a hangar. Next to it were several small, humanoid bodies with large, pear-shaped heads on stretchers. After being spotted by a colonel, the boy's father lost his job. The boy's grandfather, an employee at the base, allegedly confirmed a UFO had been brought there. (Chapter 8, Ref 347) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_340 ### Event 4497 (57C54A73) **Date:** 6/6/1946 **Description:** The Joint Research and Development Board is created by the Secretaries of War and the Navy to coordinate research efforts. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Joint Research and Development Board, [Organization Authority Record,](https://catalog.archives.gov/id/10482179) June 6, 1946 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_776 ### Event 4498 (520BBEA6) **Date:** 6/9/1946 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Helsinki \(Finland\), a bright multicolored light is observed above the city, with a trail of smoke and the sound of thunder. Its luminous trail persists for 10 minutes. (June 9, Night) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1946.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_545 ### Event 4499 (E2D84957) **Date:** 6/9/1946 **Location:** Sala, Sweden **Description:** Night. An enormous light drops earthward over Sala, Sweden, leaving a long, fiery trail. An explosion is heard. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf), The Author, 1988 ed., p. 3 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_777 ### Event 4500 (56BBBBDE) **Date:** 6/9/1946 **Location:** Helsinki, Finland **Description:** 10:17 p.m. A rocket-like light passes over Helsinki, Finland, at 10,000 feet leaving a smoke trail and making a distant rumble. A luminous afterglow lasts 10 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) [Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) The Author, 1988 ed., p. 3 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_778 ### Event 4501 (3675C9FA) **Date:** 6/10/1946 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Same phenomenon as the day before, but newspapers indicate that the object turned around to return in the direction it came from. (June 10th, night) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1946.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_546 ### Event 4502 (A5AFD9C0) **Date:** 6/10/1946 **Time:** 21:00? **Location:** HELSINKI, FINL **Description:** Ghost rocket going northwest to Tammerfors. Returns over Helsinki going quickly southeast / Baltic. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 4) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_567 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "60", **HatchDesc:** "HELSINKI,FINL:GHOST ROCKET> NW to TAMMERFORS:RETURNS OVR HELSINKI >>SE/BALTIC", **LatLong:** "60.200003 24.933335", **LatLongDMS:** "60:12:00 N 24:56:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/60.200003,24.933335)", **State/Prov:** "Finland", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4503 (A4D541EF) **Date:** 6/10/1946 **Location:** Latin America **Description:** Lieut. Gen. [Hoyt Vandenberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg) replaces [Souers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney%5FSouers) as director of the CIG. He expands it and wins the right to collect intelligence in Latin America. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** CIA Historical Staff, [Chronology 1946–65](http://jfkfacts.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/CIA-Historical-Staff-Chronology-Volume-1-1946-55.pdf)[,](http://jfkfacts.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/CIA-Historical-Staff-Chronology-Volume-1-1946-55.pdf) vol. 1, 1946–1955, p. 9 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_779 ### Event 4504 (39F65B1D) **Date:** 6/10/1946 **Description:** Mystery "ghost rockets" were seen over Tampere and Helsinki, Finland. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** H. Edward Hill **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3403 ### Event 4505 (B185F22B) **Date:** 6/12/1946 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The Swedish General Staff requests the army to report their observations through official channels, admitting to be aware of the phenomenon since May. (June 12) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1946.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_547 ### Event 4506 (19D35127) **Date:** 6/12/1946 **Time:** 20:00? **Location:** ESKILSTUNA, SWEDEN **Description:** 'Ghost-bomb' exits cloud. Descends going quickly north. Intermittent exhaust. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 4) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_568 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ESKILSTUNA,SWEDEN:'GHOST-BOMB' EXITS CLOUD:DESCENDS>>N:INTERMITTENT EXHAUST", **LatLong:** "59.350003 16.500001", **LatLongDMS:** "59:21:00 N 16:30:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/59.350003,16.500001)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4507 (64305094) **Date:** 6/12/1946 **Location:** Sweden **Description:** The Swedish Defense staff secretly orders reports of unknown rockets to be collected by military and civilian defense units in Sweden. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 33 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_780 ### Event 4508 (88950FAD) **Date:** 6/13/1946 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 117.2km altitude **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_192 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 117.2km ### Event 4509 (104A9CFC) **Date:** 6/13/1946 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) TEST LAUNCH OF V2 NO. 5 AT 16:40. ALTITUDE 117 KM. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1092 ### Event 4510 (FBE3E49C) **Date:** Mid 1946 **Location:** La Grange, Florida **Description:** A Navy officer in La Grange, Florida, heard a whistling sound above him. Looking up, he saw a dark "flying football" moving from west to east at around 1,000 feet, traveling approximately 125 miles per hour. The object had no wings, engine sound, or other distinguishable features and was estimated to be 15-to-20 feet in diameter. It smoothly curved southeast and disappeared into a cloud bank. The officer's wife and family also heard the noise, and his wife briefly saw the object as it disappeared. (Chapter 8, Ref 331) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_321 ### Event 4511 (0C253D26) **Date:** Mid 1946 **Location:** San Diego, California **Description:** In 1946, two individuals observed a UFO near San Diego, California. Positioned on high ground curving from Morrow Bay, they spotted a dark, bat-like object in the sky after sunset. The object remained stationary for several minutes, its shape clearly visible. It then either descended or was obscured by rising cloud mist, disappearing from view. After its disappearance, a vibrant flush of color spread over the sea. (Chapter 8, Ref 332) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_322 ### Event 4512 (2ACF0157) **Date:** Mid 1946 **Location:** Johannesburg, South Africa **Description:** Two South African women observed a UFO hovering above a hotel roof in Johannesburg. The object was saucer-shaped with a central gold-colored ball. They heard a clicking sound, and the ball detached and then re-attached itself above the main saucer. Two seven-foot-tall human-like figures, resembling identical twins with fair complexions, broad shoulders, and short, wavy hair, appeared between the saucer and the ball. Dressed in white uniforms with stiff collars and wide belts, the figures stood motionless, staring at the women. The sighting concluded as the UFO and its occupants slowly moved away, obscured by a building. (Chapter 8, Ref 345) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_338 ### Event 4513 (25C766CD) **Date:** Mid 1946 **Location:** Oconomowoc Lake, Wisconsin **Description:** Three individuals witnessed a shiny object, resembling a silver-colored pointed cam, tumbling from the sky over Oconomowoc Lake in Wisconsin. As it descended, a barn caught fire, and locals reported hearing an explosion. Despite the witness's attempt to inform authorities, they dismissed the claims. (Chapter 8, Ref 348) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_341 ### Event 4514 (F6CA09F1) **Date:** 6/18/1946 **Locations:** Moscow; Caucasus; Middle East **Description:** A first-strike scenario, the Pincher war plan, is created by the US military to strike Moscow and the Caucasus with 50 nuclear weapons if the Soviets invade the Middle East. It is never officially approved, but the Joint Chiefs agree to use it for planning purposes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Phillip S. Meilinger, “[The Early War Plans,](https://www.airforcemag.com/article/1212war/)” Air Force Magazine, December 1, 2012 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_781 ### Event 4515 (2132940B) **Date:** Summer 1946 **Location:** NETHERLANDS, Elst (Gelder, Betuwe) **Description:** (Translated from French) A large elongated and oval object was seen, flying at high speed above the pastures, at very low altitude. The witness even saw windows on the object which he described "as being made of black glassy material" (1946, Summer) **Reference:** (c) 1997 Jeroen Slurf and Jeroen Kümeling.UFO nieuwsbrief jaargang 2, nummer 1 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1110 ### Event 4516 (130B818A) **Date:** Summer 1946 **Location:** Johannesburg, South Africa **Description:** Late evening. Two women on a walk in Johannesburg, South Africa, see an aerial object hovering 5 feet above the roof of a nearby hotel. It is shaped like a saucer with a round, golden ball in the center, evenly split between the top and bottom sections. They hear a clicking noise, and the ball drops through the saucer until it is level with the roof. More clicks are heard, and the ball rises through and above the saucer 8–9 feet. In the space between the ball and the disc the witnesses see two figures larger than normal height \(7 feet\), fair-complexioned and broad-shouldered, with short wavy hair. They are wearing white uniforms with stiff collars and stand motionless until the object floats away and is lost to view. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** John Judge, “[Near-Landing in 1946 in Johannesburg,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201979%20V%2024%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 24, no. 5 \(March 1979\): 14–16; Clark III 266 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_774 ### Event 4517 (13DD82BF) **Date:** Summer 1946 **Locations:** Colorado Springs, Colorado; Cheyenne Mountain; Escarpment **Description:** Day. Eleanor Hancock is in Colorado Springs, Colorado, looking southwest toward Cheyenne Mountain when two shining silver objects appear, moving rapidly in tandem from east to west toward the escarpment. Just before they reach the mountain, they turn sharply upward, still in formation, and disappear. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 1179 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_775 ### Event 4518 (3B51EAD8) **Date:** 6/25/1946 **Locations:** Jack Northrop Field; Hawthorne Municipal Airport; Muroc Army Air Field; Edwards AFB **Description:** A four-engine Northrop XB-35 flying wing bomber makes its first test flight from Jack Northrop Field \[now Hawthorne Municipal Airport\] to Muroc Army Air Field \[now Edwards AFB\] in California. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Northrop YB-35](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop%5FYB-35\#XB-35)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_782 ### Event 4519 (52E54DF2) **Date:** 6/26/1946 **Location:** Morjärv, Sweden **Description:** The commander of the military district in Morjärv, Sweden, issues instructions on how to report incidents with “certain kind of light phenomena’ that might be associated with “tests made by foreign powers with guided weapons.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** \(Swords 12\). **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_783 ### Event 4520 (762E3E33) **Date:** 6/28/1946 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 107.8km altitude (nose separation failure) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_193 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 107.8km ### Event 4521 (29695790) **Date:** 6/28/1946 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) LAUNCH TEST AT 12:25 OF V2 #6, ALTITUDE 107 KM. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1093 ### Event 4522 (7096E91D) **Date:** 6/29/1946 **Location:** SWEDEN, Kölmervsjön lake **Description:** (Translated from French) A military report indicates that a "ghost bomb" fell into the lake. The object resembled a 3 m long rocket and letters were painted on the side. **Reference:** Pierre VIEROUDY: "These UFOs that announce the superman" - Laffont 1979, p. 58 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1094 ### Event 4523 (FA73E47C) **Date:** 6/30/1946 **Time:** 21:01:00.0 **Location:** 11.5900 165.5000 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Able” Yield: 21KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_3 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.5900 165.5000", **LatLongDMS:** "11:35:24 N 165:30:00 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.5900,165.5000)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.16", **NukeName:** "Able", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "21" ### Event 4524 (09DB3649) **Date:** 7/1946 **Location:** CANADA, Oakville (Ontario) **Description:** (Translated from French) Mr. and Mrs. Brown saw at 10:55 PM the passage of two rocket-shaped bodies perfectly silent. When the objects passed over the farm, the witnesses noticed openings arranged two by two at the front and back. These two UFOs were moving at about fifteen meters from the ground emitting red flames. (July 1946) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 282 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1109 ### Event 4525 (0E0E87A4) **Date:** 7/1946 **Time:** 14:00 **Location:** JYDERUP TO/FROM KALUNDBORG, DK **Description:** Several observer(s). 2 silent silver saucers tilt and wobble. Fly going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 16) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_569 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "JYDERUP> Event 4526 (69C3C101) **Date:** 7/1946 **Alternate date:** 8/1946 **Location:** Unknown City, Sweden **Description:** "Ghost rocket" sightings. \[NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall, X\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_310 ### Event 4527 (C95253A3) **Date:** 7/1946 **Locations:** Tibet; Antarctica **Description:** Amazing Stories publishes four short articles in its September 1945 issue by William C. Hefferlin, each describing a wonderful new invention that has come to the author, according to editor [Ray Palmer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%5FA.%5FPalmer)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%5FA.%5FPalmer) “from Tibet by mental telepathy.” One of the inventions is a “circle-winged airplane.” In later issues, Hefferlin and his wife Gladys go on to describe the Rainbow City, an underground Martian city beneath Antarctica where the flying saucers originate. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[A Description of Rainbow City from the Hefferlin Manuscript \(Hollow Earth\)](https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/tierra%5Fhueca/esp%5Ftierra%5Fhueca%5F26.htm)”; Walter Kafton- Minkel, Subterranean Worlds, Loompanics, 1989, [pp. 160–167](https://archive.org/details/subterraneanworldswalterkaftonminkel100000yearsofdragonsdwarfsthedeadlostracesufosfrominsidetheearth/page/n163/mode/2up); Clark III 610 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_784 ### Event 4528 (D1716287) **Date:** 7/1946 **Location:** Crane Beach, Ipswich, Massachusetts **Description:** Day. A long, silver-colored cigar appears suddenly out of the haze over Crane Beach, Ipswich, Massachusetts, moves noiselessly over the water, then disappears suddenly. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lore and Deneault, [p. 148](https://archive.org/details/mysteriesofskies0000lore/page/148/mode/2up); Clark III 1179 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_785 ### Event 4529 (14FD6BDD) **Date:** 7/1946 **Location:** Viskinge, Denmark **Description:** 2:00 p.m. Hans Sorensen is cycling near Viskinge, Denmark, when he sees three discs flying silently overhead. The underside is uneven and dull gray, but they are like “polished mirrors” on top. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) [History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf), The Author, 1988 ed., p. 16 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_786 ### Event 4530 (858EA8F9) **Date:** 7/1946 **Location:** Lake Mjosa, southeastern Norway **Description:** Several witnesses in July 1946 reported seeing an object resembling a German V-1 missile crash into Lake Mjosa in southeastern Norway. It was described as cigar-shaped, about 8 feet in length, with wings and making a whistling noise. The object appeared shiny at its front and rear, while its middle and wings were dark-colored. Some witnesses believed they saw two such objects. The Norwegian military investigated the incident but did not disclose their findings. (Chapter 9, Ref 373) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_365 ### Event 4531 (70BBBD19) **Date:** 7/1946 **Location:** Lake Kolmjarv, northern Sweden **Description:** The day after an incident in Norway, a similar event was reported in Sweden, where an object crashed into Lake Kolmjarv around noon. Eyewitnesses heard a humming sound and saw a rocket-like device diving towards the lake. The object had a snub nose, a pointed stern, and possibly wing-like protrusions. It made a loud, unfamiliar noise while airborne and sounded like an explosion upon impact with the water. A Swedish military unit investigated the site and reportedly found an impact crater at the bottom of the lake but no remains of the object. (Chapter 9, Ref 374) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_366 ### Event 4532 (87ACF41E) **Date:** 7/1946 **Location:** Sweden **Description:** Approximate date. An American aviation magazine reported that an unidentified missile reportedly fell into a lake in Sweden. Authorities promptly responded and conducted a search operation with around 600 military personnel. Witnesses claimed that heavy, concealed materials were transported out of the area under the cover of darkness. The incident then seemingly faded from public discourse. (Chapter 9, Ref 375) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_367 ### Event 4533 (466D5DF4) **Date:** 7/1/1946 **Locations:** Bikini Atoll; Marshall Islands **Description:** Able nuclear test, Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. Radio-controlled autopilots are installed in eight B-17 bombers, converting them into remote-controlled drones that are then loaded with automatic cameras, radiation detectors, and air sample collectors. Their pilots operate them from mother planes at a safe distance from the detonation. The drones can fly into Able’s mushroom cloud, which would have been lethal to crew members. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Operation Crossroads](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FCrossroads)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_787 ### Event 4534 (A4D77572) **Date:** 7/3/1946 **Location:** Carnegie Institution of Washington **Description:** The Joint Research and Development Board is established. Essentially it is [Vannevar Bush](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar%5FBush)’s existing cadre of brain trust from the still active Office of Scientific Research and the postwar Joint New Weapons Committee. Added to this are other reconstituted R&D committees and advisers like [Lloyd Berkner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%5FBerkner) of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. The original founding members are physicist [Alfred Lee Loomis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%5FLee%5FLoomis), biologist [Caryl Parker Haskins](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caryl%5FParker%5FHaskins), physicist [Luis Walter Alvarez](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis%5FWalter%5FAlvarez)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis%5FWalter%5FAlvarez) physicist [William Shockley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FShockley), and [George Doriot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges%5FDoriot). Two military representatives each from the Army, Navy, and Air Force complete the board’s membership. Counting Bush, this makes a board of 12. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael Hall and Wendy Connors, “The Research and Development Board: Unanswered Questions,” IUR 26, no. 2 \(Summer 2001\): 7–8 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_788 ### Event 4535 (C511E485) **Date:** 7/5/1946 **End date:** 12/1946 **Location:** Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois **Description:** Dr. Oliver J. Lee, director of Dearborn Observatory at Northwestern University, states in a Los Angeles Examiner article that radar signals were secretly bounced off the Moon during WW2. He also speculates that the saucers are remotely controlled. **Type:** Newspaper Article **Reference:** [link](https://medium.com/@richgel99/we-secretly-bounced-radar-signals-off-the-moon-during-ww2-f4699297038f) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_194 ### Event 4536 (3C98563D) **Date:** 7/6/1946 **Locations:** Royal Swedish Air Force Materiel Administration; Air Administration **Description:** A special ghost rocket investigations committee is formed with Col. [Bengt Jacobsson](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengt%5FJacobsson%5F%28milit%C3%A4r%29) from the Royal Swedish Air Force Materiel Administration as chairman. Other members are [Henry Kjellson](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%5FKjellson) and Eric Malmberg from the Air Administration; Maj. Nils Ahlgren and Capt. [Gerdt Stangenberg](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerdt%5FStangenberg) from the Air Defense department; chemist [Gustaf Ljunggren](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustaf%5FLjunggren%5F%28chemist%29); physicist [Martin Fehrm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%5FFehrm); and [Olof Kempe](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olof%5FKempe) from the Defense Radio Institute. They hold at least 12 meetings, beginning on July 10. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf), The Author, 1988 ed., p. 13; Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 33; Swords 12 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_789 ### Event 4537 (11BBF607) **Date:** 7/6/1946 **Description:** Astronomer [Bertil Lindblad](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertil%5FLindblad)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertil%5FLindblad) after consulting with the Swedish Defense staff on ghost rocket reports, remarks that the “adjective ‘cigar-shaped’ is something new.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 33 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_790 ### Event 4538 (19E054FC) **Date:** 7/7/1946 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** GAVLE, SWEDEN **Description:** Several observer(s). Cylinder/cigar-shape east going quickly west / 28K' altitude. Clear outline. Vibrant bright light / rear. FSRv15#2. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 10) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_570 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "GAVLE,SWEDEN:SVRL OBS:CGR E>>W/28K'alt:CLEAR OUTLINE:VBRITE LITE/REAR:FSRv15#2", **LatLong:** "60.666670 17.116667", **LatLongDMS:** "60:40:00 N 17:07:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/60.666670,17.116667)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4539 (D80954C4) **Date:** 7/7/1946 **Description:** A cigar-shaped object flew over Gavle, Sweden from the east to the west at 28,000 feet altitude at 7:45 p.m. and was seen by several townspeople. It had a clearly distinguishable outline, and a very bright light at the rear. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, Mystery of the Ghost Rockets, p. 10 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3896 ### Event 4540 (AA4F4478) **Date:** 7/8/1946 **Location:** NORWAY, Vuoremijoki **Description:** (Translated from French) At 23:35 two loud detonations were heard, followed by a hissing sound, like those produced by welding machines. An oblong cloud of vapor "seeming to be overheated steam" then rose from behind a hill called Kivitunturi. From this cloud then emerged an object, resembling a rocket, which rose on a trajectory of 30 to 40° in the direction of the southwest. The distance from the witnesses must have been about 5 to 8 km. It was morning, the sun was up, visibility was very good. All the witnesses estimated the length of the "rocket" to be between 10 and 15 meters. **Reference:** SWEDISH INTELLIGENCE REPORT, 26 Aug 1946. Listing by Ole Jonny Braenne **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1096 ### Event 4541 (DEEC9D0E) **Date:** 7/8/1946 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Vuoremijoki \(Norway\), 2 loud detonations were heard by 2 people, followed by a very loud hissing, as if it came from a welding machine. An oblong cloud of "steam and heat" then rose from behind a hill called Kivitunturi. Out of this cloud emerged an object that looked like a projectile. It maintained an ascending trajectory of 30 to 40°, in the direction of the Southwest. The distance of the phenomenon was estimated between 5 and 8 km. The visibility was good, and the Sun was up. The length of the projectile was estimated between 10 and 15 m. (July 8th, 11:55 PM) **Reference:** Swedish intelligence report, August 26th 1946 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1946.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_551 ### Event 4542 (FA39811A) **Date:** 7/8/1946 **Location:** NORRKOPING, SWEDEN **Description:** J. B. strand. Fast silent grey 50cm ball flies going quickly east. / news / r130p05. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 182) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_571 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "NORRKOPING,SWEDEN:J.B.STRAND:FAST SILENT GRY 50cm BALL FLIES>>E:/NEWS/r130p05", **LatLong:** "58.616669 16.183334", **LatLongDMS:** "58:37:00 N 16:11:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/58.616669,16.183334)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4543 (542F114E) **Date:** 7/9/1946 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 134.4km altitude **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_195 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 134.4km ### Event 4544 (B24AFADE) **Date:** 7/9/1946 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) At 12:11, FIRST TEST FIRING: LAUNCH OF V2 #8, IT REACHES 5 KM ALTITUDE AND EXPLODES. At 12:25 SECOND TEST FIRING WITH LAUNCH OF V2 #7, ALTITUDE REACHED 133 KM. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1097 ### Event 4545 (525EA1A4) **Date:** 7/9/1946 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Over 200 sighting reports are received by the Swedish military, many of which describe tubular objects or objects shaped like a low-flying, slow-moving axis, with or without very little sound. First sightings of unusual flying objects brought to the attention of US intelligence services. (July 9) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1946.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_548 ### Event 4546 (4ACF1C7A) **Date:** 7/9/1946 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Sweden forms a "ghost rockets committee" to study the problem. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1946.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_549 ### Event 4547 (A467627B) **Date:** 7/9/1946 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) First reports received by the Swedish army. (July 9) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1946.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_552 ### Event 4548 (CCAA4F03) **Date:** 7/9/1946 **Time:** 15:30 **Location:** TURKU, FINLAND **Description:** Numerous observer(s). Fast bright-red 'rocket' casts shadows. South going quickly north. / r232'76#4. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 7) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_572 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "TURKU,FINLAND:NMRS OBS:FAST BRITE-RED 'ROCKET' CASTS SHADOWS:S>>N:/r232'76#4", **LatLong:** "60.416670 22.216668", **LatLongDMS:** "60:25:00 N 22:13:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/60.416670,22.216668)", **State/Prov:** "Finland", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4549 (B94149F8) **Date:** 7/9/1946 **Location:** Njurunda, Sweden **Description:** A journalist finds three dubious fist-size fragments, one of iron and the other two slag-like, after a bright projectile is seen over a beach at Njurunda, Sweden. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Göran Jansson, “[Spökraketerna 1947,](http://www.zenza.se/spokraketerna1946.pdf)” January 2005, p. 12; Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf), The Author, 1988 ed., p. 14 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_791 ### Event 4550 (DCDB0265) **Date:** 7/9/1946 **Locations:** Guldsmedshyttan; Lindesberg; Sweden **Description:** 2:30 p.m. [Erik and Asa Reuterswärd](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik%5FReutersw%C3%A4rd) take a photo of a greenish-white daylight meteor by a lake at Guldsmedshyttan, northwest of Lindesberg, Sweden. They are atop a forest watchtower and have a good view of the object. The image is circulated to newspapers throughout Sweden; however, the photo probably shows an unusual daylight meteor, not a ghost rocket. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) The Author, 1988 ed., pp. 12–13; Clas Svahn, “The 1946 Ghost Rocket Photo,” \`IUR 27, no. 3 \(Fall 2002\): 12–14, 23; Swords 13–14; Clas Svahn, “[Spökraketerna: Den Största Gåtan,](https://www.ufo.se/index.php/fakta/arti/verkligheten-bakom-ufopodden-i-p3/1611-spoekraketerna)” Riksorganisationen UFO-Sverige, March 7, 2017 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_792 ### Event 4551 (A7CA645E) **Date:** 7/9/1946 **Locations:** Vaxön, Sweden; Järna Station in Södertälje **Description:** 2:30 p.m. Two people on the north side of Vaxön, Sweden, watch a glowing white object with a blue-white tail streak across the sky in about 2 seconds, disappearing to the southeast. Around the same time, a witness at Järna Station in Södertälje sees an object “like a glass flask in a thermos” descending from a high altitude. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) The Author, 1988 ed., p. 6 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_793 ### Event 4552 (5872AEAA) **Date:** 7/9/1946 **Locations:** Stockholm, Sweden; Washington, D.C.; Central Sweden **Description:** 2:30 p.m. A member of the US legation sees a silent ghost rocket falling rapidly over Stockholm, Sweden, according to a July 11 telegram from State Department official [Christian M. Ravndal](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1984/10/28/cm-ravndal-ex-ambassador-dies-in-austria/bac979d2-d6fb-4c27-9ec3-beabb8db76bb/) to Washington, D.C. Hundreds of other observations take place over central Sweden. Ravndal suggests that the Soviets are trying to intimidate the Swedes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Göran Jansson, “[Spökraketerna 1947,](http://www.zenza.se/spokraketerna1946.pdf)” January 2005, p.11; Clark III 524, 527; Good Above, [p. 20](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/20/mode/2up); Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf), The Author, 1988 ed., p.p. 6, betw. 12–13 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_794 ### Event 4553 (5A30418D) **Date:** 7/9/1946 **Location:** Ockelbo, Sweden **Description:** 2:35 p.m. Efrain Johnson sees a strange, cigar- or sugarloaf-shaped object to the east of Ockelbo, Sweden. It shines like silver and appears “like some glistening mass.” It falls to the ground and is gone in a few moments. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf), The Author, 1988 ed., p. 6 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_795 ### Event 4554 (508E2CDD) **Date:** 7/9/1946 **Locations:** Sörbo, Sweden; Södra Barken **Description:** About 3:00 p.m. A housewife near Sörbo, Sweden, is washing on the shore of Södra Barken when she sees a falling object coming from the northeast. It changes color from blue to green and has a long tail. It tumbles into the lake about 320 feet away. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) The Author, 1988 ed., pp. 6–7 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_796 ### Event 4555 (BDB7A4D3) **Date:** 7/9/1946 **Locations:** Mockfjärd, Sweden; Mt. Landholm **Description:** 3:30 p.m. A young man in Mockfjärd, Sweden, sees a silver-colored star diving toward the ground with a whistling noise. It comes down about 490 feet away from him, and he is blinded by the intense light. He thinks it crashes into Mt. Landholm. A powerful burning smell lingers for 15 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) [1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) The Author, 1988 ed., p. 7 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_797 ### Event 4556 (150B4A27) **Date:** 7/9/1946 **Location:** Turku, Finland **Description:** 3:35 p.m. Many people see a bright red, rocket-like object moving swiftly over Turku, Finland, and leaving a short trail. It casts shadows on the ground. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) The Author, 1988 ed., p. 7 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_798 ### Event 4557 (76B1222A) **Date:** 7/9/1946 **Description:** At 2:30 p.m. a UFO that looked like a silvery thermos bottle flew over Jarna, Sweden. There were six more reports of cigar-shaped objects and eleven reports of fireballs rocketing over Sweden at about this time. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3938 ### Event 4558 (3F9B9B71) **Date:** 7/9/1946 **Description:** At 3:35 p.m. a fast, bright red, cigar-shaped 'rocket' cast shadows as it flew over Turku, Finland from south to north. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, Mystery of the Ghost Rockets, p. 7 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3939 ### Event 4559 (32426719) **Date:** 7/10/1946 **Time:** 14:30 **Location:** OREBRO, SWD **Description:** Green fireball trails red smoke going quickly northeast. Large bullet shoots going down / Kumla. / r130p12. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 182) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_573 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "OREBRO,SWD:GRN FBL TRAILS RED SMOKE >>NE:LRG BULLET SHOOTS ↓/KUMLA:/r130p12 ", **LatLong:** "59.250003 15.250001", **LatLongDMS:** "59:15:00 N 15:15:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/59.250003,15.250001)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 4560 (887F67EE) **Date:** 7/10/1946 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** LINKOPING, SWEDEN **Description:** Numerous observer(s). Rocket-like object tows coppery sphere/orb/globe on a cable? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 13) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_574 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "LINKOPING,SWEDEN:NMRS OBS:ROCKET-LIKE OBJ TOWS COPPERY ORB ON A CABLE?", **LatLong:** "58.405558 15.666667", **LatLongDMS:** "58:24:20 N 15:40:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/58.405558,15.666667)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 4561 (920DCF9B) **Date:** 7/10/1946 **Locations:** Norrvikssand, Sweden; Kubikenborg **Description:** A brilliantly glowing projectile trailing luminous smoke crashes into a beach near Norrvikssand, Sweden. Airline pilot Torvald Linden and other witnesses find a shallow crater a little more than 3 feet in diameter. A mass of slag-like material, some of it reduced to powder \(which burns the hands when touched\) is found at the site and collected into bags. A journalist from Svenska Dagbladet on July 11 finds a “burnt-brown object with a hollow cylinder” with a diameter of about 1–2 inches. Military authorities take over the site. The debris is taken to Dr. B. Backlund at a laboratory in Kubikenborg, who finds it contains paper with microscopic black-and-white squares like a screen. Some porous, rust-colored fragments are also present. The same day, the beach is visited by Lt. Col. [Rudberg](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik%5FRudberg%5F%28milit%C3%A4r%29), Capt. C. Ljungdahl, and Capt. R. Westlin, who conclude that the material has been in the area for a long time. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf), The Author, 1988 ed., pp. 10–12 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_799 ### Event 4562 (CF2120EF) **Date:** 7/10/1946 **Location:** Stockholm, Sweden **Description:** 2:30 p.m. A bluish flying cigar 10–12 times the diameter of the full moon in length passes over Stockholm, Sweden. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf), The Author, 1988 ed., p. 9 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_800 ### Event 4563 (967FC994) **Date:** 7/11/1946 **Location:** SWEDEN, Njurunda **Description:** (Translated from French) At around 2:30 PM, a spherical object followed by a 30 meter long luminous trail emerged close to the rooftops and crashed near a group of children playing on the beach. Several people rushed to the impact point of the "bomb". A 2 meter long, 10 cm deep mark was found. Some pieces of crystallized and porous, brown sand were collected, which burned the fingertips like acid. Upon analysis, these samples showed a high concentration of organic matter. **Reference:** Pierre VIEROUDY: "These UFOs that Announce the Superman" - Laffont 1979, p. 57 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1098 ### Event 4564 (F34ACA18) **Date:** 7/11/1946 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Andebu \(Norway\), work was being done at the Berg farm when a deafening impact was heard. A large splash of water was created in a pond, as if a body had been thrown into it. A blue-gray smoke appeared on the lake, and it was this smoke that drew the attention of the witnesses to the lake. (July 11, 2:30 PM) **Reference:** \[Tønsberg Blad, July 1946\] \[Buskeruds blad, July 13, 1946, 1+7\] \[Dagbladet, July 13, 1946, 16\] \[Drammens tidende, July 13, 1946, 1+7\] \[Vårt Land, July 13, 1946, 1\] \[Friheten, July 15, 1946, 7\] \[Liljegren: Spökraketerna 1946 - Nyhetsby Råmaterialet, 1977, 9-10\] \[Gross: *The mystery of the ghost rockets*, 1982, 10\] **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1946.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_553 ### Event 4565 (84001D70) **Date:** 7/11/1946 **Location:** SOUTH / GOTEBORG, SWEDEN **Description:** Sunbather. Long silent silver object flies going quickly south slowly. / news release. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 12) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_575 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "S/GOTEBORG,SWEDEN:SUNBATHER:LONG SILENT SLVR OBJ FLIES>>S SLOWLY:/NEWS RELEASE", **LatLong:** "57.633336 12.000001", **LatLongDMS:** "57:38:00 N 12:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/57.633336,12.000001)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4566 (81DA7381) **Date:** 7/11/1946 **Time:** 01:30 **Location:** KOPINGSVIK, OLAND, SWD **Description:** Fast bright green sphere/orb/globe going quickly east. Trailing spiral / light just vanishes! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 12) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_576 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "KOPINGSVIK,OLAND,SWD:FAST BRITE GRN ORB>>E:TRAILING SPIRAL/LITE JUST VANISHES!", **LatLong:** "56.866669 16.722223", **LatLongDMS:** "56:52:00 N 16:43:20 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/56.866669,16.722223)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 4567 (21051975) **Date:** 7/11/1946 **Time:** 14:30 **Location:** RAMSJO, SWD **Description:** 3+observer(s). 20cm fireball / treetops. Going quickly east. 2M crater / dark acrid gunk. / FSRv15#2. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** PHILLIPS, Ted: Study of PHYSICAL TRACES ASSOCIATED with UFO SIGHTINGS; CUFOS 1975. (Index 5) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_577 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **ODR:** Odors associated with UFO's **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "RAMSJO,SWD:3+OBS:20cm FBL/TREETOPS:>>E:2M CRATER/DRK ACRID GUNK:/FSRv15#2", **LatLong:** "62.166670 15.666667", **LatLongDMS:** "62:10:00 N 15:40:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/62.166670,15.666667)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4568 (9C5DF86E) **Date:** 7/12/1946 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** RAGUNDA, SWEDEN **Description:** Strange "soap bubble" with "drops on brim". Goes going quickly northwest slowly. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_578 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "RAGUNDA,SWEDEN:STRANGE "SOAP BUBBLE" WITH "DROPS ON BRIM":GOES>>NW SLOWLY", **LatLong:** "63.055559 16.383334", **LatLongDMS:** "63:03:20 N 16:23:00 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/63.055559,16.383334)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 4569 (620FD3AE) **Date:** 7/12/1946 **Location:** Stockholm, Sweden **Description:** Swedish Intelligence agrees to cooperate in sharing ghost rocket information with the British military attaché in Stockholm, Sweden, Maj. de Salis. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 20 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_801 ### Event 4570 (565D0C1C) **Date:** 7/12/1946 **Location:** Gryon, Vaud, Switzerland **Description:** Day. The railway station master at Gryon, Vaud, Switzerland, is watching a B-24 Liberator flying overhead at 15,000 feet when he also sees a “flying bomb” looking like a big star traveling northeast at about 250 mph. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) The Author, 1988 ed., p. 14 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_802 ### Event 4571 (D2DBE666) **Date:** 7/12/1946 **Location:** Usta, Örebro, Sweden **Description:** 10:00 p.m. Inga Eriksson is in her garden in Usta, Örebro, Sweden, when she hears a sharp, sizzling sound in the air and sees three silvery triangular objects traveling horizontally from east to west. They are visible only for 2 seconds, but her mother notes that the electrical power has gone out in their home. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** AFU case file **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_803 ### Event 4572 (3A4A0EC8) **Date:** 7/13/1946 **Location:** NORWAY, Stavanger **Description:** (Translated from French) At 11 PM a yellow-red luminous object was approaching from the southeast. It looked like a rocket, flying at high altitude and high speed. It disappeared in the northwest, maintaining the same altitude throughout the observed trajectory. **Reference:** STAVANGEREN, Jul 1946. DAGBLADET, 16 Jul 1946, 8. AFTENPOSTEN, 17 Jul 1946, 4. MORGENPOSTEN, 17 Jul 1946, 8. NATIONEN, 17 Jul 1946, 2. VERDENS GANG, 17 Jul 1946, 1. CIA INTELLIGENCE REPORT, 9 Apr 1947. Liljegren: SPÖKRAKETERNA 1946 - NYHETSBYRÅMATERIALET., 1977, 10. Gross: THE MYSTERY OF THE GHOST ROCKETS., 1982, 12. Listing d'Ole Jonny Braenne **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1099 ### Event 4573 (C850BB6A) **Date:** 7/13/1946 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Oslo \(Norway\), a luminous object passes over the city. It comes from the North-East and disappears towards the South, at the speed of a jet plane. The witnesses refute the possibility of a shooting star. The light is bigger and more intense than that of a usual star, and it leaves behind a trail of smoke. The altitude is estimated to be that of a normal aircraft, and the object maintains a straight trajectory during the entire observation. (20 h 55) **Reference:** Aftenposten, 15 July 1946, 1 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1946.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_554 ### Event 4574 (6E42A6DC) **Date:** 7/13/1946 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Stavanger \(Norway\), a yellow-red luminous object approaches from the Southeast. It looks like a projectile, flying at high speed and high altitude. It disappears towards the Northwest, always maintaining the same altitude. There are 4 witnesses, who all reject the possibility of a [meteor](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Meteore.html).. (11 PM) **Reference:** \[Stavangeren, July 1946\] \[Dagbladet, 16 July 1946, 8\] \[Aftenposten, 17 July 1946, 4\] \[Morgenposten, 17 July 1946, 8\] \[Nationen, 17 July 1946, 2\] \[Verdens gang, 17 July 1946, 1\] \[CIA Intelligence Report, 9 April 1947\] \[Liljegren: Spökraketerna 1946 - Nyhetsby Råmaterialet, 1977, 10\] \[Gross: *The mystery of the ghost rockets*, 1982, 12\] **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1946.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_555 ### Event 4575 (8158B718) **Date:** 7/13/1946 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** HAGERSTEN / MALARHOJDEN, SWD **Description:** Silent 20cm ball / treetop level flies going quickly north. Glows blue-green. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_579 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "HAGERSTEN/MALARHOJDEN,SWD:SILENT 20cm BALL/TREETOP LVL FLIES>>N:GLOWS BLU-GRN", **LatLong:** "59.288892 17.950001", **LatLongDMS:** "59:17:20 N 17:57:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/59.288892,17.950001)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4576 (54BD11D8) **Date:** 7/13/1946 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** ROGALAND PROVINCE, NORWAY **Description:** 4 observer(s). Vibrant bright yellow-red object / steady high altitude. Southeast going quickly northwest. No meteor. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 16) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_580 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ROGALAND PROV.,NORWAY:4 OBS:VBRITE YEL-RED OBJ/STEADY HI ALT:SE>>NW:NO METEOR", **LatLong:** "59.000003 6.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "59:00:00 N 06:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/59.000003,6.000000)", **State/Prov:** "Norway", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4577 (F0CE07CB) **Date:** 7/14/1946 **Location:** NORWAY, Son **Description:** (Translated from French) At around 10:50 PM a man observed an object flying very quickly at an altitude of approximately 1000 meters. He was able to follow it with his eyes for two minutes. During this time the object changed color, becoming blue-green. **Reference:** AFTENPOSTEN, 15 Jul 1946, 1; 16 Jul 1946, 5. BORAS TIDNING, 16 Jul 1946. BUSKERUDS BLAD, 16 Jul 1946, 2. FREMTIDEN, 16 Jul 1946, 1. Listing of Ole Jonny Braenne **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1100 ### Event 4578 (2AB0A869) **Date:** 7/14/1946 **Location:** NORWAY, Jeloy **Description:** (Translated from French) At 22:55 four witnesses observed a bright yellow-white "star" on the southern horizon. They were able to see it for one minute, during its fast and high altitude flight towards the northwest. During the observation the color changed to a bluer tone. **Reference:** AFTENPOSTEN, 15 Jul 1946, 1; 16 Jul 1946, 5. BORÅS TIDNING, 16 Jul 1946. BUSKERUDS BLAD, 16 Jul 1946, 2. DN, 16 Jul 1946. FREMTIDEN, 16 Jul 1946, 1. VERDENS GANG, 16 Jul 1946, 6. VD, 16 Jul 1946. Listing by Ole Jonny Braenne **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1101 ### Event 4579 (27BCA7AD) **Date:** 7/14/1946 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Son \(Norway\), a man sees an object moving quickly at an altitude of approximately 1000 m. It can be observed for 2 minutes, and its color changes to blue-green.. (22 h 50) **Reference:** \[Aftenposten, July 15th 1946, 1; 16 Jul 1946, 5\] \[Borås tidning, July 16th 1946\] \[Buskruds blad, July 16th 1946, 2\] \[Fremtiden, July 16th 1946, 1\] **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1946.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_556 ### Event 4580 (C9848FC0) **Date:** 7/14/1946 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Jeløy \(Norway\), 4 witnesses see a large "star" yellow-white bright appear on the horizon in the South. It can be observed for 1 min, flying quickly and at high altitude, disappearing to the North-North-West. Ekke changes its color to more bluish. (22 h 55) **Reference:** \[Aftenposten, July 15th 1946, 1; July 16th 1946, 5\] \[Borås Tidning, July 16th 1946\] \[Buskruds blad, July 16th 1946, 2\] \[Fremtiden, July 16th 1946, 1\] \[DN, July 16th 1946\] \[Verdens gang, July 16th 1946, 6\] \[VD, July 16th 1946\] **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1946.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_557 ### Event 4581 (A9F17B7A) **Date:** 7/15/1946 **Description:** The Swedes provide the British attaché with analytical reports of all observations to date. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 20 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_804 ### Event 4582 (DF503B83) **Date:** 7/16/1946 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** MATFORS, SWD **Description:** 2 / motorcycle. Glowing silver cylinder/cylindrical object going quickly east over town toward(s) Sundvall and coast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 17) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_581 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MATFORS,SWD:2/MOTORCYCLE:GLOWING SLVR CYL >>E OVR TOWN TWRD SUNDVALL+COAST", **LatLong:** "62.355559 17.005556", **LatLongDMS:** "62:21:20 N 17:00:20 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/62.355559,17.005556)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4583 (7D1F0F3B) **Date:** 7/16/1946 **End date:** 7/18/1946 **Locations:** US; Stockholm, Sweden **Description:** US Secretary of the Navy [James Forrestal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FForrestal) makes an unexpected visit to Stockholm, Sweden, to meet with the Swedish Defense Minister [Allan Vougt](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan%5FVougt) and two members of the special committee on ghost rockets. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 35 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_805 ### Event 4584 (C4EB4809) **Date:** 7/17/1946 **Location:** NORWAY, Oslo **Description:** (Translated from French) An engineer reported having observed at 12:50, a luminous object, coming from the east and going towards the southwest. He observed it through binoculars and saw that the object emitted a rather dense gray smoke. **Reference:** FREMTIDEN, July 19, 8. MORGENBLADET, July 19, 1. Liljegren: SPÖKRAKETERNA 1946 - NYHETSBYRÅMATERIALET., 1977, 11-2. Gross: THE MYSTERY OF THE GHOST ROCKETS., 1982, 16. Listing of Ole Jonny Braenne **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1102 ### Event 4585 (E5C2065C) **Date:** 7/17/1946 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Oslo \(Norway\), an engineer reported seeing a bright object coming from the East and going towards the Southwest. Observed with binoculars, it produced a thick gray-white trail. (July 17, 12:50) **Reference:** \[Fremtiden, July 19, 1946, 8\] \[Morgenbladet, July 19, 1946, 1\] \[Liljegren: Spökraketerna 1946 - Nyhetsby Råmaterialet, 1977, 11-2\] \[Gross: *The mystery of the ghost rockets*, 1982, 16\] **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1946.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_558 ### Event 4586 (98F1D96C) **Date:** 7/18/1946 **Location:** NORWAY, Son **Description:** (Translated from French) 11:35: Bright object, with wings, making noise, emitting smoke. **Reference:** Ole Jonny Braenne **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1103 ### Event 4587 (72B1D924) **Date:** 7/18/1946 **Location:** NORWAY, Mjosa **Description:** (Translated from French) A family of farmers reported that an airplane was making a strange whistling sound at low altitude. Soon the witnesses saw two rocket-shaped objects pass quickly overhead and crash to the ground together. Two other witnesses described the craft as a kind of V1; then two small rockets two meters long fell together into the lake following a parabolic trajectory. (Pierre VIEROUDY: "Ces OVNI qui annoncent le surhomme" - Laffont 1979, p. 58, which dates the incident to June 20, 1946 and locates Mjosa in Sweden...) Between 12:00 and 12:30, several witnesses observed two objects, resembling V 1s, coming slowly, at low altitude (50 meters) from the west. Their attention had been drawn by a whistling, not resembling the sound of an airplane engine. The two objects flew so low that they almost brushed the tops of the trees. Both of them fell into Lake Mjosa, 2 km from the west beach and 7 km from Minnesund. They had the shape of a rocket, measuring about 2.50 m long and had wings with a total span of 2 meters. The wings were placed a little forward, about 1 m from the nose. The nose and tail shone like metal but the central part, as well as the wings, was very dark. The wings seemed to move slightly. The objects had no lights or fires and they flew one behind the other. Their trajectory was like that of a stone thrown with force. When they fell into Lake Mjosa, they raised a water jet several meters high. There was no sound of explosion. The sky was clear and the water calm. Among the witnesses were the whole family of Sigvart Skaug, and the two brothers Nils & Gustav Tosterud. **Reference:** AFTENPOSTEN, 19 Jul 1946, 1; 20 Jul 1946, 1+5+14. BUSKERUDS BLAD, 20 Jul 1946, 1. DRAMMENS TIDENDE, 20 Jul 1946, 1. FREMTIDEN, 20 Jul 1946, 1. GÖTEBORGS-TIDNINGEN, Jul 1946. HD, 20 Jul 1946. SVD, 20 Jul 1946. MT, 21 Jul 1946, 18. AFTENPOSTEN, 22 Jul 1946, 1. ARBEIDERBLADET, 22 Jul 1946, 1. FREMTIDEN, 22 Jul 1946, 1. MORGENBLADET, 22 Jul 1946, 1. FLYING SAUCER REVIEW, v 15/n 2 - Mar/Apr 1969, 18. OFFICIAL UFO, Oct 1976, 61. Gross: THE MYSTERY OF THE GHOST ROCKETS, 1982, 14-5. AFU NEWSLETTER, 27 - Jan/Dec 1984, 4.Listing d'Ole Jonny Braenne **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1104 ### Event 4588 (3223367F) **Date:** 7/18/1946 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A Son \(Norway\), an object with wings emitting light, sound and smoke was observed. (23 h 35) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1946.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_559 ### Event 4589 (DCE3BF20) **Date:** 7/18/1946 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Mjøsa \(Norway\), several witnesses see objects resembling V1s coming from the West at low altitude \(about 50 m\). The witnesses first hear a loud whistling, not exactly that of an aircraft. The objects fly so low that they make the trees sway. They all fall into Lake Mjøsa, about 2 km from the West coast and about 7 km from Minnesund. They have the shape of cigars, measure 2.5 m long, with long wings of about 1 m behind the nose. The front and back parts shine like metal, but the middle section where the wings are is black. The wings seem to beat lightly. No fire or light is seen. The objects are close to each other, one in front of the other, and their trajectory is like that of a stone thrown. When they reach Lake Mjøsa, the water splashes several meters into the air. No explosion is heard. The sky is clear and the water is calm. Among the witnesses are Sigvart Skaug, his wife, his son, his daughter and Nils & Gustav Tosterud. (From 12:00 to 12:30) **Reference:** \[Aftenposten, July 19, 1946, 1; July 20, 1946, 1+5+14\] \[Buskeruds blad, July 20, 1946, 1\] \[Drammens tidende, July 20, 1946, 1\] \[Fremtiden, July 20, 1946, 1\] \[GÖTEBORGS-Tidningen, July 1946\] \[HD, July 20, 1946\] \[SVD, July 20, 1946\] \[MT, July 21, 1946, 18\] \[Aftenposten, July 22, 1946, 1\] \[Arbeiderbladet, July 22, 1946, 1\] \[Fremtiden, July 22, 1946, 1\] \[Morgenbladet, July 22, 1946, 1\] \[Flying Saucer Review, v 15/n 2 - March/April 1969, 18\] \[Official UFO, October 1976, 61\] \[Gross: *The mystery of the ghost rockets*, 1982, 14-5\] \[AFU Newsletter, 27 - January/December 1984, 4\] **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1946.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_560 ### Event 4590 (3C3C3382) **Date:** 7/18/1946 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** LAKE MJOSA, NORW **Description:** 2+2 observer(s). 2 fast low 8' cylinders dive / lake. Short wings flap! / r189p179. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 182) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_582 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "LAKE MJOSA,NORW:2+2 OBS:2 FAST LO 8'CYLS DIVE/LAKE:SHORT WINGS FLAP!:/r189p179", **LatLong:** "60.750003 11.000001", **LatLongDMS:** "60:45:00 N 11:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/60.750003,11.000001)", **State/Prov:** "Norway", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4591 (01C4B140) **Date:** 7/18/1946 **Location:** Stockholm **Description:** Two British intelligence officers arrive in Stockholm to meet with their counterparts in Sweden. One is from the Air Ministry \(Squadron Leader Barrie Heath\) and the other \(Maj. Malone\) is from MI10\(a\), a branch of the Directorate of Military Intelligence. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 20 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_806 ### Event 4592 (94C983A8) **Date:** 7/18/1946 **Locations:** Lake Mjøsa in southeastern Norway; Minnesund **Description:** 12:00 noon. Sigvat Skaug and his son, who live along Lake Mjøsa in southeastern Norway, and his sister Åse Tandberg watch two rocket-like objects about 7 feet long pass over their heads at a very low altitude. They fall simultaneously into the lake, throwing the water several feet into the air. The objects look like V-1 rockets and come in low from the west at about 150 feet, causing the trees to sway. They fall into the lake about 1.2 miles from the western shore and 4.3 miles from Minnesund. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[‘Ghost Rocket’ Crashes into Lake](http://www.nicap.org/460718norway%5Fdir.htm)”; Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) The Author, 1988 ed., pp. 18–19; Göran Jansson, “[Spökraketerna 1947,](http://www.zenza.se/spokraketerna1946.pdf)” January 2005, pp. 19–20; Clas Svahn and Anders Liljegren, “[The Kölmjärv Ghost Rocket](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Sweden/AFU%20Newsletter%20%28AFU%29/AFU%20Newsletter%20-%20No%2027%20-%201984.pdf) [Crash Revisited,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Sweden/AFU%20Newsletter%20%28AFU%29/AFU%20Newsletter%20-%20No%2027%20-%201984.pdf)” AFU Newsletter 27 \(Jan./Dec. 1984\): 1–5; Swords 16; Clark III 526 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_807 ### Event 4593 (DFB01E48) **Date:** 7/18/1946 **Locations:** Ortviken, Sweden; Sundsvall **Description:** Three workers see a ghost rocket above Ortviken, Sweden. Shortly afterward, Gunnar Falck watches a silvery cylinder moving over the northern part of Sundsvall. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf), The Author, 1988 ed., p. 17 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_808 ### Event 4594 (94C79084) **Date:** 7/18/1946 **Description:** Two fast, low-flying eight-foot long cylinders dove into Lake Mjosa, Norway. They had short wing flaps. There were four witnesses. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, Mystery of the Ghost Rockets, p. 18 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4154 ### Event 4595 (5725C7C7) **Date:** 7/19/1946 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** Failed V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 4.8km altitude (oxygen pump explodes) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_196 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 4.8km ### Event 4596 (0F03F889) **Date:** 7/19/1946 **Location:** SWEDEN, Kölmjärv Lake **Description:** (Translated from French) Knut Lindbäck and his servant, working outside, heard a loud buzzing in the sky. Lindbäck looked up and saw a gray rocket-shaped object descending towards the lake. The nose was rounded and the tail pointed and it seemed to have fins. Everything was going very quickly and he didn't have much time to observe it. When it fell into the water, a first huge column of water was raised, then a second. The witness estimated the length of the object to be about 2 meters. After the fall, uprooted algae and water lilies were floating everywhere and the water of the lake was completely muddy. Although the water was only 1.50m to 2m deep, it was impossible to locate the fallen object due to the muddy bottom. **Reference:** Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 175 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1105 ### Event 4597 (B1E5B330) **Date:** 7/19/1946 **Location:** SWEDEN, Bölebyn (in the north) **Description:** (Translated from French) An unusual aerial object was observed: it had the appearance of an illuminated milk jug. The observation lasted a good quarter of an hour: it must not have been flying very fast. **Reference:** Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 175 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1106 ### Event 4598 (C2C2405A) **Date:** 7/19/1946 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Knut Lindback and Beda Persson were working by the side of Lake Kolmjarv \(northern Sweden\) when they heard a buzzing in the sky. They saw a gray object, resembling an airplane or a rocket, rushing towards the lake. The object touched the water about 1 km away from them, creating a huge geyser. Later, Lindback would declare: I'm sure it was a solid object. It measured 2 m long and had a snub nose while the back was pointed. I thought I saw 2 protrusions on the sides, like wings, but I can't swear to it because everything happened very quickly. After this incident which had another witness by the lake's shore, soldiers undertook a two-week search, without finding any trace of what the three individuals had seen. (July 19th, just before noon) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1946.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_550 ### Event 4599 (4E436D69) **Date:** 7/19/1946 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Møsvannet \(Norway\), a sound like that of an aircraft was heard. The sound came from the South-West, becoming louder and louder, culminating in a crash as if an aircraft had crashed into the ground. It lasted a few seconds, but nothing was seen. (July 19th, between 1pm and 1:30pm) **Reference:** \[Fremtiden, July 22nd 1946, 6\] **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1946.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_561 ### Event 4600 (3F0D7402) **Date:** 7/19/1946 **Time:** 11:30 **Location:** NEAR PITEA, SWD **Description:** 4 observer(s). Shiny 'flying milk can' glides going northwest / 15 minute(s)! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** AFU NEWSLETTER (English). Anders Liljegren (ed). Archives for UFO Research; PO Box 11027; S-600 11 Norrkoping, SWEDEN (Index 27) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_583 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "nr PITEA,SWD:4 OBS:SHINY 'FLYING MILK CAN' GLIDES >NW/15min!", **LatLong:** "65.311114 21.483334", **LatLongDMS:** "65:18:40 N 21:29:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/65.311114,21.483334)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4601 (F2AC3A00) **Date:** 7/19/1946 **Time:** 11:40 **Location:** LK KATTISTJARN, SWD **Description:** 1 observer. Big roar / no wind. Unseen object dives / lake. Big splash! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** AFU NEWSLETTER (English). Anders Liljegren (ed). Archives for UFO Research; PO Box 11027; S-600 11 Norrkoping, SWEDEN (Index 27) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_584 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "Lk KATTISTJARN,SWD:1 OBS:BIG ROAR/NO WIND:UNSEEN OBJ DIVES/LAKE:BIG SPLASH!", **LatLong:** "66.455559 23.205557", **LatLongDMS:** "66:27:20 N 23:12:20 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/66.455559,23.205557)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 4602 (91EA83C4) **Date:** 7/19/1946 **Time:** 11:50 **Location:** KOLMJARV LAKE, SWD **Description:** 2+2 observer(s). Humming. 2M cone dives / lake backwards. 0 found. / r10p57. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** AFU NEWSLETTER (English). Anders Liljegren (ed). Archives for UFO Research; PO Box 11027; S-600 11 Norrkoping, SWEDEN (Index 27) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_585 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **MIL:** Military investigation, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "KOLMJARV LAKE,SWD:2+2 OBS:HUM:2M CONE DIVES/LAKE BACKWARDS:0 FOUND:/r10p57", **LatLong:** "66.316670 22.900001", **LatLongDMS:** "66:19:00 N 22:54:00 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/66.316670,22.900001)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4603 (109A69FD) **Date:** 7/19/1946 **Location:** Bölebyn, Sweden **Description:** 11:15 a.m. In the village of Bölebyn, Sweden, Leonard Danielsson and his sons Kjell, Dan, and Hans see an “aeroplane” moving against the wind to the southwest. The boys say it looks like a large, metallic milk canister. It travels from horizon to horizon in about 20 minutes before disappearing in the northwest. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 17 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_809 ### Event 4604 (7DBC6896) **Date:** 7/19/1946 **Locations:** Lake Kattisträsket, Sweden; Boden **Description:** 11:30 a.m. Kurt Larsson, 11, is fishing at the north end of Lake Kattisträsket, Sweden, when he hears a roaring sound. A huge column of water rises out of the lake as if a mine has detonated. Military officers from Boden investigate, but the lake is too muddy to send in a diver. They conclude that whatever fell is buried in 15 feet of mud. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 24 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_810 ### Event 4605 (B1E6BDD4) **Date:** 7/19/1946 **Location:** Lake Kölmjärv, Sweden **Description:** 11:45 a.m. Many witnesses see a gray, winged rocket crash into Lake Kölmjärv, Sweden, with a loud bang close to the southwest bank. Knut Lindbäck says it generates a high plume of water when it hits the surface, “followed by another cascade as if something had detonated.” Water lilies and other aquatic plants are torn up and thrown on the shore. Lieut. Karl-Gösta Bartoll from the Boden engineer corps arrives the next day to supervise the salvage operation. Engineers Roland Rynniger and lab technician Torsten Wilner from the Defense Research Department also arrive with a Geiger counter. A three-week search turns up no traces of metal, even though the evidence points to an underwater explosion. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[‘Ghost Rocket’ Crashes into Lake](http://www.nicap.org/460719sweden%5Fdir.htm)”; Göran Jansson, “[Spökraketerna 1947,](http://www.zenza.se/spokraketerna1946.pdf)” January 2005, pp. 20–26; Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) The Author, 1988 ed., pp. 20, 76; Clas Svahn and Anders Liljegren, “[The Kölmjärv Ghost Rocket Crash Revisited,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Sweden/AFU%20Newsletter%20%28AFU%29/AFU%20Newsletter%20-%20No%2027%20-%201984.pdf)” AFU Newsletter 27 \(Jan./Dec. 1984\): 1–5; Swords 17–20, 24; Clark III 525, 526 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_811 ### Event 4606 (FE94B27E) **Date:** 7/19/1946 **Locations:** Lake Vassarajärvi; Norrbotten County, Sweden **Description:** 3:00 p.m. Karl and Tyra Axberg are sitting on the porch of their cabin on Lake Vassarajärvi in Norrbotten County, Sweden, when they hear a loud noise. A projectile comes in at a very low angle and hits the water at a 30° angle, continuing underwater for about 600 feet. A military team led by Karl-Gösta Bartoll can find no trace of a “ghost bomb.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 24–25 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_812 ### Event 4607 (7904E930) **Date:** 7/19/1946 **Locations:** Lake Marmen; Sunnanå, Sweden **Description:** 3:40 p.m. Ingrid Hansson is sunbathing with her father on a floating jetty at the northern end of Lake Marmen, near Sunnanå, Sweden. She hears a violent roaring over the water and looks up to see an object bouncing along the surface, stirring up a wake. The object has created a water column 66 feet high upon impact. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 25 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_813 ### Event 4608 (D9C904A4) **Date:** 7/19/1946 **Location:** Scandinavian countries **Description:** Maj. Gen. [George C. McDonald](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106278/major-general-george-c-mcdonald/) prepares a memorandum for the Commander of the Army Air Forces Gen. [Carl Spaatz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%5FSpaatz) on reports of “rockets” over Scandinavian countries. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jan L. Aldrich, comp., [The Ghost Rocket File](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Digitized%5Fby%5FAFU/Aldrich%2C%20Jan%20-%20The%20Ghost%20Rockets%20File.pdf), Fund for UFO Research, 2000, pp. 9–11 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_814 ### Event 4609 (B29D0D99) **Date:** 7/19/1946 **Description:** During the mystery ghost rocket wave of sightings over Scandinavia this year, at 11:55 a.m. a two-meter long cone-shaped object fell into Kolmjarv Lake, Sweden. An underwater search was attempted but nothing was found. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** AFU Sweden **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4188 ### Event 4610 (20E14C59) **Date:** 7/21/1946 **Location:** BELGIUM, Sint-Niklaas (East Flanders) **Description:** (Translated from French) At the Vrouweneekhoek quarter, a young cyclist was returning home around 8:30 pm when he saw a disc on the side of the road. Amazed, the witness then saw two figures, no more than a meter tall. Before re-entering the object on the ground, one of the beings broke an acacia branch. Completely scared, it was only the next day that the young boy returned to the spot: he then discovered an irregular trapezoidal surface where the vegetation seemed to be charred. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 282-283 which places this in August; original source Hugo Huis, and GESAG special June 1972 p. 72 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1107 ### Event 4611 (FED8FD43) **Date:** 7/21/1946 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Hurdal \(Norway\), sighting of a dark object, moving at high speed, whistling at an altitude not exceeding 200 m. (July 21, 6:40 PM) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1946.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_562 ### Event 4612 (8E73D2D7) **Date:** 7/22/1946 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Gardermoen \(Norway\), 3 pilots saw a flying bomb pass over the airfield at an incredible speed. The altitude must have been between 2000 and 3000 feet. All witnesses reported fire and sparks coming from the tail but no sound was heard. (July 22, 1 AM) **Reference:** \[Official UFO, Oct 1976, 61\] \[Gross: *The mystery of the ghost rockets*, 1982, 17\] **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1946.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_563 ### Event 4613 (6EA2DC2C) **Date:** 7/22/1946 **Time:** 01:00 **Location:** GARDERMOEN AIRFIELD, NORWAY **Description:** Military observer(s). Very fast silent cylinder/cigar-shape / 900M altitude. Fire and sparks / tail. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 21) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_586 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "GARDERMOEN AIRFIELD,NORWAY:MIL OBS:VFAST SLNT CGR/900M alt:FIRE+SPARKS/TAIL", **LatLong:** "60.216670 11.133334", **LatLongDMS:** "60:13:00 N 11:08:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/60.216670,11.133334)", **State/Prov:** "Norway", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4614 (CE3E1C25) **Date:** 7/24/1946 **Time:** 21:34:59.8 **Location:** 11.5900 165.5000 **Description:** Nuclear test: Water, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Baker” Yield: 21KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_4 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.5900 165.5000", **LatLongDMS:** "11:35:24 N 165:30:00 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.5900,165.5000)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "Baker", **NukeSource:** "G+R", **NukeType:** "NWCU", **NukeY:** "21" ### Event 4615 (1762F42C) **Date:** 7/24/1946 **Locations:** Vålberg, Värmland, Sweden; Norway; Vänern lake **Description:** 1:20 p.m. Engineer Tennlund sees a small cigar-shaped object with a pair of small wings south of Vålberg, Värmland, Sweden. It comes from the direction of Norway \(west\) at great speed with no sound. Tennlund thinks it crashes into Vänern lake. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 35 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_815 ### Event 4616 (7CC5CDF9) **Date:** 7/25/1946 **Description:** The Swedish military states that ghost rockets are not meteors. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) [Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) The Author, 1988 ed., p. 23 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_816 ### Event 4617 (83BF61EC) **Date:** 7/25/1946 **Locations:** Baker nuclear test; Bikini Atoll; Marshall Islands **Description:** Baker nuclear test, Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Operation Crossroads](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FCrossroads\#Test%5FBaker)”; Fran Ridge, “[The](http://www.nicap.org/ncp/ncp-ridge10.htm) [Baker Blast: Cause for Alarm?](http://www.nicap.org/ncp/ncp-ridge10.htm)” May 4, 2013 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_817 ### Event 4618 (EF017752) **Date:** 7/26/1946 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Oslo \(Norway\), several witnesses hear 2 loud explosions, the last one seeming to have an echo. One person also claims to have seen a white light at the same time. (July 26, 0:53) **Reference:** \[Aftenposten, July 26 1946, 1+2\] \[Dagbladet, July 26 1946, 1+6\] \[Verdens gang, July 27 1946, 5\] \[Morgenbladet, July 29 1946, 2\] \[Flying Saucer Review, v 15/n 2 - March/April 1969, 18\] **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1946.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_564 ### Event 4619 (3079227F) **Date:** 7/27/1946 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** HONG, DK **Description:** Numerous observer(s). Shiny silver cylinder/cigar-shape crosses sky southeast going quickly northwest / 10 second(s). No fire / smoke. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 25) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_587 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "HONG,DK:NMRS OBS:SHINY SLVR CGR CROSSES SKY SE>>NW/10sec:NO FIRE/SMOKE", **LatLong:** "55.500003 11.283334", **LatLongDMS:** "55:30:00 N 11:17:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/55.500003,11.283334)", **State/Prov:** "Danemark", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4620 (08E20506) **Date:** 7/27/1946 **Locations:** London, England; Sweden **Description:** British Air Attaché Capt. Henderson informs the Foreign Office in London, England, that cooperation with Swedish Air Staff should be kept from the Americans. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** David Clarke and Andy Roberts, Out of the Shadows, Piatkus, 2002; Joel Carpenter, “[Guided Missiles and UFOs: A Tangle of Fear, 1937–53, Part Two](http://www.project1947.com/gr/grchron2.htm)”; Swords 20 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_818 ### Event 4621 (5D8ECD1F) **Date:** 7/28/1946 **Location:** Oslo, Norway **Description:** Night. Sections of Oslo, Norway, are shaken by two violent aerial explosions. An “intense white light” accompanies the blasts. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** London Daily Telegraph, July 29, 1946; Clark III 526 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_819 ### Event 4622 (AEDFCEBA) **Date:** 7/29/1946 **Locations:** Norway; Sweden **Description:** Norway begins censoring ghost rocket reports just as Sweden is doing. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) [1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) The Author, 1988 ed., p. 25 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_820 ### Event 4623 (DA805B02) **Date:** 7/30/1946 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 161.5km altitude **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_197 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 161.5km ### Event 4624 (EF871A7E) **Date:** 7/30/1946 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) At 12:36 TEST LAUNCH OF V2 #9, REACHED ALTITUDE 167 KM. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1108 ### Event 4625 (2964DBFF) **Date:** 7/30/1946 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The Swedish army has collected over 600 reports \(over 1000 according to other sources\) concerning objects nicknamed "ghost rockets" \([*ghost rockets*](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/GhostRockets.html)\). These are generally described as having the general shape of cigars, with orange flames appearing to come out of the back. The observations are generally nocturnal. The General Staff declares the situation to be extremely serious; indeed, the observed objects, real, are detected by military radars. American officials share the concern of their Swedish counterparts, as the nearby Peenemünde base fell into Russian hands at the end of the war. This test center was used for the development of secret German weapons and may still shelter unusual devices. (July 30) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1946.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_565 ### Event 4626 (2ADFEABB) **Date:** 7/30/1946 **Location:** Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden **Description:** 1:15 p.m. Two objects shaped like dark crosses are seen in the sky over Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 35 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_821 ### Event 4627 (A4EB34ED) **Date:** 7/30/1946 **Location:** Oskar-Fredriksborg, Stockholm, Sweden **Description:** 3:12 p.m. William Jorgensen, a soldier at the fort at Oskar-Fredriksborg, Stockholm, Sweden, sees a silent flying object with short wings at a distance of about 6,560 feet. It is moving faster than a jet aircraft. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 35 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_822 ### Event 4628 (701A3DA7) **Date:** 7/30/1946 **Location:** Norway-Sweden border **Description:** 5:00 p.m. A customs officer on the Norway-Sweden border watches a silvery torpedo with short wings. The object moves in from the south but changes direction with a sharp turn and continues east with a whining sound. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 35 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_823 ### Event 4629 (21686C83) **Date:** 8/1946 **Location:** USA, Oklahoma City **Description:** (Translated from French) In the late afternoon, around 5:15 PM, Margaret Sprankle, 28 years old, an employee at A.F.B. Tinken, was returning home and saw a disk less than 100 m away, flying at low altitude. It hovered, inclined at 45°. At its lower part there were a dozen openings through which Margaret Sprankle thought she could make out shapes with large, bald heads and drooping shoulders. After 90 seconds the UFO moved away to the northwest and then quickly disappeared. (August, 1946) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 283 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1123 ### Event 4630 (12C24755) **Date:** 8/1946 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Sweden on behalf of Shell Oil Company, [James Doolittle](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/DoolittleJamesH.html) investigates the phenomenon of [Ghost Rockets](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/GhostRockets.html). According to other sources he goes to Spitzberger \(Norway\), to see a crashed UFO in May. According to former sailors of the *Alabama* vessel at the time, the UFO was brought to the United States on this ship from Spitsbergen. **Reference:** Dorothy Kirgallen **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1946.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_566 ### Event 4631 (E9BC62A7) **Date:** 8/1946 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The phenomenon is spreading to Southern Europe. (August mid-month) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1946.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_572 ### Event 4632 (8D433DAF) **Date:** 8/1946 (approximate) **Time:** 14:00 **Location:** VISKINGE, DENMARK **Description:** 1 / bicycle. 3 metallic disks going [to] overhead. Mirror-tops and dull grey / bottom/underside. Silent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 28) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_588 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "VISKINGE,DENMARK:1/BICYCLE:3 MTLC DISKS > OVHD:MIRROR-TOPS+DULL GRY/BTM:SLNT", **LatLong:** "55.666669 11.266667", **LatLongDMS:** "55:40:00 N 11:16:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/55.666669,11.266667)", **State/Prov:** "Danemark", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4633 (91497447) **Date:** 8/1946 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** ST. NIKLAAS, BELGIUM **Description:** Pan-shaped object / roadside. Small humanoid (or Grey) outside holds tree-branch. Burn physical trace(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The UFO REGISTER. CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK. (annual sightings catalog.) (Index 75) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_589 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "St.NIKLAAS,BELG:PAN-SHAPED OBJ/ROADSIDE:OID OUTSIDE HOLDS TREE-BRANCH:BURN TRC", **LatLong:** "51.133336 4.133334", **LatLongDMS:** "51:08:00 N 04:08:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.133336,4.133334)", **State/Prov:** "Belgium", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 4634 (503E1B28) **Date:** 8/1946 (approximate) **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** POUNTA, SAMOS, GRC **Description:** Orange teardrop shape southeast going northwest. Sound like wind / trees. / FSRv24#6. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Von LUDVIGER, Illobrand ed. UFO's-SEUGEN UND ZEICHEN. Berlin 1995 edition q-Verlags GmbH ISBN 3-86124-300-8. (Index 142) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_590 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Greece and Island nations", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "POUNTA,SAMOS,GRC:ORG TEARDROP SHAPE SE>NW:sound like wind/trees:/FSRv24#6", **LatLong:** "37.883335 26.583335", **LatLongDMS:** "37:53:00 N 26:35:00 E", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.883335,26.583335)", **State/Prov:** "GRC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4635 (79DD5535) **Date:** 8/1946 **Locations:** US Highway 41; Lake Michigan; Chicago, Illinois **Description:** Day. Charles A. Johnson is driving on US Highway 41 along Lake Michigan north of Chicago, Illinois, when he sees three silver discs going from east to west in a triangular formation. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 1179 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_824 ### Event 4636 (AD0B2497) **Date:** 8/1946 **Location:** Sint-Niklaas, Belgium **Description:** 8:30 p.m. A young man sees a pan-shaped object near a road in Sint-Niklaas, Belgium. A small entity holding an acacia branch is nearby. The being enters the object through an opening on the underside. Afterward, traces of burning on the ground are detected. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Center for UFO Studies, [HUMCAT Index 1940–1949](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1940-1949.pdf), p. 20; Clark III 266 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_825 ### Event 4637 (4C7B0B57) **Date:** 8/1946 **Location:** Tinker Air Force Base outside Oklahoma City, Oklahoma **Description:** A civilian employee of Tinker Air Force Base encountered a lens-shaped, metallic UFO with a "weathered aluminum finish" hovering over trees near her home. The object, estimated to be about 75 feet in diameter, had around a dozen square windows on its lower portion. In each window, she observed the head and shoulders of human-like figures, which appeared either bald or possibly wearing helmets. After observing her for a few minutes, the UFO rotated and quickly and silently flew away. The witness, familiar with many conventional aircraft, believed this was something entirely different. (Chapter 8, Ref 343) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_336 ### Event 4638 (D985F266) **Date:** 8/1946 **Location:** Sweden **Description:** Approximate date. A Swedish scientist, while observing clouds through a telescope, spotted a luminous point on the horizon. Initially mistaking it for an airplane, he soon realized its speed was too great. Within moments, he got a full view of the object, describing it as torpedo-shaped, metallic, and approximately 90 feet long. Despite its proximity (about 1-1/4 miles away), the object made no sound. It emitted an intense light when it exploded, but there were no visible signs of fire, smoke, or sparks. (Chapter 9, Ref 376) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_368 ### Event 4639 (DEE2D142) **Date:** 8/1946 **Location:** Sweden **Description:** A Swedish air force pilot reported seeing a dark, cigar-shaped object while flying over the central region of the country. As per a declassified U.S. intelligence report, the object was around 50 feet above and roughly 6,500 feet away from the pilot, traveling at an estimated 400 mph. Interestingly, the missile had no visible wings, rudders, or any other projecting parts and did not show any signs of fuel exhaust. It maintained a constant altitude, even over varying terrain, which was considered unusual. This capability might have seemed improbable then, but a Swedish defense expert later suggested that if the observations were accurate, the details could point to some kind of advanced cruise missile, although no one had such sophisticated technology in that period. (Chapter 9, Refs 377, 378) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_369 ### Event 4640 (72CA5D6F) **Date:** 8/1/1946 **Location:** USA, northeast of Tampa (Florida) **Description:** (Translated from French) Transport plane pilot Jack Puckett observed an cylindrical object maneuvering around his aircraft which was flying at an altitude of 1200 m northeast of Tampa. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 282) At 900 m it changed course and crossed their path. (note de vog: ??? isn't that a bit "arranged?") Its size was twice that of a B-29, it disappeared at an estimated speed of 2500 and 3200 km/h. (Johannes von BUTLAR: "Ovni, nous ne sommes pas seuls" - Presses de la Cité 1979 p. 28) On July 24, 1946 at 6 pm the C 47 pilot, Jack E. Puckett and copilot Henry Glass saw above the ocean southeast of their position, a cylindrical flying object with luminous windows. The size was approximately twice that of a B-29. Flying at about 2000mph the object had a tail of flames behind it, half its own length. It disappeared on the horizon. (1946, August 1 (July 24)) **Reference:** "UFO's, a century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 24: it cites Puckett's letter of July 24, 1957 to Donald Keyhoe, and found in the CUFOS files **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1111 ### Event 4641 (BE8A16EF) **Date:** 8/1/1946 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** 30 MI NORTHEAST / TAMPA, FL **Description:** 3 C47 crew / 30K' altitude. 60M cylinder/cigar-shape with row / lit portholes going quickly northeast. / r65p28. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 23) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_591 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "18", **HatchDesc:** "30mi NE/TAMPA,FL:3 C47 CREW/30K'alt:60M CGR W/ROW/LIT PORTHOLES >>NE:/r65p28", **LatLong:** "28.350001 -82.133337", **LatLongDMS:** "28:21:00 N 82:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/28.350001,-82.133337)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 4642 (1BE87D2E) **Date:** 8/1/1946 **Location:** Unknown City, FL **Description:** Observation of cigar-shaped UFO by Air Corps transport pilot. \[NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall, III\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_309 ### Event 4643 (75C6B35E) **Date:** 8/1/1946 **Location:** Tampa (near), FL **Description:** Puckett Case (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_313 ### Event 4644 (FEEA3E58) **Date:** 8/1/1946 **Description:** President [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) signs the Atomic Energy Act, transferring the control of atomic energy from military to civilian hands, effective on January 1, 1947. It categorizes information on atomic energy as “born classified,” even if it is not created by any US government agency. “Restricted Data” is not a level of classification; rather, a document can be classified as Confidential, Secret, or Top Secret, while also containing Restricted Data. In addition, a document containing Restricted Data can also contain Critical Nuclear Weapon Design Information. In this way, a document can be classified as Secret \(S\), Secret//Restricted Data \(S//RD\), or Secret//Restricted Data- Critical Nuclear Weapon Design Information \(S//RD-CNWDI\), depending on the type of information it contains. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[United States Atomic Energy Commission](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%5FStates%5FAtomic%5FEnergy%5FCommission)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_827 ### Event 4645 (0B1FF5FE) **Date:** 8/1/1946 **Description:** [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) approves the establishment of the Office of Naval Research for “planning, fostering, and encouraging scientific research” in relation to naval power and national security. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Office of Naval](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office%5Fof%5FNaval%5FResearch) [Research](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office%5Fof%5FNaval%5FResearch)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_828 ### Event 4646 (2FB8A9CC) **Date:** 8/1/1946 **Locations:** USSR; Sweden **Description:** Col. [Edwin Kennedy Wright](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin%5FKennedy%5FWright), [Vandenberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg)’s executive assistant at the Central Intelligence Group, sends a memorandum to President [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) saying the ghost rockets conform to a V-1 shape and seem to be launched from the USSR. The report notes that the missiles can turn and fly circular courses, seemingly indicating radio control. Most information comes from the military attaché in Sweden and the conclusions are from the director of intelligence for the War Department general staff. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 21–23; Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 \(Winter 1998\): 10, 12 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_829 ### Event 4647 (2F4CEA53) **Date:** 8/1/1946 **Location:** Tampa, Florida **Description:** 6:00 p.m. AF Capt. Jack E. Puckett is flying over Tampa, Florida, in a C-47 transport and sees a long cylinder twice the size of a B-29 with luminous portholes. After 3 minutes, it disappears at a speed of 1,500 mph. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Rocket Craft Encounter Revealed by World War 2 Pilot,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/002%20AUG-SEPT%201957.pdf)” UFO Investigator 1, no. 2 \(Aug./Sept. 1957\): 15; UFOEv, [p. 19](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=31&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_830 ### Event 4648 (7AB1690B) **Date:** 8/1/1946 **Description:** At 6:00 p.m. three military witnesses including the pilot named Puckett, flying in a twin engine C-47 transport 40 miles north of Tampa, Florida at 4,000 feet altitude, sighted a cylinder-shaped UFO with luminous portholes that flew in front of the plane. The cylinder was about twice the size of a B-29, and approached to within 1,000 yards. It covered 75 miles in three minutes and appeared on a collision course with the aircraft. The stream of fiery exhaust from the craft was about half the length of the unknown object. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** NICAP files, report dated July 24, 1957; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top Secret, p. 102; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 23; UNICAT, case # 669 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4553 ### Event 4649 (58A423C3) **Date:** Early 8/1946 **Location:** Stockholm, Sweden **Description:** An astronomer and meteorologist is looking at some clouds through a telescope in Stockholm, Sweden, and sees a luminous object that he estimates is about 90 feet long, torpedo-shaped, and metallic. It has a “tapered tail that spewed glowing blue and green smoke and a series of fire balls.” The object explodes with a terrific flash. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Sweden Plans Radar Fight on ‘Rockets,’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22475643/the-los-angeles-times/)” Los Angeles Times, August 13, 1946, p. 1; Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) [History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf), The Author, 1988 ed., p. 39 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_826 ### Event 4650 (1D84DF8F) **Date:** 8/3/1946 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Finnfjordsvann \(Norway\), witnesses observe a rocket passing over Finnfjordsvann from Southeast to Northwest, at an altitude of approximately 1000 m. The object is dark and measures approximately 5 m in length. Its speed is approximately 1000 km/h (August 3rd, 0:30) **Reference:** \[Swedish Defence Attache, Oslo: Intelligence Report, October 1st 1946\]. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1946.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_567 ### Event 4651 (AED771EB) **Date:** 8/3/1946 **Description:** A cigar-shaped object flew over central Norrland, Sweden this evening. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Bjorn Overbye, FSR, May-June 1969, p. 18 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4621 ### Event 4652 (D36B36B1) **Date:** 8/5/1946 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Eidsfjord/Vesterålen \(Norway\), a witness observed through binoculars an object shaped like a cigar with luminous protrusions at the back. It was heading from South-East to North-West, never changing trajectory or speed, at a great altitude. With the cloud cover at 300 m, the object could not be seen without binoculars. (From 19:15 to 19:35) **Reference:** Swedish Defence Attache, Oslo: Intelligence Report, October 1st 1946 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1946.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_568 ### Event 4653 (007463F7) **Date:** 8/5/1946 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Eidsfjord/Vesterålen \(Norway\), a bright object was observed travelling at high speed and high altitude, from East to West. (19:45 to 20:05) **Reference:** Swedish Defence Attache, Oslo: Intelligence Report, 1st October 1946 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1946.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_569 ### Event 4654 (3279A895) **Date:** 8/5/1946 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** SKENE, SWEDEN **Description:** Circular silver object glitters / sun. Going quickly southwest fast. / Goteborg News. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v15#3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 28) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_592 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "SKENE,SWEDEN:CIRC.SLVR OBJ GLITTERS/SUN:>>SW FAST:/GOTEBORG NEWS:/FSR v15#3", **LatLong:** "57.483336 12.633334", **LatLongDMS:** "57:29:00 N 12:38:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/57.483336,12.633334)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4655 (0C4477EF) **Date:** 8/5/1946 **Location:** Landskrona, Skåne, Sweden **Description:** 6:26 p.m. A luminous object is seen by a motorist near Landskrona, Skåne, Sweden. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_831 ### Event 4656 (FC6673B9) **Date:** 8/5/1946 **Location:** Skåne, Sweden **Description:** 11:00 p.m. A fast-moving, silent, circular object glitters in the sun over Skåne, Sweden, as it heads toward the south-southwest at a high altitude. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) The Author, 1988 ed., p. 28 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_832 ### Event 4657 (D7FC4E13) **Date:** 8/6/1946 **Locations:** US; Budapest, Hungary; Germany; Russia **Description:** The US delegation in Budapest, Hungary, reports that a German scientist now working for the Russians has revealed that the Soviets have developed guided rockets called V-3 and V-4 that are able to fly a round trip of 700 miles. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 \(Winter 1998\): 10 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_833 ### Event 4658 (788B946F) **Date:** 8/7/1946 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Near Bergen \(Norway\), several "bombs" were observed. (7 August) **Reference:** Swedish Defence Attache, Oslo: Intelligence Report, 21 September 1946 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1946.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_570 ### Event 4659 (5B4A4888) **Date:** 8/7/1946 **Location:** GOTTLAND ISLAND, SWEDEN **Description:** Teacher. Object / 800kph. 500M altitude. Faint blue glow / nose. / FSRv15#3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 30) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_593 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "GOTTLAND ISL,SWEDEN:TEACHER:OBJ/800kph:500M alt:FAINT BLU GLOW/NOSE:/FSRv15#3", **LatLong:** "57.583336 18.333334", **LatLongDMS:** "57:35:00 N 18:20:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/57.583336,18.333334)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4660 (17A93FCB) **Date:** 8/7/1946 **Location:** Northern Japan **Description:** A Top Secret message from the Commander-in-Chief Air Forces, Pacific, to Gen. [Lauris Norstad](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauris%5FNorstad), War Department Operations, requests guidance on the current classification of the substitute code word “Majestic” for Operational Plan Olympic \(the invasion of Northern Japan\). The plan has been downgraded to Restricted \(Message CM1472 IN\). The answer is that both code words had been declassified by the JCS on October 8, 1945 \(Message CM96908 OUT 8 Aug 1946\). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich; Murray Bott, “[Military Codenames ‘Olympic’ and](http://www.ufoupdateslist.com/2002/apr/m04-033.shtml) [‘Majestic,’](http://www.ufoupdateslist.com/2002/apr/m04-033.shtml)” UFO UpDates, April 4, 2002 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_834 ### Event 4661 (57DE8CC1) **Date:** 8/7/1946 **Location:** Sweden **Description:** Swedish Lt. Lennart Neckman of the Defense Staff’s Air Defense Division sees a clear, yellow flame passing low and slow over the countryside. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf), The Author, 1988 ed., p. 30 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_835 ### Event 4662 (8C317D9C) **Date:** 8/8/1946 **Location:** SWEDEN **Description:** (Translated from French) The Daily Graphic of Stockholm published on August 8 that "boomerang bombs" were flying over Sweden towards the north and then crossing the country towards the south. None had fallen..(Antonio RIBERA: "Procès aux OVNI" - De Vecchi 1977 - p. 36) Professor John Persson saw a rocket carrying a dazzling light at the tip. He estimated the altitude to be 500 meters and the speed to be 800 km/h. **Reference:** Pierre VIEROUDY: "Ces OVNI qui annoncent le surhomme" - Laffont 1979, p. 58 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1112 ### Event 4663 (4108302E) **Date:** 8/8/1946 **Location:** Sweden **Description:** Chief of Swedish Air Defense Maj. Nils Ahlgren says that some of the rockets are seen at low altitude, maneuver in half circles, and appear to come from the south. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Göran Jansson, “[Spökraketerna 1947,](http://www.zenza.se/spokraketerna1946.pdf)” January 2005, p. 36 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_836 ### Event 4664 (F195D7FC) **Date:** 8/9/1946 **Location:** GAVLE, SWEDEN **Description:** Yellow fireball going quickly east. Same seen / N. Sweden going quickly east. Also Stockholm direction unknown. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 183) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_594 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "GAVLE,SWEDEN:YELLOW FBL >>E:SAME SEEN/N.SWEDEN >>E:also Stockholm dir.unk", **LatLong:** "60.666670 17.133334", **LatLongDMS:** "60:40:00 N 17:08:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/60.666670,17.133334)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 4665 (03CE97C6) **Date:** 8/11/1946 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In the Oslo region \(Norway\), some bombs were observed. (11 August) **Reference:** Swedish Defence Attache, Oslo: Intelligence Report, 21 September 1946 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1946.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_571 ### Event 4666 (6B9865D3) **Date:** 8/11/1946 **Location:** CHATILLON-SUR-SEINE, FR **Description:** Whistle-rockets with glowing-trails. 1 / week going [to] 18 August. / r130p52. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 338) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_595 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "248", **HatchDesc:** "CHATILLON-sur-SEINE,FR:WHISTLE-ROCKETS W/GLOW-TRAILS:1/WEEK>18AUG:/r130p52", **LatLong:** "48.800002 2.283333", **LatLongDMS:** "48:48:00 N 02:17:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.800002,2.283333)", **State/Prov:** "Paris", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 4667 (10E6D087) **Date:** 8/11/1946 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** HUNDREDS / TOWNS / EAST AND CENTRAL SWEDEN **Description:** Huge wave / fireballs rockets cigars. 1 offloads night lights. 300 report(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 35) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_596 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "13", **Duration:** "70", **HatchDesc:** "100s/TOWNS/E+CNTRL SWEDEN:HUGE WAVE/FBLS ROCKETS CGRS:1 OFFLOADS NLTS:300 RPTS", **LatLong:** "58.000003 16.000001", **LatLongDMS:** "58:00:00 N 16:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/58.000003,16.000001)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4668 (A85EEFB3) **Date:** 8/11/1946 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** STOCKHOLM, SWD AND AREA **Description:** Many objects. 1 lands / farm? 1 scouts harbor and going southeast. Flaming torpedo. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 37) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_597 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "40", **HatchDesc:** "STOCKHOLM,SWD+AREA:MANY OBJs:1 LANDS/FARM?:1 SCOUTS HARBOR+>SE:FLAMING TORPEDO", **LatLong:** "59.383336 17.983334", **LatLongDMS:** "59:23:00 N 17:59:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/59.383336,17.983334)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4669 (CFEDAD56) **Date:** 8/11/1946 **Locations:** Ljugarn; Gotland; Sweden **Description:** 8:47 p.m. Astronomer [Bertil Lindblad](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertil%5FLindblad) sees an exploding fireball in Ljugarn on Gotland, Sweden. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Göran Jansson, “[Spökraketerna 1947,](http://www.zenza.se/spokraketerna1946.pdf)” January 2005, p. 38 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_837 ### Event 4670 (AC1B8E7D) **Date:** 8/11/1946 **Locations:** central Sweden; southern Sweden; Stockholm **Description:** 9:00–10:00 p.m. Hundreds of people in central and southern Sweden see “ghost bombs” that fly from south to north, giving off a brilliant blue-white light. Sometimes two of the objects are seen flying together. Some witnesses see smaller silver balls come out of the larger objects, which are variously described as cylinders and torpedoes with a “wide nose” and “fire-spurting tail.” Stockholm is said to be “near the boiling point” with ghost rocket speculation. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf), The Author, 1988 ed., pp. 33– 39; Göran Jansson, “[Spökraketerna 1947,](http://www.zenza.se/spokraketerna1946.pdf)” January 2005, pp. 38–40; Clark III 525; Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 37; Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, [pp. 50–53](https://archive.org/details/ufobriefingdocum0000berl/page/50/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_838 ### Event 4671 (65CBF02F) **Date:** 8/11/1946 **Description:** On this evening a UFO crashed into the sea in a fjord on the western coast of Sweden. At 10:45 p.m. a procession of objects passed over the Mariestad area of Sweden, and a cylindrical object was sighted five minutes later in the sky over southern Norrland province. At Chatillon-sur-Seine, France whistling rockets with glowing contrails were seen on this night and subsequent nights until August 18. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** AFU Sweden, case G101; Loren E. Gross, Mystery of the Ghost Rockets, p. 52 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4855 ### Event 4672 (626E801E) **Date:** 8/12/1946 (approximate) **Location:** GRANTS PASS, OR **Description:** Intense red and green flares sway between mountain-tops / 30 minute(s). Not aircraft. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 67) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_598 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "289", **HatchDesc:** "GRANTS PASS,OR:INTENSE RED+GRN FLARES SWAY BTWN MTN-TOPS/30min:NOT AIRCRAFT", **LatLong:** "42.450002 -123.316673", **LatLongDMS:** "42:27:00 N 123:19:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.450002,-123.316673)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 4673 (E94E4507) **Date:** 8/12/1946 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** SODERTALJE, SWD **Description:** Spool-shape 'rocket-bomb'. Magnesium flare exhaust going quickly north. / FSRv15#3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 39) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_599 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "SODERTALJE,SWD:SPOOL-SHAPE 'ROCKET-BOMB':MAGNESIUM FLARE EXHAUST >>N:/FSRv15#3", **LatLong:** "59.205558 17.577779", **LatLongDMS:** "59:12:20 N 17:34:40 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/59.205558,17.577779)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4674 (FCDC2684) **Date:** 8/12/1946 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** GOTEBORG, SWEDEN **Description:** 5' fish-shaped cylinder/cigar-shape north going quickly south. Drops & lands / small island / news. / FSRv15#3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RANDLE, Kevin D.: A HISTORY of UFO CRASHES; Avon Books, Dresden, TN 1995 (Index 180) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_600 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "GOTEBORG,SWEDEN:5'FISH-SHAPED CGR N>>S:DROPS & LANDS/SML ISLAND/NEWS:/FSRv15#3", **LatLong:** "57.666669 11.966667", **LatLongDMS:** "57:40:00 N 11:58:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/57.666669,11.966667)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4675 (043A563C) **Date:** 8/12/1946 **Location:** Valdshult, Jönköping, Sweden **Description:** 10:00 a.m. A twin-engine Saab 18 Swedish Air Force bomber crashes and explodes near Valdshult, Jönköping, Sweden, killing three airmen. Rumors circulate that it collided with a ghost rocket, but an investigation indicates that the pilot lost control. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Good Need, [pp. 39–40](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/38/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_839 ### Event 4676 (FD1D1708) **Date:** 8/12/1946 **Location:** seaport town in southern Sweden **Description:** 8:15 p.m. A torpedo-shaped ghost rocket moves slowly over a seaport town in southern Sweden, barely grazing the roofs and trailing smoke. It continues out to sea and seems to come down on a small island. Two men go out to investigate, but the island is too overgrown to allow a search. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) [the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) The Author, 1988 ed., pp. 40–41 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_840 ### Event 4677 (63CF80E2) **Date:** 8/12/1946 **Description:** A spool-shaped "rocket bomb" was sighted flying rapidly to the north over the town of Sodertalje, Sweden at 9:00 p.m. It had a magnesium colored flare for an exhaust. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, Mystery of the Ghost Rockets, p. 39 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4929 ### Event 4678 (6FCEF89B) **Date:** 8/12/1946 **Description:** Over Grants Pass, Oregon an intense red and green object, flaring in intensity, swayed back and forth in a rocking motion between mountain tops for 30 minutes on this night. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, Charles Fort, the Fortean Society, and UFOs, p. 67 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4930 ### Event 4679 (BC3CBDA7) **Date:** 8/13/1946 **Location:** SWEDEN, center of Norrland **Description:** (Translated from French) An object with small wings falls from the sky into a lake. **Reference:** Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 175 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1113 ### Event 4680 (12C43D7D) **Date:** 8/13/1946 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** KARLSKRONA, SWD **Description:** 5' cylinder/cigar-shape passes 50M from observer(s). Faint green glow. Smokes / rear. / FSRv15#3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 43) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_601 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "KARLSKRONA,SWD:5'CGR PASSES 50M FROM OBS:FAINT GRN GLOW:SMOKES/REAR:/FSRv15#3", **LatLong:** "56.205558 15.616667", **LatLongDMS:** "56:12:20 N 15:37:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/56.205558,15.616667)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4681 (CF404DFC) **Date:** 8/13/1946 **Locations:** Paris; Scandinavia; Leningrad; St. Petersburg; Russia **Description:** Capt. [Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe%5FH.%5FHillenkoetter), US naval attaché in Paris, forwards as top secret a report by the French government on ghost rocket activity in Scandinavia. It states that “a good number of these projectiles are of the V- 1 type in the form of a torpedo with two small wings.” A map shows them originating in the Leningrad \[now St. Petersburg\] area, Russia. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 21; Good Need, [pp. 38–39](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/38/mode/2up); Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 \(Winter 1998\): 11 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_841 ### Event 4682 (CD3E2259) **Date:** 8/13/1946 **Locations:** Budapest; London; Stockholm; Oslo; Helsinki; Copenhagen; Soviet ship in the north Baltic Sea; Hiiumaa island, Estonia; Latvia; Peenemünde, Germany; Parikkala in Finland; Łeba, Poland **Description:** The Hungarian report of August 6 causes Maj. Gen. [Stephen J. Chamberlin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%5FJ.%5FChamberlin)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%5FJ.%5FChamberlin) Army assistant chief of staff for intelligence, to ask Budapest for further information. Top-secret requests are sent to military attachés in London, Stockholm, Oslo, Helsinki, and Copenhagen asking for listings of all ghost rocket reports, as well as V-3 and V-4 missiles. The military attaché in Oslo reports that a Soviet ship in the north Baltic Sea has been transmitting code to shore stations regarding the ghost rockets. The military attaché in Moscow asks other European officials about where the rockets originate and gets several answers, which he forwards on to Chamberlin: Hiiumaa island, Estonia; Latvia; or Peenemünde, Germany. Gen. [Joseph T. McNarney](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FT.%5FMcNarney) of the US Forces in Europe Theater replies that Peenemünde is a likely origin, since the site has been refurbished. The military attaché in Stockholm suspects Hiiumaa, Peenemünde, or Parikkala in Finland, while the naval attaché in Stockholm thinks that Łeba, Poland, is the launch site. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 \(Winter 1998\): 10–11 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_842 ### Event 4683 (E9455EC9) **Date:** 8/13/1946 **Locations:** New York; Sweden **Description:** The New York Times says the ghost rocket situation is extremely dangerous and that Sweden will not tolerate such violations. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Swedes Use Radar in Fight on Missiles,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1946/08/13/140131842.pdf)” New York Times. August 13, 1946, p. 4 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_843 ### Event 4684 (D130F698) **Date:** 8/13/1946 **Locations:** US; Stockholm; Sweden **Description:** The US naval attaché and the Assistant US military attaché in Stockholm interview three Swedish Air Force officers assigned to the General Staff who say that they believe the objects are rockets. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Joel Carpenter, “[Guided](http://www.project1947.com/gr/grchron2.htm) [Missiles and UFOs: A Tangle of Fear, 1937–53, Part Two](http://www.project1947.com/gr/grchron2.htm)”; Swords 21 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_844 ### Event 4685 (2A3E0B5D) **Date:** 8/13/1946 **Location:** Denmark **Description:** Afternoon. A troop of Boy Scouts in Denmark see a rocket-like object moving quickly at an altitude of 1,600 feet. They can see small side wings and fins. A blue-white light streams from the bottom, and it diverges from a straight course to a 35° curve. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf), The Author, 1988 ed., p. 43 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_845 ### Event 4686 (AFA0171F) **Date:** 8/13/1946 **Location:** Karlskrona, Sweden **Description:** 8:00 p.m. A cigar-shaped object flies past a witness at Karlskrona, Sweden, at a distance of only 150 feet. Only 5 feet long, it emits a faint green light and trails smoke from the rear. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) [1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) The Author, 1988 ed., p. 43 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_846 ### Event 4687 (A2B00B5E) **Date:** 8/14/1946 **Location:** SWEDEN, Vaggeryd **Description:** (Translated from French) A Swedish military plane collided with one of the mysterious projectiles and the three crew members perished. A witness claimed that the "projectile" was making directional changes. [note from vog: Ribera is the only one to mention this, no trace in Swedish archives.... ] **Reference:** Antonio RIBERA: "Procès aux Ovni" - De Vecchi 1977 - p. 36 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1114 ### Event 4688 (45E940BC) **Date:** 8/14/1946 **Location:** PORTUGAL, Province of Alentejo and Northern part of the country **Description:** (Translated from French) The Belgian-Flemish newspaper "Belang Van Limburg" - 19.9.46 published an article saying that the Lisbon Astronomical Observatory had no explanation for the observations made in different provinces regarding strange lights in the sky. These were balls of green light flying at high speed without any noise. **Reference:** collaboration of Larry Fenwick, CUFORN, Joaquim Fernandes, CNIFO, Willy Smith, UNICAT Project; listing by Victor Lourenço **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1115 ### Event 4689 (DC8D7461) **Date:** 8/14/1946 **Location:** Bt. Malingsbo and Krylbo, Sweden **Description:** 10:02 a.m. Two witnesses flying a SAAB B-18 bomber on a navigational training flight at 200 meter altitude observed a cigar-shaped object described as 1 meter wide by 15 meters long. (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [460814](http://www.nicap.org/460814malingsbo.pdf) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_314 ### Event 4690 (A8C8FE63) **Date:** 8/14/1946 **Location:** New York **Description:** The New York Times reports that Secretary of State [Dean Acheson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean%5FAcheson) is “very much interested” in the ghost rockets. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf), The Author, 1988 ed., p. 46; “[2 Swedes](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1946/08/14/94056676.pdf) [Escape a ‘Ghost Rocket,’](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1946/08/14/94056676.pdf)” New York Times, August 14, 1946, p. 11 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_847 ### Event 4691 (A49F5E9A) **Date:** 8/14/1946 **Locations:** Sweden; Malingsbo; central Sweden **Description:** 10:02 a.m. Swedish Air Force pilot Lieut. Gunnar Irholm and his signaler, Cpl. Möller, are flying a B-18A bomber at 650 feet 4 miles northeast of Malingsbo in central Sweden when they see a dark cigar-shaped object approaching on their left. It has no visible wings, rudders, lights, flame or projections of any type. It appears to follow the terrain at 370–430 mph, maintaining the same height, then vanishes into a storm cloud. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Ghost Rockets over Scandinavia,” Intelligence Review, no. 49, January 9, 1947, US Department of Defense; Don Berliner, Marie Galbraith, and Antonio Huneeus, Unidentified Flying Objects Briefing Document, UFO Research Coalition, December 1995, [pp. 33–35](https://archive.org/details/rockefeller/Rockefeller-Briefing-Document/page/n25/mode/2up); Swords 15–16; “[Cigar Sighted from B-19 Bomber,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Sweden/AFU%5FNewsletter/AFU%5F2002%5F44.pdf)” AFU Newsletter, no. 44 \(September 2002\): 1–4 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_848 ### Event 4692 (2897858C) **Date:** 8/15/1946 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 6.4km altitude (Radio cut-off 16.5s after launch) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_198 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 6.4km ### Event 4693 (BCCF2BA9) **Date:** 8/15/1946 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) At 11:00 AM, TEST LAUNCH OF V2 #10, REACHING ONLY 3 KM ALTITUDE. RADIO CUT-OFF **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952 **Reference:** EMERGENCY **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1116 ### Event 4694 (E5027F0E) **Date:** 8/15/1946 **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** COPENHAGEN, DK AND AREA **Description:** Several report(s) / slow silent rockets. 1 going quickly east. 1 going quickly north. Back 18 August / N. side. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 47) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_602 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "COPENHAGEN,DK+AREA:SVRL RPTS/SLOW SLNT ROCKETS:1>>E:1>>N::BACK 18AUG/N.SIDE", **LatLong:** "55.700003 12.416667", **LatLongDMS:** "55:42:00 N 12:25:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/55.700003,12.416667)", **State/Prov:** "Danemark", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4695 (1FED2CFA) **Date:** 8/15/1946 **Location:** east side of Waterloo, Iowa **Description:** Night. Several residents of the east side of Waterloo, Iowa, see an object buzzing rapidly around some trees. It gradually ascends, surrounded by a cloud of white vapor, and disappears high in the sky. One person calls it “a great white bird; another, a bomb.” [Mrs. Russell Lampman](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/188962570/gertrude-jessamine-lampman) says that the object is “6 feet, 3 inches tall, like a large man, and rather rectangular in shape.” She and her [husband](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/188962549/russell-james-lampman) watch it for an hour after it starts hovering about 20– 25 feet above a nearby alley. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Al Starr, “Street Scene,” Waterloo \(Iowa\) Sunday Times, August 18, 1946, p. II-1; “[Well, We Saw It First!](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92481379/)” Waterloo Daily Courier, July 7, 1947, p. 2; Project 1947, “[UFO Reports: 1946](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1946b.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_849 ### Event 4696 (7E73A39B) **Date:** 8/16/1946 **Location:** MALMO, SWEDEN **Description:** Missile flies over. Explosion breaks many windows. No traces found. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RANDLE, Kevin D.: A HISTORY of UFO CRASHES; Avon Books, Dresden, TN 1995 (Index 180) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_603 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MALMO,SWEDEN:MISSILE FLIES OVR:EXPLOSION BREAKS MANY WINDOWS:NO TRACES FOUND", **LatLong:** "55.600003 13.000001", **LatLongDMS:** "55:36:00 N 13:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/55.600003,13.000001)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 4697 (8CDC6019) **Date:** 8/16/1946 **Locations:** Stockholm; Sweden **Description:** Col. L. H. Johnson, US naval attaché in Stockholm, transmits a “Top Secret Report R334-46 of 13 August 1946 Subject: SWEDEN Guided Missiles Rocket Sightings Over Sweden.” It concludes: “No tangible evidence to date as to nature or origin of rockets reported over Sweden, although Swedish Defense Staff insists that they are rockets.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Joel Carpenter, “[Guided Missiles and UFOs: A Tangle of Fear, 1937–53, Part Two](http://www.project1947.com/gr/grchron2.htm)”; Jan L. Aldrich, comp., [The Ghost Rocket File](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Digitized%5Fby%5FAFU/Aldrich%2C%20Jan%20-%20The%20Ghost%20Rockets%20File.pdf), Fund for UFO Research, 2000, pp. 32–35 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_850 ### Event 4698 (35D34EA3) **Date:** 8/16/1946 **Location:** Malmö, Sweden **Description:** A missile produces an enormous explosion over Malmö, Sweden, that shakes or breaks many windows. Some witnesses think they can see fragments of the object falling to earth. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Windows Broken by Rocket Bomb,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92459570/)” Manchester Guardian, August 17, 1946, p. 6; Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf), The Author, 1988 ed., p. 50 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_851 ### Event 4699 (5F719485) **Date:** 8/17/1946 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Tromsø \(Norway\), an explosion breaks windows. (August 17) **Reference:** \[Daily Telegraph, August 17, 1946\] \[Gross: The Mystery of the Ghost Rockets, 1982, 38\] **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1946.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_573 ### Event 4700 (69C92C84) **Date:** 8/17/1946 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** SNEKKERSTEN, DK **Description:** Numerous observer(s). 2 cigars north going quickly south over Oresund. Slow. Glow. Emit clouds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 51) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_604 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "SNEKKERSTEN,DK:NMRS OBS:2 CGRS N>>S ovr ORESUND:SLOW:GLOW:EMIT CLOUDS", **LatLong:** "56.016669 12.583334", **LatLongDMS:** "56:01:00 N 12:35:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/56.016669,12.583334)", **State/Prov:** "Danemark", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4701 (CAAD6A8D) **Date:** 8/18/1946 **Location:** Copenhagen, Denmark **Description:** 8:00 or 10:00 p.m. An aerial object like a 9-foot cigar is seen moving slowly on the north side of Copenhagen, Denmark. It explodes with extraordinary force. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) [Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) The Author, 1988 ed., p. 53 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_853 ### Event 4702 (C7DFB52E) **Date:** 8/19/1946 **Locations:** Moscow; Peenemünde, Germany **Description:** The US military attaché in Moscow reports on the visit of Maj. [Stig Wennerström](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stig%5FWennerstr%C3%B6m%5F%28colonel%29) of the Swedish Air Force, who reveals that radar indicates the ghost rocket launch site is at Peenemünde, Germany. The rockets appear to be radio-controlled, carry no warheads, are self-destructive, and are plotted over a range of 620 miles. Sometimes they follow zigzag courses. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 \(Winter 1998\): 12 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_854 ### Event 4703 (944A94E1) **Date:** 8/19/1946 **Locations:** US; Stockholm, Sweden; Europe; London; Sweden **Description:** Two US experts on aerial warfare, aviation legend General [Jimmy Doolittle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy%5FDoolittle) and British Group Captain [Douglas Bader](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%5FBader)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%5FBader) and General [David Sarnoff](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FSarnoff)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FSarnoff) president of RCA, arrive in Stockholm, Sweden, ostensibly on private business, and independently of each other. The official explanation is that Doolittle, who is now vice-president of the Shell Oil Company, is inspecting Shell branch offices in Europe, while Sarnoff, a former member of General [Dwight D. Eisenhower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower)’s London staff, is studying the market for radio equipment. However, the story indicates that the Chief of the Swedish Defense Staff, Col. C. R. Kempf, makes no secret that he “was extremely interested in asking the two generals advice and, if possible, would place all available reports before them.” However, Doolittle denies the correlation to [Barry Greenwood](http://www.noufors.com/Barry%5FJ%5FGreenwood.htm) in 1984, and researchers have found no evidence to support a collaboration. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Joel Carpenter, “[Guided Missiles and UFOs: A Tangle of Fear, 1937–53, Part Two](http://www.project1947.com/gr/grchron2.htm)”; Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) The Author, 1988 ed., pp. 53–54; Clark III 527; Swords 21, 24 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_855 ### Event 4704 (7400E5A6) **Date:** 8/20/1946 **Location:** Near Dijon, France **Description:** "Huge, elongated projectiles passed overhead at prodigious speeds, emitting a whistling noise". (Chapter 9, Ref 382) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_371 ### Event 4705 (D32269D1) **Date:** 8/21/1946 **Locations:** Norway; Sweden **Description:** The General Staff in Norway issues a memorandum to the press asking it not to mention any ghost rockets seen over the country and to pass on all reports to the military Intelligence Department. In Sweden, the ban is limited to any mention of where the rockets are seen to land or explode. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** London Daily Telegraph, August 22, 1946; Good Above, [p. 21](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/20/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_856 ### Event 4706 (20A6FAEE) **Date:** 8/22/1946 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 0km altitude (Control failure led to cut-off command at 6.5s) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_199 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 0km ### Event 4707 (20EB4E21) **Date:** 8/22/1946 **Location:** FRANCE, Espis (Tarn et Garonne) **Description:** (Translated from French) Children and adults saw entities appear: the Virgin Mary, other saints, angels. First appearance on August 22, 1946, then these entities appeared punctually on the 13th of each month until 1950. **Reference:** Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 330 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1117 ### Event 4708 (1A34B290) **Date:** 8/22/1946 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** NORRKOPING, SWD **Description:** Movies taken / ghost rocket. Clearly visible. Film going [to] military. Shows blank. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SPENCER, John & EVANS, Hillary (ed): PHENOMENON - 40 YEARS of F.S.; BUFORA/Avon Books, NY 1988 (Index 60) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_605 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **MIL:** Military investigation, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "NORRKOPING,SWD:MOVIES TAKEN/GHOST ROCKET:CLEARLY VISIBLE:FILM>MIL:SHOWS BLANK", **LatLong:** "58.616669 16.166667", **LatLongDMS:** "58:37:00 N 16:10:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/58.616669,16.166667)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4709 (08373D82) **Date:** 8/22/1946 **Locations:** Getå; Stockholm, Sweden **Description:** 3:00 p.m. Photographer Gösta Skog takes a color film of a ghost rocket at Getå, 100 miles south of Stockholm, Sweden. The cigar-shaped object appears out of a cloud at 3,000 feet, trailing exhaust. The film turns out to be overexposed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clas Svahn, “[Spökraketerna: Den Största Gåtan,](https://www.ufo.se/index.php/fakta/arti/verkligheten-bakom-ufopodden-i-p3/1611-spoekraketerna)” Riksorganisationen UFO-Sverige, March 7, 2017; Swords 14–15 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_857 ### Event 4710 (AC6CE0DD) **Date:** 8/22/1946 **Locations:** Peenemünde; East Germany; Moscow; Gulf of Bothnia **Description:** Director of the Central Intelligence Group \(CIG\) Lt. Gen. [Hoyt Vandenberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg) writes a top secret memo to [President Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) via Adm. [William D. Leahy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FD.%5FLeahy)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FD.%5FLeahy) stating that the “weight of evidence” points to Peenemünde \(which has become a Soviet naval base\), East Germany, as the origin of the ghost rockets, and that a US military attaché in Moscow has been told by a “key Swedish Air Officer” \[[Wennerström](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stig%5FWennerstr%C3%B6m%5F%28colonel%29)\] that radar course-plotting leads to the conclusion that Peenemünde is the launch site. CIG speculates that the missiles are extended-range developments of V-1s being aimed for the Gulf of Bothnia for test purposes and “do not overfly Swedish territory specifically for intimidation; self-destruct by small demolition charge or burning.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Joel Carpenter, “[Guided](http://www.project1947.com/gr/grchron2.htm) [Missiles and UFOs: A Tangle of Fear, 1937–53, Part Two](http://www.project1947.com/gr/grchron2.htm)”; Barry Greenwood, “[Significant Ghost Rocket](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr15.pdf) [Documents Available,](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr15.pdf)” UFO Historical Revue, no. 15 \(June 2015\): 1–8 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_858 ### Event 4711 (23DB1E6E) **Date:** 8/23/1946 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A "bomb" is seen passing between Oksebåsneset and Renøen, north of Kirkenes, heading southwest. (August 23, 7:35 PM) **Reference:** Swedish Defence Attache, Oslo: Intelligence Report, September 21, 1946 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1946.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_574 ### Event 4712 (6E753825) **Date:** 8/23/1946 **Locations:** Sweden; British **Description:** The British Foreign Office states that English radar experts, including [Reginald Victor Jones](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald%5FVictor%5FJones)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald%5FVictor%5FJones) having returned from Sweden, had “submitted secret reports to the British government on the origin of the rockets.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Good Above, [p. 21](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/20/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_859 ### Event 4713 (0A20D3ED) **Date:** 8/24/1946 **Location:** NORWAY, Russeviksodden **Description:** (Translated from French) The witness was on board the ship "Helkkingen" and observed at 20 o'clock, a ball of light rising on the horizon, between Holmengravika and Rodberget. Then it fell back, halfway between the sea and the horizon. After the impact, nothing was observed for the following thirty seconds. Then a fire, of red color, appeared and continued to burn for 3 minutes. The "Hekkingen" was then 3/4 of a nautical mile NE of Russeviksodden and was sailing towards Kirkeness (SSO). The trajectory of the ball of fire was supposed to go from north to west. It was also seen at the port, for 5 seconds, and it seemed to fly very, very fast. The witness, on the ship, estimated its altitude to be about 400 meters, the distance to 2 nautical miles. It was raining, night was falling, but one could still see the outlines of the nearby mountains. The cloud cover was at about 1000 meters. A colleague of the first witness observed the phenomenon with binoculars. He said that the red fire produced white smoke. **Reference:** Swedish Defence Attache, Oslo: INTELLIGENCE REPORT, 1 Oct 1946. Listing by Ole Jonny Braenne **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1118 ### Event 4714 (105F9216) **Date:** 8/24/1946 **Location:** NORWAY, Sande **Description:** (Translated from French) At around 9pm, two men saw in the sky an object resembling an airplane, coming from the north and flying at high speed. This object made no noise. It flew at an altitude of barely 200m, and was surrounded by a yellow-green light. When it arrived above Orebergvannet the light went out. **Reference:** BUSKERUDS BLAD, August 26, 1946, 5. Listing by Ole Jonny Braenne **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1119 ### Event 4715 (8484F960) **Date:** 8/24/1946 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Southern Norway, sightings of "flying bombs" in various places **Reference:** \[Swedish Defence Attache, Oslo: Intelligence Report, 21 Sep 1946\]. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1946.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_575 ### Event 4716 (50C912A0) **Date:** 8/24/1946 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A Russeviksodden \(Norway\) a witness observed a light ball rising from the horizon, between Holmengråvika and Rødberget. It then descended and fell halfway between the sea and the horizon, between Holmengråvika and Rødberget. The witness was on board the d/s *Hekkingen*. After the impact nothing was seen for 30 s, then a fire appeared with a red color, and continued for about 3 min. The position of the d/s *Hekkingen* was 3/4 of a nautical mile Northeast of Russeviksodden in the direction \(South-half-West\) of Kirkenes. The trajectory of the light ball is assumed from North to West. It can be seen from the port, traveling very fast, about 5 seconds. The witness estimated its altitude to be about 400 m, and to be about 2 nautical miles from the object. It was lightly raining and beginning to get dark at this time, but the witness could still see the outlines of the surrounding mountains. The cloud cover was at 1000 m. Another witness on the d/s *Hekkingen* also saw the fire, with binoculars. This witness described the fire as being red and producing white smoke, for about 3 min (20 h) **Reference:** \[Swedish Defence Attache, Oslo: Intelligence Report, 1 October 1946\]. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1946.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_576 ### Event 4717 (6C3C18EB) **Date:** 8/24/1946 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Oslo \(Norway\), 2 independent witnesses see a bright luminous object passing over the Northeast of the city towards the South at the same speed as an airplane. Its light is bigger and brighter than a star, and it leaves a small trail of smoke, without ever deviating from its course. (20 h 55) **Reference:** \[Aftenposten, 26 August 1946, 1\] \[Liljegren: Spökraketerna 1946 - Nyhetsby Råmaterialet, 1977, 28\] \[Gross: The mystery of the ghost rockets, 1982, 45\] **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1946.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_577 ### Event 4718 (AB178623) **Date:** 8/24/1946 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Sande \(Norway\), two men see an object resembling an airplane coming from the North at high speed. It is heading South, without any sound being heard. The object is at about 200 m altitude, and is surrounded by a yellow-green light, but the light disappears when it is above Orebergvannet (9 PM) **Reference:** Buskeruds blad, 26 August 1946, 5 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1946.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_578 ### Event 4719 (7EF8996C) **Date:** 8/24/1946 **Time:** 04:30 **Location:** BOURGES, FR **Description:** Big noise. Huge 'projectiles' whistle going quickly [to] overhead. Many wakened. No further details [in]. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 151) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_606 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "BOURGES,FR:BIG NOISE:HUGE 'PROJECTILES' WHISTLE >> OVHD:MANY WAKENED:nfd", **LatLong:** "47.100002 2.366667", **LatLongDMS:** "47:06:00 N 02:22:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.100002,2.366667)", **State/Prov:** "Cher", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 4720 (4989CCF2) **Date:** 8/24/1946 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** WILMINGTON, NC **Description:** Fireball passes slowly going quickly northeast. 1940hrs same / similar going quickly southeast over Durham, NC. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 67) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_607 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "WILMINGTON,NC:FBL PASSES SLOWLY >>NE::1940hrs SAME/SIMILAR >>SE ovr DURHAM,NC", **LatLong:** "34.216668 -77.933337", **LatLongDMS:** "34:13:00 N 77:56:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.216668,-77.933337)", **State/Prov:** "North Carolina", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 4721 (EA3288F0) **Date:** 8/24/1946 **Location:** Stockholm **Description:** Stockholm Air Attaché Maj. Gen. [Alfred A. Kessler Jr.](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106572/major-general-alfred-a-kessler-jr/) informs the War Department that the Ghost Rockets are an “unintentional hoax which developed naturally but which exploited by Defense staff by implication and lack of frankness possibly interest defense budget and to alert west against east.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Joel Carpenter, “[Guided](http://www.project1947.com/gr/grchron2.htm) [Missiles and UFOs: A Tangle of Fear, 1937–53, Part Two](http://www.project1947.com/gr/grchron2.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_860 ### Event 4722 (34840589) **Date:** 8/24/1946 **Locations:** Europe; Oslo, Norway; Norway; Sweden; Lake near Oslo **Description:** Admiral [Henry Kent Hewitt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%5FKent%5FHewitt), Commander of US Naval Forces in Europe, writes a letter to the US naval attaché in Oslo, Norway, on “Rocket Bombs or Guided Missiles over Norway and Sweden.” Two “missiles” have fallen into a lake near Oslo, and the US Navy is “very interested.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** \[Adm. Henry Kent Hewitt\], Letter to US Naval Attaché, Oslo, “[Rocket Bombs or Guided Missiles over Norway and Sweden,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/46alusna.htm)” August 24, 1946 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_861 ### Event 4723 (7F2717EB) **Date:** 8/24/1946 **Locations:** Norway; Sweden **Description:** Evening. A Norwegian student and a Swedish engineer are boating on a small river “somewhere in Sweden” when a light approaches them from the southeast. It resembles a full moon and emits an intense light: “As it passed immediately overhead, it grew so bright you could see a well as on a sunny day.” The object, about 10 feet long, releases four stars that fall silently to the ground. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) [Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) The Author, 1988 ed., pp. 58–59 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_862 ### Event 4724 (ACEE13F5) **Date:** 8/24/1946 **Description:** A big noise was heard at 4:30 a.m. Huge "'projectiles" like rockets made a whistling sound as several of them flew overhead in the town of Bourges, Cher Department, France. Many people were awakened by the noise. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 151 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5282 ### Event 4725 (97516CE5) **Date:** 8/25/1946 (approximate) **Time:** 17:20 **Location:** TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, OK **Description:** Saucer / 60M altitude. 12 portholes / lower part. 1 head looks out each port. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 28) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_608 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "394", **HatchDesc:** "TINKER AFB,OK:SCR/60M alt:12 PORTHOLES/LOWER PART:1 HEAD LOOKS OUT EACH PORT", **LatLong:** "35.433335 -97.366671", **LatLongDMS:** "35:26:00 N 97:22:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.433335,-97.366671)", **State/Prov:** "Oklahoma", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 4726 (09C25CE5) **Date:** Late 8/1946 **Location:** Oklahoma City, OK **Description:** Disc-shaped craft with windows, humanoid figures visible inside, hovered at low altitude. After about 1-1/2 minutes the object rotated, then sped away disappearig in seconds. (Ref. 3; Case summary by Ted Bloecher, 14 pages. Interviews by Bloecher, Lucius Farish, and Mildred Higgins.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_311 ### Event 4727 (8E783A76) **Date:** Late 8/1946 **Location:** Tinker AFB near Oklahoma City, Oklahoma **Description:** Margaret Sprankle, a civilian employee at Tinker AFB near Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, is returning from work when she sees, about 300 feet away, a large, metallic, lens-shaped structure about 75 feet in diameter. On the lower right side are 12–14 square windows; in each, visible from the shoulders up, is a figure. Their heads are very round. The object rotates 90° on its vertical axis and silently flies northwest and disappears in seconds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Center for UFO Studies, [HUMCAT Index 1940–1949,](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1940-1949.pdf) p. 22; Clark III 266 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_852 ### Event 4728 (28096E1B) **Date:** 8/26/1946 **Location:** NORWAY, Engerdal **Description:** (Translated from French) At 21:00, 2 witnesses saw a rocket above Femundselven. It was going southeast at the speed of an airplane and left a trail of smoke. **Reference:** HAMAR ARBEIDER-BLAD, Aug 1946. ARBEIDETS RETT, 28 Aug 1946. Listing by Ole Jonny Braenne **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1120 ### Event 4729 (BA4B2705) **Date:** 8/26/1946 **Location:** NORWAY, Arsteinfjellet **Description:** (Translated from French) At 23:00, two witnesses in a boat were rowing home. They saw a bright object of an intense green color surrounded by white sparks, coming from the southeast towards the northwest. It flew at an altitude of 300-400 m, on a constant trajectory. The weather was clear, visibility was good. No sound from the object was heard. It was observed for about 3 minutes and then arrived above Arsteinfjellet, where it split into two parts, the head being the smallest. The witnesses assumed that the two parts fell, but they could not see if that was the case, because in the meantime the object was no longer illuminated and it was pitch black. **Reference:** Swedish Defence Attache, Oslo: INTELLIGENCE REPORT, 1 Oct 1946. Listing by Ole Jonny Braenne **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1121 ### Event 4730 (7466A276) **Date:** 8/26/1946 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Engerdal \(Norway\), 2 witnesses saw a rocket above Femundselven, moving towards the South-East at the speed of a jet plane. It left a smoke trail. (21 h) **Reference:** \[Hamar arbeiderblad, August 1946\] \[Arbedets rett, 28 August 1946\] **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1946.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_579 ### Event 4731 (14E4222C) **Date:** 8/26/1946 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Årsteinfjellet \(Norway\), 2 witnesses were returning home in a fishing boat when they saw an object of intense green emitting sparks, moving from South-East to North-West. At an altitude between 300 and 400 m, it did not vary in speed or direction. The weather was clear with good visibility. No sound was heard. The object was visible for 3 minutes, until it was above Årsteinfjellet, where it disintegrated into 2 parts, with the front part being the smallest. The objects must have fallen, but could not be seen, as it was too dark. (23 h) **Reference:** Swedish Defence Attache, Oslo: Intelligence Report, 1st October 1946 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1946.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_580 ### Event 4732 (CEFCDE3E) **Date:** 8/26/1946 **Locations:** US; Stockholm; Sweden; UN; British **Description:** The US military attaché in Stockholm reports that the Swedes, possibly worried about a Soviet veto of their application for UN membership, have canceled their request for British radar equipment. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 \(Winter 1998\): 13 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_863 ### Event 4733 (801C3E6A) **Date:** 8/27/1946 **Location:** NORWAY, Roras **Description:** (Translated from French) At 14:30 Rolf Wintervold saw an object that looked like a ring of gray smoke. The object could be at 20-50 m. altitude. At first, it moved slowly, then accelerated to an estimated speed of 800 km/h. First it followed the trajectory of the railway, then that of the RV30 road going full north. **Reference:** ARBEIDETS RETT, 28 Aug 1946. UFO REPORT FORM, 29 Jul 1973. UFO FORUM, 4/1973, 7. Listing of Ole Jonny Braenne **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1122 ### Event 4734 (91D3D7D1) **Date:** 8/27/1946 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Rørås \(Norway\), Rolf Wintervold sees an object resembling a gray smoke ring. The object is at a height of 20 to 50 m, and moves slowly, before accelerating to an estimated speed of 800 km/h. It follows the railway, then the RV30 road North (August 27th, 2:30 PM) **Reference:** \[Arbeidets rett, August 28th 1946\] \[UFO Report form, July 29th 1973\] \[UFO Forum, 4/1973, 7\]. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1946.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_581 ### Event 4735 (AAC0D72F) **Date:** 8/29/1946 **Location:** American embassy in Stockholm **Description:** The American embassy in Stockholm tells the State Department that the ghost rockets are probably Soviet missiles. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf), The Author, 1988 ed., p. 63A; \[[Memo on](http://www.nicap.org/docs/460904%5Ffbi.jpg) [telegram of August 27, 1946](http://www.nicap.org/docs/460904%5Ffbi.jpg)\]; Good Above, [pp. 22](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/22/mode/2up), [447](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/446/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_864 ### Event 4736 (2B5109A9) **Date:** 9/1946 **Time:** 19:10 **Location:** ST. LEGER-DE-FOUGERET, FR **Description:** 2 observer(s). Odd whistle. Red-orange lens-disk going up. Spins. Absolute(ly) silent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 338) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_609 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "St.LEGER-de-FOUGERET,FR:2 OBS:ODD WHISTLE:RED-ORG.LENS-DISK ↑:SPINS:ABS.SLNT", **LatLong:** "47.016669 3.905556", **LatLongDMS:** "47:01:00 N 03:54:20 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.016669,3.905556)", **State/Prov:** "Nièvre", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4737 (721F515F) **Date:** 9/1946 **Locations:** Munich, Germany; Moscow, Russia; Kubischew **Description:** German rocket engineer Walter Ziegler tells Army CIC that 400 men from his former rocket group at Bayerische Motoren Werke \(BMW\) in Munich, Germany, are invited by Russian military officers to a fancy dinner, wined and dined, then taken home. Several hours later, all 400 are woken up by the Russians and forced to take a trip. \(Ziegler is not among them.\) They are transported by train to a small town \(“Kubischew”\) outside Moscow, Russia, where they remain and work on secret military rocket projects under terrible conditions. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jacobsen, Area 51, [p. 42](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/42/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_865 ### Event 4738 (8BB5D8BA) **Date:** 9/1/1946 **Location:** GREECE **Description:** (Translated from French) Several military units stationed in Greece reported the observation of mysterious rockets in the sky. According to a statement given to AFP by the authorities of the British Embassy in Greece, these objects reached altitudes between 500 m and 10 km. In total, thirteen reports were recorded for that night. The objects had been observed in all parts of the country but particularly in Macedonia and Thessaloniki where the following cities were overflown: Edessa, Ptolemais, Kastora and Grevena, Katerini, Eginion, Thessaloniki, Paranestion and Drama. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 284-285 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1124 ### Event 4739 (9F1FB872) **Date:** 9/1/1946 (approximate) **Location:** DRAMA, GREECE **Description:** Military report(s). Ghost rockets here also. 15K-30K' altitude north going quickly south. / LDLN#342. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 62) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_610 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Greece and Island nations", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "232", **HatchDesc:** "DRAMA,GREECE:MIL RPTS:GHOST ROCKETS HERE ALSO:15K-30K'alt N>>S:/LDLN#342", **LatLong:** "41.150002 24.166668", **LatLongDMS:** "41:09:00 N 24:10:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.150002,24.166668)", **State/Prov:** "GRC", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4740 (B0F45963) **Date:** 9/1/1946 **Location:** SALONIKA AND MACEDONIA, GRC **Description:** Wave / ghost projectiles / Greek Prime Minister. / LDLN#342. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GOOD, Timothy: ABOVE TOP SECRET; Sidgewick & Jackson, London 1987 & Quill Books, 1988. 592pp. (Index 23) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_611 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Greece and Island nations", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "100", **HatchDesc:** "SALONIKA+MACEDONIA,GRC:WAVE/GHOST PROJECTILES/GREEK PRIME MINISTER:/LDLN#342", **LatLong:** "40.666669 22.000001", **LatLongDMS:** "40:40:00 N 22:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.666669,22.000001)", **State/Prov:** "GRC", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4741 (C331974D) **Date:** 9/1/1946 **End date:** 9/2/1946 **Location:** Northern Greece **Description:** Late night and early morning. Rocket-shaped objects are seen over northern Greece, according to Prime Minister [Konstantinos Tsaldaris](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantinos%5FTsaldaris)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantinos%5FTsaldaris) Physicist [Paul Santorinis](https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A0%CE%B1%CF%8D%CE%BB%CE%BF%CF%82%5F%CE%A3%CE%B1%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%81%CE%AF%CE%BD%CE%B7%CF%82) is placed in charge of an investigation. He rules out Russian missiles, but the Army ends the investigation in 1947. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 525; Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) [1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) The Author, 1988 ed., pp. 62–63; Good Above, [p. 23](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/22/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_866 ### Event 4742 (1956E7B6) **Date:** 9/2/1946 **Location:** GREECE, Thessaloniki **Description:** (Translated from French) A rocket-like projectile flew over the port of Thessaloniki, according to the Greek Prime Minister Tsaldaris. **Reference:** Antonio RIBERA: "Procès aux Ovni" - De Vecchi 1977 - p. 36 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1125 ### Event 4743 (64ECDDF7) **Date:** 9/2/1946 **Location:** OFF ANCONA, ITALY **Description:** Fishermen. Ghost-bomb falls / sea. Big vapor cloud. Yugo rocket? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 63) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_612 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "off ANCONA,ITALY:FISHERMEN:GHOST-BOMB FALLS/SEA:BIG VAPOR CLOUD:YUGO ROCKET?", **LatLong:** "43.666669 13.583334", **LatLongDMS:** "43:40:00 N 13:35:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.666669,13.583334)", **State/Prov:** "Ancona", **Strangeness:** "2" ### Event 4744 (A985CA24) **Date:** Early 9/1946 **Location:** Greece **Description:** In early September, the Greek government reported that flying rockets were observed over the northern part of Greece, with one seen over Salonika falling into the sea. A total of four rockets were witnessed. (Chapter 9, Ref 383) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_372 ### Event 4745 (8F133776) **Date:** 9/4/1946 **Location:** Sweden **Description:** Top Secret Memo, to Mr. Morgan, from Mr. Lyon stating: 800 UFO reports have been reported with new ones coming in daily from Sweden. Full details of these reports have been forwarded to Wash., D.C. by our Military and Naval Attaches **Type:** top secret memo **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p22,447) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_200 ### Event 4746 (C5D5EDB2) **Date:** 9/6/1946 **Location:** PHILOMATH, OR **Description:** Purple fireball cruises going quickly east over town. Also red fireball low and slow over New Orleans. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 67) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_613 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "85", **HatchDesc:** "PHILOMATH,OR:PURPLE FBL CRUISES >>E ovr TOWN::+RED FBL LO+SLO ovr NEW ORLEANS", **LatLong:** "44.538891 -123.366673", **LatLongDMS:** "44:32:20 N 123:22:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.538891,-123.366673)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 4747 (7991C95E) **Date:** 9/7/1946 **Location:** GREECE, Macedonia **Description:** (Translated from French) A "flying bomb" crossed from north to south the west of Macedonia, 110 km from Thessaloniki. **Reference:** Antonio RIBERA: "Procès aux Ovni" - De Vecchi 1977 - p. 36 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1126 ### Event 4748 (A3AE160F) **Date:** 9/7/1946 **Location:** Littlehampton, England **Description:** British pilot [Edward Mortlock Donaldson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FMortlock%5FDonaldson) attains an airspeed record of 616 mph in a Gloster Meteor F Mk 4 at Littlehampton, England. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Edward Donaldson \(RAF officer\)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FDonaldson%5F%28RAF%5Fofficer%29)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_867 ### Event 4749 (98D9AD4B) **Date:** 9/9/1946 **Location:** Scandinavia **Description:** The scientific advisor to MI6, English physicist [Reginald Victor Jones](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald%5FVictor%5FJones), considers the ghost rockets a social panic phenomenon. An RAF Intelligence report, “Investigation of Reported Missile Activity over Scandinavia,” identifies eight types of ghost rocket sightings: iron cylinder, magnesium-like light, white core surrounded by blue-green, shining ball with tail, torpedo-shape, black object with flame, small rocket, small missile. It takes the daytime reports seriously but concludes are probably only a few genuine reports of actual missiles. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Joel Carpenter, “[Guided Missiles and UFOs: A Tangle of Fear, 1937–53, Part Two](http://www.project1947.com/gr/grchron2.htm)”; Swords 26–27; Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf), The Author, 1988 ed., pp. 63–64 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_868 ### Event 4750 (D70011A0) **Date:** 9/10/1946 **Location:** NETHERLANDS, province of Twente **Description:** (Translated from French) The newspaper "Hengelosch Dagblad" reported on September 12 the events of the 10th as follows: "The rocket passing through our firmament was observed by the population of Hengelo, Almelo and Enschede, probably concerns a test of V6, improved model (by the Americans) of V2. They called it V", since the supposed rockets of Russian manufacture were already designated as V3, V4 or V5. The speed of the object would have been about 12,800 km/h. It flew silently at an altitude of 21 km. This rocket was also observed in Oldenzaal, while a Frisian witness saw it in the sky in the southeast. **Reference:** (c) 1997 Jeroen Slurf and Jeroen Kümeling.UFO nieuwsbrief jaargang 2, nummer 1 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1127 ### Event 4751 (05E9068B) **Date:** 9/10/1946 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** KOZANI AND SALONIKA, GREECE **Description:** 'Ghost rocket' north going quickly south. / L'Espoir and Journal du Centre. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 341) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_614 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Greece and Island nations", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "KOZANI+SALONIKA,GREECE:'GHOST ROCKET' N>>S:/L'Espoir+Journal du Centre", **LatLong:** "40.266669 21.850001", **LatLongDMS:** "40:16:00 N 21:51:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.266669,21.850001)", **State/Prov:** "GRC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4752 (72C26DB2) **Date:** 9/11/1946 **Time:** 14:00 **Location:** ENGLE, NM **Description:** 3' black cylinder/cigar-shape with fins moves trees. No trace found / Albuquerque Journal 29 Jun. '47. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_615 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1455", **HatchDesc:** "ENGLE,NM:3'BLACK CGR W/FINS MOVES TREES:NO TRACE FOUND/ALBQQ JRNL 29JUN47", **LatLong:** "33.061113 -107.027783", **LatLongDMS:** "33:03:40 N 107:01:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.061113,-107.027783)", **RelAlt:** "2", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4753 (9D9BC869) **Date:** 9/11/1946 **Description:** The Chief of Naval Intelligence requires naval attachés to forward information on Soviet rocket research and operations including launches from submarines. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NARA, US Naval Intelligence files; Jan Aldrich **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_869 ### Event 4754 (23CFDBE2) **Date:** 9/11/1946 **Description:** [Jack Northrop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%5FNorthrop) grounds the XB-35, which has suffered gearbox and propeller control problems, until the Army Air Force can fix its propulsion system. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Northrop YB-35](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop%5FYB-35\#XB-35)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_870 ### Event 4755 (D30B5170) **Date:** 9/11/1946 **Location:** Engle, New Mexico **Description:** 2:00 p.m. [Justin B. Rinaldi](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99039448/justin-beltran-rinaldi) is standing in a friend’s backyard in Engle, New Mexico, when he hears a loud whirring sound and sees a black object whiz by. It is pointed at one end, has a narrow body, and what appear to be fins on the tail. It is traveling fast at an altitude of 75 feet. Rinaldi sees it hit a clump of trees at a ranch house and the “branches parted like a great force had struck.” He and friends go to the site but can find nothing. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Flying Disc Tales Bring 2 Reports from Engle Area,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52143552/nm-ufojun-29-1947-p1-part-1/)” Albuquerque Journal, June 29, 1947, p. 1; Clark III 530 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_871 ### Event 4756 (B3588542) **Date:** 9/11/1946 **Description:** In Oak Lawn, Illinois a V-shaped formation of five silver disks, with one trailing behind, were seen heading northeast to Indiana, bypassing Chicago. They were the size of small peas at arms length, traveling high and fast. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 1946 archived webpage, report uploaded April 16, 2005 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5848 ### Event 4757 (D7B38F16) **Date:** 9/12/1946 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Nedrevann/Porsangerfjord \(Norway\), a witness sees a light to the North-West. The light grows as it descends and disappears. (September 12, 9 PM) **Reference:** Swedish Defence Attache, Oslo: Intelligence Report, October 1, 1946 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1946.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_582 ### Event 4758 (831C382C) **Date:** 9/12/1946 **Time:** 23:00? **Location:** LONGWY, FR **Description:** Newsman and several. 2 fireballs connected / bar north going south / plane speed. Absolute(ly) silent. 6km altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 342) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_616 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "LONGWY,FR:NEWSMAN+SVRL:2 FBLS CONNECTED/BAR N>S/PLANE SPEED:ABS.SLNT:6km alt", **LatLong:** "49.533336 5.766667", **LatLongDMS:** "49:32:00 N 05:46:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.533336,5.766667)", **State/Prov:** "Meurthe-et-Moselle", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4759 (2A7091AC) **Date:** 9/12/1946 **Locations:** Stockholm, Sweden; London **Description:** Cmdr. [Robert A. Winston](https://www.nytimes.com/1974/06/04/archives/robert-winston-navy-pilot-in-war-captain-author-of-books-in.html), acting naval attaché in Stockholm, Sweden, writes to the London naval attaché in a secret air mailgram that he suspects there is a secret British-Swedish collaboration on ghost rocket information designed to keep the US from learning the truth. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 \(Winter 1998\): 13 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_872 ### Event 4760 (500598C1) **Date:** 9/13/1946 **Location:** NORWAY, Nedrevann/Porsangerfjord **Description:** (Translated from French) At 21:10 a rocket was observed by 7 witnesses; It was going towards the northwest. The first observation was made at Kalkkavare. The object had a slightly descending trajectory, flew at high speed, and white flames with red stripes coming out of the tail were clearly seen. The night was clear, there was a beautiful moonlight, there were also northern lights, very few clouds. The rocket must have been at about 2000 m altitude. **Reference:** Swedish Defence Attache, Oslo: INTELLIGENCE REPORT, October 1 1946. Listing by Ole Jonny Braenne **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1128 ### Event 4761 (02C07376) **Date:** 9/13/1946 **Location:** FRANCE, Nancy **Description:** (Translated from French) In the "Tubantia" newspaper of Twente from September 14, a French UFO of the "dumbbell" model was reported: The inhabitants of Nancy saw strange meteors last night, on a north trajectory. It was two luminous balls, connected to each other at the front by a luminous bar and leaving a luminous trail behind, crossing the sky much faster than the fastest plane can do. **Reference:** (c) 1997 Jeroen Slurf and Jeroen Kümeling.UFO nieuwsbrief jaargang 2, nummer 1 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1129 ### Event 4762 (76CA2355) **Date:** 9/13/1946 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Nedrevann/Porsangerfjord \(Norway\), a projectile was observed by 7 witnesses in a North-West direction. It was first observed towards Kalkkavare. The object had a slightly descending trajectory. It moved very quickly, and flames at its back were clearly observed. The flames were bright white with red stripes. The weather was clear, with the Moon risen and the Northern Lights, plus some clouds. The object flew at least 2000 m in altitude. (September 13th, 9:10 PM) **Reference:** Swedish Defence Attache, Oslo: Intelligence Report, October 1st 1946 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1946.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_583 ### Event 4763 (6A17BDA3) **Date:** 9/14/1946 **Location:** PORTUGAL **Description:** (Translated from French) Mysterious rockets and unexplained aerial phenomena were observed on the 14th of September near Alemtejo, on the 16th above Porto and Douro, objects in the shape of cigars were seen heading south. On the 18th two other UFOs were spotted north of Lisbon: they were greenish globes moving silently southward. (1946, September 14th to 21st) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 285 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1130 ### Event 4764 (B496624A) **Date:** 9/14/1946 **Location:** ALENTEJO AREA, PORTUGAL **Description:** Odd bluish ball / light seen / 5 minute(s). Luminous rockets / Oporto / 16th. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 66) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_617 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Portugal", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "ALENTEJO AREA,PORTUGAL:ODD BLUISH BALL/LITE SEEN/5min::LUM ROCKETS/OPORTO/16th", **LatLong:** "38.666669 -7.750000", **LatLongDMS:** "38:40:00 N 07:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.666669,-7.750000)", **State/Prov:** "AAL", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 4765 (A5EA3C0C) **Date:** 9/15/1946 (approximate) **Location:** MOROCCO, Casablanca **Description:** (Translated from French) The "rocket" phenomenon was observed in Casablanca, leaving a huge greenish trail. (1946, around September 15) **Reference:** Antonio RIBERA: "Procès aux Ovni" - De Vecchi 1977, p. 37 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1131 ### Event 4766 (ADEC91F6) **Date:** Mid 9/1946 **Location:** Longwy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France **Description:** Two luminous globes that shine “like an electric arc” are seen flying in a straight line over Longwy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf), The Author, 1988 ed., p. 66 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_873 ### Event 4767 (5CF529E0) **Date:** Mid 9/1946 **Location:** Morocco **Description:** Ghost rockets were witnessed over Morocco on two consecutive nights in mid-September. One was observed over the town of Fez, while another was seen near Tangier. Both projectiles appeared to fly at low altitudes from east to west, moving rapidly and trailing a long tail of yellow and green light. (Chapter 9, Ref 384) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_373 ### Event 4768 (5C54C3E6) **Date:** Mid 9/1946 **Location:** Portugal **Description:** Officials at a Lisbon observatory could not explain reports from various parts of Portugal of bright, greenish balls of light moving southwards, reminiscent of the ball of light variety of the later foo fighters. (Chapter 9, Ref 387) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_375 ### Event 4769 (C1322938) **Date:** 9/16/1946 (approximate) **Location:** PIC / MIDI D'OSSAU, FR **Description:** 'Rocket' from Spain south going quickly north over mountain peak. / L'Espoir 18 Sep. '46. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 342) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_618 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "PIC/MIDI d'OSSAU,FR:'ROCKET' FROM SPAIN S>>N OVR MTN PEAK:/L'Espoir 18SEP46", **LatLong:** "42.838891 -0.422222", **LatLongDMS:** "42:50:20 N 00:25:20 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.838891,-0.422222)", **State/Prov:** "PYA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4770 (F639E02C) **Date:** 9/17/1946 **Location:** GERMANY, Herfird **Description:** (Translated from French) A rocket-like projectile flew over the British occupation zone, the news was confirmed by the British Rhine Headquarters, apparently "Top Secret" did not exist yet. **Reference:** Antonio RIBERA: "Procès aux Ovni" - De Vecchi 1977, p. 36, 37 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1132 ### Event 4771 (E8BFB184) **Date:** 9/18/1946 **Location:** Castanheira, Portugal **Description:** Two greenish globes, one following close behind the other, zoom over Castanheira, Portugal. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) The Author, 1988 ed., p. 67 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_874 ### Event 4772 (BEC5D91F) **Date:** 9/20/1946 **Location:** ALGERIA, western part of the country **Description:** (Translated from French) Balls of fire were observed there, leaving behind a long trail of flames and producing a "gray" light (sic). They passed at low altitude, heading from northeast to southwest. (1946, September 20th and 24th) **Reference:** Antonio RIBERA: "Procès aux Ovni" - De Vecchi 1977, p. 37 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1133 ### Event 4773 (6728F1D0) **Date:** 9/21/1946 **Location:** Swedish National Defense Research Institute **Description:** Chemist [Gustaf Ljunggren](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustaf%5FLjunggren%5F%28chemist%29) of the Swedish National Defense Research Institute summarizes for the Swedish Defense staff his analysis of 27 finds of mysterious substances, allegedly from ghost rockets. None are radioactive and all have mundane explanations. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 33–34 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_875 ### Event 4774 (9EC5BA8C) **Date:** 9/22/1946 **Time:** 03:20 **Location:** FIRENZE, ITALY **Description:** Cylinder/cigar-shape turns / sky going quickly [to] Rome. Also Turin and Bologna and Bari and Vercelli and Imola and Modena and more/others. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 69) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_619 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "50", **HatchDesc:** "FIRENZE,ITALY:CGR TURNS/SKY >>ROME:+TURIN+BOLOGNA+BARI+VERCELLI+IMOLA+MODENA++", **LatLong:** "43.800002 11.250001", **LatLongDMS:** "43:48:00 N 11:15:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.800002,11.250001)", **State/Prov:** "Firenze", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4775 (0D190416) **Date:** 9/22/1946 **Locations:** Florence, Italy; Rome **Description:** 3:15 a.m. A rocket-shaped object is seen for 90 seconds over Florence, Italy. It makes an abrupt turn, then speeds south toward Rome. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf), The Author, 1988 ed., p. 69 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_876 ### Event 4776 (A9886974) **Date:** Autumn 1946 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Decline of the Swedish observation wave. (Autumn) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1946.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_586 ### Event 4777 (5601BE98) **Date:** 9/23/1946 (approximate) **Location:** FES, MOROCCO **Description:** Fireball-rocket going quickly west. Turns going quickly north. Faster / plane. Low altitude. / L'Espoir 24 SEPT46. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 342) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_620 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Morocco", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "FES,MOROCCO:FBL-ROCKET >> W:TURNS >>N:FASTER/PLANE:LOW ALT:/L'Espoir 24SEPT46", **LatLong:** "34.083335 -5.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "34:05:00 N 05:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.083335,-5.000000)", **State/Prov:** "FES", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 4778 (DE3E4CA4) **Date:** Fall 1946 **Locations:** O'Neill, Nebraska; farm 8 miles north of O'Neill, Nebraska **Description:** 9:00 p.m. Gladys McCage and her 4-year-old son see a yellowish-orange light coming from the northwest at a “terrific speed” toward their farm 8 miles north of O’Neill, Nebraska. Its color changes to red as it approaches, and soon it is hovering above the witnesses. They run toward the house and the cigar-shaped object swings up to the northeast. McCage says it is as big as a football field, has windows, and is making a loud noise. A yellowish- blue-green flame is shooting out near the back, and it is traveling too fast for any plane at the time. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 530 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_878 ### Event 4779 (F11AD54D) **Date:** 9/25/1946 **Location:** JYVASKYLA, FINLAND **Description:** Several hundreds / observer(s). Slow cylinder/cigar-shape southeast going quickly northwest 'explodes'. Fragments go / all directions. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 69) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_621 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "JYVASKYLA,FINLAND:SVRL 100s/OBS:SLOW CGR SE>>NW 'EXPLODES':FRAGS GO/ALL DIRs", **LatLong:** "62.244447 25.750001", **LatLongDMS:** "62:14:40 N 25:45:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/62.244447,25.750001)", **State/Prov:** "Finland", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 4780 (198C50F0) **Date:** 9/25/1946 **Time:** 02:40 **Location:** VILLEFAUX, FR **Description:** Blinding fireball follows mail truck / 15 minute(s). 2nd east going quickly west overhead. / Dijon papers. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 342) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_622 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "VILLEFAUX,FR:BLINDING FBL FOLOS MAIL TRUCK/15min:2nd E>>W OVHD:/Dijon papers", **LatLong:** "47.550002 6.133334", **LatLongDMS:** "47:33:00 N 06:08:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.550002,6.133334)", **State/Prov:** "Doubs", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4781 (354B1965) **Date:** Late 9/1946 **Location:** Dutch-German border **Description:** British troops in Germany reported seeing "spook bombs" over the Dutch-German frontier. These missiles, resembling flying bombs, were observed moving rapidly from east to west. Similar reports were logged in Switzerland and Ireland around this time. (Chapter 9, Refs 385, 386) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_374 ### Event 4782 (72FCF3E7) **Date:** Late 9/1946 **Location:** Belgium **Description:** In Belgium, police examined remnants of a projectile, described as a "ball of light," that fell outside a residence. The homeowner reported seeing the object approach at "terrific speed" around midnight, and upon landing, it emitted a cloud of smoke. (Chapter 9, Ref 389) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_377 ### Event 4783 (E9D0C3E1) **Date:** 9/26/1946 **Location:** LINGEN AND MEPPEN, GERMANY **Description:** British Army observer(s). 'Missiles' pass overhead going quickly west. / London papers. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 70) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_623 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "LINGEN+MEPPEN,GERMANY:BRIT.ARMY OBS:'MISSILES' PASS OVHD >>W:/LONDON PAPERS", **LatLong:** "52.583336 7.316667", **LatLongDMS:** "52:35:00 N 07:19:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.583336,7.316667)", **State/Prov:** "LSX", **Strangeness:** "2" ### Event 4784 (CBEC0E56) **Date:** 9/30/1946 **Location:** Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City **Description:** [David Sarnoff,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FSarnoff) in a speech at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City, says that the “ghost bombs are no myth but real missiles.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Joel Carpenter, “[Guided Missiles and UFOs: A Tangle of Fear, 1937–53, Part](http://www.project1947.com/gr/grchron2.htm) [Two](http://www.project1947.com/gr/grchron2.htm)”; “[Sarnoff Predicts Weather Control and Delivery of the Mail by Radio,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1946/10/01/88376074.pdf)” New York Times, October 1, 1946, p. 1, 48 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_877 ### Event 4785 (228688E5) **Date:** 10/1946 **Location:** USA, Preakness (New Jersey) **Description:** (Translated from French) Dolores Benante, while out riding her horse in a beautiful moonlight, suddenly saw a white-bluish circular UFO appear and hover above her, causing great excitement in her horse. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 285 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1139 ### Event 4786 (6EC7DB10) **Date:** 10/1946 **Location:** Paterson, NJ **Description:** Horse reacts to circular light (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) **Reference:** NICAP: [461000](http://www.nicap.org/ar-4610xxdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_315 ### Event 4787 (C0FD5FB1) **Date:** 10/1946 **Locations:** Denver, Colorado; Mount Shasta, California **Description:** [Ray Palmer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%5FA.%5FPalmer) publishes a letter from [Maurice Doreal](https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/claude-d-dodgin-aka-maurice-doreal-as-a-fortean) \(pseudonym of Claude D. Dodgin\) of the Brotherhood of the White Temple in Denver, Colorado, regarding the “Shaver mystery.” Doreal claims intimate knowledge of the subterranean realms, which he claims are inhabited by the Black Brotherhood and protected by “space-warps.” In 1949 Doreal claims to have visited caves inside Mount Shasta, California, inhabited by Atlantean masters. He equates Shaver’s Dero with an evil group of Lemurians. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Walter Kafton-Minkel, Subterranean Worlds, Loompanics, 1989, [pp. 154–160](https://archive.org/details/subterraneanworldswalterkaftonminkel100000yearsofdragonsdwarfsthedeadlostracesufosfrominsidetheearth/page/n157/mode/2up); Charmaine Ortega Getz, “The \(Sort of\) Amazing Story of Maurice Doreal and the Brotherhood of the White Temple Revealed at Last,” Weird Colorado, September 6, 2015 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_879 ### Event 4788 (7AAD26F5) **Date:** 10/1946 **Location:** Arkansas and Wright Field, Dayton OH **Description:** Or Nov. A classic saucer-shaped UFO, resembling two soup bowls joined at the rim, was allegedly found in Arkansas and moved to Wright Field. An ex-airman at the base described the craft as being 15 feet in diameter and 7 feet thick with a series of rectangular windows. It had a brushed aluminum appearance and seemed to be made from a single material. The interior was mostly empty, but featured a central cylinder about three feet in diameter. (Chapter 8, Ref 350) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_343 ### Event 4789 (4E37CF86) **Date:** 10/1/1946 **Location:** FROM AUSTRALIA TO USA **Description:** (Translated from French) THE THIRD LOCKHEED MODEL 26 NEPTUNE, OF THE P2V1 SERIES WITH PISTONS, TOOK OFF THREE DAYS BEFORE FROM PERTH IN AUSTRALIA AND FLEW WITHOUT STOPPING THE 18080 KM TO COLUMBUS (OHIO). IT SET A WORLD RECORD FOR DISTANCE FOR PISTON AIRCRAFT, A PERFORMANCE THAT HAS NEVER BEEN BEATEN. **Reference:** "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft" - Bill Gunston - Elsevier Sequoia 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1134 ### Event 4790 (29E4C62F) **Date:** 10/1/1946 **Locations:** London, England; Scandinavia **Description:** The US Military Attaché in London, England, writes a top-secret memo to the War Department complaining that the British “may not have given us all information on reported rockets over Scandinavia.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jan L. Aldrich, comp., [The Ghost Rocket File](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Digitized%5Fby%5FAFU/Aldrich%2C%20Jan%20-%20The%20Ghost%20Rockets%20File.pdf), Fund for UFO Research, 2000, p. 73 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_880 ### Event 4791 (D20B6B0F) **Date:** 10/7/1946 **Location:** NORWAY, As **Description:** (Translated from French) The night watchman of Bjornebekk Kursted, saw a luminous object coming from the northwest at 00:10 hours. It had the shape of a cylinder, was going a bit faster than an airplane, at an altitude of about 1000 m. At the back, he observed flames. The conical nose of the object was slightly luminous. He observed the phenomenon for a minute, then suddenly the object fell towards the ground and disappeared from his view. No sound of explosion was heard. **Reference:** VÅRT LAND, October 8, 1946, 1. Listing by Ole Jonny Braenne **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1135 ### Event 4792 (E3DC99FA) **Date:** 10/7/1946 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Ås \(Norway\), the night guard of Bjørnebekk Kursted sees a bright object coming from the Northwest. It has the shape of a cylinder, moving a bit faster than an airplane, at an altitude of about 1000 m. Flames are visible at the back. Its nose is conical and slightly luminous. It is visible for 1 minute, then suddenly falls and disappears. No explosion is heard. (October 7th, 0:10) **Reference:** Vårt land, October 8th, 1946, 1 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1946.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_584 ### Event 4793 (7BD34DC6) **Date:** 10/9/1946 **Location:** San Diego, CA **Description:** Newspaper/radio UFO reports after meteor shower over southern CA. BSRA received many phone calls. BSRA mediums established contact and reported it would return **Type:** ufo sightings **Reference:** rg **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_201 ### Event 4794 (EFB49552) **Date:** 10/9/1946 **Location:** USA, California **Description:** (Translated from French) George Adamski observed a cigar-shaped object hovering motionless in the sky, and then heading south towards San Diego, where thousands of people (note from vog: see San Diego, same day, where Bougard mentions a dozen witnesses...) saw it. It was then that Adamski decided to build a telescope with the intention of photographing the objects. From 1946 to 1952 he took 500 shots of aerial phenomena of which only about twenty were clear enough to be identified as flying saucers. **Reference:** Mitarbeiter, "Ufo Geheimnisse", Berlin, January 1998 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1136 ### Event 4795 (B37A25DC) **Date:** 10/9/1946 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In San Diego \(California\), 16 people are gathered on a roof to observe a meteor shower when a winged object of white-blue color appears in the sky. It looks like an extremely long plane, with 2 red lights, leaving a luminous trail. One of the witnesses, Harold T. Wilkins, recounts: This strange object was certainly not an airplane. But the wings, which moved, were much too large to belong to a bird. In fact, it looked more like butterfly wings. The object emitted a red glow. The object becomes clearly visible when it passes in front of the [Moon](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Moon.html). Some of the witnesses will say that it looked like a giant bat. (October 9th, the Night) **Reference:** Harold T. Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, New York, Citadel Press 1954, chapter 3, p. 44-45 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1946.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_585 ### Event 4796 (5452CF9E) **Date:** 10/9/1946 **Time:** 19:20 **Location:** SAN DIEGO, CA **Description:** Several observer(s). Large batlike object hovers and maneuvers during meteor shower. Unidentified. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 39) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_624 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "95", **Elev:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "SAN DIEGO,CA:SVRL OBS:LRG BATLIKE OBJ HVRS+MNVRS DURING METEOR SHOWER:UID", **LatLong:** "32.716668 -117.150006", **LatLongDMS:** "32:43:00 N 117:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.716668,-117.150006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4797 (7ADA4CA4) **Date:** 10/9/1946 **Locations:** Mount Palomar, California; San Diego **Description:** Evening. [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) and some associates are watching a meteor shower associated with Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner when they see a “gigantic spacecraft” hovering above the mountain ridge south of Mount Palomar, California. He claims to meet a military officer a few weeks later who assures him that the object was indeed from another world. Others in San Diego see an object with a long, tube-shaped fuselage, giant wings, and two red lights. The medium [Mark Probert](https://hatch.kookscience.com/wiki/Mark%5FProbert) later tells the press that he has established psychic communication with the occupants and the object is called the Kareeta. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Sparks Fly As Comet Passes Earth,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90991422/daily-news/)” Los Angeles Daily News, October 10, 1946, p. 3; Colin Bennett, Looking for Orthon, Paraview, 2001, pp. 28–29; Harold T. Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, Citadel, 1954, [pp. 41–48](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersona00wilk/page/41/mode/2up); Curt Collins, “[1946, Before Saucers, Kareeta: UFO Contact in](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2017/08/1946-before-saucers-kareeta-ufo-contact.html) [California,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2017/08/1946-before-saucers-kareeta-ufo-contact.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, August 8, 2017 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_881 ### Event 4798 (DF1619F3) **Date:** 10/10/1946 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 173.8km altitude **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_202 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 173.8km ### Event 4799 (60CE9639) **Date:** 10/10/1946 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** First picture of Earth from space. V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 104.6km altitude (subnormal propulsion performance) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_203 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 104.6km ### Event 4800 (B7BCA813) **Date:** 10/10/1946 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) At 11:02 AM TEST LAUNCH OF V2 #12, REACHED ALTITUDE 164 KM. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1137 ### Event 4801 (4F4B3719) **Date:** 10/10/1946 **Location:** Friedland Refugee Camp, Lower Saxony, Germany **Description:** 4:00 a.m. Waltraut Anlauf, a telephone operator in Friedland Refugee Camp, Lower Saxony, Germany, sees small, elongated flashes at a great height in the sky. They look like cigars and are luminescent white in front and bluish-white in back. She sees about 10 objects pass per minute. Sometimes there is an interruption of about 10 minutes, and then new groups appear. The sighting lasts one hour. Possibly these are part of the Taurid meteor shower. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 529 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_882 ### Event 4802 (EAB8E055) **Date:** 10/10/1946 **Description:** The defense staff in Sweden admits it cannot explain the ghost rockets because reports are too vague. About 80% appear to be meteors \(“celestial phenomena”\), although radar has tracked a few unusual targets. The report concludes that they are not V-type bombs. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Swedish Inquiry Fails to Solve Rocket Case,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1946/10/11/94061697.pdf)” New York Times, October 11, 1946, p. 3; Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) The Author, 1988 ed., pp. 71–72; Good Above, [p. 23](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/22/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_883 ### Event 4803 (B2D5B5A0) **Date:** 10/21/1946 **Location:** shore of a lake in southern Sweden **Description:** Two persons on the shore of a lake in southern Sweden hear a whistling sound in the air, like a “flock of birds.” They see an object moving over the trees at a low altitude. It is dart-shaped and has short wings and a “ball-shaped tip.” It falls into the lake and possibly explodes on impact. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) [the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) The Author, 1988 ed., p. p. 74 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_884 ### Event 4804 (81D1F0EF) **Date:** 10/24/1946 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) At 12:15 PM, TEST LAUNCH OF V2 #13. ALTITUDE REACHED 104 KM. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1138 ### Event 4805 (BA760FA6) **Date:** 11/1946 **Location:** Wright Field, Ohio **Description:** The War Department issues a press release on how German scientists are helping out at Wright Field, Ohio. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Dolan, [p. 12](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/page/11/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_885 ### Event 4806 (3D549FA4) **Date:** 11/7/1946 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, .32km altitude (Guidance failure preceded emergency cut-off at 31s) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_204 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** .32km ### Event 4807 (7BB099C4) **Date:** 11/7/1946 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) At 13:31 TEST LAUNCH OF V2 #14. RADIO SHUTDOWN (EMERGENCY) CRASH BEYOND THE RIO GRANDE IN MEXICAN TERRITORY. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958 p. 258, General Electric 09/1952 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1140 ### Event 4808 (EF2607D0) **Date:** 11/21/1946 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 101.4km altitude (Sub-normal propulsion performance, beyond Kármán line) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_205 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 102.4km ### Event 4809 (589A7096) **Date:** 11/21/1946 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) 9:55 AM - Test launch of V2 #15, altitude reached 100 km. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1141 ### Event 4810 (14861052) **Date:** 11/27/1946 **Location:** USA **Description:** (Translated from French) FIRST FLIGHT OF THE SINGLE-SEAT REACTION FIGHTER NORTH AMERICAN "SABRE" THE FIRST DELIVERY TO THE SQUADRON WILL TAKE PLACE IN DECEMBER 1948 UNDER THE NAME F-86A IT IS THE MOST FAMOUS COMBAT AIRCRAFT OF ITS TIME. IN 1945 ALREADY THERE WERE THREE PROTOTYPES ORDERED BY THE NAVY.... (November 27, 1946) **Reference:** "Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft" - Bill Gunston - Elsevier-Sequoia 1979 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1142 ### Event 4811 (85DC3868) **Date:** 11/29/1946 **Locations:** Russia; Halle, Germany **Description:** A top secret Air Intelligence report, “Significant Developments of Scientific Warfare in Russia,” designates the ghost rockets as “V-5” weapons produced by the Siebel Works in Halle, Germany. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 \(Winter 1998\): 13 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_886 ### Event 4812 (9ECBD942) **Date:** 12/1/1946 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The Swedish committee formed in July reaches the following conclusions: Even though the main body of testimonies can be attributed to the observation of celestial phenomena, the committee cannot consider that some of the facts presented are only due to popular imagination. (December 1st) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1946.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_587 ### Event 4813 (25ABA86C) **Date:** 12/1/1946 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) [A. Kazantsev](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/KazantsevAlexandre.html) describes in a [science-fiction](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/ScienceFiction.html) novel that the [Tunguska event](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/1908-06-30\_Tunguska.html) in 1908 was due to the explosion of a "Martian" vessel powered by nuclear energy. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1946.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_588 ### Event 4814 (607D793E) **Date:** 12/1/1946 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The United States has a majority in the [UN](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/UN.html) and controls 25% of the [IMF](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/IMF.html). **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1946.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_589 ### Event 4815 (33ED4844) **Date:** 12/1/1946 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Brazil, Joao Prestes Filho, 39 years old, was suddenly illuminated by a strong beam of light while returning from fishing. Quickly the scene turned to horror: Prestes' flesh began to become visible, taking on the same appearance as if it had been cooked for long hours \(...\). It started to detach from the bones. \(...\). The unfortunate man died in atrocious conditions, without any cause ever being identified. **Reference:** Bertrand Meheust, Science-Fiction and Flying Saucers, Mercure de France, 1978 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1946.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_590 ### Event 4816 (DE75A5E9) **Date:** 12/1/1946 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Launch of the project [RAND](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/projets.html\#RAND). **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1946.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_591 ### Event 4817 (2D7D25AC) **Date:** 12/3/1946 **Description:** The Swedish military reports that about 100 impacts were investigated by the Defense Research Institution and not found to be rockets. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Joel Carpenter, “[Guided Missiles and UFOs: A Tangle of Fear, 1937–53,](http://www.project1947.com/gr/grchron3.htm) [Part Three](http://www.project1947.com/gr/grchron3.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_887 ### Event 4818 (129E24D4) **Date:** 12/5/1946 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 152.9km altitude (Control system failed at altitude) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_206 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 152.9km ### Event 4819 (DD14627D) **Date:** 12/5/1946 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) At 13:08 TEST LAUNCH OF V2 #16, ALTITUDE 167 KM. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1143 ### Event 4820 (20BB0755) **Date:** 12/10/1946 **Description:** Gen. [Curtis LeMay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis%5FLeMay) answers an inquiry from Assistant Secretary of War for Air [Stuart Symington](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%5FSymington) about establishing interim projects at the Air Materiel Center \(AMC\). LeMay’s answer: The Commander of AMC on his own volition may establish an interim project; however, to continue the project it must be approved for the next budget cycle. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Air Force Historical Research Agency, Maxwell AFB; Jan Aldrich, “[Secret Twining Letter:](http://www.nicap.org/twining%5Fletter.htm) [‘The Reported Phenomena Are Real,’](http://www.nicap.org/twining%5Fletter.htm)” October 11, 2008 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_888 ### Event 4821 (9030A1C9) **Date:** 12/17/1946 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 184.4km altitude (Rocket exploded at 440s) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_207 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 184.4km ### Event 4822 (96332874) **Date:** 12/17/1946 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) At 10 PM, test launch of V2 #17 which reached 186 km in altitude. (1946, 17 DECEMBER) **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1144 ### Event 4823 (94C871D2) **Date:** 12/23/1946 **Description:** [Jacobsson](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengt%5FJacobsson%5F%28milit%C3%A4r%29)’s ghost rocket committee issues its final report on 987 ghost rocket cases, stating that 225 reports had been made in full daylight. More than 100 reports describe spool-shaped objects with or without wings. It concludes: “Despite the extensive effort, which has been carried out with the means available, and seven months after the first observations, no actual proof that a test of rocket projectiles has taken place over Sweden has been found.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 26; Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf), The Author, 1988 ed., pp. 75–76; Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 36 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_889 ### Event 4824 (A03AB374) **Date:** 12/30/1946 **Location:** USA, Morrow Bay (California) **Description:** (Translated from French) Ella Young was with a friend: "The sun had just set, it must have been 5:35 pm. Suddenly a dark object appeared in the sky and as it approached us, its shape became more distinct. It looked like a black stick with wings. It remained motionless for a few moments. It then flew off towards the horizon and disappeared behind a cloud. Right after, a bright flash of light illuminated the sky above the ocean." **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 285-286 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1145 ### Event 4825 (AC475BA8) **Date:** 12/30/1946 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Near Morrow Bay \(California\), the American writer Ella Young describes her observation: Cut out on the golden sky, it was very black. It came straight towards us and, given the curvature of its wings, it looked like a bat. I'm not quite sure if there was any movement at the ends of the wings; but this strange machine seemed to remain motionless for several minutes and its shape was very precise. Suddenly, either it descended or the banks of fog rose - perhaps both at the same time - but the machine passed behind the clouds never to reappear. Immediately after, a flood of color ran across the surface of the sea. (December 30th, at dawn) **Reference:** Keel 1975 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1946.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_592 ### Event 4826 (37F3D5AF) **Date:** 12/30/1946 **Time:** 17:40 **Location:** MORRO BAY, CA **Description:** Bat-saucer hovers / minutes. Drops behind cloud. Sea lit up in great color. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 41) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_625 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "6", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "MORRO BAY,CA:BAT-SCR HOVRS/MINUTES:DROPS BHND CLOUD:SEA LIT UP IN GREAT COLOR", **LatLong:** "35.400002 -120.966672", **LatLongDMS:** "35:24:00 N 120:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.400002,-120.966672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" --- ## Year: 1947, 1658 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 4827 (0C97700F) **Date:** 1947 **Location:** Roswell, NM **Description:** Einstein sees "Greys" for the first time **Type:** rumor **Reference:** anonymous information (R.G.) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_208 **Attributes:** Einstein, gallant ### Event 4828 (6D735D78) **Date:** 1947 **Location:** Ozyorsk, Russia **Description:** Soviet “Chelyabinsk-40 and later 65” atomic bomb project plant opened (Plutonium production, component manufacturing). Now one of the most contaminated places on Earth. **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project) **Reference:** [link](https://sometimes-interesting.com/the-most-contaminated-place-on-earth-chelyabinsk-40/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_210 ### Event 4829 (5CF173F9) **Date:** 1947 **Location:** N 58 39 E 59 47 **Description:** Soviet “Sverdlovsk-45” (Plant 418) atomic bomb project plant opened (Uranium enrichment, warhead assembly) **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project) **Reference:** [link](https://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/russia/sverdlovsk-45_nuc.htm) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_213 ### Event 4830 (A2D1123C) **Date:** 1947 **End date:** 1949 **Location:** US **Description:** USAF Investigation Summary: Serious investigation, conclusions UFOs real and interplanetary. **Type:** investigation **Reference:** ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) **Reference:** ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_896 ### Event 4831 (DD5B1A4C) **Date:** 1947 **Location:** USA **Description:** (Translated from French) The rockets were applied to essentially (note from vog: but not 100%...) peaceful purposes: for sounding the upper atmosphere. The explosive charge was replaced by special devices, photographic chambers, spectrographs, etc. destined to descend by parachute, and knowledge of our aerial envelope could thus be extended up to 135 km, and even 183 kilometers of altitude in 1947. **Reference:** "L'Astronautique" Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 12 **Reference:** see 1949 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1147 ### Event 4832 (19D5BE32) **Date:** 1947 **Location:** USA, between Flagstaff and Phoenix **Description:** (Translated from French) Clarence Hale and his wife Ruth said they saw hundreds of UFOs in the area. The first one in 1947. They got so used to it that they no longer pay attention. "We have a kind of intuition," said Ruth. "We feel that there is one outside, and when we go out, of course, there is one. They give us the impression of a kind of warm friendship. They are trying to make the earth and the universe better, filled with friendship and love. Most of the people in the area think the same thing. In addition, they claim to have provided the US authorities with a lot of evidence and evidence, such as this powder that is often spread in circles. Cliff Johnson found 5 each 4 meters in diameter, in his lawn one beautiful morning. Clarence Hale adds that he also found circles of powder after observing a UFO at 8 o'clock in the morning, flying at 30 mph, measuring nearly 300 meters long, with lit portholes and doors " [note from vog: should we not be wary of this kind of testimony? ... they have, they say, some kind of intuitions ... hm! not very objective that.] (1947,) **Reference:** Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDELL: "The World's Greatest Ufo Mysteries" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p.138, 139 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1218 ### Event 4833 (59E583DF) **Date:** 1947 **Location:** USA, Acres Home - Houston (Texas) **Description:** (Translated from French) A witness saw a silver saucer land. Out of it came a small pilot who was no more than 60 cm tall, with a round head the size of a basketball. This dwarf saluted the witness, went back into his craft and took off. **Reference:** Inforespace n° 48 of 1979, p. 29 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1263 ### Event 4834 (1ECB61E5) **Date:** 1947 **Location:** COTE D'IVOIRE, Adiopodoumé **Description:** (Translated from French) A young African saw near the Institute of Education and Research, located near the forest, a small man with red fur on his body and long hair on his head. This creature emerged from the trees, but upon realizing that she was not alone, she retreated back into the forest. **Reference:** Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 198 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1327 ### Event 4835 (853A0857) **Date:** 1947 **Location:** USA, Stratford, Connecticut **Description:** (Translated from French) Thomas C. Smith, recently graduated from Penn State University with a degree in mechanical engineering, was working for the Chance-Vought Aircraft Company in Stratford, which was manufacturing airplanes for the US Navy. He had the opportunity to see on the ground and then in flight, a perfectly terrestrial flying saucer. The disc was in a hangar, was elliptical in shape, measured about 12 meters in diameter and was powered by propeller engines. Its takeoff was vertical for the first three meters (like a helicopter) and then it took an ascending trajectory. The bubble-shaped cockpit allowed the pilot to see in front of him and below him. The edges of the craft were thick, about ten centimeters, and the bubble was only 60 centimeters high. Smith saw the pilot enter and lie down on his stomach on the provided bunk. At the back there were two propellers. The metal parts were painted khaki. Smith claims that many such devices were being developed and tested by test pilots and that there were obviously from time to time, accidents. **Reference:** Source: Lancaster New Era, Pennsylvania, 12.7.1997 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1328 ### Event 4836 (AFD27DF5) **Date:** 1947 **Location:** Buffalo, New York **Description:** **BUFFALO MAN REPORTS ONE FOUR YEARS LATER.** Jolin S. Sarick of Buffalo, on July 22, 1951, describes a sighting of his in 1947: "I saw twin lights coming down and when I saw them they were already quite close to the ground. They were steady and the color was blue or green. The lights seemed about a mile away and in the direction of our airport which is 7 miles away. We have never before or since seen any lights from airplanes coming down or going up from the airport." **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256) **Source:** Scully, **ID:** Scully_125 ### Event 4837 (A3F58EEC) **Date:** 1947 **Location:** Washington, D.C. **Description:** Cmdr. Bernard Baruch Jr. makes 44 trips at his own expense to lobby for the implementation of the peacetime Communication Instruction for Reporting Enemy Sightings \(CIRES\) message system. He meets with DCI Gen. [Hoyt Vandenberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg) Rear Adm. [Roscoe Hillenkoetter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe%5FH.%5FHillenkoetter), Secretary of the Air Force [Stuart Symington](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%5FSymington)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%5FSymington) Rear Adm. [Earl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl%5FE.%5FStone) [E. Stone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl%5FE.%5FStone), Vice Adm. [Arthur W. Radford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%5FW.%5FRadford), Rear Adm. [John E. Gingrich](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FE.%5FGingrich), Adm. [DeWitt Clinton Ramsey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeWitt%5FClinton%5FRamsey), Maj. Gen. [Robert W. Harper](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106862/lieutenant-general-robert-wells-harper/)[,](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106862/lieutenant-general-robert-wells-harper/) Lieut. Gen [Idwal H. Edwards](http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/ihedwards.htm), Vice Adm. [Ralph Riggs](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1981/05/01/vice-adm-ralph-riggs-wwii-hero-dies/da207236-8814-4736-92ac-e447259bfc7f/), Capt. Richard Burke \(USCG\), and about 20 other officials. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Capt. Bernard Baruch, Jr.](http://www.nicap.org/bios/NICAP-Bios/Baruch.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_890 ### Event 4838 (2E2C75A6) **Date:** 1947 **Locations:** Sacramento, California; Roseville **Description:** 11:00 p.m. Air Force pilot [Edwin T. Yeoman](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51424479/edwin-t.-yeoman) is returning home with his wife [Eva](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/82894277/eva-etheleen-yeoman) after going to a movie in Sacramento, California. As they drive northeast, they see a stationary light hovering at an altitude of 3,000–4,000 feet above Roseville. After watching it for 5 minutes, the light gets brighter, rises vertically for several thousand feet, makes an abrupt 90° turn, and shoots across the horizon from east to west. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** CUFOS case file **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_891 ### Event 4839 (E19B5953) **Date:** 1947 **Location:** Germany and US **Description:** The Germans during WWII developed advanced weapons and technologies that surpassed those of the Allies, including stealth technology, ballistic missiles, jet and rocket-powered aircraft, remote-controlled bombs, various types of missiles, helicopters, innovative aircraft designs, radioactive artillery, and night vision devices. It is suggested that the reverse engineering of alien technology could have influenced these advancements. Similarly, there are claims that the U.S. benefited from reverse engineering technology obtained from the 1947 Roswell crash, leading to developments such as transistors, lasers, integrated circuits, fiber optics, bulletproof fabric, and particle beam weapons. (Chapter 7, Refs 297, 298) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_289 ### Event 4840 (A6D5394C) **Date:** 1947 **Location:** US **Description:** A U.S. Air Force intelligence report suggested that the observed "flying saucers" could be long-range aircraft with high maneuverability and speed. These unidentified objects were thought to possibly be of Russian manufacture, influenced by German technology. However, there was also speculation that they might represent interplanetary craft. (Chapter 8, Ref 310) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_301 ### Event 4841 (F66F14BD) **Date:** 1947 **Location:** Washington DC **Description:** When he returned to Washington from Antarctica expedition (Operation High Jump), Admiral Richard Byrd reportedly urged the U.S. to use Antarctica as an atomic test site. (As far as we know, his recommendation was not acted upon.) (Chapter 8, Ref 318) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_309 ### Event 4842 (3AE4769F) **Date:** Early 1947 **Location:** Australia **Description:** Two schoolmates in a small town in Australia witnessed a significant UFO event on a cold night. The surroundings suddenly illuminated brightly, prompting the boys to dismount their bicycles. They observed a large UFO hovering just above them, seemingly resting on power lines. The object seemed to struggle with descending further due to its position between shops. The boys had a clear view of it for about three minutes. Subsequent to this event, Australian newspapers reported multiple UFO sightings in nearby areas. (Chapter 8, Ref 341) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_334 ### Event 4843 (D8A7D736) **Date:** 1/1947 **Location:** Papago Indian Reservation **Description:** W.H. (initials) of Yucca Valley, Calif., while still serving in the U.S. Navy, was on leave with C.C. (initials) who was just out of the U.S. army. While they were looking for desert property to buy they came upon the Papagos Indian Reservation, north of the rugged Superstition Mtns. west of Globe, Arizona. While traveling on a dirt trail, they came upon a group of military personnel guarding a crashed saucer half buried in the sand. Description: Disc shaped with a domed top; about 30 ft. diam.; two rings on its outer edge which seemed to have windows between them. There was no evidence of an encampment or heavy equipment. **Type:** crash retrieval **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (A5, B3-C, RECOVERY) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_214 ### Event 4844 (0EEA1356) **Date:** 1/1947 **Location:** USA, West of Globe (Arizona) **Description:** (Translated from French) W.H. still in service with the US Navy, out with C.C. who was discharged, looking for a property to acquire in a remote location. They arrive near the Papagos Indian Reservation, on the north side of the Superstition Mountains west of Globe. Driving on a bad road, they come across a group of soldiers on guard around a crashed and partially burned saucer in the sand. Object topped with a dome, about 30 feet in diameter, two outer rings seeming to frame portholes. [note from vog: probably debris from one of the V2s launched in January...? ] **Reference:** UFO Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1149 ### Event 4845 (86446785) **Date:** 1/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The [Highjump](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Highjump.html) operation is organized in Antarctica \(South Pole\) by the [US Navy](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/USNavy.html). In total 4700 men, 13 ships and 23 planes are involved. A base is set up at *Little America*. An exhaustive mapping of the coast and inland areas is developed. Over 70000 aerial photographs are taken. Perhaps the goal is also to ferret out Nazi bases, and Nazi resistance is suspected to have been encountered. (January) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_593 ### Event 4846 (AC952025) **Date:** 1/1947 **Location:** Arizona **Description:** Two men, one a U.S. Navy enlisted individual on leave and the other recently discharged from the Army, encountered a disc-shaped object, half-buried in the sand with a diameter of 30 feet, a thickness of 18 feet, a dome on top, and windows or portholes around its rim. They were quickly ordered to leave the scene by military personnel. (Chapter 8, Ref 352) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_345 ### Event 4847 (D3F66589) **Date:** 1/1/1947 **Description:** The civilian US Atomic Energy Commission assumes responsibility for nuclear energy from the wartime Manhattan Project. The Armed Forces Special Weapons Project assumes responsibility for all aspects of nuclear weapons remaining under military control. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[United States Atomic Energy Commission](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%5FStates%5FAtomic%5FEnergy%5FCommission)”; Wikipedia, “[Armed Forces Special Weapons Project](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed%5FForces%5FSpecial%5FWeapons%5FProject)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_892 ### Event 4848 (66A94DEC) **Date:** 1/7/1947 **Location:** Portland, OR **Description:** _Los Angeles Examiner_. **SKY OBJECT A MYSTERY ROCKET?** A laboratory analysis of the cylindrical object which fell in Portland yesterday from a clear sky established the presence of aluminum, titanium, magnesium, calcium, chrome, and zircon. Dr. John E. Allen, chief geologist of the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries, said it gives a reasonable basis for the hypothesis that it could have been used in rocket construction. The largest portion of the object has been taken over by an Army investigator for examination. The object was found when a mysterious ice shower occurred Saturday, confined to a fifteen-foot square area of Hill Military Academy. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256) **Source:** Scully, **ID:** Scully_1 ### Event 4849 (17843C4E) **Date:** 1/9/1947 **Location:** US **Description:** The US Defense Department’s Intelligence Review, no. 49, contains a four-page summary of ghost rocket sightings and suggests some may have been Soviet test missiles or jet airplanes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Ghost Rockets over Scandinavia,” Intelligence Review, no. 49, January 9, 1947, US Department of Defense; Don Berliner, Marie Galbraith, and Antonio Huneeus, Unidentified Flying Objects Briefing Document, UFO Research Coalition, December 1995, [pp. 33–35](https://archive.org/details/rockefeller/Rockefeller-Briefing-Document/page/n25/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_893 ### Event 4850 (39ABB183) **Date:** 1/10/1947 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 116.2km altitude (Degraded performance led to roll rate of 60 rpm) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_215 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 116.2km ### Event 4851 (9150BB69) **Date:** 1/10/1947 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) (Or January 23?) 14:13 test launch of V-2 #18, altitude 115 km. Launch on January 23 of V-2 #19, which only reached 50 km altitude. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1148 ### Event 4852 (67444409) **Date:** 1/16/1947 **Location:** North Sea **Description:** Long chase of UFO with evasive maneuvers. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973_, by Richard Dolan](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/mode/2up) **Source:** Dolan, **ID:** Dolan_13 ### Event 4853 (14999E28) **Date:** 1/16/1947 **Time:** 20:10 **Location:** 50 MI WITH DUTCH COAST **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #54. RAF Mosquito chases RADAR blip 22K' altitude going quickly west to Norfolk. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 121) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_626 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "108", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "50mi W/DUTCH COAST:BBK#54:RAF MOSQUITO CHASES RDR BLIP 22K'alt >>W to NORFOLK", **LatLong:** "52.866669 2.616667", **LatLongDMS:** "52:52:00 N 02:37:00 E", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.866669,2.616667)", **State/Prov:** "NSE", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 4854 (AB6C60F9) **Date:** 1/16/1947 **Location:** North Sea, 50 miles from Holland, At Sea **Description:** 10:30 p.m. (GMT). RAF pilot of Mosquito pursued unidentified radar target (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [470116](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/470116northseadir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_316 ### Event 4855 (B8EACC83) **Date:** 1/16/1947 **Locations:** RAF Trimley Heath Radar Station; Felixstowe, Suffolk, England; North Sea; Netherlands coast; Norfolk coast **Description:** 11:30 p.m. An RAF Mosquito plane chases an unidentified target detected on radar at RAF Trimley Heath Radar Station \[now closed\] near Felixstowe, Suffolk, England, moving at a speed calculated to be faster than sound at an altitude of 38,000 feet over the North Sea, 50 miles north of the Netherlands acoast. It descends to 17,000 feet and takes controlled, evasive action. The plane pursues it for 40 minutes, even though the pilot cannot see it visually, until he loses it over the Norfolk coast. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOFiles2, [p. 29](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n51/mode/2up); ClearIntent, [p. 151](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/150/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 16; David Clarke, “[Operation Charlie,](http://project1947.com/1947/opcharlie.html)” 2002; Martin L. Shough, “[A New Study of the British ‘Ghost Airplanes’ of](http://www.martinshough.com/aerialphenomena/opcharlie.pdf) [1947,](http://www.martinshough.com/aerialphenomena/opcharlie.pdf)” April 2009 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_894 ### Event 4856 (D7774464) **Date:** 1/16/1947 **Description:** At 11:30 at night in the North Sea an RAF Mosquito pilot picked up a strange object on radar 50 miles north of the coast of Holland. The UFO seemed to be taking evasive maneuvers when approached by the fighter aircraft. The UFO was pursued for 30 minutes until over the Norfolk, England coast, at which point the object darted away. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** APRO Bulletin, December 1977, p. 7 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_344 ### Event 4857 (13D0079C) **Date:** 1/17/1947 **Location:** North Sea, 50 miles from Holland, At Sea **Description:** 10:30 p.m. (GMT). RAF pilot of Mosquito pursued unidentified radar target (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [470117](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/470117northseadir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_317 ### Event 4858 (4F8C2D21) **Date:** 1/17/1947 **Locations:** Neatishead, northeast of Norwich, England; North Sea **Description:** 11:37 p.m. After two unidentified targets similar to yesterday’s are reported by RAF Neatishead, northeast of Norwich, England, over the North Sea, another radar track enters the Eastern Sector area, and an RAF Mosquito piloted by Flight Lt. William Kent is scrambled to 18,000 feet. Kent attempts to close in, but his onboard radar is unable to keep it on track because the target is “jerking violently” and taking evasive action. After 20 minutes, the target descends below 2,000 feet and is lost from ground radar. Unofficially the radar operators give the intruder a name—Charlie—and when the Air Ministry later begins a concerted effort to solve the mystery, its code name is “Operation Charlie.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Martin L. Shough, “[A New Study of the British ‘Ghost](http://www.martinshough.com/aerialphenomena/opcharlie.pdf) [Airplanes’ of 1947,](http://www.martinshough.com/aerialphenomena/opcharlie.pdf)” April 2009 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_895 ### Event 4859 (62ADCFD1) **Date:** 1/20/1947 **Locations:** London; England **Description:** In London, [Ben Lockspeiser](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%5FLockspeiser)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%5FLockspeiser) chief scientist for the UK Ministry of Supply, after meeting with Swedish scientists and air force authorities, informs the American naval attaché in London, England, Cmdr. Jenkins, that the Swedes doubt the rockets are from Russia but prefer that the US and UK continue to think so. Natural phenomena and popular imagination are considered the causes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Jan-Jun-23-SN.pdf) [Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 January 1st–June 23rd, Supplemental Notes,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Jan-Jun-23-SN.pdf) The Author, 2000, pp. 3–5 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_896 ### Event 4860 (D6F9F5C1) **Date:** 1/23/1947 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 49.9km altitude (Degraded performance led to roll rate of 80 rpm) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_216 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 49.9km ### Event 4861 (13EBE90C) **Date:** 1/23/1947 **Locations:** Neatishead, Norfolk, England; Yorkshire **Description:** Night. Three senior RAF officers are visiting RAF Neatishead in Norfolk, England, for an interception exercise when an unidentified radar target makes another appearance at 28,000 feet. RAF Mosquitos from Yorkshire are scrambled, but by the time the aircraft reach the area, the target is gone. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Martin L. Shough, “[A](http://www.martinshough.com/aerialphenomena/opcharlie.pdf) [New Study of the British ‘Ghost Airplanes’ of 1947,](http://www.martinshough.com/aerialphenomena/opcharlie.pdf)” April 2009 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_897 ### Event 4862 (4FA3C4BC) **Date:** 1/27/1947 **Locations:** RAF Neatishead, England; Downham Market, Norfolk **Description:** RAF Flying Officer Stewart of the Northern Signals Area, after investigating the Operation Charlie radar incidents at RAF Neatishead, England, issues a report, no longer extant, that suggests that some of the targets are radiosonde balloons released by the USAAF’s 8th Weather Squadron in Downham Market, Norfolk. However, RAF and Air Ministry sources continue to refer to the sightings as unexplained over the following months. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Martin L. Shough, “[A New Study of the British ‘Ghost Airplanes’ of 1947,](http://www.martinshough.com/aerialphenomena/opcharlie.pdf)” April 2009 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_898 ### Event 4863 (5039D38E) **Date:** 1/29/1947 **Locations:** Los Alamos Laboratory; Sandia Base, New Mexico **Description:** Secretary of War [Robert P. Patterson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FP.%5FPatterson) and Secretary of the Navy [James V. Forrestal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FForrestal) issue a memorandum that formally establishes the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project, a new agency to take over responsibility for the aspects of nuclear weapons that still remain under the military. It is to be jointly staffed by the Army and Navy. Los Alamos Laboratory’s ordnance engineering Z Division and AFSWP establish themselves at Sandia Base, New Mexico, bringing the strict secrecy that has prevails at Los Alamos. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Armed Forces](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed%5FForces%5FSpecial%5FWeapons%5FProject) [Special Weapons Project](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed%5FForces%5FSpecial%5FWeapons%5FProject)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_899 ### Event 4864 (322608F0) **Date:** 2/1947 **Location:** BRAZIL, Manuos, (Amazon River) **Description:** (Translated from French) A traveler saw five "birds" with leather bodies and wings. **Reference:** Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 314 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1150 ### Event 4865 (799BF159) **Date:** 2/3/1947 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** FRANKFURT, GERM **Description:** 3 US WACs / base. 3 big fireballs maneuver / 30 minute(s). Vanish in place. Back twice. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 55) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_627 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "FRANKFURT,GERM:3 US WACs/BASE:3 BIG FBLS MNVR/30min:VANISH IN PLACE:back twice", **LatLong:** "50.116669 8.700000", **LatLongDMS:** "50:07:00 N 08:42:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.116669,8.700000)", **State/Prov:** "HSS", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4866 (6227F58B) **Date:** 2/6/1947 **Locations:** Lock, South Australia; Port Augusta, South Australia **Description:** Around 7:30 a.m., [Frederick Walter Flavel](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/202761273/frederick-walter-flavel) and his wife Emma are walking to their house in Lock, South Australia, when they see five gray, oblong objects rise apparently from the sea and move from northwest to southeast. At 9:00 a.m., [Ronald Ernest Ellis](http://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2016/01/port-augusta-south-australia-flying.html) and two other railroad workers in Port Augusta, South Australia, watch five white or light-pink egg-shaped objects moving across the sky from north to south at about 6,000 feet. They quiver, cast shadows on the ground, and move out of sight in a few seconds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Five Objects Cast](http://www.nicap.org/470206portaugusta%5Fdir.htm) [Shadows](http://www.nicap.org/470206portaugusta%5Fdir.htm)”; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 329–350 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_900 ### Event 4867 (0360DC9C) **Date:** 2/8/1947 **Locations:** US; Sweden **Description:** A US Navy Privateer bomber flying over Sweden picks up signals that might be directing rockets. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Letter from US Naval Forces Europe, London, to Chief of Naval Operations; Jan Aldrich **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_901 ### Event 4868 (098CF434) **Date:** 2/9/1947 **Location:** Coral Gables, FL **Description:** Student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright wins writing essay competition **Type:** scientist **Reference:** [link](https://github.com/richgel999/dr_shirley_wright) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_217 **Attributes:** Einstein ### Event 4869 (05719431) **Date:** 2/12/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A monstrous bolide strikes the USSR near the city of Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Far East north of Vladivostok. It is first spotted as a bright light in the daytime sky, bright enough to burn eyes as it hurtles towards the ground at a sharp angle. Followed by a huge smoky trail, the [meteor](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/1947.html) streaks towards the Earth, filling the sky with deep reverberating thunderclaps and shaking the ground. The meteorite, estimated to weigh more than 100 tons, explodes into fragments that impact a large area, digging more than 120 craters, the largest of which is 20 feet deep and 90 feet in diameter. Blocks of iron weighing up to 2 tons are scattered across the landscape. It is unclear what details [LaPaz](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/LaPazLincoln.html) will have of this incident by the end of [1948](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/1948.html). As unlikely as it may seem today, judging by the comments he will make in his papers, he will clearly suspect at the time that this event, like other unusual meteors in [1946](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/1946.html) and 1947, could have been caused by a man-made object. Although it is now known that the meteor traveled from the North-Northeast to the South-Southwest, the Soviet investigator initially dispatched to the scene, Krinov, will indicate a trajectory from the North-Northwest to the South-Southeast. The erroneous estimation of the trajectory could have led [LaPaz](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/LaPazLincoln.html) to believe that the object was a missile from the western part of the USSR. (10:38) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_594 ### Event 4870 (5EA496D7) **Date:** 2/12/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The governments of the United States and Canada agree on a Joint Declaration on Defense Collaboration emphasizing the continued importance of defense planning and efforts in this regard. Among those proposed are the exchange of military personnel, the adoption of common weapon, equipment and organization designs and standards, and the cooperation and exchange of observers in exercises. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_595 ### Event 4871 (74DE1274) **Date:** 2/12/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) [James Forrestal](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/ForrestalJamesVincent.html) is promoted to United States Secretary of Defense. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_596 ### Event 4872 (D2EA353F) **Date:** 2/17/1947 **Locations:** London, England; Peenemünde, Germany; Finland **Description:** Capt. J. B. Pearson Jr., US naval attaché in London, England, sends an intelligence report to the Chief of Naval Intelligence about his conversation with Col. Westergard, head of the Airplane Design Section for the Swedish Air Ministry. Westergard tells him some 40% of the 1,000 ghost rocket sightings are “reliable.” They seem to originate in Peenemünde, Germany, and fly toward Finland. The best observation is from an artillery officer who sees an object in his optical range finder and follows it for about 90 seconds. It is in level flight at 4.5 miles distance and is about 36 feet long and torpedo shaped. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Jan-Jun-23-SN.pdf) [Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 January 1st–June 23rd, Supplemental Notes,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Jan-Jun-23-SN.pdf) The Author, 2000, p. 7 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_902 ### Event 4873 (E9CE41C0) **Date:** 2/20/1947 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 109.4km altitude (Blossom 1 — Propulsion degraded at 55.5s) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_218 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 109.4km ### Event 4874 (47FF24A2) **Date:** 2/20/1947 **Location:** USA, White Sands Proving Grounds **Description:** (Translated from French) 11:16 am - Test launch of V-2 #20, reaching 109 km altitude. It is believed to have been a launch with "biological experiment". (February 20, 1947) **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Nieuwenhuis H. 1988 **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1151 ### Event 4875 (AF8F4108) **Date:** 2/28/1947 **Location:** Lake Meade, NV **Description:** Formation of discs. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973_, by Richard Dolan](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/mode/2up) **Source:** Dolan, **ID:** Dolan_14 ### Event 4876 (32E965F0) **Date:** 2/28/1947 **Location:** Lima, Peru **Description:** Three "Figures" Near Disc (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases, Code: En, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [470228](http://www.nicap.org/470228lima%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_318 ### Event 4877 (6EF93EBD) **Date:** 2/28/1947 **Locations:** Sweden; USAF Office of Air Intelligence **Description:** Capt. [Emmet O’Beirne](https://collegiatewaterpolo.org/memorial-day-weekend-hero-rear-admiral-emmet-obeirne/)[,](https://collegiatewaterpolo.org/memorial-day-weekend-hero-rear-admiral-emmet-obeirne/) Chief of the Defensive Air Branch, writes a memorandum to the chief of the USAF Office of Air Intelligence about the branch’s interview with H. W. Flickinger, vice president for exports at Republic Aircraft Corp. after his return from Sweden: “He stated that he had seen one of the Swedish ‘spook rockets’ in flight, which resembled the V-1 buzz bomb but was somewhat smaller. The noise of this missile was more that of a rocket than like a V-1.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_903 ### Event 4878 (D0E6B450) **Date:** 3/1947 **Time:** 03:00 **Location:** PUTNAM, CT **Description:** 1 observer. Luminous disk crosses sky / 4 second(s) going quickly west. Back 3 weeks later. / local news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 57) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_628 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "88", **HatchDesc:** "PUTNAM,CT:1 OBS:LUMn.DISK CROSSES SKY/4 sec >>W:BACK 3 WEEKS LATER:/local news", **LatLong:** "41.900002 -71.916670", **LatLongDMS:** "41:54:00 N 71:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.900002,-71.916670)", **State/Prov:** "Connecticut", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4879 (9E67AF6B) **Date:** 3/1947 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** ALAMOSA, CO **Description:** 2 teens. Meteor = silent glowing triangle. Levels off going south over town / 15 second(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 56) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_629 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "2499", **HatchDesc:** "ALAMOSA,CO:2 TEENS:METEOR=SLNT GLOWING TRIANGLE:LEVELS OFF >S ovr TOWN/15sec", **LatLong:** "37.466668 -105.872227", **LatLongDMS:** "37:28:00 N 105:52:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.466668,-105.872227)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4880 (FDB20D71) **Date:** 3/1947 **Location:** Palatine, New York **Description:** A motorist in New York encountered a disc-shaped object hovering near the ground in a field. The craft, measuring about 60 feet in diameter and 15 feet thick, rose vertically and vanished within seconds. (Chapter 8, Ref 335) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_325 ### Event 4881 (EA30F93B) **Date:** 3/1947 **Location:** West Virginia **Description:** A woman in West Virginia spotted a round, silver-colored aerial object in the afternoon sky. It appeared to float silently, unlike the audible engines of airplanes at a similar distance. The object emitted reflections like a sunlit tin can, with its sides being silver and the top resembling the color of silk. (Chapter 8, Ref 336) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_326 ### Event 4882 (0751B5C8) **Date:** 3/1947 **Location:** Maine **Description:** Or April. A man driving near an airport in Maine observed several "saucer-like objects" hovering close to the ground. These objects, resembling pie plates, revolved and emitted a trail of smoke from their edges. They were distinct from conventional aircraft, reflected sunlight, and were estimated to be about 40 feet in diameter. (Chapter 8, Ref 337) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_327 ### Event 4883 (F3F2A02B) **Date:** 3/7/1947 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 165.2km altitude **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_219 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 165.2km ### Event 4884 (E3557C53) **Date:** 3/7/1947 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) 11:23 AM - Launch of V2 #21, altitude 160 km. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1152 ### Event 4885 (6AD8531A) **Date:** 3/17/1947 **Description:** Newspaper article stating Einstein “has helped many young students to find their directions” **Type:** newspaper article **Reference:** [link](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101810588/einstein-student/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_220 **Attributes:** Einstein ### Event 4886 (8BB29758) **Date:** Spring 1947 **Location:** CANADA, Langley Prairie (C.B.) **Description:** (Translated from French) Excerpt from a letter from an anonymous witness: "We were living there, on the side of the road called the Trans Canada Highway, the Cloverdale/Langley road crossed our property. The area is very sparsely populated and consists mostly of flat fields as far as the eye can see. We were on vacation, I was 16 years old. With my brother I was near a pond close to our house. While he was trying to fish for minnows, I was reading, leaning against and in the shade of a tree. It was quiet, it was nice. I had heard a humming sound, but I didn't think anything special about it. Then, I remember, we see in the sky something gray-silver, right in front of us. What happened? For an hour we experienced conscious situations, interspersed with moments of unconsciousness. In the object a door opened, its full height, and four or five grotesque creatures, resembling praying mantises, but dressed in gray-silver tights, without buttons, zippers, nothing, came out. I had gotten up, still holding my book in my hand, and one of these creatures came straight towards me. I was petrified, it put a hand on my shoulder and looked me straight in the eyes, as if to read my thoughts and I had the impression of hearing "clicks" like a camera, produced by its huge black eyes. It was terrifying. Then there was a blackout.

... I felt calmer, and I sent my mother, who was screaming, back inside, telling her that he "would kill her if she didn't go back into the house". The creature left me to join its congeners. They walked around the UFO, which seemed to be broken down, because they seemed to be repairing something on the side of the door. Little by little I regained my senses and noticed that several vehicles were circulating on the road. The drivers could not fail to see the scene. But the first creature was coming back towards me, putting its hand on my shoulder again, looking me straight in the eyes again and I understood this telepathic message: "We are leaving now, don't look up, don't look, don't look." I was there, head bowed, but I thought: "I have to look" which I did. The thing was there, above the tree where I was standing, going up vertically into the sky, where there were also four military planes. The saucer was going faster than anything I had ever known before or after, without any noise. The UFO disappeared in the direction of Washington, and I had the impression that the military planes were trying in vain to chase it. In my opinion, there must be a report about it. I called my brother, who was not moving. I had to get into the pond and take his hand, saying "Come, let's go back now". When I got back into the kitchen, my mother was angry "Finally, here you are". We didn't talk, couldn't talk, but we were terribly thirsty. We drank water, a lot of water and went to bed, both of us. We spent several days in bed, drinking only water and sleeping. When I finally recovered, going down to the kitchen, I could see through the window near the pond, a large circle of scorched grass. A few months later my parents moved. We never talked about this event, neither between us, nor with others." (1947 (Spring or Summer)) **Reference:** Source: UFO UpDates Mailing List, from: boliver at Direct.CA (Bill Oliver) 4.8.1997 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1329 ### Event 4887 (2BC9DB6F) **Date:** Spring 1947 **Location:** Langley, British Columbia **Description:** In a remote area near Langley, British Columbia, two young boys encountered a UFO. One boy, while reading near a creek, heard a hum before a silver-gray UFO landed in front of him. From it emerged several creatures resembling praying mantises, wearing form-fitted silver-gray attire. One creature approached the boy, took his book, placed its hands on his shoulder, and communicated telepathically, instructing him not to look up as they departed. When the boy eventually looked up, the UFO was ascending rapidly, pursued ineffectively by four military planes. The other boy seemed in a daze, and the boy had to guide him away from the creek. Following the encounter, they experienced extreme thirst and the boy felt ill for days. Later, they noticed a circle of burnt grass where the UFO had landed. (Chapter 8, Ref 346) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_339 ### Event 4888 (818BC922) **Date:** 3/21/1947 **Location:** southern Sweden **Description:** A cigar-shaped object with smoke coming from its tail is seen flying from east to west at considerable height over southern Sweden by several witnesses. It looks metallic and is about 60 feet long, flying slowly. The object seems to turn around and fly back eastward briefly. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[‘Phantom Bomb’ Returns to Skies over Sweden,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/03/22/87514553.pdf)” New York Times, March 22, 1947, p. 8; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Jan-Jun-23-SN.pdf) [January 1st–June 23rd, Supplemental Notes,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Jan-Jun-23-SN.pdf) The Author, 2000, p. 9 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_904 ### Event 4889 (87AE130A) **Date:** 3/30/1947 **Time:** 11:00 **Location:** OCALA TO/FROM ORLANDO, FL **Description:** 3 / car. Several silver disks. Appear and disappear. No further details. (AP) / 6 Jul. '47. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 57) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_630 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "27", **HatchDesc:** "OCALA> Event 4890 (4FD86E92) **Date:** 3/30/1947 **Description:** In 1947 at 11:00 a.m., Mrs. J. E. Harp of Lutz, Florida her seven-year-old daughter Sandra, and her mother Mrs. W. H. Brown saw several flying discs while driving. The discs were silvery colored and seemed to appear and disappear. They did not have time to count the number, and could not estimate the altitude, size or speed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jan L. Aldrich, Project 1947: A preliminary report on the 1947 UFO sighting wave, UFO Research Coalition, 1997, p. 57, quoting the Orlando Sentinel Star, July 6, 1947 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1725 ### Event 4891 (7FB325DA) **Date:** 4/1947 **Location:** FRANCE, Col de Serre (Falgoux) **Description:** (Translated from French) At 8:15 Maxime Orliange was driving and saw a disk 30 meters in diameter, lenticular, with a dome hovering above him. Blue light coming from between the dome and the disk. The object made a loop while rising without noise to a position 400 meters from the witness, at about 30 meters in height. Disappearance almost instantaneous vertically. (April 1947) **Reference:** M. FIGUET/J.L. RUCHON: "Ovni, le premier dossier complet..." ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 50 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1158 ### Event 4892 (1AEEEBD2) **Date:** 4/1947 **Location:** PORT ALBERNI, BC **Description:** 2 observer(s). Ducks and chickens act up. Bright metal saucers going quickly east on edge. / r129p98. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 57) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_631 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "59", **HatchDesc:** "PORT ALBERNI,BC:2 OBS:DUCKS+CHICKENS ACT UP:BRITE MTL SCRS>>E ON EDGE:/r129p98", **LatLong:** "49.233336 -124.800006", **LatLongDMS:** "49:14:00 N 124:48:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.233336,-124.800006)", **State/Prov:** "British Columbia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4893 (796746D0) **Date:** 4/1947 **Time:** 08:20 **Location:** COL.-DE-SERRE, FR **Description:** Silent 30M domed saucer hovers over car. Trees bend. Very fast quickly going up. / LDLN#249. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: CHALLENGE to SCIENCE, The UFO ENIGMA; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine Books, NY 1974. PB (Index 139) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_632 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "COL-DE-SERRE,FR:SLNT 30M DOMED SCR HVRS OVR CAR:TREES BEND:VFAST ↑↑:/LDLN#249", **LatLong:** "45.133335 2.705556", **LatLongDMS:** "45:08:00 N 02:42:20 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.133335,2.705556)", **State/Prov:** "Cantal", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 4894 (0B3E3BD4) **Date:** 4/1947 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** LA ROCHE-SUR-YONNE, FR **Description:** Silent metallic Saturn-sphere/orb/globe. Small antenna. Spins. Going [to] over roof. / r171. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 210) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_633 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "La ROCHE-sur-YONNE,FR:SLNT MTLC SATURN-ORB:SML ANTENNA:SPINS:> OVR ROOF:/r171", **LatLong:** "46.633336 -1.466667", **LatLongDMS:** "46:38:00 N 01:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.633336,-1.466667)", **State/Prov:** "Vendée", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4895 (46EA4C43) **Date:** 4/1947 **Location:** Richmond, VA **Description:** Silvery Disc Seen Through Theodolite (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [4704xx](http://www.nicap.org/4704XXrichmond%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_319 ### Event 4896 (C9306475) **Date:** 4/1947 **Description:** The June 1947 issue of Amazing Stories is devoted in its entirety to “proofs” of [Richard Shaver](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FSharpe%5FShaver)’s claims and includes four of his novellas. [Vincent Gaddis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent%5FGaddis) has written a prescient article on UFOs, titled “Visitors from the Void.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** David Halperin, “[The Shaver Mystery—Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer, and the Quest for Lemuria \(Part](https://www.davidhalperin.net/the-shaver-mystery-richard-shaver-ray-palmer-and-the-quest-for-lemuria-part-2/) [2\),](https://www.davidhalperin.net/the-shaver-mystery-richard-shaver-ray-palmer-and-the-quest-for-lemuria-part-2/)” July 11, 2014; Richard S. Shaver, “[Formula from the Underworld,](https://archive.org/details/AmazingStoriesVolume21Number06%5F692/page/n9/mode/2up)” Amazing Stories 21, no. 6 \(June 1947\): 10–29; Vincent H. Gaddis, “[Visitors from the Void,](https://archive.org/details/AmazingStoriesVolume21Number06%5F692/page/n157/mode/2up)” Amazing Stories 21, no. 6 \(June 1947\): 159–161 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_905 ### Event 4897 (EBC495D0) **Date:** 4/1947 **Locations:** US Weather Bureau; Richmond, Virginia **Description:** 11:00 a.m. US Weather Bureau meteorologist Walter A. Minczewski watches a silvery disc through a theodolite while tracking a ceiling balloon in Richmond, Virginia. It is traveling east to west at less than 15,000 feet and has a flat bottom and a dome on top. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Silvery Disc Seen through Theodolite](http://www.nicap.org/4704XXrichmond%5Fdir.htm)”; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#meteorologists)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 62; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Jan-Jun-23-SN.pdf) [Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 January 1st–June 23rd, Supplemental Notes,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Jan-Jun-23-SN.pdf) The Author, 2000, pp. 17–21; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 16 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_906 ### Event 4898 (AF1AD4AA) **Date:** 4/1947 **Location:** Richmond, Virginia **Description:** Two Weather Bureau employees in Richmond observed a metallic elliptical disk through a theodolite on three occasions. One sighting was at 15,000 feet, lasting 15 seconds. The disk had a flat bottom and round top, appeared below a weather balloon, and was moving rapidly. (Chapter 8) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_330 ### Event 4899 (C2A026C9) **Date:** 4/1/1947 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 129.2km altitude **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_221 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 129.2km ### Event 4900 (88B5ACBC) **Date:** 4/1/1947 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) At 13:10 launch of V2 #22, it reached 129 km altitude. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1153 ### Event 4901 (3881FDCC) **Date:** 4/5/1947 **Location:** SALT LAKE CITY, UT **Description:** Odd B-shaped object. 2 compartments. Lights flash. See Des Moines. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 110) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_634 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1280", **HatchDesc:** "SALT LAKE CITY,UT:ODD B-SHAPED OBJ:2 COMPARTMENTS:LITES FLASH:see Des Moines", **LatLong:** "40.750002 -111.883339", **LatLongDMS:** "40:45:00 N 111:53:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.750002,-111.883339)", **State/Prov:** "Utah", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4902 (C5CE9F85) **Date:** 4/8/1947 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 102.2km altitude **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_222 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 102.2km ### Event 4903 (23C7E0F6) **Date:** 4/8/1947 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) At 17:10 launch of V2 #23 which reached 103 km altitude. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1154 ### Event 4904 (DC2429E8) **Date:** 4/11/1947 (approximate) **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** BRADSHAW, WV **Description:** Round silent silver object crosses sky slow and straight. / letter to airport. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 58) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_635 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "362", **HatchDesc:** "BRADSHAW,WV:RND SLNT SLVR OBJ CROSSES SKY SLOW+STRAIGHT:/letter to airport", **LatLong:** "37.350002 -81.800004", **LatLongDMS:** "37:21:00 N 81:48:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.350002,-81.800004)", **State/Prov:** "Western Virginia", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 4905 (C198C4B4) **Date:** Mid 4/1947 **Location:** USA, Richmond (Virginia) **Description:** (Translated from French) Meteorologist Minozewski and his team observed, during a balloon launch, an ellipsoidal silver object just below it. This object had a kind of dome on its upper part and was larger than the balloon. It moved horizontally quickly. (April mid-1947) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "From S.V. to UFOs" - SOBEPS 1976 - p. 32 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1155 ### Event 4906 (F5424A3D) **Date:** 4/15/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Engineers from the Richmond Weather Bureau, including Walter A. Minczewski, launch a balloon they track with a theodolite. They observe, just below the craft, a silver object in the shape of an ellipse. It appears larger than the balloon and they can make out, through the theodolite, that it is flat on the bottom and has a dome on the upper side. They observe it for about 15 seconds, then the object disappears to the West at the altitude of commercial airplanes. (April 15th) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_597 ### Event 4907 (3A269CAB) **Date:** 4/15/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Observation at Col de Serres \(Dordogne\). **Reference:** Vallée 1966 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_598 ### Event 4908 (533C6E9F) **Date:** 4/15/1947? **Time:** 10:30 **Location:** RICHMOND, VA **Description:** 2 weathermen / theodolite. Domed metallic flat-bottom/underside saucer going quickly northwest. / r2p69. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 218) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_636 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "58", **HatchDesc:** "RICHMOND,VA:2 WEATHERMEN/THEODOLITE:DOMED MTLC FLAT-BTM SCR >>NW:/r2p69", **LatLong:** "37.550002 -77.466670", **LatLongDMS:** "37:33:00 N 77:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.550002,-77.466670)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4909 (2A8C074A) **Date:** 4/15/1947 **Locations:** US; Stockholm; Sweden **Description:** The US Naval Attaché in Stockholm issues a secret intelligence report, “Sweden: Guided Missiles, Alleged Rockets over Sweden.” Both the naval and military attachés agree that there is nothing to the ghost rocket episode. No foreign missiles have overflown or landed in Sweden, according to the evidence a, vailable. “Swedish officials prefer to dismiss it as an unexplained press sensation.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Jan-Jun-23-SN.pdf) [Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 January 1st–June 23rd, Supplemental Notes,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Jan-Jun-23-SN.pdf) The Author, 2000, p. 16 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_907 ### Event 4910 (3917A6F6) **Date:** 4/17/1947 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 142.4km altitude (Successful test of ram-jet payload) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_223 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 142.4km ### Event 4911 (F5AEBA87) **Date:** 4/17/1947 **Location:** USA, Georgetown (South Carolina) **Description:** (Translated from French) At around 2:00 PM Mrs. Harrelson, occupied in her kitchen, heard a sound like an airplane followed immediately by an awful crash. She went outside and was astonished to see that the neighboring house had no roof. The rafters had been torn off, tiles and bricks thrown in all directions around. However, there was no airplane in the sky, the weather was absolutely calm, without wind. And the humming was getting farther away. **Reference:** indeed strange... **Reference:** Jimmy GUIEU: "Black-out sur les S.V. - Fleuve Noir 1956 - p. 52 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1156 ### Event 4912 (3704C9E5) **Date:** 4/17/1947 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) At 16:22, launch of V2 #22, altitude reached 140 km. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1157 ### Event 4913 (E4BD8C91) **Date:** 4/17/1947 **Location:** Oak Ridge, Tennessee **Description:** Col. [Oliver G. Haywood Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver%5FHaywood) of the Atomic Energy Commission writes a memorndum to [Harold A. Fidler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%5FA.%5FFidler) at the Clinton Engineer Works in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, saying: “It is desired that no document be released which refers to experiments with humans and might have adverse effect on public opinion or result in legal suits. Documents covering such work should be classified ‘secret.’” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Advisory Committtee on Human Radiation Experiments, memo, “Documents Retrieved from Oak Ridge Operations: The Atomic Energy Commission’s Declassification Review of Reports on Human Experiments and the Public Relations and Legal Liability Consequences,” December 6, 1994; Wikipedia, “[Unethical human experimentation in the United States](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical%5Fhuman%5Fexperimentation%5Fin%5Fthe%5FUnited%5FStates\#Human%5Fradiation%5Fexperiments)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_908 ### Event 4914 (6EE76A74) **Date:** Late 4/1947 **Alternate date:** Early 5/1947 **Location:** Tucson, Arizona **Description:** 12:05 p.m. Mrs. William Down and Mrs. H. G. Olavick of Tucson, Arizona, see an unusual, fleecy cloud in an otherwise cloudless sky. Moving around it in “yo-yo fashion” are a number of small discs with a dull-white finish. They move up and down and sideways, occasionally disappearing into or behind the cloud. They watch the objects for 5–7 minutes, then all the discs disappear above the cloud, while a larger object emerges from the cloud and moves eastward. Behind it comes a V-formation of nine of the smaller discs, which then climbs at high speed toward the northeast and disappears in 2–3 seconds. The witnesses assume the objects are some new type of aircraft. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Bloecher, [p. ix](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FIntroduction.htm); Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects and Cloud Cigars,” IUR 29, no. 1 \(Spring 2004\): 4 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_909 ### Event 4915 (4D1B1A4C) **Date:** 4/26/1947 (approximate) **Time:** ~21:30 **Location:** NEAR ROTHOIS, FR **Description:** 2+1 observer(s). 60cm glowing-balls follow girls / curving road. Vanish at home. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 326) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_637 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "nr ROTHOIS,FR:2+1 OBS:60cm GLOW-BALLS FOLO GIRLS/CURVING ROAD:VANISH AT HOME", **LatLong:** "49.583336 1.988889", **LatLongDMS:** "49:35:00 N 01:59:20 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.583336,1.988889)", **State/Prov:** "Oise", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4916 (D4967F20) **Date:** 4/29/1947 **Time:** 12:10 **Location:** TUCSON, AZ **Description:** 2 observer(s). Odd lone cloud. 9 white saucers exit and play. Away / V formation going quickly northeast. / MJ#288. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 222) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_638 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "717", **HatchDesc:** "TUCSON,AZ:2 OBS:ODD LONE CLOUD:9 WHT SCRS EXIT+PLAY:AWAY/VFORM >>NE:/MJ#288", **LatLong:** "32.233335 -110.883339", **LatLongDMS:** "32:14:00 N 110:53:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.233335,-110.883339)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 4917 (480F73F4) **Date:** 4/29/1947 **Description:** On this day two women, Mrs. Olavick and Mrs. Down of Tucson, Arizona watched nine white discs and another object behind a steamy cloud in a completely clear sky, arranged in a V-shaped formation. The ten objects moved up and down in an erratic manner, and in and out of the unnatural cloud for 5-6 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case 9; George Kocher, Rand Corporation: UFO's: What to Do?, p. 15; Kenneth Larson, Flying Saucers, October 1968, p. 40; UNICAT database, case 819, citing James E. McDonald **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2402 ### Event 4918 (0574583F) **Date:** 5/1947 (approximate) **Time:** 05:30 **Location:** TRAIN #8 EAST / ANTELOPE, SSK **Description:** 90M cylinder/cigar-shape with 2 rows / windows going quickly south. CP Rail News V8#2 Feb'78. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 59) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_639 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "790", **HatchDesc:** "TRAIN #8 E/ANTELOPE,SSK:90M CGR W/2 ROWS/WINDOWS >>S:CP Rail News V8#2 Feb'78", **LatLong:** "50.166669 -108.300005", **LatLongDMS:** "50:10:00 N 108:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.166669,-108.300005)", **State/Prov:** "Sasketchewan", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4919 (8602A5A9) **Date:** 5/1947 (approximate) **Time:** 09:00 **Location:** SOUTH / SALINAS, CA **Description:** 3 / farm. 9' saucer found / carrot patch. USAF truck and men cart object away! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 156) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_640 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **MIL:** Military investigation, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "25", **HatchDesc:** "S/SALINAS,CA:3/FARM:9'SCR FOUND/CARROT PATCH:USAF TRUCK+MEN CART OBJ AWAY!", **LatLong:** "36.616668 -121.650006", **LatLongDMS:** "36:37:00 N 121:39:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.616668,-121.650006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 4920 (B908ECC6) **Date:** 5/1947 **Location:** Jennings, Missouri **Description:** 9:00 p.m. Harry Bentrup Jr. is on his porch in Jennings, Missouri, when a circular object surrounded by a ring of luminous green lights swoops in quickly from the east, hovers above him for 15 seconds, then takes off to the west. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** MUFON case file **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_910 ### Event 4921 (CD07148E) **Date:** 5/1947 **Location:** Oklahoma City, Oklahoma **Description:** An RCA field engineer in Oklahoma City observed a disk flying at an altitude between 10,000 and 18,000 feet. The object was moving northwards rapidly without leaving any trail. (Chapter 8) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_331 ### Event 4922 (3759147A) **Date:** 5/1947 **Location:** Socorro, New Mexico **Description:** A former military photographer reported a UFO crash near Socorro, New Mexico. The crash resulted in one dead alien occupant, while three others survived. These survivors made crying-like sounds and held box-like devices close to their chests, with one appearing injured. The same witness later claimed to have filmed autopsies of alien beings on two occasions in 1947 and once in 1949. (Chapter 8, Ref 353) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_346 ### Event 4923 (4612F639) **Date:** 5/1/1947 **Location:** Washington DC **Description:** Rear Adm. Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter replaces Hoyt Vandenberg as Director of Central Intelligence. Dr. Leon Davidson notes this as the actual beginning of the CIA in 1961. **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [link](https://www.cia.gov/legacy/cia-history/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_224 ### Event 4924 (9DBFCB38) **Date:** 5/1/1947 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** MEMPHIS, TN **Description:** Mrs. Clark. 2 flying "tennis-balls" go over yard. / commercial appeal. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 102) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_641 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "77", **HatchDesc:** "MEMPHIS,TN:Mrs CLARK:2 FLYING "TENNIS-BALLS" GO OVER YARD:/COMMERCIAL APPEAL", **LatLong:** "35.133335 -90.033338", **LatLongDMS:** "35:08:00 N 90:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.133335,-90.033338)", **RelAlt:** "5", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4925 (696FE9FF) **Date:** 5/1/1947? **Location:** Memphis, Tennessee **Description:** Mrs. W. C. Clark of Memphis, Tennessee, watches two objects “like tennis balls” fly over her yard. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Three Memphians Say They Saw Objects,” Memphis \(Tenn.\) Commercial Appeal, July 7, 1947, p. 2 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_911 ### Event 4926 (054A4C26) **Date:** 5/1/1947 **Description:** Rear Adm. [Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe%5FH.%5FHillenkoetter) replaces [Hoyt Vandenberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg) as Director of Central Intelligence. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_912 ### Event 4927 (FFFC476A) **Date:** 5/3/1947 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** BOULDER, CO **Description:** Amateur astronomer / (seen thru) telescope. Dark object passes moons face. Straight and level. / Life Magazine. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 61) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_642 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1629", **HatchDesc:** "BOULDER,CO:AM.ASTRONOMER/TSCOPE:DARK OBJ PASSES MOONS FACE:S/L:/Life Magazine", **LatLong:** "40.050002 -105.283338", **LatLongDMS:** "40:03:00 N 105:17:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.050002,-105.283338)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 4928 (14A93FCB) **Date:** 5/5/1947 **Location:** USA, Washington State **Description:** (Translated from French) At 3:30 PM three witnesses saw a silver disc making a dive, then disintegrating, leaving only a column of smoke. **Reference:** doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee, translated by Jean Sider **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1159 ### Event 4929 (D5AC738E) **Date:** 5/5/1947 (approximate) **Location:** USA, Tucson (Arizona) **Description:** (Translated from French) Mrs. H. V. Olavick and Mr. Rawlins, who later became her husband, observed 10 flying saucers performing bizarre aerial maneuvers above Tucson. One of the saucers was larger than the other nine and was estimated to be 100 feet in diameter. While they watched, the nine smaller saucers seemed to be "playing hide and seek" together around a cloud and this game was accompanied by violent maneuvers that lasted seven minutes. Finally, regrouping behind the largest saucer in a V formation, the group flew off to the northeast at a dizzying speed. (1947, around May 5) **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 32 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1160 ### Event 4930 (F560E1BA) **Date:** 5/5/1947 **Description:** [Hillenkoetter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe%5FH.%5FHillenkoetter) writes to Baruch, saying that his CIRES plan is “on the verge of being put into effect.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_913 ### Event 4931 (13A340E8) **Date:** 5/7/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Sighting over Belgrade \(Yugoslavia\). (May 7) **Reference:** Ted Bloecher, *Report on the UFO Wave of 1947*, AAF Archives **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_599 ### Event 4932 (6BB0928D) **Date:** 5/7/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) English scientists and aviators examine the debris of a flying object in Spitzberg \(Norway\). They are convinced, according to the dispatch, that the device comes from another planet and that these saucers were piloted by small men \(less than 1.20 m\). 17 bodies were reportedly found. The story comes from a dispatch that appeared only one day in the U.S. news before being silenced by the military. **Reference:** Several sources including Dorothy Kilgallen **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_600 ### Event 4933 (C42378B1) **Date:** 5/7/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The American monthly magazine *Mechanix Illustrated* features its cover with the Flying Saucer, a circular-winged aircraft of the Navy, which will be suspected to be the origin of some UFO sightings. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_601 ### Event 4934 (42154000) **Date:** 5/7/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) [Hoyt Vandenberg](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/VandenbergHoytSanford.html) is replaced in his position as [DCI](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/glossair.html\#DCI) and Director of the [CIG](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/CIG.html) by [Roscoe Hillenkoeter](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/HillenkoetterRoscoeHenry.html). **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_602 ### Event 4935 (235248AA) **Date:** 5/10/1947 **Location:** NEWARK, NJ **Description:** 1+1 observer(s). Shiny ovoid with gold band / center west going quickly east. Back 6 July / Case#385. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 102) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_643 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "29", **HatchDesc:** "NEWARK,NJ:1+1 OBS:SHINY OVOID W/GOLD BAND/CENTER W>>E::BACK 6JLY/CASE#385", **LatLong:** "40.733335 -74.172226", **LatLongDMS:** "40:44:00 N 74:10:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.733335,-74.172226)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4936 (54D89F64) **Date:** 5/10/1947 **Location:** Newark, New Jersey **Description:** Rose Slawuta of Newark, New Jersey, sees a shining, elliptical object with a gold band around it approaching fron the west. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Newark \(N.J.\) Star-Ledger, July 7, 1947; Bloecher, [p. I-2](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionI.htm) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_914 ### Event 4937 (CFEB1109) **Date:** 5/14/1947 **Location:** HUNGARY, Budapest **Description:** (Translated from French) At approximately 8:30 PM, an aerial phenomenon was observed crossing the sky from SE to NE following a practically rectilinear trajectory. A consensus of the observers placed the object at an altitude of approximately 3000 feet and a speed greater than 400 mph and the witnesses described the object as being spherical in shape with an approximate diameter of 3 to 4 feet. It seemed to be burning and left a generally uniform trail, but with, sometimes, enlargements that could suggest successive pulsations. The object also apparently emitted a trail of flames of about 3 meters long, but no sound was heard. **Reference:** Phenomena #35 of 1997 pp. 6 and 7 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1161 ### Event 4938 (C2A265BF) **Date:** 5/14/1947 **Location:** Budapest, Hungary **Description:** 8:30 p.m. A spherical object 3-4 feet in diameter is seen over Budapest, Hungary, passing southeast to northwest at about 3,000 feet altitude in a flat trajectory. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Allied Control Commission for Hungary; George Mitrovic, [The Gateways to the Gods](https://sites.google.com/site/georgemitrovicauthor/excerpts-from-gateways-to-the-gods)[,](https://sites.google.com/site/georgemitrovicauthor/excerpts-from-gateways-to-the-gods) Kindle, 2012 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_915 ### Event 4939 (9C8C794B) **Date:** 5/15/1947 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** A V-2 test missile at White Sands goes off course. Reaches 135.2km, internal explosion at 64.3s. Commanding Officer blames “peculiar phenomena” for the accident. Former state representative Jon Andrew Kissner finds evidence in 1994 that possibly another object was seen in the vicinity of the rocket after the launch that might have been responsible for the failure. **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [link](https://www.ufoexplorations.com/of-roswell-and-rockets-v2-film) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_225 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 135.2km ### Event 4940 (49E85BE0) **Date:** 5/15/1947 **Location:** Oklahoma City, OK **Description:** UFO sighting in Oklahoma City: round, disc-like, ten times longer than thick, high speed, Project Grudge case #82. (Possibly 5/21/1947) **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [link](https://medium.com/@richgel99/interesting-1961-letter-from-manhattan-project-scientist-dr-46a781aeccfb) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_226 ### Event 4941 (7CF2B9DE) **Date:** 5/15/1947 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) At 16:08, V2 #26 was launched, reaching an altitude of 122 km. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1162 ### Event 4942 (3B6288A4) **Date:** 5/15/1947 **Locations:** White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico; Alamogordo; New Mexico **Description:** 4:11 p.m. A Hermes test missile \(V-2\) at White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico, goes off course and lands 6 miles east of Alamogordo five and a half minutes after launch. Commanding Officer Lt. Col. Harold R. Turner blames “peculiar phenomena” for the accident. The official explanation is that the V-2 had a defective fin. Trade consultant and former state representative [Jon Andrew Kissner](https://prabook.com/web/jon%5Fandrew.kissner/883947) finds evidence in 1994 that possibly another object was seen in the vicinity of the rocket after the launch that might have been responsible for the failed test. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[V-2 Goes Astray, Lands in Six Miles of Alamogordo,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92531031/)” Las Cruces \(N.Mex.\) Sun-News, May 16, 1947, p. 1; Good Need, [pp. 55–57](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/54/mode/2up); Wikipedia, “[Hermes program](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes%5Fprogram)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_916 ### Event 4943 (BE1455DC) **Date:** Mid 5/1947 **Location:** Manitou Springs, Colorado **Description:** A group of seven railroad workers observed a silver UFO performing aerial maneuvers above them. The object hovered approximately 1,000 feet above, revolving as it stayed in place. It moved erratically in wide circles, reflecting light intermittently, suggesting a changing angle of reflection. After around 20 minutes, the UFO disappeared in a straight line towards the west-northwest. (Chapter 8, Ref 338) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_328 ### Event 4944 (A350BCF8) **Date:** 5/17/1947 **Location:** USA, Oklahoma City **Description:** (Translated from French) … an enormous oval saucer, ten times its diameter in length, was seen by Byron Savage, a pilot from Oklahoma City. (Donald KEYHOE: "Flying Saucers are Real" ed. Corrêa Paris 1951, p89) Observation report at 8:30 PM by Brian Savage (doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee translated by Jean Sider) On May 17, 1947, the American pilot Byron (??) Savage saw an enormous disk moving at an unimaginable speed. Two days later, this disk was reported in another region of the USA. (May 17, 1947) **Reference:** Jimmy GUIEU: "Flying Saucers Come from Another World" Fleuve Noir 1947 - Omnium Littéraire 1972 re-edition - p. 217 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1163 ### Event 4945 (58D3D311) **Date:** 5/17/1947 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** OKLAHOMA CITY, OK **Description:** Pilot B. Savage. Large silent silver pie-pan saucer going northwest. / r171p61+/ MJ#121. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 227) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_644 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "360", **HatchDesc:** "OKLAHOMA CITY,OK:PILOT B.SAVAGE:LRG SLNT SLVR PIE-PAN SCR >NW:/r171p61+/MJ#121", **LatLong:** "35.450002 -97.533338", **LatLongDMS:** "35:27:00 N 97:32:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.450002,-97.533338)", **State/Prov:** "Oklahoma", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4946 (A9C7070F) **Date:** 5/17/1947 **Location:** Oklahoma City, OK **Description:** 8:30-9 p.m Field Engineer Savage saw a frosty white round and flat objectRound & Flat Object Observed By Field Engineer (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [470517](http://www.nicap.org/470517oklacity%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_320 ### Event 4947 (3B8DAF04) **Date:** 5/17/1947 **Alternate date:** 5/19/1947 **Location:** Oklahoma City, Oklahoma **Description:** 8:30 p.m. Byron B. Savage, an RCA field engineer, sees a frosty-white or silvery elliptical object about the size of a B-29 heading northwest at 10,000 feet over Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, at three times the speed of a jet \(about 1,800 mph\). As it noiselessly passes overhead, it appears to be circular. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Round and Flat](http://www.nicap.org/470517oklacity%5Fdir.htm) [Object Observed by Field Engineer](http://www.nicap.org/470517oklacity%5Fdir.htm)”; Oklahoma City Times, June 26, 1947; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Jan-Jun-23-SN.pdf) [of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 January 1st–June 23rd, Supplemental Notes,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Jan-Jun-23-SN.pdf) The Author, 2000, pp. 27–28; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 16 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_917 ### Event 4948 (C643A3CA) **Date:** 5/17/1947 **Description:** Between 8:30 and 9:00 p.m. Field Engineer Savage in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma saw a frosty white, round and flat object, with a diameter to thickness ratio of 10:1. It was estimated to be the size of a B-29 (140 feet wingspan) traveling north at a 350° heading at between 10,000 to 18,000 feet moving at three times the speed of a jet, making a slight swishing sound. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Oklahoma City Times, June 26, 1947; NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1978, p. 3; APRO Bulletin, December 1977, p. 8; Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, May 1992, p. 19 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2914 ### Event 4949 (8612BFA7) **Date:** 5/18/1947 **Location:** USA, Richmond (Virginia) **Description:** (Translated from French) Several witnesses observed a flat, white, cigar-shaped object quickly traversing the sky at sunset, heading northwest. **Reference:** Ufo Roundup vol. 2 n° 21, 25.5.97 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1164 ### Event 4950 (4F646F83) **Date:** 5/19/1947 **Location:** Manitou Springs, CO **Description:** UFO sighting in Manitou Springs CO: “Reversal of direction of fight, manoeuvres” , Project Grudge case #92 **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [link](https://medium.com/@richgel99/interesting-1961-letter-from-manhattan-project-scientist-dr-46a781aeccfb) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_227 ### Event 4951 (46E86DC8) **Date:** 5/19/1947 **Location:** Manitou Springs, CO **Description:** UFO sighting in Manitou Springs CO: “Reversal of direction of fight, manoeuvres” , Project Grudge chase #92 **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [link](https://medium.com/@richgel99/interesting-1961-letter-from-manhattan-project-scientist-dr-46a781aeccfb) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_228 ### Event 4952 (9B93DEE9) **Date:** 5/19/1947 **Location:** USA, Manitou Springs (Colorado) **Description:** (Translated from French) ... In the short time it could be followed, it changed direction twice, maneuvering at an incredible speed. (Donald KEYHOE: "Flying Saucers Are Real" ed. Corrêa Paris 1951, p 89) Seven employees of the Pike's Peak Railway were peacefully having lunch when, around 12:15, a bright silver object approached quickly. When it arrived above the witnesses, the UFO almost stopped and began to circle. At times it reflected the sunlight and when observed through binoculars it was impossible to accurately estimate its dimensions. The object moved silently for more than 20 minutes, diving towards the ground and changing direction before finally disappearing. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "From S.V. to UFOs" - SOBEPS 1976 - p. 32,33 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1165 ### Event 4953 (D8967564) **Date:** 5/19/1947 **Location:** CHILE, Del Salto **Description:** (Translated from French) The observatory staff saw and was able to photograph a strange meteorite above Santiago. The object moved slowly, sometimes emitting white smoke plumes. The report indicated an increase in speed towards the end of the observation. **Reference:** Phenomena #35 of 1997 p. 7 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1166 ### Event 4954 (072F4BA5) **Date:** 5/19/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The staff of the Del Salto Observatory \(Chile\), observe and photograph a strange meteorite above Santiago. The object moves slowly, sometimes emitting white smoke plumes. The report indicates an increase in speed at the end of the observation. The information will not be made public until the observation of [Arnold](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/ArnoldKenneth.html). (May 19) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_603 ### Event 4955 (A04276B9) **Date:** 5/19/1947 **Location:** SANTIAGO, CHILE **Description:** Astronomers. Odd slow meteor puffs smoke. Hovers. Shoots away. / r129p75. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 75) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_645 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Chile", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "521", **HatchDesc:** "SANTIAGO,CHILE:ASTRONOMRS:ODD SLO METEOR PUFFS SMOKE:HVRS:shoots away:/r129p75", **LatLong:** "-33.450002 -70.633337", **LatLongDMS:** "33:27:00 S 70:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-33.450002,-70.633337)", **State/Prov:** "SNT", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4956 (48811163) **Date:** 5/19/1947 **Time:** 12:20 **Location:** MANITOU SPRINGS, CO **Description:** 7 railroad/railway men. Silver saucer / acrobatics / 20 mn. Going quickly [to] WNW into wind. / r26p154. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 229) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_646 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "1926", **HatchDesc:** "MANITOU SPRINGS,CO:7 RR MEN:SLVR SCR/ACROBATICS/20mn:>>WNW into wind:/r26p154", **LatLong:** "38.850002 -104.916672", **LatLongDMS:** "38:51:00 N 104:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.850002,-104.916672)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4957 (6DF56BB5) **Date:** 5/19/1947 **Location:** Manitou Springs, CO **Description:** Silver Object Gyrates Then Heads WNW (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [470519](http://www.nicap.org/470519manitousprings%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_321 ### Event 4958 (E1D1EDA9) **Date:** 5/19/1947 **Locations:** Pike’s Peak Railway; Manitou Springs, Colorado **Description:** Around 12:30 p.m. Navy veteran [Dean A. Hauser](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/110621454/dean-arnold-hauser) and six other Pike’s Peak Railway workers \(including Ted Weigand, Marion Hisshouse, T. J. Smith, L. D. Jamison\) at Manitou Springs, Colorado, are taking a lunch break when they watch a silver object come in from the northwest, hover overhead, and gyrate at 1,000 feet. The UFO is moving “erratically in wide circles” and reflects light like it is made of metal. After 20 minutes it disappears in a straight line to the west-northwest. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Manitou Vets Relate Story: Another ‘Disk’ Seen,” Denver Post, June 28, 1947, p. 1; Bloecher, [p. I-1](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionI.htm); Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Jan-Jun-23-SN.pdf) [January 1st–June 23rd, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Jan-Jun-23-SN.pdf), The Author, 2000, pp. 29–30 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_918 ### Event 4959 (3D48C23F) **Date:** 5/19/1947 **Description:** At 12:15 p.m. seven railroad workers in Manitou Springs, Colorado watched a silver saucer do acrobatics for 20 minutes. The object flew away quickly to the west-northwest into the wind. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Denver Post, June 28, 1947; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers Are Real, p. 66; NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1978, p. 3; APRO Bulletin, December 1977, p. 8; Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, May 1992, p. 19 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2969 ### Event 4960 (69D606F6) **Date:** 5/25/1947? **Location:** HEALY, AK **Description:** 1 observer. Glittering silver disk over rail line here. Trails teardrop cloud. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_647 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "394", **HatchDesc:** "HEALY,AK:1 OBS:GLITTERING SLVR DISK OVR RAIL LINE HERE:TRAILS TEARDROP CLOUD", **LatLong:** "63.861114 -148.966674", **LatLongDMS:** "63:51:40 N 148:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/63.861114,-148.966674)", **State/Prov:** "Alaska", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4961 (78D1FFAC) **Date:** Late 5/1947 **Location:** Beaufort (near), SC **Description:** Four Discs Flying Overhead (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [4705Late](http://www.nicap.org/4705XXbeaufort%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_322 ### Event 4962 (62418B81) **Date:** Late 5/1947 **Locations:** Augusta, Georgia; St. Helena Sound; Beaufort, South Carolina **Description:** 11:00 a.m. [Colden R. Battey](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/26920458/colden-rhind-battey), a physician from Augusta, Georgia, is fishing 10 miles off St. Helena Sound, near Beaufort, South Carolina. He notices a formation of four disc-like objects flying overhead in a southeasterly direction at a terrific rate of speed. The discs appear to be spinning on their axes and are at an estimated altitude of 20,000 feet. They are silvery and appear highly polished, and on their undersides Battey can see a circular rim or projection, about one-quarter of the way from the edges. No sound is heard as they fly overhead. The formation speeds out of view in less than 20 seconds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Four Discs Flying Overhead](http://www.nicap.org/4705XXbeaufort%5Fdir.htm)”; Bloecher, [p. I-2](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionI.htm) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_919 ### Event 4963 (AC0F99F2) **Date:** Late 5/1947 **Location:** Beaufort, South Carolina **Description:** A fisherman observed a formation of four spinning, highly-polished disc-shaped UFOs. They flew by noiselessly, and each had a circular rim or projection on the underside, about one-quarter of the way from their edges. (Chapter 8, Ref 339) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_329 ### Event 4964 (59D557FE) **Date:** End of 5/1947 **Location:** USA, St Helena Found (South Carolina) **Description:** (Translated from French) Colden R. Battey, a doctor from Augusta (Georgia) was fishing when he saw a formation of 4 discs fly over quickly. They were silver, seemed to spin around their axis, and reflected the light. (1947, End of May) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "Des S.V. aux OVNI" - SOBEPS 1976 - p. 33 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1167 ### Event 4965 (0510E45A) **Date:** 5/28/1947 (approximate) **Time:** 11:00 **Location:** OFF ST. HELENA SOUND, SC **Description:** Men / boat. 4 silent silver saucers spin going quickly southeast / terrific speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 289) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_648 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "OFF St HELENA SOUND,SC:MEN/BOAT:4 SILENT SLVR SCRS SPIN>>SE/TERRIFIC SPEED:", **LatLong:** "32.400002 -80.300004", **LatLongDMS:** "32:24:00 N 80:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.400002,-80.300004)", **State/Prov:** "South Carolina", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4966 (8CD81B09) **Date:** 5/29/1947 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 79.3km altitude (Hermes II prototype with dummy Organ ramjet test. Lost control after 4s and crashed outside range near Juarez, Mexico. **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_229 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 79.3km ### Event 4967 (09E9D5EB) **Date:** 5/29/1947 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) In the forenoon launch of a V2, it falls beyond the Polygon at El Paso. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, p. 258 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1168 ### Event 4968 (6A21EB76) **Date:** 5/29/1947 **Locations:** White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico; Tepeyac Cemetery; Juárez, Mexico **Description:** 7:30 p.m. A Hermes II test missile \(a modified V-2\) is launched from White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico to test the “Organ,” a series of ramjet air intakes designed to take pressure measurements. The missile travels south instead of north and lands in the Tepeyac Cemetery, 3 miles south of Juárez, Mexico, creating an international incident. It leaves a crater 50 feet wide and 24 feet deep. German scientists [Wernher Von Braun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher%5Fvon%5FBraun) and [Ernst Steinhoff](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst%5FSteinhoff) are conducting the test. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Hermes program](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes%5Fprogram\#Hermes%5FII%29)”; J. Terry White, “[The Hermes II Incident,](https://www.whiteeagleaerospace.com/the-hermes-ii-incident/)” White Eagle Aerospace, May 2, 2011 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_920 ### Event 4969 (70DD9E20) **Date:** 5/31/1947 **Location:** Coral Gables, FL **Description:** Student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright class photo in newspaper **Type:** newspaper article **Reference:** [link](https://github.com/richgel999/dr_shirley_wright/blob/main/miami_news_31_may_1947_diploma_pic.png) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_230 **Attributes:** Einstein ### Event 4970 (1D012C65) **Date:** 5/31/1947 **Description:** A former military photographer claimed that a UFO, 30-40 feet in diameter and about 15 feet in height, crashed near the area of Socorro, New Mexico and was recovered on this day. One occupant of the craft was killed in the crash, while three others allegedly emerged alive. When they were found by the U.S. military, the survivors reportedly made crying-like sounds and clutched box-like devices to their chests. One of them appeared to be injured. The occupants were of small height and had copper based blood. This object was reportedly eventually sent to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, and ended up at the "Hangar 18" facility. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Phillip L Rife, It Didn't Start With Roswell; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1947 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3174 ### Event 4971 (E9F5E61F) **Date:** 6/1947 **Description:** Oppenheimer-Einstein Majestic Document on US Space Law, “Relationships with Inhabitants of Celestial Bodies” **Type:** majestic document **Reference:** [Majestic Document](https://majesticdocuments.com/pdf/oppenheimer_einstein.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_231 **Attributes:** Einstein, majestic ### Event 4972 (3027CF91) **Date:** 6/1947 **Location:** ROMANIA, Oradea **Description:** (Translated from French) Testimony of Andréas Schulhof: He relates the time of June 1947 when he saw through the window of a train six unusual objects flying in formation near Oradea at a speed such that he attributed to them a speed of 2000 km/h. **Reference:** Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: "Les OVNI en URSS et dans les pays de l'Est" - trad. Laffont 1976 - p. 296 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1170 ### Event 4973 (84B782DD) **Date:** 6/1947 **Location:** USA, Oak Ridge (Tennessee) **Description:** (Translated from French) The first "UFO" incident above the Oak Ridge atomic base dates back to June 1947, with the photograph taken by a civilian. **Reference:** J. Allen HYNEK: "New Report on UFOs" - Belfond 1979 - p. 141, 142 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1171 ### Event 4974 (4E233204) **Date:** 6/1947 **Location:** Oak Ridge Nuc. Fac., TN **Description:** Air Space Violation; photographed, photos confiscated. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973_, by Richard Dolan](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/mode/2up) **Source:** Dolan, **ID:** Dolan_15 ### Event 4975 (EFCB56BA) **Date:** 6/1947 **Time:** ~10:00 **Location:** SODRA HAMMARBY, SWD **Description:** Plain tube-cylinder/cylindrical object going north. Fast 90° turn and instant acceleration going quickly east. / r171p131. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 231) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_649 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "SODRA HAMMARBY,SWD:PLAIN TUBE-CYL > N:FAST 90°TURN+INSTANT ACCEL >>E:/r171p131", **LatLong:** "59.305558 18.133334", **LatLongDMS:** "59:18:20 N 18:08:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/59.305558,18.133334)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4976 (7045E0C8) **Date:** 6/1947 **Location:** Oak Ridge, Tennessee **Description:** AMC civilian engineer W. R. Presley takes a muddy photo of a UFO at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. It is most likely a photographic flaw. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Hynek UFO Report, [p. 142](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/142/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_921 ### Event 4977 (B9A2471C) **Date:** 6/2/1947 **Location:** USA, Rehoboth (Delaware) **Description:** (Translated from French) Report from Forest Wenyon: a UFO in the shape of a jar moving very quickly. The witnesses were interviewed by the FBI. **Reference:** doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee translated by Jean Sider **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1169 ### Event 4978 (9F95D03F) **Date:** 6/2/1947 **Location:** OVER LEWES, DE **Description:** Pilot. Fast "mayo jar" crosses nose / light plane. Going quickly east / 12Kmph. / MJ#121. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 6) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_650 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "ovr LEWES,DE:PILOT:FAST "MAYO JAR" CROSSES NOSE/LITE PLANE:>>E/12Kmph:/MJ#121", **LatLong:** "38.772224 -75.138892", **LatLongDMS:** "38:46:20 N 75:08:20 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.772224,-75.138892)", **State/Prov:** "Delaware", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 4979 (489D2A3F) **Date:** 6/2/1947 **Location:** Rehoboth Beach, DE **Description:** Pilot in aircraft saw a silvery jar-shaped object (Project 1947; McDonald list; FOIA; Bloecher 1967) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [470602](http://www.nicap.org/470602rehoboth%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_323 ### Event 4980 (2004B2FA) **Date:** 6/2/1947 **Location:** Rehoboth Beach, Delaware **Description:** Private pilot [Forrest Wenyon](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/132907687/forrest-proffitt-wenyon) is flying over Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, and sees a silvery, jar-shaped object cross in front of his plane. It has a silver-white, fiery exhaust. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Jar-Shaped Object Crosses in Front of](http://www.nicap.org/470602rehoboth%5Fdir.htm) [Aircraft](http://www.nicap.org/470602rehoboth%5Fdir.htm)”; Bloecher, [p. III-9](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 16 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_922 ### Event 4981 (04750111) **Date:** 6/2/1947 **Description:** Pilot Wenyon reported that a silver, "mayo-jar" shaped UFO crossed in front of his light plane while flying at between 10,000 and 12,000 feet near Lewes, Delaware on this day. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Ted Bloecher investigation files, clipping dated July 8, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, p. 6; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 9 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3218 ### Event 4982 (E5D93F3A) **Date:** 6/2/1947 **Description:** At 1:30 p.m. an inverted saucer-shaped disc of brilliant metal was sighted by John Laube and Fred Platte in Waverly, Iowa. It flew just above the top of a 180-foot grain elevator at Waverly Sugar Manufacturing Plant. They had it in sight for five minutes before it was obscured by trees as it flew away. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 Research Notes, Bordentown, New Jersey, April 16, 2005, citing Waterloo Courier, July 10, 1947 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3219 ### Event 4983 (F27AA942) **Date:** 6/4/1947 **Location:** Alamogordo Army Air Field **Description:** Project Mogul flight number 4 is allegedly launched from Alamogordo Army Air Field. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Kevin D. Randle, “The Project Mogul Flights and Roswell,” IUR 19, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1994\): 6–7, 23; Robert J. Durant, “[Project Mogul](http://www.cufos.org/Roswell/durant.pdf) [Still a Flight of Fancy,](http://www.cufos.org/Roswell/durant.pdf)” IUR 26, no. 1 \(Spring 2001\): 17–27; David Rudiak, “[The Phony Mogul Balloon](https://roswellproof.homestead.com/Flight4%5FTrajectory.html) [Trajectory,](https://roswellproof.homestead.com/Flight4%5FTrajectory.html)” 2002; Kevin D. Randle, “[Mogul and Roswell,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2013/07/mogul-and-roswell.html)” A Different Perspective,” July 11, 2013; Kevin D. Randle, “[A Few Facts about Project Mogul,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2013/07/mogul-and-roswell.html)” A Different Perspective, August 12, 2013; Kevin D. Randle, “[Truth](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2016/04/truth-about-mogul.html) [about Mogul,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2016/04/truth-about-mogul.html)” A Different Perspective, April 4, 2016 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_923 ### Event 4984 (592F91AD) **Date:** 6/6/1947 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** BOMBAY, INDIA **Description:** Dazzling fireball then round blue night light with small objects orbiting. / r129p95+/ news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 236) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_651 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "India", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "18", **HatchDesc:** "BOMBAY,INDIA:DAZZLING FBL then RND BLU NLT w/SML OBJs ORBITING:/r129p95+/news", **LatLong:** "18.983334 72.850003", **LatLongDMS:** "18:59:00 N 72:51:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/18.983334,72.850003)", **State/Prov:** "Maharashtra", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 4985 (FC6191F8) **Date:** 6/6/1947 **Description:** On this evening around 9 p.m. a dazzling fireball was seen over Bombay, India. Then a round blue ball of light appeared, surrounded by smaller objects orbiting it. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 652, citing Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1947 (2nd edition), p. 36 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3316 ### Event 4986 (C58D5331) **Date:** 6/7/1947 **Location:** INDIA, Bombay **Description:** (Translated from French) According to the "Times of India" UFOs were seen above Bombay. **Reference:** "UFO's: A century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 33 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1172 ### Event 4987 (6B7098CC) **Date:** 6/9/1947 **Locations:** eastern Siberia; U.S. **Description:** A still-unlocated air intelligence summary is released, alleging that the Soviets in eastern Siberia are producing \(or may be able to produce\) 1,400 \(or 1,800\) aircraft based on the [Horten brothers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten%5Fbrothers)’ VIII-type, low-aspect, disc- shaped design by 1952. A Russian aviation historian thinks that the factories in question are at the time producing copies of the German Messerschmidt Me 262 jet fighter. A correct, more detailed summary of the intelligence report is published in December 1948 in Air Intelligence Report Number 100-203-79, “Analysis of Flying Object Incidents in the U.S.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_924 ### Event 4988 (719CA85E) **Date:** 6/10/1947 **Location:** HUNGARY, Budapest **Description:** (Translated from French) U.S. Air Force records contain cases observed in Budapest on this date. Ted Bloecher, who mentions this in his "Report on the UFO Wave of 1947," does not give any details since his study only concerns the American wave of 1947. (Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: "Les OVNI en URSS et dans les pays de l'Est" - translated by Laffont 1976 - p. 246) Gyorik Ference saw four objects of yellow-red color in the shape of plates flying above Budapest. (note of vog: here is the contradiction in the following sentence) The objects were spherical and silver in color. **Reference:** "UFO's: A century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 33 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1173 ### Event 4989 (E3509C27) **Date:** 6/10/1947 **Location:** USA, Douglas (Arizona) **Description:** (Translated from French) At 11 PM, Mrs. Coral Lorenzen saw a light rising from the Mexican side, it was spherical in shape and rose quickly until it disappeared among the stars. The observation only lasted 10 seconds. **Reference:** Ufo Roundup vol. 2 n° 21 25.5.97 **Reference:** with her husband Jim Lorenzen they then created APRO **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1174 ### Event 4990 (8107CA5A) **Date:** 6/10/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Sighting over Budapest \(Hungary\). (June 10) **Reference:** Ted Bloecher, *Report on the UFO Wave of 1947*, Archives de l'AAF **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_604 ### Event 4991 (EC11BAFF) **Date:** 6/10/1947 **Time:** 15:30 **Location:** BUDAPEST, HUNG **Description:** Approximate 50 report(s) / silver balls. 14 May. '1947. Silent 4' saucer going quickly northwest / 400mph / USAF Tech. Intel. Center. (ATIC.) **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 69) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_652 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Hungary", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "232", **HatchDesc:** "BUDAPEST,HUNG:APRX 50 RPTS/SLVR BALLS::14MAY1947:SLNT 4'SCR >>NW/400mph/ATIC", **LatLong:** "47.500002 19.050001", **LatLongDMS:** "47:30:00 N 19:03:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.500002,19.050001)", **State/Prov:** "BDB", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 4992 (314D9FC9) **Date:** 6/10/1947 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** AGUA PRIETA, MEXICO **Description:** Night light-sphere rises / ground. Flies going up [to] stars. Seen / Douglas, AZ / C Lorenzen. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 365) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_653 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Mexico", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1170", **HatchDesc:** "AGUA PRIETA,MEX:NLT-SPHERE RISES/GND:FLIES ↑ STARS:SEEN/DOUGLAS,AZ/C LORENZEN", **LatLong:** "31.300001 -109.566672", **LatLongDMS:** "31:18:00 N 109:34:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.300001,-109.566672)", **State/Prov:** "Sonora", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 4993 (D99F6AA1) **Date:** 6/10/1947 **Time:** 2300 **Location:** Douglas, Arizona **Description:** Coral Lorenzen saw a light rise from the ground in Mexican territory. It took a definite spherical shape and vanished in less than ten seconds among the stars. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Lor. I 4 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_55 ### Event 4994 (5305ABC9) **Date:** 6/10/1947 **Location:** Arena Street [modern Dózsa György út] in Budapest, Hungary **Description:** 3:30 p.m. Gyorik Ferenc and others on Arena Street \[modern Dózsa György út\] in Budapest, Hungary, watch four yellow-red discs moving toward the northwest in a straight-line formation for about 30 seconds. They are about 165 feet apart. The objects make a small arc around a corner of a park before disappearing. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Project Blue](https://archive.org/details/1947-06-9668691-Hungary/mode/2up) [Book record](https://archive.org/details/1947-06-9668691-Hungary/mode/2up); Joe Brill, “UFOs behind the Iron Curtain,” Skylook, no. 76, March 1974, p. 8 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_925 ### Event 4995 (31351304) **Date:** 6/10/1947 **Description:** At 11:00 p.m. in Agua Prieta, Mexico a glowing sphere was seen as it rose from the ground and flew up into the night sky. At the same time in Douglas, Arizona Coral Lorenzen, the co-founder of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization in 1952 and future author of seven books on the UFO phenomenon, witnessed an unidentified light land remotely, take on a definite spherical shape, then shoot up rapidly from the ground and vanish in less than ten seconds among the stars. According to the Air Force files there were more than fifty reports of UFOs seen during the daytime over Budapest, Hungary. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 16; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of the Phenomenon, p. 50; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 191 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3404 ### Event 4996 (C152B180) **Date:** 6/11/1947 (estimated) **Description:** Student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright’s last day of high school **Type:** scientist **Reference:** [link](https://github.com/richgel999/dr_shirley_wright) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_232 **Attributes:** Einstein ### Event 4997 (069C7138) **Date:** 6/12/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Observation of 2 discs with central hole on their underside. (June 12) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_605 ### Event 4998 (DEF73841) **Date:** 6/12/1947 **Time:** 18:20 **Location:** WEISER, ID **Description:** 2 tiny shiny objects drift. Going up and down [to] 2X fast. CC away going quickly southeast. Contrail. / r187#8. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 232) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_654 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "649", **HatchDesc:** "WEISER,ID:2 TINY SHNY OBJS DRIFT:↑+↓ 2X FAST:CC AWAY>>SE:CONTRAIL:/r187#8", **LatLong:** "44.250002 -116.966672", **LatLongDMS:** "44:15:00 N 116:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.250002,-116.966672)", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 4999 (6E48832F) **Date:** 6/12/1947 **Location:** Weiser, ID **Description:** 6:15 p.m. 2 high speed round objects glistening in the sun at high altitude (McDonald list; FOIA; FUFOR Index; Bloecher 1967) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [470612](http://www.nicap.org/weiser470612dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_324 ### Event 5000 (F7DA5A53) **Date:** 6/12/1947 **Location:** Weiser, Idaho **Description:** 6:15 p.m. [Lovena Erickson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21780741/lovena-erickson) sees two high-speed, round objects at a high altitude over Weiser, Idaho. They move up and down twice and leave a vapor trail that persists for more than an hour. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[June 12, 1947,](http://www.nicap.org/weiser470612dir.htm) [Weiser, Idaho](http://www.nicap.org/weiser470612dir.htm)”; Bloecher, [p. II-8](https://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionII.htm)[;](https://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionII.htm) [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 17 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_926 ### Event 5001 (6896DFA3) **Date:** 6/12/1947 **Description:** A bright metallic ovoid object was seen from the highway in Weiser, Idaho by a Mrs. Erickson and her daughter at 6:15 p.m. The UFO zigzagged to the southwest. It and a second object were in view for three minutes before vanishing. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers Are Real, p. 24 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3432 ### Event 5002 (AB145276) **Date:** 6/13/1947 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** WEST / FLEURE, FR **Description:** 6M orange-glowing-cylinder/cigar-shape with bright halo. Lands / 5 minute(s) in storm. Going up [to] and away. / r171p162. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 198) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_655 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "W/FLEURE,FR:6M ORG-GLOW-CGR W/BRITE HALO:LANDS/5min in STORM:↑+AWAY:/r171p162", **LatLong:** "46.472224 0.466667", **LatLongDMS:** "46:28:20 N 00:28:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.472224,0.466667)", **State/Prov:** "Vienne", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5003 (EBF94B18) **Date:** 6/13/1947 **Description:** At 11:30 p.m. west of Fleure, France a six-meter long, glowing orange cigar-shaped object surrounded by a bright halo landed in a storm. It stayed on the ground for five minutes, ascended quickly and shot away. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #198 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3453 ### Event 5004 (9BA286D3) **Date:** 6/14/1947 **Location:** USA, Bakersfield (California) **Description:** (Translated from French) Richard Rankin, Palm Springs, California, pilot, reported having observed 10 flying saucers above Bakersfield on the 23rd (error, it was the 14th) of June. They were flying at an altitude of 9000 feet, quickly, at a speed of 300 or 400 mph. "I counted 10 in formation," he said. "They were heading north. At 2:15 pm (error, it was noon) they turned around, heading south, and there were only seven left in the formation. I couldn't see their engines, or where they were located, and they had no wings. They appeared round to me. They resembled the drawings of the "Navy's Flying Flapjack". The Navy claims the Flapjack have not left their base. Rankin has logged 7000 hours of flight, and is the brother of stunt pilot Tex Rankin. (from the "Las Vegas Review-Journal, July 2, 1947. Portland, Ore., July 2.") Richard Rankin was outside at noon and watching a boy mowing the neighbor's lawn. The weather was clear and sunny when Rankin and the young man saw ten objects flying in a loose V formation. They were heading north. But then seven of the discs turned around and flew back over them on their way south. Their diameter was 30 to 35 feet and they were flying at an estimated speed of 350 mph at an altitude of about 8500 feet. (1947, June 14 (not 23).) **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 33 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1175 ### Event 5005 (FB67B2FF) **Date:** 6/14/1947 **Location:** USA, Roswell (New Mexico) **Description:** (Translated from French) Mac Brazel finds on his ranch 140 km from Roswell debris from an unknown device. Only on July 7th did he inform the sheriff who alerted the military base. On July 8th Colonel Blanchard announced the recovery of a crashed flying disc. That same evening General Ramey denied this information saying it was a weather balloon. For 50 years now this affair has been the subject of much ink: UFO or not UFO? Recovery of some small dead and alive creatures by the USAF? Will we ever know? All authors have abundantly described the peregrinations of the affair, from Stanton Friedman to Crain Jr, from Maurice Chatelain to Gildas Bourdais, from Ph. Corso to Lagrange, and I forget dozens... (1947, June 14th and following days) **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1176 ### Event 5006 (EE9EC90E) **Date:** 6/14/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Observation of [Richard Rankin](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/temoins.html\#RankinRichard) in Bakersfield \(California\). (June 14) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_606 ### Event 5007 (2D4AF785) **Date:** 6/14/1947 **Location:** Bakersfield, CA **Description:** Ten "Almost Round" Objects In Formation (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [470614](http://www.nicap.org/470614bakersfield%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_325 ### Event 5008 (5B2BD393) **Date:** 6/14/1947 **Description:** At noon in Bakersfield, California a man saw 10 flying saucers fly over in a triangular formation. Their speed was estimated to be 900 kilometers per hour. The report was one of the early cases investigated by the FBI. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1978, p. 3 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3471 ### Event 5009 (4D7A5499) **Date:** 6/15/1947 **Location:** USA, Lansing (Michigan) **Description:** (Translated from French) At 9:30 PM Harry Ripper was alerted by the house owner Mrs. Letta Loree, who saw "balls of fire" jumping in and out of the clouds, like clay pigeons, and burning for ten minutes. Ripper got tired of the show and went home. Once at home he saw a stationary beam of light, but he thought it was not related to the phenomenon observed. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 33 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1177 ### Event 5010 (A9B26EC4) **Date:** 6/15/1947 (approximate) **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** LANSING, MI **Description:** 2 observer(s). Fireballs shoot to and fro between clouds like clay pigeons. / r171p64. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 237) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_656 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "250", **HatchDesc:** "LANSING,MI:2 OBS:FBLS SHOOT TO+FRO BTWN CLOUDS LIKE CLAY PIGEONS:/r171p64", **LatLong:** "42.705558 -84.516671", **LatLongDMS:** "42:42:20 N 84:31:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.705558,-84.516671)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5011 (844E9367) **Date:** 6/15/1947 (approximate) **Time:** 22:10 **Location:** NORTH / DECLO, ID **Description:** Night light zigzags. Shines cone / light going down. Flies going quickly north over lava desert / no towns. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 81) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_657 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc. **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "1292", **HatchDesc:** "N/DECLO,ID:NLT ZIGZAGS:SHINES CONE/LITE ↓:FLIES>>N OVR LAVA DESERT/NO TOWNS", **LatLong:** "42.750002 -113.655561", **LatLongDMS:** "42:45:00 N 113:39:20 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.750002,-113.655561)", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5012 (2B8B444C) **Date:** 6/16/1947 **Location:** USA, Valley City (North Dakota) **Description:** (Translated from French) Firefighter Hjalmer Lokken reported having observed at around 9 PM "something that looked like a very red ball" passing quickly through the sky at the height of the flag flying over the college (65 m altitude) and heading west. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 33 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1178 ### Event 5013 (05549DCC) **Date:** 6/16/1947 (approximate) **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** VALLEY CITY, ND **Description:** Fireman. Bright red 40cm ball going quickly west / ~20M altitude. Extremely fast. No further details. / r171p64. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 237) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_658 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "372", **HatchDesc:** "VALLEY CITY,ND:FIREMAN:BRITE RED 40cm BALL >>W/~20M alt:XFAST:NFD:/r171p64", **LatLong:** "46.916669 -98.005560", **LatLongDMS:** "46:55:00 N 98:00:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.916669,-98.005560)", **RelAlt:** "20", **State/Prov:** "North Dakota", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 5014 (506E92EE) **Date:** 6/17/1947 **Location:** USA, Dubuque (Iowa) **Description:** (Translated from French) Mrs. Louis Korn, of 879 Rush Street, saw six objects which were all alike, above the Mississippi River. They appeared to measure only two feet long by one foot wide, and were oval in shape and somewhat vaporous, somewhat like a white cloud. They seemed to float gently in the air, remaining visible for an hour. The Korns saw identical objects again on July 4, 1947. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 34 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1179 ### Event 5015 (58B48B44) **Date:** 6/17/1947 **Time:** 14:00? **Location:** MURTAUGH, ID **Description:** 2 observer(s). Flat silver-white disk going down. Levels off and away. Bright rays. Exudes vapor. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 460) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_659 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "1244", **HatchDesc:** "MURTAUGH,ID:2 OBS:FLAT SLVR-WHT DISK ↓:LEVELS OFF+AWAY:BRITE RAYS:EXUDES VAPOR", **LatLong:** "42.494446 -114.161117", **LatLongDMS:** "42:29:40 N 114:09:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.494446,-114.161117)", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5016 (D44CDF7C) **Date:** 6/17/1947 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** BREMERTON, WA **Description:** 2+1 separate observer(s). Platter disks since afternoon. Extreme speeds going quickly west. Waver. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 10) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_660 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "180", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "BREMERTON,WA:2+1 SEP.OBS:PLATTER DISKS SINCE AFTERNOON:XTREME SPEEDS>>W:WAVER", **LatLong:** "47.566669 -122.616673", **LatLongDMS:** "47:34:00 N 122:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.566669,-122.616673)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5017 (1BBDFBAC) **Date:** 6/17/1947 (approximate) **Time:** 23:00? **Location:** MADISON, WI **Description:** E. McGilvery PhD. Bright round self-Illum.obj 2 / 3 moon-size southwest going quickly northeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 12) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_661 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "259", **HatchDesc:** "MADISON,WI:E.McGILVERY PhD:BRITE ROUND SELF-ILLUM.OBJ 2/3 MOONSIZE SW>>NE:", **LatLong:** "43.083335 -89.383338", **LatLongDMS:** "43:05:00 N 89:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.083335,-89.383338)", **State/Prov:** "Wisconsin", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5018 (05430AD5) **Date:** 6/17/1947 **Time:** 1030 **Location:** Bisbee, Arizona **Description:** John A. Petsche, electrical worker and another witness independently saw a disk-shaped object, which seemed to land near Tintown. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Lor. I 6 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_58 ### Event 5019 (A92D2DF8) **Date:** 6/17/1947 **Description:** On this day in 1947 three platter-shaped discs were seen hovering in the sky for a period of three hours over Bremerton, Washington from late in the afternoon until evening. The objects wavered as they flew, and shot off at extreme speeds toward the west. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 26, 1947 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3524 ### Event 5020 (E3E37960) **Date:** 6/18/1947 **Location:** USA, Eugene (Oregon) **Description:** (Translated from French) E.H. Sprinkler saw in the southwestern sky a multitude of saucers flying in the direction of the northeast. Sprinkler wanted to take a photo, but their speed was so great that they were out of sight before his camera was ready. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 34 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1180 ### Event 5021 (910E2BE0) **Date:** 6/18/1947 (approximate) **Location:** USA, Bremerton (Washington) **Description:** (Translated from French) Mrs. Elma Shingler, who lives west of the Cascade Mountains, saw twice objects shaped like saucers, reflecting light, flying at dizzying speeds. (1947, around June 18) **Reference:** "UFO's: A century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 34 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1181 ### Event 5022 (7EE8AAA7) **Date:** 6/18/1947 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** NEAR EUGENE, OR **Description:** E. Sprinkle and 5. 7 round objects going quickly northeast overhead / X-formation. Poor photograph taken. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 13) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_662 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "130", **HatchDesc:** "nr EUGENE,OR:E.SPRINKLE+5:7 ROUND OBJS >>NE OVHD/X-FORMATION:POOR FOTO TAKEN:", **LatLong:** "44.133335 -123.083339", **LatLongDMS:** "44:08:00 N 123:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.133335,-123.083339)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5023 (5A3A1F78) **Date:** 6/18/1947 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** PRINCETON UNIVERSITY/UNIVERSE(AL), NJ **Description:** Ex-registrar. Moon-size fiery ring going [to] over high school / minutes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Newspaper account: Princeton Herald [NJ] for 11JLY47, on file here as 18JUNE47.txt cr: Joel Carpenter. **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_663 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "66", **HatchDesc:** "PRINCETON UNIV,NJ:EX-REGISTRAR:MOONSIZE FIERY RING >OVR HIGH SCHOOL/MINUTES.", **LatLong:** "40.350002 -74.650004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:21:00 N 74:39:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.350002,-74.650004)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5024 (E8C10E02) **Date:** 6/18/1947 **Locations:** Eugene, Oregon; Skinner's Butte **Description:** Day. E. H. Sprinkle is one of a half-dozen Eugene, Oregon, residents who spot a formation of round objects “racing overhead” on a course to the northeast. Watching from Skinner’s Butte outside town. Sprinkle takes a snapshot of the objects with an inexpensive camera as they race over. Enlargements of the photograph show “seven dots” in a formation “shaped like an X or a Y, lined up across the sky.” Newspaper photographers say the dots “might be a fault in the developing process” that sometimes appears on a negative that has not been agitated properly in the developer. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Local Man Asserts Flights Seen Here,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/11713669/case-13-e-h-sprinkle/)” Eugene \(Oreg.\) Guard, June 26, 1947, p. 1; Bloecher, [p. IV-3](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIV.htm) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_927 ### Event 5025 (934C3960) **Date:** 6/19/1947 **Location:** USA, Webster (Massachusetts) **Description:** (Translated from French) An elderly lady saw from her window an object of the apparent size of the moon, passing nearby. In this object there was a slender figure whose clothing resembled a Navy uniform **Reference:** Inforespace No. 48 of 1979, p. 29 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1182 ### Event 5026 (413D88FE) **Date:** 6/19/1947 **Location:** Webster, MA **Description:** Unidentified woman who saw an occupant inside an object who looked like "a Navy officer." (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_326 ### Event 5027 (C580CB9D) **Date:** 6/19/1947 **Locations:** Muroc AFB; Edwards AFB; California **Description:** USAAF Col. [Albert Boyd](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%5FBoyd) reaches a world airspeed record of 624 mph in a Lockheed P-80R Shooting Star at Muroc AFB \[later Edwards AFB\], California. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Albert Boyd](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%5FBoyd)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_928 ### Event 5028 (2545C7E2) **Date:** 6/19/1947 **Locations:** Baltic Sea; Sweden **Description:** Maj. Gen. [Stephen Chamberlin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%5FJ.%5FChamberlin)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%5FJ.%5FChamberlin) head of War Department Intelligence, authorizes three electronic signals intelligence flights between July 1 and August 1 to look for radio signals over the Baltic Sea. The Swedish military is told that they are training flights. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_929 ### Event 5029 (04DEB269) **Date:** 6/20/1947 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** HOT SPRINGS, NM **Description:** 2 observer(s). 3 groups / 3 saucers each going northeast. Turn / delta/triangle/box-like craft formation. / ABQJ2JLY47+/ r187#17. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_664 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "1293", **HatchDesc:** "HOT SPRINGS,NM:2 OBS:3 GRPS/3 SCRS EACH>NE:TURN/DLT FORMN:/ABQJ2JLY47+/r187#17", **LatLong:** "33.133335 -107.250005", **LatLongDMS:** "33:08:00 N 107:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.133335,-107.250005)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5030 (C12339B5) **Date:** 6/20/1947 **Location:** Hot Springs, NM **Description:** 8:00 PM MST. Woman and her daughter observed three revolving groups of three discs in trianglular formation , straight course, S-NE (Bloecher,17,II-9) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_327 ### Event 5031 (3C82EB2D) **Date:** 6/21/1947 **Location:** Maury Island, WA **Description:** Harold Dahl sees 6 discs near Tacoma Harbor, WA. Drops metal residue. **Type:** UFO sightings **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_89 **Attributes:** metals ### Event 5032 (8957AA9F) **Date:** 6/21/1947 **Description:** Maury Island Incident **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/so-whatever-happened-to-harold-a-dahl-of-the-1947-maury-island-incident-fb5a4cdb626e) **Reference:** [link](https://medium.com/@richgel99/the-bsra-tested-fragments-from-the-maury-island-incident-cd20c2d14324) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_233 **Attributes:** metals ### Event 5033 (34358E2F) **Date:** 6/21/1947 **Location:** USA, Saint Joe **Description:** (Translated from French) A woman from Spokane saw eight discs descending in a "falling leaf" pattern near the banks of the Saint Joe River (Idaho). **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 34 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1183 ### Event 5034 (342866FF) **Date:** 6/21/1947 **Location:** USA, Maury Island, Tacoma **Description:** (Translated from French) 14:00: Dahl, on a patrol boat in the harbor, saw when looking up, at 600 m altitude, 6 machines resembling giant inner tubes with portholes. 5 of them were slowly turning around the 6th, which seemed to be in trouble. They slowly and silently descended to 150 m above the water. After a muffled explosion, the central object started to pour out slag and molten metal, which hit the water with a hissing sound. The whole group then rose and moved away out to sea. Dahl made a report to his superior Fred L. Crisman, who was initially skeptical before seeing a saucer himself in the area. Through editor Ray Dero Palmer, Kenneth Arnold met Dahl who claimed that in the meantime he had been contacted by a mysterious man in black. This man described the Tacoma incident as clearly as if he had been standing next to Dahl during the observation. The man ordered him to keep quiet. (Philippe SCHNEYDER: "Ovni, premier bilan" - éd. du Rocher 1983, p. 185) (...) "Five minutes passed like this, then one of the machines detached from the formation and approached the one that was not moving. It seemed to us that it touched it, then in turn it stopped. After a few minutes we heard a muffled sound and the lowest placed object started to eject thousands of (...) fine white metal particles that were fluttering in the air (...) Then the same object spat out black metal fragments that were thrown into the water or onto the beach. They must have been hot because their contact with the water caused a release of steam. We ran to take refuge on the rocks, but my son was burned on one arm by a fragment of this metal, while our dog was killed. Suddenly the metal rain stopped. The strange object and its five companions rose silently and headed west, towards the Pacific. (...) (A. RIBERA: "Ces mystérieux Ovni" - De Vecchi 1976, p. 66 to 71) All this affair would be a hoax set up to discredit the Kenneth Arnold case - also read "The coming of the Saucers" by K. Arnold, 1952, Palmer, and John Keel 'OUR HAUNTED PLANET'. [IN REALITY, it is a hoax, cfr: Edward J. Ruppelt: "Face aux Soucoupes Volantes", ed. France- Empire 1958, p. 39 to 42, where Ruppelt calls them Jackson and Richards although these are not their real names.] **Reference:** 1968., Fawcett Crest., Greenwich, Conn. **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1184 ### Event 5035 (CA8487EF) **Date:** 6/21/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Start of [the Maury Island affair](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/MauryIsland.html). An American Coast Guard vessel \(2 fishermen?\), with the captain's son \(15 years old\), his dog, and another crew member, is patrolling in Puget Sound. The boat stops in a bay of Maury Island, about 5 km from Tacoma. People on board the vessel then see 6 very large, doughnut-shaped objects just above their heads. None of these objects make any noise. 5 of the UFOs start to circle the 6th, which loses altitude until it stops, hovering. Afraid that the object might fall into the sea, Dahl moves the boat onto the beach. That's where he takes 4 photographs of the objects. The central UFO then vomits out pieces of molten metal that fall into the water and onto the shore. One of them kills the dog, another severely burns Dahl's son, and a seagull is also killed. The boat is damaged. Then the UFO rises, joins the others, and all 6 of them speed off over the Pacific. The men collect samples of the still-hot metal. Back at the port, [Dahl](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/DahlHaroldA.html) reports the events to his superior officer, [Fred Crisman](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/CrismanFredLee.html). (Saturday, June 21, 2 PM) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_607 ### Event 5036 (C77AD676) **Date:** Summer 1947 **Location:** Pittsburg, KS **Description:** Navy command reports disc-shaped objects. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973_, by Richard Dolan](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/mode/2up) **Source:** Dolan, **ID:** Dolan_23 ### Event 5037 (CB6035E3) **Date:** 6/21/1947 **Location:** YUKON, OKLA **Description:** Salesman. 6 "washtubs" fly over in formation. Very high. 2nd hand report. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 63) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_665 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "392", **HatchDesc:** "YUKON,OKLA:SALESMAN:6 "WASHTUBS" FLY OVR IN FORMATION:VERY HI:2nd HAND Rpt", **LatLong:** "35.505557 -97.761116", **LatLongDMS:** "35:30:20 N 97:45:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.505557,-97.761116)", **State/Prov:** "Oklahoma", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5038 (FC30D7A5) **Date:** 6/21/1947 **Time:** 11:50 **Location:** SPOKANE, WA **Description:** 8 observer(s). 8 house-size saucers going quickly southwest / 600mph and more. Dead leaf descent / Idaho side. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 56) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_666 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "600", **HatchDesc:** "SPOKANE,WA:8 OBS:8 HOUSE-SIZE SCRS >>SW/600mph+:DEAD LEAF DESCENT/IDAHO SIDE ", **LatLong:** "47.666669 -117.433339", **LatLongDMS:** "47:40:00 N 117:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.666669,-117.433339)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5039 (A132C9CA) **Date:** 6/21/1947 **Location:** Spokane, WA **Description:** Eight Disc-Shaped Objects Big As A House (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [470621](http://www.nicap.org/470621spokane%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_328 ### Event 5040 (2554125B) **Date:** 6/21/1947 **Location:** Maury Island, WA **Description:** Maury Island Incident (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [470621](http://www.nicap.org/maurydir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_329 ### Event 5041 (6ECB1F0E) **Date:** 6/21/1947 **Location:** Richland, WA **Description:** Three Flat Objects Faster Than P-38's (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [470621](http://www.nicap.org/470624richland%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_330 ### Event 5042 (16BCF475) **Date:** 6/21/1947 **Location:** Maury Island, near Tacoma, Washington **Description:** Harold A. Dahl and others allegedly saw six tire-shaped objects, 30 m in diameter, metallic with dark openings, over Puget Sound. One of the objects exploded, showering the witnesses with metal. Officially regarded as hoax. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Ruppelt ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_56 ### Event 5043 (AF76579E) **Date:** 6/21/1947 **Time:** 1150 **Location:** Spokane, Washington **Description:** Eight disk-shaped objects the size of a house, were seen flying at 1000 km/h. A civilian woman stated that the objects fell with a deadleaf motion and landed before ten witnesses on the shore of the Saint Joe River, in Idaho. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_57 ### Event 5044 (FA3E0927) **Date:** 6/21/1947 **Location:** Spokane, Washington **Description:** 11:55 a.m. [Guy R. Overman](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/158858384/guy-r-overman) watches several silvery objects moving below a plane at Spokane, Washington. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Eight Disc-Shaped Objects As Big As a House](http://www.nicap.org/470621spokane%5Fdir.htm)”; Bloecher, [p. II-18](https://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionII.htm); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 17 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_930 ### Event 5045 (A4618487) **Date:** 6/21/1947 **Location:** Maury Island, Washington **Description:** Log salvager [Harold A. Dahl](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/125878620/harold-albert-dahl) is patrolling east of Maury Island, Washington, with his 15-year-old son Charles and two crewmen when he allegedly sees six doughnut-shaped objects. Five of them are circling the sixth, which seems distressed. When it is directly above the boat at 500 feet, it supposedly spews some hot slag-like material that breaks Charles’s arm and kills his dog. Dahl claims he filmed the objects. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 721; John A. Keel, “The Maury Island Caper,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 40–43 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_931 ### Event 5046 (98797055) **Date:** Summer 1947 **Location:** Pittsburg, Kansas **Description:** Naval Cmdr. [L. H. Witherspoon](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36454572/luther-h-witherspoon) sees a disc-shaped UFO flash over the airport at Pittsburg, Kansas. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 30](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=42&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_959 ### Event 5047 (D643C924) **Date:** 6/21/1947 **Description:** Harold A. Dahl, his son, and others on board a boat allegedly saw six donut-shaped objects, 30 meters in diameter, metallic with dark openings, over a bay next to Maury Island on Puget Sound, Washington. One of the UFOs exploded, showered the witnesses with a slag-like metal. This case has been widely regarded as a hoax because of some deliberate deception of UFO investigator Kenneth Arnold by a shadowy con man named Chrisman who claimed to have been involved, but there are still unexplained elements to this case. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact, p. 47 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3565 ### Event 5048 (8A482004) **Date:** 6/21/1947 **Description:** Eight disc-shaped objects the size of a house were seen flying at 1,000 kph at 11:55 a.m. in Spokane, Washington. A woman stated that the objects fell with a falling leaf motion and landed before ten witnesses on the shore of the Saint Joe River, in Idaho. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Aime Michel, The Truth About Flying Saucers, p. 16; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 191 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3566 ### Event 5049 (B34A249E) **Date:** 6/22/1947 **Location:** USA, Radium Springs (Oregon) **Description:** (Translated from French) During the day of June 22 a "flying saucer" was observed by H.E. Hammond and his son L.V.W. Hammond, director of the Oregon Savings Bank Association. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 34 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1185 ### Event 5050 (EADF3A9A) **Date:** 6/22/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In the morning, a man dressed in black arrives at Dahl's in a black Buick and invites him to lunch. During the meal, he indicates to Dahl that he is aware of everything that happened in Maury and tells him: Silence is the best thing for you and your family. You have seen what you should never have seen. Dahl later establishes that no one has spoken to anyone about their strange experience. (Sunday, June 22nd) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_608 ### Event 5051 (FD24AD05) **Date:** 6/22/1947 **Time:** 11:30 **Location:** GREENFIELD, MASS **Description:** Fast irregular round silver-white metallic object going quickly northwest. / MJ#121+/ r171p65. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 22) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_667 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "76", **HatchDesc:** "GREENFIELD,MASS:FAST IRREGULAR ROUND SLVR-WHT MTLC OBJ >>NW:/MJ#121+/r171p65", **LatLong:** "42.350002 -72.600003", **LatLongDMS:** "42:21:00 N 72:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.350002,-72.600003)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5052 (60583409) **Date:** 6/22/1947 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** NORTHEAST / BAKER, OR **Description:** 2 observer(s). Pie-tin saucer flies over baths at 'radium springs'. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 65) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_668 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1050", **HatchDesc:** "NE/BAKER,OR:2 OBS:PIE-TIN SCR FLIES OVR BATHS at 'RADIUM SPRINGS':NFD ", **LatLong:** "45.033335 -117.533339", **LatLongDMS:** "45:02:00 N 117:32:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.033335,-117.533339)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5053 (5B79F402) **Date:** 6/22/1947 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** EL PASO, TX **Description:** 1 observer. Shiny 12 Mx2M metal blimp / 150mph over mountain-top. / Albuquerque Journal 29 Jun. '47. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_669 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1110", **HatchDesc:** "EL PASO,TX:1 OBS:SHINY 12Mx2M MTL BLIMP/150mph OVR MTN-TOP:/ALBQQ JRNL 29JUN47", **LatLong:** "31.783335 -106.500005", **LatLongDMS:** "31:47:00 N 106:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.783335,-106.500005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5054 (74043889) **Date:** 6/22/1947 **Location:** Chicago, Illinois **Description:** [Dahl](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/125878620/harold-albert-dahl) claims he is visited by a mysterious dark-suited man who knows all about the sighting. He tells his associate [Fred L. Crisman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%5FCrisman)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%5FCrisman) and they allegedly go to the beach to pick up fragments. Dahl mails [Ray Palmer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%5FA.%5FPalmer) in Chicago, Illinois, some fragments. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 721; Kenn Thomas, Maury Island UFO: The Crisman Conspiracy, IllumiNet, 1999; Charlette LeFevre and Philip Lipson, “[The Maury Island UFO Incident,](http://www.nwlegendsmuseum.com/MauryIsland.html)” February 2014 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_932 ### Event 5055 (D721262A) **Date:** 6/22/1947 **Location:** Greenfield, Massachusetts **Description:** [Edward Louis DeRose](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69230713/edward-louis-derose) in Greenfield, Massachusetts, sees a small, round-shaped, silvery-white object moving in a northwesterly direction faster than a speeding plane at an estimated altitude of 1,000 feet. The object stays in view for 8–10 seconds until obscured by a cloud bank. It reflects the sunlight strongly as if is made of polished aluminum or silver. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Air Force Base Intelligence Report, “[Flying Discs,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/garrett%5F073047doc.pdf)” July 30, 1947; Kevin D. Randle, “[Roswell, Nathan Twining, and the Mini-EOTS,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/roswell-nathan-twining-and-mini-eots.html)” A Different Perspective, October 6, 2014 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_933 ### Event 5056 (95DFC405) **Date:** 6/22/1947 **Locations:** Mount Franklin; El Paso, Texas **Description:** 3:30 p.m. [G. Oliver Dickson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/146611498/george-oliver-dickson) sees a shiny disc “a little like a blimp” flying north to south about 3,000 feet above Mount Franklin just north of El Paso, Texas. He estimates it is about 40 feet across and 5 feet thick. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[More](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/23324523/el-paso-times/) [El Pasoans Report Seeing](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/23324523/el-paso-times/) [‘Flying Discs’ in Southwest,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/23324567/el-paso-times/)” El Paso \(Tex.\) Times, June 29, 1947, pp. 1–2 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_934 ### Event 5057 (B5DFCF9B) **Date:** 6/22/1947 **Locations:** Yale University; Hartford, Connecticut **Description:** Evening. Yale University astrophysicist [Lyman Spitzer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyman%5FSpitzer) is speaking on WTIC radio in Hartford, Connecticut, and speculates that if life on Mars developed a bit earlier than on earth, it is possible that Martians have been civilized for millions of years. “Unless they had spent some time in a large city or had landed sufficiently recently to be photographed, we would have no record of their being here,” he says, and that “any few men who had seen them would probably not be believed by anyone else.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Mars May Be Peopled, Says Yale Speaker,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/17766510/hartford-courant/)” Hartford \(Conn.\) Courant, June 23, 1947, p. 1; Clark III 455 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_935 ### Event 5058 (FC18F588) **Date:** 6/22/1947 **Description:** In 1947 during the beginning days of the great UFO wave of 1947, a rapidly moving, round, silvery-white object was seen at 11:30 a.m. in the town of Greenfield, Massachusetts. It was one of the early cases secretly investigated by the FBI. Later that same day, at 1 o'clock in the afternoon, Mr. Hammond and his son were vacationing in Radium Springs, New Mexico and saw a "flying pie-plate" disc while swimming. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Bruce S. Maccabee, UFO Related Information from the FBI File, APRO Bulletin, December 1977, pg. 8; Baker, Oregon Democrat Herald, June 27, 1947 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3596 ### Event 5059 (FBD116D0) **Date:** 6/23/1947 **Location:** Cedar Rapids, Iowa **Description:** In the afternoon, a railroad engineer sees something very strange in the sky and reports it to the local newspaper. "They looked like ten shiny, disc-shaped things. They were very, very high, fluttering along in a string and pretty soon they vanished toward the northwest." He guessed they were travelling at 500mph - faster than any plane he ever saw. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Frank Edwards, ["My First 10,000,000 Sponsors"](https://www.amazon.com/first-sponsers-1956-Leather-Bound/dp/B09SHHSV34), page 111 (paperback) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_90 ### Event 5060 (22453F36) **Date:** 6/23/1947 **Location:** USA, somewhere in Mississippi **Description:** (Translated from French) Mrs. Elizabeth Hall was awoken at two o'clock in the morning by a brilliant light outside her open bedroom window. The light grew larger and then smaller. After blinking three times (in pulses) the object silently disappeared in a fourth pulse. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 34 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1186 ### Event 5061 (1264BB5A) **Date:** 6/23/1947 **Location:** USA, El Paso (Texas) **Description:** (Translated from French) In the afternoon of June 23, around 3:30 PM, a shining disc was flying at 150 mph above El Paso. One of the witnesses, Dr. G. Oliver Dickson, an optician, described it as having the shape of a balloon with a point at each end. The sunlight was not reflected by the object. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 34 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1187 ### Event 5062 (6F7A8F13) **Date:** 6/23/1947 **Location:** USA, Wapakoneta (Oregon) **Description:** (Translated from French) On the evening of June 23, Richard L. Bitters, editor of a major newspaper, saw strange flying objects, but only revealed this observation after the Kenneth Arnold case. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 34 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1188 ### Event 5063 (A39FEF46) **Date:** 6/23/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) [Fred Crisman](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/CrismanFredLee.html) goes to Maury to see the metal debris for himself. While he is there, a saucer-shaped flying object appears, flies over the bay and then disappears into a thundercloud. He then develops the photographs: they are covered with white spots, as if they had been exposed to some kind of radiation. (Monday, June 23) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_609 ### Event 5064 (26E5D4DB) **Date:** 6/23/1947 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** BAKERSFIELD, CA **Description:** Pilot Rankin and 1+2. 10 30M saucers going north / delta/triangle/box-like craft formation. Back / 1415h going south. / r171p66. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 25) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_670 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "135", **Elev:** "140", **HatchDesc:** "BAKERSFIELD,CA:PILOT RANKIN+1+2:10 30M SCRS> N/DLT FORMn:BACK/1415h>S:/r171p66", **LatLong:** "35.366668 -119.016672", **LatLongDMS:** "35:22:00 N 119:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.366668,-119.016672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5065 (3CED7FE0) **Date:** 6/23/1947 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** NEAR CLAYTON, GA **Description:** 2 / car / mountains. Big shiny silver ball hovers / several minutes. Then zooms away.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HITT, Michael D: GEORGIA'S AERIAL PHENOMENON 1947-1987 Self published 1999. ref. Jan Aldrich. (Index 1) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_671 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "587", **HatchDesc:** "nr CLAYTON,GA:2/CAR/Mtns:BIG SHINY SLVR BALL HVRS/SVRL MINs:then zooms away..", **LatLong:** "34.877779 -83.400004", **LatLongDMS:** "34:52:40 N 83:24:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.877779,-83.400004)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5066 (64DBB77C) **Date:** 6/23/1947 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** BRIDGEPORT, NE **Description:** Chickens panic. 2 platters going southeast / 3km altitude. Odd dips reflect sun. / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 238) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_672 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1117", **HatchDesc:** "BRIDGEPORT,NE:CHICKENS PANIC:2 PLATTERS >SE/3km alt:ODD DIPS REFLECT SUN:/news", **LatLong:** "41.666669 -103.100005", **LatLongDMS:** "41:40:00 N 103:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.666669,-103.100005)", **RelAlt:** "3000", **State/Prov:** "Nebraska", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5067 (653D72AF) **Date:** 6/23/1947 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** WAPAKONETA AND MORE/OTHERS, OH **Description:** 2+2 separate observer(s). Saucer flies uneven course. Leaves (something behind) luminous trail. / r187p27. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 238) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_673 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "275", **HatchDesc:** "WAPAKONETA++,OH:2+2 SEP.OBS:SCR FLIES UNEVEN COURSE:LVS LUMN.TRAIL:/r187p27", **LatLong:** "40.566669 -84.194448", **LatLongDMS:** "40:34:00 N 84:11:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.566669,-84.194448)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5068 (326BD8C3) **Date:** 6/23/1947 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** NEAR CEDAR RAPIDS, IA **Description:** Railroad/railway engineer. 10 silver saucers flutter / high string formation going quickly northwest. / r28p428. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 129) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_674 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "222", **HatchDesc:** "nr CEDAR RAPIDS,IA:RR ENG:10 SLVR SCRS FLUTTER/HIGH STRING FORMn >>NW:/r28p428", **LatLong:** "41.966669 -91.666671", **LatLongDMS:** "41:58:00 N 91:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.966669,-91.666671)", **State/Prov:** "Iowa", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5069 (AC50F583) **Date:** 6/23/1947 **Location:** Cedar Rapids, IA **Description:** Railroad engineer saw 10 shiny disc-shaped objects, very high, fluttering along in a string toward NW. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_331 ### Event 5070 (9A30535F) **Date:** 6/23/1947 **Location:** Bakersfield, California **Description:** Afternoon. Disabled stunt pilot Richard Rankin views 10 flat, circular objects flying in a V-formation over his house in Bakersfield, California. About two hours later, 7 of the objects are seen flying in the opposite direction. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Bloecher, [p. II-3](https://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionII.htm); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 17; Kevin D. Randle, “[More Pre-Arnold UFO Sightings,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2013/06/more-pre-arnold-ufo-sightings.html)” A Different Perspective, June 30, 2013 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_936 ### Event 5071 (C593636B) **Date:** 6/23/1947 **Location:** Wapakoneta, Ohio **Description:** 9:30 p.m. [Richard L. Bitters](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70717504/richard-lowell-bitters) and his wife [Martha](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/156731314/martha-rose-bitters) are returning from a movie in Wapakoneta, Ohio, when they see a saucer-like object flying an uneven course in the sky. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Saucer Just Didn’t Fit Editor’s Idea of a ‘Scoop,’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101812679/wisconsin-state-journal/)” Madison Wisconsin State Journal, July 7, 1947, p. 2; Bloecher, [p. III-6](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_937 ### Event 5072 (B593EE55) **Date:** 6/23/1947 **Description:** A large shiny silver ball hovered for several minutes over a mountain in Clayton, Georgia and then zoomed away. There were two witnesses named Cantrell and Pepper. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Michael Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomenon 1947-1987, p. 1 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3612 ### Event 5073 (6637E2B4) **Date:** 6/24/1947 **Location:** Mt. Rainer, WA **Description:** Kenneth Arnold sights 9 discs near Mt. Rainer, Washington **Type:** UFO sightings **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_91 ### Event 5074 (70E93434) **Date:** 6/24/1947 **Description:** A civilian pilot, Kenneth Arnold, reports seeing 9 flying saucers flying in formation at an altitude of 9200 feet and at almost 1700 mph. He estimated them to be 20 to 25 miles away from him and between 45 to 50feet long **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_234 ### Event 5075 (04018A48) **Date:** 6/24/1947 **Location:** USA, Cedar Rapids (Iowa) **Description:** (Translated from French) An engineer assigned to the railroad, getting off the train, observed ten objects in the shape of flying discs in strict formation: "like wild geese". His story was published, but ironically, the six lines relating the observation, attracted no attention. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 34 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1189 ### Event 5076 (1698A879) **Date:** 6/24/1947 **Location:** USA, Boise (Idaho) **Description:** (Translated from French) Lt. Gr. Donald S. Whitehead and Chief Justice Lampert saw a strange object in the sky in the afternoon. The object was stationary in the sky and resembled a comet. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p.37 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1190 ### Event 5077 (3B061716) **Date:** 6/24/1947 **Location:** USA, Richland (Washington) **Description:** (Translated from French) At around 2:30 PM Leo Bernier saw several silver discs high in the sky, on a west-southwest trajectory. This was the first witness to suggest an extraterrestrial link to his observation. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 37 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1191 ### Event 5078 (F4EBAD97) **Date:** 6/24/1947 **Location:** USA, between CHEHALIS and YAKIMA, Mount Rainier (Washington) **Description:** (Translated from French) "Kenneth Arnold Incident". Against the whiteness of the snow, he saw nine bright discs rushing at a frantic pace, a speed he mentally estimated, by comparing their angular speed and their approximate distance given by the mountain, at more than two thousand kilometers per hour. For three minutes the astonished American saw the nine bright discs maneuvering around the peaks, in formation, "exactly," he recounted later, "as if they were connected to each other at 4,000 meters of altitude." Still relying on the approximate distance of the mountain, he calculated that their size must have been that of a DC-3"... . ("Lights on Flying Saucers" Aimé Michel, ed. Maison MAME, 1954, p. 15) Kenneth Arnold had taken off from Chehalis for a mountain search mission: a C-46 of the Navy would have crashed somewhere in the Cascade Mountains. Sunny afternoon and very good visibility. Suddenly, around 3 pm, a white-blue flash illuminated the entire right side of his cabin. He looked around to see where it came from, when a second flash, then others, made him turn his head. He then saw a formation of nine sparkling objects, of a metallic shine, coming from the direction of Mount Baker and going in that of Mount Rainier; it flew very close to the peaks and at a very high speed. The objects that composed it seemed to be connected to each other and it disappeared behind a high peak. Taking Mount Rainier and Mount Adams as reference points, Mr. Arnold calculated by triangulation the speed of these objects and was surprised to obtain 2,700 km/h; the formation was 30 to 40 km from his plane. Its speed was astonishing at the time because the sound barrier had not yet been broken, that is 1,200 km/h. He also noticed that the objects flew in two parallel lines, one of five, the other of four and that their flight was not straight, regular, but erratic. That same evening he declared to journalists that these objects had behaved like saucers bouncing on the water. Each disc-shaped object had about the size of a four-engine C-54, which is respectable. Their appearance was similar to that of a hammered bronze bowl. The bottom of each saucer seemed flat and the top more bulging. (Henry DURRANT: "The Black Book of Flying Saucers" - Laffont 1970 - p.86-87) Hans Van Kampen, after a thorough examination (...) concluded that Arnold could have seen a flight of F-84 Thunderjets which were still secret planes at that date. Were the first UFOs really planes? (Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 47) Pendeleton (Oregon) June 25 (A.P.) - Kenneth Arnold reports that he observed nine bright objects, flying at 2000 km/h above the Cascade chain in the western part of the state of Washington. These objects were saucer-shaped and were at an altitude of 3000 meters. When Arnold had spotted them, they were 40 or 50 km away and were heading north (F. Scully: "The Mystery of Flying Saucers", ed. Del Duca, Paris "Les éditions Mondiales" 1951, p.169, which cites the "Los Angeles Times of June 26, 1947, title "Nine saucers flying at 2000 km-h have been observed. But what are they?" **Reference:** continued on July 29, 1947 **Reference:** also read "The coming of the Saucers" by K. Arnold, 1952, Palmer: of the nine objects 8 were similar and one was very different. **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1192 ### Event 5079 (0B10E164) **Date:** 6/24/1947 **Location:** USA, Cascade Mountains (Oregon) **Description:** (Translated from French) On the same June 24, 1947, before the aviator's story was released by the press, a prospector working in the Cascade Mountains named Fred Johnson had seen in the sky six objects exactly like those of Kenneth Arnold. He was even able to follow them with a telescope for several seconds. Curiously, while these objects were passing, the magnetic needle of his compass, gone mad, was agitated in its case. ("Lueurs sur les Soucoupes Volantes" Aimé Michel, ed. Maison MAME, 1954, p. 15,16) A prospector, Mr. Johnson, reported the daytime passage of several UFOs that made the needle of his compass swing from side to side. The witness was questioned at length by the FBI. (doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee trans. Jean Sider) Johnson had his attention drawn to a flash of light in the sky and saw six bright, round objects. As these objects flew towards the southeast at an altitude of about 1000 feet, Johnson noticed they had tails and flew silently. The observation lasted from 45 to 60 seconds as the prospector watched them through a hand telescope. He estimated their diameter to be about 30 feet, their shape was not perfectly circular, it ended in an oval point towards the front. At the tail end he also saw something swinging from left to right. The objects flew at a speed never seen before. **Reference:** "UFO's: A century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 37 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1193 ### Event 5080 (E60EA598) **Date:** 6/24/1947 **Location:** USA, Yakima (Washington) **Description:** (Translated from French) Mrs. Ethel Wheelhouse reported having observed the flying discs at very high speed. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 37 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1194 ### Event 5081 (63AF242E) **Date:** 6/24/1947 **Location:** USA, San Francisco **Description:** (Translated from French) Sergeant David Menary of the highway patrol, saw from the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco a dozen bright objects in the sky in the evening. "They were each the size of a football, they flew past me in a rush, and fell into the sea," he said. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 38 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1195 ### Event 5082 (B17DA451) **Date:** 6/24/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) As he flies over the Cascade Mountains \(Washington\) in search of the wreckage of an airplane that crashed the day before, [Kenneth Arnold](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/ArnoldKenneth.html), a businessman from Idaho and a civilian pilot, observes 9 disk-shaped objects moving in formation at a high speed. (15 h) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_610 ### Event 5083 (501E1FBE) **Date:** 6/24/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) An unexplained Blue Book case in Portland \(Oregon\). **Reference:** case [Blue Book](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/BlueBook.html) \#12 unexplained **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_611 ### Event 5084 (B1FC70DD) **Date:** 6/24/1947 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** BELLINGHAM, WA **Description:** 2 observer(s). Kite-like triangular object speeds going quickly south. Sound "unlike plane". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 32) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_675 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "BELLINGHAM,WA:2 OBS:KITE-LIKE TRIANGULAR OBJ SPEEDS>>S:SOUND "UNLIKE PLANE"", **LatLong:** "48.750002 -122.466673", **LatLongDMS:** "48:45:00 N 122:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.750002,-122.466673)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5085 (27210CBF) **Date:** 6/24/1947 **Time:** 12:20 **Location:** VANCOUVER, WA **Description:** 1 observer. Saucer going quickly north over town. No further details. See 04 Jul. '47. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FARISH, Jucius: UFO NEWSCLIPPING SERVICE: $5/Monthly. Plumerville, AR. (Index 288) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_676 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "61", **HatchDesc:** "VANCOUVER,WA:1 OBS:SCR >>N OVR TOWN:NFD:see 04JLY47", **LatLong:** "45.683336 -122.666673", **LatLongDMS:** "45:41:00 N 122:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.683336,-122.666673)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5086 (E9325182) **Date:** 6/24/1947 **Time:** 13:50 **Location:** 10 MI EAST / JOLIET, IL **Description:** Railroad/railway engineer. 9 saucers / linear formation flip / sequence. North going quickly south / 1500m altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 33) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_677 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "200", **HatchDesc:** "10mi E/JOLIET,IL:RR ENGINEER:9 SCRS/LINEAR FORMn FLIP/SEQUENCE:N>>S/1500m alt", **LatLong:** "41.533335 -87.916671", **LatLongDMS:** "41:32:00 N 87:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.533335,-87.916671)", **RelAlt:** "1500", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5087 (B9151E4D) **Date:** 6/24/1947 **Time:** ~14:00 **Location:** NORTH / CORVALLIS, OR **Description:** Series of several groups / bright shiny silver objects going quickly east. Fast and distant. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 305) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_678 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "68", **HatchDesc:** "N/CORVALLIS,OR:SERIES of SVRL GRPS/BRITE SHINY SLVR OBJS >>E:fast+distant", **LatLong:** "44.600002 -123.266673", **LatLongDMS:** "44:36:00 N 123:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.600002,-123.266673)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5088 (D4F167A6) **Date:** 6/24/1947 **Time:** 14:00? **Location:** NORTH / PENDLETON, OR **Description:** Farmer. Silver sphere hovers / 5' altitude. 2 small humanoids (or Greys) enter. Going northwest and circles going quickly northeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 307) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_679 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "330", **HatchDesc:** "N/PENDLETON,OR:FARMER:SLVR SPHERE HVRS/5'alt:2 OIDS ENTER:> NW+CCLs >>NE", **LatLong:** "45.916669 -118.916672", **LatLongDMS:** "45:55:00 N 118:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.916669,-118.916672)", **State/Prov:** "OER", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5089 (50812CEF) **Date:** 6/24/1947 **Time:** 14:30 **Location:** RICHLAND, WA **Description:** 1 observer. 3 saucers going quickly [to] WSW straight & level flight. Faster / planes. 'Tilted disk shape'. / r187#37. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 70) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_680 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "109", **HatchDesc:** "RICHLAND,WA:1 OBS:3 SCRS >>WSW S&L:FASTER/PLANES:'TILTED DISK SHAPE':/r187#37", **LatLong:** "46.283336 -119.333339", **LatLongDMS:** "46:17:00 N 119:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.283336,-119.333339)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5090 (432C3AEE) **Date:** 6/24/1947 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** 10 MI SOUTH / MINERAL, WA **Description:** Sidney Gallagher. 9 shiny flashing ovoids going quickly north. / r187#40. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 460) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_681 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "553", **HatchDesc:** "10mi S/MINERAL,WA:SIDNEY GALLAGHER:9 SHINY FLASHING OVOIDS >>N:/r187#40", **LatLong:** "46.566669 -122.177784", **LatLongDMS:** "46:34:00 N 122:10:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.566669,-122.177784)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5091 (EA944955) **Date:** 6/24/1947 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** NEAR MINERAL, WA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #12. Kenneth Arnold. 9 saucers at 9000' going quickly SSE / 1300MPH! One is [a] crescent. / r149p26. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** CLARK, Jerome: UFO ENCOUNTERS & BEYOND; Signet Books 1993. 192pp. (Index 7) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_682 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HST:** Historical account, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "539", **HatchDesc:** "nr MINERAL,WA:BBK#12:K.ARNOLD:9 SCRS @9000'>>SSE/1300MPH!:1=CRESCENT:/r149p26", **LatLong:** "46.716669 -122.177784", **LatLongDMS:** "46:43:00 N 122:10:40 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.716669,-122.177784)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5092 (3EA5C8B7) **Date:** 6/24/1947 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** NORTH / LONE JACK, MO **Description:** 2+observer(s). 7-8 disks / loose formation going quickly northwest. White vapor trails. Bright and high and fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 34) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_683 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "326", **HatchDesc:** "N/LONE JACK,MO:2+OBS:7-8 DISKS/LOOSE FORMn>>NW:WHT VAPOR TRAILS:BRITE+HI+FAST", **LatLong:** "38.900002 -94.172227", **LatLongDMS:** "38:54:00 N 94:10:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.900002,-94.172227)", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5093 (1CE716B4) **Date:** 6/24/1947 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** MT. ADAMS, WA **Description:** Prospector / (seen thru) telescope. Cylinder/cigar-shape and 5 10M saucers going southeast / 300M altitude. Compass spins / r15p14. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 67) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_684 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "3700", **HatchDesc:** "Mt ADAMS,WA:PROSPECTOR/TSCOPE:CGR+5 10M SCRS>SE/300M alt:COMPASS SPINS/r15p14", **LatLong:** "46.205558 -121.488895", **LatLongDMS:** "46:12:20 N 121:29:20 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.205558,-121.488895)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5094 (F25FE0AF) **Date:** 6/24/1947 **Time:** 15:00? **Location:** UKIAH, CA **Description:** Unidentified pilot. Saucers similar to Arnold objects over mountains near here / H. Arnold. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_685 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "190", **HatchDesc:** "UKIAH,CA:UID PILOT:SCRS SIMILAR TO ARNOLD OBJs OVR MTNS NEAR HERE/H.ARNOLD", **LatLong:** "39.150002 -123.205561", **LatLongDMS:** "39:09:00 N 123:12:20 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.150002,-123.205561)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5095 (CFD618A2) **Date:** 6/24/1947 **Time:** 15:30 **Location:** BOISE, ID **Description:** Lt. Governor and 3. "Daytime comet" hovers / 20 minute(s). Drops going west below horizon. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 38) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_686 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "819", **HatchDesc:** "BOISE,ID:Lt.GOVERNOR+3:"DAYTIME COMET" HVRS/20min:DROPS >W BELOW HORIZON.", **LatLong:** "43.600002 -116.166672", **LatLongDMS:** "43:36:00 N 116:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.600002,-116.166672)", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 5096 (3A3FC995) **Date:** 6/24/1947 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** ROSEVILLE, CA **Description:** Mrs. Wendt. Bright shiny disk turns and dips / moderate speed going quickly northwest / 2 minute(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 43) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_687 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "50", **HatchDesc:** "ROSEVILLE,CA:Mrs WENDT:BRITE SHINY DISK TURNS+DIPS/MODERATE SPEED >>NW/2min", **LatLong:** "38.750002 -121.316672", **LatLongDMS:** "38:45:00 N 121:19:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.750002,-121.316672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5097 (A0FBD5F9) **Date:** 6/24/1947 **Location:** Mt. Adams, WA **Description:** Prospector Compass Incident (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, Code: E, Rating: 5, BB: 12) **Reference:** NICAP: [470624](http://www.nicap.org/470624cascades%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_332 ### Event 5098 (84698993) **Date:** 6/24/1947 **Location:** Mt. Ranier, WA **Description:** Arnold Case (P) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [470624](http://www.nicap.org/470624ranier%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_333 ### Event 5099 (48FA8C9F) **Date:** 6/24/1947 **Location:** Pendelton, OR **Description:** A humanoid report on the same day Arnold had his sighting (Bloecher). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_334 ### Event 5100 (50820BF1) **Date:** 6/24/1947 **Alternate date:** 6/30/1947 **Locations:** 25 miles north of Pendleton, Oregon; Columbia River **Description:** Afternoon. [Bill Schuening](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55395519/william-mathais-schuening)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55395519/william-mathais-schuening) a farmer, is driving his pickup truck down a remote rural road 25 miles north of Pendleton, Oregon, when he hears a loud humming sound. Coming over a rise, he sees in a nearby field a large disc-shaped object hovering 5–6 feet off the ground. He can also see two short \(3 feet tall\) figures wearing green suits and white helmets standing underneath the object. The figures suddenly vanish, and the craft then shoots towards the Columbia River, makes a big circle, and flies towards the mountains. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Man Sees](http://www.nicap.org/470624pendleton%5Fdir.htm) [Figures Standing near Disc](http://www.nicap.org/470624pendleton%5Fdir.htm)”; Clark III 267; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1947-06-24-usa-pendleton.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1947-06-24-usa-pendleton.htm) November 7, 2018 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_938 ### Event 5101 (ADF05F02) **Date:** 6/24/1947 **Location:** Joliet, Illinois **Description:** 1:50 p.m. Railroad engineer Charles Kastl sees 9 or 10 spinning discs in the air about 12 miles east of Joliet, Illinois. They are a string of flat circular objects “going faster than anything I’ve ever seen.” Kastl can see no connecting link between them, but they act as though the leading disc has a motor in it to power the others, because when it flips, the others do as well. When it rights itself, the others also right themselves. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Flying Discs](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92584166/the-gazette/) [Seen by Railroad Man,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92584166/the-gazette/)” Cedar Rapids \(Iowa\) Gazette, June 28, 1947, p. 2; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 1–2; NICAP, “[Engineer](http://www.nicap.org/470624illinois%5Fdir.htm) [Reports 10 Shiny Flat Discs](http://www.nicap.org/470624illinois%5Fdir.htm)”; Kevin D. Randle, “[The June 23, 1947 UFO Sighting,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-june-23-1947-ufo-sighting.html)” A Different Perspective, March 20, 2013 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_939 ### Event 5102 (8A22ECD2) **Date:** 6/24/1947 **Locations:** Boise, Idaho; Chehalis, Washington; Yakima, Washington; Mount Rainier, Washington; Mount Adams, Washington; Pendleton, Oregon **Description:** 3:00 p.m. Boise, Idaho, businessman [Kenneth Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold), flying his CallAir Model A-2 from Chehalis to Yakima, Washington, sees a string of nine objects flying in an echelon formation past Mount Rainier, Washington. At first he assumes they are jets, but he can see no trails. They cover the 50-mile distance between Rainier and another peak in 1 minute 42 seconds. He estimates their speed to be at least 1,200 mph. The objects swerve in and out of the smaller peaks, flipping from side to side in unison, dipping, and presenting their lateral surfaces, which reflect the bright sunlight and cause the flashes he saw earlier. They are in view for about two and a half minutes and are last seen heading south over the last high peak of Mount Adams. Arnold tells the airport staff about it in Yakima at 4:00 p.m. and they call ahead to Pendleton, Oregon, to alert them of Arnold’s arrival at an air show and his story. A large crowd awaits him, and a discussion follows. The consensus is that Arnold has seen guided missiles. But no such technology exists at the time that can match the objects’ description and performance, and the late 1990s explanation that Arnold observed a flight of white pelicans is equally improbable. Researcher [Martin](http://www.cufos.org/shough.html) [Shough](http://www.cufos.org/shough.html) concludes in 2010: “Examination of the sighting report in detail improves its evident internal consistency, rather than degrading it, and study of the principal contending explanations reveals that they are each very much less attractive when tried out in quantitative detail against the best information than they may appear at first sight.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Kenneth Arnold UFO Sighting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold%5FUFO%5Fsighting)”; \[[Project Blue Book file](https://www.fold3.com/image/9668731)\]; NICAP, “[Kenneth Arnold](http://www.nicap.org/470624ranier%5Fdir.htm) [Sighting](http://www.nicap.org/470624ranier%5Fdir.htm)”; Center for UFO Studies, \[[clippings and reports](http://www.cufos.org/cases/1947%5F06%5F24%5FUS%5FOR%5FMt%5FRainier%5FNICAP%5FArnold.pdf)\]; Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, Palmer, 1952, pp. 9–13; Bloecher, [p. I-2–3](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionI.htm); Patrick Gross, “[The Kenneth Arnold Sighting, June 24,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/arnold.htm) [1947](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/arnold.htm)”; Kim Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 48–53; John A. Keel, “[Kenneth Arnold and the F.B.I.,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201987%20V%2032%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 32, no. 5 \(August 1987\): 2–12; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Revision.pdf) [History: Volume 1, 1947,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Revision.pdf) The Author, February 1991, pp. 5–9; Bruce Maccabee, “The Arnold Phenomenon: Part One,” IUR 20, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1995\): 14–17; Bruce Maccabee, “The Arnold Phenomenon: Part Two,” IUR 20, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1995\): 10–13, 24; Michael David Hall and Wendy Ann Connors, Alfred Loedding and the Great Flying Saucer Wave of 1947, Rose Press, 1998, [pp. 14–22](http://nicap.org/docs/loedd/loedd%5Fchapter%5F3.htm); Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, [pp. 54–59](https://archive.org/details/ufobriefingdocum0000berl/page/54/mode/2up); Martin Shough, “[The](http://cufos.org/cases/1947%5F06%5F24%5FUS%5FOR%5FMt%5FRainier%5FShough-article%5FArnold.pdf) [Singular Adventure of Mr. Kenneth Arnold,](http://cufos.org/cases/1947%5F06%5F24%5FUS%5FOR%5FMt%5FRainier%5FShough-article%5FArnold.pdf)” June 2010; Bruce Maccabee, Three Minutes in June: The UFO Sighting That Changed the World, The Author, 2017; Nigel Watson, “Was It a Bird? Was It a Plane?” Fortean Times 355 \(July 2017\): 46–49; Clark III 169 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_940 ### Event 5103 (38462D9B) **Date:** 6/24/1947 **Locations:** Idaho; Boise, Idaho **Description:** 3:30 p.m. Idaho Lieutenant Governor [Donald S. Whitehead](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FS.%5FWhitehead) and Justice of the Peace [Jacob M. Lampert](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/59830636/jacob-m-lampert) see an object with a brilliant head and a smoky tail from an office window in downtown Boise, Idaho. It dips from view after about 20 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Whitehead, Lampert, Join ‘Disc List,’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92600524/the-idaho-statesman/)” Boise Idaho Statesman, July 3, 1947, p. 9; Bloecher, [pp. III-18–19](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_941 ### Event 5104 (33547966) **Date:** 6/24/1947 **Location:** Mount Adams, Oregon **Description:** Afternoon. Fred M. Johnson, a prospector in the Mount Adams, Oregon, area, sees 5-6 oval objects with tails about 30 feet in diameter. He watches one through a telescope. They are not flying in any sort of formation and as they bank in a turn, the sunlight flashes off them. As they approach, Johnson notices that his compass begins to spin wildly. When the objects finally vanish in the distance, the compass returns to normal. Johnson’s report is the very first “unidentified” case in the Project Sign files. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Prospector Compass Incident](http://www.nicap.org/470624cascades%5Fdir.htm)”; Bloecher, [p. IV-](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIV.htm) [3](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIV.htm); Clark III 170–171; Bruce Maccabee, “The Arnold Phenomenon: Part Three,” IUR 20, no. 3 \(May/June 1995\): 6–7; Martin Shough, “[The Singular Adventure of Mr. Kenneth Arnold,](http://cufos.org/cases/1947%5F06%5F24%5FUS%5FOR%5FMt%5FRainier%5FShough-article%5FArnold.pdf)” June 2010, pp. 106, 109–110; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 58–59 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_942 ### Event 5105 (59C99A5F) **Date:** 6/24/1947 **Description:** On this morning a prospector named Johnson in the Hood River region of the Cascade Mountains of Oregon sighted five or six discs flying silently overhead, heading toward the southeast. He noticed that his compass began spinning when the discs passed over. His watch also stopped running. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Phoenix Arizona Republic, June 26, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, p. 30; Thomas M. Olsen, Reference to Outstanding UFO Reports, case 1 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3635 ### Event 5106 (4DC73B4B) **Date:** 6/24/1947 **Description:** At 2:58 p.m. Kenneth Arnold, flying his private plane near Mount Rainier, Washington was attracted by reflected sunlight from nine distant metallic flying objects. He watched as they flashed across the sky, one behind the other, "skipping as saucers upon water." They tilted back and forth as they flew. One object was definitely crescent shaped, the others may have been disc shaped or crescent shaped with a 10 to 1 width to thickness ratio. He clocked them as they flew past Mount Adams, and calculated that they were flying at a speed of 1,500 miles per hour and at an altitude of 9,500 feet. When he landed in Pendleton, Oregon he was interviewed at the local radio station where the term "flying saucer" was first coined, despite the fact that the objects he sighted may not have been discs. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Kenneth Arnold & Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p. 9; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 9; The Oregonian, June 26, 1947; Kevin Randle, Spaceships of the Visitors, p. 87; UNICAT database, case 354, citing Bruce Maccabee **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3636 ### Event 5107 (E0430FC4) **Date:** 6/24/1947 **Location:** Chehalis, Washington **Description:** A private pilot named Kenneth Arnold observed a chain of nine peculiar-looking aircraft flying near Mount Rainier. Initially thinking they were reflections from another plane, Arnold noticed that the objects flew like geese, in a diagonal, chain-like formation, swerving between mountain peaks. These objects lacked visible tails and were estimated to be traveling at speeds of approximately 1,700 miles per hour, faster than any known aircraft then. Arnold compared the span of the objects to the distance between the outermost engines of a DC-4, which is around 60 feet. The sight deeply unsettled him as he was familiar with most flying objects. (Chapter 8, Ref 354) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_347 ### Event 5108 (2F8C0061) **Date:** 6/25/1947 **Location:** USA, Suburbs of New York **Description:** (Translated from French) Two couples living in the suburbs of New York have revealed that they had seen one of these strange fireballs called "flying saucers" which have been keeping all Americans on edge for the past two weeks. The latest commented revelation is that of Mr. Harold Dahl (note from vog: see the date of June 21, 1947) who has just sent to the University of Chicago a piece of metal which was allegedly thrown by a flying saucer observed on June 25th. (June 25, 1947) **Reference:** Michel MONNERIE: "The Shipwreck of the Extraterrestrials" ed. Nouvelles Editions Rationalistes, Paris, 1979, p. 106, which considers this kind of press clipping as a hoax to feed the myth **Reference:** archives of L.D.L.N. **Reference:** no references **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1196 ### Event 5109 (71F3EE4F) **Date:** 6/25/1947 **Location:** USA, Kansas City (Missouri) **Description:** (Translated from French) Carpenter W.I. Davenport saw nine objects high in the sky that looked like discs flying at very high speed towards the west. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 38 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1197 ### Event 5110 (DD95B45D) **Date:** 6/25/1947 **Location:** USA, Utah, Oklahoma, and New York. **Description:** (Translated from French) A single disc appears in the sky of Utah and later C.E. Holman reports the observation of two illuminated discs in Oklahoma. The same day Louis Stebbins saw a reddish object crossing the sky of the countryside near Glens Falls, New York. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 38 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1198 ### Event 5111 (D6A409DA) **Date:** 6/25/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Arnold's observation makes headlines in all newspapers. Fred Crisman decides to talk to a local reporter about what Dahl and his crew have seen. (Wednesday 25th June) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_612 ### Event 5112 (16500E80) **Date:** 6/25/1947 (approximate) **Time:** 03:00 **Location:** NEAR CONNELLSVILLE, PA **Description:** Mrs. Hart. 13 23cm glowing-plates hover in formation over orchard / 10 second(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 50) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_688 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "280", **HatchDesc:** "nr CONNELLSVILLE,PA:Mrs HART:13 23cm GLOW-PLATES HVR/FORMn OVR ORCHARD/10sec", **LatLong:** "40.016669 -79.588893", **LatLongDMS:** "40:01:00 N 79:35:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.016669,-79.588893)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5113 (B3E10B15) **Date:** 6/25/1947 **Time:** 12:30 **Location:** KANSAS CITY, MO **Description:** 9 metallic objects / loose formation going quickly west very high and very fast. "Engine noise" and contrails. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 52) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_689 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "224", **HatchDesc:** "KANSAS CITY,MO:9 MTLC OBJS/LOOSE FORMn >>W VHI+VFAST:"ENGINE NOISE"+CONTRAILS", **LatLong:** "39.100002 -94.566671", **LatLongDMS:** "39:06:00 N 94:34:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.100002,-94.566671)", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5114 (53D35D87) **Date:** 6/25/1947 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** NEAR PUEBLO, CO **Description:** Lowry and 1. 2 ovoids buzz car / sequence. Spin fast. 90-turn going quickly south and gone. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 53) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_690 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1400", **HatchDesc:** "nr PUEBLO,CO:LOWRY+1:2 OVOIDS BUZZ CAR/SEQUENCE:SPIN FAST:90-TURN>>S+GONE", **LatLong:** "38.250002 -104.600005", **LatLongDMS:** "38:15:00 N 104:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.250002,-104.600005)", **RelAlt:** "4", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5115 (EED9B0A2) **Date:** 6/25/1947 **Time:** ~16:00 **Location:** SALEM, OR **Description:** William A. Bond. 2 disks northwest going southeast / plane speed in succession. High altitude. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 54) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_691 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "46", **HatchDesc:** "SALEM,OR:WILLIAM A.BOND:2 DISKS NW>SE/PLANE SPEED IN SUCCESSION:HI ALT:NFD", **LatLong:** "44.950002 -123.033339", **LatLongDMS:** "44:57:00 N 123:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.950002,-123.033339)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5116 (16ED6B0B) **Date:** 6/25/1947 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** NEWCOMB, NM **Description:** 2 / trading post. Saucer straight and level going quickly southeast across sky. / Gallup and Albuquerque Journal 20 Jun. '47. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_692 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1695", **HatchDesc:** "NEWCOMB,NM:2/TRADING POST:SCR S/L >>SE ACRS SKY:/GALLUP+ALBQQ JRNL 20JUN47", **LatLong:** "36.283335 -108.705561", **LatLongDMS:** "36:17:00 N 108:42:20 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.283335,-108.705561)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5117 (D14B409E) **Date:** 6/25/1947 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** SALT LAKE CITY, UT **Description:** 2 / 10 th Ave. 2 metallic 'exclamation marks' going quickly east in unison. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 58) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_693 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1280", **HatchDesc:** "SALT LAKE CITY,UT:2/10th Ave:2 MTLC 'EXCLAMATION MARKS' >>E IN UNISON:NFD", **LatLong:** "40.766669 -111.883339", **LatLongDMS:** "40:46:00 N 111:53:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.766669,-111.883339)", **State/Prov:** "Utah", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5118 (D3175E07) **Date:** 6/25/1947 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** SILVER CITY, NM **Description:** Dentist. Saucer 1/2 diameter / moon over town going quickly south. / Albuquerque Journal-27 Jun. '47. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 60) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_694 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "1810", **HatchDesc:** "SILVER CITY,NM:DENTIST:SCR 1/2 DIAM/MOON OVR TOWN >>S:/ALBUQQ JOURNAL-27JUN47", **LatLong:** "32.783335 -108.233338", **LatLongDMS:** "32:47:00 N 108:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.783335,-108.233338)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5119 (46A14897) **Date:** 6/25/1947 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** WALTERS, OK **Description:** 1 observer. 2 saucers play around sky / 30+min. Observer(s) gets bored and goes to bed! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_695 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "322", **HatchDesc:** "WALTERS,OK:1 OBS:2 SCRS PLAY AROUND SKY/30+min:OBS GETS BORED+GOES TO BED!", **LatLong:** "34.361113 -98.305560", **LatLongDMS:** "34:21:40 N 98:18:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.361113,-98.305560)", **State/Prov:** "Oklahoma", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5120 (E51E40F5) **Date:** 6/25/1947 **Locations:** East Oregonian office in Pendleton, Oregon; Cascade Mountains **Description:** [Kenneth Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold) goes to the East Oregonian office in Pendleton, Oregon, and speaks with reporters Nolan Skiff and [William C. Bequette](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72655957/william-c-bequette)[.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72655957/william-c-bequette) Arnold says the “saucer-like” objects were racing over the Cascade Mountains with a peculiar weaving motion “like the tail of a Chinese kite.” Bill Bequette writes the first saucer news story for the newspaper. He does not use the term “flying saucer,” but headline writers in other papers use it \(such as the Philadelphia Inquirer on June 26\), and reporters start picking it up. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Impossible! Maybe, But Seein’ Is Believin’, Says Flier,” Pendleton East Oregonian, June 25, 1947, p. 1; “[Flying Saucers Puzzle Pilot,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21137758/the-philadelphia-inquirer/)” Philadelphia Inquirer, June 26, 1947, p. 1; Clark III 170; Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, 1952, Palmer, pp. 13–15; Pierre Lagrange, “A Moment in History: An Interview with Bill Bequette,” IUR 23, no. 4 \(Winter 1998\): 15, 20; “[Saturday Night Uforia: ‘It Seems Impossible—But There It Is,](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2009/4/18/720521/-)’” Daily Kos, April 18, 2009; Phil Wright, “[The Sighting,](https://www.eastoregonian.com/news/local/the-sighting/article%5F1dc33f61-868d-5c36-b159-87c8465fb662.html)” Portland East Oregonian, June 16, 2017 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_943 ### Event 5121 (F4CF7EB9) **Date:** 6/25/1947 **Location:** 82nd Street and Holmes Road in Kansas City, Missouri **Description:** Shortly after 12:00 noon. W. I. Davenport is working on the roof of a house at 82nd Street and Holmes Road in Kansas City, Missouri, when he hears the sound of a motor. Looking up, he sees 9 objects approaching from the east. They are aluminum-colored and leave vapor trails. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Puzzle in Sky Whiz,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101813674/the-kansas-city-star/)” Kansas City \(Mo.\) Star, June 26, 1947, p. 6 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_944 ### Event 5122 (34B491C8) **Date:** 6/26/1947 **Location:** USA, La Grande (Oregon) **Description:** (Translated from French) Nine bright objects, with "fins," entered and exited the clouds in La Grande. The sighting was made by student Larry Jones and two Catholic nuns. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 38 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1199 ### Event 5123 (7CA4B681) **Date:** 6/26/1947 **Location:** USA, Denver **Description:** (Translated from French) Later in the evening Henry Martin and Walter Harrod observed a group of objects resembling "coffee pot lids", shiny, and flying in a southwesterly direction at an altitude of about 5000 feet. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 38 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1200 ### Event 5124 (54BAEE03) **Date:** 6/26/1947 **Location:** USA, in Utah **Description:** (Translated from French) Glen Bunting and two other independent witnesses observed a single object flying at high speed towards the east. A similar and equally fast craft was reported in Utah by Roy Walters, a private pilot who made the observation near Cedar City. The director of the Cedar City airport, Royce R. Knight, confirmed the observation. Another independent witness in Cedar City, Charles Moore, also saw a single object flying at high speed towards the east. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p.38 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1201 ### Event 5125 (31593533) **Date:** 6/26/1947 **Time:** 10:00? **Location:** GRAND CANYON, AZ **Description:** Doctor and 3. Big silver ball passes north rim fast. / r22p19. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 65) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_696 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "2515", **HatchDesc:** "GRAND CANYON,AZ:DOCTOR+3:BIG SLVR BALL PASSES NORTH RIM FAST:/r22p19", **LatLong:** "36.050002 -112.133339", **LatLongDMS:** "36:03:00 N 112:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.050002,-112.133339)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5126 (945D8EEF) **Date:** 6/26/1947 (approximate) **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** LA GRANDE, OR **Description:** 1+2 nuns. 9 shiny saucers with fins weave in and out in formation. / r171p68. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 94) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_697 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "845", **HatchDesc:** "La GRANDE,OR:1+2 NUNS:9 SHINY SCRS W/FINS WEAVE IN+OUT/FORMn:/r171p68", **LatLong:** "45.333335 -118.100006", **LatLongDMS:** "45:20:00 N 118:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.333335,-118.100006)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5127 (96C0F432) **Date:** 6/26/1947 **Time:** 19:40 **Location:** NORTHEAST / CEDAR CITY, UT **Description:** Airport manager and aviators. Saucer going quickly east / seconds. Straight and level trajectory. Extremely fast. No maneuvers. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RANDLE, Kevin & SCHMITT,Donald: UFO CRASH at ROSWELL; Avon Books, NY 1991. 327pp. (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_698 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1782", **HatchDesc:** "NE/CEDAR CITY,UT:AIRPT MGR+AVIATORS:SCR >>E/SECONDS:S/L TRAJ:XFAST:NO MNVRS.", **LatLong:** "37.716668 -113.000005", **LatLongDMS:** "37:43:00 N 113:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.716668,-113.000005)", **State/Prov:** "Utah", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5128 (937D9A4C) **Date:** 6/26/1947 **Time:** 19:40 **Location:** NEAR LOGAN, UT **Description:** Teacher and 2 separate hunters. Silver disk going quickly east. Reported / newspaper. / r15p15. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 67) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_699 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "1365", **HatchDesc:** "nr LOGAN,UT:TEACHER+2 SEP.HUNTERS:SLVR DISK >>E:REPORTED/NEWSPAPER:/r15p15", **LatLong:** "41.733335 -111.833339", **LatLongDMS:** "41:44:00 N 111:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.733335,-111.833339)", **State/Prov:** "Utah", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5129 (EF90A4DB) **Date:** 6/26/1947 **Location:** 4639 South Oakenwald, Chicago, Illinois **Description:** 2:00 a.m. Mrs. J. M. Harrison watches a large fireball pass toward the northwest from her residence at 4639 South Oakenwald, Chicago, Illinois. It breaks up into two dozen small discs that whirl around rapidly. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Dr. Urey](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/23171861/chicago-tribune/) [Scoffs at ‘Atom Angle’ to Flying Disks,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/23171861/chicago-tribune/)” Chicago Tribune, July 6, 1947, p. 8 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_945 ### Event 5130 (E712F5F7) **Date:** 6/26/1947 **Location:** Pendleton, Oregon **Description:** [Kenneth Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold) is interviewed live on KWRC radio in Pendleton, Oregon, by broadcaster [Theodore A. “Ted”](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/77642903/theodore-a%5F-smith) [Smith](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/77642903/theodore-a%5F-smith)[.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/77642903/theodore-a%5F-smith)  **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Patrick Gross, “[About the June 25, 1947, Interview on WKPG Radio by Bill Bequette](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/arnoldrepbequette.htm)”; “[Kenneth Arnold](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0D8eAm8h2Y) [Interviewed by Bill Bequette](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0D8eAm8h2Y) \[actually Ted Smith\],” Nutsandbolts UFO YouTube channel, December 12, 2010 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_946 ### Event 5131 (270D36D9) **Date:** 6/26/1947 **Location:** Muroc AFB [now Edwards AFB], California **Description:** Northrop delivers a second four-engine XB-35 flying wing aircraft to Muroc AFB \[now Edwards AFB\], California. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Northrop YB-35](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop%5FYB-35\#XB-35)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_947 ### Event 5132 (699E7733) **Date:** 6/26/1947 **Description:** In the afternoon on this day, nine shiny discs with fins flew over La Grande, Oregon, weaving in-and-out of formation. There were also four separate daylight disc sightings in Utah between 7:00 and 8:00 p.m. in the following locations: Cedar City, Logan, and Diamond Fork Canyon. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database: Salt Lake City Tribune, June 28, 1947; Salt Lake City Deseret News, June 30, 1947; Salt Lake City Tribune, July 6, 1947 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3665 ### Event 5133 (825CF6D7) **Date:** 6/27/1947 **Location:** USA, Woodland (Washington) **Description:** (Translated from French) Clyde Homan observed two formations of 4 or 5 objects moving quickly above a railway line. They reflected light, moved silently by rocking forward and backward, undulating. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "Des S.V. aux OVNI" - SOBEPS 1976 - p. 34 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1202 ### Event 5134 (40F38B39) **Date:** 6/27/1947 **Location:** USA, Kansas City **Description:** (Translated from French) Nine objects, resembling silver plates, were seen by a woman as they flew over the Cascade Range. During their flight, these discs swayed and changed direction. **Reference:** A. RIBERA: "These Mysterious UFOs" - De Vecchi 1976, p. 73 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1203 ### Event 5135 (4139E4BF) **Date:** 6/27/1947 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) Following UFO sightings in the area, Lieutenant Colonel Harold R. Turner said "the flying saucers that were reported in several western areas on the night of Wednesday to Thursday were more than likely jets. Jets have circular exhausts and when they fly people can have the optical illusion of seeing round objects." **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 39 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1204 ### Event 5136 (D98E3D03) **Date:** 6/27/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A housewife sees discs resembling silver plates flying at high speed above the Cascade Mountains. During their flight, they waver from side to side, and change their formation. (Friday, June 27th) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_613 ### Event 5137 (A379498F) **Date:** 6/27/1947 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** CAPITAN, NM **Description:** 3 observer(s). Shiny object streaks by. Lands on hill. / Albuquerque Journal 2 Jul. '47. / r15p15. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 345) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_700 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "1936", **HatchDesc:** "CAPITAN,NM:3 OBS:SHINY OBJ STREAKS BY:LANDS ON HILL:/ABQ JRNL 2JLY47:/r15p15", **LatLong:** "33.588890 -105.572227", **LatLongDMS:** "33:35:20 N 105:34:20 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.588890,-105.572227)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "2" ### Event 5138 (F09B08A0) **Date:** 6/27/1947 **Time:** 10:30 **Location:** WARREN, AZ **Description:** Maj. Wilcox. 8+disks going east overhead / 3 second(s) intervals. 1K' over mountain tops. / r187#78. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLITZ, Charles & MOORE, William: The ROSWELL INCIDENT; Putnam 1980 & Berkley Books 1988. (Index 19) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_701 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1700", **HatchDesc:** "WARREN,AZ:Maj.WILCOX:8+DISKS >E OVHD/3sec INTERVALS:1K'ovr Mtn.TOPS:/r187#78.", **LatLong:** "31.416668 -109.883339", **LatLongDMS:** "31:25:00 N 109:53:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.416668,-109.883339)", **RelAlt:** "300", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5139 (5D21CCAE) **Date:** 6/27/1947 **Time:** 10:30 **Location:** BISBEE, AZ **Description:** 3 observer(s). Saucer lands / Tintown. 9 saucers / single file going southeast over mountains according to others. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LORENZEN, Coral: FLYING SAUCERS, the Starting Evidence; Signet Books, NY 1962 & 1966. 278pp. Originally "The Great F. S. Hoax". (Index 17) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_702 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "1682", **HatchDesc:** "BISBEE,AZ:3 OBS:SCR LANDS/TINTOWN::9 SCRS/SINGLE FILE >SE OVR MTNS per OTHERS", **LatLong:** "31.433335 -109.916672", **LatLongDMS:** "31:26:00 N 109:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.433335,-109.916672)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5140 (8A981FC5) **Date:** 6/27/1947 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** MOUNTAIN HOME, ARK **Description:** Glistening flashing round object northeast going quickly south. Similar / Fayetteville, AR. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 171) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_703 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "250", **HatchDesc:** "MOUNTAIN HOME,ARK:GLISTENING FLASHING ROUND OBJ NE>>S::SIMILAR/FAYETTEVILLE,AR", **LatLong:** "36.350002 -92.383338", **LatLongDMS:** "36:21:00 N 92:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.350002,-92.383338)", **State/Prov:** "Arkansas", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 5141 (77D71131) **Date:** 6/27/1947 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** SOUTH / WOODLAND, WA **Description:** PhD and 1. 2 groups / 4-5 silent shiny thin disks cross road and river. Veer going quickly southeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 311) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_704 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "S/WOODLAND,WA:PHD+1:2 GRPS/4-5 SLNT SHINY THIN DISKS CROSS ROAD+RIVER:VEER>>SE", **LatLong:** "45.877780 -122.744450", **LatLongDMS:** "45:52:40 N 122:44:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.877780,-122.744450)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5142 (217BD915) **Date:** 6/27/1947 **Time:** 20:00? **Location:** GALLUP, NM **Description:** Barber. Saucer northwest going quickly southeast. / Gallup Ind and Albuquerque Journal 01 Jul. '47. / r187#87. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_705 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1952", **HatchDesc:** "GALLUP,NM:BARBER:SCR NW>>SE:/GALLUP IND+ALBQQ JRNL 01JLY47:/r187#87", **LatLong:** "35.500002 -108.766672", **LatLongDMS:** "35:30:00 N 108:46:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.500002,-108.766672)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5143 (D74DA02C) **Date:** 6/27/1947 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** VICTORIA, BC **Description:** 2 separate observer(s). Silver saucer goes over horizon. Also saucer late May / Vancouver Sun 28 Jun. '47. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_706 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "VICTORIA,BC:2 SEP.OBS:SLVR SCR GOES OVR HORIZON:+SCR LATE MAY/VCVR SUN 28JUN47", **LatLong:** "48.500002 -123.400006", **LatLongDMS:** "48:30:00 N 123:24:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.500002,-123.400006)", **State/Prov:** "British Columbia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5144 (A94E12B8) **Date:** 6/27/1947 (approximate) **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** BONDI BEACH, NSW **Description:** 1 observer. Humming or drone. Pale blue blimp-cylinder/cigar-shape overhead. Away into dark sky. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 169) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_707 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "BONDI BEACH,NSW:1 OBS:HUM or DRONE:PALE BLUE BLIMP-CGR OVHD:AWAY into DARK SKY", **LatLong:** "-33.900002 151.283341", **LatLongDMS:** "33:54:00 S 151:17:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-33.900002,151.283341)", **State/Prov:** "NSW", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5145 (6E0C887F) **Date:** 6/27/1947 **Locations:** San Antonio, New Mexico; White Sands **Description:** 9:50 a.m. Mrs. W. B. Cummings is driving about 5 miles southeast of San Antonio, New Mexico, when she sees a bright silver object descending quickly in the east. It leaves a short white trail. White Sands officials say there has been no missile testing since June 12. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[More El Pasoans Report Seeing ‘Flying Discs’ in Southwest,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/23324523/el-paso-times/)” El Paso \(Tex.\) Times, June 29, 1947, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_948 ### Event 5146 (5E178FFF) **Date:** 6/27/1947 **Location:** Pentagon **Description:** Pentagon Army AF Public Relations Officer Capt. Tom Brown says the army has no idea what the discs are. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume 1, 1947,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Revision.pdf) The Author, February 1991, p. 16 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_949 ### Event 5147 (0AB7CAAF) **Date:** 6/27/1947 **Locations:** Pendleton, Oregon; Texas; Idaho **Description:** In a United Press dispatch from Pendleton, Oregon, [Kenneth Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold) expresses frustration over the furor that his saucer sighting has caused. A preacher has called him from Texas to say that the flying discs are “harbinger of doomsday.” A woman recognizes Arnold in a Pendleton café and runs out shrieking that he is “the man who saw the men from Mars.” He says the whole thing has gotten out of hand: “Half the people I see look at me as a combination Einstein, Flash Gordon, and screwball. I wonder what my wife back in Idaho thinks.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Report of](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52122451/ufo-june-27-1947-p1/) [‘Flying Saucers’ Causes Furor; Texas Preacher Calls Flock for World’s End,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52122451/ufo-june-27-1947-p1/)” Medford \(Oreg.\) Mail Tribune, June 27, 1947, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_950 ### Event 5148 (EFDFF094) **Date:** 6/27/1947 **Locations:** Alamogordo Army Air Field; Holloman AFB; New Mexico; Engle, New Mexico **Description:** Day. Capt. [Robert D. Dwan](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/197782484/robert-d-dwan)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/197782484/robert-d-dwan) a pilot out of Alamogordo Army Air Field \[now Holloman AFB\], New Mexico, is flying a private plane near Engle, New Mexico, at 3,000 feet, when he looks down and sees a “ball of fire, with a fiery blue tail behind it.” The object is about 2,000 feet below him, and he is “certain it is a meteorite.” The object disintegrates as he watches it. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Bloecher, [pp. III-9–10](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_951 ### Event 5149 (A9949B7B) **Date:** 6/27/1947 **Location:** Woodland, Washington **Description:** Afternoon. Clyde Homan sees two groups of loosely bunched objects, rocking back and forth as they fly noiselessly above Woodland, Washington. The objects are bright, flat, and moving at an estimated 600 mph. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Bloecher, [pp. II-1–2](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionII.htm) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_952 ### Event 5150 (80447F99) **Date:** 6/27/1947 **Description:** At 10:00 a.m. a shiny disc-shaped object streaked by Capitan, New Mexico and landed on a nearby hill. At 10:30 a.m. John A. Petsche, an electrical worker, and another person independently witnessed a disc-shaped object, which seemed to land near Tintown, Arizona. The disc had a mirror-like surface. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** (1) Albuquerque Journal, July 2, 1947; (2) Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 17; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 191 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3690 ### Event 5151 (C0D5C4A3) **Date:** 6/28/1947 **Location:** USA, Waterloo (Iowa) **Description:** (Translated from French) J.E. Johnson went down to the basement, around 1:30 in the morning, to check the plumbing. A basement that was entered from the front of the house. When he came out, while he was in his yard, his attention was drawn to a circular, luminous object that crossed his field of vision 8 meters in front of him. It had a diameter of about 4 meters, appeared flat and quickly moved at low altitude from south to north. Its appearance surprised him "not so much in itself, but because the object emitted rays that had numbed me from head to toe. I could barely get back home". His wife, a nurse, was in the kitchen and confirmed his state. The next day he felt pain in his chest and had difficulty raising his arm. He said that the observation was accompanied by a "fireworks rocket noise". **Reference:** Phenomena #35 of 1997, p. 8 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1205 ### Event 5152 (43AA50EE) **Date:** 6/28/1947 **Location:** USA, Luke Meade (Nevada) **Description:** (Translated from French) At 2:00 PM Lt Armstrong, at the controls of his aircraft, saw a formation of 6 white discs coming straight towards him, at an altitude of 2000 m. (doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee translated by Jean Sider) (Marcel J. Lefèvre - 1968 - Brussels) The pilot of an F-51 was flying near Lake Meade in Nevada when he spotted a formation of 5 or 6 circular objects to his right. It was around 3:15 PM **Reference:** Edward J. Ruppelt: "Face aux Soucoupes Volantes", ed. France- Empire 1958, p.32 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1206 ### Event 5153 (B7D68899) **Date:** 6/28/1947 **Location:** USA, Alabama, Maxwell Base **Description:** (Translated from French) At 9:20 PM observation by members of the A.A.F. of the Maxwell Base, including Air Force Intelligence officers. For 5 minutes they observed a UFO making zigzags. (doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee translated by Jean Sider) Around 9:20 PM four military aviators, two pilots and two officers, saw a very bright light crossing the sky. They spotted it just above the horizon, it zigzagged towards them with moments of very high speed. When it reached their vertical, it made a 90° turn and disappeared in a southward direction. 15 **Reference:** Edward J. Ruppelt: "Face aux Soucoupes Volantes", ed. France-Empire 1958, p. 32 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1207 ### Event 5154 (A522B8F4) **Date:** 6/28/1947 **Location:** USA, Chicago **Description:** (Translated from French) A housewife saw a (pulsating light) "with legs". **Reference:** Edward J. Ruppelt: "Confronting the Flying Saucers", ed. France-Empire 1958, p. 33 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1208 ### Event 5155 (C58B64F1) **Date:** 6/28/1947 **Location:** USA, Appleton (Colorado) **Description:** (Translated from French) Farmer H.E. Soule reported to local authorities in Grand Junction that he had observed a small disk-shaped object coming from the northwest and flying less than 33 meters above his house without emitting any sound. The disk then reportedly departed to the east above highway 6 for a distance of about one mile, before finally turning southeast. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 39 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1209 ### Event 5156 (502A09B3) **Date:** 6/28/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) An USAF jet pilot, Lieutenant Armstrong, flying 48 km north of Lake Meade \(Nevada\), observed a formation of 5 or 6 flying discs at an estimated altitude of 1800 m. (14 h) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_614 ### Event 5157 (555D9AE4) **Date:** 6/28/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Mr. Beusher sees more than 7 blue and silent disks flying over his Rockfield \(Wisconsin\) farm, heading south. (15 h 45) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_615 ### Event 5158 (43D61C98) **Date:** 6/28/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Similar UFOs are later seen in Illinois \(reported by evening radio news\). **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_616 ### Event 5159 (7535D6A5) **Date:** 6/28/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At the Maxwell Air Force Base near Montgomery \(Alabama\), 2 pilots, 2 intelligence officers and 4 other witnesses saw a light shining intensely which zigzagged, whirled around quickly, and made a sharp 90° turn before disappearing. (9:30 PM) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_617 ### Event 5160 (15A1B42F) **Date:** 6/28/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Above Lake Mead \(Nevada\), an F-51 hunter crosses a formation of disks. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_618 ### Event 5161 (118B293B) **Date:** 6/28/1947 **Location:** Lake Meade, NV **Description:** F-51 pilot sees formation of five or six circular objects. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973_, by Richard Dolan](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/mode/2up) **Source:** Dolan, **ID:** Dolan_16 ### Event 5162 (53E17C1E) **Date:** 6/28/1947 **Location:** Maxwell AFB, AL **Description:** Four Air Force officers see fast, bright, zigzagging light in the sky. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973_, by Richard Dolan](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/mode/2up) **Source:** Dolan, **ID:** Dolan_17 ### Event 5163 (AC6A92C7) **Date:** 6/28/1947 **Time:** 01:30 **Location:** WATERLOO, IA **Description:** Fast flat 3M saucer going quickly [to] 8M away. Loud swish. Observer(s) numb. / r187#304+/ r171p68. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 310) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_708 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "255", **HatchDesc:** "WATERLOO,IA:FAST FLAT 3M SCR >>8M away:LOUD SWISH:OBS NUMB:/r187#304+/r171p68", **LatLong:** "42.483335 -92.350004", **LatLongDMS:** "42:29:00 N 92:21:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.483335,-92.350004)", **RelAlt:** "8", **State/Prov:** "Iowa", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5164 (EF380E35) **Date:** 6/28/1947 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** DETROIT, MI **Description:** 3+1 separate observer(s). Daytime-hour unknown. Cake-pan saucer south going quickly north. High and fast. Glows. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 90) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_709 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "176", **HatchDesc:** "DETROIT,MI:3+1 SEP.OBS:DAYTIME-HOUR unk:CAKE-PAN SCR S>>N:HI+FAST:GLOWS", **LatLong:** "42.350002 -83.033337", **LatLongDMS:** "42:21:00 N 83:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.350002,-83.033337)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5165 (E4607573) **Date:** 6/28/1947 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** APPLETON, CO **Description:** 1 observer. 2' dull aluminum disk going east low over roof. Follows US6. Turns going quickly southeast and away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 93) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_710 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1400", **HatchDesc:** "APPLETON,CO:1 OBS:2'DULL ALUM.DISK > E LOW OVR ROOF:FOLOS US6:TURNS>>SE+AWAY", **LatLong:** "39.138891 -108.594450", **LatLongDMS:** "39:08:20 N 108:35:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.138891,-108.594450)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5166 (8C4AA05C) **Date:** 6/28/1947 **Time:** 15:20 **Location:** 30 MI NORTHWEST / LAKE MEAD, NV **Description:** F51 pilot Armstrong. 6 3' white saucers / 6K' altitude going quickly southeast / 250knots. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 19) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_711 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "500", **HatchDesc:** "30 mi NW/LAKE MEAD,NV:F51 PILOT ARMSTRONG:6 3' WHT SCRS/6K'alt >>SE/250knots", **LatLong:** "36.583335 -114.433339", **LatLongDMS:** "36:35:00 N 114:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.583335,-114.433339)", **State/Prov:** "Nevada", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5167 (54E153AF) **Date:** 6/28/1947 **Time:** 15:30 **Location:** NORTH / CALDWELL, ID **Description:** 2 observer(s). 9 domed saucers maneuver and jiggle in formation east going quickly west. Going [to] 2400M altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 313) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_712 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "723", **HatchDesc:** "N/CALDWELL,ID:2 OBS:9 DOMED SCRS MNVR+JIGGLE/FORMn E>>W:>2400M alt:", **LatLong:** "43.750002 -116.688894", **LatLongDMS:** "43:45:00 N 116:41:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.750002,-116.688894)", **RelAlt:** "2400", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5168 (1DD6988A) **Date:** 6/28/1947 **Time:** 15:50 **Location:** ROCKFIELD, WI **Description:** Blue Book. M. Beusher and 1. 7-10 silent blue saucers going quickly south fast over farm. / r2p70. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 96) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_713 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "271", **HatchDesc:** "ROCKFIELD,WI:BBK:M.BEUSHER+1:7-10 SLNT BLU SCRS >>S FAST OVER FARM:/r2p70", **LatLong:** "43.155558 -88.133338", **LatLongDMS:** "43:09:20 N 88:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.155558,-88.133338)", **State/Prov:** "Wisconsin", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5169 (A408CB2C) **Date:** 6/28/1947 **Time:** ~16:00 **Location:** ROCKFORD, IL **Description:** Farmer. 7 blue disks over farm. 2 hours later same seen / S. Wisconsin. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 70) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_714 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "215", **HatchDesc:** "ROCKFORD,IL:FARMER:7 BLUE DISKS OVR FARM:2hrs LATER SAME SEEN/S.WISCONSIN", **LatLong:** "42.266669 -89.083338", **LatLongDMS:** "42:16:00 N 89:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.266669,-89.083338)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5170 (3AB4C07A) **Date:** 6/28/1947 **Time:** 17:10 **Location:** EAST / SEASIDE, OR **Description:** Woman and daughter age 8. Round object very fast and high. Bright and dim going quickly south / 3 min. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 99) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_715 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "22", **HatchDesc:** "E/SEASIDE,OR:WOMAN+DAUGHTER age 8:ROUND OBJ VFAST+HIGH:BRITE+DIM >>S/3MIN:", **LatLong:** "45.994447 -123.900006", **LatLongDMS:** "45:59:40 N 123:54:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.994447,-123.900006)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5171 (984FFBD8) **Date:** 6/28/1947 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, AL **Description:** 4 observer(s). Night light zigzags. Wild accelerations. Sharp 90° turn going quickly south and away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 19) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_716 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "25", **Elev:** "52", **HatchDesc:** "MAXWELL AFB,AL:4 OBS:NLT ZIGZAGS:WILD ACCELs:SHARP 90°TURN>>S+AWAY", **LatLong:** "32.400002 -86.316671", **LatLongDMS:** "32:24:00 N 86:19:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.400002,-86.316671)", **State/Prov:** "Alabama", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5172 (2A52FEC9) **Date:** 6/28/1947 **Location:** Rockfield, WI **Description:** 3:43 \[3:45 CST?\] p.m. saw 7-10 saucer-shaped objects fly overhead heading S at high speed (McDonald list; FOIA; FUFOR Index; Bloecher 1967) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [470628](https://web.archive.org/web/20111210015950/http://www.nicap.org/rockford470628dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_335 ### Event 5173 (86A44C24) **Date:** 6/28/1947 **Location:** Fort Mead (30 miles NW of), NV **Description:** 3:15 \[1:15 PST?\] p.m. Pilot saw a tight formation of 5-6 white circular 3 ft objects (Ruppelt p. 19; FOIA; FUFOR Index; Bloecher 1967). (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [470628](http://www.nicap.org/470628ftmeade%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_336 ### Event 5174 (9DEAC763) **Date:** 6/28/1947 **Location:** Maxwell AFB, Montgomery, AL **Description:** Object Zig-Zags With Bursts of Speed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [470628](http://www.nicap.org/470628maxwellafb%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_337 ### Event 5175 (E2620BB5) **Date:** 6/28/1947 **Location:** 30 miles north of Lake Mead, Nevada **Description:** 1:15 p.m. Lieut. [Eric B. Armstrong](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63573411/eric-baum-armstrong), flying an F-51 at 6,000 feet 30 miles north of Lake Mead, Nevada, sees a formation of 5–6 objects streak by his plane. They are in close formation at an estimated speed of 285 mph. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Formation of 5–6 Objects Head toward P-51](http://www.nicap.org/470628ftmeade%5Fdir.htm)”; Bloecher, [p. III-10](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 17 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_953 ### Event 5176 (F578757A) **Date:** 6/28/1947 **Locations:** Maxwell Field; Maxwell AFB; Montgomery, Alabama **Description:** 9:20 p.m. Two pilots and two intelligence officers \(Capt. [Wilson H. Kayko](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/102557048/wilson-harold-kayko), Capt. John H. Cantrell, 1st Lt. Theodore Dewey, and Capt. Redman\) at Maxwell Field \[now Maxwell AFB\] in Montgomery, Alabama, see a bright light zigzagging across the sky for 25 minutes. When it is directly overhead, the UFO makes a sharp 90° turn and disappears to the south. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Object Zig-Zags with Bursts of Speed](http://www.nicap.org/470628maxwellafb%5Fdir.htm)”; Bloecher, [p. III-3](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 18 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_954 ### Event 5177 (7B74E697) **Date:** 6/28/1947 **Description:** At 1:30 a.m. a shiny disc-shaped object descended into the backyard of a Mr. Johnston in Waterloo, Iowa and hovered less than 25 feet away from him. He experienced a number of physical complaints as the result of his close encounter, including numbness, chest pain, and difficulty breathing. The UFO made a swishing sound as it flew away. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Waterloo (Iowa) Courier, July 6, 1947 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3706 ### Event 5178 (21BE57E9) **Date:** 6/28/1947 **Description:** At around 2 p.m. a formation of 5-6 white circular objects approached an F-51 aircraft being piloted by an airman named Armstrong while he was flying thirty miles northwest of Lake Mead, Nevada. This case was also investigated by the FBI at the time. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, p. 95; NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1978, p. 3; APRO Bulletin, December 1977, p. 8 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3707 ### Event 5179 (6CE767AA) **Date:** 6/28/1947 **Description:** Four US Air Force officers saw a fast moving, bright, zigzagging light in the sky over Maxwell AFB, Alabama as 9:20 p.m. The light made quick accelerations and 90 degree turns, and flew off toward the south. Their sighting lasted at least five minutes, and was investigated by the FBI. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, p. 102; NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1978, p. 3; APRO Bulletin, December 1977, p. 8; Richard M. Dolan, UFOs and the National Security State, p. 396 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3708 ### Event 5180 (A8E58EEE) **Date:** 6/28/1947 **Location:** 30 miles northwest of Lake Meade, Nevada **Description:** An Air Force lieutenant flying northwest of Lake Meade, Nevada, at 10,000 feet observed five or six white circular objects in formation moving at an estimated speed of 285 miles per hour. (Chapter 8) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_332 ### Event 5181 (BBC51898) **Date:** 6/29/1947 **Location:** White Sands, NM **Description:** Days before the Roswell Incident on June 29, 1947, Dr. C. J. Zohn (working for a Washington naval research lab) and 3 others see UFO's 20 miles from the V-2 rocket testing grounds at White Sands (which would probably be Pad 33). **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/116987855/c-j-zohn-v2-flying-saucer-sighting/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_235 ### Event 5182 (BB203591) **Date:** 6/29/1947 **Location:** USA, south of Pendleton (Oregon) **Description:** (Translated from French) At around 11 o'clock in the morning Mrs. Morton Elder saw seven objects flying north emitting a faint buzzing sound. Other independent witnesses reported the same kind of sighting in the area. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 39 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1210 ### Event 5183 (0BF09102) **Date:** 6/29/1947 **Location:** USA, Las Cruces (or White Sands?) (New Mexico) **Description:** (Translated from French) Dr. C.J. Zohn, an expert in missiles, accompanied by three other people, were examining the launch site of a V-2 rocket, when suddenly, around 1 pm, a bright light was seen in the sky. They then saw a silver disc spinning rapidly above them. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "Des S.V. aux OVNI" - SOBEPS 1976 - p. 34 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1211 ### Event 5184 (15EAFC09) **Date:** 6/29/1947 **Location:** USA, Richland (Washington) **Description:** (Translated from French) At 3:00 PM Mr. and Mrs. James Harbor saw a huge silver disc surrounded by a kind of halo. Several other inhabitants of Richland saw the same thing. Most of the witnesses agreed that the outer edge of the disc indicated that it was spinning rapidly and that the central section remained still. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p.40 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1212 ### Event 5185 (03017A25) **Date:** 6/29/1947 **Location:** USA, between Des Moines and Manson City (Iowa) **Description:** (Translated from French) At 4:45 pm the driver of a bus saw an oval object followed by 4 other objects. Then 13 other objects came from the opposite direction. They all flew at an estimated altitude of 400 m. They made a noise like a dynamo and disappeared in the direction of NNO. **Reference:** Marcel J. Lefèvre - 1968 - Brussels **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1213 ### Event 5186 (A5C95167) **Date:** 6/29/1947 **Location:** USA, St Joseph (Missouri) **Description:** (Translated from French) At around 5:30 PM, Mr. and Mrs. Budds and their son were observing a bright object flying low and at a slow speed, heading south. The unusual object appeared like a small sun or a full moon, while the sky was completely covered by clouds. It flew at a constant speed towards the south. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 40 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1214 ### Event 5187 (03A7448E) **Date:** 6/29/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In the rocket testing zone of [White Sands](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/WhiteSands.html) \(New Mexico\), the American Naval Laboratories rocket expert, Dr. C. John, along with 2 \(3?\) other scientists \(Dr. Zohn and Curtiss Rockwood, rocket experts\) see a silver disc that appears to be moving in the sky at a speed they estimate to be faster than the speed of sound. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_619 ### Event 5188 (F3777DD0) **Date:** 6/29/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The driver of a vehicle traveling from Des Moines to Mason City is about 10 km from Clarion \(Iowa\) when a group of 5 UFOs passes in his field of vision. They are followed by 13 more, whiter and more oval, coming from the opposite direction, making a sound similar to that of a dynamo, and flying northwest. (4:45 PM) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_620 ### Event 5189 (E77C0D22) **Date:** 6/29/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Observation of [J. E. Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/temoins.html\#JohnsonJE). (1 h 30) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_621 ### Event 5190 (5F63F69B) **Date:** 6/29/1947 **Location:** White Sands, NM **Description:** Silvery craft seen by three scientists. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973_, by Richard Dolan](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/mode/2up) **Source:** Dolan, **ID:** Dolan_18 ### Event 5191 (DEDE66BA) **Date:** 6/29/1947 **Time:** ~10:00 **Location:** CLIFF, NM **Description:** Rancher. Round silver object falls / hills. Army Air Force (AAF) men find stinky odor only. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLITZ, Charles & MOORE, William: The ROSWELL INCIDENT; Putnam 1980 & Berkley Books 1988. (Index 20) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_717 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **MIL:** Military investigation, **ODR:** Odors associated with UFO's **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1374", **HatchDesc:** "CLIFF,NM:RANCHER:ROUND SLVR OBJ FALLS/HILLS:AAF MEN FIND STINKY ODOR ONLY", **LatLong:** "32.966668 -108.666672", **LatLongDMS:** "32:58:00 N 108:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.966668,-108.666672)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 5192 (DD38CCDA) **Date:** 6/29/1947 **Time:** 11:00 **Location:** MCKAY CREEK, OR **Description:** 1 observer. 7 round 'umbrella tops' going quickly northwest fast. Humming like musical top! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 107) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_718 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "400", **HatchDesc:** "McKAY CREEK,OR:1 OBS:7 ROUND 'UMBRELLA TOPS' >>NW FAST:HUM LIKE MUSICAL TOP!", **LatLong:** "45.605558 -118.794450", **LatLongDMS:** "45:36:20 N 118:47:40 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.605558,-118.794450)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5193 (19168D0E) **Date:** 6/29/1947 **Time:** 13:00 **Location:** NEAR MEDFORD, OR **Description:** 10+observer(s). 9 white saucers / V-formation / 120mph. Spiral over airport. Make cloud! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 103) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_719 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "117", **HatchDesc:** "nr MEDFORD,OR:10+OBS:9 WHT SCRS/V-FORMn/120mph:SPIRAL OVR AIRPORT:MAKE CLOUD!", **LatLong:** "42.333335 -122.916673", **LatLongDMS:** "42:20:00 N 122:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.333335,-122.916673)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5194 (42465D31) **Date:** 6/29/1947 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** LAC DESCHENES, ON **Description:** 3 observer(s). Fast silent extremely bright-white stovepipe here and going south / Ottawa / 5 minute(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 104) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_720 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "75", **HatchDesc:** "LAC DESCHENES,ON:3 OBS:FAST SLNT XBRITE-WHT STOVEPIPE HERE+>S/OTTAWA/5min:", **LatLong:** "45.366669 -75.900004", **LatLongDMS:** "45:22:00 N 75:54:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.366669,-75.900004)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5195 (FDB0DF95) **Date:** 6/29/1947 **Time:** 13:20 **Location:** US70 NEAR ORGAN, NM **Description:** Rocket experts and 2. Silver saucer / northwest sky going quickly north. 9K' altitude. / r15p17. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 109) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_721 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1565", **HatchDesc:** "US70 nr ORGAN,NM:ROCKET EXPERTS+2:SLVR SCR/NW SKY>>N:9K'alt:/r15p17", **LatLong:** "32.400002 -106.583338", **LatLongDMS:** "32:24:00 N 106:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.400002,-106.583338)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5196 (13653A65) **Date:** 6/29/1947 **Time:** 13:30 **Location:** MOSCOW, ID **Description:** 5+2 kids. Large shiny flat disk oscillates going quickly southeast / cloud level. / r187#111. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 515) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_722 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "787", **HatchDesc:** "MOSCOW,ID:5+2 KIDS:LRG SHINY FLAT DISK OSCILLATES >>SE/CLOUD Lvl:/r187#111", **LatLong:** "46.750002 -116.966672", **LatLongDMS:** "46:45:00 N 116:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.750002,-116.966672)", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5197 (1E6E5C12) **Date:** 6/29/1947 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** NOGALES, AZ **Description:** Numerous observer(s). ~6 disks west going quickly east / low altitude. Maneuver / circles. "Size and shape / dinner plate". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 315) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_723 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1173", **HatchDesc:** "NOGALES,AZ:NMRS OBS:~6 DISKS W>>E/lo alt:MNVR/CCLS:"SIZE+SHAPE/DINNER PLATE"", **LatLong:** "31.366668 -110.933339", **LatLongDMS:** "31:22:00 N 110:56:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.366668,-110.933339)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5198 (67AC0CDB) **Date:** 6/29/1947 **Time:** 16:50 **Location:** US69 EAST / CLARION, IA **Description:** Bus driver. 17 white saucers. At 1200'. Dynamo sounds. 4 going SSE. 13 going quickly NNW. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 70) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_724 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "354", **HatchDesc:** "US69 E/CLARION,IA:BUS DRIVER:17 WHT SCRS:@1200':DYNAMO SOUNDS:4> SSE:13>>NNW", **LatLong:** "42.733335 -93.683338", **LatLongDMS:** "42:44:00 N 93:41:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.733335,-93.683338)", **State/Prov:** "Iowa", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5199 (533B3783) **Date:** 6/29/1947 **Time:** 17:20 **Location:** SR141 SOUTHEAST / SIOUX CITY, IA **Description:** 2 observer(s). Silver disk high and fast going quickly south. 'Size of pieplate'. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 113) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_725 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "332", **HatchDesc:** "SR141 SE/SIOUX CITY,IA:2 OBS:SLVR DISK HI+FAST >>S:'size of pieplate':NFD", **LatLong:** "42.250002 -96.083338", **LatLongDMS:** "42:15:00 N 96:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.250002,-96.083338)", **State/Prov:** "Iowa", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5200 (D5AE51BE) **Date:** 6/29/1947 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** LINDA, CA **Description:** Several observer(s)? Saucer going [to] overhead. Door opens / bottom/underside. Blue-white light comes out. Buzz and whirr. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 316) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_726 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "LINDA,CA:SVRL OBS?:SCR >OHVD:DOOR OPENS/Btm:BLU-WHT LITE COMES OUT:BUZZ+WHIRR", **LatLong:** "39.133335 -121.533339", **LatLongDMS:** "39:08:00 N 121:32:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.133335,-121.533339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5201 (88BFB69F) **Date:** 6/29/1947 **Time:** 21:10 **Location:** SAN LEANDRO, CA **Description:** 5 observer(s). 25' flat oval disk / 5K' altitude and tremendous speed/velocity going quickly north. Seen / moonlight. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 114) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_727 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "SAN LEANDRO,CA:5 OBS:25'FLAT OVAL DISK/5K'alt+TREMENDOUS SPD>>N:SEEN/MOONLITE ", **LatLong:** "37.700002 -122.133339", **LatLongDMS:** "37:42:00 N 122:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.700002,-122.133339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5202 (C4D69EBF) **Date:** 6/29/1947 **Location:** Des Moines, IA **Description:** Line Of Saucers Headed SSE (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [470629](http://www.nicap.org/470629desmoines%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_338 ### Event 5203 (2A05AB56) **Date:** 6/29/1947 **Location:** Jacksonville, OR **Description:** V-formation of nine UFOs seen by a group of people west of Medford (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [470629](http://www.nicap.org/medford470629dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_339 ### Event 5204 (608E1CC1) **Date:** 6/29/1947 **Location:** Las Cruces, NM **Description:** Naval Research Lab Rocket Scientists See Silver Disc (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [470629](http://www.nicap.org/470629lascruces%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_340 ### Event 5205 (A0426B0B) **Date:** 6/29/1947 **Location:** 20 miles east-northeast of Las Cruces, New Mexico **Description:** 1:15 p.m. [Carl J. Zohn](https://www.geni.com/discussions/92999)[,](https://www.geni.com/discussions/92999) a guided missile expert with the Naval Research Laboratory, is 20 miles east-northeast of Las Cruces, New Mexico, to observe a V-2 rocket launch scheduled for July 3. Between 1:00 and 1:30 p.m., he is riding out to the testing grounds with John R. Kauke and NRL scientist [Curtis C. Rockwood](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99407032/curtis-c-rockwood) \(and his wife Nancy\) when they see a silvery disc flying at 8,000–10,000 feet. It has no appendages, wings, tail, or propellers. After about 60 seconds it disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Naval Research Lab Rocket Scientists See Silver Discs](http://www.nicap.org/470629lascruces%5Fdir.htm)”; Bloecher, [p. III-18](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 18; Evelyne Tsezana, “[Grandpa Zohn Saw UFOs in New Mexico,](https://www.geni.com/discussions/92999)” Geni, April 6, 2011 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_955 ### Event 5206 (3E3B02E5) **Date:** 6/29/1947 **Description:** A 1:15 p.m. four rocket experts saw a silver saucer in the sky over Organ, New Mexico. It flew off to the north at 9,000 feet altitude. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, p. 109 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3723 ### Event 5207 (508E63DA) **Date:** 6/29/1947 **Description:** About 45 minutes later nine white saucers flying in V-formation flew over Medford, Oregon at a speed of 120 mph. They flew in a spiral over the airport, and appeared to make a cloud. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 729 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3724 ### Event 5208 (1EA3B2DD) **Date:** 6/29/1947 **Description:** Between 13 and 18 white oval and disc-shaped objects flew over Clarion, Iowa at 4:45 p.m. They made a noise like that of a dynamo. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 178 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3725 ### Event 5209 (A76F6BED) **Date:** 6/29/1947 **Location:** Near White Sands, New Mexico V-2 firing grounds **Description:** A party of three, including two scientists, reported seeing a large disk or sphere moving horizontally at high speed and an estimated altitude of 10,000 feet while heading towards a V-2 firing ground. The object, with no protruding surfaces like wings, was visible for about 60 seconds before disappearing to the northeast. Two observers concurred on the sighting details, but one believed he saw vapor trails. (Chapter 8, Ref 340) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_333 ### Event 5210 (139F7EA7) **Date:** 6/30/1947 **Location:** CANADA, Vancouver (BC) **Description:** (Translated from French) Two citizens reported having observed mysterious objects rotating, luminous, and flying at high speed above the city. William Crodie saw a silver object, without wings or tail, he said that the phenomenon was descending slowly. A woman, who wishes to remain anonymous, reported having seen some vaporous objects in the shape of a disk pass over her house about a month ago. She did not dare to say it right away, for fear that people would consider her crazy. **Reference:** source: Jan Aldrich of UFO activity over British Columbia during the summer of 1947 - newspaper articles **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1215 ### Event 5211 (25C0EDB5) **Date:** 6/30/1947 **Location:** At sea, off the coast of KENYA **Description:** (Translated from French) The steamer Llandovery Castle was sailing along the Kenyan coast southward. The night was very starry but without a moon. A passenger who was walking on the ship's aft deck noticed an unusual shadow that partially masked the stars. It seemed to him that it was descending and approaching the boat. He told an officer who, having seen it, called the captain. At that moment twelve people, nine of them passengers, were observing the object that was approaching. It was huge and had no running lights. The thing settled at a height of 30 m above the sea and at a distance of 800 m from the ship, between the coast and it. It lit up a blinding white searchlight that illuminated the sky from the bottom of the object to the surface of the water and the reflection of this light allowed to see a gigantic dirigible-shaped craft, controlled intelligently, which advanced in concert with their ship. It was about twice the length of the Llandovery Castle, that is to say about 300 m, was silent, seemed to be made of a shiny material that reflected the light reflected by the sea as well as the glow of the stars. This craft sailed in concert with the ship for several minutes then turned off its projector and rose quickly and silently into the night sky from whence it came. **Reference:** Frank EDWARDS: "Les S.V. affaire sérieuse" - trad. Laffont 1967 - p. 27, 28. **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1216 ### Event 5212 (120D8CF9) **Date:** 6/30/1947 **Location:** USA, Grand Canyon **Description:** (Translated from French) At 9:10am Lt. McGinty, in command of his aircraft, saw two round, gray UFOs descending towards the ground in a vertical line. **Reference:** doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee, translated by Jean Sider **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1217 ### Event 5213 (840D73CD) **Date:** 6/30/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) [Kenneth Arnold](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/ArnoldKenneth.html), who heard of the affair from a journalist friend, went to Tacoma and spoke with [Fred Crisman](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/CrismanFredLee.html). **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_622 ### Event 5214 (BFD4253B) **Date:** 6/30/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) An American [Navy](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/USNavy.html) pilot flying South sees near Williams Field \(Arizona\) 2 gray spheres about 3 m in diameter, diving at an inconceivable speed and seeming to land about 40 km South of the Grand Canyon. (9:10) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_623 ### Event 5215 (7D0483AC) **Date:** 6/30/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Police officers in Portland \(Oregon\) saw 5 discs resembling bright hubs, of chrome structure appear, disappear and then reappear, flying as if they were spinning wrong. Agent K. Mc Dowell, on patrol duty, will affirm: "I saw 5 large objects in the sky, they were shaped like discs and had no special color. They lowered and then rose in a very fast oscillating movement, and disappeared very quickly." **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_624 ### Event 5216 (A23D33B3) **Date:** 6/30/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) 2 other police officers and 1 private pilot see 3 discs at the same moment, flying at a terrifying speed, grouped in a straight line. The last disc was moving laterally, inside a lateral arc, very quickly. They were silent and left no condensation trails behind them. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_625 ### Event 5217 (F9509AF7) **Date:** 6/30/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) On the Kenyan coast, 12 members of the crew of the steamer *Landovery Castle*, including the captain, observe a huge dark object approaching. It stops 800 m away and 30 m high, then turns on a blinding white spotlight that illuminates the sea and reveals a 300 m long cigar. It moves in formation with the boat for a few minutes, then turns off its spotlight and disappears into the night. **Reference:** Pottier 1974 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_626 ### Event 5218 (1625CBD1) **Date:** 6/30/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) General [Ramey](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/RameyRogerM.html) and his intelligence director give press interviews debunking the phenomenon of flying saucers. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_627 ### Event 5219 (B748FBC8) **Date:** 6/30/1947 **Location:** Grand Canyon, AZ **Description:** Navy pilot sees two fast gray objects, possible landing. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973_, by Richard Dolan](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/mode/2up) **Source:** Dolan, **ID:** Dolan_19 ### Event 5220 (CDC6B6ED) **Date:** 6/30/1947 **Time:** ~04:00 **Location:** ROGERS, ARK **Description:** J. P. Crumpler. Fast bright metallic disk northwest going quickly southwest in storm clouds. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 128) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_728 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "418", **HatchDesc:** "ROGERS,ARK:J.P.CRUMPLER:FAST BRITE MTLC DISK NW>>SW IN STORM CLOUDS:NFD", **LatLong:** "36.333335 -94.116671", **LatLongDMS:** "36:20:00 N 94:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.333335,-94.116671)", **State/Prov:** "Arkansas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5221 (F5F309F8) **Date:** 6/30/1947 (approximate) **Time:** 05:00? **Location:** NEAR ARKADELPHIA, ARK **Description:** Farm worker. 3 thin disks 'phonograph records' going quickly southwest fast / ~100m altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 129) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_729 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "76", **HatchDesc:** "nr ARKADELPHIA,ARK:FARM WORKER:3 THIN DISKS 'phono.records'>>SW FAST/~100m alt", **LatLong:** "34.116668 -93.050004", **LatLongDMS:** "34:07:00 N 93:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.116668,-93.050004)", **RelAlt:** "100", **State/Prov:** "Arkansas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5222 (A94CFB63) **Date:** 6/30/1947 **Time:** 09:10 **Location:** SOUTH / GRAND CANYON, AZ **Description:** Navy pilot. 2 12' grey saucers maneuver / crazy speed and land. / r187#115. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 59) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_730 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "2000", **HatchDesc:** "S/GRAND CANYON,AZ:NAVY PILOT:2 12'GRY SCRS MNVR/CRAZY SPEED+LAND:/r187#115", **LatLong:** "36.033335 -112.200005", **LatLongDMS:** "36:02:00 N 112:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.033335,-112.200005)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5223 (C629850F) **Date:** 6/30/1947 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** 12 MI NORTHWEST / PROVO, UT **Description:** 1 observer. 2 then 12 shiny metal disks going quickly southeast / great height. Seen / 2 minute(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 116) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_731 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1365", **HatchDesc:** "12mi NW/PROVO,UT:1 OBS:2 then 12 SHINY MTL DISKS >>SE/GREAT HEIGHT:SEEN/2min", **LatLong:** "40.350002 -111.750005", **LatLongDMS:** "40:21:00 N 111:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.350002,-111.750005)", **State/Prov:** "Utah", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5224 (826651BB) **Date:** 6/30/1947 **Time:** 14:30 **Location:** NORTHEAST / HAILEY, ID **Description:** 2 observer(s). 8-9 extremely bright saucers / V-formation going quickly northwest. Very high and very fast. No planes. / r187#120. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 318) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_732 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1640", **HatchDesc:** "NE/HAILEY,ID:2 OBS:8-9 XBRITE SCRS/V-FORM>>NW:VHIGH+VFAST:NO PLANES:/r187#120", **LatLong:** "43.855558 -114.638894", **LatLongDMS:** "43:51:20 N 114:38:20 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.855558,-114.638894)", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5225 (3E75A1D3) **Date:** 6/30/1947 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** SPOKANE, WA **Description:** Jailer and separate observer(s). Bright shiny silent "silver dollar" going quickly east faster / jet plane. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 118) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_733 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "600", **HatchDesc:** "SPOKANE,WA:JAILER+SEP.OBS:BRITE SHINY SLNT "SLVR DOLLAR" >>E FASTER/JET PLANE", **LatLong:** "47.633336 -117.433339", **LatLongDMS:** "47:38:00 N 117:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.633336,-117.433339)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5226 (2EF2DABE) **Date:** 6/30/1947 **Time:** 17:50 **Location:** WEST / BOISE, ID **Description:** 2 / car. Silvery half-dome clings to edge of cloud. "Sun-dog" / USAF. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 123) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_734 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **COV:** Indication of coverup, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "825", **HatchDesc:** "W/BOISE,ID:2/CAR:SLVRY HALF-DOME CLINGS TO EDGE OF CLOUD:"SUN-DOG"/USAF", **LatLong:** "43.600002 -116.233339", **LatLongDMS:** "43:36:00 N 116:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.600002,-116.233339)", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5227 (92CD06EA) **Date:** 6/30/1947 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** TUPELO, ARK **Description:** Postmaster and 2. 4' diameter silver object going quickly northeast. High fast and silent. Brief sighting. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 121) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_735 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "66", **HatchDesc:** "TUPELO,ARK:POSTMASTER+2:4'diam.SLVR OBJ >>NE:HIGH FAST+SLNT:brief sighting", **LatLong:** "35.383335 -91.250004", **LatLongDMS:** "35:23:00 N 91:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.383335,-91.250004)", **State/Prov:** "Arkansas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5228 (FD221B4F) **Date:** 6/30/1947 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** ALBANY, GA **Description:** 4 observer(s). Big bright plain metallic top-saucer hovers 5-10 minutes. Observer(s) drive away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HITT, Michael D: GEORGIA'S AERIAL PHENOMENON 1947-1987 Self published 1999. ref. Jan Aldrich. (Index 1) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_736 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "63", **HatchDesc:** "ALBANY,GA:4 OBS:BIG BRITE PLAIN MTLC TOP-SCR HVRS 5-10 mins:obs drive away.", **LatLong:** "31.577779 -84.155560", **LatLongDMS:** "31:34:40 N 84:09:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.577779,-84.155560)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5229 (12D3696B) **Date:** 6/30/1947 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** ASTORIA, OR **Description:** Jack Hayes / hospital. 2 fast disks going quickly southwest. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 117) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_737 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "ASTORIA,OR:JACK HAYES/HOSPITAL:2 FAST DISKS >>SW:NFD", **LatLong:** "46.166669 -123.816673", **LatLongDMS:** "46:10:00 N 123:49:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.166669,-123.816673)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5230 (AB6BFB57) **Date:** 6/30/1947 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** KNOXVILLE, TN **Description:** College president and 1+1. Long saucer-cylinder/cylindrical object going west overhead. Trail / sparks. Whistles. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 125) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_738 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "267", **HatchDesc:** "KNOXVILLE,TN:COLLEGE PRESIDENT+1+1:LONG SCR-CYL >W OVHD:TRAIL/SPARKS:WHISTLES", **LatLong:** "35.950002 -83.933337", **LatLongDMS:** "35:57:00 N 83:56:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.950002,-83.933337)", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5231 (90397A60) **Date:** 6/30/1947 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** NORWOOD, OH **Description:** Several separate observer(s). Huge saucer. 6 small disks orbit. / news. No further details. / r171p79. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 126) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_739 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "201", **HatchDesc:** "NORWOOD,OH:SVRL SEP.OBS:HUGE SCR:6 SML DISKS ORBIT:/NEWS:NFD:/r171p79", **LatLong:** "39.150002 -84.450004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:09:00 N 84:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.150002,-84.450004)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5232 (C10890C3) **Date:** 6/30/1947 **Time:** ~23:00 **Location:** TUCUMCARI, NM **Description:** Mrs. Hardin. Saucer east going quickly west / high speed / 6 second(s). ".. not a meteor!". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLITZ, Charles & MOORE, William: The ROSWELL INCIDENT; Putnam 1980 & Berkley Books 1988. (Index 20) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_740 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "1245", **HatchDesc:** "TUCUMCARI,NM:MRS HARDIN:SCR E>>W/HI SPEED/6 sec:"..NOT A METEOR!"", **LatLong:** "35.166668 -103.700005", **LatLongDMS:** "35:10:00 N 103:42:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.166668,-103.700005)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5233 (25E41308) **Date:** 6/30/1947 **Location:** Grand Canyon (Near S rim of), AZ **Description:** 9:10 a.m. (MST?). 2 gray, circular objects about 8 or 10 ft diameter (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [470630](http://www.nicap.org/470630grandcanyon%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_341 ### Event 5234 (6D8C70A3) **Date:** 6/30/1947 **Time:** 0910 **Location:** Grand Canyon, near Williams Field, Arizona **Description:** A Navy lieutenant was flying at 9000 m toward the south when he saw two circular objects diving at "unconceivable" speed. They were gray, about 3 m in diameter, and appeared to land 40 km south of the Grand Canyon. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_59 ### Event 5235 (3EBC6DD7) **Date:** 6/30/1947 **Locations:** Williams AFB [now Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport], Arizona; Grand Canyon **Description:** 9:10 a.m. Naval Lt. William G. McGinty is flying a P-80 from Williams AFB \[now Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport\], Arizona, near the Grand Canyon when he observes two circular objects diving at inconceivable speed and landing 25 miles south of the canyon. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[P-80 Pilot Sees Circular Objects Dive and Land](http://www.nicap.org/470630grandcanyon%5Fdir.htm)”; Bloecher, [p. II-12](https://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionII.htm)[;](https://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionII.htm) [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 18 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_956 ### Event 5236 (B7CA50AE) **Date:** 6/30/1947 **Locations:** Eighth Air Force; Fort Worth, Texas **Description:** Eighth Air Force Brig. Gen. [Roger M. Ramey](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/1686367/lt-gen-roger-m-ramey/) and intelligence officer Col. [Alfred Kalberer](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/124983070/alfred-f-kalberer) hold a press conference in Fort Worth, Texas, on the flying discs. Ramey thinks people are “seeing heat waves.” Kalberer labels the sightings as “Buck Rogers stuff.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Jun-24-July-6-SN.pdf) [History: 1947 June 24th–July 6th, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Jun-24-July-6-SN.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Jun-24-July-6-SN.pdf) The Author, 2000, p. 17 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_957 ### Event 5237 (43D0EC13) **Date:** 6/30/1947 **Locations:** Wright Field; Dayton, Ohio **Description:** Around this time the Air Force Research and Development office of the Air Materiel Command organizes an informal project at Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio, to collect UFO reports in the interests of national security. The project officer at Wright Field is Lt. Col. [Edward G. Nabell Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/50579195/edward-gordon-nabell)  **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 13 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_958 ### Event 5238 (E8A9177B) **Date:** 6/30/1947 **Description:** A Navy Lieutenant named McGinty was flying in a P-80 fighter aircraft near Williams Field, Arizona at 9000 meters altitude when toward the south when he saw two circular objects diving at an "unconceivable" speed. They were gray, about three meters in diameter, and appeared to land 40 kilometers south of the Grand Canyon. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #78; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 191; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, p. 11 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3740 ### Event 5239 (757622BE) **Date:** 7/1947 **Description:** Student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright visits Princeton and studies under Einstein **Type:** scientist **Reference:** [Bragalia](https://www.ufoexplorations.com/einsteins-secret-trip-to-view-roswell-ufo) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_236 **Attributes:** Einstein ### Event 5240 (88178279) **Date:** 7/1947 **Description:** Alternate date for the organization of the MAJESTIC-12 group by General George C. Marshall. Established in order to study the crash debris from the Roswell-Magdalena area. **Type:** majestic document **Reference:** "Matrix 1", Valerian **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_265 **Attributes:** Majestic **See also:** 9/24/1947 ### Event 5241 (888A0102) **Date:** 7/1947 **Description:** Conclusion to an FBI/ARMY Intelligence Report: Based on a detailed study of the Kenneth Arnold case (6/24/1947) and 15 other UFO encounters during the first month of the “flying saucer” mystery the conclusion is “this flying saucer situation is not all imaginary or seeing too much in some natural phenomenon. Something is really flying around.” (This report was declassified FOIA, 1976.) **Type:** ufological event **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_266 **See also:** 6/24/1947 **See also:** 9/23/1947 ### Event 5242 (9EFEB465) **Date:** 7/1947 **Location:** US **Description:** The Air Force began investigating UFO reports seriously after sightings by airline pilots, other qualified observers. **Type:** investigation **Reference:** ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) **Reference:** ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_854 ### Event 5243 (84E5499C) **Date:** 7/1947 **Location:** USA, Tucson **Description:** (Translated from French) Mrs. Olavick was in her kitchen at 2101 East Hawthorne Street, Tucson, while Mrs Down was in the garden. Suddenly Mrs. Down called the neighbor in an excited manner. It was noon, with a beautiful cloudless sky. A little to the north of their zenith was a single fluffy, vapor cloud, at an altitude difficult to estimate but probably at 3000 meters. Into and out of this cloud were entering and exiting white, matte objects that moved erratically in the sky, occasionally disappearing into or above this strange cloud. They stayed in observation for 5 or 6 minutes when suddenly the entire group of white things disappeared into or above the cloud. A minute later, a new object emerged from the cloud, it was two to three times larger than the white objects observed previously. Behind the largest object, the small ones followed, and they flew in a "V" formation: four objects just behind the largest, then a row of three and finally two objects in line to finish. As soon as the last two objects closed the formation, the whole group shot off like an arrow towards the northeast, rising, so that in 2 or 3 seconds they had disappeared from view. The witnesses do not know what happened to the cloud after the departure of the objects. In their opinion, they had just had the chance to observe American top-secret planes. **Reference:** Source: NICAP and James McDonald **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1236 ### Event 5244 (2EF34589) **Date:** 7/1947 **Location:** FRANCE, Amfreville-la-Mi-Voie (region of Rouen) **Description:** (Translated from French) Mme S. was cycling at around 3pm on the road that runs alongside the Seine. She saw on the road a kind of large rugby ball, 3 meters long and 2 meters high. Beside the craft were two small beings, about 1 meter tall. "When I got to about a hundred meters from this thing, I stopped and rang my bike bell. The two small beings got up, saw me, and rushed into their craft. It rose vertically to about a hundred meters, then stopped oscillating for a few seconds before speeding away." Astonished, the witness continued on her way, wondering what devilry she had just witnessed... **Reference:** GARREAU and LAVIER: "Face aux extra-terrestres" - DELARGE 1975 - J'ai Lu, p. 89, 90 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1296 ### Event 5245 (7CED08C0) **Date:** 7/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) 50 miles northeast of St. Louis \(Missouri\), on a clear, cloudless day, a 14-year-old boy was nailing corrugated panels to the roof of a barn. He then saw an object in the shape of a disc, non-luminous and smaller than the Moon, pass over him from east to west, slightly to the south, at an estimated altitude between 10,000 and 20,000 feet. Becoming a scientist, he would not report his observation until much later in [1973](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/1973.html), during an internal survey of the [AIAA](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/AIAA.html). (9-10 h) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_628 ### Event 5246 (FD418CAC) **Date:** 7/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Observation at Montusson. **Reference:** Vallée 1966 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_629 ### Event 5247 (B1E4B202) **Date:** 7/1947 **Time:** ~00:30 **Location:** JYVASKYLA, FINL **Description:** Amateur astronomer and more. Metallic cylinder/cigar-shape going quickly southeast. Faster / planes. Going quickly south / separate observer(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 164) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_741 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "JYVASKYLA,FINL:AM.ASTRON+:MTLC CGR >>SE:FASTER/PLANES::>>S/SEP.OBS", **LatLong:** "62.233336 25.750001", **LatLongDMS:** "62:14:00 N 25:45:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/62.233336,25.750001)", **State/Prov:** "Finland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5248 (D4C419B6) **Date:** 7/1947 **Time:** 13:00 **Location:** JAMSA, FINL **Description:** Girl / 11. Brown cylinder/cigar-shape exits cloud. Hovers / 2-3 minute(s). Departure not seen. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 164) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_742 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "JAMSA,FINL:GIRL/11:BROWN CGR EXITS CLOUD:HVRS/2-3min:departure not seen", **LatLong:** "61.866670 25.183335", **LatLongDMS:** "61:52:00 N 25:11:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/61.866670,25.183335)", **State/Prov:** "Finland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5249 (5BD11022) **Date:** 7/1947 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** NEAR VASTERAS, SWD **Description:** 2 observer(s). Round silver metallic silent ovoid. Instant 90° turn going west. / AFU Sweden. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 134) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_743 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "nr VASTERAS,SWD:2 OBS:RND SLVR MTLC SLNT OVOID:INSTANT 90° TURN >W:/AFU Sweden", **LatLong:** "59.616670 16.550001", **LatLongDMS:** "59:37:00 N 16:33:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/59.616670,16.550001)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5250 (2267B296) **Date:** 7/1947 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** WEST / BLYTHE, CA **Description:** Bill Lear / P38 plane. 2 near collision with wingless fuselage. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GOOD, Timothy: ALIEN CONTACT, Top-Secret UFO Files Revealed; William Morrow, NY 1993. 288pp. (Index 22) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_744 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "150", **HatchDesc:** "W/BLYTHE,CA:BILL LEAR/P38 PLANE:2 NEAR COLLISION WITH WINGLESS FUSELAGE:", **LatLong:** "33.616668 -114.750005", **LatLongDMS:** "33:37:00 N 114:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.616668,-114.750005)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5251 (1318E05E) **Date:** 7/1947 **Location:** Nashville, TN **Description:** Area of a sighting of a landed disc and two occupants. (Bloecher) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_342 ### Event 5252 (07AE61C7) **Date:** 7/1947 **Location:** Near Malta, Mediterrian Sea, At Sea **Description:** 2:30 p.m. (EDT). Fishermen rep "little men" on "sub". (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [470700](http://www.nicap.org/4706xx.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_343 ### Event 5253 (095E25C6) **Date:** 7/1/1947 **Locations:** White Sands, NM; Alamogordo, NM; Roswell, NM **Description:** Military installations at White Sands, Alamogordo, and Roswell, New Mexico track high-speed objects on radar, all flying at speeds well above what current jet fighters were capable of doing. With the radar blips penetrating highly secure air space at will, all three facilities go on full alert. **Type:** ufo sightings **Reference:** [link](https://www.ufosightingsfootage.uk/2016/11/heres-actual-roswell-main-crash-site.html) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_237 ### Event 5254 (6AF66A26) **Date:** 7/1/1947 **Locations:** Roswell Army Air Field, Roswell NM; White Sands, NM **Description:** Contested information: Military officials, both officers and the enlisted technicians had been tracking, on their radar, an unidentified object in flight over southern New Mexico since July 1. The object had first appeared over the highly restricted areas near the White Sands Proving Grounds. On July 2, Steve MacKenzie (a pseudonym, actually Frank Kaufmann), stationed at [Roswell Army Air Field](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walker_Air_Force_Base), had received a call from [Brigadier General Martin F. Scanlon](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105707/brigadier-general-martin-f-scanlon/) of the [Air Defense Command](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerospace_Defense_Command), ordering him to report to the radar sites at [White Sands](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Sands_Missile_Range). MacKenzie was to monitor the object's movements and report them directly to the general. MacKenzie could not leave the scope unattended for even the shortest of times. In fact, once he had his watch established, he set up a system of mirrors so that he could see the screen even when he needed to use the latrine. MacKenzie stayed at his post for twenty-four hours straight, but nothing changed. The object appeared periodically over southern New Mexico, but usually just "flitting from one location to another." When MacKenzie reported that nothing had changed significantly during his twenty-four-hour watch, Scanlon decided to end MacKenzie's part of the operation. Although MacKenzie was ordered back to Roswell, the operators at White Sands were told to continue to monitor the object, as were the radarmen at Roswell and Albuquerque. (R.G.: Interestingly, this case was deleted and "declared a hoax" in NICAP's records and by K. Randle, but after re-reading all the relevant research I don't believe that this is a matter of a simple hoax. It fits into the historical timeline well and should be re-examined.) **Type:** radar sightings **Reference:** [Radar Tracks Object - nipcap.org](https://web.archive.org/web/20050227234151/http://www.nicap.org/whitesands470701.htm) **Reference:** [Frank Kaufmann (aka Steve McKenzie) - roswellfiles.com](http://www.roswellfiles.com/Witnesses/Kaufmann.htm) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_929 ### Event 5255 (895FFD25) **Date:** 7/1/1947 **Location:** Elephant Butte Lake, New Mexico **Description:** Troy Pendergrass, who was involved in New Mexico state politics for many years, stated to the press that he and friends saw a very bright flying object, as "bright as a mirror", land in Ash Canyon, near Elephant Butte Lake (west of White Sands Proving Grounds). He said he found a 5x8 inch piece of crinkled tin foil, heavier than that used for gum wrappers, burned and partially melted. **Type:** ufo sighting, landing, metals **Reference:** [https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/p/gallupindependent1jul1947.htm](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/p/gallupindependent1jul1947.htm) **Reference:** [newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/article/austin-american-statesman-troy-pendergra/128767684/) **Reference:** [newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/article/albuquerque-journal-troy-pendergrass/128769781/) **Reference:** [findagrave.com](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113638975/troy-pendergrass) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_949 ### Event 5256 (974D7C83) **Date:** 7/1/1947 **Location:** USA, Portland (Oregon) and Tucson **Description:** (Translated from French) At 11:45 the Baillet couple saw two groups of flying saucers pass over their new house in Portland. The second group was composed of ten or twelve objects and flew low over the small hills near the Columbia River. A quarter of an hour later another woman in the area saw a bright object for fifteen minutes near the Columbia. A welder at work had his gaze drawn outside and watched the bright object with his protective glasses still on. There was an influx of observations and phone calls to Fort Stevens and the Coast Guard of Port Adams. The young county officer Robert E. Johnson also saw a silver disc flying over his area in the afternoon. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 41 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1219 ### Event 5257 (42CCE838) **Date:** 7/1/1947 **Location:** Canada, Prince Edward Island, Edmonton, Delaware **Description:** (Translated from French) Dr. and Mrs. C.G. Gunn and two friends saw strange objects flying at high speed in the sky. At Edmonton (Alberta) Mrs. A. Olson reported seeing around 3 pm a silver craft flying at very high speed towards the southeast. Between Wilmington and St George in Delaware a man saw five oval shaped objects with two short protrusions at the back. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 41 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1220 ### Event 5258 (40676E99) **Date:** 7/1/1947 **Location:** JAPAN, Chitoze AAB, Mokkaido **Description:** (Translated from French) A radar operator detected a target flying at a speed of 600mph. The object changed direction four times during the detection. The Pentagon in Washington was very interested because at that time very few aircraft could reach that speed. (...) Major Farrier however pointed out that at that date it was known that the USSR had aircraft capable of reaching that speed. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 41 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1221 ### Event 5259 (FF12EDDC) **Date:** 7/1/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) [Arnold](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/ArnoldKenneth.html) sees the fragments compared to slag, cinder, but not the negatives of the lost photos. He calls Lieutenant Frank Brown, an intelligence officer from the Hamilton Air Force Base \(California\), to ask him to join the investigation. Brown and a certain Captain Davidson take the road that same hour, aboard a B-25 bomber. They talk that afternoon with [Crisman](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/CrismanFredLee.html) in [Arnold](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/ArnoldKenneth.html)'s hotel room. Brown says he has to return to California that night and can therefore not visit the island. But he fills a large box with kilos of metal fragments before leaving. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_630 ### Event 5260 (750C3611) **Date:** 7/1/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The radars located at [Roswell](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Roswell.html), [White Sands](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/WhiteSands.html) and [Alamogordo](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/lieux.html\#Alamogordo) detect an unidentified flying object moving at incredible speeds. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_631 ### Event 5261 (BE32EE66) **Date:** 7/1/1947 **Time:** 09:30 **Location:** NEAR CHANDLER, AZ **Description:** 1 observer. Silver discus-saucer going quickly north / great speed over Indian reservation. 5K' altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 131) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_745 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "370", **HatchDesc:** "nr CHANDLER,AZ:1 OBS:SLVR DISCUS-SCR >>N/GREAT SPEED ovr INDIAN RSVN:5K'alt", **LatLong:** "33.300002 -111.833339", **LatLongDMS:** "33:18:00 N 111:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.300002,-111.833339)", **RelAlt:** "1500", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5262 (26F834B3) **Date:** 7/1/1947 **Time:** 11:50 **Location:** NORTHEAST / PORTLAND, OR **Description:** 2 observer(s). 3 then 10-12 silent disks tip side to side. Follow river going quickly [to] WNW. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 322) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_746 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "18", **HatchDesc:** "NE/PORTLAND,OR:2 OBS:3 then 10-12 SLNT DISKS TIP SIDE to SIDE:FOLO RVR >>WNW", **LatLong:** "45.583336 -122.588895", **LatLongDMS:** "45:35:00 N 122:35:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.583336,-122.588895)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5263 (3388EAEE) **Date:** 7/1/1947 **Time:** 12:50 **Location:** FT. STEVENS ANNEX, OR **Description:** Several observer(s). Extremely bright disk maneuvers / 15 minute(s). Going north toward(s) river. / r187#138. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 70) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_747 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "Ft.STEVENS ANNEX,OR:SVRL OBS:XBRITE DISK MNVRS/15min:>N twrd RIVER:/r187#138", **LatLong:** "46.200002 -123.950006", **LatLongDMS:** "46:12:00 N 123:57:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.200002,-123.950006)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5264 (4E5E1340) **Date:** 7/1/1947 **Time:** 12:50 **Location:** SR183 WITH DALLAS, TX **Description:** 2+girl. Flat-balloon disk going quickly southwest / cloud level / 14 second(s). Fast. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 134) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_748 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "200", **HatchDesc:** "SR183 W/DALLAS,TX:2+GIRL:FLAT-BALLOON DISK >>SW/CLOUD LEVEL/14sec:FAST:NFD", **LatLong:** "32.833335 -97.050005", **LatLongDMS:** "32:50:00 N 97:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.833335,-97.050005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5265 (A136F82A) **Date:** 7/1/1947 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** PENDLETON, OR **Description:** Several observer(s). 6-9 shiny platters whiz overhead going quickly south / 4-5 minute(s). Straight and level flight. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 139) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_749 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "326", **HatchDesc:** "PENDLETON,OR:SVRL OBS:6-9 SHINY PLATTERS WHIZ OVHD >>S/4-5min:S/L FLITE:NFD", **LatLong:** "45.672224 -118.788895", **LatLongDMS:** "45:40:20 N 118:47:20 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.672224,-118.788895)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5266 (874A43E7) **Date:** 7/1/1947 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** EDMONTON, ALTA **Description:** Mrs. Olsen. 1M silver object going quickly southeast fast. Wavers and sparkles. Not a globe. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 70) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_750 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "642", **HatchDesc:** "EDMONTON,ALTA:Mrs.OLSEN:1M SLVR OBJ >>SE FAST:WAVERS+SPARKLES:not a globe", **LatLong:** "53.533336 -113.433339", **LatLongDMS:** "53:32:00 N 113:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.533336,-113.433339)", **State/Prov:** "Alberta", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5267 (C06A30BA) **Date:** 7/1/1947 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** NORTH BEDEQUE, PEI **Description:** Farmer and separate observer(s). Fast high fireball going quickly south straight and level for 90 second(s). / r187#133. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 74) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_751 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "0", **Elev:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "N.BEDEQUE,PEI:FARMER+SEP.OBS:FAST HI FBL >>S S/L for 90sec:/r187#133", **LatLong:** "46.366669 -63.766670", **LatLongDMS:** "46:22:00 N 63:46:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.366669,-63.766670)", **State/Prov:** "Prince Edward Island", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 5268 (98E34103) **Date:** 7/1/1947 **Time:** 20:40 **Location:** LOUISVILLE, KY **Description:** Weatherman and 3 separate report(s). Silent saucer going southeast / 100mph. Back going northwest / 2200h. / r131#3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 146) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_752 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "90", **Elev:** "140", **HatchDesc:** "LOUISVILLE,KY:WEATHERMAN+3 SEP.RPTS:SLNT SCR> SE/100mph::BACK>NW/2200h:/r131#3", **LatLong:** "38.233335 -85.733337", **LatLongDMS:** "38:14:00 N 85:44:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.233335,-85.733337)", **State/Prov:** "Kentucky", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5269 (FE7A084A) **Date:** 7/1/1947 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** WALLACEBURG, ON **Description:** R. Stevens. Moon-size disk north going south. 3 bright flashes. Maneuvers just over horizon. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 141) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_753 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "175", **HatchDesc:** "WALLACEBURG,ON:R.STEVENS:MOONSIZE DISK N>S:3 BRITE FLASHES:MNVRS JUST OVR HRZN", **LatLong:** "42.583335 -82.433337", **LatLongDMS:** "42:35:00 N 82:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.583335,-82.433337)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5270 (DB859557) **Date:** 7/1/1947 **Time:** ~21:00 **Location:** PHOENIX, AZ **Description:** 2+2 separate observer(s). Large object going quickly east. Stops / 1 second(s). Shoots going quickly east again. / r22p21. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 324) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_754 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "310", **HatchDesc:** "PHOENIX,AZ:2+2 SEP.OBS:LRG OBJ >>E:STOPS/1 sec:SHOOTS >>E again:/r22p21", **LatLong:** "33.450002 -112.066672", **LatLongDMS:** "33:27:00 N 112:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.450002,-112.066672)", **RelAlt:** "99", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5271 (6B41D9A9) **Date:** 7/1/1947 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** WILMINGTON, NC **Description:** 3 separate observer(s). Silent cone disk with grill high and fast. Descends going quickly south over horizon. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 143) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_755 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "WILMINGTON,NC:3 SEP.OBS:SLNT CONE DISK W/GRILL HIGH+FAST:DESCENDS >>S OVR HRZN", **LatLong:** "34.216668 -77.916670", **LatLongDMS:** "34:13:00 N 77:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.216668,-77.916670)", **State/Prov:** "North Carolina", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5272 (85BE21DD) **Date:** 7/1/1947 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** SULLIVANS ISLAND, SC **Description:** 4 observer(s). Red disk north going quickly south / extremely fast. 1st seen / Wilmington NC / 2130hrs. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 147) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_756 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "SULLIVANS ISLAND,SC:4 OBS:RED DISK N>>S/XFAST:1st SEEN/WILMINGTON.NC/2130hrs", **LatLong:** "32.800002 -79.833337", **LatLongDMS:** "32:48:00 N 79:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.800002,-79.833337)", **State/Prov:** "South Carolina", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5273 (66BDCF7A) **Date:** 7/1/1947 **Time:** 23:00? **Location:** ALBUQUERQUE, NM **Description:** Many observer(s). 13 silver saucers going south, east then going west. Blue disk zigzags / northwest sky. / r22p20. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 323) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_757 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "1486", **HatchDesc:** "ALBQQ,NM:MANY OBS:13 SLVR SCRS> S,E THEN >W:BLUE DISK ZIGZAGS/NW SKY:/r22p20", **LatLong:** "35.083335 -106.650005", **LatLongDMS:** "35:05:00 N 106:39:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.083335,-106.650005)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5274 (5E230AC2) **Date:** 7/1/1947 **Location:** White Sands, NM **Description:** This alleged incident is listed for-the-record only and has been declared a hoax. (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 0, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [470701](http://www.nicap.org/470701whitesands%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_344 ### Event 5275 (F366AA42) **Date:** 7/1/1947 **Location:** Chitose AAB, Hokkaido, Japan **Description:** GCA Unit Tracks UFOs (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [470701](http://www.nicap.org/470701japandir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_345 ### Event 5276 (401F7860) **Date:** 7/1/1947 **Location:** North Bedeque, Prince Edward Island **Description:** Day. Animal ecologist [Charles K. Gunn](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/205141223/charles-kenneth-gunn)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/205141223/charles-kenneth-gunn) his wife, and two passengers are driving near North Bedeque, Prince Edward Island, when they see a bright, shapeless object speeding along in the sky for 30 seconds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Bloecher, [p.](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm) [III-18](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_961 ### Event 5277 (2509C4B6) **Date:** 7/1/1947 **Location:** Chitose Air Base, Hokkaido, Japan **Description:** A target is picked up on radar at Chitose Air Base, Hokkaido, Japan, moving 16 miles north at speeds in excess of 500 mph. The blip instantly reverses course four times, breaks into two objects, then merges into one again. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Col. James F. Olive Jr., “[Radar Pick-Ups of High-Speed Targets in the Far East,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/26sept1947letter.pdf)” Memorandum for Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Washington, D.C., September 26, 1947 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_962 ### Event 5278 (EC2B586E) **Date:** 7/1/1947 **Location:** Fort Worth, Texas **Description:** Col. [Alfred Kalberer](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/124983070/alfred-f-kalberer) holds another press conference in Fort Worth, Texas, and brings astronomer [Oscar Monnig](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar%5FMonnig) along to comment that the discs are “an interesting study in human psychology.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Jun-24-July-6-SN.pdf) [Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 June 24th–July 6th, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Jun-24-July-6-SN.pdf), The Author, 2000, pp. 23–24 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_963 ### Event 5279 (6647C931) **Date:** 7/1/1947 **Location:** Albuquerque, New Mexico **Description:** Night. Albuquerque, New Mexico, Chamber of Commerce official [Max Hood](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64056498/max-h%5F-hood) sees a bluish disc zigzagging for about 30 seconds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Bloecher, [p. III-17](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm); Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Jun-24-July-6-SN.pdf) [1947 June 24th–July 6th, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Jun-24-July-6-SN.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Jun-24-July-6-SN.pdf) The Author, 2000, pp. 23 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_964 ### Event 5280 (4B08E5A4) **Date:** 7/1/1947 **Location:** Louisville, Kentucky **Description:** 10:10 p.m. Meteorologist Ellwood E. Unger and his wife watch a round, orange, luminous object going about 100 mph after they leave a movie theater in Louisville, Kentucky. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Bloecher, [p. III-2](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm); Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Jun-24-July-6-SN.pdf) [Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 June 24th–July 6th, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Jun-24-July-6-SN.pdf), The Author, 2000, p. 23 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_965 ### Event 5281 (0BBAF624) **Date:** 7/1/1947? **Locations:** Mozambique Channel; Union-Castle Mail SS Llandovery Castle **Description:** 11:00 p.m. Mrs. A. M. King is with another passenger on the deck of the Union-Castle Mail [SS Llandovery](http://www.polishresettlementcampsintheuk.co.uk/passengerlist/otherships.htm) [Castle](http://www.polishresettlementcampsintheuk.co.uk/passengerlist/otherships.htm) as it is steaming through the Mozambique Channel. They notice a star-like object traveling fast toward the ship. It shines a strong beam of light on the water within 150 feet of the ship, then descends, the beam shortening and becoming brighter as it nears the water. Soon the light switches off and they can see a metallic object that looks like a cigar with the end cut off. It remains about 20 feet above the sea, moving parallel with the ship. King estimates it is about four times the length of the ship and four times as tall. After a few seconds, a large flame erupts from the rear of the object. It vanishes soundlessly in the darkness. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, FS Hoax, [pp. 18–19](https://archive.org/details/1966CoralLorenzenFlyingSaucersTheStartlingEvidenceOfTheInvasionFromOuterSpacenotOCR/page/n15/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_966 ### Event 5282 (E9A199B6) **Date:** 7/1/1947 **End date:** 7/3/1947? **Locations:** Roswell, New Mexico; Washington, D.C.; New Mexico desert **Description:** According to [Annie Jacobsen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie%5FJacobsen)’s informant, EG&G engineer [Alfred O’Donnell](https://obituaries.reviewjournal.com/obituary/alfred-o-donnell-1082038666), the upcoming Roswell, New Mexico, crashes are the result of a psychological warfare operation by Soviet leader [Joseph Stalin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FStalin) to fly into US airspace two disc- or wing-shaped aircraft based on a [Horton brothers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten%5Fbrothers) design obtained at the end of World War II. One craft allegedly contains living dwarves or children \(human guinea pigs\) who had been surgically altered using similar methods to those used in Auschwitz concentration camp by Nazi doctor [Josef Mengele](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef%5FMengele). This aircraft is remotely controlled by the crew of the second craft. The idea is to land the first aircraft in a visible location in the US, perhaps in Washington, D.C. The children would exit the craft and present themselves to the highest echelons of the government. However, the two aircraft crash in the New Mexico desert and, he claims, the Atomic Energy Commission is put in charge of the remains. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jacobsen, Area 51, [pp. 367–374](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/366/mode/2up); Kremlin 30–36 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_967 ### Event 5283 (320E4D90) **Date:** 7/1/1947 **End date:** 7/3/1947 **Locations:** Southern New Mexico; Kirtland Air Force Base near Albuquerque; Alamogordo; White Sands Missile Range **Description:** US Signal Corps radar sites in southern New Mexico and one at Kirtland Air Force Base near Albuquerque allegedly track an object “flitting around” the sky, frequently returning but finally disappearing on the night of July 4. Much of this story originates with now-discredited Roswell witness [Frank Kaufmann](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13371870/frank-j-kaufmann), who claims he was ordered to bring a group of radar experts to Alamogordo to evaluate unexplained radar targets at White Sands Missile Range. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [p. 159](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/158/mode/2up); Kevin D. Randle, A History of UFO Crashes, Avon, 1995, [p. 8](https://archive.org/details/historyofufocras0000rand/page/8/mode/2up); Jim Wilson, “[Roswell Plus 50,](http://greyfalcon.us/ROSWELL%20PLUS%2050.htm)” Popular Mechanics 174 \(July 1997\): 48–53; Kevin D. Randle, “Frank Kaufmann, Roswell Witness,” IUR 27, no. 3 \(Fall 2002\): 8, 17–19; Mark Rodeghier, “Frank Kaufmann Exposed,” IUR 27, no. 3 \(Fall 2002\): 9–11, 26 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_968 ### Event 5284 (C95FC859) **Date:** 7/1/1947 **Description:** Radar operators at Chitose Army Air Base on Hokkaido, Japan picked up an unidentified target 16 miles north of the base on course of 180 degrees and a speed in excess of 500 mph. The target reversed course, broke up into two responses, then merged back together again into one large response. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 Research Notes from Bordentown, New Jersey talk, April 16, 2005, p. 27 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3760 ### Event 5285 (87F281E8) **Date:** 7/1/1947 **Description:** At 11:45 a.m. three discs were spotted over Portland, Oregon, then another 10-12 discs showed up, silently tipping from side to side as they followed the river to the west-northwest. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Oregon Journal, July 2, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case # 135; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1947, p. 22 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3761 ### Event 5286 (BE4D345E) **Date:** 7/1/1947 **Description:** At noon Mrs. Hunt saw saw six discs maneuvering in the sky over Madras, Oregon. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** The Oregonian, July 3, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case # 136 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3762 ### Event 5287 (BBB3C6E1) **Date:** 7/1/1947 **Description:** At 12:45 p.m. over Fort Stevens Annex, Oregon an extremely bright disc-shaped object maneuvered for 15 minutes. It then flew north toward the Columbia River. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Ashland Budget, July 1, 1947; Oregon Journal, July 2, 1947; Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 70 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3763 ### Event 5288 (A2FC4A22) **Date:** 7/1/1947 **Description:** At 3:00 p.m. a woman in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada saw a small silver colored, disc-shaped object three feet in diameter. It flew off toward the southeast with a wavering motion. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Edmonton Journal, July 2, 1947; Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 70 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3764 ### Event 5289 (BEBAA01F) **Date:** 7/1/1947 **Description:** In mid-afternoon in Pendleton, Oregon six to nine shiny platter-shaped objects whizzed overhead heading quickly toward the south. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Oregon Journal, July 3, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case # 139 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3765 ### Event 5290 (86FB44CF) **Date:** 7/1/1947 **Description:** Dr. G. Oliver Doctor saw a 'flying disc' zip over the city of El Paso, Texas on this day. It was shaped like two pie pans rim-to-rim, and was estimated to be 30 feet in diameter. It hurtled over Mount Franklin and then flew off towards Mexico. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 Research Notes from Bordentown, New Jersey talk, April 16, 2005, p. 4, citing the Norman (OK) Transcript, July 2, 1947 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3766 ### Event 5291 (8BB646C7) **Date:** 7/1/1947 **Description:** At 9:58 p.m a red disc-shaped object flew north to south at an extremely fast speed over Charleston, South Carolina. It had been seen earlier at Wilmington, North Carolina at 9:30 p.m. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Charleston (SC) News Courier, July 6, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case # 147 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3767 ### Event 5292 (B7D832F9) **Date:** 7/1/1947 **Description:** Late in the evening at around 11:00 p.m. thirteen silver disc-shaped objects flew over Albuquerque, New Mexico. They flew first toward the south, then turned to the east, and finally flew off to the west. A blue disc was also seen zig-zagging in the northwestern sky. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Albuquerque Journal, July 2, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case # 152; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 157 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3768 ### Event 5293 (1EC02871) **Date:** 7/1/1947 **Location:** Off the coast of the east African nation of Kenya **Description:** Passengers and crew aboard the steamer "Llandovery Castle" off the coast of Kenya reported a massive, silent UFO pacing their vessel one night. The object, resembling a dirigible, was about twice the ship's length, approximately 1,000 feet long, with a shiny surface. The ship's log noted the UFO descended to around 100 feet, projecting a brilliant white light from below, and followed the ship at a half-mile distance. After a few minutes, the light went off, and the object ascended into the darkness. (Chapter 8, Ref 342) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_335 ### Event 5294 (5FF6B02C) **Date:** 7/2/1947 **Description:** Roswell area crash **Type:** ufo crash **Reference:** Valerian, Matrix 1 **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_238 ### Event 5295 (5FF6B02C) **Date:** 7/2/1947 **Location:** Roswell, NM **Description:** Roswell area crash **Type:** ufo crash **Reference:** "Matrix 1", Valerian **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_239 ### Event 5296 (6C03E0A8) **Date:** 7/2/1947 **Location:** Magdalena, N.M. **Description:** Magdalena, N.M.: Mr. Barnett sighted a shiny object out in the desert and, upon investigation, came upon a crashed disc-shaped object, 9 meters (30 ft.) across. Later a military truck arrived to supervise the investigation of the crash site. Barnett saw dead bodies strewn about the crash site. They weren’t wearing military uniforms, and in fact didn’t even look human. Seen from a distance, the bodies had on silvery suits and appeared to be about 3 ft. tall. **Type:** ufo crash **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_240 ### Event 5297 (A916AAE7) **Date:** 7/2/1947 **Location:** USA, Magdalene, N.M. **Description:** (Translated from French) Mr. Barnett saw a bright object in the desert. He approached it to see what it was and found a crashed saucer-shaped object, 30 feet in diameter. Later a military truck arrived with personnel to oversee the investigation at the site. Mr. Barnett saw bodies being taken away by the military: they were not wearing military clothing and did not have a human appearance. Seen from a distance, the bodies seemed to be wearing tight silver jumpsuits and were less than one meter tall. **Reference:** Ufo Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1222 ### Event 5298 (30DF92CD) **Date:** 7/2/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Early in the morning, [Crisman](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/CrismanFredLee.html) is on the phone with [Arnold](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/ArnoldKenneth.html). The B-25 where Brown and Davidson were has crashed near Kelso. Both are dead. One of the plane's engines mysteriously caught fire 20 minutes after takeoff. The fragments are not found. [Arnold](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/ArnoldKenneth.html) organizes an expedition to Maury Island with [Crisman](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/CrismanFredLee.html) and Dahl, but it turns out that the engine of their boat dies. [Crisman](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/CrismanFredLee.html) promises to call Arnold as soon as the problem is solved. He never does. And he does not return the photographs either. He has become untraceable --- according to Dahl, he left town on business; according to other sources, he was last seen boarding a military plane bound for Alaska. Then Dahl's son disappears in turn. Moreover, it seems that someone has filled Arnold's hotel room with microphones, transmitting to local newspapers the details of his conversations, even those he had alone with Brown and Davidson. He contacts another intelligence officer, a certain Major Sanders, who obstructs him. Arnold, now deeply shaken, leaves town. Official explanation: hoax set up by the coast guard to get publicity. However, they are not prosecuted. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_632 ### Event 5299 (08E1C014) **Date:** 7/2/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A violent storm in the Corona region, northwest of Roswell. **Reference:** Bourdais 2000-05 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_633 ### Event 5300 (044F2083) **Date:** 7/2/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) [Dan Wilmot](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/WilmotDan.html) and his wife spot an oval-shaped craft flying in the sky towards the North-West. (21 h 50) **Reference:** Lagrange 1996 **Reference:** Bourdais 2000-05 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_634 ### Event 5301 (D6F02651) **Date:** 7/2/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) William Woody \(witness\) and his father see a [meteor](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Meteore.html) bright, white with a red tail, crossing the sky. **Reference:** Bourdais 2000-05 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_635 ### Event 5302 (52890003) **Date:** 7/2/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In the night, [Mac Brazel](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/BrazelWilliamW.html), a farmer living near [Corona](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/lieux.html\#Corona), heard a loud explosion during the storm. **Reference:** Bourdais 2000-05 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_636 ### Event 5303 (2EF82885) **Date:** 7/2/1947 **Time:** 07:00 **Location:** LEWISTON, ID **Description:** 3+2 kids. 3 shiny white saucers dip and roll / high altitude. Going quickly east on edge. / r187#155. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 326) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_758 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "230", **HatchDesc:** "LEWISTON,ID:3+2 KIDS:3 SHINY WHT SCRS DIP+ROLL/hi alt:>>E on edge:/r187#155", **LatLong:** "46.400002 -116.966672", **LatLongDMS:** "46:24:00 N 116:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.400002,-116.966672)", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5304 (26A58A94) **Date:** 7/2/1947 **Time:** 14:20 **Location:** SAN FRANCISCO, CA **Description:** Highway Patrolman and 1. 6 25cm silver balls plummet going down / bay at GG bridge! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 158) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_759 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "SAN FRANCISCO,CA:HWY PATROLMAN+1:6 25cm SLVR BALLS PLUMMET↓/BAY at GG BRIDGE!", **LatLong:** "37.800002 -122.483339", **LatLongDMS:** "37:48:00 N 122:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.800002,-122.483339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5305 (0031D2E0) **Date:** 7/2/1947 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** ROYAL OAK, MI **Description:** Sid Trezise. 5cm silver ball going quickly southeast fast. Whizzing sound. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 157) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_760 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "216", **HatchDesc:** "ROYAL OAK,MI:SID TREZISE:5cm SLVR BALL >>SE FAST:WHIZZING SOUND:NFD", **LatLong:** "42.500002 -83.144448", **LatLongDMS:** "42:30:00 N 83:08:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.500002,-83.144448)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5306 (0B5A5F60) **Date:** 7/2/1947 **Time:** 16:30 **Location:** US10 ESE / NORTH BEND, WA **Description:** Private investigator and 1. 24 washtub saucers going south. Turn going quickly west. Glisten. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 159) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_761 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "200", **HatchDesc:** "US10 ESE/NORTH BEND,WA:Pvt INVESTIGATOR+1:24 WASHTUB SCRS> S:TURN>>W:GLISTEN", **LatLong:** "47.450002 -121.583339", **LatLongDMS:** "47:27:00 N 121:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.450002,-121.583339)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5307 (843D11EE) **Date:** 7/2/1947 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** GREEN BAY, WI **Description:** Eugene LaPlante and son. Disk or sphere going quickly northwest fast. Seen 3-4 minute(s). No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 160) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_762 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "180", **HatchDesc:** "GREEN BAY,WI:EUGENE LaPLANTE+SON:DISK or SPHERE >>NW FAST:SEEN 3-4min:NFD", **LatLong:** "44.500002 -88.011115", **LatLongDMS:** "44:30:00 N 88:00:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.500002,-88.011115)", **State/Prov:** "Wisconsin", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5308 (2CE48ABD) **Date:** 7/2/1947 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** DENVER, CO **Description:** 2 / car. Several bright thin disks / 5000' altitude going quickly southwest fast straight and level. 3 objects back 3 July. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 166) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_763 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1578", **HatchDesc:** "DENVER,CO:2/CAR:SVRL BRITE THIN DISKS/5000'alt >>SW FAST S/L:3 OBJS BACK 3JLY", **LatLong:** "39.744446 -104.988894", **LatLongDMS:** "39:44:40 N 104:59:20 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.744446,-104.988894)", **RelAlt:** "1500", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5309 (E4308219) **Date:** 7/2/1947 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** DE KALB, TX **Description:** 2+1 separate observer(s). Shiny saucer 30m over tomato patch and house. Local wave TX and ark. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 163) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_764 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "124", **HatchDesc:** "De KALB,TX:2+1 SEP.OBS:SHINY SCR 30m OVR TOMATO PATCH+HOUSE:LOCAL WAVE TX+ARK", **LatLong:** "33.500002 -94.616671", **LatLongDMS:** "33:30:00 N 94:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.500002,-94.616671)", **RelAlt:** "30", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5310 (A547BD32) **Date:** 7/2/1947 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** CINCINNATI, OH **Description:** 100 / ballpark. 2 shiny 30cm silver saucers hover and go slowly. / r187#161. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** INFORESPACE Journal. SOBEPS Group, Belgium; bimonthly (Index 20) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_765 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "205", **HatchDesc:** "CINCINNATI,OH:100/BALLPARK:2 SHINY 30cm SLVR SCRS HVR+GO SLOWLY:/r187#161", **LatLong:** "39.133335 -84.516671", **LatLongDMS:** "39:08:00 N 84:31:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.133335,-84.516671)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5311 (F6B64425) **Date:** 7/2/1947 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** EAST / LAUREL, OR **Description:** 3 metallic disks play tag and circle fast. Plane-size. High-altitude. Going quickly east. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 461) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_766 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "59", **HatchDesc:** "E/LAUREL,OR:3 MTLC DISKS PLAY TAG AND CCL FAST:PLANE-SIZE:HI-ALT:>>E:NFD", **LatLong:** "45.416669 -122.950006", **LatLongDMS:** "45:25:00 N 122:57:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.416669,-122.950006)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5312 (1F14D4FC) **Date:** 7/2/1947 **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** ROSWELL, NM **Description:** Wilmots. Large glowing-tub-saucer going quickly northwest overhead. 800kph / 450M altitude. / MJ#275+281. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 347) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_767 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1089", **HatchDesc:** "ROSWELL,NM:WILMOTS:LRG GLO-TUB-SCR >>NW OVHD:800kph/450M alt:/MJ#275+281", **LatLong:** "33.400002 -104.533338", **LatLongDMS:** "33:24:00 N 104:32:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.400002,-104.533338)", **RelAlt:** "450", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5313 (34E238AA) **Date:** Early 7/1947 **Location:** Amfreville-la-Mi-Voie, Seine-Maritime, France **Description:** A cyclist near Amfreville-la-Mi-Voie, Seine-Maritime, France, encounters an oval object, 10 feet long and 5 feet high, resting on the road 100 feet in front of her. Two small beings dressed in outfits and headgear are busy around it. When she honks her horn, the entities scurry into the object, entering it through a 20-inch opening. The UFO rises, oscillates, and streaks away. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 267; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1947-07-france-amfreville.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1947-07-france-amfreville.htm) August 81, 2006 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_960 ### Event 5314 (8C7D1720) **Date:** 7/2/1947 **Locations:** Cincinnati (Ohio); Milling Machine Company **Description:** 8:00 p.m. Spectators at a baseball game at the Cincinnati \(Ohio\) Milling Machine Company watch two slow- moving discs hovering above the field for 10 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[100 at Ball Game Tell of Seeing Two Mystery Saucers,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101830625/the-cincinnati-post/)” Cincinnati \(Ohio\) Post, July 7, 1947, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_969 ### Event 5315 (0B5EA373) **Date:** 7/2/1947 **Location:** Roswell, New Mexico **Description:** 9:50 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. [Dan Wilmot](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/w/paulwilmot.htm) see an oval object like two inverted saucers pass over their house moving northwest in Roswell, New Mexico. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 19; Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [p. 159](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/158/mode/2up); Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, “When and Where Did the Roswell Object Crash?” IUR 19, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1994\): 13–14 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_970 ### Event 5316 (18666192) **Date:** 7/3/1947 **Location:** Magdalena, NM **Description:** Magdalena, NM area crash **Type:** ufo crash **Reference:** "Matrix 1", Valerian **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_241 ### Event 5317 (34284CEC) **Date:** 7/3/1947 **Location:** San Francisco, CA **Description:** The first instance of the ET hypothesis to appear in the media, in a letter by [Ole Johannes Sneide 1886-8/31/1947](https://www.jasoncolavito.com/saucer-mystery-solved.html). His letter first appeared in the *San Francisco Chronicle*. The flying discs were “oblate spheroid space ships from the older planets.” “Usually they travel in outer space with speeds approximating that of light by use of anti-gravity devices and hyperspace. In our space they travel much slower, and, of course, become visible either by intent or by accident, for in their travels they use the invisibility screen.” “This space navigation has been going on for millions of years, these ‘nova’ having come into our galaxy originally from the Great Magellanic Cloud via the Lesser Magellanic Cloud, 47 Tucanae, Omega and Alpha Centauri clusters.” “Their masters planted the original humanities here and which did not develop sui generis. They have been absent from our planet since before the fall of the Roman Empire when the Great Master left earth for the outer galaxy by fohatic teleportation.” “He is now back and what is going to be done depends upon mankind, but my advice is that physical man set up no belligerence, for a small concentration of those disks just beyond the range of our atmosphere could clean the surface of our planet completely in a matter of less than 24 hours. “Their present local headquarters is on the unseen side of our moon. I discovered this by teleportation visits hither and yon in and between our galaxy.” “Mankind,” he concluded, “will just have to learn their physics all over again, someday, if they live. Ah! If they live!” **Type:** newspaper article **Reference:** [The Saucers That Time Forgot - blogspot.com](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-1947-pioneer-of-ufo-extraterrestrial.html) **Reference:** [Jason Colavito - Saucer Mystery Solved?](https://www.jasoncolavito.com/saucer-mystery-solved.html) **Reference:** [Stockton Evening and Sunday Record, 7/3/1947, newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/119726162/ole-j-sneide/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_928 ### Event 5318 (58D8BF45) **Date:** 7/3/1947 **Location:** USA, Harborside, Maine. **Description:** (Translated from French) 2:30 p.m. EDT. Witness: Astronomer John Cole of Brooksville, Me. Observed for 10-15 seconds ten very bright objects, with two dark shapes on their right side, moving like a swarm of bees in a Northwest direction. A very low sound accompanied the flight of the phenomenon. -(Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner) He estimated their speed between 600 and 1200 mph when they passed in a hazy sky towards the northwest. **Reference:** "UFO's: A century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 44 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1223 ### Event 5319 (66CE8303) **Date:** 7/3/1947 **Location:** USA, St Maries (Idaho) **Description:** (Translated from French) Mrs. W. Johnson and her family were able to observe the landing of nine objects. At least nine people saw a formation of 8 or 9 objects in the shape of a bowl, very large, luminous, moving slowly in jerks. Arriving above a clearing they descended. (Michel BOUGARD: "Des S.V. aux OVNI" - SOBEPS 1976 - p. 35) An air patrol of the Oregon National Guard almost saw one of these objects. They considered sending an airplane that day to do research near St Maries, where a woman reported that at least ten people saw eight of these flying objects disappear into the fog on July 3rd. **Reference:** "Las Vegas Review-Journal", July 7, 1947 Internet, May 1997 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1224 ### Event 5320 (2C1A4FC5) **Date:** 7/3/1947 **Location:** USA, Redding (California) **Description:** (Translated from French) A couple saw a flying, luminous triangle pass silently over the area, heading north. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 44 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1225 ### Event 5321 (D545B0F9) **Date:** 7/3/1947 **Location:** USA, Santa Rosa (California) **Description:** (Translated from French) Interesting observation because it takes place at the Auxiliary Naval Station and the witnesses are all well trained in observation. One of the witnesses recounts: "I saw it a few minutes before 5 pm. From my position the phenomenon seemed to be at 1000 feet above the north-south runway of the airfield and I estimated its diameter to be 15 or 20 feet. (...) It had the shape of an enormous pocket watch, without the winding stem. It was covered with a silver material, like aluminum. There was no mark or sign on the surface, which was perfectly smooth. The object flew at the speed of a glider under normal conditions and my first impression was that it was one. However, there was something strange about it, and I observed it better. That's when I realized there were no wings, or any protruding parts. It flew gently north until it reached the end of the runway, there the object turned east, with very little inclination, and headed towards Santa Rosa. I had a moment of inattention and when I looked up again, the thing was gone. But the object must have been controlled. It only deviated when the winds were strong, to resume its straight trajectory. In short, the object behaved exactly like a glider. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 44 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1226 ### Event 5322 (1F89392B) **Date:** 7/3/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) [Mac Brazel](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/temoins.html\#BrazelWilliamW) arrives in the morning to the crash site, accompanied by a neighbor. The debris is scattered over an area of more than 1 km long and about 100 m wide, oriented Northwest/Southeast. Mac Brazel collects some debris and returns to his farm. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_637 ### Event 5323 (3E3D99D3) **Date:** 7/3/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) David N. Johnson, a specialized journalist in aeronautical matters at the *Idaho Daily Statesman* of [Boise](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/lieux.html\#Boise), where [Kenneth Arnold](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/ArnoldKenneth.html) resides, cites 2 new observations that confirm the description given by Arnold of one of the devices: in the shape of a flying wing. The article also cites Lieutenant General [Nathan F. Twinning](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/TwiningNathanFarragut.html), reached by phone, who declares that the army is investigating these affairs. He even asks witnesses to send a description of what they saw to the "commanding general" of [Wright Field](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/WrightPatterson.html). When Johnson wants to know if these objects could come from a foreign country, the general answers that they should then fly over great distances. Twinning doubts that they are guided missiles: the remote control technique is not advanced enough when the distance is too great. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_638 ### Event 5324 (6039D32E) **Date:** 7/3/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Article from the Las Vegas Review Journal, titled [The Army Experts Embarrassed](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Documents/Articles/1947-07-03\_LasVegasReviewJournal.html). **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_639 ### Event 5325 (EE86C331) **Date:** 7/3/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Astronomer John F. Cole of South Brooksville, Maine, observed for 10-15 seconds 10 very bright objects, with 2 dark shapes to their left, moving like a swarm of bees in a northwest direction. A loud rumble was heard. On his way back from lunch, Cole observed the flight of some strange and noisy objects rushing towards the northwest \(in the opposite direction?\). Their diameter was estimated at 100 feet. (2:30 PM) **Reference:** case [Blue Book](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/BlueBook.html) \#27 unsolved **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_640 ### Event 5326 (B05A80E0) **Date:** 7/3/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In the evening, [Mack Brazel](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/BrazelWilliamW.html) showed a small piece of debris to his neighbors, [Floyd](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/ProctorFloyd.html) and [Loretta Proctor](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/ProctorLoretta.html): it could neither be cut nor burned. [Brazel](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/BrazelWilliamW.html) offered to come and see the site with them, but they declined the invitation, arguing that it was far away and it was late. **Reference:** Bourdais 2000-05 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_641 ### Event 5327 (EF126249) **Date:** 7/3/1947 **Location:** REDDING, CA **Description:** 2 observer(s). Large bright fast silent triangle going quickly north. 7 saucers north / Alturas same day. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 176) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_768 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "168", **HatchDesc:** "REDDING,CA:2 OBS:LRG BRITE FAST SLNT TRIANGLE>>N::7 SCRS N/ALTURAS SAME DAY", **LatLong:** "40.583335 -122.383339", **LatLongDMS:** "40:35:00 N 122:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.583335,-122.383339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 5328 (02CEEEA5) **Date:** 7/3/1947 **Time:** 03:30 **Location:** OMAHA, NE **Description:** Mrs. Nelson. 2 white-glow saucers going quickly south. Instant 90° turn going quickly east. / r187#179. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 333) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_769 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "312", **HatchDesc:** "OMAHA,NE:Mrs.NELSON:2 WHT-GLOW SCRS >> S:INSTANT 90°TURN >>E:/r187#179", **LatLong:** "41.283335 -95.916671", **LatLongDMS:** "41:17:00 N 95:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.283335,-95.916671)", **State/Prov:** "Nebraska", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5329 (8E4B9E26) **Date:** 7/3/1947 **Time:** 06:00 **Location:** TEXARKANA, ARK **Description:** 2 observer(s). Silver saucer going quickly east overhead / 400' altitude. Ditto / 4 July / 2100h. / r187#180+273. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 171) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_770 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "99", **HatchDesc:** "TEXARKANA,ARK:2 OBS:SLVR SCR >>E OVHD/400'alt:DITTO/4JLY/2100h:/r187#180+273", **LatLong:** "33.433335 -94.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "33:26:00 N 94:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.433335,-94.000004)", **State/Prov:** "Arkansas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5330 (57378E43) **Date:** 7/3/1947 **Time:** ~07:00 **Location:** GAINESVILLE, GA **Description:** Man and boy. 3 shiny silver saucers going [to] fast in formation. / Gainesville Times. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HITT, Michael D: GEORGIA'S AERIAL PHENOMENON 1947-1987 Self published 1999. ref. Jan Aldrich. (Index 2) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_771 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "381", **HatchDesc:** "GAINESVILLE,GA:MAN+BOY:3 SHINY SLVR SCRS > FAST/FORMATION:/Gainesville Times", **LatLong:** "34.300002 -83.822226", **LatLongDMS:** "34:18:00 N 83:49:20 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.300002,-83.822226)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5331 (C86AFD48) **Date:** 7/3/1947 **Time:** 09:00? **Location:** SOUTHEAST / CORONA, NM **Description:** WW Brazel finds much weird wreckage. Unknown symbols. Many references. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER,Don & FRIEDMAN, Stanton: CRASH at CORONA 1992 1997 Marlowe & Co. NY ISBN 1-56924-863-X. (Index 71) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_772 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "90", **Elev:** "1900", **HatchDesc:** "SE/CORONA,NM:WW BRAZEL FINDS MUCH WEIRD WRECKAGE:UNKNOWN SYMBOLS:many refs", **LatLong:** "33.944446 -105.305561", **LatLongDMS:** "33:56:40 N 105:18:20 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.944446,-105.305561)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5332 (5254852D) **Date:** 7/3/1947 **Time:** 09:30 **Location:** CONOWINGO DAM, MD **Description:** 2+100 observer(s). 8 disks / string formation hover and maneuver. Some shoot away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 74) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_773 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "18", **Elev:** "111", **HatchDesc:** "CONOWINGO DAM,MD:2+100 OBS:8 DISKS/STRING FORMn HVR+MNVR:some shoot away", **LatLong:** "39.661113 -76.172226", **LatLongDMS:** "39:39:40 N 76:10:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.661113,-76.172226)", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5333 (EFE32437) **Date:** 7/3/1947 **Time:** 10:30 **Location:** LOCKLAND AND GREEN HILLS, OH **Description:** 1+1 observer(s). Silver football / high altitude. Going south. Engine sound. Going north / 1730h. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 181) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_774 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "175", **HatchDesc:** "LOCKLAND+GREEN HILLS,OH:1+1 OBS:SLVR FOOTBALL/HI ALT:>S:ENGINE SOUND:>N/1730h", **LatLong:** "39.227780 -84.461115", **LatLongDMS:** "39:13:40 N 84:27:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.227780,-84.461115)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5334 (BE73FDA4) **Date:** 7/3/1947 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** KEOKUK, IA **Description:** 3 flight instructors. 3 fast bright silver disks straight going quickly east over airport. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 186) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_775 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "203", **HatchDesc:** "KEOKUK,IA:3 FLITE INSTRUCTORS:3 FAST BRITE SLVR DISKS STRAIGHT>>E OVR AIRPORT", **LatLong:** "40.416669 -91.400004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:25:00 N 91:24:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.416669,-91.400004)", **State/Prov:** "Iowa", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5335 (29EC798A) **Date:** 7/3/1947 **Time:** 12:40 **Location:** NAMPA, ID **Description:** C. Hughes and C. Faust. Silent circular object undulates west going quickly east / great speed. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 188) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_776 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "759", **HatchDesc:** "NAMPA,ID:C.HUGHES+C.FAUST:SLNT CIRC.OBJ UNDULATES W>>E/GREAT SPEED:NFD", **LatLong:** "43.533335 -116.561117", **LatLongDMS:** "43:32:00 N 116:33:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.533335,-116.561117)", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5336 (C90CF795) **Date:** 7/3/1947 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** 20 MI WITH SAN DIEGO, CA **Description:** 3 disks going east / 400mph. Circle and fly back going quickly west. / wire service report. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 194) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_777 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "20mi W/SAN DIEGO,CA:3 DISKS > E/400mph:CIRCLE+FLY BACK>>W:/WIRE SERVICE RPT", **LatLong:** "32.666668 -117.500006", **LatLongDMS:** "32:40:00 N 117:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.666668,-117.500006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5337 (8CD80F2D) **Date:** 7/3/1947 **Time:** 14:30 **Location:** HARBORSIDE, ME **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #77. Astronomer Cole. Series / 10 100' saucers going quickly northwest. Loud roar. Very fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 71) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_778 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "26", **HatchDesc:** "HARBORSIDE,ME:BBK#77:ASTRONOMER COLE:SERIES/10 100'SCRs >>NW:LOUD ROAR:VFAST", **LatLong:** "44.366669 -68.811114", **LatLongDMS:** "44:22:00 N 68:48:40 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.366669,-68.811114)", **State/Prov:** "Maine", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5338 (E125F61F) **Date:** 7/3/1947 **Time:** 16:50 **Location:** SANTA ROSA NAS, CA **Description:** 2 separate observations. 50' silver saucer going north 1K' over runway. Turns going quickly east toward(s) town. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 81) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_779 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "25", **HatchDesc:** "SANTA ROSA NAS,CA:2 SEP OVS:50'SLVR SCR > N 1K' ovr RUNWAY:TURNS >>E twrd TOWN", **LatLong:** "38.450002 -122.700006", **LatLongDMS:** "38:27:00 N 122:42:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.450002,-122.700006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5339 (E5DE721C) **Date:** 7/3/1947 **Time:** 17:50 **Location:** AUGUSTINE COVE, PEI **Description:** Farmer. Bright round "apple-shape" north going quickly south fast. Straight and level and makes dips. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LEDGER, Don: MARITIME UFO FILES: 1998 Nimbus Publ. Ltd. Halifax, NS. ISBN 1-55109-269-7 162pp. trade paper. (Index 18) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_780 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "AUGUSTINE COVE,PEI:FARMER:BRITE ROUND "APPLE-SHAPE" N>>S FAST:S/L+MAKES DIPS", **LatLong:** "46.222224 -63.605559", **LatLongDMS:** "46:13:20 N 63:36:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.222224,-63.605559)", **State/Prov:** "Prince Edward Island", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 5340 (44F62BE7) **Date:** 7/3/1947 **Time:** 17:50 **Location:** SHERBROOKE, PEI **Description:** 2 observer(s). Fireball northwest going quickly southeast / 5 second(s). RCAF investigating. / J. Aldrich p6+Internet. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 190) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_781 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "SHERBROOKE,PEI:2 OBS:FBL NW>>SE/5sec:RCAF INVSTGn:/J.ALDRICH p6+Internet", **LatLong:** "46.416669 -63.833336", **LatLongDMS:** "46:25:00 N 63:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.416669,-63.833336)", **State/Prov:** "Prince Edward Island", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 5341 (352A7B5E) **Date:** 7/3/1947 **Time:** 17:50 **Location:** VILLAGE GREEN, PEI **Description:** Farmer. Black cylinder/cigar-shape with flame and contrail / rear. Going quickly south / 3 km.alt. / r171p73. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 189) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_782 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "VILLAGE GREEN,PEI:FARMER:BLK CGR W/FLAME+CONTRAIL/REAR:>>S/3 km.alt:/r171p73", **LatLong:** "46.200002 -62.922225", **LatLongDMS:** "46:12:00 N 62:55:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.200002,-62.922225)", **State/Prov:** "Prince Edward Island", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 5342 (C191F636) **Date:** 7/3/1947 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** NEAR ST. MARIES, ID **Description:** 15 observer(s). 8 large washtub saucers going north land / mountainside. / r106p65+/ r187#200. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KLOIAN, Richard: UFO's in the New York TIMES, 1947-1987 1994 Document Research Services, Berkeley, CA (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_783 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "675", **HatchDesc:** "nr St.MARIES,ID:15 OBS:8 LRG WASHTUB SCRS >N LAND/MTNSIDE:/r106p65+/r187#200", **LatLong:** "47.316669 -116.561117", **LatLongDMS:** "47:19:00 N 116:33:40 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.316669,-116.561117)", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5343 (EBD4486E) **Date:** 7/3/1947 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** MENDON, VT **Description:** 1 observer. Green tube with white 'head' low and slow over meadow. Leaves going southwest. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 201) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_784 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "317", **HatchDesc:** "MENDON,VT:1 OBS:GRN TUBE W/WHT 'HEAD' LOW+SLOW OVR MEADOW:LEAVES >SW:NFD", **LatLong:** "43.655558 -72.933337", **LatLongDMS:** "43:39:20 N 72:56:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.655558,-72.933337)", **State/Prov:** "Vermont", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5344 (8D6CE2EE) **Date:** 7/3/1947 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** SPRINGFIELD, IL **Description:** Cop and several motorists. 4 disks shoot across sky. Later in Decatur, IL. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 202) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_785 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "183", **HatchDesc:** "SPRINGFIELD,IL:COP+SVRL MOTORISTS:4 DISKS SHOOT ACRS SKY::LATER in DECATUR,IL", **LatLong:** "39.800002 -89.633338", **LatLongDMS:** "39:48:00 N 89:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.800002,-89.633338)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5345 (E036AE78) **Date:** 7/3/1947 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** OAKLAND, CA **Description:** Mrs. Devaughn. String / pearly luminous disk-orbs going quickly east fast. Revolve rapidly. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 208) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_786 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "14", **HatchDesc:** "OAKLAND,CA:Mrs.DeVAUGHN:STRING/PEARLY LUMN.DISK-ORBS >>E FAST:REVOLVE RAPIDLY", **LatLong:** "37.816668 -122.250006", **LatLongDMS:** "37:49:00 N 122:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.816668,-122.250006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5346 (A6E2E3E4) **Date:** 7/3/1947 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** SIOUX CITY, IA **Description:** Jacob Kriv and 2 teens. Luminous/glowing disk going quickly east quite fast. Straight and level course. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 206) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_787 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "335", **HatchDesc:** "SIOUX CITY,IA:JACOB KRIV+2 TEENS:LUMn DISK >>E QUITE FAST:S/L COURSE:NFD", **LatLong:** "42.500002 -96.433338", **LatLongDMS:** "42:30:00 N 96:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.500002,-96.433338)", **State/Prov:** "Iowa", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5347 (95827816) **Date:** 7/3/1947 (approximate) **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** STRTS / MADAGASCAR **Description:** 1600' silent cylinder/cigar-shape paces ship. Spotlights going down / sea. No portholes. Shoots going quickly south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 325) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_788 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Indian Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "STRTS/MADAGASCAR:1600'SLNT CGR PACES SHIP:SPOTLITES↓/SEA:NO PORTS:SHOOTS >>S", **LatLong:** "-16.166667 42.000002", **LatLongDMS:** "16:10:00 S 42:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-16.166667,42.000002)", **State/Prov:** "MDG", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5348 (116090C4) **Date:** 7/3/1947 **Time:** ~23:00 **Location:** OFF FT ROSS, CA **Description:** Forest lookout. Ship burns and sinks / 30 minute(s). None missing. Not a trace. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 6) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_789 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "off Ft ROSS,CA:FOREST LOOKOUT:SHIP BURNS+SINKS/30min:NONE MISSING:NOT A TRACE", **LatLong:** "38.416668 -123.416673", **LatLongDMS:** "38:25:00 N 123:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.416668,-123.416673)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 5349 (F60BB8EC) **Date:** 7/3/1947 **Location:** Roswell, NM **Description:** Famous alleged UFO crash (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [470703](http://www.nicap.org/roswelldir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_346 ### Event 5350 (BA2714D2) **Date:** 7/3/1947 **Location:** Roswell, NM **Description:** Famous alleged UFO crash and bodies recovered (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [470703](http://www.nicap.org/roswelldir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_347 ### Event 5351 (B667C291) **Date:** 7/3/1947 **Location:** South Brooksville-Harborside, ME **Description:** Astronomer Observes Ten Large Objects (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: 27) **Reference:** NICAP: [470703](http://www.nicap.org/470703sbrooksville%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_348 ### Event 5352 (4FAD223A) **Date:** 7/3/1947 **Location:** St. Maries (near), ID **Description:** Landing, seen by a family of ten in Northern Idaho, of eight huge objects (Bloecher) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [470703](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/stmaries470703dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_349 ### Event 5353 (02C001A9) **Date:** 7/3/1947 **Time:** 2:30 PM EDT **Location:** Harborside, Maine **Description:** Witness: astronomer John Cole of South Brooksville, Me. Watched 10-15 seconds while ten very light objects, with two dark forms to their left, moved like a swarm of bees to the northwest. A loud roar was heard. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_0 ### Event 5354 (74705BA7) **Date:** 7/3/1947 **Location:** River Drive near West 8th Street in Denver, Colorado **Description:** 8:55 a.m. William F. LeFevre watches a shiny, mirror-like disc zoom over River Drive near West 8th Street in Denver, Colorado, at several thousand feet and make a 45° turn before vanishing toward the southwest. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Denver Post, July 5, 1947; Michael David Hall and Wendy Ann Connors, Alfred Loedding and the Great Flying Saucer Wave of 1947, Rose Press, 1998, [p. 44](http://nicap.org/docs/loedd/loedd%5Fchapter%5F3.htm) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_971 ### Event 5355 (4CA0C0DA) **Date:** 7/3/1947 **Location:** Holloman AFB, New Mexico **Description:** Morning. Project Mogul Flight number 8, a cluster of plastic balloons, is launched from Holloman AFB, New Mexico. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Kevin D. Randle, “The Project Mogul Flights and Roswell,” IUR 19, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1994\): 6–7, 23 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_972 ### Event 5356 (B364DFCC) **Date:** 7/3/1947 **Location:** Harborside, Maine **Description:** 2:30 p.m. Amateur astronomer John F. Cole watches a group of 10 objects moving northwest near Harborside, Maine, at 600–1,200 mph. Each is 50–150 feet wide. The objects are milling about in loose formation like a “swarm of bees” for 10–15 seconds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Astronomer Observes Ten Large Objects](http://www.nicap.org/470703sbrooksville%5Fdir.htm)”; Bloecher, [p. III-18](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 19; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#astronomers)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 60 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_973 ### Event 5357 (97EEA70D) **Date:** 7/3/1947 **Locations:** St. Louis; Wright Field, Ohio; Wright Field **Description:** The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the Air Research Center at Wright Field, Ohio, and the army intelligence service are looking into the flying discs. An INS dispatch states that Commander of the Army Air Force Gen. [Carl Spaatz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%5FSpaatz) has asked Wright Field to look into such reports. Air Materiel Command’s Lt. Gen. [Nathan F. Twining](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%5FFarragut%5FTwining) tells Idaho Evening Statesman reporter [David N. Johnson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39757884/david-n%5F-johnson) that officials are indeed looking into the discs and that Wright Field has no comparable technology. Lieut. [William C. Anderson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FCharles%5FAnderson), Wright Field public relations officer, says there is no confirmation that the discs exist. Maj. [Paul Gaynor](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/81697834/paul-f-gaynor) says the Army Air Force needs more concrete information. German scientists working at Wright Field are asked about the discs, but they say they have heard nothing about any such experiments in Europe. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Army Gets Around to Checking ‘Flying](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/37261859/army-gets-around-to-checking-flying/) [Discs’ and Is Mystified,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/37261859/army-gets-around-to-checking-flying/)” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 3, 1947, p. 1; Dave Johnson, “[AAF Investigates Reports](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92600372/) [of](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92600524/) [Mysterious Air Objects,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92600524/)” Boise Idaho Daily Statesman, July 3, 1947, pp. 1, 9; “[Military Says ‘No Results’ in Disc](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92602735/) [Probe,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92602735/)” Boise Idaho Daily Statesman, July 4, 1947, p. 2; “[Weird ‘Flying Saucers’ Seen over 10 States,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92602122/)” New York Daily News, July 4, 1947, Final ed., p. 8 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_974 ### Event 5358 (6E436F4A) **Date:** 7/3/1947 **Locations:** Village Green; Charlottetown; Prince Edward Island; Augustine Cove **Description:** 5:45 p.m. Farmer Ewen McNeill in Village Green, east of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, sees a black, rocket-shaped projectile trailing a blindingly white flame and a smoke trail pass overhead as he is working his fields. It seems to be flying at 10,000 feet and is visible for 15 seconds. Around the same time, a resident of Augustine Cove watches an “object the size of an apple” traveling south at high speed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Bloecher, [p. II-17](https://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionII.htm); Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 64 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_975 ### Event 5359 (EA425CAA) **Date:** 7/3/1947 **Locations:** Saint Maries, Idaho; St. Joe River; Spokane Army Air Base; Fairchild AFB **Description:** 6:30 p.m. Mrs. Walter Johnson and her family see 8–9 discs flying out of the southern sky 6 miles west of Saint Maries, Idaho, over the St. Joe River. The objects came in “very fast, slow down jerkily, then flutter to the ground like leaves.” Mrs. Johnson thinks the objects are about the size of a “five-room house.” When they reach a clearing in the timber, they appear to “settle Down” a few at a time. Mrs. Johnson reports the sighting to intelligence officers at the Spokane Army Air Base \[now Fairchild AFB\], and an intensive air search is carried out by two missions of the National Guard’s 116th Fighter Group. Local sheriff’s deputies also make a ground search, but no traces of alanding can be found. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[‘Saucer’ Reports Increase](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101831002/the-spokesman-review/) [As Sky Is Searched in Vain,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101831059/the-spokesman-review/)” Spokane \(Wash.\) Spokesman-Review, July 7, 1947, pp. 1, 6; “[Dishman Residents Saw ‘Flying Saucers’ Land,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101830909/the-spokesman-review/)” Spokane \(Wash.\) Spokesman-Review, July 7, 1947, p. 6; Bloecher, [p. II-12](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionII.htm) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_976 ### Event 5360 (3A04498E) **Date:** 7/3/1947 **Location:** Holloman AFB, New Mexico **Description:** 7:30 p.m. Project Mogul Flight number 9, a cluster of plastic balloons, is launched from Holloman AFB, New Mexico. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Kevin D. Randle, “The Project Mogul Flights and Roswell,” IUR 19, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1994\): 6–7, 23 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_977 ### Event 5361 (5705E49A) **Date:** 7/3/1947 **Description:** There are 35 unexplained UFO, USO (unidentified submarine object), and humanoid reports for this day in UFOCAT, including the alleged discovery of the famous Roswell debris field by Mac Brazel on a ranch near Corona, New Mexico and the discovery of a crashed disc by Barney Barnett in an arroyo near Magdelena, New Mexico. A cluster of three reports came from around Cincinnati, Ohio between 10:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. A cluster of another three reports came from Prince Edward Island, Canada at 5:45 p.m. including the sighting of a black cigar-shaped object in Charlottetown. There was a third cluster of sightings from Sonoma County, California where a forest fire lookout in Fort Ross saw what looked like a burning ship sink slowly into the Pacific Ocean where no ship was reported missing. There was a fourth cluster of three sightings between Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, DC. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U Computer database, case 782; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT, case A2038; Cincinnati (OH) Post, July 3, 1947; Cincinnati (OH) Enquirer, July 9, 1947; Windsor (ON) Daily Star, July 5, 1947; Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 6); Baltimore Sun, July 6, 1947 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3796 ### Event 5362 (3C0684EF) **Date:** 7/3/1947 **Description:** Harborside, Maine - John F. Cole, an astronomer, watched a series of objects that gave off a roaring noise at 2:30 in the afternoon from Harborside, south of Brooksville, Maine. The objects were in the north and were proceeding northwest at a high speed. He estimated their diameter at 100 feet. Calling the report an "unusually well-supported incident," the Air Force had no explanation. However, years later the Air Materiel Command publicly explained the event as "birds or insects". This sighting was also one of the 1947 cases investigated by the FBI. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, pg. 51; Donald Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top Secret, pg. 89 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3797 ### Event 5363 (A1A658F9) **Date:** 7/3/1947 **Description:** In the village of Mendon, Vermont at 9:00 p.m. Mrs. Spieski sighted a cylindrical UFO, shaped like a flashlight with a white head and green body. It flew at a moderate speed over a meadow at low altitude, heading toward the southwest. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Ted Bloecher; Rutland (VT) Herald, July 9, 1947 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3798 ### Event 5364 (C4CF87EB) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Location:** Magdalena, NM **Description:** UFO crashes in Horse Mountain Canyon: 2 dead grays, one heavily injured, one surviving **Type:** ufo crash **Reference:** anonymous information (R.G.) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_242 **Attributes:** gallant ### Event 5365 (1C987AA5) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Location:** Portland, OR **Description:** Portland area mass sightings, hundreds of witnesses, Blue Book Report includes state and local police witnesses **Type:** mass ufo sighting **Reference:** [Twitter](https://twitter.com/ItsBS_YouTube/status/1608646571675226114) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_243 ### Event 5366 (079E32D9) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Location:** Pacific Northwest **Description:** Capt. E. J. Smith co-pilot & stewardess see UFO’s in PNW **Type:** ufo sightings **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maury_Island_incident) **Reference:** [Twitter](https://twitter.com/ItsBS_YouTube/status/1611422054758158349) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_244 ### Event 5367 (D40A9CBE) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Location:** USA, Portland, (Oregon) **Description:** (Translated from French) In Portland, Oregon, there were hundreds of simultaneous witnesses: pilots, port officers, police officers. And their testimony was consistent: they all had seen a dozen shining discs in the sun, moving quickly in the sky at an altitude that the most qualified estimated at 13,000 meters. ("Lueurs sur les Soucoupes Volantes" Aimé Michel, ed. Maison MAME, 1954, p. 16) At 11 o'clock the passengers of a bus saw, near Redmond, four objects in the shape of a disc flying like lightning over Mount Jefferson. At 1:05 p.m. a police officer, on the parking lot behind the central police station of the city of Portland, noticed that the pigeons were fluttering around as if they were frightened; he looked up and saw five objects in the shape of a disc, two going south and three east. They were flying very fast and seemed to oscillate on their lateral axis. A few minutes later, two other officers, both former pilots, declared that three of these objects were flying in a line. Shortly afterwards, the port patrol called the central police station: a crew of four patrolmen had seen three to six of these discs, in the shape of a chrome wheel hubcap, and moving very quickly, they were also oscillating while flying. (Henry DURRANT: "Le livre noir des S.V." - Laffont 1970 - p.94) It is evident that the multiple fireworks fired at different times on the occasion of Independence Day multiplied the observations of unidentified flying objects, often seen as simple or multiple lights. **Reference:** "UFO's: A century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 45 and following **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1227 ### Event 5368 (3F50B674) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Location:** USA, Vancouver (Washington) **Description:** (Translated from French) Having heard the radio call from Portland, 7 or 8 deputies of the sheriff went out to check. They saw 20 to 30 discs heading southwest, just above the city courthouse. Fred Krives, one of the witnesses, stated: these objects were dark, not at all shiny, they flew in a single line, separated by equal intervals. They headed towards Portland, 7 km away. They stopped flying in formation above Portland by spreading out to the south and west. The witness would have heard a faint buzzing during the observation. **Reference:** Inforespace n° 20, p. 14 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1228 ### Event 5369 (EFC19F76) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Location:** Emmet, Idaho **Description:** (Translated from French) 8:17 p.m. PDT. Witnesses: Capt. E.J. Smith of United Air Lines, First Officer Ralph Stevens, Stewardess Marty Morrow. Observed for 12-15 minutes four white objects with flat base and structured top, flying at varying speeds. One of the objects flew higher and to the right of the other three. (Project: Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner) "Five things," the pilot wrote in his report, "thin and smooth underneath and appearing rough on top, were silhouetted against the setting sun shortly after takeoff from Boise at 8:04 p.m. We saw them very clearly and followed them for about 70 miles in a northeasterly direction. They then disappeared, without our being able to say whether they moved away or disintegrated. We also cannot say whether they were round, oval, or of some other shape, but we are sure they were neither airplanes, clouds, nor smoke." (July 4, 1947) **Reference:** Edward J. Ruppelt: "Face aux Soucoupes Volantes", ed. France-Empire 1958, p. 34 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1229 ### Event 5370 (E03ABDDD) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Location:** USA, Redwood (California) **Description:** (Translated from French) (Associated Press) A flight of about thirty saucers was observed this day at 10:35 AM above the San Carlos region, by Stanley Miramon and his mother, Mrs. Marie Maranta. Miramon said they were heading northeast of San Carlos, at 2000 feet altitude, that they were round, silver in color, and the size of a car. A twin-engine transport plane was in the same region of the sky and it seemed to him that the pilot was observing these phenomena and heading towards them. Miramon went into the house to call the newspaper and when he came out the objects were gone. **Reference:** Internet May 1997 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1230 ### Event 5371 (D000E536) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Location:** USA, Corning, California **Description:** (Translated from French) At around 5:15 in the morning, at least five witnesses saw an unusual object in the sky, flying above Highway 5, near Corning. Jay Munger was drinking his coffee, as he worked the night shift at a bowling alley. He was with the police officers James Overton of Corning and Frank Rakes of Orland. It was Munger who first saw the object through the window. All three of them quickly went outside and saw something oval-shaped and dark grey in color, with a light on the top part, which shone upwards, and a less intense light illuminating downwards, on the base. A darker or black band encircled the object at mid-height. At first the thing was to the west, at a quarter of a mile away, and at around thirty meters above the ground. The thing was practically motionless. The sun had not yet risen, but the lights of the object itself were bright enough. Munger was calling his wife, but she couldn't see anything from where she was, trees blocking her view. He then rejoined the two police officers. The object had barely moved, now being at half a mile away. But then suddenly it accelerated, heading south and disappearing from their sight in less than ten seconds. Paul Heideman, from Fremont, California, was driving on Highway 5 southwards at the same time. He was accompanied by his friend Robert King. He saw the light of the object turn eastwards and remain almost motionless five blocks to the west. The diameter of the object is estimated to be 15 to 30 meters, the thickness 5 to 8 meters, and the black band could have been 1.50 to 3 meters. This object made no sound. **Reference:** Source: NICAP and James McDonald **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1231 ### Event 5372 (E960938C) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Location:** USA, Circleville (Ohio) **Description:** (Translated from French) (A.P.) Sherman Campbell announced that he had found on his farm an strange object shaped like a six-pointed star, 1.25 meters high and 1.20 meters wide, covered with a layer of tin and weighing about two pounds. IN REALITY: the Port Columus weather station declared that the description of this device corresponded to that of an object used by the air forces to measure wind speed. **Reference:** F. Scully: "The Mystery of Flying Saucers", ed. Del Duca, Paris "Les Editions Mondiales" 1951, p. 171 which cites the "Los Angeles Examiner" of July 5, 1947 under the title "Strange Find -A Saucer Falls into a Farm". **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1232 ### Event 5373 (A7740C02) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Location:** USA, Santa Monica **Description:** (Translated from French) Dan J. Whelan and Duncan Underhill, from Hollywood, announced that on July 4, at 5 pm near Santa Monica, they had seen a disc, at about 600 meters above them. They were flying at 2000 meters altitude. It was a flat and round object, resembling a target for training, having 12 or 15 meters in diameter and flying at 700 or 800 km/h. (July 4, 1947) **Reference:** F. Scully: "The Mystery of Flying Saucers", ed. Del Duca, Paris "Les Editions Mondiales" 1951, p. 171, citing the "Los Angeles Examiner" of July 5, 1947, title "Aviators See Flying Saucers Closely. One Says 'Ovoid Objects Troubled Him'." **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1233 ### Event 5374 (131FEDD1) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Seattle, a young man photographs a strange light. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_642 ### Event 5375 (3900A86F) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In the afternoon, in Twin Falls, Smoke River Canyon \(Idaho\) saw at least 35 discs demonstrating strength on Independance Day. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_643 ### Event 5376 (DAE15CFB) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Peak of the wave of observations with 88 observations made by over 400 witnesses in 24 states and one Canadian province. In half of the cases, they were single objects; in the others, there were two or more, some flying in formation. Two-thirds of these observations were made in broad daylight and concerned round, spherical, or disc-shaped UFOs. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_644 ### Event 5377 (89309098) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The *East Oregonian*, the first newspaper to publish Arnold's account, reports that a spokesperson from the [USAF](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/USAF.html) in Washington has stated that the saucers are not an American weapon and that there is not enough data to justify an investigation. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_645 ### Event 5378 (4F9A0A8B) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A first investigation by the [USAF](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/USAF.html) concluded that the wave of observation was due to hallucinations. \(Same as before?\) **Reference:** Vallée 1966 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_646 ### Event 5379 (DFFD03EB) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Boise, a half-circle shaped disk was seen hanging from a cloud, as bright and silver as a mirror reflecting the sun's rays. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_647 ### Event 5380 (A1679CEA) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Observation of Captain [E. J. Smith](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/SmithEmilJ.html), his co-pilot and a stewardess above Emmet \(Idaho\). (20 h 17) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_648 ### Event 5381 (D70A94EB) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Near Portland \(Oregon\), nearly 300 witnesses including police officers see 9 discs described as shiny chrome hubcaps. \(June 24?\) (2 h) **Reference:** [GEPAN](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/GEPAN.html), Information Note No. 3, 1981 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_649 ### Event 5382 (FB774AE1) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) 85 stories of observations published in the press. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_650 ### Event 5383 (144C3300) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Location:** Seattle, WA **Description:** Coast Guard personnel photograph UFO. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973_, by Richard Dolan](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/mode/2up) **Source:** Dolan, **ID:** Dolan_20 ### Event 5384 (501256A1) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Location:** Roswell, NM **Description:** Possible UFO crash retrieval. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973_, by Richard Dolan](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/mode/2up) **Source:** Dolan, **ID:** Dolan_21 ### Event 5385 (0DDDB7B0) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Location:** OTTAWA, ON **Description:** Bright green saucer here. Translucent 30cm luminous plates over Sarnia same day. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 84) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_790 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "115", **HatchDesc:** "OTTAWA,ON:BRITE GRN SCR HERE::TRANSLUCENT 30cm LUMn.PLATES OVR SARNIA same day", **LatLong:** "45.400002 -75.700004", **LatLongDMS:** "45:24:00 N 75:42:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.400002,-75.700004)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5386 (56193152) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Time:** 01:00 **Location:** EAST ORANGE AND ESSEX FALLS, NJ **Description:** 3 separate observer(s). Fireball and disks and saucers hover and going [to] all directions. / r151+/ r187p212. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** INTERNATIONAL UFO REPORTER (IUR) Bimonthly. CUFOS, Chicago. Highly regarded. (Index 280) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_791 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "120", **Elev:** "51", **HatchDesc:** "E.ORANGE+ESSEX FALLS,NJ:3 SEP.OBS:FBL+DISKS+SCRS HVR+>ALL DIRS:/r151+/r187p212", **LatLong:** "40.772224 -74.233337", **LatLongDMS:** "40:46:20 N 74:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.772224,-74.233337)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5387 (4D15411C) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Time:** 01:10 **Location:** VANCOUVER, WA **Description:** 3 deputies. 20-30 round objects going west and going south / linear formations. Low humming heard. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** INTERNATIONAL UFO REPORTER (IUR) Bimonthly. CUFOS, Chicago. Highly regarded. (Index 280) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_792 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "61", **HatchDesc:** "VANCOUVER,WA:3 DEPUTIES:20-30 ROUND OBJs >W and >S/LINEAR FORMns:low hum heard", **LatLong:** "45.683336 -122.650006", **LatLongDMS:** "45:41:00 N 122:39:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.683336,-122.650006)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5388 (512997CC) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Time:** 04:10 **Location:** ALEXANDRIA, VA **Description:** Ray / light / window wakes 1 observer(s). Sun-size blazing sphere/orb/globe hovers outside. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 215) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_793 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "9", **HatchDesc:** "ALEXANDRIA,VA:RAY/LITE/WINDOW WAKES 1 OBS:SUN-SIZE BLAZING ORB HVRS OUTSIDE", **LatLong:** "38.805557 -77.050004", **LatLongDMS:** "38:48:20 N 77:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.805557,-77.050004)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5389 (61D561C4) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Time:** 10:00? **Location:** DANVERS, MA AND AREA **Description:** Ray Fowler and many. White ovoid seen / daytime. / Salem news / r155p5. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FOWLER, Raymond E.: The WATCHERS; Bantam PB, NY 1990 (Index 243) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_794 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "DANVERS,MA+AREA:RAY FOWLER+MANY:WHT OVOID SEEN/DAYTIME:/SALEM NEWS/r155p5.", **LatLong:** "42.583335 -70.933337", **LatLongDMS:** "42:35:00 N 70:56:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.583335,-70.933337)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5390 (F539282A) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Time:** 10:30 **Location:** EAST / MOSCOW, ID **Description:** 2 / light plane. Very white disk wavers going quickly north / flight path. Larger / any plane. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 217) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_795 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "790", **HatchDesc:** "E/MOSCOW,ID:2/LITE PLANE:VERY WHT DISK WAVERS >>N/FLITEPATH:LARGER/ANY PLANE", **LatLong:** "46.733336 -116.933339", **LatLongDMS:** "46:44:00 N 116:56:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.733336,-116.933339)", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5391 (944BD122) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Time:** 11:00 **Location:** SAN PEDRO AND REDONDO BEACH, CA **Description:** 3+1 separate observer(s). 6 saucers going quickly southeast. 500mph / high altitude. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 221) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_796 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "37", **HatchDesc:** "SAN PEDRO+REDONDO BEACH,CA:3+1 SEP.OBS:6 SCRS >>SE:500mph/HI ALTITUDE:NFD", **LatLong:** "33.733335 -118.266672", **LatLongDMS:** "33:44:00 N 118:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.733335,-118.266672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5392 (48B15021) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Time:** 11:00 **Location:** MT. JEFFERSON, OR **Description:** Several / car. 4 fast silent saucers pass summit. / r187#220+/ International UFO Reporter (CUFOS Group, USA) v23#4. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 20) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_797 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "915", **HatchDesc:** "Mt.JEFFERSON,OR:SVRL/CAR:4 FAST SLNT SCRS PASS SUMMIT:/r187#220+/IUR v23#4", **LatLong:** "44.266669 -121.233339", **LatLongDMS:** "44:16:00 N 121:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.266669,-121.233339)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5393 (A157E98E) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Time:** 11:50 **Location:** CLIFTON, CO **Description:** 3+9 kids. 3 flat shiny metal saucers maneuver 2-5K' altitude. 1 goes up. 2 going quickly east. Trails. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 218) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_798 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1439", **HatchDesc:** "CLIFTON,CO:3+9 KIDS:3 FLAT SHINY MTL SCRS MNVR 2-5K'alt:1 GOES UP:2>>E:TRAILS", **LatLong:** "39.077780 -108.483339", **LatLongDMS:** "39:04:40 N 108:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.077780,-108.483339)", **RelAlt:** "600", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5394 (7AF5765A) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** TONOPAH TO/FROM AUSTIN, NV **Description:** 2 / private plane. 5 brilliant disks going quickly southwest / 3000M altitude. Too fast to catch. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 75) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_799 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1900", **HatchDesc:** "TONOPAH>>SW/3000M alt:too fast to catch", **LatLong:** "38.783335 -117.200006", **LatLongDMS:** "38:47:00 N 117:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.783335,-117.200006)", **State/Prov:** "Nevada", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5395 (A9D3D5D8) **Date:** 7/4/1947 (approximate) **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** OROVILLE, CA **Description:** 1 observer. 2 saucers 30cm apart circle and bob going up and down [to] over school. Very fast. Keep moving. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 83) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_800 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "53", **HatchDesc:** "OROVILLE,CA:1 OBS:2 SCRS 30cm APART CCL+BOB ↑+↓ ovr SCHOOL:VFAST:KEEP MOVING", **LatLong:** "39.516669 -121.222228", **LatLongDMS:** "39:31:00 N 121:13:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.516669,-121.222228)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5396 (95EE2730) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** BAKERSFIELD, CA **Description:** Several observer(s). Shiny pie-pan flips over several times crossing sky. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 83) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_801 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "122", **HatchDesc:** "BAKERSFIELD,CA:SVRL OBS:SHINY PIE-PAN FLIPS OVR SVRL TIMES CROSSING SKY", **LatLong:** "35.383335 -119.033339", **LatLongDMS:** "35:23:00 N 119:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.383335,-119.033339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5397 (A81FB782) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** RICHLAND, WA **Description:** Several observer(s). Bright disk flips over and over. Straight up / high altitude. Going quickly northeast. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 78) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_802 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "109", **HatchDesc:** "RICHLAND,WA:SVRL OBS:BRITE DISK FLIPS OVR+OVR:STRAIGHT UP/HIGH ALT:>>NE:NFD", **LatLong:** "46.300002 -119.333339", **LatLongDMS:** "46:18:00 N 119:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.300002,-119.333339)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5398 (F9C5035D) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** TROUTDALE, OR **Description:** 3 observer(s) / (seen thru) binoculars. V-shaped observer(s) going quickly northeast over Columbia River. Dips during flight. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 227) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_803 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "TROUTDALE,OR:3 OBS/BINOCS:V-SHAPED OBS >>NE OVR COLUMBIA RVR:DIPS DURING FLITE", **LatLong:** "45.583336 -122.366673", **LatLongDMS:** "45:35:00 N 122:22:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.583336,-122.366673)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5399 (95DF2CB1) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Time:** 13:00 **Location:** PORTLAND, OR **Description:** Cops and more/others. Pigeons scared. 5 large disks wobble. 2 going quickly east. 2 going quickly south. / r106p50+/ r171. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** INTERNATIONAL UFO REPORTER (IUR) Bimonthly. CUFOS, Chicago. Highly regarded. (Index 280) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_804 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "PORTLAND,OR:COPS++:PIGEONS SCARED:5 LRG DISKS WOBBLE:2>>E:2 >>S:/r106p50+/r171", **LatLong:** "45.516669 -122.683339", **LatLongDMS:** "45:31:00 N 122:41:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.516669,-122.683339)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5400 (4A702C42) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Time:** 13:10 **Location:** PORTLAND, OR **Description:** 2 cops / car#82+separate observer(s). 3 disks overhead. Going quickly east. / r131#3p35-37. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RANDLE, Kevin & SCHMITT,Donald: UFO CRASH at ROSWELL; Avon Books, NY 1991. 327pp. (Index 18) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_805 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "PORTLAND,OR:2 COPS/CAR#82+SEP.OBS:3 DISKS OVHD:>>E:/r131#3p35-37", **LatLong:** "45.516669 -122.666673", **LatLongDMS:** "45:31:00 N 122:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.516669,-122.666673)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5401 (B56BF110) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Time:** 13:10 **Location:** PORTLAND, OR **Description:** Hundreds include/including police. 1 saucer then groups. All over Oregon and Wash. Extremely fast maneuvers. Going south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 20) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_806 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "200", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "PORTLAND,OR:100s INCL POLICE:1 SCR THEN GRPS:ALL OVR ORE+WASH:XFAST MNVRS:>S", **LatLong:** "45.500002 -122.683339", **LatLongDMS:** "45:30:00 N 122:41:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.500002,-122.683339)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5402 (A05D185E) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Time:** 13:20 **Location:** PORTLAND, OR **Description:** 3 harbor patrolmen. 3-6 shiny disks going quickly south fast. Oscillating. / r55p101. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 335) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_807 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "PORTLAND,OR:3 HARBOR PATROLMEN:3-6 SHINY DISKS >>S FAST:OSCILLATING:/r55p101", **LatLong:** "45.533336 -122.683339", **LatLongDMS:** "45:32:00 N 122:41:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.533336,-122.683339)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5403 (ACA05B6D) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Time:** 13:20 **Location:** MILWAUKIE, OR **Description:** Highway Patrolman C. Cross. 2-3 shiny white saucers going quickly northwest. / r187#236+/ r15p19. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** INTERNATIONAL UFO REPORTER (IUR) Bimonthly. CUFOS, Chicago. Highly regarded. (Index 280) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_808 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "91", **HatchDesc:** "MILWAUKIE,OR:HWY PATROLMAN C.CROSS:2-3 SHINY WHT SCRS >>NW:/r187#236+/r15p19", **LatLong:** "45.450002 -122.633339", **LatLongDMS:** "45:27:00 N 122:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.450002,-122.633339)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5404 (D9916869) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Time:** 14:30 **Location:** NEW ORLEANS, LA **Description:** Saleslady. Silver-chrome disk going quickly northeast. Extremely fast / very high altitude. Straight and level trajectory. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 223) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_809 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "NEW ORLEANS,LA:SALESLADY:SLVR-CHROME DISK >>NE:XFAST/VHI ALT:S/L TRAJ.", **LatLong:** "29.966668 -90.050004", **LatLongDMS:** "29:58:00 N 90:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.966668,-90.050004)", **State/Prov:** "Louisiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5405 (F0BA8F14) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Time:** 14:50 **Location:** TWIN FALLS, ID **Description:** 60 / picnic. 3 groups / saucers in V formation and loose. Circle and dive. Going west. / r131#1p83. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 237) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_810 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "1137", **HatchDesc:** "TWIN FALLS,ID:60/PICNIC:3 GRPS/SCRS in VFORM+LOOSE:CCL+DIVE:>W:/r131#1p83", **LatLong:** "42.566669 -114.450005", **LatLongDMS:** "42:34:00 N 114:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.566669,-114.450005)", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5406 (868EA28E) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** NORTHEAST / CRAIG, MT **Description:** Flash. Series / silver plates. Tumble / waver going quickly northwest. / r187#240+/ r171p75. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 350) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_811 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1050", **HatchDesc:** "NE/CRAIG,MT:FLASH:SERIES/SLVR PLATES:TUMBLE/WAVER>>NW:/r187#240+/r171p75", **LatLong:** "47.188891 -111.805561", **LatLongDMS:** "47:11:20 N 111:48:20 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.188891,-111.805561)", **State/Prov:** "Montana", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5407 (9AAB69BB) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** PORTLAND, OR **Description:** 2 separate police report(s) and newsmen. Shiny saucers flip. Finally going quickly east. / r15p19. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 335) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_812 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "PORTLAND,OR:2 SEP.POLICE RPTS+NEWSMEN:SHINY SCRS FLIP:FINALLY>>E:/r15p19", **LatLong:** "45.500002 -122.611117", **LatLongDMS:** "45:30:00 N 122:36:40 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.500002,-122.611117)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5408 (C6119ABC) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Time:** ~16:00 **Location:** COLORADO SPRS, CO **Description:** Air Force pilot. Extremely large disk rises into clouds at 20K' altitude. No report made. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 250) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_813 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1802", **HatchDesc:** "COLORADO Sprs,CO:AF PILOT:XLARGE DISK RISES INTO CLOUDS AT 20K'alt:NO RPT MADE", **LatLong:** "38.850002 -104.800005", **LatLongDMS:** "38:51:00 N 104:48:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.850002,-104.800005)", **RelAlt:** "5000", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5409 (54797D5F) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** SOUTHEAST / ST. CHARLES, MO **Description:** Aircraft spotter and 13. Silent 25' saucer with propeller? Tilts and going northwest / 300' altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 242) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_814 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "135", **HatchDesc:** "SE/St.CHARLES,MO:ACRFT SPOTTER+13:SLNT 25'SCR W/PROPELLER?:TILTS+>NW/300'alt", **LatLong:** "38.700002 -90.333338", **LatLongDMS:** "38:42:00 N 90:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.700002,-90.333338)", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5410 (1632DB83) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** LAKE JACKSON, TX **Description:** Mrs. Jacobs. Disk going quickly southeast fast toward(s) Gulf. 'Bigger than a saucer'. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 245) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_815 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "8", **HatchDesc:** "LAKE JACKSON,TX:Mrs.JACOBS:DISK >>SE FAST TWRD GULF:'bigger than a saucer'", **LatLong:** "29.033335 -95.433338", **LatLongDMS:** "29:02:00 N 95:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.033335,-95.433338)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5411 (03E9C568) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Time:** 17:20 **Location:** WEST / LONG BEACH, CA **Description:** 2 / private plane. 50' skeet-saucer / 7000' altitude going quickly NNW / 500mph overhead. Observer(s) scared. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 254) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_816 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "11", **HatchDesc:** "W/LONG BEACH,CA:2/Pvt PLANE:50'SKEET-SCR/7000'alt >>NNW/500mph OVHD:OBS SCARED", **LatLong:** "33.766668 -118.250006", **LatLongDMS:** "33:46:00 N 118:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.766668,-118.250006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5412 (5C10F189) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Time:** 17:30 **Location:** SEATTLE, WA **Description:** USCG man and more/others. Photographs saucer / front porch. Several disks going quickly west. (AP)5JLY. / r187#253. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 82) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_817 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "100", **HatchDesc:** "SEATTLE,WA:USCG MAN++:FOTOS SCR/FRONT PORCH:SVRL DISKS >>W:(AP)5JLY:/r187#253", **LatLong:** "47.633336 -122.333339", **LatLongDMS:** "47:38:00 N 122:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.633336,-122.333339)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5413 (ACF9DDE8) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Time:** 17:30 **Location:** LAKE CITY, WA **Description:** 20+observer(s) / (seen thru) binoculars. 1 photographs silver saucer going quickly north / 500mph after Seattle sightings. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 257) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_818 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "82", **HatchDesc:** "LAKE CITY,WA:20+OBS/BINOCS:1 FOTOS SLVR SCR>>N/500mph AFTER SEATTLE SIGHTINGS", **LatLong:** "47.150002 -122.550006", **LatLongDMS:** "47:09:00 N 122:33:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.150002,-122.550006)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5414 (67A916BB) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** SALEM, OR **Description:** G. Graen and wife. Ovoid / 10K' altitude going quickly south / terrific speed. Lost in the distance. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 260) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_819 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "47", **HatchDesc:** "SALEM,OR:G.GRAEN+WIFE:OVOID/10K'alt >>S/TERRIFIC SPEED:LOST/DISTANCE:NFD", **LatLong:** "44.950002 -123.050006", **LatLongDMS:** "44:57:00 N 123:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.950002,-123.050006)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5415 (2C0DC910) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** NORTHEAST / ELLIOTT, ND **Description:** Navy veteran and 2 / farm. 25cm fast green disk passes close / 35' altitude. Going south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 255) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_820 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "399", **HatchDesc:** "NE/ELLIOTT,ND:NAVY VET.+2/FARM:25cm FAST GRN DISK PASSES CLOSE/35'alt:>S", **LatLong:** "46.411113 -97.788894", **LatLongDMS:** "46:24:40 N 97:47:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.411113,-97.788894)", **RelAlt:** "11", **State/Prov:** "North Dakota", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5416 (3F5FA263) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** BOISE, ID **Description:** United Press International newsman and 3. White disk crosses sky going quickly southeast / insane speed. Absolute(ly) silent. 10K' altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 258) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_821 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "820", **HatchDesc:** "BOISE,ID:UPI NEWSMAN+3:WHT DISK CROSSES SKY >>SE/INSANE SPEED:ABS SLNT:10K'alt", **LatLong:** "43.616669 -116.200006", **LatLongDMS:** "43:37:00 N 116:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.616669,-116.200006)", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5417 (9E8D59C5) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** HAUSER LAKE, ID **Description:** Many / fireworks. Metal 30' disk / 20K' altitude. Extremely quickly going up [to] when plane nears. / r187. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 352) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_822 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "667", **HatchDesc:** "HAUSER LAKE,ID:MANY/FIREWORKS:MTL 30'DISK/20K'alt:↑↑↑ when plane nears:/r187", **LatLong:** "47.750002 -116.983339", **LatLongDMS:** "47:45:00 N 116:59:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.750002,-116.983339)", **RelAlt:** "6000", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5418 (73E0FF29) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Time:** ~20:00 **Location:** KANSAS CITY, KS **Description:** 3 observer(s). Several glowing disks seen going quickly north. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 399) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_823 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "225", **HatchDesc:** "KANSAS CITY,KS:3 OBS:SVRL GLOWING DISKS SEEN >>N:NFD", **LatLong:** "39.100002 -94.616671", **LatLongDMS:** "39:06:00 N 94:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.100002,-94.616671)", **State/Prov:** "Kansas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5419 (5F5C6811) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** CASPER, WY **Description:** Mrs. McLeod. Silver disk races southeast going quickly northwest into clouds. 1 brief red flash. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 272) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_824 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1567", **HatchDesc:** "CASPER,WY:Mrs.McLEOD:SLVR DISK RACES SE>>NW INTO CLOUDS:1 BRIEF RED FLASH:", **LatLong:** "42.850002 -106.316672", **LatLongDMS:** "42:51:00 N 106:19:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.850002,-106.316672)", **State/Prov:** "Wyoming", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5420 (53C8ADC0) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** PHILADELPHIA, PA **Description:** Doctor and more/others. Round object with halo and whirling jets. Slow. Going SSE into clouds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 249) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_825 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "PHILADELPHIA,PA:DOCTOR++:ROUND OBJ W/HALO+WHIRLING JETS:SLOW:>SSE into CLOUDS", **LatLong:** "39.983335 -75.150004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:59:00 N 75:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.983335,-75.150004)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5421 (67212FEE) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** AKRON, OH **Description:** 2 BF Goodrich executives and families. Round silver object going quickly east. Self illuminated. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 259) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_826 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "315", **HatchDesc:** "AKRON,OH:2 BF GOODRICH EXECs+FAMILIES:ROUND SLVR OBJ >>E:SELF ILLUMINATED", **LatLong:** "41.083335 -81.500004", **LatLongDMS:** "41:05:00 N 81:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.083335,-81.500004)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5422 (E4AD5A44) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** MALIBU BEACH, CA **Description:** 1 observer. Several disks going quickly southwest to sea / 350mph. 1000' altitude. 'Crackling noise'. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 284) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_827 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "MALIBU BEACH,CA:1 OBS:SVRL DISKS >>SW to SEA/350mph:1000'alt:'CRACKLING NOISE'", **LatLong:** "34.050002 -118.683339", **LatLongDMS:** "34:03:00 N 118:41:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.050002,-118.683339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5423 (718F5C6A) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** LOS ANGELES, CA **Description:** Aircraft inspector. "Lima-bean" flies over Elysian Park. Clear dome. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 287) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_828 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "100", **HatchDesc:** "LOS ANGELES,CA:AIRCRAFT INSPECTOR:"LIMA-BEAN" FLIES OVR ELYSIAN PARK:CLR DOME", **LatLong:** "34.083335 -118.233339", **LatLongDMS:** "34:05:00 N 118:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.083335,-118.233339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5424 (F7B45C0B) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** 2 MILES NORTH / FAYETTEVILLE, AR **Description:** Farmer. 3 yellow saucers circle and scare livestock. Going southwest. Back next night. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 263) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_829 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "430", **HatchDesc:** "2mi N/FAYETTEVILLE,AR:FARMER:3 YEL.SCRS CCL+SCARE LIVESTOCK:>SW:BACK NEXT NITE", **LatLong:** "36.100002 -94.166671", **LatLongDMS:** "36:06:00 N 94:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.100002,-94.166671)", **State/Prov:** "Arkansas", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5425 (C1682FEA) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** DELAWARE, OH **Description:** Farmer and AAA official. 5 reddish saucers going quickly west fast. Straight and level trajectory. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 266) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_830 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "268", **HatchDesc:** "DELAWARE,OH:FARMER+AAA OFFICIAL:5 REDDISH SCRS >>W FAST:S/L TRAJ:", **LatLong:** "40.300002 -83.066671", **LatLongDMS:** "40:18:00 N 83:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.300002,-83.066671)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5426 (C4C3FD6E) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** ELMIRA, MO **Description:** 3 observer(s). 8 disks southwest going quickly northeast. Fairly bright. Straight and level course. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 270) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_831 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "292", **HatchDesc:** "ELMIRA,MO:3 OBS:8 DISKS SW>>NE:FAIRLY BRITE:S/L COURSE:NFD", **LatLong:** "39.516669 -94.166671", **LatLongDMS:** "39:31:00 N 94:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.516669,-94.166671)", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5427 (E9F0AF27) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** EMMETT, ID **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #34. United Airlines (UAL) DC3 flight 105. 1 big and 4 small saucers going northwest. Also 2nd group. / r187+/ r26p151. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** INTERNATIONAL UFO REPORTER (IUR) Bimonthly. CUFOS, Chicago. Highly regarded. (Index 280) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_832 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SIG:** Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "19", **Elev:** "724", **HatchDesc:** "EMMETT,ID:BBK#34:UAL DC3 FLT 105:1 BIG+4 SM SCRS >NW:+2nd GROUP:/r187+/r26p151", **LatLong:** "43.872224 -116.500006", **LatLongDMS:** "43:52:20 N 116:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.872224,-116.500006)", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5428 (2C59F0D1) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** MADISON, WI **Description:** 2 observer(s). Bright saucer circle town. Out and back 3X. Hovers. Going quickly south. Back 7 July going south again. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 277) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_833 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "259", **HatchDesc:** "MADISON,WI:2 OBS:BRITE SCR CCL TOWN:OUT+BACK 3X:HVRS:>>S::BACK 7JLY >S AGAIN.", **LatLong:** "43.066669 -89.400004", **LatLongDMS:** "43:04:00 N 89:24:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.066669,-89.400004)", **State/Prov:** "Wisconsin", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5429 (F180F975) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Time:** ~22:00 **Location:** ST. PAUL, MN **Description:** 1 / grand Ave. 8cm disk! Low and slow. Glows. Going ESE toward(s) Holman Airport. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 282) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_834 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "235", **HatchDesc:** "St.PAUL,MN:1/GRAND Ave.:8cm DISK!:LOW+SLOW:GLOWS:>ESE twrd HOLMAN AIRPORT", **LatLong:** "44.933335 -93.094449", **LatLongDMS:** "44:56:00 N 93:05:40 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.933335,-93.094449)", **State/Prov:** "Minnesota", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5430 (CCFDEA78) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** SIOUX FALLS, SD **Description:** R. Jordan. Long narrow light-colored object straight and level going quickly west under dark clouds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 283) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_835 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "433", **HatchDesc:** "SIOUX FALLS,SD:R.JORDAN:LONG NARROW LIGHT-CLRD OBJ S/L >>W UNDER DRK CLOUDS", **LatLong:** "43.533335 -96.733338", **LatLongDMS:** "43:32:00 N 96:44:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.533335,-96.733338)", **State/Prov:** "South Dakota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5431 (F8756DAD) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** ALHAMBRA, CA **Description:** 2 / car. Ovoids cavort. Gyrate. Do figure-8s. Circle. Faster / planes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 296) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_836 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "152", **HatchDesc:** "ALHAMBRA,CA:2/CAR:OVOIDS CAVORT:GYRATE:DO FIGURE-8s:CIRCLE:FASTER/PLANES", **LatLong:** "34.100002 -118.133339", **LatLongDMS:** "34:06:00 N 118:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.100002,-118.133339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5432 (882AC2E1) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** 4 MILES EAST / UTICA, MI **Description:** 1+boy / 9. Bright white round object / jerks going up and down [to] and sideways / terrible speeds. Going south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 274) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_837 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "188", **HatchDesc:** "4mi E/UTICA,MI:1+BOY/9:BRITE WHT ROUND OBJ/JERKS ↑+↓+SIDEWAYS/TERRIBLE SPDS:>S", **LatLong:** "42.616669 -82.966671", **LatLongDMS:** "42:37:00 N 82:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.616669,-82.966671)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5433 (2C3D8B99) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** DENVER, CO **Description:** 1 observer. Metallic domed saucer flips over railroad/railway station/depot/facility. Several shiny disks / V-formation going quickly north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 294) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_838 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1578", **HatchDesc:** "DENVER,CO:1 OBS:MTLC DOMED SCR FLIPS OVR RR STn::SVRL SHINY DISKS/VFORMn >>N", **LatLong:** "39.733335 -105.016672", **LatLongDMS:** "39:44:00 N 105:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.733335,-105.016672)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5434 (DA446CE6) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** SOUTHEAST / DATIL, NM **Description:** 5 observer(s). Silver disk crashed / Arroyo. 3 alien bodies. (Controversial.) **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER,Don & FRIEDMAN, Stanton: CRASH at CORONA 1992 1997 Marlowe & Co. NY ISBN 1-56924-863-X. (Index 90) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_839 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "3", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "2240", **HatchDesc:** "SE/DATIL,NM:5 OBS:SLVR DISK CRASHED/ARROYO:3 ALIEN BODIES:(controversial)", **LatLong:** "34.000002 -107.500005", **LatLongDMS:** "34:00:00 N 107:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.000002,-107.500005)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "11" ### Event 5435 (69FE376D) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** WEST TRENTON, NJ **Description:** Ms. Marshall. Bright luminous silent disk high and fast going quickly east. Straight and level trajectory. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 279) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_840 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "18", **HatchDesc:** "W.TRENTON,NJ:Ms.MARSHALL:BRITE LUMn.SLNT DISK HI+FAST >>E:S/L TRAJ.:NFD", **LatLong:** "40.266669 -74.794448", **LatLongDMS:** "40:16:00 N 74:47:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.266669,-74.794448)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5436 (EBB0FC35) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** BETHESDA, MD **Description:** Writer. 3-4 bright blue disks going north very fast. Domed saucer west antenna / 5 July. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 306) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_841 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "93", **HatchDesc:** "BETHESDA,MD:WRITER:3-4 BRITE BLU DISKS >N VFAST::DOMED SCR W ANTENNA/5JLY", **LatLong:** "39.000002 -77.100004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:00:00 N 77:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.000002,-77.100004)", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5437 (62B3F3A7) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Location:** Redmond (near), OR **Description:** 11 a.m. witnesses in a car near Redmond saw 4 discs (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_350 ### Event 5438 (6769BC0A) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Location:** Portland and Milwaukie, OR, Vancouver, WA, various **Description:** Many over a wide area saw 5 large discs moving at high speed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [470704](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/portland470704dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_351 ### Event 5439 (FE8CA53C) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Location:** Portland, OR **Description:** 3 metallic discs glinting sunlight (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_352 ### Event 5440 (95F870B8) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Location:** Portland, OR **Description:** A silvery disc-shaped object flipping in an erratic path (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_353 ### Event 5441 (AF0951C6) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Location:** Portland and Milwaukie, OR, Vancouver, WA, various **Description:** Seven Discs Observed By Many Witnesses (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [470704](http://www.nicap.org/470704portland%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_354 ### Event 5442 (C91C2982) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Location:** Seattle, WA **Description:** Frank Ryman-1st known photo of Circular obj which moved across the wind \[UFOE, VII, XII\] (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [470704](http://www.nicap.org/fotocat/470704ryman%5Folmos.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_355 ### Event 5443 (3ACEC2F8) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Location:** Emmett, ID **Description:** 5 disc-shaped objects with flat bottoms and rough tops. Smith/Stevens Case (AL) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 34) **Reference:** NICAP: [470704](http://www.nicap.org/470704emmett%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_356 ### Event 5444 (23A3B9A7) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Time:** 8:17 PM PDT **Location:** over Emmet, Idaho **Description:** Witnesses: United Air Lines Capt. E.J. Smith, First Officer Ralph Stevens, Stewardess Marty Morrow. Watched for 12-15 minutes while four objects with flat bottoms and rough tops moved at varying speeds, with one high and to the right of the others. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_1 ### Event 5445 (EF22BA46) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Location:** 184 S. Arlington Avenue, East Orange, New Jersey **Description:** 3:00 a.m. Lenora Woodruff wakes up in her home at 184 S. Arlington Avenue, East Orange, New Jersey, when several airplanes fly overhead. She looks out and sees a “strange goldenish platter” moving swiftly across the sky. It disappears in a second. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[South Plainfield Woman Reports Seeing ‘Flying Saucer’ Formation,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92602987/)” Bridgewater \(N.J.\) Courier-News, July 5, 1947, p.1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_978 ### Event 5446 (C5470B5A) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Location:** Alexandria, Virginia **Description:** After 4:00 a.m. Mrs. Martin Kole is awakened in her home in Alexandria, Virginia, by something shining through her bedroom window. She sees a large, roiund object hovering in the southwestern sky. She watches it for a few minutes, then goes back to bed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Bloecher, [p. II-6](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionII.htm) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_979 ### Event 5447 (85927C81) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Location:** San Francisco, California **Description:** The United Press service rounds up theories about the flying discs. It quotes Army Air Force “experts” saying that the sightings might be caused by weather conditions, or meteorites, or foreign aircraft that it is “our responsibility to know about it and take proper action.” Occultist Ole J. Sneide from San Francisco, California, thinks they are “oblate spheroid space ships from other planets” with hidden bases on the dark side of the moon. This is apparently the first public mention of an extraterrestrial origin for flying saucers in the media. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[U.S. Stops](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92615877/) [‘Laughing Off’ Stories of Flying Disks,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92615877/)” Hollywood \(Calif.\) Citizen-News, July 3, 1947, p. 1; “[Flying Disks Said](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/42476035/the-eagle/) [‘Space Ships’ from Other Solar Systems,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/42476035/the-eagle/)” Bryan \(Tex.\) Eagle, July 3, 1947, p. 8; “[Buck Rogers Special,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16265447/the-press-democrat/)” Santa Rosa \(Calif.\) Press Democrat, July 4, 1947, p. 2; Curt Collins, “[A 1947 Pioneer of the UFO Extraterrestrial](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-1947-pioneer-of-ufo-extraterrestrial.html) [Hypothesis,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-1947-pioneer-of-ufo-extraterrestrial.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, December 16, 2021 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_980 ### Event 5448 (6A93B5C9) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Location:** Moscow, Idaho **Description:** 10:30 a.m. CAA official Irving C. Allen is flying a small aircraft near Moscow, Idaho, when he sees a white disc moving north for 5 minutes as it crosses his path several miles in front of him. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Bloecher, p. [III-10](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_981 ### Event 5449 (0A16A7E4) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Location:** Redmond, Oregon **Description:** 11:00 a.m. C. J. Bogne and other witnesses in a car near Redmond, Oregon, see four discs flying past Mt. Jefferson on a straight course at high speed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ruppelt, [p. 20](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/20/mode/2up); Bloecher, [p. II-9](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionII.htm); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 19 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_982 ### Event 5450 (D2C57CC1) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Locations:** Portland Oregonian; Beaverton, Oregon **Description:** 11:00 a.m. Harry Hale, production manager of the Portland Oregonian, sees one shiny disc moving swiftly just west of Beaverton, Oregon. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Air Liner Crew Confirms Flying Disks over State; Many Seen during Day over City,” Portland Oregonian, July 5, 1947; Project 1947, “[UFO Reports, 1947](https://www.project1947.com/fig/1947c.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_983 ### Event 5451 (3B973914) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Locations:** Portland, Oregon; Clark County; Oregon **Description:** 1:05–5:30 p.m. Many people in Portland, Oregon—including KOIN newsman Frank Cooley, deputy Clark County Sheriff [Fred Krives](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/153181842/fred-c-krives)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/153181842/fred-c-krives) Portland police officer [Kenneth A. McDowell](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3913015/kenneth-a-mcdowell), and Oregon highway patrol Sgt. Claude Cross—view five large discs moving at high speed to the east, two flying south and three to the east, with an oscillating or wobbling motion, sudden 90° turns or zigzagging. Radio reports alert other officers \(including [Walter Lissy](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36301214/walter-arnold-lissy)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36301214/walter-arnold-lissy) [Robert Ellis](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/621613/robert-clark-ellis)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/621613/robert-clark-ellis) and [Earl Patterson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3922233/earl-f-patterson)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3922233/earl-f-patterson) all WWII veterans\) who see the metallic objects that look like a disc or hubcap or pie-pan or half-moon flashing in the sun. No vapor trail or noise \(except possible humming\) is reported. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Seven Discs Observed by Many Witnesses](http://www.nicap.org/470704portland%5Fdir.htm)”; Bloecher, [pp. II-9](https://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionII.htm)[,](https://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionII.htm) [III-15](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 20; “Air Liner Crew Confirms Flying Discs over State; Many Seen during Day over City,” Portland Oregonian, July 5, 1947; Project 1947, “[UFO Reports, 1947](https://www.project1947.com/fig/1947c.htm)”; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#cities)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 58; Michael David Hall and Wendy Ann Connors, “Alfred Loedding: New Insight on the Man behind Project Sign,” IUR 23, no. 4 \(Winter 1998\): 5 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_984 ### Event 5452 (2447AE96) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Locations:** Twin Falls Park; Twin Falls, Idaho **Description:** 2:50 p.m. Seven people at Twin Falls Park, seven miles east of Twin Falls, Idaho, watch a group of discs in a rough V-formation flying at great speed. A second flight of 9–10 objects circle overhead in a loose formation. They gain altitude rapidly and move to the west. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Flying Saucer Mystery Grows,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101831558/tucson-daily-citizen/)” Tucson \(Ariz.\) Daily Citizen, July 5, 1947, p. 4; Bloecher, [p. II-5](https://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionII.htm) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_985 ### Event 5453 (82A0C23F) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Locations:** Old Saint Charles Road; Pattonville, Missouri **Description:** 5:00 p.m. Nova Hart and his wife Marveline are picnicing off Old Saint Charles Road west of Pattonville, Missouri. They see a saucer-shaped object, ribbed like a “parachute canopy,” gliding slowly \(50–60 mph\) and silently from south to north about 300 feet off the ground. It seems to have a propellor attached to a red conical structure on its underside and is about 20–25 feet in diameter. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Bloecher, [p. II-14](https://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionII.htm) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_986 ### Event 5454 (DB4E6DCD) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Location:** Long Beach, California **Description:** After 5:00 p.m. Private pilot Dan Whelan and passenger Duncan Underhill are flying at 5,000 feet west of Long Beach, California, when they see a disc about 2,000 feet above them, traveling at 400–500 mph. They estimate it is 40–50 feet in diameter and flying north-northwest. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[‘Air Disc’ Mystery Grows,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101836806/los-angeles-evening-citizen-news/) [Baffles U.S.,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101836843/los-angeles-evening-citizen-news/)” Hollywood \(Calif.\) Citizen-News, July 5, 1947, pp. 1, 3; Bloecher, [p. III-10](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_987 ### Event 5455 (3A2E3CEB) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Location:** 12321 22nd Street NE, Lake City, Seattle, Washington **Description:** 5:45 p.m. Coast Guard Yeoman [Frank Ryman](http://luforu.org/frank-ryman/) photographs a round disc over his home at 12321 22nd Street NE, Lake City, Seattle, Washington. The object is in sight for 4–5 minutes and is seen by at least 20 others, traveling 500 mph. The photo shows a small, blurred white oval against a background of sky, but when enlarged the object is quite distinct. The Air Force explains it as a weather balloon. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Observers Report Discs](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92620403/) [over Entire Western](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92620514/) [Area,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92620514/)” Salt Lake City Deseret News, July 5, 1947, p. 1; Bloecher, [pp. IV-3–4](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIV.htm); London UFO Research Unit, “[Seattle, Washington, America, North America](http://luforu.org/seattle-washington-america-north-america/)”; Michael D. Swords, “[Can You Learn Anything from UFO](http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com/2012/07/can-you-learn-anything-from-ufo-photos.html) [Photos, Part Two,](http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com/2012/07/can-you-learn-anything-from-ufo-photos.html)” The Big Study, July 5, 2012; Kenneth Lloyd Larson, “A Summer 1947 Sighting,” IUR 20, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1995\): 19–20 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_988 ### Event 5456 (4DD0E347) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Location:** Boise, Idaho **Description:** 6:30 p.m. United Press correspondent John C. Corlett, along with artist V. H. Selby and their wives, see a white disc speeding over Boise, Idaho, at an altitude of about 10,000 feet. It takes about 3 seconds to disappear. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “View of ‘Flying Saucers’ over Ontario Dumbfounds Veteran Pilot, Other Crew Member of Airliner,” Portland Oregonian, July 5, 1947; Project 1947, “[UFO Reports, 1947](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1947d.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_989 ### Event 5457 (AA53DBD3) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Location:** Hauser Lake, Idaho **Description:** 7:00 p.m. George Aster and others at Hauser Lake, Idaho, watch a flying disc for 30 minutes as it hovers with a lateral oscillation about 30° above the horizon at an estimated 20,000 feet. It shoots straight up and vanishes when a small aircraft approaches it. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Disks Seen Here Today, Is Report,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101831840/spokane-chronicle/)” Spokane \(Wash,\) Spokesman- Review, July 7, 1947, p. 1; Bloecher, [pp. II-6–7](https://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionII.htm) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_990 ### Event 5458 (6A6813CF) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Locations:** Fayetteville, Arkansas; 2 miles north of Fayetteville, Arkansas **Description:** Sunset. [Henry Seay](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38951275/henry-e-seay)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38951275/henry-e-seay) a farmer living 2 miles north of Fayetteville, Arkansas, watches three yellow discs flying overhead to the southwest, dropping sparks, and frightening his cattle and horses. The following night it happens again and the cows go into a panic, running off to the other side of the pasture. Some kind of dust falls on Seay, although it does not burn. After several seconds, the object rises up vertically 30–40 feet and shoots off horizontally at 50 mph. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Bloecher, [p. IV-1](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIV.htm) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_991 ### Event 5459 (F3183D60) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Locations:** Institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital; Philadelphia **Description:** Sunset. M. K. Leisy, a junior intern at the Institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital at 44th and Market streets in Philadelphia, is reading on the porch of the hospital when he hears a loud roar. A large transport plane passes overhead, but he also sees a dark sphere with a luminous halo around it moving below the clouds at a moderate speed. It disappears into the clouds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Flying Discs](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/12116307/the-philadelphia-inquirer/) [Seen over City,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/12116307/the-philadelphia-inquirer/)” Philadelphia Inquirer, July 5, 1947, pp. 1, 3; Bloecher, [pp. II-14–15](https://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionII.htm) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_992 ### Event 5460 (0964B64B) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Locations:** Boise, Idaho; Seattle, Washington; Emmett, Idaho **Description:** 9:12 p.m. United Air Lines Flight 105 pilots Capt. Emil J. Smith and First Officer Ralph Stevens are flying from Boise, Idaho, to Seattle, Washington, when they see a formation of five discs over Emmett, Idaho, silhouetted against the sunset. Stewardess Marty Morrow sees them as well. The objects appear to merge and speed away to the northwest. Another group appears and arranges itself in a straight line. The nine objects are seen at least 12 minutes over a distance of 45 miles. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “View of ‘Flying Saucers’ over Ontario Dumbfounds Veteran Pilot, Other Crew Member of Airliner,” Portland Oregonian, July 5, 1947; Project 1947, “[UFO Reports, 1947](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1947d.htm)”; NICAP, “[5](http://www.nicap.org/470704emmett%5Fdir.htm) [Discs Sighted by United Flight](http://www.nicap.org/470704emmett%5Fdir.htm)”; Bloecher, [pp. III-10–11](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 20; Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, 1952, Palmer, pp. 18–19; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#pilots) [Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#pilots)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 41–42 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_993 ### Event 5461 (18545DFA) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Locations:** Washington, D.C.; Roswell Army Air Field [now closed], New Mexico **Description:** The first of the special flights from Washington, D.C., arrives at Roswell Army Air Field \[now closed\], New Mexico \(presumably to investigate the radar reports claimed by [Frank Kaufmann](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13371870/frank-j-kaufmann)\). On the plane is Warrant Officer Robert Thomas. Thomas and his companions are in uniform upon arrival, but quickly change to civilian clothes. Thomas wants an on-site briefing as soon as it can be arranged. These men remain at RAAF throughout the later retrieval. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [pp. 160–161](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/160/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_994 ### Event 5462 (9035E6F8) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Location:** Corona, New Mexico **Description:** During a thunderstorm near Corona, New Mexico, [W. W. “Mack” Brazel](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9454979/william-ware-brazel) hears a tremendous thunderclap that sounds like an explosion but is somehow different from the rest of the thunder. Others in the area report the same phenomenon. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [p. 160](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/160/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_995 ### Event 5463 (6B294463) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Locations:** southern New Mexico; Kirtland AFB **Description:** 11:27 p.m. Army Signal Corps radar sites in southern New Mexico supposedly continue to track a mysterious object. Kirtland AFB’s commander scrambles a fighter jet piloted by Kenny Chandler to locate the object, but he cannot find it. Before midnight, [Frank Kaufmann](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13371870/frank-j-kaufmann) allegedly sees a brilliant glow on the radar display, pulsates a number of times, then explode in a starburst. The belief is that the object has now crashed. [Jim Ragsdale](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61745306/james-raymond-ragsdale) and “Trudy Truelove” supposedly see a bright flash of light and hear a roaring sound that passes overhead. Ragsdale knows that something has struck the ground close to their campsite. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [p. 160](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/160/mode/2up); Jacobsen, Area 51, [p. 36](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/36/mode/2up); Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, “When and Where Did the Roswell Object Crash?” IUR 19, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1994\): 14; Kevin D. Randle, “The Truth about the Jim Ragsdale Story,” IUR 21, no. 3 \(Fall 1996\): 13–16, 29–30; Jim Wilson, “[Roswell Plus 50,](http://greyfalcon.us/ROSWELL%20PLUS%2050.htm)” Popular Mechanics 174 \(July 1997\): 48–53; The Roswell Files, “[Jim Ragsdale](http://www.roswellfiles.com/Witnesses/ragsdale.htm),” April 11, 1998; Kevin D. Randle, “Frank Kaufmann, Roswell Witness,” IUR 27, no. 3 \(Fall 2002\): 8, 17–19; Mark Rodeghier, “Frank Kaufmann Exposed,” IUR 27, no. 3 \(Fall 2002\): 9–11, 26; Kevin D. Randle, “[Jim Ragsdale’s](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2015/04/jim-ragsdales-roswell-tale.html) [Roswell Tale,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2015/04/jim-ragsdales-roswell-tale.html)” A Different Perspective, April 22, 2015 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_996 ### Event 5464 (F9137C90) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Description:** There are 73 UFO reports from across the United States and one report from Canada recorded for this day in UFOCAT. The majority of the reports fall in a swath from the Pacific Northwest down through the Mississippi River Valley. Most of these sightings were of flyovers by daylight discs, although there was one humanoid report from Fort Worth, Texas. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3808 ### Event 5465 (C65A8D9B) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Description:** The retrieval of UFO wreckage and bodies allegedly occurred on this day from a crash site near Corona, New Mexico. The bodies were taken later to Roswell AFB, New Mexico and then flown to Carswell AFB in Texas. According to the relatives of witnesses who shared details about the alien humanoid bodies, they had baldheads, small sunken eyes, small noses, no ears, long forearms, and only four long slender fingers on each hand. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Patrick Huyghe, Field Guide to Extraterrestrials: A complete overview of alien life forms based on actual accounts and sightings, p. 22 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3809 ### Event 5466 (F198F00C) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Description:** At noon while flying between Tonopah and Austin, Nevada and cruising at an estimated 10,000 feet altitude, Mr. Harris and his passenger sighted five circular objects flying below his airplane. They were shiny and reflected sunlight. He tried to catch up to them but could not. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Nevada Daily Free Press, July 7, 1947 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3810 ### Event 5467 (F8F00AB1) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Description:** A young woman driving in the afternoon on the outskirts of Fort Worth, Texas saw a 25-foot diameter flying disc. She got out of her car and waved. The object tipped and the human-appearing occupants waved back to her, and then the disc flew away in silence. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Brinsley Le Poer Trench, Mysterious Visitors, p. 91 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3811 ### Event 5468 (C84BAD01) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Description:** At 1:05 p.m. a police officer at police headquarters in Portland, Oregon saw five flying discs, two going south, three flying to the east at high speed. They were oscillating around a central vertical axis. Minutes later two police, both pilots, saw three more discs trailing one another. Then four patrolmen reported seeing 3-6 "chrome hubcaps" flying over the city. At about the same time a highway patrolman in Milwaukee, Oregon watched two or three shiny white saucers fly quickly toward the northwest. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Thomas Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports, p. 2; Oregon Journal, July 5, 1947 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3812 ### Event 5469 (FB564AC6) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Description:** Also that day four silent discs passed the summit of Mount Jefferson in Oregon flying at a high rate of speed. In Troutdale, Oregon a V-shaped object flew toward the northeast over the Columbia River. It made dipping motions during its flight, and was observed through binoculars by three men. In Vancouver, Washington 20-30 round objects flew toward the west and south in straight-line formations. A low humming sound was heard. North of Craig, Montana a string of twelve plate-shaped objects flew over a couple while they were out fishing on a bridge at 3:00 p.m. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; The Oregonian, July 5 & 6, 1947; International UFO Reporter, Winter 1998; Wyoming State Tribune, July 6, 1947 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3813 ### Event 5470 (3EA069DF) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Description:** At 5:30 p.m. at the residential area of Greenwood Lake in north Seattle, Washington Mr. Larson sighted a round white object descend vertically, then make a ninety-degree turn and proceed horizontally flying toward the south. Two more people at the nearby University of Washington campus also saw the UFO, as did 21 more in the Lake City area of the city. One of the witnesses in the Lake City area took a photograph. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A preliminary report on the 1947 UFO sighting wave, p. 82; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, p. 257; Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 8, 1947 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3814 ### Event 5471 (12AD457F) **Date:** 7/4/1947 **Description:** At 11:00 p.m. an orange ball of light, "as big around as a barrel," which resolved itself into a disc, frightened Ms. M. Voigt of Edgerton, Wisconsin. The UFO flew fast across the sky but was back again for ten minutes, when it then suddenly vanished. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Madison Capital-Times, July 7, 1947 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3815 ### Event 5472 (473C66D7) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Location:** Plains of San Agustin, NM **Description:** Plains of San Agustin area: Gerald Anderson and family/friends witness a crashed UFO with 4 ET’s, later passes a polygraph test, interviewed by ufologist Stanton Friedman. **Type:** crash retrieval **Reference:** [link](https://www.donkeyjunk.com/post/gerald-anderson-ufo-interview-the-man-who-claims-he-witnessed-a-crashed-ufo-and-four-aliens-in-1947) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_245 ### Event 5473 (9C4EF994) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Location:** Portland, OR **Description:** Frank Cooley, a former Marine Corps observer now with radio station KOIN in Portland, confirmed numerous reports of witnesses in the Portland are Friday afternoon. Cooley estimated the disks were flying at 20,000 feet. He saw twelve of them and flatly declared them to be manned and maneuverable. **Type:** ufo sightings **Reference:** Los Angeles Examiner, Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3 ff5) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_246 ### Event 5474 (A2C11E50) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Time:** 08:00 **Location:** SACRAMENTO, CA **Description:** 2 / (seen thru) binoculars and more/others. White saucer going east turn sharp going quickly north. Also 8 disks / airport. / r187#308. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 81) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_842 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "7", **HatchDesc:** "SACRAMENTO,CA:2/BINOCS++:WHT SCR > E TURN SHARP>>N:+8 DISKS/AIRPORT:/r187#308", **LatLong:** "38.577780 -121.472228", **LatLongDMS:** "38:34:40 N 121:28:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.577780,-121.472228)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5475 (48FF8CDE) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Time:** 08:30 **Location:** DANA POINT, CA **Description:** 2+1 observer(s). 2 saucers going north up canyon toward(s) mission. Also going quickly NNW / eagle rock. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 309) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_843 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "49", **HatchDesc:** "DANA POINT,CA:2+1 OBS:2 SCRS > N UP CANYON TWRD MISSION:also>>NNW/EAGLE ROCK:", **LatLong:** "33.466668 -117.700006", **LatLongDMS:** "33:28:00 N 117:42:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.466668,-117.700006)", **RelAlt:** "20", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5476 (BE2B08BD) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Time:** ~09:00 **Location:** ALBUQUERQUE, NM **Description:** 1 observer. 5 saucers going east. 1 circles city. 5 observer(s) / pm. Sphere/orb/globe in and out / clouds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_844 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "120", **Elev:** "1480", **HatchDesc:** "ALBUQUERQUE,NM:1 OBS:5 SCRS >E:1 CIRCLES CITY::5 OBS/PM:ORB IN+OUT/CLOUDS", **LatLong:** "35.083335 -106.683338", **LatLongDMS:** "35:05:00 N 106:41:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.083335,-106.683338)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5477 (AA40B2C7) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Time:** ~10:00 **Location:** HOLLYWOOD, CA **Description:** 2 observer(s). 6+disks / fast erratic trajectories. 10K' altitude. 1 flew going quickly east. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 316) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_845 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "107", **HatchDesc:** "HOLLYWOOD,CA:2 OBS:6+DISKS/FAST ERRATIC TRAJS:10K'alt:1 FLEW >>E:NFD", **LatLong:** "34.083335 -118.316672", **LatLongDMS:** "34:05:00 N 118:19:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.083335,-118.316672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5478 (E1849427) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Time:** ~10:00 **Location:** DENVER, CO **Description:** 1 observer. Dull aluminum 20'DOMED disk 5K' over capitol building. 1100MPH going quickly northeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 313) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_846 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1578", **HatchDesc:** "DENVER,CO:1 OBS:DULL ALUM.20'DOMED DISK 5K'OVR CAPITOL BLDG:1100MPH >>NE", **LatLong:** "39.727780 -104.988894", **LatLongDMS:** "39:43:40 N 104:59:20 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.727780,-104.988894)", **RelAlt:** "1500", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5479 (E3896DE1) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Time:** 10:50 **Location:** SPOKANE, WA **Description:** 2 observer(s). 2 aluminum disks straight and level going quickly south fast. Another does same / 1100h / same observer(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 317) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_847 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "600", **HatchDesc:** "SPOKANE,WA:2 OBS:2 ALUM.DISKS S/L >>S FAST:ANOTHER DOES SAME/1100h/SAME OBS", **LatLong:** "47.666669 -117.450006", **LatLongDMS:** "47:40:00 N 117:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.666669,-117.450006)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5480 (6D82DD0A) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Time:** 10:50 **Location:** SEATTLE, WA **Description:** 3 separate observer(s). Brilliant saucer going north. Also 2 ovoids / 1240h 1 banks and shoots going up. 1 wobbles going north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 319) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_848 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "170", **Elev:** "105", **HatchDesc:** "SEATTLE,WA:3 SEP.OBS:BRILL.SCR>N:+2 OVOIDS/1240h 1 BANKS+SHOOTS ↑:1 WOBBLES>N", **LatLong:** "47.605558 -122.322228", **LatLongDMS:** "47:36:20 N 122:19:20 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.605558,-122.322228)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5481 (43D18D75) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Time:** 11:00 **Location:** MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA **Description:** Air Force Sgt. and 2. Silent silver disk 5000' over home. Circles Black Mountain. Going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 320) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_849 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "MOUNTAIN VIEW,CA:AF Sgt+2:SLNT SLVR DISK 5000'OVR HOME:CRCLs BLACK Mtn:>>W", **LatLong:** "37.400002 -122.100006", **LatLongDMS:** "37:24:00 N 122:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.400002,-122.100006)", **RelAlt:** "1500", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5482 (53183F5C) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** TACOMA, WA **Description:** 2 observer(s). 2 "spools" connected by rod. Going quickly / plane speed. Absolute(ly) silent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 330) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_850 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "114", **HatchDesc:** "TACOMA,WA:2 OBS:2 "SPOOLS" CONNECTED BY ROD:>>/PLANE SPEED:ABS SILENT", **LatLong:** "47.216669 -122.433339", **LatLongDMS:** "47:13:00 N 122:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.216669,-122.433339)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5483 (74055A2F) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** FORT COLLINS, CO **Description:** Mrs. Mason. Reflective silver disk / extreme height. Going west / steady course. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 323) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_851 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1525", **HatchDesc:** "FORT COLLINS,CO:Mrs.MASON:REFLECTIVE SLVR DISK/XTREME HEIGHT:>W/STEADY COURSE", **LatLong:** "40.583335 -105.083338", **LatLongDMS:** "40:35:00 N 105:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.583335,-105.083338)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5484 (D24135FB) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** PAYETTE, ID **Description:** 3 surveyors. 4 silver saucers with dark line / center. Going quickly northwest / 800kph. Lost in clouds / 8K'. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 462) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_852 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "655", **HatchDesc:** "PAYETTE,ID:3 SURVEYORS:4 SLVR SCRS W/DRK LINE/CTR:>>NW/800kph:LOST/CLOUDS/8K'", **LatLong:** "44.077780 -116.933339", **LatLongDMS:** "44:04:40 N 116:56:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.077780,-116.933339)", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5485 (F598AA13) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Time:** 13:20 **Location:** AUGUSTA, ME **Description:** Newsman and 1. 12 grey disks very fast going quickly northeast / single file. / CAA report. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 315) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_853 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "14", **HatchDesc:** "AUGUSTA,ME:NEWSMAN+1:12 GRY DISKS VFAST >>NE/SINGLE FILE:/CAA REPORT", **LatLong:** "44.300002 -69.766670", **LatLongDMS:** "44:18:00 N 69:46:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.300002,-69.766670)", **State/Prov:** "Maine", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5486 (ABBE223B) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Time:** 13:50 **Location:** SHREVEPORT, LA **Description:** Trucker. 2 spinning disks / succession. Going quickly north fast. Seen briefly. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 321) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_854 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "63", **HatchDesc:** "SHREVEPORT,LA:TRUCKER:2 SPINNING DISKS/SUCCESSION:>>N FAST:SEEN BRIEFLY:NFD", **LatLong:** "32.466668 -93.800004", **LatLongDMS:** "32:28:00 N 93:48:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.466668,-93.800004)", **State/Prov:** "Louisiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5487 (42B67EE0) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Time:** 14:30 **Location:** AUBURN, CA **Description:** 50+observer(s). Several large silver saucers / V-formation. Extreme altitude going quickly south / 1000+MPH. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 332) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_855 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "384", **HatchDesc:** "AUBURN,CA:50+OBS:SVRL LARGE SLVR SCRS/V-FORMn:EXTREME ALTITUDE >>S/1000+MPH", **LatLong:** "38.883335 -121.066672", **LatLongDMS:** "38:53:00 N 121:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.883335,-121.066672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5488 (7D20EF83) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** ANACONDA, MT **Description:** 2 separate observer(s). 3 or 6 fast silver objects flutter going quickly east. Type unknown. / police report. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 80) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_856 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1604", **HatchDesc:** "ANACONDA,MT:2 SEP.OBS:3 or 6 FAST SLVR OBJS FLUTTER >>E:type unk:/POLICE RPT", **LatLong:** "46.116669 -112.933339", **LatLongDMS:** "46:07:00 N 112:56:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.116669,-112.933339)", **State/Prov:** "Montana", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 5489 (8CCDAE20) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** COVINGTON, KY **Description:** 2 observer(s). Circular object with legs / underside going quickly [to] overhead. Same / Chicago. Back 6 July. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 322) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_857 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "156", **HatchDesc:** "COVINGTON,KY:2 OBS:CIRC.OBJ W/LEGS/UNDERSIDE>>OVHD::SAME/CHICAGO::BACK 6JULY", **LatLong:** "39.066669 -84.516671", **LatLongDMS:** "39:04:00 N 84:31:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.066669,-84.516671)", **State/Prov:** "Kentucky", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5490 (AD42A9A2) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** PHILADELPHIA, PA **Description:** Group / teens. Orange disk follows transport plane going east across river. Going quickly west / 2230hrs. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 325) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_858 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "PHILADELPHIA,PA:GRP/TEENS:ORG.DISK FOLOS XPORT PLANE >E ACRS RIVER:>>W/2230hrs", **LatLong:** "39.933335 -75.150004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:56:00 N 75:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.933335,-75.150004)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5491 (BC50BC26) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Time:** ~15:10 **Location:** CAMDEN, NJ **Description:** 1 observer. Dull aluminum disk / cloud level going east. 20cm / arms length. Slow. Weaves and jumps. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 324) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_859 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "CAMDEN,NJ:1 OBS:DULL ALUM.DISK/CLOUD LVL >E:20cm/ARMS LENGTH:SLOW:WEAVES+JUMPS", **LatLong:** "39.927780 -75.122226", **LatLongDMS:** "39:55:40 N 75:07:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.927780,-75.122226)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5492 (A356AF19) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Time:** 15:20 **Location:** ALBANY, OR **Description:** 2 observer(s). Silver disk going south. Slows and stops. Going quickly north again into cloud. / r171p79. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 338) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_860 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "65", **HatchDesc:** "ALBANY,OR:2 OBS:SLVR DISK> S:SLOWS+STOPS:>>N AGAIN into CLOUD:/r171p79", **LatLong:** "44.650002 -123.116673", **LatLongDMS:** "44:39:00 N 123:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.650002,-123.116673)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5493 (ADEBEB0D) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Time:** 16:10 **Location:** BOISE, ID **Description:** Retired airman and several. 3 silver saucers / violent maneuvers. Shoot going quickly northwest. / r187#335. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 353) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_861 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "821", **HatchDesc:** "BOISE,ID:Retd.AIRMAN+SVRL:3 SLVR SCRS/VIOLENT MNVRS:SHOOT>>NW:/r187#335", **LatLong:** "43.583335 -116.200006", **LatLongDMS:** "43:35:00 N 116:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.583335,-116.200006)", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5494 (54F70C2F) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Time:** 16:50 **Location:** ELIZABETH, NJ **Description:** Cop. 2 silver disks dive and maneuver. Erratic going quickly northeast / 400mph. = 12 July / r131#5p16. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 425) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_862 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "11", **HatchDesc:** "ELIZABETH,NJ:COP:2 SLVR DISKS DIVE+MNVR:ERRATIC >>NE/400mph:=12JLY/r131#5p16", **LatLong:** "40.683335 -74.216670", **LatLongDMS:** "40:41:00 N 74:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.683335,-74.216670)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5495 (D6859DC5) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Time:** 17:40 **Location:** SOUTH / REDWOOD CITY, CA **Description:** Retired airman. A. Fernandez. 6' disk going quickly southwest. Seen briefly. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 345) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_863 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "S/REDWOOD CITY,CA:RETd AIRMAN:A.FERNANDEZ:6'DISK >>SW:SEEN BRIEFLY:NFD", **LatLong:** "37.466668 -122.216672", **LatLongDMS:** "37:28:00 N 122:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.466668,-122.216672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5496 (95A177EB) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** NEAR MONCKS CORNER, SC **Description:** 2 observer(s). Shiny 10' flying clam going quickly east faster / plane. Straight and level trajectory. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 334) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_864 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "17", **HatchDesc:** "nr MONCKS CORNER,SC:2 OBS:SHINY 10'FLYING CLAM >>E FASTER/PLANE:S/L TRAJ:NFD", **LatLong:** "33.194446 -80.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "33:11:40 N 80:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.194446,-80.000004)", **State/Prov:** "South Carolina", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5497 (62318FBB) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Time:** 18:20 **Location:** CHARLESTON, SC **Description:** Several separate observer(s). Silent silver saucer going quickly east over Navy yards. High fast and steady. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 337) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_865 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "36", **HatchDesc:** "CHARLESTON,SC:SVRL SEP.OBS:SLNT SLVR SCR >>E OVR NAVY YARDS:HIGH FAST+STEADY", **LatLong:** "32.750002 -79.933337", **LatLongDMS:** "32:45:00 N 79:56:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.750002,-79.933337)", **State/Prov:** "South Carolina", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5498 (64F7B704) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** NEAR DELL RAPIDS, SD **Description:** Dahl and Rutherford / car. Round silver 'dinner plate' going quickly north. High and fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 342) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_866 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "457", **HatchDesc:** "nr DELL RAPIDS,SD:DAHL+RUTHERFORD/CAR:ROUND SLVR 'DINNER PLATE'>>N:HIGH+FAST:", **LatLong:** "43.827780 -96.711116", **LatLongDMS:** "43:49:40 N 96:42:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.827780,-96.711116)", **State/Prov:** "South Dakota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5499 (7E5C0784) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** SAN LEANDRO, CA **Description:** Several / police and fire Departments and many calls. White disk circles / 30 minute(s) / 5K' altitude. Going south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 360) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_867 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "SAN LEANDRO,CA:SVRL/POLICE+FIRE DEPTS+MANY CALLS:WHT DISK CCLs/30min/5K'alt:>S", **LatLong:** "37.700002 -122.150006", **LatLongDMS:** "37:42:00 N 122:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.700002,-122.150006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5500 (D9FB0136) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** SOUTH OAKLAND, CA **Description:** Several / Birch St. Large round very shiny object high and fast going quickly east overhead / 15 second(s). No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 359) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_868 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "14", **HatchDesc:** "S.OAKLAND,CA:SVRL/BIRCH St:LRG ROUND VERY SHINY OBJ HI+FAST >>E OVHD/15sec:NFD", **LatLong:** "37.744446 -122.161117", **LatLongDMS:** "37:44:40 N 122:09:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.744446,-122.161117)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5501 (6FB2A6A6) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** NEAPOLIS, OH **Description:** TWA crew. Propeller-shape rotates slowly beneath airliner. 200mph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 340) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_869 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "203", **HatchDesc:** "NEAPOLIS,OH:TWA CREW:PROPELLER-SHAPE ROTATES SLOWLY BENEATH AIRLINER:200mph", **LatLong:** "41.494446 -83.872226", **LatLongDMS:** "41:29:40 N 83:52:20 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.494446,-83.872226)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5502 (F82AE168) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Time:** ~19:00 **Location:** ALLEGAN, MI **Description:** 27 observer(s). 20 8m silver disks in procession east going quickly west. High and fast. Straight and level trajectory. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 341) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_870 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "216", **HatchDesc:** "ALLEGAN,MI:27 OBS:20 8m SLVR DISKS in PROCESSION E>>W:HIGH+FAST:S/L TRAJ", **LatLong:** "42.527780 -85.855560", **LatLongDMS:** "42:31:40 N 85:51:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.527780,-85.855560)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 5503 (2B743B2D) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** SHREWSBURY, MA **Description:** Series / blue disks going quickly north high and fast in rainstorm. / Bloecher notes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 80) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_871 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "204", **HatchDesc:** "SHREWSBURY,MA:SERIES/BLUE DISKS >>N HIGH+FAST in rainstorm:/Bloecher notes", **LatLong:** "42.283335 -71.700003", **LatLongDMS:** "42:17:00 N 71:42:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.283335,-71.700003)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5504 (2E663C26) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** OMAHA, NE **Description:** 1+several kids. Moon-size silent silver disk going southwest / 3 minute(s). Rather high. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 346) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_872 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "313", **HatchDesc:** "OMAHA,NE:1+SVRL KIDS:MOONSIZE SLNT SLVR DISK >SW/3min:RATHER HIGH:NFD", **LatLong:** "41.266669 -95.900005", **LatLongDMS:** "41:16:00 N 95:54:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.266669,-95.900005)", **State/Prov:** "Nebraska", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5505 (7E864A97) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Time:** ~20:00 **Location:** MEEKER, OK **Description:** Bert Hall and wife. Small white washtub-sized disk southwest going northeast. Bobs going up and down / 6500' altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 348) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_873 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "309", **HatchDesc:** "MEEKER,OK:BERT HALL+WIFE:SML WHT WASHTUB-SIZED DISK SW>NE: BOBS ↑+↓/6500'alt", **LatLong:** "35.505557 -96.900005", **LatLongDMS:** "35:30:20 N 96:54:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.505557,-96.900005)", **State/Prov:** "Oklahoma", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5506 (C9A8E4B2) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** ZANESVILLE, OH **Description:** Airport tower. 2 silent ovoid disks just under clouds going quickly northeast fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 347) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_874 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "213", **HatchDesc:** "ZANESVILLE,OH:AIRPORT TOWER:2 SLNT OVOID DISKS JUST UNDER CLOUDS >>NE FAST", **LatLong:** "39.938891 -82.011115", **LatLongDMS:** "39:56:20 N 82:00:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.938891,-82.011115)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5507 (AA52E64C) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** FAYETTEVILLE, AR **Description:** Disk lands / farm. Yellow glow. Going up / sparks. Cows bolt. Going quickly southwest. / r187#350. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 354) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_875 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "427", **HatchDesc:** "FAYETTEVILLE,AR:DISK LANDS/FARM:YLW GLOW:↑/SPARKS:COWS BOLT:>>SW:/r187#350", **LatLong:** "36.094446 -94.166671", **LatLongDMS:** "36:05:40 N 94:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.094446,-94.166671)", **State/Prov:** "Arkansas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5508 (D01EE5E8) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** VALDOSTA, GA **Description:** Woman. Small aluminum plate flies behind treeline. No further details / V. Daily Times. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HITT, Michael D: GEORGIA'S AERIAL PHENOMENON 1947-1987 Self published 1999. ref. Jan Aldrich. (Index 2) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_876 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "70", **HatchDesc:** "VALDOSTA,GA:WOMAN:SML ALUMINUM PLATE FLIES BHND TREELINE:NFD/V.Daily Times", **LatLong:** "30.833335 -83.283337", **LatLongDMS:** "30:50:00 N 83:17:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.833335,-83.283337)", **RelAlt:** "15", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5509 (E25C27B9) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Time:** 23:40 **Location:** JANESVILLE, WI **Description:** 4 observer(s). Disk circles counterclockwise. Going [to] out and back. Hovers and flutters and circles again. Going quickly northwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 373) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_877 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "246", **HatchDesc:** "JANESVILLE,WI:4 OBS:DISK CCLs CCW:> OUT+BACK:HVRS+FLUTTERS+CIRCLES AGAIN:>>NW", **LatLong:** "42.683335 -89.016671", **LatLongDMS:** "42:41:00 N 89:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.683335,-89.016671)", **State/Prov:** "Wisconsin", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5510 (0CF99547) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Location:** Albuquerque, NM **Description:** 9:00 AM. Five discs flew toward the east over the city; one circled back over the city. In the afternoon five witnesses saw a sphere maneuver in-and-out of clouds (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_357 ### Event 5511 (D1444099) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Locations:** Roswell Army Air Field; Alamogordo **Description:** 3:00 a.m. Acting on what he claims are orders from Brig. Gen. [Martin F. Scanlon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%5FF.%5FScanlon) of the Army's Air Defense Command, discredited Roswell witness [Frank Kaufmann](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13371870/frank-j-kaufmann) returns to Roswell Army Air Field from Alamogordo to alert Colonel [William H. Blanchard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FH.%5FBlanchard), Roswell AAF commanding officer, about a potential crash. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jim Wilson, “[Roswell Plus 50,](http://greyfalcon.us/ROSWELL%20PLUS%2050.htm)” Popular Mechanics 174 \(July 1997\): 48–53 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_997 ### Event 5512 (280AEBAA) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Locations:** Roswell, New Mexico; Pine Lodge Road northwest of Roswell **Description:** 5:00 a.m. Archaeologists, including [William Curry Holden](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FCurry%5FHolden), working the sites around Roswell, New Mexico, stumble across an impact site where an object has crashed. One of them heads to the closest phone to tell Sheriff [George A. Wilcox](https://www.rdrnews.com/2018/11/12/a-sheriff-without-a-gun-memoirs-of-a-sheriffs-wife/) of the discovery of the remains of a crashed aircraft of some kind. Wilcox calls the local fire department to alert them about the crash. One truck, with [Dan Dwyer](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/w/dandwyer.htm) on it, responds to the call. The site is about 35–40 miles north of Roswell. The Roswell Fire Department, escorted by members of the Roswell Police Department, makes a run along Pine Lodge Road northwest of Roswell. They are among the first civilians to stumble across the impact site. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [pp. 33–36](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/32/mode/2up); Thomas J. Carey, “The Search for the Roswell Archaeologists: Casting the Net,” IUR 18, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1993\): 3–8, 23–24; Thomas J. Carey, “The Continuing Search for the Roswell Archaeologists: Closing the Circle,” IUR 19, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1994\): 4–12; Kevin D. Randle and Anthony Bragalia, “Two Roswell Witnesses, Reconsidered,” IUR 32, no. 3 \(July 2009\): 6–8, 24 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_998 ### Event 5513 (3AEF92AA) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Location:** Holloman AFB, New Mexico **Description:** 5:01 a.m. Project Mogul Flight number 10, a cluster of plastic balloons, is launched from Holloman AFB, New Mexico. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Kevin D. Randle, “The Project Mogul Flights and Roswell,” IUR 19, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1994\): 6–7, 23 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_999 ### Event 5514 (FBC8D283) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Locations:** Roswell Army Air Field in New Mexico; US Highway 285; Frankfurt, Germany **Description:** 5:30 a.m. According to discredited Roswell witness [Frank Kaufmann](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13371870/frank-j-kaufmann), a small contingent of men from Roswell Army Air Field in New Mexico drive north on what is now US Highway 285. Near mile marker 132, they turn off the road and began driving across the desert, stopping from time to time to cut the barbed-wire fencing. They discover a heel-shaped craft measuring about 25 feet long and 12 feet wide embedded in a cliff. The soldiers find civilians on the site already. Besides the archaeologists, a local man named Larry Campbell \(later called Jack Armstrong or Cactus Jack\) also claims to have been there. They escort them off while others secure the area. Five bodies are allegedly found on the site. The impact site is cleaned and secured by 11:30 a.m. [Annie Jacobsen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie%5FJacobsen) has interviewed [Alfred O’Donnell](https://obituaries.reviewjournal.com/obituary/alfred-o-donnell-1082038666), later an engineer at EG&G, who tells her that one of the objects crashed and was recovered by the Joint Chiefs, including the airframe, propulsion equipment, and the power plant. It has no wings or tail. The fuselage is round and there is a dome on top. Inside there are Cyrillic letters stamped or embossed in a ring running around the inside. Army intelligence officers suspect that the craft is the brainchild of German airplane engineers, [Walter and Reimar Horten](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten%5Fbrothers), working for the Russian military. A frantic search to find what happened to the brothers allegedly takes place; informants like Austrian physicist [Adolf Smekal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf%5FSmekal) of Frankfurt, Germany, provide leads, with confusing results for several months. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [p. 161](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/160/mode/2up); Thomas J. Carey, “The Strange Saga of ‘Cactus Jack,’” IUR 22, no. 1 \(Spring 1997\): 3–11; Jim Wilson, “[Roswell Plus 50,](http://greyfalcon.us/ROSWELL%20PLUS%2050.htm)” Popular Mechanics 174 \(July 1997\): 48–53; Jacobsen, Area 51, [pp. 36–40](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/36/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1000 ### Event 5515 (8A5A954F) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Locations:** Roswell Army Air Field; Fort Stanton; Lincoln, New Mexico; Albuquerque; Fort Stanton cemetery **Description:** 10:00 a.m. W/O Robert Thomas and his crew proceed to the impact site. The bodies, originally covered by sheets, are now in lead-lined body bags. Only those with the highest clearance are allowed close to the center of the impact. Guards are posted, facing out, to keep the curious away. According to researcher Kathy Kasten, the dead bodies are taken to Roswell Army Air Field, but one is still alive and taken to Fort Stanton \[now closed\] in Lincoln, New Mexico, whose Marine Hospital was used to confine troublesome German and Japanese detainees during World War II. Allegedly, aerospace physician [William Randolph Lovelace II](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FRandolph%5FLovelace%5FII) travels there from Albuquerque to examine the survivor, who reportedly dies one week later and is buried in the Fort Stanton cemetery. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [p.](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/160/mode/2up) [161](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/160/mode/2up); Nick Redfern, The Roswell UFO Conspiracy, Lisa Hagan, 2017, pp. 204–221 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1001 ### Event 5516 (2DD935BB) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Location:** J. B. Foster ranch house southeast of Corona, New Mexico **Description:** Following the rain the night before, [Brazel](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9454979/william-ware-brazel) inspects the pastures surrounding the J. B. Foster ranch house southeast of Corona, New Mexico. Riding with him is the young son of the Proctors, [William D. Proctor](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/80134486/william-d-proctor). During the inspection, Brazel discovers a large debris field. Scattered on the slopes and into the sinkhole and depressions are plastic-like beams, pieces of lightweight balsawood-like material only stronger, light metallic foil \(which doesn’t stay bent or folded, resumes its original shape, and won’t tear\), and heavy-gauge monofilament. The debris is thick enough that the sheep refuse to cross the field and are driven around it to water more than a mile away. Brazel, taking a few scraps of the material, heads to the home of his closest neighbors, [Floyd](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99049640/floyd-proctor) and [Loretta](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/144211794/susan-loretta-proctor%5Fhodges) [Proctor](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/144211794/susan-loretta-proctor%5Fhodges)[.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/144211794/susan-loretta-proctor%5Fhodges) He shows them “a little sliver” of material that he can neither burn nor cut. Some of the beams have symbols on them that reminds Brazel of Chinese ideograms. The Proctors suggest he take it into town to show the sheriff. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Don Schmitt and Kevin D. Randle, “Did a Balloon Crash at Roswell?” IUR 15, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1990\): 4–5; Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [pp. 27–](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/26/mode/2up) [32](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/26/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/26/mode/2up) [161](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/160/mode/2up); Michael D. Swords, “[Roswell: Clashing Visions of the Possible,](http://cufos.org/Roswell/Clashing%20Visions.pdf)” IUR 22, no. 3 \(Fall 1997\): 11–13, 33– 35; Robert A. Galganski, “The Roswell Debris Field: Size Doesn’t Matter,” IUR 25, no. 4 \(Winter 2000–2001\): 14–19, 30; Donald R. Burleson, “[Roswell Trajectory Feasibility,](http://cufos.org/Roswell/roswell%5Ftraj.pdf)” Center for UFO Studies; Michael D. Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from the Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO Research, 2005, pp. 125–127 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1002 ### Event 5517 (ADAD17DB) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Location:** Auburn, California **Description:** 2:30 p.m. Automobile dealer [Kjell Qvale](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kjell%5FQvale) and dozens of others see a triangular formation of silvery discs flying south near Auburn, California. They appear directly overhead and are in view for 3–4 minutes, disappearing one at a time, but not over the hdorizon. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Skeptical Experts Call](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101844130/the-san-francisco-examiner/) [Disc Reports ‘Mass Illusion,’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101844237/the-san-francisco-examiner/)” San Francisco Examiner, July 8, 1947, p. 1; Bloecher, [p. II-5](https://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionII.htm) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1003 ### Event 5518 (5FEF37C1) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Description:** Later that evening, [Brazel](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9454979/william-ware-brazel) removes the large, circular piece of the debris from the range. Brazel either loads it into the back of his truck or drags it along behind. He stores it in a livestock shed about three miles north of the crash site. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [p.](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/162/mode/2up) [163](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/162/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1004 ### Event 5519 (2DA913BF) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Description:** There are 59 UFO reports from across the United States and one from Canada recorded for this day in UFOCAT. The geographical distribution of the UFO sightings is similar to the day before, but with many more reports from California and the Great Lakes. The majority of these reports were of flyovers by daylight discs. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3835 ### Event 5520 (31AE4D83) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Description:** At 8:00 a.m. two discs zoomed in from the west over Sacramento, California. One banked sharply and headed north. According to one witness, it "seemed to stand on one edge as it turned." Both objects left vapor trails. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Ted Bloecher, citing the Sacramento Bee, July 7, 1947 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3836 ### Event 5521 (5CE86DDC) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Description:** Albuquerque, New Mexico - Five discs flew toward the east over the city at 9 o'clock in the morning; one circled back over the city. In the afternoon five witnesses saw a sphere maneuver in-and-out of clouds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave; Albuquerque Journal, July 6, 1947 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3837 ### Event 5522 (F0D544B9) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Description:** In Augusta, Maine at 1:15 p.m. local time, two witnesses, including the program director of WRDO Radio, saw twelve discs flying rapidly in a straight line toward Bangor in a north-northeasterly direction. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Daily Kennebec Journal, July 7, 1947 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3838 ### Event 5523 (B2491682) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Description:** At 1:00 p.m. in 1947 a party of surveyors in Payette, Idaho saw four silvery discs that each had a dark line in the center fly toward the northwest at an estimated speed of 800 km per hour. They were lost in the clouds at an estimated altitude of 8,000 feet. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 862 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3839 ### Event 5524 (EBEFFA2E) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Description:** In clear sky at 3:00 p.m. in Anaconda, Montana a man saw six silvery objects fluttering as they flew toward the east. A woman, an independent witness, also saw the same three fluttering objects disappear over the horizon. Both witnesses called the police. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich, A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 80 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3840 ### Event 5525 (010944FB) **Date:** 7/5/1947 **Description:** at 7:00 p.m. in daylight skies over Neapolis, Ohio a TWA flight crew saw a propeller-shaped object rotating slowly as it flew beneath the airliner. It was flying at an estimated speed of 200 mph. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Ted Bloecher, newspaper clipping dated July 6, 1947 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3841 ### Event 5526 (D0FE991D) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Location:** USA, Kansas City **Description:** (Translated from French) Commander A. B. Browning, AC/A3 Pentagon, saw at 1:45 PM aboard a B-42 flying at 10,000 feet, a round silver disc, in clear weather without clouds. **Reference:** doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee translated by Jean Sider **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1234 ### Event 5527 (D06080BF) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Location:** USA, Bozeman **Description:** (Translated from French) (United Press) A P-38 pilot reported on July 7 that he had shot down a flying saucer on the 6th, above the Root Mountains in western Alabama. He called the saucer a "flying yo-yo". The pilot, Vernon Baird of Los Angeles, flying for the Fairchild Photo-grammetric Engineer's Company, said he spotted the "yo-yo" from his firm's P-38. For the firm, aerial photos were to be taken between Helena and Yellowstone Park. Vernon Baird and his photographer George Suttin of Los Angeles were flying at 360 mph at 32,400 feet when they had engine trouble. "One hundred yards behind us, the yo-yo was there. It was a kind of small, nicely made round plane, pearl gray in color, with a Plexiglas dome. It measured 15 feet in diameter and nearly 4 feet thick." The "yo-yo" came over the P-38 and Baird made an evasive maneuver, in which the propeller touched the "yo-yo" which split into two parts, like a shell. The two halves spiraled down somewhere towards the Madison Range. (note from vog: and nobody found a single little piece?) Baird adds that after the fall of the two parts of the "yo-yo" he saw a lot of other of these things, spinning around "like a bunch of molecules dancing the rumba" Baird said he was too preoccupied with his maneuvers to have noted if there was a pilot in this craft. His photographer didn't even think of taking a photo. [note from vog: doesn't this look like a journalist hoax?] **Reference:** Internet, May 1997 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1235 ### Event 5528 (4629F7FE) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Location:** USA, Fairfield-Suisan Air Base (California) **Description:** (Translated from French) In broad daylight. At Fairfield (California), Captain Burniston of the AAF and his wife saw, for one minute, a UFO moving quickly while oscillating. It had no wings. (doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee translated by Jean Sider) Among the most interesting observations, a large disc was seen accompanied by smaller objects entering or leaving it. This series of testimonies began in the evening in Tucson and a few hours later in Palmdale and Hollywood (California). There were other witnesses afterwards in Tacoma **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "Des S.V. aux OVNI" - SOBEPS 1976 - p. 39 **Reference:** Washington **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1237 ### Event 5529 (87B6C6BD) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Location:** USA, Temple (Arizona) **Description:** (Translated from French) Landing and ascent of a small disc. (1947, July 6th or 7th) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "From S.V. to UFOs" - SOBEPS 1976 - p. 38 **Reference:** In the documents of the Project Blue Book, the folder referring to this case is empty! **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1250 ### Event 5530 (B8200B19) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) [Brazel](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/BrazelWilliamW.html) responds to a call from [Frank Joyce](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/JoyceFrank.html), of the local radio, asking to gather any local information, and tells him what he has found. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_651 ### Event 5531 (04F25452) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) [Brazel](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/BrazelWilliamW.html) goes to [Roswell](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Roswell.html) to report what he saw and show a sample of the debris to Sheriff [Wilcox](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/officiels.html\#WilcoxGeorge), who decides to notify the local air base. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_652 ### Event 5532 (9DA634A4) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Several officers arrive a few minutes after the sheriff's call, examine the debris, then return to the base. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_653 ### Event 5533 (BADAF475) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Colonel [Blanchard](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/BlanchardWilliamHugh.html) orders Major [Marcel](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/MarcelJesseA.html), responsible for base security, to immediately inspect the debris field, led by [Brazel](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/BrazelWilliamW.html), and to take someone with him. Marcel leaves with Captain [Cavitt](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/CavittSheridan.html). **Reference:** Bourdais 2000-05 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_654 ### Event 5534 (49641E16) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At the Fairfield-Suisan \(California\) USAF base during the day, Air Force Captain James Burniston and his fiancée observed for 1 minute an object without wings or tail swaying 3 times on each side and then quickly flying off to the southeast. **Reference:** unresolved Blue Book case \#36 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_655 ### Event 5535 (2334242A) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) 3 women are walking in a field and see a circular, luminous object, appearing to float near the ground, as a dirigible would. Coming from the south, it heads towards them before slowly turning towards the south-west and disappearing over a hill. (17 h 30) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_656 ### Event 5536 (60BA9092) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Location:** KANSAS CITY, KS **Description:** 1 observer? 13cm grey disk circles observer several times at 60cm altitude! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 399) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_878 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "225", **HatchDesc:** "KANSAS CITY,KS:1 OBS?:13cm GRY DISK CIRCLES OBSERVER SVRL TIMES @ 60cm ALT!", **LatLong:** "39.083335 -94.633338", **LatLongDMS:** "39:05:00 N 94:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.083335,-94.633338)", **RelAlt:** "1", **State/Prov:** "Kansas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5537 (9C655E8C) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 00:20 **Location:** PATERSON, NJ **Description:** Observer(s) = Barton Walker. Moon-size sphere/orb/globe skims along southwest going northwest. No further details / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 82) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_879 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "21", **HatchDesc:** "PATERSON,NJ:OBS=Barton Walker:MOONSIZE ORB SKIMS ALONG SW>NW:NFD/NEWS", **LatLong:** "40.916669 -74.183337", **LatLongDMS:** "40:55:00 N 74:11:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.916669,-74.183337)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5538 (4F7C1B44) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 00:30 **Location:** EUGENE, OR **Description:** 3 / car. Big bright shiny disk going [to] slow. Lines radiate outward. Cloudy night. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 82) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_880 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "127", **HatchDesc:** "EUGENE,OR:3/CAR:BIG BRITE SHINY DISK > SLOW:lines radiate outward:cloudy nite", **LatLong:** "44.050002 -123.100006", **LatLongDMS:** "44:03:00 N 123:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.050002,-123.100006)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5539 (E4930BA6) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 03:00 **Location:** NEW ORLEANS, LA **Description:** Soldier. 4 pink-silver saucers / uneven V-formation whirl over Canal Street. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 387) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_881 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "NEW ORLEANS,LA:SOLDIER:4 PINK-SLVR SCRS/UNEVEN VFORMn WHIRL OVR CANAL STREET", **LatLong:** "29.950001 -90.050004", **LatLongDMS:** "29:57:00 N 90:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.950001,-90.050004)", **State/Prov:** "Louisiana", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5540 (E6019DA0) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** ~05:00 **Location:** LODI, CA **Description:** Farmer. 60cm grey saucer 6m over ground. Nearly hits Pumphouse. Straight and level going quickly south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 91) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_882 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "16", **HatchDesc:** "LODI,CA:FARMER:60cm GRY SCR 6m OVR GND:NEARLY HITS PUMPHOUSE:STRAIGHT+LVL >>S", **LatLong:** "38.127780 -121.272228", **LatLongDMS:** "38:07:40 N 121:16:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.127780,-121.272228)", **RelAlt:** "6", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5541 (05F0BBA5) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 05:00 **Location:** POCATELLO, ID **Description:** 2 / car. 3' disk with dome and funnel. Going down [to] by meat market. Jerky maneuvers. / r187#383. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 25) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_883 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1340", **HatchDesc:** "POCATELLO,ID:2/CAR:3'DISK W/DOME+FUNNEL:↓ by MEAT MARKET:JERKY MNVRS:/r187#383", **LatLong:** "42.866669 -112.433339", **LatLongDMS:** "42:52:00 N 112:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.866669,-112.433339)", **RelAlt:** "20", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5542 (B15F1631) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 06:00 **Location:** NORTH / MIAMI SPRS, FL **Description:** 2 fishing. 2+1 4M saucers going up / everglades to 1800M and going quickly south fast. / r187#382. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 83) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_884 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "N/MIAMI SPRs,FL:2 FISHING:2+1 4M SCRS ↑/EVERGLADES to 1800M+>>S FAST:/r187#382", **LatLong:** "25.816668 -80.288893", **LatLongDMS:** "25:49:00 N 80:17:20 W", **Locale:** "Wetlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/25.816668,-80.288893)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5543 (17415006) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 06:40 **Location:** ASHLAND, OR **Description:** Doctor and 2 families camping / McKee Bridge. Silver disk / 7K' altitude overhead straight and level. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 389) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_885 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "595", **HatchDesc:** "ASHLAND,OR:DOCTOR+2 FAMILIES CAMPING/McKEE BRIDGE:SLVR DISK/7K'alt OVHD S/L", **LatLong:** "42.183335 -122.700006", **LatLongDMS:** "42:11:00 N 122:42:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.183335,-122.700006)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5544 (AE5CE086) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 07:10 **Location:** SPOKANE, WA **Description:** 1 observer. 2 objects like aluminum toy propellers going south. Stops. Rise until gone. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 391) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_886 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "600", **HatchDesc:** "SPOKANE,WA:1 OBS:2 OBJS LIKE ALUM.TOY PROPELLERS >S:STOPS:RISE UNTIL GONE", **LatLong:** "47.650002 -117.450006", **LatLongDMS:** "47:39:00 N 117:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.650002,-117.450006)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5545 (3E77DBF7) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 08:20 **Location:** NEAR PITTSBURG, CA **Description:** Pilot-engineer and 1. Silent silver disk going quickly south. Rotates counterclockwise. / r187#395. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 462) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_887 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "9", **HatchDesc:** "nr PITTSBURG,CA:PILOT-ENGINEER+1:SLNT SLVR DISK >>S:ROTATES CCW:/r187#395", **LatLong:** "38.000002 -121.883339", **LatLongDMS:** "38:00:00 N 121:53:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.000002,-121.883339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5546 (78685C32) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** TUCSON, AZ **Description:** 3+1 separate observer(s). White object wobble. Shoots going quickly northeast. Also saucer going quickly south. 24hr series. / r187#393. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 357) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_888 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "717", **HatchDesc:** "TUCSON,AZ:3+1 SEP.OBS:WHT OBJ WOBBLE:SHOOTS>>NE:+SCR>>S:24hr SERIES:/r187#393", **LatLong:** "32.200002 -110.866672", **LatLongDMS:** "32:12:00 N 110:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.200002,-110.866672)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5547 (87E83C10) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** LAKE LOTAWANA, MO **Description:** Physician sailing. 7 saucers going quickly north fast overhead in formation. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 394) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_889 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "320", **HatchDesc:** "LAKE LOTAWANA,MO:PHYSICIAN SAILING:7 SCRS>>N FAST OVHD in FORMATION:NFD", **LatLong:** "39.000002 -94.433338", **LatLongDMS:** "39:00:00 N 94:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.000002,-94.433338)", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5548 (1B97C4B9) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** ALEXANDRIA, LA **Description:** 4 observer(s). Saucer going quickly northwest. Delta airline(s)/airliner questions all pilots on Ft. Worth route. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 83) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_890 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "25", **HatchDesc:** "ALEXANDRIA,LA:4 OBS:SCR >>NW:DELTA AL QUESTIONS ALL PILOTS on Ft.WORTH ROUTE", **LatLong:** "31.311113 -92.433338", **LatLongDMS:** "31:18:40 N 92:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.311113,-92.433338)", **State/Prov:** "Louisiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5549 (34AD4249) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 11:00? **Location:** FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #36. Air Force pilot. Saucer wobbles 3X. Going quickly southeast. / r187#423+/ r29p21. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 33) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_891 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "FAIRFIELD-SUISUN,CA:BBK#36:AF PILOT:SCR WOBBLES 3X:>>SE:/r187#423+/r29p21", **LatLong:** "38.233335 -122.000006", **LatLongDMS:** "38:14:00 N 122:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.233335,-122.000006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5550 (E187201B) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** NEW WESTMINSTER, BC **Description:** 6 observer(s). Shiny 100M metallic disk going [to] sky / 25km altitude. 3 saucers / dust cloud. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO ROUNDUP weekly email of UFO news: Joseph Trainor. http://www.digiserve.com/ufoinfo/roundup/ .. (Index 131) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_892 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "90", **HatchDesc:** "NEW WESTMINSTER,BC:6 OBS:SHINY 100M MTLC DISK > SKY/25km alt:3 SCRS/DUST CLOUD", **LatLong:** "49.233336 -122.966673", **LatLongDMS:** "49:14:00 N 122:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.233336,-122.966673)", **RelAlt:** "25000", **State/Prov:** "British Columbia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5551 (67505806) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** BUCKLEY NAS, CO **Description:** 2 military observer(s). Silent silver saucer shoots going up and down / several min. Shoots away extremely fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 403) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_893 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "6", **Elev:** "1726", **HatchDesc:** "BUCKLEY NAS,CO:2 MIL.OBS:SLNT SLVR SCR SHOOTS ↑+↓/SVRL MIN:SHOOTS AWAY XFAST", **LatLong:** "39.733335 -104.800005", **LatLongDMS:** "39:44:00 N 104:48:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.733335,-104.800005)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5552 (BA610CC8) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 13:00 **Location:** 16KM SOUTHEAST / BOISE, ID **Description:** Airline(s)/airliner passenger. Saucer flashes by going quickly southwest. Stewardess rushes to look. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 83) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_894 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "850", **HatchDesc:** "16km SE/BOISE,ID:AL PASSENGER:SCR FLASHES BY >>SW:stewardess rushes to look", **LatLong:** "43.483335 -116.116672", **LatLongDMS:** "43:29:00 N 116:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.483335,-116.116672)", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5553 (7D81E46F) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** LOGANSPORT, IN **Description:** Farmer. Whining roar. Grey saucer going down. Hovers and spins. Rises to clouds and gone. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 400) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_895 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "222", **HatchDesc:** "LOGANSPORT,IN:FARMER:WHINING ROAR:GRY SCR ↓:HVRS+SPINS:RISES to CLOUDS+GONE", **LatLong:** "40.750002 -86.350004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:45:00 N 86:21:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.750002,-86.350004)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5554 (A8448692) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 13:20 **Location:** LONG BEACH, CA **Description:** Veteran pilot and teacher. Large silver plate going north veers going quickly west out to sea again. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 424) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_896 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "9", **HatchDesc:** "LONG BEACH,CA:VET.PILOT+TEACHER:LRG SLVR PLATE > N VEERS>>W OUT TO SEA AGAIN", **LatLong:** "33.783335 -118.133339", **LatLongDMS:** "33:47:00 N 118:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.783335,-118.133339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5555 (E4DCD4AF) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 13:50 **Location:** OVER CLAY CENTER, KS **Description:** Army Air Force (AAF) Major / B-25. Bright silver 40' saucer / 10K' altitude. Shoots going quickly east. / FBI. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 402) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_897 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "370", **HatchDesc:** "ovr CLAY CENTER,KS:AAF MAJOR/B-25:BRITE SLVR 40'SCR/10K'alt:SHOOTS >>E:/FBI ", **LatLong:** "39.383335 -97.116671", **LatLongDMS:** "39:23:00 N 97:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.383335,-97.116671)", **State/Prov:** "Kansas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5556 (AB964F35) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 14:30 **Location:** SAN FRANCISCO, CA **Description:** 2+2 separate observer(s). Ovoid going quickly northwest. Saucer flies over GG bridge / 600mph / 1452h. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 434) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_898 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "22", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "SAN FRANCISCO,CA:2+2 SEP.OBS:OVOID >>NW::SCR FLIES OVR GG BRIDGE/600mph/1452h", **LatLong:** "37.800002 -122.466673", **LatLongDMS:** "37:48:00 N 122:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.800002,-122.466673)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5557 (19CF8F0B) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 14:50 **Location:** ENCAMPMENT, WY **Description:** Aviation engineer and 2. Silent ovoid going north sideways. Very large and high. / r242p55. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 428) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_899 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "2243", **HatchDesc:** "ENCAMPMENT,WY:AVIATION ENGINEER+2:SLNT OVOID>N SIDEWAYS:VLARGE+HIGH:/r242p55", **LatLong:** "41.211113 -106.788894", **LatLongDMS:** "41:12:40 N 106:47:20 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.211113,-106.788894)", **State/Prov:** "Wyoming", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5558 (1B52B0F1) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** CASPER, WY **Description:** 2 observer(s). Glittering disk going quickly east / high altitude. Straight and level flight. (See encampment, WY.) **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 430) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_900 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1567", **HatchDesc:** "CASPER,WY:2 OBS:GLITTERING DISK >>E/HIGH ALT:S/L FLITE:(see ENCAMPMENT,WY)", **LatLong:** "42.866669 -106.300005", **LatLongDMS:** "42:52:00 N 106:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.866669,-106.300005)", **State/Prov:** "Wyoming", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5559 (391C9788) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** CLEARWATER, FL **Description:** 1 observer. Shiny pie-tin disks flip over and over. Fast and high going quickly southeast. / r187#609. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 85) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_901 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "CLEARWATER,FL:1 OBS:SHINY PIE-TIN DISKS FLIP OVR+OVR:FAST+HIGH >>SE:/r187#609", **LatLong:** "27.966668 -82.800004", **LatLongDMS:** "27:58:00 N 82:48:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/27.966668,-82.800004)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5560 (3E5BEFAB) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** EAST / CASA GRANDE, AZ **Description:** 2 disks converge here. 1 from west and 2nd from northeast. Play tag. Going quickly south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Database/website: Highly doubtful: http://www.cseti.org/crashes/070.htm **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_902 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "2", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "425", **HatchDesc:** "E/CASA GRANDE,AZ:2 DISKS CONVERGE HERE:1 from W+2nd from NE:PLAY TAG:>>S:", **LatLong:** "32.877779 -111.733339", **LatLongDMS:** "32:52:40 N 111:44:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.877779,-111.733339)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5561 (D9D6F2CE) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** SANTA ROSA, CA **Description:** 2 observer(s). White disk going quickly northeast extremely fast. 4 observer(s). 10 saucers going quickly east / 1000h / 07 July / r187#585. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 84) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_903 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "16", **HatchDesc:** "SANTA ROSA,CA:2 OBS:WHT DISK >>NE XFAST::4 OBS:10 SCRS>>E/1000h/07JLY/r187#585", **LatLong:** "38.433335 -122.716673", **LatLongDMS:** "38:26:00 N 122:43:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.433335,-122.716673)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5562 (A09AE870) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** VANCOUVER, BC **Description:** 3 observer(s). Dust cloud / hill. 3 saucers rise from trees. 2 hover. 1 shoots away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 13) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_904 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "72", **HatchDesc:** "VANCOUVER,BC:3 OBS:DUST CLOUD/HILL:3 SCRS RISE FROM TREES:2 HVR:1 SHOOTS AWAY", **LatLong:** "49.250002 -123.100006", **LatLongDMS:** "49:15:00 N 123:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.250002,-123.100006)", **RelAlt:** "2", **State/Prov:** "British Columbia", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5563 (1637C85C) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** SAVANNAH, GA **Description:** 5 separate observer(s). 1+2 metallic ovoids going ESE. Descriptions differ. / S. Evening Press. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HITT, Michael D: GEORGIA'S AERIAL PHENOMENON 1947-1987 Self published 1999. ref. Jan Aldrich. (Index 2) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_905 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "50", **Elev:** "13", **HatchDesc:** "SAVANNAH,GA:5 SEP.OBS:1+2 MTLC OVOIDS >ESE:descripts differ:/S.Evening Press", **LatLong:** "32.066668 -81.100004", **LatLongDMS:** "32:04:00 N 81:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.066668,-81.100004)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5564 (FF1B3494) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** EAST / GREENWOOD, MO **Description:** 3 / farm. Large silver plate going north. Turns on edge. Turns 180° back going south and away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 441) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_906 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "295", **HatchDesc:** "E/GREENWOOD,MO:3/FARM:LRG SLVR PLATE > N:TURNS ON EDGE:TURNS 180°BACK>S+AWAY", **LatLong:** "38.850002 -94.361116", **LatLongDMS:** "38:51:00 N 94:21:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.850002,-94.361116)", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5565 (B291309E) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** ~17:00 **Location:** MT. VERNON, WA **Description:** 4 car / US99. Shiny disk going quickly southeast. Big fast steady and brief. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 473) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_907 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "55", **HatchDesc:** "Mt.VERNON,WA:4 CAR/US99:SHINY DISK >>SE:BIG FAST STEADY+BRIEF:NFD", **LatLong:** "48.422225 -122.333339", **LatLongDMS:** "48:25:20 N 122:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.422225,-122.333339)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5566 (12B4693C) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 17:10 **Location:** LAKE PONCHARTRAIN, LA **Description:** 5 / boat. 3 shiny saucers / delta/triangle/box-like craft-formation high and fast going quickly north. Enter cloud.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 451) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_908 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "LAKE PONCHARTRAIN,LA:5/BOAT:3 SHINY SCRS/DLT-FORMn HIGH+FAST>>N:ENTER CLOUD..", **LatLong:** "30.000001 -90.066671", **LatLongDMS:** "30:00:00 N 90:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.000001,-90.066671)", **State/Prov:** "Louisiana", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5567 (42DE0273) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 17:20 **Location:** SIOUX FALLS, SD **Description:** 1 observer. Silver sphere/orb/globe going quickly southwest faster / any plane. 10K' altitude. Rod sticks going down / center. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 452) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_909 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "433", **HatchDesc:** "SIOUX FALLS,SD:1 OBS:SLVR ORB>>SW FASTER/ANY PLANE:10K'alt:ROD STICKS↓/CENTER", **LatLong:** "43.550002 -96.733338", **LatLongDMS:** "43:33:00 N 96:44:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.550002,-96.733338)", **RelAlt:** "3000", **State/Prov:** "South Dakota", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5568 (61EB6E84) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 17:30 **Location:** EMPORIA, KS **Description:** 3 / observer(s). Silent shiny saucer going north low and slow over wheat field. Veers going southwest. Skims hills. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 85) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_910 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "368", **HatchDesc:** "EMPORIA,KS:3/OBS:SLNT SHINY SCR > N LO+SLO ovr WHEAT FLD:VEERS >SW:SKIMS HILLS", **LatLong:** "38.405557 -96.183338", **LatLongDMS:** "38:24:20 N 96:11:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.405557,-96.183338)", **RelAlt:** "10", **State/Prov:** "Kansas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5569 (5C233247) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 17:30 **Location:** DARLINGTON, SC **Description:** FBI wire / 12 saucers( = boomerangs) / 200mph. Army plane follows. / r187#444. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 108) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_911 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "48", **HatchDesc:** "DARLINGTON,SC:FBI WIRE/12 SCRS(=BOOMERANGS)/200mph:ARMY PLANE FOLOS:/r187#444", **LatLong:** "34.300002 -79.877782", **LatLongDMS:** "34:18:00 N 79:52:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.300002,-79.877782)", **State/Prov:** "South Carolina", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5570 (56CB0B43) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** MILWAUKEE, WI **Description:** 1+2 observer(s). 3 saucers going northwest. Change color(s). 1 back from northwest / 2025hrs veers going quickly south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 455) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_912 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "191", **HatchDesc:** "MILWAUKEE,WI:1+2 OBS:3 SCRS > NW:CHANGE CLRS::1 BACK fm NW/2025hrs VEERS >>S", **LatLong:** "43.033335 -87.950004", **LatLongDMS:** "43:02:00 N 87:57:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.033335,-87.950004)", **State/Prov:** "Wisconsin", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5571 (63F385DE) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** NORTHWEST / RICHMOND, VA **Description:** 3 / car. 12 shiny silent 25' metal saucers wave and flip going quickly north / 500' altitude below clouds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 359) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_913 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "60", **HatchDesc:** "NW/RICHMOND,VA:3/CAR:12 SHINY SLNT 25'MTL SCRS WAVE+FLIP>>N/500'alt BLW CLOUDS", **LatLong:** "37.583335 -77.500004", **LatLongDMS:** "37:35:00 N 77:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.583335,-77.500004)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5572 (1B6A228E) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** NORMAN, OK **Description:** University Dean / engineering and 4. 1+2 objects going quickly west / incredible speed. 20K' altitude. Type unknown. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 456) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_914 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "360", **HatchDesc:** "NORMAN,OK:UNIV.DEAN/ENGINEERING+4:1+2 OBJs >>W/INCRED.SPEED:20K'alt:TYPE UNK", **LatLong:** "35.250002 -97.433338", **LatLongDMS:** "35:15:00 N 97:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.250002,-97.433338)", **State/Prov:** "Oklahoma", **Strangeness:** "2" ### Event 5573 (F8747294) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** MORA, NM **Description:** 2 observer(s). 1 classic saucer north going quickly south fast. / letter to Albuquerque Journal 9 Jul. '47. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 23) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_915 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "2188", **HatchDesc:** "MORA,NM:2 OBS:1 CLASSIC SCR N>>S FAST:/LETTER to ALBUQQ JOURNAL 9JLY47:", **LatLong:** "35.966668 -105.327783", **LatLongDMS:** "35:58:00 N 105:19:40 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.966668,-105.327783)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5574 (D8CDFBAF) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** ~18:00 **Location:** BOISE, ID **Description:** 21+observer(s). Silver disk whirls and changes direction several X / several min. Going quickly northwest. Searching? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 476) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_916 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "822", **HatchDesc:** "BOISE,ID:21+OBS:SLVR DISK WHIRLS+CHANGES DIRn SVRL X/SVRL min:>>NW:searching?", **LatLong:** "43.583335 -116.216672", **LatLongDMS:** "43:35:00 N 116:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.583335,-116.216672)", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5575 (3098AC16) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** TERRACE PARK, OH **Description:** 1 observer. 2 shiny silver plates going north under overcast. Straight & level flight. / r187#445. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 85) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_917 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "170", **HatchDesc:** "TERRACE PARK,OH:1 OBS:2 SHINY SLVR PLATES >N UNDER OVERCAST:S&L:/r187#445", **LatLong:** "39.161113 -84.305560", **LatLongDMS:** "39:09:40 N 84:18:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.161113,-84.305560)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5576 (1C200ED5) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** ANADARKO, OK **Description:** 5 observer(s). 1 round object going west "awfully fast". No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 458) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_918 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "392", **HatchDesc:** "ANADARKO,OK:5 OBS:1 ROUND OBJ >W "AWFULLY FAST":NFD:", **LatLong:** "35.050002 -98.238894", **LatLongDMS:** "35:03:00 N 98:14:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.050002,-98.238894)", **State/Prov:** "Oklahoma", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 5577 (3C4F4C48) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** WEST / SALT LAKE CITY, UT **Description:** 2 observer(s). 3 saucer north going quickly south / high altitude. Change formations. Going quickly southwest. / r187#291+/ r171. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 360) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_919 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1280", **HatchDesc:** "W/SALT LAKE CITY,UT:2 OBS:3 SCR N>>S/HI ALT:CHANGE FORMns:>>SW:/r187#291+/r171", **LatLong:** "40.750002 -111.916672", **LatLongDMS:** "40:45:00 N 111:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.750002,-111.916672)", **State/Prov:** "Utah", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5578 (DA79D9C7) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** US71 SOUTH / FAUCETT, MO **Description:** 5+observer(s). Star-like silver disk dips and climbs again. Going quickly northeast straight and level. Very fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 468) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_920 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "295", **HatchDesc:** "US71 S/FAUCETT,MO:5+OBS:STARLIKE SLVR DISK DIPS+CLIMBS AGAIN:>>NE S/L:VFAST", **LatLong:** "39.566669 -94.794449", **LatLongDMS:** "39:34:00 N 94:47:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.566669,-94.794449)", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5579 (66BCA578) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** LONDONDERRY, NH **Description:** H. Healy. 2 big fast disks northeast going quickly southwest / 2500' altitude with whistling sound. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 446) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_921 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "120", **HatchDesc:** "LONDONDERRY,NH:H.HEALY:2 BIG FAST DISKS NE>>SW/2500'alt W/WHISTLING SOUND:NFD", **LatLong:** "42.866669 -71.372226", **LatLongDMS:** "42:52:00 N 71:22:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.866669,-71.372226)", **RelAlt:** "750", **State/Prov:** "New Hampshire", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5580 (7976767B) **Date:** 7/6/1947 (approximate) **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** VALLEY STREAM, NY **Description:** Boy / 14. 3 large "aluminum plates" / V-formation going west. Straight and level trajectory / 5 minute(s). No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 449) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_922 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "VALLEY STREAM,NY:BOY/14:3 LRG "ALUMINUM PLATES"/VFORMn >W: S/L TRAJ/5min:NFD", **LatLong:** "40.666669 -73.711115", **LatLongDMS:** "40:40:00 N 73:42:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.666669,-73.711115)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5581 (05D1D2A3) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** PORTSMOUTH, VA **Description:** 11 observer(s). Black disk going quickly northwest. Straight and level flight "as if towed". No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 457) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_923 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "PORTSMOUTH,VA:11 OBS:BLACK DISK >>NW:S/L FLITE "AS IF TOWED":NFD", **LatLong:** "36.833335 -76.316670", **LatLongDMS:** "36:50:00 N 76:19:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.833335,-76.316670)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5582 (CFD9A832) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** WEST HARTFORD, CT **Description:** 6+observer(s). Reddish-brown colored disk going quickly northwest fast. Straight and level. "Plane speed or greater". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 448) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_924 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "W.HARTFORD,CT:6+OBS:REDDISH-BRN DISK >>NW FAST:S/L:"PLANE SPEED OR GREATER"", **LatLong:** "41.761113 -72.744448", **LatLongDMS:** "41:45:40 N 72:44:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.761113,-72.744448)", **State/Prov:** "Connecticut", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5583 (0E0E019B) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** ~19:00 **Location:** EDGEWOOD, TX **Description:** 11 observer(s). Light colored 40' disk faster / plane. Just below clouds. Rises going quickly northwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 477) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_925 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "428", **HatchDesc:** "EDGEWOOD,TX:11 OBS:LITE CLRD 40'DISK FASTER/PLANE:JUST BLW CLOUDS:RISES >>NW", **LatLong:** "32.700002 -95.883338", **LatLongDMS:** "32:42:00 N 95:53:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.700002,-95.883338)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5584 (3D89C753) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** SAN RAFAEL, CA **Description:** Cop and 3. Disk dips and rises / Eastern sky. Humming sound unlike plane. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 506) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_926 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "SAN RAFAEL,CA:COP+3:DISK DIPS+RISES/EASTERN SKY:HUMMING SOUND UNLIKE PLANE", **LatLong:** "37.966668 -122.533339", **LatLongDMS:** "37:58:00 N 122:32:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.966668,-122.533339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5585 (4540B55E) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 19:10 **Location:** US6 NORTHEAST / GRETNA, NE **Description:** Omaha couple. 1 aluminum sphere very high and fast. "Went straight east going quickly [to] W". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 470) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_927 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "370", **HatchDesc:** "US6 NE/GRETNA,NE:OMAHA COUPLE:1 ALUM.SPHERE VHI+FAST:"WENT STRAIGHT E>>W"", **LatLong:** "41.166669 -96.200005", **LatLongDMS:** "41:10:00 N 96:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.166669,-96.200005)", **State/Prov:** "Nebraska", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5586 (17F60456) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** LADUE, MO **Description:** 15 observer(s) / (seen thru) binoculars. 3+3 silent saucers going south / high altitude. Kite-like object bobs going up and down / 45 minute(s)! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 461) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_928 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "45", **Elev:** "166", **HatchDesc:** "LADUE,MO:15 OBS/BINOCS:3+3 SLNT SCRS >S/HI ALT:KITELIKE OBJ BOBS ↑+↓/45min!", **LatLong:** "38.650002 -90.383338", **LatLongDMS:** "38:39:00 N 90:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.650002,-90.383338)", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5587 (7373CCED) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** FERGUSON, MO **Description:** William Good and wife at home. Silent disk going quickly east. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 466) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_929 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "175", **HatchDesc:** "FERGUSON,MO:WILLIAM GOOD+WIFE at home:SLNT DISK >>E:NFD", **LatLong:** "38.744446 -90.305560", **LatLongDMS:** "38:44:40 N 90:18:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.744446,-90.305560)", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5588 (59F4E26C) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** SHREWSBURY, MO AND ST. LOUIS **Description:** Many separate observer(s). 3+3 shiny silent disks going quickly east. High and fast. / r171p80. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 462) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_930 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "166", **HatchDesc:** "SHREWSBURY,MO+St.LOUIS:MANY SEP.OBS:3+3 SHINY SLNT DISKS >>E:HI+FAST:/r171p80", **LatLong:** "38.588891 -90.338893", **LatLongDMS:** "38:35:20 N 90:20:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.588891,-90.338893)", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5589 (986044E1) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** ROCHESTER, NY **Description:** K. Ohley and wife. Fast silent disk going east right over yard / 3-4 second(s). Straight and level trajectory. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 459) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_931 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "155", **HatchDesc:** "ROCHESTER,NY:K.OHLEY+WIFE:FAST SLNT DISK >E RIGHT OVR YARD/3-4sec:S/L TRAJ", **LatLong:** "43.133335 -77.616670", **LatLongDMS:** "43:08:00 N 77:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.133335,-77.616670)", **RelAlt:** "5", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5590 (4E4AF42D) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** BIRMINGHAM, AL **Description:** Many separate observer(s). Up to 11 saucers and 40 night lights. Saucers whirl. Going quickly west. Blue Book. / MJ#121. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 482) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_932 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "180", **HatchDesc:** "BIRMINGHAM,AL:MANY SEP.OBS:UP TO 11 SCRS+40 NLTS:SCRS WHIRL:>>W:BBK:/MJ#121", **LatLong:** "33.516668 -86.816671", **LatLongDMS:** "33:31:00 N 86:49:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.516668,-86.816671)", **State/Prov:** "Alabama", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5591 (A0BC88CF) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** DALLAS, TX **Description:** 3+observer(s). Luminous disk very fast / 3K' altitude north going quickly south. Rim glows. No traces / effects. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 500) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_933 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "139", **HatchDesc:** "DALLAS,TX:3+OBS:LUMn.DISK VFAST/3K'alt N>>S:RIM GLOWS:NO TRACES/EFFECTS", **LatLong:** "32.783335 -96.766671", **LatLongDMS:** "32:47:00 N 96:46:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.783335,-96.766671)", **RelAlt:** "900", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5592 (EA3CCD42) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 21:00? **Location:** COPENHAGEN, DK **Description:** 2+observer(s). Saucer seen. No further details. (AP) Stockholm Aftonbladet 7 Jul. '47. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 9) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_934 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "COPENHAGEN,DK:2+OBS:SCR SEEN:NFD:(AP) STOCKHOLM AFTONBLADET 7JLY47", **LatLong:** "55.700003 12.450001", **LatLongDMS:** "55:42:00 N 12:27:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/55.700003,12.450001)", **State/Prov:** "Danemark", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5593 (27D1DAAC) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 21:10 **Location:** DENVER, CO **Description:** 2 separate observer(s). Group / disks shoot going quickly west. 2 minute(s) later 2 silver saucers fly going quickly southwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 518) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_935 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "1578", **HatchDesc:** "DENVER,CO:2 SEP.OBS:GROUP/DISKS SHOOT>>W::2min LATER 2 SLVR SCRS FLY>>SW", **LatLong:** "39.750002 -104.950005", **LatLongDMS:** "39:45:00 N 104:57:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.750002,-104.950005)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5594 (3C63A17F) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** KANKAKEE, IL **Description:** 2 observer(s). 5 saucers / row roll / edge like string of wheels / sky. Blue glow. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 481) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_936 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "192", **HatchDesc:** "KANKAKEE,IL:2 OBS:5 SCRS/ROW ROLL/EDGE LIKE STRING OF WHEELS/SKY:BLUE GLOW", **LatLong:** "41.133335 -87.850004", **LatLongDMS:** "41:08:00 N 87:51:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.133335,-87.850004)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5595 (DD68C40F) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** EAST LOS ANGELES, CA **Description:** Newsman J. Harris. Blue-luminous wheel-like object wobbles. Straight and level trajectory. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 524) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_937 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "102", **HatchDesc:** "E.LOS ANGELES,CA:NEWSMAN J.HARRIS:BLUE-LUMn.WHEEL-LIKE OBJ WOBBLES:S/L TRAJ.", **LatLong:** "34.016668 -118.166672", **LatLongDMS:** "34:01:00 N 118:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.016668,-118.166672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5596 (809B962C) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** EAST PROVIDENCE, RI **Description:** 1 observer. Luminous disk "W / Maltese cross" high and fast straight and level going quickly north. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 502) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_938 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "25", **HatchDesc:** "E.PROVIDENCE,RI:1 OBS:LUMn.DISK "W/MALTESE CROSS" HI+FAST S/L >>N:NFD", **LatLong:** "41.816669 -71.366670", **LatLongDMS:** "41:49:00 N 71:22:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.816669,-71.366670)", **State/Prov:** "Rhode Island", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5597 (79F62137) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** LAKE GENEVA TO/FROM BURLINGTON, WI **Description:** 2 observer(s). Saucer with large propeller outruns light plane. Flash. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 516) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_939 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "246", **HatchDesc:** "LAKE GENEVA> Event 5598 (98F41260) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** WOODLAWN, MD **Description:** 2 separate observer(s). 4 luminous saucers drift going west / cloud altitude. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 508) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_940 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "140", **HatchDesc:** "WOODLAWN,MD:2 SEP.OBS:4 LUMn.SCRS DRIFT >W/CLOUD ALTITUDE:NFD", **LatLong:** "39.633335 -76.077781", **LatLongDMS:** "39:38:00 N 76:04:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.633335,-76.077781)", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5599 (A2485B80) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** PRESTON, ON **Description:** 1 observer. Fiery red disk 'like washing machine lid' going quickly west over town. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 82) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_941 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "288", **HatchDesc:** "PRESTON,ON:1 OBS:FIERY RED DISK 'LIKE WASHING MACHINE LID' >>W OVR TOWN:NFD", **LatLong:** "43.400002 -80.350004", **LatLongDMS:** "43:24:00 N 80:21:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.400002,-80.350004)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5600 (57920E06) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 22:40 **Location:** PALMDALE, CA **Description:** 1 observer. Mother saucer with small saucers play / sky. Out and back several X. Going south toward(s) L.A. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 528) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_942 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "775", **HatchDesc:** "PALMDALE,CA:1 OBS:MOTHER SCR W/SML SCRS PLAY/SKY:OUT+BACK SVRL X:>S twrd L.A.", **LatLong:** "34.566668 -118.127783", **LatLongDMS:** "34:34:00 N 118:07:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.566668,-118.127783)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5601 (F6C5F410) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 23:00? **Location:** INDIANAPOLIS, IN **Description:** 3+2 separate observer(s). Shiny disk extremely fast going quickly west. "Lobster like with claws" / 1 observer(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 511) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_943 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "2215", **HatchDesc:** "INDIANAPOLIS,IN:3+2 SEP.OBS:SHINY DISK XFAST >>W:"LOBSTER LIKE W/CLAWS"/1 OBS", **LatLong:** "39.783335 -86.200004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:47:00 N 86:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.783335,-86.200004)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5602 (F7417C89) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** HOLLYWOOD, CA **Description:** 6-8 12' saucers dart to and fro / news and FBI. Possible same / Palmdale objects. / MJ#121. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 528) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_944 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "107", **HatchDesc:** "HOLLYWOOD,CA:6-8 12'SCRS DART TO+FRO/NEWS+FBI:POSS.SAME/PALMDALE OBJs:/MJ#121", **LatLong:** "34.116668 -118.316672", **LatLongDMS:** "34:07:00 N 118:19:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.116668,-118.316672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5603 (D5D39B34) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 23:20 **Location:** CHICAGO, IL **Description:** Dozens / separate observer(s). Large flashy disks going quickly east straight over lake. / r151+The New York Times (NYT.) **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 519) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_945 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "175", **HatchDesc:** "CHICAGO,IL:DOZENS/SEP.OBS:LRG FLASHY DISKS >>E STRAIGHT OVR LAKE:/r151+NYT", **LatLong:** "41.850002 -87.616671", **LatLongDMS:** "41:51:00 N 87:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.850002,-87.616671)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5604 (89773691) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** MINNEAPOLIS, MN **Description:** 1 observer. 25cm plate with propeller / rear flies over home / treetop level. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 526) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_946 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "245", **HatchDesc:** "MINNEAPOLIS,MN:1 OBS:25cm PLATE W/PROPELLER/REAR FLIES OVR HOME/TREETOP LVL", **LatLong:** "44.950002 -93.233338", **LatLongDMS:** "44:57:00 N 93:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.950002,-93.233338)", **RelAlt:** "20", **State/Prov:** "Minnesota", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5605 (DDB8BB7A) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** OMAHA, NE **Description:** 1 observer. "Rolling" luminous disk south of town going quickly west. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 525) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_947 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "315", **HatchDesc:** "OMAHA,NE:1 OBS:"ROLLING" LUMn.DISK SOUTH OF TOWN >>W:NFD", **LatLong:** "41.250002 -95.916671", **LatLongDMS:** "41:15:00 N 95:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.250002,-95.916671)", **State/Prov:** "Nebraska", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5606 (57747B24) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Location:** Fairfield-Suisan AFB, CA **Description:** Round Flat Object Size Of C-54 (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: 36) **Reference:** NICAP: [470706](http://www.nicap.org/470706fairfieldsuisan%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_358 ### Event 5607 (83ADC0D0) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Location:** Clay Center, KS **Description:** 30-50' Circular Object Paces B-25, Accelerates (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [470706](http://www.nicap.org/470706claycntr%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_359 ### Event 5608 (DC036F97) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Location:** S. Central, WY **Description:** Aviation engineer saw oval UFO. \[UFOE, VI\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_360 ### Event 5609 (CA649AD9) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Time:** Daytime **Location:** Fairfield-Suisan Air Base, California **Description:** Witnesses: Army Air Forces Capt. and Mrs. James Burniston. Watched for 1 minute while one object having no wings or tail rolled from side-to-side three times and then flew away very fast to the southeast. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_2 ### Event 5610 (46B3352B) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Locations:** Roswell, New Mexico; Roswell Army Air Field; Brazel's ranch **Description:** [Brazel](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9454979/william-ware-brazel) gets up early, completes his chores, and then drives into Roswell, New Mexico, about 75 miles away. He stops at the office of Sheriff [George A. Wilcox](https://www.rdrnews.com/2018/11/12/a-sheriff-without-a-gun-memoirs-of-a-sheriffs-wife/)[.](https://www.rdrnews.com/2018/11/12/a-sheriff-without-a-gun-memoirs-of-a-sheriffs-wife/) Contrary to published reports, Wilcox is excited about the find and suggests the military at the Roswell Army Air Field \[now closed\] be notified. While waiting for the military officers to arrive, Wilcox dispatches two of his deputies to the ranch. They have only the directions given by Brazel, but both men are familiar with the territory; and Wilcox believes they will be able to find the debris field. KGFL reporter Frank Joyce calls Wilcox, who tells him Brazel is in his office with an interesting story. Brazel allegedly gets on the phone with Joyce and mentions debris and a stench from dead bodies. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [pp. 163–164](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/162/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1005 ### Event 5611 (A2105D76) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Location:** Clay Center, Kansas **Description:** 1:45 p.m. Maj. A. B. Browning and the crew of a B-25 flying over Clay Center, Kansas, see a silvery disc about 30–50 feet in diameter slightly lower than their plane. It paces them for a while then shoots off. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[30–50ʹ](http://www.nicap.org/470706claycntr%5Fdir.htm) [Circular Object Paces B-25, Accelerates](http://www.nicap.org/470706claycntr%5Fdir.htm)”; Bloecher, [p. III-11](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 21 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1006 ### Event 5612 (B4BB471D) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Locations:** Fairfield-Suisun Army Air Field; Fairfield, California **Description:** Day. Army Air Corps Capt. [James H. Burniston](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98562028/james-herbert-burniston) and his wife watch a round, flat object that oscillates on its lateral axis of travel three quarters of the way across the sky in a few seconds at Fairfield-Suisun Army Air Field \[now Travis AFB\] near Fairfield, California. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Round Flat Object Size of C-54](http://www.nicap.org/470706fairfieldsuisan%5Fdir.htm)”; Bloecher, [p. III-3](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 21 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1007 ### Event 5613 (D4CC8687) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Location:** Encampment, Wyoming **Description:** 2:45 p.m. [David A. Kenney](https://www.dailybreeze.com/2019/04/17/decades-after-hush-hush-wwii-role-rancho-palos-verdes-very-own-secret-james-bond-is-honored-with-prestigious-military-medal/), an aircraft instruments engineer, and two others watch an oval-shaped UFO flying at a high altitude for nearly 2 minutes near Encampment, Wyoming. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Bloecher, [p. III-17](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm); David Kenney, “Right Place, Right Time,” IUR 30, no. 4 \(August 2006\): 28 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1008 ### Event 5614 (0B104169) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Location:** 317 Ash Street, Tempe, Arizona **Description:** Afternoon. Francis Howell and his wife are in their yard at 317 Ash Street in Tempe, Arizona, when they see an object floating down to the ground with a kite-like motion. It appears to be about 2 feet across and made of aluminum. It disappears behind some trees. The Howells and some neighbors walk toward the place where it apparently has landed, and they see the disc ascend at a 45° angle and move at high speed toward the northwest. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Tempeans See ‘Disc,’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101844590/arizona-republic/)” Phoenix Arizona Republic, July 7, 1947, p. 1; Bloecher, [p. II-13](https://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionII.htm) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1009 ### Event 5615 (4D3DC3D8) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Locations:** Roswell AAF; Ranch; Fort Worth Army Air Field; Washington, D.C. **Description:** Colonel [William H. Blanchard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FH.%5FBlanchard), Roswell AAF commanding officer, entrusted with oversight of the first and only atomic-bomb strike force in the world, the 509th Bomb Group, orders [Jesse A. Marcel](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/w/jessemarcel.htm), the air intelligence officer, to investigate the debris report. Marcel immediately drives to the sheriff’s office. Marcel interviews [Brazel](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9454979/william-ware-brazel)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9454979/william-ware-brazel) examines the pieces of the material that Brazel brought in, and decides he had better visit the ranch to examine the field for himself. Marcel, taking some of the debris with him, returns to the base and reports to Blanchard on what he has seen. Blanchard, convinced that he is in possession of something highly unusual, perhaps Soviet, alerts the next higher headquarters. Marcel and Blanchard all know this is from not any type of balloon. Marcel returns to the sheriff’s office with the senior counterintelligence agent assigned to the base, CIC Captain [Sheridan W.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/177397132/sheridan-wear-cavitt) [Cavitt](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/177397132/sheridan-wear-cavitt)[.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/177397132/sheridan-wear-cavitt) They escort Brazel back to his ranch and examine the debris field. Acting on orders from Major General [Clements McMullen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clements%5FMcMullen)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clements%5FMcMullen) deputy commander of the Strategic Air Command, Blanchard obtains more of the debris from the sheriff’s office. It is sealed in a courier pouch and loaded on an airplane to be flown on to the Fort Worth Army Air Field, where it is given to Colonel [Thomas J. DuBose](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/w/thomasdubose.htm) for transport on to Washington, D.C. After Marcel and Cavitt leave with Brazel, the two deputies return to say they did not find the debris field but observed a burned area in one of the pastures. There the sand has been turned to glass and blackened. It looks as if something circular has touched down. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [pp. 37–40](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/36/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/36/mode/2up) [164](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/164/mode/2up); Good Need, [p. 89](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/88/mode/2up); Nukes 482–483 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1010 ### Event 5616 (2E6BAA64) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Location:** Birmingham, Alabama **Description:** 8:45 p.m. Army Staff Sgt. [Ira L. Livingston](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/109070324/ira-l-livingston) watches a procession of glowing round objects moving at 500 mph over Birmingham, Alabama. A new one appears every 5 seconds. Many others report UFOs in the area between 8:00 and 9:00 p.m. Robert Crossland, a copy reader for the Birmingham Age-Herald, takes a photo that shows two round white spots close together. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Bloecher, [pp. III-3](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm)–4, [IV-4](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIV.htm); Michael David Hall and Wendy Ann Connors, Alfred Loedding and the Great Flying Saucer Wave of 1947, Rose Press, 1998, [pp. 67–68](https://www.nicap.org/loedding/LoeddingBook.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1011 ### Event 5617 (CE4E2BA2) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Description:** 9:00 p.m. Because of the distance to the ranch over roads that are less than adequate, [Brazel](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9454979/william-ware-brazel), [Marcel](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/w/jessemarcel.htm), and [Cavitt](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/177397132/sheridan-wear-cavitt) do not arrive until after dark. They stay at the “Hines” house \(an old ranch house close to the debris field\), eat cold beans, and wait for daylight. Marcel runs a Geiger counter over the large piece of wreckage Brazel has stored in the cattle shed. He detects no sign of radiation. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [p. 165](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/164/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1012 ### Event 5618 (235B4777) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Description:** There are 127 UFO reports for this day recorded in the UFOCAT database. Cities with multiple reports include St. Louis, Missouri: Birmingham, Alabama; Tucson, Arizona; Patterson, New Jersey; Chicago, Illinois, Darlington, South Carolina; Boise, Idaho; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Portland, Oregon; and Mount Vernon, Washington. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3855 ### Event 5619 (6DAE9292) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Description:** At five o'clock in the morning, Mr. McLean and his son were driving through Pocatello, Idaho at dawn when they saw a three-foot wide disc with a bulge in the middle land on a city street. It rose up, made some jerky movements, and then shot straight up. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Pocatello Tribune, July 7, 1947; Seattle (WA) Post-Intelligencer, July 8, 1947 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3856 ### Event 5620 (2FC0CBFF) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Description:** Mr. Bates, an airline passenger in a plane flying southeast of Boise, Idaho watched a disc flash by his window at one o'clock in the afternoon. It was heading toward the southwest. A stewardess quickly rushed over to look. That evening over Boise, silver discs whirled and changed directions several times in several minutes, as if searching for something. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Edward Sullivan, letters received by Civilian Saucer Intelligence, Los Angeles, April 5, 1952; Boise Idaho Daily Statesman, July 7, 1947 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3857 ### Event 5621 (416EB949) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Description:** Three airmen flying aboard an Army Air Force B-25 near Clay Center, Kansas saw a silvery circular object, 10-15 meters in diameter, at 1:45 p.m. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 37 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3858 ### Event 5622 (4FDE525A) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Description:** A Phillips Petroleum aircraft with two men on board, flying near the Kansas-Colorado border, reported that nine metallic, revolving objects came flying at their airplane this afternoon, one-by-one, for 15 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 9 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3859 ### Event 5623 (36ED8F90) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Description:** On this day Mr. Miller, a farmer in Logansport, Indiana heard a whining roar that drew his attention to a gray, spinning saucer-shaped object in the sky. It descended and hovered for several seconds. It then rose up into the clouds and was gone from view. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Indianapolis News, July 1947 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3860 ### Event 5624 (AE0F506B) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Description:** At 4:00 p.m. in Savannah, Georgia a metallic ovoid object, then two more metallic ovoid craft flew in the direction of the ESE; descriptions of the UFO differed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Michael Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomena 1947-1967, p. 2 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3861 ### Event 5625 (006EEC85) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Description:** Three shiny discs in a delta formation flew high and fast toward the north across Lake Ponchartrain, Louisiana at 5:10 p.m. They entered a cloud and were gone from sight. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case 451 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3862 ### Event 5626 (502897E0) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Description:** At 5:15 p.m. in Sioux Falls, South Dakota a silver orb shot toward the southwest "faster than any plane." It flew at an estimated altitude of ten thousand feet. It had what appeared to be a road stuck through the center of the object. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Sioux Falls (SD) Daily Argus-Leader, July 7, 1947 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3863 ### Event 5627 (EDED423A) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Description:** At 5:30 p.m. a low flying shiny circular object, floated like dirigible near the ground over a wheat field in Emporia, Kansas. It veered slowly to pass over a hill and fly toward the southwest. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A preliminary report on the 1947 UFO sighting wave, p. 85 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3864 ### Event 5628 (5F56BD89) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Description:** At 6:00 p.m. Mrs. Stollmaier in Terrace Park, Ohio saw two "shiny silver plates" travel north to south at high rate of speed. They appeared to be gaining altitude as they flew. At the same time northwest of Richmond, Virginia twelve shiny metallic discs wavered and flipped across the sky, just below the clouds at an estimated altitude of 500 feet. At 7:00 p.m. a black disc flew across the sky in Portsmouth, Virginia. It flight was silent, "as if towed." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Cincinnati Enquirer, July 7, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, cases 442 & 457 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3865 ### Event 5629 (5D114DF3) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Description:** At six o'clock in the evening in Norman, Oklahoma the University of Oklahoma Dean of Engineering and four others watched one, then two more UFOs shoot to the west at a very high speed. They were estimated to be flying at 20,000 feet altitude. A round object flew across the sky to the west "awfully fast" over Anadarko, Oklahoma at 6:30 p.m. That same evening a light colored 40-foot wide disc flew just below the clouds in Edgewood, Texas. It speed was judged to be faster than a plane, and it seemed to be gaining altitude as it flew toward the northwest. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Daily Oklahoman, July 8, 1947; Dallas Morning News, July 7, 1947 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3866 ### Event 5630 (FE826415) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Description:** At 7:00 p.m. three families in West Hartford, Connecticut including a physician, saw a reddish brown disc move at great speed in a straight line flying toward the northwest. At about the same time in New Hampshire two large discs flew over the town of Londonderry, making a whistling noise. That same night a disc with a Maltese cross inscribed on it flew on a straight, northerly course over East Providence, Rhode Island. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Hartford Times, July 7, 1947; Manchester Union-Leader, July 7, 1947; Providence Journal, July 7, 1947 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3867 ### Event 5631 (BE0D2CFA) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Description:** At 7:00 p.m. a silver disc dipped down out of the sky and climbed back up again south of St. Joseph, Missouri. It then shot to the northeast very fast. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case 468 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3868 ### Event 5632 (681B0820) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Description:** A 9:45 p.m. a military witness sighted up to eleven discs and some 40 nocturnal lights over Birmingham, Alabama. The discs whirled through the sky and flew off toward the west. Both the Air Force and the FBI investigated the case. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1978, p. 4 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3869 ### Event 5633 (FD070A4C) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Description:** Four luminous discs drifted to the west at the same altitude as the clouds at 10:30 p.m. over Woodlawn, Maryland. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Baltimore News-Post, July 7, 1947 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3870 ### Event 5634 (62E9A52D) **Date:** 7/6/1947 **Description:** A "rolling" luminous disc was seen flying south of Omaha, Nebraska at 11:45 p.m. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Omaha World-Herald, July 7, 1947 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3871 ### Event 5635 (30A454FD) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Location:** Roswell, NM **Description:** Secret operation to recover a crashed saucer in NM 75 miles northwest of Roswell Army Air Base (RAAF) **Type:** crash retrieval **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (crash) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_247 ### Event 5636 (BCCD5C47) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Location:** Los Angeles, CA **Description:** Newspaper article: A P-38 tangles with a flying disc at 32k ft near LA, gets caught in prop wash and appears to disintegrate and crash, pilots forced to recant their story in contradictory manner **Type:** anomalous incident **Reference:** [Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/forgotten-history-a-p-38-tangles-with-a-flying-disc-at-32-400-feet-on-july-7-1947-4a89a5a8c7bb) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_248 ### Event 5637 (25C69D2E) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Location:** Spokane, CA **Description:** Newspaper article: “Army can’t locate crashed saucers” in Spokane area **Type:** newspaper article **Reference:** [Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/forgotten-history-a-p-38-tangles-with-a-flying-disc-at-32-400-feet-on-july-7-1947-4a89a5a8c7bb) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_249 ### Event 5638 (467364C0) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Location:** Medford, OR **Description:** OREGON HAS MORE SAUCERS - David W. chase of Phoenix, Oregon, radar technician saw an object five miles south of Medford, flying eastward, going 6-700 miles an hour at approximately 10,000 feet. It was in view about 60 or 70 seconds before disappearing over the horizon. The total view of the course was about 150 degrees. The saucer flew on edge at right angles to the plane of the earth and gave off a bright blue-white light. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3 ff5 ) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_250 ### Event 5639 (BBCAE80E) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Location:** Louisville, Kentucky **Description:** CAMERA CATCHES TWO IN FLIGHT - Photographer Al Hixenbaugh took a photo of a flying saucer at 10:15. There were three objects in the sky, but he had time to snap only two. They made no sound. Neither did Hixenbaugh. He had no comment as to what they might be. They look like either two very bright saucer trails, or two saucers seen flat edge on against a dark sky. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Louisville Times - Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3 ff5 ) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_251 ### Event 5640 (749E69E7) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Location:** USA, Lancaster, March Field **Description:** (Translated from French) (Las Vegas Review-Journal, July 8, 1947) A rotating disc is said to have fallen into a ravine behind the trees, near Lancaster. "Fifteen or twenty trees caught fire," said the witness. A farmer by the name of Frits Godde denies it, he says that the ovoid and silver saucers were flying in a straight line towards Redlands, he told H.J. Stell, truck driver, who saw eight of them this morning at 6:12. Another farmer, R.V. Allen, says that a whole troop of these objects passed over Ontario. "They flew through the air like a pole swimming in water," he said. Another witness recounts that they flew so low that their engines could be heard. As for Hall Hibbard, vice president of Lockheed, he claims to know nothing of a secret project. He supposes that the witnesses are seeing reflections on airplanes, that it is a kind of collective hysteria coupled with the desire of some to see their name printed in the newspapers. **Reference:** Internet, May 1997 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1238 ### Event 5641 (5254A27C) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Location:** USA, Koekonong and East Troy (Wisconsin) **Description:** (Translated from French) At 11:45 an instructor and a trainee, saw during a training flight, a UFO descending towards the ground, then flying horizontally at a speed of 9600 km/h. Around 14:30 a captain of the AAF and a passenger, during a flight, saw a UFO flying at 7000 km/h. **Reference:** doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee translated by Jean Sider **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1239 ### Event 5642 (063A0F33) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Location:** USA, Phoenix (Arizona) **Description:** (Translated from French) William Rhodes was on his way to his laboratory located behind his home when he heard a noise above him. He looked up and saw a dark circular object spinning above the house. He rushed to the laboratory and came out with his camera: he was able to take two pictures published on July 9 in the Arizona Republic of Phoenix. A few weeks later an officer and an FBI agent went to Rhodes' house who spontaneously gave them the original negatives. Afterwards, he tried in vain to get them back. (Michel BOUGARD: "Des S.V. aux OVNI" - SOBEPS 1976 - p. 39) He saw a dark, elliptical, flat, heel-shaped object flying between 400 and 600 mph. The photo shows an irregular shape and looks very much like the description made at the other end of the country, in Lakeland, Florida. (see next case). **Reference:** "UFO's: A century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 56 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1240 ### Event 5643 (1CA72984) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Location:** USA, Lakeland (Florida) **Description:** (Translated from French) A man heard a whistling sound and this noise was followed by the appearance of five unidentified objects flying towards the northeast. After the observation, the witness constructed a model of what he had seen. It was a single-leaf clover-shaped craft with a small vertical tail and topped with a dome. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 56 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1241 ### Event 5644 (764E891C) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Location:** USA, Port Costa, California **Description:** (Translated from French) (United Press) Ralph Dinsmore reported having observed a formation of flying saucers in the vicinity of Mount Diablo. The central object seemed to have a protuberance resembling a coffee cup and just below it there was another bearing a symbol that announced "5 cents". As he watched, the "5 cents" announcement seemed to change into a "10 cents" configuration while the coffee in the saucer's cup seemed to empty, the sugar disappeared and the cream too. (note from vog: !!!) Three police officers from San Leandro saw the saucer last night coming from the west, hovering over San Leandro at an altitude of 10,000 feet, for an entire hour. Private pilot Robert O'Hara from Hamilton Field, Marin County reported having seen a 40-foot saucer above the field at about 6000 feet. Frank Tylman, engineer and pilot during the first world war, saw with his 9-year-old son Danny a saucer on Sunday at 8:20 in the morning, 2 miles west of Pittsburg, Contra Costa County. "It was catapulting towards Mt Diablo," he said, "turning counterclockwise, at an altitude of about 3000 feet, and faster than a jet. The wingspan was that of a P-80, it was silver, circular in shape, curved above and below and it left no condensation trail or smoke." **Reference:** Internet, May 1997 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1242 ### Event 5645 (D31C8EF7) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Location:** USA, Riverside (California) **Description:** (Translated from French) In the early morning a man stepped out of his house to find the cause of the static electricity noise emitted by the radio. He then saw hovering above a high-tension line, six small discs, the size of small plates. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 53 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1243 ### Event 5646 (C2D24868) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Location:** USA, Colton (California) **Description:** (Translated from French) At 6:21 eight objects in the shape of discs, or ovoid of silver color were observed flying silently in single file. One of the discs was more elliptical and was flashing. The witness said that the unidentified objects were flying much faster than airplanes. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 53 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1244 ### Event 5647 (24D85BD7) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Location:** USA, San Carlos (California) **Description:** (Translated from French) At 10:35 Stanley Miramon and his mother saw about thirty objects circling above them at an altitude of 2000 feet. Miramon compared their size to that of an automobile and said they were round and silver in appearance. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 53 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1245 ### Event 5648 (EAC4F5F7) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Location:** USA, Glenn (California) **Description:** (Translated from French) Two farmers busy with their harvest saw the sun reflecting off three "rows" of discs passing overhead. They estimated that there must have been at least 25 objects flying at high speed in a wavelike and rocking motion from right to left. Before they were out of sight, they saw the three rows change into a V formation. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 53 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1246 ### Event 5649 (4D75AD32) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Location:** USA, Sacramento **Description:** (Translated from French) William Smith, a photographer for the "Bee", saw a round object that seemed to be doing loops in the air, alternately showing a dark side and a light side. Smith had served as an aviator in the Navy. He wanted to take a picture of the objects, but when he returned with his camera, they had disappeared. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 53 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1247 ### Event 5650 (724400EB) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Location:** USA, Palmdale **Description:** (Translated from French) (United Press) Mrs. Amy Herdliska reported to the police that she saw a "mother" saucer eject five small saucers above the mountains. The small discs scattered, returned to the mother disc and were seemingly absorbed by it. It was a bit like a mother hen and her chicks. (Internet, May 1997). **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 53 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1248 ### Event 5651 (8563B366) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Location:** USA, Sonoma (California) **Description:** (Translated from French) (United Press) General H. H. (Hap) Arnold, head of the armed forces during World War II, stated this day that the saucers are probably a development of American scientific research, but not yet perfected. He added that it could of course be foreign country's devices, which have escaped all control. Lastly, the general supposes that they are simply combat aircraft. **Reference:** Internet, May 1997 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1249 ### Event 5652 (A4605BB3) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Location:** USA, Shreveport, Louisiana **Description:** (Translated from French) The FBI office in New Orleans reported by telex on 7.7.47 that a small disc had been found. It had descended from the sky emitting smoke. The secret service of the army (G-2) of Barksdale was charged with retrieving it. It was a small flat disc 16 inches in diameter (40 cm) to which two small nozzles were applied. The G-2 of Barksdale had proposed to the FBI to take care of it themselves and the director (Hoover) was informed the next day, July 8, that the Milwaukee Sentinel and Milwaukee Journal had published the day before that Father Joseph Braskey had discovered a wooden saucer. The FBI could not fail to note that Braskey was a confirmed drinker and that he was telling any story and that there was no need to make a more thorough investigation. **Reference:** CENAP, "Müll aus den Weltraum" = Space Garbage **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1251 ### Event 5653 (012EF985) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Location:** USA, Tacoma (Washington) **Description:** (Translated from French) Several witnesses saw several objects, some of which landed on rooftops. The witnesses saw "little men" who disappeared when the journalists arrived. (Inforespace #48 of 1979, p. 29) Two policemen observed bright discs in the sky, in an erratic course. At first the objects emitted red light, then it became purple before changing to blue-white and then back to red. They said that the "central saucer" acted as if commanding the others. Around it, smaller saucers seemed to enter and exit. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 53 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1252 ### Event 5654 (01A7B68D) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Location:** USA, Fort Bragg (California) **Description:** (Translated from French) Two teenagers who were fishing, observed around 3:30 pm, an object "flat and reflective" seeming to come towards them from the ocean. It quickly lost altitude and touched the water about 400 meters from the shore. The impact created a column of water. Then it floated on the surface before sinking. The two teenagers estimated the size to be that of a truck wheel. **Reference:** Phenomena No. 35 of 1997, p. 9 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1253 ### Event 5655 (6913220D) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Location:** USA, Springfield (Missouri) **Description:** (Translated from French) At the Rogers Airport in Springfield, three witnesses saw a "flat" and luminous object, bearing what looked like "fins". This object seemed to be constantly tumbling. This object followed Walker's plane, and when Walker finally turned towards the southwest, the object disappeared. **Reference:** "UFO's: A century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 53 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1254 ### Event 5656 (80981A48) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Location:** USA, St Joseph, Missouri **Description:** (Translated from French) At 8:30 PM, John W. Hawkins and Virgil Ashley, sitting in Ashley's garden, saw a flying saucer pass by at very high speed, heading north. The saucer was luminous, silver in color. They estimated its altitude to be around 300 feet and they heard a faint buzzing sound. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 57 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1255 ### Event 5657 (D64906D4) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Location:** CANADA, London (Hamilton) **Description:** (Translated from French) (The London Free Press, July 8) Three members of the James (Lucky) Ferguson family, 117 Langarth Avenue, Manor Park, saw the mysterious disc last night shortly after 8 pm. "It seemed about as big as one of those weather balloons, but it was flat, like a frying pan," said Ferguson. "It was silver and had a luminous halo on the sides and at the back there were dark markings, and like serrations. The back part was not as rounded as the front part. It was alone." **Reference:** Internet May 1997 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1256 ### Event 5658 (99CA98C5) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Location:** ENGLAND **Description:** (Translated from French) The wife of a pastor had her attention drawn to the sky where she saw a black ring with cut edges flying through the air. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 53 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1257 ### Event 5659 (846C2DAA) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) William A. Rhodes takes 2 photographs **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_657 ### Event 5660 (0AE47215) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Maximum of the wave of observations \(160 reports\). **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_658 ### Event 5661 (9E523AC3) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A conference is being held at the [Pentagon](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Pentagon.html) in the office of General [Schulgen](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/SchulgenGeorgeF.html). It is decided to make a selection of "flying saucer" reports from more qualified observers in order to continue the investigation. **Reference:** [Project 1947 - UFO Reports, 1947](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://www.project1947.com/fig/1947a.htm) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_659 ### Event 5662 (47B229C7) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) According to the [MJ documents](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/MJDocs.html), a secret operation is launched to recover the Roswell wreckage for scientific study. 4 small beings with a human appearance are found, dead and in a state of decomposition, 3 km east of the wreckage, probably ejected at some point before the explosion of the device. A scientific team takes care of removing the bodies for study and the device is also removed. The witnesses are "debriefed" and the official explanation given to the journalists speaks of a lost weather balloon. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_660 ### Event 5663 (12F9053D) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Brighton Beach \(Sussex, England\), a couple on the beach saw a white sphere flying near the sea. **Reference:** Mysterious Britain **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_661 ### Event 5664 (F8265338) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Location:** GLENN, CA **Description:** 2 farmers. 25 saucers / 3 rows go left-Rt.-going up [to]-going down. Tip from side-to-side. Going quickly [to] V formation. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 89) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_948 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "29", **HatchDesc:** "GLENN,CA:2 FARMERS:25 SCRS/3 ROWS GO LEFT-RT-↑-↓:TIP FROM SIDE-TO-SIDE:>>VFORM", **LatLong:** "39.522224 -122.011117", **LatLongDMS:** "39:31:20 N 122:00:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.522224,-122.011117)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5665 (A51EDF9F) **Date:** 7/7/1947 (approximate) **Location:** MEXICALI, MX **Description:** 2 saucers reported here. 5 more over Ciudad Juarez, CHH, MX. / Panama News. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 86) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_949 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Mexico", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "9", **Elev:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "MEXICALI,MX:2 SCRS REPORTED HERE::5 MORE ovr CIUDAD JUAREZ,CHH,MX:/Panama News", **LatLong:** "32.650002 -115.500006", **LatLongDMS:** "32:39:00 N 115:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.650002,-115.500006)", **State/Prov:** "Baja California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5666 (BFDAB8C0) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Location:** INDIANAPOLIS, IN **Description:** Motorist chases low-flying coppery disk. Gets ticket. / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 23) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_950 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "215", **HatchDesc:** "INDIANAPOLIS,IN:MOTORIST CHASES LO-FLYING COPPERY DISK:GETS TICKET:/NEWS", **LatLong:** "39.783335 -86.166671", **LatLongDMS:** "39:47:00 N 86:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.783335,-86.166671)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5667 (59EAA51E) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Location:** LANCASTER, CA **Description:** Observer(s) unknown. Disk going down / ground level. Hits tree. Tree catches fire. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 546) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_951 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "718", **HatchDesc:** "LANCASTER,CA:OBS UNKN:DISK ↓/GND LEVEL:HITS TREE:TREE CATCHES FIRE:NFD", **LatLong:** "34.716668 -118.116672", **LatLongDMS:** "34:43:00 N 118:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.716668,-118.116672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5668 (2F0D80D5) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Location:** RIVERSIDE, CA **Description:** Separate observer(s). Many disks play like school / fish. Going quickly northeast toward(s) Colton. / r187. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 83) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_952 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "259", **HatchDesc:** "RIVERSIDE,CA:SEP.OBS:MANY DISKS PLAY LIKE SCHOOL/FISH:>>NE twrd COLTON:/r187", **LatLong:** "33.950002 -117.400006", **LatLongDMS:** "33:57:00 N 117:24:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.950002,-117.400006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5669 (7FAAA807) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Location:** MARBLE MTS AND YREKA, CA **Description:** Many calls / sheriff. Colored saucers and fireballs all over/all about Siskiyou Co. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 89) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_953 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "800", **HatchDesc:** "MARBLE MTs+YREKA,CA:MANY CALLS/SHERIFF:CLRD SCRS+FBLS allo SISKIYOU co:", **LatLong:** "41.622224 -123.227784", **LatLongDMS:** "41:37:20 N 123:13:40 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.622224,-123.227784)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5670 (61D6CEFB) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 00:10 **Location:** HUNTINGTON, WV **Description:** 2 separate report(s). 4-6 orange glow saucers zig-zag and going quickly northeast. / Herald Dispatch 7 July. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 86) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_954 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "173", **HatchDesc:** "HUNTINGTON,WV:2 SEP.RPTS:4-6 ORG.GLOW SCRS ZIG-ZAG+>>NE:/Herald Dispatch 7JLY", **LatLong:** "38.400002 -82.466671", **LatLongDMS:** "38:24:00 N 82:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.400002,-82.466671)", **State/Prov:** "Western Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5671 (A86D6FF9) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 00:30 **Location:** BALTIMORE, MD **Description:** Melvin Kearney / 122 Warner Ave. 8 orange disks or balls going east. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 548) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_955 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "BALTIMORE,MD:MELVIN KEARNEY/122 WARNER Ave.:8 ORANGE DISKS or BALLS >E:NFD ", **LatLong:** "39.277780 -76.622226", **LatLongDMS:** "39:16:40 N 76:37:20 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.277780,-76.622226)", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5672 (82AA19AB) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 02:00 **Location:** WALNUT HILLS, OH **Description:** E. Smith. 3-4 disks red / hot coals. Straight and level high and fast north going quickly south. Briefly seen. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 553) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_956 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "207", **HatchDesc:** "WALNUT HILLS,OH:E.SMITH:3-4 DISKS RED/HOT COALS:S/L HI+FAST N>>S:briefly seen", **LatLong:** "39.033335 -82.633337", **LatLongDMS:** "39:02:00 N 82:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.033335,-82.633337)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 5673 (506307D8) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 02:00 **Location:** COLUMBIA, MO **Description:** University student. 50-60 luminous/glowing disks / V-formation. Whirl. Honk like geese. Going quickly north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 554) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_957 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "227", **HatchDesc:** "COLUMBIA,MO:UNIV.STUDENT:50-60 LUMn DISKS/VFORMn:WHIRL:HONK LIKE GEESE:>>N", **LatLong:** "38.933335 -92.316671", **LatLongDMS:** "38:56:00 N 92:19:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.933335,-92.316671)", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 5674 (7EE2EC0C) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 02:10 **Location:** RUTLAND, VT **Description:** 2 observer(s). Brilliant ovoid over gas-plant lights area. Vanishes as rain stops. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 550) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_958 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "198", **HatchDesc:** "RUTLAND,VT:2 OBS:BRILL.OVOID OVR GAS-PLANT LITES AREA:VANISHES AS RAIN STOPS", **LatLong:** "43.611113 -72.972226", **LatLongDMS:** "43:36:40 N 72:58:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.611113,-72.972226)", **State/Prov:** "Vermont", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5675 (BF6E8932) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 02:30 **Location:** TACOMA, WA **Description:** 2+observer(s). Saucers land / roof. Small humanoids (or Greys) exit! 2 cops. Small saucers orbit large. Going quickly west / r187. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RANDLE, Kevin & SCHMITT,Donald: UFO CRASH at ROSWELL; Avon Books, NY 1991. 327pp. (Index 21) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_959 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "114", **HatchDesc:** "TACOMA,WA:2+OBS:SCRS LAND/ROOF:OIDS EXIT!::2 COPS:SML SCRS ORBIT LRG:>>W/r187", **LatLong:** "47.233336 -122.450006", **LatLongDMS:** "47:14:00 N 122:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.233336,-122.450006)", **RelAlt:** "3", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 5676 (9B0FA8F1) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 06:20 **Location:** US99 NEAR COLTON, CA **Description:** Deliveryman. 8 silver saucers swish overhead going quickly southwest single file. / r171p86. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 563) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_960 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "305", **HatchDesc:** "US99 nr COLTON,CA:DELIVERYMAN:8 SLVR SCRS SWISH OVHD >>SW SINGLE FILE:/r171p86", **LatLong:** "34.066668 -117.316672", **LatLongDMS:** "34:04:00 N 117:19:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.066668,-117.316672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5677 (1BDDA270) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 06:30 **Location:** GREENSBORO, NC **Description:** 2 / car. 3 grey-black saucers / delta/triangle/box-like craft formation. 500mpg going quickly [to] 250' overhead. "Zipping noise". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 558) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_961 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "232", **HatchDesc:** "GREENSBORO,NC:2/CAR:3 GRY-BLK SCRS/DLT FORMn:500mpg >>250'OVHD:"ZIPPING NOISE"", **LatLong:** "36.050002 -79.816670", **LatLongDMS:** "36:03:00 N 79:49:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.050002,-79.816670)", **RelAlt:** "75", **State/Prov:** "North Carolina", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5678 (7C3B5D7F) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** ~07:00 **Location:** BRAZEL RANCH, NM **Description:** Major J. Marcel and 2 gather 2 carloads / strange debris. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RANDLE, Kevin & SCHMITT,Donald: UFO CRASH at ROSWELL; Avon Books, NY 1991. 327pp. (Index 49) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_962 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "200", **Elev:** "1900", **HatchDesc:** "BRAZEL RANCH,NM:Mjr J.MARCEL+2 GATHER 2 CARLOADS/STRANGE DEBRIS:", **LatLong:** "33.938891 -105.294449", **LatLongDMS:** "33:56:20 N 105:17:40 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.938891,-105.294449)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5679 (DA989674) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 07:50 **Location:** LOWRY AIR FORCE BASE, CO **Description:** Several Army Air Force (AAF) men / (seen thru) binoculars. Silent shiny disk circles north and south. Comes / east. Goes going quickly east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 564) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_963 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "6", **Elev:** "1651", **HatchDesc:** "LOWRY AFB,CO:SVRL AAF MEN/BINOCS:SLNT SHINY DISK CCLS N+S:COMES/EAST: GOES>>E", **LatLong:** "39.733335 -104.950005", **LatLongDMS:** "39:44:00 N 104:57:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.733335,-104.950005)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5680 (5C37E839) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 08:00? **Location:** 11KM NORTH / SHREVEPORT, LA **Description:** Army Air Force (AAF) Sgt. / plane. Bright moon-size silver saucer tilts. Cannot catch. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 87) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_964 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "64", **HatchDesc:** "11km N/SHREVEPORT,LA:AAF Sgt/PLANE:BRITE MOONSIZE SLVR SCR TILTS:cannot catch", **LatLong:** "32.583335 -93.800004", **LatLongDMS:** "32:35:00 N 93:48:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.583335,-93.800004)", **State/Prov:** "Louisiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5681 (A219F55E) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 09:00 **Location:** LAKEVIEW, OR **Description:** 3 / home. 2 then 4 disks weave / sky. All going quickly south. / Lake Co. Examiner 12 Jul. '47. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 87) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_965 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1462", **HatchDesc:** "LAKEVIEW,OR:3/HOME:2 then 4 DISKS WEAVE/SKY:ALL >>S:/Lake Co.Examiner 12JLY47", **LatLong:** "42.188891 -120.344450", **LatLongDMS:** "42:11:20 N 120:20:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.188891,-120.344450)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5682 (0D3DE1D9) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 09:30 **Location:** OKAUCHEE, WI **Description:** Ex Ground Observer Corps (GOC)-man and wife. 1 disk going quickly southwest. No further details. Exact time = 0925h CST. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 567) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_966 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "271", **HatchDesc:** "OKAUCHEE,WI:EX GOC-MAN+WIFE:1 DISK >>SW:NFD:exact time=0925h CST.", **LatLong:** "43.111113 -88.433338", **LatLongDMS:** "43:06:40 N 88:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.111113,-88.433338)", **State/Prov:** "Wisconsin", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5683 (D239CC2B) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 09:50 **Location:** VERDI AND RENO, NV **Description:** Many separate observer(s). Saucer going west / 1000mph. Going east. Going south. Contrails all over/all about. / r187#577. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 360) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_967 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "1470", **HatchDesc:** "VERDI+RENO,NV:MANY SEP.OBS:SCR> W/1000mph:> E:>S:CONTRAILS ALLO:/r187#577", **LatLong:** "39.516669 -119.983339", **LatLongDMS:** "39:31:00 N 119:59:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.516669,-119.983339)", **State/Prov:** "Nevada", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5684 (5EB755E8) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 10:00? **Location:** NORTHEAST / SPRINGFIELD, MO **Description:** 3 / ground. Saucer with fins follows light plane going northeast. Flips over. Vanishes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 89) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_968 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "392", **HatchDesc:** "NE/SPRINGFIELD,MO:3/GND:SCR W/FINS FOLOS LITE PLANE >NE:FLIPS OVR:VANISHES", **LatLong:** "37.366668 -93.150004", **LatLongDMS:** "37:22:00 N 93:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.366668,-93.150004)", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5685 (595D0C2F) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** SAN BRUNO, CA **Description:** 4+observer(s). Group / 15 disks spin and turn. Generally straight going quickly northeast / several min. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 587) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_969 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "SAN BRUNO,CA:4+OBS:GRP/15 DISKS SPIN+TURN:GENERALLY STRAIGHT>>NE/SVRL min", **LatLong:** "37.633335 -122.416673", **LatLongDMS:** "37:38:00 N 122:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.633335,-122.416673)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5686 (A331BC46) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 10:00? **Location:** ELKHORN AND EAGLE, WI **Description:** 2 separate private pilots. White ball drops / clouds. Stops. Going east. Turns etc. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 426) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_970 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "310", **HatchDesc:** "ELKHORN+EAGLE,WI:2 SEP.PVT.PILOTS:WHT BALL DROPS/CLOUDS:STOPS:>E:TURNS etc", **LatLong:** "42.766669 -88.500004", **LatLongDMS:** "42:46:00 N 88:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.766669,-88.500004)", **State/Prov:** "Wisconsin", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5687 (43325644) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 10:30 **Location:** LAWTON, OK **Description:** 1 / back yard. Bright aluminum plate going quickly west high and fast. / L. Constitution 8 Jul. '47. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 89) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_971 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "338", **HatchDesc:** "LAWTON,OK:1/BACK YARD:BRITE ALUMn.PLATE >>W HIGH+FAST:/L.Constitution 8JLY47", **LatLong:** "34.600002 -98.383338", **LatLongDMS:** "34:36:00 N 98:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.600002,-98.383338)", **State/Prov:** "Oklahoma", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5688 (2937D46E) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 10:40 **Location:** SAN CARLOS, CA **Description:** 2 observer(s). 30 car-size silver disks circle overhead / 2K' altitude. / r187#595. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 86) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_972 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "76", **HatchDesc:** "SAN CARLOS,CA:2 OBS:30 CAR-SIZE SLVR DISKS CCL OVHD/2K'alt:/r187#595", **LatLong:** "37.505557 -122.261117", **LatLongDMS:** "37:30:20 N 122:15:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.505557,-122.261117)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5689 (8CF91438) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 11:50 **Location:** KOSHKONONG, WI **Description:** 4 observer(s) / 2 / planes. Saucer / 1200M altitude. Away / 9000kph and more. / Army Air Force (AAF) report. / r160#121. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 409) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_973 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "250", **HatchDesc:** "KOSHKONONG,WI:4 OBS/2/PLANES:SCR/1200M alt:AWAY/9000kph+:/AAF Rpt:/r160#121", **LatLong:** "42.883335 -88.966671", **LatLongDMS:** "42:53:00 N 88:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.883335,-88.966671)", **State/Prov:** "Wisconsin", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5690 (6AAED571) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 11:50 **Location:** EAST TROY, WI **Description:** 2 / 2nd plane and weathermen. Saucer going down [to] edgewise. Stops and levels. Going quickly / 8000kph / r131#4p9. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 120) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_974 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "262", **HatchDesc:** "E.TROY,WI:2/2ND PLANE+WEATHERMEN:SCR↓EDGEWISE:STOPS+LVLs:>>/8000kph/r131#4p9", **LatLong:** "42.783335 -88.405560", **LatLongDMS:** "42:47:00 N 88:24:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.783335,-88.405560)", **State/Prov:** "Wisconsin", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5691 (19CB064E) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** TOWANDA, PA **Description:** 2 20cm disks / intense light bob and weave 5M from house. Soar up and gone. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 406) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_975 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "225", **HatchDesc:** "TOWANDA,PA:2 20cm DISKS/INTENSE LITE BOB+WEAVE 5M from HOUSE:SOAR UP+GONE", **LatLong:** "41.766669 -76.444448", **LatLongDMS:** "41:46:00 N 76:26:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.766669,-76.444448)", **RelAlt:** "5", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5692 (D2545447) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** WILLOW SPRINGS, IL **Description:** 2 observer(s). 13 house-sized saucers buzz going quickly east / single file. Blue glow. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 573) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_976 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "189", **HatchDesc:** "WILLOW SPRINGS,IL:2 OBS:13 HOUSE-SIZED SCRS BUZZ >>E/SINGLE FILE:BLUE GLOW", **LatLong:** "41.738891 -87.861115", **LatLongDMS:** "41:44:20 N 87:51:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.738891,-87.861115)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5693 (79D7B53D) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** PHILLIPSBURG, NJ **Description:** Teacher and 1. 1 disk going quickly south. Daytime hour unknown. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 581) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_977 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "96", **HatchDesc:** "PHILLIPSBURG,NJ:TEACHER+1:1 DISK >>S:DAYTIME HOUR UNK:NFD", **LatLong:** "40.694446 -75.188892", **LatLongDMS:** "40:41:40 N 75:11:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.694446,-75.188892)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5694 (9AFCEF5C) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** PITTSBURG, CA **Description:** 3 observer(s). Disk hovers over yard briefly. Shoots going quickly east. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 542) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_978 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "9", **HatchDesc:** "PITTSBURG,CA:3 OBS:DISK HVRS OVR YARD BRIEFLY:SHOOTS>>E:NFD", **LatLong:** "38.033335 -121.883339", **LatLongDMS:** "38:02:00 N 121:53:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.033335,-121.883339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5695 (1F6CDDDF) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** DORCHESTER, MA **Description:** John Stewart and 1. 4 silver disks / single file. Fast / 5000' altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 580) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_979 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "37", **HatchDesc:** "DORCHESTER,MA:JOHN STEWART+1:4 SLVR DISKS/SINGLE FILE:FAST/5000'alt:", **LatLong:** "42.300002 -71.083337", **LatLongDMS:** "42:18:00 N 71:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.300002,-71.083337)", **RelAlt:** "1500", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5696 (8B4CBDD4) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** GLASGOW, IL **Description:** Amateur astronomer / (seen thru) telescope. Silver 30' cone moves side to side slow. Shoots going quickly west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 598) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_980 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "179", **HatchDesc:** "GLASGOW,IL:AM.ASTRONOMER/TSCOPE:SLVR 30'CONE MOVES SIDE to SIDE SLOW:SHOOTS>>W", **LatLong:** "40.572224 -89.811115", **LatLongDMS:** "40:34:20 N 89:48:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.572224,-89.811115)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5697 (E771A2CE) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** ENID, OK **Description:** Ed Herbig. Aluminum "pancake" / terrific speed. 10-12K' altitude. Straight and level going quickly south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 602) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_981 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "374", **HatchDesc:** "ENID,OK:ED HERBIG:ALUM."PANCAKE"/TERRIFIC SPEED:10-12K'alt: S/L >>S", **LatLong:** "36.383335 -97.877782", **LatLongDMS:** "36:23:00 N 97:52:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.383335,-97.877782)", **RelAlt:** "3300", **State/Prov:** "Oklahoma", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5698 (C8CD2E21) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** EAST POINT, GA **Description:** 5 / car. Plain bright silver disk going / 10 minute(s). Fades away. / r131#4p11. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HITT, Michael D: GEORGIA'S AERIAL PHENOMENON 1947-1987 Self published 1999. ref. Jan Aldrich. (Index 3) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_982 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "311", **HatchDesc:** "EAST POINT,GA:5/CAR:PLAIN BRITE SLVR DISK >/10min:FADES AWAY:/r131#4p11", **LatLong:** "33.677779 -84.438893", **LatLongDMS:** "33:40:40 N 84:26:20 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.677779,-84.438893)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5699 (E2AF79C9) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** CICERO, IL **Description:** 1 observer. Very large silver saucer. 4 small disks trail. Ovoid and disk / Chicago maneuver and going quickly south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 597) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_983 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "185", **HatchDesc:** "CICERO,IL:1 OBS:VLRG SLVR SCR:4 SML DISKS TRAIL::OVOID+DISK/CHICAGO MNVR+>>S", **LatLong:** "41.844446 -87.755560", **LatLongDMS:** "41:50:40 N 87:45:20 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.844446,-87.755560)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5700 (EE688AB3) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Location:** RENTON AND SEATTLE, WA **Description:** Many separate observer(s) all day. Saucers spiral and gyrate and circle and flip. Going west and all directions. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 619) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_984 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "132", **Elev:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "RENTON+SEATTLE,WA:MANY SEP.OBS ALL DAY:SCRS SPIRAL+GYRATE+CCL+FLIP:>W+all dirs", **LatLong:** "47.483336 -122.233339", **LatLongDMS:** "47:29:00 N 122:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.483336,-122.233339)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5701 (14FBCAEF) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 13:10 **Location:** HIXSON AND CHATTANOOGA, TN **Description:** 2+1 observer(s). 1+4 bright shiny silent disks going quickly northeast. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 591) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_985 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "205", **HatchDesc:** "HIXSON+CHATTANOOGA,TN:2+1 OBS:1+4 BRITE SHINY SLNT DISKS >>NE:NFD", **LatLong:** "35.138891 -85.233337", **LatLongDMS:** "35:08:20 N 85:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.138891,-85.233337)", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5702 (5917A129) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 13:30 **Location:** TAMPA, FL **Description:** 1+several separate observer(s). 2 big saucers / high altitude going south. Later 3 disks going northeast / 1830hrs. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 594) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_986 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "TAMPA,FL:1+SVRL SEP.OBS:2 BIG SCRS/HI ALT >S::later 3 DISKS >NE/1830hrs", **LatLong:** "27.950001 -82.433337", **LatLongDMS:** "27:57:00 N 82:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/27.950001,-82.433337)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5703 (AFB9FD15) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 13:30 **Location:** MALIBU BEACH, CA **Description:** 3 teens. 4 gleaming round objects go straight and level going quickly west over coast. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 627) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_987 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "MALIBU BEACH,CA:3 TEENS:4 GLEAMING ROUND OBJS GO S/L >>W OVR COAST:NFD", **LatLong:** "34.050002 -118.700006", **LatLongDMS:** "34:03:00 N 118:42:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.050002,-118.700006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5704 (6C8BE350) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 14:30 **Location:** EAST TROY, WI **Description:** Air Force Captain and 1 / plane. Silver object. Calculated / 6000kph. / FBI / MJ#121. Type unknown. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 606) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_988 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "262", **HatchDesc:** "EAST TROY,WI:AF CAPTAIN+1/PLANE:SLVR OBJ:CALC/6000kph:/FBI/MJ#121:type unkn", **LatLong:** "42.783335 -88.416671", **LatLongDMS:** "42:47:00 N 88:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.783335,-88.416671)", **State/Prov:** "Wisconsin", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 5705 (020F69AE) **Date:** 7/7/1947 (approximate) **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** AMFREVILLE-LA-MI-VOIE, FR **Description:** Saucer landed / banks / Seine. 2 small humanoids (or Greys) reboard. Going up [to] silently going quickly southeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 50) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_989 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "AMFREVILLE-la-MI-VOIE,FR:SCR LANDED/BANKS/SEINE:2 OIDS REBOARD:↑ SILENTLY >>SE", **LatLong:** "49.350002 1.016667", **LatLongDMS:** "49:21:00 N 01:01:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.350002,1.016667)", **State/Prov:** "Seine Maritime", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 5706 (A2577712) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** GMX SOUTH / SARASOTA, FL **Description:** 1 / fishing boat. Round flat silver blimp going quickly southwest. Vanishes and reappears. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 88) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_990 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "GMX S/SARASOTA,FL:1/FISHING BOAT:ROUND FLAT SLVR BLIMP >>SW:VANISHES+REAPPEARS", **LatLong:** "27.083335 -82.583337", **LatLongDMS:** "27:05:00 N 82:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/27.083335,-82.583337)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5707 (53F712BC) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 15:10 **Location:** HOLLYWOOD, CA **Description:** 2 separate observer(s). 6 silver disks over power lines. Going quickly east. Radio Frequency Interference (RFI). Back 8 July 1500h going north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 637) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_991 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "107", **HatchDesc:** "HOLLYWOOD,CA:2 SEP.OBS:6 SLVR DISKS OVR PWR LINES:>>E:RFI::BACK 8JLY 1500h >N", **LatLong:** "34.133335 -118.333339", **LatLongDMS:** "34:08:00 N 118:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.133335,-118.333339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5708 (F382347F) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 15:10 **Location:** FT BRAGG, CA **Description:** 2 / beach. Glistening tire-size saucer going quickly east. Lands / surface(s). Rests. Submerges. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 89) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_992 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "Ft BRAGG,CA:2/BEACH:GLISTENING TIRE-SIZE SCR >>E:LANDS/SURF:RESTS:SUBMERGES", **LatLong:** "39.450002 -123.866673", **LatLongDMS:** "39:27:00 N 123:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.450002,-123.866673)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5709 (33C43479) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 15:20 **Location:** MEMPHIS, TN **Description:** 2+4 observer(s). 6M coin disks going quickly southwest / diamond formation. Play tag. Stops and starts.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 407) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_993 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "77", **HatchDesc:** "MEMPHIS,TN:2+4 OBS:6M COIN DISKS >>SW/DIAMOND FORMn:PLAY TAG:STOPS+STARTS..", **LatLong:** "35.133335 -90.066671", **LatLongDMS:** "35:08:00 N 90:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.133335,-90.066671)", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5710 (4224DEEF) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 15:30 **Location:** PHOENIX, AZ **Description:** 80+observer(s)? 2 large silver orbs going quickly east. 1 high and 1 low. No wind. Photograph / grey ovoid. / r131#4. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 632) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_994 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "315", **HatchDesc:** "PHOENIX,AZ:80+OBS?:2 LRG SLVR ORBS >>E:1hi+1low:NO WIND:FOTO/GRY OVOID:/r131#4", **LatLong:** "33.450002 -112.033339", **LatLongDMS:** "33:27:00 N 112:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.450002,-112.033339)", **RelAlt:** "99", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5711 (E6589992) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** BRIGHTON, SUSSEX **Description:** 2 observer(s). Too-large moon-disk. Flies going quickly south to sea over black rock cliffs. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 66) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_995 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "BRIGHTON,SUSSEX:2 OBS:TOO-LARGE MOON-DISK:FLIES>>S to SEA OVR BLK ROCK CLIFFS", **LatLong:** "50.783336 -0.116667", **LatLongDMS:** "50:47:00 N 00:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.783336,-0.116667)", **State/Prov:** "England", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5712 (5E8205D6) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 16:30 **Location:** NEAR BERGSTROM AIR FORCE BASE, TX **Description:** Aircrew. 6M glass disk flashes and spins / tilt going quickly southwest / 2300kph. Radio Frequency Interference (RFI.) **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 423) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_996 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "165", **HatchDesc:** "nr BERGSTROM AFB,TX:AIRCREW:6M GLASS DISK FLASHES+SPINS/TILT >>SW/2300kph:RFI", **LatLong:** "30.216668 -97.683338", **LatLongDMS:** "30:13:00 N 97:41:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.216668,-97.683338)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5713 (2B968EA0) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 16:50 **Location:** PHILADELPHIA, PA **Description:** Henry Quin. 3' round silver object whizzes by going quickly SSW toward(s) City Hall.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 611) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_997 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "PHILADELPHIA,PA:HENRY QUIN:3'ROUND SLVR OBJ WHIZZES BY >>SSW TWRD CITY HALL..", **LatLong:** "39.950002 -75.200004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:57:00 N 75:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.950002,-75.200004)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5714 (C29FE3A8) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** TEMPE, AZ **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #46. Photograph / manta-saucer with small dome. Circles. Going northwest. Also 2' transparent silver saucer / 6 July. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 121) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_998 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "359", **HatchDesc:** "TEMPE,AZ:BBK#46:FOTO/MANTA-SCR W/SML DOME:CIRCLES:>NW::+2'XPRNT SLVR SCR/6JLY", **LatLong:** "33.416668 -111.911116", **LatLongDMS:** "33:25:00 N 111:54:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.416668,-111.911116)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5715 (A8A94018) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 17:20 **Location:** NEAR MOUNTAIN HOME, ID **Description:** Motorist. Huge umbrella-saucer covers US30. Going [to] over gas station. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 419) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_999 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "958", **HatchDesc:** "nr MOUNTAIN HOME,ID:MOTORIST:HUGE UMBRELLA-SCR COVERS US30:>OVR GAS STATION", **LatLong:** "43.150002 -115.700006", **LatLongDMS:** "43:09:00 N 115:42:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.150002,-115.700006)", **RelAlt:** "20", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5716 (DCBA2253) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 17:20 **Location:** SOUTHEAST / MEDFORD, OR **Description:** Radar Tech. Saucer on edge / 650mph. Follows hilly contours going east. Extremely bright. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 655) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1000 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc. **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "130", **HatchDesc:** "SE/MEDFORD,OR:RADAR TECH:SCR ON EDGE/650mph:FOLOS HILLY CONTOURS>E:XBRITE", **LatLong:** "42.300002 -122.850006", **LatLongDMS:** "42:18:00 N 122:51:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.300002,-122.850006)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5717 (A9A5281F) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 17:30 **Location:** SOUTHEAST / MISSION, TX **Description:** Evidence of official coverup and military pilots and ground persons. Fast disk spins / 1200m altitude. Also San Antonio. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WEINSTEIN, Dominique; UAP: 80 Years of Pilot Sightings Privately published. 7 avenue Bartholome. 75015 Paris, FRANCE. (Index 9) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1001 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "40", **HatchDesc:** "SE/MISSION,TX:COV+MIL PILOTS+GND PERS:FAST DISK SPINS/1200m alt:+San Antonio", **LatLong:** "26.200001 -98.300005", **LatLongDMS:** "26:12:00 N 98:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/26.200001,-98.300005)", **RelAlt:** "1200", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5718 (444145C6) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 17:30 **Location:** GETTYSBURG, PA **Description:** 16 observer(s). 6+6 15cm saucers roll / edge and going east overhead / 2 separate groups. / r131#4p10. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 603) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1002 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "258", **HatchDesc:** "GETTYSBURG,PA:16 OBS:6+6 15cm SCRS ROLL/EDGE+>E OVHD/2 SEP.GROUPS:/r131#4p10", **LatLong:** "39.816669 -77.233337", **LatLongDMS:** "39:49:00 N 77:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.816669,-77.233337)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5719 (2A6117F6) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 17:40 **Location:** MONTGOMERY, AL **Description:** Teen. 7 silver disks like tin-plates in formation. 2X treetop level going quickly north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 639) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1003 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "75", **HatchDesc:** "MONTGOMERY,AL:TEEN:7 SLVR DISKS LIKE TIN-PLATES/FORMn:2X TREETOP LVL >>N", **LatLong:** "32.383335 -86.333337", **LatLongDMS:** "32:23:00 N 86:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.383335,-86.333337)", **RelAlt:** "20", **State/Prov:** "Alabama", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5720 (E94EDD42) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** DES MOINES, IA **Description:** 1 teen. 3 silver disks / V formation. High and fast going quickly north. Quite flat when tilted. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 641) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1004 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "241", **HatchDesc:** "DES MOINES,IA:1 TEEN:3 SLVR DISKS/VFORM:HIGH+FAST>>N:QUITE FLAT WHEN TILTED", **LatLong:** "41.583335 -93.616671", **LatLongDMS:** "41:35:00 N 93:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.583335,-93.616671)", **State/Prov:** "Iowa", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5721 (6EF335A4) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 18:10 **Location:** MILTON, WI **Description:** 3 observer(s). 3 metallic saucers / triangle going quickly east. Rotate. Contrails. 1200m altitude. / r131#4p18. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 662) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1005 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "270", **HatchDesc:** "MILTON,WI:3 OBS:3 MTLC SCRS/TRIANGLE>>E:ROTATE:CONTRAILS:1200m alt:/r131#4p18", **LatLong:** "42.777780 -88.950004", **LatLongDMS:** "42:46:40 N 88:57:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.777780,-88.950004)", **RelAlt:** "1200", **State/Prov:** "Wisconsin", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5722 (F9338C40) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** LAKE BUCKEYE, FL **Description:** 2+2 observer(s). 2 gold disks going [to] slow and stop. Bird following scared back. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 419) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1006 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "39", **HatchDesc:** "LAKE BUCKEYE,FL:2+2 OBS:2 GOLD DISKS >SLOW+STOP:BIRD FOLLOWING SCARED BACK", **LatLong:** "28.038890 -81.705559", **LatLongDMS:** "28:02:20 N 81:42:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/28.038890,-81.705559)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5723 (962BA851) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 18:50 **Location:** ROCKFORD, IL **Description:** Farmer Luckey. Shiny disk "electric clock" 500mph / 250' altitude. Going quickly south fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 559) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1007 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "215", **HatchDesc:** "ROCKFORD,IL:FARMER LUCKEY:SHINY DISK "ELEC.CLOCK" 500mph/250'alt:>>S FAST", **LatLong:** "42.283335 -89.100004", **LatLongDMS:** "42:17:00 N 89:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.283335,-89.100004)", **RelAlt:** "75", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5724 (DBFFC3B7) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** EAST PEORIA, IL **Description:** 1 observer. 25-30 disks hover in straight row over tractor factory. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 642) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1008 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "144", **HatchDesc:** "E.PEORIA,IL:1 OBS:25-30 DISKS HVR IN STRAIGHT ROW OVR TRACTOR FACTORY:NFD", **LatLong:** "40.666669 -89.577782", **LatLongDMS:** "40:40:00 N 89:34:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.666669,-89.577782)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5725 (82A41C3C) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** NEW HAVEN, CT **Description:** John Evans. 2+bluish disks fly on edges straight and level going quickly southeast toward(s) L. I. Sound. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 633) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1009 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "NEW HAVEN,CT:JOHN EVANS:2+BLUISH DISKS FLY ON EDGES S/L >>SE TWRD L.I.SOUND", **LatLong:** "41.300002 -72.933337", **LatLongDMS:** "41:18:00 N 72:56:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.300002,-72.933337)", **State/Prov:** "Connecticut", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5726 (E1A2F3F6) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** ~19:00 **Location:** PONTIAC, MI **Description:** 3 observer(s). Domed disks. Size = 2' or 5'. Photograph see reference. 100mph / 150' altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 651) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1010 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "292", **HatchDesc:** "PONTIAC,MI:3 OBS:DOMED DISKS:SIZE=2'or 5':FOTO see ref:100mph/150'alt", **LatLong:** "42.633335 -83.300004", **LatLongDMS:** "42:38:00 N 83:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.633335,-83.300004)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5727 (68113CD0) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** COLUMBUS, OH **Description:** 5 students. 3 very fast silent 10' metallic ovoids / delta/triangle/box-like craft formation going east / 1000' altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 650) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1011 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "240", **HatchDesc:** "COLUMBUS,OH:5 STUDENTS:3 VERY FAST SLNT 10'MTLC OVOIDS/DLT FORMn >E/1000'alt", **LatLong:** "39.950002 -83.033337", **LatLongDMS:** "39:57:00 N 83:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.950002,-83.033337)", **RelAlt:** "300", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5728 (04837B03) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** GAMBLE VALLEY, TN **Description:** 1 observer. 3 gold saucers going northwest. 1 flat and 2 on edge. / Oak Ridge Journal / 10 July. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 411) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1012 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "300", **HatchDesc:** "GAMBLE VALLEY,TN:1 OBS:3 GOLD SCRS >NW:1 FLAT+2 ON EDGE:/Oak Ridge Jrnl/10Jly", **LatLong:** "36.000002 -84.266671", **LatLongDMS:** "36:00:00 N 84:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.000002,-84.266671)", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 5729 (C498928C) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** EAST / OKLAHOMA CITY, OK **Description:** J. P. barnes. 8-9 disks faster than jets. Dip going up and down [to] going quickly northeast. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 664) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1013 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "360", **HatchDesc:** "E/OKLAHOMA CITY,OK:J.P.BARNES:8-9 DISKS FASTER THAN JETS:DIP↑+↓ >>NE:NFD", **LatLong:** "35.466668 -97.466671", **LatLongDMS:** "35:28:00 N 97:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.466668,-97.466671)", **State/Prov:** "Oklahoma", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5730 (D0E3679E) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** MARION, AL **Description:** 2 observer(s). 5-7 luminous white disks going quickly south. "Lower than stars". One would hope so. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 666) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1014 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "115", **HatchDesc:** "MARION,AL:2 OBS:5-7 LUMn.WHT DISKS >>S:"LOWER THAN STARS":one would hope so.", **LatLong:** "32.633335 -87.316671", **LatLongDMS:** "32:38:00 N 87:19:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.633335,-87.316671)", **State/Prov:** "Alabama", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5731 (71A8D7AB) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** WEST / SALT LAKE CITY, UT **Description:** Numerous observer(s). Huge fireball maneuvers / high altitude. Going quickly north. Gone fast. / r131#4p10. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 674) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1015 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "1280", **HatchDesc:** "W/SALT LAKE CITY,UT:NMRS OBS:HUGE FBL MNVRS/HIGH ALT:>>N:GONE FAST:/r131#4p10", **LatLong:** "40.766669 -111.933339", **LatLongDMS:** "40:46:00 N 111:56:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.766669,-111.933339)", **State/Prov:** "Utah", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5732 (F4FD7380) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 20:40 **Location:** LOUISVILLE, KY **Description:** 2+1 separate observer(s). Bright fiery disk going quickly northwest. Seems to land in Indiana. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 667) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1016 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "140", **HatchDesc:** "LOUISVILLE,KY:2+1 SEP.OBS:BRITE FIERY DISK >>NW:SEEMS TO LAND IN INDIANA", **LatLong:** "38.266668 -85.766671", **LatLongDMS:** "38:16:00 N 85:46:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.266668,-85.766671)", **State/Prov:** "Kentucky", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 5733 (0D4DB141) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** JACKSON, MS **Description:** 1 observer. 2-3 luminous/glowing plate-saucers going [to] toward(s) Army air base going quickly northwest? Puffs / edges. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 669) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1017 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "90", **HatchDesc:** "JACKSON,MS:1 OBS:2-3 LUMn PLATE-SCRS > TWRD ARMY AIR BASE >>NW?:PUFFS/EDGES", **LatLong:** "32.316668 -90.200004", **LatLongDMS:** "32:19:00 N 90:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.316668,-90.200004)", **State/Prov:** "Mississippi", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 5734 (4D054B01) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 21:00? **Location:** WEST / YORK, OH **Description:** 2 / farm. "Brilliant saucers" play / western sky / 1 hour. / Sandusky Register Star. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 88) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1018 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "50", **Elev:** "199", **HatchDesc:** "W/YORK,OH:2/FARM:"BRILL.SCRS" PLAY/WESTERN SKY/1 HOUR:/Sandusky Register Star", **LatLong:** "41.350002 -82.916671", **LatLongDMS:** "41:21:00 N 82:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.350002,-82.916671)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5735 (49B460E9) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** ~21:00 **Location:** DETROIT, MI **Description:** 1 observer. 2 saucers collide / flash. Fly / opposite directions. Groups / saucers / 1+8 July. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 671) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1019 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "180", **HatchDesc:** "DETROIT,MI:1 OBS:2 SCRS COLLIDE/FLASH:FLY/OPP.DIRs:GROUPS/SCRS/1+8JULY:NFD", **LatLong:** "42.350002 -83.016671", **LatLongDMS:** "42:21:00 N 83:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.350002,-83.016671)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5736 (89E07BD2) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** GREAT POND, ME **Description:** 4 observer(s) and more/others. 3 fireballs going west separately. Stop. Join. Hover. 1 goes back going quickly east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 653) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1020 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "147", **HatchDesc:** "GREAT POND,ME:4 OBS++:3 FBLS > W SEPARATELY:STOP:JOIN:HVR:1 GOES BACK >>E:", **LatLong:** "44.933335 -68.283337", **LatLongDMS:** "44:56:00 N 68:17:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.933335,-68.283337)", **State/Prov:** "Maine", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 5737 (5CE0AED1) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** MANCHESTER, NH **Description:** 5 reports. 3 bright ovoids / delta/triangle/box-like craft-formation. Fast going quickly northwest. Back 9 Jul. '47 / 0350hrs. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 652) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1021 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "53", **HatchDesc:** "MANCHESTER,NH:5 REPORTS:3 BRITE OVOIDS/DLT-FORMn:FAST>>NW::BACK 9JLY47/0350hrs", **LatLong:** "42.983335 -71.450003", **LatLongDMS:** "42:59:00 N 71:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.983335,-71.450003)", **State/Prov:** "New Hampshire", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 5738 (F8F52CE7) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** MANCHESTER AND WINTHROP, ME **Description:** Several separate observer(s). Cluster / luminous saucers over Lake Cobbosseecontee. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 659) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1022 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "72", **HatchDesc:** "MANCHESTER+WINTHROP,ME:SVRL SEP.OBS:CLUSTER/LUMN.SCRS ovr LAKE COBBOSSEECONTEE", **LatLong:** "44.266669 -69.866670", **LatLongDMS:** "44:16:00 N 69:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.266669,-69.866670)", **State/Prov:** "Maine", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5739 (FCE500EC) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** ~22:00 **Location:** KENSINGTON, AUSTR **Description:** 2 white shiny saucers going quickly west toward(s) Parramatta. Wave / Sydney. / r171p171. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Database/website: BASTERFIELD, KEITH: AUFORN group, with Diane Harrison. http://www.fan.net.au/~tkbnetw/new **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1023 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "KENSINGTON,AUSTR:2 WHT SHINY SCRS >>W twrd PARRAMATTA::WAVE/SYDNEY:/r171p171", **LatLong:** "-33.816668 151.050007", **LatLongDMS:** "33:49:00 S 151:03:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-33.816668,151.050007)", **State/Prov:** "NSW", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5740 (3A89AF93) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** ~22:00 **Location:** BEVERLY HILLS, CA **Description:** 1 observer. "Little sun" altitude / bright and dim. Straight and level fast. Streaks away going quickly north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 688) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1024 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "70", **HatchDesc:** "BEVERLY HILLS,CA:1 OBS:"LITTLE SUN" ALT/BRITE+DIM:S/L FAST:STREAKS AWAY >>N", **LatLong:** "34.066668 -118.400006", **LatLongDMS:** "34:04:00 N 118:24:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.066668,-118.400006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5741 (6E5F3CEA) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** NORTHEAST / FLORENCE, KY **Description:** Teen / car. 30cm red-luminous/glowing globe going northeast / 5 minutes toward(s) Cincinnati. / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 432) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1025 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "250", **HatchDesc:** "NE/FLORENCE,KY:TEEN/CAR:30cm RED-LUMn GLOBE >NE/5mins twrd Cincinnati:/news", **LatLong:** "39.000002 -84.600004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:00:00 N 84:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.000002,-84.600004)", **State/Prov:** "Kentucky", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 5742 (70ED31C5) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** ATHENS, GA **Description:** Airport swamped / calls. 3 silver saucers over town. / Athens Banner Herald. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HITT, Michael D: GEORGIA'S AERIAL PHENOMENON 1947-1987 Self published 1999. ref. Jan Aldrich. (Index 2) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1026 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "231", **HatchDesc:** "ATHENS,GA:AIRPORT SWAMPED/CALLS:3 SLVR SCRS OVR TOWN:/Athens Banner Herald", **LatLong:** "33.461113 -83.377782", **LatLongDMS:** "33:27:40 N 83:22:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.461113,-83.377782)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5743 (C4823BB8) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 22:50 **Location:** TACOMA, WA **Description:** 2 separate observer(s). 2 saucers / V-formation. Extremely fast. 2 saucers with vapor trails over McChord Air Force Base. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 689) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1027 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "115", **HatchDesc:** "TACOMA,WA:2 SEP.OBS:2 SCRS/VFORMn:XFAST::2 SCRS W/VAPOR TRAILS OVR McCHORD AFB", **LatLong:** "47.216669 -122.416673", **LatLongDMS:** "47:13:00 N 122:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.216669,-122.416673)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5744 (EA55A67E) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** WESSINGTON SPRS, SD **Description:** Farmer Barta. 1+2 blasts. 2' orange globe hovers over yard. Vanishes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 687) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1028 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "514", **HatchDesc:** "WESSINGTON Sprs,SD:FARMER BARTA:1+2 BLASTS:2'ORG GLOBE HVRS OVR YARD:VANISHES", **LatLong:** "44.088891 -98.572227", **LatLongDMS:** "44:05:20 N 98:34:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.088891,-98.572227)", **State/Prov:** "South Dakota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5745 (D8586AEE) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Time:** ~23:00 **Location:** STOCKHOLM, SWD **Description:** Classic flying saucer seen over city. / Aftonbladet Daily. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 66) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1029 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "STOCKHOLM,SWD:CLASSIC FLYING SCR SEEN OVR CITY:/AFTONBLADET DAILY:NFD", **LatLong:** "59.366669 18.000001", **LatLongDMS:** "59:22:00 N 18:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/59.366669,18.000001)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5746 (AAD00A0D) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Location:** Willow Springs, IL **Description:** Robert Meegan and his 14 year old son John saw "13 round objects all going east, single file in a straight line (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_361 ### Event 5747 (A201434A) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Location:** Tacoma, WA **Description:** Bloecher's case 547, from his book, is a humanoid report. (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_362 ### Event 5748 (6BFD3FB0) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Location:** Shreveport (7 miles N of ), LA **Description:** Military aircraft pilot Harston saw a bright silver object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_363 ### Event 5749 (9EA8A2E2) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Location:** Lakeland, FL **Description:** Five "Turtle-Backed" Objects Headed NE (Sound Heard) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [470707](http://www.nicap.org/470707lakeland%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_364 ### Event 5750 (D9B79BC6) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Location:** Hickam Field, HI **Description:** A bright silver object about the angular size of the moon (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_365 ### Event 5751 (B8AD0D8D) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Location:** Muroc Army Air Field, CA **Description:** Oscillating Sphere Observed By Test Pilot & Others (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [470707](http://www.nicap.org/470707murocaaf%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_366 ### Event 5752 (D970CC6C) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Location:** Arlington, VA **Description:** Bet. 10:30 and 11 p.m. (EDT) "blob," the size of a small airplane, reflecting white light (FOIA; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [470707](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/arlington470707dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_367 ### Event 5753 (4D71BF36) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Location:** Phoenix, AZ **Description:** The Rhodes Photo Case (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, Code: I, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [470707](http://www.nicap.org/470707phoenix%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_368 ### Event 5754 (A0E1FA78) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Locations:** Roswell AAF; Andrews AAF; Washington, D.C. **Description:** 2:00 a.m. A special flight \(the first\) leaves Roswell AAF for Andrews AAF in Washington, D.C. Some of the debris and the bodies are on that flight. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [p. 165](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/164/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1013 ### Event 5755 (7D2FD004) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Location:** Roswell **Description:** [Brazel](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9454979/william-ware-brazel) takes [Marcel](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/w/jessemarcel.htm) and [Cavitt](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/177397132/sheridan-wear-cavitt) out to the debris field. It is three-quarters of a mile long and 200–300 feet wide. A gouge starting at the northern end of it extends for 400–500 feet toward the other end. It looks as if something has touched down and skipped along. The largest piece of debris is recovered at the southern edge of the gouge. The debris is as thin as newsprint, but incredibly strong. There is foil that, when crumpled, unfolds itself without a sign of a wrinkle, I-beams that flex slightly and have some symbols on them, and material resembling Bakelite. Marcel and Cavitt walk the perimeter of the field and then range out looking for more details or another crash site but find nothing else. Finally, they return and spend the remainder of the day collecting debris. They load the rear of Marcel’s car and then the jeep carryall driven by Cavitt. About dusk they begin the trip back to Roswell. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Don Schmitt and Kevin D. Randle, “The Roswell Material,” IUR 16, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1991\): 10–11; Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [pp. 27–29](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/28/mode/2up), [165](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/164/mode/2up); Kevin D. Randle, “Don’t Bother Me with the Facts…,” IUR 18, no. 3 \(Jan./Feb. 1993\): 16–17, 24; Robert A. Galganski, “The Roswell Debris: A Quantitative Evaluation of the Project Mogul Hypothesis,” IUR 20, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1995\): 3–6, 23–24; Charles B. Moore, Robert G. Todd, Mark Rodeghier, and Kevin D. Randle, “Project Mogul and the Roswell Crash: An Exchange,” IUR 20, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1995\): 7–9, 19–22; Kevin D. Randle, “Bessie Brazel’s Story,” IUR 20, no. 3 \(May/June 1995\): 3–5, 24; Robert A. Galganski, “Roswell: Connecting the Debris Field and the Impact Site,” IUR 21, no. 2 \(Summer 1996\): 11–17; Robert A. Galganski, “The Glue Explanation Just Won’t Stick,” IUR 22, no. 4 \(Winter 1997–1998\): 3–7; Robert A. Galganski, “An Engineer Looks at the Project Mogul Hypothesis,” IUR 23, no. 2 \(Summer 1998\): 3–6, 32; Thomas J. Carey, “Will the Real Sheridan Cavitt Please Stand Up?” IUR 23, no. 3 \(Fall 1998\): 14–21; Kent Jeffrey, “[Roswell: Anatomy of a Myth,](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/12/jse%5F12%5F1%5Fjeffrey.pdf)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 12, no. 1 \(1998\): 79–101; Michael D. Swords, “[A Different View of ‘Roswell: Anatomy](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/12/jse%5F12%5F1%5Fswords.pdf) [of a Myth,’](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/12/jse%5F12%5F1%5Fswords.pdf)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 12, no. 1 \(1998\): 103–125; Robert M. Wood, “[Critique of](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/12/jse%5F12%5F1%5Fwood.pdf) [‘Roswell: Anatomy of a Myth,’](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/12/jse%5F12%5F1%5Fwood.pdf)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 12, no. 1 \(1998\): 127–140; Thomas J. Carey and Donald R. Schmitt, “Mack Brazel Reconsidered,” IUR 24, no. 4 \(Winter 1999\): 13–19; Robert A. Galganski, The Roswell Debris Field: An Engineer’s Perspective, Fund for UFO Research, 2002; Kevin D. Randle, “[Bessie](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2015/09/bessie-brazel-schreiber-and-roswell.html) [Brazel Schreiber and the Roswell Crash,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2015/09/bessie-brazel-schreiber-and-roswell.html)” A Different Perspective, September 19, 2015 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1014 ### Event 5756 (43E6C9F9) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Locations:** Alamogordo AAF; Kirtland AAF; New Mexico; Washington State **Description:** AMC commander Lieut. Gen [Nathan Twining](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%5FFarragut%5FTwining) unexpectedly flies to Alamogordo AAF and Kirtland AAF in New Mexico, remaining there until July 11. Army Air Forces Commander Gen. [Carl Spaatz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%5FSpaatz) is supposedly “vacationing” in Washington State. He tells reporters he knows nothing about the flying discs. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [p. 165](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/164/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1015 ### Event 5757 (0C75BA5C) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Location:** Shreveport, Louisiana **Description:** A hoax in Shreveport, Louisiana. A 16-inch aluminum disc with smoke coming out of it is found. Army investigators find “Made in USA” on the disc. It is one of many homemade gadgets, weather balloon radar targets, circular saws, and other disc-like debris that people find or make in order to have some fun in the press or with gullible saucer-seekers. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 21; “[Speaking of Pictures: A Rash of Flying Disks Breaks Out over the](https://books.google.com/books?id=YU4EAAAAMBAJ&q=Rash%2Bof%2BFlying%23v%3Dsnippet&q=Rash%20of%20Flying&f=false) [U.S.,](https://books.google.com/books?id=YU4EAAAAMBAJ&q=Rash%2Bof%2BFlying%23v%3Dsnippet&q=Rash%20of%20Flying&f=false)” Life, July 21, 1947, p. 14; ClearIntent, [p. 149](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/148/mode/2up); Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, “Secret Projects and Open Eyes: A Response,” IUR 19, no. 3 \(May/June 1994\): 15–17; Kevin D. Randle, “[The Hoover Memo](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-hoover-memo-again.html) [Again,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-hoover-memo-again.html)” A Different Perspective, July 29, 2015; Maurizio Verga, “[Here They Are! Early Crashes of Flying](https://web.archive.org/web/100/https://cieloinsolito.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/heretheyare.pdf) [Saucers, a Visual History,](https://web.archive.org/web/100/https://cieloinsolito.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/heretheyare.pdf)” Cielo Insolito, no. 6 \(March 2018\): 8–27 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1016 ### Event 5758 (4F641AD4) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Location:** Reno, Nevada **Description:** 9:55 a.m. Newspaper editor John Brackett and his wife Wilma see an object streak across the sky in Reno, Nevada, leaving a trail of bluish-white vapor. It is high in the sky and traveling at about 1,000 mph. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Tiny Speck](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18423646/nevada-reporter-sees-disc/) [Whizzes across Sky Here at Unbelievable Rate of Speed; Many Reno Persons See Small Object,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18423646/nevada-reporter-sees-disc/)” Reno Nevada State Journal, July 8, 1947, p. 14; Bloecher, [pp. III-7–8](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1017 ### Event 5759 (A134AAFF) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Locations:** Elkhart, Wisconsin; Koshkonong **Description:** 11:30 a.m. Flight instructor Kenneth Jones out of Elkhart, Wisconsin, is practicing take-offs and landings with a student near Koshkonong. They watch a disc descending vertically on edge through the alto-cumulus clouds at 6,000 feet, stop at 4,000 feet, assume a horizontal orientation, and fly horizontally for 15 seconds, covering 23 miles at 5,500 mph. At one point it heads straight towards them on a course of about 120°, then stops again \(apparently overhead\) and disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Bloecher, [p. III-11](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm); [Sparks](http://nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](http://nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 22; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-July-7-July-10-SN.pdf) [the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 July 7th–July 10th, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-July-7-July-10-SN.pdf), The Author, 2001, p. 9 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1018 ### Event 5760 (AD47B02E) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Locations:** Toronto; Shreveport, Louisiana; Ellington Field [now Ellington Airport], Houston, Texas **Description:** Gen. [Hoyt Vandenberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg)’s activity log: 1:10 p.m., answers a Toronto Star reporter’s question about possible secret military aircraft. Vandenberg says no AAF planes are looking for discs, but National Guard planes are looking into the discs on their own. 1:50 p.m., Stephen Leo, public relations officer for AF Secretary [Stuart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%5FSymington) [Symington](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%5FSymington)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%5FSymington) calls concerning the Shreveport, Louisiana, incident. 1:55 p.m. Leo and Gen. [Curtis LeMay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis%5FLeMay) discuss the discs. Col. Warren, at Ellington Field \[now Ellington Airport\] in Houston, Texas, calls concerning the Shreveport disc. 4:20 p.m., Col. Warren calls back and says the incident is a hoax. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** David Rudiak, “[Lt. Gen. Hoyt](http://roswellproof.homestead.com/vandenberg.html\#anchor%5F24) [S. Vandenberg and Roswell,](http://roswellproof.homestead.com/vandenberg.html\#anchor%5F24)” Roswell Proof, 2001 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1019 ### Event 5761 (23CE1C28) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Locations:** East Troy, Wisconsin; Eagle; Muskego **Description:** 2:30 p.m. Capt. [Robert J. Southey](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/145990631/robert-j-southey) and [Clem Hackworthy](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/79255728/clement-r-hackworthy) are flying a private aircraft near East Troy, Wisconsin, when they see a fast-moving silver object flying southeast from Eagle to Muskego, covering 17 miles in 20 seconds \(approximately 3,060 mph\). They try to photograph it, but it quickly disappears, then suddenly reappears about 10 miles away. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Bloecher, [pp. III-11–12](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm); [Sparks](http://nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 22; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-July-7-July-10-SN.pdf) [Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 July 7th–July 10th, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-July-7-July-10-SN.pdf), The Author, 2001, p. 9 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1020 ### Event 5762 (FBC6F3C4) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Locations:** Seattle, Washington; Boise, Idaho; Palm Springs, California; Washington State **Description:** A meeting is held in the office of Brig. Gen. [George F. Schulgen](http://www.generals.dk/general/Schulgen/George%5FFrancis/USA.html)[,](http://www.generals.dk/general/Schulgen/George%5FFrancis/USA.html) chief of the Requirements Intelligence branch of Army Air Force Intelligence. It is decided to investigate five flying disc incidents with “qualified” observers and obtain detailed statements: two in Seattle, Washington; one in Boise, Idaho; one in Palm Springs, California; and one in Washington State. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-July-7-July-10-SN.pdf) [July 7th–July 10th, Supplemental Notes,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-July-7-July-10-SN.pdf) The Author, 2001, p. 16 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1021 ### Event 5763 (9144F1E3) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Location:** Zelienople, Pennsylvania **Description:** [John Philip Bessor](https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/john-philip-bessor-as-a-fortean) of Zelienople, Pennsylvania, writes to the US Air Force to offer his own theory that UFOs are “a form of space animal, or creature, of a highly attenuated \(ectoplasmic?\) substance, capable of materialization and dematerialization, whose propellant is a form of telekinetic energy.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Report from the Readers,” Fate 4, no. 4 \(May/June 1951\): 88; John P. Bessor, “Are the Saucers Space Animals?” Fate 8, no. 12 \(December 1955\): 6–12; Curt Collins, “[The 1947 ET Hypothesis of John P. Bessor,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-1947-et-hypothesis-of-john-p-bessor.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, February 15, 2019 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1022 ### Event 5764 (56A9B2A3) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Location:** Medford, Oregon **Description:** 5:20 p.m. Radar technician David W. Chase watches a disc-shaped object passing overhead at Medford, Oregon. It appears to be flying at 600–700 mph on edge at right angles to the surface of the earth, though following its contours at 500–1,000 feet. The object gives off a bright light. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Bloecher, [p. III-18](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm); Ray Palmer, “New Report on the Flying Saucers,” Fate 4, no. 1 \(January 1951\): 63–81 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1023 ### Event 5765 (F24775A7) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Locations:** Ohio State University; Columbus, Ohio; Olentangy River **Description:** 7:45 p.m. Five students on a practice baseball field at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, see three metallic oval objects flying swiftly and silently in a triangular formation overhead. They seem to be about 10 feet in diameter and are flying east over the Olentangy River. They are out of sight within 10 seconds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Bloecher, [p. II-](https://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionII.htm) [6](https://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionII.htm) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1024 ### Event 5766 (1600D8AF) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Location:** Great Pond near Rome, Maine **Description:** 9:00 p.m. [Orrin Williams](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/130342662/orrin-williams) and his wife [Albertine](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/130342714/albertine-williams)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/130342714/albertine-williams) along with Mr, and Mrs. Cecil Grant, are fishing on Great Pond near Rome, Maine, when they see a “spinning rocket” come out of the southern sky and stop abruptly overhead, where it hovers as a ball of fire. A similar object comes from the east, passing close by the first one. A third object approaches from the east and stops by the first object before moving on. The first object then retraces its path to the south at high speed. The display lasts several minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Bloecher, [p. II-10](https://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionII.htm) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1025 ### Event 5767 (7A4EAC3B) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Locations:** Phoenix, Arizona; Hamilton Army Airfield; Novato, California; James E. McDonald **Description:** 9:00 p.m. [William A. Rhodes](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2010/10/beyond-rhodes-photographs.html)[,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2010/10/beyond-rhodes-photographs.html) an independent scientist and inventor in Phoenix, Arizona, takes two photos of a dark, heel-shaped disc at his home at 4333 N. 14th Street. The photos are reproduced in the July 9 issue of the Arizona Republic. A few weeks later, an Army Air Corps Intelligence officer from Hamilton Army Airfield \[now closed\] in Novato, California, visits Rhodes and takes the prints and negatives, but Rhodes is unable to get them back. However, [Kenneth Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold) obtains them on a later visit to Hamilton, and they wind up with [James E.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) [McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) Rhodes actually has an informal top-secret clearance because of his invention of a degaussing device for ships. He dies in 2007 at the age of 90. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[The Rhodes Photo Case](http://www.nicap.org/470707phoenix%5Fdir.htm)”; Bloecher, [p. IV-4](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIV.htm); Michael D. Swords, “[Can You Learn Anything from UFO Photos, Part Two,](http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com/2012/07/can-you-learn-anything-from-ufo-photos.html)” The Big Study, July 5, 2012; Swords 53, 54 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1026 ### Event 5768 (5021CC52) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Locations:** Western Avenue; Manchester, Maine; Cobboseecontee Lake **Description:** 9:30 p.m. Charles Crockett, 15, is walking along Western Avenue in Manchester, Maine, when he sees a cluster of luminous objects to the west, just above the treetops on the north end of Cobboseecontee Lake. They are still visible when he arrives home and alerts his mother and grandmother. Possible searchlight beams. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[‘Flying](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101847782/the-bangor-daily-news/) [Saucers’ Still Seen](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101847782/the-bangor-daily-news/) [Flitting](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101847866/the-bangor-daily-news/) [in N.E. Sky,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101847916/the-bangor-daily-news/)” Bangor \(Maine\) Daily News, July 8, 1947, pp. 1–2; Bloecher, [p. II-20](https://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionII.htm) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1027 ### Event 5769 (DE54C373) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Location:** Preston Street and Bickels Lane in Louisville, Kentucky **Description:** 10:15 p.m. Louisville Times photographer [Al Hixenbaugh](http://www.nicap.org/docs/1950%5F06%5F26%5FUS%5FKY%5FLouisville%5FHixenbaugh%5FBackground.pdf) is at Preston Street and Bickels Lane in Louisville, Kentucky, when he notices three “fiery balls” in the sky. He takes a 5-second exposure, capturing two of the objects that show as slightly curved streaks. He estimates they are 1–2 miles away, moving at 200 mph, and at an altitude of 1,000–2,000 feet. Robert Delara of 2745 West Market Street also sees the three objects shooting northward. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Louisville \(Ky.\) Times, July 8, 1947; “[‘Flying Liver Pills’ over Kentucky,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92678766/)” Cincinnati Enquirer, July 9, 1947, p. 1; Bloecher, [pp. IV-4–5](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIV.htm); “[La Fotografía \(y la Pélicula\) Al Hixenbaugh 1,](http://marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/2017/02/la-fotografa-y-la-pelcula-al-hixenbaugh-1/)” Marcianitos Verdes, February 5, 2017 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1028 ### Event 5770 (4E580A6B) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Description:** The radio announcer at Mexican radio station XEFI, a man named Duran, reported the he had sighted five disc-shaped objects over Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico and that two had been sighted over Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 86, citing Panama City Star, July 8, 1947 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3897 ### Event 5771 (449DE2BB) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Description:** At three o'clock in the afternoon in Amfreville-la-Mi-Voie, Seine-Maritime department, France a small disc-shaped UFO landed on the banks of the Seine River. Two short humanoids, about three feet tall, got out and shortly later reboarded the craft. The UFO lifted off silently, and flew off to the southeast. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1000, citing Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 50 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3898 ### Event 5772 (AB6633D6) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Description:** At 10:35 a.m. in San Carlos, San Mateo County, California 30 round silvery objects circled over one spot for two minutes at 2,000 feet altitude. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Sacramento Bee, July 7, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case # 595 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3899 ### Event 5773 (AFBE90F5) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Description:** During the afternoon in Tacoma, Washington three male witnesses reported that a disc-shaped object landed on their neighbor's roof. Several "little people" emerged, but disappeared when reporters approached. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Tacoma News Tribune, July 8, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case # 547 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3900 ### Event 5774 (F39740F8) **Date:** 7/7/1947 **Description:** On this afternoon at around 3:30 p.m. William Rhodes was working in his backyard in Phoenix, Arizona when he heard a whooshing sound and saw an unusual looking, gray flying craft in the sky. He grabbed his camera and took two photographs. The flying object was twenty to thirty feet long, crescent-shaped, and flying at an estimated 1,000 feet altitude. It circled in the east for about 30 seconds. The photograph quality was sharp and clear, although the reproduction below is from the newspaper that first published it and suffers from deterioration in quality due to age and print technique. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Arizona Republic, July 9, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case # 632; Edward U. Condon (editor), Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 508; APRO Bulletin, December 1977, p. 8; NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1978, p. 4; Kevin D. Randle & Russ Estes, Spaceships of the Visitors, p. 95 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3901 ### Event 5775 (8F976BB3) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Location:** Roswell, NM **Description:** Intel. Officer Maj. Marcel reports Roswell Army Air Force captures a downed flying saucer near Roswell NM **Type:** ufological event **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-B, J2, RECOVERY) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_252 ### Event 5776 (E8BFE3DA) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Location:** Roswell, NM **Description:** Roswell radio announcement, debris being flown by special plane to Wright Field **Type:** ufological event **Reference:** [YouTube](https://youtu.be/zUlCBY-K9A8) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_253 ### Event 5777 (E0B2FEA5) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Location:** Dallas, TX **Description:** FBI Dallas teletype to Director: flying saucer crashed and was recovered near Roswell NM **Type:** teletype **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A, RECOVERY) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_254 ### Event 5778 (B9C28A4E) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Description:** Urgent FBI Memo from Gen. Roger Ramey concerning “flying disc information”: “Maj. Curtan, HQ 8th AF, telephonically advised this office that an object purporting to be a flying disc was recovered near Roswell, N.M., this date...Information provided this office because of national interest in case and fact that (certain media sources) attempting to break the story of location of disc today...(the recovered disc was) being transported to Wright Field by special plane for examination...Maj. Curtan advised would request Wright Field to advise (FBI) results of examination.” **Type:** memo **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_255 **See also:** 7/2/1947 **See also:** 7/7/1947 ### Event 5779 (24C516EE) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Description:** United Press reports on a phone call to Einstein: “absolutely no comment”, claimed no knowledge **Type:** newspaper article **Reference:** [Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/108417286/einstein-silent-on-theory-relative-to/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_256 ### Event 5780 (D39C1633) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Description:** BSRA (Borderlands) Memorandum found in official FBI UFO files, addressed to “important aeronautical and military authorities, to a number of public officials” that “a serious situation may develop at any time with regard to the flying saucers”. “If one of these should be attacked, the attacking plane will be almost surely destroyed.” “Part of the discs carry crews, others are under remote control.” “Heat resistant metal or alloy not yet known.” **Type:** FOIA release **Reference:** [Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/early-contactees-and-ufologists-millen-cooke-gerald-light-and-meade-layne-1ee70154f31a) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_257 ### Event 5781 (0FDCA859) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Description:** Newspaper article in England: Maury Island incident fragments sent for analysis to metallurgists at Chicago University **Type:** Newspaper article **Reference:** [Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107820309/metallic-rain/) **Reference:** [Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107820455/harold-dahl-metal/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_258 ### Event 5782 (ACC687FB) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Location:** USA, Cook Springs (Alabama) **Description:** (Translated from French) At 7:05am a private pilot observed something strange while flying over Cook Springs: a circular object with a polished mirror-like surface silhouetted against the mountains. He attempted to get closer, but the UFO's speed was so great that it quickly disappeared. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 57) July 8, 1947; Muroc Air Base, California. 9:30 a.m. PDT. Witnesses: lst Lt. Joseph McHenry, T/Sgt Ruvolo, S/Sgt Nauman, Miss Janette Scotte. They observed for an indeterminate amount of time two silver, circular, metallic-appearing objects flying in large circles, later one of the two objects reduced its circular trajectory to a smaller circle. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner) July 9, 1947 (9??) Muroc Base, Mojave (California). At 9:30 in the morning at the canteen, an officer of the cantonment said: "I will believe in these discs when one has been shown to me." He went out and... first saw two moving at approx. 500 km/h at 2500 m altitude on a heading of 320°. He called other witnesses. Shortly afterwards he saw a third, on the same heading, describing reduced circles in a rigid plane. **Reference:** J. Allen HYNEK: "New Report on UFOs" - Belfond 1979, pp. 95 to 97. **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1258 ### Event 5783 (9E1007AB) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Location:** USA, Rogers Dry Lake (near Murdoc) **Description:** (Translated from French) On July 8, 1947, at 11:50, we were in an observation car in Sector 3, Rogers Dry Lake, to follow two P-82s and an A-26, flying at 6000 meters which were to carry out an ejection seat test. We noticed a round object, the color of aluminum, which at first seemed to us to be a parachute. Our first impression was that an ejection seat had been prematurely ejected, but this was not the case. The object was below 6000 m and was falling at a speed about three times greater than that of the test parachute which we saw open 30 seconds after the discovery of the object. As it fell, it was moving slightly to the north of true west, against the prevailing wind. We were unable to determine the horizontal speed but it seemed to us to be lower than the maximum speed of an F-80. When the object reached an altitude allowing us to observe its lateral silhouette, it presented itself in a clearly oval shape with, at the top, two projections which could be thin ailerons or caboches. They crossed each other at intervals, suggesting a slow rotation or oscillation.” (July 8, 1947) **Reference:** Edward J. Ruppelt: “Face aux Soucoupes Volantes”, ed. France-Empire 1958, p.35, 36 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1259 ### Event 5784 (7627D5C9) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Location:** USA, Seattle **Description:** (Translated from French) At 3:30 pm a very bright, oval-shaped object topped with a "glass" dome was flying in a north-west direction above the city. **Reference:** "UFO's: A century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 62 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1260 ### Event 5785 (2D1D6BAB) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Location:** USA, 40 miles from Muroc **Description:** (Translated from French) 40 miles south of Muroc, at 3:50 PM a P-51 pilot at an altitude of 20,000 feet saw an object without wings or tail, "flat and reflecting nature". He attempted to intercept it twice but could not reach the same altitude. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 58 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1261 ### Event 5786 (06C06C3A) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Location:** USA, Norfolk (Virginia) **Description:** (Translated from French) B. Turrentine saw and photographed a UFO in the shape of a rugby ball spinning and swaying. Witnesses were extensively questioned by the FBI. **Reference:** doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee translated by Jean Sider **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1262 ### Event 5787 (E70521B4) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Location:** USA, Mt. Baldy (California) **Description:** (Translated from French) At 3:50 PM Lt. A.E. Mormant, flying his fighter at 20,000 feet, saw a flat, wingless, tailless UFO moving at 35,000 feet. **Reference:** doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee, translated by Jean Sider **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1264 ### Event 5788 (1AFC8A54) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Location:** USA, Corapeak (North Carolina) **Description:** (Translated from French) A farmer observed a disk shaped like a huge pancake, something like a ray without a tail. The UFO seemed to be at 2000 feet altitude, flying at about 800 mph and had an estimated diameter of 20 or 30 feet. The object had two window-shaped openings. The body seemed to be metallic and had the luster and polish of stainless steel or aluminum. When the object had passed the witness, he heard for 3 or 4 seconds an almost inaudible sound. The object had several protuberances shaped like pipes and these emitted steam. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 62 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1265 ### Event 5789 (3894FE49) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At the secret base of [Muroc](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/ZonesMilitaires.html\#Muroc), 1st Lieutenant Joseph McHenry, Sergeant/T Ruvolo, Sergeant/S Nauman and Janette Scotte, all from the [USAF](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/USAF.html), observed 2 \(6?\) apparently metallic, silver-looking objects moving in a large circular curve. Later, one of the objects moved in a smaller circle. The base officers observed the flight of some luminous disk-shaped objects. The craft, flying against the wind, crossed at about 300 miles/h at about 8000 feet. Before this day, engineers were called away from their aircraft maintenance tasks to observe a metallic saucer hovering above the base. \[ (9:30) **Reference:** Case [Blue Book](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/BlueBook.html) \#50, unsolved **Reference:** [GEPAN](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/GEPAN.html), Information Note \#3, 1981 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_662 ### Event 5790 (4720AA6E) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Military personnel establish a security perimeter around the crash site, and put [Brazel](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/BrazelWilliamW.html) under guard. They discover a second crash site 4 km southeast of the first. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_663 ### Event 5791 (4B7F95B0) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) [Barney Barnett](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/temoins.html\#BarnettBarney) and 4 other archaeologists stumble upon the new site just minutes before the military arrives. They claim to have discovered a large gray metallic object and 4 other extraterrestrial bodies, about 1.15 m in size. They are excluded from the area upon the military's arrival. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_664 ### Event 5792 (2ABB70C7) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The Lieutenant [Haut](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/militaires.html\#HautWalter), press officer of the Roswell base, announces to the press agencies, on the orders of Colonel [Blanchard](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/militaires.html\#BlanchardWilliam), the recovery of a disk wreckage by Major [Jesse Marcel](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/MarcelJesseA.html). **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_665 ### Event 5793 (19165023) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In New Mexico, C. T. Zohm, a Navy engineer, along with 3 technicians observed several discs. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_666 ### Event 5794 (615FCFC6) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In the evening, General [Ramey](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/RameyRogerM.html) tells the press that his specialists made a mistake, and that it was a weather balloon. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_667 ### Event 5795 (D5EDC034) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Location:** Abadan, Iran **Description:** **IRAN REPORTS BORDER EXPLOSIONS.** Strong, starlike bodies were seen at this point and also at Shosef and Saebishheh, near the Afghan frontier. After cavorting about the sky, the objects exploded loudly, leaving only a cloud of smoke. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256) **Source:** Scully, **ID:** Scully_2 ### Event 5796 (5151C5D5) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Location:** Muroc Air Field **Description:** Four separate sightings of metallic, disc-shaped craft. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973_, by Richard Dolan](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/mode/2up) **Source:** Dolan, **ID:** Dolan_22 ### Event 5797 (F6EB318F) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Location:** HAMILTON AIR FORCE BASE, CA **Description:** Sgt. Baker and several. 3 round rolling objects faster / P80 planes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 121) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1030 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "HAMILTON AFB,CA:Sgt BAKER+SVRL:3 ROUND ROLLING OBJs FASTER/P80 PLANES", **LatLong:** "38.066668 -122.583339", **LatLongDMS:** "38:04:00 N 122:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.066668,-122.583339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5798 (F07C3ABB) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Location:** FREMONT, OH **Description:** 3 observer(s). Brightly lit orange disk north going quickly south over house. No further details / Register-Star 8 July. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 94) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1031 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "194", **HatchDesc:** "FREMONT,OH:3 OBS:BRIGHTLY LIT ORG.DISK N>>S OVER HOUSE:NFD/Register-Star 8JLY", **LatLong:** "41.350002 -83.122226", **LatLongDMS:** "41:21:00 N 83:07:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.350002,-83.122226)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5799 (2A7307CF) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Location:** SAN JUAN, PR **Description:** 2+2 saucers / pairs. Northeast going quickly southwest then going quickly south. News Report / Mexico. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 95) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1032 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "SAN JUAN,PR:2+2 SCRS/PAIRS:NE >> SW then >>S:NEWS Report/MEXICO:NFD", **LatLong:** "18.433334 -66.133336", **LatLongDMS:** "18:26:00 N 66:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/18.433334,-66.133336)", **State/Prov:** "Puerto Rico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5800 (60F48EE8) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Location:** NEAR BARNSDALL, OK **Description:** 2 / car. Soft white 50cm disk scoots along just over ground. Maneuvers. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 423) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1033 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "235", **HatchDesc:** "nr BARNSDALL,OK:2/CAR:SOFT WHT 50cm DISK SCOOTS ALONG JUST OVR GND:MNVRS", **LatLong:** "36.566668 -96.166671", **LatLongDMS:** "36:34:00 N 96:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.566668,-96.166671)", **RelAlt:** "2", **State/Prov:** "Oklahoma", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5801 (A662265A) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Time:** 02:10 **Location:** SOUTH / CAMBRIDGE, MA **Description:** Salesman. 5 disks straight and level 300mph going quickly north. Thousands / Ft. altitude. Vapor trails. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 718) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1034 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "9", **HatchDesc:** "S/CAMBRIDGE,MA:SALESMAN:5 DISKS S/L 300mph >>N:1000s/FT ALT:VAPOR TRAILS", **LatLong:** "42.350002 -71.116670", **LatLongDMS:** "42:21:00 N 71:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.350002,-71.116670)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5802 (241CE599) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Time:** 07:10 **Location:** COOK SPRINGS, AL **Description:** 1 / private plane. Flash. 1M saucer seen against mountain. Lost / haze. / r187#702. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 95) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1035 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "169", **HatchDesc:** "COOK SPRINGS,AL:1/Pvt.PLANE:FLASH:1M SCR SEEN AGAINST MTN:LOST/HAZE:/r187#702", **LatLong:** "33.583335 -86.416671", **LatLongDMS:** "33:35:00 N 86:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.583335,-86.416671)", **State/Prov:** "Alabama", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5803 (F8947C5D) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Time:** 07:50 **Location:** 2 MILES NORTH / DE LAMERE, ND **Description:** Farmer Miller. Bright shiny circular object going quickly southeast fast. Straight and level trajectory. Brief. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 701) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1036 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "325", **HatchDesc:** "2mi N/De LAMERE,ND:FARMER MILLER:BRITE SHINY CIRC.OBJ >>SE FAST:S/L TRAJ:brief", **LatLong:** "46.300002 -97.350005", **LatLongDMS:** "46:18:00 N 97:21:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.300002,-97.350005)", **State/Prov:** "North Dakota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5804 (23C57F17) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Time:** 08:20 **Location:** YUMA, AZ **Description:** Highway Department men. 2 silver saucers going northeast fast and silent / high altitude. Single file. / r111p20. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 95) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1037 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "50", **HatchDesc:** "YUMA,AZ:Hwy.Dept.MEN:2 SLVR SCRS >NE FAST+SLNT/HI ALT:SINGLE FILE:/r111p20", **LatLong:** "32.716668 -114.616672", **LatLongDMS:** "32:43:00 N 114:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.716668,-114.616672)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5805 (09EA0B0D) **Date:** 7/8/1947? **Time:** ~09:00 **Location:** RED BAY, AL **Description:** Private pilot. Near collision with silver disk! Shoots away. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 438) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1038 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "190", **HatchDesc:** "RED BAY,AL:Pvt.PILOT:nr COLLISION W/SLVR DISK!:SHOOTS AWAY:NFD", **LatLong:** "34.438891 -88.133338", **LatLongDMS:** "34:26:20 N 88:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.438891,-88.133338)", **State/Prov:** "Alabama", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5806 (635AD1D5) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Time:** 09:10 **Location:** CHICAGO, IL **Description:** 3 separate report(s) to 9 July going southwest. Up to 5 domed saucers. Swish. Hover. Spin and speed away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RANDLE, Kevin & SCHMITT,Donald: UFO CRASH at ROSWELL; Avon Books, NY 1991. 327pp. (Index 23) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1039 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "180", **HatchDesc:** "CHICAGO,IL:3 SEP.RPTS to 9JLY>SW:UP TO 5 DOMED SCRS:SWISH:HVR:SPIN+SPEED AWAY", **LatLong:** "41.866669 -87.650004", **LatLongDMS:** "41:52:00 N 87:39:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.866669,-87.650004)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5807 (898F5892) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Time:** 09:30 **Location:** MUROC AB, CA **Description:** 3 military observer(s). 2+1 saucers / series. Circle. Going quickly west across wind / 300+mph. 8K' altitude. / r55p95. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 433) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1040 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "710", **HatchDesc:** "MUROC AB,CA:3 MIL OBS:2+1 SCRS/SERIES:CCL:>>W ACRS WIND/300+mph:8K'ALT:/r55p95", **LatLong:** "34.883335 -117.916672", **LatLongDMS:** "34:53:00 N 117:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.883335,-117.916672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5808 (55B0B39A) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Time:** ~10:00 **Location:** DENVER, CO **Description:** Many observer(s). 3 groups / saucer from west scatter all over/all about city center. All going quickly west again. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 671) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1041 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "180", **Elev:** "1578", **HatchDesc:** "DENVER,CO:MANY OBS:3 GRPS/SCR fm WEST SCATTER ALLO CITY CENTER:ALL >>W AGAIN", **LatLong:** "39.738891 -104.983338", **LatLongDMS:** "39:44:20 N 104:59:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.738891,-104.983338)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5809 (8D451EBC) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** CARRIZOZO, NM **Description:** 5 pilots / field. Saucer feathers down. Shoots up going quickly north. Seen 10 second(s) only. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLITZ, Charles & MOORE, William: The ROSWELL INCIDENT; Putnam 1980 & Berkley Books 1988. (Index 29) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1042 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1654", **HatchDesc:** "CARRIZOZO,NM:5 PILOTS/FIELD:SCR FEATHERS DOWN:SHOOTS UP >>N:seen 10sec only", **LatLong:** "33.638890 -105.877783", **LatLongDMS:** "33:38:20 N 105:52:40 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.638890,-105.877783)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5810 (343E0A19) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Time:** 10:00? **Location:** CORAPEAKE, NC **Description:** Farmer. 8M thin metallic disk going [to] 1200kph / 600M altitude. Windows. Steams / pipes! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 94) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1043 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "CORAPEAKE,NC:FARMER:8M THIN MTLC DISK >1200kph/600M alt:WINDOWS:STEAMS/PIPES!", **LatLong:** "36.533335 -76.566670", **LatLongDMS:** "36:32:00 N 76:34:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.533335,-76.566670)", **RelAlt:** "600", **State/Prov:** "North Carolina", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5811 (31FF0FED) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Time:** 10:20 **Location:** PORTLAND, OR **Description:** 2 separate observer(s). 1 disk going [to] over railroad/railway yards. Going quickly south. High altitude. Back / 1400-1430h. Going southeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 719) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1044 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "PORTLAND,OR:2 SEP.OBS:1 DISK > OVR RR YARDS:>>S:HI ALT::BACK/1400-1430h:>SE", **LatLong:** "45.500002 -122.666673", **LatLongDMS:** "45:30:00 N 122:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.500002,-122.666673)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5812 (9AB053C8) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Time:** 11:00? **Location:** DOUGLAS AND TUCSON, AZ **Description:** 2+3 observer(s). 25' saucer west going east. Changes shape slow. Reflects sun. / r187#730. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LORENZEN, Coral: FLYING SAUCERS, the Starting Evidence; Signet Books, NY 1962 & 1966. 278pp. Originally "The Great F. S. Hoax". (Index 18) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1045 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "717", **HatchDesc:** "DOUGLAS+TUCSON,AZ:2+3 OBS:25'SCR W>E:CHANGES SHAPE SLOW:REFLECTS SUN:/r187#730", **LatLong:** "31.344446 -109.544450", **LatLongDMS:** "31:20:40 N 109:32:40 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.344446,-109.544450)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5813 (43A19869) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Time:** 11:20 **Location:** STEWARTSVILLE, MO **Description:** 3 observer(s). 4 metallic disks going west / 150M altitude. Tilt side to side. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 436) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1046 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "292", **HatchDesc:** "STEWARTSVILLE,MO:3 OBS:4 MTLC DISKS >W/150M alt:TILT SIDE to SIDE:", **LatLong:** "39.750002 -94.500005", **LatLongDMS:** "39:45:00 N 94:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.750002,-94.500005)", **RelAlt:** "150", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5814 (66E1A842) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Time:** 11:50 **Location:** ROGERS DRY LAKE, CA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #1. F51 pilot and ground crew. Large silent silver saucer going quickly northwest. Wind going east! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 21) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1047 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "100", **Elev:** "700", **HatchDesc:** "ROGERS DRY LAKE,CA:BBK#1:F51 PILOT+GND CREW:LRG SLNT SLVR SCR>>NW:WIND > E!", **LatLong:** "34.866668 -117.866672", **LatLongDMS:** "34:52:00 N 117:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.866668,-117.866672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5815 (E48A3BCB) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** HOUSTON, TX **Description:** Saucer lands. 2' man / large head shakes hands / mariner and takes off. / r15#21. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 447) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1048 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "2", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "HOUSTON,TX:SCR LANDS:2'MAN/LRG HEAD SHAKES HANDS/MARINER+TAKES OFF:/r15#21", **LatLong:** "29.766668 -95.400005", **LatLongDMS:** "29:46:00 N 95:24:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.766668,-95.400005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 5816 (48DE9888) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** SPOKANE, WA **Description:** 10+observer(s). Group / saucers. 1 breaks away and flips. Black / 1 side and silver / other side. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 732) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1049 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "600", **HatchDesc:** "SPOKANE,WA:10+OBS:GROUP/SCRS:1 BREAKS AWAY+FLIPS:BLACK/1 SIDE+SLVR/OTHER SIDE", **LatLong:** "47.683336 -117.400006", **LatLongDMS:** "47:41:00 N 117:24:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.683336,-117.400006)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5817 (509B05CE) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** NORFOLK, VA **Description:** Ovoid rocks and spins. Small objects follow. Disks going north. Photographs. FBI. / r171p93+MJ#121. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Newspaper account: George Hebert in Norfolk (VA) Ledger-Dispatch for 9 July1947. On file here: NORFOLK47.TXT **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1050 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "NORFOLK,VA:OVOID ROCKS+SPINS:sml objs folo:DISKS >N:fotos:FBI:/r171p93+MJ#121", **LatLong:** "36.833335 -76.266670", **LatLongDMS:** "36:50:00 N 76:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.833335,-76.266670)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5818 (30962641) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Time:** 12:10 **Location:** ST. LOUIS, MO **Description:** Teacher / former skeptic. Pink saucer with dark spot / center. Fast / 5-10K' altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 711) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1051 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "137", **HatchDesc:** "St.LOUIS,MO:TEACHER/FORMER SKEPTIC:PINK SCR W/DARK SPOT/CENTER:FAST/5-10K'alt", **LatLong:** "38.650002 -90.216671", **LatLongDMS:** "38:39:00 N 90:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.650002,-90.216671)", **RelAlt:** "2000", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5819 (C498BA80) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Time:** 12:10 **Location:** PHOENIX, AZ **Description:** 30+observer(s). 3 metallic-glassy disks going west against wind. Play in and out / clouds. Spin. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 437) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1052 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "320", **HatchDesc:** "PHOENIX,AZ:30+OBS:3 MTLC-GLASSY DISKS >W AGAINST WIND:PLAY IN+OUT/CLOUDS:SPIN", **LatLong:** "33.466668 -112.033339", **LatLongDMS:** "33:28:00 N 112:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.466668,-112.033339)", **RelAlt:** "99", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5820 (9C6DB56B) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** SHINGLE SPRINGS, CA **Description:** Don Barter and wife and others. ~50 disks seen. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 740) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1053 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "433", **HatchDesc:** "SHINGLE SPRINGS,CA:DON BARTER+WIFE+OTHERS:~50 DISKS SEEN:NFD:", **LatLong:** "38.666669 -120.900006", **LatLongDMS:** "38:40:00 N 120:54:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.666669,-120.900006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5821 (90ECBCAA) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Time:** 13:00 **Location:** SPOKANE, WA **Description:** Naval student pilot. Shiny 1M disk with hole / center at 500' altitude. Low speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 735) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1054 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "600", **HatchDesc:** "SPOKANE,WA:NVL STUDENT PILOT:SHINY 1M DISK W/HOLE/CENTER @500'alt:LO SPEED", **LatLong:** "47.666669 -117.416672", **LatLongDMS:** "47:40:00 N 117:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.666669,-117.416672)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5822 (31B580EE) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Time:** 13:00 **Location:** AVALON, CA **Description:** Hundreds / HIQ. observer(s). 3+3 saucers 850mph going south over island. Photographs going [to] mainland. / r187#734. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 431) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1055 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "9", **HatchDesc:** "AVALON,CA:100s/HIQ.OBS:3+3 SCRS 850mph >S OVR ISLAND:FOTOS>MAINLAND:/r187#734", **LatLong:** "33.344446 -118.327783", **LatLongDMS:** "33:20:40 N 118:19:40 W", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.344446,-118.327783)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5823 (6DC9A19F) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** LOS ALTOS, CA **Description:** Lady and 2 boys. 8 disks / 3 formations going quickly south toward(s) Los Gatos. See Redwood City. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 200) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1056 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "50", **HatchDesc:** "LOS ALTOS,CA:LADY+2 BOYS:8 DISKS/3 FORMns >>S twrd LOS GATOS:see Redwood City", **LatLong:** "37.383335 -122.116672", **LatLongDMS:** "37:23:00 N 122:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.383335,-122.116672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5824 (231B9EBA) **Date:** 7/8/1947 (approximate) **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** COURTENAY, BC **Description:** Moon-size semi translucent saucer hovers / edge over airport as clouds pass. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 529) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1057 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "14", **HatchDesc:** "COURTENAY,BC:MOONSIZE SEMI XLUCENT SCR HVRS/EDGE ovr AIRPORT as clouds pass:", **LatLong:** "49.688891 -124.988895", **LatLongDMS:** "49:41:20 N 124:59:20 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.688891,-124.988895)", **State/Prov:** "British Columbia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5825 (D75A53C5) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Time:** 13:50 **Location:** SACRAMENTO, CA **Description:** 1+several kids. Shiny disk maneuvers / 1 L'alt going quickly north. Spirals going up. Levels and going quickly north and away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 742) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1058 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "7", **HatchDesc:** "SACRAMENTO,CA:1+SVRL KIDS:SHINY DISK MNVRS/1L'alt>>N:SPIRALS↑:LEVELS+>>N+AWAY", **LatLong:** "38.600002 -121.466672", **LatLongDMS:** "38:36:00 N 121:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.600002,-121.466672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5826 (10BC21BD) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Time:** ~14:00 **Location:** REDWOOD CITY, CA **Description:** 3 observer(s). 8 saucers in formation going south / high altitude / groups / 4+3+1. / R. C. Times Gazette. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 200) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1059 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "REDWOOD CITY,CA:3 OBS:8 SCRS/FORMn >S/HIGH ALT/GROUPS/4+3+1:/R.C.Times Gazette", **LatLong:** "37.472224 -122.233339", **LatLongDMS:** "37:28:20 N 122:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.472224,-122.233339)", **RelAlt:** "9999", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5827 (ADFB1971) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Time:** 14:30 **Location:** SEATTLE, WA **Description:** 2 observer(s). Very shiny 10' saucer with glass dome. Going up [to] going down [to] motion going quickly northwest over city. / r187#752. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 438) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1060 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "105", **HatchDesc:** "SEATTLE,WA:2 OBS:VSHINY 10' SCR W/GLASS DOME:↑↓ MOTION>>NW OVR CITY:/r187#752", **LatLong:** "47.633336 -122.350006", **LatLongDMS:** "47:38:00 N 122:21:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.633336,-122.350006)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5828 (84754FF9) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Time:** 15:10 **Location:** EAST / WOODBURN, OR **Description:** 6 observer(s). Small silver saucer hides / puffs / smoke. Maneuvers / 30 minutes. Going quickly [to] 2 toward(s) Salem. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 438) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1061 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "57", **HatchDesc:** "E/WOODBURN,OR:6 OBS:SML SLVR SCR HIDES/PUFFS/SMOKE:MNVRS/30mins:>>2 twrd SALEM", **LatLong:** "45.144447 -122.833339", **LatLongDMS:** "45:08:40 N 122:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.144447,-122.833339)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5829 (DE54ECC2) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Time:** 15:50 **Location:** 40 MI SOUTH / MUROC ARMY AIR BASE, CA **Description:** F51 pilot / 20K' altitude. Flat reflective disk. Can't reach-too high. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 22) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1062 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "1500", **HatchDesc:** "40mi S/MUROC AAB,CA:F51 PILOT/20K'alt:FLAT REFLECTIVE DISK:CANT REACH-TOO HIGH", **LatLong:** "34.333335 -117.883339", **LatLongDMS:** "34:20:00 N 117:53:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.333335,-117.883339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5830 (66DB9182) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** ROSWELL, NM **Description:** Army Air Force (AAF) news release. F.S. recovered! (Later) "only a weather balloon". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RANDLE, Kevin & SCHMITT,Donald: UFO CRASH at ROSWELL; Avon Books, NY 1991. 327pp. (Index 21) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1063 **Attributes:** **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "50", **Elev:** "1089", **HatchDesc:** "ROSWELL,NM:AAF NEWS RELEASE:F.S. RECOVERED!:(later) "ONLY A WEATHER BALLOON"", **LatLong:** "33.383335 -104.533338", **LatLongDMS:** "33:23:00 N 104:32:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.383335,-104.533338)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 5831 (1F690D09) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Time:** 16:30 **Location:** NORTH / ALTON, NH **Description:** Vet private pilot and 1. 6M metallic saucer veers going quickly northeast / 400M altitude. 1100kph. / r187#733. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 428) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1064 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "180", **HatchDesc:** "N/ALTON,NH:VET Pvt PILOT+1:6M MTLC SCR VEERS >>NE/400M alt:1100kph:/r187#733", **LatLong:** "43.450002 -71.216670", **LatLongDMS:** "43:27:00 N 71:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.450002,-71.216670)", **RelAlt:** "400", **State/Prov:** "New Hampshire", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5832 (3AB1DC88) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Time:** 17:30 **Location:** PEARL HARBOR, HI **Description:** 100 Navy men. Silver saucer going quickly east / high altitude. (Balloon earlier went going [to] southwest.) **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 769) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1065 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "PEARL HARBOR,HI:100 NAVY MEN:SLVR SCR >>E/HI ALT:(BALLOON EARLIER WENT > SW)", **LatLong:** "21.366668 -157.966674", **LatLongDMS:** "21:22:00 N 157:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/21.366668,-157.966674)", **State/Prov:** "Hawaii", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5833 (25CA1C91) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Time:** 17:50 **Location:** SIOUX CITY, IA **Description:** Several separate observer(s). Shiny aluminum round object going quickly south straight and level / 30 second(s). No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 753) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1066 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "335", **HatchDesc:** "SIOUX CITY,IA:SVRL SEP.OBS:SHINY ALUM.ROUND OBJ >>S S/L /30sec:NFD", **LatLong:** "42.516669 -96.433338", **LatLongDMS:** "42:31:00 N 96:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.516669,-96.433338)", **State/Prov:** "Iowa", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5834 (A5CDAF61) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Time:** ~18:00 **Location:** CALDWELL TO/FROM NOTUS, ID **Description:** 1 / car. 9-12 dark wiggly 'amoebas' going quickly west fast. Fade into distance. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 421) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1067 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "868", **HatchDesc:** "CALDWELL>>W FAST:FADE into DISTANCE", **LatLong:** "43.694447 -116.750006", **LatLongDMS:** "43:41:40 N 116:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.694447,-116.750006)", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5835 (D4DEA8CE) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Time:** 18:20 **Location:** COLUMBUS, KS **Description:** 2 ex-airmen and 3. 6M metallic hemisphere going quickly southwest straight and level. 3km altitude. Slight tilt. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 822) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1068 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "277", **HatchDesc:** "COLUMBUS,KS:2 EX-AIRMEN+3:6M MTLC HEMISPHERE >>SW S/L:3km alt:SLIGHT TILT", **LatLong:** "37.166668 -94.844449", **LatLongDMS:** "37:10:00 N 94:50:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.166668,-94.844449)", **RelAlt:** "3000", **State/Prov:** "Kansas", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 5836 (DD231503) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** VANCOUVER, BC AND SAANICH AND NEW WESTMINSTER **Description:** Many separate observer(s). Flying disks all over area. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 22) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1069 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "72", **HatchDesc:** "VANCOUVER,BC+SAANICH+NEW WESTMINSTER:MANY SEP.OBS:FLYING DISKS ALL OVR AREA", **LatLong:** "48.250002 -123.066673", **LatLongDMS:** "48:15:00 N 123:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.250002,-123.066673)", **State/Prov:** "British Columbia", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5837 (B08F01E9) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** TOPEKA, KS **Description:** 1+3 separate observer(s). Green luminous disk very high and fast. Straight and level going quickly southwest. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 763) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1070 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "300", **HatchDesc:** "TOPEKA,KS:1+3 SEP.OBS:GRN LUMn.DISK VERY HIGH+FAST:S/L >>SW:NFD", **LatLong:** "39.033335 -95.666671", **LatLongDMS:** "39:02:00 N 95:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.033335,-95.666671)", **State/Prov:** "Kansas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5838 (A008C47A) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Time:** ~19:00 **Location:** PHILADELPHIA, PA **Description:** Scores / observer(s). Grey truncated-cone saucer seen all over town. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 758) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1071 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "PHILADELPHIA,PA:SCORES/OBS:GRY TRUNCATED-CONE SCR SEEN ALL OVR TOWN", **LatLong:** "39.966669 -75.183337", **LatLongDMS:** "39:58:00 N 75:11:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.966669,-75.183337)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5839 (B7CE9B09) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Time:** 19:20 **Location:** SAN LEANDRO, CA **Description:** Hundreds / observer(s). Silver disk hovers and maneuvers going up and down. Rises. "Explodes / flames". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 766) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1072 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "SAN LEANDRO,CA:HUNDREDS/OBS:SLVR DISK HVRS+MNVRS ↑+↓:RISES:"EXPLODES/FLAMES"", **LatLong:** "37.683335 -122.150006", **LatLongDMS:** "37:41:00 N 122:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.683335,-122.150006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5840 (E5C7A0C0) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** BRUSHY CREEK, TX **Description:** Numerous observer(s). Row / 12 orbs reforms into circle formation. Going west / Palestine, TX. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 435) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1073 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "142", **HatchDesc:** "BRUSHY CREEK,TX:NMRS OBS:ROW/12 ORBS REFORMS into CIRCLE FORMn:>W/PALESTINE,TX", **LatLong:** "31.950002 -95.600005", **LatLongDMS:** "31:57:00 N 95:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.950002,-95.600005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5841 (B713C6B4) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Time:** 21:00? **Location:** BIG SANDY, TX **Description:** Numerous observer(s). Big disk stops cold. 2nd disk catches up. Both circle going southwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 453) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1074 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "106", **HatchDesc:** "BIG SANDY,TX:NMRS OBS:BIG DISK STOPS COLD:2nd DISK CATCHES UP:BOTH CCL >SW", **LatLong:** "32.583335 -95.111116", **LatLongDMS:** "32:35:00 N 95:06:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.583335,-95.111116)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5842 (5C97A9DF) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Time:** 21:00? **Location:** LONDON, ONT **Description:** Steeplejack Ferguson and family. Flying pancake disk skips along going northwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 97) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1075 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "263", **HatchDesc:** "LONDON,ONT:STEEPLEJACK FERGUSON+FAMILY:FLYING PANCAKE DISK SKIPS ALONG >NW: ", **LatLong:** "43.033335 -81.333337", **LatLongDMS:** "43:02:00 N 81:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.033335,-81.333337)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5843 (635AE8DF) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** MADISON, WI **Description:** 5 teens camping. Flat brilliant disk close to horizon. Southeast going quickly northwest very fast. Straight and level. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 777) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1076 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "259", **HatchDesc:** "MADISON,WI:5 TEENS CAMPING:FLAT BRILL.DISK CLOSE TO HRZN:SE>>NW VFAST:S/L", **LatLong:** "43.066669 -89.416671", **LatLongDMS:** "43:04:00 N 89:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.066669,-89.416671)", **State/Prov:** "Wisconsin", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5844 (4E192728) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Location:** Houston, TX **Description:** Bloecher's case 698, from his book, is a humanoid report. (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_369 ### Event 5845 (563F87A9) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Location:** Los Angeles (near), CA **Description:** F-51 pilot (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_370 ### Event 5846 (4D27F293) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Location:** Muroc AFB, CA **Description:** 9:30 AM: 2 disc-shaped or spherical objects, silver and apparently metallic (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 50) **Reference:** NICAP: [470708](http://www.nicap.org/muroc470708%5F1dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_371 ### Event 5847 (7B25ED21) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Location:** Muroc AFB, CA **Description:** 11:50 AM - Noon: Sightings of discs had impact on EOTS. A round silver or aluminum-white object at first thought to be a parachute was seen (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [470708](http://www.nicap.org/muroc470708%5F2dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_372 ### Event 5848 (7014F623) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Location:** Muroc AFB, CA **Description:** Noon. Others witnesses independently, including Muroc CO Col. Signa A. Gilkey and engineer Major Richard R. Shoop and wife saw from a different location 5-8 miles away (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [470708](http://www.nicap.org/muroc470708%5F3dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_373 ### Event 5849 (CBD72AF9) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Location:** Muroc AFB (40 miles S of), CA **Description:** 4 PM: a flat reflective object with no vertical fin or wings (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_374 ### Event 5850 (ECCA463B) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Time:** 1200 **Location:** Muroc Air Field, California **Description:** An Air Force major observed a metallic object, reflecting sunlight oscillate, go down to ground level, and rise again. Simultaneously it was observed by a captain in Rodgers Dry Lake. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_60 ### Event 5851 (7009837B) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Time:** 9:30 AM PDT **Location:** Muroc Air Base, California **Description:** Witnesses: lst Lt. Joseph McHenry, T/Sgt Ruvolo, S/Sgt Nauman, Miss Janette Scotte. Watched for an unstated length of time while two disc-shaped or spherical objects--silver and apparently metallic--flew a wide circular pattern, and then one of them later flew a tighter circle. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_3 ### Event 5852 (C50ED7B7) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Locations:** Roswell; Corona, New Mexico; Roswell AAF **Description:** 2:00 a.m. [Marcel](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19717326/jesse-antoine-marcel) stops at home in Roswell to show his wife [Viaud](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87431527/viaud-marcel) and son [Jesse Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/116270028/jesse-antoine-marcel) some of the Corona, New Mexico, crash debris. Over the next hour they examine it on the kitchen floor. Marcel Sr. says it is a flying saucer. Marcel is not breaking regulations since nothing has yet been classified. With the help of his son, Marcel loads it into the car to be taken to Roswell AAF. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [p. 166](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/166/mode/2up); Robert J. Durant, “C. B. Moore’s Mogul Tape,” IUR 23, no. 2 \(Summer 1998\): 7–9, 32; Robert A. Galganski, “Probing the Roswell Thin-Strut Debris,” IUR 24, no. 3 \(Fall 1999\): 8–12, 30; Karl T. Pflock, et al., “Debris Details,” IUR 24, no. 4 \(Winter 1999\): 28–29 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1029 ### Event 5853 (514EB39B) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Locations:** base Provost Marshal; Fort Worth, Texas **Description:** 6:00 a.m. [Marcel](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19717326/jesse-antoine-marcel) and [Cavitt](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/177397132/sheridan-wear-cavitt) visit with [Blanchard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FH.%5FBlanchard) in his quarters and tell him what they have seen. Blanchard calls base Provost Marshal Maj. [Edwin D. Easley](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42373439/edwin-dean-easley) and orders him to post guards on the roads around the debris field. Armed guards encircle the primary areas, denying access to anyone without official business. Easley is directed to locate [Brazel](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9454979/william-ware-brazel) and have him escort the MPs to the debris field. Blanchard calls Eighth Air Force headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas, and advises them of the new find. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [p. 166](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/166/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1030 ### Event 5854 (E9391A97) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Locations:** Roswell Army Air Field; Corona in Lincoln County, New Mexico; Roswell; impact site approximately 40 miles north of Roswell **Description:** 7:30 a.m. The regular 9:00 a.m. Roswell Army Air Field staff meeting is moved up 90 minutes. The main topic for discussion is [Marcel](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/w/jessemarcel.htm) and [Cavitt](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/177397132/sheridan-wear-cavitt) reporting an extensive debris field near Corona in Lincoln County, New Mexico, approximately 75 miles northwest of Roswell. A preliminary briefing is provided by [Blanchard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FH.%5FBlanchard) about the separate impact site approximately 40 miles north of Roswell. Samples of wreckage are passed around the table. Pieces that resemble metal foil, paper-thin yet extremely strong, and pieces with unusual markings along their length are handed from man to man, each voicing their opinion. No one is able to identify the crash debris. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [p. 166](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/166/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1031 ### Event 5855 (7F4C2F75) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Locations:** Cavitt; Lewis S. Rickett; Carlsbad, New Mexico; Roswell; impact site north of Roswell **Description:** 9:00 a.m. [Cavitt](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/177397132/sheridan-wear-cavitt) and [Lewis S. Rickett](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47990919/lewis-s%5F-rickett)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47990919/lewis-s%5F-rickett) who has returned from an assignment in Carlsbad, New Mexico, drive a staff car to the impact site north of Roswell, followed by MPs. They are stopped by the guards who are still posted. When they arrive, they see that a small containment of debris remains that Rickett is allowed to examine. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [p. 166](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/166/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1032 ### Event 5856 (AE762C1A) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Locations:** Muroc AFB [now Edwards AFB]; Rogers Dry Lake **Description:** 9:30 a.m.–9:20 p.m. Five separate UFO sightings take place at Muroc AFB \[now Edwards AFB\] in southern California, the Air Force’s aircraft testing and development center. [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) says these are the first sightings “that really made the Air Force take a deep interest in UFOs.” At 9:30 a.m., 1st Lt. [Joseph C. McHenry](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69719785/joseph-charles-mchenry) and three others see three discs heading in a westerly direction. At 10:10 a.m., XP-84 test pilot Maj. [Jowell C. Wise](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/41163741/jowell-clark-wise) sees a yellowish-white object at 10,000 feet traveling about 200 mph. At 11:50 a.m., Maj. [Richard R. Shoop](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/197896549/richard-raymond-shoop), Col. S. A. Gilkey, and Capt. [John P. Stapp](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FStapp) are sitting in an observation truck at Rogers Dry Lake and see a round, white aluminum-like object descending from 20,000 feet for about 90 seconds; it has two knobs or thick fins on the top. Around 4:00 p.m., a pilot flying an F-51 some 40 miles south of Muroc sees a “flat object of a light-reflecting nature”; it is flying too high for him to climb up to it. At 9:20 p.m., spherical objects are again seen in the area, this time at 8,000 feet and moving against the wind at 300 mph. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Observers Sight Saucer over Base](http://www.nicap.org/470708muroc1%5Fdir.htm)”; NICAP, “[Object Observed by Four Witnesses in Observation](http://www.nicap.org/470708muroc2%5Fdir.htm)”; NICAP, “[Object Descends to Ground Level,](http://www.nicap.org/470708muroc3%5Fdir.htm) [Rises](http://www.nicap.org/470708muroc3%5Fdir.htm)”; NICAP, “[Flat Object with Fin Observed by F-51 Pilot](http://www.nicap.org/470708muroc4%5Fdir.htm)”; Bloecher, [pp. III-4, 12](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm); Clark III 783–784; Sparks, pp. 22–23; Patrick Gross, “[The Muroc Army Air Field Incidents](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/muroc.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1033 ### Event 5857 (637B7BD7) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Location:** Roswell, New Mexico **Description:** 11:00 a.m. Col. [William Blanchard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FH.%5FBlanchard) dictates a press release about the Roswell recovery to Public Information Officer Lt. [Walter Haut](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/w/walterhaut.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/w/walterhaut.htm) who delivers the release to radio stations around noon \(the first apparently to Frank Joyce at KGFL\) and the newspapers in Roswell, New Mexico. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [p. 167](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/166/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1034 ### Event 5858 (AFB519AF) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Description:** The Army Air Force issues a press release saying that, based on a “preliminary study,” the flying discs are not secret bacteriological weapons designed by a foreign power, experimental army aircraft, or spaceships. However, Army and Navy officials are not certain what they are. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[‘Saucer’ Dept.—All Designs,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/25102626/numerous-flying-saucer-reports/)” Racine \(Wis.\) Journal Times, July 8, 1947, p. 6 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1035 ### Event 5859 (00959D09) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Description:** Rep. [Lyndon B. Johnson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon%5FB.%5FJohnson) \(D-Tex.\) requests information on the flying discs from the War Department. Someone from Gen. [Carl Spaatz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%5FSpaatz)’s office writes back on July 21 to tell him the Army Air Forces are looking into it, but there is “no indication” that the discs are “new or unusual missiles or aircraft.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 38 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1036 ### Event 5860 (E928832F) **Date:** 7/8/1947? **Locations:** US; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; New Mexico **Description:** British radio and TV entertainer [Hughie Green](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughie%5FGreen) is driving across the US. About 250 miles west of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he hears an announcement that a flying saucer “had crashed in New Mexico and that the Army were moving in to investigate. Later the program was interrupted again and quite a few details were given.” When he arrives at Philadelphia, there is nothing in the newspapers or on the radio. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Star Puzzled,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1955%2CMar-Apr%2CV%201%2CN%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 1, no 1 \(Spring 1955\): 3; Clark III 319; “[Hughie Green: ‘Peripheral Witness to Roswell?’](https://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread892300/pg1)” Above Top Secret forum, October 20, 2012 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1037 ### Event 5861 (DEEAD3A6) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Locations:** Fort Worth Army Air Field, Texas; Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio; Corona, New Mexico; Roswell, New Mexico **Description:** 1:00 p.m. [Marcel](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19717326/jesse-antoine-marcel) goes on a B-29 special flight \(the second\) to Fort Worth Army Air Field, Texas, with the wreckage to report to Gen. [Roger M. Ramey](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/1686367/lt-gen-roger-m-ramey/). The pilot is Lt. Col. [Payne Jennings Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payne%5FJennings%5FJr) with Lt. Col. [Robert](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/81472407/robert-ivan-barrowclough) [Barrowclough](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/81472407/robert-ivan-barrowclough) riding in the bombardier’s seat. Only a few packages are loaded onto the plane. One, a triangular package about two feet long, is wrapped in brown paper. The other three are about the size of shoe boxes. They are so light that it feels as if there is nothing in them. When it lands in Fort Worth, the enlisted soldiers on the plane are ordered to remain aboard until a guard is posted and Marcel gets off taking one of the packages that he has been carrying on his lap. According to Flight Engineer M/Sgt. [Robert Porter](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/w/robertporter.htm), the soldiers go to the mess hall once the guard is posted. The remaining debris is transferred to a B-25 that is flying to Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio. Marcel goes to Ramey’s office and puts the package on his desk. They both go to a map room, where Marcel shows him where the debris was found. When they return to Ramey’s office, Marcel sees that the package he brought has been substituted by a torn-up weather balloon. Ramey proposes a plan that possibly originates from his bosses at the Pentagon. Attention needs to be diverted from the more important impact site north of Roswell by acknowledging the Corona location. Too many civilians are involved, and the press is already alerted. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [pp. 167–168](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/166/mode/2up); Thomas J. Carey and Donald R. Schmitt, “Flight to Fort Worth: From Complicity to Cover-Up,” IUR 25, no. 2 \(Summer 2000\): 7–13, 30 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1038 ### Event 5862 (125C1AD3) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Locations:** Roswell Army Air Field; New Mexico; Chavez County Sheriff's Office **Description:** 2:26 p.m. [Haut](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/w/walterhaut.htm)’s press release about the recovered disc reaches the Associated Press wire. The story announces: “The army air forces here today announced a flying disc had been found” the previous week. It says that the disc is recovered by intelligence officers of the 509th Bomb Group at Roswell Army Air Field \[now closed\], New Mexico, with the help of local ranchers and the Chavez County Sheriff’s Office. It adds that the disc is being loaned by Maj. [Marcel](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19717326/jesse-antoine-marcel) “to higher headquarters.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [p. 167](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/166/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1039 ### Event 5863 (1C5C7AC5) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Location:** Corona, New Mexico **Description:** 2:30 p.m. [Blanchard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FH.%5FBlanchard) decides it is time to “go on leave.” Too many phone callers into the base are asking to speak with him. He, along with a few members of his staff, drive out to the Corona, New Mexico, debris field. Those left at the base are told to inform the reporters that the colonel is now on leave. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [p. 167](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/166/mode/2up); Kevin D. Randle, “When a Leave Is Not a Leave: Col. Blanchard and the Roswell Timeline,” IUR 19, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1994\): 18–20; Karl T. Pflock, “Taking Liberties with a Leave,” IUR 20, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1995\): 18 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1040 ### Event 5864 (B66D1841) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Description:** 2:41 p.m. The press release is put on the United Press wire. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1041 ### Event 5865 (5EDCF060) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Location:** Mount Baldy, California **Description:** 3:50 p.m. An Army National Guard pilot flying near Mount Baldy, California, observes a flat object, reflecting light, about the size of a fighter. He gives chase, attempting to keep it in sight, but is unable to do so. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Air Force Base Intelligence Report, “[Flying Discs,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/garrett%5F073047doc.pdf)” July 30, 1947; Kevin D. Randle, “[Roswell, Nathan Twining, and the](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/roswell-nathan-twining-and-mini-eots.html) [Mini-EOTS,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/roswell-nathan-twining-and-mini-eots.html)” A Different Perspective, October 6, 2014 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1042 ### Event 5866 (727B979C) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Location:** Alton, New Hampshire **Description:** 4:26 p.m. Thomas Dale is flying a small plane at 2,800 feet over Alton, New Hampshire, with passenger Jere Stetson. They see a metallic object some 2 miles away to the east and some 1,500 feet below their aircraft. It approaches them at great speed before veering to the north. They estimate it is 20 feet long and “not exactly round.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Bloecher, [p. III-12](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1043 ### Event 5867 (CF3E3961) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Locations:** Roswell; Fort Worth, Texas **Description:** 4:30 p.m. The Roswell Daily Record carries the “RAAF Captures Flying Saucer” story. In Fort Worth, Texas, [Ramey](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/1686367/lt-gen-roger-m-ramey/) issues a statement saying the Roswell officers were fooled and that the material is a Rawin target device suspended by a Neoprene rubber balloon. \(“Rawin” is a method of determining wind speed and direction by using radar or radio waves to track a balloon carrying either a radar-sensitive target or radio transponder.\). The debris is switched for the newspaper photographer, [James Bond Johnson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47401399/james-bond-johnson), at a press conference held by Ramey and Col. [Thomas J. DuBose](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/w/thomasdubose.htm) in late afternoon. Johnson takes six photos of the debris and leaves after 20 minutes. One of the photos shows Ramey holding a piece of paper \(the “Ramey memo”\) with words written on it; unfortunately, the resolution is inadequate to decisively “deblur” the text using modern technological methods. A weather officer, Maj. [Irving Newton](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sanantonio/obituary.aspx?n=irving-newton&pid=134553090)[,](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sanantonio/obituary.aspx?n=irving-newton&pid=134553090) is called in to identify the debris as from a balloon. A photo of Newton with the debris is taken by another photographer. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, pp. 41–43, 168; Donald R. Schmitt and Kevin D. Randle, “Fort Worth, July 8, 1947: The Cover-Up Begins,” IUR 15, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1990\): 21–23; Donald R. Schmitt and Kevin D. Randle, “The Fort Worth Press Conference: The J. Bond Johnson Connection,” IUR 15, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1990\): 5–16; Robert A. Galganski, “Probing the Roswell Thin-Strut Debris,” IUR 24, no. 3 \(Fall 1999\): 8–12, 30; Donald R. Burleson, “Deciphering the Ramey Memo,” IUR 25, no. 2 \(Summer 2000\): 3–6, 32; Robert A. Galganski, “The Roswell Debris Field: Size Doesn’t Matter,” IUR 25, no. 4 \(Winter 2000–2001\): 14–19, 30; James Houran and Kevin D. Randle, “Interpreting the Ramey Memo,” IUR 27, no. 2 \(Summer 2002\): 10–14, 26–27; Donald R. Burleson, “On Blobs and Chiaroscuro,” IUR 27, no. 3 \(Fall 2002\): 24; James Houran and Kevin D. Randle, “[‘A](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/16/jse%5F16%5F1%5Fhouran.pdf) [Message in a Bottle’: Confounds in Deciphering the Ramey Memo from the Roswell UFO Case,](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/16/jse%5F16%5F1%5Fhouran.pdf)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 16, no. 1 \(2002\): 45–66; Barry Greenwood, “[An Observation on the Ramey Memo,](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr11.pdf)” UFO Historical Revue, no. 11 \(March 2004\): 1–8; James Houran, [A Search for Meaning in the Ramey Document: From](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Digitized%5Fby%5FAFU/Houran%2C%20James%20-%20A%20search%20for%20meaning%20in%20the%20Ramey%20document.pdf) [the Roswell UFO Case](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Digitized%5Fby%5FAFU/Houran%2C%20James%20-%20A%20search%20for%20meaning%20in%20the%20Ramey%20document.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Digitized%5Fby%5FAFU/Houran%2C%20James%20-%20A%20search%20for%20meaning%20in%20the%20Ramey%20document.pdf) Fund for UFO Research, 2006; Dennis Balthaser, “[Interview: James Bond Johnson](https://www.theufochronicles.com/2006/03/interview-james-bond-johnson-roswell.html) [\(Roswell Wreckage Photographer\),](https://www.theufochronicles.com/2006/03/interview-james-bond-johnson-roswell.html)” The UFO Chronicles, March 27, 2006; Barry Greenwood, “[Ramey Memo](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr13.pdf) [Redux: Line 5,](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr13.pdf)” UFO Historical Revue, no 13 \(September 2009\): 5–19; Kevin D. Randle, Roswell in the 21st Century, The Author, 2016; Nick Redfern, The Roswell UFO Conpsiracy, Lisa Hagan, 2017, pp. 232–238 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1044 ### Event 5868 (3D0FCA6C) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Locations:** Dallas, Texas; Cincinnati, Ohio; Fort Worth; Wright Field; Roswell; New Mexico **Description:** 5:17 p.m. Special Agent [Percy Wyly II](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64067470/percy-wyly) in the Dallas, Texas, FBI office sends a teletype headed “Flying Disc, Information Concerning” to [J. Edgar Hoover](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FEdgar%5FHoover) and Strategic Air Command in Cincinnati, Ohio, expressing some doubt about the balloon explanation: “telephonic conversation between \[Eighth Air Force\] and Wright Field had not borne out this belief. Disc and balloon being transported to Wright Field by special plane for examination.” Wyly receives this information from Maj. Edwin M. Kirton at Fort Worth. Roswell mortician [Glenn Dennis](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/w/glenndennis.htm), intrigued by inquiries from the base about small caskets, visits the base hospital but is turned away forcibly; a nurse friend \(possibly 1st Lt. [Adeline “Eileen” M. Fanton](https://roswellproof.homestead.com/dennis.html)\) warns him to leave before he gets into trouble and supposedly tells him that three alien bodies had been found. Other witnesses to recovered bodies include T/Sgt [Ernest R. Robbins](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/w/ernestrobbins.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/w/ernestrobbins.htm) Maj. [Edwin D. Easley](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42373439/edwin-dean-easley), Ruben and Pete Anaya, New Mexico Lieutenant Governor [Joseph](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FMontoya) [Montoya](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FMontoya)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FMontoya) Sgt. [Melvin E. Brown](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/w/melvinbrown.htm) \(who says the bodies looked Asian\), Capt. [Oliver “Pappy” W.](http://www.roswellproof.com/henderson.html) [Henderson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3817273/oliver-wendell-henderson), Staff Sgt. [Robert A. Slusher](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/w/robertslusher.htm), and [Charles H. Forgus](https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/811532/Roswell-new-witness-deputy-sheriff-Charles-Forgus-UFOs-Today-Dr-Irena-Scott). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** \[[Wyly’s teletype message](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/aa4aac%5Fac5616ffd5de40cb8f6a8984540c2d8e.pdf)\]; Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, pp. 168–169; Good Need, [pp. 91–93](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/90/mode/2up); Mark Rodeghier and Mark Chesney, “Who’s the Dummy Now? The Latest Air Force Report,” IUR 22, no. 3 \(Fall 1997\): 10; Nick Redfern, The Roswell UFO Conspiracy, Lisa Hagan, 2017, pp. 97–100 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1045 ### Event 5869 (02473602) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Locations:** Fort Worth Army Air Field; Roswell **Description:** 6:29 p.m. An Associated Press story goes out that a Fort Worth Army Air Field officer \([Newton](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sanantonio/obituary.aspx?n=irving-newton&pid=134553090)\) has identified the Roswell debris as a weather balloon. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [pp. 46–52](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/46/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/46/mode/2up) [168](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/168/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1046 ### Event 5870 (80987B71) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Description:** There are at least 74 UFO reports recorded for this day in the UFOCAT database. At ten o'clock in the morning an aluminum colored, pancake shaped object was sighted by a farmer as it flew over Corapeake, North Carolina. It flew at an estimated 800 mph at 2,000 feet altitude. He described it as having two windows and protruding pipe-like extensions, and emitting vapor and making a slight noise. At 11:45 a.m. Eastern Time an ovoid object was sighted over Norfolk, Virginia. It was seen rocking and spinning, and followed by smaller objects. An Air Force major observed a metallic object at Muroc Field (now Edwards AFB) in California at noon. The object reflected sunlight and oscillated up and down in the sky, going down to ground level then rising again. It was observed simultaneously by a captain in Rodgers Dry Lake Bed. At the same time a student pilot sighted at flying disc that looked like it had a hole in its center, flying at 500 feet altitude over Spokane, Washington. At 5:33 p.m. an object flew in a zigzag pattern over Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii. At 9:47 p.m. five teenagers camping out at a golf course in Madison, Wisconsin saw a flat, brilliant disc close to the horizon. It flew from the southeast to the northwest very quickly. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** (1) Norfolk (NC) Pilot, July 9, 1947; (2) newspaper clipping dated July 9, 1947; (3) Edward J. Ruppelt, True Magazine, May 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 191; (4) Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 9; (5) Ted Bloecher, Report on the 1947 UFO Wave, case 769, citing newspaper clipping dated July 9, 1947; (6) APRO Bulletin, March-April 1971, p. 8 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3923 ### Event 5871 (E2AA72E0) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Description:** 1st Lt. Walter Haut states in an allegedly signed affidavit he was stationed at Roswell Army Air Field as the Public Information Officer and received a call from Col. William Blanchard who said he possessed “flying saucer” debris. The material was from “outer space” and recovered from a crash northwest of Roswell, NM. * [https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2021/05/NINTCHDBPICT000652591599.jpg?strip=all&w=719](https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2021/05/NINTCHDBPICT000652591599.jpg?strip=all&w=719) **Reference:** [Anonymous 2023 PDF](https://archive.org/details/anon_pdf_from_markdown) **Source:** Anon2023PDF, **ID:** Anon2023PDF_1 ### Event 5872 (47220353) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Description:** Another affidavit from Arthur R. McQuiddy, the editor of the _Roswell Morning Dispatch_, claims Lt. Walter Haut delivered a press release to McQuiddy declaring the recovery of a “flying saucer.” McQuiddy claims Roswell Army Air Field next calls him and asks him to change the story to a “weather balloon” instead of a flying saucer. * [https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/w/artmcquiddy.htm](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/w/artmcquiddy.htm) **Reference:** [Anonymous 2023 PDF](https://archive.org/details/anon_pdf_from_markdown) **Source:** Anon2023PDF, **ID:** Anon2023PDF_2 ### Event 5873 (CAFAD6F5) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Description:** Col. Thomas J. DuBose states in a signed affidavit he was stationed at Fort Worth Army Air Field and received a phone call from Gen. Clements McMullen of Strategic Air Command informing him of an object recovered outside Roswell, NM. DuBose states he requested Roswell Army Air Field to send the material to Fort Worth Army Air Field, which was eventually sent to Gen. Benjamin Chidlaw at Wright Field. DuBose states photographs of a weather balloon given to the press were a “cover story” to divert attention away from the origin of the flying saucer material. * [https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/w/pics/thomasdubose-affidavit.jpg](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/w/pics/thomasdubose-affidavit.jpg) **Reference:** [Anonymous 2023 PDF](https://archive.org/details/anon_pdf_from_markdown) **Source:** Anon2023PDF, **ID:** Anon2023PDF_3 ### Event 5874 (22FA61D3) **Date:** 7/8/1947 **Description:** A signed affidavit from 1st Lt. Robert Shirkey also claims the flight of “crashed flying saucer” debris occurred between Roswell and Fort Worth. He also claims another flight operated by Oliver W. Henderson (see 9 July 1991 entry) flew directly to Wright Field. * [https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/w/pics/robertshirkeya01.jpg](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/w/pics/robertshirkeya01.jpg) **Reference:** [Anonymous 2023 PDF](https://archive.org/details/anon_pdf_from_markdown) **Source:** Anon2023PDF, **ID:** Anon2023PDF_4 ### Event 5875 (D6A779B2) **Date:** 7/9/1947 **Location:** USA, Midland (Michigan) **Description:** (Translated from French) Mr. and Mrs. R.E. Lane were picking berries around 5 pm when they saw an object hovering a few meters above a stretch of sand. After about ten seconds the object disappeared, but a black substance and some metal fragments were found at the site. Analysis concluded that the metal was silver and the black substance was thorite with some impurities of iron, aluminum, and titanium. **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "Des S.V. aux OVNI" - SOBEPS 1976 - p. 40, 41 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1266 ### Event 5876 (07CE6995) **Date:** 7/9/1947 **Location:** Boise, Idaho **Description:** (Translated from French) 12:15 p.m. PDT. Witness: Idaho aviation editor and former AAF B-29 pilot Dave Johnson. After three days of aerial searches, he concentrated his gaze on the object and saw it maneuvering so that its edge was presented to him. At that moment it sparkled once in the sunlight. It then seemed to execute a maneuver resembling a roll or barrel roll, which instead of completing, stopped at around 180°. At that precise moment he lost sight of it. He forgot to look at his watch to determine the exact moment he saw the object, but immediately afterwards he called the Civil Aviation Weather Service which recorded his communication at 12:17 p.m. (July 9, 1947) **Reference:** Brad STEIGER: "UFO, the Project Blue Book" - translated by Belfond 1979 - pp. 39,40; Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1267 ### Event 5877 (34F9D34F) **Date:** 7/9/1947 **Location:** USA, Llano (Texas) **Description:** (Translated from French) At around 8 PM T. A. Smith saw a flying disc heading southeast. He said the phenomenon looked like a whirling washing tub. He also noted that the object was emitting sparks, which was confirmed by another witness. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 64 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1268 ### Event 5878 (36F78388) **Date:** 7/9/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The military escort [Brazel](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/BrazelWilliamW.html) to the radio station, where he tells [Frank Joyce](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/JoyceFrank.html) that he saw a weather balloon. He leaves with the military. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_668 ### Event 5879 (EF85BCE1) **Date:** 7/9/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) General [Schulgen](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/militaires.html\#SchulgenGeorgeF) officially requests the [FBI](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/FBI.html)'s assistance in the investigation, and simultaneously affirms to the FBI that neither the [U.S. Army](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/USArmy.html) nor the [U.S. Navy](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/USNavy.html) have any research projects related to aircraft construction that could be linked to flying saucers. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_669 ### Event 5880 (01B697E9) **Date:** 7/9/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Idaho, former AAF B-29 pilot and "statesman aviation editor" Dave Johnson observed for over 10 seconds from an Idaho Air National Guard AT-6 a black disc staying outside the clouds, doing a half roll and then climbing in altitude. (0 h 17) **Reference:** unresolved Blue Book case **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_670 ### Event 5881 (7A9CB19C) **Date:** 7/9/1947 **Location:** Boise, Idaho **Description:** **THEY MOVE INTO IDAHO.** Dave Johnson, aviation director of the _Idaho Stateman_, while flying at 14,000 feet, west of Boise, saw a circular object bank in front of a cloud formation for 45 seconds. It rose sharply and jerkily toward the top of a towering bank of clouds, then turned its edge toward him, appearing as a straight black line, and shot straight up. It moved fast, and was very large. Three Idaho National Guardsmen had seen a similar object in the same area as Johnson. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256) **Source:** Scully, **ID:** Scully_3 ### Event 5882 (75AC01AB) **Date:** 7/9/1947 **Location:** Phoenix, Arizona **Description:** _The Arizona Republic_. **ARIZONA PHOTOGRAPHS THEM.** The first clearly recorded photograph of what is believed to be a flying disk was taken today by an amateur Phoenix photographer, William Rhodes, as it circled north of the city. Rhodes shot the picture as the slow-flying object was approaching him. As it banked to make a right turn, he obtained this picture, showing clearly the shape of the disk. Rhodes said the object then shot away at high speed. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256) **Source:** Scully, **ID:** Scully_4 ### Event 5883 (86292E67) **Date:** 7/9/1947 **Location:** ALBUQUERQUE, NM **Description:** 7+observer(s) / cafe. 2 40cm saucers. 1 hovers. 1 shoots up. Both chase away going quickly south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 27) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1077 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "12", **Elev:** "1490", **HatchDesc:** "ALBUQUERQUE,NM:7+OBS/CAFE:2 40cm SCRS:1 HVRS:1 SHOOTS UP:BOTH CHASE AWAY>>S", **LatLong:** "35.100002 -106.683338", **LatLongDMS:** "35:06:00 N 106:41:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.100002,-106.683338)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5884 (3D62E2FC) **Date:** 7/9/1947 **Location:** 14 MI WITH ROSWELL, NM **Description:** 2 / car. Saucer rolls over repeatedly / 70 second(s). Drops down south / US70. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 27) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1078 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1070", **HatchDesc:** "14mi W/ROSWELL,NM:2/CAR:SCR ROLLS OVR REPEATEDLY/70sec:DROPS DOWN S/US70:", **LatLong:** "33.400002 -104.750005", **LatLongDMS:** "33:24:00 N 104:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.400002,-104.750005)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5885 (C811741A) **Date:** 7/9/1947 **Time:** 00:10 **Location:** KAGOSHIMA, JPN **Description:** Cop. Silent hyphen shapes / wavy motion going quickly northwest over bay. 1 km altitude. / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 171) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1079 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "KAGOSHIMA,JPN:COP:SLNT HYPHEN SHAPES/WAVY MOTION >>NW ovr BAY:1 km alt:/NEWS", **LatLong:** "31.583335 130.516673", **LatLongDMS:** "31:35:00 N 130:31:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.583335,130.516673)", **State/Prov:** "Kyushu", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 5886 (37B9E941) **Date:** 7/9/1947 **Time:** 05:30 **Location:** SOUTHEAST / LAKE KOSHKONING, WI **Description:** Farmer. Chickens hide. Half-moon size green-glow object going northwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 451) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1080 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "240", **HatchDesc:** "SE/LAKE KOSHKONING,WI:FARMER:CHICKENS HIDE:HALF-MOON SIZE GRN-GLOW OBJ >NW:", **LatLong:** "42.850002 -88.950004", **LatLongDMS:** "42:51:00 N 88:57:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.850002,-88.950004)", **State/Prov:** "Wisconsin", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 5887 (856B1B1C) **Date:** 7/9/1947 **Time:** 05:30 **Location:** SPRINGFIELD, IL **Description:** 2 observer(s). Shiny grey disk whizzes going south. 500mph. Dips below trees and back up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 788) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1081 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "183", **HatchDesc:** "SPRINGFIELD,IL:2 OBS:SHINY GRY DISK WHIZZES >S:500mph:DIPS BLW TREES+BACK UP", **LatLong:** "39.800002 -89.616671", **LatLongDMS:** "39:48:00 N 89:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.800002,-89.616671)", **RelAlt:** "15", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5888 (0D2D81F5) **Date:** 7/9/1947 **Time:** 05:40 **Location:** KINCARDINE, ON **Description:** Farmer / plow. 5 saucers criss-cross sky 3x / different formations. Silent. No lights. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 444) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1082 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "197", **HatchDesc:** "KINCARDINE,ON:FARMER/PLOW:5 SCRS CRISS-CROSS SKY 3x/DIFF.FORMNs:SLNT:NO LITES", **LatLong:** "44.166669 -81.633337", **LatLongDMS:** "44:10:00 N 81:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.166669,-81.633337)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5889 (3EA0F319) **Date:** 7/9/1947 **Time:** 07:00 **Location:** HOPKINSVILLE, KY **Description:** 2 observer(s). Washtub saucer "jet propelled". Makes sput-sput sounds.. (!) **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 789) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1083 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "163", **HatchDesc:** "HOPKINSVILLE,KY:2 OBS:WASHTUB SCR "JET PROPELLED":MAKES SPUT-SPUT SOUNDS..(!)", **LatLong:** "36.866668 -87.488893", **LatLongDMS:** "36:52:00 N 87:29:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.866668,-87.488893)", **State/Prov:** "Kentucky", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5890 (B05B3A61) **Date:** 7/9/1947 **Time:** 10:00? **Location:** MORRISTOWN, NJ **Description:** 1 observer. 4 100' disks / line formation. 3 shiny and 1 dull. Slow and fast. 10K' altitude. Going east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 790) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1084 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "100", **HatchDesc:** "MORRISTOWN,NJ:1 OBS:4 100'DISKS/LINE FORMn:3 SHINY+1 DULL:SLO+FAST:10K'alt:>E", **LatLong:** "40.800002 -74.483337", **LatLongDMS:** "40:48:00 N 74:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.800002,-74.483337)", **RelAlt:** "3000", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5891 (45C11923) **Date:** 7/9/1947 **Time:** 12:20 **Location:** BOISE TO/FROM MERIDIAN, ID **Description:** United Airlines (UAL) pilot. Flat black saucer / staircase maneuvers. Bad film. / r185p1. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 439) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1085 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "812", **HatchDesc:** "BOISE> Event 5892 (90B28DC7) **Date:** 7/9/1947 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** EVERETT, MASS **Description:** Mulledy and Arlen. Daytime. 5-6 disks circle. Shoot going quickly east toward(s) Chelsea. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 792) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1086 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "EVERETT,MASS:MULLEDY+ARLEN:DAYTIME:5-6 DISKS CIRCLE:SHOOT >>E twrd CHELSEA:NFD", **LatLong:** "42.383335 -71.055559", **LatLongDMS:** "42:23:00 N 71:03:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.383335,-71.055559)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5893 (34323F8F) **Date:** 7/9/1947 **Time:** 15:50 **Location:** GLACIER NATIONAL PARK, MT **Description:** 2 private pilots. 7 saucers going quickly northeast. Disintegrate? No further details / local news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 98) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1087 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1980", **HatchDesc:** "GLACIER Nat'l PARK,MT:2 Pvt.PILOTS:7 SCRS >>NE:disintegrate?:NFD/local news", **LatLong:** "48.633336 -113.750005", **LatLongDMS:** "48:38:00 N 113:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.633336,-113.750005)", **State/Prov:** "Montana", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 5894 (C9664B76) **Date:** 7/9/1947 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** ELMENDORF AIR FORCE BASE, AK **Description:** 3 teens. Small white disk faster / fighters. Going quickly south over field / 4K' altitude. Straight and level. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 806) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1088 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "65", **HatchDesc:** "ELMENDORF AFB,AK:3 TEENS:SML WHT DISK FASTER/FIGHTERS:>>S OVR FIELD/4K'alt:S/L", **LatLong:** "61.233336 -149.783340", **LatLongDMS:** "61:14:00 N 149:47:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/61.233336,-149.783340)", **State/Prov:** "Alaska", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5895 (F8B64235) **Date:** 7/9/1947 **Time:** 18:20 **Location:** SPOKANE, WA **Description:** Work crew. 3 disks spin over flour mill. 1 lands / riverbed. No traces. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 803) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1089 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "600", **HatchDesc:** "SPOKANE,WA:WORK CREW:3 DISKS SPIN OVR FLOUR MILL:1 LANDS/RIVERBED:NO TRACES", **LatLong:** "47.683336 -117.433339", **LatLongDMS:** "47:41:00 N 117:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.683336,-117.433339)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5896 (4FBDD718) **Date:** 7/9/1947 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** LLANO, TX **Description:** Observer(s) = Smith and Owen. 1M disk going quickly southeast. Possible spin. Possible landing. / Austin American. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 98) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1090 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "336", **HatchDesc:** "LLANO,TX:OBS=SMITH+OWEN:1M DISK >>SE:POSS.SPIN:POSS.LANDING:/Austin American", **LatLong:** "30.766668 -98.666671", **LatLongDMS:** "30:46:00 N 98:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.766668,-98.666671)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5897 (51118AAC) **Date:** 7/9/1947 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** BLUEFIELD, WV **Description:** Several observer(s). Saucers maneuver / low altitude / 30 minute(s). 1 observer fires shotgun. / r171p98. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: CE-5, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS of the 5th KIND. 1999 Sourcebooks Inc. Naperville, IL ISBN 1-57071-427-4. 242 case files. (Index 168) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1091 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "796", **HatchDesc:** "BLUEFIELD,WV:SVRL OBS:SCRS MNVR/lo alt/30min:1 OBS FIRES SHOTGUN:/r171p98", **LatLong:** "37.266668 -81.222226", **LatLongDMS:** "37:16:00 N 81:13:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.266668,-81.222226)", **State/Prov:** "Western Virginia", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5898 (5D7E79CA) **Date:** 7/9/1947 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** REDWOOD CITY, CA **Description:** B. Ballard / 319 Woodside Road and Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct. Luminous disk south going northwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 807) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1092 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "REDWOOD CITY,CA:B.BALLARD/319 WOODSIDE Rd+HETCH HETCHY AQUEDUCT:LUMn.DISK S>NW", **LatLong:** "37.472224 -122.216672", **LatLongDMS:** "37:28:20 N 122:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.472224,-122.216672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5899 (9E09F8A8) **Date:** 7/9/1947 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** GRAND FALLS, NFLD **Description:** Cop and others. "Flying Barrelhead" and 4 saucers. Phosphorescent aura. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 445) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1093 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "51", **HatchDesc:** "GRAND FALLS,NFLD:COP+OTHERS:"FLYING BARRELHEAD"+4 SCRS:PHOSPHORESCENT AURA", **LatLong:** "48.933336 -55.666669", **LatLongDMS:** "48:56:00 N 55:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.933336,-55.666669)", **State/Prov:** "Newfoundland", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5900 (D4F05881) **Date:** 7/9/1947 **Location:** Boise (Bet. Meridian and), ID **Description:** A black disc, standing out against the clouds (Johnson Case (P)) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [470709](http://www.nicap.org/470709meridian%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_375 ### Event 5901 (E5E92451) **Date:** 7/9/1947 **Location:** Meridian, ID **Description:** Black disc made a half-roll and then a stair-step climb (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_401 ### Event 5902 (330E5EB3) **Date:** 7/9/1947 **Time:** 12:17 PM PDT **Location:** Meridian, Idaho **Description:** Witness: Idaho statesman aviation editor and former (AAF) B-29 pilot Dave Johnson. Watched for more than 10 seconds from an Idaho Air National Guard AT-6 while a black disc, which stood out against the clouds, made a half-roll and then a stair-step climb. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_4 ### Event 5903 (3BDB868D) **Date:** 7/9/1947 **Location:** 4328 South Emerald Avenue, Chicago, Illinois **Description:** 1:00 a.m. William Valetta sees 5–6 domed discs streaking eastward as he stands outside his house at 4328 South Emerald Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. They make a swishing noise and he sees a blue flame underneath each of them. Smoke seems to be coming from the tops. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Bloecher, [pp. II-13–14](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionII.htm) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1047 ### Event 5904 (10CFF270) **Date:** 7/9/1947 **Locations:** Roswell Daily Record; Los Alamos, New Mexico; Kirtland AFB; Roswell; Fort Worth **Description:** RAAF officers locate [Mack Brazel](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9454979/william-ware-brazel) and take him to the base for questioning, then to the Roswell Daily Record and radio station KGPL for a revised, sanitized version of his story, this time saying he found the debris on June 14. Copies of [Haut](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/w/walterhaut.htm)’s original press release are recovered. Three fully loaded C-54’s carry debris to Los Alamos, New Mexico, via Kirtland AFB, according to Robert E. Smith, First Air Transport Unit. A crate allegedly carrying alien bodies is flown from Roswell to Fort Worth in a B-29, according to Staff Sgt. [Robert A. Slusher](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/w/robertslusher.htm), who says he was on board. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Don Schmitt and Kevin D. Randle, “Roswell, July 9, 1947,” IUR 14, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1989\): 4–6, 23; Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [pp. 53–58](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/n77/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/n77/mode/2up) [169–171](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/168/mode/2up); Kevin D. Randle, “Bessie Brazel’s Story,” IUR 20, no. 3 \(May/June 1995\): 3–5, 24; Thomas J. Carey and Donald R. Schmitt, “Mack Brazel Reconsidered,” IUR 24, no. 4 \(Winter 1999\): 13–19; Kevin D. Randle, “[Bessie Brazel Schreiber and the Roswell Crash,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2015/09/bessie-brazel-schreiber-and-roswell.html)” A Different Perspective, September 19, 2015 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1048 ### Event 5905 (668CCFE7) **Date:** 7/9/1947 **Location:** Boise (Idaho) Municipal Airport **Description:** The FBI interviews Capt. Emil J. Smith and copilot Ralph Stevens at Boise \(Idaho\) Municipal Airport about their July 4 sighting. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** ClearIntent, [p. 151](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/150/mode/2up); Good Above, [pp. 253–254](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/252/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1049 ### Event 5906 (12363262) **Date:** 7/9/1947 **Locations:** US; Idaho **Description:** US Sen. [Glen H. Taylor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen%5FH.%5FTaylor) \(D-Idaho\) says he hopes the saucers will turn out to be space ships from another planet, whose hostility might end all our “petty arguments on earth.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[‘Can’t Laugh Off Saucers,’ Says Senator,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92702991/)” Boston Globe, July 9, 1947, p. 5 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1050 ### Event 5907 (64B668B5) **Date:** 7/9/1947 **Locations:** Wright Field, Ohio; Pentagon **Description:** The US Army Air Force issues classified orders requiring reports of any “saucer-like” objects to be investigated and passed on to T-2 Technical Intelligence at Wright Field, Ohio, with summaries sent to the Pentagon. However, most of the early cases still go directly to the Air Force Office of Intelligence at the Pentagon. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael David Hall and Wendy Ann Connors, “Alfred Loedding: New Insight on the Man behind Project Sign,” IUR 23, no. 4 \(Winter 1998\): 6 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1051 ### Event 5908 (38FAE991) **Date:** 7/9/1947 **Description:** 10:30 a.m. President [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) meets with Sen. [Carl Hatch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%5FHatch)  **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** \(D-N.Mex.\). **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1052 ### Event 5909 (042499FB) **Date:** 7/9/1947 **Location:** Lt. Gen. James Doolittle **Description:** 10:35 a.m. Assistant Secretary of War for Air [Stuart Symington](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%5FSymington) meets with Lt. Gen. [James Doolittle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy%5FDoolittle) and Gen. [Hoyt Vandenberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg) The conversation is presumably about the flying discs. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Donald R. Schmitt, UFO Crash at Roswell II, Moonset, 2001 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1053 ### Event 5910 (5E55724A) **Date:** 7/9/1947 **Description:** 10:50 a.m. [Doolittle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy%5FDoolittle), [Vandenberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg) and [Symington](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%5FSymington) meet in the office of Army Chief of Staff [Dwight D.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower) [Eisenhower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower) Maj. Gen. [Lauris Norstad](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauris%5FNorstad), director of the Plans and Operations Department, is also present. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Donald R. Schmitt, UFO Crash at Roswell II, Moonset, 2001 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1054 ### Event 5911 (63A71BA8) **Date:** 7/9/1947 **Location:** Vandenberg **Description:** 11:58 a.m. [Vandenberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg) calls President [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1055 ### Event 5912 (183D1405) **Date:** 7/9/1947 **Locations:** Vandenberg; Symington **Description:** 12:50 p.m. [Vandenberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg) and [Symington](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%5FSymington) meet with the Joint Chiefs. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1056 ### Event 5913 (5EB595EC) **Date:** 7/9/1947 **Location:** Gowen Field [now Boise Airport], Boise, Idaho **Description:** 12:17 p.m. Idaho Statesman aviation editor and former B-29 pilot [David N. Johnson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39757884/david-n%5F-johnson)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39757884/david-n%5F-johnson) flying in an Idaho Air National Guard AT-6 Texan, sees a black object standing out against the clouds as he prepares to land at Gowen Field \[now Boise Airport\], Boise, Idaho. Johnson takes 10 seconds of 8mm motion-picture film \(but it shows no trace of the object\). It makes a slow roll, then makes a stair-step climb, then disappears into the clouds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[AT-6 Encounters Black Disc](http://www.nicap.org/470709meridian%5Fdir.htm)”; Bloecher, [pp. III-12–13](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm); Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-July-7-July-10-SN.pdf) [UFOs, a History: 1947 July 7th–July 10th, Supplemental Notes,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-July-7-July-10-SN.pdf) The Author, 2001, pp. 39–43, 55; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 23 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1057 ### Event 5914 (BE079D88) **Date:** 7/9/1947 **Locations:** Vandenberg; Symington **Description:** 2:30 p.m. [Vandenberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg) and [Symington](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%5FSymington) meet again. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1058 ### Event 5915 (7DE80ACE) **Date:** 7/9/1947 **Location:** Vandenberg **Description:** 4:17 p.m. [Vandenberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg) meets with Maj. Gen. [Emmett O’Donnell Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett%5FO%27Donnell%5FJr), director of information for the Army Air Force. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** \(Donald R. Schmitt, UFO Crash at Roswell II, Moonset, 2001\). **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1059 ### Event 5916 (4633DAB0) **Date:** 7/9/1947 **Locations:** Roswell Army Air Field; New Mexico **Description:** Late afternoon. 1Lt [Chester P. Barton](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14594387/chester-paul-barton), stationed at Roswell Army Air Field in New Mexico, is sent by Maj. [Edwin D. Easley](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42373439/edwin-dean-easley) to go to the crash site and report back to him about what is going on. He gets no closer than about 50 feet from the wreckage, which appears to have burned. He is convinced it is the remains of a B-29 bomber. He remains at the site for about 90 minutes then reports back to Easley. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Joseph Stefula, “The Roswell Testimony of Chester P. Barton,” IUR 26, no. 2 \(Summer 2001\): 21–23, 29–31 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1060 ### Event 5917 (29FC7E9C) **Date:** 7/9/1947 **Description:** Brig. Gen. [George F. Schulgen](http://www.generals.dk/general/Schulgen/George%5FFrancis/USA.html), chief of the Requirements Intelligence branch of Army Air Force Intelligence, requests FBI help with the problem of the flying discs from Special Agent [S. Wesley Reynolds](https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=MT19611122.2.2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1). Army intelligence claims they are not Army or Navy craft. He says that Air Corps Intelligence is utilizing all its scientists to study the cases to see whether they are natural or artificial or inspired by “individuals of Communist sympathies with the view to causing hysteria and fear of a secret Russian weapon.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** E. G. Fitch, \[[FBI memo](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/aa4aac%5F677b6f3d275b4e7e88a312e65ec5fb48.pdf)\], July 10, 1947; ClearIntent, [p. 148](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/148/mode/2up); Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 July 7th–July](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-July-7-July-10-SN.pdf) [10th, Supplemental Notes,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-July-7-July-10-SN.pdf) The Author, 2001, p. 14 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1061 ### Event 5918 (8D15C774) **Date:** 7/9/1947 **Locations:** Midland, Michigan; Dow Chemical Company materials research laboratory in Midland **Description:** Shortly after 5:00 p.m. Electrician Raymond Edward Lane and his wife are picking huckleberries near Midland, Michigan, when they hear a kind of “puff” noise nearby. Looking up, they see a ball of white, sparkling fire, like a Fourth of July sparkler, about the size of a bushel basket, no more than 100 feet away. It is hovering several feet above a stretch of sand. After about 10 or 15 seconds, the light goes out and the object vanishes. The only thing that remains is a peculiar dark substance on the sand and some metallic fragments. Lane collects fragments of the material in a tin can and brings them the next morning to Robert S. Spencer, a senior researcher at the Dow Chemical Company materials research laboratory in Midland. Spencer goes to the site with Lane and Dow’s internal security chief Edward Fales. Spencer has the Dow spectroscopy laboratory analyze the fragments and reports that the shiny pellets are largely silver mixed with a bit of silicon. They conclude that it consists of fused sand. By the end of September, the lab has analyzed ashlike powder found at the site. It turns out to be thorite that is slightly radioactive, mixed with magnesium hydroxide and other trace minerals. The conclusion is that the sighting is the result of some kind of home-made fireworks experiment, although Dow chemist [John Josef Grebe](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/107960608/john-josef-grebe) suspects it might have been a small missile. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Object Hovers over Sand](http://www.nicap.org/470709midland%5Fdir.htm)”; Bloecher, [pp. IV-2–3](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIV.htm); Joel Carpenter, “[The Midland Fireball: Dow Chemical, UFOs, and Evidence,](http://www.project1947.com/articles/dow.htm)” IUR 23, no. 3 \(Fall 1998\): 28–32 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1062 ### Event 5919 (32BD1C4E) **Date:** 7/9/1947 **Location:** Grand Falls, Newfoundland **Description:** 11:30 p.m. Constable Eric Kearsey sees four yellowish discs flying in close formation above Grand Falls, Newfoundland. He calls other people to watch them as well. They are moving at high speed to the east with a dipping motion. At 11:40 p.m., an egg-shaped object “the size of a barrel head” passes overhead in the same direction. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** St. John’s \(Newf.\) Evening Telegram, July 9, 1947; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-July-7-July-10-SN.pdf) [Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 July 7th–July 10th, Supplemental Notes,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-July-7-July-10-SN.pdf) The Author, 2001, pp. 45–46 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1063 ### Event 5920 (DE367026) **Date:** 7/9/1947 **Description:** There are 24 UFO reports recorded for this date in the UFOCAT database, all from North America. To view a map showing the distribution of these reports, click here. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3940 ### Event 5921 (CBBBED25) **Date:** 7/9/1947 **Description:** At 5:40 a.m. a farmer out plowing his fields in Kincardine, Ontario, Canada saw five disc-shaped objects criss-cross the sky three times in different formations. The objects were silent and had no lights. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1094; Loren E. Gross, UFOs, A History. 1947, p. 44 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3941 ### Event 5922 (FFC442E5) **Date:** 7/9/1947 **Description:** Two small saucers were seen over Albuquerque, New Mexico on this day. One hovered, the other shot up and than both shot away toward the south. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 27 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3942 ### Event 5923 (DC1CAD57) **Date:** 7/9/1947 **Description:** At 5:30 a.m. a shiny gray disc whizzed through the sky over Springfield, Illinois. Its estimated speed was 500 mph moving in a southerly direction. It dipped below the tree line and came back up again. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case 788 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3943 ### Event 5924 (591AC342) **Date:** 7/9/1947 **Description:** At 12:15 p.m. a huge flat black disc over Boise, Idaho executed a series of staircase maneuvers for 45 seconds. Motion picture filming was attempted, but resulted in poor quality images. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Boise Idaho Daily Statesman, July 10, 1947, UNICAT, case # 721, Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case 794 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3944 ### Event 5925 (48CB48C7) **Date:** 7/9/1947 **Description:** At eight o'clock in the evening a one-meter diameter disc flew over Llano, Texas heading toward the southwest. It appeared to be spinning, and it possibly landed remotely. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 98, citing Austin American **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3945 ### Event 5926 (EDF9861C) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 16.25km altitude (Early yaw led to termination at 32s.) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_259 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 16.25km ### Event 5927 (EA7984B7) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Description:** Estimated date student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright accompanies Einstein to Roswell area. She was 17 years, 10 months, 21 days old. **Type:** scientist **Reference:** [link](https://github.com/richgel999/dr_shirley_wright) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_260 **Attributes:** Einstein ### Event 5928 (0E6FB370) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Description:** FBI Memo: Gen. George F. Schulgen (Chief of the Air Intelligence Requirements Division) organizes top scientists to determine if the flying discs are indeed fact and whether or not they are a foreign body mechanically devised and controlled. He desired the assistance of the FBI in locating and questioning the individuals who first sighted the discs. Col. L. R. Forney of MID indicated that it has been established that the flying discs are not the result of any Army or Navy experiments and should be of interest to the FBI **Type:** memo **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A p148) **Reference:** [link](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/2995977/george-francis-schulgen/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_261 ### Event 5929 (40D25466) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) At 12:18 EST, V2 #29 was launched, reaching only 16 km in altitude, radio cut-off **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952 **Reference:** emergency **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1269 ### Event 5930 (48FD20E8) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Location:** USA, west of Buhl (Idaho) **Description:** (Translated from French) At 1:20 PM George Dey and Roy Wilson reported seeing flying saucers west of Buhl above Joel Hart's farm. They said that at first the objects were luminous and flying in formation, then they scattered. [note from vog: could they not have seen the V2 launched an hour earlier?] **Reference:** "UFO's: A century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 64 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1270 ### Event 5931 (16D82008) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Location:** USA, Logan, West Virginia **Description:** (Translated from French) George Vance observed at 4:30 PM "a round turtle-backed object" shining intensely while flying in a straight line. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 64 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1271 ### Event 5932 (80AF981B) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Location:** USA, Black River Falls, Wisconsin **Description:** (Translated from French) A 17-inch diameter disc (42.5 cm) was found. It was apparently made of cardboard and painted with silver enamel. In the center of the disc there was a small pipe and a small motor and on the side a propeller. This "UFO" was requisitioned by a colonel of the civil guard, but seeing the "toy" the FBI did not want it. **Reference:** CENAP: "Mülle aus den Weltraum" - space junk - **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1272 ### Event 5933 (2C6F000E) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Location:** USA, between Clovis and Clines (New Mexico) Fort Summer **Description:** (Translated from French) Astronomer Lincoln La Paz, accompanied by his wife and two daughters, was travelling from Clovis to Clines Corners when they all noticed a curious bright object almost motionless in the sky amidst thin clouds, around 4:50 PM. This object was ellipsoidal and began to climb slowly before disappearing behind a cloud. It reappeared a few seconds later, but much higher, which made Dr. La Paz think he had just encountered a brand new aerial invention. (Michel BOUGARD: "Des S.V. aux OVNI" - SOBEPS 1976 - p. 41) At 4:47 (...) luminous, a bit less white than Jupiter in dark weather (...) The object was visibly trembling (...) The object was between 30 and 50 km away, was between 55 and 80 m long and between 20 and 30 m high, its horizontal speed was between 150 and 250 km/h, its vertical elevation between 800 and 1500 per hour. It was moving in an oscillating manner (...) (Leslie Adams and George Adamski: "Les S. V. ont atterri" - J'ai Lu 1971, p. 44 à 46) At 4:47 a renowned astronomer (whose identity is not mentioned in the magazine "Life" where the author drew the article from) accompanied by two of his teenage daughters saw an elliptical object very high among the clouds (note from vog: still the V2?) The astronomer, using his pencil to determine the apparent size, estimated that the object was at a distance between 20 and 30 miles from his position, elliptical and rigid, 160 feet long, 65 feet wide, flying at 120 to 180 mph horizontally or 600 to 900 mph vertically. It was silent (??? note from vog: I'll believe it, at that distance!) luminous through the clouds, with a slightly undulating movement, without a condensation trail. The observation lasted 2 minutes 30. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 64 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1273 ### Event 5934 (66197FDF) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Location:** USA, Cheyenne (Wyoming) **Description:** (Translated from French) Two silver discs shaped like saucers with a dome on the upper part passed slowly over the city on a clear day. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 64 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1274 ### Event 5935 (75C08CD9) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Location:** USA, Temple (Texas) **Description:** (Translated from French) Smith Tarrant, who had been a colonel in the Air Force, saw from the doorway of a store two flying saucers at about 1500 feet altitude, flying in a straight line at a speed of 200 to 250 mph. They left his view to the south after a three minute observation, during which he heard no sound, nor did he perceive any exhaust trail, or any visible means of propulsion. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 64 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1275 ### Event 5936 (99C67462) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Location:** USA, in Missouri **Description:** (Translated from French) Sixty people at the local ice cream parlor at the John Cox farm saw groups of flying saucers flying in pairs or threes from north to south. Some flew alone, but most were in formation. The same kind of observation was made by Mr. and Mrs. Dykes and Mr. and Mrs. Van Buren and their family as they drove on Highway 65. The sight of this phenomenon caused all these people to pull over to the side of the road where they were joined by other stunned motorists. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 64 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1276 ### Event 5937 (9D7D9054) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Location:** USA, near Brockton (Montana) **Description:** (Translated from French) At 7 PM, Ray Carpenter and his wife saw a luminous object in a bank of dark clouds. A former director of the Wolf Point aerodrome, Carpenter estimated the size of the object to be that of a private plane flying very fast. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 65 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1277 ### Event 5938 (05F9CFB6) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Location:** USA, Tulsa (Oklahoma) **Description:** (Translated from French) At 8:00 PM a pilot from the "Lee Geophysical Company" saw a luminous craft fly south. An independent witness, J.C. Penman, saw instead "a round fluorescent lamp" heading northeast. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 65) July 10, 1947; Harmon Field, Newfoundland, Canada. Between 3 and 5 PM local time. Witnesses: three crew members and Mr. Leidy, of Pan American Airways, observed for a short time a translucent disc, or wheel-shaped, flying rapidly and leaving a dark blue trail, before making its way through the clouds. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner). At 5 PM, civilian navigators saw a UFO similar to a truck wheel at 10,000 feet. Photo taken of some kind of smoke trail. Around 11:15 PM, several witnesses in St. Jean saw round and luminous UFOs. **Reference:** doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee, translated by Jean Sider **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1278 ### Event 5939 (363C4FEB) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Location:** NORWAY, near Skotfoss **Description:** (Translated from French) At around 7:30 pm my wife told me she had seen an object in the sky. It was entering the clouds at an indeterminate altitude, shining like a star or like a mirror reflecting the sun. When it went into the shade it became dark and round or oval. There was no sound coming from the object which was the size of an airplane. It stayed in view for four minutes and then disappeared towards the southeast." **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 66 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1279 ### Event 5940 (D3C4A09A) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Harmon Field \(Newfoundland, Canada\) 3 ground personnel, including Mr. Leidy, for *Pan American Airways*, briefly observed a translucent disc or wheel-shaped object flying at very high speed, leaving a dark blue trail behind it before climbing into the clouds. A UFO was photographed by one L. (Between 3pm and 5pm) **Reference:** unresolved Blue Book case **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_671 ### Event 5941 (BC6CB0DC) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Clovis, Clines Cornes \(New Mexico\), one of the greatest American astronomers \(wishing to remain anonymous\) who was driving with his family saw an elliptical object maneuvering in an enigmatic way near a cloud region. During the 2 minutes and 30 seconds of the observation, the whole family had time to meticulously observe the object. The astronomer guarantees his own calculations: rigid, elliptical object, with a size of 50 to 80 m and moving at a speed of 190 to 290 km/h. Oscillation and silent movement: We had before our eyes a flying machine of an unknown type. \(...\) Against a background of dark clouds, the object gave a strong impression of self-luminosity. \(...\) The appearance and behavior of the object do not correspond to any known optical or celestial phenomenon. No plane, no rocket, no guided missile can make such a rapid ascent \(from 966 to 1450 km/h\) without leaving vapor trails. (16 h) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_672 ### Event 5942 (A5361E2E) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** Morristown, New Jersey **Description:** **THEY TRY NEW JERSEY NEXT.** John H. Janssen, driving to Morristown Airport at 10 am, saw four objects in the sky and got out of his car to photograph them. They seemed to be about 10,000 feet in the air, flying rapidly in formation toward New York City. Three of the saucers were silvery white and the fourth was a dull, metallic color. As they disappeared, they put on a burst of speed far in excess of any jet plane Janssen had ever seen. Censorship the next day kept his photo out of most of the nation's dailies. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256) **Source:** Scully, **ID:** Scully_5 ### Event 5943 (A762DF1F) **Date:** 7/10/1947 (approximate) **Location:** CAHERSIVEEN, IRELAND **Description:** 5 observer(s). 'Flying saucer'. No further details. / N. China Daily 14 Jul. '74. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 39) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1094 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Great Britain and Ireland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "81", **HatchDesc:** "CAHERSIVEEN,IRELAND:5 OBS:'FLYING SAUCER':NFD:/N.CHINA DAILY 14JLY74", **LatLong:** "51.933336 -10.216667", **LatLongDMS:** "51:56:00 N 10:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.933336,-10.216667)", **State/Prov:** "Ireland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5944 (4EA60097) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Time:** 03:00 **Location:** SULPHUR SPRS, TX **Description:** 6M funnel going south. Bursts into small white disks. They hover then going quickly northwest straight and level. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 454) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1095 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "149", **HatchDesc:** "SULPHUR Sprs,TX:6M FUNNEL >S:BURSTS INTO SML WHT DISKS:THEY HVR THEN >>NW S/L", **LatLong:** "33.138890 -95.600005", **LatLongDMS:** "33:08:20 N 95:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.138890,-95.600005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 5945 (04D1CBA0) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Time:** 08:30 **Location:** NORTHEAST / SALT LAKE CITY, UT **Description:** 1 observer. Disk hovers 2 / min over mountains. "Odd motion". / Salt Lake Tribune. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 99) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1096 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1500", **HatchDesc:** "NE/SALT LAKE CITY,UT:1 OBS:DISK HVRS 2/min OVR MTNs:"ODD MOTION":/SLC Tribune", **LatLong:** "40.866669 -111.750005", **LatLongDMS:** "40:52:00 N 111:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.866669,-111.750005)", **State/Prov:** "Utah", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5946 (6DE9C4AE) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Time:** 11:00? **Location:** VALDOSTA, GA **Description:** 2 / light plane. 1M cake pan / 600M altitude 1500M away. (Cake pan missing!) **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HITT, Michael D: GEORGIA'S AERIAL PHENOMENON 1947-1987 Self published 1999. ref. Jan Aldrich. (Index 3) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1097 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "70", **HatchDesc:** "VALDOSTA,GA:2/LITE PLANE:1M CAKE PAN/600M alt 1500M away:(cake pan missing!)", **LatLong:** "30.833335 -83.266671", **LatLongDMS:** "30:50:00 N 83:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.833335,-83.266671)", **RelAlt:** "600", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5947 (FED02584) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Time:** 11:10 **Location:** BURIEN, WA **Description:** Don Reber. Round shiny 3' disk. Not fast. 1 mile altitude? Straight and level going quickly northwest. / r131#4p57. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 811) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1098 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "76", **HatchDesc:** "BURIEN,WA:DON REBER:ROUND SHINY 3'DISK:NOT FAST:1mi alt?:S/L >>NW:/r131#4p57", **LatLong:** "47.483336 -122.350006", **LatLongDMS:** "47:29:00 N 122:21:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.483336,-122.350006)", **RelAlt:** "1600", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5948 (2213C380) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Time:** 11:50 **Location:** DOUGLAS, AZ **Description:** 1 / home. Bright thick 16CM disk just outside window! Wobbles. / r111p19. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 100) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1099 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1220", **HatchDesc:** "DOUGLAS,AZ:1/HOME:BRITE THICK 16CM DISK JUST OUTSIDE WINDOW!:wobbles:/r111p19", **LatLong:** "31.333335 -109.550005", **LatLongDMS:** "31:20:00 N 109:33:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.333335,-109.550005)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5949 (7938909C) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** SANTIAGO, CHL **Description:** Aviation mechanics. Oval silvery saucers / 150M altitude. No further details / News Dispatch. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 454) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1100 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Chile", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "521", **HatchDesc:** "SANTIAGO,CHL:AVIATION MECHANICS:OVAL SILVERY SCRS/150M alt:NFD/news dispatch", **LatLong:** "-33.416668 -70.650003", **LatLongDMS:** "33:25:00 S 70:39:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-33.416668,-70.650003)", **RelAlt:** "150", **State/Prov:** "SNT", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5950 (BFD5C667) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** TEMPLE, TX **Description:** Ex-Air Force Colonel and more/others. 2 2M disks going quickly south / 350kph into wind. 500M altitude straight & level flight. / r171p99. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 452) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1101 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "208", **HatchDesc:** "TEMPLE,TX:EX-AF COLONEL++:2 2M DISKS>>S/350kph into wind:500M alt S&L:/r171p99", **LatLong:** "31.100001 -97.350005", **LatLongDMS:** "31:06:00 N 97:21:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.100001,-97.350005)", **RelAlt:** "500", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5951 (614B24DE) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Time:** 13:20 **Location:** WEST / BUHL, ID **Description:** 2 / ranch. 7 saucers going [to] over. Break formation and cross sky very fast. / Buhl Herald. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 100) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1102 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "120", **HatchDesc:** "W/BUHL,ID:2/RANCH:7 SCRS > OVER:BREAK FORMATION+CROSS SKY VFAST:/Buhl Herald", **LatLong:** "42.600002 -114.766672", **LatLongDMS:** "42:36:00 N 114:46:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.600002,-114.766672)", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5952 (77D5D74B) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Time:** 14:30 **Location:** BOISE, ID **Description:** Lester Sherill. 8' silver disk fast / 6000' altitude. Makes steep bank going quickly east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 818) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1103 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "820", **HatchDesc:** "BOISE,ID:LESTER SHERILL:8'SLVR DISK FAST/6000'alt:MAKES STEEP BANK >>E", **LatLong:** "43.583335 -116.183339", **LatLongDMS:** "43:35:00 N 116:11:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.583335,-116.183339)", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5953 (16DE66DA) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Time:** 16:20 **Location:** CARNATION, WA **Description:** 2+2 kids. Round flat shiny bluish disk straight and level going quickly north / tremendous speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 820) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1104 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "23", **HatchDesc:** "CARNATION,WA:2+2 KIDS:ROUND FLAT SHINY BLUISH DISK S/L >>N/TREMENDOUS SPEED", **LatLong:** "47.650002 -121.911117", **LatLongDMS:** "47:39:00 N 121:54:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.650002,-121.911117)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5954 (6690FCA6) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Time:** 16:30 **Location:** LOGAN, WVA **Description:** 1 observer. Round object 'W / turtle back' going [to] straight & level flight. Glistens / sunlight. / Logan Banner. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 100) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1105 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "207", **HatchDesc:** "LOGAN,WVa:1 OBS:ROUND OBJ 'W/TURTLE BACK' > S&L:GLISTENS/SUNLITE:/Logan Banner", **LatLong:** "37.850002 -81.988893", **LatLongDMS:** "37:51:00 N 81:59:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.850002,-81.988893)", **State/Prov:** "Western Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5955 (18261049) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Time:** 16:50 **Location:** FORT SUMNER, NM **Description:** Astronomer LaPaz and 3 / car. Luminous/glowing 300' saucer / clouds. Going up / 600+MPH going north. / r187. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 458) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1106 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "1249", **HatchDesc:** "FORT SUMNER,NM:ASTRONOMER LaPAZ+3/car:LUMn 300'SCR/clouds:↑/600+MPH>N:/r187", **LatLong:** "34.583335 -104.200005", **LatLongDMS:** "34:35:00 N 104:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.583335,-104.200005)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5956 (B30F1329) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Time:** 17:30 **Location:** SMYRNA, GA **Description:** 1 / car. "Flying tin lid" / incredible speed. Brilliant reflections / sun. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HITT, Michael D: GEORGIA'S AERIAL PHENOMENON 1947-1987 Self published 1999. ref. Jan Aldrich. (Index 4) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1107 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "324", **HatchDesc:** "SMYRNA,GA:1/CAR:"FLYING TIN LID"/INCREDIBLE SPEED:BRILL.REFLECTIONS/SUN", **LatLong:** "33.883335 -84.516671", **LatLongDMS:** "33:53:00 N 84:31:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.883335,-84.516671)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5957 (D1251FF5) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Time:** 17:30 **Location:** HARMON FIELD, NFLD **Description:** Air mechanics and more/others. C54-size saucer cuts arc / clouds. Photographs. / r26p154. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** INTERNATIONAL UFO REPORTER (IUR) Bimonthly. CUFOS, Chicago. Highly regarded. (Index 280) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1108 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "33", **HatchDesc:** "HARMON FIELD,NFLD:AIR MECHANICS++:C54-SIZE SCR CUTS ARC/CLOUDS:FOTOS:/r26p154", **LatLong:** "48.550002 -58.566669", **LatLongDMS:** "48:33:00 N 58:34:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.550002,-58.566669)", **State/Prov:** "Newfoundland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5958 (C7A22C83) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** SKOTFOSS, NORWAY **Description:** 3 observer(s). Saucer northwest going southeast. Size and speed of plane. Absolute(ly) silent. Flashes / sunlight. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 137) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1109 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "SKOTFOSS,NORWAY:3 OBS:SCR NW>SE:SIZE+SPEED of PLANE:ABS SLNT:FLASHES/SUNLITE", **LatLong:** "59.200003 9.500000", **LatLongDMS:** "59:12:00 N 09:30:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/59.200003,9.500000)", **State/Prov:** "Norway", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5959 (030594F1) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** NEAR TULSA, OK **Description:** Separate airmen. Perfect ring / light going northeast straight & level flight. Constant speed and altitude.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 101) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1110 **Attributes:** **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "242", **HatchDesc:** "nr TULSA,OK:SEP.AIRMEN:PERFECT RING/LITE >NE S&L:CONSTANT SPEED+ALTITUDE..", **LatLong:** "36.150002 -95.950005", **LatLongDMS:** "36:09:00 N 95:57:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.150002,-95.950005)", **State/Prov:** "Oklahoma", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5960 (E1CA1A86) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** MUKDEN, CHN **Description:** 2+observer(s). 100+4' disks going west over steel factory / 1 minute(s) intervals. / r171p39. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 501) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1111 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "China", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "80", **HatchDesc:** "MUKDEN,CHN:2+OBS:100+ 4'DISKS >W OVR STEEL FACTORY/1min INTERVALS:/r171p39", **LatLong:** "41.833335 123.433339", **LatLongDMS:** "41:50:00 N 123:26:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.833335,123.433339)", **State/Prov:** "LNG", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 5961 (7A024754) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Location:** Harmon Field, Newfoundland, CAN **Description:** Harmond Field Photo (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, Code: I, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [470710](http://www.nicap.org/470710harmon%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_376 ### Event 5962 (F94D2E95) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Location:** Morristown, NJ **Description:** 6 DD from aircraft (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [470710](http://www.nicap.org/morristown.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_377 ### Event 5963 (B9CB92AF) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Location:** Ft. Sumner (near), NM **Description:** A sharply outlined, white ellipsoidal seemingly luminous 200 ft object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [470710](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/ftsumner470710dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_378 ### Event 5964 (97D5CC11) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Location:** Harmon Field, Newfoundland, CAN **Description:** Disc-shaped object flew very fast, leaving a dark blue trail (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [470710](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/harmondir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_402 ### Event 5965 (17A4AFA3) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Time:** Between 3 and 5 PM local time **Location:** Harmon Field, Newfoundland, Canada **Description:** Witnesses: three ground crewmen, including Mr. Leidy, for Pan American Airways. Watched briefly while one translucent disc- or wheel-shaped object flew very fast, leaving a dark blue trail and then ascended and cut a path through the clouds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_5 ### Event 5966 (8A577CB1) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Location:** La. **Description:** FBI agent E. G. Fitch forwards [Schulgen](http://www.generals.dk/general/Schulgen/George%5FFrancis/USA.html)’s request to Assistant Director of the Domestic Intelligence Division [D. Milton](https://bhunt34.wordpress.com/2015/12/30/acme-press-photos/) [“Mickey” Ladd](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Ladd.htm) at FBI headquarters in a memo titled “Flying Disks.” Ladd adds a note saying that the “Bureau does not believe it should go into these investigations” because many cases are “pranks.” Associate FBI Director [Clyde Tolson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde%5FTolson) adds, “I think we should do this,” while [J. Edgar Hoover](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FEdgar%5FHoover) writes, “I would do it but before agreeing to it we must insist upon full access to discs recovered. For instance in the La. Case the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory examination.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** E. G. Fitch, \[[FBI memo](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/aa4aac%5F677b6f3d275b4e7e88a312e65ec5fb48.pdf)\], July 10, 1947; RosRept, [pp. 25–](http://www.cufos.org/books/The%5FRoswell%5FReportR2.pdf) [26](http://www.cufos.org/books/The%5FRoswell%5FReportR2.pdf); Good Above, [p. 541](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/540/mode/2up); Kevin D. Randle, “[The Hoover Memo Again,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-hoover-memo-again.html)” A Different Perspective, July 29, 2015 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1064 ### Event 5967 (70BE9D19) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Locations:** Fort Worth; Wright Field, Ohio; Dayton **Description:** Roswell debris and bodies have been flown from Fort Worth to Wright Field, according to future Brig. Gen. [Arthur Exon](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/104819/brigadier-general-arthur-ernest-exon/)[,](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/104819/brigadier-general-arthur-ernest-exon/) then stationed at Wright Field, Ohio, who says that a special unit is created to study them. The story is slightly corroborated by [Jack G. Tiffany Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99628518/jack-tiffany), whose father [Jack G. Tiffany Sr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99628518/jack-tiffany) is one of the crew members that flies debris from Fort Worth to Dayton. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [pp. 61–66](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/66/mode/2up); Thomas J. Carey and Donald J. Schmitt, Inside the Real Area 51, New Page, 2013, pp. 165–175; Nukes 483–486 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1065 ### Event 5968 (E087FD02) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Location:** Morristown, New Jersey **Description:** 10:00 a.m. [John H. Janssen](https://books.google.com/books?id=d4xka5HgmnMC&pg=PA53&lpg=PA53&dq=%22John%2BH.%2BJanssen%22%2BMorristown&source=bl&ots=8BznC%5FpcGD&sig=ACfU3U0xTsN0SbtjUsPdc41%5FWojGoYEDDQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiM5KTJ6JbpAhUHWs0KHVelAAoQ6AEwBnoECB4QAQ%23v%3Donepage&q=%22John%20H.%20Janssen%22%20Morristown&f=false), aviation editor of the Morristown Daily Record, takes a photo of four luminous objects as he is flying his Piper J-3 Cub at 10,000 feet over Morristown, New Jersey. Three of the objects are silvery white, while the fourth is a dull metallic color. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[‘Flying Saucers’ Invade Morristown; 4 Discs](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92703853/) [Photographed near Airport,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92703853/)” Paterson \(N.J.\) Evening News, July 11, 1947, p. 10; NICAP, “[07-10-1947 USA,](http://www.nicap.org/morristown.htm) [New Jersey, Morristown](http://www.nicap.org/morristown.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1066 ### Event 5969 (8205AE43) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Locations:** Pentagon; Vandenberg **Description:** 10:30 a.m. Lt. Gen. [Curtis LeMay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis%5FLeMay), deputy chief of Air Staff for Research and Development at the Pentagon, meets with [Vandenberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg), Maj. Gen. [Leslie Groves,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie%5FGroves) and Lt. Gen. [Robert Miller Montague](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FMiller%5FMontague). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1067 ### Event 5970 (EE5FFD0C) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Description:** 12:15 p.m. [Doolittle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy%5FDoolittle) and [Vandenberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg) meet with [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1068 ### Event 5971 (5DC9B9F1) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Location:** Robert P. Patterson **Description:** 2:40 p.m. Secretary of War [Robert P. Patterson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FP.%5FPatterson) meets with [Groves](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie%5FGroves) and [Montague](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FMiller%5FMontague). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1069 ### Event 5972 (B6BA299A) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Locations:** White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico; Wright Field, Ohio **Description:** 4:25 p.m. A V-2 launch is aborted at White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico, after 32 seconds due to an early yaw. Gen. Gen. [Nathan Twining](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%5FFarragut%5FTwining) stops at White Sands before returning to Wright Field, Ohio. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1070 ### Event 5973 (0CF2F9DB) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Locations:** University of New Mexico; Highway 60 near Fort Sumner, New Mexico **Description:** 4:47 p.m. University of New Mexico astronomer [Lincoln LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) his wife Leota, and two daughters, Jean and Mary, are driving west on Highway 60 near Fort Sumner, New Mexico, when they see a sharply outlined, white ellipsoidal object wobbling in the sky to the west about 25 miles away. They watch it for about 30 seconds, then it disappears behind a cloud, but reappears 5 seconds later further to the right. He estimates its size as 245 feet long and 100 feet thick at the maximum, with a horizontal speed of 120–180 mph and a vertical speed of 600–900 mph. It moves silently with no vapor trail. It resembles no known aircraft. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[200ʹ Ellipsoidal Object](http://www.nicap.org/470710fortsumner%5Fdir.htm) [Sighted by La Paz Family](http://www.nicap.org/470710fortsumner%5Fdir.htm)”; H. B. Darrach Jr. and Robert Ginna, “[Have We Visitors from Space?](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/Life/1952%2004%2007%5FLife%5FHave%20We%20Visitors.pdf)” Life, April 7, 1952, p. 84; Bloecher, [p. III-19](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm); Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-July-7-July-10-SN.pdf) [July 7th–July 10th, Supplemental Notes,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-July-7-July-10-SN.pdf) The Author, 2001, p. 58; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 24; James E. McDonald, “[Statement](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#astronomers) [on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#astronomers)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 60 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1071 ### Event 5974 (B24D601D) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Locations:** Ernest Harmon AFB [now Stephenville International Airport]; Stephenville Crossing, Newfoundland **Description:** 5:30 p.m. Three civilian airline mechanics \(John N. Mehrman Jr., Robert Leidy, and John E. Woodruff\) at Ernest Harmon AFB \[now Stephenville International Airport\] are returning from a fishing trip and driving up a mountain road near Stephenville Crossing, Newfoundland. They see a bluish-black exhaust trail that has cut through some clouds leaving a “hole.” Woodruff sees a disc-shaped object the apparent size of a C-54 transport plane coming out of the clouds and traveling at a terrific rate of speed. The hole remains in the cloud for more than an hour. Leidy takes two Kodachrome photos of the exhaust trail. The sighting later impresses Project Sign personnel to the extent that they ask questions about UFO effects on clouds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Harmon Field Photo](http://www.nicap.org/470710fortsumner%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 24; Michael D. Swords, “[Can You Learn Anything from UFO Photos, Part Two,](http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com/2012/07/can-you-learn-anything-from-ufo-photos.html)” The Big Study, July 5, 2012; Swords 38–39; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume 1, 1947,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Revision.pdf) The Author, February 1991, pp. 44– 45; Chris Rutkowski, “The Cold, Hard Facts about UFOs in Canada,” IUR 34, no. 1 \(Sept. 2011\): 8–9; Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 49–50; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 167, 264–267 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1072 ### Event 5975 (8B1DB30A) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Location:** Roswell, New Mexico **Description:** Mac Brazel is still being held at a guest house on the Roswell, New Mexico, base. The officers try to convince him not to say anything about what he has seen. They also try to prevent him talking to reporters. He is given a physical by doctors at the base hospital. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [p. 172](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/172/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1073 ### Event 5976 (372B59E4) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Description:** There are 19 UFO reports recorded for this day in the UFOCAT database: two from Europe, one from China, one from Newfoundland, and the remainder in the United States. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3973 ### Event 5977 (3D1BFB46) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Description:** At 10 o'clock in the morning GMT a British Vickers Viking aircraft was flying over the Bay of Biscay in the Atlantic off the coast of France when the crew of three sighted a gray flying object, shaped like a tadpole. It was traveling at an estimated 600 mph and leaving a long vapor trail. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 10 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3974 ### Event 5978 (2FC4F842) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Description:** At 11:00 a.m. EDT in Valdosta, Georgia a one-meter diameter "cake pan" shaped object flew over at 600 meters altitude. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Michael Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomenon 1947-1987, p. 3 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3975 ### Event 5979 (92F33D19) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Description:** At 11:00 p.m. PDT (2:00 p.m. EDT) a man in Burien, Washington watched a three-foot diameter round shiny disc-shaped object fly slowly and silently toward the northwest. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 11, 1947 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3976 ### Event 5980 (3EE931A1) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Description:** At 7:30 p.m. European time (1:30 p.m. EDT) in Skotfoss, Norway a disc flew across the sky from the northwest to the southeast. It was estimated to be the size of a small plane and traveling at normal aircraft speeds, but made no sound. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 137 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3977 ### Event 5981 (B0B0A47E) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Description:** At 4:47 p.m. astronomers Dr. Lincoln La Paz, Director of the Institute of Meteoritics and Department Head of the Astronomy Department at the University of New Mexico, and Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of the planet Pluto, and other family members watched a luminous 300-foot wide saucer ascend at 600 mph near Fort Sumner, New Mexico heading toward the north. In 1948 Dr. La Paz served as a voluntary consultant for the USAF in connection with the "green fireball" investigations. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case 819; Loren Gross, UFOs: A History. 1947, p. 58 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3978 ### Event 5982 (D2AC844B) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Description:** Sometime between 3 o'clock in the afternoon and 5:00 p.m., three ground crewman, including Mr. Leidy, a mechanic for Pan American Airways, took photographs of a C-54 sized translucent disc-or wheel-shaped UFO flying below the clouds over Ernest Harmon Air Field in Newfoundland, Canada. They watched briefly while the UFO flew very fast, leaving a dark blue trail. It then ascended and cut a path through the clouds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book; NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1978, p. 4; International UFO Reporter, December 1998; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3979 ### Event 5983 (14D97DED) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Description:** At 5:30 p.m. EDT a "flying tin lid" shaped object flew over Smyrna, Georgia at an incredible speed. It reflected sunlight brilliantly. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Michael Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomenon 1947-1987, p. 4 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3980 ### Event 5984 (62ABC687) **Date:** 7/10/1947 **Description:** At 8:00 p.m. CDT several airmen near Tulsa, Oklahoma saw a perfect ring of light in the sky that flew toward the northeast at a constant speed and altitude. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 101 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3981 ### Event 5985 (528BEF68) **Date:** 7/11/1947 **Description:** A Washington beltway newspaper column reporters that a visitor found Einstein “sick”, but Einstein stated not to worry, that the world is sick and the “military mass-minded approach” he saw in Germany was coming here. **Type:** newspaper article **Reference:** [Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106015905/einstein-sick-july-11-1947/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_262 ### Event 5986 (8E8D517E) **Date:** 7/11/1947 **Location:** CANADA, Codroy **Description:** (Translated from French) At 2:20 AM the inhabitants of Codroy saw a flying saucer with a conical tail. The object was very bright, in yellow tones and left a yellowish trail. It flew extremely fast, coming from the northwest and heading east at an altitude of about 6000 feet. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 65 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1280 ### Event 5987 (22067388) **Date:** 7/11/1947 **Location:** USA, Brush (Virginia) **Description:** (Translated from French) Johnny Johnson, working for the E. L. Mansure company, tried in vain to shoot down the "flying saucers". He was at his home and sleeping, when his wife, who was returning from church around 10 pm with neighbors, came to wake him up to tell him that there were "strange objects" in the air. He took his gun and fired several shots at the saucers, in the hope of shooting one down. They were flying at low altitude, were circular, and continued to fly over the area for half an hour. Unable to reach them, Johnson eventually went back to bed. **Reference:** Source: Bluefield, West Virginia SUNSET NEWS, 12 July 1947, Page 1. Edition I and Edition II. "Learns Shots Can't Ground Flying Discs - cfr Jan Aldrich **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1281 ### Event 5988 (3FAE85E4) **Date:** 7/11/1947 **Location:** USA, High Point (North Carolina) **Description:** (Translated from French) The Associated Press reported this: "Two pilots flying at 1000 feet about 10 miles south of High Point saw at 7:20 pm 'a ball of fire..' 'A huge object flying at very high speed..' A flash of light to the left of their plane made them look in that direction. They then saw a huge object, rounded on top, with a black band outlining the central part, flying at an incredible speed towards the north. The base of the object was rotating, and regularly there was a fire emission coming from it, as if it was a jet. The pilot had turned to get closer to this 'thing', but his maneuver was not yet finished when the object passed him and disappeared in the direction of the north, towards Winston-Salem, on a trajectory that passed through High Point and Thomasville." (July 11, 1947) **Reference:** Wilmington, (NC) MORNING STAR, 13 July 1947, Page 1 "YEP, THEY'RE REPORTED AGAIN'" - Jan Aldrich **Reference:** Investigator's note: The two pilots, Ed Lewis and Dick Milsaps, would have collaborated together on a local magazine "Southern Wings", one being the author, the other the editor, but Bullard and Aldrich's investigation could not find any trace of the magazine or the pilots. **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1282 ### Event 5989 (16FC1CDF) **Date:** 7/11/1947 **Location:** ATLANTIC, Bay of Biscay **Description:** (Translated from French) At 10:00 GMT in the morning, accompanying a Viking transport to Argentina, Captain Norman E. Waught of London Airwork Ltd was at approximately 8000 feet when he saw ahead of him at a higher altitude, an elongated, tadpole-shaped object flying at 16000 feet. First Officer Peter Roberts and Radio Officer Stuart Chinneck confirmed that the object was grayish and of an unusual shape. At one point they were 5 or 6 miles away from the UFO, which then passed by their aircraft at an enormous speed leaving a trail of vapor. The crew estimated the speed of the object to be 6000mph and 7000 feet above them. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 67 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1283 ### Event 5990 (B40AC8CE) **Date:** 7/11/1947 (approximate) **Location:** IZTAPA, GUATEMALA **Description:** Pan-AM passengers / airport/apartment. Flat-shaped object trails golden vapor. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 95) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1112 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Guatemala", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "IZTAPA,GUATEMALA:PAN-AM PASSENGERS/APT:FLAT-SHAPED OBJ TRAILS GOLDEN VAPOR", **LatLong:** "13.933334 -90.716671", **LatLongDMS:** "13:56:00 N 90:43:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/13.933334,-90.716671)", **State/Prov:** "IZT", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 5991 (D76A24B0) **Date:** 7/11/1947 **Location:** WORTHING, TX **Description:** 1 observer. Classic silver saucer. "Brighter than anything seen before / observer(s)". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 101) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1113 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "70", **HatchDesc:** "WORTHING,TX:1 OBS:CLASSIC SLVR SCR:"brighter than anything seen before/OBS"", **LatLong:** "29.416668 -97.033338", **LatLongDMS:** "29:25:00 N 97:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.416668,-97.033338)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5992 (EAEB5624) **Date:** 7/11/1947 **Time:** 00:30 **Location:** CODROY, NFLD **Description:** 2 observer(s) fast "dinner-plate" flies straight and level. 2nd object in 2 days. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT; Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1114 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "148", **HatchDesc:** "CODROY,NFLD:2 OBS FAST "DINNER-PLATE" FLIES S/L::2ND OBJ IN 2 DAYS", **LatLong:** "47.866669 -59.366669", **LatLongDMS:** "47:52:00 N 59:22:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.866669,-59.366669)", **State/Prov:** "Newfoundland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5993 (7E53C605) **Date:** 7/11/1947 **Time:** 02:30 **Location:** YUMA, AZ **Description:** 1 observer. Dog barks. Silent white disk spins. Swoops over housetops. / r171p103. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 503) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1115 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "48", **HatchDesc:** "YUMA,AZ:1 OBS:DOG BARKS:SLNT WHT DISK SPINS:SWOOPS ovr HOUSETOPS:/r171p103", **LatLong:** "32.700002 -114.633339", **LatLongDMS:** "32:42:00 N 114:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.700002,-114.633339)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5994 (DC33A8BB) **Date:** 7/11/1947 **Time:** 08:40 **Location:** PARAMARAIBO, SURINAM **Description:** 3+observer(s). 2+1 large bright disks going quickly east toward(s) river. High and fast. / De West. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 102) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1116 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Guyanas (all 3 of them)", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "PARAMARAIBO,SURINAM:3+OBS:2+1 LRG BRITE DISKS >>E twrd Rvr:HIGH+FAST:/De West", **LatLong:** "5.833334 -55.166669", **LatLongDMS:** "05:50:00 N 55:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/5.833334,-55.166669)", **State/Prov:** "Surinam", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 5995 (0066CACC) **Date:** 7/11/1947 **Time:** 10:00? **Location:** LIVINGSTON, MT **Description:** Machinist. 25cm shiny object hovers over store. Going up [to] going quickly [to] going west like a bullet. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 102) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1117 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1373", **HatchDesc:** "LIVINGSTON,MT:MACHINIST:25cm SHINY OBJ HVRS ovr STORE:↑ >>>W like a bullet", **LatLong:** "45.661113 -110.561116", **LatLongDMS:** "45:39:40 N 110:33:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.661113,-110.561116)", **State/Prov:** "Montana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5996 (C00F7827) **Date:** 7/11/1947 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** OVER BAY OF BISCAY **Description:** Airline crew / 1200M altitude. Grey 'flying tadpole' / 2400M altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 102) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1118 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "ovr BAY of BISCAY:AIRLINE CREW/1200M alt:GREY 'FLYING TADPOLE'/2400M alt:", **LatLong:** "45.000002 -5.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "45:00:00 N 05:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.000002,-5.000000)", **State/Prov:** "BSC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5997 (9E4F96CD) **Date:** 7/11/1947 **Time:** 10:00? **Location:** SOUTHEAST / THE DALLES, OR **Description:** 2 / ranch. Disk going quickly west / 3km altitude. Faster / any plane. 1500kph. Seen / 30 second(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 200) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1119 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "100", **HatchDesc:** "SE/THE DALLES,OR:2/RANCH:DISK >>W/3km alt:FASTER/ANY PLANE:1500kph:seen/30sec", **LatLong:** "45.500002 -121.083339", **LatLongDMS:** "45:30:00 N 121:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.500002,-121.083339)", **RelAlt:** "3000", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5998 (64356023) **Date:** 7/11/1947 **Time:** 10:30 **Location:** GARISENDA, ITL **Description:** Numerous observer(s). Several luminous disks north going quickly south. Luminous object drops / ground. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 104) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1120 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "GARISENDA,ITL:NMRS OBS:SVRL LUMn.DISKS N>>S:LUMn.OBJ DROPS/GND", **LatLong:** "44.500002 11.344445", **LatLongDMS:** "44:30:00 N 11:20:40 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.500002,11.344445)", **State/Prov:** "Bologna", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 5999 (91DBAE99) **Date:** 7/11/1947 **Time:** 11:50 **Location:** DOUGLAS, AZ **Description:** Bright metallic 15cm disk just outside home window! Wobbles. / r111p20. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 100) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1121 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1220", **HatchDesc:** "DOUGLAS,AZ:BRITE MTLC 15cm DISK JUST OUTSIDE HOME WINDOW!:WOBBLES:/r111p20", **LatLong:** "31.350001 -109.533339", **LatLongDMS:** "31:21:00 N 109:32:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.350001,-109.533339)", **RelAlt:** "3", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6000 (F9947A73) **Date:** 7/11/1947 **Time:** 17:50 **Location:** GREYBACK MOUNTAIN, OR **Description:** 6 observer(s). 4 disks wobble going south / airplane speed into mountain top. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 504) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1122 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "2150", **HatchDesc:** "GREYBACK Mtn,OR:6 OBS:4 DISKS WOBBLE >S/AIRPLANE SPEED into Mtn top:", **LatLong:** "42.111113 -123.311117", **LatLongDMS:** "42:06:40 N 123:18:40 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.111113,-123.311117)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6001 (D40E2F73) **Date:** 7/11/1947 **Time:** ~18:00 **Location:** SILVER CITY, NM **Description:** 2 observer(s) / backyards. Brilliant flying disk west going quickly east / incredible speed. / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 33) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1123 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1810", **HatchDesc:** "SILVER CITY,NM:2 OBS/BACKYARDS:BRILL.FLYING DISK W>>E/INCREDIBLE SPEED:/NEWS", **LatLong:** "32.766668 -108.216672", **LatLongDMS:** "32:46:00 N 108:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.766668,-108.216672)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6002 (380D8801) **Date:** 7/11/1947 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** BOCA GRANDE, FL **Description:** 3 observer(s). 3 disks wobble going quickly north fast. Low altitude. Humming. Silver trails. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 505) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1124 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "BOCA GRANDE,FL:3 OBS:3 DISKS WOBBLE >>N FAST:LO alt:HUM:SLVR TRAILS:", **LatLong:** "26.700001 -82.255559", **LatLongDMS:** "26:42:00 N 82:15:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/26.700001,-82.255559)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6003 (75BC6576) **Date:** 7/11/1947 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** LONGVIEW, WA **Description:** Professor and 4. Several round shiny disks maneuver / 2 groups. Fast. High altitude. Direction unknown. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 501) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1125 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "7", **HatchDesc:** "LONGVIEW,WA:Prof+4:SVRL RND SHINY DISKS MNVR/2 GROUPS:FAST:Hi alt:dir unkn", **LatLong:** "46.138891 -122.938895", **LatLongDMS:** "46:08:20 N 122:56:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.138891,-122.938895)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6004 (720D49E4) **Date:** 7/11/1947 **Location:** Elmendorf AFB, Anchorage, AK **Description:** Round 3' Aluminum Object At Great Speed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [470711](http://www.nicap.org/470711elmendorf%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_379 ### Event 6005 (230BCF87) **Date:** 7/11/1947 **Location:** Roswell, New Mexico **Description:** Debriefings of all military participants in the debris recovery operation take place. They are taken into a room in small groups and told that the recovery is highly classified and not to talk about it. Military personnel warn civilians around Roswell, New Mexico, that they are not to talk about what happened. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [pp. 72–76](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/72/mode/2up), [172](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/172/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1074 ### Event 6006 (033574ED) **Date:** 7/11/1947 **Location:** Elmendorf AFB [now Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson], Anchorage, Alaska **Description:** 11:00 a.m. USAAF Col. [Bruce H. Perry](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/82831126/bruce-hartley-perry) and Maj. [William E. Geyser](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/127611820/william-e-geyser), 59th AACS Group, see a round 2–3 foot or 10-foot aluminum or silver-metallic sphere traveling at great speed to the south of Elmendorf AFB \[now Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson\], Anchorage, Alaska. Estimated altitude is 3,000–4,000 feet. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Round 3ʹ](http://www.nicap.org/470711elmendorf%5Fdir.htm) [Aluminum Object at Great Speed](http://www.nicap.org/470711elmendorf%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 24 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1075 ### Event 6007 (8DF7EA91) **Date:** 7/12/1947 **Description:** In a declassified statement, Kenneth Arnold points out why the unidentified discs he saw couldn’t have been mirages: “I observed these objects not only through the glass of my airplane but turned my airplane sideways where I could open my window and observe them with a completely unobstructed view (without sunglasses).” **Type:** declassified statement **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-G, p16) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_263 ### Event 6008 (2FEED82A) **Date:** 7/12/1947 **Description:** Announcement of Einstein’s ABC Special live radio broadcast on “The Immediate Need for World Law” next Thursday (so either July 17th, or the 24th) **Type:** newspaper article **Reference:** [Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106016511/dr-einstein-in-interview/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_264 ### Event 6009 (D248FDFE) **Date:** 7/12/1947 **Location:** USA, Silver Lake (Washington) **Description:** (Translated from French) A man reported the observation at noon of an orange ball flying and making a humming sound above Silver Lake. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 68 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1284 ### Event 6010 (5CC6C78E) **Date:** 7/12/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Letter from [Ken Arnold](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/ArnoldKenneth.html) to the commander of [Wright Field](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/WrightPatterson.html). Start of the official file. (Saturday, July 12) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_673 ### Event 6011 (D9DDE60D) **Date:** 7/12/1947 **Time:** ~03:00 **Location:** GALT, ONT **Description:** Observer(s) wakens. 20cm ball / light over head! Observer(s) throws pillow. Object going [to] through wall. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 105) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1126 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "283", **HatchDesc:** "GALT,ONT:OBS WAKENS:20cm BALL/LITE ovr HEAD!:OBS THROWS PILLOW:OBJ > THRU WALL", **LatLong:** "43.366669 -80.311115", **LatLongDMS:** "43:22:00 N 80:18:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.366669,-80.311115)", **RelAlt:** "2", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 6012 (029C0A5A) **Date:** 7/12/1947 (approximate) **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** DRUMHELLER AND LETHBRIDGE, ALTA **Description:** Several observer(s). 3 saucers. 1 hovers others go quickly. Going quickly southeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 105) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1127 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "700", **HatchDesc:** "DRUMHELLER+LETHBRIDGE,ALTA:SVRL OBS:3 SCRS:1 HVRS OTHERS GO QUICKLY:>>SE", **LatLong:** "51.466669 -112.700005", **LatLongDMS:** "51:28:00 N 112:42:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.466669,-112.700005)", **State/Prov:** "Alberta", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6013 (9775B7DF) **Date:** 7/12/1947 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** SILVER LAKE, WA **Description:** Lumberman. Silver ball purrs. Reflects sun. Lost going [to] behind cloud. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 106) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1128 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "158", **HatchDesc:** "SILVER LAKE,WA:LUMBERMAN:SILVER BALL PURRs:REFLECTS SUN:LOST > BHND CLOUD", **LatLong:** "46.294447 -122.783339", **LatLongDMS:** "46:17:40 N 122:47:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.294447,-122.783339)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6014 (82BE54F3) **Date:** 7/12/1947 (approximate) **Time:** ~13:00 **Location:** EAST / LARCH MOUNTAIN, WA **Description:** Prospector. 9 silver ovoids going southeast fast. Bob and weave. No smoke or noise. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 512) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1129 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "100", **HatchDesc:** "E/LARCH Mtn,WA:PROSPECTOR:9 SLVR OVOIDS >SE FAST:BOB+WEAVE:no smoke or noise", **LatLong:** "45.700002 -122.033339", **LatLongDMS:** "45:42:00 N 122:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.700002,-122.033339)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6015 (AB72743A) **Date:** 7/12/1947 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** SPRING COULEE, ALTA **Description:** 5 / car. Silent shiny circular object / white center. Going east. Turns going quickly south. Observer(s) chase. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 105) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1130 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1040", **HatchDesc:** "SPRING COULEE,ALTA:5/CAR:SLNT SHINY CIRC.OBJ/WHT CENTER:>E:TURNS >>S:OBS CHASE", **LatLong:** "49.333336 -113.216672", **LatLongDMS:** "49:20:00 N 113:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.333336,-113.216672)", **State/Prov:** "Alberta", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6016 (5745256A) **Date:** 7/12/1947 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** BRAZIL, IN **Description:** 1 observer. Shiny silver 60cm disk rolls going west across sky. Thin rim and thick center. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 512) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1131 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "198", **HatchDesc:** "BRAZIL,IN:1 OBS:SHINY SLVR 60cm DISK ROLLS >W ACRS SKY:THIN RIM+THICK CTR:", **LatLong:** "39.522224 -87.127782", **LatLongDMS:** "39:31:20 N 87:07:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.522224,-87.127782)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6017 (680FB302) **Date:** 7/12/1947 **Time:** 13:40 **Location:** WILMINGTON, NC **Description:** 2 observer(s). Brilliant saucer 3 / 4 moon-size going west. Flips / side and enters cloud / rainstorm. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 515) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1132 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "WILMINGTON,NC:2 OBS:BRILL.SCR 3/4 MOONSIZE >W:FLIPS/SIDE+ENTERS CLOUD/RAINSTRM", **LatLong:** "34.227779 -77.944448", **LatLongDMS:** "34:13:40 N 77:56:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.227779,-77.944448)", **State/Prov:** "North Carolina", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6018 (18E237B2) **Date:** 7/12/1947 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** GRAND FORKS, ND **Description:** Numerous separate observer(s). 12-15 saucers going east. Rotate? Small white disk / 1 observer(s). / r171p106. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 506) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1133 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "254", **HatchDesc:** "GRAND FORKS,ND:NMRS SEP.OBS:12-15 SCRS >E:ROTATE?:SML WHT DISK/1 OBS:/r171p106", **LatLong:** "47.933336 -97.033338", **LatLongDMS:** "47:56:00 N 97:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.933336,-97.033338)", **State/Prov:** "North Dakota", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6019 (DC0365AC) **Date:** 7/12/1947 **Time:** 15:30 **Location:** OVER UTAH LAKE, UT **Description:** Private pilot. 6 silver disks flutter and stabilize several X. Going southwest. / r131#5p7. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 749) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1134 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1350", **HatchDesc:** "ovr UTAH LAKE,UT:PVT PILOT:6 SLVR DISKS FLUTTER+STABILIZE SVRL X:>SW:/r131#5p7", **LatLong:** "40.244446 -111.794450", **LatLongDMS:** "40:14:40 N 111:47:40 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.244446,-111.794450)", **State/Prov:** "Utah", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6020 (0E854824) **Date:** 7/12/1947 **Time:** 16:30 **Location:** WEST / RIGBY, ID **Description:** 3 / (seen thru) binoculars. Whirr. 3+3+3+1 bright metallic disks going north. Dip and rise. Small plane follows. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 514) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1135 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "1475", **HatchDesc:** "W/RIGBY,ID:3/BINOCS:WHIRR:3+3+3+1 BRITE MTLC DISKS >N:DIP+RISE:sml plane folos", **LatLong:** "43.672224 -111.916672", **LatLongDMS:** "43:40:20 N 111:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.672224,-111.916672)", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6021 (E3E9CA26) **Date:** 7/12/1947 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** ELMENDORF AIR FORCE BASE, AK **Description:** Several officers. Grey object follows land contours closely / several min. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 121) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1136 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "6", **Elev:** "65", **HatchDesc:** "ELMENDORF AFB,AK:SVRL OFFICERS:GRY OBJ FOLOS LAND CONTOURS CLOSELY/SVRL MIN.", **LatLong:** "61.250003 -149.783340", **LatLongDMS:** "61:15:00 N 149:47:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/61.250003,-149.783340)", **State/Prov:** "Alaska", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6022 (A5A494AC) **Date:** 7/12/1947 **Time:** 18:40 **Location:** SAND POINT NAS AND SEATTLE, WA **Description:** 2+2 separate observer(s). Silent silver saucer swerves going quickly east / 12K' altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 835) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1137 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "130", **HatchDesc:** "SAND POINT NAS+SEATTLE,WA:2+2 SEP.OBS:SLNT SLVR SCR SWERVES >>E/12K'alt:", **LatLong:** "47.633336 -122.283339", **LatLongDMS:** "47:38:00 N 122:17:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.633336,-122.283339)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6023 (C3AB8F2C) **Date:** 7/12/1947 **Time:** 19:20 **Location:** 16KM SOUTH / HIGH POINT, NC **Description:** 2 / private plane. Huge fireball-saucer going north fast. Bottom rotates. / r171p104. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 515) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1138 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "275", **HatchDesc:** "16km S/HIGH POINT,NC:2/Pvt.PLANE:HUGE FBL-SCR >N FAST:BOTTOM ROTATES:/r171p104", **LatLong:** "35.816668 -80.005559", **LatLongDMS:** "35:49:00 N 80:00:20 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.816668,-80.005559)", **State/Prov:** "North Carolina", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6024 (77F8F03E) **Date:** 7/12/1947 **Time:** ~20:00 **Location:** ELBA TO/FROM ALBION, ID **Description:** 5 / car. Dark object going north. Possible landing / mountain peak. "No bird or plane". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 507) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1139 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1508", **HatchDesc:** "ELBA>N:POSS.LANDING/Mtn PEAK:"no bird or plane"", **LatLong:** "42.333335 -113.566672", **LatLongDMS:** "42:20:00 N 113:34:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.333335,-113.566672)", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 6025 (4E46CD7C) **Date:** 7/12/1947 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** KASHMERE GARDENS, TX **Description:** Silver disk / fireball. Bounces and circles. Dips and soars fast. Kugelblitz? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 507) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1140 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "KASHMERE GARDENS,TX:SLVR DISK/FBL:BOUNCES+CCLS:DIPS+SOARS FAST:kugelblitz?", **LatLong:** "29.811113 -95.327782", **LatLongDMS:** "29:48:40 N 95:19:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.811113,-95.327782)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 6026 (3FC896CD) **Date:** 7/12/1947 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** WINCHESTER, IN **Description:** 7 observer(s). 2 disks going west trailing beams / light. Whirl and shoot up and down. Extremely fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 512) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1141 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "342", **HatchDesc:** "WINCHESTER,IN:7 OBS:2 DISKS >W TRAILING BEAMS/LITE:WHIRL+SHOOT UP+DOWN:XFAST", **LatLong:** "40.172224 -84.983337", **LatLongDMS:** "40:10:20 N 84:59:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.172224,-84.983337)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6027 (CF077A24) **Date:** 7/12/1947 **Locations:** Hotel Owyhee in Boise, Idaho; Hamilton Army Airfield [now closed] in Novato, California; Mt. Rainier, Washington **Description:** [Kenneth Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold) is interviewed at the Hotel Owyhee in Boise, Idaho, by Lt. [Frank M. Brown](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65326329/frank-mercer-brown) and Capt. [William](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43927275/william-lee-davidson) [L. Davidson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43927275/william-lee-davidson)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43927275/william-lee-davidson) who have flown in from Hamilton Army Airfield \[now closed\] in Novato, California. He also submits a written statement to Army Air Force intelligence, referring to the objects as “saucer-like.” At the end of the report he draws a picture of what the objects appeared to look like at their closest approach to Mt. Rainier, Washington. He writes, “They seemed longer than wide, their thickness was about 1/20th their width.” As to motion, Arnold writes, “They flew like many times I have observed geese to fly in a rather diagonal chain-like line as if they were linked together.” \(James Easton suggests in 2007 that Arnold may have seen pelicans, based on their movements, but this seems unlikely.\) While they are at Arnold’s house, Brown and Davidson hear that pilot Emil J. Smith is in Boise on a layover, and all three go to the airport to talk to him. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, Palmer, 1952, pp. 21–23; Kenneth Arnold, “[Confidential,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/ka.htm)” Project 1947; Frank M. Brown, “[Memorandum for the Officer in Charge,](https://www.project1947.com/fig/kabrown.htm)” July 16, 1947; James Easton, “[Kenneth Arnold and](https://ufocon.blogspot.com/2007/04/kenneth-arnold-and-pelicans%5F4213.html) [the Pelicans,](https://ufocon.blogspot.com/2007/04/kenneth-arnold-and-pelicans%5F4213.html)” UFO Conjectures, April 4, 2007; Martin Shough, “[The Singular Adventure of Mr. Kenneth](http://cufos.org/cases/1947%5F06%5F24%5FUS%5FOR%5FMt%5FRainier%5FShough-article%5FArnold.pdf) [Arnold,](http://cufos.org/cases/1947%5F06%5F24%5FUS%5FOR%5FMt%5FRainier%5FShough-article%5FArnold.pdf)” June 2010; Michael David Hall and Wendy Ann Connors, “Alfred Loedding: New Insight on the Man behind Project Sign,” IUR 23, no. 4 \(Winter 1998\): 6 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1076 ### Event 6028 (E365FC45) **Date:** 7/12/1947 **Description:** The FBI conducts a shorter follow-up interview with Capt. Emil J. Smith. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** ClearIntent, [p. 153](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/152/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1077 ### Event 6029 (9DD34BE6) **Date:** 7/12/1947 **Location:** Elmendorf AFB [now Joint Base Elmendorf- Richardson], Anchorage, Alaska **Description:** 6:30 p.m. USAAF Maj. Edward Graham and others at Elmendorf AFB \[now Joint Base Elmendorf- Richardson\], Anchorage, Alaska, see a balloon-like grayish object, 10 feet long, flying northwest at 100 mph at an altitude of 1,500 feet and following the contour of mountains 5 miles away. It is paralleling the course of a landing C-47. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 24 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1078 ### Event 6030 (2AB6CAD7) **Date:** 7/12/1947 **Locations:** Naval Air Station Seattle at Sand Point; Magnuson Park; Seattle, Washington; North 82nd Street and 11th Avenue in Seattle **Description:** 6:35 p.m. Seamen John C. Kennedy and Ben Bobberly are on duty at Naval Air Station Seattle at Sand Point \[now closed and redeveloped as Magnuson Park\], Seattle, Washington. They notice a silvery disc-shaped object flying overhead to the east at 12,000 feet. At about the same time, [Arnold Bergh](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/140225076/arnold-rolf-bergh) and James Calahan watch three silvery discs flying quickly north from their location near North 82nd Street and 11th Avenue in Seattle. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Bloecher, [p. III-6](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1079 ### Event 6031 (EA898A0E) **Date:** 7/13/1947 **Location:** USA, Wingville (Oregon) **Description:** (Translated from French) Several witnesses saw at 7 pm above Baker Valley, a round object moving in a yo-yo pattern. Among them were pilots who attempted to intercept it in vain. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 68 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1285 ### Event 6032 (7D44D343) **Date:** 7/13/1947 **Location:** BEIJING, CHINA **Description:** Many observer(s). Huge sausage with dazzling rays / colored light near summer palace. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 95) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1142 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "China", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "BEIJING,CHINA:MANY OBS:HUGE SAUSAGE W/DAZZLING RAYS/CLRD LITE nr SUMMER PALACE", **LatLong:** "39.900002 116.366672", **LatLongDMS:** "39:54:00 N 116:22:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.900002,116.366672)", **State/Prov:** "Beijing", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6033 (A6D81D9F) **Date:** 7/13/1947 **Time:** 09:30 **Location:** PONCA CITY, OK **Description:** 20+observer(s). 40+disks going north. Dull / 1 side and silver. 120kph / 300M altitude into cloud. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 519) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1143 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "307", **HatchDesc:** "PONCA CITY,OK:20+OBS:40+DISKS >N:DULL/1 SIDE+SLVR:120kph/300M alt into cloud", **LatLong:** "36.705557 -97.083338", **LatLongDMS:** "36:42:20 N 97:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.705557,-97.083338)", **RelAlt:** "300", **State/Prov:** "Oklahoma", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6034 (A933E71F) **Date:** 7/13/1947 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** BAY OF BISCAY **Description:** T = GMT. 3 / aircrew. Grey flying tadpole / 4800M altitude. / Arg. papers. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 162) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1144 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "BAY of BISCAY:t=GMT:3/AIRCREW:GRY FLYING TADPOLE/4800M alt:/Arg.papers", **LatLong:** "45.000002 -7.500000", **LatLongDMS:** "45:00:00 N 07:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.000002,-7.500000)", **State/Prov:** "BSC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6035 (31B24267) **Date:** 7/13/1947 **Time:** 17:20 **Location:** MUSSELSHELL, MT **Description:** 1+3 men / railroad/railway platform. Round white object going northwest / irregular path. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 106) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1145 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "913", **HatchDesc:** "MUSSELSHELL,MT:1+3 MEN/RR PLATFORM:ROUND WHT OBJ >NW/IRREGULAR PATH:", **LatLong:** "46.516669 -108.088894", **LatLongDMS:** "46:31:00 N 108:05:20 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.516669,-108.088894)", **State/Prov:** "Montana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6036 (9A9C5341) **Date:** 7/13/1947 **Time:** 17:50 **Location:** GARDNER, MA **Description:** 2 observer(s). Large coin-disk going quickly west over road. Tilts going down. Going quickly [to] WNW. Edge clear. / r187#838. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 66) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1146 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "335", **HatchDesc:** "GARDNER,MA:2 OBS:LRG COIN-DISK >>W OVR ROAD:TILTS↓:>>WNW:EDGE CLEAR:/r187#838", **LatLong:** "42.577780 -72.000003", **LatLongDMS:** "42:34:40 N 72:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.577780,-72.000003)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6037 (8A2CD738) **Date:** 7/13/1947 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** NEAR GRESHAM, OR **Description:** 3 / car. 2M thin metallic disk swoops and flips. 400 kph / 750M altitude. Turns going south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 518) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1147 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "98", **HatchDesc:** "nr GRESHAM,OR:3/CAR:2M THIN MTLC DISK SWOOPS+FLIPS:400 kph/750M alt:TURNS >S", **LatLong:** "45.500002 -122.377784", **LatLongDMS:** "45:30:00 N 122:22:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.500002,-122.377784)", **RelAlt:** "750", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6038 (D4BE012B) **Date:** 7/13/1947 **Time:** 18:10 **Location:** GRESHAM, OR **Description:** Separate observer(s) / home. 4 metallic disks going north. Change positions in formation. 2000M altitude? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 518) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1148 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "98", **HatchDesc:** "GRESHAM,OR:SEP.OBS/HOME:4 MTLC DISKS >N:CHANGE POSITIONS/FORMn:2000M alt?", **LatLong:** "45.500002 -122.416673", **LatLongDMS:** "45:30:00 N 122:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.500002,-122.416673)", **RelAlt:** "2000", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6039 (22180114) **Date:** 7/13/1947 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** WINGVILLE, OR **Description:** 4 / dairy farm. Round object going up and down [to] going west toward(s) mountains. 2 private planes follow. / r131#5. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 107) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1149 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "1036", **HatchDesc:** "WINGVILLE,OR:4/DAIRY FARM:ROUND OBJ ↑+↓ >W twrd Mtns:2 Pvt PLANES FOLO:/r131#5", **LatLong:** "44.850002 -117.916672", **LatLongDMS:** "44:51:00 N 117:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.850002,-117.916672)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6040 (9689E7ED) **Date:** 7/13/1947 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** NEW CUMBERLAND, WV **Description:** 3 observer(s). 4-5 bright white 1M disks going quickly south / 15 minute(s) intervals. Meteors? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 521) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1150 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "207", **HatchDesc:** "NEW CUMBERLAND,WV:3 OBS:4-5 BRITE WHT 1M DISKS >>S/15min intervals:meteors?", **LatLong:** "40.494446 -80.605559", **LatLongDMS:** "40:29:40 N 80:36:20 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.494446,-80.605559)", **State/Prov:** "Western Virginia", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 6041 (0A0383FC) **Date:** 7/13/1947 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** TOPEKA, KS **Description:** 1 / porch. Disk from northeast stops and circles. 2 more from southwest and southeast join. All going quickly west. Silent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 521) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1151 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "300", **HatchDesc:** "TOPEKA,KS:1/PORCH:DISK frm NE STOPS+CCLS:2 MORE frm SW+SE JOIN:ALL >>W:SLNT", **LatLong:** "39.050002 -95.677782", **LatLongDMS:** "39:03:00 N 95:40:40 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.050002,-95.677782)", **State/Prov:** "Kansas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6042 (0B75C532) **Date:** 7/13/1947 **Locations:** State Highway 2; Gardner, Massachusetts **Description:** 5:48 p.m. [Warren Baker Eames](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/109826757/warren-baker-eames) is driving with his wife [Alice](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/184549721/alice-louise-eames) on State Highway 2 near Gardner, Massachusetts, when they see a large, silvery, disc-shaped object in the sky ahead, moving west. As they watch, its nearest edge dips down toward them and it accelerates in a sudden burst of speed to the west-northwest. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Bloecher, [p. III-1](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1080 ### Event 6043 (15B4DDF7) **Date:** 7/13/1947 **Description:** At 9:30 p.m. four or five bright white, one-meter wide discs flew over New Cumberland, West Virginia one after the other at 15-minute intervals. They flew away to the south. At 10:30 in Topeka, Kansas a disc-shaped object flew in from the northwest, stopped in midair, and circled. Two more discs, one each from the southwest and southeast fly in and join the first one. All three fly away silently toward the west. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, cases 1163 & 1164 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4025 ### Event 6044 (5E78CA68) **Date:** 7/14/1947 **Location:** TEMUCO AND CALDERA, CHL **Description:** 2 separate UFO report(s) / news. Type unknown. No further details. Also 13 July / Puyehue, Chile. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 96) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1152 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Chile", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "103", **HatchDesc:** "TEMUCO+CALDERA,CHL:2 SEP UFO RPTs/NEWS:TYPE UNK:NFD::+13JLY/PUYEHUE,CHILE", **LatLong:** "-38.716669 -72.600003", **LatLongDMS:** "38:43:00 S 72:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-38.716669,-72.600003)", **State/Prov:** "CTN", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 6045 (4EF70AB0) **Date:** 7/14/1947 (approximate) **Location:** 4 MILES NORTH / LE GRAND, CA **Description:** 1 / car. Sent shiny metal Saturn-saucer bobs going up and down [to] while crossing road. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 100) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1153 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "77", **HatchDesc:** "4mi N/Le GRAND,CA:1/CAR:SENT SHINY MTL SATURN-SCR BOBS ↑+↓ while CROSSING ROAD", **LatLong:** "37.283335 -120.250006", **LatLongDMS:** "37:17:00 N 120:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.283335,-120.250006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6046 (48EC525C) **Date:** 7/14/1947 **Time:** 10:30 **Location:** SYRACUSE, NY **Description:** Boy / 13. Featureless 60M cylinder/cigar-shape hovers over orchard 100M away. / NUFORC. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Newspaper account: NUFORC Report: Syracuse, NY: 14JLY47: [archive.org](https://web.archive.org/web/20000607005846/http://www.ufocenter.com/S3933.html) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1154 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "120", **HatchDesc:** "SYRACUSE,NY:BOY/13:FEATURELESS 60M CGR HVRS OVR ORCHARD 100M away:/NUFORC", **LatLong:** "43.016669 -76.150004", **LatLongDMS:** "43:01:00 N 76:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.016669,-76.150004)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6047 (3D5D2AC9) **Date:** 7/14/1947 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** SOUTHWEST / WILKESBORO, NC **Description:** Blast-buzzing noise. Disk going quickly [to] Cfast / 1500M altitude. No further details / Daily News. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 525) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1155 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "315", **HatchDesc:** "SW/WILKESBORO,NC:BLAST-BUZZING NOISE:DISK >> CFAST/1500M alt:NFD/Daily News", **LatLong:** "36.083335 -81.233337", **LatLongDMS:** "36:05:00 N 81:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.083335,-81.233337)", **RelAlt:** "1500", **State/Prov:** "North Carolina", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6048 (98472630) **Date:** 7/14/1947 **Time:** 19:20 **Location:** SOUTH / IDAHO FALLS, ID **Description:** 1 / farm. Small disk / irregular course low and slow overhead. Tilts. Going southwest. Odd sound. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 107) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1156 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1430", **HatchDesc:** "S/IDAHO FALLS,ID:1/FARM:SML DISK/IRREG.COURSE LO+SLOW OVHD:TILTS:>SW:ODD SOUND", **LatLong:** "43.416669 -112.033339", **LatLongDMS:** "43:25:00 N 112:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.416669,-112.033339)", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6049 (073AB637) **Date:** 7/14/1947 **Time:** 19:30 **Location:** NAMPA, ID **Description:** 2 observer(s). 12 disks circle / W. sky. Join / various formations / 10 minute(s). Going quickly west. / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 107) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1157 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "759", **HatchDesc:** "NAMPA,ID:2 OBS:12 DISKS CCL/W.SKY:JOIN/VARIOUS FORMns/10min:>>W:/news", **LatLong:** "43.550002 -116.561117", **LatLongDMS:** "43:33:00 N 116:33:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.550002,-116.561117)", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6050 (A35A4C45) **Date:** 7/14/1947 **Time:** ~21:30 **Location:** TIANJIN, CH **Description:** Many observer(s). 1+2 blue-glowing saucers shoot rays all over/all about. / r208p33+/ r131#5p26. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 40) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1158 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "China", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "TIANJIN,CH:MANY OBS:1+2 BLU-GLO SCRS SHOOT RAYS ALLO:/r208p33+/r131#5p26", **LatLong:** "39.116669 117.216672", **LatLongDMS:** "39:07:00 N 117:13:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.116669,117.216672)", **State/Prov:** "TNJ", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6051 (8AA39BE7) **Date:** 7/14/1947 **Description:** At 10:30 a.m. in Syracuse, New York a 13-year-old boy saw a long, featureless cigar-shaped object hovering over an orchard only 100 meters away. At 1:00 p.m. in Wilkesboro, North Carolina a buzzing noise was heard and then a disc shot through the sky fast at an altitude of 1500 meters. At 7:20 p.m. a small disc flew over a farm south of Idaho Falls, Idaho flying on an irregular course, low and slow. It tilted, then flew away to the southwest making an odd sound. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** (1) Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1167, citing the National UFO Reporting Center; (2) Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1947 (Volume 5), p. 25; Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 107 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4045 ### Event 6052 (113D4BB1) **Date:** Mid 7/1947 **Description:** In a paper by U.S. Navy Physicist, Dr. Bruce Maccabee, he stated: “...the Air Force knew by the middle of July, 1947 that saucers were real and not manmade...the technology represented by the (recovered) disc...was so far beyond our own that it could not be understood immediately...Therefore it would be necessary to treat the disc as a military secret. This would mean containing all information about it within some small group.” **Type:** ufological event **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_267 **See also:** 1/31/1949 ### Event 6053 (D0623119) **Date:** 7/15/1947 **Description:** Memo to Mr. Ladd with a handwritten note from J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI stating, ”...before agreeing (to the investigation of crashed saucers)...we must insist upon full access to discs recovered. For instance in the Soc. (Socorro, N.M.) case the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory examination. **Type:** memo **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up), p541, RECOVERY) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_268 ### Event 6054 (686EE0D5) **Date:** 7/15/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) [Mac Brazel](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/BrazelWilliamW.html) is released by the military and returns to his farm. (Tuesday 15 July) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_674 ### Event 6055 (F03E255A) **Date:** 7/15/1947 **Time:** 08:40 **Location:** TUCUMCARI, NM **Description:** 4 observer(s). Luminous saucer wobbles going SSE on edge. Fast. No sparks no trail. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 525) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1159 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1245", **HatchDesc:** "TUCUMCARI,NM:4 OBS:LUMn.SCR WOBBLES >SSE on edge:FAST:no sparks no trail", **LatLong:** "35.172224 -103.722227", **LatLongDMS:** "35:10:20 N 103:43:20 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.172224,-103.722227)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6056 (E8BA4951) **Date:** 7/15/1947 **Time:** 12:20 **Location:** CONCORD, CA **Description:** CAA pilot. 12-15 5M objects / groups. 200mph going west. Odd boomerang / SF news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 841) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1160 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "61", **HatchDesc:** "CONCORD,CA:CAA PILOT:12-15 5M OBJS/GROUPS:200mph >W::ODD BOOMERANG/SF NEWS", **LatLong:** "37.966668 -122.033339", **LatLongDMS:** "37:58:00 N 122:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.966668,-122.033339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6057 (B6CBDB1F) **Date:** 7/15/1947? **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** GRANGESBERG, SWD **Description:** 2 14M cigars / low / 70kph. 2 rows / portholes. Face / large window. 1M antenna. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 134) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1161 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "GRANGESBERG,SWD:2 14M CGRS/LOW/70kph:2 ROWS/PORTS:FACE/LRG WINDOW:1M ANTENNA", **LatLong:** "60.066670 15.000001", **LatLongDMS:** "60:04:00 N 15:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/60.066670,15.000001)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 6058 (90C25905) **Date:** 7/15/1947 **Location:** Roswell AAF, New Mexico **Description:** [Mack Brazel](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9454979/william-ware-brazel) is returned home after an extensive interrogation at Roswell AAF, New Mexico. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [p. 173](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/172/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1081 ### Event 6059 (25EE1C0B) **Date:** 7/15/1947 **Location:** Concord, California **Description:** 12:15 p.m. Col. [Frank A. Flynn](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/201755669/frank-anthony-flynn) is flying a Vultee BT-13 Valiant over Concord, California, when a group of 12–15 objects approaches and passes him. At first he takes them for birds, but he can see no necks or wings and they are moving in excess of 200 mph. They are moving in a see-saw fashion at three different altitudes about 200 feet apart, and they appear to be about 15 feet across, white on the top and gray and black on the bottom. At their closest point, they are about one mile away. Flynn turns his plane around to pursue them, but they outdistance him quickly. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Bloecher, [p. III-13](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1082 ### Event 6060 (3013E80C) **Date:** 7/15/1947 **Description:** At 12:15 p.m. Colonel Frank A. Flynn, who was flying over over Concord, California, reported that at least a dozen oval-shaped UFOs in three groups that hung in the sky, swinging back and forth in a pendulum motion. They were white on top, grey and black for the rest, and about 15 feet wide. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** San Francisco News, July 18, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case # 841 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4064 ### Event 6061 (15373C0C) **Date:** 7/16/1947 **Location:** CANADA, Vancouver Island (BC) **Description:** (Translated from French) Mr. C. Arnell found in his garden the debris of an American weather balloon, a "US Army Signal Corps weather balloon" which had probably been launched from an airport in the state of Washington. There were rubber pieces, a parachute like crepe paper, bright red in color. A complex mechanism was enclosed in a semblance of a box, weighing not 1 kilogram. Other similar balloon debris had already been found in various places on Vancouver Island. **Reference:** Press clippings - cfr Jan Aldrich **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1286 ### Event 6062 (621C64D8) **Date:** 7/16/1947 **Time:** ~02:00 **Location:** OSLO, NORWAY **Description:** 1 observer. Flying saucepan with handle. Very fast. 'Resembles S. sea island'(??) **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 41) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1162 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "OSLO,NORWAY:1 OBS:FLYING SAUCEPAN W/HANDLE:VFAST:'RESEMBLES S.SEA ISLAND'(??)", **LatLong:** "59.866670 10.700001", **LatLongDMS:** "59:52:00 N 10:42:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/59.866670,10.700001)", **State/Prov:** "Norway", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 6063 (69AEE60C) **Date:** 7/16/1947 **Time:** 13:20 **Location:** SALEM, OR **Description:** Disk going south 500kph / 1200M altitude. Brisk 30° turn going quickly southeast. Shiny then grey color. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 528) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1163 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "47", **HatchDesc:** "SALEM,OR:DISK > S 500kph/1200M alt:BRISK 30°TURN >>SE:SHINY THEN GRY CLR", **LatLong:** "44.944447 -123.033339", **LatLongDMS:** "44:56:40 N 123:02:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.944447,-123.033339)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6064 (217BC850) **Date:** 7/16/1947 **Time:** 16:20 **Location:** MOUNTAIN HOME, ID **Description:** 2 / car. 1M saucer slowly circles Air Force Base. Brown colored-grey / one side. Silver / other. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 529) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1164 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "958", **HatchDesc:** "MOUNTAIN HOME,ID:2/CAR:1M SCR SLOWLY CCLS AFB:BRN-GRY/ONE SIDE:SLVR/OTHER:", **LatLong:** "43.155558 -115.727783", **LatLongDMS:** "43:09:20 N 115:43:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.155558,-115.727783)", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6065 (8E73FF2F) **Date:** 7/16/1947 **Locations:** Ernest Harmon AFB; Newfoundland **Description:** An initial report on the Ernest Harmon AFB case in Newfoundland is written up by a base intelligence officer. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael David Hall and Wendy Ann Connors, “Alfred Loedding: New Insight on the Man behind Project Sign,” IUR 23, no. 4 \(Winter 1998\): 8 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1083 ### Event 6066 (6033D57F) **Date:** 7/17/1947 **Location:** USA, Helena (Montana) **Description:** (Translated from French) Between 2:45 PM and 3:00 PM several objects appear at different altitudes above Helena. But it is possible that it was a balloon release as the military did at that time. **Reference:** "UFO's: A century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 68 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1287 ### Event 6067 (A821EB44) **Date:** 7/17/1947 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** FT. COLLINS, CO **Description:** Ex-Army man and 4. 8 perfect-round shiny silver disks going quickly south extremely fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 530) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1165 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1525", **HatchDesc:** "Ft.COLLINS,CO:EX-ARMY MAN+4:8 PERFECT-ROUND SHINY SLVR DISKS >>S XFAST:", **LatLong:** "40.600002 -105.100005", **LatLongDMS:** "40:36:00 N 105:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.600002,-105.100005)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6068 (A3BBCB0C) **Date:** 7/17/1947 **Time:** 17:50 **Location:** OKLA, CITY, OK **Description:** 1M disk drops / cloud. Back up / cloud when plane passes. Very fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 530) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1166 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "360", **HatchDesc:** "OKLA,CITY,OK:1M DISK DROPS/CLOUD:BACK UP/CLOUD when plane passes:VFAST", **LatLong:** "35.500002 -97.516671", **LatLongDMS:** "35:30:00 N 97:31:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.500002,-97.516671)", **State/Prov:** "Oklahoma", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6069 (C1C7DD77) **Date:** 7/18/1947? **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** GOLDFIELD, NV **Description:** Miner. Odd round object spins slowly. Spins fast and object going quickly northeast over mountain. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 531) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1167 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1731", **HatchDesc:** "GOLDFIELD,NV:MINER:ODD RND OBJ SPINS SLOWLY:SPINS FAST+OBJ >>NE ovr MOUNTAIN", **LatLong:** "37.711113 -117.233339", **LatLongDMS:** "37:42:40 N 117:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.711113,-117.233339)", **State/Prov:** "Nevada", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6070 (CF80FA43) **Date:** 7/18/1947 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** NORTH / ARLEE, MT **Description:** 2 observer(s). 2 saucers play hide and seek / clouds / 30 minutes. Dip and arc all over/all about. Bright and dim. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 531) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1168 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "940", **HatchDesc:** "N/ARLEE,MT:2 OBS:2 SCRS PLAY HIDE+SEEK/CLOUDS/30mins:DIP+ARC ALLO:BRITE+DIM", **LatLong:** "47.200002 -114.083339", **LatLongDMS:** "47:12:00 N 114:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.200002,-114.083339)", **State/Prov:** "Montana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6071 (23684A81) **Date:** 7/18/1947 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** JOPLIN, MO **Description:** 1 observer. Bright shiny 50cm ovoid going quickly southeast over railroad/railway freight house. / Sunday Globe. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 109) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1169 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "297", **HatchDesc:** "JOPLIN,MO:1 OBS:BRITE SHINY 50cm OVOID >>SE OVR RR FREIGHT HOUSE:/Sunday Globe", **LatLong:** "37.083335 -94.516671", **LatLongDMS:** "37:05:00 N 94:31:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.083335,-94.516671)", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6072 (06CDEB8C) **Date:** 7/18/1947 **Description:** In Joplin, Missouri a bright, shiny ovoid object, half a meter in length, flew over the railroad freight house at 11:30 p.m. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 109 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4155 ### Event 6073 (BB6D7A96) **Date:** 7/19/1947 **Location:** HATZIC ISLAND, BC **Description:** 1 observer. Shiny disk going quickly southeast straight & level flight / 120M altitude directly overhead. Vancouver Sun. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 97) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1170 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "HATZIC Isl,BC:1 OBS:SHINY DISK >>SE S&L/120M alt DIRECTLY OVHD:Vancouver Sun", **LatLong:** "49.150002 -122.266672", **LatLongDMS:** "49:09:00 N 122:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.150002,-122.266672)", **State/Prov:** "British Columbia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6074 (6B64F0FE) **Date:** 7/19/1947 **Time:** 06:10 **Location:** BALCARCE, ARG **Description:** 100 saucers north going quickly south. 1 paces car. 2 good photos. / r192p321+/ r129p96. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 532) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1171 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Argentina", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "97", **HatchDesc:** "BALCARCE,ARG:100 SCRS N>>S:1 PACES CAR:2 GOOD PHOTOS:/r192p321+/r129p96", **LatLong:** "-37.850002 -58.266669", **LatLongDMS:** "37:51:00 S 58:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-37.850002,-58.266669)", **State/Prov:** "Buenos Aires", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6075 (13E3D172) **Date:** 7/19/1947 **Locations:** Lanzhou City, Gansu, China; Gansu province **Description:** The antiaircraft command base of the Chinese Nationalist Government Air Force spots a UFO over Lanzhou City, Gansu, China. It is 50 feet long and has an apparent rudder and two jet pipes in the back. About 8:00 p.m., witnesses in Gansu province watch a red object cross the sky in 2 seconds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Paul Dong, The Four Major Mysteries of Mainland China, Prentice-Hall, 1984, [p. 3](https://archive.org/details/fourmajormysteri00dong/page/n13/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1084 ### Event 6076 (7A9637BA) **Date:** 7/20/1947 **Location:** USA, Texas **Description:** (Translated from French) One UFO event is reported in Texas, and according to its description it appears to be a rocket launch. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 68 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1288 ### Event 6077 (92C11A75) **Date:** 7/20/1947 **Location:** At sea, near Newfoundland (Canada) **Description:** (Translated from French) A ship reported that at around 8:15 PM red-orange flashes were emitted by a UFO changing direction in its progression. **Reference:** doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee translated by Jean Sider **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1289 ### Event 6078 (64EB71E1) **Date:** 7/20/1947 **Time:** 09:20 **Location:** FROSTBURG, MD **Description:** White circular object above broken clouds. Audible sounds-type unknown. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 121) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1172 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "632", **HatchDesc:** "FROSTBURG,MD:WHT CIRC. OBJ ABOVE BROKEN CLOUDS:AUDIBLE SOUNDS-TYPE UNKNOWN", **LatLong:** "39.666669 -78.916670", **LatLongDMS:** "39:40:00 N 78:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.666669,-78.916670)", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6079 (E545CB04) **Date:** 7/20/1947 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** NEAR OLAVARRIA, ARG **Description:** Several / farm. "Saucer" drops / 20M altitude. Fast spin. Blue light. Finally going south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 532) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1173 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Argentina", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "163", **HatchDesc:** "nr OLAVARRIA,ARG:SVRL/FARM:"SCR" DROPS/20M alt:FAST SPIN:BLUE LITE:FINALLY >S", **LatLong:** "-36.883335 -60.300003", **LatLongDMS:** "36:53:00 S 60:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-36.883335,-60.300003)", **RelAlt:** "20", **State/Prov:** "Buenos Aires", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6080 (6E7D36FE) **Date:** 7/20/1947 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** EKOLN LAKE, UPPLAND, SWEDEN **Description:** Air Force man. Metallic football going quickly NNW / 250kph. 550M altitude 1 km away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 139) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1174 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "EKOLN Lake,UPPLAND,SWEDEN:AF MAN:MTLC FOOTBALL >>NNW/250kph:550M alt 1 km away", **LatLong:** "59.750003 17.616668", **LatLongDMS:** "59:45:00 N 17:37:00 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/59.750003,17.616668)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6081 (B7008B6F) **Date:** 7/20/1947 **Time:** 18:50 **Location:** SINGAPORE **Description:** UK Army Sgt. "Saucer" dips and spirals slowly. Balloon? / Straits Times 23 July. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 532) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1175 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "?", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "SINGAPORE:UK ARMY SGT:"SCR" DIPS+SPIRALS SLOWLY:balloon?:/Straits Times 23Jly", **LatLong:** "1.283333 103.850005", **LatLongDMS:** "01:17:00 N 103:51:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/1.283333,103.850005)", **State/Prov:** "SNG", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 6082 (72B095A6) **Date:** 7/20/1947 **Time:** 20:00? **Location:** NANJING, CHINA **Description:** 3 separate military-air observer(s) and more. "Flying saucer". Headquarters collecting reports.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 533) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1176 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "China", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "NANJING,CHINA:3 SEP.MIL-AIR OBS+:"FLYING SAUCER":HQ collecting reports..", **LatLong:** "32.050002 118.783339", **LatLongDMS:** "32:03:00 N 118:47:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.050002,118.783339)", **State/Prov:** "Jiangsu", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6083 (AAD77E8A) **Date:** 7/20/1947 **Description:** At 2:30 a.m. in Idaho Falls, Idaho Mr. Denton saw a UFO swing back and forth in a pendulum motion. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Idaho Daily Statesman, July 21, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case 842 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4220 ### Event 6084 (6B461EF7) **Date:** 7/21/1947 **Time:** 10:20 **Location:** BOISE, ID **Description:** Ex-airman / ground. Brilliant silver ovoid going quickly NNE / 2000M altitude. 1000kph. No tail. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 534) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1177 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "820", **HatchDesc:** "BOISE,ID:EX-AIRMAN/GND:BRILL.SLVR OVOID >>NNE/2000M alt:1000kph:NO TAIL", **LatLong:** "43.616669 -116.216672", **LatLongDMS:** "43:37:00 N 116:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.616669,-116.216672)", **RelAlt:** "2000", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6085 (5A4D838A) **Date:** 7/21/1947 **Locations:** Ernest Harmon AFB; Pentagon **Description:** A more detailed report on the Ernest Harmon AFB incident is sent to the Pentagon. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael David Hall and Wendy Ann Connors, “Alfred Loedding: New Insight on the Man behind Project Sign,” IUR 23, no. 4 \(Winter 1998\): 8 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1085 ### Event 6086 (F50D77DE) **Date:** 7/21/1947 **Description:** Life magazine publishes a pictorial news story on the flying discs. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Speaking of Pictures: A Rash of Flying](https://books.google.com/books?id=YU4EAAAAMBAJ&q=Rash%2Bof%2BFlying%23v%3Dsnippet&q=Rash%20of%20Flying&f=false) [Disks Breaks Out over the U.S.,](https://books.google.com/books?id=YU4EAAAAMBAJ&q=Rash%2Bof%2BFlying%23v%3Dsnippet&q=Rash%20of%20Flying&f=false)” Life, July 21, 1947, pp. 14–16 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1086 ### Event 6087 (5D8EA6AB) **Date:** 7/21/1947 **Description:** At 10:15 a.m. Mr. James E. Petteway of Boise, Idaho briefly sighted an oval object flying on a straight steady course to the north-northeast. It was bright, like polished silver, and flew at an estimated speed of 600 miles per hour, at 7000 feet altitude. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case # 844, citing the Boise Idaho Daily Statesman, July 22, 1947 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4258 ### Event 6088 (3F3DDF18) **Date:** 7/22/1947 (approximate) **Location:** WILLIMANTIC, CT **Description:** "Man photographs flying metallic hexagon!". Tilts. No further details [in] local papers. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 111) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1178 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "81", **HatchDesc:** "WILLIMANTIC,CT:"MAN FOTOS FLYING MTLC HEXAGON!":TILTS:NFD local papers", **LatLong:** "41.711113 -72.211115", **LatLongDMS:** "41:42:40 N 72:12:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.711113,-72.211115)", **State/Prov:** "Connecticut", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6089 (6365B7FC) **Date:** 7/22/1947 **Location:** Maury Island, Washington **Description:** [Ray Palmer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%5FA.%5FPalmer) writes to [Kenneth Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold) and tells him about the Maury Island, Washington, case, asking him to look into it. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jason Colavito, ed., “[Inquiry into Richard Shaver and Ray Palmer, Federal Bureau of Investigation,](https://www.jasoncolavito.com/inquiry-into-shaver-and-palmer.html) [1947”](https://www.jasoncolavito.com/inquiry-into-shaver-and-palmer.html); Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, Palmer, 1952, p. 21 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1087 ### Event 6090 (F5417D8B) **Date:** 7/23/1947 **Location:** BRAZIL, Bauru-Pitanga, Campo de Mourao **Description:** (Translated from French) A works supervisor, José C. Higgins, heard a very sharp, piercing sound and saw a large disc land that was about 50m wide. It was made of a grayish-white metal and stood on curved metal legs. The other workers fled and Higgins was left alone with three entities over 2 meters tall wearing "transparent suits covering head and body, and inflated like rubber bags," as well as "metal boxes" on their backs. Their clothing, visible through the suits, resembled brightly colored paper. The entities, all identical, had huge round eyes, enormous round and bald heads, no eyebrows, no beards, and legs that were proportionally longer than ours. Higgins couldn't tell if they were male or female but he found them strangely beautiful. They surrounded him, one of them raised a metal tube towards him and they seemed to want to draw him into the disc. But observing that they feared the bright sun, he managed to escape and hid for half an hour in a bush where he then observed that, with extraordinary agility, they jumped and gamboled while throwing huge stones. Then they went back into the craft which vanished with a whistle towards the north. In the previous phase one of them had dug eight holes in the ground with a stick and showed Higgins that the largest hole was "Alamo" while the seventh, the farthest away, was "Orque". (Charles BOWEN: "In Search of Humanoids" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 107) José C. Higgins, who was then in Brazil, encountered three astronauts wearing transparent and inflated scuba suits like automobile tires. Each of them had a kind of metal bag on their shoulders. One of the characters drew a point surrounded by seven circles on the ground, then indicated the seventh circle as well as the craft from which they had just disembarked. According to their external appearance, they did not differ in any way from the inhabitants of our planet. (A. RIBERA: "These Mysterious UFOs" - De Vecchi 1976, p. 227, he places this in August 1947) Three humanoids 2.10m tall who looked like triplets. **Reference:** Jean SIDER: "UFO, the Unmasked Invaders", ed. RAMUEL 1999, p 80 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1290 ### Event 6091 (8654801F) **Date:** 7/23/1947 **Location:** USA, Morristown (New Jersey) **Description:** (Translated from French) (cf: July 10, 1947) The "Continental J. 3" plane of pilot John E. Janssen was stopped and immobilized in mid-air by a flying saucer. (Jimmy GUIEU: "Black-out sur les S.V." - Fleuve Noir 1956 - p. 68) The pilot's body was filled with unpleasant electric tingles. The plane's circuits were cut. The aviator saw above him the presence of two overlapping metal discs, one clearly hovering much higher than the other. After a while the plane nosedived, the tingles disappeared and Janssen was able to restart the engine and straighten the plane. **Reference:** J. G. DOHMEN: "A identifier et le cas Adamski" - éd. Guy Dohmen, Biarritz 1972, p. 51, 52 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1291 ### Event 6092 (FA3EF796) **Date:** 7/23/1947 **Location:** Belgium **Description:** (Translated from French) A green fireball was reported under the clouds. This is the only good UFO report for this date. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 68 **Reference:** the author cites the newspaper "Het Belang van Limburg" and a letter from 1954 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1292 ### Event 6093 (99276518) **Date:** 7/23/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) John Jenssen is piloting a private plane over New Jersey when he sees a lightning flash high up in the sky. The engine stalls, but the plane continues its horizontal flight. Jenssen then sees on his left a strange craft, like a specter with portholes around its rim. A second UFO stands motionless in the sky 400 m from the first. Jenssen then restarts and escapes the UFOs. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_675 ### Event 6094 (CAF82CEF) **Date:** 7/23/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Near Pitanga \(Brazil\), a group of men sees a disk-shaped craft land near them. One of them, José G. Higgins, sees 3 beings wearing shiny clothes and transparent suits come out of the saucer. They are 2 m tall, have bald heads larger than average, huge round eyes, no eyelashes or eyebrows, and carry a metal box on their backs. They draw a picture of the solar system for the witness and show him Uranus as if to indicate where they come from. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_676 ### Event 6095 (8D7A1B0E) **Date:** 7/23/1947 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** BAURU, BRZ **Description:** Grey 30M saucer going down. 3 2M men / in space-suits draw starmap / dirt. / r108p31+Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v7#6. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 737) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1179 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **MON:** Monster: Life form fits no category, **GNT:** Giant: Large/tall alien, **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "3", **Duration:** "22", **Elev:** "535", **HatchDesc:** "BAURU,BRZ:GRY 30M SCR ↓:3 2M MEN/SPC-SUITS DRAW STARMAP/DIRT:/r108p31+FSR v7#6", **LatLong:** "-22.316668 -49.066669", **LatLongDMS:** "22:19:00 S 49:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-22.316668,-49.066669)", **State/Prov:** "São Paulo", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 6096 (425F5DEC) **Date:** 7/23/1947 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** ODENSALA, SWEDEN **Description:** Several observer(s). Silent silver saucer going east / 400M altitude. Airplane speed. / AFU Sweden. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 140) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1180 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ODENSALA,SWEDEN:SVRL OBS:SLNT SLVR SCR >E/400M alt:AIRPLANE SPEED:/AFU Sweden", **LatLong:** "63.150003 14.683334", **LatLongDMS:** "63:09:00 N 14:41:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/63.150003,14.683334)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6097 (22D8584A) **Date:** 7/23/1947 **Location:** Bauru, near Pitanga, Brazil **Description:** A group of survey workers ran away as they heard a hissing noise and saw a disk land 50 m away. Jose C. Higgins saw two figures through, a window. Later three beings in shiny clothes and translucent suits, with oversized bald heads, huge round eyes, no eyelashes or eyebrows, and a metal box on their back, emerged from the craft. They were over 2 m. tall. They drew the solar system and pointed to Uranus as if to suggest that was their point of origin. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Round-up 163; FSR 61, 6 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_61 ### Event 6098 (DCE447A9) **Date:** 7/23/1947 **Locations:** Morristown Airport; New Jersey **Description:** Day. [John H. Janssen](https://books.google.com/books?id=d4xka5HgmnMC&pg=PA53&lpg=PA53&dq=%22John%2BH.%2BJanssen%22%2BMorristown&source=bl&ots=8BznC%5FpcGD&sig=ACfU3U0xTsN0SbtjUsPdc41%5FWojGoYEDDQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiM5KTJ6JbpAhUHWs0KHVelAAoQ6AEwBnoECB4QAQ%23v%3Donepage&q=%22John%20H.%20Janssen%22%20Morristown&f=false), aviation editor of the Morristown Daily Record, is flying his Piper J-3 Cub at 6,000 feet near the Morristown Airport in New Jersey. He sees a flash of light, the engine gives out, and the plane seems to be motionless. Then he sees two UFOs \(this time with portholes\) and manages to get the propeller going again. This is one of the first cases of “vehicle interference” UFO cases involving an airplane. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[07-10-1947](http://www.nicap.org/morristown.htm) [USA, New Jersey, Morristown](http://www.nicap.org/morristown.htm)”; John H. Janssen, “My Encounter with Flying Disks,” Fate 2, no. 3 \(September 1949\): 12–16 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1088 ### Event 6099 (48FBF0E8) **Date:** 7/23/1947 **Locations:** Campina do Amoral; Colônia Goio-Bang; Luiziana; Mamboré; Paraná; Brazil **Description:** José C. Higgens and some assistants are surveying a field in Campina do Amoral in the Colônia Goio-Bang, located between Luiziana and Mamboré, Paraná, Brazil. On hearing a sharp sound, they see a grayish-white disc- shaped object about 100 feet in diameter, which soon lands and rests on curved metal feet. His assistants flee, but Higgens goes up to examine it. He sees a small, glass window, then two odd-looking beings observing him curiously. A door opens in the craft, and three other hairless beings dressed in transparent overalls. They have large, round eyes with eyebrows and pronounced eyelashes. Their legs are disproportionately long and they are about 7 feet tall. One points a small tube at Higgens. They are speaking in an unknown, sonorous language. He walks toward the door and can see only a small cubicle, bordered by another door, and several portholes. Higgens by gestures asks where they are from and the leader draws a map in the dirt, indicating a seventh planet, presumably Uranus. He eludes them by pretending to look for his wife and goes into a hidden spot in the woods. After 30 minutes the beings climb into the object and take off. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Caso José Higgens](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caso%5FJos%C3%A9%5FHiggens)”; Clark III 576– 577; Brazil 21–23; Mark Cashman, “Behavioral Classification System for UFO Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 \(Spring 1999\): 18 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1089 ### Event 6100 (B80C9B07) **Date:** 7/23/1947 **Description:** A group of survey workers working northeast of Pitanga, Parana State, Brazil ran away when they heard a hissing noise and saw a disc-shaped object land only 50 meters away from them. Jose C. Higgins saw two figures through a window inside the craft. Later three beings in shiny clothes and translucent suits, with oversized baldheads, huge round eyes, no eyelashes or eyebrows, and a metal box on their back, emerged from the craft. They were over two meters (6.6 feet) tall. They drew a sketch of the solar system and pointed to Uranus as if to suggest that was their point of origin. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Flying Saucer Review, November-December 1961; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 191; Jader U. Pereira, Les Extra-Terrestres, citing O Cruzeiro, November 13, 1954 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4311 ### Event 6101 (F9A18EC6) **Date:** 7/23/1947 **Description:** On this day a private pilot named Jenssen, flying at 6000 feet over Morristown, New Jersey encountered a shaft of light from above. The aircraft's engine faltered, then died, but the plane maintained its altitude. He felt a prickling sensation and saw a metallic disc above and ahead of him. He was able to re-start the plane by putting the nose down when he got control back. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Harold T. Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 70; Leonard G. Cramp, Piece for a Jig-Saw, p. 318 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4312 ### Event 6102 (0BF5EE61) **Date:** 7/23/1947 **Location:** Morristown, New Jersey **Description:** Pilot John H. Janssen reported that his plane motors conked off, but his plane remained suspended in the air, during a close approach of 2 UFOs over Morristown, New Jersey. Janssen reported an electric-like pricking sensation during his hair-raising experience. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up) **Source:** HostileFawcett, **ID:** HostileFawcett_5 ### Event 6103 (F0B97F66) **Date:** 7/24/1947 **Description:** Einstein’s ABC Special live radio broadcast on “The Immediate Need for World Law” **Type:** newspaper article **Reference:** [Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106016511/dr-einstein-in-interview/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_269 ### Event 6104 (CD63D6C8) **Date:** 7/24/1947 **Time:** 00:10 **Location:** WOLF POINT, MT **Description:** Grey 60cm dishpan-saucer going quickly east fast / 30M altitude. Lady report(s) dishpan missing! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 112) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1181 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "609", **HatchDesc:** "WOLF POINT,MT:GRY 60cm DISHPAN-SCR >>E FAST/30M alt:lady rpts dishpan missing!", **LatLong:** "48.088891 -105.638894", **LatLongDMS:** "48:05:20 N 105:38:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.088891,-105.638894)", **RelAlt:** "30", **State/Prov:** "Montana", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 6105 (A50CFE42) **Date:** 7/24/1947 **Time:** 07:00 **Location:** WEST / SQUANTUM NAS, MA **Description:** 2 air observer(s). Shiny silver ball going quickly northwest rising over Milton. Gone / 10 seconds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 540) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1182 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "7", **HatchDesc:** "W/SQUANTUM NAS,MA:2 AIR OBS:SHINY SLVR BALL >>NW RISING OVR MILTON:gone/10secs", **LatLong:** "42.266669 -71.066670", **LatLongDMS:** "42:16:00 N 71:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.266669,-71.066670)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6106 (9B5220E6) **Date:** 7/24/1947 **Time:** 10:30 **Location:** SOUTH / ARVADA, WYO **Description:** 1 / (seen thru) binoculars. 2 metallic disks fly on a tilt. Turn to smoke rings. Dissolve! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 111) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1183 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1120", **HatchDesc:** "S/ARVADA,WYo:1/BINOCS:2 MTLC DISKS FLY on a TILT:TURN TO SMOKE RINGS:dissolve!", **LatLong:** "44.616669 -106.133338", **LatLongDMS:** "44:37:00 N 106:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.616669,-106.133338)", **State/Prov:** "Wyoming", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6107 (B20F9774) **Date:** 7/24/1947 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** PEHUAJO, ARG **Description:** J. Arigues sees saucer / 60-70M altitude near home. No further details / B. A. Standard / 26 Jul. '47. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 539) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1184 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Argentina", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "85", **HatchDesc:** "PEHUAJO,ARG:J.ARIGUES SEES SCR/60-70M alt NR HOME:NFD/B.A.Standard/26Jly47", **LatLong:** "-35.816668 -61.900003", **LatLongDMS:** "35:49:00 S 61:54:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-35.816668,-61.900003)", **RelAlt:** "65", **State/Prov:** "Buenos Aires", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6108 (FF9EA369) **Date:** 7/24/1947 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** CHILLIWACK, BC **Description:** 4 observer(s). Large shiny oval disk going quickly southwest through clouds 500' over mountains. Straight and level. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 847) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1185 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "7", **HatchDesc:** "CHILLIWACK,BC:4 OBS:LRG SHINY OVAL DISK >>SW THRU CLOUDS 500'OVR MTNS:S/L", **LatLong:** "49.166669 -121.950006", **LatLongDMS:** "49:10:00 N 121:57:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.166669,-121.950006)", **RelAlt:** "150", **State/Prov:** "British Columbia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6109 (363257E8) **Date:** 7/24/1947 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** OREGON CITY, OR **Description:** Cabbie. Green-glow "pear-shaped tube" going south slow / 240M altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 539) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1186 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "107", **HatchDesc:** "OREGON CITY,OR:CABBIE:GRN-GLOW "PEAR-SHAPED TUBE" >S SLOW/240M alt:", **LatLong:** "45.350002 -122.600006", **LatLongDMS:** "45:21:00 N 122:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.350002,-122.600006)", **RelAlt:** "240", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6110 (557F92A5) **Date:** Late 7/1947 **Location:** SWITZERLAND, Azeindaz **Description:** (Translated from French) In 1969, after reading in the newspaper "La Suisse" articles about UFOs, a reader took up her pen and wrote: "At Azeindaz, one evening with beautiful weather, I was sitting around 8 pm against the wall of my brother's house, on the side of the Tour d'Azeindaz. Suddenly, I saw in the sky, high above the said Tour, a luminous disc. It was the size of the moon (the size is difficult to evaluate, now I have the impression that it was bigger), of a bright white-silver, like aluminum, slightly tinted mauve-light blue, and accompanied by green and red balls. The most characteristic was its descent movement towards the ridges, turning slowly on itself, like leaves falling in autumn. The apparition was very beautiful, I was very moved, it disappeared behind the Tour d'Azeindaz, in the precipice towards Solalex. The whole movement lasted about 15 to 20 seconds, if not more. What was also characteristic is that the object seemed to rush towards me, to "come" from very high. I went to the others to announce this wonderful extraordinary vision, but nobody paid attention and I was even answered very evasively. I did not talk about it anymore, but I remember it very well..." (1947, late July) **Reference:** Les Soucoupes chez Heidi, cfr GREPI, Switzerland, 1997 **Reference:** Marlise Flotron, Lausanne **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1297 ### Event 6111 (48F24EBC) **Date:** 7/25/1947 **Time:** 16:50 **Location:** EL PASO, TX **Description:** Several observer(s). Silver-aluminum disk wobbles like tossed plate / 5 minutes. Going north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 541) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1187 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "1109", **HatchDesc:** "EL PASO,TX:SVRL OBS:SLVR-ALUM.DISK WOBBLES like tossed plate/5mins:>N", **LatLong:** "31.766668 -106.433338", **LatLongDMS:** "31:46:00 N 106:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.766668,-106.433338)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6112 (87385714) **Date:** 7/25/1947 **Location:** Boise, Idaho **Description:** Intelligence agents from the Fourth Air Force, Lt. [Frank M. Brown](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65326329/frank-mercer-brown) and Capt. [William L. Davidson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43927275/william-lee-davidson)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43927275/william-lee-davidson) visit [Kenneth Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold) in Boise, Idaho, and tell him to contact them if he runs across any interesting UFO evidence. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1090 ### Event 6113 (7D7B08D4) **Date:** 7/25/1947 **Locations:** Roswell, New Mexico; China **Description:** A memorandum over the signature of Maj. [Lester M. Garrigues](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84393903/lester-m-garrigues) states that by order of Col. [Blanchard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FH.%5FBlanchard), the nine men who had been assigned duties in the recovery of the Roswell, New Mexico, crash are relieved from duty on that project. However, it is now largely considered a forgery by [Frank Kaufmann](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13371870/frank-j-kaufmann). Garrigues has assumed duties in China prior to this and is no longer in Roswell. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Kevin D. Randle, “Frank Kaufmann, Roswell Witness,” IUR 27, no. 3 \(Fall 2002\): 8, 17–19; Mark Rodeghier, “Frank Kaufmann Exposed,” IUR 27, no. 3 \(Fall 2002\): 9–11, 26 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1091 ### Event 6114 (752361AF) **Date:** 7/25/1947 **Location:** Dumas, Texas **Description:** Day. Leonard Robertson is riding his motorcycle northeast of Dumas, Texas, when he sees a flash of light to his left. An oval object like a bubble is floating over a field about one mile away. Suddenly the object explodes, so Robertson takes a side road to the field where he retrieves a piece of metal “lighter than aluminum foil” about 30 inches long and 24 inches wide. There are two small holes in it and the center seems to be burned. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Perryton](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92746030/) [Man Displays Proof of Saucer Story,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92746030/)” Amarillo \(Tex.\) Daily News, August 6, 1947, p. 1; “[Salvage from Mystery](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92746267/) [Blast,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92746267/)” Amarillo \(Tex.\) Daily News, August 9, 1947, p. 5; Curt Collins, “[The Texas UFO Crash Debris Photo from](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-texas-ufo-crash-debris-photo-from.html) [July 1947,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-texas-ufo-crash-debris-photo-from.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, May 21, 2020 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1092 ### Event 6115 (CDA13599) **Date:** 7/26/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) On board the presidential C-54 *Sacred Crow*, Truman signs the *National Security Act*, founding the [NSC](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/NSC.html), the [CIA](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/CIA.html) \(replacing the [CIG](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/CIG.html)\) and the [USAF](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/USAF.html) as an independent entity from the *National Military Establishment* \(which would become the [DoD](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/DoD.html) in [1949](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/1949.html)\). (Saturday, July 26) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_677 ### Event 6116 (E529ECF3) **Date:** 7/26/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Stalin summons nuclear physicist S. Korolyev \(father of Soviet missiles and space program\); he entrusts him with a series of foreign reports concerning UFOs and including the Roswell crash case. Korolyev, who has a team of translators and 3 days to give his opinion on the potential threat posed by UFOs, assures the master of the USSR that the saucers are not American weapons; although real, the phenomenon does not seem dangerous to him. Stalin approves this conclusion shared by all the scientists he consulted. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_678 ### Event 6117 (D6087DFB) **Date:** 7/26/1947 **Time:** ~21:00 **Location:** LIGNY-LE-RIBAULT, FR **Description:** Several observer(s). Blue-glowing sphere/orb/globe smokes and flames. Going quickly northwest. Also seen / Orleans. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 42) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1188 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "LIGNY-le-RIBAULT,FR:SVRL OBS:BLU-GLO ORB SMOKES+FLAMES:>>NW:ALSO SEEN/ORLEANS:", **LatLong:** "47.700002 1.783333", **LatLongDMS:** "47:42:00 N 01:47:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.700002,1.783333)", **State/Prov:** "Loiret", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6118 (E0E9C86A) **Date:** 7/26/1947 **Location:** Joint Research and Development Board **Description:** President [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) signs the National Security Act, a major restructuring of the military and intelligence agencies. It creates a unified National Military Establishment \(Army and Navy\) and a Department of the Air Force, both under the new Secretary of Defense. The Joint Research and Development Board becomes the R&D brain center. Each of the three service secretaries maintains quasi-cabinet status. It establishes the National Security Council to advise the president and the Central Intelligence Agency, the first peacetime intelligence agency in the US. The CIA is prohibited from conducting domestic surveillance, but [Allen Dulles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%5FDulles) ensures it can handle “other functions” affecting “national security” without scrutiny from Congress or \(sometimes\) the president. Much of the CIA’s funding initially comes from wealthy Americans. The act creates the first black military and intelligence budget. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[National Security Act of 1947](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%5FSecurity%5FAct%5Fof%5F1947)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1093 ### Event 6119 (8E0674EB) **Date:** 7/27/1947 **Location:** Maury Island, Washington **Description:** [Ray Palmer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%5FA.%5FPalmer) wires [Kenneth Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold) $200 to investigate the Maury Island, Washington, case. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, 1952, Palmer, pp. 23–24 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1094 ### Event 6120 (4140D5B0) **Date:** 7/27/1947 **Locations:** Portland Oregonian; Boise Stateman **Description:** Capt. [Davidson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43927275/william-lee-davidson) and Lt. [Brown](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65326329/frank-mercer-brown) interview Richard Rankin. The FBI finds that the CIC agents have also interviewed [Kenneth Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold) Capt. Emil J. Smith, Flight Officer Ralph Stevens, and Boise Stateman Editor [David](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39757884/david-n%5F-johnson) [N. Johnson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39757884/david-n%5F-johnson) about their UFO sightings. [Leverett G. Richards](https://apnews.com/1736a07c919af497dd11932e2c39e12a)[,](https://apnews.com/1736a07c919af497dd11932e2c39e12a) aviation editor of the Portland Oregonian, informs the FBI of this information. He also calls Lieut. Gen. [Nathan Twining](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%5FFarragut%5FTwining), who leaves “the impression that the AAF instituted this investigation to wash out the disc reports since they are definitely not of AAF origin.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Memo for FBI Director from Mr. D. M. Ladd, August 14, 1947 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1095 ### Event 6121 (87B17C6C) **Date:** 7/28/1947 **Time:** 12:10 **Location:** NORWOOD, MBA **Description:** 1 observer. Shiny silver disk going west / very high altitude. Leaves (something behind) puffs / smoke / regular intervals. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 543) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1189 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "229", **HatchDesc:** "NORWOOD,MBa:1 OBS:SHINY SLVR DISK >W/VHI alt:LVS PUFFS/SMOKE/REGULAR INTERVALS", **LatLong:** "49.877780 -97.116671", **LatLongDMS:** "49:52:40 N 97:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.877780,-97.116671)", **State/Prov:** "Manitoba", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6122 (FE7DBBAE) **Date:** 7/28/1947 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** NORTHWEST / MOUNTAIN HOME, ID **Description:** 2 pilots / United Airlines (UAL) flight-105. Saucer weaves / 2 minute(s). Turns going quickly northwest and away extremely fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 544) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1190 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "955", **HatchDesc:** "NW/MOUNTAIN HOME,ID:2 PILOTS/UAL FLT-105:SCR WEAVES/2min:TURNS>>NW+AWAY XFAST", **LatLong:** "43.200002 -115.833339", **LatLongDMS:** "43:12:00 N 115:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.200002,-115.833339)", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6123 (2D660759) **Date:** 7/28/1947 **Location:** Bt. Mountain Home & Boise, ID **Description:** DC-3 Crew Observes Disc (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [470728](http://www.nicap.org/470728mtnhome%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_380 ### Event 6124 (62E8FD2C) **Date:** 7/28/1947 **Locations:** Ernest Harmon AFB, Newfoundland; Wright Field, Ohio; Stephenville; Pentagon **Description:** After assessing the Ernest Harmon AFB, Newfoundland, report, Gen. [Schulgen](http://www.generals.dk/general/Schulgen/George%5FFrancis/USA.html) orders Col. [Howard M.](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html) [McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html)[,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html) deputy commander of T-2 intelligence at Wright Field, Ohio, to send a top-level assessment team \(possibly [Alfred Loedding](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209268646/alfred-christian-loedding) or Col. [William R. Clingerman Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113944251/william-r%5F-clingerman)\) to Stephenville “immediately” and report directly to the Pentagon afterwards. McCoy suspects German or Russian technology. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 33–34; Swords 39 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1096 ### Event 6125 (B8065690) **Date:** 7/28/1947 **Locations:** Mountain Home, Idaho; Boise **Description:** 8:34 p.m. Capt. Charles F. Gibian and First Officer Jack Harvey are piloting United Air Lines Flight 105 and descending above Mountain Home, Idaho, in preparation for landing in Boise. Harvey sees an object that seems to be another aircraft ahead of them and to the south, but it rapidly moves to the northwest in a weaving fashion, diminishing in size and vanishing from view. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[United Air Lines Crew Reports Sighting](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101853888/the-idaho-statesman/) [Flying Saucer between](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101854006/the-idaho-statesman/) [Mountain Home and Boise,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101854006/the-idaho-statesman/)” Boise Idaho Daily Statesman, July 29, 1947, pp. 1–2; Bloecher, [pp. III-13–14](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1097 ### Event 6126 (26E5DDBD) **Date:** 7/28/1947 **Description:** At 12:10 p.m. a shiny silver disc was seen flying toward the west at a high altitude In Norwood, Manitoba. If left behind puffs of smoke at regular intervals. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1947 (Volume 5), p. 43 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4446 ### Event 6127 (72D4E4A4) **Date:** 7/28/1947 **Description:** United Airlines flight 105 flying between Mountain Home and Boise, Idaho had a near collision with a flying disc at 10:34 p.m. The cockpit crew members were named Gibian and Harvey. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Idaho Daily Statesman, July 29, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case 849; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 10 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4447 ### Event 6128 (D91CAB58) **Date:** 7/29/1947 **Description:** Kenneth Arnold interviews Dahl in Tacoma WA, near Maury Island. Retrieved metals sent to Ray Palmer and sent to a lab for analysis. Metals confiscated by the military from Ray Palmer. Dahl leaves in terror and is tracked down in public archives to the southern Oregon area. **Type:** ufological event **Reference:** [Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/so-whatever-happened-to-harold-a-dahl-of-the-1947-maury-island-incident-fb5a4cdb626e) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_270 ### Event 6129 (BAF6F59E) **Date:** 7/29/1947 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 160.7km altitude (Near vertical trajectory.) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_271 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 160.7km ### Event 6130 (345E159F) **Date:** 7/29/1947 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) At 05:55, launch of V2 No. 30, reaching an altitude of 159 km. (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952) July 29, 1947; Hamilton Air Base, California. 12:00 p.m. PDT. Witnesses: Base Operations Assistant Captain William Rhyerd, former AAF B-29 pilot Ward Stewart. Observed for an unspecified length of time two round and shiny objects, estimated to be 15-25 feet in diameter, flying at 3 or 4 times the apparent speed of a P 80. One of the objects flew in a straight line, the other oscillated from left to right like an escort. **Reference:** Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1293 ### Event 6131 (E624979B) **Date:** 7/29/1947 **Location:** USA, Union, Oregon **Description:** (Translated from French) (cf. June 24, 1947, Kenneth Arnold case) Above Union he saw flying straight ahead, a strange group of objects the color of embers, resembling ducks in migration. He tried to photograph them. These objects were round, their upper part matte with a spot. They flew at several hundred miles per hour. **Reference:** The coming of the Saucers" Kenneth Arnold, Palmer, 1952 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1294 ### Event 6132 (6E5AC9AB) **Date:** 7/29/1947 **Location:** USA, Canyon Ferry **Description:** (Translated from French) At 12:05 a bright disc moving quickly, then hovering. After being shaken by oscillations it is seen "dissolving" into the air. **Reference:** doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee translated by Jean Sider **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1295 ### Event 6133 (122A5E88) **Date:** 7/29/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Hamilton Field \(California\), the base operations assistant officer Captain William Rhyerd and former AAF B-29 pilot Ward Stewart observed 2 round, bright white objects with a diameter between 15 and 25 feet, flying 3 to 4 times at a speed comparable to a P-80 also visible. One object flew in a straight and horizontal line, the other one swirled around it like an escort. (Tuesday, July 29th, 2:50 PM) **Reference:** case [Blue Book](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/BlueBook.html) \#69 unsolved **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_679 ### Event 6134 (DCB6F85D) **Date:** 7/29/1947 **Time:** 06:30 **Location:** OVER UNION, OR **Description:** Ken Arnold / light plane again. 20-25 brassy disks flip and veer going quickly southwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 850) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1191 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "850", **HatchDesc:** "ovr UNION,OR:KEN ARNOLD/LITE PLANE AGAIN:20-25 BRASSY DISKS FLIP+VEER >>SW", **LatLong:** "45.205558 -117.866672", **LatLongDMS:** "45:12:20 N 117:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.205558,-117.866672)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6135 (116C57AB) **Date:** 7/29/1947 **Time:** 12:10 **Location:** NORTHWEST / CANYON FERRY, MT **Description:** 2 / car. 1M saucer / 3km altitude. Flutters. Going up and down. Lost / clear sky. / MJ#121. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 545) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1192 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "1190", **HatchDesc:** "NW/CANYON FERRY,MT:2/CAR:1M SCR/3km alt:FLUTTERS:↑+↓:lost/clr sky:/MJ#121", **LatLong:** "46.683336 -111.750005", **LatLongDMS:** "46:41:00 N 111:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.683336,-111.750005)", **RelAlt:** "3000", **State/Prov:** "Montana", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6136 (48282F3A) **Date:** 7/29/1947 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** NORTH / WENDELL, ID **Description:** 2 / car. 2 round silver objects going [to] extremely fast. Seen / 2 minutes. Very high altitude. No further details / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 547) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1193 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1055", **HatchDesc:** "N/WENDELL,ID:2/CAR:2 RND SLVR OBJs > XFAST:SEEN/2 mins:VHI alt:NFD/news", **LatLong:** "42.850002 -114.716672", **LatLongDMS:** "42:51:00 N 114:43:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.850002,-114.716672)", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 6137 (CFFA8BE1) **Date:** 7/29/1947 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** PORT ORCHARD, WA **Description:** Coroner. Large silver ovoid going down [to] going quickly southeast / 150M altitude. 12' x5'. Silent. Landing? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 543) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1194 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "43", **HatchDesc:** "PORT ORCHARD,WA:CORONER:LRG SLVR OVOID ↓ >>SE/150M alt:12'x5':SLNT:LANDING?", **LatLong:** "47.527780 -122.638895", **LatLongDMS:** "47:31:40 N 122:38:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.527780,-122.638895)", **RelAlt:** "150", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6138 (9A14FD3D) **Date:** 7/29/1947 **Time:** 14:50 **Location:** HAMILTON AIR FORCE BASE, CA **Description:** 2 Air Force Officers. 2 saucers pace P80 landing. Others maneuver and going quickly SSW. / MJ#121. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 546) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1195 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "HAMILTON AFB,CA:2 AF OFCRS:2 SCRS PACE P80 LANDING:OTHERS MNVR+>>SSW:/MJ#121", **LatLong:** "38.061113 -122.505561", **LatLongDMS:** "38:03:40 N 122:30:20 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.061113,-122.505561)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6139 (FE3ED24C) **Date:** 7/29/1947 **Location:** Canyon Ferry (Helena?), MT **Description:** 3' Bright Disc Maneuvers At High Speed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [470729](http://www.nicap.org/470729canyonferry%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_381 ### Event 6140 (78D66FEC) **Date:** 7/29/1947 **Location:** Hamilton Field, CA **Description:** Two 15-25' Spheres Observed By AF Men (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: 69) **Reference:** NICAP: [470729](http://www.nicap.org/470729hamiltonfld%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_382 ### Event 6141 (80D07259) **Date:** 7/29/1947 **Time:** 2:50 PM PDT **Location:** Hamilton Air Base, California **Description:** Witnesses: Assistant Base Operations Officer Capt. William Rhyerd, ex-AAF B-29 pilot Ward Stewart. Watched for unknown length of time while two round, shiny, white objects with estimated 15-25 foot diameters, flew 3-4 times the apparent speed of a P-80, also in sight. One object flew straight and level; the other weaved from side-to-side like an escort fighter. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_6 ### Event 6142 (C26CDF2F) **Date:** 7/29/1947 **Description:** A memo from FBI agent E. G. Fitch says that Special Agent [Reynolds](https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=MT19611122.2.2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1) has met with Gen. [Schulgen](http://www.generals.dk/general/Schulgen/George%5FFrancis/USA.html) again, who assures him that “all discs recovered would be made available for the examination by the FBI agents.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** ClearIntent, [pp. 149–150](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/148/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1098 ### Event 6143 (1D8F58CB) **Date:** 7/29/1947 **Locations:** Tacoma, Washington; Union, Oregon; La Grande; Winthrop Hotel **Description:** 6:55 a.m. [Kenneth Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold) is flying to Tacoma, Washington, to investigate the Maury Island mystery. As he is over Union, Oregon, preparing to land at La Grande to refuel, he sees a cluster of 25 small \(24–30 inches\) brass- colored discs with a spot in the middle moving at a terrific speed. They come within 1,200 feet of his aircraft before veering away. At La Grande, he phones aviation editor [David N. Johnson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39757884/david-n%5F-johnson) about his sighting, then reaches Tacoma at dusk. He gets a room \(502\) at the Winthrop Hotel, where a room and a bath have already been mysteriously reserved for him. [Harold A. Dahl](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/125878620/harold-albert-dahl) visits Arnold that night, then takes him to [Fred Crisman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%5FCrisman)’s place to see some Maury Island fragments. Arnold thinks it looks like lava. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, Palmer, 1952, pp. 25–38; Bloecher, [pp. I-15–16](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionI.htm)[,](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionI.htm) [III-14](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm); Clark III 720–721 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1099 ### Event 6144 (378DF9B2) **Date:** 7/29/1947 **Locations:** Hamilton Army Airfield; Novato, California **Description:** 2:50 p.m. Assistant Base Operations Officer Capt. [William H. Ryherd](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72481935/william-henry-ryherd) and ex-AAF B-29 pilot 1Lt Ward Stewart see two round, shiny, white objects near Hamilton Army Airfield \[now closed\] in Novato, California. The objects are 15–25 feet in diameter and are flying at about 750 mph at an altitude of 6,000–10,000 feet heading south. One object flies straight and level; the other weaves from side-to-side like an escort fighter. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Bloecher, p. [III-5](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm)[;](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm) [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 25 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1100 ### Event 6145 (1837E42C) **Date:** 7/29/1947 **Description:** Hamilton Air Base, California At 2:50 p.m. PDT the Assistant Base Operations Officer, Capt. William Rhyerd, and Ward Steward, an ex-B-29 pilot, watched for unknown length of time while two round, shiny, white objects with estimated 15-25 foot diameters, flew 3-4 times the apparent speed of a P-80, also in sight. One object flew straight and level; the other weaved from side-to-side like an escort fighter. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4469 ### Event 6146 (6FE4BA8E) **Date:** 7/30/1947 **Location:** Canada, between Torquay and Estevan (Saskatchewan) **Description:** (Translated from French) A motorist driving his vehicle was observing storm clouds in the sky just before dawn. As he watched, something emerged from the clouds, passed over him and flew off in a south-easterly direction. This thing glided towards the ground, righted itself and gained altitude before disappearing at great speed. The object did not seem to be very high in the sky. "It looked like an airplane wing burning at both ends, but when it passed over me I could see it was round in shape. It was the size of a tractor wheel and four feet thick. It was spinning and flames were coming out all around it. I had laughed at stories about these things, but this time I wasn't laughing, I was scared. The object was real. I wish I had found another witness to this apparition, but at that hour there was no one around." The witness said the object was silent and he was able to observe it for about 20 seconds. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 70 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1298 ### Event 6147 (FF5E7415) **Date:** 7/30/1947 **Time:** 06:00 **Location:** NEAR ESTEVAN, SSK **Description:** 1 / car. Silent 2M glowing-disk 30cm thick. Going down / clouds. Going quickly southeast overhead fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 112) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1196 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "549", **HatchDesc:** "nr ESTEVAN,SSK:1/CAR:SLNT 2M GLOW-DISK 30cm THICK:↓/CLOUDS:>>SE OVHD FAST:", **LatLong:** "49.116669 -103.083338", **LatLongDMS:** "49:07:00 N 103:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.116669,-103.083338)", **State/Prov:** "Sasketchewan", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6148 (8A7F2679) **Date:** 7/30/1947 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** SOUTH / TAMARACK, ID **Description:** 1 observer. Blinding silver fireball dives / Army surplus truck. Hits cab. Very hot. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 853) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1197 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1249", **HatchDesc:** "S/TAMARACK,ID:1 OBS:BLINDING SLVR FBL DIVES/ARMY SURPLUS TRUCK:HITS CAB:VHOT", **LatLong:** "44.950002 -116.350006", **LatLongDMS:** "44:57:00 N 116:21:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.950002,-116.350006)", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6149 (D25CD506) **Date:** 7/30/1947 **Locations:** Maury Island, Washington; Tacoma; Winthrop Hotel **Description:** [Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold) calls United Airlines pilot Capt. Emil J. Smith and asks him to come listen to the Maury Island, Washington, story. Smith arrives in Tacoma in the afternoon and cross-examines [Dahl](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/125878620/harold-albert-dahl) and [Crisman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%5FCrisman). Smith stays with Arnold at the Winthrop Hotel. Journalist [Ted Morello](https://tedmorellojournalist.wordpress.com/) of United Press calls Arnold and says that a crackpot has been calling him, explaining everything that is going on in the hotel room, including conversations with Smith when they are alone. They try but fail to locate a listening device in the room. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, Palmer, 1952, pp. 38–46; Clark III 721 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1101 ### Event 6150 (E06E6786) **Date:** 7/30/1947 **Description:** The FBI issues a policy statement on “Flying Discs,” saying that sightings should be investigated to see whether an “individual might be desirous of seeking personal publicity, causing hysteria, or playing a prank.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Flying Disks,” Section B, Bureau Bulletin no. 42, Series 1947, in Black Vault FBI documents compilation, [p.](https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/ufos/fbi/ufo1.pdf) [48](https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/ufos/fbi/ufo1.pdf); ClearIntent, [p. 150](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/150/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1102 ### Event 6151 (891F7971) **Date:** 7/30/1947 **Location:** Roswell, New Mexico **Description:** A memo with the subject line, “Recovery ‘Flying Discs,’” purportedly written by Maj. [Edwin D. Easley](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42373439/edwin-dean-easley), acknowledges that the Roswell, New Mexico, crash could “represent an interplanetary craft of some kind.” However, it is now largely considered a forgery by [Frank Kaufmann](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13371870/frank-j-kaufmann)[.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13371870/frank-j-kaufmann)  **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Kevin D. Randle, “Frank Kaufmann, Roswell Witness,” IUR 27, no. 3 \(Fall 2002\): 8, 17–19; Mark Rodeghier, “Frank Kaufmann Exposed,” IUR 27, no. 3 \(Fall 2002\): 9–11, 26 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1103 ### Event 6152 (D6E910A3) **Date:** 7/30/1947 **Description:** The Garrett Estimate, an Air Force Base Intelligence Report on “Flying Discs”—an informal estimate of the situation based on 16 reports selected by Collections Officer Lt. Col. [George D. Garrett](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33467541/george-duncan-garrett)—says that the “flying saucer situation is not all imaginary or seeing too much in some natural phenomena. Something is really flying around.” Also, “Lack of topside inquiries . . . give more than ordinary weight to the possibility that this is a domestic project, about which the President, etc., know.” The study is passed up the line to Gen. [George Schulgen](http://www.generals.dk/general/Schulgen/George%5FFrancis/USA.html) and [Hoover](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FEdgar%5FHoover) at the FBI for comment, subtly indicating that investigating a domestic project is a waste of time. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Air Force Base Intelligence Report, “[Flying Discs,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/garrett%5F073047doc.pdf)” July 30, 1947; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 32–33, 57–61; Swords 39, 474–475; Kevin D. Randle, “[Roswell,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/roswell-nathan-twining-and-mini-eots.html) [Nathan Twining, and the Mini-EOTS,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/roswell-nathan-twining-and-mini-eots.html)” A Different Perspective, October 6, 2014 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1104 ### Event 6153 (77722B08) **Date:** 7/30/1947 **Description:** Mr. Ostrom, a 66-year-old man driving an Army truck on Route 95 one mile north of Tamarack, Idaho a 4:00 p.m. when he saw a silver sphere approach and hit the roof of his truck, and then bounce off. At the point of contact a small surface area of the metal roof, about the size of a silver dollar, had melted. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Kenneth Arnold & Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p. 168; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case 853 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4499 ### Event 6154 (A56C6233) **Date:** 7/31/1947 **Locations:** Maury Island; Winthrop Hotel room in Tacoma, Washington; Hamilton Army Airfield in Novato, California **Description:** [Crisman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%5FCrisman) and [Dahl](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/125878620/harold-albert-dahl) bring heavy fragments and white metal from the Maury Island case to the Winthrop Hotel room in Tacoma, Washington. They cannot locate the photos. [Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold) calls [Brown](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65326329/frank-mercer-brown) and [Davidson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43927275/william-lee-davidson) at Hamilton Army Airfield in Novato, California. They quickly depart for Tacoma. [Morello](https://tedmorellojournalist.wordpress.com/) calls Arnold and says his informant knows that Brown and Davidson are on their way in a B-25. They arrive in the late afternoon. The five men talk until 11:00 p.m., when Crisman offers to go home and get more Maury Island fragments. He returns with slightly different, more slag-like rock stuffed in a large cereal box, which is loaded into Brown’s army vehicle. Brown and Davidson leave to go back to Hamilton for Air Force Day the next day. Morello calls again and says his informant told him everything about what has just taken place. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, Palmer, 1952, pp. 46–57; \[FBI teletype, August 6, 1947\], [pp. 87–88](https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/ufos/fbi/ufo3.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1105 ### Event 6155 (3BF5DBB2) **Date:** 7/31/1947 **Description:** Capt. [Edward Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt): “By the end of July 1947, the UFO security lid was down tight. The few members of the press who did inquire about what the Air Force was doing got the same treatment that you would get today if you inquired about the number of thermonuclear weapons stock-piled in the U.S.’s atomic arsenal. . . \[At T-2 there was\] confusion almost to the point of panic." **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ruppelt, [p. 22](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/22/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1106 ### Event 6156 (3E8B62B7) **Date:** 8/1947 **Location:** BELGIUM, Jalhay (Liège) **Description:** (Translated from French) Mr. Dessily was with other people witness to the terror of a peasant after the landing of a UFO on his field. A circular trace of 15 m in diameter was visible in the half-charred plants. **Reference:** list Daniel BUKENS, Remicourt, Belg. **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1310 ### Event 6157 (CD1DB9FB) **Date:** 8/1947 **Location:** USA, near Los Angeles **Description:** (Translated from French) At around 10:00, a mountain hiker saw a UFO landed on the ground. It took off, causing the witness to become dizzy. **Reference:** doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee, translated by Jean Sider **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1311 ### Event 6158 (86FF96CE) **Date:** 8/1947 **Location:** Burbank, California **Description:** **COLLINS WON'T REPORT HIS TO PRESS.** Tom Collins, of Port Chester, N.Y., saw flying saucers over Burbank, California, where he was visiting his wife in the hospital having their third child. He told his wife about the sighting, but never reported seeing them because the press was making such saucer-sighters look ridiculous. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256) **Source:** Scully, **ID:** Scully_6 ### Event 6159 (68DA3A2D) **Date:** 8/1947 **Location:** Bethell, Ala **Description:** From the Air Material Command, Wright Field's **Project Saucer**/**Project Sign** Report: Two pilots for a Bethel, Ala. flying service told investigators they spotted a huge black object, bigger than a C-54, silhouetted against the brilliant evening sky. In order to avoid collision, they said they pulled up to 1,200 feet and watched the object cross their path at right angles. The two pilots told of swinging in behind the object and following it to 170 mph until it outdistanced them and disappeared four minutes later. It was described as having no motors, wings, or visible means of propulsion, being smooth-surfaced and streamlined. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256) **Source:** Scully, **ID:** Scully_29 ### Event 6160 (E13D6F4B) **Date:** 8/1947 **Location:** Fort Richardson, Alaska **Description:** From the Air Material Command, Wright Field's **Project Saucer**/**Project Sign** Report: Two officers told of seeing a spherical object about 10 feet in diameter flying through the air at tremendous speed, leaving no vapor trail. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256) **Source:** Scully, **ID:** Scully_30 ### Event 6161 (3DC3210E) **Date:** 8/1947 **Location:** Media, PA **Description:** Air Force pilot sees disc hover and speed away **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973_, by Richard Dolan](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/mode/2up) **Source:** Dolan, **ID:** Dolan_24 ### Event 6162 (BF801998) **Date:** 8/1947 (approximate) **Location:** MAFFRA, VCT **Description:** 2 / car near collision. Gold sphere over road jumps aside. High wind stops. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 168) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1198 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MAFFRA,VCT:2/CAR NR COLLISION:GOLD SPHERE OVR ROAD JUMPS ASIDE:HIGH WIND STOPS", **LatLong:** "-37.938891 146.955563", **LatLongDMS:** "37:56:20 S 146:57:20 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-37.938891,146.955563)", **State/Prov:** "Victoria", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6163 (8A69228E) **Date:** 8/1947 **Location:** JALHAY, BELGIUM **Description:** 2 / farm. Large object quickly going down. Type unknown. 50M circle / burnt grass. Sharply defined. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 115) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1199 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "JALHAY,BELG:2/FARM:LRG OBJ ↓↓:type unk:50M CIRCLE/BURNT GRASS:sharply defined", **LatLong:** "50.550002 5.966667", **LatLongDMS:** "50:33:00 N 05:58:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.550002,5.966667)", **State/Prov:** "Belgium", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6164 (DA6E4E8B) **Date:** 8/1947 (approximate) **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** FONTAINEBLEU, FR **Description:** 3 observer(s) / woods. 3 disks southeast going quickly northwest. 3 more follow after. / Contact Lecteurs. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 999) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1200 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "FONTAINEBLEU,FR:3 OBS/WOODS:3 DISKS SE>>NW:3 MORE FOLO AFTER:/Contact Lecteurs", **LatLong:** "48.450002 2.616667", **LatLongDMS:** "48:27:00 N 02:37:00 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.450002,2.616667)", **State/Prov:** "Seine-et-Marne", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6165 (3957F11F) **Date:** 8/1947 (approximate) **Time:** ~14:00 **Location:** VASSOURAS, BRAZIL **Description:** Shiny 38cm metallic saucer wavers / 25M altitude. Indents / dome. Follows railroad/railway tracks. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GRANCHI, Irene: UFO's and ABDUCTIONS in BRAZIL: Horus House Press, Madison, WI: 1992 (English translation 1994) ISBN 1-881852-09-1 (Index 3) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1201 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "611", **HatchDesc:** "VASSOURAS,BRZL:SHINY 38cm MTLC SCR WAVERS/25M alt:INDENTS/DOME:FOLOS RR TRACKS", **LatLong:** "-22.416668 -43.633335", **LatLongDMS:** "22:25:00 S 43:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-22.416668,-43.633335)", **RelAlt:** "25", **State/Prov:** "RDJ", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6166 (8AC011EF) **Date:** 8/1947 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** NEAR PUDASJARVI, FNL **Description:** 2 / woods. Brown bullet shape hovers / N. sky. Blue-green tail. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 165) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1202 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "nr PUDASJARVI,FNL:2/WOODS:BROWN BULLET SHAPE HVRS/N.SKY:BLU-GRN TAIL", **LatLong:** "65.300003 26.833335", **LatLongDMS:** "65:18:00 N 26:50:00 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/65.300003,26.833335)", **State/Prov:** "Finland", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 6167 (DAC137A5) **Date:** 8/1947 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** PAOLA, MALTA **Description:** Many observer(s). Brilliant cylinder/cigar-shape going quickly northwest. Too fast for a blimp. / UFOIC Sydney NSW. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 171) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1203 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Greece and Island nations", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "PAOLA,MALTA:MANY OBS:BRILL.CGR >>NW:too fast for a blimp:/UFOIC Sydney NSW", **LatLong:** "35.883335 14.516667", **LatLongDMS:** "35:53:00 N 14:31:00 E", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.883335,14.516667)", **State/Prov:** "MLT", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6168 (4A1D950E) **Date:** 8/1947 **Location:** Danforth, IL **Description:** Specimens of an alleged “Flying Saucer” were brought to AMC by Col. H. M. McCoy (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [470800](http://www.nicap.org/danforth4708xxdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_383 ### Event 6169 (1D28A3F1) **Date:** 8/1947 **Location:** Media, PA **Description:** Boyce Case, (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_384 ### Event 6170 (F98C3831) **Date:** 8/1947 **Location:** Media, Pennsylvania **Description:** USAF fighter pilot W. Boyce sees a hovering disc above Media, Pennsylvania. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 33](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=45&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1107 ### Event 6171 (AF0E6175) **Date:** 8/1947 **Description:** T-2 Intelligence and Army Air Force Intelligence hold meetings over the next two months and prepare documents requesting an authorized project to investigate UFOs, per General [LeMay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis%5FLeMay)’s 1946 instructions. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1108 ### Event 6172 (E2D12E7E) **Date:** 8/1947 **Description:** The Air Materiel Command headquarters replaces T-2 Intelligence with the Technical Intelligence Department, tasked with producing reports and estimates on foreign air weapons. It begins to develop a photoanalysis capability. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1109 ### Event 6173 (BB77AB1A) **Date:** 8/1947 **Locations:** Denver Post; Manzano Mountains; Sandia Base; New Mexico **Description:** The Denver Post runs a story that claims the military is building a secret base consisting of huge caverns for atomic weapons defense purposes. The article says the new base is in the Manzano Mountains southeast of Sandia Base, New Mexico. The military responds by issuing a statement that operations and construction near Sandia Base are top secret. In fact, however, the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project is building one of several bases around the country that will be used for nuclear weapons storage. The AFSWP code-names the base “Site Able.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Sandia Base](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandia%5FBase\#Manzano%5FBase)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1110 ### Event 6174 (BFB13F4F) **Date:** 8/1/1947 **Description:** A B-25 plane containing materials retrieved from Harold Dahl near Maury Island WA crashes near Kelso, WA **Type:** ufological event **Reference:** [Wikipedia link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maury_Island_incident) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_272 ### Event 6175 (F31C9F2E) **Date:** 8/1/1947 **Location:** FRANCE, Arèches (Savoie) **Description:** (Translated from French) Two women saw three discs topped with dark domes, coming in a triangular formation from behind the hills. They crossed the sky in a straight line, from WSW to ENE. All three seemed to have a lower part in rotation and had a metallic look. **Reference:** Phenomena No. 35 of 1997 p. 15 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1299 ### Event 6176 (CBC4E480) **Date:** 8/1/1947 **Time:** 13:00 **Location:** NEAR WINNEMUCCA, NV **Description:** Mayor / Boise and 1. 12 disks / V formation / 300M altitude below airliner. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 608) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1204 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1313", **HatchDesc:** "nr WINNEMUCCA,NV:MAYOR/BOISE+1:12 DISKS/VFORM/300M alt BLW AIRLINER:", **LatLong:** "40.916669 -117.750006", **LatLongDMS:** "40:55:00 N 117:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.916669,-117.750006)", **RelAlt:** "300", **State/Prov:** "Nevada", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6177 (28DC5299) **Date:** 8/1/1947 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** ARECHES, FR **Description:** 2 observer(s). 3 dark silent metallic domed-saucer going [to] east-northeast. Rims rotate only. / r171p163. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** PHENOMENES SPATIAUX: Group GEPA, Gen. M. Lionel Chassin Paris. Quarterly 1964?-1977. Merged into Grp. GEPAN (Index 16) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1205 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ARECHES,FR:2 OBS:3 DRK SLNT MTLC DOMED-SCR >ENE:RIMS ROTATE only:/r171p163", **LatLong:** "45.688891 6.572223", **LatLongDMS:** "45:41:20 N 06:34:20 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.688891,6.572223)", **State/Prov:** "SVO", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6178 (3BDA625D) **Date:** 8/1/1947 **Locations:** McChord Field near Tacoma, Washington; Hamilton Army Airfield [now closed] in Novato, California; Kelso, Washington **Description:** [Brown](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65326329/frank-mercer-brown) and [Davidson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43927275/william-lee-davidson) make a stop at McChord Field near Tacoma, Washington, to speak with intelligence officer Maj. [George Sander](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72303755/george-sander)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72303755/george-sander) then board the B-25 for Hamilton Army Airfield \[now closed\] in Novato, California. It explodes and crashes near Kelso, Washington, at 1:30 a.m., 20 minutes after taking off, when the left engine catches fire. An army hitchhiker and engineer parachute to safety. Brown and Davidson fail to signal distress or bail out. After hearing the news, [Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold) calls [Palmer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%5FA.%5FPalmer) and offers to return his money. Palmer says to just mail him some fragments. Arnold and Smith visit [Morello](https://tedmorellojournalist.wordpress.com/) and [Dahl](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/125878620/harold-albert-dahl) and [Crisman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%5FCrisman). They talk to Tacoma Times reporter [Paul](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/107053568/paul-christian-lantz) [Lantz](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/107053568/paul-christian-lantz) in the hotel lobby, who writes the article “Sabotage Hinted in Crash of Army Bomber at Kelso.” Debris from the crash is not discovered until 2007. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “Air Force Day Marred As B-26 Crashes Here,” Longview \(Wash.\) Daily News, August 1, 1947, p. 1; “[‘Flying Saucers’ Figure in](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/786650/kelso-b-25-crash-pt-1-of-2-galveston/) [Two Air Crash Deaths,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/786644/kelso-b-25-crash-pt-2-of-2-galveston/)” Galveston \(Tex.\) Daily News, August 3, 1947, pp. 1, 5; Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, Palmer, 1952, pp. 57–72; Charlette LeFevre and Philip Lipson, “[The Maury Island UFO Incident,](http://www.nwlegendsmuseum.com/MauryIsland.html)” February 2014; Leslie Slape, “[Marker Placed near Kelso to Honor Pilots in ‘47 Crash,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90030669/longview-daily-news/)” Longview \(Wash.\) Daily News, August 3, 2007, p. 9 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1111 ### Event 6179 (7CB71298) **Date:** 8/1/1947 **Description:** At 8:30 p.m. three dark metallic domed discs flew over the mountains of Areches, Savoie, France heading east-northeast. They made no sound, and had rotating rims. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Phenomenes Spatiaux, June 1968 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4554 ### Event 6180 (634AF76C) **Date:** 8/1/1947 **Location:** Tacoma, Washington State **Description:** Lt. Frank M. Brown and Captain William Davidson of Air Force Intelligence died when their plane crashed. Their mission: bringing back UFO fragments that crashed to earth at Tacoma. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up) **Source:** HostileFawcett, **ID:** HostileFawcett_4 ### Event 6181 (08CBC07A) **Date:** 8/2/1947 **Location:** CHILE, Santiago **Description:** (Translated from French) A Lancastrian Star Dust of British South American Airways, was due to land in Santiago at 5:45 pm. At 5:41 pm the radio reported to the control tower that all was well on board and that the pilot, Capt. R. J. Cook was about to begin the approach procedure. At the end of this message, the Santiago radio operator heard three times, very clearly, very loudly, pronounced by another voice than that of the pilot, a word that could be spelled as "STENDEK"... (note of vog: "stand on deck"? It is the cry launched when a ship (mariner) is in distress) From that moment on, there was no more news either from the plane, or from the 5 crew members, or from the six passengers, or from the radio, or from any other testimonies. A large corridor of 400 km² was combed through with several aircraft, without result. (Henry DURRANT: "First Investigations on Humanoid ETs" - Laffont 1977 - p. 103, 104) IN REALITY: But in December 1999, Argentinian aviation enthusiast Juan Carlos Mouso was flying over Mount Tupungato, 110 kilometers (66 miles) southwest of Mendoza and 500 kilometers and 500 kilometers (300 miles) west of Buenos Aires, "when he spotted the glint of sunshine on a fuselage on the mountain's south face." Mouso convinced the Argentinian government to mount a search of Tupungato. Assisting Mouso in the arduous climb was Argentina's 11th Mountain Infantry Regiment. On Monday, January 24, 2000, Mouso and two Argentinian soldiers "found a badly-damaged four- engine Lancaster and three frozen bodies" on one of Tupungato's glaciers at an altitude of 5,500 meters (17,600 feet.)." Apparently, the Star Dust had exploded in mid-air, scattering debris over the snowfields to a distance of one kilometer (0.62 miles). "Investigators huffing through the thin air at the crash site found twisted metal and the remains of three frozen bodies amid the wreckage of the fuselage."

"Besides the three bodies, the searchers also found a woman's hand and a shoe with a Royal Air Force (RAF) insignia that may have belonged to one of the pilots." "'The urgency now is to fence off the (crash) site so no one removes any of the discovered remains until a group of specialists can arrive, which is difficult but not impossible,' Lt. Col. Bustos said." Argentinian "federal judge Alfredo Manuel Rodriguez is in charge of the forensic investigation and is taking fingerprints and DNA samples to establish the victims' identities." Paul Simpson was reportedly wearing a small silver lapel pin in the form of a running greyhoud. This is the insignia of a King's Messenger and will probably be used to identify his remains, if they are found. **Reference:** See the Argentinian newspapers Uno for January 24, 2000 and La Nacion for January 26, 2000. - Scott Corrales, Jim Hickman et UFO Roundup, Volume 5, Number 5, 3.2.2000, Editor: Joseph Trainor **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1300 ### Event 6182 (31A804C5) **Date:** 8/2/1947 (approximate) **Location:** SWITZERLAND, Locarno **Description:** (Translated from French) On August 8th 1947 (note from vog: August 8th was a Sunday, if I'm not mistaken), the Gazette de Lausanne, citing the Corriere del Ticino, mentions a communication from its correspondent in Locarno: "Last Monday, around 3 o'clock in the morning, a luminous globe was seen in the sky, accompanied by a very shrill whistling, crossing the horizon from east to west and disappearing behind the Pizzo Ruscada. Many think it was one of the famous "flying saucers" and others affirm it was a meteor of an exceptional size." (1947, August 2nd (?)) **Reference:** The Saucers in Heidi, cfr GREPI, Switzerland, 1977 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1304 ### Event 6183 (DEFB57A0) **Date:** 8/2/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The *Lancastrian Star Dust* of the British company *South American Airways* is flying over the Andes. Despite the snowfall, a few minutes before landing in Santiago, Chile, the plane's radio operator Dennis Harmer sends a Morse message to announce a good arrival: ETA \[*Estimated Time of Arrival*\] Santiago 17.45 hrs STENDEC. The official report on this will be as follows: The signal of 17.41 was received by Santiago only 4 minutes before the ETA. The Chilean radio operator in Santiago indicates that the signal was received loud and clear but that it was given very quickly. Not understanding the word "STENDEC" he asked and received the same word repeated twice in succession. No explanation for the word "STENDEC" was found. From that moment nothing more was heard from the plane and no contact was established with the control tower in Santiago. All subsequent calls were unanswered. This last word will therefore remain incomprehensible, like the disappearance of the plane. The plane will not be found until January [2000](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/2000.html). (August 2, 17:41) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_680 ### Event 6184 (F20A7EEE) **Date:** 8/3/1947 **Description:** Newspaper article: “Crashed Bomber Reported Carrying ‘Flying Disc’”. Maury Island incident metallic fragments were reported to be extremely heavy and subjected to extreme heat. **Type:** ufological event **Reference:** [Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/the-bsra-tested-fragments-from-the-maury-island-incident-cd20c2d14324) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_273 ### Event 6185 (0C560B54) **Date:** 8/3/1947 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** HACKENSACK, NJ **Description:** Multiple observer(s). Round black object "too fast for a balloon. / FBI files. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 121) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1206 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "7", **HatchDesc:** "HACKENSACK,NJ:MULTIPLE OBS:ROUND BLACK OBJ "TOO FAST FOR A BALLOON:/FBI FILES", **LatLong:** "40.883335 -74.050004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:53:00 N 74:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.883335,-74.050004)", **State/Prov:** "New Jersey", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6186 (F802C75D) **Date:** 8/3/1947 **Locations:** Tacoma, Washington; Winthrop Hotel **Description:** Smith contacts Maj. [Sander](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72303755/george-sander)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72303755/george-sander) who relieves [Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold) and Smith of all their fragments. He shows them a smelting lot where he finds similar pieces of slag. Smith and Arnold check out of the Winthrop Hotel in Tacoma, Washington. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, Palmer, 1952, pp. 73–84 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1112 ### Event 6187 (B0E331C1) **Date:** 8/4/1947 **Location:** USA, near Boston **Description:** (Translated from French) At 4:00 PM the pilot and navigator saw from their plane an orange, shiny, cylindrical UFO, its two ends tapering off. Witnesses were extensively questioned by the FBI. **Reference:** doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee, translated by Jean Sider **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1301 ### Event 6188 (B1BDE027) **Date:** 8/4/1947 **Location:** ALASKA, near Béthel **Description:** (Translated from French) On a day in July, with a cloudless sky, it was still daylight, around 10 pm. (...) The pilot was arriving with his DC 3 towards the Béthel airport. He saw the object to his left and declared that the co-pilot saw it at the same instant. They made a 45° turn to leave the object's trajectory and then had the impression that it was moving away. The pilot described it as a winged object of the apparent size of a C.54. He could not see any propulsion system, any combustion, or any vapor trail. (...) The civil aviation authorities of Béthel had no other plane in the sector. (...) The object was at 1000 feet, and was moving at 300 mph. No radio interference. The object appeared dark and very sharply outlined against the sky. (...) (Phénoména n° 35 of 1997, p. 12 which falsely relates the story in July) At 10 pm (but it was still daylight) the pilot and co-pilot of a military plane saw a UFO in the shape of a winged object without engines or trace of combustion smoke. Witnesses were extensively interrogated by the FBI. (doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee translated by Jean Sider, he places the date at August 4, 1947). **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 71 and 72, on the date of August 4 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1302 ### Event 6189 (7E8D253C) **Date:** 8/4/1947 **Location:** Bethel, AK **Description:** Large, smooth object seen by pilot and copilot, reported to ADC. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973_, by Richard Dolan](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/mode/2up) **Source:** Dolan, **ID:** Dolan_25 ### Event 6190 (C4C51D0E) **Date:** 8/4/1947 (approximate) **Location:** FT. RICHARDSON, AK **Description:** 2 Army officers. 3m sphere extremely fast. No contrail. Report to FBI. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KLOIAN, Richard: UFO's in the New York TIMES, 1947-1987 1994 Document Research Services, Berkeley, CA (Index 5) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1207 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "115", **HatchDesc:** "Ft.RICHARDSON,AK:2 ARMY OFFICERS:3m SPHERE XFAST:NO CONTRAIL:report to FBI", **LatLong:** "64.300003 -146.166674", **LatLongDMS:** "64:18:00 N 146:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/64.300003,-146.166674)", **State/Prov:** "Alaska", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6191 (F6F5034B) **Date:** 8/4/1947 **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** NEAR EVERETT, MASS **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #73. Pilot and navigator. 15' glowing gold cylinder/cylindrical object / glaring jet exhaust. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 54) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1208 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "nr EVERETT,MASS:BBK#73:PILOT+NAVGR:15' GLOWING GOLD CYL/GLARING JET EXHAUST", **LatLong:** "42.416669 -71.055559", **LatLongDMS:** "42:25:00 N 71:03:20 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.416669,-71.055559)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6192 (D11233BB) **Date:** 8/4/1947 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** NEAR BETHEL, AK **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #58. Local pilots. Very large dark fuselage hovers. Away / 500mph when neared. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 232) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1209 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "38", **HatchDesc:** "nr BETHEL,AK:BBK#58:LOCAL PILOTS:VLRG DRK FSLG HVRS:AWAY/500mph WHEN NEARED", **LatLong:** "60.794447 -161.750008", **LatLongDMS:** "60:47:40 N 161:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/60.794447,-161.750008)", **State/Prov:** "Alaska", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6193 (65A8D9DB) **Date:** 8/4/1947 **Location:** Bethel, AK **Description:** Smooth surfaced black object larger than a DC-3 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [470804](http://www.nicap.org/470804bethel%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_385 ### Event 6194 (30DF7D0B) **Date:** 8/4/1947 **Location:** Everett, MA **Description:** A bright orange or deep-gold colored cigarette-shaped (Project 1947; McDonald list; FOIA; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [470804](http://www.nicap.org/470804everett%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_386 ### Event 6195 (F0623DA3) **Date:** 8/4/1947 **Location:** Bethel, Alaska **Description:** Pilots Capt. [Jack](https://alaskaairmuseum.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/jack-peck.jpg) [Peck](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25121894/jack-randall-peck) and Vince Daly see a smooth UFO northwest of Bethel, Alaska, dead ahead as they are flying a DC-3 for Al Jones Flying Service. Peck hauls back on his controls to bring his plane up to safer altitude. Now 1,000 feet higher, the pilots glance downward and spot the UFO closer but on a changed course. Still dark against the sky, it looks to be as large as a C-54. Intrigued, Peck dives on the object as it pulls away, doing his best to get a better view, but it speeds up to an estimated 500 mph and is lost to view in four minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Smooth Black Object Crosses Path of DC-3](http://www.nicap.org/470804bethel%5Fdir.htm)”; Harold D. Johnston, “[Matters of National Interest,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/bethel.htm)” August 5, 1947; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 25 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1113 ### Event 6196 (9425D47F) **Date:** 8/4/1947 **Description:** The pilot and co-pilot of an airliner flying over Everett, Massachusetts at 4:00 p.m. sighted a bright glowing orange cylindrical object, 15 feet long and shaped like a cigarette, flying at 150 mph. It had a glaring jet exhaust. At dusk two more pilots on a civilian cargo plane saw another UFO that looked like a fuselage without wings while flying over Bethel, Alaska. This second UFO outdistanced their airplane. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Bruce Maccabee, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1977, p. 10; NICAP UFO Investigator, February 1978, p. 4; Bob Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, August 19, 1987 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4640 ### Event 6197 (92FC7893) **Date:** 8/5/1947 **Time:** 06:30 **Location:** NORTHWEST / ONTARIO, OR **Description:** 3 / ranch. 2 disks going quickly north. Not planes. / r171p200+Ontario Argus 7 Aug. '47. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 609) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1210 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "700", **HatchDesc:** "NW/ONTARIO,OR:3/RANCH:2 DISKS >>N:not planes:/r171p200+Ontario Argus 7AUG47", **LatLong:** "44.050002 -116.983339", **LatLongDMS:** "44:03:00 N 116:59:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.050002,-116.983339)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6198 (47D0F8F4) **Date:** 8/5/1947 (approximate) **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** NORTHEAST / PHILOMATH, OR **Description:** Ex Anti-Aircraft guns/teams-gunner and 2. 3 large disks going quickly northeast abreast / 2500M altitude. Rise and dip. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 609) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1211 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "90", **HatchDesc:** "NE/PHILOMATH,OR:EX AA-GUNNER+2:3 LRG DISKS >>NE ABREAST/2500M alt:RISE+DIP:", **LatLong:** "44.561113 -123.300006", **LatLongDMS:** "44:33:40 N 123:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.561113,-123.300006)", **RelAlt:** "2500", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6199 (A6BA4C0D) **Date:** 8/6/1947 **Location:** USA, Philadelphia **Description:** (Translated from French) At around 10:30 PM many witnesses saw a UFO in the shape of a "giant firecracker" moving at an apparent speed of several hundred miles/hour. Witnesses were extensively questioned by the FBI. **Reference:** doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee, translated by Jean Sider **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1303 ### Event 6200 (4ED3707C) **Date:** 8/6/1947 **Location:** Robert Lee, Texas **Description:** **TEXAS SEES ONE CHANGE IN SHAPE?** Mr. and Mrs. Jim Reid, Owen Fletcher, Dock Mennington and Bob Patterson saw an object in the sky at about 10 p.m. in the shape of an luminous disk. It was larger and faster than a plane. It maneuvered in the sky for twenty minutes and then took off in the direction of San Angelo. In fifteen minutes it returned, this time in the shape of a long log. The sky was clear with no clouds. The nearest searchlight was 100 miles away. It continued its capers for more than half an hour. Finally, it took off on the shape of a long cigar with a thin smokey trail and vanished in the distance. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256) **Source:** Scully, **ID:** Scully_7 ### Event 6201 (A7BE4455) **Date:** 8/6/1947 **Location:** ROBERT LEE, TX **Description:** 5 observer(s). Saucer maneuvers. Away and back / 15 minute(s). Maneuvers / 30 minute(s). Changes shape going quickly [to] cylinder/cigar-shape. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 55) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1212 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "50", **Elev:** "5556", **HatchDesc:** "ROBERT LEE,TX:5 OBS:SCR MNVRS:AWAY+BACK/15min:MNVRS/30min:CHANGES SHAPE>>CGR", **LatLong:** "31.888890 -100.483338", **LatLongDMS:** "31:53:20 N 100:29:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.888890,-100.483338)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 6202 (AFE6719C) **Date:** 8/6/1947 **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** MEDIA, PA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #70. Ex Air Force-pilot and 2. Saucer hovers. Away / 725kph. Slight hiss and flames. / r131p55. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 33) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1213 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "101", **HatchDesc:** "MEDIA,PA:BBK#70:EX AF-PILOT+2:SCR HVRS:AWAY/725kph:SLIGHT HISS+FLAMES:/r131p55", **LatLong:** "39.916669 -75.383337", **LatLongDMS:** "39:55:00 N 75:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.916669,-75.383337)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6203 (AC835602) **Date:** 8/6/1947 **Time:** 18:20 **Location:** MYRTLE CREEK, OR **Description:** Airport manager chases round metallic object / light plane. Seen twice / 10 minute(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 121) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1214 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "195", **HatchDesc:** "MYRTLE CREEK,OR:AIRPORT MGR CHASES ROUND MTLC OBJ/LITE PLANE:SEEN TWICE/10min", **LatLong:** "43.022224 -123.272228", **LatLongDMS:** "43:01:20 N 123:16:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.022224,-123.272228)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6204 (8F84ECE0) **Date:** 8/6/1947 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** LANDER, WY **Description:** Separate observer(s). Several silver objects / 2 formations going quickly southwest. Tip side-side. Saucer / building site. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 610) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1215 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1632", **HatchDesc:** "LANDER,WY:SEP.OBS:SVRL SLVR OBJS/2 FORMns >>SW:TIP SIDE-SIDE:SCR/BUILDING SITE", **LatLong:** "42.833335 -108.733339", **LatLongDMS:** "42:50:00 N 108:44:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.833335,-108.733339)", **State/Prov:** "Wyoming", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6205 (5D7F2FB2) **Date:** 8/6/1947 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** PHILADELPHIA, PA **Description:** Many observer(s). "Giant firecracker". Several hundred mph. / FBI interviews. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 121) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1216 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "PHILADELPHIA,PA:MANY OBS:"GIANT FIRECRACKER":SVRL HUNDRED mph:/FBI INTERVIEWS", **LatLong:** "39.950002 -75.183337", **LatLongDMS:** "39:57:00 N 75:11:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.950002,-75.183337)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6206 (58116022) **Date:** 8/6/1947 **Description:** An FBI memo from E. G. Fitch to [D. Milton Ladd](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Ladd.htm) identifies either [Brown](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65326329/frank-mercer-brown) or [Davidson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43927275/william-lee-davidson) as a CIC agent on a top secret mission. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jason Colavito, ed., “[Inquiry into Richard Shaver and Ray Palmer, Federal Bureau of](https://www.jasoncolavito.com/inquiry-into-shaver-and-palmer.html) [Investigation, 1947”](https://www.jasoncolavito.com/inquiry-into-shaver-and-palmer.html) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1114 ### Event 6207 (6D3C80DD) **Date:** 8/6/1947 **Description:** In Media, Pennsylvania at 6:00 p.m. an ex-U.S. Air Force pilot and two others saw a hovering saucer-shaped object. It shot away at an estimated 725 km/h, emitting a slight hiss and flames. Many observers in nearby Philadelphia, Pennsylvania sighted a "giant firecracker" in the sky at 10:30 p.m. flying at several hundred mph. The FBI inverviewed many of these witnesses. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** (1) Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume I, p. 33; (2) Bruce S, Maccabee, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1977, p. 10; NICAP UFO Investigator, February 1978, p. 4, citing FBI files **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4714 ### Event 6208 (C8F008CB) **Date:** 8/6/1947 **Description:** In Robert Lee, Texas a disc maneuvered in the sky at 10:00 p.m, then flew away. It came back 15 minutes and maneuvered for another 30 minutes, changing its shape to the appearance of a cigar. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Kenneth Arnold & Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p. 137 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4715 ### Event 6209 (E417DC9D) **Date:** 8/7/1947 **Location:** EAST / RED MOUNTAIN, CA **Description:** Judge and Mrs. A. Turner / US395. 7 silver saucers hover / 15-20 minute(s). No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 56) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1217 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "18", **Elev:** "700", **HatchDesc:** "E/RED MOUNTAIN,CA:JUDGE+MRS A.TURNER/US395:7 SLVR SCRS HVR/15-20min:NFD", **LatLong:** "35.355557 -117.533339", **LatLongDMS:** "35:21:20 N 117:32:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.355557,-117.533339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6210 (B1F5551E) **Date:** 8/7/1947 (approximate) **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** NEAR TYGH VALLEY, OR **Description:** Oibs / (seen thru) binoculars. Domed disk seen. No further details. / Dalles Optimist 15 Aug. '47. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 610) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1218 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "305", **HatchDesc:** "nr TYGH VALLEY,OR:OIBS/BINOCS:DOMED DISK SEEN:NFD:/DALLES OPTIMIST 15AUG47", **LatLong:** "45.250002 -121.166672", **LatLongDMS:** "45:15:00 N 121:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.250002,-121.166672)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6211 (C866DA5B) **Date:** 8/7/1947 (approximate) **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** EIGHTMILE CREEK, OR **Description:** Disk sweeps low over wheat field. Near vertical takeoff. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 610) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1219 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "404", **HatchDesc:** "EIGHTMILE CREEK,OR:DISK SWEEPS LO OVR WHEAT FIELD:NEAR VERTICAL TAKEOFF:NFD", **LatLong:** "45.600002 -121.100006", **LatLongDMS:** "45:36:00 N 121:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.600002,-121.100006)", **RelAlt:** "10", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6212 (EFA910E7) **Date:** 8/7/1947 **Locations:** Seattle, Washington; Maury Island **Description:** The Seattle, Washington, FBI office interrogates [Crisman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%5FCrisman) and [Dahl](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/125878620/harold-albert-dahl) and announces the Maury Island incident is a hoax. The FBI file notes that Dahl stated that “if questioned by the authorities he was going to say it was a hoax because he did not want any further trouble over the matter.” Dahl’s daughter Louise admits in 2007 that the whole story was made up, as did her brother Charles in the late 1960s, who called Crisman a “smooth-talking con artist.” The affair had started as a joke and blossomed into something worse. Associated Press reporter Elmer Vogel says that Dahl’s wife had compelled him to tell Vogel the truth. [Morello](https://tedmorellojournalist.wordpress.com/) also speaks to Crisman, who admits the story is baseless. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 721; Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, Palmer, 1952, pp. 105–111; Jason Colavito, ed., “[Inquiry into Richard Shaver and Ray Palmer, Federal Bureau of](https://www.jasoncolavito.com/inquiry-into-shaver-and-palmer.html) [Investigation, 1947”](https://www.jasoncolavito.com/inquiry-into-shaver-and-palmer.html); Kenn Thomas, Maury Island UFO: The Crisman Conspiracy, IllumiNet, 1999; Anthony Bragalia, “[Maury Island No Longer a Mystery: A UFO Hoax Exposed!](https://www.ufodigest.com/article/maury-island-no-longer-a-mystery-a-ufo-hoax-exposed/)” UFO Digest, July 8, 2010; Brian J. Robb, “Conspiracy Central: The Life and Lies of Fred Lee Crisman,” Fortean Times 355 \(July 2017\): 32–39 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1115 ### Event 6213 (D08329BA) **Date:** 8/8/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Federal Agent Coyne writes in a memo addressed to one of his sub-directors: we have no reason to consider these discs as anything other than a military weapon, and, in the impossibility of attributing the paternity of these discs to the navy, the army, or the Soviets, suggests that the file be entirely handed over to the army. (August 8) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_681 ### Event 6214 (E4B03A69) **Date:** 8/8/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Observation at Moutiers. **Reference:** Vallée 1966 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_682 ### Event 6215 (0A34CA50) **Date:** 8/8/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Bethel \(Alabama\), two pilots saw an immense black object, larger than a C-54 without engines, wings or any external sign of propulsion, smooth and streamlined, silhouetted against a bright evening sky. The pilots then increased their plane's altitude to 400 m and the object crossed their trajectory at 90. They followed the object at a distance for 4 minutes. **Reference:** [GEPAN](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/GEPAN.html), Information Note No. 3, 1981 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_683 ### Event 6216 (52A6B620) **Date:** 8/8/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In the Cascade Mountains, F. M. Johnson, a Portland prospector, observed for 50 seconds and with a telescope 5 discs of 10 m in diameter. These turned towards the Sun without any noise. During the observation the needle of his compass watch oscillated intensely from right to left. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_684 ### Event 6217 (A6195471) **Date:** 8/8/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Fort Richardson \(Alaska\), 2 officers observed the supersonic progression of a 3 m diameter sphere, without a trail. **Reference:** [GEPAN](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/GEPAN.html), Information Note No. 3, 1981 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_685 ### Event 6218 (11B094A4) **Date:** 8/8/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Oklahoma City, a ground pilot saw something the size of 6 B-29s, white, circular, smooth, moving at an estimated speed of 2400 km/h. **Reference:** [GEPAN](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/GEPAN.html), Information Note No. 3, 1981 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_686 ### Event 6219 (97B86173) **Date:** 8/8/1947 **Location:** Upton, Wyoming **Description:** **WOMAN WATCHES ONE DISAPPEAR AND REAPPEAR.** Mrs. Jay Engel saw a flying disk at sundown. She saw a flash darting across the sky, then another flash. It disappeared for a few seconds, then reappeared further away. It was traveling at a great rate of speed and was not particularly bright, appearing to be an orange-colored glow. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256) **Source:** Scully, **ID:** Scully_8 ### Event 6220 (078329E5) **Date:** 8/8/1947 **Locations:** Hamilton Army Airfield; Novato, California; Tacoma, Washington **Description:** Lt. Col. [Donald L.](http://www.foreshadower.net/images/Col-Donald-L.Springer-USAF.jpg) [Springer](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49321614/donald-l-springer), assistant chief of staff for army intelligence at the Fourth Air Force, who has just returned to Hamilton Army Airfield \[now closed\] in Novato, California, from Tacoma, Washington, says “there is not sufficient evidence or testimony available to this headquarters to conclude whether or not the reports of so- called flying disks in the Tacoma area or any other area have any basis of fact.” He adds that the Maury Island crash “did not occur.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Fourth Air Force Drops Disc Inquiry; Search Held Futile,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92764388/)” San Francisco Examiner, August 9, 1947, p. 5 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1116 ### Event 6221 (AF58FB0C) **Date:** 8/9/1947 **Location:** Oak Ridge, Tennessee **Description:** [John Derry](https://www.atomicheritage.org/profile/john-derry)[,](https://www.atomicheritage.org/profile/john-derry) serving as acting general manager of the Atomic Energy Commission, proposes a set of guidelines that restate the proposition that secrecy can be based on reasons other than national security. The definition of Confidential that he proposes goes beyond the Army and Manhattan Project rules: “CONFIDENTIAL: Documents, information or material, the unauthorized disclosure of which, while not endangering the National security, would be prejudicial to the interests or prestige of the Nation or any Governmental activity, or individual, or would cause administrative embarrassment, or be of advantage to a foreign nation shall be classified CONFIDENTIAL.” The Derry memo calls for review by a classification board assembled from the AEC’s regional sites. In September, this board assembles in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The available documentation does not show that Derry’s proposed rules go into effect, but it does show that the Classification Board blesses the illustrations of matter that “should be graded” Secret or Confidential. The former category includes “certain selected human administration experiments performed under MED \[Manhattan Engineer District\].” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** US Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, “Final Report,” October 1995, [chapter 13](https://biotech.law.lsu.edu/research/reports/ACHRE/chap13%5F3.html) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1117 ### Event 6222 (86146A71) **Date:** 8/10/1947? **Time:** 00:00 **Location:** NEAR FORREST, MBA **Description:** 7 / car. 8M domed metallic saucer follows car. Hovers / power lines. Blinks out. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 607) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1220 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "433", **HatchDesc:** "nr FORREST,MBa:7/CAR:8M DOMED MTLC SCR FOLOS CAR:HVRS/POWER LINES:BLINKS OUT", **LatLong:** "49.916669 -99.950005", **LatLongDMS:** "49:55:00 N 99:57:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.916669,-99.950005)", **State/Prov:** "Manitoba", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6223 (DB1820F8) **Date:** 8/10/1947 **Description:** An eight meter diameter domed metallic disc followed a car near Forrest Station, Manitoba, Canada on this day. It hovered over some power lines, then blinked out. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 113; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1947 (volume 6), p. 7 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4816 ### Event 6224 (8FEBFA18) **Date:** 8/11/1947 **Time:** 11:00? **Location:** ST. LOUIS, MO **Description:** 50+aero-types / ballgame. 9 saucers / vertical V formation / 25K' altitude. Going quickly north / 1000mph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 59) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1221 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "137", **HatchDesc:** "ST LOUIS,MO:50+AERO-TYPES/BALLGAME:9 SCRS/VERTICAL VFORM/25K'alt:>>N/1000mph", **LatLong:** "38.633335 -90.183338", **LatLongDMS:** "38:38:00 N 90:11:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.633335,-90.183338)", **RelAlt:** "7500", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6225 (31551461) **Date:** 8/12/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Las Vegas \(Nevada\), a round orange object descended twice to the tops of trees. (August 12) **Reference:** [Hynek](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/HynekJosephAllen.html), 1979 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_687 ### Event 6226 (327E6014) **Date:** 8/12/1947 **Location:** Boise, ID **Description:** **SHANGLES' PHOTO SHOWS LITTLE.** Charles Shangle - likely Charles W. Shangle Jr. - was watching the sky when he saw a luminous object traveling slowly through the air at great height. He photographed it. It is visible in the upper left-hand corner of the photo as a faint gray dot surrounded by a slight halo effect. The reproduction is poor, showing almost nothing but the truck in the foreground. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256) **Source:** Scully, **ID:** Scully_9 ### Event 6227 (3C284B3A) **Date:** 8/13/1947 **Location:** USA, Twin Falls (Idaho) **Description:** (Translated from French) A.C. Urie and his two sons saw, around 1 o'clock, in the Snake River Gorge, an object of lenticular shape, pale blue, with a bright red incandescent flange along the top leaving behind it like a red exhaust flame. The object descended to 90 m in the deep gorge of 120 m at that place. It disappeared behind a tree. The closest sound heard was a "ch-ch-ch". Dimensions: 6 m high, 3 m wide and 3 m high, resembling an upside-down pie plate. All witnesses were extensively questioned by the FBI. (August 13, 1947) **Reference:** doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee translated by Jean Sider **Reference:** Henry DURRANT: "The Black Book of UFOs" - Laffont 1970 - p.94 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1305 ### Event 6228 (5D839DE5) **Date:** 8/13/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) L. W. Hawkins observed 2 discs reflecting light and moving at very high altitude over Salmon Dam, Twin Falls \(Idaho\). (9:30) **Reference:** [Hynek](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/HynekJosephAllen.html) 1979 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_688 ### Event 6229 (EDC1045A) **Date:** 8/13/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In the Snake \(Smoke?\) River canyon, Twin Falls \(Idaho\), A. C. Urie and his two sons observed at a distance of 90 m a saucer-shaped object overturned at 25 m altitude moving at about 1600 km/h. The object was pale blue, had a flattened red rim at the top of the dome, measured 6 m in diameter and 3.5 m in thickness. It followed a trajectory that followed the terrain, shaking the tops of the trees strongly. (1 pm) **Reference:** [Hynek](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/HynekJosephAllen.html) 1979 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_689 ### Event 6230 (31A34F38) **Date:** 8/13/1947 **Time:** 09:00 **Location:** REDMOND, WA **Description:** Observer(s) = Brummond and Decker. 2 bright objects. Very fast. Seen 8 second(s). No further details. / FBI. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 121) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1222 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "9", **HatchDesc:** "REDMOND,WA:OBS=BRUMMOND+DECKER:2 BRIGHT OBJS:VFAST:SEEN 8sec:NFD:/FBI", **LatLong:** "47.666669 -122.133339", **LatLongDMS:** "47:40:00 N 122:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.666669,-122.133339)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 6231 (649713A5) **Date:** 8/13/1947 **Time:** 09:30 **Location:** SALMON DAM, ID **Description:** County officials. 2 saucers very high. Roaring noise. / FBI. / r50p35. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 121) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1223 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1495", **HatchDesc:** "SALMON DAM,ID:COUNTY OFFICIALS:2 SCRS VHIGH:ROARING NOISE:/FBI:/r50p35", **LatLong:** "42.227780 -114.416672", **LatLongDMS:** "42:13:40 N 114:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.227780,-114.416672)", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 6232 (2F9FD971) **Date:** 8/13/1947? **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** COFFEYVILLE, KS **Description:** Many / Navy air-show. 60M disk going quickly east extremely fast. Definite clockwise spin. No trail. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 114) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1224 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "230", **HatchDesc:** "COFFEYVILLE,KS:MANY/NAVY AIR-SHOW:60M DISK >>E XFAST:DEFINITE CW SPIN:no trail", **LatLong:** "37.038891 -95.616671", **LatLongDMS:** "37:02:20 N 95:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.038891,-95.616671)", **State/Prov:** "Kansas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6233 (C0AF7429) **Date:** 8/13/1947 **Time:** 13:00 **Location:** AUGER FALLS, ID **Description:** 3 observer(s). Sky blue 7M saucer / 1000mph east going quickly west / Snake River Canyon. Trees twist. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT; Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 34) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1225 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1100", **HatchDesc:** "AUGER FALLS,ID:3 OBS:SKY BLU 7M SCR/1000mph E>>W/SNAKE RVR CANYON:TREES TWIST", **LatLong:** "42.661113 -114.538894", **LatLongDMS:** "42:39:40 N 114:32:20 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.661113,-114.538894)", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 6234 (4C00F621) **Date:** 8/13/1947 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** VICTORIA, BC **Description:** Several 30cm disks hover 100M over house. Dart away very fast. / Daily Times. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 617) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1226 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "VICTORIA,BC:SVRL 30cm DISKS HVR 100M ovr HOUSE:DART AWAY VFAST:/Daily Times", **LatLong:** "48.466669 -123.416673", **LatLongDMS:** "48:28:00 N 123:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.466669,-123.416673)", **RelAlt:** "100", **State/Prov:** "British Columbia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6235 (9ECA9599) **Date:** 8/13/1947 **Location:** Twin Falls, ID **Description:** Two Discs 6' In Diameter Near Dam (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [470813](http://www.nicap.org/470813twinfalls%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_387 ### Event 6236 (8F821028) **Date:** 8/13/1947 **Location:** Snake River, ID **Description:** Snake River Case (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, Code: C, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [470813](http://www.nicap.org/470813snakeriver%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_388 ### Event 6237 (105B3B33) **Date:** 8/13/1947 **Time:** 1300 **Location:** Twin Falls, Smoke River Canyon, Idaho **Description:** Two boys and their father saw a sky-blue object 100 m away and 25 m above ground. Treetops under it were spinning wildly, although the object itself did not spin. It made a swishing sound. Shape: inverted plate, 7 m diameter and 3.5 m thick. There was a red flame on one side of the top. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_62 ### Event 6238 (99C24BA4) **Date:** 8/13/1947 **Locations:** Snake River Canyon; Blue Lakes Ranch; Twin Falls, Idaho **Description:** 1:00 p.m. [Albert Clarence Urie](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5096687/albert-clarence-urie) and his two sons [Billy](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5096696/william-thomas-urie) and Kenneth see a straw hat–shaped, sky-blue object about 10 wide, 10 feet high, and 20 feet long. It has “pods” on the side emitting flames and is flying along the Snake River Canyon six miles west of Blue Lakes Ranch near Twin Falls, Idaho. The UFO is moving up and down towards them at 1,000 mph and an altitude of 75 feet about 1/2 mile away. Urie is about 300 feet from the object, which is about level with him and silhouetted against the canyon wall. It disappears behind a hill about one mile away. [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) for Project Blue Book, later identifies it as an “atmospheric eddy.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Flying Saucer Reported](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/72830786/the-times-news/) [Flashing Down Canyon at 1,000 Miles Per Hour;](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/72830786/the-times-news/) [Two Others Seen,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/72831209/the-times-news/)” Twin Falls \(Idaho\) Times-News, August 15, 1947, pp. 1, 8; NICAP, “[Snake River Case](http://www.nicap.org/470813snakeriver%5Fdir.htm)”; Hynek UFO Report, [p. 34](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/34/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 26; Story, [pp. 337–338](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/336/mode/2up); Patrick Gross, “[Snake River, August 13, 1947](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/snakeriver1947.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1118 ### Event 6239 (88283FA9) **Date:** 8/13/1947 **Locations:** San Francisco; Washington; US; Kremlin **Description:** The San Francisco Examiner’s Washington Bureau hears a rumor from a US intelligence source that Soviet agents have been ordered to solve the mystery of flying saucers. It reports that the Kremlin believes that the discs are connected with Army experiments in anti-radar weaponry. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** San Francisco \(Calif.\) Examiner, August 14, 1947, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1119 ### Event 6240 (18D0F82F) **Date:** 8/13/1947 **Description:** Mr. A. C. Urie and his two sons were fishing in the Snake River Canyon near Twin Falls, Idaho at about one p.m. when they saw a sky blue, seven-meter wide inverted plate-shaped flying object 100 meters away and 25 meters above the ground. Treetops under it were spinning wildly, although the object itself did not appear to spin. It made a swishing sound. There was a red flame visible on one side of the top. According to the FBI investigative report of this case, at about 1:00 p.m. Mr. Urie "sent his boys to the (Salmon) river to get some rope from his boat. When he thought they were overdue he went outside to his tool shed to look for them. He noticed them about 300 feet away looking in the sky and he glanced up to see what he called the flying disc. This strange object was flying at high speed along the canyon which is about 400 feet deep and 1,200 feet across at that point. It was about seventy-five feet above the floor of the canyon (and so more than 300 feet below the edge of the canyon) and moving up and down as it flew. It seemed to be following the contours of the hilly ground beneath it. Urie, who said he was at about the same level as the UFO, so that he had a side view, estimated it was about twenty feet long, ten feet wide and ten feet high, with what appeared to be exhaust ports on the sides. It was almost hat shaped with a flat bottom and a dome on top.

Its pale blue color made Urie think that it would be very difficult to see against the sky, although he had no trouble seeing it silhouetted against the opposite wall of the canyon. On each side there was a tubular shaped fiery glow, like some sort of exhaust. He said that when it went over trees they didn't sway back and forth, but rather the treetops twisted around, which suggests that the air under the object was being swirled into a vortex. He and his sons had an excellent view of the object for a few seconds before it disappeared over the trees about a mile away. He thought it was going 1,000 miles an hour. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** NICAP UFO Investigator, February 1978, p. 4; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 192 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4960 ### Event 6241 (9A8FA6AB) **Date:** 8/14/1947 **Location:** ITALY, Raveo (Villa Santina) (Frioul) **Description:** (Translated from French) Professor R. L. Johannis, a painter and geologist (but also author of science fiction books: 15 or 16 titles in the collection "I Romanzi di Urania" by Mondadori in Milan - cfr Charles BOWEN: "In Search of the Humanoids" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 228 - for the Italian CISU group: he is only a painter and science fiction author, and Johannis is the pseudonym of Lugi Rapuzzi) on an excursion in the Italian Alps, discovered around 9 o'clock in the morning, while going up the Chiarso stream, a lenticular disc about 10 m wide and two "boys" 50 m away from him. He called them by showing the disc and heading towards them. Halfway there he stopped, stunned, noticing that the boys were 90 cm tall dwarves who were taking a few steps towards him. Big head, no hair, no eyebrows, greenish face, straight nose, widely split mouth, somewhat fish-like. The skin around the huge, round and prominent yellow-green eyes formed rings rather than eyelids. The excited professor started shouting at them, asking who they were and where they were from, while gesturing with his ice axe. One of the two dwarves put his hand to his belt from which then came a very short beam. The professor found himself on the ground and the ice axe flew towards the dwarves who took it away. The witness felt a violent electric shock. The disc rose into the air and a cascade of stones and earth came down from the place where it had been stationed.(Michel BOUGARD: "Des S.V. aux OVNI" - SOBEPS 1976 - p. 216)

While he was lying on the ground, the two dwarves advanced and stopped 2 meters away from Johannis. He managed to turn and lie on his side. He saw one of the adversaries bend down and pick up the ice axe which was bigger than him. At that moment he could clearly see the green hand taking the object. It had eight fingers of which four were rigid, without joints. It was not really a hand but rather a kind of claw. He also noticed that the breathing of the two beings was oppressed. (A. RIBERA: "Ces mystérieux ovni" - de Vecchi 1976, p. 252, 253) (The CISU group - which also assumes that it is a hoax - gives the following details: the saucer was very shiny as if varnished and of a beautiful red color with a pinkish transverse slit, in the center there was a dome topped with a telescopic antenna. He saw two beings and thought they were small shepherds, before seeing their way of walking in small steps. They had a big head covered with a kind of brown helmet, their eyes were huge and protuberant, the pupil of yellow color crossed by a vertical line and surrounded by a dark iris. They wore a dark blue tights. To the question of what they were doing there, one of the beings manipulated a small box at his belt from which a light smoke came out. Johannis found himself on the ground and one of the beings took his ice axe. They returned to their craft which first rose vertically, then inclined a bit, and left at an enormous speed. At their departure Johannis noted the loss of his ice axe and various aluminum elements of his equipment. Johannis would have made a report of this adventure in 1964, for the Clypeus group. [note from vog: as he was an author of science fiction...] **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1306 ### Event 6242 (4CF953D7) **Date:** 8/14/1947 **Location:** JAPAN, Guam Island **Description:** (Translated from French) At 10:40 a.m. soldiers saw a crescent-shaped UFO, quickly zigzagging twice during the same hour. (doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee translated by Jean Sider) Around the same time American planes were pursued by glowing balls. Once, one of them penetrated into a bomber, passing through the walls of the cabin and exiting in the same way, terrifying the astonished crew. **Reference:** Antonio RIBERA: "Procès aux Ovni" - DE VECCHI 1977, p. 34 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1307 ### Event 6243 (E4451620) **Date:** 8/14/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) p.126. (August 14) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_690 ### Event 6244 (CE5F3041) **Date:** 8/14/1947 **Location:** Guam U.S. **Description:** Personnel see small, fast zig-zagging crescent-shaped object. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973_, by Richard Dolan](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/mode/2up) **Source:** Dolan, **ID:** Dolan_26 ### Event 6245 (EFC60AA0) **Date:** 8/14/1947 **Time:** 09:10 **Location:** NEAR RAVEO, ITL **Description:** 10M domed saucer. Observer(s) faints. Small humanoids (or Greys) take observer(s) rock-pick. Missing time. / r39p30. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BOWEN, Charles (ed.) The HUMANOIDS: HB Henry Regnery, Chicago 1969. 256pp. PB 1977 Futura, London (Index 188) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1227 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **MST:** Missing time or time anomaly, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "35", **HatchDesc:** "nr RAVEO,ITL:10M DOMED SCR:OBS FAINTS:OIDS TAKE OBS ROCK-PICK:MST:/r39p30", **LatLong:** "46.288891 12.877778", **LatLongDMS:** "46:17:20 N 12:52:40 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.288891,12.877778)", **State/Prov:** "UD", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 6246 (58D12149) **Date:** 8/14/1947 **Time:** 10:40 **Location:** GUAM **Description:** Enlisted men. Several crescents zigzag / twice plane-speed. / FBI files / APRO. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 121) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1228 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "GUAM:ENLISTED MEN:SVRL CRESCENTS ZIGZAG/TWICE PLANE-SPEED:/FBI FILES/APRO", **LatLong:** "14.433334 144.750007", **LatLongDMS:** "14:26:00 N 144:45:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/14.433334,144.750007)", **State/Prov:** "GUA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6247 (E213A979) **Date:** 8/14/1947 **Location:** Harmon Field, Newfoundland, CAN **Description:** 2 small crescent-shaped objects pass over them on a zigzag path (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_389 ### Event 6248 (76623226) **Date:** 8/14/1947 **Location:** Friuli, Italy **Description:** Professor Encounters "Lens" & Creatures (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases, Code: En, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [470814](http://www.nicap.org/470814friuli%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_390 ### Event 6249 (BC689538) **Date:** 8/14/1947 **Location:** Placerville, CA **Description:** Metallic highly polished chromium surface obj 4-6 ft wide(McDonald list; FOIA; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [470814](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/placerville470814dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_391 ### Event 6250 (47FA2496) **Date:** 8/14/1947 **Time:** 0900 **Location:** Raveo, Italy **Description:** R. L. Johannis saw a disk on the ground and two dwarfs less than 1 m tall, wearing dark blue coveralls with red collars and belts. They had oversized heads, greenish faces, huge, salient dark eyes without eyelashes or eyebrows, but surrounded by a ringlike muscle. They wore something similar to crash helmets. The center of their belts projected a "vapor," and the witness suffocated, feeling a strong electrical discharge. The creature had greenish hands with eight talonlike fingers. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Humanoids 2; Magonia; FRS 67, 1 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_63 ### Event 6251 (35A5C400) **Date:** 8/14/1947 **Description:** The first Gallup poll on UFOs shows that 90% of Americans have heard of flying saucers; 33% don’t know what they are, 39% consider them hoaxes or misidentifications, 16% consider them US or Russian secret weapons. The ETH is not mentioned. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Project 1947, “[August 1947 Gallup Poll](http://www.project1947.com/fig/gallup.htm)”; Robert J. Durant, “Evolution of Public Opinion on UFOs,” IUR 18, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1993\): 9–10 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1120 ### Event 6252 (DABA15CD) **Date:** 8/14/1947 **Location:** Torrente Chiarzò near Raveo, Udine, Italy **Description:** Shortly after 9:00 a.m. Italian artist and author [Luigi Rapuzzi](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.%5FR.%5FJohannis) \(who uses the pseudonym L. R. Johannis\) is hiking along the left bank of the Torrente Chiarzò near Raveo, Udine, Italy, when he sees a vivid red, metallic, domed disc on the riverbank about 165 feet ahead. It is about 33 feet wide and embedded in a cleft in the rock about 20 feet above thqwe stream. Looking around, he sees two “boys” on the edge of a grove of trees. He shouts at them and points to the object, walking toward them, but notices they are actually odd-looking dwarfs who are approaching him stiffly. They are about 3 feet tall and wearing dark blue coveralls with red collars, cuffs, and belts. Their greenish heads are covered in tight-fitting, brownish caps. He looks at them in astonishment for 2–3 minutes, then waves his geologist’s pick at them and asks where they come from. One of the entities raises its right hand to its belt, which emits a puff of smoke that knocks Rapuzzi to the ground as if from an electric shock. As he is lying there, one of them grabs his pick and he notices its green hand has 8 claws. They climb up the rock and into the disc, which soon shoots straight out and into the air, hovering briefly at an angle, then vanishes. Rapuzzi feels a blast of wind that blows him across the ground. His pick is missing. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Professor](http://www.nicap.org/470814friuli%5Fdir.htm) [Encounters ‘Lens’ and Creatures](http://www.nicap.org/470814friuli%5Fdir.htm)”; “[The Villa Santina Case,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-SI%201966%20N%201%2CThe%20Humanoids.pdf)” in Charles Bowen, ed., The Humanoids, special issue of FSR, Oct./Dec. 1966, p. 2; 1Pinotti 19–30 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1121 ### Event 6253 (5CEB6866) **Date:** 8/14/1947 **Location:** Harmon Field, Guam **Description:** 10:40 a.m. Three men of the 147th Airways and Air Communications Service Squadron at Harmon Field, Guam, see two small crescent-shaped objects zigzagging at 1,200 feet. They disappear in the clouds and another object emerges and proceeds west. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lt. Col. Donald L. Springer, “[Flying Disc,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/guam47.htm)” August 27, 1947; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 26 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1122 ### Event 6254 (8451BAA2) **Date:** 8/14/1947 **Description:** The FBI concludes that the plane carrying [Davidson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43927275/william-lee-davidson) and [Brown](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65326329/frank-mercer-brown) was not sabotaged, nor was it carrying actual flying disc parts. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Memo for FBI Director from Mr. D. M. Ladd, August 14, 1947 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1123 ### Event 6255 (53291638) **Date:** 8/14/1947 **Description:** According to files released by the FBI through FOIA requests in the 1970s, at 10:40 a.m. at least two crescent-shaped objects zig-zagged past a military aircraft twice while the plane was flying near Guam over the Pacific Ocean. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** APRO Bulletin, December 1977; NICAP UFO Investigator, February 1978, p. 4 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4997 ### Event 6256 (45331514) **Date:** 8/14/1947 **Description:** At around nine o'clock in the morning R. L. Johannis of Raveo, Italy saw a 10 meter wide, red domed, disc-shaped object with an antenna on top, on the ground across an ice field. There were two dwarfs less than three feet tall near the craft, wearing dark blue coveralls with red collars and belts. They had oversized heads and greenish toned faces. Their eyes were huge, without eyelashes or eyebrows but surrounded by some kind of ring-like muscle. The beings had greenish hands with eight talon-like fingers. They wore something similar to crash helmets. When he waved his ice axe at them in a friendly gesture, one of the beings discharged a thin puff of smoke or "vapor" at him which knocked him down, and the witness started to suffocate, feeling at the same time a strong electrical discharge. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Solas Boncompagni, UFO in Italia, Volume I, (Periodo 1907-1953), p. 82; Gordon Creighton, Flying Saucer Review, January-February 1967, p. 3; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 192 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4998 ### Event 6257 (F36A4F99) **Date:** 8/15/1947 **Location:** USA, Rapid City AFB, Weaver **Description:** (Translated from French) Major Smith reported that shortly before nightfall, while sitting in the parking lot near the restricted area gates, he saw about 12 flying objects in a tight diamond formation. Coming from the northwest they were descending slowly. At about 150m altitude, they leveled off, made a wide 110° right turn and resumed an ascending course towards the southwest. They rose with a rapid acceleration and seemed to be moving between 500 and 650 km/h. Seen in a horizontal plane they had an elliptical shape and the size of a B.29. No sound or condensation trail. (1947, between August 15th and 20th) **Reference:** J. Allen HYNEK: "The UFO Report" - Belfond 1979, p. 40, 41 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1309 ### Event 6258 (797AEDEA) **Date:** 8/15/1947 **End date:** 8/20/1947 **Location:** Rapid City AFB, SD **Description:** 12 B-29-Sized Elliptical Objects Seen (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [470815-20](http://www.nicap.org/470815rapidcity%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_392 ### Event 6259 (A27E1BE4) **Date:** 8/15/1947 **Location:** San Francisco **Description:** In response to the August 13 San Francisco Examiner report, FBI Director [J. Edgar Hoover](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FEdgar%5FHoover) asks the agency to look into whether Soviet spies are looking into whether the flying discs are a secret US technology. Assistant Director of the Domestic Intelligence Division [D. Milton](https://bhunt34.wordpress.com/2015/12/30/acme-press-photos/) [“Mickey” Ladd](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Ladd.htm) at FBI headquarters assures FBI Deputy Director [Edward Allen Tamm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FAllen%5FTamm) that he is unaware of any such effort. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Memo](https://archive.org/details/a2019795%5Fmvrht%5FUfo/page/n221/mode/2up) to Assistant FBI Director E. A. Tamm from Agent D. M. Ladd, August 15, 1947 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1124 ### Event 6260 (B57A7E27) **Date:** 8/15/1947? **Locations:** Rapid City Army Air Base; Ellsworth AFB; Box Elder, South Dakota **Description:** 9:30 p.m. Maj. [Elmer H. Hammer](https://airforce.togetherweserved.com/usaf/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApp?cmd=ShadowBoxProfile&type=PersonAircraftExt&ID=108161) of the 28th Bombardment Wing at Rapid City Army Air Base \[now Ellsworth AFB\] near Box Elder, South Dakota, sees 12 objects flying at 6,000–10,000 feet in a tight diamond formation at 300–400 mph. The objects level off at approximately 5,000 feet and make a gentle large-radius turn of about 110° to the right about 4 miles away. They start climbing at an angle of 30–40° and appear to accelerate rapidly in the climb. The objects are approximately 100 feet long and have a brilliant yellow-white luminous glow. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[12 B-29-Sized Elliptical Objects Seen](http://www.nicap.org/470815rapidcity%5Fdir.htm)”; Hynek UFO Report, [p. 40](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/40/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 26 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1125 ### Event 6261 (DA4F4907) **Date:** 8/16/1947 **Location:** TIMMINS, ONT **Description:** Globe of purplish light seen. Car stalls passing. No further details. / M. Persinger. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 116) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1229 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "315", **HatchDesc:** "TIMMINS,ONT:GLOBE of PURPLISH LITE SEEN:CAR STALLS PASSING:NFD:/M.PERSINGER", **LatLong:** "48.400002 -81.366671", **LatLongDMS:** "48:24:00 N 81:22:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.400002,-81.366671)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6262 (AA631298) **Date:** 8/16/1947 **Description:** At 9:00 p.m. a globe of purplish light was seen in Timmins, Ontario, causing a car to stall. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 116; Michael Persinger, Space-Time Transients and Unusual Events, p. 59 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5070 ### Event 6263 (4F0FD653) **Date:** 8/17/1947 **Location:** CROW LAKE, ONT **Description:** Saucers circle small lake in town. Photographs. Car malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects) / fireball passes / r171. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HUNT, Gerry: BIZARRE AMERICA; Berkley Books, NY. PB 1988. [ inexpensive ] (Index 62) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1230 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "328", **HatchDesc:** "CROW LAKE,ONT:SCRs CIRCLE SML LAKE IN TOWN:FOTOS::CAR EMEs/FBL PASSES/r171", **LatLong:** "49.183336 -93.955560", **LatLongDMS:** "49:11:00 N 93:57:20 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.183336,-93.955560)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6264 (32189893) **Date:** 8/17/1947 **Location:** MT. JOSEPHINE, WA **Description:** Ranger lookout. Clam-shape going down. Tips. Levels. Hovers. Going quickly southeast. / r171 / r131p16. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 336) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1231 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1200", **HatchDesc:** "Mt.JOSEPHINE,WA:RANGER LOOKOUT:CLAM-SHAPE↓:TIPS:LEVELS:HVRS:>>SE:/r171/r131p16", **LatLong:** "48.500002 -121.166672", **LatLongDMS:** "48:30:00 N 121:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.500002,-121.166672)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6265 (9D9F9E93) **Date:** 8/17/1947 **Time:** ~21:00 **Location:** RAPID CITY, SD **Description:** 12 100' saucers / diamond formation. 350 mph and climb going quickly southwest. Birds / Blue Book. / r131#6p21. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT; Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 40) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1232 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "975", **HatchDesc:** "RAPID CITY,SD:12 100'SCRS/DIAMOND FRMN:350 mph+CLIMB >>SW:BIRDS/BBK:/r131#6p21", **LatLong:** "44.083335 -103.216672", **LatLongDMS:** "44:05:00 N 103:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.083335,-103.216672)", **State/Prov:** "South Dakota", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 6266 (159FE8F5) **Date:** 8/17/1947 **Location:** Mt. Josephine, Skagit County, Washington **Description:** A forest ranger at a fire lookout tower on Mt. Josephine, Skagit County, Washington, observes an object shaped like a huge clam that appears to fall tipped at an angle northeast of the fire tower. It slows to a stop, levels off, and floats “leisurely as if suspended by a cord” for a few minutes and finally moves off to the southeast with ever increasing speed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume 1, 1947,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Revision.pdf) The Author, February 1991, p. 61 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1126 ### Event 6267 (7DE078C7) **Date:** 8/18/1947 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** NEAR MOUNTAIN HOME, ID **Description:** Pilots / United Airlines (UAL) flight 147. 2 skeet-saucers going [to] under airliner / 1500kph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 623) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1233 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "960", **HatchDesc:** "nr MOUNTAIN HOME,ID:PILOTS/UAL FLT 147:2 SKEET-SCRS >UNDER AIRLINER/1500kph", **LatLong:** "43.166669 -115.666672", **LatLongDMS:** "43:10:00 N 115:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.166669,-115.666672)", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6268 (FDA57610) **Date:** 8/18/1947 **Time:** 20:20 **Location:** SORRENTO, LA **Description:** 78 silent glowing 'torpedos' going [to] low over trees and roads. Photographs taken. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 73) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1234 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "40", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "SORRENTO,LA:78 SLNT GLOWING 'TORPEDOS' > LOW OVR TREES+ROADS:FOTOS TAKEN:NFD", **LatLong:** "30.183335 -90.861115", **LatLongDMS:** "30:11:00 N 90:51:40 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.183335,-90.861115)", **RelAlt:** "20", **State/Prov:** "Louisiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6269 (A4EA53E6) **Date:** 8/18/1947 **Location:** Mountain Home (near), ID **Description:** 2 "skeet target" shaped objects flying under the plane (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_393 ### Event 6270 (F188C9AB) **Date:** 8/18/1947 **Description:** Two silver round flat disc-shaped objects, described as looking like "skeet targets", passed beneath a United Airlines transport plane flying at 8,000 feet near Mountain Home Army Air Base, Idaho at around noon. The objects flew off to the south, at a speed estimated at 900 miles per hour. There were two witnesses on board the aircraft. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Boise (Idaho) Statesman, August 20, 1947; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 10; Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 Research Notes from Bordentown, New Jersey talk, April 16, 2005 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5117 ### Event 6271 (58518856) **Date:** 8/18/1947 **Description:** At 8:15 p.m. in Sorrento, Louisiana a photograph was taken by a Mr. Hofard of at least 78 torpedo-shaped UFOs, glowing brightly and moving silently low over the trees. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 73 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5118 ### Event 6272 (38D0F790) **Date:** 8/19/1947 **Location:** USA, Twin Falls (Idaho) **Description:** (Translated from French) Mr. and Mrs. Busby, as well as Mrs. Henry Swift, were sitting on the porch of their house around 9:30 pm when suddenly Mrs. Busby cried out, pointing to the sky where she had seen an object fly off to the northeast at an incredible speed. Ten minutes later, the three witnesses saw similar objects, moving in the same direction in a triangular formation. Just as the formation disappeared, three objects detached from its left flank and flew off to the north. The others seemed to tighten their ranks and continued to the northeast. Three to five minutes later they saw three more objects in the same direction, and five minutes after that, five to six objects, still in a triangular formation. Very shortly after, a group of 35 to 40 objects were flying in the same direction in a triangular formation. Twenty minutes later, objects grouped in threes were returning to the city to the southeast. Inspector Frazier of the police arrived with two officers, following Mrs. Busby's call, and they too observed these objects. **Reference:** J. Allen HYNEK: "New Report on UFOs" - Belfond 1979, p. 39, 40 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1308 ### Event 6273 (C3BEB313) **Date:** 8/19/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Twin Falls \(Idaho\), for 50 minutes, multiple sightings of UFO's in triangular formations of 3 to 12 crafts were observed by 5 witnesses, including 2 police officers. (August 19, 9:30 PM) **Reference:** Hynek 1979 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_691 ### Event 6274 (B16DF047) **Date:** 8/19/1947 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** TWIN FALLS, ID **Description:** 5 observer(s). Several groups / 1 to 35 saucers pass / formation. Going quickly northeast or southwest / 5 minute(s) intervals. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT; Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 39) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1235 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "1137", **HatchDesc:** "TWIN FALLS,ID:5 OBS:SVRL GRPS/1 to 35 SCRS PASS/FRMN:>>NE or SW/5min INTERVALS", **LatLong:** "42.550002 -114.450005", **LatLongDMS:** "42:33:00 N 114:27:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.550002,-114.450005)", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6275 (5FA0DE78) **Date:** 8/19/1947 **Location:** Twin Falls, ID **Description:** 55 \[?\] \[luminous?\] objects in horizontal flight looking like electric lights (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [470819](http://www.nicap.org/tfalls470819dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_395 ### Event 6276 (5E52E543) **Date:** 8/19/1947 **Description:** FBI memo to [D. M. Ladd](https://bhunt34.wordpress.com/2015/12/30/acme-press-photos/) from E. G. Fitch on “Flying Discs” mentions SAC Reynolds’s conversation with Lt. Col. [George Garrett](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33467541/george-duncan-garrett)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33467541/george-duncan-garrett) who strongly suspects the Army or Navy is testing some new technology, condluding that “there were objects seen which somebody in the Government knows all about.” However Gen. [Stephen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%5FJ.%5FChamberlin) [Chamberlin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%5FJ.%5FChamberlin) and the War Department claim to have no involvement. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Memorandum from E. G. Fitch, “[Flying](http://www.nicap.org/docs/fbi%5F081947doc.pdf) [Discs,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/fbi%5F081947doc.pdf)” August 19, 1947 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1127 ### Event 6277 (77D6EACF) **Date:** 8/19/1947 **Location:** Twin Falls, Idaho **Description:** 9:30 p.m. H. H. Hedstrom \(executive director of the Twin Falls Housing Authority\) and three policemen \(Richard A. Frazier, H. E. Roundtree, and Richard Scott\) in Twin Falls, Idaho, see a formation of 12 objects flying in diamond formation at terrific speed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[August 19, 1947, Twin Falls, Idaho](http://www.nicap.org/tfalls470819dir.htm)”; Hynek UFO Report, [p. 39](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/38/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 26 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1128 ### Event 6278 (1CC9ECDA) **Date:** 8/19/1947 **Description:** USAF Lt. Col. George Garrett tells FBI SAC S.W. Reynolds that he suspects the Navy or Army is testing new technology and some of it is responsible for the flying saucers and other UAP seen. * [https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2012/04/ufos-and-secret-experiments/](https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2012/04/ufos-and-secret-experiments/) * [https://web.archive.org/web/20120410222842/https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2012/04/ufos-and-secret-experiments/](https://web.archive.org/web/20120410222842/https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2012/04/ufos-and-secret-experiments/) **Reference:** [Anonymous 2023 PDF](https://archive.org/details/anon_pdf_from_markdown) **Source:** Anon2023PDF, **ID:** Anon2023PDF_5 ### Event 6279 (2BB7D386) **Date:** 8/19/1947 **Description:** Gen. Stephen Chamberlin and the War Department, however, claim to have no knowledge of USG or USG contractor programs responsible for the UAP. * [https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2012/04/ufos-and-secret-experiments/](https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2012/04/ufos-and-secret-experiments/) * [https://web.archive.org/web/20120410222842/https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2012/04/ufos-and-secret-experiments/](https://web.archive.org/web/20120410222842/https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2012/04/ufos-and-secret-experiments/) **Reference:** [Anonymous 2023 PDF](https://archive.org/details/anon_pdf_from_markdown) **Source:** Anon2023PDF, **ID:** Anon2023PDF_6 ### Event 6280 (D8ED166F) **Date:** 8/20/1947 **Description:** An Anglo-American intelligence team releases a report on secret German weapons. Foo fighters are said to be caused by a rocket-propelled plane launched straight up from the ground, intercepting Allied bomber formations by firing a spray of rocket shells from the nose. The pilot then parachutes back to the ground, a chute opens on the rocket, and it is recovered for re-use. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** New London \(Conn.\) Day, August 20, 1947; Jan Aldrich **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1129 ### Event 6281 (E053A343) **Date:** 8/21/1947 **Time:** 08:30 **Location:** CORTES BAY, BC **Description:** Lumbermen. Big roar. 20 disks twist and maneuver going quickly west fast over bay. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 625) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1236 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "CORTES BAY,BC:LUMBERMEN:BIG ROAR:20 DISKS TWIST+MNVR >>W FAST ovr BAY:NFD", **LatLong:** "50.066669 -124.933339", **LatLongDMS:** "50:04:00 N 124:56:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.066669,-124.933339)", **State/Prov:** "British Columbia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6282 (73BFE1DC) **Date:** 8/21/1947 **Time:** 11:00 **Location:** WEST / BASALT, NV **Description:** 4 observer(s). Large disk going south. Flutter motion. Drops and rises over peak. Turns going west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 625) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1237 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1950", **HatchDesc:** "W/BASALT,NV:4 OBS:LRG DISK >S:FLUTTER MOTION:DROPS+RISES OVR PEAK:TURNS >W:", **LatLong:** "38.000002 -118.333339", **LatLongDMS:** "38:00:00 N 118:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.000002,-118.333339)", **State/Prov:** "Nevada", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6283 (1B210D6D) **Date:** 8/21/1947 **Time:** 12:30 **Location:** BRADLEY FIELD, ID **Description:** 2 pilots / ground. 2 silver domed saucers going quickly NNE. 1 / sharp turn going quickly SSE. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 625) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1238 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "800", **HatchDesc:** "BRADLEY FLD,ID:2 PILOTS/GND:2 SLVR DOMED SCRS >> NNE:1/SHARP TURN >>SSE", **LatLong:** "43.644447 -116.266672", **LatLongDMS:** "43:38:40 N 116:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.644447,-116.266672)", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6284 (1585D7A2) **Date:** 8/22/1947 **Time:** 23:00? **Location:** SEMMERING, AUSTRIA **Description:** Astronomers and weathermen. Big bright disk turns going quickly northeast. / Wash.Post. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 118) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1239 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Austria", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "SEMMERING,AUSTRIA:ASTRONOMERS+WEATHERMEN:BIG BRITE DISK TURNS >>NE:/Wash.Post", **LatLong:** "47.633336 15.833334", **LatLongDMS:** "47:38:00 N 15:50:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.633336,15.833334)", **State/Prov:** "STY", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6285 (FAA594F9) **Date:** 8/22/1947 **Description:** Col. [Robert Taylor III](http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/rtaylor3.htm)[,](http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/rtaylor3.htm) Collection Branch of Army Air Force Intelligence, summarizes the findings of Lt. Col. [Garrett](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33467541/george-duncan-garrett)’s investigations of UFOs in a letter to Gen. [Curtis LeMay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis%5FLeMay), Deputy Chief of Air Staff for Research and Development. Taylor requests any information on AAF projects that might give rise to such UFO reports. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 August 1st–December 31st,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Aug-1-Dec-31-SN.pdf) [Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Aug-1-Dec-31-SN.pdf), The Author, 2001, p. 27; Swords 39–40 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1130 ### Event 6286 (DAACB788) **Date:** 8/23/1947 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** LIVINGSTON, MT **Description:** 3 boys. Saucers going quickly north. Railroad/railway men clearly see saucers going quickly south. Smooth and silent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 630) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1240 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "1373", **HatchDesc:** "LIVINGSTON,MT:3 BOYS:SCRS >> N:RR MEN CLEARLY SEE SCRS >>S:SMOOTH+SLNT", **LatLong:** "45.650002 -110.550005", **LatLongDMS:** "45:39:00 N 110:33:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.650002,-110.550005)", **State/Prov:** "Montana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6287 (E5990AB7) **Date:** 8/23/1947 **Description:** Two railway men, J. A. Martin and Kenneth Smith, working near Livingston, Montana saw disc-shaped machines traveling to the south in the sky just before sundown. Their speed was 40-60 mph; they glided smoothly and made no sound. They were plainly visible. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 Research Notes from Bordentown, NJ talk April 16, 2005, p. 25 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5245 ### Event 6288 (0E50C17C) **Date:** 8/24/1947 **Location:** NEAR SNOQUALMIE PASS, WA **Description:** 3 mountain climbers. Semi transparent saucer. Buzzsaw sound. Very fast and near. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 62) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1241 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "900", **HatchDesc:** "nr SNOQUALMIE PASS,WA:3 MTN CLIMBERS:SEMI XPARENT SCR:BUZZSAW SOUND:VFAST+NEAR", **LatLong:** "47.433336 -121.400006", **LatLongDMS:** "47:26:00 N 121:24:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.433336,-121.400006)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 6289 (462CEE66) **Date:** 8/24/1947 **Description:** The name Joint Research and Development Board is changed to simply Research and Development Board. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael Hall and Wendy Connors, “The Research and Development Board: Unanswered Questions,” IUR 26, no. 2 \(Summer 2001\): 8 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1131 ### Event 6290 (FF230C7A) **Date:** 8/24/1947 **Description:** On this day three mountain climbers on Snoqualmie Pass, Washington saw a semi-transparent saucer-shaped object that made a buzzsaw sound. Very fast and near witnesses. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1250, citing Loren Gross, UFOs: A History 1947, p. 62 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5283 ### Event 6291 (F577D980) **Date:** Late 8/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In the evening, 12 ovoid objects the size of a B-29 without wings were observed in a tight diamond formation. They made a descent, stopped at a level, then made a wide turn and finally a rapid ascent at 40°, at a speed of 600 km/h. (Late August) **Reference:** Hynek, 1979 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_692 ### Event 6292 (367E9644) **Date:** Late 8/1947 **Location:** Rapid City AFB, SD **Description:** AF major sees twelve glowing, elliptical silent objects. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973_, by Richard Dolan](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/mode/2up) **Source:** Dolan, **ID:** Dolan_27 ### Event 6293 (9CF70963) **Date:** Late 8/1947 **Location:** Holloman AFB, NM **Description:** Tracked stationary target at 200 miles altitude using a modified CPS-4 radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [4708Late](http://www.nicap.org/4708XXalamogordo%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_396 ### Event 6294 (CF1C452E) **Date:** Late 8/1947 **Location:** Vaughn (near), NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 2: approx 20:00 - Basketball-Sized Object Explodes Near Colonel (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, NC, LC) **Reference:** NICAP: [4708Late](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/vaughn47latedir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_397 ### Event 6295 (E4002732) **Date:** 8/25/1947 **Locations:** Muroc AFB; Edwards AFB; California **Description:** USMC Maj. [Marion Eugene Carl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion%5FEugene%5FCarl) attains a world airspeed record of 651 mph in a Douglas Skystreak at Muroc AFB \[now Edwards AFB\], California. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Marion Eugene Carl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion%5FEugene%5FCarl)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1132 ### Event 6296 (2B5563B3) **Date:** Late 8/1947 **Location:** Garrett Estimate **Description:** Brig. Gen. [George F. Schulgen](http://www.generals.dk/general/Schulgen/George%5FFrancis/USA.html) passes the updated Garrett Estimate on to Air Materiel Command head Gen. [Nathan Twining](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%5FFarragut%5FTwining) with a request for a statement on the discs so an authorized UFO project can be requested. Col. [Howard McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html) asks for a meeting between [Alfred Loedding](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209268646/alfred-christian-loedding) \(aeronautics engineer at T-3\), Lt. Col. [George](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33467541/george-duncan-garrett) [Garrett](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33467541/george-duncan-garrett) \(Collections\), and Charles Carroll \(a math and missiles expert who has been correlating UFO sightings with approaches of planetary bodies\) “in order to set up a system for evaluating the information being received.” These four will later form the core of the ETH-friendly faction at Project Sign. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** RosRept, [p. 13](http://www.cufos.org/books/The%5FRoswell%5FReportR2.pdf); Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 33–35; Letter to T-2 from Executive Air Intelligence Requirement Division, September 3, 1947; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 13; Swords 42, 43 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1135 ### Event 6297 (FA8F887B) **Date:** 8/26/1947 **Time:** 13:20 **Location:** SANTA ROSA, NM **Description:** 4 observer(s) / train depot. 60cm metallic disk going NNW slowly. Balloon? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 118) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1242 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "1402", **HatchDesc:** "SANTA ROSA,NM:4 OBS/TRAIN DEPOT:60cm MTLC DISK >NNW SLOWLY:balloon?", **LatLong:** "34.933335 -104.700005", **LatLongDMS:** "34:56:00 N 104:42:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.933335,-104.700005)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 6298 (905ADADB) **Date:** 8/26/1947 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** NORTHWEST / MEXICO, MO **Description:** 2 experience airmen / BT-13 plane. 3 grey disks going northwest / 9000' altitude. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 631) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1243 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "260", **HatchDesc:** "NW/MEXICO,MO:2 EXPERIENCE AIRMEN/BT-13 PLANE:3 GRY DISKS >NW/9000'alt:NFD", **LatLong:** "39.166669 -91.866671", **LatLongDMS:** "39:10:00 N 91:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.166669,-91.866671)", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6299 (C6AF3FD3) **Date:** 8/26/1947 **Description:** At 12:30 a.m. ten kilometers southwest of Fkenberg, Sweden the pilot and co-pilot of a DC-3 Swedish postal plane saw a UFO that looked like a green parallelogram. They watched it for 8-10 seconds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** K. Gosta Rehn, UFOs Here and Now, p. 62; Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 144 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5351 ### Event 6300 (D72641C8) **Date:** 8/26/1947 **Description:** Late in the day two private pilots flying over Mexico, Missouri sighted three gray discs flying rapidly toward the northwest. They tried to chase them in their plane, but were quickly outdistanced. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, citing the Mexico Weekly Ledger, August 28, 1947; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1256, citing Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1947 (Volume 6), p. 31. **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5352 ### Event 6301 (D1D037A8) **Date:** 8/28/1947 **Location:** Fukuoka, Japan **Description:** Target Tracked In A Climb (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [470828](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/470828japandir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_398 ### Event 6302 (ACC02C95) **Date:** 8/28/1947 **Location:** Shika Island off Fukuoka, Japan **Description:** Microwave Early Warning radar on Shika Island off Fukuoka, Japan, picks up a target moving 450–478 mph at an altitude of 1,500 feet. It changes course, climbs, and is tracked to a distance of 62 miles. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Target Tracked in a Climb](http://www.nicap.org/470828japan%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 27 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1133 ### Event 6303 (BF3497B8) **Date:** 8/28/1947 **Description:** In Fukuoka, Japan at the U.S. Air Force Mew Radar Station there was a target picked up (radar only) in orbit at a range of 26-30 nautical miles and a bearing of 20-30 degrees. The target changed to a heading of 23 degrees and was tracked to a range of 54 nautical miles where it faded. The UFO was climbing on an outbound course. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 Research Notes from Bordentown NJ talk April 16, 2005 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5406 ### Event 6304 (8A14E99E) **Date:** 8/29/1947 **Description:** Gen. [LeMay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis%5FLeMay) answers Col. [Taylor](http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/rtaylor3.htm)’s August 22 request stating that there is no such project as described. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 41 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1134 ### Event 6305 (5952F7A2) **Date:** 9/1947 **Location:** Roswell, New Mexico **Description:** Astronomer [Lincoln LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) arrives in Roswell, New Mexico, and rediscovers the area of blackened ground earlier found by two of [Wilcox](https://www.rdrnews.com/2018/11/12/a-sheriff-without-a-gun-memoirs-of-a-sheriffs-wife/)’s deputies. He speaks to some witnesses and determines there might have been more than one object. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1136 ### Event 6306 (6657B821) **Date:** 9/1947 **Location:** Dayton, OH **Description:** ATIC conclusion that the flying saucers were real. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up) **Source:** HostileFawcett, **ID:** HostileFawcett_6 ### Event 6307 (382DF906) **Date:** 9/2/1947 **Location:** CANADA, Nanaimo, Vancouver **Description:** (Translated from French) Flying saucers caused panic in a pigeon release, driving them, in panic, back to the pigeon loft. Thomas Naylor, well known to pigeon fanciers, reported the news. He swears to have observed, high in the sky, spinning discs in the sky, at the moment he was releasing his Birmingham pigeons. Finally it appeared that there was only one object, but it cut the trajectory of the flight and the pigeons returned precipitously to the pigeon loft, refusing to come out for a certain time. **Reference:** Source: The Vancouver (BC) SUN of 3 Sep 1947: 'Flying Saucers' Stampede Pigeons" cfr: Jan Aldrich **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1312 ### Event 6308 (886DC48C) **Date:** 9/2/1947 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** NANAIMO, BC **Description:** Bird fancier. Aluminum disk scatters pigeons. No further details / 2 news items. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 632) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1244 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "NANAIMO,BC:BIRD FANCIER:ALUM.DISK SCATTERS PIGEONS:NFD/2 news items", **LatLong:** "49.166669 -123.916673", **LatLongDMS:** "49:10:00 N 123:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.166669,-123.916673)", **State/Prov:** "British Columbia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6309 (A9C46FD4) **Date:** 9/3/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Oswego \(Oregon\) Mrs. Raymond Dupui, a stay-at-home mother, sees between 12 and 15 round and silver objects. (September 3, 12:15 PM) **Reference:** case [Blue Book](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/BlueBook.html) \#69 unexplained **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_693 ### Event 6310 (7839F4A3) **Date:** 9/3/1947 **Time:** 12:20 **Location:** LAKE OSWEGO, OR **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #51. 1 observer. 12-15 silver saucers over town. FBI investigation/investigators = brushoff. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 121) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1245 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "LAKE OSWEGO,OR:BBK#51:1 OBS:12-15 SLVR SCRS OVR TOWN:FBI INV=BRUSHOFF", **LatLong:** "45.427780 -122.672228", **LatLongDMS:** "45:25:40 N 122:40:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.427780,-122.672228)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6311 (1455DA4A) **Date:** 9/3/1947 **Location:** Lake Oswego, OR **Description:** Housewife saw 12-15 round, silver objects (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 85) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_399 ### Event 6312 (914FFE4E) **Date:** 9/3/1947 **Time:** 12:15 PM PDT **Location:** Oswego, Oregon **Description:** Witness: housewife Mrs. Raymond Dupui. Watched for unknown length of time as 12-15 round, silver objects flew an unstated pattern. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_7 ### Event 6313 (3D7AC496) **Date:** 9/3/1947 **Locations:** Mitchel Field; Long Island; New York **Description:** A memo from Col. R. H. Smith at Air Defense Command headquarters at Mitchel Field on Long Island, New York, states that the intent of USAF cooperation with the FBI was to “relieve the numbered Air Forces of the task of tracking down all the many instances which turned out to be ash-can covers, toilet seats, and whatnot.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** ClearIntent, [p. 156](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/156/mode/2up); Michael Hesemann and Philip Mantle, Beyond Roswell, Marlowe, 1997, [p. 66](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9781569247815/page/65/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1137 ### Event 6314 (E4865E7C) **Date:** 9/3/1947 **Location:** Desolation Wilderness area west of Lake Tahoe, California **Description:** Dale Edwards and three friends are camping out in the Desolation Wilderness area west of Lake Tahoe, California, when one of them spots a huge gray UFO accompanied by a rush of warm air. The next day they encounter a circle, 40 feet in diameter, of recently burned grass and skunk cabbage. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “True Mystic Experiences,” Fate 2, no. 3 \(September 1949\): 74–82 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1138 ### Event 6315 (DFF83020) **Date:** 9/5/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) General [Schulgen](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/SchulgenGeorgeF.html) of the [USAF](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/USAF.html) confirms once again to the [FBI](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/FBI.html) that neither the [U.S. Army](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/USArmy.html) nor the [U.S. Navy](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/USNavy.html) have any research projects related to aircraft construction that could be related to flying saucers. (September 5) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_694 ### Event 6316 (EE406F16) **Date:** 9/5/1947 **Description:** In response to the Garrett Estimate, Gen. [Curtis LeMay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis%5FLeMay) states in a memo, copied to the FBI, that “a complete survey of research activities discloses that the Army Air Force has no project with the characteristics similar to those which have been associated with the Flying Discs.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael D. Hall and Wendy A. Connors, Alfred Loedding and the Great Flying Saucer Wave of 1947, Rose Press, 1998, [p. 83](https://www.nicap.org/loedding/LoeddingBook.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1139 ### Event 6317 (21369138) **Date:** 9/5/1947 **Locations:** Washington, D.C.; Wright Field, Ohio **Description:** In Washington, D.C., [Alfred Loedding](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209268646/alfred-christian-loedding) \(as Wright Field T-2’s liaison with the Pentagon\) meets with [Garrett](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33467541/george-duncan-garrett) and Carroll. Flying disk reports at the Pentagon are transferred to Wright Field, Ohio, shortly afterwards. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 34 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1140 ### Event 6318 (93C2FADD) **Date:** 9/6/1947 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test from USS Midway reaches 1.5km (Operation Sandy. Aircraft carrier launch successful. Exploded at 1524m) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_274 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 1.5km ### Event 6319 (186B1B0C) **Date:** 9/6/1947 **Location:** BERMUDA, "Midway" **Description:** (Translated from French) British test launch of a V2, reaching 9.6 km altitude and exploding. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, p. 258 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1313 ### Event 6320 (B6DB678D) **Date:** 9/6/1947 **Location:** From the Persian Gulf to the USA **Description:** (Translated from French) The logbook of the tanker USS Chipola (...) reveals an observation made at 9:40 PM: "unidentified luminous phenomena" were observed 10° above the horizon at an estimated distance of 5 miles. The crew observed the maneuvers of two groups of 8 oval-shaped objects of a bluish color, at a speed of about 5 knots. They disappeared in about eight seconds. The witnesses were Officer of the Watch R.L. Simmons, Ensign J.B. Harris and Third Class J.A. Wisnienski. **Reference:** Phénoména n° 35 of 1997 p. 16 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1314 ### Event 6321 (C6EDD3F2) **Date:** 9/6/1947 **Location:** SHOUNS, TN **Description:** 2 observer(s). Football-shaped object flips end over end. Seen below overcast sky. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 121) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1246 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "703", **HatchDesc:** "SHOUNS,TN:2 OBS:FOOTBALL-SHAPED OBJ FLIPS END OVR END:SEEN BELOW OVERCAST SKY", **LatLong:** "36.444446 -81.800004", **LatLongDMS:** "36:26:40 N 81:48:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.444446,-81.800004)", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 6322 (E16E3907) **Date:** 9/6/1947 **Time:** 21:40 **Location:** PERSIAN GULF **Description:** Crew / tanker Chipola. 8 blue-white ovoids climb / echelon formation. / MJ#235. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 120) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1247 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Arabian Peninsula", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "PERSIAN GULF:CREW/TANKER CHIPOLA:8 BLU-WHT OVOIDS CLIMB/ECHELON FORMn:/MJ#235", **LatLong:** "27.333335 49.833336", **LatLongDMS:** "27:20:00 N 49:50:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/27.333335,49.833336)", **State/Prov:** "SEA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6323 (FA5E4F79) **Date:** 9/6/1947 **Description:** Four sailors, including a Richard Cruthers, onboard the US Navy oiler Chipola in the Persian Gulf spotted eight round spots of light flying in a group. They passed within half of a mile of the ship, made a climbing turn in echelon formation, and then went out of sight. They were a white or blue color. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 120; Project 1947 Research Notes from Bordentown NJ talk April 16, 2005; Astorian Budgeteer, November 4, 1947 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5672 ### Event 6324 (D93512CA) **Date:** 9/8/1947 **Time:** 22:40 **Location:** LOGAN, UT **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #62. Several separate observer(s). 5 groups / 30-60 colored objects each circle town. / news. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 121) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1248 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "1358", **HatchDesc:** "LOGAN,UT:BBK#62:SVRL SEP.OBS:5 GROUPS/30-60 CLRD OBJS each CIRCLE TOWN:/NEWS", **LatLong:** "41.738891 -111.333339", **LatLongDMS:** "41:44:20 N 111:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.738891,-111.333339)", **State/Prov:** "Utah", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6325 (37BC7BF4) **Date:** 9/8/1947 **Location:** Logan, UT **Description:** 5 groups of a total of 12 \[?\] white or yellowish objects traveling at high speed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [470908](http://www.nicap.org/logan470908dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_400 ### Event 6326 (74C0E55C) **Date:** 9/11/1947 **Time:** 17:20 **Location:** PORTLAND, OR **Description:** Police and many. Silver object circles city fast. No description. / FBI interviews. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 121) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1249 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "PORTLAND,OR:POLICE+MANY:SLVR OBJ CCLS CITY FAST:no description:/FBI INTERVIEWS", **LatLong:** "45.550002 -122.700006", **LatLongDMS:** "45:33:00 N 122:42:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.550002,-122.700006)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6327 (905811E7) **Date:** 9/12/1947 (approximate) **Location:** SWITZERLAND, La Rosiaz, Lausanne **Description:** (Translated from French) On September 13, 1947 (note from vog: September 13 was a Saturday if I checked correctly), the Lausanne Gazette headlined: "Are these flying saucers?" "Reliable people living in La Rosiaz, Lausanne, witnessed a curious phenomenon on Friday evening. At around 6 pm, they saw a large, very bright star slowly crossing the sky from the Villeneuve region to above Evian. At 7 pm, a second star crossed the sky in the same direction, but this time it "attached" itself to the Dent d'Oche, where it stayed for several minutes before disappearing." These witnesses insist that these aerial lights moved much slower than shooting stars. We cannot help but compare this account to the flying saucer affair, without drawing any conclusions." (1947, September 12 (?)) **Reference:** Les Soucoupes chez Heidi, cfr GREPI, Switzerland, 1997 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1315 ### Event 6328 (50E09636) **Date:** 9/13/1947 **Location:** Bellingham, Washington **Description:** **SAUCER SHINES LIKE DISHPAN.** E. L. Lynn, 1040 Knox Ave., saw a large black object the size of the moon. It turned from very black to light yellow, then a pale pink. Finally, it began to shine like a very bright tin pan. It was about 20 miles distant and two miles high, was in view for five or six seconds and traveled about five times as fast as an ordinary airplane. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256) **Source:** Scully, **ID:** Scully_10 ### Event 6329 (7469EE77) **Date:** 9/13/1947 **Location:** NECKER ISLAND, HI **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #59. PAA crew. Night light splits / 2. Turn toward(s) airliner. Wink out and gone. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 64) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1250 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "84", **HatchDesc:** "NECKER ISL,HI:BBK#59:PAA CREW:NLT SPLITS/2:TURN TWRD AIRLINER:WINK OUT+GONE", **LatLong:** "23.583334 -164.700008", **LatLongDMS:** "23:35:00 N 164:42:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/23.583334,-164.700008)", **State/Prov:** "Hawaii", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 6330 (91AC8297) **Date:** 9/13/1947 **Location:** Midway Island to Oahu, Hawaii, in airspace **Description:** A bright light with no blue or red tinge split in 2 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [470913](http://www.nicap.org/470913midway%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_403 ### Event 6331 (8F566D9D) **Date:** 9/14/1947 **Location:** Toronto, CA **Description:** _Toronto Globe_. **CANADA TRIED PHOTOGRAPHING THEM.** A photo of a supposed flying saucer is given front-page coverage on the _Globe_, taken by Raymond Johnson of Toronto. Disk was yellow with a tail, the time of passage was fifteen seconds. An extremely poor reproduction shows a ship in the foreground with a saucer resembling a faint comet in the background. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256) **Source:** Scully, **ID:** Scully_11 ### Event 6332 (9FD935A3) **Date:** 9/15/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The head of the [FBI](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/FBI.html) in San Francisco intercepts a confidential message from the Air Force indicating that the army should take care of credible witnesses and leave the dubious cases and toilet seat affairs to the FBI's buddies. [Hoover](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/officiels.html\#HooverJohnEdgar), head of the [FBI](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/FBI.html), chokes with rage and sends an angry letter to General [George C. McDonald](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/MacDonaldGeorgeClement.html) at the Pentagon, in which he announces to cease any investigation on the subject. From this day on, the [FBI](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/FBI.html) will officially deny any involvement in UFO investigations. (September 15) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_695 ### Event 6333 (AD1334AB) **Date:** Mid 9/1947 **Location:** Garrett Estimate **Description:** [Twining](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%5FFarragut%5FTwining) passes the Garrett Estimate on to Col. [Howard McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html)[,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html) Maj. Gen. [Alden Crawford](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/107429/major-general-alden-rudyard-crawford/) \(chief of T-3\), Gen. [Franklin O. Carroll](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/107470/major-general-franklin-o-carroll/) \(director of research and development\), Col. C. K. Moore \(aircraft laboratory chief\), Col. Russell Minty \(power-plant laboratory chief\), and Brig. Gen. [Edgar P. Sorenson](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/108681/brigadier-general-edgar-p-sorensen/) \(Air Institute of Technology commander\). They each study [Garrett](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33467541/george-duncan-garrett)’s report and hold a conference on the discs. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 33 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1141 ### Event 6334 (7D8D0050) **Date:** 9/16/1947 **Time:** 14:20 **Location:** NORTHEAST / FUKUOKA RS#1, JP **Description:** RADAR blip going quickly southeast / 1400kph! 4500M altitude. Passes airliner. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 5) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1251 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "NE/FUKUOKA RS#1,JP:RDR BLIP >>SE/1400kph!:4500M alt:PASSES AIRLINER:", **LatLong:** "34.966668 131.316673", **LatLongDMS:** "34:58:00 N 131:19:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.966668,131.316673)", **State/Prov:** "KYS", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6335 (C27C6038) **Date:** 9/16/1947 **Location:** Fukuoka, Japan **Description:** Radar Tracks Incoming Object (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [470916](http://www.nicap.org/470916japandir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_404 ### Event 6336 (FD390F90) **Date:** 9/16/1947 **Locations:** Itazuke Air Base [now Fukuoka Airport]; Fukuoka, Japan **Description:** An incoming radar target is picked up at Itazuke Air Base \[now Fukuoka Airport\], Fukuoka, Japan, moving 840–900 mph, then fading out. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Col. James F. Olive Jr., “[Radar Pick-Ups of High-Speed Targets in the](http://www.nicap.org/docs/26sept1947letter.pdf) [Far East,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/26sept1947letter.pdf)” Memorandum for Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Washington, D.C., September 26, 1947 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1142 ### Event 6337 (9F3C7410) **Date:** 9/17/1947 **Location:** Ft. Richardson, AK **Description:** A 2-3 ft silver sphere traveling S at tremendous speed (McDonald list; Mary Castner/CUFOS) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [470917](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/ftrich470917dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_405 ### Event 6338 (EAAB37DD) **Date:** 9/17/1947 **Description:** The US Senate confirms [James Forrestal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FForrestal) as the first Secretary of Defense. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1143 ### Event 6339 (4E8E8AAD) **Date:** 9/18/1947 **Location:** Langley, Virginia **Description:** CIA officially begins, directed by Rear Adm. Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, USN **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [link](https://www.cia.gov/legacy/cia-history/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_275 ### Event 6340 (5D5BE5C9) **Date:** 9/18/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Official establishment of the [USAF](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/USAF.html). Its first Secretary, W. Stuart Symington, takes the oath. (September 18) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_696 ### Event 6341 (DB1A69CC) **Date:** 9/18/1947 **Description:** The reorganization of military and intelligence agencies under the National Security Act takes effect. The US Army Air Forces is disbanded and becomes the US Air Force. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1144 ### Event 6342 (E13D1F88) **Date:** 9/19/1947 **Description:** Dr. Bronk’s team determines the recovered saucer from NM is a short range reconnaissance craft (from a mother ship) **Type:** majestic document **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A) **Reference:** [link](https://coolinterestingstuff.com/the-facts-about-the-majestic-12-and-ufo-evidence) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_276 **Attributes:** Majestic **See also:** 11/30/1947 ### Event 6343 (FD9A3044) **Date:** 9/19/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) General [Twining](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/TwiningNathanFarragut.html) reports to President [Truman](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/TrumanHarryS.html). General [Marshall](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/MarshallGeorgeCattlet.html) insists that its contents remain secret. According to the [MJ documents](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/MJDocs.html), [Twining](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/TwiningNathanFarragut.html) and [Dr. Bush](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/BushVannevar.html) conclude that the disc must be a low-range reconnaissance device, due to its size as well as the apparent lack of any fuel provision. (September 19) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_697 ### Event 6344 (D8F3789B) **Date:** 9/19/1947 **Time:** 05:30 **Location:** HOUSTON, TX **Description:** Geophysicist. RADAR blip going quickly southwest / 1600kph and more / bad weather. No visual observer(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 43) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1252 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NFO:** No craft seen, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "25", **HatchDesc:** "HOUSTON,TX:GEOPHYSICIST:RDR BLIP >>SW/1600kph+/BAD WEATHER:no visual obs", **LatLong:** "29.733335 -95.400005", **LatLongDMS:** "29:44:00 N 95:24:00 W", **Locale:** "Wetlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.733335,-95.400005)", **State/Prov:** "Louisiana", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 6345 (6D6C7E88) **Date:** 9/19/1947 **Location:** San Francisco **Description:** FBI Special Agent [Harry M. Kimball](http://imtfe.law.virginia.edu/contributors/harry-m-kimball) in San Francisco passes Col. R. H. Smith’s memo up the chain to [Hoover](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FEdgar%5FHoover)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FEdgar%5FHoover)  **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** ClearIntent, [p. 156](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/156/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1145 ### Event 6346 (5E0923CE) **Date:** 9/19/1947 **Location:** State of New Mexico **Description:** A dubious document, allegedly written on this date by DCI Adm. [Roscoe Hillenkoetter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe%5FH.%5FHillenkoetter) and titled “Examination of Unidentified Disc-Like Aircraft near Military Installations in the State of New Mexico: A Preliminary Report,” has been circulated by [Timothy S. Cooper](https://majesticdocuments.waskosky.com/about/investigation-team/timothy-s-cooper/). It purports to verify the “recovery of unidentified planform aircraft” in two locations on July 6. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Good Need, [p. 95](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/94/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1146 ### Event 6347 (487CEA6F) **Date:** 9/19/1947 **Location:** Grand Isle, Louisiana **Description:** 5:30 p.m. A geophysicist employed by the Humble Oil and Refining Company is testing a weather radar at Grand Isle, Louisiana, when the radar detects an object moving in a southwesterly direction at about 1,000 mph. It persists for about one minute, so he records it in his notebook and discusses the sighting with other scientists. No visual sighting is made. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Houston Press, March 24, 1950; Jan L. Aldrich, “[Project 1947: A Progress](http://www.project1947.com/articles/ufomag96.htm) [Report,](http://www.project1947.com/articles/ufomag96.htm)” March/April 1996 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1147 ### Event 6348 (B915D75C) **Date:** 9/19/1947 **Description:** A Humble Oil geophysicist in Grand Isle, Louisiana was testing radar to detect bad weather at 5:30 p.m. when his radar detected a UFO shooting to the southwest at a speed greater than 1,000 mph for less than a minute. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 43, citing Houston Press, March 24, 1950 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6078 ### Event 6349 (874F8EC0) **Date:** 9/19/1947 **Description:** A disputed memo from DCI Roscoe Hillenkoetter discusses the need for a clear directive from the President and coordinated scientific examination of “objects” related to the flying saucer problem. The title of the memo is “Military Assessment of the Joint Intelligence Committee,” or MAJIC. * [https://majesticdocuments.com/pdf/hillenkoetter_memo.pdf](https://majesticdocuments.com/pdf/hillenkoetter_memo.pdf) **Reference:** [Anonymous 2023 PDF](https://archive.org/details/anon_pdf_from_markdown) **Source:** Anon2023PDF, **ID:** Anon2023PDF_7 ### Event 6350 (5A538EB9) **Date:** 9/20/1947 **Location:** USA, Southern California, at sea **Description:** (Translated from French) Something off the coast of Southern California greatly disturbed the population. The incident occurred on September 20 and was reported by the US Coast Guard as: "A flaming object (that) fell into the sea off the coast; no missing aircraft; Griffith Park Observatory does not believe it was a kind of meteorite". Strange indeed, since it looks very much like a meteorite and, in such cases, this is normally the first line of defense of orthodoxy. However, a more thorough investigation revealed that this darned "thing" was maneuvering, and for quite a while, and consequently it had greatly distressed the Coast Guard. (September 20, 1947) **Reference:** Yvan T. SANDERSON: "The Invisibles Under the Seas" Albin Michel 1979 - pp. 50-51 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1316 ### Event 6351 (F04D1663) **Date:** 9/20/1947 **Description:** A flaming object fell into the sea off the shore of San Diego, California. An investigation by the U.S. Coast Guard found no missing aircraft nor floating debris. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 72 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6115 ### Event 6352 (A3A00666) **Date:** 9/21/1947 **Location:** Pentagon **Description:** Arrangements are made to transfer UFO files from [Garrett](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33467541/george-duncan-garrett)’s office in the Pentagon to [Alfred Loedding](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209268646/alfred-christian-loedding) at AMC. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 43 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1148 ### Event 6353 (D6E406ED) **Date:** 9/23/1947 **Description:** Confirmation sighting of Arnold's discs by Fred Johnson **Type:** UFO sightings **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_92 ### Event 6354 (542BF702) **Date:** 9/23/1947 **Description:** USAF project "SIGN" started **Type:** ufological event **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_93 ### Event 6355 (D8A52958) **Date:** 9/23/1947 **Description:** Secret Briefing Document to Brig. General George Schulgen, AC/AS-2, from Lt. Gen. Nathan F. Twining (MJ-4), Commanding Officer, AMC, stating: Flying Saucers are REAL! Concerning “Flying Discs” the phenomenon reported is something real, not fictitious. These objects approximate the shape of a disc and appear to be as large as man-made aircraft. They have operating characteristics such as extreme rate ofclimb and maneuverability. Under a Security Code Name copies of this information will be sent to Army, Navy, AEC, JRDB, SAG, NACA, RAND and NEPA Projects. (AAF Record, U-39552) **Type:** secret briefing **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_277 **See also:** 7/1947 **See also:** 9/15/1950 **See also:** 8/1954 ### Event 6356 (9A473341) **Date:** 9/23/1947 **Location:** US **Description:** The Chief of Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) sent a letter to the Air Force Commanding General stating the conclusion of ATIC that UFOs were real, and urging the establishment of a permanent project to analyze future reports. **Type:** letter **Reference:** ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) **Reference:** ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, pg. 31](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_855 ### Event 6357 (1F696E5E) **Date:** 9/23/1947 **Location:** USA: Document TWINING. **Description:** (Translated from French) DATE: 23 September 1947 SUBJECT: AMC Opinion Concerning "Flying Discs" TO: Commanding General Army Air Forces Washington 25, D.C. ATTENTION: Brig. General George Schulgen, AC/AS-2 1. As requested by AC/AS-2, the considered opinion of this command concerning the so-called "Flying Discs" is presented below. This opinion is based on interrogation report data furnished by AC/AS-2 and preliminary studies by personnel of T-2 and Aircraft Laboratory Engineering Division T-3. This opinion was arrived at in a conference between personnel from the Air Institute of Technology, Intelligence T-2, Office, Chief of Engineering Division, and the Aircraft, Power Plant and Propeller Laboratories of Engineering Division T-3.

2. It is the opinion that: a. The phenomenon reported is something real and not visionary or fictitious. b. There are objects probably approximately the shape of a disc, of such appreciable size as to appear to be as large as man-made aircraft. c. There is the possibility that some of the incidents may be caused by natural phenomena, such as meteors. d. The reported operating characteristics such as extreme rates of climb, maneuverability (particularly in roll), and action which must be considered evasive when sighted or contacted by friendly aircraft and radar, lend belief to the possibility that some of the objects are controlled either manually, automatically or remotely.

e. The apparent common description of the objects is as follows: (1) Metallic or light reflecting surface. (2) Absence of trail, except in a few instances when the object apparently was operating under high performance conditions. (3) Circular or elliptical in shape, flat on bottom and domed on top. (4) Several reports of well kept formation flights varying from three to nine objects. (5) Normally no associated sound, except in three instances a substantial rumbling roar was noted. (6) Level flight speeds normally about 300 knots are estimated.

f. It is possible within the present U.S. knowledge - provided extensive detailed development is undertaken--to construct a piloted aircraft which has the general description of the object in subparagraph (e) above which would be capable of an approximate range of 700 miles at subsonic speeds. g. Any developments in this country along the lines indicated would be extremely expensive, time consuming and at the considerable expense of current projects and therefore, if directed, should be set up independently of existing projects. h. Due consideration must be given the following:

(1) The possibility that these objects are of domestic origin -the product of some high security project not known to AC/AS-2 or this command. (2) The lack of physical evidence in the shape of crash recovered exhibits which would undeniably prove the existence of these objects. (3) The possibility that some foreign nations has a form of propulsion possibly nuclear, which is outside of our domestic knowledge.

3. It is recommended that: Headquarters, Army Air Forces issue a directive assigning a priority, security classification and code name for a detailed study of this matter to include the preparation of complete sets of all available and pertinent data which will then be made available to the Army , Navy, Atomic Energy Commission, JRDB, the Air Force Scientific Advisory Group, NACA, and the RAND and NEPA projects for comments and recommendations, with a preliminary report to be forwarded within 15 days of receipt of the data and a detailed report thereafter every 30 days as the investigation develops. A complete interchange of data should be effected. 4. Awaiting a specific directive AMC will continue the investigation within its current resources in order to more closely define the nature of the phenomenon. Detailed Essential Elements of Information will be formulated immediately for transmittal thru channels. N.F. TWINING Lieutenant General, U.S.A. Commanding. (1947, 23 September) **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1317 ### Event 6358 (08013286) **Date:** 9/23/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The number of testimonies and the quality of the observers, often very credible, lead General [Twining](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/TwiningNathanFarragut.html) to suggest the creation of a study commission, which will later become the [Sign](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Sign.html) project. He writes on this date that the observations are of reality and not visions or inventions \(...\) resembling probably the shape of a disk, hypothesizing that these objects could be American devices developed as part of some highly confidential unknown project or of foreign origin \(and therefore probably Soviet\). (September 23) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_698 ### Event 6359 (44D8AE0F) **Date:** 9/23/1947 **Location:** Oak Ridge **Description:** Head of Air Materiel Command Gen. [Nathan Twining](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%5FFarragut%5FTwining) responds to [Schulgen](http://www.generals.dk/general/Schulgen/George%5FFrancis/USA.html)’s request for UFO information with a classified letter composed by Col. [McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html) with the assistance of [Alfred Loedding](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209268646/alfred-christian-loedding), “AMC Opinion Concerning ‘Flying Disks.’” Twining notes the discs are “real and not visionary or fictitious.” Reports \(based on the cases in the Garrett Estimate\) include “extreme rates of climb, maneuverability \(particularly in roll\), and action which must be considered evasive.” Twining gives three reasons to study the discs: They might represent a deep-black domestic project; to pick up physical evidence; and to find out if they are nuclear- propulsion devices from Russia or elsewhere. The letter lists common descriptions of the objects and recommends that USAF “issue a directive assigning a priority, security classification, and code name for a detailed study of the matter.” This will ultimately result in Project Sign. Henceforth all disc reports are to be sent to the Army and Navy Research and Development Board, the USAF Scientific Advisory Group, the Atomic Energy Commission, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Project RAND, and the Nuclear Energy for the Propulsion of Aircraft project at Oak Ridge. Twining promises a detailed “Essential Elements of Information” \(EEI\) to be formulated immediately so that all agencies will have guidance. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lt. Gen. Nathan Twining, “[AMC Opinion](http://www.nicap.org/docs/470923.pdf) [Concerning ‘Flying Disks,’](http://www.nicap.org/docs/470923.pdf)” September 23, 1947; RosRept, [p. 14](http://www.cufos.org/books/The%5FRoswell%5FReportR2.pdf); Swords 42, 476–478; Good Above, [pp. 260–](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/260/mode/2up) [262](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/260/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/260/mode/2up) [476–478](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/476/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1149 ### Event 6360 (C63DCEC7) **Date:** Fall 1947 **Description:** [Claude Degler](http://jophan.org/mimosa/m30/williams.htm)[,](http://jophan.org/mimosa/m30/williams.htm) under the pseudonym John Chrisman, publishes a single issue of the first flying saucer fanzine, Weird Unsolved Mysteries. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Aug-1-Dec-31-SN.pdf) [August 1st–December 31st, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Aug-1-Dec-31-SN.pdf), The Author, 2001, pp. 56–69; Curt Collins, “[Claude Degler, One](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2019/04/claude-degler-one-of-ufologists-that.html) [of the Ufologists That Time Forgot,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2019/04/claude-degler-one-of-ufologists-that.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, July 15, 2021 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1158 ### Event 6361 (079EA919) **Date:** 9/23/1947 **Description:** USAF Lt. Gen. Nathan F. Twining writes that flying discs are “real and not visionary or fictitious.” Twining suggests UAP could be a black budget USG project or from Soviet/Bloc. Twining’s letter to AAF Commanding Gen. George Schulgen states no physical UAP evidence from “crash recovered exhibits” had been found to date. [http://www.nicap.org/docs/470923.pdf](http://www.nicap.org/docs/470923.pdf) >**_Note_**: Twining’s letter also led to the creation of **Project Sign**, whose sighting reports were required to be sent to the Army and Navy Research and Development Board, the USAF Scientific Advisory Group, the Atomic Energy Commission, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, **Project Rand**, and the **Nuclear Energy for the Propulsion of Aircraft** Project at Oak Ridge. > >* [http://www.cufos.org/books/The_Roswell_ReportR2.pdf](http://www.cufos.org/books/The_Roswell_ReportR2.pdf) (p14) >* [https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/260/mode/2up](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/260/mode/2up) (p260-p262) >* [https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/476/mode/2up](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/476/mode/2up) (p476-p478) **Reference:** [Anonymous 2023 PDF](https://archive.org/details/anon_pdf_from_markdown) **Source:** Anon2023PDF, **ID:** Anon2023PDF_8 ### Event 6362 (FCEBDB15) **Date:** 9/24/1947 **Description:** A covert operation, MAJESTIC-12, is established and classified Top Secret by President H.Truman. It consists of 12 persons selected to control all branches of government, both military and non-military. This ultimately led to silencing of UFO witnesses, confiscating of UFO photos, harassing and debunking of witnesses (and rumors of worse). (ref. “Black Budget”; JMP letter) **Type:** majestic document **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Reference:** [link](https://coolinterestingstuff.com/the-facts-about-the-majestic-12-and-ufo-evidence) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_278 **Attributes:** Majestic **See also:** 2/15/1987 **See also:** 9/4/1987 **See also:** 7/1947 ### Event 6363 (30D383E6) **Date:** 9/24/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) According to the [MJ documents](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/MJDocs.html), the creation of the [MJ-12](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/MJ-12.html) group on the special executive secret order of President [Truman](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/TrumanHarryS.html), on the recommendation of Doctor [Vannevar Bush](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/BushVannevar.html) and Secretary [James Forrestal](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/ForrestalJamesVincent.html), who will be among the first members alongside Vice Admiral [Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/HillenkoetterRoscoeHenry.html), General [Nathan F. Twining](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/TwiningNathanFarragut.html), General [Hoyt Vandenberg](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/VandenbergHoytSanford.html), Doctor [Detlev Bronk](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/BronkDetlevWulf.html), Doctor [Jerome Hunsaker](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/HunsakerJeromeClarke.html), [Sidney W. Souers](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/SouersSidneyW.html), [Gordon Gray](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/GrayGordonL.html), Doctor [Donald Menzel](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/MenzelDonaldHoward.html), General [Robert M. Montague](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/MontagueRobertM.html) and Doctor [Lloyd V. Berkner](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/BerknerLloydViel.html). (September 24) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_699 ### Event 6364 (4F4E9272) **Date:** 9/24/1947 **Description:** DCI [Hillenkoetter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe%5FH.%5FHillenkoetter)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe%5FH.%5FHillenkoetter) in a letter to AMC, designates T-2 and the Air Intelligence branch of the US Navy Bureau of Aeronautics as National Assets. He indicates that he does not plan to duplicate air technical intelligence assets within the CIA. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1150 ### Event 6365 (9D75ADF4) **Date:** 9/24/1947 **Location:** White House **Description:** [President Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) meets with [Vannevar Bush](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar%5FBush), chairman of the Research and Development Board, at the White House. Secretary of Defense [James Forrestal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FForrestal) is also present. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Stanton T. Friedman, Top Secret / MAJIC, Marlowe, 1996, [pp. 68–69](https://archive.org/details/topsecretmajic0000frie/page/68/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1151 ### Event 6366 (CA84C344) **Date:** 9/24/1947 **Description:** A fake memo from President [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) to Secretary of Defense [James Forrestal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FForrestal) allegedly establishes a top-secret control group, Operation Majestic Twelve \(MJ-12\), to deal with the UFO problem. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 360; Joe Nickell and John R. Fischer, “The Crashed-Saucer Forgeries,” IUR 15, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1990\): 4–20; Ted R. Spickler, “The Truman MJ-12 Letter,” IUR 16, no. 3 \(May/June 1991\): 12–13; Good Above, [p. 551](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/550/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1152 ### Event 6367 (92C3B289) **Date:** 9/24/1947 **Location:** Japan **Description:** Col. [Miles E. Goll](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Goll%5FM.htm)[,](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Goll%5FM.htm) in a memo signed for Col. [McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html), asks about a radar case in Japan that Charles Carroll had mentioned to [Alfred Loedding](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209268646/alfred-christian-loedding) in their meeting of September 5. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Dr. Carroll’s UFO files; Jan Aldrich **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1153 ### Event 6368 (98514732) **Date:** 9/24/1947 **Description:** DCI Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter allegedly writes a letter to Air Materiel Command designating T-2 and the Air Intelligence branch of the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics as “national assets.” Hillenkoetter states he does not plan to duplicate this within the CIA. * [https://www.academia.edu/43868466/UFOs%20and%20Intelligence%20A%20Timeline%20By%20George%20M%20Eberhart](https://www.academia.edu/43868466/UFOs%20and%20Intelligence%20A%20Timeline%20By%20George%20M%20Eberhart) **Reference:** [Anonymous 2023 PDF](https://archive.org/details/anon_pdf_from_markdown) **Source:** Anon2023PDF, **ID:** Anon2023PDF_9 ### Event 6369 (F5C665EB) **Date:** 9/25/1947 (approximate) **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** KUNGSHOLMEN, SWD **Description:** 12M blue-grey ball with 12M antenna passes cloud to cloud / 200M altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 146) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1253 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "KUNGSHOLMEN,SWD:12M BLU-GRY BALL W/12M ANTENNA PASSES CLOUD to CLOUD/200M alt", **LatLong:** "59.311114 18.000001", **LatLongDMS:** "59:18:40 N 18:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/59.311114,18.000001)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6370 (D70A58E9) **Date:** 9/25/1947 **Location:** Roswell, New Mexico **Description:** A memorandum from Maj. Robert J. Thomas lists the names of nine military personnel in charge of events in the aftermath of the Roswell, New Mexico, recovery. However, it is now largely considered a forgery by [Frank Kaufmann](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13371870/frank-j-kaufmann). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Kevin D. Randle, “Frank Kaufmann, Roswell Witness,” IUR 27, no. 3 \(Fall 2002\): 8, 17–19; Mark Rodeghier, “Frank Kaufmann Exposed,” IUR 27, no. 3 \(Fall 2002\): 9–11, 26 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1154 ### Event 6371 (73773D69) **Date:** 9/26/1947 **Locations:** Japan; Chitose Air Base; MEW Radar Station, Fukuoka **Description:** A memorandum from Col. James F. Olive Jr., Chief of Air Intelligence Division, to the Assistant Chief of the Air Staff, A-2, summarizes three radar trackings of high-speed targets in Japan \(Chitose Air Base, July 1; and MEW Radar Station, Fukuoka, August 28 and September 16\). It concludes that there is insufficient information to state that they involved aircraft or missiles but supports the conclusion that they were not natural phenomena. The report is forwarded to T-2 on September 29. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** \(Col. James F. Olive Jr., “[Radar Pick-Ups of High-](http://www.nicap.org/docs/26sept1947letter.pdf) [Speed Targets in the Far East,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/26sept1947letter.pdf)” Memorandum for Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Washington, D.C., September 26, 1947\). **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1155 ### Event 6372 (5DBB349B) **Date:** 9/27/1947 **Description:** [Hoover](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FEdgar%5FHoover) notifies USAF Maj. Gen. [George C. McDonald](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106278/major-general-george-c-mcdonald/), assistant chief of air staff, that he is advising all FBI agents to discontinue all flying disc investigations. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Letter,](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/aa4aac%5Ff0eedb874d1543789a0c586ad02b88cc.pdf) J. Edgar Hoover to Gen. George C. McDonald, September 27, 1947; ClearIntent, [p. 158](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/158/mode/2up); Michael Hesemann and Philip Mantle, Beyond Roswell, Marlowe, 1997, [p. 67](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9781569247815/page/67/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1156 ### Event 6373 (652DA331) **Date:** 9/28/1947 **Description:** Student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright: Newspaper college freshman photo **Type:** scientist **Reference:** [link](https://github.com/richgel999/dr_shirley_wright) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_279 **Attributes:** Einstein ### Event 6374 (14D139BE) **Date:** 9/30/1947 **Description:** [Vannevar Bush](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar%5FBush) is appointed head of the new Research and Development Board in the National Military Establishment. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Research and Development Board: History and Functions](https://archive.org/details/researchdevelopm00u/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/researchdevelopm00u/mode/2up) US National Military Establishment, June 1, 1948 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1157 ### Event 6375 (E16CFB9D) **Date:** 10/1947 **Description:** Article on student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright receiving Barry Scholarship **Type:** scientist **Reference:** [link](https://github.com/richgel999/dr_shirley_wright) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_280 **Attributes:** Einstein ### Event 6376 (65020C80) **Date:** 10/1947 (approximate) **Time:** ~13:00 **Location:** URJALA, FINL **Description:** Teenage girl. Grey cylinder/cigar-shape 60M away over lake. 2nd cylinder/cigar-shape / W. sky. Zigzags going quickly southwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 165) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1254 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "20", **HatchDesc:** "URJALA,FINL:TEENAGE GIRL:GRY CGR 60M away ovr LAKE:2nd CGR/W.SKY:ZIGZAGS >>SW", **LatLong:** "61.088892 23.583334", **LatLongDMS:** "61:05:20 N 23:35:00 E", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/61.088892,23.583334)", **State/Prov:** "Finland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6377 (1B17A4ED) **Date:** 10/1947? **Time:** ~18:00 **Location:** PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, MB **Description:** Railroad/railway man. Big glowing-cylinder/cigar-shape going south. Beams going down. Fades away.. / r171p119. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 629) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1255 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "259", **HatchDesc:** "PORTAGE la PRAIRIE,MB:RR MAN:BIG GLO-CGR >S:BEAMS↓:fades away..:/r171p119", **LatLong:** "49.966669 -98.300005", **LatLongDMS:** "49:58:00 N 98:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.966669,-98.300005)", **State/Prov:** "Manitoba", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 6378 (25693530) **Date:** 10/1947 (approximate) **Time:** ~18:00 **Location:** US-66, NM **Description:** 15 Mx6M object going west over car. Turns north. Returns. Hovers / 6M altitude. Going up [to] and going quickly west. Observer(s) very close. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 603) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1256 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "1770", **HatchDesc:** "US-66,NM:15Mx6M OBJ >W OVR CAR:TURNS N:RETURNS:HVRS/6M alt:↑+>>W:OBS VCLOSE", **LatLong:** "35.000002 -107.166672", **LatLongDMS:** "35:00:00 N 107:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.000002,-107.166672)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6379 (29677AEA) **Date:** 10/1947 (approximate) **Time:** ~19:00 **Location:** BOURGET-LE-LAC, FR **Description:** Airman. Disk 2km overhead. 6 jets / tangent. Rotates 1 / second(s). Going quickly northwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ROUSSEL, Robert: OVNI, les Verites Cachees. Ed. Albin Michel,Paris 1994 ISBN 2-226-06646-2. 346 pp softback (Index 343) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1257 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "BOURGET-le-LAC,FR:AIRMAN:DISK 2km OVHD:6 JETS/TANGENT:ROTATES 1/sec:>>NW", **LatLong:** "45.650002 5.866667", **LatLongDMS:** "45:39:00 N 05:52:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.650002,5.866667)", **State/Prov:** "SVO", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6380 (A8B8F7B7) **Date:** 10/1947 (approximate) **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** TANGZHOU, TAIHE, JIANXI, CHINA **Description:** 2 observer(s). Brilliant orange coil southeast going quickly northwest ascending until gone.. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** DONG, Paul: UFO's Over MODERN CHINA. 1983 UFO Photo Archives; P. O. Box 17206; Tucson, AZ 85710. (Index 33) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1258 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "China", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "TANGZHOU,TAIHE,JIANXI,CHINA:2 OBS:BRILL.ORG COIL SE>>NW ASCENDING UNTIL GONE..", **LatLong:** "26.816668 114.916672", **LatLongDMS:** "26:49:00 N 114:55:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/26.816668,114.916672)", **State/Prov:** "Jianxi", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 6381 (3278E95E) **Date:** 10/1947 (approximate) **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** JUNSELE, SWD **Description:** 15M disk going quickly south. Concentric colored rings with black spot / center. To horizon / 15 second(s). **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 151) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1259 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "JUNSELE,SWD:15M DISK >>S:CONCENTRIC CLRD RINGS W/BLK SPOT/CENTER:to HRZN/15sec", **LatLong:** "63.700003 16.877779", **LatLongDMS:** "63:42:00 N 16:52:40 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/63.700003,16.877779)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6382 (813026B9) **Date:** 10/1947 **Time:** 11 PM CDT **Location:** Dodgeville, Wisconsin **Description:** Witness: one unnamed civilian man. Watched for 1 hour while an undescribed object flew counterclockwise circles. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_8 ### Event 6383 (3902B5E7) **Date:** 10/1947 **Description:** Pilot Selman E. Graves states he witnessed the recovery of a crashed craft and two humanoid “bodies” in Paradise Valley, AZ. Graves states the federal government sponsored a state government project that relocated a nearby road and bulldozed the land to cover up the crash site. * [https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/396/mode/2up](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/396/mode/2up) **Reference:** [Anonymous 2023 PDF](https://archive.org/details/anon_pdf_from_markdown) **Source:** Anon2023PDF, **ID:** Anon2023PDF_10 ### Event 6384 (5D0A0939) **Date:** 10/1947 **Description:** An “unknown missile” allegedly crashes this month in Mexico near Guadeloupe. The State Department is said to begin negotiations with the Mexican government to obtain the crashed object. * _[Majic Eyes Only](https://www.amazon.com/Majic-Eyes-Only-Ryan-Wood/dp/0977205908), p 81_ * [https://www.amazon.com/Majic-Eyes-Only-Ryan-Wood/dp/0977205908](https://www.amazon.com/Majic-Eyes-Only-Ryan-Wood/dp/0977205908), p 81 **Reference:** [Anonymous 2023 PDF](https://archive.org/details/anon_pdf_from_markdown) **Source:** Anon2023PDF, **ID:** Anon2023PDF_11 ### Event 6385 (B0DB17C9) **Date:** 10/1/1947 **Description:** First flight of the prototype jet fighter XP-86 flies from Muroc Dry Lake (now Edwards AFB), CA — led to the F-86 Sabre **Type:** aerospace **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_F-86_Sabre#Operational_history) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_281 ### Event 6386 (95108AC7) **Date:** 10/1/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Bulletin No. 59 from the [FBI](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/FBI.html): All information related to UFOs must now be addressed to the [USAF](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/USAF.html). (October 1) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_700 ### Event 6387 (FDA70A11) **Date:** 10/1/1947 **Location:** Dodgeville, WI **Description:** Man saw an undescribed object fly counterclockwise circles (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 91) **Reference:** NICAP: [471001](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/dodgeville4710xxdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_406 ### Event 6388 (0C35A25E) **Date:** 10/1/1947 **Description:** Bureau Bulletin 59 ends all FBI cooperation with the Air Force on UFO investigation, although the FBI continues its own inquiries. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** ClearIntent, [p. 159](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/158/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1160 ### Event 6389 (76449512) **Date:** 10/1/1947 **Description:** A letter from [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) to [Vannevar Bush](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar%5FBush) appears to bear the original Truman signature used in the MJ-12 fake memo. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1161 ### Event 6390 (85363664) **Date:** Early 10/1947 **Location:** USA, Muroc **Description:** (Translated from French) Then on the 10th. Test pilot Chuck Yeager, on P-51 (XS-1), which he had named "Glamourous Glennis" in honor of his wife, reached a speed of Mach 0.93. (...) On October 10th Yeager reached Mach 0.94. But ice was forming inside the cockpit. Fighter pilots Bob Hoover and Dick Frost on Lockheed P-80 then assisted him "viva voice" to land blind. Analysis of the oscillographic film compared to ground data confirmed that the XS-1 had reached Mach 0.997 at 12000 meters altitude, or a speed of 1059 km. It was also, for everyone, the experience of the first "supersonic bang". (1947, early October) **Reference:** NASA Website, 1997 see "On the Frontier, Ref 1-19 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1319 ### Event 6391 (348A8C04) **Date:** Early 10/1947 (approximate) **Location:** USA, Cave Creek, Arizona. **Description:** (Translated from French) Selman Graves (22 years old) and his brother-in-law Bob Malody (16 years old) were hunting rabbits and exploring abandoned mines in what is now known as the Cave Creek Recreational Area. At one point, standing atop the highest hill, they looked south towards their friend Walt Salyer's house. From their vantage point they could make out the house, the corral, and even the water tank. But when they looked west, they saw something unforgettable. It was an aluminum dome erected in the middle of the desert, like an observation dome. There were five men and two trucks near the dome. One of the trucks was a military-style (2.5-ton) personnel and equipment transport. But there was no equipment, no small cranes, nothing. Moreover, the five men didn't seem to be working either. The dome was estimated to be 11 meters in diameter and was located about a mile from their position. (1947, Early October?) **Reference:** see above: October 14, Muroc, and the landing... **Reference:** See the newspaper Newsday of Melville, N.Y. for July 6, 1997. Lou Farrish of UFO Newsclipping Service, 1997. **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1322 ### Event 6392 (0DCF7FE2) **Date:** Early 10/1947 **Location:** Paradise Valley, Arizona **Description:** Private pilot Selman E. Graves claims to have witnessed part of the recovery of a crashed UFO in Paradise Valley, Arizona, on property owned by his friend, Walt Salyer. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Good Above, [pp. 394–397](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/394/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1159 ### Event 6393 (731827E0) **Date:** 10/7/1947 **Time:** 11:00 **Location:** HUDIKSVALL, SWD **Description:** Hundreds / observer(s). Pole-shapes going southwest slow. Engine sounds. Fiery tails. Planes? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 152) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1260 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "HUDIKSVALL,SWD:100s/OBS:POLE-SHAPES >SW SLOW:ENGINE SOUNDs:FIERY TAILS:planes?", **LatLong:** "61.733336 17.083334", **LatLongDMS:** "61:44:00 N 17:05:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/61.733336,17.083334)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 6394 (561D21B4) **Date:** 10/7/1947 **Location:** USAF headquarters **Description:** Capt. R. V. A. Therien of the Royal Swedish Navy states at USAF headquarters that some ghost rockets have been observed making 180° turns, and about 33 of the incidents are considered factual. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Aug-1-Dec-31-SN.pdf) [Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 August 1st–December 31st, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Aug-1-Dec-31-SN.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Aug-1-Dec-31-SN.pdf) The Author, 2001, p. 76 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1162 ### Event 6395 (C6CBEEFD) **Date:** 10/8/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Las Vegas \(Nevada\), a speeding object moving at 600 to 1600 km/h and leaving a trail behind it makes a 180° turn over 8-15 km and disappears in its region of origin. (October 8) **Reference:** [Hynek](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/HynekJosephAllen.html) 1979 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_701 ### Event 6396 (E4578896) **Date:** 10/8/1947 **Location:** LAS VEGAS, NV **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #71. Ex-USAF pilot and more/others. Contrail makes 140° turn. Source invisible. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT; Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 16) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1261 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NFO:** No craft seen, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "600", **HatchDesc:** "LAS VEGAS,NV:BBK#71:EX-USAF PILOT++:CONTRAIL MAKES 140°TURN:SOURCE INVISIBLE", **LatLong:** "36.150002 -115.116672", **LatLongDMS:** "36:09:00 N 115:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.150002,-115.116672)", **State/Prov:** "Nevada", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6397 (0017222E) **Date:** 10/8/1947 **End date:** 10/9/1947 **Location:** Las Vegas, NV **Description:** AAF reserve Capt. Moore saw object traveling at 700 mph (McDonald list; FOIA; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [471008-09](http://www.nicap.org/lvegas471008dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_407 ### Event 6398 (9884A40C) **Date:** 10/9/1947 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 156.1km altitude (Internal explosion at 83.5s) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_282 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 156.1km ### Event 6399 (A004FE76) **Date:** 10/9/1947 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) At 12:15 launch of V2 No. 27 which reached 156 km altitude. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1318 ### Event 6400 (E28DA04B) **Date:** 10/10/1947 **Time:** 15:00 **Location:** FUKUSHIMA, JPN **Description:** Cop and 2. 1M saucer going east / 200M altitude. Tail like a rocket. No further details / Kyodo News Agency. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 120) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1262 **Attributes:** **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "FUKUSHIMA,JPN:COP+2:1M SCR >E/200M alt:TAIL LIKE A ROCKET:NFD/Kyodo News Agcy", **LatLong:** "37.750002 140.483340", **LatLongDMS:** "37:45:00 N 140:29:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.750002,140.483340)", **State/Prov:** "Honshu Island", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6401 (5DA8D959) **Date:** 10/14/1947 **Location:** USA, Muroc **Description:** (Translated from French) The Sound Barrier was broken on October 14. Preparations began at dawn. There was a secret kept by Jack Ridley and Walt Williams about the horse fall that test pilot Yeager had the day before: He had two broken ribs and was bandaged roughly by a civilian doctor... So they made a short cut for him to be able to enter the plane. The crew of the B29 who had heard of the fall but ignored the case of the broken ribs, presented him with a carrot and a turnip. The Glamourous Glennis was put into the bomb bay of the B29 and then the tanks were filled with 1177 liters of liquid oxygen and 1109 liters of ethylene fuel (...) At 10:02 the Superfortress took off. Two P-80 fighters accompanied it. At 10:26, at 6000 meters of altitude, the Glamourous Glennis was launched into the sky above the Mojave Desert. (...) Soon it reached Mach 1.05, at 13100 m of altitude (speed 1125 km/h). Fourteen minutes after the launch it touched the ground in the bed of the dry lake. The Sound Barrier had been definitely broken. **Reference:** NASA Website, 1997 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1320 ### Event 6402 (58780E3C) **Date:** 10/14/1947 **Location:** USA, near Cave Creek (Arizona) **Description:** (Translated from French) NNE of Cave Creek, Arizona, at noon. Witnesses: former AAF bomber pilot J.L. Clark, civilian pilot Anderson, and a third person. Observed for 45-60 seconds an object in the shape of a flying wing, about 3 feet in size, appearing to be black in color, seen through the clouds, and red against the blue sky, flying in a straight line at an estimated speed of 380 m.p.h., at an altitude of 8-10,000 feet, from NW to SE. (Project Blue Book - cf. Don Berliner). [Note from vog: see previous article... this seems clear to me!] **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1321 ### Event 6403 (E58B4337) **Date:** 10/14/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) First human supersonic flight: Captain Charles "Chuck" Yeager reached 670 mph in his Bell X-1. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_702 ### Event 6404 (A4453BED) **Date:** 10/14/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) 11 miles from Cave Creek, near Phoenix \(Arizona\), the former AAF pilot J. L. Clark, the civilian pilot Anderson and a third man observed for 45 to 60 seconds a kind of winged object of 3 feet seeming dark \(black\) in front of the clouds and red in front of the blue sky, flying straight at about 380 miles/h and an altitude of about 8000 to 10000 feet, from the northwest to the southeast. **Reference:** case [Blue Book](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/BlueBook.html) \#95 unexplained **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_703 ### Event 6405 (E78A0B68) **Date:** 10/14/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) 11 anonymous civilians in Dodgeville, Wisconsin observed for 1 hour an object performing circles in the sky counterclockwise. **Reference:** case [Blue Book](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/BlueBook.html) \#91 unexplained **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_704 ### Event 6406 (7755AE32) **Date:** 10/14/1947 **Location:** EDWARDS / MUROC AIR FORCE BASE, CA **Description:** Chuck Yeager / USAF. 1st supersonic flight in history! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLAMMONDE, Paris: UFO EXIST!; Ballentine Books, NY 1976. PB 480pp. (Index 429) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1263 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NFO:** No craft seen, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HST:** Historical account **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "15", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "702", **HatchDesc:** "EDWARDS/MUROC AFB,CA:CHUCK YEAGER/USAF:1ST SUPERSONIC FLIGHT IN HISTORY!", **LatLong:** "34.900002 -117.900006", **LatLongDMS:** "34:54:00 N 117:54:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.900002,-117.900006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 6407 (F785EFCA) **Date:** 10/14/1947 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** 11 MI NNE / CAVE CREEK, AZ **Description:** 2 pilots and 1. 3' flying-wing 380mph northwest going quickly southeast / 8-10K' altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 1) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1264 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "500", **HatchDesc:** "11mi NNE/CAVE CREEK,AZ:2 PILOTS+1:3' FLYING-WING 380mph NW>>SE/8-10K'alt", **LatLong:** "33.983335 -111.916672", **LatLongDMS:** "33:59:00 N 111:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.983335,-111.916672)", **RelAlt:** "3000", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6408 (15D06C6A) **Date:** 10/14/1947 **Location:** Cave Creek (11 miles NNE of ), AZ **Description:** 3-foot “flying wing,” black against the white clouds and red against the blue sky (Berliner) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 95) **Reference:** NICAP: [471014](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/cavecreek471014dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_408 ### Event 6409 (5F5E637A) **Date:** 10/14/1947 **Time:** Noon MDT **Location:** 11 mi. NNE of Cave Creek, Arizona **Description:** Witnesses: ex-AAF fighter pilot J.L. Clark, civilian pilot Anderson, third man. Watched 45-60 seconds while one 3-foot "flying wing"-shaped object, which looked black against the white clouds and red against the blue sky, flew straight at an estimated 380 m.p.h., at 8-10,000 feet, from NW to SE. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_9 ### Event 6410 (E24FC573) **Date:** 10/14/1947 **Locations:** USAF headquarters; Petsamo region (Pechengsky District) of Finland; Russia **Description:** [Bernt Balchen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernt%5FBalchen)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernt%5FBalchen) Norwegian Airline director and former USAF Colonel, gives USAF headquarters information about two radar locations and a rocket firing incident observed in the Petsamo region \(Pechengsky District\) of Finland, recently ceded to Russia. Gen. [Alfred A. Kessler Jr.](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106572/major-general-alfred-a-kessler-jr/), former US military attaché in Sweden, disputes Therien’s information. He says only two ghost rocket sightings are possibly factual, but there is no evidence to authenticate them. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Aug-1-Dec-31-SN.pdf) [August 1st–December 31st, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Aug-1-Dec-31-SN.pdf), The Author, 2001, p. 76 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1163 ### Event 6411 (8DA87863) **Date:** 10/14/1947 **Locations:** Muroc; Edwards AFB, California **Description:** Test pilot [Chuck Yeager](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck%5FYeager) unofficially breaks the sound barrier \(670 mph\) for the first time in an experimental rocket-powered Bell X-1 at Muroc \[now Edwards\] AFB, California. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Chuck Yeager](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck%5FYeager)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1164 ### Event 6412 (AC40DBCE) **Date:** 10/18/1947 **Location:** Kapustin Yar **Description:** First Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 207km (Vehicle disintegrated at atmospheric reentry) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_283 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket range:** 207km ### Event 6413 (5F70F7DB) **Date:** 10/20/1947 **Location:** Kapustin Yar **Description:** Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 231km (Deviated 181 kilometres from intended flight path) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_284 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket range:** 231km ### Event 6414 (F5A05840) **Date:** 10/20/1947 **Location:** Wright-Patterson AFB, OH **Description:** Two cigar-shaped craft seen near the base. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973_, by Richard Dolan](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/mode/2up) **Source:** Dolan, **ID:** Dolan_28 ### Event 6415 (CE2889A0) **Date:** 10/20/1947 **Time:** 13:20 **Location:** VAN BUREN, OH **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #019. 2 observer(s). 2 shiny fish-cigars going quickly east very fast. / r46p89+newspapers. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 646) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1265 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "235", **HatchDesc:** "VAN BUREN,OH:BBK#019:2 OBS:2 SHINY FISH-CGRS >>E VFAST:/r46p89+newspapers:NFD", **LatLong:** "41.138891 -83.650004", **LatLongDMS:** "41:08:20 N 83:39:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.138891,-83.650004)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6416 (8AA56661) **Date:** 10/20/1947 **Location:** Xenia, OH **Description:** Saw a round 1 ft object at 1,500 ft (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [471020](http://nicap.org/471020zeniadir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_409 ### Event 6417 (03D01D76) **Date:** 10/20/1947 **Location:** Dayton, OH **Description:** 2 cigar-shaped objects reflecting brilliant sunlight (McDonald list; FOIA; Mary Castner/CUFOS) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [471020](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/dayton471020dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_410 ### Event 6418 (D133DB05) **Date:** 10/20/1947 **Location:** Dayton, Ohio **Description:** A farmer named Britton sees two cigar-shaped UFOs traveling a straight course at high speed about one mile in height in trail formation near Dayton, Ohio. They leave a slight vapor trail then disappear suddenly. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Farmers Observes Two Cigars](http://www.nicap.org/471020dayton%5Fdir.htm)”; Keyhoe, FSTS, p. 89; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 29 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1165 ### Event 6419 (E7FCDF4A) **Date:** 10/21/1947 **Location:** Fukuoka, Japan **Description:** A preliminary EEI document, indicating that the radar detection of UFOs near Fukuoka, Japan, on September 16 has played a role in concerns about disc maneuverability, is circulated to the European Command by Lieut. Col. [Malcolm D. Seashore](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49311334/malcolm-d-seashore)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49311334/malcolm-d-seashore) former acting chief of the Analysis Section at AMC under [McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html). It expresses concern about German/Russian technology and adds disc characteristics of hovering, disappearance, quick grouping, and sudden appearance. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[‘Flying Disc’ Information Request to European Command, October](http://www.nicap.org/docs/471021.pdf) [1947](http://www.nicap.org/docs/471021.pdf)”; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 35; Swords 43, 479–484 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1166 ### Event 6420 (DED1406C) **Date:** 10/21/1947 **Locations:** Jack Northrop Field in Hawthorne, California; Muroc AFB **Description:** The jet-propelled Northrop YB-49 makes its first test flight from Jack Northrop Field in Hawthorne, California, reaching Muroc AFB in 32 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Northrop YB-49](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop%5FYB-49)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1167 ### Event 6421 (C136C26C) **Date:** 10/23/1947 **Location:** Kapustin Yar **Description:** Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 29km (Observation of vehicle was hampered by low cloud cover. Vehicle disintegrated, possibly due to the warhead failure.) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_285 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket range:** 29km ### Event 6422 (2F561376) **Date:** 10/25/1947 **Location:** Hymers, Canada **Description:** **50 WITNESSES SEE ONE IN CANADA.** More than 50 townspeople saw a strange object swoop into sight from the south, remain stationary for fifteen minutes, then flash back in the direction from which it had come. It was described as a long streak of fire with heat waves emanating from it and something that looked like an electric light waves. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256) **Source:** Scully, **ID:** Scully_12 ### Event 6423 (8CB93887) **Date:** 10/28/1947 **Location:** Kapustin Yar **Description:** Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 29km (Success) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_286 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket range:** 29km ### Event 6424 (9EEF10C6) **Date:** 10/28/1947 **Description:** Brig. Gen. [George F. Schulgen](http://www.generals.dk/general/Schulgen/George%5FFrancis/USA.html)[,](http://www.generals.dk/general/Schulgen/George%5FFrancis/USA.html) Chief of USAF Intelligence Requirements Division, writes a five-page report based on the characteristics listed in the September 23 [Twining](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%5FFarragut%5FTwining) letter \(though in greater detail\) and the preliminary EEI of October 21. Titled “Intelligence Requirements on Flying Saucer Type Aircraft: Draft of Collection Memorandum,” it lists things investigators should try to determine about UFO propulsion, control, construction, arrangement, landing gear, and power plant. It considers the objects “to be a manned aircraft, of Russian origin, and based on the perspective thinking and actual accomplishments of the Germans” \(page 5, paragraph 4\). \[However, a fake version of this document has the phrase “it is the considered opinion of some elements that the object may in fact represent an interplanetary craft of some kind…. The presence of an unconventional or unusual type of propulsion system cannot be ruled out and should be considered of great interest.” Other deletions and additions are present in the fake document.\] **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** George F. Schulgen, “[Intelligence](http://www.nicap.org/schulgen.htm) [Requirements on Flying Saucer Type Aircraft: Draft of Collection Memorandum,](http://www.nicap.org/schulgen.htm)” October 30, 1947 \[[PDF](http://www.nicap.org/docs/schulgen.pdf) of real memo, pp. 1–6, [PDF](http://www.nicap.org/docs/schulgen.pdf) of fake memo, pp. 7–12\]; RosRept, [p. 35](http://www.cufos.org/books/The%5FRoswell%5FReportR2.pdf); Good Above, [p. 262](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/262/mode/2up); Robert G. Todd, “[Fake Air](http://www.roswellfiles.com/FOIA/SchulgenMemo.htm) [Force Memo Exposed,](http://www.roswellfiles.com/FOIA/SchulgenMemo.htm)” The Roswell Files; Robert G. Todd, “[Fake Air Force Memo Exposed, Part 2,](http://www.roswellfiles.com/FOIA/SchulgenMemo2.htm)” The Roswell Files; Robert G. Todd, “[Fake Air Force Memo Exposed, Part 3,](http://www.roswellfiles.com/FOIA/SchulgenMemo3.htm)” The Roswell Files; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 35–36 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1168 ### Event 6425 (CC5229EF) **Date:** 10/30/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) President [Truman](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/TrumanHarryS.html) jots down on a calendar-like personal journal various questions he wants to ask the Secretary of State. He particularly wants to know if an action plan is necessary to counter an attack from a satellite. However, at the time, there were no satellites in the sky, neither in the US, nor in Russia or Europe. Sputnik, the first one launched into space, would only be launched 10 years later. (October 30) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_705 ### Event 6426 (1AB1261A) **Date:** 10/31/1947 **Location:** Kapustin Yar **Description:** Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 2km (Started rolling after lift-off and crashed) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_287 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket range:** 2km ### Event 6427 (ADFB6D01) **Date:** 11/1947 (approximate) **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** KARKKILA, FINL **Description:** 4 teens. Cylinder/cigar-shape with greenish tail seen / 2 minute(s). No further details. / UFO-Finl / Ilkka Serra. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 166) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1266 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "KARKKILA,FINL:4 TEENS:CGR W/GREENISH TAIL SEEN/2min:NFD:/UFO-Finl/Ilkka Serra", **LatLong:** "60.527781 24.188890", **LatLongDMS:** "60:31:40 N 24:11:20 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/60.527781,24.188890)", **State/Prov:** "Finland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6428 (55A798BD) **Date:** 11/1947 (approximate) **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** NEAR SOSPEL, FR **Description:** Yellow saucer going northeast toward(s) Italy. Antenna and 3 black spots / center. 120kph / 800M altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 95) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1267 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "nr SOSPEL,FR:YLW SCR >NE twrd ITALY:ANTENNA+3 BLK SPOTS/CENTER:120kph/800M alt", **LatLong:** "43.866669 7.466667", **LatLongDMS:** "43:52:00 N 07:28:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.866669,7.466667)", **State/Prov:** "Alpes Maritimes", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6429 (35586248) **Date:** 11/1947 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** TORONTO, ON **Description:** 3 observer(s). Gold cloud rotates. 10-12 gold disks exit! Soon gone. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 121) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1268 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "76", **HatchDesc:** "TORONTO,ON:3 OBS:GOLD CLOUD ROTATES:10-12 GOLD DISKS EXIT!:soon gone:", **LatLong:** "43.666669 -79.416670", **LatLongDMS:** "43:40:00 N 79:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.666669,-79.416670)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6430 (484561B8) **Date:** 11/1947 **Locations:** Heiligenbeil, East Prussia; Mamonovo, Russia **Description:** Former Messerschmidt test pilot [Fritz Wendel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz%5FWendel) tells US Army CIC that the [Horten brothers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten%5Fbrothers) were working on an advanced aircraft in Heiligenbeil, East Prussia \[now Mamonovo, Russia\] right after the war. The airplane is 33 feet long, shaped like a half-moon, and has no tail. It can fly to 12,000 feet. Wendel’s story is corroborated by a German informant named Prof. George, who describes a later Horten craft as able to fly at 1,200 mph because it is propelled by rockets. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jacobsen, Area 51, [pp. 41–42](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/40/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1169 ### Event 6431 (80649490) **Date:** 11/2/1947 **Location:** Kapustin Yar **Description:** Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 260km (Success) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_288 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket range:** 260km ### Event 6432 (5702F537) **Date:** 11/2/1947 **Location:** Kapustin Yar **Description:** Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar (2nd that day), 260km (Lost fins after launch) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_289 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket range:** 260km ### Event 6433 (F888CA59) **Date:** 11/2/1947 **Location:** SEINAJOKI, FINL **Description:** 1 observer. Red-yellow ball / light. Row / windows / turn off. Lights dim / houses. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 166) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1269 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "SEINAJOKI,FINL:1 OBS:RED-YLW BALL/LITE:ROW/WINDOWS/turn off:lites dim/houses", **LatLong:** "62.783336 22.855557", **LatLongDMS:** "62:47:00 N 22:51:20 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/62.783336,22.855557)", **State/Prov:** "Finland", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6434 (DA51B2BF) **Date:** 11/2/1947 **Location:** Houston, TX **Description:** An almost round or oval or saucer-shaped object with bright light (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_411 ### Event 6435 (890458FB) **Date:** 11/4/1947 **Location:** Kapustin Yar **Description:** Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 268km (Success) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_290 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket range:** 268km ### Event 6436 (D3C7CB11) **Date:** 11/5/1947 **Location:** Persian Gulf **Description:** **FOUR SEE ONE ABOVE PERSIAN GULF.** Richard Carruthers, Jr., aboard the tanker _Chipola_, saw eight round objects flying in a group, pass within half a mile of the ship, make a climbing turn in echelon formation, and pass out of sight. Four persons saw the light, but opinions varied as to whether they were white or blue. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256) **Source:** Scully, **ID:** Scully_13 ### Event 6437 (C48AB03A) **Date:** 11/6/1947 **Location:** Muroc AFB, California **Description:** [Chuck Yeager](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck%5FYeager) again makes an unofficial airspeed record of 891 mph in a Bell X-1 at Muroc AFB, California. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Chuck Yeager](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck%5FYeager)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1170 ### Event 6438 (6ADE4E5E) **Date:** 11/10/1947 **Location:** Kapustin Yar **Description:** Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 24km (Control failure) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_291 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket range:** 24km ### Event 6439 (F8DDCCFC) **Date:** 11/10/1947 **Location:** Germany **Description:** Lt. Col. Walker sends a memo to his field commands in Germany in response to the September 23 [Twining](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%5FFarragut%5FTwining) letter. It calls for a discreet canvass into finding German engineers who might know of similar technology. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[The Walker Memo,](http://www.roswellfiles.com/FOIA/WalkerMemo.htm)” The Roswell Files **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1171 ### Event 6440 (CCDABD41) **Date:** 11/11/1947 (approximate) **Location:** 120MI WITH OREGON **Description:** Steamship Ticonderoga. Project Bluebook Case #35. 36' saucers going [to] horizon going [to] horizon / 45 second(s). Low-arc / 800mph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 73) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1270 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "120mi W/OREGON:SS TICONDEROGA:BBK#35:36'SCRS > HRZN>HRZN/45sec:LO-ARC/800mph", **LatLong:** "43.000002 -126.500006", **LatLongDMS:** "43:00:00 N 126:30:00 W", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.000002,-126.500006)", **State/Prov:** "NPC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6441 (F85D1197) **Date:** 11/12/1947 **Location:** Cape Blanco (40 miles from), OR **Description:** 2 balls of fire with a fiery trail headed NW at 700-900 mph (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_412 ### Event 6442 (92D80B00) **Date:** 11/12/1947 **Location:** Cape Blanco, Oregon **Description:** Early morning. US Navy Second Officer Williamson on the [USS Ticonderoga](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FTiconderoga%5F%28CV-14%29) 40 miles north or south of Cape Blanco, Oregon, sees two fireballs with fiery tails heading northwest at 700–900 mps. Possible meteors. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 29 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1172 ### Event 6443 (1046857B) **Date:** 11/13/1947 **Location:** Kapustin Yar **Description:** Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 270km (Broke up upon re-entry. Landed within 180m of target.) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_292 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket range:** 270km ### Event 6444 (BFEE4154) **Date:** 11/13/1947 **Location:** Kapustin Yar **Description:** Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 270km (Launched 5 hours after previous rocket and landed within 700 m of target) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_293 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket range:** 270km ### Event 6445 (C76DB9BC) **Date:** 11/15/1947 **Location:** NICARAGUA, Managua **Description:** (Translated from French) 47,000 spectators of a baseball match saw two "flying saucers" slowly flying above the stadium, hovering for a moment before suddenly speeding away at a terrifying speed. **Reference:** "UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 74 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1323 ### Event 6446 (1C196B85) **Date:** 11/15/1947 (approximate) **Time:** 11:30 **Location:** MANAGUA, NICARAGUA **Description:** 47000 / new stadium. Several silver saucers going down [to] and spin and hover / seconds. Quickly going up [to] and away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 121) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1271 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Nicaragua", **Credibility:** "13", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "86", **HatchDesc:** "MANAGUA,NICARAGUA:47000/NEW STADIUM:SVRL SLVR SCRS ↓+SPIN+HVR/secs:↑↑+AWAY", **LatLong:** "12.150001 -86.283337", **LatLongDMS:** "12:09:00 N 86:17:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/12.150001,-86.283337)", **State/Prov:** "MNG", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6447 (934D015A) **Date:** 11/15/1947 **Location:** Wichita, KS **Description:** Man watched an orange object varied in shape, as it made jerky upward sweeps with 10-15 sec pauses. 3-5 mins. (Berliner) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: 2224) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_413 ### Event 6448 (05CB8B68) **Date:** 11/15/1947 **Location:** Wichita, KS **Description:** 8:25 p.m. USAF B¬47 crew and passengers saw an elliptical blue-white object with orange or red tail, moving erratically. (BB Status Rpt?) \[Same case as above??\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_414 ### Event 6449 (CCB2E45D) **Date:** 11/15/1947 **Description:** At 11:30 a.m. 47,000 people in a new football stadium in Managua, Nicaragua saw several silver saucers descend, spin and hover for several seconds; then they shot straight up and away. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 121 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7682 ### Event 6450 (5F0E6756) **Date:** 11/18/1947 **Locations:** Boise Idaho; Mitchel Field, New York **Description:** Boise Idaho Statesman Aviation Editor [David N. Johnson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39757884/david-n%5F-johnson), having heard of the USS Ticonderoga sighting, writes to Gen. [George E. Stratemeyer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FE.%5FStratemeyer) at Mitchel Field, New York, for information and asking eight questions about the Army’s investigation. Stratemeyer passes the query on to [Garrett](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33467541/george-duncan-garrett) and [Taylor](http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/rtaylor3.htm). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 43 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1173 ### Event 6451 (128557B4) **Date:** 11/20/1947 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 26.7km altitude (GE technology proving flight) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_294 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 26.7km ### Event 6452 (2BA09133) **Date:** 11/20/1947 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) At 16:47, a V2 "special" was launched, only reaching 21 km in altitude, poor performance. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1324 ### Event 6453 (F80A71A1) **Date:** 11/24/1947 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) First launch of an Aerobee, it reached 57 km in altitude and stopped after 35 seconds (jerks). **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, p. 286, doc. Van Allen **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1325 ### Event 6454 (4D73B899) **Date:** 11/30/1947 **Description:** In a Top Secret Document, Dr. Bronk’s scientific team classifies extraterrestrials as EBE’s (Extra Biological Entities). **Type:** majestic document **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A) **Reference:** [link](https://coolinterestingstuff.com/the-facts-about-the-majestic-12-and-ufo-evidence) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_295 **Attributes:** Majestic ### Event 6455 (082DBF6F) **Date:** 11/30/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) According to the [MJ documents](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/MJDocs.html), the [MJ-12](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/MJ-12.html) group concluded that, although the beings recovered from the [Roswell](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/1947-07-02\_Roswell.html) wreckage had a human appearance, their biological and evolutionary processes differed significantly from those observed or postulated for homo-sapiens. (November 30) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_706 ### Event 6456 (67534F6D) **Date:** 12/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Englishman Hogdson observed luminous points on the dark side of the [Moon](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Moon.html). **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_707 ### Event 6457 (6CA46FC6) **Date:** 12/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Following [Highjump](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Highjump.html), Operation Windmill begins. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_708 ### Event 6458 (EB456470) **Date:** 12/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Finne Ronne, leader of a private American expedition to Antarctica, is based on Stonington Island. He flies over the southern shores, and is the first to see the mountains on the west side of the Filchner Ice Shelf. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_709 ### Event 6459 (95246C50) **Date:** 12/1947 (approximate) **Time:** 00:00 **Location:** BLIDA AIR FORCE BASE, ALGERIA **Description:** Sentry. Red round object rises over town to 70° elevation. Vanishes. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 139) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1272 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Algeria", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "BLIDA AFB,ALGERIA:SENTRY:RED ROUND OBJ RISES OVR TOWN to 70°ELEVATION:vanishes", **LatLong:** "36.433335 2.850000", **LatLongDMS:** "36:26:00 N 02:51:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.433335,2.850000)", **State/Prov:** "Alger", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 6460 (282E2E8D) **Date:** 12/1947 **Location:** USAF Aeromedical Laboratory **Description:** By now, ATIC has received 156 UFO reports. Aerodynamicists at ATIC and AMC agree that no German design can match UFO performance. The USAF Aeromedical Laboratory says that even if such a craft can be built, the human body cannot withstand the maneuvers, and USAF materials specialists say that no known material can withstand them either, as well as the heat of high speeds. [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) later writes, “Why couldn’t these people, whoever they might be, stand these horrible maneuver forces? Why judge them by earthly standards? I found a memo to this effect was in the old Project Sign files.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ruppelt, [p. 28](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/28/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1183 ### Event 6461 (FAC14E59) **Date:** 12/8/1947 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 104.6km altitude (Stable flight but less than planned altitude) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_296 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 104.6km ### Event 6462 (AA59A98C) **Date:** 12/8/1947 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) At 14:42, V2 #28 was launched, reaching 104 km. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1326 ### Event 6463 (C1794B20) **Date:** 12/8/1947 **Location:** Las Vegas, NV **Description:** Moving reddish UFO emitted flash of light, shot upwards out of sight. \[XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_415 ### Event 6464 (C97D0E3B) **Date:** 12/8/1947 **Location:** Las Vegas, Nevada **Description:** Pilots observe a reddish light moving at moderate speed over Las Vegas, Nevada. It emits a flash of green light and shoots upwards at a “tremendous speed.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 149](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=161&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1174 ### Event 6465 (C350BA38) **Date:** 12/11/1947 **Description:** [Garrett](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33467541/george-duncan-garrett) and [Taylor](http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/rtaylor3.htm) write a memorandum to the USAF Public Relations Office outlining the proper answers to questions such as [Johnson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39757884/david-n%5F-johnson) has asked. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 44 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1175 ### Event 6466 (032CB463) **Date:** 12/13/1947 **Time:** ~00:00 **Location:** OSLO, NORWAY **Description:** Luminous objects and 'falling stars' subject of USAF Tech. Intel. Center. (ATIC) query / Blue Book files. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 33) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1273 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "OSLO,NORWAY:LUM OBJs+'FALLING STARS' SUBJECT OF ATIC QUERY/BBK FILES:NFD", **LatLong:** "59.916670 10.700001", **LatLongDMS:** "59:55:00 N 10:42:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/59.916670,10.700001)", **State/Prov:** "Norway", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 6467 (4A72EDE2) **Date:** 12/14/1947 **Location:** Fort Bragg, North Carolina **Description:** 12:20 a.m. Six staff sergeants at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, watch a domed disc with a glowing green corona surrounding it moving slowly at a slightly tilted angle. It skims the treeline \(causing the tops of the trees to wave slightly\) and takes off to the northwest. They estimate it is 50–75 feet in diameter and flying at 200 feet altitude. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Project 1947 case file](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/3C.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1176 ### Event 6468 (F786636A) **Date:** 12/16/1947 **Locations:** Berlin; Göttingen, Germany **Description:** Army Lt. Col. [Harry H. Pretty](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22404230/harry-h-pretty) in Berlin writes a memo to the Deputy Director of Intelligence in Berlin stating that the [Horten brothers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten%5Fbrothers) \(Reimer and Walter\) have been located in Göttingen, Germany. He says they are eccentric and quarrelsome. Though they were responsible for the Horten Ho 299 \(a prototype fighter/bomber flying wing design\), his investigation concludes that no saucer design “ever existed nor was projected by any of the German air research institutions.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lt. Col. Harry H. Pretty, “[Horten Brothers \(Flying Saucers\),](http://www.project1947.com/fig/horten1.htm)” December 16, 1947 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1177 ### Event 6469 (3D2DB349) **Date:** 12/16/1947 **Description:** Army Lt. Col. Harry H. Pretty writes to the Dep. Dir. of Intelligence (Deputy G-2, U.S. Army) in Berlin that Nazi aircraft designers Reimar Horten and Walter Horten were located in Gottingen, Germany, and although they were responsible for the Horten Ho 299 flying wing design, an investigation determined no flying saucer design “ever existed nor was projected by any of the German air research institutions.” * [http://www.project1947.com/fig/horten1.htm](http://www.project1947.com/fig/horten1.htm) >**_Note_**: This finding was never delivered to Congress in an open forum in the decades that followed despite it likely being relevant to Congressional inquiries into the origin of UAP after World War II. **Reference:** [Anonymous 2023 PDF](https://archive.org/details/anon_pdf_from_markdown) **Source:** Anon2023PDF, **ID:** Anon2023PDF_12 ### Event 6470 (DDAAFFE0) **Date:** 12/17/1947 **Locations:** US; Idaho **Description:** US Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. [Carl Spaatz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%5FSpaatz) tells the Idaho Statesman he does not rule out the possibility of the flying disks being “foreign experimentation.” He adds that the Air Force is still investigating and he still wants people to report their sightings. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Spaatz Leaves Door open on Chance ‘Flying Discs’ Are of](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89743190/the-idaho-statesman/) [Foreign Origin,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89743190/the-idaho-statesman/)” Boise Idaho Statesman, December 17, 1947, p. 1 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1178 ### Event 6471 (956C324F) **Date:** 12/18/1947 **Locations:** Pentagon; Wright-Patterson **Description:** Pentagon Col. James F. Olive Jr. \(chief of AFOAI\) and Lieut. Col. J. E. Thomas of the Offensive Air section \(AFOAI-OA\) respond to a request by deputy chief of Air Staff for Research and Development Gen. [Curtis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis%5FLeMay) [LeMay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis%5FLeMay) on the status of flying disc analysis. They complete their reanalysis of the earlier documents from the Pentagon and Wright-Patterson, rewrite a new EEI indicating a potentially serious but puzzling phenomenon, and turn this over to Chief of Air Force Intelligence [McDonald](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106278/major-general-george-c-mcdonald/) for his signature. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Analysis of ‘Flying Disc’ Reports,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/471218.pdf)” December 18, 1947; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 36; Swords 43, 485–491 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1179 ### Event 6472 (7D5B4F13) **Date:** 12/19/1947 **Description:** The Research and Development Board has its first meeting. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1180 ### Event 6473 (B3BD681B) **Date:** 12/20/1947 **Location:** UTSJOKI, FINLAND **Description:** Numerous observer(s). Flying saucer / news report(s). No further details / brief note / Blue Book files. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 2) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1274 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "UTSJOKI,FINLAND:NMRS OBS:FLYING SCR/NEWS RPTS:NFD/BRIEF NOTE/BBK FILES", **LatLong:** "69.833337 27.000001", **LatLongDMS:** "69:50:00 N 27:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Tundra", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/69.833337,27.000001)", **State/Prov:** "Finland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6474 (F0C782DC) **Date:** 12/22/1947 **Description:** The final EEI, called “Analysis of Flying Disc Reports,” is issued by Chief of USAF Intelligence [George](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106278/major-general-george-c-mcdonald/) [C. McDonald](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106278/major-general-george-c-mcdonald/)[,](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106278/major-general-george-c-mcdonald/) who concurs with AMC’s recommendation of September 23 and forwards it to director of USAF Research and Development Gen. [Laurence Cardee Craigie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence%5FCardee%5FCraigie) for a reply. Gen. [Charles Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell), the new chief of AFOIR, signs off on this. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Analysis of ‘Flying Disc’ Reports,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/471218.pdf)” December 18, 1947; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 36 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1181 ### Event 6475 (26A89251) **Date:** 12/23/1947 **Location:** Muray Hill, NJ **Description:** First transistor was successfully demonstrated at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ. Bell Labs was the research arm of American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T). **Type:** scientific advance **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_transistor) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_297 ### Event 6476 (4C221B85) **Date:** 12/26/1947 **Locations:** Chicago, Illinois; University of Iowa **Description:** At the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Chicago, Illinois, University of Iowa astronomer [Charles C. Wylie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FWylie%5F%28astronomer%29) proposes a coast-to-coast sky patrol to report on rockets, meteors, or flying saucers. He says that “mass hysteria” about saucers could have been prevented with a sky patrol in place. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Sky](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92786179/) [Patrol Recommended by Scientist,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92786179/)” Richmond \(Va.\) Times Dispatch, December 27, 1947, p. 8; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume 1, 1947,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Revision.pdf) The Author, February 1991, p. 76 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1182 ### Event 6477 (4655B8C1) **Date:** 12/30/1947 **Description:** USAF project "Saucer" started **Type:** ufological event **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_94 ### Event 6478 (4F8066D5) **Date:** 12/30/1947 **Location:** Washington DC **Description:** Project SIGN formed to obtain information about saucer performance characteristics and their purpose on earth (with "2A" Security Classification at Wright-Patterson) **Type:** ufological event **Reference:** [Wikipedia link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Sign) **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A, B1-G p23) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_298 ### Event 6479 (565ECF1A) **Date:** 12/30/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) [James Forrestal](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/ForrestalJamesVincent.html) creates by decree an inquiry commission on UFO sightings, the project [Sign](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Sign.html), charged with collecting the maximum amount of information possible on these devices, their characteristics and motivations. (30 December) **Reference:** Vallée 1966 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_710 ### Event 6480 (A4406487) **Date:** 12/30/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Creation of the [UKUSA](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/UKUSA.html) Agreement. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_711 ### Event 6481 (0062E83A) **Date:** 12/30/1947 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Near Oradea \(Romania\), Andreas Schulhof \(Romanian speaking German\) saw through the window of the train he was travelling in 6 unusual objects flying in formation. He estimated their speed to be 20000 miles/h. **Reference:** Magazine Volk und Kultur 1969 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1947.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_712 ### Event 6482 (434B1B54) **Date:** 12/30/1947 **Location:** Pilot Hill (1 mile W of), CA **Description:** High speed low altitude object trailing red, green and other colored flames (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [471230](http://nicap.org/pilot471230dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_416 ### Event 6483 (6EBC6933) **Date:** 12/30/1947 **Location:** Sawtooth National Forest, ID **Description:** A high speed object trailing green and blue flames (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [471230](http://www.nicap.org/sawtooth471230dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_417 ### Event 6484 (D671F1DF) **Date:** 12/30/1947 **Location:** Europe **Description:** Gen. [Laurence C. Craigie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence%5FCardee%5FCraigie), director of USAF R&D and successor to Gen. [Curtis LeMay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis%5FLeMay) \(who has returned to Europe\), advises the AMC commanding general that USAF policy is not to ignore UFO reports, but to collect, evaluate, and act on the information. He establishes Project Sign \(Project HT-304 under USAF Technical Instruction no. TI-2185\) in a memo titled “Flying Discs.” [Alfred Loedding](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209268646/alfred-christian-loedding), who is convinced that the flying discs are extraterrestrial, may have come up with the “Sign” designation. It carries a 2A restricted classification. \(Gen. Laurence C. Craigie, “Flying Discs,” Memorandum to Commanding General, Air Materiel Command, December 30, 1947; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 11; Condon, [p. 896](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/896/mode/2up); “[Report by the Director of Intelligence, USAF, to the Joint Intelligence](http://www.project1947.com/fig/DI%5FJIC%5FApril%5F28%5F1949.pdf) [Committee on Unidentified Aerial Objects,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/DI%5FJIC%5FApril%5F28%5F1949.pdf)” April 28, 1949, p. 2; Michael David Hall and Wendy Ann Connors, “Alfred Loedding: New Insight on the Man behind Project Sign,” IUR 23, no. 4 \(Winter 1998\): 24\). Craigie, after his retirement from the Air Force in 1955, indicates that he believes UFOs are a waste of time and only approved Project Sign because of internal USAF politics. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Joel Carpenter **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1184 --- ## Year: 1948, 549 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 6485 (0F905C5A) **Date:** 1948 **Location:** Europe **Description:** More Ghost Rockets seen in Europe **Type:** UFO sightings **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_96 ### Event 6486 (CAD6E0DB) **Date:** 1948 **Location:** Washington DC **Description:** Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt stated: “With the Soviets practically eliminated as a UFO source the idea of interplanetary spaceships was becoming more popular.” **Type:** ufological event **Reference:** [Wikipedia link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_J._Ruppelt) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_299 ### Event 6487 (0FFFE288) **Date:** 1948 **Location:** White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** Capt. Virgil Armstrong Postlethwaite Captain of G-2 Air, received a Top Secret incoming TWX from 3rd Army Headquarters, Atlanta, directed to the Commanding General (with a copy sent to G-2), White Sands Proving Grounds. Message: Crash of a 100 ft. diam. saucer, 30 ft. ht.; one portal window blown; 5 Aliens suffocated; each Alien approx. 4 ft. in ht., oversized heads; hull of craft paper-thin but impenetrable by conventional tools. Private property purchased to facilitate movement of recovered disc. (Armstrong’s book confusingly indicated the craft landed inside the secure area of White Sands.) **Type:** crash retrieval **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (A5, B3-C, RECOVERY) **Reference:** [Twitter](https://twitter.com/richgel999/status/1552547805369143296) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_310 **See also:** 3/25/1948 **See also:** 2/13/1948 ### Event 6488 (7216E69F) **Date:** 1948 **Location:** Desert region, US **Description:** Military source, Fall 1977: Stringfield heard from other military sources that a metallic disc had crashed in a desert region in 1948 and was retrieved by military units. Craft suffered severe damage. **Type:** crash retrieval **Reference:** [Leonard Stringfield's 1978 MUFON Symposium](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/1978_Mufon_Symposium_Stringfield.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_970 ### Event 6489 (29152C64) **Date:** 1948 **Location:** 30 miles inside the Mexican border near Laredo, Texas **Description:** Todd Zechel and retired Air Force Colonel, 1977: A disc-shaped UFO 90 feet in diameter crashed in 1948 about 30 miles inside the Mexican border near Laredo, Texas. One dead 4 ft 6 inch alien found with no thumbs. Craft and alien body taken to Air Force base. **Type:** crash retrieval **Reference:** [Leonard Stringfield's 1978 MUFON Symposium](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/1978_Mufon_Symposium_Stringfield.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_971 ### Event 6490 (50FE6648) **Date:** 1948 **Location:** Aztec, NM **Description:** Professor Robert Carr, 1975-1978: Carr learned through 5 military related witnesses details about 1948 UFO crash and retrieval in Aztec, NM. 12 alien bodies 3-4 feet tall recovered with oversized heads and slanted eyes. **Type:** crash retrieval **Reference:** [Leonard Stringfield's 1978 MUFON Symposium](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/1978_Mufon_Symposium_Stringfield.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_987 ### Event 6491 (84201BEE) **Date:** 1948 **Location:** USA, White Sands (New Mexico) **Description:** (Translated from French) The launches of V2 rockets were followed by visits from UFOs. I have the recording of the interview with Charles Schwartz, the radar operator at White Sands during one of these UFO appearances. (Has anyone heard this recording???) The object had the shape of a disc, it rose to 1600 km/h at the same time as the V2 which it circled around. It was observed with binoculars, theodolites and radar. It had passed the rocket at some 9000 km/h and had disappeared into space. **Reference:** Frank EDWARDS: "Les S.V. affaire sérieuse" - trad. Laffont 1967 - p. 202 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1379 ### Event 6492 (ADCD1DAA) **Date:** 1948 **Location:** SPAIN, Gargauta la Olla (Cacérès) **Description:** (Translated from French) A creature entered a hut as it approached the fire, in the midst of a storm. The witness escaped, terrified. He saw a ball of fire suspended in the air at a short distance away. **Reference:** Henry DURRANT: "First Investigations on ET Humanoids" LAFFONT 1977 - P. 175 and 178 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1381 ### Event 6493 (CDF23F6E) **Date:** 1948 **Location:** Swastika, Canada **Description:** Mr. Galbraith twice saw an object land. The first time, it was a disk-shaped craft with a humanoid figure-the second time, cigar shape with three figures. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Quincy ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_64 ### Event 6494 (92C05B4B) **Date:** 1948 **Locations:** Lockbourne AFB [now Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base] in Lockbourne, Ohio; Ohio River **Description:** David T. Keating, an employee of the USAF Nuclear Energy for the Propulsion of Aircraft group, is flying with the 166th Fighter Squadron of the Ohio National Guard out of Lockbourne AFB \[now Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base\] in Lockbourne, Ohio. While executing a flip of his P-51 at 18,000 feet, he sees a silvery disc zoom above his plane. He goes in pursuit of it at 325 mph and closes to within 240 feet of it. It seems to be 40 feet in diameter and 6 feet thick, with a vertical stabilizer rudder on the end. He keeps flying after it even when he loses sight of it. “About 10 miles south of the Ohio River,” he claims, “I spotted litter on a hillside and a path that had obviously been ripped up by a crashing plane.” Short on fuel, he returns to Lockbourne. He persuades his major to fly over the crash scene, and they send a truck to retrieve the remains. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Helen Knox, “Ridge Newcomer Tells of Game of Tag with ‘Saucer,’” The Oak Ridger, September 18, 1950; Clark III 325 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1185 ### Event 6495 (00187DDE) **Date:** 1948 **Locations:** Arizona; Taos, New Mexico **Description:** An airman stationed in Arizona is called out with a scientific team to examine a flying saucer that has crashed near Taos, New Mexico. When he arrives, the area is roped off and under military guard. The object is metallic with a flat circular airfoil. The cabin at the top center is too small for a normal-sized human. He is told by workers on the scene that bodies of “little men” have been removed from the craft. They discover that the ship is constructed of interlocking sections pinned together, but they cannot locate a power plant, except possibly some electromagnets below the cabin. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** L. J\[ames\] Lorenzen, “[Aimé Michel’s Orthotenic Lines,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201958%2007%2000%20-%20July.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, July 1958, pp. 6–7; Clark III 325 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1186 ### Event 6496 (D5560561) **Date:** 1948 **Locations:** New Mexico; Russia; UK **Description:** British author and ex-MI5 operative [Bernard Newman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%5FNewman%5F%28author%29) publishes a novel titled The Flying Saucer, the first book to use that phrase in its title. The story revolves around a group of scientists who create a fake Martian threat in order to bring the world together. Plot elements include a trio of staged saucer crashes \(in New Mexico, Russia, and the UK\), propaganda, and even an alien autopsy. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Bernard Newman, The Flying Saucer, Gollancz, 1948; Andrew May, “[The Flying Saucer,](http://forteana-blog.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-flying-saucer.html)” Retro-Forteana, June 30, 2013; Kremlin 43–45 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1187 ### Event 6497 (24B13825) **Date:** 1948? **Locations:** Riggs Road; Lateral 1 Road; Yakima, Washington **Description:** Sylvia Hall, 11, wakes up at her home on the corner of Riggs Road and Lateral 1 Road south of Yakima, Washington, when her bedroom fills with bluish-white light pouring in through the closed west window. Some 100 feet above the ground is a huge bright cloud. Gliding down from it in groups of four on something like a ramp are tall people with bluish-silvery robes. She watches them for 10 minutes, then she has an overpowering desire to go back to bed. She tells no one about the experience until she is an adult. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Greg Long, “Strangeness at Yakima,” IUR 19, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1994\): 16–17 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1188 ### Event 6498 (3E0896D9) **Date:** 1948 **Location:** Dayton, OH **Description:** A top secret ATIC conclusion that the UFOs were spaceships. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up) **Source:** HostileFawcett, **ID:** HostileFawcett_9 ### Event 6499 (2F00ECB2) **Date:** Late 1940's **Location:** A Patagonian bay, Argentina **Description:** Rumors persisted in Argentina post-World War II that German U-boats carrying Nazi war criminals and treasures landed in Patagonia, Argentina's southern wilderness. A local newspaper later published a photograph, believed to be from the late 1940s, showing what appeared to be a Nazi submarine in a Patagonian bay. Multiple witnesses claimed to have seen the submarine near San Matias Gulf, with one elderly woman recalling spotting the submarine near the war's end, which later disappeared as an airplane passed overhead. This region, Patagonia, is the closest part of Argentina to Antarctica. (Chapter 8, Ref 326) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_316 ### Event 6500 (76C57C70) **Date:** 1948 **Description:** An anonymous retired Col. states a UAP crash occurred this year near Laredo, TX. he states when he arrived it was under a canopy and witnesses were sworn to secrecy. * _[Retrievals of the Third Kind presented at MUFON 1978, Leon Stringfield](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/1978_Mufon_Symposium_Stringfield.pdf), p7_ **Reference:** [Anonymous 2023 PDF](https://archive.org/details/anon_pdf_from_markdown) **Source:** Anon2023PDF, **ID:** Anon2023PDF_13 ### Event 6501 (02A0360D) **Date:** 1948 **Description:** President Harry S. Truman asks his USAF aide, Col. Robert B. Landry, to give him quarterly updates on UAP research but to do so verbally. No records are kept. * [https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/oral-histories/landryr](https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/oral-histories/landryr) **Reference:** [Anonymous 2023 PDF](https://archive.org/details/anon_pdf_from_markdown) **Source:** Anon2023PDF, **ID:** Anon2023PDF_15 ### Event 6502 (CA28B9A1) **Date:** 1948 **Description:** A source “VA” speaks of a UAP crash at White Sands Proving Ground this year where he was cleared to see a Top Secret message of a saucer shaped craft with one portal window blown out that caused suffocation of five occupants. The bodies had turned blue and were 4 feet tall with oversized human heads. Private property was allegedly purchased to facilitate transport of the craft covertly to the base. * [https://www.earthfiles.com/2005/03/07/part-3-ufo-crashretrievals-status-report-iii-amassing-the-e](https://www.earthfiles.com/2005/03/07/part-3-ufo-crashretrievals-status-report-iii-amassing-the-e) **Reference:** [Anonymous 2023 PDF](https://archive.org/details/anon_pdf_from_markdown) **Source:** Anon2023PDF, **ID:** Anon2023PDF_16 ### Event 6503 (425B09C7) **Date:** 1/1948 **Description:** Fate Magazine 1948 Volume 1 #1 page 26 reports on the Maury Island incident metallic fragments, described as a “lava oxide metal” **Type:** ufological event **Reference:** [Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/the-bsra-tested-fragments-from-the-maury-island-incident-cd20c2d14324) **Reference:** [link](https://ia904604.us.archive.org/17/items/fate-1948-1_202110/FATE_1948_1.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_300 ### Event 6504 (8765434F) **Date:** 1/1948 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Chehalis \(Washington\), Mrs Bernard Zaikowski saw a man with silver wings buzzing and whistling almost 100 m above her barn. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1948.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_713 ### Event 6505 (37EC5CD6) **Date:** 1/1948 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Glendale \(Illinois\), 12 year old James Trares excitedly shouted to his mother: "There's a bird outside, like a B-29!." **Reference:** Keel 1975 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1948.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_714 ### Event 6506 (CC644933) **Date:** 1/1948? **Time:** 23:00? **Location:** YUSTE MONASTERY, SP **Description:** Small humanoid (or Grey) has feet like a goat. Observer(s) screams. Small humanoid (or Grey) leaves. Fireball rises! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BALLESTER OLMOS, Vicente-Juan: CATALOG of 200 TYPE-1 EVENTS in SPAIN & PORTUGAL; CUFOS 1976. (Index 2) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1275 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Spain", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "YUSTE MONASTERY,SP:OID HAS FEET LIKE A GOAT:OBS SCREAMS:OID LEAVES:FBL RISES!", **LatLong:** "40.116669 -5.750000", **LatLongDMS:** "40:07:00 N 05:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.116669,-5.750000)", **State/Prov:** "CCR", **Strangeness:** "11" ### Event 6507 (01714B4E) **Date:** 1/3/1948 **Location:** VAASA, FINL **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #99 / news. Saucer west going quickly east / 30 second(s). 5 Jan saucer north going quickly south / tens / Jakobstad-Pietersaari. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 1) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1276 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "VAASA,FINL:BBK#99/NEWS:SCR W>>E/30sec::5JAN SCR N>>S/10s/JAKOBSTAD-PIETERSAARI", **LatLong:** "63.094447 21.650001", **LatLongDMS:** "63:05:40 N 21:39:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/63.094447,21.650001)", **State/Prov:** "Finland", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6508 (0F26EB2A) **Date:** 1/3/1948 **Description:** A disc-shaped object shot across the sky from west to east in 30 seconds over the coast of Vaasa, Finland. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files, case 99; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1289; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1948, p. 1 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_48 ### Event 6509 (1194D435) **Date:** 1/6/1948 **Location:** CHEHALIS, WA **Description:** Bird-man hovers over barn. Retracts wings and shoots going up / USAF report. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HOLZER, Hans: THE UFO-NAUTS; Fawcett Gold Medal Books, Greenwich, CT 1976. (Index 117) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1277 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NFO:** No craft seen, **MON:** Monster: Life form fits no category, **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "3", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "69", **HatchDesc:** "CHEHALIS,WA:BIRD-MAN HVRS OVR BARN:RETRACTS WINGS+SHOOTS↑/USAF Rpt.", **LatLong:** "46.661113 -122.961117", **LatLongDMS:** "46:39:40 N 122:57:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.661113,-122.961117)", **RelAlt:** "10", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 6510 (6D19D2F6) **Date:** 1/6/1948 **Location:** Chehalis, Washington **Description:** 3:00 p.m. [Bernice Zaikowski](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70010841/bernice-mary-zaikowski), 61, of Chehalis, Washington, hears a “sizzling and whizzing” sound and looks up to see a “birdman” hovering 200 feet above her barn. She watches “a man equipped with long silver wings fastened over the shoulders with a strap” ascend rapidly, hover, bank, then fly away. “He flew in an upright position and appeared to be manipulating controls strapped to his chest.” The wings do not flap; instead they retract close to his body during ascent, and are extended to hover or proceed in horizontal flight. Zaikowski says five other adult witnesses and a number of children also see the birdman. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[‘Flying Man’ Is Chehalis Report,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92801673/)” Coos Bay \(Oreg.\) World, January 21, 1948, p. 2; Lyle Zapato, “[The Birdmen of Cascadia,](https://zapatopi.net/blog/?post=200703240080.the%5Fbirdmen%5Fof%5Fcascadia)” ZPi blog, March 24, 2007; Clark III 270 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1189 ### Event 6511 (CCDCB108) **Date:** 1/6/1948 **Description:** Mrs Bernice Zaikowski of Chehalis, Washington heard a “sizzling and whizzing” sound at three o'clock in the afternoon, and looked up to see a “birdman” hovering 200 feet above her barn. She watched “a man equipped with long silver wings fastened over the shoulders with a strap” ascend rapidly, hover, bank, then fly away. “He flew in an upright position and appeared to be manipulating controls strapped to his chest.” The wings did not flap, instead they retracted close to his body during ascent, and were extended to hover or proceed in horizontal flight. Mrs Zaikowski said five other adult witnesses and a number of children also saw the birdman. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1948-05, citing The Portland (Oregon) Journal, April 30, 1950; Hans Holzer, The UFOnauts, p. 117; John A. Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 206 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_161 ### Event 6512 (A050ABFE) **Date:** 1/7/1948 **Location:** Godman Air Base, Kentucky **Description:** Capt. Mantell of USAF is killed while pursuing UFO **Type:** UFO encounter **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_95 ### Event 6513 (B7960D71) **Date:** 1/7/1948 **Location:** Maysville, KN **Description:** Maysville, KN: The local Highway Patrol are notified that an UFO has been sighted high up in the sky and they notify Godman AFB of the sighting...At 1:45 pm T. Sgt. Quinton Blackwell visually scanned the skies south of Godman AFB and picked out a dim light in the hazy sky. By the time base commander Col. Guy Hixarrived at 2:20 pm the UFO looked like “an ice cream cone” through binoculars. About 20 minutes later 4 National Guard aircraft flew into the vicinity with Capt. Thomas Mantell in one of the F-51s. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_301 ### Event 6514 (E74EFA9C) **Date:** 1/7/1948 **Location:** Maysville, KN **Description:** Top Secret Report (100–203–79,p.12,sec. k.) Capt. Thomas Mantell, a Nat. Guard pilot, was killed trying to chase an UFO up to 30,000 ft. His last message to the tower was, “it appears to be metallic object....of tremendous size.directly ahead and slightly above....I am trying to close for a better look.” The F-51 exploded in mid-air and disintegrated before it struck the ground. The aircraft’s metal was hit with fragments before it collided with the ground. State Police estimated the saucer to be 250 ft. diam. (On Mantell's online obituary, Jim Marrs added: A man by the name of Richard T. Miller claims he was in the Scott AFB operations room in Belleville, Illinois during the chase and he states that Capt. Mantell's last words were, "My God, I see people in this thing!") **Type:** ufological event **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p481) **Reference:** [Grave][(https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14958603/thomas-francis-mantell) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_302 ### Event 6515 (9F30F18C) **Date:** 1/7/1948 **Time:** afternoon **Location:** Godman Field, Fort Knox, Kentucky USA **Description:** In a 1996 interview, former Army sergeant Quinton A. Blackwell provided crucial information about the January 7, 1948 Mantell Case at Godman Field, Fort Knox, Kentucky. Blackwell disclosed that during the UFO pursuit, Captain Thomas F. Mantell uttered the significant statement, **"We're going to need hot guns,"** implying the need for armed weaponry. This revelation challenges the official record and raises questions about the incident's true nature and objectives. Blackwell's testimony has prompted renewed interest in the case and calls for further disclosure and the declassification of related reports. **Type:** ufo pursuit, pilot death **Reference:** [archive.org - UFO Roundup - Volume 1, Number 2. February 26, 1996](https://web.archive.org/web/19980224083716/http://www.digiserve.com/ufoinfo/roundup/v01/rnd01_02.shtml) **Reference:** [thinkaboutit.site - UFO Roundup: Volume 1 Number 2: February 26, 1996](https://thinkaboutit.site/ufos/volume-1-number-2/) **Reference:** [afu.se - Eye Magazine](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/EYE%20Magazine%20(Evers)/EYE%20Magazine%20Vol%201%20No%201.pdf#page=11) **Reference:** [afu.se - NJAAP Bulletin](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/NJAAP%20Bulletin%20(NJAAP)/NJAAP%20Bulletin%20-%201962%2012%20-%20Vol%201%20No%207.pdf#page=11) **Reference:** [Sgt. Blackwell's Jan. 1948 statement](http://www.nicap.org/docs/mantell/TSgtBlackwellStatement_9Jan1948.htm) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_1086 ### Event 6516 (EBD2DC48) **Date:** 1/7/1948 **Location:** USA, Madisonville (Kentucky) and elsewhere. MANTELL Case **Description:** (Translated from French) In the early afternoon hundreds of inhabitants of Madisonville, then thousands of citizens of the same state, saw an immense circular and shining object. The state police alerted Fort Knox, The diameter of the craft was, it was believed, at least 75 meters. (etc… ) (Donald E. KEYHOE: "The UFO Files" - ed. Hachette 1952, p.37, 38) At 1:15 pm a round object, about 70 m in diameter, is reported above Madisonville heading towards Fort Knox. At 1:45 pm the observer of the Godman air base signals it; the officers observe it from the ground with binoculars and with the naked eye. The commander of the base, Colonel Hix, orders by radio a patrol of three F-51 fighters to take the object in pursuit and observe it. The patrol, commanded by Captain Mantell, who was overflying Fort Knox, then heads towards Godman. At 2:45 pm Mantell reports that the object is above him. He rises to meet it and the speed of the three fighters is about 500 km/h.

Radio message from Mantell: "I'm approaching to better examine it. The craft looks like it's made of metal and it's huge".

At an altitude of 5,000 m the object still rising, the other two fighters lose sight of Mantell due to the clouds and abandon the pursuit to return to the Godman base. At 3:15 pm Mantell reports that he can't reach the object and that he will abandon the pursuit at 6,000 m if the craft continues to rise, as he does not have an oxygen inhaler. This is his last message. Around 4 pm debris from Mantell's F-51 was found within a radius of several kilometers, which would prove that the plane disintegrated in mid-flight. Despite the searches made, nothing of the pilot's body was found. (Henry DURRANT: "The Black Book of UFOs" - Laffont 1970 - p.89-90) (note from vog: see newspaper article of the following day: the remains of Mantell were indeed found and evacuated from the crash scene by ambulance)

Years later it was known that the secret military Skylook weather balloons were being tested in the area and Arnold would have died from lack of oxygen at an altitude of 20,000 feet. (Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 48)

Here is an excerpt from the article published in the January 8, 1948 edition of the weekly "The Franklin, Kentucky Favorite". AN AIRPLANE EXPLODES AT MID-ALTITUDE, THE PILOT IS KILLED IN THE CRASH ON JOE PHILLIPS' FARM. An Army P-51 combat plane exploded at mid-altitude yesterday and crashed on Joe Phillips' farm in the afternoon around 3:30 pm killing the pilot identified as Thomas F. Mantell (Jr.), 3533 River Park Drive, Louisville. The plane bore (on the tail) No. Ky. NG 869. Mrs. Joe Phillips said she was sitting near the fire when she heard the plane, whose engine apparently had some trouble, flying near the house. Almost immediately there was a great explosion.

Surprised she looked out the window and saw 200 yards from the house, the disintegrated plane fall into a wooded lot. Pieces of the wreckage were found up to a quarter of a mile around the point of impact. Several people in Franklin say they heard the explosion. A trail of steam still floated in the air an hour after the crash. Another eyewitness, Barbara Mayes, a student at the Franklin Grade School said she saw the plane explode while it was still at mid-height. She was waiting for the bus to go home when she heard the explosion. This is the second explosion in a few months. The place of the explosion was only 3 miles away from the one that took the life of Ed Snow and Richard M. Thomason on April 29, 1947. (…)

Mrs. Joe Phillips said she called an ambulance and help. The remains of the dead pilot were removed from the scene by ambulance and taken to the Booker funeral home awaiting official instructions.

Captain Mantell was a veteran of World War II and participated in the June 6, 1944 Normandy landing, he was among others decorated with the Flying Cross. He was demobilized a year ago (in 1946). He leaves a wife and two children. **Reference:** Lee Trail and Lou Farish of the UFO Newsclipping Service made this article available to UFO ROUNDUP vol. 3 n° 01 from 04 jan. 1998, ed Joseph Trainor **Reference:** … **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1330 ### Event 6517 (2CB70CE0) **Date:** 1/7/1948 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Fatal encounter for [Thomas Mantell](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/MantellThomas.html). (14 h 45) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1948.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_715 ### Event 6518 (A7F71982) **Date:** 1/7/1948 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Lockbourne \(Columbus\), an object round or oval, larger than a C-47, flying horizontally at more than 800 km/h is followed by the control tower for 20 minutes. It is silent, changes color, has a trail 5 times its length, and sometimes flies like an elevator going down to the ground. It is lost from sight on the horizon.. (17 h) **Reference:** [GEPAN](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/GEPAN.html), Information Note No. 3, 1981 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1948.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_716 ### Event 6519 (3C99E1CE) **Date:** 1/7/1948 **Location:** Oklahoma City, OK **Description:** From the Air Material Command, Wright Field's **Project Saucer**/**Project Sign** Report: An Oklahoma City man reported spotting a saucer "seeming to be the bulk of six B-29's." The observer, who holds a private pilot's license, spotted the objects from the ground. It was perfectly round and flat with no protrusions. He reported the speed of the soundless craft as "probably three times that of a jet." **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256) **Source:** Scully, **ID:** Scully_31 ### Event 6520 (00DA0212) **Date:** 1/7/1948 **Location:** Lockbourne Air Force Base, Columbus, Ohio **Description:** From the Air Material Command, Wright Field's **Project Saucer**/**Project Sign** Report: Several observers reported a sky phenomenon described as "round or oval, larger than a C-47, and traveling in level flight faster than 500 mph." **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256) **Source:** Scully, **ID:** Scully_32 ### Event 6521 (D08A6A3F) **Date:** 1/7/1948 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** WILMINGTON, OH **Description:** Several / (seen thru) binoculars and Lockbourne Air Traffic Controllers. Very large saucer going up and down. Shoots going quickly southwest. Possible landing. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 7) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1278 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "22", **Elev:** "310", **HatchDesc:** "WILMINGTON,OH:SVRL/BINOCS+LOCKBOURNE ATCs:VLRG SCR ↑+↓:SHOOTS>>SW:POSS.LANDING", **LatLong:** "39.444446 -83.833337", **LatLongDMS:** "39:26:40 N 83:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.444446,-83.833337)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6522 (CD82EF7D) **Date:** 1/7/1948 **Location:** Fort Knox, KY **Description:** Mantell Case (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [480107](http://www.nicap.org/480107fortknox%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_418 ### Event 6523 (0CAD96D2) **Date:** 1/7/1948 **Location:** Wilmington, OH **Description:** Appearance of a flaming red cone in the skies of Wilmington, Ohio, on January 7, 1948, at between 7:20 and 7:55 P.M. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [480107](http://nicap.org/docs/mantell/wilmington480107pr.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_419 ### Event 6524 (7F8B00E7) **Date:** 1/7/1948 **Location:** Columbus (Lockbourne AFB), OH **Description:** Object Circles Base At High Speed / Touches Down (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [480107](http://www.nicap.org/480107lockbourne%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_420 ### Event 6525 (B9136BC4) **Date:** 1/7/1948 **Locations:** Kentucky State Police; Godman Army Airfield in Fort Knox, Kentucky; Elizabethtown, Kentucky; Madisonville, Kentucky; Lexington; Mannsville, Kentucky **Description:** 1:00 p.m. Kentucky State Police telephone Commanding Officer Col. Guy F. Hix’s office at Godman Army Airfield in Fort Knox, Kentucky, reporting an unidentified object near Elizabethtown, Kentucky. Another call to Hix comes from state police at about 1:10 p.m. of an observation by a civilian in Madisonville, Kentucky, through a Finch telescope of a cone-shaped object about 100 feet tall by 43 feet wide, at an altitude of 4 miles and moving at 10 mph. This is apparently General Mills Skyhook balloon Flight B, which passes about 40 miles to the southwest of Madisonville. Other reports come in from Lexington and Mannsville, Kentucky. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 30 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1190 ### Event 6526 (B8C412BF) **Date:** 1/7/1948 **Locations:** Irvington; Owensboro, Kentucky; Godman Army Airfield **Description:** 1:20–2:10 p.m. Army Flight Service reports to Godman Army Airfield control tower that the object is over Irvington then Owensboro, Kentucky. Godman Tower Operator Tech/Sgt [Quinton A. Blackwell](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39533254/quinton-a%5F-blackwell), Capt. James F. Duesler Jr., Base Air Inspector Lt. Col. E. Garrison Wood, and other USAF personnel see a round or ice-cream- cone-shaped white or silver object with a revolving red streamer toward the south beginning at 1:50 p.m. Many others see it as well after 2:07 p.m., such as Operations Officer Capt. Cary W. Carter and Col. Guy F. Hix. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 30 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1191 ### Event 6527 (79A0A62C) **Date:** 1/7/1948 **Locations:** Louisville, Kentucky; Godman Army Airfield at Fort Knox; Bowling Green, Kentucky; Franklin, Kentucky; Ohio State University; Camp Ripley near Little Falls, Minnesota **Description:** 2:50 p.m. Capt. [Thomas F. Mantell Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14958603/thomas-francis-mantell)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14958603/thomas-francis-mantell) a 25-year-old Kentucky Air National Guard pilot, and three others are flying F-51D fighters to Louisville, Kentucky. After Mantell reports his position to Standiford Field in Louisville, Tech/Sgt. [Quinton A. Blackwell](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39533254/quinton-a%5F-blackwell) at Godman Army Airfield at Fort Knox breaks in over the radio to request Mantell to intercept and identify the object. The object maintains a constant angular position as seen from Godman as it apparently moves away at about 240–300 mph at an altitude of 50,000–60,000 feet during most of Mantell’s pursuit. Flying at 300 mph and gradually climbing to about 22,000–23,000 feet, Mantell gradually overtakes the UFO from below, past Bowling Green, Kentucky, at about 3:10 p.m. In one of his last radio reports, Mantell says the UFO “appears to be a metallic object or possibly reflection of sun from a metallic object, and it is of tremendous size.” At 3:15 p.m., at 22,500 feet with oxygen running low, two other F-51Ds quit the chase. Mantell continues to 25,000, blacks out, and crashes at 3:18 p.m. about 4 miles south-southwest of Franklin, Kentucky. The UFO disappears from view behind a cloud at Godman at 3:50 p.m. The Project Sign staff, still not yet formally organized, are under pressure to come up with some kind of answer, so they quickly float Venus \(offhandedly suggested by Ohio State University astronomer [J. Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek)\) as an explanation. This implausible explanation is not even believed by the Air Force, but it remains unchallenged for several years. In 1952, [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) reopens the case and identifies the object as a secret Skyhook balloon, although he cannot confirm a launch that day. Army veteran [Clifford Stone](https://ufology.fandom.com/wiki/Clifford%5FStone) finds later that there had been no Skyhook launches since late December. However, [Barry J. Greenwood](http://www.noufors.com/Barry%5FJ%5FGreenwood.htm) and [Robert Todd](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2007/04/robert-todd-is-gone.html) tentatively identify the balloon as one launched from Camp Ripley near Little Falls, Minnesota, on January 6. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Mantell UFO incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantell%5FUFO%5Fincident)”; NICAP, “[The Mantell](http://www.nicap.org/480107fortknox%5Fdir.htm) [Case](http://www.nicap.org/480107fortknox%5Fdir.htm)”; Clark III 706–710; Ruppelt, [p. 31](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/30/mode/2up); Good Above, [pp. 262–263](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/262/mode/2up); Good Need, [pp. 104–105](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/104/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), pp. 30– 31; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 37; “[The Mantell](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Just%20Cause%20%28CAUS%29/Just%20Cause%20-%20New%20Series/Just%20Cause%20-%201994%2003%20%20-%20No%2039%20-%20New%20Series.pdf) [UFO: A Smoking Gun, Maybe!](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Just%20Cause%20%28CAUS%29/Just%20Cause%20-%20New%20Series/Just%20Cause%20-%201994%2003%20%20-%20No%2039%20-%20New%20Series.pdf)” Just Cause, no. 39 \(March 1994\): 9–10; “[The Mantell UFO: A Smoking Gun,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Just%20Cause%20%28CAUS%29/Just%20Cause%20-%20New%20Series/Just%20Cause%20-%201994%2006%20%20-%20No%2040%20-%20New%20Series.pdf) [Maybe! Part Two](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Just%20Cause%20%28CAUS%29/Just%20Cause%20-%20New%20Series/Just%20Cause%20-%201994%2006%20%20-%20No%2040%20-%20New%20Series.pdf)” Just Cause, no. 40 \(June 1994\): 8–12; Christopher D. Allan, “The Mantell Case—50 Years Later,” IUR 23, no. 1 \(Spring 1998\): 7–9, 31–32; Michael D. Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from the Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO Research, 2005, pp. 137–138; Kevin D. Randle, “[The Mantell Analyses,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2017/09/the-mantell-analyses.html)” A Different Perspective, September 21, 2017; Center for UFO Studies, \[[clippings](http://www.cufos.org/cases/1948%5F01%5F07%5FUS%5FKY%5FFranklin%5FMoore%5FMantell%5Fa.pdf) and [documents](http://www.cufos.org/cases/1948%5F01%5F07%5FUS%5FKY%5FFranklin%5FMoore%5FMantell%5Fd.pdf) on Mantell case\]; Swords 51–52; Francis Ridge, [The Mantell Incident: An Anatomy of a Re-Investigation](http://www.nicap.org/books/Mantell%5FIncident/The%5FMantell%5FIncident.pdf), The Author, 2010; [Flight](http://www.cufos.org/cases/1948%5F01%5F07%5FUS%5FKY%5FFranklin%5FMoore%5FMantell%5Fb.pdf) [Handbook, USAF Series F-51D Aircraft](http://www.cufos.org/cases/1948%5F01%5F07%5FUS%5FKY%5FFranklin%5FMoore%5FMantell%5Fb.pdf)[,](http://www.cufos.org/cases/1948%5F01%5F07%5FUS%5FKY%5FFranklin%5FMoore%5FMantell%5Fb.pdf) January 20, 1954 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1192 ### Event 6528 (AD9F35BB) **Date:** 1/7/1948 **Locations:** Godman Army Airfield; Fort Knox, Kentucky **Description:** 4:45–7:06 p.m. USAF 1Lt. [Paul I. Orner](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8773157/paul-i-orner) tracks an unidentified white light with red coloration in a weather theodolite at Godman Army Airfield in Fort Knox, Kentucky, for more than 2 hours. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 31 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1193 ### Event 6529 (A70735A9) **Date:** 1/7/1948 **Locations:** Lockbourne AFB [now Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base] in Lockbourne, Ohio; Commercial Point; Lockbourne AFB runway **Description:** 7:15 p.m. Air Traffic Controller and pilot [Alex A. Boudreaux](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65980757/alex-a-boudreaux) and VHF Direction-Finding \(DF\) Operator and amateur astronomer [Frank M. Eisele](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/86972303/frank-m-eisele)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/86972303/frank-m-eisele) 103rd AACS Squadron, at Lockbourne AFB \[now Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base\] in Lockbourne, Ohio, spot a bright object to the southwest of the airfield that appears and disappears intermittently. Fighter pilot USAF Capt. [Charles E. McGee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FMcGee%5F%28pilot%29) sees the object on runway 23 landing approach when he is at about 1,800 feet. The light seems to be at about 3,000 feet to the southwest about 4–5 miles away, then later on the ground to the west about 6–7 miles away. USAF VHF DF Operator and pilot Albert R. Pickering, Detachment 733, 103rd AACS Squadron, is awakened by the sudden emergence of a lighted amber- colored round or oval object about the size of a C-47 or larger \[60+ feet\] dropping out of the overcast bank 10,000 feet overhead. Lockbourne Control Tower at the same time radios a report of the object, which then maneuvers over to Commercial Point about 3–5 miles away to the west-southwest, then makes three full 360° circles over one spot in 30-40 seconds per turn over the runway, at a speed of more than 500 mph, leaving a luminous, amber- colored trail or exhaust about 5 times its length. Then the UFO goes to another location and does more 360° turns. At one point, it disappears into the overcast for one minute, then reappears. Just before departing, it hovers or “appeared to touch down” on the grass extension past the end of the Lockbourne AFB runway for 10 seconds then leaves at 120° \(ESE\) heading into the overcast. It is also sighted by the pilot of a C-45 at 5,000 feet off the right wing at 7:53 p.m. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Object Circles Base at High Speed / Touches Down](http://www.nicap.org/480107lockbourne%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 32 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1194 ### Event 6530 (07485F70) **Date:** 1/7/1948 **Location:** Clinton County AFB [now Wilmington Air Park] near Wilmington, Ohio **Description:** 7:35 p.m. Base personnel at Clinton County AFB \[now Wilmington Air Park\] near Wilmington, Ohio, where Skyhooks are launched a couple years later, watch a quickly maneuvering object. It dances up and down and changes from red to green before speeding to the southwest. Sgt. LeRoy Ziegler thinks he can detect a faint exhaust trail. Project Sign calls it Venus, because it disappears about the time Venus does. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Object](http://www.nicap.org/480107lockbourne%5Fdir.htm) [Circles Base at High Speed / Touches Down](http://www.nicap.org/480107lockbourne%5Fdir.htm)”; NICAP, “[Part 2-11: ‘…Was Not the Planet Venus,](http://www.nicap.org/mantell/mantell%5Fpart%5F2%5F11.htm)” June 4, 2006 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1195 ### Event 6531 (3E17579A) **Date:** 1/7/1948 **Description:** A very large saucer-shaped object descended over the Clinton County, Ohio Air Force Base at 7:20 p.m. It was witnessed by several including the control tower staff, who viewed it through binoculars. It came so close to the ground that it may have landed. It then ascended and shot away to the southwest. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Wilmington (OH) News Journal, January 8, 1948 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_178 ### Event 6532 (F07E3758) **Date:** 1/7/1948 **Location:** Godman Air Force Base, Kentucky **Description:** Captain Thomas F. Mantell, Jr. killed while chasing a “flying disk” over Godman Air Force Base in Kentucky. His F-51 fighter plane’s wreckage was found scattered over a wide area. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up) **Source:** HostileFawcett, **ID:** HostileFawcett_7 ### Event 6533 (CE0E06DE) **Date:** 1/8/1948 **Location:** Near Godman AFB, KY **Description:** AF captain dies chasing UFO; possible a balloon. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973_, by Richard Dolan](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/mode/2up) **Source:** Dolan, **ID:** Dolan_29 ### Event 6534 (6F510886) **Date:** 1/9/1948 **Time:** 19:20 **Location:** CLINTON, NC **Description:** Red and green cone dances in sky. Vibrant bright even behind clouds. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 72) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1279 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "46", **HatchDesc:** "CLINTON,NC:RED+GRN CONE DANCES IN SKY:VBRITE EVEN BEHIND CLOUDS:NFD", **LatLong:** "34.966668 -78.333337", **LatLongDMS:** "34:58:00 N 78:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.966668,-78.333337)", **State/Prov:** "North Carolina", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6535 (F0C3124E) **Date:** 1/9/1948 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** ACWORTH, GA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #121. Eastern Airlines DC3. Circular blue-flame passes airliner. Turns going down [to] and winks out. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 12) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1280 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "278", **HatchDesc:** "ACWORTH,GA:BBK#121:EAL DC3:CIRC.BLU-FLAME PASSES AIRLINER:TURNS ↓ + WINKS OUT", **LatLong:** "34.066668 -84.677782", **LatLongDMS:** "34:04:00 N 84:40:40 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.066668,-84.677782)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6536 (DA973AC6) **Date:** 1/9/1948 **Location:** Cartersville (near), GA **Description:** A blue circular flame pass the plane, turn, then blink \[out?\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [480109](http://www.nicap.org/480109cartersville%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_421 ### Event 6537 (3F6042F6) **Date:** 1/9/1948 **Location:** Cartersville, Georgia **Description:** 11:30 p.m. Eastern Airlines pilot [Hugh DuBose](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/196415297/hugh-chester-dubose), flying a DC-3 aircraft at 3,000 feet altitude near Cartersville, Georgia, observes a circular object with a flat top cross his flight path at the same altitude and then turn earthward. The object is light sky-blue in color and is traveling at an estimated speed of 400 mph. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Object Passes DC-3, Turns](http://www.nicap.org/480109cartersville%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 32 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1196 ### Event 6538 (090A76BA) **Date:** 1/10/1948 **Location:** Wildwood, NJ **Description:** Saw a "saucer" or "queer light" approach from the ocean (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_422 ### Event 6539 (B3801B44) **Date:** 1/11/1948 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** HARTFORD, CT **Description:** USAF transport pilots. Red saucer dives down / 45 degree angle. Blue center. Very fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 13) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1281 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "HARTFORD,CT:USAF XPORT PILOTS:RED SCR DIVES DOWN/45dgr ANGLE:BLUE CENTER:VFAST", **LatLong:** "41.766669 -72.666670", **LatLongDMS:** "41:46:00 N 72:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.766669,-72.666670)", **State/Prov:** "Connecticut", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6540 (86CEED23) **Date:** 1/11/1948 **Location:** Hartford, CT **Description:** Transport Crew Sees Diving Disc (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [480111](http://www.nicap.org/480111hartford%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_423 ### Event 6541 (5D8D38D8) **Date:** 1/11/1948 **Description:** Two U.S. Air Force transport pilots, Helton and Pargoe, flying over Hartford, Connecticut in the afternoon observed a red disc-shaped object that flew at high speed, dove at a 45 degree angle, and had a blue center. The Air Force explained the report as a daytime meteor. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1294; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History, 1948, p. 13; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 10 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_248 ### Event 6542 (37CB00E5) **Date:** 1/15/1948 **Location:** Washington DC **Description:** USAF officially a separate service **Type:** history **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_Air_Force) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_303 ### Event 6543 (B1A2BFA8) **Date:** 1/19/1948 **Location:** HJORRING, DK **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #149. 'Rockets' in blue-glow soar. 1 stops and 'explodes'. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 13) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1282 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "HJORRING,DK:BBK#149:'ROCKETS' IN BLUE-GLOW SOAR:1 STOPS+ 'EXPLODES'", **LatLong:** "57.444447 10.000000", **LatLongDMS:** "57:26:40 N 10:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/57.444447,10.000000)", **State/Prov:** "Danemark", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6544 (65182AC2) **Date:** 1/21/1948 **Location:** VEJLE, DK **Description:** 3 farmhands. Silver object going [to] by / 600' altitude. Type unknown. / Col. Ewert going [to] Pentagon going [to] Blue Book. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1283 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "VEJLE,DK:3 FARMHANDS:SLVR OBJ >BY/600'alt:TYPE UNK:/Col EWERT>PENTAGON>BBK", **LatLong:** "55.700003 9.500000", **LatLongDMS:** "55:42:00 N 09:30:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/55.700003,9.500000)", **State/Prov:** "Danemark", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6545 (B3F0CC9A) **Date:** 1/21/1948 **Description:** Col. [Riley F.](http://www.generals.dk/general/Ennis/Riley%5FFinley/USA.html) [Ennis](https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/all-feasible-means), chief of the Army Intelligence Division, in a memo reiterates the [Schulgen](http://www.generals.dk/general/Schulgen/George%5FFrancis/USA.html) Draft of Collection Memorandum and stresses the need to investigate Soviet development of a jet-propelled flying wing aircraft. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Department of the Army, “[Unconventional Aircraft,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/hort1.htm)” Intelligence Collection Memorandum number 7, January 21, 1948 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1197 ### Event 6546 (43701D95) **Date:** 1/22/1948 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 159.3km altitude (Payload separation failure) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_305 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 159.3km ### Event 6547 (6055A9A0) **Date:** 1/22/1948 **Location:** Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton OH **Description:** Project "Sign" (popular name "Saucer") established at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, to investigate UFO reports. **Type:** project established **Reference:** ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) **Reference:** ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_856 ### Event 6548 (02259580) **Date:** 1/22/1948 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) 13:12 Launch of V2 No. 34 which reached an altitude of 159 km. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1331 ### Event 6549 (17C12E03) **Date:** 1/22/1948 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Effective launch of the [Sign](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Sign.html) project. (January 22) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1948.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_717 ### Event 6550 (4E4A7026) **Date:** 1/22/1948 **Location:** Wright Field **Description:** Project Sign officially launches at Wright Field. The primary investigators are Capt. [Robert R. Sneider](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49319130/robert-raphael-sneider) \(project chief\), [Alfred Loedding](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209268646/alfred-christian-loedding) \(T-3 engineer\), [Lawrence Truettner](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/58335429/lawrence-hess-truettner) \(T-2 engineer\), and Col. [Albert Deyarmond](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ori-ahvZRlU/VWjL8ELOjzI/AAAAAAAALts/kwi03CO17vE/s1600/Deyarmond%2BAlbert%2B7pictures%2B%2528dragged%2529.jpg) \(analyst in Intelligence Analysis Division\). Also involved are Maj. [Raymond Llewellyn](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/124634808/raymond-anderson-llewellyn) \(chief of special projects branch\), Lt. Howard W. Smith, [George W. Towles](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/59257302/george-w%5F-towles), and others as assigned. How much interest Col. [Howard](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html) [McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html) takes in the project is unknown. Its task is to collect, collate, evaluate, and distribute information on sightings in the atmosphere “which can be considered of concern to national security.” [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) later says that to be considered an “unknown,” it has to come from a competent observer and contain a reasonable amount of data. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 36–37; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 11; Ruppelt, [p. 10](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/10/mode/2up); NICAP, “[Project Sign Begins, 22 Jan 1948](http://www.nicap.org/waves/480122SIGNinit.htm)”; Michael David Hall and Wendy Ann Connors, “Alfred Loedding: New Insight on the Man behind Project Sign,” IUR 23, no. 4 \(Winter 1998\): 24 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1198 ### Event 6551 (8A655F05) **Date:** 1/23/1948 **Location:** Wright Field **Description:** Col. [William E. Clingerman](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113944251/william-r%5F-clingerman)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113944251/william-r%5F-clingerman) writing for Col. [Howard McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html) at Wright Field, asks Lt. Col. [George Garrett](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33467541/george-duncan-garrett) of Air Force Intelligence for all files on “Swedish incidents” in 1946 and 1947. He receives at least 44 documents, none of which have been released. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 \(Winter 1998\): 13; Swords 30 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1199 ### Event 6552 (369E8EED) **Date:** 1/26/1948 **Description:** Project Sign becomes formally operational as Project HT-304. Lt. Col. James C. Beam becomes its first project director. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 13 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1200 ### Event 6553 (0D4B21FA) **Date:** 1/28/1948 (approximate) **Location:** ROUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR **Description:** White balls / light and 'planes dropping parachutes' cause Air Force query. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1284 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "ROUEN-sur-SEINE,FR:WHT BALLS/LITE+'PLANES DROPPING PARACHUTES' CAUSE AF QUERY", **LatLong:** "49.400002 1.050000", **LatLongDMS:** "49:24:00 N 01:03:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.400002,1.050000)", **State/Prov:** "Seine Maritime", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6554 (052491C4) **Date:** 1/31/1948 **Description:** The Research and Development Board dismisses flying saucers as “a mirage induced by mass self- hypnosis” in stories that appear in newspapers of this day. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “‘Flying Discs’ Book Declared Closed,” Pendleton East Oregonian, January 31, 1948; Project 1947, “[UFO Reports, 1948](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1948a.htm)”; Swords 52–53 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1201 ### Event 6555 (A69AD619) **Date:** 1/31/1948 **Description:** The Research and Development Board, a key recipient of UAP data at the time (see 23 September 1947) attempts to debunk flying saucers as a “mirage” the result of “mass self-hypnosis.” The RDB statement circulates in newspapers. * [http://www.project1947.com/fig/1948a.htm](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1948a.htm) >**_Note_**: The RDB was chaired at the time by [Vannevar Bush](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar_Bush), who was the former Chairman of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA, which later became NASA). Bush was mentioned in a Canadian Department of Transport document that stated a USG source told Canadian embassy staff the following: flying saucers exist, the matter is the “most highly classified subject in the USG rating higher even than the H-bomb,” their modus operandi is unknown but a small group is studying them “headed by Doctor Vannevar Bush.” It is reasonable to deduce this group was the RDB or an ad hoc group with some RDB personnel using the RDB as a cover. >* [http://luforu.org/smith-department-of-transport-memo/](http://luforu.org/smith-department-of-transport-memo/) **Reference:** [Anonymous 2023 PDF](https://archive.org/details/anon_pdf_from_markdown) **Source:** Anon2023PDF, **ID:** Anon2023PDF_14 ### Event 6556 (54E31059) **Date:** 2/1948 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** BAGNEUX, FR **Description:** M. Compard. Large luminous/glowing-orange round object hovers. Going southwest slow. No further details. Balloon trick? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 289) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1285 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "BAGNEUX,FR:M.COMPARD:LRG LUMn-ORG.ROUND OBJ HVRS:>SW SLOW:NFD:balloon trick?", **LatLong:** "48.800002 2.300000", **LatLongDMS:** "48:48:00 N 02:18:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.800002,2.300000)", **State/Prov:** "HDS", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 6557 (48A4CB10) **Date:** 2/1948 **Locations:** Circleville, Ohio; farmer C. Bruce Stevenson's farm **Description:** 2:00 a.m. Glancing out his window while getting a drink of water, farmer C. Bruce Stevenson notices a bight orange-amber glow near his farm buildings a few miles from Circleville, Ohio. He expects to find the buildings on fire, but instead there is a large, domed flying saucer gliding silently over the roof of his pig house about 100 feet away. The UFO, about 60 feet in diameter, maintains a slow speed and low altitude until it disappears from sight. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Bruce Stevenson Reveals](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92806196/) [Close-Up View of Saucer,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92806336/)” Circleville \(Ohio\) Herald, August 2, 1952, pp. 1–2; “[Bruce Stevenson Certain Saucer Wasn’t Reflection,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92806529/)” Circleville \(Ohio\) Herald, August 7, 1952, p. 1; Project 1947, “[UFO Reports, 1948](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1948a.htm)”; Pete Hartinger, “America’s First Classic Close Encounter,” Pickaway Quarterly, Fall 1996, pp. 11–13 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1202 ### Event 6558 (3AE05576) **Date:** 2/1/1948 **Location:** USA, Circleville (Ohio) **Description:** (Translated from French) Farmer B. Stevens was up early that winter morning, like every other morning. He first went out to the barn to take a look at the pigs. But on the way he saw something he couldn't accept. Above the farm buildings was suspended an object of metallic appearance in the shape of a saucer. Very down-to-earth Stevens could immediately judge that the object was real and solid, that it measured 60 feet in diameter and was thick from 10 to 12 feet. The center seemed dome-shaped and a bright orange light was coming out of it. This dome was transparent, because when the saucer inclined slightly, he could make out a silhouette inside. The occupant of the saucer seemed to concentrate his gaze on the farm buildings and Stevens thought that the cause might be the green light that lit up one of his hangars. Soon the light from the dome was fading and Stevens could no longer make out the occupant well. Then the saucer glided upwards and flew away out of sight. (February 1, 1948) **Reference:** "Ufo's: a Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 100 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1332 ### Event 6559 (BD495C64) **Date:** 2/1/1948 **Time:** 02:10 **Location:** NORTHWEST / CIRCLEVILLE, OH **Description:** 18M domed saucer hovers 6M / hog barn. Going [to] over shed. / MJ#238+/ r46p144. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 217) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1286 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "214", **HatchDesc:** "NW/CIRCLEVILLE,OH:18M DOMED SCR HVRS 6M/HOG BARN:> OVR SHED:/MJ#238+/r46p144", **LatLong:** "39.633335 -82.983337", **LatLongDMS:** "39:38:00 N 82:59:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.633335,-82.983337)", **RelAlt:** "6", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6560 (8981BA41) **Date:** 2/1/1948 **Location:** Circleville, OH **Description:** Large 60 ft domed disc, with bright orange-amber glow from within (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_424 ### Event 6561 (94808578) **Date:** 2/1/1948 **Description:** At shortly after two a.m. in Circleville, Ohio a Mr. Stevenson, a hog farmer, witnessed an 18 meter in diameter domed disc that hovered six meters above his hog barn, then flew over a shed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Ed McCann, Circleville Herald, August 3, 1952 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_650 ### Event 6562 (11E448D4) **Date:** 2/4/1948 **Location:** USA, Muroc **Description:** (Translated from French) The skyrocket did not seem to fit in with the research plan. Designed for both jet and rocket engines. The first skyrocket (the D-558-2 as it is called) made its first flight on February 4th with John Martin as test pilot. (February 4, 1948) **Reference:** NASA Website 1997 - "On the Frontier" **Reference:** continued 24.5.49 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1333 ### Event 6563 (F26B8301) **Date:** 2/4/1948 **Description:** Capt. [Richard W. Geuss](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/693651/richard-william-geuss), acting assistant adjutant general, writes a memo on behalf of Lieut. Gen. [George](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FE.%5FStratemeyer) [E. Stratemeyer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FE.%5FStratemeyer)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FE.%5FStratemeyer) to ADC and USAF commanding generals on “Investigation and Reporting of ‘Flying Disc’ Incidents.” It specifies that Air Force commanders are charged with evaluating military UFO incidents, in cooperation with CIC personnel and local FBI offices. Even hoaxes are to be passed on to the FBI. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Capt. Richard W. Geuss, “[Investigation and Reporting of ‘Flying Disc’ Incidents,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/480204investigation%5Freporting.pdf)” February 4, 1948 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1203 ### Event 6564 (A63F12B9) **Date:** 2/6/1948 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 111km altitude (Successfully maneuvered by ground control for first 40s of flight) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_306 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 111km ### Event 6565 (293AF425) **Date:** 2/6/1948 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) At 10:17 AM, launch of V2 #36 which reached an altitude of 112 km. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1334 ### Event 6566 (A4578AFB) **Date:** 2/12/1948 **Location:** Plans and Operations **Description:** Brig. Gen. [Charles P. Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) chief of the Air Intelligence Requirements Division, sends a secret memo to Maj. Gen. [Samuel E. Anderson.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%5FE.%5FAnderson) director of Plans and Operations, stating that the Commanding General of AMC feels that the responsibility for collecting information on “flying disks” should be complemented by a requirement that all USAF installations “provide a minimum of one each aircraft, with necessary crews, on a continuous alert basis. These aircraft should be equipped with gun camera, and such armament as deemed advisable, in order to secure photographs necessary to the obtainment of all possible data on any reported and sighted unusual phenomena, of the ‘flying disk’ type, in the atmosphere.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Good Above, [p. 263](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/262/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1204 ### Event 6567 (BC5BF77C) **Date:** 2/13/1948 **Location:** Aztec, NM **Description:** Alternate date for Crash/Recovery at Aztec, N.M. 16 little human-like beings were found dead aboard a crashed saucer in NM. **Type:** crash retrieval **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based), ALIENS **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_304 **See also:** 3/25,1948 ### Event 6568 (C78804EE) **Date:** 2/13/1948 **Location:** USA, Aztec N.M. **Description:** (Translated from French) Dr. Gee (his real name is GeBauer) claims to have been part of the recovery team of a saucer, when 16 small humanoid bodies were found dead on board. According to Jerome Clark, Gebauer and Silas Newcomb were later arrested and imprisoned for attempting to sell extraterrestrial material, "of immeasurable value". It is not said when they were released from prison. **Reference:** Ufo Winipeg, Manitoba, Canada **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1335 ### Event 6569 (22C8480D) **Date:** 2/13/1948 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) [Aztec Crash](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Aztec.html) \(New Mexico\). (February 13) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1948.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_718 ### Event 6570 (77011DB0) **Date:** 2/18/1948 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** WEST / STOCKTON, KS **Description:** 4' saucer aims pipe / farmer 6' away! Wobbles and flames. Going quickly [to] going northwest. / MJ#238+205. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 16) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1287 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "605", **HatchDesc:** "W/STOCKTON,KS:4'SCR AIMS PIPE/FARMER 6'AWAY!:WOBBLES+FLAMES:>>>NW:/MJ#238+205", **LatLong:** "39.461113 -99.500005", **LatLongDMS:** "39:27:40 N 99:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.461113,-99.500005)", **RelAlt:** "2", **State/Prov:** "Kansas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6571 (52598B4B) **Date:** 2/18/1948 **Locations:** Nebraska; Norcatur, Kansas; Kansas; Oklahoma; Norton County, Kansas; Furnas County, Nebraska; Stockton, Kansas **Description:** 5:00 p.m. A smoke trail begins over Nebraska and runs south. A bolide explodes over Norcatur, Kansas, and the concussion from the blast breaks windows and rocks buildings over a wide area of Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma. A huge shower of meteoritic stones fall over a large area of Norton County, Kansas, and Furnas County, Nebraska. Two Army B-29 bombers circle the area until nightfall. A farmer near Stockton, Kansas, sees a hovering object that leaves a bare spot in the ground. [Kenneth Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold) is persuaded that reports of the Norton County meteorite fall might actually have been UFO-related. Astronomer [Lincoln LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) directs the recovery of the massive achondritic meteorite in 1948. More than 100 stones are recovered, including one weighing about one ton. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Norton County \(meteorite\)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton%5FCounty%5F%28meteorite%29)”; “[Norton County,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton%5FCounty%5F%28meteorite%29)” Meteorite Recon, October 8, 2015; Luna Meteorite Hunters, “[Norton County, KS Fall 18FEB1948 More Than 60 Years Ago,](https://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/2009/02/norton-county-ks-fall-18feb1948-more.html)” February 26, 2009; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1948](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1948.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1948.pdf) The Author, 1988, pp. 15–16; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 37–40 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1205 ### Event 6572 (1021B168) **Date:** 2/18/1948 **Description:** At 4:56 p.m. a farmer in Stockton, Kansas saw a 4-foot wide disc that approached to within six feet and appeared to aim some type of tube or pipe at him. The UFO then wobbled and emitted some flames. It shot away flying toward the northwest. At 5:05 p.m. a Mr. Wray took a photograph of an irregular-shaped UFO north of Norton, Kansas. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 91, Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, Coming of the Saucers, p. 179 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_976 ### Event 6573 (A9D6725A) **Date:** 2/20/1948 **Location:** Boise, Idaho **Description:** _The Emmet Messenger_. **THEODOLITE MEASURES ONE NEAR BOISE.** E.G. Hall of Boise made a theodolite observation of a flying saucer, estimating its size as that of a small plane. Along its back edge was no trail, but there was a fuzziness there. The craft was silent, even when coming closer than 2000 feet to the ground. This is the first known theodolite-measured and gauged reported viewing. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256) **Source:** Scully, **ID:** Scully_14 ### Event 6574 (D345669A) **Date:** 2/20/1948 **Time:** 13:20 **Location:** BOISE, ID **Description:** Group / surveyors. 15' saucer going [to] below clouds / 3000'. Fuzzy front edge. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: The TRUTH ABOUT FLYING SAUCERS; S. G. Phillips 1956 & Pyramid Books, NY 1967. (Index 69) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1288 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "825", **HatchDesc:** "BOISE,ID:GROUP/SURVEYORS:15'SCR > BELOW CLOUDS/3000':FUZZY FRONT EDGE", **LatLong:** "43.600002 -116.200006", **LatLongDMS:** "43:36:00 N 116:12:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.600002,-116.200006)", **RelAlt:** "800", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6575 (47EC8415) **Date:** 2/20/1948 **Location:** Palm Beach, Florida **Description:** 2:00 a.m. In Palm Beach, Florida, lawyer and writer [Charles Francis Coe](https://prabook.com/web/charles%5Ffrancis.coe/1076827) and his son Alan see a globe of light shooting across the sky to the northeast at terrific speed. Coe calls it a “ray or blob of light” and insists it is not a meteor. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Mystery ‘Globe’ Seen by Editor,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92800368/)” Palm Beach \(Fla.\) Post, February 21, 1948, p. 1; “True Mystic Experiences,” Fate 1, no. 3 \(Fall 1948\): 105–113; Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, Palmer, 1952, p. 139 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1206 ### Event 6576 (B2CA8B6D) **Date:** 2/20/1948 **Location:** Emmett, Idaho **Description:** 1:15 p.m. Six surveyors, including Idaho Power Company surveyor [E. G. Hall](https://www.pinterest.com/pin/250653535486425230/), see a small flat, heart- shaped UFO flying in the sky at Emmett, Idaho. Through his theodolite it looks fuzzy across its back edge as if “dipped in cream.” He says it was about the size of a Piper Cub airplane and flying point first below the cloud level at between 2,000 and 4,000 feet. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Emmett \(Idaho\) Messenger, February 26, 1948; Kenneth Arnold, “Are Space Visitors Here?” Fate 1, no. 2 \(Summer 1948\): 13 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1207 ### Event 6577 (75EC85E3) **Date:** 2/20/1948 **Description:** Six surveyors working in Emmett, Idaho saw a small flat, heart-shaped UFO flying in the sky at 1:15 p.m. It was fuzzy across its back edge as if "dipped in cream", and was flying point first below the cloud level at between 2,000 and 4,000 feet. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Emmett (ID) Messenger, February 26, 1948; Aime Michel, The Truth About Flying Saucers, p. 69; UNICAT database, case # 206, citing Kenneth Arnold, Fate Magazine, July 1948, p. 13 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1020 ### Event 6578 (E58FC438) **Date:** 2/21/1948 **Location:** West Beach, Florida **Description:** **ONE SEEN BY PALM BEACH EDITOR.** Charles Francis Coe, editor of the _Palm Beach Times_, saw a ray or blob of lights sweeping in from the southwest over West Palm Beach at 2 PM. It curved over the Atlantic and headed northeast, in a wide arc, as though following the curve of the earth. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256) **Source:** Scully, **ID:** Scully_15 ### Event 6579 (D6DB6B2A) **Date:** 2/21/1948 (approximate) **Time:** 09:30 **Location:** OFF SKAGEN, DK **Description:** 2 pilots. Missile / 22K' altitude. Many such southeast going quickly northwest / days. Always at 0930h. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 19) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1289 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "off SKAGEN,DK:2 PILOTS:MISSILE/22K'alt::MANY SUCH SE>>NW/DAYS:ALWAYS @0930h", **LatLong:** "57.833336 10.561112", **LatLongDMS:** "57:50:00 N 10:33:40 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/57.833336,10.561112)", **State/Prov:** "Danemark", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6580 (B7413C79) **Date:** 3/1/1948 **Location:** Coast of, Sweden **Description:** A missile-like object flying at 20,000 ft (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_425 ### Event 6581 (45B5770C) **Date:** 3/3/1948 **Locations:** Pentagon; Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio **Description:** Maj. Gen. [Samuel E. Anderson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%5FE.%5FAnderson), USAF Director of Plans and Operations at the Pentagon, rejects a proposal by Col. [Howard McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html) and Brig. Gen. [Charles P. Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) for stationing fighter aircraft at all bases on continuous alert for UFOs. It costs too much and proper interceptions are unlikely. He orders all bases to send UFO information to Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Maj. Gen. S. E. Anderson, “[Flying Discs,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/480303AFdoc.pdf)” March 3, 1948; Good Above, [pp. 263–264](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/262/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1208 ### Event 6582 (A8331E27) **Date:** 3/5/1948 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) Launch of an Aerobee which reached 96 km in altitude. Measurements of intensity and distribution of cosmic rays. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958 p. 286, doc. Van Allen **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1336 ### Event 6583 (A32D230F) **Date:** 3/12/1948 **Locations:** Germany; Russia; Argentina **Description:** Maj. [Earl S. Browning Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/123116993/earl-staten-browning), in a memo to the European command of the 970th CIC, writes that the [Horten](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten%5Fbrothers) [brothers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten%5Fbrothers) have been located and interrogated by US officials. Walter Horten has remained in Germany as an officer in the German Air Force. He thinks that sufficient types of flying wing prototypes existed when the Russians invaded Germany and may have served as models for flying discs. Reimar Horten had emigrated to Argentina when the war ended. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jacobsen, Area 51, [p. 43](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/42/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1209 ### Event 6584 (635B3716) **Date:** 3/17/1948 **Description:** Memo on “Flying Discs” from Maj. Gen. [George C. McDonald](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106278/major-general-george-c-mcdonald/)[,](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106278/major-general-george-c-mcdonald/) director of USAF intelligence, to the AMC commander, considers Col. [McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html)’s proposal to maintain fighters on alert for UFOs “unfeasible.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Maj. Gen. George C. McDonald, “[Flying Discs,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/mcdonald.htm)” March 17, 1948 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1210 ### Event 6585 (8D30004C) **Date:** 3/17/1948 **End date:** 3/18/1948 **Location:** Room 3E-869 of the Pentagon **Description:** The USAF Scientific Advisory Board meets in Room 3E-869 of the Pentagon, with physicist [Theodore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore%5Fvon%5FK%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n) [von Kármán](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore%5Fvon%5FK%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n) presiding. Col. [McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html) is present and speaks briefly about Project Sign, saying it has over 300 reports, many of them from experienced observers: “I can’t even tell you how much we would give to have one of those crash in an area so that we could recover whatever they are.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Howard McCoy, “[Scientific Advisory Board](http://www.project1947.com/fig/afsab.htm) [Conference Held 17–18 March 1948, Room 3E-869, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C.](http://www.project1947.com/fig/afsab.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1211 ### Event 6586 (C8326E0F) **Date:** 3/19/1948 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 5.5km altitude (Low altitude flight prevented any data recovery) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_307 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 5.5km ### Event 6587 (CC0E179A) **Date:** 3/19/1948 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) At 16:10, launch of V2 #39 which only reached 5 km. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1337 ### Event 6588 (4052A2B0) **Date:** Spring 1948 **Location:** Chicago, Illinois **Description:** [Ray Palmer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%5FA.%5FPalmer) and Flying magazine editor [Curtis Fuller](https://occulthealth.com/fuller-curtis-1912%E2%80%931991/) publish the first issue of Fate magazine at Clark Publishing Company in Chicago, Illinois. It features a first-hand story and a 30-page UFO roundup by [Kenneth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold) [Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold) as well as a history of unconventional aircraft by Curtis Fuller. Palmer and Fuller use the shared pseudonym “Robert N. Webster.” The issue sells a healthy 50,000 copies. It is still being published in 2022. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Kenneth Arnold, “[I](https://archive.org/details/fate-1948-1%5F202110/page/4/mode/2up) [Did](https://archive.org/details/fate-1948-1%5F202110/page/4/mode/2up) [See the Flying Disks!](https://archive.org/details/fate-1948-1%5F202110/page/4/mode/2up)” Fate 1, no. 1 \(Spring 1948\): 4–10; Kenneth Arnold, “[The](https://archive.org/details/fate-1948-1%5F202110/page/18/mode/2up) [Mystery of the Flying Disks,](https://archive.org/details/fate-1948-1%5F202110/page/18/mode/2up)” Fate 1, no. 1 \(Spring 1948\): 18–48; Robert N. Webster \[Curtis Fuller\], “[What Were](https://archive.org/details/fate-1948-1%5F202110/page/12/mode/2up) [the ‘Doughnuts’?](https://archive.org/details/fate-1948-1%5F202110/page/12/mode/2up)” Fate 1, no. 1 \(Spring 1948\): 12–17; Clark III 872 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1214 ### Event 6589 (145292F2) **Date:** Spring 1948 **Location:** Landing Aids Experiment Station in Arcata, California **Description:** [Kenneth Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold) visits the Landing Aids Experiment Station in Arcata, California, and interviews [Kenneth W.](https://history.lbl.gov/Publications/Currents/Archive/Sep-4-1998.html\#RTFToC12) [Ehlers](https://history.lbl.gov/Publications/Currents/Archive/Sep-4-1998.html\#RTFToC12)[,](https://history.lbl.gov/Publications/Currents/Archive/Sep-4-1998.html\#RTFToC12) a radar technician \(and later physicist\) working on airport operational systems, including radar. He has been accumulating information on unidentified radar targets \(he calls them “gizmos”\) that cannot be seen with the naked eye and sending reports on their flight paths to Navy meteorologist [Florence Van Straten](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence%5Fvan%5FStraten) and [Luis Walter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis%5FWalter%5FAlvarez) [Alvarez](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis%5FWalter%5FAlvarez)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis%5FWalter%5FAlvarez) the inventor of Ground Control Approach System radar. In many cases, the target indicates a small solid target flying around 30 mph. The targets always fly in the same path from northwest to southeast, along the coast. Sometimes they come to a complete halt; at other times they split into two objects, merging later. Ehlers notes that the targets have been attributed to insects, but he is skeptical. Later, he suspects they might be plasmas occurring at the inversion layer, but that does not explain their behavior. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wesley Price, “[The Sky Is Haunted,](https://archive.org/details/sim%5Fsaturday-evening-post%5F1948-03-06%5F220%5F36/page/n13/mode/2up)” Saturday Evening Post 220, no. 36 \(March 6, 1948\): 13; Ray Palmer, “New Report on the Flying Saucers,” Fate 4, no. 1 \(January 1951\): 63–81; “[Landing Aids Experiment Station,](https://www.taloa.org/2n-landing-aids-experiment-station)” Transocean Air Lines; Greg Long, “In Search of Gizmos: A 1947 Radar Case,” IUR 19, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1994\): 15–20 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1215 ### Event 6590 (09D1F5EE) **Date:** Spring 1948? **Description:** President [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) asks Col. [Robert B. Landry](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106440/major-general-robert-b-landry/)[,](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106440/major-general-robert-b-landry/) his USAF aide, to provide him with quarterly verbal reports on the state of UFO information and research. He does so to the end of 1952, with possibly 18 briefings in all. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** James R. Fuchs, “[Oral History Interview with Robert B. Landry,](https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/oral-histories/landryr)” Harry S. Truman Library and Museum, February 28, 1974 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1216 ### Event 6591 (2B8DC8BB) **Date:** 3/23/1948 **Description:** RAF pilot [John Cunningham](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FCunningham%5F%28RAF%5Fofficer%29) reaches an altitude of 59,430 feet in a de Havilland Vampire turbojet. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[John Cunningham \(RAF officer\)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FCunningham%5F%28RAF%5Fofficer%29)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1212 ### Event 6592 (CB00DA4C) **Date:** 3/25/1948 **Location:** Aztec, NM **Description:** Aztec area NM landing and retrieval incident near Hart Canyon. UFO detected by 3 strategically located radars in the southwest, including a powerful experimental radar in the Four Corners region. The Army OSI and the IPU put on Red Alert and the ADC activated the local military units when a UFO crashed in the vicinity of Aztec, NM. When the saucer got into range of a Special High-Powered radar at the Four Corners Range (Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado) it began to flutter and wobble from side-to-side and took a trajectory towards the ground. It seems that the beam from this special radar had an ill-effect on the control system of the saucer. The 100 ft. saucer crash-landed on Mr. H.D.’s (initials) property. H.D. and family were sworn to secrecy. Note: This may have been the White Sands 1948 incident mentioned by Virgil Armstrong. **Type:** crash retrieval **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A p27, RECOVERY) **Reference:** [book link](https://www.amazon.com/Aztec-UFO-Incident-Elaborate-Perplexing/dp/B01CPKBOUC) **Reference:** [book link](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Crash-Aztec-Well-Secret/dp/093426905X) **Reference:** [book link](https://www.amazon.com/Behind-Flying-Saucers-Frank-Scully-ebook/dp/B00OEM62AC) **Reference:** [Robert Spencer Carr](https://www.theufochronicles.com/2020/05/robert-spencer-carr-aztec-ufo-incident.html) **Reference:** [Robert Spencer Carr](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/05/robert-spencer-carr-and-hangar-18.html) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_308 **See also:** 2/13/1948 ### Event 6593 (80BEEDD0) **Date:** 3/25/1948 **Location:** Aztec, NM **Description:** IPU Scout Team sights the object 12 miles NE of Aztec NM, radios back to HQ in Camp Hale, which relayed the message to General Marshall. Marshall orders head of IPU to conduct a recovery operation, Marshall contacts Dr. Vannevar Bush (director of the Research and Development Board) who organizes an impromptu scientific team. Team meets at Durango Airfield in Durano CO. **Type:** crash retrieval **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Reference:** [link](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Crash-Aztec-Well-Secret/dp/093426905X) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_309 ### Event 6594 (4E499567) **Date:** 3/25/1948 **Location:** USA, near Aztec, N.M. **Description:** (Translated from French) Three flying saucers, approximately 11 m in diameter, fell into the hands of the US Air Force. Inside, the bodies of 34 small men, 0.80 m to 1 m tall, were found. (note from vog: only 34? pff!) (Jean-Francis CROLARD: "The Enigma of the E.T." - ed. Guy Trédaniel 1995, p. 110) The OSI of the Army and the IPU in red alert and all the military mobilized when a UFO crashed near Aztec. The UFO was targeted on radar in four zones (Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado) it began to flutter, to oscillate from side to side and descend towards the ground. The object fell on the property of the H.D. family who had to swear to keep the secret - see also March 22, 1950. The UFO measured 100 feet in diameter. **Reference:** Ufo Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1380 ### Event 6595 (D2B58BAD) **Date:** 3/25/1948 **Locations:** Hart Canyon Road east of Aztec, New Mexico; Wright Field in Ohio; Arizona; Phoenix; North Carolina **Description:** 5:00 a.m. According to writer [Frank Scully](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FScully), who hears the tale from a scientist he refers to as “Dr. Gee” and a Texas oilman, a UFO crashes on a rocky plateau off Hart Canyon Road east of Aztec, New Mexico. When Air Force investigators and government scientists arrive on the scene, they crawl through a broken porthole and find the bodies of 16 small humanlike beings \(3–3.5 feet tall\) dressed in the “style of 1890.” Their skin is charred a chocolate color, apparently as a result of the rush of terrestrial air through the shattered window. After a thorough study, the scientists conclude that the “vehicle probably flew on magnetic lines of force.” Segments of the craft, as well as the bodies, are supposedly transported to Wright Field in Ohio. Dr. Gee, who claims to have been on the scene, said the UFO is likely from Venus, as Martians “would probably be three or four times as large as human beings.” Soon afterward, a crash occurs in Arizona and 16 bodies are taken from the wreckage. A third spaceship goes down near Phoenix with 2 dead occupants. The story turns out to be a hoax dreamed up by two con men named [Silas Newton](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/127850405/silas-mason-newton) and [Leo GeBauer](https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/leo-gebauer-and-silas-newton-flak-one-of-their-defense-news-photo/162001660) \(“Dr. Gee,” although Scully claims this was a composite character incorporating 8 informants, one of whom is said to be geophysicist [Carl A. Heiland](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/205437488/carl-a%5F-heiland)\). The hoax is loosely based on a 1949 science fiction film titled The Flying Saucer. GeBauer and especially Newton are in later years involved in various swindles and fraudulent mining claims. In 1987, [William S. Steinman](https://rr0.org/people/s/SteinmanWilliamS.html) and [Wendelle C. Stevens](http://www.openminds.tv/wendelle-stevens-passes-214/5310) release UFO Crash at Aztec, which draws on speculation, rumor, unnamed informants, and paranoia to defend and embellish the original story. The latest to champion the Aztec crash is a North Carolina man named [Scott](https://www.daily-times.com/story/archives/2015/03/28/ufo-authors-return-hart-canyon-67-years-after/75996314/) [Ramsey](https://www.daily-times.com/story/archives/2015/03/28/ufo-authors-return-hart-canyon-67-years-after/75996314/)[,](https://www.daily-times.com/story/archives/2015/03/28/ufo-authors-return-hart-canyon-67-years-after/75996314/) who with his wife Suzanne has spent thousands of dollars looking for and interviewing witnesses and trying to prove it involves a real UFO crash and coverup in his 2015 book The Aztec UFO Incident. Ramsey thinks the object was tracked on radar by Air Force Station P-8 near El Vado Dam. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Aztec, New](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec%2C%5FNew%5FMexico%5FUFO%5Fhoax) [Mexico UFO hoax](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec%2C%5FNew%5FMexico%5FUFO%5Fhoax)”; Frank Scully, [Behind the Flying Saucers](https://archive.org/details/behindflyingsauc00scul)[,](https://archive.org/details/behindflyingsauc00scul) Holt, 1950; J. P. Cahn, “[Flying Saucers and the](https://www.physics.smu.edu/%7Epseudo/UFOs/Scully/Cahn1.pdf) [Mysterious Little Men,](https://www.physics.smu.edu/%7Epseudo/UFOs/Scully/Cahn1.pdf)” True, September 1952, pp. 17–19, 102–112; J. P. Cahn, “[Flying Saucer Swindlers,](https://www.physics.smu.edu/%7Epseudo/UFOs/Scully/Cahn2.pdf)” True, August 1956, pp. 36–37, 69–72; William S. Steinman and Wendelle C. Stevens, UFO Crash at Aztec, UFO Photo Archives, 1987; Clark III 1044–1047; William E. Jones and Rebecca D. Minshall, “Aztec, New Mexico—A Crash Story Reexamined,” IUR 16, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1991\): 11–15, 23; Good Above, [pp. 388–394](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/388/mode/2up); Good Need, [pp. 117–123](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/116/mode/2up); Jerome Clark, [review of](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/26/jse%5F26%5F3%5FReviewClark.pdf) [The Aztec Incident](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/26/jse%5F26%5F3%5FReviewClark.pdf)[,](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/26/jse%5F26%5F3%5FReviewClark.pdf) in Journal of Scientific Exploration 26, no. 3 \(2012\): 709–716; Scott Ramsey, Suzanne Ramsey, and Frank Thayer, The Aztec UFO Incident, New Page, 2015; Curt Collins, “[Flying Saucer Swindlers: Silas Newton and the UFO Crash,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/10/scientist-predicts-et-contact-fbi.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, April 5, 2020 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1213 ### Event 6596 (9500FB60) **Date:** 4/1948 (estimated) **Location:** Los Alamos, NM **Description:** Photographer Nicholas Van Poppen, an aerospace photography expert, tells Dr. George C. Tyler on 11/1949 he flew from Hollywood with Dr. Wang to the Los Alamos complex and boards a bus with blacked-out windows. He sees and photographs a huge disc-shaped object sitting on the ground with military brass, intelligence guards and officers, and scientific personnel all around it, also photographs small bodies. **Type:** witness statement **Reference:** [link](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Crash-Aztec-Well-Secret/dp/093426905X) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_311 ### Event 6597 (87E3B65C) **Date:** 4/1948 **Locations:** US Weather Bureau; Richmond, Virginia **Description:** Morning. US Weather Bureau meteorologist Walter A. Minozewski at the Richmond, Virginia, weather station and his staff catch sight of a bright metallic, elliptical disc while they are tracking a small ceiling balloon at 15,000 feet. He checks his observation through a theodolite telescope. The disc flies just below the balloon and remains in sight for 15 seconds, appearing much bigger than the balloon. It has a flat, level bottom and a dome on top. It remains on a westward heading at high speed, then vanishes off into the distance. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ruppelt, [p. 41](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/40/mode/2up); Bloecher, [p. I-1](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionI.htm) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1217 ### Event 6598 (CFA23897) **Date:** 4/1/1948 **Time:** 09:50 **Location:** SOUTHEAST LUZON, PI **Description:** 3 F47S and more/others. 10M silver saucer maneuvers. 90° turns. Small fin. Radio Frequency Interference (RFI). / r2p73+/ r151p6. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** INTERNATIONAL UFO REPORTER (IUR) Bimonthly. CUFOS, Chicago. Highly regarded. (Index 280) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1290 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Philippines", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "SE LUZON,PI:3 F47S++:10M SLVR SCR MNVRS:90°TURNS:SML FIN:RFI:/r2p73+/r151p6", **LatLong:** "12.866667 124.050006", **LatLongDMS:** "12:52:00 N 124:03:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/12.866667,124.050006)", **State/Prov:** "LZN", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6599 (9A344CB3) **Date:** 4/1/1948 **Location:** Luzon Island, Philippines **Description:** Pilot saw a half-moon shaped "flying wing" about 30 ft wide 20 ft long (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_426 ### Event 6600 (4412E489) **Date:** 4/1/1948 **Location:** Sorsogon City, Luzon, Philippines **Description:** 9:55 a.m. USAF 1st Lt. Robert W. Meyers is leading a flight of four P-47s from the 67th Fighter Group about 9 miles southeast of Sorsogon City, Luzon, Philippines. At 1,500 feet, he notices an unusual silvery object about 3 miles to the east. Shaped like a flying wing or half-moon with a “turtle back,” it resembles no military craft in use at the time. The object flies below the squadron at 200 mph and an altitude of about 1,000 feet. Meyers estimates it is about 30 feet wide and 20 feet long. When he attempts to contact the other three P-47s, he realizes his radio is dead. As he makes a 270° left turn to get a closer look, the object makes a 90° left turn and moves away at tremendous speed. It is only visible for about 5 seconds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[P-47 Flight Encounters Half-Moon Object](http://www.nicap.org/480401philippines%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 33 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1218 ### Event 6601 (0A86D325) **Date:** 4/1/1948 **Description:** At 9:55 a.m. a ten meter wide silver half disc maneuvered in the sky over Manila in the Philippines and made a number of ninety-degree turns. Lt. Meyers of the U.S. Air Force was leading a flight of four F-47S Thunderbolt fighters of the 67th Fighter Squadron and was flying south at 1,500 ft altitude when he saw a half-moon shaped "flying wing" or crescent about 30 feet wide and 20 feet long, with a small dorsal fin. It was flying on a northerly heading at about 1,000 feet three miles to his east. It made a 90° left turn and leveled out on a westerly heading accelerating rapidly to vanish in five seconds. There was no trail. Estimated terminal velocity was about 11 miles per second or 39,000 mph. Radio interference was reported at the time. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** U.S. Air Force Project Bluebook files counted in official statistics; International UFO Reporter, December 1998; Fund for UFO Research **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1778 ### Event 6602 (6D68364C) **Date:** 4/2/1948 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 144km altitude (Three previous launch attempts failed in year prior. Excellent performance) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_312 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 144km ### Event 6603 (9F462A28) **Date:** 4/2/1948 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) Launch of V2 #25 at 06:47. It reached 143 km in altitude. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1338 ### Event 6604 (7F97F620) **Date:** 4/3/1948 **Location:** ITALY, San Martino in Pensilis - Fara di Cigno **Description:** (Translated from French) Giusseppe Langiano and his foreman Giuseppe Bavota observed a saucer of the shape of an open umbrella, without the handle, of a luminous orange color. It was heading west to east in the sky. Suddenly it stopped at about ten meters from the ground. There, stationary, it emitted a beam of white light from its center, which descended to the ground while the witnesses then had the impression of feeling very hot. On the upper part of the saucer there was a rounded protuberance illuminated by a soft and silvery light. After two minutes, a more or less anthropomorphic figure, about one and a half meters tall, descended vertically through the central light beam, until it touched the ground. It wore a suit that seemed metallic, large gloves and boots of the same material. Its head was covered and a kind of visor was outlined in the one-piece helmet with the suit. In this visor there were two circles (glasses?) The witnesses were less than 200 meters away (let's say that to see the circles in the visor, these witnesses had some good eyes ... try it ...) and were heading towards the strange machine, but at that moment the being was going up, vertically, through the beam (elevator?) which was getting shorter. Suddenly the object flew away, even faster than it had arrived. **Reference:** CISU, archive file 4801 - sources: GDM 3, 23, 13-16; Ufo in Italia I, 94-95 and 102, Ossola III, 321-322, Ufo Info 12, 48, 18 + 13, 53. **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1339 ### Event 6605 (743566EF) **Date:** 4/3/1948 **Time:** 06:40 **Location:** FARA DI CIGNO, ITALY **Description:** Orange domed saucer going east. Stops 12M away. White heat-ray. Small humanoid (or Grey) inside. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 30) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1291 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "FARA di CIGNO,ITALY:ORG DOMED SCR >E:STOPS 12M away:WHT HEAT-RAY:OID INSIDE", **LatLong:** "41.866669 15.000001", **LatLongDMS:** "41:52:00 N 15:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.866669,15.000001)", **State/Prov:** "CB", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 6606 (CA7C50E2) **Date:** 4/3/1948 **Description:** At 6:35 a.m. in San Martino, Lombardy, Italy bus driver Guiseppe Langiano and railway stationmaster Sr. Bavota saw a luminous orange domed disc hovering about 10 meters above the ground at Fara Di Cigno which stopped 12 meters away from them. It was shaped like an inverted bowl, about 10-15 meters in diameter, and surmounted by a transparent looking dome or “upside-down cup.” It was also emitting a very bright beam of white light. A humanoid being floated down to the ground from the object. He wore a stiff, metallic looking one-piece garment with heavy metallic gauntlets. He looked like a "big puppet" about 1.5 meters (5 feet) in height. He had "two round holes in place of eyes.” When Sr. Langiano approached, it re-entered the UFO, which then took off. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Solas Boncompgni, UFO in Italia, p. 94; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1948-06 (A0145), citing Solas Boncompgni; Verga Maurizio, ITACAT: Italian UFO Catalogue **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1811 ### Event 6607 (D79E137D) **Date:** 4/4/1948 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Alton, Caledonia, Overland, Richmond Heights and Freeport \(Illinois\), witnesses see a kind of giant bird-man. Among them, Walter Siegmund, retired colonel: "At first I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me, but it was a bird and not a glider, or a *jet*... From the movements of this object and its wingspan, I thought it could only be a bird of gigantic size. (April 4) **Reference:** Keel 1975 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1948.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_719 ### Event 6608 (067DF342) **Date:** 4/5/1948 **Location:** Holloman AFB **Description:** Top Secret Report (100–203–79, p.12,Sec. L.): 3 trained balloon observers from the Geophysics Lab, NJ spot UFO moving quickly undergoing “violent” maneuvers at high speed near Holloman AFB **Type:** top secret report **Reference:** [NICAP — Air Intelligence Report — ONI](http://www.nicap.org/docs/airintelrpt100-203-79.pdf) **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p481) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_313 ### Event 6609 (C421D463) **Date:** 4/5/1948 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At the base of the [USAF](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/USAF.html) in Holloman \(New Mexico\), Alsen, Johnson and Chance, observers of laboratory balloon geophysics, observe 2 irregular, round, white or golden objects. One of them makes 3 loops then rises and quickly disappears; the other flies in a rapid arc towards the west during the 30s of the observation. Officers engaged in maintenance tasks such as pilots are surprised to observe a saucer-shaped object performing rapid and dangerous maneuvers above the air base. The witnesses agree on a diameter of 35 feet for this object. (April 5) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1948.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_720 ### Event 6610 (783EBDBA) **Date:** 4/5/1948 **Location:** White Sands, NM **Description:** Navy personnel track disc with extreme maneuvers. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973_, by Richard Dolan](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/mode/2up) **Source:** Dolan, **ID:** Dolan_30 ### Event 6611 (58C22DD4) **Date:** 4/5/1948 **Time:** ~15:00 **Location:** HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE, NM **Description:** 5 / theodolite. 2 silent 35M saucers / fast TURNs. 1 quickly going up. Going quickly west. / International UFO Reporter (CUFOS Group, USA) v23#4. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 71) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1292 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1248", **HatchDesc:** "HOLLOMAN AFB,NM:5/THEODOLITE:2 SLNT 35M SCRs/FAST TURNs:1 ↑↑:>>W:/IUR v23#4", **LatLong:** "32.850002 -106.066672", **LatLongDMS:** "32:51:00 N 106:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.850002,-106.066672)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6612 (268BF113) **Date:** 4/5/1948 **Location:** Holloman AFB, NM **Description:** Team watches 35 meter disc executing a series of violent turns and maneuvers (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 139, NC) (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [480405](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/sands480405.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_427 ### Event 6613 (0A0214DF) **Date:** 4/5/1948 **Time:** Afternoon **Location:** Holloman AFB, New Mexico **Description:** Witnesses: Geophysics Lab balloon observers Alsen, Johnson, Chance. Two irregular, round, white or golden objects. One made three loops then rose and disappeared rapidly; the other flew in a fast arc to the west during the 3O^second sighting. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_10 ### Event 6614 (883076D1) **Date:** 4/5/1948 **Locations:** Holloman AFB; Alamogordo, New Mexico; Watson Laboratories; New Mexico; Red Bank, New Jersey; Watson Laboratory complex **Description:** Afternoon. At Holloman AFB, near Alamogordo, New Mexico, three highly trained balloon observers \(Joseph Olson, Johnson, and Chance\) are working on a secret project for the Air Force’s Watson Laboratories. They see two objects. One observer follows one object, and the others follow the second as they diverge. All are certain that the objects aren’t balloons. They are large, whitish, roundish, very high, faster than any aircraft, and perform rapid, erratic motions. One object is lost at a low altitude. The other goes up quickly and seems to just disappear. The observation lasts about 30 seconds. The case is deemed important enough to send [Alfred Loedding](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209268646/alfred-christian-loedding) and one of [Clingerman](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113944251/william-r%5F-clingerman)’s assistants, Lt. Col. James C. Beam \(the head of Project Sign\), to New Mexico to interview Project Mogul scientist James W. Peoples and the other witnesses. Unfortunately, they are gone when Sign arrives. \(They are later interviewed at the USAF Watson Laboratory complex in Red Bank, New Jersey.\) The witnesses are very sure of themselves and the case is classed as “Unidentified.” While at Holloman, Loedding and Beam talk with Lt. Herbert G. Markley, who has worked with the Watson team. Markley remembers one of them speaking of unusual radar returns from their equipment, but later the Watson personnel say that these were probably just “angels” \(spurious echoes due to atmospheric microstructures, insects, equipment malfunction, or other stimuli\). Markley does report that UFOs are seen around Holloman often. He himself has seen a disc in late August 1947 and flat, round aeroforms on at least two further occasions. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Team Watches 35-Meter Disc](http://www.nicap.org/480405holloman%5Fdir.htm)”; Ruppelt, [p.](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/70/mode/2up) [71](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/70/mode/2up); Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 40–41; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 33; Project 1947, “[Holloman AFB UFO Sightings](http://www.project1947.com/holloman/index.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1219 ### Event 6615 (B84D62E3) **Date:** 4/5/1948 **Description:** At 2:00 in the afternoon at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico three base personnel reported having witnessed two silent disc-shaped objects, 35 meters in diameter, executing a series of violent turns and maneuvers. The discs made no noise during the 30 seconds they were in view, and were viewed through a theodolite. One of the discs shot up vertically. Project Blue Book listed this as an "unidentified" case. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, pp. 52-53; R. B. McLaughlin, True magazine, March 1950, p. 25; Richard Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 79 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1841 ### Event 6616 (B49D91CE) **Date:** 4/6/1948 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At White Sands base, Captain R. B. Mac-Laughlin and technicians from the [Navy](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/USNavy.html) tracked a [V-2](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/V2.html) rocket with a theodolite and saw a 30 m diameter disc accompanying the rocket at 1600 km/h and circling it. When it reached an altitude of 50 km, the object disappeared at a speed of 28000 km/h or 9000 km/h. (April 6) **Reference:** Keyhoe, 1973 **Reference:** Pottier 1973 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1948.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_721 ### Event 6617 (BD3E4ABD) **Date:** 4/7/1948 **Description:** Three men in dark drab flight suits were seen flying through the air at 250 feet altitude over Longview, Washington in the middle of the afternoon. They circled the city as fast as a freight train. They had apparatus on their sides that looked like they may have been wearing guns in holsters. They were seen briefly by three witnesses with the last names of Johnson and Pittman. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Longview (WA) News, April 8, 1948; John Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 207; APRO Bulletin, June 1980, p. 4 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1877 ### Event 6618 (22206DA6) **Date:** 4/8/1948 **Location:** DELAWARE, OH **Description:** 30 meter Oblong silver streak does acrobatics over town. Opalescent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 92) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1293 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "268", **HatchDesc:** "DELAWARE,OH:30 METER OBLONG SLVR STREAK DOES ACROBATICS OVER TOWN:OPALESCENT", **LatLong:** "40.283335 -83.066671", **LatLongDMS:** "40:17:00 N 83:04:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.283335,-83.066671)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6619 (3111E40E) **Date:** 4/8/1948 **Location:** Ashley, OH **Description:** At 1400 to 1430 hours, witnesses at Ashley and Delaware, Ohio, observed a long and narrow cylinder-shaped object moving slowly to the southwest. The object was silver in color and one witness described the object as leaning and then right itself and move along perpendicular. The object was clearly outlined. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [480408](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/ashley480408dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_429 ### Event 6620 (C6288ACA) **Date:** 4/9/1948 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Longview \(Washington\), two employees of a laundry saw a trio of bird-men describing circles above the city at an altitude of less than 100 m: "When they appeared, I first thought they were seagulls but, as they approached, I could clearly see they were men, not birds. I could very well see they were human \(...\) They were wearing some kind of dark gray flight suits. I couldn't make out their arms, but I could see their legs dangling, and they kept moving their heads, as if they were looking for something around them. I can't say if they had pilot glasses, but it seemed to me they were wearing some kind of helmets. I couldn't make out their faces," declares Mrs. Viola Johnson to the journalists. **Reference:** Keel 1975 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1948.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_722 ### Event 6621 (C7D1B64F) **Date:** 4/9/1948 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A couple from Caledonia \(Illinois\) saw a monstrous bird \(...\) larger than an airplane. **Reference:** Keel 1975 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1948.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_723 ### Event 6622 (95847B1A) **Date:** 4/9/1948 **Location:** Holloman AFB, NM **Description:** 2:06 p.m. (MST). (Trakowski GRUDGE rpt) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_430 ### Event 6623 (F02B0A7D) **Date:** 4/9/1948 **Location:** Montgomery, AL **Description:** A silver parachute-shaped 8 ft disc with a 5 ft long cable (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [480409](http://www.nicap.org/480409montgomery%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_431 ### Event 6624 (14C68C10) **Date:** 4/9/1948 **Location:** Longview, Washington **Description:** Viola Johnson of Longview, Washington, and another witness see three “flying men” circling the town. She says they are “dressed in khaki-colored flying suits with helmets over their faces.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 777 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1220 ### Event 6625 (45BC922F) **Date:** 4/10/1948 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Overland \(Illinois\), 3 inhabitants see a sort of large bird-man. They initially believe it to be an airplane, until it begins to flap its wings. (April 10) **Reference:** Keel 1975 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1948.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_724 ### Event 6626 (38A43F85) **Date:** 4/11/1948 **Location:** Alton, IL **Description:** (38.90° N, 90.17° W). Siegmund. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_432 ### Event 6627 (C7216EAB) **Date:** 4/12/1948 **Time:** 11:00? **Location:** ASHLEY, OH **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #112. Several observer(s). Large vertical cylinder/cylindrical object flies against wind. Streamers trail. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 27) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1294 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "301", **HatchDesc:** "ASHLEY,OH:BBK#112:SVRL OBS:LRG VERTICAL CYL FLIES AGAINST WIND:STREAMERS TRAIL", **LatLong:** "40.411113 -82.955560", **LatLongDMS:** "40:24:40 N 82:57:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.411113,-82.955560)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6628 (1916477D) **Date:** 4/13/1948 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) Launch of an Aerobee, altitude reached 96 km, measurements of the geomagnetic field. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958 p. 286, doc. Van Allen **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1340 ### Event 6629 (A510506A) **Date:** 4/14/1948 **Time:** 18:16:59.0 **Location:** 11.66276 162.23785 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “X-ray” Yield: 37KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_5 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.66276 162.23785", **LatLongDMS:** "11:39:46 N 162:14:16 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.66276,162.23785)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.06", **NukeName:** "X-ray", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "37" ### Event 6630 (51137E56) **Date:** 4/15/1948 **Locations:** Enewetak Atoll; Marshall Islands **Description:** 6:17 a.m. The X-Ray nuclear device is detonated near Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands. B-17 pilotless drone aircraft are flown through the cloud, and a drone light tank is used to recover soil samples from the crater. Unfortunately, it becomes bogged and must be towed out 10 days later. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Operation Sandstone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FSandstone)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1221 ### Event 6631 (D3913F4E) **Date:** 4/18/1948 **Location:** ALASKA, Fairbanks **Description:** (Translated from French) Incident reporting a flat, round object, oscillating at 1:06 PM and reported by 1st Lt Aytch M. Johnson Jr of the 375th VLR Weather Squadron. The UFO was coming from the northeast flying towards the southwest. Flying at an altitude of 2000 feet, and at a speed of 200 to 300 mph. But at one point the object made a dive covering 500 feet in 2 seconds. Horizontal flight, silent, in a clear sky with unlimited visibility. **Reference:** "UFO's: a Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p.103 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1341 ### Event 6632 (1EC96545) **Date:** 4/18/1948 **Location:** North Atlantic, At Sea **Description:** N Atlantic bet. Iceland and Greenland (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_433 ### Event 6633 (8A4128B8) **Date:** 4/18/1948 **Location:** Fairbanks, AK **Description:** A noiseless object with a flat discus shaped object 8 inches in size (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_434 ### Event 6634 (769AD464) **Date:** 4/19/1948 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 56km altitude (Faulty steering led to high roll rate and then flight termination) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_314 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 56km ### Event 6635 (7A4A1F69) **Date:** 4/19/1948 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) Launch of V2 #38, at 0:54. It reached 56 KM. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1342 ### Event 6636 (173D7354) **Date:** 4/19/1948 **Location:** Greenville AFB, SC **Description:** A stationary silvery or white sphere directly overhead. Size estimated at slightly smaller than a 42 ft AT-6 at the indicated altitude. (FOIA; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [480419](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/greenville480419dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_435 ### Event 6637 (08CCE9E9) **Date:** 4/21/1948 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) [James Forrestal](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/ForrestalJamesVincent.html), Secretary of Defense, assigns primary responsibility for air defense to the [USAF](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/USAF.html). (April 21) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1948.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_725 ### Event 6638 (88099CCD) **Date:** 4/23/1948 **Location:** GERMANY, north of Munich **Description:** (Translated from French) At 10 pm, the captain of an F 80, in flight, saw an object that was moving vertically from the base (American in Germany) at an altitude that could not be specified. The object, which looked like a star, was red. It was heading south, towards Munich. Then suddenly it changed direction and headed first southwest and finally southeast. Its speed must have varied between 300 and 900 km/h (...) The base gave the alarm to the radar station which at first did not see anything on the screens. After a few minutes the radar station announced an object flying at 1350 km/h, at an altitude of 8000 meters in a point located 45 km south of Munich. The captain noted that the object he had spotted was not in this area. After a few minutes the radar station indicated that the object was now at 15000 meters altitude, circling about sixty km south of Munich. **Reference:** A. RIBERA: "These Mysterious UFOs" -De Vecchi 1976, p. 93, 94 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1343 ### Event 6639 (9CFC2511) **Date:** 4/23/1948 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) On April 23, 1948, at 10 PM, Captain X saw an object moving in the sky, vertically from the base, at an altitude that could not be determined. The object, which looked like a star, was red in color; it was heading south, towards Munich. Then suddenly, it changed direction and first headed southwest and finally southeast. Its speed must have varied between 300 and 900 km/h \(...\) Captain X was a very experienced pilot; he was flying an F-80. His testimony was confirmed by another F-80 pilot. The meteorological service declared that it could not have been a weather balloon and that there were no other planes in that area at that time. (April 23, 10 PM) **Reference:** Report addressed to the Official American Study Commission by military personnel stationed in Germany **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1948.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_726 ### Event 6640 (FB656931) **Date:** 4/23/1948 **Description:** A preliminary 25-page report, written by Project Sign’s Col. [Howard McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html) and Lt. Col. James C. Beam, summarizes UFO reports received through February 1, with attached memos and documents. It is addressed to Chief of Staff [Hoyt Vandenberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg) and Director of Intelligence [Charles P. Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell). The Rhodes photos and 99 other cases are listed. A comment by chemist [Irving Langmuir](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving%5FLangmuir) is appended, noting his doubts about the reality of flying discs. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Col. Howard M. McCoy, “[Project Sign,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/PrelimSignRpt23Apr1948.pdf)” April 23, 1948; Swords 54–55 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1222 ### Event 6641 (6D605AB5) **Date:** 4/26/1948 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In St. Louis, Dr. Kristine Dolezal sees a "birdman". (April 26) **Reference:** Keel 1975 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1948.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_727 ### Event 6642 (9ACE5AEE) **Date:** 4/26/1948 **Description:** A flying humanoid was spotted on this morning in St. Louis, Missouri and reported to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper by a Mrs. Dolezal. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** St. Louis Post Dispatch, April 26, 1948; Kansas City Star, April 29, 1948 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2330 ### Event 6643 (4A3550D0) **Date:** 4/27/1948 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A group of instructors from the Mississippi Aeronautical School observe a bird of astonishing size flying at 400 m. **Reference:** Keel 1975 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1948.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_728 ### Event 6644 (C866E080) **Date:** 4/27/1948 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) [Joseph Kaplan](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/KaplanJoseph.html) visited the [OSI](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/OSI.html) at the [USAF Kirtland Air Force Base](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/KirtlandAFB.html) and the [AEC](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/AEC.html) Sandia Base at Los Alamos, under the orders of [Theodore von Karman](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/VonKarmanTheodore.html), Secretary of the [AFSAB](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/AFSAB.html). According to a secret memo from the [USAF](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/USAF.html), the purpose of these visits was to examine the investigative reports and circumstances surrounding the "unidentified aerial phenomena" observed in the area, and to make recommendations as to the need for scientific investigation of these cases. **Reference:** Good 1987 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1948.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_729 ### Event 6645 (F82EB689) **Date:** 4/27/1948 **End date:** 4/28/1948 **Locations:** Kirtland AFB Office of Special Investigations; AEC’s Sandia Base; Los Alamos in New Mexico **Description:** Physicist [Joseph Kaplan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FKaplan), a member of the USAF Scientific Advisory Board, visits the Kirtland AFB Office of Special Investigations, AEC’s Sandia Base, and Los Alamos in New Mexico, under orders from [Theodore Von Kármán](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore%5Fvon%5FK%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore%5Fvon%5FK%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n) chairman of the USAF Scientific Advisory Board, to review UFO reports and investigations from the area. Kaplan and [Lincoln LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) meet with security personnel at Los Alamos. Kaplan reports that “these occurrences relate to the National Defense of the United States” and should be investigated scientifically.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Good Above, [p. 266](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/266/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1223 ### Event 6646 (CD1A4396) **Date:** 4/28/1948 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Doctors [Kaplan](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/KaplanJoseph.html) and [LaPaz](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/LaPazLincoln.html) meet with various members of the Los Alamos security staff, so that Kaplan can attempt to ascertain the nature of UFO sightings made by members of the [AEC](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/AEC.html) project and AEC Security Service inspectors. He appears to be impressed, and indicates he will immediately submit his report to Doctor [von Karman](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/VonKarmanTheodore.html). (April 28) **Reference:** Good 1987 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1948.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_730 ### Event 6647 (6628C8BF) **Date:** 4/28/1948 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Astronomers have spotted a celestial body near the [Earth](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Earth.html) with a diameter of 3 km. The [Earth](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Earth.html) and [Venus](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Venus.html) seem to be its directional poles. It appears to be heading towards one or the other according to its whims. Professor Gustav Arhenius from the University of Berkeley \(California\) will study it again in the early 1970s. It appears that this unknown body behaves capriciously and does not behave like a standardized celestial body. Nobody is able to predict its orbit. This unknown planetary body also has quite a few similarities with *Icarus*, an asteroid 1 km in diameter that crosses the orbit of the planets without scruples, even though its orbit never intersects. It crosses the path of the [Earth](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Earth.html) every 200 days and constantly changes its trajectory. Despite its very high speed, it is thought to be influenced in its course by the attraction of the planets. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1948.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_731 ### Event 6648 (C4541743) **Date:** 4/28/1948 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Soviet Central Asia, paleontologist and science fiction writer Ivan Efremov describes the discovery of an immense cemetery of tens of thousands of dinosaurs whose skulls are pierced with neat holes, which he describes as bullet holes, as in 1939. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1948.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_732 ### Event 6649 (F5EB61A1) **Date:** 4/29/1948 **Location:** USA, Muroc **Description:** (Translated from French) Test pilot Howard Lilly reached a speed of Mach 0.88 with the Skystreak. **Reference:** NASA Website 1997, "On the Frontier" **Reference:** see 3.5.48 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1344 ### Event 6650 (88EE5900) **Date:** 4/30/1948 **Description:** Top Secret Report (100–203–79, p.12,Sec. M.): Lt. Comdr. Marcus L. Lowe while on a flight observed a yellow or light colored sphere 25 to 40 ft. diam. moving at a speed of approx. 100 mph against wind **Type:** top secret report **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p481) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_315 ### Event 6651 (50342684) **Date:** 4/30/1948 **Location:** ANACOSTIA NAS, DC **Description:** United States Navy (USN) pilot. 30+'sphere. 4500' altitude. Going quickly south / 100mph against wind. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 240) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1295 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "ANACOSTIA NAS,DC:USN PILOT:30+'SPHERE:4500'alt:>>S/100mph AGAINST WIND:", **LatLong:** "38.900002 -76.950004", **LatLongDMS:** "38:54:00 N 76:57:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.900002,-76.950004)", **State/Prov:** "WDC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6652 (99E312F2) **Date:** 4/30/1948 **Location:** Anacostia NAS, MD **Description:** Yellow sphere in opposite course S to N at constant altitude (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [480430](http://www.nicap.org/480430anacostia%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_436 ### Event 6653 (55C1508E) **Date:** 4/30/1948 **Time:** 18:08:59.0 **Location:** 11.61569 162.3194 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Yoke” Yield: 49KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_6 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.61569 162.3194", **LatLongDMS:** "11:36:56 N 162:19:10 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.61569,162.3194)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.06", **NukeName:** "Yoke", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "49" ### Event 6654 (AEB9B813) **Date:** 4/30/1948 **Description:** At 10:15 a.m. at the Anacostia Naval Air Station on the Potomac River in Washington, D. C. a yellow sphere was spotted moving from the south to north at a constant altitude, 1000 feet below an aircraft. It flew in the opposite direction of the wind, and crossed over the no-fly zone over the nation's Capitol. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich Jan, Project 1947 website, citing USAF Office of Defense Intelligence 1948 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2417 ### Event 6655 (C147D6E3) **Date:** 5/1948 **Location:** - **Description:** AF C-47 transport plane buzzed by three objects. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973_, by Richard Dolan](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/mode/2up) **Source:** Dolan, **ID:** Dolan_31 ### Event 6656 (62F46E28) **Date:** 5/1948 **Location:** Oxford/Bicester, England **Description:** 100' Oval with Three Bumps Tracked By Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R) **Reference:** NICAP: [480500](http://www.nicap.org/480500oxforddir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_437 ### Event 6657 (70F97647) **Date:** 5/1948 **Description:** An article on secret Skyhook balloons \(without mentioning the project name\) by [Devon Francis](https://books.google.com/books?id=3yEDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA30&lpg=PA30&dq=%22Devon%2BFrancis%22%2Bwriter&source=bl&ots=IzdAVqBh3t&sig=ACfU3U1jXdvaejIiBIFywFJVygyCQNFasA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi1k8TAsczmAhWQGs0KHdyUCyc4ChDoATABegQIChAB%23v%3Donepage&q=%22Devon%20Francis%22%20writer&f=false) is published in Popular Science. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Devon Francis, “[New Balloons Explore Roof of the Airways,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/mantell/Popular%5FScience%5F194805.pdf)” Popular Science, May 1948, pp. 98–104 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1224 ### Event 6658 (5A5F6EE0) **Date:** 5/3/1948 **Location:** USA, Muroc **Description:** (Translated from French) Test pilot Howard Lilly was killed in an experimental flight with the NACA Skystreak. This aircraft had the same aerodynamic configuration as the XS-1 but apart from the wing and tail, the D-558-1 (official name of the Skystreak) had nothing else in common. The Skystreak took off from the ground with its own General Electric TG-180 turbojet engine. The Douglas Company had built three of these D-558-1s. (1948, 3 May) **Reference:** NASA Website, 1997 - On the Frontier **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1345 ### Event 6659 (B97120AC) **Date:** 5/5/1948 **Location:** TURKEY, Adapazari **Description:** (Translated from French) The newspaper "Yeni Sabah" of May 5, 1948 reported that a luminous object exploded in mid-air above Adapazari. Pieces fell into a nearby village, killing a shepherd dog. The recovered parts clearly show that it was a missile. It came from the northwest and was only 200 meters above Adapazari before it fell. Rumor has it that this flying object was from Soviet tests conducted at the Alagoz base near the eastern border of Turkey. **Reference:** "Ufo's: a Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 104 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1346 ### Event 6660 (75E53A0A) **Date:** 5/5/1948 **Location:** Adapasari, Turkey **Description:** \[or Adapazari\], Turkey (40°45' N, 30°23' E). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_438 ### Event 6661 (D9C59E91) **Date:** 5/5/1948 **Description:** An Efficiency Rating report is written up for [Alfred Loedding](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209268646/alfred-christian-loedding) from [Miles E. Goll](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Goll%5FM.htm), which mentions his work as a monitor for Project Sign. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Miles E. Goll, “[Efficiency Rating of Mr. Alfred C. Loedding,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/loedd/sign%5Floeddingdoc1.htm)” May 5, 1948 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1225 ### Event 6662 (C0256E55) **Date:** 5/6/1948 **Location:** Wake Island (near), At Sea **Description:** A ball of fire explode like a shell (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_439 ### Event 6663 (8E1C5440) **Date:** 5/7/1948 **Time:** 02:00 **Location:** MEMPHIS, TN **Description:** Blue Book and FBI document. 50+night lights / sharp turns / 3 hours. East going west. Not meteors / Astronomer. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 241) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1296 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "180", **Elev:** "77", **HatchDesc:** "MEMPHIS,TN:BBK+FBI DOC:50+NLTS/SHARP TURNS/3hrs:E>W:NOT METEORS/Astronomer", **LatLong:** "35.150002 -90.050004", **LatLongDMS:** "35:09:00 N 90:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.150002,-90.050004)", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 6664 (F9C60421) **Date:** 5/7/1948 **Location:** Memphis, TN **Description:** (35.14° N, 90.03° W) Bray and Kaiser (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [480507](http://nicap.org/memphis480507dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_440 ### Event 6665 (1FB69003) **Date:** 5/7/1948 **Locations:** 251 W. Waldorf Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee; Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; Cincinnati Observatory, Ohio **Description:** Afternoon. Mr. and [Mrs](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87207324/evelyn-w%5F-kaiser)[.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87207324/evelyn-w%5F-kaiser) [Fordyce J. Kaiser](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87207277/fordyce-justin-kaiser) and their housekeeper Jean Bray, at 251 W. Waldorf Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee, see 50–60 unusual objects, apparently moving very high and fast, traveling in straight lines with slight zigzagging. They are shiny like bright aluminum with silvery trails. Lt. Col. James C. Beam of Project Sign goes to investigate. On the way back, he consults with astronomer [Paul Herget](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%5FHerget) of the Cincinnati Observatory in Ohio, who thinks the objects are meteors and recommends Ohio State University astronomer [J. Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) in Columbus as a project consultant. \(Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1948](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1948.pdf), The Author, 1988, pp. 28–29; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 34; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 41; Swords 55–56\) May 12 — European Command HQ sends the director of intelligence at the US Forces in Austria a memo alleging that [Walter Horten](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten%5Fbrothers) has admitted he has been in contact with the Russians. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jacobsen, Area 51, [p. 43](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/42/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1226 ### Event 6666 (B6FA5602) **Date:** 5/7/1948 **Description:** At 3:45 p.m. several witnesses including Kaiser and Bray in Memphis, Tennessee saw 50 or more lights make sharp turns in the sky for three hours. They flew from east to west. Not meteors, according to astronomer. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Memphis Commercial Advertiser, May 8, 1948; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1309, citing MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 241, citing FBI **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2612 ### Event 6667 (7DB644E7) **Date:** 5/8/1948 **Location:** MIDDLEPORT, OH **Description:** Several observer(s). Several glowing "clock faces" cross sky / 2 minute(s) intervals. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KLOIAN, Richard: UFO's in the New York TIMES, 1947-1987 1994 Document Research Services, Berkeley, CA (Index 7) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1297 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "175", **HatchDesc:** "MIDDLEPORT,OH:SVRL OBS:SVRL GLOWING "CLOCK FACES" CROSS SKY/2min INTERVALS", **LatLong:** "39.000002 -82.050004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:00:00 N 82:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.000002,-82.050004)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6668 (74E88A47) **Date:** 5/12/1948 **Location:** NEAR WESTFIELD, IN **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #129. Private pilot. Small "Graf-Zeppelin" zooms away / jet-speed. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 31) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1298 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "283", **HatchDesc:** "nr WESTFIELD,IN:BBK#129:PVT PILOT:SMALL "GRAF-ZEPPELIN" ZOOMS AWAY/JET-SPEED", **LatLong:** "40.033335 -86.116671", **LatLongDMS:** "40:02:00 N 86:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.033335,-86.116671)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6669 (57C0CBDA) **Date:** 5/12/1948 **Description:** A private pilot flying over Westfield, Indiana reporting seeing a small "Graf-Zeppelin" that zoomed away at jet speed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 129; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 10 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2753 ### Event 6670 (A7BA6174) **Date:** 5/13/1948 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 127.3km altitude (Bumper 1 Premature cut-off of WAC 2nd stage) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_316 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 127.3m ### Event 6671 (D5CA2402) **Date:** 5/13/1948 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) Launch at 06:43 of V2 #B1, Bumper Program, altitude 112 KM. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1347 ### Event 6672 (BFAC2606) **Date:** 5/14/1948 **Time:** 18:04:00.0 **Location:** 11.5352 162.36063 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Zebra” Yield: 18KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_7 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "11.5352 162.36063", **LatLongDMS:** "11:32:07 N 162:21:38 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/11.5352,162.36063)", **NukeCountry:** "USA", **NukeDepth:** "-0.06", **NukeName:** "Zebra", **NukeSource:** "G+P", **NukeType:** "NACU", **NukeY:** "18" ### Event 6673 (FFF67844) **Date:** 5/14/1948 **Description:** Douglas Aircraft Company creates the RAND Corporation, a global think tank to offer research and analysis to the US military. It is financed by the US government, endowments, corporations, universities, and private individuals. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[RAND Corporation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAND%5FCorporation\#RAND%5FCorporation)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1227 ### Event 6674 (27BE206D) **Date:** 5/15/1948 **Locations:** Enewetak Atoll; Marshall Islands; Los Alamos, New Mexico **Description:** During the Zebra nuclear detonation at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands, a manned aircraft accidentally flies through the mushroom cloud. Because the pilot and crew “suffered no ill effects,” the Air Force decides that piloted aircraft could collect samples. The Los Alamos, New Mexico, personnel assigned to remove the filters from the B-17 drones have apparently carried out the same procedure on X-Ray and Yoke without problems, but this time three of them suffer radiation burns on their hands serious enough to be hospitalized and need skin grafting. One of the men who carries out the procedure for Yoke is then also found to have burns on his hands and is also hospitalized but is discharged on May 28. Once again, the drone tank gives trouble and bogs in the crater, but the soil samples are retrieved by the backup drone tank. Both tanks are subsequently dumped in the ocean. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Operation Sandstone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FSandstone)”; Jacobsen, Area 51, [p. 224](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/224/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1228 ### Event 6675 (6A5B4A33) **Date:** 5/15/1948 **Locations:** Edwards AFB; California **Description:** A piston-driven YB-35 flying wing bomber makes its first and only flight at Edwards AFB in California. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Northrop YB-35](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop%5FYB-35\#YB-35)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1229 ### Event 6676 (5C340484) **Date:** 5/17/1948 **Location:** USA, Muroc **Description:** (Translated from French) (cf: 3.5.48) Exactly two weeks after the dislocation of the Skystreak causing the death of Lilly Howard, the test pilot of the Ames Laboratories, Ryland Carter, perished while testing a P-51 H Mustang. These two accidents temporarily put a stop to the race for supersonic speed. **Reference:** NASA Website, 1997 - On the Frontier **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1348 ### Event 6677 (C9089A9A) **Date:** 5/17/1948 **Location:** Seattle, Washington **Description:** **AIRFIELD TECHNICIAN SPOTS ONE.** Fred Granger, aircraft communicator stationed at the Seattle-Tacoma Airfield spotted what appeared to be four stars or lights with red and green flashes, approximately 25 degrees above the horizon. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256) **Source:** Scully, **ID:** Scully_16 ### Event 6678 (F8FE9884) **Date:** 5/17/1948 **Locations:** Plevna; Miles City, Montana **Description:** Day. William A. Bonneville sees a bright white ball, three times as bright as a locomotive headlight, sail over the hills to the northwest between Plevna and Miles City, Montana. It moves south, then west, repeating these maneuvers for 20 minutes until it flies into a dark cloud. It is silent, and a long, bright light shoots out from beneath. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 41–44 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1230 ### Event 6679 (750682E9) **Date:** 5/25/1948 **Location:** LUXEMBOURG (Grand Duché), Wasserbillig **Description:** (Translated from French) Hans Klotchbach was travelling without a passport on a coal train. At night, just before the Wasserbillig border control station, he fell onto the ballast and injured both of his legs. He fainted, losing blood and unable to walk. He claimed to have regained consciousness inside a flying saucer, in a cabin bathed in an opaline blue light. A voice gave him information in German about upcoming cataclysmic events and added that it was by chance above his unconscious body that the occupants had come to his aid. He fainted again. Four days later he was sitting in the moss of a small wood, 6 km inside Luxembourg, 10 km from the place of his fall: his legs completely healed but his trousers and shoes full of clotted blood. **Reference:** continued December 30, 58 **Reference:** Henry DURRANT: "Premières enquêtes sur les Humanoïdes ET" - Laffont 1977 - p. 64 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1349 ### Event 6680 (2313B3D5) **Date:** Late 5/1948 **Locations:** Oxford/Bicester area in England; RAF Acklington **Description:** 11:40 a.m. Sgt. T. G. Jones and three other officers and two crew are aboard a York transport aircraft, accompanied by a formation of six Meteor jets, cruising at 10,000 feet above the Oxford/Bicester area in England, bound for RAF Acklington. Visiting US Maj. [Robin Olds](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin%5FOlds) is in one of the jets. They encounter a 100-foot oval object with three bumps or protrusions on the bottom, as Jones describes it through binoculars. Ground radar tracks the object, which is stationary and above 25,000 feet. Two jets go up to try to get a better look and get within a few thousand feet. The object departs vertically at a speed of 1,500 mph. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jenny Randles, UFO Conspiracy, Cassell, 1987, [pp. 92–93](https://archive.org/details/ufoconspiracyfir00rand/page/92/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1231 ### Event 6681 (DA97E3D6) **Date:** 5/25/1948 **Description:** Jumping from a coal train at night in post-war Wesserbillig, Luxemborg 45-year-old Mr. Klotzbach suffered severe leg injuries and experienced a lot of bleeding. He fainted, but surprisingly when he woke up he found himself inside a UFO. The UFO occupants spoke to him in German. They shared with him some undisclosed messages, and he next experienced a further loss of time. He awoke again four days later in Luxemborg, legs fully healed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 59; Gordon Creighton, FSR, September-October 1969, p. 20; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0148 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3079 ### Event 6682 (B66C72F0) **Date:** 5/26/1948 **Location:** VALLEY CITY, NORTH DAKOTA **Description:** **CLERGYMAN AND EDITOR BOTH REPORT DAKOTA SIGHTING.** Rev. L.S. Eberly and his wife noticed a bright light which turned out to be a spheroid, dark in the center and radiating light rays near the outer rings. It was observed for an hour. On the following morning, a similar object appeared and Rev. Eberly called Robert Downs of the _Times-Record_ who also observed the phenomenon. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256) **Source:** Scully, **ID:** Scully_17 ### Event 6683 (E553857B) **Date:** 5/27/1948 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 139.7km altitude (Steady flight with low roll rate) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_317 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 139.7 ### Event 6684 (E553857B) **Date:** 5/27/1948 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 139.7km altitude (Steady flight with low roll rate) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_318 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 139.7 ### Event 6685 (AE145F7B) **Date:** 5/27/1948 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) Launch at 7:15 of V2 #35. It reached 140 km altitude and weighed 13624 kg. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1350 ### Event 6686 (675E8619) **Date:** 5/28/1948 **Location:** USA, Monroe (Michigan) **Description:** (Translated from French) At 3:00 PM, a passenger aboard a C-47 transport observed at 8000 feet altitude, three objects in the shape of a disc. He defined them as being "golden silver". Another passenger confirmed the observation, but only saw two objects. The size of the objects was estimated to be 300 or 400 feet and with a well-defined outline when they emerged from the clouds at 18000 feet. They flew in the opposite direction to that taken by the plane. **Reference:** "Ufo's: a Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 104, 105 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1351 ### Event 6687 (2394BFD3) **Date:** 5/28/1948 **Location:** BERLIN, GERMANY **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #unknown. Unidentified. USAF C-47 transport buzzed / 3 objects. Type unknown. No further details in available sources. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LOFTIN, Robert: IDENTIFIED FLYING SAUCERS: D. McKay, NY 1968 (Index 155) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1299 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "BERLIN,GERMANY:BBK#UNK:UID:USAF C-47 TRANSPORT BUZZED/3 OBJS:TYPE UNK:NFD.", **LatLong:** "52.516669 13.383334", **LatLongDMS:** "52:31:00 N 13:23:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.516669,13.383334)", **State/Prov:** "BRL", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 6688 (71AA08A8) **Date:** 5/28/1948 **Location:** Monroe, MI **Description:** 3 objects seen - 300 to 400 feet in size, silvery-gold in color, and traveling at well over 500 MPH (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [480528](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/monroe480528dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_441 ### Event 6689 (E7A0788E) **Date:** 5/28/1948 **Location:** Monroe, Michigan **Description:** 3:00 p.m. USAF Reserve 1st Lt. Alexander Kokolonis is flying a C-47 at 6,000 feet six miles east of Monroe, Michigan, when he sees out of the navigator’s window three discs 2 miles to the left. He estimates they are 300– 400 feet in diameter, silvery-gold, and traveling well over 500 mph. They are seen for only 10–15 seconds. Shortly afterwards, Kokolonis sees two similar objects and he alerts M/Sgt Ernest Davis Jr., who also sees them. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Air Force Transport Buzzed by 3 UFOs](http://www.nicap.org/480528monroe%5Fdir.htm)”; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 45 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1232 ### Event 6690 (B363D067) **Date:** 5/31/1948 **Location:** WILMINGTON, NC **Description:** 1 observer. Project Bluebook Case #129. Cylinder/cigar-shape / terrific speed. Smokes. Veers. Slows. Speeds going quickly east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 31) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1300 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "WILMINGTON,NC:1 OBS:BBK#129:CGR/TERRIFIC SPEED:SMOKES:VEERS:SLOWS:SPEEDS >>E", **LatLong:** "34.233335 -77.933337", **LatLongDMS:** "34:14:00 N 77:56:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.233335,-77.933337)", **State/Prov:** "North Carolina", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6691 (57075610) **Date:** 5/31/1948 **Location:** Wilmington, NC **Description:** (34.23° N, 77.94° W). Alspach and Colvin (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_442 ### Event 6692 (13B31DFB) **Date:** 5/31/1948 **Locations:** Wilmington, North Carolina; Cape Fear River **Description:** 1:20 p.m. A cigar-shaped object moves through the sky from the northwest at terrific speed over Wilmington, North Carolina. Mrs. H. D. Alspach, Mrs. Charles Colvin, and Mrs. [Isabell Hufham](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35784611/isabell-hufham) see the object emit smoke. It appears about 3 feet long. It slows down over the Cape Fear River, veers off to the east, and then speeds away at a high altitude. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Cigar Slows Down Then Speeds Up](http://www.nicap.org/480531wilmington%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 34 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1233 ### Event 6693 (7315C574) **Date:** 5/31/1948 **Description:** In 1948 at 1:20 in the afternoon, a cigar-shaped object moved through the sky at terrific speed over Wilmington, North Carolina. Mrs. H. D. Alspach reported that the object emitted smoke, appeared about three feet long, veered, slowed down, and then speed away toward the east at a high altitude. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Wilmington, North Carolina Morning Star, June 1, 1948; Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 129 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3175 ### Event 6694 (3C42852A) **Date:** 6/1948 (approximate) **Location:** US **Description:** “Cornet” or “Coronet” Magazine article on a saucer landing and retrieval with dead occupants. Issue was near-instantly censored/banned and almost all copies recalled, several copies still in private hands. This would have been the first article revealing the crash retrieval program. **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Armstrong-Report-Virgil/dp/0925390070) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_319 ### Event 6695 (2BB02B27) **Date:** 6/1948 **Time:** 06:30 **Location:** SOUTHEAST / BERGERAC, FR **Description:** 2 / yard. Luminous/glowing disk spins and going up. Stops. Going [to] turns horizontal follows river. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 95) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1301 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "SE/BERGERAC,FR:2/YARD:LUMN DISK SPINS+↑:STOPS:> TURNS HORIZONTAL folos river", **LatLong:** "44.750002 0.583333", **LatLongDMS:** "44:45:00 N 00:35:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.750002,0.583333)", **State/Prov:** "Dordogne", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6696 (539BB9E0) **Date:** 6/5/1948 **Locations:** Muroc; Edwards AFB; California; Forbes AFB; Topeka, Kansas **Description:** A jet-propelled Northrop YB-49 crashes north of Muroc \[now Edwards\] AFB in California after completing a number of maximum forward center-of-gravity tests, killing its pilot, Maj. [Daniel Forbes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%5FForbes) \(for whom Forbes AFB in Topeka, Kansas, is named\), copilot Capt. [Glen Edwards](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen%5FEdwards%5F%28pilot%29) \(for whom Edwards AFB is named\), and three other crew members. The aircraft suffers structural failure, with both outer wing sections becoming detached from the center section. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Northrop YB-49](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop%5FYB-49)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1236 ### Event 6697 (DFB754A4) **Date:** 6/11/1948 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 62.3km altitude (Blossom 2 — Cut-off at 57.7s; payload separation at 96s) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_320 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 62.3 ### Event 6698 (71D661E6) **Date:** 6/11/1948 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) Launch at 03:22 of V2 #37 which reached 63 km altitude. It carried in the frame of "Blossom III N" the rhesus monkey Albert A. malfunction. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952 and Caldin 1960, p. 102 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1352 ### Event 6699 (1AC7FD18) **Date:** 6/15/1948 **Location:** Miles City, MT **Description:** Top Secret Report (100–203–79,p.12,Sec.P-2): Mr. Booneville observed a reddish glow with a jet exhaust in the vicinity of Miles City, Montana. Made no sound, traveled at twice the speed of conventional aircraft **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up), p481) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_321 ### Event 6700 (35C5198D) **Date:** 6/16/1948 **Location:** USSR, Kasputine Yar (Baskounchak) **Description:** (Translated from French) Test pilot Arcad Ivanovitch Apraksine took off in a series aircraft, reached an altitude of 10500 m and found himself above a solid sea of clouds, flying in a southward direction. He had been flying for half an hour when he spotted an unknown flying craft coming across and descending. The object had the shape of a cigar. Light cones or beams were projected backwards. Seeing this craft, Apraksine, who was in radio communication with his base, described what he saw. He was told that the unknown object was being tracked on radar, had been given the order to land and had not responded. Apraksine was given the mission to intercept the craft and order it to land and, if it did not, to open fire. Carrying out these instructions, Apraksine maneuvered for interception and approached to a distance of 10 km from the object. Its light beams then opened up in a fan and engulfed his aircraft, dazzling him. At the same time he realized that all the electrical controls of the aircraft were dead and the engine stopped. Apraksine managed to make a forced landing after a glide. He saw the object shoot up into the sky. **Reference:** Jacques VALLEE: "The Invisible College" - J'ai Lu 1975, pp. 81-83 **Reference:** Continued on May 6, 1949 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1353 ### Event 6701 (40CE4547) **Date:** 6/16/1948 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Highly decorated Soviet Air Force pilot Arkadii Ivanovich Apraksin conducts a test flight with a new Soviet jet aircraft. During the test he encounters a flying cucumber-shaped object crossing his course. Conical lights radiate from the object, which appears to be descending. As Apraksin reports his observation to his base at Kapustin Yar he is told that the object has been picked up on radar. Apraksin is ordered to approach the UFO and force it to land, even if it means opening fire if it refuses. As he approaches to a distance of 10 km beams of light are emitted from the UFO, reach his aircraft, and blind him. All technical systems and the engine fail, but as he sees the UFO disappear behind the clouds he manages to guide the aircraft to a safe landing. Apraksin is interrogated several times and the aircraft is examined by experts from Moscow. (June 16) **Reference:** Timothy Good, *Above Top Secret*, page 224 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1948.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_733 ### Event 6702 (C8EDF8BC) **Date:** 6/16/1948 (approximate) **Location:** LAKE BASKUNCHAK, RS **Description:** Pilot Apraksin chases banana. Hit / cones / light. Crash lands. / r23. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO CHRONICLES of the SOVIET UNION; Ballentine Books HB 1992. 212pp. (Index 137) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1302 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Russia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "Lk.BASKUNCHAK,RS:PILOT APRAKSIN CHASES BANANA:HIT/CONES/LITE:CRASH LANDS:/r23", **LatLong:** "48.333336 46.666669", **LatLongDMS:** "48:20:00 N 46:40:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.333336,46.666669)", **State/Prov:** "AST", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 6703 (FF79E6C6) **Date:** 6/16/1948 **Location:** Kapustin Yar site, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia **Description:** Soviet test pilot Arkady Ivanovich Apraksin is flying at an altitude of 6.5 miles above a solid layer of clouds south of the Kapustin Yar site, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia. He sees an unconventional aircraft in the shape of a cucumber with cones of light radiating from it descending across his path. The base tells him it has tracked the object on radar and given it instructions to land, but it does not respond. Apraksin is ordered to intercept it and open fire if it refuses to land. When he closes to within 6 miles, the light beams open up like a fan and shine into his aircraft, blinding him. The plane’s electrical systems malfunction. He glides the plane to a safe landing after the UFO disappears. Apraksin is interrogated heavily. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Good Above, [p. 221](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/220/mode/2up); Joe Brill, “UFO’s behind the Iron Curtain,” Skylook, no. 87, February 1975, pp. 14–15 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1237 ### Event 6704 (0929825B) **Date:** 6/16/1948 **Description:** A banana or cucumber-shaped object with beams of light was tracked on radar when it descended across the course of Russian test pilot Aprasksin flying over the Kapustin Yar test flight facility in Astrakhan, Soviet Union. The experimental aircraft he was flying experienced a total electrical failure when it was hit by a cone of light, with the engine and controls failing. Although temporarily blinded, he was able to glide the plane to a landing. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Felix Zigel, unpublished manuscript, p. 124; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project, p. 004; Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 137 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3510 ### Event 6705 (591ED556) **Date:** 6/18/1948 **Location:** USSR **Description:** The National Security Council issues Directive 10/2, calling for covert action against the USSR, and granting the authority to carry out covert operations against “hostile foreign states or groups” that could, if needed, be denied by the US government. To this end, the Office of Policy Coordination \(OPC\) is created inside the new CIA. [Frank Wisner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FWisner)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FWisner) the head of the OPC, answers not to the CIA director, but to the secretaries of defense, state, and the NSC, and the OPC’s actions are a secret even from the head of the CIA. Most CIA stations have two station chiefs, one working for the OSO, and one working for the OPC. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Note on U.S. Covert Actions,](https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v12/actionsstatement)” from Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964–1968, Volume XII, Western Europe, Office of the Historian, Foreign Service Institute, US Department of State **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1238 ### Event 6706 (268FF329) **Date:** 6/19/1948 **Location:** Kapustin Yar **Description:** A silver cigarette-like object appeared above the Soviet Kapustin Yar secret atomic/missile test site. Several military planes were sent to intercept the object. One of them likened the “flying cigarette” to a rocket, but the UFO managed to emit a bright beam that blinded the pilot. It is said that both the plane and the UFO crashed and the wreckages were taken to the underground hangars before they could attract attention. **Type:** crash retrieval **Reference:** [link](https://curiosmos.com/kapustin-yar-russias-alleged-area-51-10-things-you-should-know/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_322 ### Event 6707 (B419A9AE) **Date:** 6/20/1948 **Location:** Belleville, IL **Description:** Scott AFB (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_446 ### Event 6708 (EE5B257F) **Date:** Summer 1948 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** Newton, Connecticut **Description:** **BILLY ROSE REPORTS ONE FROM BROADWAY.** Billy Rose, newspaper columnist, visiting playwright Paul Osbourne in Newton, Connecticut, with Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Logan and Mr. and Mrs. John Hersey, noticed three searchlights poking into the air around 10:00 p.m. A few minutes later three objects appeared, about 200 ft. in diameter and flying at an altitude of 3,000 to 5,000 feet. The mysterious craft gave off a ghostly glow, dull bluish-white. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256) **Source:** Scully, **ID:** Scully_19 ### Event 6709 (80CA2E54) **Date:** Summer 1948 **Location:** Goose Bay, Labrador **Description:** Multiple radar tracking of target; extreme speed, etc. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973_, by Richard Dolan](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/mode/2up) **Source:** Dolan, **ID:** Dolan_32 ### Event 6710 (EC6B0155) **Date:** Summer 1948 **Location:** Erie, PA **Description:** Engineer saw elliptical UFO which flew horizontally, then ascended rapidly. \[UFOE, VI\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_443 ### Event 6711 (47213479) **Date:** Summer 1948 **Location:** Easton, PA **Description:** Physicist watched 3 luminescent greenish discs cross sky. \[UFOE,VI\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_444 ### Event 6712 (18C7E657) **Date:** Summer 1948 **Location:** Goose Bay, Labrador, CAN **Description:** UFO tracked on radar at 9,000 m.p.h. \[UFOE,VIII\] (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [48Summer](http://www.nicap.org/48XXXXgoosedir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_445 ### Event 6713 (AE4731F2) **Date:** Summer 1948 **Locations:** Goose Bay AFB [now CFB Goose Bay], Labrador; Lake Erie in Erie, Pennsylvania **Description:** USAF Maj. [Edwin A. Jerome](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49237425/edwin-anthony-jerome) reports that a high-speed radar target appears during an inspection visit at Goose Bay AFB \[now CFB Goose Bay\], Labrador. It is calculated at going 9,000 mph at an altitude of 60,000 feet. The commanders assume that the US equipment is faulty, but the Canadians have tracked the same target. The following day, an object hovers over the base at 45,000 feet and moving only 10 mph. \(NICAP, “[Edwin](http://www.nicap.org/48XXXXgoosedir.htm) [Jerome Radar Case](http://www.nicap.org/48XXXXgoosedir.htm)”; UFOEv, [pp. 83–84](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=95&skin=2021); Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979, pp. 151–152; Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 51–52; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 264\) Summer \[possibly 1958\] — Early afternoon. Aircraft instrumentation engineer [Victor G. Didelot](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10708087/victor-george-didelot) watches an elliptical UFO moving rapidly west to east roughly parallel to the shoreline of Lake Erie in Erie, Pennsylvania. It suddenly and silently ascends vertically at three times its horizontal speed and disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [pp. 55–56](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=67&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1234 ### Event 6714 (5CA3913C) **Date:** Summer 1948 **Location:** Easton, Pennsylvania **Description:** Physicist [Carl A. Mitchell](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84905457/carl-a%5F-mitchell) sees three luminescent greenish discs, one second apart, passing across the sky above Easton, Pennsylvania, from north to south. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 49](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=61&skin=2021) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1235 ### Event 6715 (1B73B8EF) **Date:** 6/26/1948 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) Launch of V2 #40, it reached 96 km altitude. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1354 ### Event 6716 (BEE508C3) **Date:** 6/29/1948 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** UNIONTOWN, PA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #164. Several observer(s). 3 silent luminous saucers southwest going quickly northeast / sequence. 1K' altitude. / MJ#242. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 33) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1303 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "11", **Elev:** "298", **HatchDesc:** "UNIONTOWN,PA:BBK#164:SVRL OBS:3 SLNT LUM.SCRS SW>>NE/SEQUENCE:1K'alt:/MJ#242", **LatLong:** "39.900002 -79.716670", **LatLongDMS:** "39:54:00 N 79:43:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.900002,-79.716670)", **RelAlt:** "300", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 6717 (36F60D9D) **Date:** 6/29/1948 **Location:** W. Uniontown, PA **Description:** An oval luminous object "rolling" vertically on its edge (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [480629](http://www.nicap.org/uniontown480629dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_447 ### Event 6718 (C82A15CA) **Date:** 6/29/1948 **Locations:** Norway; Ohio; Wright-Patterson AFB **Description:** ATIC’s chief of operations, C. A. Griffith, writes to a military representative in Norway to send all UFO reports to Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1948](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1948.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1948.pdf) The Author, 1988, pp. 32–33 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1239 ### Event 6719 (F4FCD184) **Date:** 6/30/1948 **Location:** Knoxville, TN **Description:** (35.98\* N, 83.92° W) Whitehouse (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_448 ### Event 6720 (B9C54106) **Date:** 6/30/1948 **Location:** Hecla, SD **Description:** Pfutzenreuter. (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_449 ### Event 6721 (26D399B8) **Date:** 6/30/1948 **Location:** Hecla, South Dakota **Description:** A couple are driving near Hecla, South Dakota, when they see an unusual star. They stop the car and get out, but it is not moving. They drive on and stop again. A few pieces break off the original star and arrange themselves in a triangle formation. They all now look like polished aluminum; they rise to a great height and vanish. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 45–46; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 35; Swords 57 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1240 ### Event 6722 (FF2D2798) **Date:** 7/1948 **Location:** PASCO, WA **Description:** Near nuclear facility. Private pilot. Black saucer dives. Climbs away fast. / MJ#205 p12. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 38) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1304 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "125", **HatchDesc:** "PASCO,WA:nr NUCL FCLTY:PVT PILOT:BLK SCR DIVES:CLIMBS AWAY FAST:/MJ#205 p12", **LatLong:** "46.227780 -119.100006", **LatLongDMS:** "46:13:40 N 119:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.227780,-119.100006)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6723 (2B9AB1F5) **Date:** 7/1948? **Location:** SWASTIKA, ONT **Description:** Saucer lands. Entity takes vegetation samples. Force field pushes observer(s) to ground. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUSGRAVE, John Brent: UFO OCCUPANTS & CRITTERS; Global Communications, NY 1979. 8x11 66pp. (Index 41) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1305 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **FIG:** Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "298", **HatchDesc:** "SWASTIKA,ONT:SCR LANDS:ENTITY TAKES VEG SAMPLES:FORCE FIELD PUSHES OBS TO GND", **LatLong:** "48.122225 -80.088893", **LatLongDMS:** "48:07:20 N 80:05:20 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.122225,-80.088893)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 6724 (4E725954) **Date:** 7/1948 **Location:** Pasco, WA **Description:** Pilot reports domed disc near AEC area (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection, Code: M, Rating: 5, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [480700](http://www.nicap.org/4807XXpasco%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_450 ### Event 6725 (6E6952F3) **Date:** 7/1948 **Time:** Shortly after sunset **Location:** vicinity of Marion, Virginia **Description:** Or August, 1948. Witness: Max Abbott, flying a Bellanca Cruisair four-passenger private airplane. A single bright white light accelerated and turned up a valley. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_13 ### Event 6726 (CDFB0871) **Date:** 7/1948 **Location:** Pasco, Washington **Description:** 1:00 p.m. Former Air Force pilot Don Newman and three friends watch a disc-shaped, domed UFO, about 100 feet in diameter, maneuvering over Pasco, Washington. “The exterior finish appears to be spun or burnished aluminum.” The object slows, then accelerates rapidly, dives, and climbs over the area. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** UFOEv, [p. 38](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=50&skin=2021); NICAP, “[Summary of letter from Witness to Major Keyhoe, dated March 10, 1958](http://www.nicap.org/reports/4807XXpasco%5Freport.pdf)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1241 ### Event 6727 (9EB6DD6B) **Date:** 7/1948 **Location:** Montgomery, Alabama **Description:** Captain C. S. Chiles and Co-Captain John B. Whitted reported that a cigar-shaped UFO almost collided with their Eastern Airlines DC-3, rocking their plane over Montgomery, Alabama. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up) **Source:** HostileFawcett, **ID:** HostileFawcett_8 ### Event 6728 (794BC9E9) **Date:** 7/1/1948 **Location:** Ellsworth Air Force Base **Description:** Top Secret Report (100–203–79, p.12,Sec. N.): Maj. Hammer, Rapid City Air Base, reported seeing 12 discs over the base. These disks were oval-shaped and about 100 ft. diam., speed in excess of 500 mph. Made 30 and 40 degree climbing turn, accelerating very rapidly out of sight **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p481) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_323 ### Event 6729 (A883FEF8) **Date:** 7/1/1948 **Location:** INDIANAPOLIS, IN **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #152. 20' saucer / 7' dome seen. No further details. See reference drawing / Loren Gross. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 49) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1306 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "215", **HatchDesc:** "INDIANAPOLIS,IN:BBK#152:20'SCR/7'DOME SEEN:NFD:see ref.drawing/LOREN GROSS", **LatLong:** "39.766669 -86.166671", **LatLongDMS:** "39:46:00 N 86:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.766669,-86.166671)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6730 (E8219059) **Date:** 7/1/1948 **Location:** Rapid City AFB [now Ellsworth AFB], South Dakota **Description:** A Maj. Hammer is flying above Rapid City AFB \[now Ellsworth AFB\], South Dakota, when he sees 21 brilliant, yellow-white, oval-shaped objects. They are about 100 feet in diameter and flying in a tight diamond formation. They make a high-speed dive, level, make a perfect turn in formation, angle upwards at 30°–40°, and accelerate out of sight. He estimates their cruising speed at 500 mph. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 57–58; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 35 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1242 ### Event 6731 (FC02C8AA) **Date:** 7/2/1948 **Location:** Canada, Val D'Or (Abitiba) **Description:** (Translated from French) At around two o'clock in the morning, hundreds of Valdoriens witnessed the passage of several flying saucers. These, of a purple-red color, moved in a fantastic ballet above the city of Val d'Or. **Reference:** Jean FERGUSON: "All about Flying Saucers" ed.; Leméac, Ottawa, 1972, p.151 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1355 ### Event 6732 (89F3729E) **Date:** 7/4/1948 **Location:** LONGMONT, CO **Description:** Revolving silver saucer soars upward / terrific speed. No further details. / r78p155. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 130) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1307 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1506", **HatchDesc:** "LONGMONT,CO:REVOLVING SLVR SCR SOARS UPWARD/TERRIFIC SPEED:NFD:/r78p155", **LatLong:** "40.166669 -105.100005", **LatLongDMS:** "40:10:00 N 105:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.166669,-105.100005)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6733 (6DB447A8) **Date:** 7/4/1948 **Location:** Dravesburg, PA **Description:** Jannicky. (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_451 ### Event 6734 (B453CA6F) **Date:** 7/4/1948 **Location:** Nr. Longmont, CO **Description:** Revolving silver circular object soared upward at ''terrific speed." \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_452 ### Event 6735 (EB44DB26) **Date:** 7/4/1948 **Locations:** Johnson Park; Camden, New Jersey; Cooper Free Public Library **Description:** Day. Edward E. Thompson watches a brilliant spherical UFO for five minutes while sitting in Johnson Park in Camden, New Jersey, across from the Cooper Free Public Library. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Report from the Readers](https://archive.org/details/fate-1949-4%5F202110/page/93/mode/2up),” Fate 1, no. 4 \(Winter 1949\): 93–94 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1243 ### Event 6736 (9EE5FE2E) **Date:** 7/7/1948 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Recovery of a body in Mexico south of Laredo \(Texas\). (July 7th) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1948.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_734 ### Event 6737 (A3D4B79A) **Date:** 7/7/1948 **Locations:** 30 miles south-southwest of Laredo, Texas; San Antonio, Texas **Description:** A silver, disc-shaped object allegedly crashes some 30 miles south-southwest of Laredo, Texas. US servicemen are reportedly dispatched from a nearby military base to cordon off the UFO crash site until a special US retrieval team arrives to examine the wreckage and carry it away to a military base in San Antonio, Texas. Supposedly the badly burned body of a nonhuman entity is recovered from the crash site. Ufologist [Leonard Stringfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield) hears rumors of the crash in 1977, but few further details emerge. Early in 1978, Stringfield describes the humanoid found at the crash site as “about 4 feet, 6 inches tall, completely hairless, with hands that had no thumbs.” That description seems to fit the body shown in two photographs that are mailed to Willard F. McIntyre in December 1978. The body depicted in the photos sent to McIntyre has come to be known as the “Tomato Man” due to its large, roundish head. Many UFO researchers, including [Ron Schaffner](http://www.unknownexplorers.com/ronschaffner.php) and [Kevin Randle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%5FD.%5FRandle), believe the body is that of a human pilot who is badly disfigured by intense heat following a plane crash. They argue that one of the photos shows a pair of eyeglasses, such as a human pilot would wear, near the body. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** William S. Steinman and Wendelle C. Stevens, UFO Crash at Aztec, UFO Photo Archives, 1986, pp. 402–422; Kevin D. Randle, A History of UFO Crashes, Avon, 1995, [p. 188](https://archive.org/details/historyofufocras0000rand/page/188/mode/2up); Good Above, [pp. 397–398](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/396/mode/2up); “[Laredo 1948,](http://roswellbooks.com/museum/?page%5Fid=80)” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, March 8, 2009; Noe Torres and Ruben Uriarte, The Other Roswell: UFO Crash on the Texas– Mexico Border, Roswell Books, 2008 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1244 ### Event 6738 (6AF1DD16) **Date:** 7/8/1948 **Location:** McKeesport, PA **Description:** Veway and Geltz. (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_453 ### Event 6739 (DE5290B9) **Date:** 7/9/1948 **Location:** Fielding Lake, WA **Description:** Caramia. (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_454 ### Event 6740 (655F4255) **Date:** 7/9/1948 **Location:** Unknown City, AK **Description:** Two Air Force officers reported approximately 20 discs or spheres milling around in formation and making a jet-like sound. (Fund Report \* C-7; 2 pp.) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_455 ### Event 6741 (5FBEF3C4) **Date:** 7/9/1948 **Location:** Osborn, OH **Description:** Luminous yellowish-white object traveling E to W (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_456 ### Event 6742 (A01D079A) **Date:** 7/9/1948 **Locations:** Fielding Lake, Alaska; West-Northwest; East-Southeast **Description:** Caramia and Carpenter, two officers of the USAF 72nd Reconnaissance Group, are fishing at Fielding Lake, Alaska, when they hear a loud roar and notice about 20 gray discs or spheres moving at 500 mph in loose formation from west-northwest to east-southeast at about 5,000 feet. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Barry Greenwood, “[The Estimate of the](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr16.pdf) [Situation: Well, Not Exactly!](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr16.pdf)” UFO Historical Revue, no. 16 \(July 2015\): 5–10 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1245 ### Event 6743 (69ECC8E3) **Date:** 7/9/1948 **Location:** Osborn, Ohio **Description:** 9:47 p.m. While on the ground in Osborn, Ohio, the USAF Project Sign officer who had flown to investigate the Hecla case, sees a self-luminous, yellow-white object flying at 500–600 mph. It seems to pulse its lights at 3- second intervals as it moves away. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 58; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 35 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1246 ### Event 6744 (78869F87) **Date:** 7/10/1948 **Location:** STA.MARIA AIRPORT/APARTMENT, AZORES **Description:** Numerous observer(s). White cylinder/cylindrical object maneuvers / 12km altitude / 45 minute(s). All clocks stop! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GARREAU, Charles: SOUCOUPES VOLANTES, Vingt-cinq Ans d'Enquetes. 3rd Editn = 1973? Maison Mame ISBN 2-250-00464-1 (Index 101) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1308 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "45", **HatchDesc:** "Sta.MARIA Apt.,AZORES:NMRS OBS:WHT CYL MNVRS/12km alt/45min:ALL CLOCKS STOP!", **LatLong:** "37.083335 -25.116668", **LatLongDMS:** "37:05:00 N 25:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Islands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.083335,-25.116668)", **State/Prov:** "Azores", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6745 (27C8C3B1) **Date:** 7/11/1948 **Description:** Burlington, Vermont -- A fresh wave of UFO reports started Sunday, July 11, 1948 when Robert H. Streeten of West Bolton, Vermont notified authorities that he had sighted a "flying saucer" at 4:40 p.m. Three hours later Mrs. Ralph Holmes, wife of a University of Vermont physics professor, said she observed a fiery object whizzing through the sky. Miss Alice Giroux, a University of Vermont coed, and Miss Irene Audette of Hartford, Connecticut, a visiting skier, both reported seeing a flying saucer. One Vermonter, Dr. C. H. Vaughn of Burlington, said he saw a bluish-white flying saucer land in Massachusetts between Concord and Lexington. He was driving his car when he saw the object. Altogether, 20 people reported sighting flying saucers--round ones, square ones, and a few with handsome flue tails--in Chittenden and Franklin Counties. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch, July 14, 1948. **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3990 ### Event 6746 (E1C25300) **Date:** 7/14/1948 **Location:** Boise, Idaho **Description:** Day. [Charles W. Shangle Jr.](https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/itn48p7.html) watches two groups of about 16 UFOs maneuvering at 300–600 mph over Boise, Idaho. Two of the objects exhibit a “falling leaf” motion. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “True Mystic Experiences,” Fate 2, no. 1 \(May 1949\): 75–79 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1247 ### Event 6747 (9DB9D40B) **Date:** 7/15/1948? **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** NEAR ALAJARVI, FINL **Description:** Army Major and 1. Large silent glowing metallic cylinder/cigar-shape west going quickly east. No wings etc. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** AWARENESS (Quarterly) CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK: listed by year. (Index 76) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1309 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "nr ALAJARVI,FINL:ARMY MAJOR+1:LRG SLNT GLOWING MTLC CGR W>>E:NO WINGS etc", **LatLong:** "63.000003 23.833334", **LatLongDMS:** "63:00:00 N 23:50:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/63.000003,23.833334)", **State/Prov:** "Finland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6748 (BF0A652E) **Date:** 7/15/1948 **Description:** An Army Major and a second witness reported seeing a large, silent, glowing metallic cigar-shaped object that flew from west to east over Alajarvi, Finland. The craft had no wings. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1322, citing Awareness, 1976 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4065 ### Event 6749 (AD6DF743) **Date:** 7/17/1948 **Location:** Kirtland Air Force Base **Description:** Top Secret Report (100–203–79, p.12,Sec. O): Kirtland AFB reported 7 UFOs flying a “J” formation in the vicinity of San Acacia, N.M., at altitude of 20,000 ft. Formation varied from “J” to “L” to “O” after passing zenith. Est. speed 1500 mph **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p481) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_324 ### Event 6750 (2277D3D5) **Date:** 7/17/1948 **Time:** 16:50 **Location:** SOUTH / SAN ACACIA DAM, NM **Description:** 2 / USAF. Several round objects going quickly north / 20K' altitude. Shift position. 1500MPH. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 251) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1310 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1420", **HatchDesc:** "S/SAN ACACIA DAM,NM:2/USAF:SVRL RND OBJS >>N/20K'alt:SHIFT POSITION:1500MPH", **LatLong:** "34.200002 -106.916672", **LatLongDMS:** "34:12:00 N 106:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.200002,-106.916672)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6751 (0978DD70) **Date:** 7/17/1948 **Location:** San Acacia Dam, NM **Description:** Group of 7 aluminum circular possibly spherical objects (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [480717](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/sanacacia480717dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_457 ### Event 6752 (A86200A6) **Date:** 7/17/1948 **Locations:** Kirtland AFB; San Acacia Diversion Dam, New Mexico **Description:** 4:50 p.m. Two Kirtland AFB sergeants on a fishing trip with their families five miles south of San Acacia Diversion Dam, New Mexico, see a group of 7 aluminum-like, spherical objects approach from the south at 20,000 feet pass overhead at 1,500 mph. They first appear like snub-nosed jet fighters of an unknown type, shifting from V -ormation to L-formation to circular formation to no regular formation. A regular pulsating flashing light appears in the group at 30° from zenith to the north, and at this oblique angle the objects do not appear circular. There is no noise or trail. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Two Military Families Report Seven Objects](http://www.nicap.org/480717san-acacia-dam%5Fdir.htm)”; Swords 58 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1248 ### Event 6753 (0BC09787) **Date:** 7/17/1948 **Description:** At 4:50 p.m. two Kirtland Air Force Base Sergeants on a fishing trip with their families to San Acacia Dam, New Mexico saw a group of seven aluminum circular, possibly spherical, objects approach from the south at 20,000 feet and pass overhead at 1,500 mph. They shifted from a V formation to an L formation, and then to a circular formation and finally to no regular formation, at which point a regular pulsating flashing light appeared amidst the group at 30° from zenith to the north. At this oblique angle the objects no longer appeared circular. They made no noise nor did they leave a trail. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 146; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top Secret, p. 90; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 53 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4116 ### Event 6754 (67CE637C) **Date:** 7/20/1948 **Location:** Netherlands **Description:** Top Secret Report (100–203–79,p.12,Sec.Q): A.D. Otter and his daughter Arnham, in the Netherlands, sight UFO similar to the UFO sighted on July 25, 1948, by two Eastern Airlines pilots **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p481) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_325 **See also:** 7/25/1948 ### Event 6755 (8E8D9CB6) **Date:** 7/20/1948 **Location:** NETHERLANDS, The Hague, Arnhem **Description:** (Translated from French) A two-storied spacecraft, moving at a higher speed, had been seen on July 20, 1948 (...) Witnesses had reported it at a very high altitude moving at a fantastic speed. (Donald KEYHOE: "Les soucoupes volantes existent" - ed. Corrêa, Paris, 1951, p. 97) An object was observed four times, when it intermittently emerged from the clouds around 1:30 PM. It was built like a V2 from the Second World War, without wings or fins, but its appearance did not resemble that of a rocket. One of the witnesses said he was able to see two floors on the object. **Reference:** "Ufo's: a Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 105 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1356 ### Event 6756 (E66FEB68) **Date:** 7/20/1948 **Time:** 13:30 **Location:** ARNHEM, NETH **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #168. 2 observer(s). Cylinder/cigar-shape west 2 rows / windows. Seen 4 times. Very fast. / r120p476. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLAMMONDE, Paris: UFO EXIST!; Ballentine Books, NY 1976. PB 480pp. (Index 249) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1311 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ARNHEM,NETH:BBK#168:2 OBS:CGR W 2 ROWS/WINDOWS:SEEN 4 TIMES:VFAST:/r120p476", **LatLong:** "52.000002 5.916667", **LatLongDMS:** "52:00:00 N 05:55:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.000002,5.916667)", **State/Prov:** "Netherlands", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6757 (D547E000) **Date:** 7/20/1948 **Location:** Arnhem, Netherlands **Description:** Two Eastern Airlines pilots reported having seen a huge flying craft similar to a V2 pass their aircraft in flight (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_458 ### Event 6758 (7F1D8402) **Date:** 7/20/1948 **Locations:** The Netherlands; The Hague; Arnhem **Description:** The Netherlands government reports that a wingless, cigar-shaped object with two decks of windows is seen flying rapidly on four separate occasions by two Dutch citizens over The Hague \(and/or Arnhem\). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[High](http://www.nicap.org/480720netherlands%5Fdir.htm) [V-2-Like Craft Observed](http://www.nicap.org/480720netherlands%5Fdir.htm)”; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1948](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1948.pdf), The Author, 1988, p. 86 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1249 ### Event 6759 (26890A3D) **Date:** 7/20/1948 **Description:** A cigar-shaped object with two rows of windows was seen four times in Arnhem, Holland around 1:30 in the afternoon. It moved through the sky very fast. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, July 1948; Paris Flammonde, UFO Exist! p. 249 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4221 ### Event 6760 (6355A7DE) **Date:** 7/21/1948 **Location:** Van Nuys, CA **Description:** (34.18° N, 118.45° W). (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_459 ### Event 6761 (80DC7FE4) **Date:** 7/21/1948 **Description:** The USAF Research and Development division sends a formal letter to the RAND Corporation authorizing them to select scientists to evaluate the possibility that the flying discs might be human-built spaceships. RAND’s reply is not known. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 58 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1250 ### Event 6762 (848334DD) **Date:** 7/23/1948 **Location:** USA, Atlanta-Boston **Description:** (Translated from French) The DC 3 was at 2:45, 32 kilometers west of Montgomery, when a projectile-shaped aircraft came roaring along the air route. … "It suddenly changed course and passed about two hundred meters to our right. I then saw that it had no wings." The mysterious aircraft flew past where Whitted was, allowing him to examine it in detail. ) – The object was about thirty meters long, cigar-shaped and had no wings, he said. It was about twice the diameter of a B 29, without protrusions. According to Chiles, the cabin looked like an ordinary cockpit, except that it was lit by a light of supernatural brightness. Whitted and he agreed that the brightness was comparable to that of a magnesium flash. They did not see any occupants, which is not surprising at that speed. – An intense dark blue glow emanated from the side of the craft, Chiles said. (…) It ran the length of the fuselage, like a fluorescent blue lamp. The exhaust was an orange-red flame, lighter at the outer edges. The two pilots said that the flame extended between ten and fifteen meters to the rear. As it passed, Chiles observed a kind of beak similar to a radar antenna. (…) So the spacecraft was not a stray rocket. But it could be a new kind of aircraft, somewhat revolutionary, made in the greatest secrecy. (Donald KEYHOE: "Les soucoupes volantes existent" - ed. Corrêa, Paris, 1951, pp. 91 to 95, and same author: "Le dossier des Soucoupes Volantes" - ed. Hachette 1952, p.39) Chiles and Whitted on their DC.3 saw a lit bolide emerge at 03:40. Chiles had only time to move away and the UFO passed along the plane at less than 200m. It was cigar-shaped, 30 m long, the cabin was lit like by a magnesium flash. An intense dark blue light emanated from its side. The exhaust was an orange-red flame extending over about fifteen meters. The UFO had also maneuvered to avoid collision. The pilots saw it rear up, spew out an awful jet of flames and climb at a terrifying speed. Duration of the observation: 10 seconds. It had no wings or other protrusions but had two rows of rectangular windows lit up (Jacques POTTIER: "Les Soucoupes Volantes" - DE VECCHI - 1974 - p. 25) An airplane was shaken by the wake caused by the passage of a UFO (July 23, 1948) **Reference:** Michel BOUGARD: "Des S.V. aux OVNI" - SOBEPS 1976 - p. 210 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1357 ### Event 6763 (5A3290BA) **Date:** 7/24/1948 **Location:** Montgomery, Alabama **Description:** Eastern Airlines pilots Chiles and Whitted see UFO **Type:** UFO sightings **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_97 ### Event 6764 (8C44B19C) **Date:** 7/24/1948 **Location:** Montgomery, Alabama **Description:** Chiles-Whitted UFO encounter: At roughly 2:45 AM on July 24, 1948, two commercial pilots, Clarence S. Chiles and John B. Whitted, claimed to have observed a "glowing object" pass by their plane before it appeared to pull up into a cloud and travel out of sight. The object closed on their DC-3 in a matter of seconds, and both men later said they saw the object fly past the right side of their plane at high speed before it pulled "up with a tremendous burst of flame out of its rear and zoomed up into the clouds." They observed the object for a total of ten to fifteen seconds. Chiles and Whitted stated that the object "looked like a wingless aircraft...it seemed to have two rows of windows through which glowed a very bright light, as brilliant as a magnesium flare." **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiles-Whitted_UFO_encounter) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_326 ### Event 6765 (28E2B473) **Date:** 7/24/1948 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) [Observation of Chiles and Whitted](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/1948-07-24\_Chiles\_Whitted.html). (July 24, 2:45) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1948.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_735 ### Event 6766 (A2BC1AEF) **Date:** 7/24/1948 **Time:** 01:40 **Location:** ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, GA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #165. 1 military observer(s). Cylinder/cigar-shape with jet / rear. Weird glowing. North going quickly south / 700mph. / MJ#243. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 38) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1312 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "90", **HatchDesc:** "ROBINS AFB,GA:BBK#165:1 MIL OBS:CGR W/JET/REAR:WEIRD GLO:N>>S/700mph:/MJ#243", **LatLong:** "32.633335 -83.616671", **LatLongDMS:** "32:38:00 N 83:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.633335,-83.616671)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6767 (4EF32DD3) **Date:** 7/24/1948 **Time:** 02:20 **Location:** BLACKSTONE, VA **Description:** Pilot. Glowing cylindrical object leaves (something behind) trail. Terrific speed going quickly southwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** EMENEGGER, Robert: UFO'S PAST PRESENT & FUTURE; Ballentine Books 1974. (Index 39) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1313 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "130", **HatchDesc:** "BLACKSTONE,VA:PILOT:GLOWING CYLINDRICAL OBJ LVS TRAIL:TERRIFIC SPEED >>SW", **LatLong:** "37.077780 -78.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "37:04:40 N 78:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.077780,-78.000004)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6768 (D489984E) **Date:** 7/24/1948 **Time:** 03:40 **Location:** SOUTHWEST / MONTGOMERY, AL **Description:** Chiles and Whitted. Jet-cylinder/cigar-shape. Rows / windows. Close and silent. Going quickly southwest. / r29p40. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1314 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "100", **HatchDesc:** "SW/MONTGOMERY,AL:CHILES+WHITTED:JET-CGR:ROWS/WINDOWS:CLOSE+SLNT:>>SW:/r29p40", **LatLong:** "32.100002 -86.583337", **LatLongDMS:** "32:06:00 N 86:35:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.100002,-86.583337)", **State/Prov:** "Alabama", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 6769 (6450958A) **Date:** 7/24/1948 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** RAYNE, LA **Description:** Teacher and 1. Wingless box with windows goes east going west. / letter to Bluebook. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 208) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1315 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "RAYNE,LA:TEACHER+1:WINGLESS BOX W/WINDOWS GOES E>W:/LETTER to BLUEBOOK", **LatLong:** "30.233335 -92.316671", **LatLongDMS:** "30:14:00 N 92:19:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.233335,-92.316671)", **State/Prov:** "Louisiana", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6770 (AC4253F0) **Date:** 7/24/1948 **Location:** btn Blackstone, Va and Greensboro, N.C., Various **Description:** Aircraft observed what they thought was an unusual meteor traveling in a southerly direction (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [480724](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/docs/chiles/blackstone480724docs1.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_460 ### Event 6771 (364269B2) **Date:** 7/24/1948 **Location:** Altoona, PA **Description:** Griebel. (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_461 ### Event 6772 (D999257E) **Date:** 7/24/1948 **Location:** Robbins AFB, GA **Description:** Massey, a member of civilian alert, observed a squash-shaped object with flaming exhaust (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [480724](http://www.nicap.org/wrobbins480724dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_462 ### Event 6773 (CCEEEDB1) **Date:** 7/24/1948 **Location:** Montgomery (near), AL **Description:** Chiles/Whitted Case (AL) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [480724](http://www.nicap.org/480724chiles%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_463 ### Event 6774 (A19014E6) **Date:** 7/24/1948 **Locations:** Robins AFB; Houston County, Georgia **Description:** 1:45 a.m. A bright object is seen at Robins AFB in Houston County, Georgia, by ground maintenance crewman Walter Massey, who sees a “stream of fire” in the north. As it moves overhead, it seems more cylindrical. It moves off to the west. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[July 24, 1948, 0250E, Warner Robins AFB, Georgia](http://www.nicap.org/wrobbins480724dir.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1251 ### Event 6775 (70A3446B) **Date:** 7/24/1948 **Locations:** Montgomery, Alabama; Columbus, Ohio **Description:** 2:45 a.m. Capt. [Clarence S. Chiles](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22086850/clarence-shipe-chiles) and copilot [John B. Whitted](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/177623060/john-b-whitted) are flying an Eastern Airlines DC-3 at 5,000 feet, 20 miles southwest of Montgomery, Alabama, when they see an object about 100 feet long moving rapidly toward them on their right. Torpedo-shaped and wingless, the object has flames jetting 50 feet from its rear. There are two rows of square windows through which a bright light is glowing. They only see it for 5–10 seconds. It is half a mile away and moving at about 700 mph. After it passes the plane it swoops into a cloud bank at 6,000 feet. One passenger, [Clarence L.](https://digital.klnpa.org/digital/collection/wcnp01/id/11648) [McKelvie](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/141102895/clarence-mckelvie) of Columbus, Ohio, also sees it. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Chiles-Whitted UFO](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiles-Whitted%5FUFO%5Fencounter) [Encounter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiles-Whitted%5FUFO%5Fencounter)”; NICAP, “[Chiles-Whitted Case](http://www.nicap.org/480724chiles%5Fdir.htm)”; Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, Palmer, 1952, pp. 90–91; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#pilots)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 42–43; Clark III 234–236; UFOEv, [p. 48](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=60&skin=2021); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 36; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 46–47; Swords 58–60; Good Above, [pp. 264](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/264/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/264/mode/2up) [479](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/478/mode/2up); Joel Carpenter, “[Watershed: The Chiles-Whitted ‘Rocketship’ Sighting,](https://www.project1947.com/gr/chileswhitted.htm)” 2002; Martin Shough, “[Analysis of the](https://www.nicap.org/reports/480724montgomery%5Fshough.pdf) [Chiles-Whitted Sightings, July 24, 1948,](https://www.nicap.org/reports/480724montgomery%5Fshough.pdf)” February 2011; Kevin D. Randle, “[Chiles/Whitted and Skepticism,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2016/01/chileswhitted-and-skepticism.html)” A Different Perspective, January 21, 2016 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1252 ### Event 6776 (3F02C036) **Date:** 7/24/1948 **Description:** At 2:45 a.m. the captain and co-pilot of an Eastern Airlines DC-3, Chiles and Whitted, while flying over Montgomery, Alabama reported seeing a torpedo-shaped UFO with two rows of lighted windows and a red exhaust. It buzzed them head on, veered to the right, and then shot straight up. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers -Serious Business, p. 90; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 44; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. and Harold Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 164 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4341 ### Event 6777 (B4652449) **Date:** 7/25/1948 **Location:** US **Description:** Top Secret Report (100–203–79,p.12,sec.Q): Two Eastern Airlines pilots reported seeing an object like a huge V-2 Rocket pass their jet. Sighted 4 times through scattered clouds and unlimited visibility, travelling at high speed and high altitude. Description: Appeared wingless, had two decks, and made a sound similar to that of a V-2. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p481) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_327 **See also:** 7/20/1948 **See also:** 8/3/1948 **See also:** 1/31/1950 ### Event 6778 (7EA7F2D1) **Date:** 7/25/1948 **Location:** Yakima, WA **Description:** At 2:00 P.M. and at 4:20 P.M., a silvery moon-sized flying blob was seen by hundreds of witnesses over the city of Yakima. Hundreds of calls flooded into the CAA office concernig the flying object. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [480725](http://nicap.org/yakima480725dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_464 ### Event 6779 (226A810C) **Date:** 7/25/1948 **Locations:** Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio; Atlanta, Georgia **Description:** Chief of Air Force Intelligence Gen. [Charles Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) phones [McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html)’s office at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio. Sign is ordered to get into the field immediately and investigate the Chiles-Whitted case. By that afternoon, [Loedding](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209268646/alfred-christian-loedding)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209268646/alfred-christian-loedding) [Deyarmond](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ori-ahvZRlU/VWjL8ELOjzI/AAAAAAAALts/kwi03CO17vE/s1600/Deyarmond%2BAlbert%2B7pictures%2B%2528dragged%2529.jpg)[,](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ori-ahvZRlU/VWjL8ELOjzI/AAAAAAAALts/kwi03CO17vE/s1600/Deyarmond%2BAlbert%2B7pictures%2B%2528dragged%2529.jpg) and [Llewellyn](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/124634808/raymond-anderson-llewellyn) \(now apparently director of Project Sign\) are flown by Capt. Clarence Groseclose to Atlanta, Georgia. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 13; Swords 60 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1253 ### Event 6780 (68A720A6) **Date:** 7/26/1948 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 86.9km altitude (Turbine overspeed led to premature propellant cut-off at 61s. 2rpm roll began at 70s) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_328 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 86.9 ### Event 6781 (BD5C8B99) **Date:** 7/26/1948 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) Launch of an Aerobee. It reaches 112 km and takes photos of the surface of the earth and cloud formations. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, p. 286, doc. Van Allen **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1358 ### Event 6782 (BE7F515E) **Date:** 7/26/1948 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** CHAMBLEE AND AUGUSTA, GA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #165. 6 observer(s). Football glows bobs weaves and maneuvers going quickly south. 5K' altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 43) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1316 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "9", **Elev:** "305", **HatchDesc:** "CHAMBLEE+AUGUSTA,GA:BBK#165:6 OBS:FOOTBALL GLOWS BOBS WEAVES+MNVRS >>S:5K'alt", **LatLong:** "33.894446 -84.300004", **LatLongDMS:** "33:53:40 N 84:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.894446,-84.300004)", **State/Prov:** "Georgia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6783 (88C33E5C) **Date:** 7/26/1948 **Location:** Chamblee, GA **Description:** Green light with a silver tail about the size of a football (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [480726](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/docs/chiles/chamble480726docs1.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_465 ### Event 6784 (2F618B03) **Date:** 7/26/1948 **Location:** Henry Grady Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia **Description:**  [Loedding](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209268646/alfred-christian-loedding)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209268646/alfred-christian-loedding) [Deyarmond](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ori-ahvZRlU/VWjL8ELOjzI/AAAAAAAALts/kwi03CO17vE/s1600/Deyarmond%2BAlbert%2B7pictures%2B%2528dragged%2529.jpg)[,](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ori-ahvZRlU/VWjL8ELOjzI/AAAAAAAALts/kwi03CO17vE/s1600/Deyarmond%2BAlbert%2B7pictures%2B%2528dragged%2529.jpg) and [Llewellyn](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/124634808/raymond-anderson-llewellyn) interview [Chiles](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22086850/clarence-shipe-chiles) and [Whitted](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/177623060/john-b-whitted) in the Henry Grady Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia. They are impressed with their account. Mulling the case through September, Project Sign is disturbed even more than the [Mantell](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14958603/thomas-francis-mantell) incident, according to [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) Capt. [Sneider](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49319130/robert-raphael-sneider) considers the shape aerodynamically feasible; consultant [J. Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) says it might be a fireball but considers that “far-fetched.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 60 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1254 ### Event 6785 (526B0F28) **Date:** 7/26/1948 **Description:** Aeronautical engineer [Molt Taylor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molt%5FTaylor) speculates to the Associated Press that “If we can build such craft, what is to prevent others from doing so, assuming that a similar order of intelligence exists on other planets? You and I may see the day when we will be united with Russia defending this planet against attack from space.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[It May Be](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92838283/) [Men from Mars, Expert Says of ‘Saucers,’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92838283/)” San Francisco Examiner, July 28, 1948, p. 32; Loren E. Gross, [The](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1948-SN.pdf) [Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1948, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1948-SN.pdf), The Author, 2000, p. 65 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1255 ### Event 6786 (0FE01EC9) **Date:** 7/26/1948 **Description:** Six people in Chamblee, Georgia briefly saw a luminous football-shaped UFO that glowed, bobbed, weaved, and maneuvered over the town at 9:30 p.m. It flew off rapidly toward the south at an estimated 5,000 feet altitude. The Air Force explanation was that they saw a meteor. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #00165; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1948, p. 43 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4406 ### Event 6787 (1172E19F) **Date:** 7/27/1948 **Time:** 21:15 **Location:** Mobile, Alabama **Description:** **TWELVE REPORT ONE IN ALABAMA AT 900 MPH.** At 9:15 p.m. at least twelve persons saw a oval ball of fire, followed by about 400 feet of bluish-white flame. It seemed to be about half as big as the moon and some observers saw it as a cigar-shaped object with a red flame flaring into white at the tail. A Brookley Air Force base pilot estimated its speed as between 800 and 900 mph. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256) **Source:** Scully, **ID:** Scully_18 ### Event 6788 (912D358C) **Date:** 7/27/1948 **Time:** 08:40 **Location:** ALBUQUERQUE, NM **Description:** Scientist / university of NM. Flat metallic disk motionless in sky. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 75) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1317 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "1490", **HatchDesc:** "ALBUQQ,NM:SCIENTIST/Univ.of NM:FLAT MTLC DISK MOTIONLESS IN SKY:NFD", **LatLong:** "35.066668 -106.666672", **LatLongDMS:** "35:04:00 N 106:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.066668,-106.666672)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6789 (2663A903) **Date:** 7/27/1948 **Location:** Albuquerque, NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 3: 08:33-08:45 - Flat, round obj reflecting light, stationary at times (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_466 ### Event 6790 (425A3F9F) **Date:** 7/27/1948 **Description:** Air Intelligence Memorandum on “Pattern of Flying Saucers” requires that a study be made by the Air Intelligence Division to examine the pattern of tactics of reported UFOs and develop conclusions as to their probability. This leads to the EEI “Analysis of Flying Object Incidents in the United States” \(100-203-79\) of December 10. The JIC report gives the incorrect date as August 6. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Col. Brooke E. Allen, “[Analysis of Flying](http://www.project1947.com/fig/memo4chf.htm) [Object Incidents in the U.S.,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/memo4chf.htm)” October 11, 1948; “[Report by the Director of Intelligence, USAF, to the Joint](http://www.project1947.com/fig/DI%5FJIC%5FApril%5F28%5F1949.pdf) [Intelligence Committee on Unidentified Aerial Objects,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/DI%5FJIC%5FApril%5F28%5F1949.pdf)” April 28, 1949, p. 2; Jan L. Aldrich, “[New Top Secret](http://www.project1947.com/fig/49docdex.htm) [Document Revealed,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/49docdex.htm)” Project 1947 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1256 ### Event 6791 (C9DB191D) **Date:** 7/27/1948 **Description:** At 8:35 a.m. a University of New Mexico scientist in Albuquerque, New Mexico saw a flat metallic disc-shaped object that hung motionless in the sky for ten minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 54 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4423 ### Event 6792 (74DB57FA) **Date:** 7/29/1948 **Location:** USA, Indianapolis (Indiana) **Description:** (Translated from French) 9:55 a.m. Witnesses: James Toney and Robert Huggins, both employees of a cleaning firm. An aluminum object, more or less in the shape of an airplane propeller with 10 to 12 small protuberances on each side. Estimated size: 6-8' long, 1.5-2' wide. The object glided over the road at a few hundred feet in altitude and apparently descended into a wooded area in front of their vehicle. Duration of observation: a few seconds. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner). Two employees of a cleaning company were crossing a bridge at 9:55 a.m. when they saw an object crossing the road gliding at a hundred meters in front of them. It was bright and made of metal, was about 2 to 2.5 meters long and 50 cm wide (in the shape of an oblique "Z"). It was flying horizontally at an altitude of 10 m and made a wide turn to the left. It was only seen for a few seconds and apparently landed in a wooded area, but no trace was found. (July 29, 1948) **Reference:** Brad STEIGER: "Ovni, le projet Blue Book" - trad. Belfond 1979, p. 108 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1359 ### Event 6793 (D6446EED) **Date:** 7/29/1948 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Indianapolis \(Indiana\), James Toney and Robert Huggins, two employees of a coating cleaning company, observe an object shining like aluminum, whose shape resembles that of an airplane engine, with 10 to 12 small bumps emerging from each pale. The object is estimated to be 6 to 8 feet long and 1.5 to 2 feet wide. The object slides along the road for a few hundred feet in front of their vehicle and then apparently descends into a wooded area. The observation lasts a few seconds. (July 29, 9am) **Reference:** case [Blue Book](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/BlueBook.html) \#185 unexplained **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1948.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_736 ### Event 6794 (8E710C59) **Date:** 7/29/1948 **Time:** 09:50 **Location:** INDIANAPOLIS, IN **Description:** Blue Book. 2 observer(s). 8' metal propeller shape going [to] 30' altitude into woods. Dwg / r48p40. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 1) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1318 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "215", **HatchDesc:** "INDIANAPOLIS,IN:BBK:2 OBS:8'MTL PROPELLER SHAPE>30'alt INTO WOODS:dwg/r48p40", **LatLong:** "39.766669 -86.133337", **LatLongDMS:** "39:46:00 N 86:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.766669,-86.133337)", **RelAlt:** "9", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6795 (6A968226) **Date:** 7/29/1948 **Location:** Indianapolis, IN **Description:** Shiny propeller-shaped aluminum object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 185) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_467 ### Event 6796 (3C853B1E) **Date:** 7/29/1948 **Location:** Indianapolis, Indiana **Description:** An object swept over a road at 10 m altitude. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_65 ### Event 6797 (C2AAA4E5) **Date:** 7/29/1948 **Time:** 9:55 AM **Location:** Indianapolis, Indiana **Description:** Witnesses: James Toney, Robert Huggins, both employees of a rug cleaning firm. One shiny aluminum object, shaped something like an airplane's propeller, with 10-12 small cups protruding from either blade. Estimated size 6-8' long, 1.5-2' wide. The object glided across the road a few hundred feet in front of their vehicle and apparently went down in a wooded area. Sighting lasted a few seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_11 ### Event 6798 (37714514) **Date:** 7/29/1948 **Location:** Indianapolis, Indiana **Description:** 9:18 a.m. James Toney and Robert Huggins, both employees of an Indianapolis, Indiana, rug cleaning firm, are in a truck headed west when they see a shiny, propeller-shaped, aluminum object with 10–12 small cups protruding from either blade. It is 6–8 feet long and flying silently above the trees at 30 feet altitude some 300 feet away heading south. It approaches to about 100 feet at its closest. The object glides across the road at 25–30 mph in a slight descent then makes a 20° bank to the east and goes down in a wooded area. Toney and Huggins stop the truck and get out to look, but the object has disappeared behind trees. A later search finds no traces. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Close Encounter with ‘Propeller-Shaped’ Object](http://www.nicap.org/480729indy%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 36 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1257 ### Event 6799 (E5747422) **Date:** 7/29/1948 **Description:** James Toney and Robert Huggins, both employees of a rug cleaning firm in Indianapolis, Indiana saw a shiny aluminum object, shaped something like an airplane's propeller, with 10-12 small cups protruding from either blade, at 9:38 a.m. Its estimated size was 6-8 feet long and 1.5-2 feet wide. The object glided across the road a few hundred feet in front of their vehicle and apparently came down in a wooded area. The sighting lasted a few seconds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case no. 185; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4470 ### Event 6800 (268C7270) **Date:** 7/31/1948 **Location:** USA, Indianapolis, Indiana. **Description:** (Translated from French) 8:25 a.m. Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Swigert; he is an electrician. Object shaped like a cymbal or like a dome disc about 20' wide and 6-8' thick. Without any shine. Flew in a straight line from horizon to horizon in 10 seconds, blinking in the sun as if it was rotating. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner). At 08:25 this electrician was standing at the bathroom window facing west when he saw a lenticular object. He ran to the kitchen to show it to his wife. The object flew in a level and straight line from west to east. Duration of the observation: 10 seconds. **Reference:** Brad STEIGER: "Ovni, the Project Blue Book" - trad. Belfond 1979, p. 114 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1360 ### Event 6801 (F1072C4C) **Date:** 7/31/1948 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Indianapolis \(Indiana\), Vernon Swigert, an electrician, and a female witness observe an object resembling a cymbal or a curved disc. About 20 feet in diameter and 6 to 8 feet thick, it is white but does not shine. It flies in a straight and horizontal line from one horizon to the other in about 10 seconds, glinting in the sun as if it were spinning. (July 31, 8:25 AM) **Reference:** case [Blue Book](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/BlueBook.html) \#190 unexplained **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1948.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_737 ### Event 6802 (01011C1D) **Date:** 7/31/1948 **Location:** COLUMBUS, OH **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #unknown. Unidentified. 1+2 separate observer(s). 30' saucer with transparent center. Slow and silent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 98) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1319 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "240", **HatchDesc:** "COLUMBUS,OH:BBK#UNK:UID:1+2 SEP.OBS:30' SCR W/TRANSPARENT CENTER:SLOW+SLNT:", **LatLong:** "40.000002 -83.000004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:00:00 N 83:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.000002,-83.000004)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6803 (8FC9DF2F) **Date:** 7/31/1948 **Time:** 08:30 **Location:** INDIANAPOLIS, IN **Description:** 2 / home. 20' domed cymbal-saucer. Going quickly east to horizon / 10 second(s). Shimmers. / r185p1. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1320 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "215", **HatchDesc:** "INDIANAPOLIS,IN:2/HOME:20'DOMED CYMBAL-SCR:>>E to HRZN/10sec:SHIMMERS:/r185p1", **LatLong:** "39.750002 -86.133337", **LatLongDMS:** "39:45:00 N 86:08:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.750002,-86.133337)", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6804 (B7146793) **Date:** 7/31/1948 **Location:** Indianapolis (central), IN **Description:** Cymbal shaped or domed disc object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 190) **Reference:** NICAP: [480731](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/indy480731dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_468 ### Event 6805 (46FA1FB6) **Date:** 7/31/1948 **Location:** Marion, VA **Description:** Light Spotted By Pilot (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 191) **Reference:** NICAP: [480731](http://www.nicap.org/480731marion%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_469 ### Event 6806 (32D5F1D0) **Date:** 7/31/1948 **Time:** 8:25 AM **Location:** Indianapolis, Indiana **Description:** Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Swigert; he was an electrician. Object was shaped like a cymbal, or domed disc; about 20' across and 6-8' thick, and was white without any shine. It flew straight and level from horizon to horizon in about 10 seconds, shimmering in the sun as if spinning. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_12 ### Event 6807 (21EC76DF) **Date:** 7/31/1948 **Location:** south-central Indianapolis, Indiana **Description:** 8:25 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. [Vernon Swigert](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/174882124/vernon-b-swigert) of south-central Indianapolis, Indiana, see a cymbal-shaped or domed- disc object to the west of their home. It is about 20 feet across, 6–8 feet thick, white without any shine but shadowing on upper right. It flies straight and level from horizon to horizon, west to east heading 90°. They estimate its altitude as 2,000 feet covering a distance of 5 miles in 10 seconds. It shimmers in the sun as if spinning, is silent, and has no trail. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Cymbal-Shaped Object Observed by Couple](http://www.nicap.org/480731indianapolis%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 37 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1258 ### Event 6808 (25FD6A63) **Date:** 7/31/1948 **Description:** In Indianapolis, Indiana at 8:25 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Swigert sighted a UFO shaped like a cymbal, or domed disc; about 20 feet in diameter and 6-8 feet thick. It was white without any shine. It flew straight and level from horizon to horizon in about 10 seconds, shimmering in the sun as if spinning. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1958, p. 24; UNICAT, case # 632, citing Project Blue Book Special Report # 14, p. 84; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4518 ### Event 6809 (0285C28B) **Date:** 7/31/1948 **Description:** On that evening a 30-foot in diameter disc-shaped object with a transparent center flew slowly and silently over Columbus, Ohio. There were separate, independent witnesses, including one named Geshorn. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 98 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4519 ### Event 6810 (22797C5D) **Date:** 8/1948 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) \(or July\) To Marion \(Virginia\), shortly after sunrise, Max Abbott, piloting a 4-passenger private *Bellanca Cruisair* plane, observed a white light accelerate and dive into a valley. **Reference:** case [Blue Book](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/BlueBook.html) \#191 unexplained **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1948.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_738 ### Event 6811 (CD249043) **Date:** 8/1948 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) 4 officers witnessed the crash of an object and the recovery of corpses in an area of Mexico, 60 km \(38 miles\) south of Laredo \(Texas\). The information comes from one named [Todd Zechel](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/ZechelWTodd.html), who relayed it to an NBC-affiliated station in Chicago. The story appeared in the *Midnight Globe*, a scandal sheet of dubious credibility, under the byline of one Steve Tom. It is based on a rumor circulated in the 1960s by someone working for either the Army Security Agency or the [NSA](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/NSA.html). **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1948.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_739 ### Event 6812 (D2CE6892) **Date:** 8/1948 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The first generation of experts from the [Sign](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Sign.html) project submit a top secret report to the highest level of authority, estimating the situation and concluding that UFOs are interplanetary vehicles, noting in passing that the [Kenneth Arnold](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/ArnoldKenneth.html) incident was not the first. When [Hoyt Vandenberg](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/VandenbergHoytSanford.html) receives this report, he orders it to be destroyed. **Reference:** Ruppelt **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1948.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_740 ### Event 6813 (301BBED9) **Date:** 8/1948 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) [Joseph Hynek](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/HynekJosephAllen.html) joins the 2nd generation of experts of the [Sign](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Sign.html) project at the request of the [USAF](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/USAF.html). **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1948.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_741 ### Event 6814 (9260AE5F) **Date:** 8/1948 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A DC-3 disappears above the "Bermuda Triangle" with 32 passengers on board. It would have made a navigation error. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1948.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_742 ### Event 6815 (29CF27FA) **Date:** 8/1948 **Location:** HONG KONG TO/FROM SAIGON **Description:** All / airliner. Huge metallic cylinder/cigar-shape going south. 90° turn into clouds. / r2p75. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MICHEL, Aime: The TRUTH ABOUT FLYING SAUCERS; S. G. Phillips 1956 & Pyramid Books, NY 1967. (Index 57) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1321 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "HONG KONG>S:90°TURN into CLOUDS:/r2p75", **LatLong:** "16.000001 112.000005", **LatLongDMS:** "16:00:00 N 112:00:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/16.000001,112.000005)", **State/Prov:** "SCS", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6816 (DCEBCD41) **Date:** 8/1948 (approximate) **Time:** 06:00 **Location:** SR22 AT SR59, IL **Description:** 2 truckers. 12M ovoid lands. 1M windows. Glow and sparkle. Going southeast going [to] Chicago. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 247) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1322 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "255", **HatchDesc:** "SR22 @ SR59,IL:2 TRUCKERS:12M OVOID LANDS:1M WINDOWS:GLOW+SPARKLE:>SE>CHICAGO", **LatLong:** "42.200002 -88.150004", **LatLongDMS:** "42:12:00 N 88:09:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.200002,-88.150004)", **State/Prov:** "Illinois", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6817 (7314973D) **Date:** 8/1948 (approximate) **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** MARTIGUES, FR **Description:** Numerous observer(s). Luminous cylinder/cigar-shape. Lights flash / sides. Stops. Going quickly southeast fast. / police inv. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Database/website: Personal investigation by Dominique Weinstein. Filed here as Martigues48.txt **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1323 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "MARTIGUES,FR:NMRS OBS:LUMn.CGR:LITES FLASH/SIDES:STOPS:>>SE FAST:/police inv.", **LatLong:** "43.400002 5.050000", **LatLongDMS:** "43:24:00 N 05:03:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.400002,5.050000)", **State/Prov:** "Bouches-du-Rhône", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6818 (6B419CAC) **Date:** 8/1/1948 (approximate) **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** CLARK AIR FORCE BASE, LUZON, PHL **Description:** Wingless cylinder/cigar-shape with row of lights. Wave all over/all about southeast Asia to Saigon. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 75) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1324 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Philippines", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "CLARK AFB,LUZON,PHL:WINGLESS CGR w/ROW of LITES::WAVE ALLO SE ASIA to SAIGON", **LatLong:** "15.033334 120.127784", **LatLongDMS:** "15:02:00 N 120:07:40 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/15.033334,120.127784)", **State/Prov:** "LZN", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6819 (724BA045) **Date:** 8/1/1948 **Description:** On this morning everyone on a Air France airliner flying over the South China Sea from Hong Kong to Saigon, Vietnam saw a huge metallic cigar-shaped object flying south, and then make a 90-degree turn into the clouds. Later that day at Clark Field in the Philippines American military observers also sighted a wingless cigar-shaped object with a row of lights. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 54; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers are Real, p. 72 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4555 ### Event 6820 (7F9E2131) **Date:** 8/2/1948 **Location:** Columbus, OH **Description:** (39.98° N, 82.99° W). Saunders (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_470 ### Event 6821 (9F7EC2C9) **Date:** 8/3/1948 **Location:** Moscow **Description:** Top Secret Report (100–203–79,p.12,Sec.R): UFO sighted over Moscow that is similar to the UFO sighted on July 25, 1948, by two Eastern Airlines pilots. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_329 **See also:** 7/25/1948 ### Event 6822 (98A49CFB) **Date:** 8/3/1948 **Time:** ~08:00 **Location:** 25KM NORTHWEST / MOSCOW, RS **Description:** 2 observer(s). Long silent metal cylinder/cylindrical object going quickly northeast. No wings. Very high and very fast. / Blue Book file. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 48) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1325 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Russia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "25km NW/MOSCOW,RS:2 OBS:LONG SILENT MTL CYL>>NE:NO WINGS:VHIGH+VFAST:/BBK FILE", **LatLong:** "55.916669 37.416668", **LatLongDMS:** "55:55:00 N 37:25:00 E", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/55.916669,37.416668)", **State/Prov:** "MSC", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6823 (42C99969) **Date:** 8/3/1948 **Location:** Moscow, USSR **Description:** (55°45' N, 37°42' E). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_471 ### Event 6824 (6AEA787A) **Date:** 8/3/1948 **Description:** At 8 a.m. a long metallic cylinder with no wings flew at a very high altitude and was seen in the skies 25 kilometers northwest of Moscow in Russia. It moved silently and very fast towards the northeast. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book, August 1948; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1338, citing Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1948, p. 48 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4622 ### Event 6825 (5EFD348E) **Date:** 8/4/1948 **Location:** North Powder, OR **Description:** (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, LC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_472 ### Event 6826 (982A6601) **Date:** 8/5/1948 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 165.7km altitude **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_330 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 165.7km ### Event 6827 (3CD3459B) **Date:** 8/5/1948 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) At 05:07, launch of V2 #43 which reached 167 km. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1361 ### Event 6828 (AB14E6B0) **Date:** 8/5/1948 **Description:** This date given by [Edward Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) for the lost “Estimate of the Situation,” in which Project Sign concludes that UFOs are interplanetary, is probably too early. See September 30. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1259 ### Event 6829 (AA9E5678) **Date:** 8/11/1948 **Location:** USA, Hamel (Minnesota) **Description:** (Translated from French) At noon, two children aged ten and eight were playing in the garden of the farm where they lived. They then drew their attention to the sky, where they noticed a dark gray object descending. Each child questioned separately described the object as being in the shape of two plates stuck together. It landed making a resonant metal sound. But soon the object emitted a hiss, rose 20 feet, hovered, maneuvered above the trees and telephone lines, before flying away for good. (...) In the files of the US Air Force this file bears the number 198 and is considered "not credible". (August 11, 1948) **Reference:** "Ufo's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 110 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1362 ### Event 6830 (B117A94C) **Date:** 8/11/1948 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** HAMEL, MN **Description:** 2 boys. 2' saucer lands. Going up [to] and maneuvers. Going quickly northwest. Dent / dirt. FBI soil test nil. / MJ#244. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 66) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1326 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **DRT:** Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TRC:** Physical traces, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "272", **HatchDesc:** "HAMEL,MN:2 BOYS:2'SCR LANDS:↑+MNVRS:>>NW:DENT/DIRT:FBI SOIL TEST NIL:/MJ#244", **LatLong:** "45.038891 -93.527782", **LatLongDMS:** "45:02:20 N 93:31:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.038891,-93.527782)", **State/Prov:** "Minnesota", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6831 (8B3156DB) **Date:** 8/11/1948 **Location:** Hamel, MN **Description:** A round, dull gray or silver object 2 ft diameter (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_473 ### Event 6832 (10264240) **Date:** 8/11/1948 **Time:** 1200 **Location:** Hamel, Minnesota **Description:** Two boys were playing outside when a round dull gray object 70 cm in diameter, 30 cm thick, landed near them like a balloon with a metallic noise. It spun, went up, hovered, maneuvered to avoid Phone lines and trees, and flew away to the northeast. An FBI man from St. Paul found an area 70 cm in diameter where the ground showed signs of extreme pressure. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_66 ### Event 6833 (1B4307FF) **Date:** 8/11/1948 **Description:** Two boys were playing outside at noon in Hamel, Minnesota when a dull gray, round object 70 cm in diameter landed near them with a metallic noise. It spun, went up, hovered, maneuvered to avoid telephone lines and trees, and flew away to the northeast. An FBI man from St. Paul found an area 70 cm in diameter where the ground showed signs of extreme pressure. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 192; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top Secret, p. 90 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4856 ### Event 6834 (937F623F) **Date:** 8/15/1948 (approximate) **Location:** MUHLVIERTEL, AUSTRIA **Description:** Numerous observer(s). Several "saucers" going quickly south extremely fast. Turn back going quickly north. / J. Aldrich. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 274) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1327 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Austria", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MUHLVIERTEL,AUSTRIA:NMRS OBS:SVRL "SCRS" >>S XFAST:TURN BACK >>N:/J.Aldrich", **LatLong:** "48.500002 14.166667", **LatLongDMS:** "48:30:00 N 14:10:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.500002,14.166667)", **State/Prov:** "Upper Austria", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6835 (FD3DBCCF) **Date:** 8/15/1948 **Time:** 13:00 **Location:** PHOENIX, AZ **Description:** W. Andrus and many. 4 silver saucers east going quickly west. Flip in sequence. 3 reappear. / MJ#197. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** STORY, Ronald (ed.) : ENCYLOPEDIA of UFO'S: Doubleday, Garden City, NY 1980 (Index 17) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1328 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "11", **Elev:** "325", **HatchDesc:** "PHOENIX,AZ:W.ANDRUS+MANY:4 SLVR SCRS E>>W:FLIP in SEQUENCE:3 REAPPEAR:/MJ#197", **LatLong:** "33.466668 -112.050005", **LatLongDMS:** "33:28:00 N 112:03:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.466668,-112.050005)", **RelAlt:** "99", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6836 (193EA1DC) **Date:** 8/15/1948 **Location:** downtown Phoenix, Arizona **Description:** Morning. Future ufologist [Walter H. Andrus Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/152550777/walter-harrison-andrus), his wife Genevieve, and son Donald see four UFOs flying in formation east to west over downtown, Phoenix, Arizona. They simply vanish in sequence, then the first three reappear one at a time in the northwest where they pass out of sight to the west. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Story, [pp. 17–18](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/16/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1260 ### Event 6837 (6C60D4C3) **Date:** 8/15/1948 **Description:** In the early afternoon many people in Phoenix, Arizona witnessed four silver disc-shaped objects that flew fast from east to west, then flipped in sequence. Three of the objects were seen again later. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 208, citing MUFON; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1341, citing Ronald D. Story, Encyclopedia of UFOs, p. 17 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5028 ### Event 6838 (03A89EC3) **Date:** 8/19/1948 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 13.4km altitude (Bumper 2 First stage failed due to propellant flow interruption) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_332 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 13.4km ### Event 6839 (0FCE24FB) **Date:** 8/19/1948 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) At 07:45, launch of V2 No. B2 as part of the BUMPER Program, it reached 13 km. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1363 ### Event 6840 (67645FEA) **Date:** 8/21/1948 **Locations:** Katrineholm, Sweden; Kapustin Yar, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia; Estonian islands, possibly Dagö or Osel **Description:** A possible Russian rocket trail is seen over Katrineholm, Sweden, that remains visible for three hours “resembling a brilliant star surrounded by streamers of fire like the tentacles of an octopus.” However, there is no known record of a launch on this date of a V-2 or R-1 missile from the Russian base at Kapustin Yar, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia. It may be the same object viewed by Swedish Armed Forces Supreme Commander [Helge Jung](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helge%5FJung) of an “aerial explosion considered to be some form of guided missile originating from Estonian islands, possibly Dagö or Osel.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[‘Sky Octopus’ Seen above Swedish Town,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92839742/)” Richmond \(Ind.\) Palladium-Item, August 23, 1948, p. 2; “Sky Octopus over Sweden,” Fate 2, no. 1 \(May 1949\): 35; Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 \(Winter 1998\): 14 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1261 ### Event 6841 (85E3E022) **Date:** 8/29/1948 **Time:** 05:00 **Location:** MAPLEWOOD, OH **Description:** Large silvery sphere rises / woods. Hovers / farm. Silvery crud drops. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 67) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1329 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "315", **HatchDesc:** "MAPLEWOOD,OH:LARGE SILVERY SPHERE RISES/WOODS:HOVERS/FARM:SILVERY CRUD DROPS", **LatLong:** "40.377780 -84.027782", **LatLongDMS:** "40:22:40 N 84:01:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.377780,-84.027782)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 6842 (DB8CBF16) **Date:** 8/29/1948 **Time:** 05:30 **Location:** INDIAN LAKE, OH **Description:** 1 observer. Large silver sphere/orb/globe rises / woods. Flies across farm. Vanishes / midair! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 56) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1330 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "304", **HatchDesc:** "INDIAN LAKE,OH:1 OBS:LRG SLVR ORB RISES/WOODS:FLIES ACRS FARM:VANISHES/MIDAIR!", **LatLong:** "40.466669 -83.866671", **LatLongDMS:** "40:28:00 N 83:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.466669,-83.866671)", **RelAlt:** "1", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 6843 (EB6B78AB) **Date:** 8/29/1948 **Location:** Maplewood, OH **Description:** Farmer Niswenger saw a large silvery sphere rise from a wooded area and hover above his farm, dropping a silvery substance that disintegrated before touching the ground. (Vallée Magonia 67; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [480829](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/maple480829dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_474 ### Event 6844 (8308F3DF) **Date:** 8/29/1948 **Time:** 0503 **Location:** Maplewood, Ohio **Description:** A farmer observed a silvery sphere of large dimension rise from a wooded area and hover above his farm, dropping a silvery substance that disintegrated before touching the ground. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_67 ### Event 6845 (F4CE9CB3) **Date:** 8/29/1948 **Description:** At 5:03 a.m. a farmer in Maplewood, Ohio observed a silvery sphere of large dimension rise from a wooded area and hover above his farm. It dropped a silvery substance that disintegrated before touching the ground. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #169; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 193 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5454 ### Event 6846 (818E5C45) **Date:** 8/31/1948 **Description:** At 12:20 a.m. a large unknown object was sighted flying at 50,000 feet altitude over Mint Canyon, California. It trailed a column of flames. It was also reportedly seen at Muroc Field, now Edwards AFB. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1344, citing Charles Berlitz and William Moore, The Roswell Incident, p. 139 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5515 ### Event 6847 (B3D25A33) **Date:** 9/1948 **Location:** US **Description:** Top Secret "Estimate of the Situation", concluding UFOs were interplanetary, sent from ATIC to Air Force Chief of Staff, General Hoyt S. Vandenberg. (Report was kicked back for additional proof; later declassified and burned). **Type:** top secret report **Reference:** ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) **Reference:** ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, pg. 62-63, 67](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_857 ### Event 6848 (31C6B2EC) **Date:** 9/1948 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Creation of the group [Majestic 12](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/MJ-12.html)? **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1948.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_743 ### Event 6849 (97D925E1) **Date:** 9/1948 **Description:** About this time Capt. [Robert R. Sneider](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49319130/robert-raphael-sneider) becomes a co-chief of Project Sign with Lt. Howard W. Smith. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) pp. 13–14 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1262 ### Event 6850 (93F5449B) **Date:** 9/1/1948 **Description:** The CIA Office of Policy Coordination is formally established with the responsibility to engage in “propaganda, economic warfare, preventive direct action, including sabotage, antisabotage, demolition and evacuation procedures; subversion against hostile states, including assistance to underground resistance groups, guerrillas and refugee liberation groups, and support of indigenous anti-communist elements in threatened countries of the free world.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Office of Policy Coordination](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office%5Fof%5FPolicy%5FCoordination)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1263 ### Event 6851 (74C96A70) **Date:** 9/2/1948 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 150.6km altitude (Vehicle broke up at 370s at 84 km altitude.) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_333 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 150.6km ### Event 6852 (1D2D2FEB) **Date:** 9/2/1948 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) At 18:00 launch of V2 No. 33 which will reach 151 km. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1364 ### Event 6853 (DFD6950C) **Date:** 9/11/1948 **Time:** 23:30 **Location:** TWIN PEAKS, SF, CA **Description:** 2 observer(s). Yellow-glow teardrop going quickly west / 800 MPH against wind. Lost / fog. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 275) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1331 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "276", **HatchDesc:** "TWIN PEAKS,SF,CA:2 OBS:YLW-GLOW TEARDROP >>W/800 MPH AGAINST WIND:LOST/FOG", **LatLong:** "37.750002 -122.444450", **LatLongDMS:** "37:45:00 N 122:26:40 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.750002,-122.444450)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6854 (F11A2C77) **Date:** 9/11/1948 **Description:** At 3:20 p.m. a U.S. Air Force pilot and copilot flying a C-45 transport ten miles southeast of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania saw a round white object moving at high speed on a SW heading. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 website **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5849 ### Event 6855 (09957601) **Date:** 9/12/1948 **Location:** Midway **Description:** Top Secret Report (100–203–79,p.12,Sec.P-1) Pilot and Co-pilot of a Pan Am aircraft en route from Midway to Honolulu, saw a blue-white light approaching, changing to twin reddish glows upon withdrawal. Est. speed: 1000 knots **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p481) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_331 ### Event 6856 (63867EF6) **Date:** 9/12/1948 **Location:** Pittsburgh (8-12 miles SE of), PA **Description:** Round white object moving at high speed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_475 ### Event 6857 (A6C707FB) **Date:** 9/13/1948 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** ORISTANO, SARDINIA **Description:** Seminarian. Saucer tilts. 2 small humanoids (or Greys) / transparent dome. Going quickly northeast toward(s) Madau. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Database/website: Maurizio VERGA: ITACAT Catalog online: http://www.ufo.it/english/main.htm **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1332 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **TLP:** Telepathy, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ORISTANO,SARDINIA:SEMINARIAN:SCR TILTS:2 OIDS/XPRNT DOME:>>NE twrd MADAU", **LatLong:** "39.900002 8.600000", **LatLongDMS:** "39:54:00 N 08:36:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.900002,8.600000)", **State/Prov:** "OR", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 6858 (04648CF1) **Date:** 9/13/1948 **Description:** At seven o'clock in the evening a seminarian in Oristano, Sardegna, Italy watched as a domed disc-shaped object tilted in the air, so that two humanoid beings were visible inside its transparent dome. The object flew off to the east toward Madau. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1346, citing a website **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5906 ### Event 6859 (587065B4) **Date:** 9/15/1948 **Location:** Muroc [now Edwards] AFB, California **Description:** USAF Maj. [Dick Johnson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%5FJohnson%5F%28test%5Fpilot%29) reaches an official airspeed record of 671 mph \(slightly more than [Yeager](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck%5FYeager)’s first record\) in a North American F-86A-3 Sabre at Muroc \[now Edwards\] AFB, California. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[North](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%5FAmerican%5FF-86%5FSabre) [American F-86 Sabre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%5FAmerican%5FF-86%5FSabre)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1264 ### Event 6860 (59ACBE02) **Date:** 9/16/1948 **Locations:** Grassy Mountain; Malheur County; Oregon **Description:** Before dawn. Fred Scott, 63, is walking around Grassy Mountain, Malheur County, Oregon, when he looks up and sees two “flying persons” to the south. They are 150–250 feet up, one following the other at a distance of 8–10 feet. Their wings are narrow and rounded at the tip and do not flap. Their legs are unusually short. They remain visible while Scott walks for at least another mile. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Center for UFO Studies, [HUMCAT Index](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1940-1949.pdf) [1940–1949,](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1940-1949.pdf) p. 43; Clark III 270 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1265 ### Event 6861 (0CB0FC11) **Date:** 9/18/1948 **Location:** Shreveport, LA **Description:** Bright white aluminum half-spherical object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_476 ### Event 6862 (2A32B905) **Date:** 9/22/1948 **Location:** Albany (near Turner AFB), GA **Description:** Co-Pilot in C-47 Sees Wingless Metallic Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [480922](http://www.nicap.org/480922albany%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_477 ### Event 6863 (0711392C) **Date:** 9/23/1948 **Location:** USA, San Pablo, California **Description:** (Translated from French) 12 o'clock, noon. Witnesses: Sylvester Bentham, retired Colonel Horace Eakins. Two objects: one is a brown or gray rectangle with vertical lines, the other a translucent "amoeba" with a dark center. The arms of the amoeba are undulating. Both objects travel very quickly. **Reference:** Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1365 ### Event 6864 (008A33ED) **Date:** 9/23/1948 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In San Pablo \(California\), Sylvester Bentham and former US Army Colonel Horace Eakins observe 2 objects. One is a grayish rectangle with vertical lines, the other is a translucent amoeba with a black dot near the center. The arms of the amoeba are undulating. The 2 objects are moving very quickly. (September 23, 12 PM) **Reference:** case Blue Book n° 208 unexplained **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1948.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_744 ### Event 6865 (7B370DC4) **Date:** 9/23/1948 **Location:** Boise, Idaho **Description:** **IDAHO REPORTS ONE HIDING BETWEEN CLOUDS.** Mr. and Mrs A.F. Kaus, of Carolina Beach, NC saw a huge ball of intense white light while traveling from Mountain Home to Boise, Idaho. The object was between two layers of clouds at approximately 2,000 ft. It flared twice, held steady for a few seconds, then disappeared. The light was round in shape with jagged edges. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256) **Source:** Scully, **ID:** Scully_20 ### Event 6866 (2448460E) **Date:** 9/23/1948 **Time:** 09:40 **Location:** LOS ALAMOS, NM **Description:** Group / airport see tilted silver disk. Size = dime / 15M away. / Jerry Clark. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 999) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1333 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "2231", **HatchDesc:** "LOS ALAMOS,NM:Grp/AIRPORT SEE TILTED SLVR DISK:SIZE=DIME/15M away:/Jerry Clark", **LatLong:** "35.883335 -106.288894", **LatLongDMS:** "35:53:00 N 106:17:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.883335,-106.288894)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6867 (CDAD42DB) **Date:** 9/23/1948 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** SAN PABLO, CA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #176. 2 observer(s). Grey rectangle and translucent amoeba / waving arms. Fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** KEHOE, Maj Donald: FLYING SAUCERS TOP SECRET; NICAP and G.P. Putnam's Sons, NY 1960 HB. (Index 90) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1334 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "SAN PABLO,CA:BBK#176:2 OBS:GRY RECTANGLE+TRANSLUCENT AMOEBA/WAVING ARMS:FAST", **LatLong:** "37.966668 -122.366673", **LatLongDMS:** "37:58:00 N 122:22:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.966668,-122.366673)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 6868 (8085347C) **Date:** 9/23/1948 **Location:** San Pablo, CA **Description:** Fast-flying irregularly shaped translucent white “amoeba” (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 208) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_478 ### Event 6869 (7C730C66) **Date:** 9/23/1948 **Location:** Los Alamos, NM **Description:** Sun-reflecting glint in the sky from a flat circular metallic object (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection, Code: M, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [480923](http://www.nicap.org/480923losalamos%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_479 ### Event 6870 (49B9D2AB) **Date:** 9/23/1948 **Time:** 12 noon **Location:** San Pablo, California **Description:** Witnesses: Sylvester Bentham and retired U.S. Army Col. Horace Eakins. Two objects: one, a buff or grey rectangle with vertical lines; the other a translucent "amoeba" with a dark spot near the center. The arms of the "amoeba" undulated. Both objects travelled very fast. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_14 ### Event 6871 (2F07A1F0) **Date:** 9/23/1948 **Location:** Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico **Description:** 9:40 a.m. At Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, a group of people are waiting for an airplane at the landing strip when one of them notices something glint in the sun. It is a flat, circular object, high in the northern sky. The appearance and relative size is the same as a dime held edgewise and slightly tipped, about 50 feet away. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Flat Dime On-Edge Observed by Lab Personnel](http://www.nicap.org/480923losalamos%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 38 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1266 ### Event 6872 (D943733A) **Date:** 9/23/1948 **Description:** At 9:40 a.m. a group at the Los Alamos, New Mexico airport saw a tilted, silver disc-shaped UFO with the apparent diameter of a dime at arm's length. Its estimated distance was 15 miles. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1347, citing Jerome Clark **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6243 ### Event 6873 (0D61DDEE) **Date:** 9/23/1948 **Description:** San Pablo, California. At twelve noon Sylvester Bentham and retired U.S. Army Colonel Horace Eakins observed two daylight UFOs: one a buff or gray rectangle with vertical lines, the other a translucent "amoeba" with a dark spot near the center. The arms of the "amoeba" undulated. Both objects traveled very fast. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top Secret, p. 90 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6244 ### Event 6874 (49FEF676) **Date:** 9/26/1948 **Location:** Port Hope, Ontario **Description:** 2:00 p.m. P. L. Lewis sees a white object moving rapidly across the sky at Port Hope, Ontario, then disappear when it is nearly overhead. Other white objects follow at about 50 mph in a northeasterly direction, accompanied by strands of spider web. Lewis speculates that the objects are balls of spiders’ threads, held together by thistledown. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** P. R. Bishop, “Cobwebs or Flying Saucers?” Weather 4 \(1949\): 121–122; Philip J. Imbrogno, Files from the Edge: A Paranormal Investigator’s Explorations into High Strangeness, Llewellyn, 2010, [p. 54](https://www.google.com/books/edition/Files%5Ffrom%5Fthe%5FEdge/yoqQRS7cY7cC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%E2%80%9CCobwebs%2Bor%2BFlying%2BSaucers%3F%E2%80%9D%2BWeather&pg=PT68&printsec=frontcover) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1267 ### Event 6875 (11A21DB5) **Date:** 9/28/1948 **Location:** San Simeon, CA **Description:** (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_480 ### Event 6876 (C1E0BE5F) **Date:** 9/30/1948 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 150.3km altitude (Bumper 3 WAC stage failed) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_334 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 150.3km ### Event 6877 (805A0BDB) **Date:** 9/30/1948 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) Bumper Program: Launch of V2 #B3, it reaches 149 km, radio cut-off (emergency). **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1366 ### Event 6878 (720BF3C0) **Date:** 9/30/1948? **Locations:** New Mexico; Fargo, North Dakota **Description:** Project Sign officer Capt. [Robert R. Sneider](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49319130/robert-raphael-sneider) has decided that the time has come to climax Project Sign’s task and write the required “Estimate of the Situation.” Every intelligence operation’s task is ultimately to present such a best-guess summary, strongly backed with as much fact as possible. Using the Chiles-Whitted case as the core and collecting around it many cases from the summer of 1947 to September 1948, Sneider composes the document. The most recent case known to have been listed in the document is the September 23 Los Alamos National Laboratory sighting in New Mexico. Two prominent USAF intelligence officers \([Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) and [Dewey J.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8653239/dewey-j%5F-fournet) [Fournet](https://www.nicap.org/ufochop2.htm) Jr.\) see the document in 1952. “It was a rather thick document with a black cover and it was printed on legal-sized paper. Stamped across the front were the words TOP SECRET.” Ruppelt says the Estimate concludes that the best evidence indicated an extraterrestrial origin for UFOs. Sneider is probably the primary author. [Deyarmond](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ori-ahvZRlU/VWjL8ELOjzI/AAAAAAAALts/kwi03CO17vE/s1600/Deyarmond%2BAlbert%2B7pictures%2B%2528dragged%2529.jpg)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209268646/alfred-christian-loedding) [Loedding](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209268646/alfred-christian-loedding)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209268646/alfred-christian-loedding) and [Truettner](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/58335429/lawrence-hess-truettner) almost certainly are part of the writing. [Llewellyn](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/124634808/raymond-anderson-llewellyn) certainly looks in. All these people, as well as higher-ups in [Clingerman](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113944251/william-r%5F-clingerman)’s and [McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html)’s offices, must approve it, at least in some sense. And an Estimate of UFOs as extraterrestrial is no small thing to assent to. The Estimate is probably addressed to Chief of Staff Gen. [Hoyt Vandenberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg), but it really is meant for Director of Intelligence Gen. [Charles Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) It is probably sent near the end of September, just before the [George Gorman](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/711216/george-f-gorman) “UFO dogfight” in Fargo, North Dakota, on October 1. It probably lands in [Garrett](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33467541/george-duncan-garrett)’s Collections office and is hand-carried to Cabell. Cabell may or may not be shocked. With a pro-ETH Wright-Patterson intelligence group on one side, an anti-ETH Pentagon Intelligence Requirements Office on the other, and open-minded collections officers and the powerful Research and Development chief \(Gen. [Donald L. Putt](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105883/lieutenant-general-donald-leander-putt/)\) in between, Cabell doesn’t want to decide this on his own. He hands the Estimate further upstairs to Vandenberg himself, who rejects it and bats it back to Cabell with a strong sense of disapproval. Ruppelt adds that some months later the Estimate is completely declassified and “all but a few copies” are destroyed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ruppelt, [p. 45](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/44/mode/2up); Clark III 436–437; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 48–51; Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 13–14](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/12/mode/2up); Michael D. Swords, “The Lost Words of Edward Ruppelt,” IUR 20, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1995\): 14–15; Swords 62 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1268 ### Event 6879 (89BBF775) **Date:** 10/1948 **Location:** USA, New Mexico **Description:** (Translated from French) October 1948 to 1951. Many green fireballs silently flew over the Southwest and in particular the nuclear installations of New Mexico. They could be as big as the moon, had horizontal trajectories and sometimes exploded emitting intense flashes. A certainly natural but still unexplained origin. **Reference:** Science et Vie, special edition 1997: 50 years of UFO, Atlas of Unsolved Cases, pp. 60 to 63 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1368 ### Event 6880 (10F36AB9) **Date:** 10/1948 (approximate) **Time:** 09:40 **Location:** QINDAO, SHANDONG, CH **Description:** Fall / 48. Moon-size saucer glows. Spins. Vertical exit. / r208p36. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** DONG, Paul: UFO's Over MODERN CHINA. 1983 UFO Photo Archives; P. O. Box 17206; Tucson, AZ 85710. (Index 36) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1335 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "China", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "QINDAO,SHANDONG,CH:FALL/48:MOON-SIZE SCR GLOWS:SPINS:VERTICAL EXIT:/r208p36", **LatLong:** "36.083335 120.166672", **LatLongDMS:** "36:05:00 N 120:10:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.083335,120.166672)", **State/Prov:** "Shandong", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6881 (EE8352F7) **Date:** 10/1948 **Time:** 16:30 **Location:** BENTON, WI **Description:** Farmer. Classic silver saucer hovers / 300M altitude? 30M diameter? Shoots away extremely fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 280) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1336 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "284", **HatchDesc:** "BENTON,WI:FARMER:CLASSIC SLVR SCR HVRS/300M alt?:30M diam?:SHOOTS AWAY XFAST", **LatLong:** "42.572224 -90.383338", **LatLongDMS:** "42:34:20 N 90:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.572224,-90.383338)", **RelAlt:** "300", **State/Prov:** "Wisconsin", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6882 (455E3F9E) **Date:** 10/1948 **Description:** [Vannevar Bush](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar%5FBush) resigns as chairman of the Research and Development Board, passing the job on to [Karl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%5FTaylor%5FCompton) [Taylor Compton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%5FTaylor%5FCompton)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%5FTaylor%5FCompton)  **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael Hall and Wendy Connors, “The Research and Development Board: Unanswered Questions,” IUR 26, no. 2 \(Summer 2001\): 9 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1269 ### Event 6883 (564E0B80) **Date:** 10/1/1948 **Location:** Fargo, North Dakota **Description:** Lt. G. Gorman air duels with UFO for 25 minutes **Type:** UFO sightings **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_98 ### Event 6884 (A1E59844) **Date:** 10/1/1948 **Location:** North Dakota **Description:** Top Secret Report (100–203–79,p.12,Sec.S) 2nd Lt. George F. Gorman (North Dakota Air Nat. Guard), sighted a UFO 3000 ft. below him while he was flying his F-51 at 4500 ft. The pilot pursued the UFO which took evasive tactics. The UFO out-turned, out-speeded and out-climbed the F-51 in every attempt at intercept. The pilot lost contact with the UFO. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p481, B1-F p234, B1-G p28) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_335 ### Event 6885 (588E9FB9) **Date:** 10/1/1948 **Location:** USA, Fargo (North Dakota) **Description:** (Translated from French) A real aerial duel between a UFO and Lieutenant Pilot George F. Gorman, of the North Dakota Air National Guard. (Henry DURRANT: "The Black Book of UFOs" - Laffont 1970 - p.91) "(...) Suddenly Gorman noticed a strange phenomenon. Instead of discerning the silhouette of an airplane around the eclipse light, he saw none. (...) The pilot, at that moment, distinctly saw the thing. It was a white disc about 20 cm in diameter. (...) When Gorman approached with his F-51, this 20 cm light suddenly stopped flashing and jumped to his left. It was absolutely round, white and without material consistency. There was nothing, no shape, no machine in the center of the glow: a disc of pure light, without apparent emission source. "(Henry DURRANT: "The UFO File" - Laffont 1973 - p. 50) The authorities concluded that Gorman had chased a weather balloon and that in the second part of the incident he was chasing a mirage of the planet Jupiter, caused by a temperature inversion. Apparently Jupiter descended below the horizon when Gorman saw the light rise and disappear. **Reference:** Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London, 1989, p. 49 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1367 ### Event 6886 (1291C8C5) **Date:** 10/1/1948 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Fargo \(North Dakota\), Lieutenant George F. Gorman of the Air National Guard engages in a battle with a small glowing globe aboard his [F-51](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/appareils.html\#F51): Perfectly round in shape, it measured about twenty cm in diameter; it was very white and its edges were slightly darker. The object passes over him at an estimated speed of 400 km/h, and Gorman observes a blinking of the object. When he engages in a pursuit of the object, the blinking disappears , but the light escapes him: When I got very close, it suddenly turned left \(...\). I was diving on it at full speed without being able to catch up with it. It gained altitude again and turned left again as suddenly as the first time. After 20 minutes of fruitless aerial ballet for the pilot, the object turns towards the northeast and disappears. It showed great ease in getting away as well as signs of aggression. The lieutenant survives this engagement, followed by other planes in flight and by his fighter pilot colleagues on the Fargo base. (October 1st, 9 PM) **Reference:** VSD 2007 H **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1948.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_745 ### Event 6887 (C0D6BCCD) **Date:** 10/1/1948 **Location:** Fargo, ND **Description:** F-51 pilot engages in a "dogfight" with small, flat circular UFO. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973_, by Richard Dolan](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/mode/2up) **Source:** Dolan, **ID:** Dolan_33 ### Event 6888 (4880DAB1) **Date:** 10/1/1948 **Time:** 05:40 **Location:** ASCENSION PR, LA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #174. 1 observer. Silent cone going quickly [to] 300mph over woods. Wide-end first. / p104. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 104) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1337 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "ASCENSION pr,LA:BBK#174:1 OBS:SLNT CONE>>300mph OVR WOODS:WIDE-END FIRST:/p104", **LatLong:** "30.216668 -90.900004", **LatLongDMS:** "30:13:00 N 90:54:00 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.216668,-90.900004)", **State/Prov:** "Louisiana", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6889 (D6A9A8AA) **Date:** 10/1/1948 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** FARGO, ND **Description:** USAF F51 / long complex dogfight / saucer. Separate ground and air observer(s). / MJ#246+/ r242p34. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 41) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1338 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "28", **Elev:** "270", **HatchDesc:** "FARGO,ND:USAF F51/LONG COMPLEX DOGFIGHT/SCR:SEP.GND+AIR OBS:/MJ#246+/r242p34", **LatLong:** "46.866669 -96.800005", **LatLongDMS:** "46:52:00 N 96:48:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.866669,-96.800005)", **State/Prov:** "North Dakota", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 6890 (0041471A) **Date:** 10/1/1948 **Location:** Fargo, ND **Description:** Small 6-8-inch round white ball of light with a flat, no-depth disc-like appearance Gorman "Dogfight" (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [481001](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/gormandir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_481 ### Event 6891 (5763B92C) **Date:** 10/1/1948 **Description:** The first Joint Army-Navy-Air Force Publication \(JANAP\) 146, based on Bernard Baruch Jr.’s CIRES system, is issued. It consists of instructions for military and civilian personnel on how to report sightings of enemy aircraft, missiles, submarines, and surface vessels. This version does not include UFOs. It is tabled shortly afterward by Maj. Gen. [Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell)  **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Antonio F. Rullán, “[Blue Book UFO Reports at Sea by Ships: Analysis of the](http://www.waterufo.net/bluebook/bbpdf.pdf) [Blue Book Ship Database,](http://www.waterufo.net/bluebook/bbpdf.pdf)” December 10, 2002, pp. 8–9; Swords 122 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1270 ### Event 6892 (8C7732D7) **Date:** 10/1/1948 **Location:** Fargo, North Dakota **Description:** 8:30 p.m. 2d Lieut. [George F. Gorman](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/711216/george-f-gorman) of the North Dakota National Guard, flying an F-51 near Fargo, North Dakota, spots an object traveling east to west. He describes it as a light 6–8 inches in diameter displaying incredible movements. He repeatedly gives chase beginning at 9:07 p.m., but each time is outmaneuvered by the light, which moves up to 600 mph. On his first pass he gets as close as 500 feet from the light at about 5,000 feet altitude. Gorman climbs to 14,000 feet but stalled out, unable to intercept the light, which is at about 16,000 feet. The light makes evasive and aggressive maneuvers, such as seeming to try to ram the F-51. When it drops to 11,000 feet, Gorman attempts to dive at it, but the light pulls up, rises vertically, and disappears at high speed. The light is also seen by airport control tower operators [Lloyd D. Jensen](https://www.johnsoncountychapel.com/obituary/Lloyd-Jensen) and Manuel E. Johnson, as well as others on the ground and pilot [Arthur E. Cannon](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/102783600/arthur-earl-cannon) flying a Piper Cub at 1,600 feet. Jensen watches the dogfight through 6x30 binoculars, the UFO appearing perfectly round with sharp edges and no fuzzy outline. Project Sign personnel arrive within hours and interview the witnesses. Eventually they conclude the object was a balloon, with evasive maneuvers the product of Gorman’s imagination, since ground observers do not see anything comparable. Some ufologists, among them [Aimé Michel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aim%C3%A9%5FMichel) and [James E. McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald), have rejected the balloon explanation. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Gorman dogfight](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorman%5Fdogfight)”; NICAP, “[Gorman \(Fargo\) Case](http://www.nicap.org/481001fargo%5Fdir.htm)”; Ruppelt, [pp. 41–43](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/40/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 39; Michael D. Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from the Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO Research, 2005, p. 138; Clark III 536–537 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1271 ### Event 6893 (DA450AB9) **Date:** 10/1/1948 **Description:** At 9:00 p.m. an aerial encounter occurred on this day over Fargo, North Dakota between an F-51 fighter plane and a somewhat flattened white circular unidentified object, blinking on and off. The UFO made a head-on approach toward the F-51, then veered off, next made a 180 degree turn, then out climbed the performance aircraft, rising straight up until out of sight. Its close turns were tighter than could be made by the fighter plane. The encounter lasted 27 minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Edward J. Ruppelt, True Magazine, May 1954; Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 59; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 33; UNICAT, case # 532 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6459 ### Event 6894 (1AFF1C25) **Date:** 10/7/1948 **Locations:** Garrett; Cabell; Gorman **Description:** A document from Project Sign to [Garrett](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33467541/george-duncan-garrett) and [Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) is an upbeat [Sneider](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49319130/robert-raphael-sneider) report on the initial investigation of the [Gorman](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/711216/george-f-gorman) dogfight, making the object sound extremely unusual and intelligent in behavior. This is almost like a supplement to the Estimate. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 50 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1272 ### Event 6895 (9D07824B) **Date:** 10/7/1948 **Description:** A set of letters, composed not by [Sneider](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49319130/robert-raphael-sneider) but actually by [Samuel Z. Hunnicutt](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63506334/samuel-z-hunnicutt), a member of T-2 and the Sign team, and approved by MCI heavyweights [McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html)[,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html) [Clingerman](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113944251/william-r%5F-clingerman)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113944251/william-r%5F-clingerman) and [Leland Money](https://outlet.historicimages.com/products/rrw34101), goes out to the CIA, US Army Intelligence, and the Office of Naval Intelligence. The query: What domestic technological developments do you know of that might explain UFOs and help us differentiate them from inimical \(Soviet\) foreign developments? **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 50 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1273 ### Event 6896 (3AE3FCE7) **Date:** 10/9/1948 **Location:** Osage, Wyoming **Description:** **WYOMING SEES ONE DIVIDE IN TWO.** Larry Griffin and Homer Grey of Osage, saw a huge shining object, luminous and shaped like a disk. It remained in view for two seconds, then divided into two parts and disappeared. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256) **Source:** Scully, **ID:** Scully_21 ### Event 6897 (7162AF1D) **Date:** 10/11/1948 **Location:** Munich, West Germany **Description:** Neubiberg AFB (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_482 ### Event 6898 (53EEC148) **Date:** 10/12/1948 **Alternate date:** 10/22/1948 **Location:** United States **Description:** Project Sign’s Col. [William R. Clingerman](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113944251/william-r%5F-clingerman) writes a letter to USAF Chiefs of Staff requesting a study of UFOs by the RAND Corporation, similar to the one made by USAF R&D in July, especially the possibility that “some of the unidentified aerial objects that have been reported both in the United States and in foreign lands may have been experimental spaceships.        it is believed more likely that they represent the effort of a foreign nation, rather than a product from beyond the Earth.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Col. W. R. Clingerman, “[Request for Study by](http://www.project1947.com/gr/48randufostudy.htm) [Rand Project,](http://www.project1947.com/gr/48randufostudy.htm)” October 12\(?\), 1948; Swords 58, 492–493 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1274 ### Event 6899 (D1D5C5F8) **Date:** 10/13/1948 **Location:** USA, South Bend (Indiana) **Description:** (Translated from French) At 11:45 two employees standing in front of the window of an office at the Studebaker Corporation observed a silver, flat disk flying silently in the sky at an altitude of 1500 feet. The UFO seemed to them a bit smaller than a DC-3, but it was traveling three times faster. The sun was reflecting off of it and giving it a kind of blinking brightness, as bright as that which can be reflected by a chrome surface. It was coming from the northwest and flying towards the southeast. There were no wings, engines, or other visible propulsion devices on the object. The two employees held positions of trust in the company and had an excellent reputation. **Reference:** "UFO's: a Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 112 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1369 ### Event 6900 (77C2BCFD) **Date:** 10/13/1948 **Location:** South Bend, IN **Description:** (41.68° N, 86.26° W). Brooke and Thompson (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_483 ### Event 6901 (52154B4F) **Date:** 10/14/1948 **Location:** Between Dayton, Ohio, and Indianapolis, Ind, various **Description:** Air Force pilot, major, saw a UFO flying in an oscillatory path, up and down motions. Intelligence report missing. (Fund Report \* C-13; 2 pp.) (Project GRUDGE Report Case No. 181) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_484 ### Event 6902 (C581501E) **Date:** 10/15/1948 **Location:** Japan **Description:** An F-61 “Black Widow” fighter tracked UFO on radar and tried to intercept it 6 times without success. It would speed up from 200 mph to 1200 mph, leaving the interceptor behind. Description: shaped like a rifle bullet and apparently 20 to 30 feet long **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-F p235) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_336 ### Event 6903 (E5A10306) **Date:** 10/15/1948 **Location:** JAPAN, in flight near Kyushu **Description:** (Translated from French) Fusuoka, Japan. 11:05 p.m. Witnesses: pilot Halter and radar operator Hemphill aboard a P-61 "Black Widow". Up to six objects detected on radar, but with the naked eye: only one was observed. Dark or black object in the shape of a dirigible with a flat bottom and cut tail. The pilot attempted to approach the objects seen on the screen, the only one he could see departed at great speed. **Reference:** Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1370 ### Event 6904 (F23BBDED) **Date:** 10/15/1948 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Near Fusuoka, Kyushu \(Japan\), pilot Halter and radar operator Hemphill of a P-61 "Black Widow" night fighter observe up to 6 objects on their radar and one visually. It is a dark object in the shape of a dirigible, with a flat base and truncated tail. The object seen visually dives quickly. (October 15, 11:05 PM) **Reference:** case [Blue Book](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/BlueBook.html) \#218 unexplained **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1948.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_746 ### Event 6905 (FB938FE7) **Date:** 10/15/1948 **Location:** Cache, Japan **Description:** Radar/visual, F-61 aircraft encounters multiple UFO's **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973_, by Richard Dolan](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/mode/2up) **Source:** Dolan, **ID:** Dolan_34 ### Event 6906 (71735C97) **Date:** 10/15/1948 (approximate) **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** LE HAVRE, FR **Description:** M. Loisin and 2 / car. Classic domed saucer hovers. Away slowly then very fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 123) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1339 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "Le HAVRE,FR:M.LOISIN+2/CAR:CLASSIC DOMED SCR HVRS:AWAY SLOWLY THEN VFAST:", **LatLong:** "49.516669 0.116667", **LatLongDMS:** "49:31:00 N 00:07:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/49.516669,0.116667)", **State/Prov:** "Seine Maritime", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6907 (02834001) **Date:** 10/15/1948 **Time:** 23:00 **Location:** NORTHWEST / FUKUOKA, JP **Description:** F61 chases bullet-object. 180-turns. Going up and down. Cat and mouse. 6 RADAR's to 1200mph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT; Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 135) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1340 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "5", **HatchDesc:** "NW/FUKUOKA,JP:F61 CHASES BULLET-OBJ:180-TURNS:↑+↓:CAT+MOUSE:6 RDRs TO 1200mph", **LatLong:** "34.333335 129.666673", **LatLongDMS:** "34:20:00 N 129:40:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.333335,129.666673)", **State/Prov:** "Kyushu", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6908 (EB59C486) **Date:** 10/15/1948 **Location:** Fukuoka, Japan **Description:** Japan, A,V 6 interceptions of objects tracked on airborne radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 218) **Reference:** NICAP: [481015](http://www.nicap.org/481015japan%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_485 ### Event 6909 (27C4E5EC) **Date:** 10/15/1948 **Location:** 50 miles E of Virginia coast, At Sea **Description:** Bright nearly moon-shaped object with distinct bright center (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_486 ### Event 6910 (974A27F0) **Date:** 10/15/1948 **Time:** 11:05 PM **Location:** Fusuoka, Japan **Description:** Witnesses: pilot Halter and radar operator Hemphill of a P-61 "Black Widow" night fighter. Up to six objects tracked on radar, only one seen visually. Dull or dark object shaped like a dirigible with a flat bottom and clipped tail end. Six seen on radar separately Pilot attempted to close on visual object, but it dove away fast. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_15 ### Event 6911 (647C2079) **Date:** 10/15/1948 **Location:** Fukuoka, Japan **Description:** 11:05 p.m. On night patrol, 1st Lt. [Oliver “Bud” Hemphill Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36271029/oliver-hemphill) of the 68th Fighter Squadron is flying a Northrup F-61 Black Widow some 50 miles northwest of Fukuoka, Japan, when the crew picks up an object on radar going 200 mph. As he closes to intercept, the object speeds up to 1,200 mph then slows down again. The plane tries closing in six times, but each time the object speeds away. On one pass the crew sees the object’s silhouette, which looks like a “rifle bullet” 20–30 feet long. The object “seems cognizant of the whereabouts of the F-61 at all times.” Radar operator Barton Halter thinks it is a “new type of aircraft.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[F-61 ‘Black](http://www.nicap.org/481015japan%5Fdir.htm) [Widow’ Radar Case](http://www.nicap.org/481015japan%5Fdir.htm)”; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#radar)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 69–70; Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 134–137](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/134/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 40 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1275 ### Event 6912 (AB111F8F) **Date:** Late 1948 **Locations:** Dugway Proving Ground, Utah; Alamogordo–White Sands Guided Missile Range, New Mexico; an area in Nevada between Fallon and Eureka; Tonopah–Las Vegas Bombing and Gunnery Range; Pamlico Sound area off the coast of North Carolina **Description:** The search for a suitable US location for nuclear testing, codenamed “Project Nutmeg,” commences under the direction of expert meteorologist and Navy Captain Howard B. Hutchinson. The government is looking for a place where nuclear tests would have little impact on the American people or the American economy. Five primary sites are considered: Dugway Proving Ground, Utah; Alamogordo–White Sands Guided Missile Range, New Mexico; an area in Nevada between Fallon and Eureka; the Tonopah–Las Vegas Bombing and Gunnery Range \(the site finally chosen in 1950, now part of Nellis Air Force Base\); and the Pamlico Sound area off the coast of North Carolina. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Project Nutmeg: The Birth of the Nevada Test Site,](https://permanent.access.gpo.gov/lps100925/www.nv.doe.gov/library/factsheets/DOENV%5F767.pdf)” National Nuclear Security Administration, June 2004; Philip Howard, “[Project Nutmeg,](https://www.villagecraftsmen.com/tag/project-nutmeg/)” Village Craftsmen, April 21, 2012; Diane Tennant, “[How Outer Banks Almost Became a Nuclear Test Site,](https://www.pilotonline.com/life/article%5F6662e143-8b1c-51b8-b3ef-2729d9bd713f.html)” Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, January 27, 2013 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1278 ### Event 6913 (2EE8F5CD) **Date:** 10/15/1948 **Description:** At 11:05 p.m. U.S. Air Force pilot Halter and radar operator Hemphill in a propeller driven P-61 "Black Widow" night fighter tracked up to six objects on radar over Fusuoka, Japan. The six bogeys were seen on the radar by Hemphill, and his radar picked up the targets five miles ahead of the plane. Only one of the bogeys was seen visually. It was a dull or dark object, shaped like a bullet or dirigible with a flat bottom and with a heel-shaped clipped tail end. Pilot Halter attempted to close on the visual object, but it dove below the F-61, then reappeared, and finally took off with a burst of speed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 218; J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p. 135; UNICAT, case # 273; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6843 ### Event 6914 (D94C8616) **Date:** 10/16/1948 **Location:** Sterling, UT **Description:** A flattened football or lozenge shaped black object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_487 ### Event 6915 (89C56B9A) **Date:** 10/17/1948 **Location:** Crescent City, CA **Description:** Blimplike object much too fast and maneuverable for a blimp (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_488 ### Event 6916 (EA241D1A) **Date:** 10/18/1948 **Location:** Pacific Heights, Oahu, HI **Description:** Bright Silver Object Cruises Across Sky (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [481018](http://www.nicap.org/481018oahu%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_394 ### Event 6917 (1550C03B) **Date:** 10/18/1948 **Location:** Pacific Heights, Oahu, HI **Description:** Round or elliptical bright silver object 10-15 ft in size (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_489 ### Event 6918 (E6409C00) **Date:** 10/20/1948 **Locations:** Arlington Hall; Washington, D.C. **Description:** The US Air Force Security Service is activated at Arlington Hall in Washington, D.C., with the mission of cryptology and communications security. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[United States Air Force Security Service](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%5FStates%5FAir%5FForce%5FSecurity%5FService)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1276 ### Event 6919 (07CE8256) **Date:** 10/24/1948 **Location:** Junction City (10 miles SW of), KS **Description:** Huber. (McDonald list; FUFOR Index (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_490 ### Event 6920 (86E9A395) **Date:** 10/24/1948 **Location:** Phoenix, AZ **Description:** Peterson. (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, LC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_491 ### Event 6921 (34912A16) **Date:** 10/24/1948 **Location:** Moorhead (4 miles SE of), MN **Description:** Brilliant golden-white round object suddenly appear (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_492 ### Event 6922 (A9EB740E) **Date:** 10/24/1948 **Description:** Mr. and Mrs. Sanders were driving northwest on Highway 52 towards Moorhead, Minnesota (46.88° N, 96.78° W) when they saw a brilliant golden-white round object suddenly appear as if a light had been switched on. It was about three miles away to the northeast at 1,000 feet altitude in a gradual climb traveling at an estimated 600-1,000 mph and heading west towards Moorhead. It made no sound, and was about half the size of a full moon in angular size. When they reached the northern outskirts of Moorhead the object suddenly made a right turn and one second later disappeared by suddenly switching off. The Air Force said they had seen a meteor. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 192; Fund for UFO Research index of cases **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7067 ### Event 6923 (F3996097) **Date:** 10/28/1948 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** NEUBIBERG AB, GERM **Description:** USAF observer(s). Saucer seen / 30 minutes. Away extremely fast. Military report CC going [to] CIA. / r132#2. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Database/website: PROJECT 1947: www.project1947.com/fig/usaf14.htm Special page, June,2000 **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1341 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "NEUBIBERG AB,GERM:USAF OBS:SCR SEEN/30mins:AWAY XFAST:MIL RPT CC>CIA:/r132#2", **LatLong:** "48.116669 11.583334", **LatLongDMS:** "48:07:00 N 11:35:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.116669,11.583334)", **State/Prov:** "Bavaria", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6924 (F367B8A7) **Date:** 10/29/1948 **Location:** Goose Bay AFB, Labrador, CAN **Description:** Slow moving unidentified targets were tracked at low altitude (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [481029](http://www.nicap.org/481029goosedir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_493 ### Event 6925 (F217CFE0) **Date:** 10/29/1948 **Location:** Neubiberg Air Base [now closed] near Munich, Germany **Description:** Five US Air Force pilots observe a silvery object over Neubiberg Air Base \[now closed\] near Munich, Germany. The object disappears at a terrific speed after having remained over the air base more than 30 minutes. A similar object is seen days before by another group of American pilots. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich, “[Early Top Secret UFO](http://www.project1947.com/fig/jtt.htm) [Document Discovered,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/jtt.htm)” 2000 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1277 ### Event 6926 (56AA9AC1) **Date:** 10/30/1948 **Location:** Gray's Harbor, WA **Description:** Kunsman. (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) ADC Directs F-82 to 10-20 EggShaped Objects (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [481030](http://www.nicap.org/481030graysharbordir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_494 ### Event 6927 (334EC930) **Date:** 10/31/1948 **Location:** Goose Bay AFB, Labrador, CAN **Description:** (53.33° N, 60.41° W). (McDonald list) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [481031](http://www.nicap.org/481031goosedir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_495 ### Event 6928 (B6C64A8E) **Date:** 10/31/1948 **Location:** Unknown Location, Azores **Description:** (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_496 ### Event 6929 (56B47A79) **Date:** 11/1948 **Location:** Los Alamos, NM **Description:** Green fireballs prominent in New Mexico **Type:** anomalous phenomenon **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_99 ### Event 6930 (583DB18B) **Date:** 11/1/1948 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 4.8km altitude (Bumper 4 Explosion in tail of V-2) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_337 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 4.8km ### Event 6931 (871FBA2C) **Date:** 11/1/1948 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) Bumper program, launch of V2 No. B4 which exploded at 5 km altitude. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1371 ### Event 6932 (BF38DFDE) **Date:** 11/1/1948 **Location:** Goose Bay, Labrador **Description:** Army radar tracking of high speed object **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973_, by Richard Dolan](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/mode/2up) **Source:** Dolan, **ID:** Dolan_35 ### Event 6933 (46F22EE0) **Date:** 11/1/1948 **Location:** GOOSE BAY, NFL **Description:** Military RADAR's track blip / 9000mph. Type unknown. Also 29+31 October. / r28p323-326. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 83) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1342 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "GOOSE BAY,NFL:MIL RDRS TRACK BLIP/9000mph:TYPE UNK::also 29+31OCT:/r28p323-326", **LatLong:** "53.333336 -60.416670", **LatLongDMS:** "53:20:00 N 60:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/53.333336,-60.416670)", **State/Prov:** "Newfoundland", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 6934 (7DDDA225) **Date:** 11/1/1948 **Location:** Goose Bay AFB, Labrador, CAN **Description:** (53.33° N, 60.41° W). (Ruppelt manuscript) G 600 MPH Track (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [481101](http://www.nicap.org/481101goosedir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_497 ### Event 6935 (DA406AE0) **Date:** 11/1/1948 **Location:** Goose Bay AFB [now CFB Goose Bay], Labrador **Description:** Radar operator M/Sgt Francis H. Mills at Goose Bay AFB \[now CFB Goose Bay\], Labrador, tracks an object too large for a bird, too small for a plane, flying at 60 mph. Not confirmed visually. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[600 MPH](http://www.nicap.org/481101goosedir.htm) [Track at Goose Bay](http://www.nicap.org/481101goosedir.htm)”; NICAP, “[October 29, October 30, and November 1, 1948, Incident Nos. 188, 195, and 196:](http://www.nicap.org/reports/4810-11gooserep.htm) [Goose Bay, Labrador,](http://www.nicap.org/reports/4810-11gooserep.htm)” June 28, 2009; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 42 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1279 ### Event 6936 (5635A491) **Date:** 11/1/1948 **Description:** A UFO was tracked by U.S. Army radar at Goose Bay Base, Labrador, Canada on this day. It was moving at a high rate of speed, in excess of 600 mph. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 33; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume I, p. 83 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7364 ### Event 6937 (DF68B923) **Date:** 11/3/1948 **End date:** 11/4/1948 **Location:** Vaughn, NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 6; app 22;00 - white round obj larger than basketball (McDonald list, FUFOR index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC, LC) **Reference:** NICAP: [481103-04](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/vaughn481103dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_498 ### Event 6938 (A50685B5) **Date:** 11/3/1948 **Location:** US **Description:** Against most predictions, [Harry S. Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) wins the US presidential election against Republican [Thomas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FE.%5FDewey) [E. Dewey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FE.%5FDewey)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FE.%5FDewey) Secretary of Defense [James Forrestal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FForrestal), like everyone else, expects to have a new boss in January. His relationship with Air Force Secretary [Stuart Symington](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%5FSymington) has deteriorated, and he has not obtained a budget consensus from the Joint Chiefs. His mental health, physical condition, and authority are deteriorating. He is convinced that “foreign-looking men” are following him and that Symington is spying on him. Secret Service Chief [Urbanus E. Baughman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.%5FE.%5FBaughman) begins to think Forrestal is suffering from a “total psychotic breakdown.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1280 ### Event 6939 (11E1CD24) **Date:** 11/3/1948 **Location:** Wright Field, Ohio **Description:** Gen. [Charles Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) writes a firm letter to Wright Field in Ohio, asking Project Sign for another Estimate. It is possibly composed by Maj. [Aaron “Jere” Boggs](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Boggs%5FJ.htm) or Col. [Edward H. Porter](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105922/brigadier-general-edward-h-porter/) at the USAF Defensive Air Branch. While admitting that the objects seem real, it also cautions that they are not identified. \(Read: You may not identify them as extraterrestrial craft.\) **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Maj. Gen. C. P. Cabell, “[Flying Object Incidents in the United States,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/loedd/doc159.htm)” November 3, 1948; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 50– 51, 62; Swords 62, 64 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1281 ### Event 6940 (A8EC3BD5) **Date:** 11/4/1948 **Location:** SOUTH KOREA **Description:** (Translated from French) At 10:43 above the Army Observation Post #1, at 37°57'N, 125°31'E, flying from east to west at an altitude of 5000 feet. The same object was observed at Observation Post #2 37°51' N, 125°17'E as well as the two following. The object circled above Post #2 before veering north. It resembled a twin-engine bomber, and it is assumed to be Soviet. **Reference:** "Ufo's: a Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 114 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1372 ### Event 6941 (66E19D86) **Date:** 11/4/1948 **Locations:** USAF Europe; Sweden; Armament Intelligence Branch **Description:** A USAF Europe document transmits some information on the Swedish ghost rockets. “They have been reported by so many sources and from such a variety of places that we are convinced that they cannot be disregarded and must be explained on some basis which is perhaps slightly beyond the scope of our present intelligence thinking.” One of the objects was observed crashing into a lake by Swedish Gen. [Helge Jung](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helge%5FJung) and his party. A salvage operation was unsuccessful. USAF officers visit Swedish Air Intelligence officials who have reached the conclusion that “these phenomena are obviously the result of a high technical skill which cannot be credited to any presently known culture on earth.” The document is distributed to the CIA \(which in response to a FOIA request claims no record\), Armament Intelligence Branch, and AMC. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[USAFE 14, TT 1524, Top Secret,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/481104usafedoc.pdf)” November 4, 1948; Jan Aldrich, “[Early Top Secret UFO Document Discovered,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/jtt.htm)” 2000; Swords 62–63; Good Need, [p. 115](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/114/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1282 ### Event 6942 (0705BC4B) **Date:** 11/6/1948 **Location:** Japan **Description:** Radar tracking of UFO's in "dogfight" **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973_, by Richard Dolan](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/mode/2up) **Source:** Dolan, **ID:** Dolan_36 ### Event 6943 (C01E6811) **Date:** 11/6/1948 **Location:** Wakkanai, Japan **Description:** (45°26' N, 141°43' E). (McDonald list) Target Circles Radar Site (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [481106](http://www.nicap.org/481106wakkanai%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_499 ### Event 6944 (03EAAC70) **Date:** 11/6/1948 **Location:** Wakkanai, Japan **Description:** Two UFOs, maneuvering like planes in a dogfight, are tracked on USAF radar over Wakkanai, Japan. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Target Circles Radar Site](http://www.nicap.org/481106wakkanai%5Fdir.htm)”; Keyhoe, FS from OS, [p. 34](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsos/chIII.htm); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 42 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1283 ### Event 6945 (CADEACF9) **Date:** 11/8/1948 **Locations:** Pentagon; Chiles-Whitted **Description:** A letter is sent with Col. [McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html)’s signature to Gen. [Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) Written by Sign operative [Albert Deyarmond](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ori-ahvZRlU/VWjL8ELOjzI/AAAAAAAALts/kwi03CO17vE/s1600/Deyarmond%2BAlbert%2B7pictures%2B%2528dragged%2529.jpg)[,](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ori-ahvZRlU/VWjL8ELOjzI/AAAAAAAALts/kwi03CO17vE/s1600/Deyarmond%2BAlbert%2B7pictures%2B%2528dragged%2529.jpg) it is overtly submissive but covertly rebellious. It contains several comments agreeing with Cabell that the UFO phenomenon is not identifiable and that no concrete physical proof exists to identify it. At the same time it drops all sorts of hints, doubtless the same arguments used in the original Estimate, that the objects really are extra- terrestrial whether the Pentagon thinks so or not: It mentions the ETH; it mentions plotting waves against planetary approaches and finding a correlation; it mentions the books of [Charles Fort](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FFort) as indicating that this has been going on for at least a century; it mentions that odd shapes \(like the Chiles-Whitted case\) can fly but require more advanced power plants than we have. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Col. H. M. McCoy, “[Flying Object Incidents in the United States,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1948c.htm)” November 8, 1948; Michael D. Swords, “The McCoy Letter,” IUR 22, no. 1 \(Spring 1997\): 12–17, 27; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 51, 63–64; Swords 62, 65, 494– 496 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1284 ### Event 6946 (30CD5661) **Date:** 11/10/1948 **Location:** SWEDEN, Ervalla **Description:** (Translated from French) A farmer returning home late at night was flown over by a UFO of conical shape, emitting white light. During the flight, the witness's hair and fur stood on end. Back at home, everyone noticed that his complexion had suddenly become very tanned. **Reference:** Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 353 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1373 ### Event 6947 (AD122B3D) **Date:** 11/10/1948 **Time:** 22:20 **Location:** ERVALLA, SWEDEN **Description:** Farmer caught / 40M cone of light. Gets UV burns. No object seen. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** AFU NEWSLETTER (English). Anders Liljegren (ed). Archives for UFO Research; PO Box 11027; S-600 11 Norrkoping, SWEDEN (Index 23) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1343 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NFO:** No craft seen, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Scandanavian and Finland", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ERVALLA,SWEDEN:FARMER CAUGHT/40M CONE OF LITE:GETS UV BURNS:no obj seen", **LatLong:** "59.366669 15.250001", **LatLongDMS:** "59:22:00 N 15:15:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/59.366669,15.250001)", **State/Prov:** "Sweden", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 6948 (146973B2) **Date:** 11/12/1948 **Location:** Clark AFB, Manila, Philippines **Description:** Very large 300 ft long 140 ft wingspan snow-white aircraft (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_500 ### Event 6949 (E2DF3590) **Date:** 11/12/1948 **Locations:** National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C.; Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio; Pentagon; MIT **Description:** Project Sign personnel travel to the National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C., to attempt to convince [Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) and [Vandenberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg) on the ETH. It includes [Sneider](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49319130/robert-raphael-sneider), and perhaps [Deyarmond](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ori-ahvZRlU/VWjL8ELOjzI/AAAAAAAALts/kwi03CO17vE/s1600/Deyarmond%2BAlbert%2B7pictures%2B%2528dragged%2529.jpg)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209268646/alfred-christian-loedding) [Loedding](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209268646/alfred-christian-loedding), [Truettner](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/58335429/lawrence-hess-truettner), and [McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html)[.](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html) On the Pentagon side, [Boggs](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Boggs%5FJ.htm) and [Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) are there and perhaps Vandenberg, and they are having none of the ETH. Back at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio, Deyarmond and Truettner begin writing a sanitized Project Sign report. More scientific oversight is requested for Sign personnel. The Scientific Advisory Board and [George](http://news.mit.edu/1999/valley-1020) [Valley](http://news.mit.edu/1999/valley-1020) of MIT are to be made aware of all cases. So too are Boggs’s office, ONI, and maybe even the NBS. [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) is to be formally commissioned for an assessment, as well as [Irving Langmuir](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving%5FLangmuir) and Project Rand. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Col. H. M. McCoy, “[Transmittal of Project ‘SIGN’ Incident Summaries,](http://www.project1947.com/gr/nbsconference.htm)” November 12, 1948; Swords 65; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 51–52 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1285 ### Event 6950 (FA78D6D3) **Date:** 11/15/1948 (approximate) **Time:** 16:00 **Location:** SOUTH / NEVADA, MO **Description:** 1 / farm. Whirr! Large disk hovers. 2 small objects drop / disk and going quickly southwest. Disk going northeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 295) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1344 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "272", **HatchDesc:** "S/NEVADA,MO:1/FARM:WHIRR!:LRG DISK HVRS:2 SML OBJS DROP/DISK+>>SW:DISK >NE", **LatLong:** "37.750002 -94.355560", **LatLongDMS:** "37:45:00 N 94:21:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.750002,-94.355560)", **State/Prov:** "Missouri", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6951 (DF29F2D0) **Date:** Mid 11/1948 **Location:** Nevada, Missouri **Description:** Late afternoon. [Clifford DeWitt Fife](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/81760336/clifford-dewitt-fife) hears a whirring in the air near Nevada, Missouri. He looks up and sees a hovering, disc-like object. Two bright objects drop down out of the disc about 200–300 feet, then speed off to the southwest. The large object moves off to the northeast. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Nevada \(Mo.\) Daily Mail, November 30, 1948; Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29, no. 2 \(Summer 2004\): 7 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1286 ### Event 6952 (DD24C290) **Date:** 11/15/1948 **Description:** South of Nevada, Missouri a witness first heard a whirring sound at 4 p.m., then saw a large disc-shaped object hovering. Two small objects dropped from the disc and flew away to the southwest. The disc then flew off toward the northeast. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1358, citing Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1948, p. 95 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7683 ### Event 6953 (E1BE6EF9) **Date:** 11/17/1948 **Location:** Peace River, Alberta, CAN **Description:** Bright orange flaming egg-shaped object flying (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_501 ### Event 6954 (B97E58A5) **Date:** 11/18/1948 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 145.3km altitude (First Hermes B ‘Organ’ test of ramjet diffuser in place of payload section. Nominal performance.) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_338 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 145.3km ### Event 6955 (F35FB254) **Date:** 11/18/1948 **Location:** Andrews AFB **Description:** Report from Project SIGN, incident ?207 in Blue Book files: at approx. 2200 hours, Lt. Henry G. Combs (AFRes) spotted an oval shaped UFO while flying in a T-6 plane. The UFO accelerated rapidly from 80mph to 500 or 600 mph. It remained under observation for some 10 minutes. The UFO displayed “evasive controlled tactics and an ability to perform tight circles, quick variation of air speed, vertical ascents and evasive movements.” **Type:** report **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-G p28, B1-F p236) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_339 ### Event 6956 (01CCF755) **Date:** 11/18/1948 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) At 15:35, Launch of V2 #44, it rose to 145 km. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1374 ### Event 6957 (27AD4BC7) **Date:** 11/18/1948 **Location:** Near Andrews AFB, MD **Description:** Dogfight with AF pilot, extreme maneuverability **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973_, by Richard Dolan](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/mode/2up) **Source:** Dolan, **ID:** Dolan_37 ### Event 6958 (11C0120E) **Date:** 11/18/1948 **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, MD **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #207. Unidentified. Saucer and AT6 jet / 10 minute(s) dogfight! Extremely fast exit going quickly east. / MJ#247. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 67) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1345 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **HST:** Historical account, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "11", **Elev:** "85", **HatchDesc:** "ANDREWS AFB,MD:BBK#207:UID:SCR+AT6 JET/10min DOGFIGHT!:XFAST EXIT >>E:/MJ#247", **LatLong:** "38.800002 -76.866670", **LatLongDMS:** "38:48:00 N 76:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.800002,-76.866670)", **State/Prov:** "MRL", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 6959 (728AC8E7) **Date:** 11/18/1948 **Location:** Camp Springs, MD **Description:** The Lt. Combs / T-6 Encounter (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [481118](http://www.nicap.org/481118andrews%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_502 ### Event 6960 (3DEAFE6B) **Date:** 11/18/1948 **Location:** Andrews AFB, Maryland **Description:** 10:00 p.m. USAF Reserve pilot Lt. [Henry G. Combs](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/512170/henry-gordon-combs) is flying a T-6 Texas combat trainer when he sees an object flying west to east over Andrews AFB, Maryland. It has one continuously glowing white light. He makes a pass to check on it, but it takes evasive action and he duels with it for 10 minutes. The object performs very tight curves and quick accelerations to 600 mph. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[The Lt. Combs / T-6 Encounter](http://www.nicap.org/481118andrews%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 42; Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, Aurora, 1988, pp. 236–237 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1287 ### Event 6961 (4BB284DF) **Date:** 11/23/1948 **Location:** Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany **Description:** Wire Report from Germany to Project SIGN: Capt. (blank) is an experienced pilot and completely reliable. While flying an F-80 over a US Air Base in the Fursten-Feldbruck area of Germany, he had radar and visual contact with a circling red-lighted UFO at 2200 hours at 27,000 ft. Ground radar determined that it was going 900 mph and climbed quickly to 50,000 ft. in a matter of minutes and disappeared **Type:** report **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-F p237) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_341 ### Event 6962 (1AF2F3D8) **Date:** 11/23/1948 **Location:** Fursten-Felbruck AFB, Ger. **Description:** Radar/visual, attempted intercept; evasive action **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973_, by Richard Dolan](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/mode/2up) **Source:** Dolan, **ID:** Dolan_38 ### Event 6963 (0D1639D3) **Date:** 11/23/1948 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** FURSTEN-FELDBRUCK, GERM **Description:** USAF F80. RADAR-visual (observation). 1500kph. Quickly going up [to] extremely fast. / r242p123+/ LDLN#330. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HALL, Richard: UNINVITED GUESTS; Aurora Press, Santa Fe, NM 1988. 381pp. (Index 237) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1346 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Germany", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "18", **HatchDesc:** "FURSTEN-FELDBRUCK,GERM:USAF F80:RDR-VIS:1500kph:↑↑ XFAST:/r242p123+/LDLN#330", **LatLong:** "48.183336 11.266667", **LatLongDMS:** "48:11:00 N 11:16:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.183336,11.266667)", **State/Prov:** "Bavaria", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6964 (0B5D2106) **Date:** 11/23/1948 **Location:** Vaughn, NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 7; app 22;00 - Colonel Hayes obs ball of light, descending vertically, which burst 100-200 feet from the ground (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) **Reference:** NICAP: [481123](http://nicap.org/vaughn481123dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_503 ### Event 6965 (CF7100CA) **Date:** 11/23/1948 **Location:** Munich, West Germany **Description:** Furstenfeldbruck AFB reddish star-like object G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [481123](http://www.nicap.org/481123germany%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_504 ### Event 6966 (6057C91B) **Date:** 11/23/1948 **Location:** Vaughan, New Mexico **Description:** 10:00 p.m. US Army Col. William P. Hayes sees a bright white, round light “larger than a basketball” descend slowly as he is driving 10 miles east of Vaughan, New Mexico. It explodes without a sound some 400– 500 feet above the ground. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Another Object in Vertical Descent Explodes near Colonel](http://www.nicap.org/vaughn481123dir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 43; Clark III 539 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1288 ### Event 6967 (88F9B33D) **Date:** 11/23/1948 **Location:** Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base in Bavaria, Germany **Description:** 10:20 p.m. The first \[although see October 15\] documented radar-visual UFO case takes place at Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base in Bavaria, Germany. A UFO is seen circling at 27,000 feet. An F-80 pilot sent to intercept it describes it as bright red. It climbs abruptly to 50,000 feet at 900 mph. A second F-80 pilot verifies the report. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Grnd Visual / Grnd Radar Track Object at 27,000ʹ](http://www.nicap.org/481123germany%5Fdir.htm)”; Ruppelt, [p. 46](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/46/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 43 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1289 ### Event 6968 (EF12AE7F) **Date:** 11/23/1948 **Description:** An aerial encounter with a red UFO involving radar and visual confirmation occurred over Germany on this night at 10:20 p.m. Two U.S. Air Force Captains flying in a F-80 fighter, and a 1st Lt. from the 23rd Fighter Squadron on the ground at Furstenfeldbruck AFB saw the reddish star-like object to the east moving south over Munich at 200-500 mph, turning slightly southwest and then southeast. Captain Slater in the F-80 called the Racecard DF Radar Station which tracked the unidentified target at 27,000 feet and 30 miles to the south of Munich, climbing to 40,000 feet at 40 miles south of Munich, then circling around in a high speed ascent. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers Are Real, p. 162; Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 68; Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 237; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 10 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7833 ### Event 6969 (52EC31A3) **Date:** 11/24/1948 **Description:** Writer Sidney Shalett has asked for USAF cooperation in writing an article on UFOs for the Saturday Evening Post. In a “Memorandum for the Record,” the USAF Directorate of Intelligence indicates that “publicity of this nature is undesirable but, if such articles are written, they will be less harmful to the national interest if a degree of guidance in their preparation is exercised.” Signed November 24 by [Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) Director of Intelligence. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** \[Maj. Gen. Charles P. Cabell\], “[Memorandum for Record,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1948d.htm)” November 24, 1948 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1290 ### Event 6970 (BA6B227F) **Date:** 11/26/1948 **Location:** Washington and Oregon, various **Description:** Young. (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_505 ### Event 6971 (A7E0B127) **Date:** 11/30/1948 **Description:** Maj. Gen. [Charles P. Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) in an Air Staff Summary Sheet, admits that he has tried to dissuade the press from publishing articles like Shalett’s. Cabell has asked Secretary [Forrestal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FForrestal) for permission to feed Shalett some statistics, but the memo is apparently never sent. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Maj. Gen. C. P. Cabell, “[Publicity on Flying Saucer](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1948e.htm) [Incidents,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1948e.htm)” Air Staff Summary Sheet, November 30, 1948; “[Memorandum for Mr. Forrestal](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1948f.htm)” \[unsent\] **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1291 ### Event 6972 (9FF6EB15) **Date:** 11/30/1948 **Locations:** AMC Dayton; Mitchel AFB [now closed]; Long Island, New York **Description:** Letter from [Howard McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html) at AMC Dayton to Commanding General, Air Defense Command, Mitchel AFB \[now closed\], Long Island, New York. “It is requested that all reports of unusual sightings by radar stations of your command be made directly to this Headquarters by the most expeditious means.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[1948 UFO](http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1948fullrep.htm) [Chronology](http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1948fullrep.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1292 ### Event 6973 (5DA740C8) **Date:** 11/30/1948 **Locations:** Ohio; Wright-Patterson AFB; National Archives **Description:** An interim report by Project Sign, one that apparently takes seriously the possibility that UFOs represent interplanetary probes, is accidentally destroyed. USAF Intelligence later requests a replacement copy from TID at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio. A recent FOIA to the National Archives answers that such a document would be in Project Blue Book files, but it is not. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1293 ### Event 6974 (F601C173) **Date:** 12/1948 **Location:** Dayton, OH **Description:** Project SIGN evolves into Project GRUDGE and is conducted under the code name BLUE BOOK. The liaison between Project GRUDGE and MJ-12 is the Air Force officer in head of BLUE BOOK. (Capt. Ruppelt?) **Type:** report **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_342 **See also:** 3/1952 ### Event 6975 (C12B6A9E) **Date:** 12/1948 **Location:** USSR, Moscow **Description:** (Translated from French) Oblong metallic objects, shaped like fish, were seen reflecting the sunlight. **Reference:** Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: "UFOs in the USSR and Eastern Countries" - trans. Laffont 1976 - p. 274 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1377 ### Event 6976 (924C3919) **Date:** 12/1948 **Location:** USA, Muroc **Description:** (Translated from French) The NACA had hoped to receive one of the two X-4 aircraft that Northrop was building this month (as part of the transonic research). But in December 1948 only one was complete and still at the factory, where it made its initial flight. The X-4 program experienced delays and design problems: in six months it only made three flights and according to the pilots, this aircraft was far inferior to the Skystreak with which Howard Lilly had lost his life. **Reference:** NASA website 1977 "On the Frontier". **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1382 ### Event 6977 (3FFE290F) **Date:** 12/1948 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Above Moscow \(Russia\), a number of long, fish-shaped objects are observed, reflecting the sunlight. **Reference:** Vallée, Anatomy of Phenomenon, page 54 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1948.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_747 ### Event 6978 (4BC36660) **Date:** 12/1948 **Location:** MOSCOW, RUSSIA **Description:** Pilots and ground observer(s). Long fish-shaped objects seen. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 75) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1347 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Russia", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MOSCOW,RUSS:PILOTS+GND.OBS:LONG FISH-SHAPED OBJs SEEN:NFD ", **LatLong:** "55.783336 37.600002", **LatLongDMS:** "55:47:00 N 37:36:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/55.783336,37.600002)", **State/Prov:** "MOS", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6979 (048E8F50) **Date:** 12/1948 **Location:** Los Alamos, NM **Description:** Dec. 5 - 8,11,13,14,20 & 28, 1948; Los Alamos, NM. OSI, pilots, Los Alamos (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [481200](http://www.nicap.org/ncp/ncp-losalamos.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_506 ### Event 6980 (FD70A240) **Date:** 12/1948 **Location:** USSR **Description:** A first-strike war plan \(Sizzle\) is developed to use 133 nuclear aerial bombs against 70 cities of the USSR. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Nuclear ‘Pincher’: The START II Treaty, the American ‘Escalation of Superiority’ Strategy, and Russia’s](https://nuke.fas.org/control/abmt/news/sov95091.htm) [Strategic Nuclear Forces,](https://nuke.fas.org/control/abmt/news/sov95091.htm)” from Sovetskaya Rossiya, April 8, 1995 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1294 ### Event 6981 (561963B6) **Date:** 12/3/1948 **Location:** USA, Fairfield, Suisan AFB, California. **Description:** (Translated from French) In the night of December 3, 1948 (8:15 p.m.), while the airfield was swept by winds stronger than usual. In the gusts, they reached 110 km/h. A strange luminous ball was suddenly seen at an altitude of about three hundred meters. As the base personnel watched it in amazement, the mysterious light suddenly rose almost vertically. It reached an altitude of seven thousand meters in an incredibly short time and then disappeared. (Donald KEYHOE: "Flying Saucers Exist" - ed. Corrêa, Paris, 1951, p. 107) 8:15 p.m. Witness: a USAF Sgt., operator at the control tower; A round and white light flies for 25 seconds at varying speeds, jerky movement to end with erratic ascent. **Reference:** Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1375 ### Event 6982 (77399066) **Date:** 12/3/1948 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At the [USAF](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/USAF.html) base in Fairfield-Suisan \(California\), a USAF sergeant and a control tower operator observed a white circular light flying for 25 seconds at varying speeds, hopping, and disappearing in an erratic ascent. (December 3, 8:15 PM) **Reference:** case [Blue Book](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/BlueBook.html) \#257 unsolved **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1948.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_748 ### Event 6983 (D0E03CC4) **Date:** 12/3/1948 **Time:** 20:20 **Location:** TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, CA **Description:** Air Traffic Controller. Fireball climbs toward(s) plane. Erratic motion. Still rising at 30K Ft. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 76) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1348 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "19", **HatchDesc:** "TRAVIS AFB,CA:ATC:FBL CLIMBS TWRD PLANE:ERRATIC MOTION:STILL RISING @ 30K FT", **LatLong:** "38.233335 -122.016672", **LatLongDMS:** "38:14:00 N 122:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.233335,-122.016672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 6984 (3B6FE1C4) **Date:** 12/3/1948 **Location:** Fairfield-Suisan AFB, CA **Description:** Round, white light fly with varying speed, bouncing motion (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 257) **Reference:** NICAP: [481203](http://www.nicap.org/fairfsuis481203dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_507 ### Event 6985 (B3EEA937) **Date:** 12/3/1948 **Location:** Dayton, OH **Description:** (39.75° N, 84.18° W). Hoffman (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_508 ### Event 6986 (C2E1528A) **Date:** 12/3/1948 **Time:** 8:15 PM **Location:** Fairfield-Suisan AFB, California **Description:** Witness: USAF Sgt., control tower operator. One round, white light flew for 25 seconds with varying speed, bouncing motion, and finally a rapid erratic climb. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_16 ### Event 6987 (7865A95A) **Date:** 12/3/1948 **Locations:** Fairfield-Suisun AFB; Fairfield, California; Travis AFB **Description:** 8:15 p.m. Sgt. [Bruce Earlin McFarland](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72821691/bruce-earlin-mcfarland)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72821691/bruce-earlin-mcfarland) control tower operator at Fairfield-Suisun AFB \[now Travis AFB\] at Fairfield, California, watches for 25 seconds a round, white light fly with variable speed \(200–400 mph\) and a bouncing motion, finally disappearing after a rapid, erratic climb to 20,000 feet. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Fairfield-Suisun AFB,](http://www.nicap.org/fairfsuis481203dir.htm) [Dec. 3, 1948, UFO Report](http://www.nicap.org/fairfsuis481203dir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 43 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1295 ### Event 6988 (6944145C) **Date:** 12/5/1948 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A bright green light appears near a [C-47](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/C47.html) Dakota of the [USAF](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/USAF.html) and another airliner, above New Mexico. The crew of the [C-47](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/C47.html) see the light beam directed towards them. They agree with the captain of the airliner to report the sighting to the Air Force base at [Kirtland](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/KirtlandAFB.html). This is the second time they have observed a mysterious green glow on this flight. (9:30 PM) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1948.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_749 ### Event 6989 (CB25C29D) **Date:** 12/5/1948 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A Pioneer Airlines [DC-3](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/DC3.html) Dakota transmitted by radio to [Kirtland](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/KirtlandAFB.html) a similar report. The green light headed straight for the plane, forcing the pilot to avoid it with a maneuver. When the plane landed in Albuquerque, the crew was questioned by [USAF](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/USAF.html) intelligence agents. (21 h 35) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1948.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_750 ### Event 6990 (23E080FA) **Date:** 12/5/1948 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The investigation will show that 5 green fireballs were observed that day. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1948.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_751 ### Event 6991 (F3237C9B) **Date:** 12/5/1948 **Location:** Near Albuquerque, NM **Description:** C-47 pilot sees huge green fireball appear to maneuver **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973_, by Richard Dolan](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/mode/2up) **Source:** Dolan, **ID:** Dolan_39 ### Event 6992 (3ECC79A3) **Date:** 12/5/1948 (approximate) **Location:** LOS ALAMOS, NM **Description:** FBI report. Green fireballs or saucers seen 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 13, 14, 20+28 DEC'48. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 160) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1349 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "96", **Elev:** "2231", **HatchDesc:** "LOS ALAMOS,NM:FBI Rpt:GRN FBLS or SCRS seen 5,6,7,8,11,13,14,20+28 DEC'48", **LatLong:** "35.877779 -106.294450", **LatLongDMS:** "35:52:40 N 106:17:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.877779,-106.294450)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 6993 (2213B6F6) **Date:** 12/5/1948 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** LAS VEGAS, NM **Description:** Air Force C47+airliner crew. Flash. Huge orange fireball / collision course. Dives. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 74) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1350 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "1960", **HatchDesc:** "LAS VEGAS,NM:AF C47+AIRLINER CREW:FLASH:HUGE ORG FBL/COLLISION COURSE:DIVES", **LatLong:** "35.600002 -105.216672", **LatLongDMS:** "35:36:00 N 105:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.600002,-105.216672)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 6994 (CE65AD1D) **Date:** 12/5/1948 **Location:** Las Vegas (W of), NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 8; AF C-47 Pilot Observes UFO Similar To Green Flare (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC, LC) **Reference:** NICAP: [481205](http://www.nicap.org/481205lvegas%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_509 ### Event 6995 (E55911DA) **Date:** 12/5/1948 **Location:** Albuquerque, NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 9; Commercial Pilot Reports Green Flare (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC, LC) **Reference:** NICAP: [481205](http://www.nicap.org/481205lvegas2%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_510 ### Event 6996 (8F2B971A) **Date:** 12/5/1948 **Locations:** Denver; Phoenix; Las Vegas, New Mexico; Sandia Peak; Albuquerque; Pioneer Airlines Flight 63 **Description:** 9:05 p.m. Pilot Capt. [William R. Goade](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106982/brigadier-general-william-r-goade/) is flying a USAF C-47 from Denver to Phoenix. Just west of Las Vegas, New Mexico, he and his copilot Maj. Roger Carter spot a bright green flash. Some 22 minutes later, an identical flash rises from the east slope of Sandia Peak and follows a parabolic curve as the C-47 passes 20 miles northeast of Albuquerque. Capt. Ernest Van Lloyd and the crew of Pioneer Airlines Flight 63 also see the second object, described as first orange, then green. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[AFOSI Case 8: AF C-47 Pilot Observes UFO Similar to](http://www.nicap.org/481205lvegas%5Fdir.htm) [Green Flare](http://www.nicap.org/481205lvegas%5Fdir.htm)”; Clark III 539; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 43 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1296 ### Event 6997 (212749FB) **Date:** 12/5/1948 **Description:** Flying east of Las Vegas, New Mexico a C-47 pilot and two others saw a huge luminous green fireball at 9:27 p.m., which appeared to maneuver. The same night 12 green fireballs seen traveling rapidly north to south by security guards at military installations from 1930 to 2330 hours, including guards at Sandia Base, New Mexico where atomic bombs were being assembled. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** (1) Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 73; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 11; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 398; (2) Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 48; Bruce Maccabee, UFO-FBI Connection: The Secret History of the Government's Cover-Up, p. 70 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8193 ### Event 6998 (C36FC41E) **Date:** 12/6/1948 **Location:** Albuquerque, NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 10; AESS Observed Green Flare Directly Over Sandia Base (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC, LC) **Reference:** NICAP: [481206](http://nicap.org/albuq481206dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_511 ### Event 6999 (A1512EA4) **Date:** 12/6/1948 **Location:** Kirtland AFB, New Mexico **Description:** Lt. Col. [Doyle Rees](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43562489/doyle-rees)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43562489/doyle-rees) commander of the Seventeenth District AFOSI at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico, orders an investigation into the previous night’s green fireball. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 539 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1297 ### Event 7000 (A170AF84) **Date:** 12/6/1948 **Location:** USAF Scientific Advisory Board **Description:** Project Sign is ordered to send copies of all its future cases and analyses to Maj. [Boggs](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Boggs%5FJ.htm) of the Office of Defensive Air, the ONI, and the USAF Scientific Advisory Board. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 65 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1298 ### Event 7001 (353A6C34) **Date:** 12/6/1948 **Locations:** Sandia Base; Albuquerque, New Mexico **Description:** 10:55 p.m. Atomic Energy Security Service Officer [Joseph Toulouse](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/110603553/joseph-harrison-toulouse) sees a greenish flare one-third the apparent size of the moon at Sandia Base outside Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is visible for 3 seconds before it arcs downward and vanishes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[AFOSI Case 10: AESS Observed Green Flare Directly over Sandia](http://www.nicap.org/albuq481206dir.htm) [Base](http://www.nicap.org/albuq481206dir.htm)”; Clark III 539; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 44 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1299 ### Event 7002 (C3D84655) **Date:** 12/8/1948 **Time:** 18:30 **Location:** ESE / LAS VEGAS, NM **Description:** 2 OSI agents / T7 plane. Very big green fireball northeast going quickly southwest straight and level. Then going down. Project Bluebook Case #223. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 75) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1351 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1630", **HatchDesc:** "ESE/LAS VEGAS,NM:2 OSI AGENTS/T7 PLANE:VBIG GRN FBL NE>>SW S/L:THEN ↓:BBK#223", **LatLong:** "35.516668 -104.850005", **LatLongDMS:** "35:31:00 N 104:51:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.516668,-104.850005)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 7003 (5FF1A904) **Date:** 12/8/1948 **Location:** Las Vegas (20 miles E of), NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 11; Agents In T-7 Observe Intense Green Fireball At 13,000' (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC, LC) **Reference:** NICAP: [481208](http://www.nicap.org/481208lvegas%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_512 ### Event 7004 (8639D319) **Date:** 12/8/1948 **Location:** Chanute AFB, IL **Description:** (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_513 ### Event 7005 (B7B16FF3) **Date:** 12/8/1948 **Location:** Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, New Mexico **Description:** Two AFOSI officers, Capts. [Melvin E. Neef](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100488651/melvin-ellis-neef) and John J. Stahl Jr., interview every agency that might know something about green-flare operations but come up short. That evening, they are flying a T-7 out of Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, New Mexico, at 5,000 feet when they see a brilliant green light, larger and more brilliant than a meteor or flare, traveling a flat trajectory 2,000 feet above them. They see it for 2 seconds before it burns out. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[AFOSI Case 11: Agents in T-7 Observe Intense Green Fireball at 13,000ʹ](http://www.nicap.org/481208lvegas%5Fdir.htm)”; Clark III 539; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 44 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1300 ### Event 7006 (8C65F746) **Date:** 12/9/1948 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 108.4km altitude (Vane failure at 22s caused erratic flight) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_340 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 108.4km ### Event 7007 (30818366) **Date:** 12/9/1948 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) At 9:08 AM, launch of V2 #42 which reached 108 km. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1376 ### Event 7008 (E5CACA5D) **Date:** 12/9/1948 **Location:** Pittsburgh (near), PA **Description:** USAF officers saw round object tothe N on converging course (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_514 ### Event 7009 (2C03423C) **Date:** 12/9/1948 **Location:** University of New Mexico **Description:** Capt. [Neef](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100488651/melvin-ellis-neef) informs [Lincoln LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) director of meteoritics at the University of New Mexico, about the green fireball sightings. He says they do not sound like any meteors he is familiar with. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 539 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1301 ### Event 7010 (A73E725E) **Date:** 12/10/1948 **Location:** Dayton, OH **Description:** Top Secret Air Intelligence Report 100–203–79 issued **Type:** top secret report **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_343 **See also:** 1/7/1948 **See also:** 11/1/1948 ### Event 7011 (66DAB13E) **Date:** 12/10/1948 **Location:** U.S. **Description:** The revised Project Sign report is issued, Air Intelligence Report Number 100-203-79, “Analysis of Fly- ing Object Incidents in the U.S.” \(AIR 203\) \[Some copies are confusingly dated April 28, 1949.\] This is the cul- mination of Sign’s work since early August, augmented by ONI collaboration over the past two months. UFOs are not extraterrestrial \(the idea is hardly noticed\). UFOs are probably real, but if so, there is a small chance that they are Soviet and therefore dangerous. All in all, the word “Soviet” dominates the commentary. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** US Air Force, Directorate of Intelligence, [Analysis of Flying Object Incidents in the U.S.: Summary and Conclusions](http://www.nicap.org/docs/airintelrpt100-203-79.pdf), Air Intelligence Report 100-203-79, December 10, 1948; [copy](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1948air.htm)[,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1948air.htm) dated April 28, 1949; Bruce Maccabee, “Hiding the Hardware,” IUR 16, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1991\): 7–8; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 52; Swords 65–66; Good Above, [pp. 265](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/264/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/264/mode/2up) [480–481](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/480/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1302 ### Event 7012 (B392B2F0) **Date:** 12/12/1948 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Observation of [Lincoln LaPaz](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/LaPazLincoln.html). (12 December) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1948.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_752 ### Event 7013 (1D10787B) **Date:** 12/12/1948 **Location:** Near Los Alamos, NM **Description:** Silent green fireball seen by Dr. La Paz; not meteor **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973_, by Richard Dolan](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/mode/2up) **Source:** Dolan, **ID:** Dolan_40 ### Event 7014 (3602E020) **Date:** 12/12/1948 **Time:** 21:00 **Location:** BERNAL, NM **Description:** L. LaPaz and 2 / car. Green fireball east going west / 2.2sec straight and level. Then going down. "No meteor". / r120p266. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO - Rivista di informazione Ufologica; 2 issues/year CISU. Giovanni Settimo ed.; C.P.82, 10100 Torino, ITALY. (Index 21) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1352 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1540", **HatchDesc:** "BERNAL,NM:L.LAPAZ+2/CAR:GRN FBL E>W /2.2sec S/L:then ↓:"NO METEOR":/r120p266", **LatLong:** "35.394446 -105.316672", **LatLongDMS:** "35:23:40 N 105:19:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.394446,-105.316672)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7015 (790193EE) **Date:** 12/12/1948 **Location:** Starvation Peak (near Bernal), NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 13; LaPaz, Captain, CAP Intel Officer Observed Green Fireball (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC, LC) **Reference:** NICAP: [481212](http://nicap.org/starve481212dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_515 ### Event 7016 (B1623C0C) **Date:** 12/12/1948 **Locations:** Bernal, New Mexico; Los Alamos National Laboratory **Description:** 9:02 p.m. [Lincoln LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) and two USAF officers \(Sandia Base Intelligence Officer Lt. Allan B. Clark and Sandia’s AF-Civil Air Patrol Liaison Officer Maj. Charles L. Phillips\) see a green fireball near Bernal, New Mexico. He calculates that it is flying directly over Los Alamos National Laboratory, and it maintains its horizontal flight at the low altitude \(for a meteor\) of 8–10 miles. LaPaz arranges with the Atomic Energy Security Service to set up a patrol with Speed Graphic cameras to try to photograph the fireballs. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[AFOSI Case](http://www.nicap.org/starve481212dir.htm) [13: LaPaz, Captain, CAP Intel Officer Observed Green Fireball](http://www.nicap.org/starve481212dir.htm)”; Clark III 539–540; Good Above, [p. 266](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/266/mode/2up); Joel Carpenter, “[Green Fireball Chronology,](http://www.project1947.com/gfb/gfbchron.html)” October 6, 2011 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1303 ### Event 7017 (19F914EF) **Date:** 12/12/1948 **Description:** A silent green fireball flew over Bernal, New Mexico toward the west for 2.2 seconds at a low altitude, then ascended. It was seen by Dr. La Paz, a meteor expert who later prepared a report on these anomalous green fireballs. He concluded that what he saw was not a meteor. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, December 1948; Richard M. Dolan, UFO’s and the National Security State: Chronology of a cover-up 1941-1973, p. 398 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8351 ### Event 7018 (66DC1579) **Date:** 12/13/1948 **Description:** Project Sign files are sent to the Navy by Col. [William R. Clingerman](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113944251/william-r%5F-clingerman). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Project ‘SIGN’ Files](http://www.nicap.org/docs/mantell/mantell480107docs27.htm) [Sent Directly to the Navy,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/mantell/mantell480107docs27.htm)” December 13, 1948 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1304 ### Event 7019 (24469EC2) **Date:** 12/13/1948 **Description:** Aeronautical engineer [James E. Lipp](http://www.astronautix.com/l/lipp.html) writes an 8-page memo to Brig. Gen. [Donald Putt](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105883/lieutenant-general-donald-leander-putt/) on “Special Design and Performance Characteristics That Are Believed to Distinguish Spaceships.” Rejecting out of hand any links between UFO sightings and space travelers, it later appears as an appendix in the Project Grudge report. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** James E. Lipp, “[Special Design and Performance Characteristics That Are Believed to Distinguish Spaceships,](http://www.nicap.org/waves/481213lipp%5Fletter.htm)” December 13, 1948 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1305 ### Event 7020 (3385913C) **Date:** 12/16/1948 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The project [Sign](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Sign.html) is renamed project [Grudge](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Grudge.html), officially only on February 11, 1949. (December 16) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1948.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_753 ### Event 7021 (B5C9D077) **Date:** 12/16/1948 **Description:** Astronomer [J. Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) is officially tasked by Project Sign with studying UFO cases for astronomical explanations. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** \(AMC contract W33-038-1118\). **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1306 ### Event 7022 (62E27308) **Date:** 12/16/1948 **Description:** Brig. Gen. [Donald Putt](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105883/lieutenant-general-donald-leander-putt/)[,](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105883/lieutenant-general-donald-leander-putt/) Director of USAF Research and Development, orders that the code word Sign be changed to Grudge \(since the Air Force bears a grudge against UFO reports, according to [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt)\), effective in February. Morale plummets. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Report by the Director of Intelligence, USAF, to the Joint Intelligence Committee](http://www.project1947.com/fig/DI%5FJIC%5FApril%5F28%5F1949.pdf) [on Unidentified Aerial Objects](http://www.project1947.com/fig/DI%5FJIC%5FApril%5F28%5F1949.pdf)[,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/DI%5FJIC%5FApril%5F28%5F1949.pdf)” April 28, 1949; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 11 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1307 ### Event 7023 (DAE6D03C) **Date:** 12/17/1948 **Location:** North Ambridge, PA **Description:** Formation of 8 white luminescent rotating spherical objects (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_516 ### Event 7024 (3A38EE50) **Date:** 12/20/1948 **Location:** Los Alamos (W of), NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 14; AESS OP Sighted Green Fireball With Triangulation (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC, LC) **Reference:** NICAP: [481220](http://nicap.org/alamos481220dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_517 ### Event 7025 (A32402A6) **Date:** 12/20/1948 **Description:** [Sneider](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49319130/robert-raphael-sneider) sends his summary of the Chiles-Whitted case, Air Intelligence Report number 102-122-79, to [Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) It is later called “The Ghost of the Estimate” by some researchers. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Capt. Robert R. Sneider, \[[untitled](http://www.nicap.org/docs/480724montgomery%5Fdocs.pdf) [memorandum](http://www.nicap.org/docs/480724montgomery%5Fdocs.pdf)\], December 20, 1948; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 52 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1308 ### Event 7026 (F74CB75D) **Date:** 12/20/1948 **Locations:** Lt. Col. Doyle Rees; Los Alamos **Description:** In a confidential memo to Lt. Col. [Doyle Rees](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43562489/doyle-rees)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43562489/doyle-rees) [LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) argues that the green fireball he saw on December 12 was no meteor he has ever studied. He writes that the object moved far too slowly to have been a meteor and left no “trail of sparks or dust cloud” as would be typical of meteors flying at low altitudes. Other anomalous characteristics were the intense lime-green color, low altitude of only 8–10 miles yet exhibiting no sound, flat rather than arced trajectory, and turning on and off like a light switch. The interest in green fireballs inspires the creation of an informal group, the Los Alamos Astrophysical Association, whose members, all scientists and engineers with security clearances, are permitted to examine some classified Project Sign reports. This is essentially the beginning of Project Twinkle. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 540; World History Project, “[Project Twinkle Established](https://web.archive.org/web/100/https://worldhistoryproject.org/1948/12/20/project-twinkle-established-to-monitor-green-fireball-sightings) [to Monitor Green Fireball Sightings](https://web.archive.org/web/100/https://worldhistoryproject.org/1948/12/20/project-twinkle-established-to-monitor-green-fireball-sightings)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1309 ### Event 7027 (5C3D60FB) **Date:** 12/20/1948 **Locations:** west of Los Alamos, New Mexico; Los Alamos **Description:** 8:54 p.m. Shortly after they have packed up their Speed Graphic cameras provided by [LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) to try to photograph the green fireballs, personnel \(William D. Wilson, [Buford G. Truett](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/41035455/buford-glenn-truett), [Clifford E. Strang](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49358793/clifford-e-strang), and George S. Skipper\) at an Atomic Energy Security Service post west of Los Alamos, New Mexico, spot a blue-white fireball moving in a nearly flat trajectory. Two objects separate from the main body and trail behind it. Thanks to an independent observation at another site, LaPaz is able to triangulate its flight path as 7–8 miles, west to east toward Los Alamos. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[AFOSI Case 14: AESS OP Sighted Green Fireball with Triangulation](http://www.nicap.org/alamos481220dir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 46 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1310 ### Event 7028 (C0F842EC) **Date:** 12/27/1948 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Commercial flight of a [DC-3](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/DC3.html) from San Juan \(Puerto Rico\) to Miami \(Florida\), piloted by Captain Robert Lindquist with 36 people on board, "vanishes" in view of Miami. We are approaching the runway at only 50 miles south, the pilot tells the control tower. We can see the lights of Miami now. Everything is okay. Awaiting landing instructions. The DC-3 disappears from the radar screen a few seconds later. The point where the plane would have crashed is above the Florida Keys, where clear waters of only 20 feet deep would have left the DC-3 visible. An official investigation is conducted to understand how the experienced pilot can disappear on a clear and calm night. Search teams inspect the site where the plane is supposed to have crashed, but no trace of the aircraft is found in the twenty-foot deep water. (December 27) **Reference:** [The DC-3 Hangar](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://www.douglasdc3.com) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1948.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_754 ### Event 7029 (6D2098B7) **Date:** 12/27/1948 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Building of the secret underground facilities of [Los Alamos](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/lieux.html\#LosAlamos). **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1948.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_755 ### Event 7030 (CA083D26) **Date:** 12/27/1948 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Election of [Harry Truman](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/TrumanHarryS.html) to the Presidency of the United States. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1948.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_756 ### Event 7031 (EA742127) **Date:** 12/28/1948 **Location:** Los Alamos, NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 15: 04:31 - white obj disappeared w/greenish flash (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) **Reference:** NICAP: [481228](http://www.nicap.org/alamos481228dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_518 ### Event 7032 (2928A0D7) **Date:** 12/29/1948 **Location:** USA **Description:** (Translated from French) Already in a report published on November 11, 1945, General H.H. Arnold, Supreme Commander of the American Aviation, envisaged the launch of a space exploration program. (...) On December 29, 1948, Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal officially revealed that a program of artificial satellites was under study in each of the three arms and that the Commission of Special Long-Range Engines was going to take charge of these files to develop a common program. **Reference:** "Conquest of Space" - Thomas de Galiana, ed. Larousse Pocket, 1967, p. 147 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1378 ### Event 7033 (34435E17) **Date:** 12/29/1948 **Location:** New Mexico **Description:** The Fourth Army sums up the UFO situation in the southwest in a statement. In December 5–28, there were 23 reports of “flares or moving lights.” All but two are in New Mexico and are an intense white or greenish- white light. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 540 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1311 ### Event 7034 (C815246C) **Date:** 12/30/1948 **Location:** Unknown Location, Sweden **Description:** (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_519 --- ## Year: 1949, 653 Event(s), (Back to Top) ### Event 7035 (627A80D1) **Date:** 1949 **Location:** Dayton, OH **Description:** United States Air Force’s Strategic Air Command had F-86 Sabres in service from 1949 through 1950. The F-86 was the primary U.S. air combat fighter during the Korean War, with significant numbers of the first three production models seeing combat. **Type:** aerospace **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_F-86_Sabre#Operational_history) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_344 ### Event 7036 (3ECB517E) **Date:** 1949 **Location:** Bishop, CA **Description:** Claude E. Steene Sr., Fullerton CA: While practicing in Bishop CA in 1949, was called on by a member of a special military unit to examine a living being reportedly taken from a crashed saucer. Kept alive in a controlled environment, appeared reptilian. **Type:** ufological event **Reference:** [link](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Crash-Aztec-Well-Secret/dp/093426905X) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_346 ### Event 7037 (5B05C20E) **Date:** 1949 **End date:** 1990 **Location:** Soviet Union **Description:** Soviet Union tests 969 nuclear devices — the more nuclear testing than any nation in the planet. 214 nuclear devices were tested in the open atmosphere between 1949–1962. **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_347 ### Event 7038 (6697B08E) **Date:** 1949 **Location:** Siberia **Description:** Soviet “Tomsk-7” atomic weapons project plant opens (Uranium enrichment, component manufacturing) **Type:** atomic plant **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_348 ### Event 7039 (CF4324EE) **Date:** 1949 **Location:** USSR **Description:** (Translated from French) Soviet rockets had moved slowly, since their first vertical launch engine dated back only to 1949 with an altitude of 110 km. **Reference:** "Astronautics" Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 12, 13 **Reference:** see 1957, August **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1383 ### Event 7040 (94370D5F) **Date:** 1949 **Location:** USA, Albuquerque (New Mexico) **Description:** (Translated from French) In 1949, a new type of UFO descended at night near the Albuquerque airport, in New Mexico. It was about 200 meters away when, all of a sudden, it fell to around 50 meters and exploded, spreading a rain of red dust. At the time, people feared it might be a toxic gas, but no harmful effects were observed. The incident repeated itself three times at the same hour, in the same place. There was no doubt that the red-emitting UFO's were very precisely controlled. The case was recorded in the "Grudge" study group report. Without any comment. **Reference:** Donald E. KEYHOE - 1973 - Trans. "Les Etrangers de l'Espace" Ed. France-Empire coll. Press Pocket 1975 - p. 211-212 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1431 ### Event 7041 (2BE89A22) **Date:** 1949 **Location:** USA (Alaska) **Description:** (Translated from French) Mikel Conrad shot a 300-meter film of the maneuvers, landing, and takeoff of 8 flying saucers, 70 km north of Juneau (Alaska), in 1949. The American government confiscated this film, examined it, and studied it in detail before returning it to him a year later. **Reference:** Jimmy GUIEU: "The S.V. come from another World" Fleuve Noir 1954 - Omnium Littéraire 1972 Reissue - p. 256 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1432 ### Event 7042 (EF2235FB) **Date:** 1949 **Location:** At sea, Strait of Hormuz **Description:** (Translated from French) Excerpts from an article in the United States Naval Institute Proceedings, by Commander J.R. Bodler (USNR): My ship had just passed through the Strait of Hormuz, bound for India. The night was clear and beautiful. The second mate called me to the bridge, saying he had seen something I should see. About four points (45°) on the starboard bow, toward the coast of Iran, there was a band of light that seemed to pulsate. Its aspect suggested an aurora borealis, but much lower, below the horizon in fact. Binocular examination showed that the lighted area was distinctly below the horizon, in the water, and was approaching the ship. As the phenomenon drew near, it became apparent that the pulsations seemed to emanate from the middle of the band and ripple out to the ends. At a distance of about one mile from the ship, the phenomenon appeared vaguely circular in shape, with a diameter of 300 to 450 meters. The pulsations were clearly caused by a rotary motion of the whole about a rather ill-defined center, with light rays like searchlight beams, radiating from the center and revolving (in a counterclockwise direction) like the spokes of a giant wheel. For several minutes the ship occupied the approximate center of the phenomenon. Slightly curved bands of light swept rapidly across the starboard bow to the stern and across the port bow. The brightness made the superstructure very visible. The luminous bands seemed to pass over a given point about every half second. As can be imagined, the effect was strange and extremely impressive; the ship seemed to occupy the center of a huge fireworks sun, with its “phosphorescent rays” revolving rapidly around the vessel as hub. The “hub” of the phenomenon gradually drew nearer the port side and passed astern, becoming more and more distant on the port quarter. While still in view several miles astern, and appearing at that time as a pulsating band of light, a repetition of the manifestation occurred on the port bow. **Reference:** Yvan T. SANDERSON: "The Invisibles Under the Seas" Albin Michel 1979 - pp. 119-120 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1433 ### Event 7043 (076DCF8A) **Date:** 1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Secretary of Defense [Forrestal](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/ForrestalJamesVincent.html) is forced to resign after it is discovered that forces are preparing for war in Korea. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_757 ### Event 7044 (E3F6D4C1) **Date:** 1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Beginning of construction of installations at [Groom Lake](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Area51.html) on a zone of Nevada belonging to the [AEC](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/AEC.html). **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_758 ### Event 7045 (A4AA1A1D) **Date:** 1949? **Locations:** Mather AFB; Sacramento, California; Sacramento Mather Airport **Description:** Evening. USAF Brig. Gen. [William M. Garland](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/107003/brigadier-general-william-m-garland/) is stationed at Mather AFB \[now Sacramento Mather Airport\] in Sacramento, California. He and a few other people, including some command pilots, are sitting in their yard when they see a “bright, silvery, round object” going too fast for an airplane. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jan L. Aldrich, “[Brigadier General](http://www.project1947.com/fig/garland.htm) [William Madison Garland, USAF](http://www.project1947.com/fig/garland.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1312 ### Event 7046 (69BD2A44) **Date:** 1949 **Location:** Fort Hood, Texas **Description:** 1:00 a.m. A group of soldiers of the 2nd Armored Division stationed at Fort Hood, Texas, are tasked with standing guard over a plateau in a remote, fenced-off part of the base. After a few weeks, they see bright lights in the sky. They approach the plateau and descend slowly and silently. Suddenly, part of the plateau opens up and they can see light coming from inside. The lights descend into the opening, which closes over them. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael D. Swords, “Timmermania: A Step Too Far into the Timmerman Files?” IUR 27, no. 4 \(Winter 2002–2003\): 9; Michael D. Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from the Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO Research, 2005, p. 146 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1313 ### Event 7047 (20204327) **Date:** 1949 **Location:** Los Angeles, California **Description:** Day. A student pilot is flying a two-seat Taylorcraft over Los Angeles, California. Just as he turns to a westerly flight heading, he sees an object speeding across the sky from north to south. Suddenly it stops abruptly, and the pilot heads toward the object climbing to within a few hundred feet. An intense flash of white comes from its tail and in less than a minute it is completely out of sight. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Recently Reported,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1981%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV2.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 10 \(October 1981\): 5 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1314 ### Event 7048 (F76A48A2) **Date:** 1949 **Location:** US **Description:** A once-classified U.S. Air Force intelligence assessment from 1949 stated that, by the end of WWII, German aircraft designers were working on tailless aircraft projects that could potentially be mistaken for "flying saucers" or disc-like objects. (Chapter 7, Ref 287) **Type:** UFO sighting **Reference:** [_It Didn't Start with Roswell_, by Philip L. Rife, 2001](https://archive.org/details/it-didnt-start-with-roswell-50-years-of-amazing-ufo-crashes-close-encounters-and) **Source:** Rife, **ID:** Rife_279 ### Event 7049 (6E3A6F1A) **Date:** 1949 **Description:** Scientist Albert Collins claims he worked on electromagnetic propulsion at Cal-Berkeley and analyzed samples that were taken away by the Army. The metal was thin, light and could not be dented or cut; it could fold and return to shape. Collins claims in 1949, Rand Corporation and the CIA solicited assistance on sample analysis from a Vatican representative; he claims he saw project names **Archangel**, **Blue Book**, **Black Book**, **White Book** and **Yellow Book**, adding that he heard LANL was analyzing green fireballs (this last claim has been confirmed as **Project Twinkle**). He claims he heard rumors of autopsies of “midget people” at Los Alamos, experiments at Holloman AFB and Kirtland AFB, metal-like wood tested in Berkley he was not involved with, and flying disc landings on military bases in California and New Mexico. Collins also states a friend told him Archangel determined UAP occupants were extraterrestrial, biological, gas-breathing intelligent animals with larger craniums than humans. He claims this friend told him the occupants had cells similar to plants that were responsive to sunlight and were able to make right or wrong judgements like humans. * [https://www.earthfiles.com/2004/05/16/part-8-ufo-crashretrievals-the-inner](https://www.earthfiles.com/2004/05/16/part-8-ufo-crashretrievals-the-inner) **Reference:** [Anonymous 2023 PDF](https://archive.org/details/anon_pdf_from_markdown) **Source:** Anon2023PDF, **ID:** Anon2023PDF_17 ### Event 7050 (D112E17F) **Date:** Early 1949 **Location:** Dayton, OH **Description:** USAF General Orders the AF to stop investigating saucers and Project GRUDGE is ordered to close at the end of 1949. **Type:** ufological event **Reference:** [Leon Davidson](https://medium.com/@richgel99/interesting-1961-letter-from-manhattan-project-scientist-dr-46a781aeccfb) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_345 ### Event 7051 (E8055825) **Date:** 1/1949 **Location:** USA, Gardnerville (Nevada) **Description:** (Translated from French) On a cold January morning in 1949, a strange phenomenon was observed on the farm of the Lampe couple. It had snowed heavily during the night and in the morning, looking out the window, Mrs. Lampe saw in the snow a patch of light gray color, no bigger than two hands held together. It had an irregular shape. It "rested" on a small rounded pile of snow, about three wheels from the house and right in front of the window. Suddenly this patch changed into a disk of bright white light with a diameter of three feet (90 cm). This lasted about two full minutes. Then suddenly the light contracted into an orange bar 10 to 12 cm wide which flew quickly towards the window where the witness was looking and then, apparently, exploded against the stone foundation of the porch as several sparkling red and blue sparks rose up to 70 cm above the door frame. When day broke, the couple looked for evidence, but no mark or trace to explain the phenomenon was found. **Reference:** THE CASE FOR THE UFO by Morris K. Jessup, Citadel Press, New York, N.Y., 1955, page 168 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1384 ### Event 7052 (E35388AE) **Date:** 1/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In New Mexico, proliferation of phenomena of flying fireball at very high speed. Another phenomenon featuring groups of small lights in "V" formations and changing color, is also observed. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_759 ### Event 7053 (99977E55) **Date:** 1/1949 **Time:** 23:00? **Location:** CINCINNATI, OH **Description:** Huge white ball / light circles airport tower. Both Air Traffic Controllers flee in panic! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 249) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1353 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "220", **HatchDesc:** "CINCINNATI,OH:HUGE WHT BALL/LITE CIRCLES AIRPORT TWR:BOTH ATCs FLEE IN PANIC!", **LatLong:** "39.116669 -84.516671", **LatLongDMS:** "39:07:00 N 84:31:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.116669,-84.516671)", **RelAlt:** "1", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7054 (E3B158AA) **Date:** 1/1949 **Location:** Oak Ridge, Tennessee **Description:** Project Sign personnel begin to be reassigned. [Loedding](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209268646/alfred-christian-loedding) disappears from project records. [Deyarmond](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ori-ahvZRlU/VWjL8ELOjzI/AAAAAAAALts/kwi03CO17vE/s1600/Deyarmond%2BAlbert%2B7pictures%2B%2528dragged%2529.jpg)’s attention goes elsewhere. [Truettner](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/58335429/lawrence-hess-truettner) makes one last serious attempt at interviewing about nuclear propulsion \(at Oak Ridge, Tennessee\) and is given a negative opinion on UFOs by Col. [Ralph L. Wassell](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105267/brigadier-general-ralph-lowell-wassell/). He, too, disappears from the project. The civilian members are relieved of their duties and reassigned to other intelligence tasks within T-2. For Loedding in particular, his role and prestige are never the same. After a few further years of intelligence work, both he and Truettner leave AMC. For the higher military ranks \([Llewelyn](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/124634808/raymond-anderson-llewellyn) and [Sneider](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49319130/robert-raphael-sneider)\), all we know is that they are soon no longer involved, perhaps not even assigned to the same base. Even [Clingerman](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113944251/william-r%5F-clingerman) and [McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html) become less involved, perhaps because they have also heard that their tenures will soon be up and they will be sent to school and then transferred. The only persons left active on the project are two of the lower ranks: Lieut. Howard W. Smith and civilian [George W. Towles](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/59257302/george-w%5F-towles)[.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/59257302/george-w%5F-towles) Their job is reduced basically to collection and filing. In this condition, or worse, the Air Force commitment to a UFO investigation project will remain until the summer of 1951. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 52–53 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1315 ### Event 7055 (D756160D) **Date:** 1/1949 **Location:** Beatty, Nevada **Description:** Early morning. [Sarah Elizabeth Lampe](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/92059354/sarah-elizabeth-lampe) watches an odd, disc-like electrical discharge, about 3 feet in diameter, that persists for “fully two minutes” during the Big Snow, 8 miles from Beatty, Nevada. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “True Mystic Experiences,” Fate 4, no. 2 \(March 1951\): 84–89 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1316 ### Event 7056 (1D874125) **Date:** 1/1/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Jackson \(Mississippi\), Mr. and Mrs. T. Rush, while landing in a Stinson, observed 200 m ahead of them a short-winged cigar or a wingless aircraft of 20 x 3 m, with a tapered back. The object quickly disappeared at an estimated speed of 900 km/h. (January 1st) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_760 ### Event 7057 (2DF08633) **Date:** 1/1/1949 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** JACKSON, MS **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #233. 2 pilots / private plane. Near crash / 20m cylinder/cigar-shape. Going quickly southwest / 500mph. / r242p044. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 101) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1354 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "90", **HatchDesc:** "JACKSON,MS:BBK#233:2 PILOTS/PVT PLANE:nr CRASH/20m CGR:>>SW/500mph:/r242p044", **LatLong:** "32.300002 -90.183338", **LatLongDMS:** "32:18:00 N 90:11:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.300002,-90.183338)", **State/Prov:** "Mississippi", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7058 (DB358EFF) **Date:** 1/1/1949 **Location:** Jackson, MS **Description:** Cigar-shaped object cross the sky in front of his plane (Project 1947; McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [490101](http://www.nicap.org/490101jackson%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_520 ### Event 7059 (4D477765) **Date:** 1/1/1949 **Description:** The CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence is established. [Willard Machle](https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online%5Farticles/chromium-cancer-and-the-cia) becomes assistant director for scientific intelligence. Problems almost immediately involve recruitment and filling positions with competent professionals. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Rear Adm. R. H. Hillenkoetter, “[Scientific Intelligence,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP79-01143A000300020001-7.pdf)” January 4, 1949 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1317 ### Event 7060 (2231B96A) **Date:** 1/1/1949 **Location:** Jackson, Mississippi **Description:** 5:00 p.m. Pilot [Thomas A. Rush](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/81587285/thomas-a-rush) and his wife are in a private plane flying east of Jackson, Mississippi. They see a cigar-shaped object, 60 feet long and 10 feet wide, cross their path at an altitude of 1,500–1,600 feet. It is only about 500 feet distant. The speed is approximately 200 mph, and it accelerates to 400–500 mph. The object makes a 50° turn and is visible for 10–12 seconds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Cigar-Shaped Object Encountered by Bush Pilot](http://www.nicap.org/490101jackson%5Fdir.htm)”; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1949, January–June](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1949-Jan-Jun.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1949-Jan-Jun.pdf) The Author, 1988, pp. 1–2; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 46 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1318 ### Event 7061 (5DAE43DF) **Date:** 1/4/1949 **Location:** USA, Hickham Field, Hawaii. **Description:** (Translated from French) 2 p.m. Witness: USAF Capt. Paul Storey, pilot, on the ground. An object, flat, elliptical, white with the upper part matte, flew in circles oscillating from left to right before departing at high speed. **Reference:** Project Blue Book - cf. Don Berliner **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1385 ### Event 7062 (F0332719) **Date:** 1/4/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Hickam Field \(Hawaii\), USAF pilot captain Paul Storey observed from the ground a white, elliptical but flattened object with a matte circular top, oscillating from right to left, and leaving at high speed. (January 4th, 2 PM) **Reference:** case [Blue Book](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/BlueBook.html) \#275 unexplained **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_761 ### Event 7063 (57A3C377) **Date:** 1/4/1949 **Time:** 14:00 **Location:** HICKAM FIELD, HI **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #275. 1 observer. Silent saucer circles field. Blinks 1 / second(s). Going quickly NNE climbing. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 102) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1355 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "HICKAM FIELD,HI:BBK#275:1 OBS:SLNT SCR CCLS FIELD:BLINKS 1/sec:>>NNE CLIMBING", **LatLong:** "21.333334 -157.900008", **LatLongDMS:** "21:20:00 N 157:54:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/21.333334,-157.900008)", **State/Prov:** "Hawaii", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7064 (D983ABEB) **Date:** 1/4/1949 **Location:** Hickam Field, HI **Description:** A flat white, elliptical object, with a matte top (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 275) **Reference:** NICAP: [490104](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/hickam490104dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_521 ### Event 7065 (78941C5F) **Date:** 1/4/1949 **Time:** 2 PM **Location:** Hickam Field, Hawaii **Description:** Witness: USAF pilot Capt. Paul Stoney, on ground. one flat white, elliptical object with a matte top circled while oscillating to the right and left, and then sped away. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_17 ### Event 7066 (13F14C1D) **Date:** 1/4/1949 **Locations:** Hickam Field; Honolulu, Hawaii; Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam **Description:** 2:00 p.m. USAF pilot Capt. [Paul R. Stoney](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49358280/paul-roberts-stoney)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49358280/paul-roberts-stoney) on the ground at Hickam Field \[now part of Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam\] near Honolulu, Hawaii, sees a flat, white, elliptical object about the size of a T-6 aircraft, circle at about 3,000 feet while oscillating to the right and left. It is apparently several miles off the base and slowly circling. It is bright white on the underside and darker on top and possesses no other structures. It proceeds for 15 minutes to make “rhythmical undulation” maneuvers in a cyclical manner. The “object seemed to maneuver under control at all times completing 360° turns and 90° turns.” The object then “departed climbing \(into the northeast\) at accelerated speed out of sight.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Disc Circles, Maneuvers, Climbs into the NE](http://www.nicap.org/490104hickam%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 47 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1319 ### Event 7067 (DD3015B8) **Date:** 1/4/1949 **Description:** At 2:07 p.m. in Hickham Field, Honolulu, Hawaii Captain Paul Storey sighted a large, round, flat disc-shaped object that "blinked" and flew silently with a type of whitish reflection. The top of the craft looked dark. It flew at 3,000 feet altitude and circled the airfield, blinking once per second, finally flying away climbing into the northeast sky. The sighting is listed by the Air Force as an “unknown.” **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** US Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 275; Michael David Hall, UFOs: A Century of Sightings, p. 4 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_81 ### Event 7068 (EF35E632) **Date:** 1/5/1949 **Location:** Sea of Japan, Japan **Description:** Unknown Object On Radar in Far East (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [490105](http://www.nicap.org/490105seaofjapan%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_522 ### Event 7069 (3B2BF7B3) **Date:** 1/5/1949 **Locations:** Wright-Patterson AFB; Dayton, Ohio **Description:** The USAF Technical Information Division at Wright-Patterson AFB near Dayton, Ohio, transmits Project Sign’s list of UFO incidents to the Air Weather Service for analysis and recommendations. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1320 ### Event 7070 (0C39FA92) **Date:** 1/6/1949 **Location:** Los Alamos, NM **Description:** Rocket shaped UFO sighted near Los Alamos, NM **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_349 **See also:** 1/31/1949 **See also:** 7/25/1948 ### Event 7071 (52692158) **Date:** 1/6/1949 **Time:** 17:30 **Location:** KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, NM **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #242. Military guard. White 2' diamond / 1500' altitude. Crosses sky very fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 105) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1356 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1495", **HatchDesc:** "KIRTLAND AFB,NM:BBK#242:MIL GUARD:WHT 2' DIAMOND/1500'alt:CROSSES SKY VFAST:", **LatLong:** "35.033335 -106.616672", **LatLongDMS:** "35:02:00 N 106:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.033335,-106.616672)", **RelAlt:** "450", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7072 (BE689ED2) **Date:** 1/6/1949 **Location:** Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 16: 17:50 - bright white diamond shaped obj faster than jet disappeared (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) **Reference:** NICAP: [490106](http://www.nicap.org/kirtland490106dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_523 ### Event 7073 (EDCE8513) **Date:** 1/6/1949 **Location:** Los Alamos, NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 17: 03:10 - brilliant green obj at high speed disappeared behind mountainous horizon - Mexico (35.89° N, 106.31° W). (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC, LC) **Reference:** NICAP: [490106](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/albuq490106dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_524 ### Event 7074 (7A64F84E) **Date:** 1/6/1949 **Location:** Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, New Mexico **Description:** 5:30 p.m. PFC Everitt sees a bright-white, diamond-shaped light in horizontal flight from southeast to northwest above the Ordnance section at Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is about 1,500–2,000 feet altitude and flying faster than a jet. Possible meteor. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Diamond-Shaped Light](http://www.nicap.org/490106kirtland%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 47 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1321 ### Event 7075 (CFB48E38) **Date:** 1/7/1949 **Description:** The Research and Development Board writes a memo to USAF Intelligence on the green fireballs. It is signed by David Z. Beckley, chief of the R&DB Technical Intelligence Branch. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael Hall and Wendy Connors, “The Research and Development Board: Unanswered Questions,” IUR 26, no. 2 \(Summer 2001\): 10 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1322 ### Event 7076 (20D6BD5A) **Date:** 1/10/1949 **Locations:** Tennessee; Oak Ridge National Laboratories; Russia **Description:** FBI special agent [Charlton C. McSwain](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63259754/charlton-c%5F-mcswain) sends a memo to [J. Edgar Hoover](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FEdgar%5FHoover) enumerating the views of an AMC resident engineer \(identified only as “Mr. E”\) with the Nuclear Energy for the Propulsion of Aircraft project at Oak Ridge National Laboratories in Tennessee that the flying discs are human-made nuclear missiles originating in Russia. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1949, January–June](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1949-Jan-Jun.pdf), The Author, 1988, pp. 6–10 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1323 ### Event 7077 (3DE143A2) **Date:** 1/11/1949 **Description:** Angered over his opposition to defense economization policies and meeting secretly with [Thomas Dewey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FE.%5FDewey)’s Republicans, [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) tells [Forrestal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FForrestal) that [Louis A. Johnson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%5FA.%5FJohnson) will soon replace him as Secretary of Defense. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1324 ### Event 7078 (5D027EBC) **Date:** 1/13/1949 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33 (1st Hermes II test) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_350 **Rocket type:** V-2 ### Event 7079 (EFCE06A0) **Date:** 1/13/1949 **Location:** NM **Description:** CONFIDENTIAL 4th Army MESSAGE: Col. Eustis L. Poland stated: “Unconventional Aircraft” have been sighted (see Report, Control No. A-1917). Possible Radiological warfare tests are being made over sensitive Bases in NM area. A foreign power may be making “sensing shots” with some super-stratosphere devise designed to be self-disintegrating. **Type:** ufo sightings **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p482) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_351 ### Event 7080 (510AC293) **Date:** 1/13/1949 **Location:** Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas **Description:** Col. [Eustis L. Poland](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55674765/eustis-leland-poland) of US Army Intelligence \(G-2\) sends a memo on behalf of the Commander of Fourth Army at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas, to the Director of Army Intelligence concerning the green fireballs. It recommends a scientific study because “these incidents are of such great importance, especially as they are occurring in the vicinity of sensitive installations.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Col. Eustis L. Poland, “[Unconventional Aircraft,](http://www.project1947.com/gfb/poland.htm)” January 13, 1949; Good Above, [pp. 265](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/264/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/264/mode/2up) [482](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/482/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1325 ### Event 7081 (FDF75FF9) **Date:** 1/23/1949 **Location:** Tillamook (4 miles S of), OR **Description:** Shiny, silvery, round stationary object about 10-15 ft size (FOIA; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [490123](http://www.nicap.org/tilla490123dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_525 ### Event 7082 (ED367611) **Date:** 1/24/1949 **Time:** 23:50 **Location:** NEAR BERMUDA **Description:** B29 rescue team. 1 mile / red glowing sea! Clouds lit. White beams going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 111) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1357 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Atlantic Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "nr BERMUDA:B29 RESCUE TEAM:1 MILE/RED GLOWING SEA!:CLOUDS LIT:WHT BEAMS↑:", **LatLong:** "32.333335 -65.000003", **LatLongDMS:** "32:20:00 N 65:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.333335,-65.000003)", **State/Prov:** "Bermuda", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7083 (C741B997) **Date:** 1/24/1949 **Location:** Bermuda (About 250 miles SW of), At Sea **Description:** Pilots saw a red glow on the ocean 1 mile in size emitting beams of light. (Project 1947) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [490124](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/bermuda490124dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_526 ### Event 7084 (29A923D2) **Date:** 1/24/1949 **Locations:** Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio; North Pole **Description:** An FBI memo from [D. M. Ladd](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Ladd.htm) to [Hoover](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FEdgar%5FHoover) documents speculation on a Soviet nuclear-powered disc by USAF Col. [Clyde D. Gasser](http://www.project1947.com/gfb/gasser.htm) of the Nuclear Energy for the Propulsion of Aircraft \(NEPA\) project at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Gasser reports rumors coming from Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio that nuclear-powered disc-shaped planes might be making incursions into US airspace and returning to the USSR over the North Pole. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** D. M. Ladd, “[Flying Discs](http://www.nicap.org/docs/fbi%5Fmemo490124.htm)[,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/fbi%5Fmemo490124.htm)” January 24, 1949 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1326 ### Event 7085 (9938F078) **Date:** 1/25/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A report from the [Sign](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Sign.html) project indicates that only 20% of the 210 cases recorded are explainable. (January 25) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_762 ### Event 7086 (4D0425D1) **Date:** 1/27/1949 **Location:** USA, Cortez-Bradenton, Florida. **Description:** (Translated from French) 10:20 p.m. Witnesses: Capt. Sames, an active military member of the USAF at Eglin AFB, and Mrs. Sames. They observed for 25 minutes an object shaped like a cigar, as long as two Pullman cars, with seven square windows illuminated and emitting sparks. The object first descended, then rose in jumps at an estimated speed of 400 m.p.h. **Reference:** Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1386 ### Event 7087 (333D4432) **Date:** 1/27/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Cortez-Bradenton \(Florida\), Captain Sames, in charge of the Air Apparatus Branch at the Eglin USAF base, and Mrs. Sames, observed for 25 minutes an object shaped like a cigar, of a length comparable to two Pullman cars, with 7 small square light openings emitting sparks, all descending and rising like bounces, at an estimated speed of 400 miles/h. (January 27, 10:20 PM) **Reference:** case [Blue Book](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/BlueBook.html) \#284 unexplained **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_763 ### Event 7088 (E3FEDCFA) **Date:** 1/27/1949 **Time:** 22:20 **Location:** NEAR CORTEZ, FL **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #252. Cucumber with row square windows. Spurts sparks / 250ms intervals. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 2) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1358 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "nr CORTEZ,FL:BBK#252:CUCUMBER W/ROW SQR WINDOWS:SPURTS SPARKS/250ms INTERVALS", **LatLong:** "27.466668 -82.683337", **LatLongDMS:** "27:28:00 N 82:41:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/27.466668,-82.683337)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7089 (9EA8DCD8) **Date:** 1/27/1949 **Location:** Cortez-Bradenton, FL **Description:** A cigar shaped object as long as 2 pullman cars with 7 lighted square windows and throwing sparks (Berliner; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 284) **Reference:** NICAP: [490127](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/cortez490127dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_527 ### Event 7090 (206EA0F3) **Date:** 1/27/1949 **Time:** 10:20 PM **Location:** Cortez-Bradenton, Florida **Description:** Witnesses: Capt. Sames, acting chief of the Aircraft Branch, Eglin AFB, and Mrs. Sames. They watched for 25 minutes while a cigar-shaped object as long as two Pullman cars and having seven lighted square windows and throwing sparks, descended and then climbed with a bouncing motion at an estimated 400 m.p.h. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_18 ### Event 7091 (1FADAE16) **Date:** 1/27/1949 **Locations:** Eglin AFB near Valparaiso, Florida; Cortez Road between Bradenton and Cortez, Florida **Description:** 10:20–11:20 p.m. Capt. [Eckerman Sannes](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/140394050/eckerman-sannes), acting chief of the Aircraft Branch at Eglin AFB near Valparaiso, Florida, and his wife are driving slowly on Cortez Road between Bradenton and Cortez, Florida, when they observe a “cucumber-shaped” object. The object, seen through binoculars, seems as long as two Pullman cars, with 7 lighted, square windows. It is throwing sparks and approximately 8–10 miles away. In the first sighting at 10:20 p.m., the object approaches from the south going north, moving from an altitude of 8,000 feet in a gradual descent until lost behind trees. In the second sighting at 11:20 p.m., the object is seen in the north, heading south and making a gradual turn to the west. It descends then climbs with a bouncing motion \(up 4,000 feet, down 2,000 feet\) at about 400–500 mph, resulting in an overall climb and loss to view at an altitude of around 40,000 feet. The bouncing appears to start after the final 270° course change to the west. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Two](http://www.nicap.org/490127cortez%5Fdir.htm) [Sightings of Object with Lighted Windows](http://www.nicap.org/490127cortez%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 49 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1327 ### Event 7092 (666C600B) **Date:** 1/28/1949 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 59.9km attitude (Defective performance) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_352 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 59.9km ### Event 7093 (B7C20749) **Date:** 1/28/1949 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) At 10:20 Launch of V2 #45, it rises to 59 km. Weight 13,340 kg. Radio stop. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches: "Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1959 **Reference:** Emergency **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1387 ### Event 7094 (B2A7158B) **Date:** 1/30/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) More than a hundred observations of an unknown aerial object are made by witnesses in the cities of [El Paso](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/ElPaso.html), [Albuquerque](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/lieux.html\#Albuquerque), [Alamogordo](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/lieux.html\#Alamogordo), [Socorro](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/lieux.html\#Socorro) and [Roswell](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/lieux.html\#Roswell), as well as by personnel attached to the research facilities of the [AEC](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/AEC.html), and the White Sands [weapons testing base](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/WhiteSands.html). Everything seems to indicate an accident or a landing. (January 30, 10:45 PM) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_764 ### Event 7095 (C53B3026) **Date:** 1/30/1949 **Location:** Near Kirtland AFB, NM **Description:** Green fireball; hundreds of witnesses **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973_, by Richard Dolan](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/mode/2up) **Source:** Dolan, **ID:** Dolan_41 ### Event 7096 (4A678C27) **Date:** 1/30/1949 **Location:** El Paso (Near Amarillo and Lamesa), TX **Description:** AFOSI Case 18; 20: 17:54 - green ball shaped obj broke into pieces (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, BB: BBU, NC, LC) **Reference:** NICAP: [490130](http://www.nicap.org/sands490130dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_528 ### Event 7097 (3ECB0121) **Date:** 1/30/1949 **Location:** Roswell, NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 19: 200 observers. W-E, 2000', horizontal flight, blue green, moving slowly, disappeared in shower of lighted fragments (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, BB: BBU, NC, LC) **Reference:** NICAP: [490130](http://www.nicap.org/sands490130dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_529 ### Event 7098 (E43870D7) **Date:** 1/30/1949 **Location:** southwest of Roswell, New Mexico **Description:** 5:54 p.m. Hundreds of people see a green meteor come out of the northwest and vanish southwest of Roswell, New Mexico. It is completely silent. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[AFOSI Case 18: Green Fireball Event Witnessed in New](http://www.nicap.org/sands490130dir.htm) [Mexico](http://www.nicap.org/sands490130dir.htm)”; Commanding Officer, Kirtland AFB, “[Nr. OSI-1-90,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/foia05.jpg)” January 31, 1949; Clark III 540; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1949, January–June](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1949-Jan-Jun.pdf), The Author, 1988, pp. 15–16; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 49 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1328 ### Event 7099 (ADCCD58D) **Date:** 1/31/1949 **Location:** NM **Description:** Confidential Army Staff Message: Approx. 30 people sighted UFO’s on Jan. 30, 1949. Estimate at least 100 total sightings. Sightings reported from El Paso, Albuquerque, Alamogordo, Roswell, Socorro, and other locations. All sightings appear to be of the same object viewed from different angles. Will attempt to locate the impact point, if any. (Possible search teams in UFOs.) **Type:** ufo sightings **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A p53, CRASH) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_353 ### Event 7100 (C2F488DE) **Date:** 1/31/1949 **Location:** NM **Description:** MEMO, Director of FBI: Flying Saucers have been discussed by the OSI, FBI and the Fourth Army and is “considered TOP SECRET by Intelligence Officers of both the Army and the Air Forces.” It was thought that the first UFOs over Sweden were of Russian origin. Memo also makes reference to the Eastern Airlines sighting of July 25, 1948. Also, on 10 different days, between 12/05/1948 and 01/06/1949, sightings of UFOs were concentrated over the A.E.C. plant at Los Alamos, N.M. (Circulation of this Memo to: El Paso, Little Rock, Dallas, Oklahoma City) **Type:** memo **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p483, B1-G p30) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_354 **See also:** 7/25/1948 **See also:** 7/1947 **See also:** 8/4/1950 ### Event 7101 (75BA2C5A) **Date:** 1/31/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) According to the [MJ documents](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/MJDocs.html), establishment of a plan \(MJ-1949-04P/78\) proposed to disclose to the public the truth about UFOs. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_765 ### Event 7102 (4BDBEAC2) **Date:** 1/31/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) An FBI agent stationed in San Antonio reports in a memo that he has been informed by the 4th Army's G-2 division that the case of unidentified aerial objects, or unidentified aerial phenomena, also known as flying saucers, flying discs and fireballs, is considered very secret \(*top secret*\) by US Army and USAF officers. The FBI memo states that an average speed of 43000 km/h was observed for such objects during recent observations, and they were flying at an altitude between 9600 and 10600 km. The objects are described as ending their flight with a sudden vertical descent towards Los Alamos. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_766 ### Event 7103 (0E26D413) **Date:** 1/31/1949 **Locations:** Kirtland AFB in New Mexico; Amarillo; Lamesa, Texas **Description:** Kirtland AFB in New Mexico notifies the Pentagon that it will launch an immediate investigation of the green fireballs, noting that “local commanders \[are\] perturbed by implications of phenomena.” [LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) speaks to dozens of witnesses of the January 30 fireball and manages a rough triangulation of the fireball’s 143-mile path from Amarillo to Lamesa, Texas. He estimates its speed at 25,000–50,000 mph, with a beginning altitude of 60,000 feet and a final altitude around 40,000 feet. LaPaz accompanies search teams to bring back any fragments. They end up in the area of Lamesa but give up after a few days of fruitless search. He later tells AFOSI agent Paul Ryan that the fireballs are artificial, perhaps radio-controlled missiles directed by enemy agents in the Southwest. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Commanding Officer, Kirtland AFB, “[Nr. OSI-1-90,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/foia05.jpg)” January 31, 1949; Clark III 540 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1329 ### Event 7104 (D6037CEF) **Date:** 1/31/1949 **Location:** San Antonio, Texas **Description:** The FBI field office in San Antonio, Texas, issues a memo on UFOs, “Protection of Vital Installations.” It is sent to [Hoover](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FEdgar%5FHoover)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FEdgar%5FHoover) G-2, ONI, OSI, and mentions a meeting among these groups on UFOs, “considered top secret by intelligence officers of both the army and the air forces.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** SAC, San Antonio, “[Protection of Vital Installations,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/490131%5Ffbi.pdf) [Bureau File \#65-58300,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/490131%5Ffbi.pdf)” January 31, 1949; ClearIntent, [p. 149](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/148/mode/2up); Good Above, [pp. 267](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/266/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/266/mode/2up) [483](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/482/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1330 ### Event 7105 (F8822AD8) **Date:** 2/1949 **Location:** Dayton, OH **Description:** Part of the Final Report of Project SIGN, written by Prof. George Valley, of MIT stating: “If there is an extraterrestrial civilization which can make objects as are reported, then it is most probable that its development is far in advance of ours. Such a civilization might observe that on earth we now have atomic bombs and are fast developing rockets. In view of the past history of mankind, they would be alarmed. We should, therefore, expect at this time above all to behold such visitations.” **Type:** final report **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_355 ### Event 7106 (0C5A2C8D) **Date:** 2/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The journalist [Sidney Shallet](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/ufologues.html\#ShalletSidney) is contacted by the people of the [Grudge](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Grudge.html) project to discredit the UFO phenomenon. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_767 ### Event 7107 (F8231529) **Date:** 2/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Los Alamos \(New Mexico\), during a conference of scientists, it was concluded that the phenomenon of green fireballs is a natural phenomenon, of an unknown nature. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_768 ### Event 7108 (E0D50DA2) **Date:** 2/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Near Valparaiso, Chile, a couple and their two daughters are awoken by an intense light shining through the shutters. They see an octahedron of 5 or 6 m in diameter hovering in the air and then landing on the beach on three legs. The object has the shape of a dome with some sort of bright blue portholes. A beam of light comes out of it and three beings descend. They are tall, wearing suits, and each bury 10 tubes 25 cm long and 10 cm in diameter before returning to their craft. All this will last 4 h 38. A watch will stop, and the skin will flake off for 3 days. (4 h) **Reference:** Doc. LDLN, R. Otahi, 1973 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_769 ### Event 7109 (C84C262F) **Date:** 2/1949 **Time:** 22:30 **Location:** GRIFFISS AIR FORCE BASE, NY **Description:** Many observer(s). White sphere/orb/globe 1K' over runway. Jet scrambles and collides. Going up [to] and away. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 191) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1359 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **TRC:** Physical traces, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations, **MIL:** Military investigation, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "154", **HatchDesc:** "GRIFFISS AFB,NY:MANY OBS:WHT ORB 1K'OVR RUNWAY:JET SCRAMBLES+COLLIDES:↑ + away", **LatLong:** "43.266669 -75.366670", **LatLongDMS:** "43:16:00 N 75:22:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.266669,-75.366670)", **RelAlt:** "300", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7110 (48A7E39D) **Date:** 2/1949 **Time:** 1630 **Location:** Pucusana, Peru **Description:** C. A. V. an oil company employee, 30, was driving to Lima when he saw a shiny disk at ground level. He walked toward it for 10 min. Three figures came out as he was 20 m away. They looked like mummies, had joined legs and one large foot. They "slid" along the ground. They were covered with a strange "towely" skin, asked the witness where they were, had a lengthy discussion with him, and took him for a trip in their craft. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Lor. III 122 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_68 ### Event 7111 (6E2C613F) **Date:** 2/1949 **Location:** New York **Description:** Chemist [H. Marshall Chadwell](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Chadwell.htm), from the New York office of the Atomic Energy Commission, is appointed assistant director of scientific intelligence at the CIA. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1331 ### Event 7112 (CC48D5B1) **Date:** 2/1949 **Alternate date:** 3/1949 **Locations:** Standard Oil of New Jersey; Pan-American Highway; Lima, Peru **Description:** 4:30 p.m. A representative of the International Petroleum Company, a subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey, is driving noth along the Pan-American Highway about 6 miles south of Lima, Peru, when he sees a metallic disc hovering low above the desert on his right. He walks over to it, and three mummy-like creatures about 5 feet tall emerge. They speak to him in both English and Spanish, explaining to him that they come from another star system, are concerned about our use of atomic energy, use solar power, no longer have sex, and reproduce by subdividing. They invite him inside the disc, which from the inside has transparent walls. He sees no instruments, only a padded ledge. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, pp. 122–148 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1346 ### Event 7113 (3DE709E8) **Date:** 2/1/1949 **Location:** Tucson, AZ **Description:** _Tucson Daily Citizen_. **B-29 FAILS TO CATCH FLYING SAUCER OVER TUCSON.** Cannonballing through the sky some 30,000 feet above the earth, a fiery object shot westward so fast it was impossible to gain any clear impression of its shape or size. It hovered over the city for a few moments and then shot off again with tremendous velocity. First Lt. Roy L. Jones gave chase in a B-29, but soon left behind as the craft sped toward California. Dr. Edwin F. Carpenter, head of the University of Arizona's department of astronomy, said he was certain the object was not a meteor or other natural phenomenon. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256) **Source:** Scully, **ID:** Scully_22 ### Event 7114 (FEFAE01E) **Date:** 2/1/1949 **Location:** Wright-Patterson **Description:** Col. Hanna \(?\), assistant chief of the Power Plant Laboratory \(at Wright-Patterson?\) and project engineer for Project Sign, meets with other Project Sign personnel and concludes that nuclear-powered UFOs are improbable. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Project Status Report on Project Sign, February 4, 1949; Jan Aldrich **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1333 ### Event 7115 (F76DCF98) **Date:** Early 2/1949 **Locations:** Ohio; Wright-Patterson AFB **Description:** Writer Sidney Shalett is given a guided tour of AMC at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio, a glimpse of low-interest UFO cases, and a few conservative opinions by Air Force personnel. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 73 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1332 ### Event 7116 (21F16B2A) **Date:** 2/4/1949 **Description:** CONFIDENTIAL Army Staff MESSAGE dated Jan. 31, 1949 read by OSI: “all out investigation of possible crashed saucer, OK’d.” **Type:** confidential message **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A p53, RECOVERY) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_356 ### Event 7117 (5E13B70F) **Date:** 2/8/1949 **Locations:** UCLA; University of New Mexico in Albuquerque; Sandia Base **Description:** UCLA geophysicist [Joseph Kaplan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FKaplan) meets with [LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. He finds LaPaz’s understanding of the green fireball reports unsettling. He discusses the matter with Capt. [Melvin](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100488651/melvin-ellis-neef) [Neef](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100488651/melvin-ellis-neef) and Maj. [William Godsoe](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3528007/william-archibald-godsoe) \(Fourth Army Intelligence liaison officer at Sandia Base\). He promises to alert Scientific Advisory Board chairman [Von Kármán](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore%5Fvon%5FK%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n) and urge an investigation. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 540 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1334 ### Event 7118 (86D0BBDC) **Date:** 2/10/1949 **Location:** Dayton (North of), OH **Description:** Meteor or UFO Observed By Air Crew (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 1) **Reference:** NICAP: [490210](http://www.nicap.org/490210dayton%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_530 ### Event 7119 (FE111204) **Date:** 2/11/1949 **Location:** Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OH **Description:** USAF Project "GRUDGE" started **Type:** ufological event **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_100 ### Event 7120 (8B6E9EA0) **Date:** 2/11/1949 **Location:** US **Description:** Project name changed to "Grudge." Because of internal disagreement about the significance of UFOs, reports were then "evaluated on the premise that UFOs couldn't exist." **Type:** project name change **Reference:** ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) **Reference:** ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, pg. 85-88](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_858 ### Event 7121 (EE76111C) **Date:** 2/11/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The project [Sign](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Sign.html) is transformed into the project [Grudge](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Grudge.html). (February 11) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_770 ### Event 7122 (5375F7C6) **Date:** 2/11/1949 **Location:** Washington, D.C. **Description:** [Kaplan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FKaplan) meets in Washington, D.C., with [Von Kármán](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore%5Fvon%5FK%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore%5Fvon%5FK%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n) who is impressed enough to write Gen. [Charles P.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) [Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) that the green fireballs look like a serious issue that needs to be addressed, perhaps by [LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz)  **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 79, 497 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1335 ### Event 7123 (D5EE0B9E) **Date:** 2/11/1949 **Locations:** Ohio State University; USAF Intelligence Directorate; Cambridge Labs **Description:** Project Sign releases a final sanitized report, “Unidentified Aerial Objects: Project ‘Sign,’” Technical Report F-TR-2274-1A, authored by [Lawrence Truettner](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/58335429/lawrence-hess-truettner) and [Albert B. Deyarmond](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ori-ahvZRlU/VWjL8ELOjzI/AAAAAAAALts/kwi03CO17vE/s1600/Deyarmond%2BAlbert%2B7pictures%2B%2528dragged%2529.jpg) and approved by Col. [Clingerman](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113944251/william-r%5F-clingerman) \(chief of USAF Technical Intelligence Division\) and Col. [Howard McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html) \(chief of the Intelligence Department\). 72 pages are visible in the NICAP copy and 1,537 pages \(some illegible\) are available on the Blue Book microfilm. Its conclusions are based on 273 reports \(243 US and 30 foreign\) and it summarizes the characteristics of four types of UFOs: flying discs, cigar-shaped objects, spherical objects, and balls of light. It acknowledges the possibility that “these aerial objects are visitors from another planet” and refers to commentary in Appendix D by [James Lipp](http://www.astronautix.com/l/lipp.html) of the RAND project. “No definite and conclusive evidence is yet available that would prove or disprove the existence of these unidentified objects as real aircraft of unknown and unconventional configuration. It is unlikely that positive proof of their existence will be obtained without examination of the remains of crashed objects.        Evaluation of reports of unidentified objects is a necessary activity of military intelligence agencies. Such sightings are inevitable, and under wartime conditions rapid and convincing solutions of such occurrences are necessary to maintain morale of military and civilian personnel. In this respect, it is considered that the establishment of procedures and training of personnel is in itself worth the effort expended on this project.” Truettner and Deyarmond, in a between-the-lines rebuke of [Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell)’s order not to consider the ETH, recommend that if enough cases are examined and proven to have no security risks, then the project should be terminated. The report is distributed to AMC, USAF Intelligence Directorate, ONR, Cambridge Labs, Air Weather Services, [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) at Ohio State University, the RAND Project, and the USAF Scientific Advisory Board. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** L. H. Truettner and A. B. Deyarmond, [Unidentified Aerial Objects: Project “Sign,”](http://www.nicap.org/docs/SignRptFeb1949.pdf) Air Materiel Command Technical Report no. F-TR-2274-IA, February 1949; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 12; Swords 72 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1336 ### Event 7124 (914F6A62) **Date:** 2/12/1949 **Description:** Project Sign officially becomes Project Grudge. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 12 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1337 ### Event 7125 (B5E75E1B) **Date:** 2/12/1949 **Location:** Quito, Ecuador **Description:** Another realistic Spanish-language radio version of The War of the Worlds is broadcast in Quito, Ecuador, causing panic, a riot, and a major fire. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** John Gosling, Waging the War of the Worlds, McFarland, 2009, pp. 102– 113 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1338 ### Event 7126 (F4914F1E) **Date:** 2/14/1949 **Time:** 18:40 **Location:** EAST / GANADO, AZ **Description:** US191. Project Bluebook Case #262. Salsbury and 1 / car. Green-white fireball hovers. Arcs downward going west. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 121) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1360 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1946", **HatchDesc:** "E/GANADO,AZ:US191:BBK#262:SALSBURY+1/CAR:GRN-WHT FBL HVRS:ARCs DOWNWARD >W", **LatLong:** "35.711113 -109.511116", **LatLongDMS:** "35:42:40 N 109:30:40 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.711113,-109.511116)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7127 (12430BAF) **Date:** 2/14/1949 **Location:** Canado, NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 22: 18:40 - brilliant white, slightly green stationary obj fell to the west (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_531 ### Event 7128 (D3558F68) **Date:** 2/14/1949 **Description:** At 18:40 p.m. two people driving near East Ganado Mission, Arizona saw a greenish white fireball hover, then arc downward toward the west. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. Volume 2: 1949, p. 21 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_912 ### Event 7129 (BEE6921B) **Date:** 2/15/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) General [Charles P. Cabell](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/CabellCharlesPearre.html), head of the US Air Force's intelligence services \([USAF](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/USAF.html)\), signs a memorandum distributed to various agencies specializing in national defense information \([FBI](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/FBI.html), [CIA](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/CIA.html), etc.\) as well as all major US Air Force services and units worldwide. This memo outlines the [USAF](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/USAF.html)'s needs for information on UFO sightings. (February 15) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_771 ### Event 7130 (86BCEB76) **Date:** 2/15/1949 **Description:** Maj. Gen. [Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) sets out a revised list of Air Intelligence reporting requirements for “unconventional aircraft.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Maj. Gen. C. P. Cabell, “[Unconventional Aircraft,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/AFOIN%5FAIR%5FMemo%5FNo.4%5FFeb.15%2C1949.pdf)” Air Intelligence Requirements Memorandum no. 5, February 15, 1949 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1339 ### Event 7131 (8A85609D) **Date:** 2/16/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A secret conference is held at [Los Alamos](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/lieux.html\#LosAlamos) to discuss the UFO phenomenon, particularly the [green fireballs](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/GreenFireballs.html) that have been widely reported in the area. Among the scientists and military personnel present are [Edward Teller](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/TellerEdward.html) and [Lincoln La Paz](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/LaPazLincoln.html), whose expert opinion is requested during the conference. (February 16, 1 PM) **Reference:** Good 1987 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_772 ### Event 7132 (87155BA0) **Date:** 2/16/1949 **Location:** Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico **Description:** A Conference on Aerial Phenomena is held at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico with military representatives [Lincoln LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz), [Norris E. Bradbury](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norris%5FBradbury), [Marshall Holloway](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall%5FHolloway), [Frederick Reines](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%5FReines), and [Edward](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FTeller) [Teller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FTeller) in attendance. Representatives from Project Grudge are noticeably absent. LaPaz tells the attendees that while most meteors are blue-green, the green fireballs are described as pale green or yellow-green. Normal meteors rarely move in long, horizontal paths with nearly constant velocities. He says there are 10 incidents that strongly fit the pattern and 20 others that might. The scientists agree to set up a series of instrument stations to photograph and analyze the fireballs. Teller thinks the fireballs might be electrical-optical phenomena. Navy Commander [Richard S. Mandelkorn](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/133083603/richard-shai-mandelkorn)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/133083603/richard-shai-mandelkorn) who is in attendance, writes in his report that “there is cause for concern of the continued occurrences of unexplainable phenomena of this nature in the vicinity of sensitive installations.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Cmdr. Richard S. Mandelkorn, [Report of a Trip to Los Alamos, New Mexico, 16 February 1949,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/490216Secret%5FConf%5Fon%5FAP%5FLosAlamos.pdf) February 18, 1949; Lt. Col. Doyle Rees, \[[Minutes of February 16 Conference on Aerial Phenomena, Los Alamos](http://www.project1947.com/gfb/cap21649.html)\], March 29, 1949; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1949, January–June](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1949-Jan-Jun.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1949-Jan-Jun.pdf) The Author, 1988, pp. 23–53; Swords 79–80; Good Above, [pp. 265–266](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/264/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1340 ### Event 7133 (F7EFDC30) **Date:** 2/17/1949 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 100.6km attitude **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_357 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 100.6km ### Event 7134 (8D911AEA) **Date:** 2/17/1949 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) At 10:00 AM launch of V-2 #48 which reached 127 km. It weighed 13235 kg. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches: "Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1959 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1388 ### Event 7135 (DDA73039) **Date:** 2/17/1949 **Location:** USA, near Albuquerque **Description:** (Translated from French) Approximately 100 (one hundred) witnesses observed a round object, moving in an elliptical shape of a bright white, observed for about 6 minutes. Its angular size was comparable to that of the moon. It moved from east to west, then disappeared. **Reference:** doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee, translated by Jean Sider **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1389 ### Event 7136 (30CB06F9) **Date:** 2/17/1949 **Location:** FRANCE, unspecified **Description:** (Translated from French) Alain Bérard saw a large object on the ground, shining with an intensity similar to the light of a green flash. He saw 3 people with short and thick legs and without a head. Frightened, he shot at them three times. The craft took off vertically. **Reference:** list by Daniel BUKENS, Remicourt (Belg) **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1391 ### Event 7137 (B7EAE766) **Date:** 2/17/1949 **Location:** Grants, NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 23: 10:00 - oval orange luminous object moving south in vertical climb (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) **Reference:** NICAP: [490217](http://www.nicap.org/albuq490217dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_532 ### Event 7138 (9B7A51B0) **Date:** 2/17/1949 **Location:** Albuquerque, NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 24; time unknown - Vertical Climb, Then Leveled Off (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC, LC) **Reference:** NICAP: [490217](http://www.nicap.org/albuq490217Bdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_533 ### Event 7139 (CE20DE5A) **Date:** 2/17/1949 **Time:** night **Location:** France, exact location unknown **Description:** Alain Berard saw a large, bright object land near his farm with a green lightning flash. It became dark. As he approached the craft, the witness saw three figures with stocky short legs, apparently without heads. Frightened, he fired at them three times. A moment later the object took off vertically. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Oltre il Cielo, Vol. I ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_69 ### Event 7140 (9927E26A) **Date:** 2/17/1949 **Locations:** University of New Mexico; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Sandia Base, New Mexico **Description:** 5:57 p.m. University of New Mexico Professor of Civil Engineering Marvin May sees a brilliant white object in the west at 6° elevation for less than 6 minutes in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The object is first round then shifts to an ellipse as it approaches, then it appears to be elongated like a bent pipe with corners, one full moon in length. It makes a slight climbing turn to the north, shifts to peach color as it makes a rapid sharp turning climb to the south, disappearing in cloudless sky by diminishing in size and brightness. At the same time, 100 guards at Sandia Base, New Mexico, including the officer of the guard, see a yellow-orange cigar-shaped object for seven minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[AFOSI Case 24: Vertical Climb, Then Leveled Off](http://www.nicap.org/albuq490217Bdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 50 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1341 ### Event 7141 (77973387) **Date:** 2/17/1949 **Description:** Alain Berard saw a large, bright object land near his farm in France with a flash of green lightning. It then became dark. As he approached the craft, the witness saw three figures with stocky short legs, apparently without heads. Frightened, he fired a gun at them three times. A moment later the object took off vertically. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 193, citing Oltre il Cielo, Volume I **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_957 ### Event 7142 (1D586814) **Date:** 2/18/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A memo from the [AFOIA](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/orgsMilitaires.html\#AFOIA) written by Major Boggs confirms the report from the [Sign](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Sign.html) project of January 25. (February 18) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_773 ### Event 7143 (175F878D) **Date:** 2/18/1949 **Location:** Los Alamos **Description:** [Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) writes [Von Kármán](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore%5Fvon%5FK%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n) and says he has a transcript of the Los Alamos meeting and that [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) is studying the green fireballs topic. He adds: “It seems unlikely that domestic incidents can be attributed to the activity of a foreign power or a science unknown to our specialists.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1949,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1949-Jan-Jun.pdf) [January–June](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1949-Jan-Jun.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1949-Jan-Jun.pdf) The Author, 1988, pp. 12–13 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1342 ### Event 7144 (C939BFF0) **Date:** 2/18/1949 **Locations:** Continental Air Command; McCoy **Description:** A Fourth Air Force letter quotes Project Sign’s requirements for radar reporting, as stated by the Continental Air Command \(NORAD’s predecessor\) on February 4. The USAF Air Defense Command is subordinate to ConAC at this time. The requirements admit that a “large number of targets appearing on radar screens remain unidentified.” It refers to [McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html)’s November 30, 1948, letter on Sign’s preference for radar tracks of aerial objects that show extremely fast or slow speeds, vertical or near vertical ascent or descent, extraordinary maneuverability, and extreme altitudes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 810 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1343 ### Event 7145 (1503E979) **Date:** 2/22/1949 **Location:** Boca Chica Naval Air Station, Key West, Fla **Description:** **RADAR PICKS UP SAUCER ABOVE KEY WEST.** Two glowing objects were seen above the Naval Air Station, flying at great height. One plane was sent up to investigate, but was hopelessly outdistanced. Radarmen tracked the objects as they hovered for a moment above Key West. After a few seconds, the objects accelerated at high speed and streaked off. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256) **Source:** Scully, **ID:** Scully_23 ### Event 7146 (D99D39E0) **Date:** 2/23/1949 (approximate) **Location:** CHILEAN ARTURO PRAT ANTARCTIC STATION/DEPOT/FACILITY **Description:** Photographs. 3 saucers maneuver. / r134#1p26 / Diego Zuniga. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** SPENCER, John: The UFO ENCYCLOPEDIA; BUFORA/Acon Books, NY. 1991. 340pp. (Index 233) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1361 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **MIL:** Military investigation, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Antarctic below 70 degrees South", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "Chilean Arturo PRAT ANTARCTIC STn:FOTOS:3 SCRS MNVR:/r134#1p26 /Diego Zuniga", **LatLong:** "-62.483336 -59.650003", **LatLongDMS:** "62:29:00 S 59:39:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-62.483336,-59.650003)", **State/Prov:** "CHL", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7147 (220144D5) **Date:** 2/23/1949 **Location:** Sanberg Pass, CA **Description:** "Sausage" Circles T-11 At High Speed (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [490223](http://www.nicap.org/490223sandbergpass%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_534 ### Event 7148 (319364C4) **Date:** 2/23/1949 **Location:** Kirtland AFB’s Office of Special Investigations **Description:** [McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html) sends Capt. Roger Groseclose and Lt. Howard Smith to Kirtland AFB’s Office of Special Investigations to discuss the green fireballs with [LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) and [Neef](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100488651/melvin-ellis-neef) and to mollify them for not showing up at the February 16 conference. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 541 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1344 ### Event 7149 (7C104D74) **Date:** 2/24/1949 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 129km attitude (Successful flight. Separation of stages at 32.2 km) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_358 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 129km ### Event 7150 (AD047D3E) **Date:** 2/24/1949 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) The Americans created the "WAC Corporal", "Aerobee", and "Viking": they attached a WAC to a V-2 and this two-stage assembly broke the height record with 400 kilometers of altitude. **Reference:** "Astronautics" Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 12 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1390 ### Event 7151 (0B966CDE) **Date:** 2/24/1949 **Locations:** Neef; Agent Jack Boling **Description:** Groseclose and Smith have an unpleasant exchange with [Neef](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100488651/melvin-ellis-neef)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100488651/melvin-ellis-neef) [LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) Agent Jack Boling, and Army Maj. [Godsoe](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3528007/william-archibald-godsoe)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3528007/william-archibald-godsoe) who says it’s not worth AFOSI’s time to conduct investigations for AMC. The AMC officers retort that the fireballs are not an Army concern. Groseclose and Smith say they are concerned with all anomalous aerial phenomena. Disgusted, Godsoe leaves the room. Groseclose and Smith then turn on LaPaz, criticizing him for only sending AMC raw data and not finished analyses. LaPaz says he is on leave as a volunteer and must go back to the University of New Mexico, unless he sees a contract. However, AMC agrees to set up a network of observation posts with cameras, transits, and trained personnel. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1949,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1949-Jan-Jun.pdf) [January–June](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1949-Jan-Jun.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1949-Jan-Jun.pdf) The Author, 1988, pp. 11, 14–15; Clark III 541 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1345 ### Event 7152 (1B48EF66) **Date:** 2/25/1949 **Time:** 03:00 **Location:** LITTLE ROCK, AR **Description:** 50' glowing-saucer. Silent. Fast stops and maneuvers. Going up [to] thousands' / second(s). Beam going down / ground. / MJ#250. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 154) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1362 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "105", **HatchDesc:** "LITTLE ROCK,AR:50'GLO-SCR:SLNT:FAST STOPS+MNVRS:↑1000s'/SEC:BEAM↓/GND:/MJ#250", **LatLong:** "34.733335 -92.283338", **LatLongDMS:** "34:44:00 N 92:17:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.733335,-92.283338)", **State/Prov:** "Arkansas", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 7153 (014AF0A9) **Date:** 2/27/1949 **Location:** Los Alamos, NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 25; 19:05 - Green-white fireball in horizaontal flight low in the sky (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC, LC) **Reference:** NICAP: [490227](http://www.nicap.org/alamos490227dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_535 ### Event 7154 (ADB85FD0) **Date:** 2/28/1949 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** SANDBURG PASS, CA **Description:** Large jet-blimp glows. Going south. Circles USAF T11 / 40 second(s) / 10K' altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 153) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1363 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1070", **HatchDesc:** "SANDBURG PASS,CA:LRG JET-BLIMP GLOWS:>S:CCLS USAF T11/40sec/10K'alt:", **LatLong:** "34.733335 -118.850006", **LatLongDMS:** "34:44:00 N 118:51:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.733335,-118.850006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7155 (FF803032) **Date:** 2/29/1949 **Time:** 06:11 **Location:** Chicago, Illinois **Description:** **ILLINOIS SEES ONE DISINTEGRATE.** Ben Cole, Jr. of Northbrook, Illinois saw a flaming object hurtle out of the east at 6:11 a.m. and disintegrate in a fiery shower south of Chicago. At the same time, 40 miles away, Ed Maher of Chicago, saw a rocket half a block long speeding from east east to south. The front was shaped like a rocket, the tail seemed to fall to pieces as it dived into a large cloud. The craft made no noise. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256) **Source:** Scully, **ID:** Scully_24 ### Event 7156 (C4AFBAC4) **Date:** 3/1949 **Location:** San Diego, CA **Description:** An analysis of the Maury Island incident metal fragments appears in the BSRA’s “Round Robin” publication **Type:** publication **Reference:** [link](https://medium.com/@richgel99/the-bsra-tested-fragments-from-the-maury-island-incident-cd20c2d14324) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_359 ### Event 7157 (57215126) **Date:** 3/1949 (approximate) **Location:** SAN FRANCISCO, CA **Description:** City park. Beam zaps man's arm. Arm goes limp. No source seen. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 170) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1364 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **NFO:** No craft seen, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **INJ:** Injuries, illness/death, mutilations, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "5", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "18", **HatchDesc:** "SAN FRANCISCO,CA:CITY PARK:BEAM ZAPS MAN'S ARM:ARM GOES LIMP:no source seen", **LatLong:** "37.783335 -122.466673", **LatLongDMS:** "37:47:00 N 122:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.783335,-122.466673)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7158 (1264F328) **Date:** 3/1949 **Time:** 10:00? **Location:** NORTH / NEWMAN, NM **Description:** 2 soldiers. Large domed saucer stops over US54 / 15 minute(s). Going east then 90° turn quickly going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Database/website: Mark Cashman email: Website: http://www.temporaldoorway.com **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1365 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "1220", **HatchDesc:** "N/NEWMAN,NM:2 GIs:LRG DOMED SCR STOPS OVR US54/15min:>E then 90° TURN ↑↑", **LatLong:** "32.016668 -106.322227", **LatLongDMS:** "32:01:00 N 106:19:20 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.016668,-106.322227)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7159 (4C4FF7BA) **Date:** 3/1949 **Locations:** Strategic Air Command; USSR **Description:** Strategic Air Command head Gen. [Curtis LeMay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis%5FLeMay) delivers the first SAC Emergency War Plan, which calls for dropping 133 atomic bombs on 70 cities in the USSR within 30 days. LeMay predicts that World War III will last no longer than 30 days. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Curtis LeMay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis%5FLeMay)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1347 ### Event 7160 (660BB84E) **Date:** 3/2/1949 **Location:** Los Alamos, NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 26; 00:10 - AESS Inspector Reports High Speed Light (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC, LC) **Reference:** NICAP: [490302](http://www.nicap.org/alamos490302dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_536 ### Event 7161 (8C10C65B) **Date:** 3/2/1949 **Description:** Sidney Shalett provides the USAF Directorate of Intelligence a draft of his upcoming article for review. The Air Force is not pleased, objecting to Shalett stating an “official” USAF position, his claim that the Air Force is his sole source of information \(although it is\), a quote by [Irving Langmuir](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving%5FLangmuir) criticizing Project Sign, and any inference that the Air Force and Navy are not cooperating. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 73 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1348 ### Event 7162 (453EB069) **Date:** 3/3/1949 **Location:** Los Alamos, NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 27; 01:59 - bright green obj went straight down and disappeared (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) **Reference:** NICAP: [490303](http://www.nicap.org/alamos490303dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_537 ### Event 7163 (B7AC8C25) **Date:** 3/6/1949 **Location:** Killeen Base, Camp Hood, TX **Description:** Blue-white object about 2 ft x 1 ft in size (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [490306](http://www.nicap.org/killeen490306dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_538 ### Event 7164 (068FEF31) **Date:** 3/6/1949 **End date:** 3/7/1949 **Location:** Killeen Base [now West Fort Hood], Texas **Description:** 8:30 p.m. Army Pvts. Martin Fensterman and Frank Luisi, on security patrol near Killeen Base \[now West Fort Hood\], Texas, a nuclear weapons storage site, see a flash of pale blue light in the sky to the northeast. At 8:55 p.m., a quarter mile away, Pvt. Harold Moore sees a white light with an orange trail flash across the western horizon. At 9:00 p.m., from inside the base boundary, Sgt. Hubert Vickery and Pfc. John Ransom notice a pale blue-white light streaking across the western sky low over the horizon. Between 1:15 and 2:00 a.m., four more security patrols report burst of lights like a flash bulb. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** SAC, San Antonio, “[Protection of Vital Installations,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/490322%5FFBI.pdf) [Bureau File 65-58300,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/490322%5FFBI.pdf)” March 22, 1949; Clark III 541–542; Sparks, pp. 50–51; “[Fort Hood Sightings, 1949,](http://roswellbooks.com/museum/?page%5Fid=594)” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, February 5, 2014 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1349 ### Event 7165 (F9FAFE37) **Date:** 3/7/1949 **Location:** USA, White Sands: **Description:** (Translated from French) Static testing with Viking 1. (1949, from March 7th to April 25th)) **Reference:** Ley 1958, 274 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1392 ### Event 7166 (7E8D78C8) **Date:** 3/7/1949 **Location:** Los Alamos, NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 32-34; PFC. Max Eugene Manlove, 1st Provost Squadron, Camp Hood, Texas, observed a teardrop-shaped object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_539 ### Event 7167 (7586740C) **Date:** 3/8/1949 **Location:** LOS ALAMOS, NM **Description:** Blue Book. Guard stations 103+106. Silent green-white object going southeast / cloud-altitude. / r133#3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 157) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1366 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "2231", **HatchDesc:** "LOS ALAMOS,NM:BBK:GUARD STNs 103+106:SLNT GRN-WHT OBJ >SE/CLOUD-alt:/r133#3", **LatLong:** "35.872224 -106.300005", **LatLongDMS:** "35:52:20 N 106:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.872224,-106.300005)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7168 (9754BE09) **Date:** 3/8/1949 **Location:** Los Alamos, NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 36; 18:36 - bright white w/greenish tint went out or disappeared behind cloud (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) **Reference:** NICAP: [490308](http://www.nicap.org/alamos490308dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_540 ### Event 7169 (C4A08F40) **Date:** 3/8/1949 **Location:** Los Alamos, NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 37; 18:35 - white aluminum colored elliptical obj disappeared behind trees (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_541 ### Event 7170 (052703E4) **Date:** 3/8/1949 **Location:** Killeen Base, Camp Hood, TX **Description:** One white and one yellowish-red light in level flight (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [490308](http://www.nicap.org/alamos490308dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_542 ### Event 7171 (F56FA4FD) **Date:** 3/8/1949 **Location:** Killeen Base, Texas **Description:** 1:03 a.m. Two infantrymen half a mile apart at Killeen Base, Texas, see apparently separate streaking bright lights \(one white, the other yellowish red\). The latter one covers 60° of sky, appearing and disappearing at about the same angle above the horizon. Cpl. Luke Sims is able to run 10 paces to a field telephone before it vanishes. All observers insist these are not meteors and are more like flares. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Killeen Base, Camp Hood, Texas,](http://www.nicap.org/killeen490308dir.htm) [OSI Case 39](http://www.nicap.org/killeen490308dir.htm)”; SAC, San Antonio, “[Protection of Vital Installations, Bureau File 65-58300,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/490322%5FFBI.pdf)” March 22, 1949; Clark III 542; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 52 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1350 ### Event 7172 (ED12D29D) **Date:** 3/8/1949 **Description:** A silent greenish-white object was sighted in the sky near the Los Alamos Atomic Energy research facility in New Mexico. It flew toward the southeast at the altitude of the cloud layer, and was seen by guards Patterson and Lang from two guard stations: 103 and 106. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren Gross, UFOs a History - 1949 (volume 1), p. 57; Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, March 1949 report **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1374 ### Event 7173 (A7371C16) **Date:** 3/13/1949 **Location:** Albuquerque, NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 40; 21:55 - Bluish-greenish white obj 1/2 diameter of full moon (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) **Reference:** NICAP: [490313](http://www.nicap.org/sandia490313dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_543 ### Event 7174 (429E1A7E) **Date:** 3/13/1949 **Location:** Sandia Base, New Mexico **Description:** 9:53 p.m. Two MPs guarding the Technical Area at Sandia Base, New Mexico, see a silent, spherical object, bluish- or greenish-white, with a flaming blue tail twice as long as the body, which is apparently half the size of the full moon. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[March 13, 1949, Sandia Base, NM, OSI Case 40](http://www.nicap.org/sandia490313dir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 52 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1351 ### Event 7175 (B18E05A1) **Date:** 3/15/1949 **Description:** A memo on UFOs to [Willard Machle](https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online%5Farticles/chromium-cancer-and-the-cia) by a Dr. Stone from the CIA Office of Scientific Investigation dismisses the idea of UFOs as foreign aircraft and suggests they are misidentifications of other phenomena. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** ClearIntent, [p. 113](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/112/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1352 ### Event 7176 (2076837C) **Date:** 3/17/1949 **Location:** USA, Camp Hood, Texas. **Description:** (Translated from French) 7:52 p.m. Witnesses: guards of the 2nd Armored Division. While waiting for a firing, they observed for an hour the passage of eight large objects, green, red and white, resembling shells, flying generally on a horizontal trajectory. **Reference:** Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1393 ### Event 7177 (64CDCB13) **Date:** 3/17/1949 **Location:** MEXICO **Description:** (Translated from French) Mexico experienced a strange incident. "Aviation from Beyond Space" by Alberto Perego and other works extensively relate this extraordinary event. So, on this March 17, a few hours from Aztec, a mysterious disc of about thirty meters in diameter landed close to secret bases. Alerted immediately, the authorities surrounded the area with secret service agents and called in aeronautical experts. As one can imagine, there was great confusion and anxiety and men examined the outside of the craft for several days. (...) Time passed, bringing with it the certainty that "no one could come out alive" from this craft. So technicians tried to open the hermetically sealed cockpit. Their fear, as soon as they entered the strange vehicle, turned to terror. Sixteen men, of human appearance, lay there, on the ground, dead. One of the witnesses reported "that they all looked like "twins", with fine features and very beautiful faces. They wore a blue uniform of the type of our naval officers and could measure between 1 m 30 and 1 m 40. They had obviously died in the landing. It was with difficulty that the parts of the craft, embedded one in the other, could finally be dismantled and the first analyses revealed that this mysterious disc had been designed in a very light alloy, the composition of which could not be established. The bodies of the mysterious pilots were then taken to the Aeronautical Hospital and subjected to an autopsy. After which, the doctors stated that they were "in all respects like us". **Reference:** S.DELLO STROLOGO: "What Governments Hide from You About Flying Saucers" - De Vecchi 1975- p. 125-126 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1394 ### Event 7178 (096CCBB2) **Date:** 3/17/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At the base of Killeen, Camp Hood \(Texas\), guards of the 2nd Army Division waiting for the start of a "flare firing" observed for an hour 8 large luminous objects of green, red and white color flying mostly in a straight line. (March 17-18, 7:52 PM) **Reference:** case [Blue Book](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/BlueBook.html) \# 319 unexplained **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_774 ### Event 7179 (4348E773) **Date:** 3/17/1949 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** FORT HOOD, TX **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #319. Fireballs etc. mimic actual flare tests one hour later? / r185p2. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 330) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1367 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "283", **HatchDesc:** "FORT HOOD,TX:BBK#319:FBLS etc MIMIC ACTUAL FLARE TESTS 1hr LATER?/r185p2", **LatLong:** "31.183335 -97.766671", **LatLongDMS:** "31:11:00 N 97:46:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.183335,-97.766671)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 7180 (04E8A181) **Date:** 3/17/1949 **Location:** Killeen Base, Camp Hood, TX **Description:** 7 separate sightings by trained artillery observers (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 319) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_544 ### Event 7181 (02FCA20D) **Date:** 3/17/1949 **Time:** 7:52 PM **Location:** Camp Hood, Texas **Description:** Witnesses: guards of the 2nd Armored Division. While awaiting the start of a flare firing, they watched, for an hour, while eight large, green, red and white flare-like objects flew in generally straight lines. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_19 ### Event 7182 (A4DFDA88) **Date:** 3/17/1949 **Locations:** Killeen Base, Texas; Camp Hood **Description:** Seven sightings of large, green, red, and white flares take place at Killeen Base, Texas, including the previously skeptical Capt. [Horace McCulloch](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/972881/horace-w-mcculloch), assistant G-2 of the Second Armored Division at Camp Hood, who is driving between Camp Hood and Killeen Base to prepare a test firing of some flares to prove that recent sightings are not anomalous. McCulloch puts the entire base on alert. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 542; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 52 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1353 ### Event 7183 (0AA69B3C) **Date:** 3/18/1949 **Location:** Fort Chimo, Quebec, CAN **Description:** Red light like an aircraft light traveling W to E at high altitude (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_545 ### Event 7184 (CB2EDD74) **Date:** 3/21/1949 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 133.5km attitude (Blossom 3 — Parachute not ejected) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_360 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 133.5km ### Event 7185 (409FFA09) **Date:** 3/21/1949 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) At 23:43, Launch of V2 #41, Altitude 129 km. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches: Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1959 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1395 ### Event 7186 (3C7B1F12) **Date:** 3/21/1949 **Location:** USA Stuttgart (Arkansas) **Description:** (Translated from French) That night, two American aviators, Jack Adams and his co-pilot G.W.Anderson declared to have seen a flying saucer: "It was during the first part of our flight to Shreveport, (Louisiana), explained Anderson. "Jack was at the controls. We were heading west, and we were about 25 km north of Stuttgart (Arkansas). The visibility and the ceiling were unlimited, we were flying at about 600 meters. Suddenly, Jack saw, on our left, a flashing light, of a bluish color, and of an extraordinary intensity. It was about 300 meters above us and 800 meters away. It shone at the top of an object of almost spherical shape. The object was buzzing at a great speed, 800 to 900 km/h approximately. It was moving towards the north, in front and above us. The craft remained well visible for thirty seconds, and we were able to consider it attentively. It had no navigation lights, but we distinctly saw other lights, which seemed to come from eight or ten windows or portholes lit in the lower part of the aircraft." "The lights were of a fluorescent kind, soft, flaky, and did not resemble anything we had ever seen.. The "object" was circular. It approached and disappeared exactly like another plane. (...) "The object was about the size of a DC 3. It had no exhaust pipe, and caused no smoke trail. In our opinion, it was an aircraft, but not a jet." [note from vog: I did not find mention of this observation in American authors ...] **Reference:** Jimmy GUIEU: "Les S.V. viennent d'un autre Monde" Fleuve noir 1954 - Réédition Omnium Littéraire 1972 - p.29-30 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1396 ### Event 7187 (38F046F7) **Date:** 3/22/1949 **Locations:** SAC San Antonio, Texas; ATIC's office **Description:** SAC San Antonio, Texas, sends a memo to FBI headquarters regarding the January 31 communication on Protection of Vital Installations, emphasizing that USAF and the Army consider the matter “secret.” Fourth Army Intelligence is now calling UFOs “unconventional aircraft” and ATIC’s office is now Project Grudge. It also discusses green fireball cases. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** SAC, San Antonio, “[Protection of Vital Installations, Bureau File 65-58300,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/490322%5FFBI.pdf)” March 22, 1949 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1354 ### Event 7188 (F53E9D66) **Date:** 3/25/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A memorandum from the [FBI](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/FBI.html) indicates that according to a confidential and reliable source, flying saucers are rockets built by men, and that during the last 4 years, the USSR was conducting experiments to develop an unknown type of flying saucer. (March 25) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_775 ### Event 7189 (109C8D3F) **Date:** 3/25/1949 **Location:** Bend, Oregon **Description:** **COMBAT PILOT COMPARES SIZE TO WASHTUBS.** Residents of Bend saw two flying saucers reflecting the rays of the sun as they dipped through the clouds. Traffic was blocked by observers. World War II flyer, Vernon Leverett, estimated their height as over 10,000 feet and their size about that of a large washtub. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256) **Source:** Scully, **ID:** Scully_25 ### Event 7190 (FB210268) **Date:** 3/25/1949 **Description:** [J. Edgar Hoover](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FEdgar%5FHoover) sends a memo to a large number of FBI offices indicating that “flying discs are believed to be man-made missiles rather than natural phenomenon,” probably made in Russia. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** John Edgar Hoover, “[Flying](http://www.nicap.org/docs/AFOIN%5FAIR%5FMemo%5FNo.4%5FFeb.15%2C1949.pdf) [Discs,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/AFOIN%5FAIR%5FMemo%5FNo.4%5FFeb.15%2C1949.pdf)” March 25, 1949; ClearIntent, [p. 161](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/160/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1355 ### Event 7191 (54279B17) **Date:** 3/27/1949 **Location:** Tucumcari, NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 42; 18:00-18:05 - amber colored, long and narrow obj faded out in distance (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC, LC) **Reference:** NICAP: [490327](http://www.nicap.org/tucum490327dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_546 ### Event 7192 (8AB7887C) **Date:** 3/27/1949 **Location:** Montoya, NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 43; 18:00 - a contrail-like yellow-amber-orange object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC, LC) **Reference:** NICAP: [490327](http://www.nicap.org/tucum490327dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_547 ### Event 7193 (FFD886B9) **Date:** 3/27/1949 **Location:** Tucumcari, NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 44; 10:15 - bright orange, long and narrow obj faded in distance (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC, LC) **Reference:** NICAP: [490327](http://www.nicap.org/tucum490327dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_548 ### Event 7194 (E166EC8A) **Date:** 3/27/1949 **Location:** Tucumcari, NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 45; 18:00 - orange obj about the size of C-47 at 10,000 ft (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC, LC) **Reference:** NICAP: [490327](http://www.nicap.org/tucum490327dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_549 ### Event 7195 (E8E64557) **Date:** 3/28/1949 **Location:** Pentagon **Description:** [James Forrestal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FForrestal) leaves office in a formal ceremony. He rides back to the Pentagon with his opponent [Stuart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%5FSymington) [Symington](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%5FSymington)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%5FSymington) who talks to him about something troubling. Forrestal appears traumatized. Forrestal sits in his office, dazed and incoherent, repeating, “You are a loyal fellow.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1356 ### Event 7196 (CE914081) **Date:** 3/29/1949 **Location:** Shemya AFB - Aleutian Islands, AK **Description:** Bombers see a dull-yellowish light flying at 2,400 ft (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_550 ### Event 7197 (75395CC4) **Date:** 3/31/1949 **Location:** Killeen Base, Camp Hood (east of), TX **Description:** A reddish white ball of fire pass horizontally over the base airstrip (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_551 ### Event 7198 (A0F57394) **Date:** 3/31/1949 **Locations:** Hobe Beach, Florida; Bethesda, Maryland **Description:** [Forrestal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FForrestal) is flown to Hobe Beach, Florida, to stay with his friend Under Secretary of State [Robert A. Lovett](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FA.%5FLovett), where his wife is vacationing. He meets with psychiatrist [William C. Menninger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FC.%5FMenninger) \(who diagnoses “severe depression” of the type “seen in operational fatigue during the war”\) and psychologist Capt. George N. Raines from the Naval Hospital at Bethesda, Maryland. Forrestal has several hysterical episodes when they are there, ranting about Communists following him, and perhaps one suicide attempt. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1357 ### Event 7199 (7D5F5C76) **Date:** 3/31/1949 **Description:** CIA’s H. L. Bowers writes a memo to Dr. [Machle](https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online%5Farticles/chromium-cancer-and-the-cia)[,](https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online%5Farticles/chromium-cancer-and-the-cia) “Notes and Comments on Unidentified Aerial Objects-- Project Sign,” stating that [Deyarmond](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ori-ahvZRlU/VWjL8ELOjzI/AAAAAAAALts/kwi03CO17vE/s1600/Deyarmond%2BAlbert%2B7pictures%2B%2528dragged%2529.jpg) thinks UFOs will turn out to be another “sea serpent.” Nonetheless, they must be investigated. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Document released to [Brad Sparks](http://www.noufors.com/Brad%5FSparks.htm) but not in subsequent CIA FOIA releases; Good Above, [p. 330](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/330/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1358 ### Event 7200 (09E146AA) **Date:** 3/31/1949 **Location:** Killeen Base, Texas **Description:** 11:50 p.m. Lieut. Frederick Davis, on patrol east of Killeen Base, Texas, sees a reddish-white ball of fire passing horizontally above the base airstrip. After 10–15 seconds it disappears without descending. He notes interference on the telephone line when he calls the report in. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Field Telephone Affected by BOL](http://www.nicap.org/490331killeen%5Fdir.htm)”; Clark III 542; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 53 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1359 ### Event 7201 (607FBCF6) **Date:** 4/1949 **Location:** White Sands Proving Grounds, New Mexico **Description:** 2 UFO's tracked by theodolite at White Sands, New Mexico. **Type:** ufo sightings **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_102 ### Event 7202 (6269AA14) **Date:** 4/1949 **Location:** PEROU (USA) coast. **Description:** (Translated from French) Three Aerobee launches, all three from SS Norton Sound. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches: "Ley 1958, 286 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1399 ### Event 7203 (082E3725) **Date:** 4/2/1949 **Locations:** National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland; White House **Description:** [Menninger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FC.%5FMenninger) and Raines fly [Forrestal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FForrestal) to the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, where he can be treated quietly. On the drive to the hospital from the airport, Forrestal attempts to jump out of the car but is restrained. Forrestal declares he does not expect to leave the hospital alive. He is admitted under the care of Raines, who diagnoses him with involutional melancholia and places him in a VIP suite on the 16th floor. Forrestal’s personal diaries are removed from his old office and taken to the White House, where they remain for a year. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1360 ### Event 7204 (73E599E1) **Date:** 4/3/1949 **Location:** USA, Dillon, Montana. **Description:** (Translated from French) 11:55 a.m. Witnesses: entrepreneur Gosta Miller and three other people. An object shaped like a saucer, flat bottom, dull, top shiny aluminum color, 20 feet in diameter, 4 to 5 feet thick. Six cycles of movements, all at very high speed: descent, swaying, flight, swaying, rotation, swaying. **Reference:** Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1397 ### Event 7205 (FF621E93) **Date:** 4/3/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Dillon, Montana, the owner of a construction company Gosta Miller and three other people observe an object resembling two plates stuck together. The lower part is dull, and the upper part seems to be of a shiny aluminum. Its diameter is 20 feet, and its thickness is 4 to 5 feet. It swings or rotates in 6 cycles, down, swing, fly, swing again, all very quickly. (April 3, 11:55) **Reference:** [unexplained Blue Book case](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/BlueBook.html) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_776 ### Event 7206 (7945615C) **Date:** 4/3/1949 **Time:** 11:50 **Location:** DILLON, MT **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #304. 4 observer(s). Classic 20' metal saucer. Rocks 6x. Going [to] over airport. Shoots going quickly east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 160) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1368 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "4", **Elev:** "1553", **HatchDesc:** "DILLON,MT:BBK#304:4 OBS:CLASSIC 20'MTL SCR:ROCKS 6x:> ovr AIRPORT:SHOOTS >>E", **LatLong:** "45.216669 -112.638894", **LatLongDMS:** "45:13:00 N 112:38:20 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.216669,-112.638894)", **State/Prov:** "Montana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7207 (805AC795) **Date:** 4/3/1949 **Location:** Dillon (1 mile SE of), MT **Description:** Object like 2 inverted plates-matte blue-grey non-reflected bottom (Berliner; cf. FOIA; Jan Aldrich) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [490403](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/dillon490403dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_552 ### Event 7208 (56EF902A) **Date:** 4/3/1949 **Time:** 11:55 AM **Location:** Dillon, Montana **Description:** Witnesses: construction company owner Gosta Miller and three other unnamed persons. One object shaped like two plates attached face-to-face; matte bottom, bright aluminum top; 20' diameter, 4-5' thickness. It rocked or rotated in six cycles, descended, rocked, flew, rocked; all this was very fast. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_20 ### Event 7209 (16586673) **Date:** 4/3/1949 **Location:** Russia **Description:** Broadcaster [Walter Winchell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FWinchell) announces on his radio program that the “flying saucers, never explained by anyone in authority are now definitely known to have been guided missiles shot all the way from Russia.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Anatomy of a Hoax, Part Two,](https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/anatomyofahoax-part2.html)” Saturday Night Uforia **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1361 ### Event 7210 (658C6431) **Date:** 4/3/1949 **Description:** In Dillon, Montana construction company owner Gosta Miller and three others watched an unidentified flying object shaped like two plates attached face-to-face at 11:55 a.m. The object had a matte bottom and a bright aluminum top. The dimensions of the object were estimated to be 20-feet in diameter by 4-5 feet thick. It rocked or rotated in six cycles, descended, rocked, flew, and rocked. All of these maneuvers happened very fast. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. Volume 2: 1949, p. 60 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1812 ### Event 7211 (06310585) **Date:** 4/4/1949 **Location:** USA, Merced (California) **Description:** (Translated from French) Leaving his home at 10:00 PM, the witness heard a considerable noise of clicking. Towards the east, at 40° above the horizon, he distinguished after 10 seconds an object, a solid mass, curved, rounded, of the size of 4 to 5 feet in diameter, at a height of less than 1000 feet. Its color was dull, slightly colored by the lights of the ground that were reflected in it. The object moved slowly towards the west or the northwest. The visual observation lasted about 35 seconds. The object made a kind of turn of 90°, the clicking noise was constant, even during this turn. On the part of the modified trajectory (towards the south) the noise became duller. When the sound was no longer perceptible, the witness no longer saw the object. There were fluctuations in this sound, resembling that of an incorrectly adjusted household mixer-beater. **Reference:** doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee translated by Jean Sider **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1398 ### Event 7212 (F41FBCB7) **Date:** 4/4/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Creation of the [OTAN](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/OTAN.html). **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_777 ### Event 7213 (3A2BCF1B) **Date:** 4/4/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Merced, California, former USAF Major and pilot William Parrott observes a generally circular object with a rounded base and dull color. The object emits a clicking sound until they fly over it. Parrot's dog reacts. (10:20 PM) **Reference:** unexplained Blue Book case **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_778 ### Event 7214 (BED357EE) **Date:** 4/4/1949 **Time:** 22:20 **Location:** CASTLE AIR FORCE BASE, CA **Description:** USAF man. Saucer with clicking sound going west. Arcs going southwest. USAF and FBI investigation. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 162) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1369 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **ANI:** Animals affected or injuries/marks, **MIL:** Military investigation, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded, **COV:** Indication of coverup **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "57", **HatchDesc:** "CASTLE AFB,CA:USAF MAN:SCR W/CLICKING SOUND > W:ARCS >SW:USAF+FBI INVESTIGATn", **LatLong:** "37.416668 -120.533339", **LatLongDMS:** "37:25:00 N 120:32:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.416668,-120.533339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7215 (DBE02A45) **Date:** 4/4/1949 **Location:** Merced, CA **Description:** Witness and dog heard an intense clicking sound coming from the sky and saw a dark object (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [490404](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-490404.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_553 ### Event 7216 (9DE2F515) **Date:** 4/4/1949 **Time:** 10:20 PM **Location:** Merced, California **Description:** Witness: William Parrott, former Air Force pilot and major. One generally round object with a curved bottom and dull coloring. The object gave off a clicking sound until overhead. Parrott's dog reacted. 35 seconds. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_21 ### Event 7217 (5AB2FEE2) **Date:** 4/4/1949 **Description:** William Parrott, former Air Force pilot and Major, sighted a round object with a curved bottom and dull coloring at 10:20 p.m. in Merced, California. The object gave off a clicking sound until overhead. Parrott's dog reacted by barking and running around while the UFO was in sight, about 35 seconds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1829 ### Event 7218 (C29C5CAF) **Date:** 4/5/1949 **Location:** Los Alamos, NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 47; 22:00 - green w/red afterglow obj of tremendous speed disappeared (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_554 ### Event 7219 (B1283BEE) **Date:** 4/5/1949 **Locations:** Los Alamos, New Mexico; Fejarito Mountain **Description:** 10:00 p.m. A huge green fireball with a red afterglow is seen streaking approximately 300 feet above the southern slope of Fejarito Mountain, near Los Alamos, New Mexico. It disappears behind the mountain. Another fireball is seen at 11:00 p.m., and the next two nights. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[1949 UFO Chronology](http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1949fullrep.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 54 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1362 ### Event 7220 (A3B647DA) **Date:** 4/6/1949 **Location:** Near White Sands, NM **Description:** Several apparent sightings **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973_, by Richard Dolan](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/mode/2up) **Source:** Dolan, **ID:** Dolan_42 ### Event 7221 (9B1D500C) **Date:** 4/6/1949 **Location:** Los Alamos, NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 48; 12:05 - btwn light and dark green object traveling very fast (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_555 ### Event 7222 (148AA3DF) **Date:** 4/6/1949 **End date:** 4/7/1949 **Location:** Memphis, TN **Description:** 6-9 climbing, diving, whirling yellow or silvery oval objects which avoided 3-4 airplanes (FOIA) 2-4 hrs (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [490406-07](http://www.nicap.org/memphis490406dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_558 ### Event 7223 (F1780EBA) **Date:** 4/7/1949 **Time:** 04:30 **Location:** DES MOINES, IA **Description:** Huge vertical metallic column with colored plasma-glow lights. "Dreadful..". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 77) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1370 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "242", **HatchDesc:** "DES MOINES,IA:HUGE VERTICAL MTLC COLUMN W/CLRD PLASMA-GLOW LITES:"dreadful.."", **LatLong:** "41.583335 -93.600004", **LatLongDMS:** "41:35:00 N 93:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.583335,-93.600004)", **State/Prov:** "Iowa", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7224 (93A0EBDF) **Date:** 4/7/1949 **Location:** Los Alamos, NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 49; 01:35 - green obj sighted about 200 yds from top of hill moved slowly (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_556 ### Event 7225 (C92C5BAE) **Date:** 4/7/1949 **Location:** Los Alamos, NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 50; 01:00 - green obj going S to N moving slowly (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_557 ### Event 7226 (1F58899C) **Date:** 4/7/1949 **Location:** March AFB, Riverside, CA **Description:** Four Dome-Shaped Objects Separate From Tank-Shape (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [490407](http://www.nicap.org/490407marchafb%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_559 ### Event 7227 (C70EE5FD) **Date:** 4/8/1949 **Description:** In response to [Winchell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FWinchell)’s claim, the Air Force admits it is impossible to “deny categorically” that the flying saucers originate in Russia. A spokesman says that some unknown incidents are placed in a classified category, denied to everyone except authorized military personnel. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Air Force Isn’t Committing Self on Flying Disks,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93008312/)” Cedar Rapids \(Iowa\) Gazette, April 8, 1949, p. 22 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1363 ### Event 7228 (166B7011) **Date:** 4/9/1949 **Location:** National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland **Description:** [Forrestal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FForrestal) has been treated for one week at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland,with narcosis through sodium amytal. For the next 30 days, he undergoes a regimen of insulin sub-shock combined with psycho-therapeutic interviews. Raines says the treatment occasionally throws Forrestal into a confused state with a great deal of agitation and confusion. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1364 ### Event 7229 (82F5DE2B) **Date:** 4/9/1949 **Description:** At 4:30 p.m. an orange colored UFO was seen over some telephone lines by J. Bova at the Davis Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona. The object suddenly moved from right to left, then moved again passing behind the telephone pole. It then returned to its original position, finally engaging in some erratic movements and ascending into a cloud. It changed color as it did so, from orange to white. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Edward Sullivan, CSI Los Angeles case files, citing letter from J. Bova in 1952; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 155 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_1917 ### Event 7230 (EC07AF2D) **Date:** 4/11/1949 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 87.2km attitude (Degraded performance from 43s) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_361 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 87.2km ### Event 7231 (5216F36F) **Date:** 4/11/1949 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) Launch of V-2 No. 50 at 15:05, altitude 85 km. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches: Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1959 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1400 ### Event 7232 (07882471) **Date:** 4/11/1949 **Location:** White Sands Proving Grounds **Description:** **WHITE SANDS SEES ONE WHILE CHECKING WEATHER BALLOON.** Scientists, reported by Commander Robert B. McLaughlin, USN, were tracking a balloon 57 miles northwest of the grounds, A strange object crossed above the balloon and was tracked with a theodolite. It was saucer-shaped, 105 feet in diameter and flying 50 miles above the earth at around 5 miles per second. Suddenly, it swerved, shooting upward at an angle of five degrees, climbing an additional 25 miles in almost 10 seconds. No exhaust trail, no lights, no sound. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256) **Source:** Scully, **ID:** Scully_27 ### Event 7233 (9454288A) **Date:** 4/11/1949 **Location:** Portland, OR **Description:** **Project Saucer**/**Project Sign**: **PROSPECTOR SPOTS FIVE IN OREGON.** Fred M. Johnson, Portland prospector, told authorities he noticed a strange reflection in the sky and saw five or six discs about 30 ft. in diameter. He watched them through a telescope for about 30 seconds as they banked in the sun. He described them as being round with tails making no noise. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256) **Source:** Scully, **ID:** Scully_28 ### Event 7234 (C6921D22) **Date:** 4/12/1949 **Time:** 20:50 **Location:** EAU CLAIRE, WI **Description:** Numerous observer(s). 2+2 red orbs going northeast slowly near moon during eclipse. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 340) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1371 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "255", **HatchDesc:** "EAU CLAIRE,WI:NMRS OBS:2+2 RED ORBS >NE SLOWLY nr MOON during eclipse: ", **LatLong:** "44.811113 -91.500004", **LatLongDMS:** "44:48:40 N 91:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.811113,-91.500004)", **State/Prov:** "Wisconsin", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7235 (DA16B83F) **Date:** 4/12/1949 **Location:** Albuquerque, NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 51; 19:30 - white round obj 1/8 size of moon just extinguished (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) **Reference:** NICAP: [490412](http://www.nicap.org/albuq490412dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_560 ### Event 7236 (EE8B4592) **Date:** 4/12/1949 **Location:** El Paso, TX **Description:** AFOSI Case 52; Witness reported grayish object rose straight up leaving smoke trail, 15 minutes duration (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, LC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_561 ### Event 7237 (6409EB43) **Date:** 4/14/1949 **Location:** Branch County, Mich **Description:** **MICHIGAN SEES ORANGE-COLORED SAUCER.** Clifford Cline, farmer in Branch County reported seeing a disk-shaped object with an orange center and a lighter outer edge. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256) **Source:** Scully, **ID:** Scully_26 ### Event 7238 (08B4501C) **Date:** 4/14/1949 **Locations:** Kelly AFB; Kelly Field Annex; San Antonio, Texas; Killeen Base, Texas **Description:** Col. [Reid Lumsden](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/934202/reid-r-lumsden)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/934202/reid-r-lumsden) commander of the AFOSI district office at Kelly AFB \[now Kelly Field Annex\] in San Antonio, Texas, hands the Army reports of flares at Killeen Base to Col. William Carpenter, deputy director of special investigations at the Pentagon. Carpenter promises to investigate. \(Clark III 542\) April 16 and 18 — Mysterious flares are again observed at Killeen Base, Texas. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1985\): 10; Clark III 542 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1365 ### Event 7239 (A766C70A) **Date:** 4/15/1949 **Location:** USA, El Paso (Texas) **Description:** (Translated from French) At 4:30 PM a witness observed for 15 minutes a small grayish disc followed by a thin trail of the same color, quickly rising in the sky from 30° above the horizon. The observation ended when the object was no longer visible. **Reference:** declassified FBI doc. **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1401 ### Event 7240 (E33244ED) **Date:** 4/15/1949 **Time:** 13:30 **Location:** COLORADO SPRINGS, CO **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #294. 2 frosty-color objects zip over B25 at Peterson Airfield. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 163) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1372 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1802", **HatchDesc:** "COLORADO SPRINGS,CO:BBK#294:2 FROSTY-CLR OBJS ZIP OVR B25 at PETERSON AIRFIELD", **LatLong:** "38.816669 -104.816672", **LatLongDMS:** "38:49:00 N 104:49:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.816669,-104.816672)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7241 (8EC7E0E0) **Date:** 4/15/1949 **Time:** 22:00 **Location:** PESSAC, FR **Description:** Girl / 18. Silent ovoid crosses sky. No further details. Same again decades later here. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 289) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1373 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "France", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "PESSAC,FR:GIRL/18:SLNT OVOID CROSSES SKY:NFD:same again decades later here", **LatLong:** "44.816669 -0.650000", **LatLongDMS:** "44:49:00 N 00:39:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.816669,-0.650000)", **State/Prov:** "Gironde", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7242 (9B383C2C) **Date:** 4/18/1949 **Locations:** Arlington Hall, Washington, D.C.; Brooks Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas **Description:** The US Air Force Security Service moves its headquarters from Arlington Hall in Washington, D.C., to Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%5FForce%5FIntelligence%2C%5FSurveillance%5Fand%5FReconnaissance%5FAgency) [Reconnaissance Agency](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%5FForce%5FIntelligence%2C%5FSurveillance%5Fand%5FReconnaissance%5FAgency)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1366 ### Event 7243 (75891D99) **Date:** 4/19/1949 **Locations:** Kirtland AFB, New Mexico; USAF headquarters **Description:** AFOSI at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico, sends to USAF headquarters a list of all green fireball reports it has investigated \(39 in all\) from December 5 to April 12. The common characteristics of most of the incidents are: “a. Green color, sometimes described as greenish-white, bright green, yellow-green, or blue green. b. Horizontal path, sometimes with minor variations. c. Speed less than that of a meteor, but more than any known type of aircraft. d. No sound associated with observation. e. No persistent trail or dust cloud. f. Period of visibility from one to five seconds.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[The Scientific Advisory Board to the Chief of Staff, United States Air Force, Conference,](https://www.project1947.com/gfb/sab11349.html)” November 3, 1949; Clark III 541; Swords 133–135 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1367 ### Event 7244 (9E66FA8B) **Date:** 4/20/1949 **Location:** Ludington, MI **Description:** Fast-moving "comet with a tail" cross the sky disappearing over lake Michigan (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_562 ### Event 7245 (F2DD07E6) **Date:** 4/21/1949 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 49.9km attitude (Premature V-2 cut-off; WAC stage failed to fire) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_362 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 49.9km ### Event 7246 (EEAE4F4A) **Date:** 4/21/1949 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) Launch of V-2 #b6. Bumper Program. Altitude 150 km. Poor performance. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches: "Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1959 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1402 ### Event 7247 (168AC9B3) **Date:** 4/22/1949 **Location:** Cliff, NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 54; 09:05 - round, flat thin disc-shaped aluminum obj disappeared behind mtns (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) **Reference:** NICAP: [490422](http://www.nicap.org/cliff490422dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_563 ### Event 7248 (C7D9DD3C) **Date:** 4/22/1949 **Location:** Cliff, New Mexico **Description:** 9:05 a.m. A round, flat, thin, metallic disc is seen traveling west to east, dropping slowly, over Cliff, New Mexico. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 55 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1368 ### Event 7249 (051CCA88) **Date:** 4/24/1949 **Location:** Arrey, NM **Description:** Arrey, NM: Aerologist Charles B. Moore, Jr., while tracking a weather balloon for General Mills Co. with a theodolite, suddenly noticed a UFO rapidly crossing the sky. He and 4 other technicians turned the 25 power theodolite to track the UFO. It was a featureless ellipse, its length about 2–1/2 times its width. After about 60 seconds the object disappeared in a sharp climb. Based on measurements with the mountain range behind it, it was calculated to be going between 18,000 mph and 25,000 mph (in the atmosphere!). **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_363 ### Event 7250 (DEBE995E) **Date:** 4/24/1949 **Location:** USA, Arrey (White Sands), New Mexico **Description:** (Translated from French) DD - Time: 10:30; number of observers: 5; duration: 1 minute. Charles Moore Jr.- Mc Laughlin, instead of Moore?- is cited by: A. RIBERA: "These mysterious UFOs" - De Vecchi 1976, p. 106, 107) an aerological survey specialist was leading a team of four recruits from the Navy. They had set up the recording instruments that preluded the launch of a Skyhook balloon. (..) there was a theodolite consisting of a 25x magnification telescope mounted to provide elevation and azimuth readings. At 10:30 the group released a 350 gram weather balloon for observation of wind speed and direction at high altitude. Moore followed this balloon with the theodolite for several minutes, after which he handed the instrument to a sailor. Shortly afterwards, he noticed that the sailor had pointed the instrument in another direction. Letting out a choice of naval curses Moore was about to snatch the instrument from the sailor when the latter said: "But I'm keeping it in there." Moore looked and saw in the theodolite's field of view an elliptical whitish object. It was moving east at a speed of 5° of azimuthal displacement per second. It seemed to be two and a half times longer than wide. It was easily visible to the naked eye, and all the members of the group observed it. (...) (J. Allen HYNEK: "UFOs, myth or reality" - trad. Belfond 1974 - p. 85-86 and 274) (Desmond Leslie and Georges Adamski: "The S. V. have landed" J'ai Lu, 1971, p. 46,47 says: "a group of five technicians led by J. Gordon Vaeth, aeronautical engineer of the Naval Research Bureau) 10:30 a.m. Witnesses: the General Mills meteorologist and balloon expert C.B. Moore and others from the balloon launch team. An ellipsoid white, whose length is twice the width **Reference:** Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1403 ### Event 7251 (19CE9D30) **Date:** 4/24/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Arrey, New Mexico, General [Mills](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/MillsJohnStewart.html), meteorologist and balloon expert [Charles Moore](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/MooreCharlesB.html), and other Navy personnel of a balloon launch team observe a round, elliptical white object, about 2.5 times longer than wide. (April 24, 10:30) **Reference:** case [Blue Book](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/BlueBook.html) \#358, unexplained **Reference:** [Hynek](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/HynekJosephAllen.html) 1974 **Reference:** DD-10 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_779 ### Event 7252 (532BB1C1) **Date:** 4/24/1949 **Location:** Near White Sands, NM **Description:** Metallic, elliptic object, extreme speed, tracked, etc. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973_, by Richard Dolan](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/mode/2up) **Source:** Dolan, **ID:** Dolan_43 ### Event 7253 (EE86D51B) **Date:** 4/24/1949 **Time:** 10:20 **Location:** ARREY, NM **Description:** Scientists / theodolite and separate observer(s). Saucers / 30k kph. 1 paces balloon going east. / MJ#252+/ r29p70. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 14) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1374 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1273", **HatchDesc:** "ARREY,NM:SCIs/THEODLT+SEP.OBS:SCRS/30k kph:1 PACES BALLOON >E:/MJ#252+/r29p70", **LatLong:** "32.877779 -107.322227", **LatLongDMS:** "32:52:40 N 107:19:20 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.877779,-107.322227)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7254 (0E9045A7) **Date:** 4/24/1949 **Time:** 13:20 **Location:** EL CAJON, CA **Description:** Air Force pilot and many. 4 10M silver disks going south / box formation. Bank and maneuver. XX accelerations. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 350) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1375 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "112", **HatchDesc:** "EL CAJON,CA:AF PILOT+MANY:4 10M SLVR DISKS >S/BOX FORMn:BANK+MNVR:XX ACCELs", **LatLong:** "32.811113 -116.961117", **LatLongDMS:** "32:48:40 N 116:57:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.811113,-116.961117)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7255 (FDC4C276) **Date:** 4/24/1949 **Location:** Arrey (3 miles N of), NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 55; 10:33 - white-yellow ellipsoid obj disappeared at tremendous rate of speed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 358, NC, LC) **Reference:** NICAP: [490424](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/sands490424dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_564 ### Event 7256 (73E86282) **Date:** 4/24/1949 **Time:** l0:30 AM **Location:** Arrey, New Mexico **Description:** Witnesses: General Mills meteorologist and balloon expert C.B. Moore and others on a balloon launch crew. One white, round ellipsoid, about 2.5 times as long as wide. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_22 ### Event 7257 (DCB0D85A) **Date:** 4/24/1949 **Location:** Arrey, New Mexico **Description:** 10:30 a.m. General Mills meteorologist [Charles B. Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FB.%5FMoore) and four Navy Skyhook balloon launch crewmen \(Navy Chief Fire Controlman William Akers, Davidson, Fitzsimmons, Moorman\) see a white, round object, shadowed yellowish on one side, cross the sky from the south to the east, three miles north of Arrey, New Mexico. [Joseph Gordon Vaeth](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/138676358/joseph-gordon-vaeth) is present as the Navy representative in charge of ground handling. Moore tracks it for 60 seconds on a theodolite. The distance is unknown, but assuming the object is 57 miles away, it would have a velocity of 18,000 mph, a width of 40 feet, and a length of 100 feet; but this is speculative. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[White](http://www.nicap.org/490424arrey%5Fdir.htm) [Sands Incident / C. B. Moore Case](http://www.nicap.org/490424arrey%5Fdir.htm)”; R. B. McLaughlin, \[[Letter to J. A. VanAllen](http://www.nicap.org/docs/490512mclaughlin%5FVan-Allen.pdf)\], May 12, 1949; J. Gordon Vaeth, 200 Miles Up: The Conquest of the Upper Air, Ronald Press, 1951; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#meteorologists) [Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#meteorologists)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 63–64; ClearIntent, [pp. 114–115](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/114/mode/2up); UFOEv, [pp.](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=14&skin=2021) [2–3](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=14&skin=2021); Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 72–73](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/72/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) pp. 56–57; Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1985\): 8–9; Kevin D. Randle, “Charles Moore, New Mexico UFOs, and the Air Force,” IUR 20, no. 5 \(Winter 1995\): 3–4; Michael D. Swords, “1952: Ruppelt’s Big Year,” IUR 28, no. 4 \(Winter 2003–2004\): 10; Michael D. Swords, “Balloons, Missiles, and UFOs,” IUR 29, no. 1 \(Spring 2004\):16–17; Swords 84–85; Clark III 541 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1369 ### Event 7258 (9DEB1616) **Date:** 4/24/1949 **Description:** A high speed, maneuvering object was tracked with a theodolite by five government contractors from General Mills as it sped through the sky. They were at a missile range near Arrey, New Mexico at 10:20 a.m. It looked like a featureless, whitish featureless ellipse, and its length was 2.5 times its width. After 60 seconds it disappeared in a sharp vertical climb. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 238 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2271 ### Event 7259 (1EBA8B2F) **Date:** 4/25/1949 **Time:** 06:30 **Location:** SPRINGER LAKE, NM **Description:** 2 observer(s). Many silver orbs going [to] overhead very fast. Seen / one hour and more. / r209#21. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 163) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1376 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "65", **Elev:** "1808", **HatchDesc:** "SPRINGER LAKE,NM:2 OBS:MANY SLVR ORBS > OVHD VFAST:SEEN/1hr+:/r209#21", **LatLong:** "36.394446 -104.627783", **LatLongDMS:** "36:23:40 N 104:37:40 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.394446,-104.627783)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 7260 (AC3B78DA) **Date:** 4/25/1949 **Location:** Springer Lake, NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 56; 00:50 - silvery spherical objects over a lake at high speed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC, LC) **Reference:** NICAP: [490425](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/springer490425dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_565 ### Event 7261 (C0E69C1B) **Date:** 4/25/1949 **Locations:** Springer Lake; Springer, New Mexico **Description:** 6:30 a.m. A man named Abreu and a friend are fishing at Springer Lake, northwest of Springer, New Mexico, when they hear a high-pitched whistle and see a number of silvery-white balls passing overhead quickly. They reappear repeatedly over the next hour. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Various Formations Observed](http://www.nicap.org/490425springer%5Fdir.htm)”; Clark III 541; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 57 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1370 ### Event 7262 (A2BAEEA1) **Date:** 4/25/1949 **Locations:** AFOSI headquarters; Albuquerque, New Mexico **Description:** Lt. Col. [Doyle Rees](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43562489/doyle-rees) wires AFOSI headquarters to ask if he can send two of his men to AMC to find out if Project Grudge plans to do anything about the green fireballs. Before Rees has a response, [Joseph Kaplan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FKaplan) arrives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, having been directed there by AF Intelligence Director Maj. Gen. [Charles Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) and Scientific Advisory Board Chairman [Theodore Von Kármán](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore%5Fvon%5FK%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n), who wants Kaplan to set up a field investigation. They emphasize that Grudge is not to be informed. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 542; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1949-Jan-Jun.pdf) [History: 1949, January–June](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1949-Jan-Jun.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1949-Jan-Jun.pdf) The Author, 1988, p. 52 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1371 ### Event 7263 (D65F21FE) **Date:** 4/26/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Shallet publishes his first article. (April 26) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_780 ### Event 7264 (0535B3F3) **Date:** 4/26/1949 **Time:** 00:20 **Location:** AMBRIDGE, PA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #272. Railroad/railway men. 40 saucers / 3 V-forms east going quickly west. 1 cuts out and scouts foundry. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 162) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1377 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "244", **HatchDesc:** "AMBRIDGE,PA:BBK#272:RR MEN:40 SCRS/3 V-FORMS E>>W:1 CUTS OUT+SCOUTS FOUNDRY", **LatLong:** "40.588891 -80.227782", **LatLongDMS:** "40:35:20 N 80:13:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.588891,-80.227782)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7265 (29557873) **Date:** 4/27/1949 **Description:** USAF press release admits that saucers may exist **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_101 ### Event 7266 (8C5C9E9C) **Date:** 4/27/1949 **Location:** US **Description:** Project Saucer report released: About 30% of the sightings investigated to date were said to be explained as conventional objects. An equal number, the report said, probably would be explainable after further probing. **Type:** report released **Reference:** ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) **Reference:** ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_859 ### Event 7267 (1A04854B) **Date:** 4/27/1949 **Location:** USAF M-26-49 statement: **Description:** (Translated from French) The possible existence of some kind of strange extraterrestrial animals was also vaguely considered, since several of these objects described behave more like animals than anything else. But there are few reliable reports on extraterrestrial animals. Space navigation, outside the solar system is a near certainty... [note from vog: I can't resist adding A. Ribera's personal follow-up in "These Mysterious UFOs": What is absolutely certain, in any case, is the existence of certain "terrestrial animals".. many of which belong to the personnel of ATIC where they hide under the appearances of dignified technicians.] **Reference:** Henry DURRANT: "The Black Book of UFOs" - Laffont 1970 - p.95-96, 99 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1404 ### Event 7268 (FBF93AC7) **Date:** 4/27/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The [Grudge](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Grudge.html) project communicates its first M-26-49 US-AF summary report on a preliminary study related to UFOs to the Intelligence hierarchy of the [USAF](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/USAF.html). The report considers the existence of strange extraterrestrial animals instead of superior entities \(!\). (April 27) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_781 ### Event 7269 (C1E8E118) **Date:** 4/27/1949 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** FT HOOD, TX **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #315. Many report(s) since February. Saucers. Cigars. Small night lights pass through trees etc. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 166) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1378 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEG:** Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "170", **Elev:** "283", **HatchDesc:** "Ft HOOD,TX:BBK#315:MANY RPTs SINCE FEB:SCRS:CGRS:SML NLTS PASS THRU TREES etc", **LatLong:** "31.166668 -97.750005", **LatLongDMS:** "31:10:00 N 97:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.166668,-97.750005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7270 (FE639C2A) **Date:** 4/27/1949 **Location:** Killeen Base, Camp Hood (SE of), TX **Description:** Blinking violet object passing through branches of a tree (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [490427](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/hood490427dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_566 ### Event 7271 (6158D651) **Date:** 4/27/1949 **Locations:** Sandia Base, New Mexico; Los Alamos, Sandia, and White Sands; Killeen Base in Texas; New Mexico School of Mines **Description:** [Rees](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43562489/doyle-rees)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43562489/doyle-rees) [Kaplan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FKaplan)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FKaplan) and [LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) brief Armed Forces Special Weapons Project personnel at Sandia Base, New Mexico. LaPaz outlines plans for a network of visual, photographic, spectrographic, and radar observations covering Los Alamos, Sandia, and White Sands. Scientist [William D. Crozier](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44600139/william-dwight-crozier) of the New Mexico School of Mines offers to handle air sampling. Rees urges that the Killeen Base in Texas be included. Kaplan, who says the project is “of extreme importance” because “these occurrences relate to the National Defense of the United States,” recommends LaPaz to handle the project. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lt. Col. Doyle Rees, “[Unknown \(Aerial Phenomena\),](http://www.nicap.org/docs/490512%5FAFOSI%5FRees%5F%20memo%5Fo%20Kaplan%5Fvisit.pdf)” May 12, 1949; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1949 January–June,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1949-Jan-Jun-SN.pdf) [Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1949-Jan-Jun-SN.pdf), The Author, 2000, pp. 60–62; Clark III 542 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1372 ### Event 7272 (4685B2D8) **Date:** 4/27/1949 **Description:** USAF Directorate of Intelligence briefs the USAF Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations on UFOs. “Investigations continue in an effort to find definite explanations for the many unidentified aerial objects which have been reported during the past two years.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Unidentified Aerial Objects,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/project1947.com%5Ffig%5Fairbrf.pdf)” Air Brief, Special Study Part Two, April 27, 1949 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1373 ### Event 7273 (2337BAA7) **Date:** 4/27/1949 **Location:** Pentagon Office of Public Information **Description:** A 22-page memorandum for the press \(629-49\) on “Project Saucer” is released by the Pentagon Office of Public Information, scheduled deliberately to coincide with part one of Shalett’s article in the Saturday Evening Post. The writer is unknown, but it is more pro-ETH than the current Project Grudge mentality, listing several solid and dramatic cases. It concludes: “The ‘saucers’ are not a joke. Neither are they a cause for alarm to the population.” The discrepancy between Shalett’s mostly dismissive tone and the positivity of the Project Saucer statement causes Maj. [Donald E. Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) to wonder if there is a major disagreement about UFOs within the Air Force. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** National Military Establishment, Office of Public Information, “[Project ‘Saucer,’](http://www.nicap.org/docs/SaucerRptApr1949.pdf)” April 27, 1949; Swords 74–75 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1374 ### Event 7274 (4C0CE51D) **Date:** 4/27/1949 **Location:** Killeen Base, Texas **Description:** 9:20 p.m. Two Army patrolmen southeast of Killeen Base, Texas, see a blinking violet light no more than 1.5 inches in diameter and only 10–12 feet from them, 6–7 feet above the ground. During the 60-second observation, the light passes through the branches of a tree. At 9:25 p.m., 2 miles away, four Army soldiers see a 4-inch light with a 2–4-inch metallic cone attached to the back. It silently approaches them in a level flight at 60–70 mph. It disappears to the southwest at a distance of 150 feet. At about 9:37 p.m., a 2-inch-wide white light appears 100 feet away to the northwest, flying in a zig-zag fashion in a level path 6 feet above the ground. It vanishes abruptly. A third light shows up at 9:39 p.m. in the west-southwest. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Close Encounters with Drones/Probes at](http://www.nicap.org/490427camphood%5Fdir.htm) [Weapons Storage Site](http://www.nicap.org/490427camphood%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) pp. 57–58; Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1985\): 10; Clark III 542 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1375 ### Event 7275 (A042C73D) **Date:** 4/28/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Tucson, Arizona, Howard Hann, Hubert, and Tex Keahey observed an object shaped like a sausage for 40 minutes. It spun and flew quickly. (April 28, 5:45 PM) **Reference:** case [Blue Book](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/BlueBook.html) \#361 unexplained **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_782 ### Event 7276 (F7304E67) **Date:** 4/28/1949 **Location:** Gary, Indiana **Description:** **INDIANA SEES ONE DEFY PERSPECTIVE LAW.** Leon Faber of Sandwich, Ill., sighted a bright shining object moving east while he was flying up at an elevation of 6,000 feet over the Gary-Michigan City area. It seemed to be about 10,000 feet away and about the size of a basketball. It suddenly disappeared without getting any smaller. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256) **Source:** Scully, **ID:** Scully_33 ### Event 7277 (ED461800) **Date:** 4/28/1949 **Location:** HOMER, MICH **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #313. 2 men / factory. 6 silver disks in wide circle going west / 65kph. 150m altitude. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 165) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1379 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "303", **HatchDesc:** "HOMER,MICH:BBK#313:2 MEN/FACTORY:6 SLVR DISKS in WIDE CIRCLE >W/65kph:150m alt", **LatLong:** "42.144446 -84.811115", **LatLongDMS:** "42:08:40 N 84:48:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.144446,-84.811115)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7278 (7B9FFA1B) **Date:** 4/28/1949 **Time:** 17:50 **Location:** CATALINA MOUNTAINS, AZ **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #332. 700' metal cylinder/cigar-shape / 5mi altitude. 500mph estimated. Rolls and soars. Going quickly southwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 165) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1380 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "40", **Elev:** "960", **HatchDesc:** "CATALINA MTNs,AZ:BBK#332:700'MTL CGR/5mi ALT:500mph estm:ROLLS+SOARS:>>SW", **LatLong:** "32.416668 -110.666672", **LatLongDMS:** "32:25:00 N 110:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.416668,-110.666672)", **RelAlt:** "8000", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7279 (3B97C801) **Date:** 4/28/1949 **Location:** Homer, MI **Description:** Pursued 6 flying discs 10 inches diameter by car (FOIA) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [490428](http://www.nicap.org/homer490428dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_567 ### Event 7280 (A802A2BF) **Date:** 4/28/1949 **Location:** Tucson, AZ **Description:** AFOSI Case 57; app 17:45 - a very large bright, sausage-shaped object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 361, NC, LC) **Reference:** NICAP: [490428](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/tucson490428dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_568 ### Event 7281 (8E944DBF) **Date:** 4/28/1949 **Location:** Killeen Base, Camp Hood (SE of), TX **Description:** A variety of strange lights, mostly slow-moving changing color from white to red to green (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_569 ### Event 7282 (5B8A2F86) **Date:** 4/28/1949 **Time:** 5:45 PM **Location:** Tucson, Arizona **Description:** Witnesses: Howard Hann, Mr. Hubert, Tex Keahey. One bright, sausage-shaped object was observed for 40 minutes while it rolled and flew fast. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_23 ### Event 7283 (A007846D) **Date:** 4/28/1949 **Location:** Joint Intelligence Committee **Description:** USAF Director of Intelligence [Charles Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) sends a report on “Unidentified Aerial Objects” to the Joint Intelligence Committee. It summarizes the history of Project Sign up to its redesignation as Grudge and adds an appendix on “Unidentified Aerial Objects: Fact and Discussion,” which is basically a short version of the sanitized February 11 Sign report, with some green fireball information added. It recommends sending reports of unidentified “light phenomena” to the scientific community and reports of “atomic powered craft of unusual design” to the AEC. It concludes that “There are numerous reports from reliable and competent observers for which a conclusive explanation has not been made” and that some “involve configurations and described performance which might conceivably represent an advanced aerodynamical development. A few unexplained incidents surpass these limits of credulity. It is unlikely that a foreign power would expose a superior aerial weapon by a prolonged ineffectual penetration of the United States.” This essentially resurrects the ETH as a possibility, without clearly stating it. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Report by the Director of Intelligence, USAF, to the Joint Intelligence](http://www.project1947.com/fig/DI%5FJIC%5FApril%5F28%5F1949.pdf) [Committee on Unidentified Aerial Objects,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/DI%5FJIC%5FApril%5F28%5F1949.pdf)” April 28, 1949; Jan Aldrich, “[Top-Secret 1949 Document,](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/IUR%5Farticle1.pdf)” IUR 23, no. 1 \(Spring 1998\): 3–6, 31; Swords 76–77 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1376 ### Event 7284 (B0A961A3) **Date:** 4/28/1949 **Description:** Some printed copies of Air Intelligence Report 100-203-79, “Analysis of Flying Object Incidents in the United States,” bear this date, although it was originally released December 10, 1948. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** US Air Force, Directorate of Intelligence, [Analysis of Flying Object Incidents in the U.S.: Summary and Conclusions](http://www.nicap.org/docs/airintelrpt100-203-79.pdf), Air Intelligence Report 100-203-79, December 10, 1948; [copy](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1948air.htm), dated April 28, 1949 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1377 ### Event 7285 (2F3186B6) **Date:** 4/28/1949 **Location:** Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico **Description:** [Kaplan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FKaplan)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FKaplan) [LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) [Rees](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43562489/doyle-rees)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43562489/doyle-rees) and [Neef](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100488651/melvin-ellis-neef) meet with security officers at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico to discuss green fireball observations at that facility. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1949-Jan-Jun-SN.pdf) [Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1949 January–June, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1949-Jan-Jun-SN.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1949-Jan-Jun-SN.pdf) The Author, 2000, pp. 62–63 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1378 ### Event 7286 (45A3F1FE) **Date:** 4/28/1949 **Location:** Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, Indiana **Description:** 8:00 a.m. Businessman and private pilot Leon A. Faber is flying at 3,000 feet near the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, Indiana, when he sees a metallic disc moving east about 10,000 feet away. He is chatting with some ham radio operators on the ground during the 5 minutes the object is in sight before it disappears. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Flying Saucer Observed from Aircraft](http://www.nicap.org/490428gary%5Fdir.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1379 ### Event 7287 (EC421315) **Date:** 4/28/1949 **Locations:** Tucson, Arizona; Catalina Mountains **Description:** 5:45 p.m. Howard Hann \[Hamm?\], a Mr. Hubert \[Huber?\], and Tex Keahey see a very large, bright, sausage- shaped object travel from northeast to southwest over the rim of the Catalina Mountains near Tucson, Arizona, over a period of 12 minutes. The object is shiny metallic and reflects the sun, apparently revolving as it moves like the “slow roll of an airplane.” There is no noise, nor is there exhaust or a vapor trail. There are no wings or engines or “protuberances of any sort.” It appears to be traveling at 300–600 mph. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Cigar-Shaped Object](http://www.nicap.org/490428tucson%5Fdir.htm) [Observed in Daylight](http://www.nicap.org/490428tucson%5Fdir.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1380 ### Event 7288 (244AE965) **Date:** 4/28/1949 **Location:** Killeen Base, Texas **Description:** 8:30 p.m. Several security patrols at Killeen Base, Texas, report nine separate sightings of lights southeast of the base. Most change color from white to red to green. On one occasion, four lights appear together; on another, 8–10 show up in each other’s company. No debris or evidence of flares are found. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1985\): 10; Clark III 543; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 58 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1381 ### Event 7289 (4E17F452) **Date:** 4/28/1949 **Description:** Six silver discs flew in a wide circle over Homer, Michigan toward the west at 40 mph and at an estimated 500 feet altitude. At 5:45 p.m. a 700 foot long metallic cigar-shaped object flew over Tucson, Arizona at an estimated altitude of five miles. It rolled and soared off toward the southwest at an estimated speed of 500 mph. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, April 1949, case 361; Larry Hatch, U computer database, cases # 1392 & 1393 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2388 ### Event 7290 (3564C8E4) **Date:** 4/29/1949 **Description:** The April 30 issue of the Saturday Evening Post with part one of Sidney Shalett’s “What You Can Believe about Flying Saucers” hits the newsstands. The USAF Public Relations Office has cooperated fully with Shalett, who sets out a fairly even-handed introduction to the phenomenon. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Sidney Shalett, “[What You Can Believe](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/Saturday%20Evening%20Post/1949%2004%2030%5FSaturday%20Evening%20Post%5FShalett.pdf) [about Flying Saucers, Part One,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/Saturday%20Evening%20Post/1949%2004%2030%5FSaturday%20Evening%20Post%5FShalett.pdf)” Saturday Evening Post, April 30, 1949, pp. 20–21, 136–139; Swords 73 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1382 ### Event 7291 (D8E2E64F) **Date:** 4/30/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) [Hynek](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/HynekJosephAllen.html), a scientific advisor tasked with providing an astronomical interpretation of each case, makes a report. He will later admit to having pushed too hard to find a natural explanation. (April 30) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_783 ### Event 7292 (1ED85B74) **Date:** 4/30/1949 **Location:** Albuquerque, NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 58; 22:15 - Blue-green round obj abt 10th size of moon just went out (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_570 ### Event 7293 (E14C8F6E) **Date:** 4/30/1949 **Description:** [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) turns in his astronomical analysis of Sign’s 237 cases. His contract with Sign is over. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 199–200](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/198/mode/2up); Hynek UFO Report, [p. 17](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/16/mode/2up); O’Connell 45 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1383 ### Event 7294 (EC57EA65) **Date:** 5/1949 **Location:** White Sands Proving Grounds **Description:** **COMMANDER CONFIRMS SIGHTING.** Commander Robert B. McLaughlin, USN, in a further report said that an object, white in color, proceeding slowly westward was sighted. It picked up speed, passed overhead and disappeared over the Organ Mountains. When first sighted, the object had been going at about one mile per second at a height of 25 miles, but when it accelerated it did so at a rate far beyond the capabilities of any present-day rocket. Passing within 5 degrees of the sun, it remained visible, showing no discernible method of propulsion. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256) **Source:** Scully, **ID:** Scully_35 ### Event 7295 (84DCF938) **Date:** 5/1949 **Location:** Los Alamos, NM **Description:** Saw 13 saucer shaped objects in a perfect straight line formation (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [490500](http://www.nicap.org/4905XXalamosdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_571 ### Event 7296 (C91AF19D) **Date:** Early 5/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The 1st report of the [Grudge](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Grudge.html) project is released. (Early May) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_784 ### Event 7297 (A4DFF4A5) **Date:** 5/2/1949 **Time:** 10:20 **Location:** NORTH / ELKO, NV **Description:** 3 10M metallic disks going southwest / 400kph. 4200 M altitude. Silent. Veer going south / precise tilt. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 364) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1381 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1550", **HatchDesc:** "N/ELKO,NV:3 10M MTLC DISKS >SW/400kph:4200 M alt:SLNT:VEER > S/precise tilt", **LatLong:** "40.905558 -115.755561", **LatLongDMS:** "40:54:20 N 115:45:20 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.905558,-115.755561)", **State/Prov:** "Nevada", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7298 (F8F15B72) **Date:** 5/2/1949 **Location:** Elko, NV **Description:** 3 flying discs 30 ft diameter at 14,000 ft make a left turn and depart ahead of a United airliner taking off from Elko airport. (FOIA; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [490502](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/elko490502dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_572 ### Event 7299 (ECA45954) **Date:** 5/2/1949 **Description:** At 10:20 a.m. north of Elko, Nevada three metallic discs with an estimated diameter of 10 meters flew over the desert to the southwest at 400 kph and an altitude of 4200 meters. They were silent, and all three veered to the south with the same precise tilt. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1394; citing Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1949 (Volume 3), p. 64 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2452 ### Event 7300 (7000F0C0) **Date:** 5/3/1949 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) Launch of a Viking 1. Altitude 80 km. Premature stop due to leak in turbine. Engine stopped after 54 seconds. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches: Ley 1958, 274? AND M.W. Rosen, N.Y. 1955 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1405 ### Event 7301 (1C5812D9) **Date:** 5/3/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Launch of an American Viking probe rocket. (May 3) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_785 ### Event 7302 (FDE1455A) **Date:** 5/3/1949 **Location:** Los Alamos, NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 59; 21:43 - bright white obj went very fast (up to 1,000 mph) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_573 ### Event 7303 (B6609C7C) **Date:** 5/3/1949 **Location:** Los Alamos, NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 60; 21:26;21:43;22:05 - Large white size like airplane landing lights obj (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_574 ### Event 7304 (1ED7BD74) **Date:** 5/3/1949 **Location:** Los Alamos, NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 61; 21:26-white baseball diamond lights; 21:40 - slightly larger than firebox lights (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_575 ### Event 7305 (BAAB42FC) **Date:** 5/3/1949 **Location:** Sidney, OH **Description:** Bright shiny disc high overhead wavering, climbing and descending slightly on a straight path. (FOIA; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [490503](http://www.nicap.org/sidney490503dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_576 ### Event 7306 (864CE5F4) **Date:** 5/4/1949 **Location:** Maplewood (4.5 Miles W of), OH **Description:** Bright silver flat circular object to the SE traveling NE (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_577 ### Event 7307 (459BE22F) **Date:** 5/4/1949 **Locations:** Killeen Base; Camp Hood, Texas **Description:** The US Fourth Army creates an operational plan for a green fireball observation and tracking network at Killeen Base in Camp Hood, Texas. Although it lacks cameras, it has four six-man observation posts equipped with instruments to obtain directional bearings. One of the posts serves as the plotting center to coordinate and triangulate UFO sightings. Each day, a roving patrol gets new orders. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** \(Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1985\): 10–12; Clark III 543; Thomas Tulien, ed., [Proceedings of the Sign Historical Group UFO History Workshop](https://sohp.us/Sign-Historical-Group-Workshop-Proceedings.pdf), Sign Historical Group, November 2001, pp. 43–44\). **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1384 ### Event 7308 (3436A4C2) **Date:** 5/5/1949 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 8.85km attitude (Second Hermes II ‘Organ’ test of ramjet diffuser in place of payload section) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_364 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 8.85km ### Event 7309 (4D94A26B) **Date:** 5/5/1949 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) Launch at 8:15 of V-2 #46, only 8 km altitude, poor performance. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches: "Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1959 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1406 ### Event 7310 (960F785E) **Date:** 5/5/1949 **Location:** USA, Fort Bliss (Texas) **Description:** (Translated from French) 11:40 a.m. Witnesses: Army officers: Maj. Day, Maj. Olhausen, Capt. Vaughn. Two white, oblong discs, flying at a speed of approximately 200-250 m.p.h., made a slight circular motion during the 30-50 seconds of observation. (1949, 5 May) **Reference:** Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1407 ### Event 7311 (58E0EE4B) **Date:** 5/5/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Fort Bliss \(Texas\), Major Day, Major Olhausen, and Captain Vaughn of the US Army observed 2 white oblong discs, flying at an estimated speed between 200 and 250 miles/h. It made a slight turn during the 30 to 50 seconds of observation. (May 5, 11:40) **Reference:** case [Blue Book](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/BlueBook.html) \#376 unexplained **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_786 ### Event 7312 (3E7AB4E9) **Date:** 5/5/1949 **Time:** 11:40 **Location:** FT BLISS, TX **Description:** 3 military observer(s). White saucers / 250mph. Project Bluebook Case #311-military observer(s). 100' saucer-cigars / 48 Apr. '49. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 168) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1382 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1160", **HatchDesc:** "Ft BLISS,TX:3 MIL OBS:WHT SCRS/250mph::BBK#311-MIL OBS:100'SCR-CGRS/48APR49", **LatLong:** "31.833335 -106.300005", **LatLongDMS:** "31:50:00 N 106:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.833335,-106.300005)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7313 (B0E597DA) **Date:** 5/5/1949 **Location:** Fort Bliss, TX **Description:** 2 oblong white discs, flying at about 200-250 mph (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 376) **Reference:** NICAP: [490505](http://www.nicap.org/fbliss490505dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_578 ### Event 7314 (4D7F1D0F) **Date:** 5/5/1949 **Time:** 11:40 AM **Location:** Ft. Bliss, Texas **Description:** Witnesses: Army officers Maj. Day, Maj. Olhausen, Capt. Vaughn. Two oblong white discs, flying at an estimated 200-250 m.p.h., made a shallow turn during the 30-50 second observation. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_24 ### Event 7315 (B04E1CE5) **Date:** 5/5/1949 **Locations:** San Antonio; Camp Hood, Killeen, Texas **Description:** 10:00 a.m. The Fourth US Army has approached AFOSI in San Antonio to offer assistance in investigating green fireballs and the Killeen lights. They arrange a meeting with AFOSI, ONI, CIC, the FBI, and the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project at Camp Hood, Killeen, Texas, the first of several weekly meetings. Army and Navy officials agree that the fireballs remain unexplained. AFSWP personnel believe they are natural phenomena; AFOSI and FBI give no opinion. The Fourth Army urges AFOSI to create an observation system, even though it had just secretly created one of its own on May 4. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1985\): 10–11; Clark III 543 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1385 ### Event 7316 (83BC37AE) **Date:** 5/5/1949 **Locations:** Fort Bliss, Texas; Waco no. 4 firing range **Description:** 11:40 a.m. Army officers Maj. Charles D. May Jr., Maj. James N. Olhausen, and Capt. [Molloy C. Vaughn](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1276756/molloy-clark-vaughn) on the Waco no. 4 firing range at Fort Bliss, Texas, watch for 30–50 seconds two oblong white discs pass through a field of fire. They are flying at about 200–250 mph at an altitude of 1,000 feet. The objects make a shallow turn. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[May 5, 1949, 1140 MST, Fort Bliss, Texas](http://www.nicap.org/fbliss490505dir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 59 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1386 ### Event 7317 (AB8ABC78) **Date:** 5/6/1949 **Location:** USSR, Moscow (in flight) **Description:** (Translated from French) (cf: June 16, 1948) Apraksine was on a test flight at maximum altitude. (...). Suddenly, he saw an "incomprehensible" aircraft, lower than him, which began to descend even lower. Apraksine maneuvered towards the flying cigar. The two aircrafts were going very fast on a collision trajectory. At a distance of 10 km, a cone of light beams was once again directed at Apraksine. He was blinded. All the electrical controls of the plane were destroyed. The Plexiglas windshield was damaged. The cabin pressurization was lost and, although wearing a special suit and a waterproof helmet, Apraksine was in great difficulty. He nevertheless managed to land on the right bank of the Volga, 40 km north of Saratov and lost consciousness. (...) in January 1950 he appeared before a medical committee and was definitively retired. **Reference:** Jacques VALLEE: "The Invisible College" J'ai Lu 1975, pp. 83 to 85 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1408 ### Event 7318 (1103E997) **Date:** 5/6/1949 **Location:** USA, Livermoore, California. **Description:** (Translated from French) 9:35 a.m. Witness: C. G. Green. Two objects resembling discs, luminous, turning around each other while blinking. One shot up to the sky emitting a grey trail, and the other one joined it afterwards. Duration: 5 minutes. **Reference:** Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1409 ### Event 7319 (CBC53C88) **Date:** 5/6/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Livermore, California, C. G. Green observed two bright, disk-shaped objects spinning around each other, and changing direction. Then one of them rose with a gray trail and joined the other. The observation lasted 5 minutes. (9:35) **Reference:** case [Blue Book](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/BlueBook.html) \#379, unexplained **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_787 ### Event 7320 (C7679DD2) **Date:** 5/6/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The highly decorated Soviet Air Force pilot Arkadii Ivanovich Apraksin conducted a test flight over Kapustin Yar and encountered an object at an altitude of 15000 m similar to the one from 1948. The object again sent its light rays towards the plane, still at 10 km distance, and Apraksin managed to land his aircraft without systems or engine. He woke up in the Saratov hospital and left a detailed account of his encounter. 2 and a half months later he was put in charge of a special medical commission in Moscow which sent him to a psycho-neurological institute where he was given electroshock treatment and psychotherapy. Afterwards he was declared unfit for any service. **Reference:** Timothy Good, _Above Top Secret_, page 225 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_788 ### Event 7321 (406BAE0F) **Date:** 5/6/1949 **Location:** SARATOV, RUSSIA **Description:** Test Pilot Apraksin. Cylinder/cigar-shape zaps plane. Partly melted. / F. Zigel and more / r27p4. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GOOD, Timothy: ABOVE TOP SECRET; Sidgewick & Jackson, London 1987 & Quill Books, 1988. 592pp. (Index 221) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1383 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Russia", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "10", **HatchDesc:** "SARATOV,RUS:TEST PILOT APRAKSIN:CGR ZAPS PLANE:PARTLY MELTED:/F.Zigel+/r27p4", **LatLong:** "51.500002 45.500002", **LatLongDMS:** "51:30:00 N 45:30:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.500002,45.500002)", **State/Prov:** "VOL", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7322 (98C827CA) **Date:** 5/6/1949 **Time:** 09:40 **Location:** LIVERMORE, CA **Description:** 1 observer. 2 shiny saucers circle each other and bank. 1 shoots up and rejoins going down. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 3) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1384 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "166", **HatchDesc:** "LIVERMORE,CA:1 OBS:2 SHINY SCRS CIRCLE EACH OTHER+BANK:1 SHOOTS UP+REJOINS↓", **LatLong:** "37.700002 -121.783339", **LatLongDMS:** "37:42:00 N 121:47:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.700002,-121.783339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7323 (C8A554E8) **Date:** 5/6/1949 **Location:** Sidney, OH **Description:** Object with no trail or sound-too bright to see the shape (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_579 ### Event 7324 (815B4666) **Date:** 5/6/1949 **Location:** Livermore, CA **Description:** 2 shiny, disc-like objects rotate around each other (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 379) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_580 ### Event 7325 (CE43384A) **Date:** 5/6/1949 **Location:** Killeen Base, Camp Hood, TX **Description:** AFOSI Case 62; 21:40 - 21:30 - Army artillery observers est 2 days earlier, tracks its first object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC, LC) **Reference:** NICAP: [490506](http://nicap.org/hood490506dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_581 ### Event 7326 (9975FB1C) **Date:** 5/6/1949 **Location:** Los Alamos, NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 63; 01:05 - round green obj 1/8 sz of moon disappeared W of Jamez mtns (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_582 ### Event 7327 (D83C9251) **Date:** 5/6/1949 **Time:** 9:35 AM **Location:** Livermore, California **Description:** Witness: C. G. Green. Two shiny, disc-like objects rotated around each other and banked. Then one shot upwards with a grey trail and rejoined the other. The sighting lasted 5 minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_25 ### Event 7328 (D90409A7) **Date:** 5/6/1949 **Locations:** Kapustin Yar site, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia; Volga River; Saratov **Description:** Soviet test pilot Arkady Ivanovich Apraksin takes a new airplane for a flight at the Kapustin Yar site, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia. At its maximum ceiling of 9.3 miles, he encounters a cucumber-shaped object, similar to the one he encountered on June 16, 1948, that directs cones of light at his aircraft from a distance of 6–7 miles. The lights cause his communications equipment to fail and damage part of his plexiglass cockpit canopy that results in a loss of air pressure. He manages to land on the banks of the Volga River 30 miles from Saratov. He wakes up in a hospital in Saratov. He again undergoes intense interrogation, psychotherapy, and medical procedures. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Good Above, [pp. 221–223](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/220/mode/2up); Joe Brill, “UFO’s behind the Iron Curtain,” Skylook, no. 87, February 1975, p. 15 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1387 ### Event 7329 (C09F217D) **Date:** 5/6/1949 **Location:** San Antonio, Texas **Description:** Col. [Lumsden](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/934202/reid-r-lumsden) of the San Antonio, Texas, AFOSI office informs headquarters that the “matter has reached a fairly serious stage and some positive action is necessary.” He does not send this message to Project Grudge. Headquarters responds quickly and orders him to investigate all sightings but reminds him to inform AMC. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1985\): 11; Clark III 543 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1388 ### Event 7330 (3DC7F383) **Date:** 5/6/1949 **Description:** Part two of Shalett’s article on UFOs appears in the May 7 issue of the Saturday Evening Post, which takes a more skeptical tone than the first part, with the Gorman case receiving a particularly harsh thrashing. However, he treats Chiles-Whitted favorably and ends with some hints on how to make good observations. Within a few days, the frequency of UFO reports hits an all-time high. USAF issues another long press release completely debunking UFOs, but it has no effect. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Sidney Shalett, “[What You Can Believe about Flying Saucers, Part Two,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/Saturday%20Evening%20Post/1949%2005%2007%5FSaturday%20Evening%20Post%5FShalett.pdf)” Saturday Evening Post, May 7, 1949, pp. 36, 184–186; Swords 74; Ruppelt, [p. 63](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/62/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1389 ### Event 7331 (ED5A84C9) **Date:** 5/6/1949 **Description:** On this day, a decorated Soviet test pilot named Apraksin was flying over the Volga River in Russia, 40 kilometers north of the city of Saratov, when his aircraft's electrical system was knocked out of operation by a cone of light from a cucumber-shaped UFO after he attempted to approach it. He was blinded by the light, but managed to land the crippled aircraft despite his incapacitation in an abrupt emergency landing. He then lost consciousness and was confined to hospital to recuperate. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Felix Zigel, unpublished manuscript, pp. 124-126; Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 138, citing Felix Zigel; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 4; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 11 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2574 ### Event 7332 (73E081A0) **Date:** 5/6/1949 **Description:** At 8:30 a.m. EDT witnesses Stump, Herman and Quinn in Sidney, Ohio saw a bright object about half a mile to the west moving south at high speed. It left no trail and made no sound. One of the witnesses said it was too bright to tell what shape it had, but the others said it had a flat, circular shape. It was in sight for two minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files; Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2575 ### Event 7333 (2B105108) **Date:** 5/6/1949 **Description:** At 9:35 a.m. a witness named C. G. Green reported to the U.S. Air Force that two shiny disc-shaped objects circled each other and banked over a field in Livermore, California. One of the objects shot straight up with a gray trail. The sighting lasted five minutes. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 379; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1397; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2576 ### Event 7334 (61AE5914) **Date:** 5/6/1949 **Description:** At Killeen Base, Camp Hood, Texas a UFO observation network set up two days earlier, employing Army artillery observers, tracked their first object. They sighted and triangulated on a brilliant light 4000 yards in the distance. It moved very slowly, dropping from an altitude of 1200 feet to 440 feet. It was the apparent size of a half dollar at arm's length. Its color was pinkish to green, and was in sight for 50 minutes. The main witness was Lt. Mardell E. Ward. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich, FOIA, http://www.nicap.org/hood490506dir.htm **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2577 ### Event 7335 (736B1403) **Date:** 5/7/1949 **Location:** Oakland, California **Description:** **CALIFORNIA SEES THEM AS 'SQUARES'.** Benjamin F. Smith of Oakland saw two rows of square objects flying in the regular airliner levels traveling from north to south, moving soundlessly at tremendous speed. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256) **Source:** Scully, **ID:** Scully_34 ### Event 7336 (AEE5207F) **Date:** 5/7/1949 **Time:** 19:40 **Location:** FT HOOD, TX **Description:** 100+military observer(s). 15' diamond. UFO's all over restricted areas / months. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 156) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1385 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "85", **Elev:** "283", **HatchDesc:** "Ft HOOD,TX:100+MIL OBS:15' DIAMOND:UFOS ALL OVR RESTRICTED AREAS/MONTHS", **LatLong:** "31.200001 -97.766671", **LatLongDMS:** "31:12:00 N 97:46:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.200001,-97.766671)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7337 (C78A6B18) **Date:** 5/7/1949 **Location:** St. Louis, MO **Description:** Sun glinting off a flat reddish-brown object "somewhat triangular" shaped (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_583 ### Event 7338 (DF929C63) **Date:** 5/7/1949 **Location:** Killeen Base, Camp Hood, TX **Description:** AFOSI Case 64; 20:25-21:05 - brilliant white diamond-shaped obj at triangulated location (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC, LC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_584 ### Event 7339 (5212F526) **Date:** 5/7/1949 **Location:** Killeen Base, Camp Hood, TX **Description:** AFOSI Case 65; 19:40 - reddish greenish white diamond shaped obj dimmed and went out (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_585 ### Event 7340 (08EAC669) **Date:** 5/8/1949 **Location:** Killeen Base, Camp Hood, TX **Description:** AFOSI Case 66; 20:08-20:17 - brilliant white diamond-shaped object caused severe radio interference (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC, LC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_586 ### Event 7341 (BF639113) **Date:** 5/8/1949 **Location:** Tucson, AZ **Description:** AFOSI Case 67; 09:30-11:00 - white metallic circular obj from motionless to faster than jet (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_587 ### Event 7342 (B44BD0DB) **Date:** 5/9/1949 **Location:** USA, Tucson, Arizona **Description:** (Translated from French) Witness: M/Sgt. Troy Putnam. Two round, flat objects, silver in appearance, estimated to be 25 feet in diameter, flying at 750-1,000 m.p.h. in regular jumps. **Reference:** Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1410 ### Event 7343 (ABE799AE) **Date:** 5/9/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Tucson, Arizona, Sergeant-Chief Troy Putnam observed 2 round, flat, metallic-looking objects, approximately 25 feet in diameter, flying between 750 and 1000 miles/h in a stable turning position. (May 9, 2:30 PM) **Reference:** case [Blue Book](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/BlueBook.html) \#384 unexplained **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_789 ### Event 7344 (C771A099) **Date:** 5/9/1949 **Time:** 14:30 **Location:** TUCSON, AZ **Description:** Sgt. Putnam. 2 flat 25' silver saucers. 750+mph in smooth steady banked trajectory. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 3) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1386 **Attributes:** **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "717", **HatchDesc:** "TUCSON,AZ:Sgt PUTNAM:2 FLAT 25'SLVR SCRS:750+mph in SMOOTH STEADY BANKED TRAJ", **LatLong:** "32.200002 -110.933339", **LatLongDMS:** "32:12:00 N 110:56:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.200002,-110.933339)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7345 (467D33C4) **Date:** 5/9/1949 **Location:** Tucson, AZ **Description:** AFOSI Case 68; app 14:30 - silvery, round and flat obj at 750-1000 mph faded from view (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 384, NC, LC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_588 ### Event 7346 (37887B09) **Date:** 5/9/1949 **Time:** 2:30 PM **Location:** Tucson, Arizona **Description:** Witness: M/Sgt. Troy Putnam. Two round, flat silvery objects, estimated to be 25' in diameter, flew 750-1,000 m.p.h. in a banked but steady manner. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_26 ### Event 7347 (A5D81E9F) **Date:** 5/9/1949 **Description:** An article in Time magazine reports on the Air Force press release, remarking that “Spinners of yarns about flying saucers, including a score or so of Air Force pilots, stuck stoutly to their stories.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Things That Go Whiz,](http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0%2C33009%2C800261%2C00.html)” Time, May 9, 1949; “[Anatomy of a Hoax, Part Six,](https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/anatomyofahoax-part6.html)” Saturday Night Uforia **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1390 ### Event 7348 (586EEA8D) **Date:** 5/9/1949 **Description:** Editor [Ken Purdy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%5FPurdy) asks Maj. [Donald E. Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) to investigate the flying saucer mystery for True magazine, warning him to watch out for “fake tips” from the Pentagon. Keyhoe is initially skeptical, but after talking to his old friends Adm. [Delmer S. Fahrney](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/130744428/delmer-stater-fahrney) and Adm. [Calvin M. Bolster](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49125157/calvin-m-bolster)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49125157/calvin-m-bolster) his opinion changes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Keyhoe, The Flying Saucers Are Real, Gold Medal, 1950, pp. [18–22](http://www.nicap.org/fsar/chII.htm), [44](http://www.nicap.org/fsar/chV.htm) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1391 ### Event 7349 (7859079D) **Date:** 5/9/1949 **Location:** White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico **Description:** Naval Unit Commander [Robert B. McLaughlin](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72103423/robert-bright-mclaughlin), with several other officers, witnesses a white object overhead during the launch of a WAC Corporal B rocket at White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico. It disappears “in a blinding burst of speed to the west.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** R. B. McLaughlin, \[[Letter to J. A. VanAllen](http://www.nicap.org/docs/490512mclaughlin%5FVan-Allen.pdf)\], May 12, 1949; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 61 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1392 ### Event 7350 (CC024396) **Date:** 5/9/1949 **Description:** Sgt. Putnam sighted two flat 25-foot diameter silver discs in the sky over Tucson, Arizona at 2:30 p.m. They flew at a speed in excess of 750 mph in a smooth and steady banked trajectory. A Project Blue Book "unknown." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 384 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2673 ### Event 7351 (FD8B6413) **Date:** 5/11/1949 **Location:** New York City **Description:** Israel admitted to the UN **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_365 ### Event 7352 (CC22787B) **Date:** 5/11/1949 **Description:** At 10:30 a.m. four gray discs flew over Houston, Alaska heading north. According to witness George Mertz, they had thicker tops, and flew with a "decided list to the port side" at a speed in excess of 1000 mph. Their diameter was estimated to be from 80-100 feet. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Edward Sullivan, letter from witness in 1952 to the Civilian Saucer Intelligence office, Los Angeles **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2733 ### Event 7353 (7574416C) **Date:** 5/12/1949 **Location:** Holloman AFB, NM **Description:** Donald H. Menzel sighting (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_589 ### Event 7354 (0D52E54B) **Date:** 5/12/1949 **Location:** Alamogordo, NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 69; 21:15-21:30 - white w/greenish twinge 1/4 diameter of full moon (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_590 ### Event 7355 (78D97A4B) **Date:** 5/12/1949 **Description:** Commander [McLaughlin](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72103423/robert-bright-mclaughlin) writes to his friend, atmospheric physicist [James Van Allen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FVan%5FAllen), describing the [Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FB.%5FMoore) theodolite case and his own sighting a few days earlier. He thinks they must involve technology because they have been seen accelerating and maneuvering. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** R. B. McLaughlin, \[[Letter to J. A. VanAllen](http://www.nicap.org/docs/490512mclaughlin%5FVan-Allen.pdf)\], May 12, 1949 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1393 ### Event 7356 (C3FD9458) **Date:** 5/12/1949 **Locations:** Holloman AFB; Highway 70; Alamogordo, New Mexico **Description:** 9:30 p.m. Astronomer [Donald H. Menzel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FHoward%5FMenzel) leaves Holloman AFB on Highway 70 for Alamogordo, New Mexico. Shortly after noticing the star Antares, he sees another fuzzy object in the sky nearer to the horizon. A second object appears three degrees to the south. Determining that the objects are not Castor and Pollux or reflections, Menzel watches them another 4 minutes. Both objects vanish abruptly. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Donald H. Menzel, Flying Saucers, Harvard University, 1953, [pp. 3–4](https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.248019/page/3/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.248019/page/3/mode/2up) [99–100](https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.248019/page/99/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 62; J. Allen Hynek, “Vignettes of UFO History: Dr. Menzel Reports a UFO!” IUR 7, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1982\): 11; Clark III 741–742 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1394 ### Event 7357 (0298F023) **Date:** 5/13/1949 **Location:** Minneapolis, Minnesota **Description:** Newspaper coverage of BSRA's “second memorandum of importance” on flying discs. **Type:** publication **Reference:** [Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106990093/etheria/) **Reference:** [Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/bsras-2nd-memorandum-of-importance-d79897233025) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_366 ### Event 7358 (94461304) **Date:** 5/13/1949 **Time:** 11:10 **Location:** WEST / BOISE, ID **Description:** Air Force man / US20. 1+5 silver disks / V formation spiral going down. Then shoot up and going quickly southwest. 700kph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 385) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1387 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "840", **HatchDesc:** "W/BOISE,ID:AF MAN/US20:1+5 SLVR DISKS/Vfrmn SPIRAL ↓:THEN SHOOT UP+>>SW:700kph", **LatLong:** "43.633335 -116.433339", **LatLongDMS:** "43:38:00 N 116:26:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.633335,-116.433339)", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7359 (3D489055) **Date:** 5/13/1949 **Description:** In 1949 on this day at 11:05 a.m. a U.S. Air Force Airman Smith, driving along Highway 20 west of Boise, Idaho spotted first one disc, then five more silver discs flying in a V formation. The objects spiralled down, then shot out and away to the southwest at an estimated 700 kilometers per hour. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. Volume 2: 1949, p. 85 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2789 ### Event 7360 (69AEB88F) **Date:** 5/14/1949 **Time:** 00:00 **Location:** STEPHENVILLE, NFLD **Description:** "USAF photographs UFO's here". Type unknown. No further details. / Walter Winchell. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 180) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1388 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "33", **HatchDesc:** "STEPHENVILLE,NFLD:"USAF FOTOS UFOS HERE":type unk:NFD:/Walter Winchell", **LatLong:** "48.550002 -58.566669", **LatLongDMS:** "48:33:00 N 58:34:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.550002,-58.566669)", **State/Prov:** "Newfoundland", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7361 (90A8954D) **Date:** 5/16/1949 **Location:** Davis Monthan AFB, AZ **Description:** Object was described as black, round and flat in shape, similar to a washtub. It maintained the same altitude, fluttering as it disappeared behind an obstacle. Ground/visual from a military source. 8-10 seconds (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [490516](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/dmonthan490516dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_591 ### Event 7362 (D918C29E) **Date:** 5/16/1949 **Location:** Tucson, AZ **Description:** AFOSI Case 70; app 17:00 - black round solid flat obj at 800-1000 mph (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_592 ### Event 7363 (7FB15CD9) **Date:** 5/18/1949 **Location:** Wright Patterson AFB, Dayton OH **Description:** Reply letter concerning BSRA’s “second memorandum of importance”, concerning a solution to the flying saucer mystery, from Air Materiel Command Wright-Patterson AFB Col. Clingerman, Chief Analysis Division, Intelligence Department. Memorandum was forwarded to analysts for review and study. Found in the private BSRA archives now at the AFU in Sweden. **Type:** memorandum **Reference:** [Twitter](https://twitter.com/richgel999/status/1555607667770626048) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_367 ### Event 7364 (9F7C7FF5) **Date:** 5/18/1949 **Time:** 15:00? **Location:** NEW ORLEANS, LA **Description:** 18, 19+23 May. 20' saucer going quickly north each date. 20 May. USAF Lt. Col. 5 saucers! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 163) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1389 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "23", **Elev:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "NEW ORLEANS,LA:18,19+23 MAY:20' SCR >>N EACH DATE::20MAY:USAF Lt COL:5 SCRS!", **LatLong:** "29.933335 -90.083338", **LatLongDMS:** "29:56:00 N 90:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.933335,-90.083338)", **State/Prov:** "Louisiana", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7365 (C285F828) **Date:** 5/18/1949 **Location:** Washington, D.C. **Description:** George N. Raines leaves Washington, D.C., for four days to attend a meeting of the American Psychiatric Association. He says [Forrestal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FForrestal) seems “somewhat better,” having regained 12 pounds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1395 ### Event 7366 (CB749487) **Date:** 5/18/1949 **Locations:** Newfoundland; Stephenville **Description:** [Walter Winchell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FWinchell)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FWinchell) in his “On Broadway” syndicated column, writes: “The N.Y. World-Telegram on Saturday \[May 14\] confirmed this reporter’s exclusive report of several weeks before—which newspapermen have denied—about the Flying Saucers . . . Said the front-page piece in the W-T: ‘Air Force people are convinced the flying disc is real. The clincher came when the air force got a picture recently of three discs flying formation over Stephenville, Newfoundland. \[The July 10, 1947, hole-in-the-cloud case?\] They outdistanced our fastest ships. Some air force men believe the discs are a new type flying machine utilizing gyroscopic principles’ . . . At the time we added that the reality of the flying discs or saucers could not be denied truthfully.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[Anatomy of a Hoax,](https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/anatomyofahoax-part2.html) [Part Two,](https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/anatomyofahoax-part2.html)” Saturday Night Uforia **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1396 ### Event 7367 (ABABA177) **Date:** 5/19/1949 **Location:** Fort Bliss, TX **Description:** Numerous military witnesses observed a round silver thin object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [490519](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/ftbliss490519dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_593 ### Event 7368 (FC0E50EB) **Date:** 5/19/1949 **Location:** Wright-Patterson Air Material Intelligence **Description:** Wright-Patterson Air Material Intelligence Commander Col. [Howard McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html) forwards a copy of the Project Sign final report to the Research and Development Board, along with some appendices that later find their way into the Project Grudge final report. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael Hall and Wendy Connors, “The Research and Development Board: Unanswered Questions,” IUR 26, no. 2 \(Summer 2001\): 10 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1397 ### Event 7369 (4E6DE00D) **Date:** 5/19/1949 **Locations:** Killeen Base, Texas; Sandia Mountains near Albuquerque, New Mexico **Description:** The Fourth Army’s observation system near Killeen Base, Texas \(without cameras, but with four 6-man observation posts equipped with instruments\), is revealed to the intelligence community at one of its weekly meetings. Two trucks serve as a roving Artillery Patrol observation post linked to the Killeen plotting center by radio. AFOSI Lt. Col. [Doyle Rees](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43562489/doyle-rees) has meanwhile set up a 24-hour visual observation post in the Sandia Mountains near Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is equipped with a wide-angle-lens camera fitted with a spectrographic grating. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1985\): 12; Thomas Tulien, ed., [Proceedings of the Sign Historical Group UFO History Workshop](https://sohp.us/Sign-Historical-Group-Workshop-Proceedings.pdf), Sign Historical Group, November 2001, pp. 43–44; Clark III 543 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1398 ### Event 7370 (7E84BDF3) **Date:** 5/19/1949 **Description:** A 20-foot diameter disc flew over New Orleans, Louisiana going north at 4:15 p.m., again on this date. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Bruce S. Maccabee, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1978, p. 11 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_2970 ### Event 7371 (2E88765D) **Date:** 5/20/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At the Lowell Observatory \(Massachusetts\), Professor Hall observed with binoculars and a theodolite a bright disk of metallic appearance, with a diameter of 10 to 20 m, moving slowly. (May 20) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_790 ### Event 7372 (EF839F2D) **Date:** 5/21/1949 **Location:** USA, BAF Moses Lake, Hanford (Washington) **Description:** (Translated from French) In the afternoon, an F-82 fighter took off on a mission to intercept a flying saucer in the no-fly zone above the Hanford atomic center, hovering at 5000 or 6000 m. This silver disc-shaped object was visually spotted on the ground and on the radar screens at the station. As soon as the plane took off, the object sped south at a speed higher than that of a jet aircraft. (May 21, 1949) **Reference:** J. Allen HYNEK: "New Report on UFOs" - Belfond 1979, p. 140, 141 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1411 ### Event 7373 (027B47E0) **Date:** 5/21/1949 **Time:** 13:30 **Location:** EAST / HANFORD, WA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #331. RADAR and telescopes. Disk 18K' over E. grounds. Going quickly southeast. F82 too late. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 176) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1390 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "100", **HatchDesc:** "E/HANFORD,WA:BBK#331:RDR+TSCOPES:DISK 18K' OVR E.GROUNDS:>>SE:F82 TOO LATE", **LatLong:** "46.583336 -119.316672", **LatLongDMS:** "46:35:00 N 119:19:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.583336,-119.316672)", **RelAlt:** "5486", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7374 (547293CF) **Date:** 5/21/1949 **Location:** Hanford AEC plant, WA **Description:** Silvery disc-shaped object hovering over Hanford - F-82/RV Case (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [490521](http://www.nicap.org/490521hanforddir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_594 ### Event 7375 (FD1902A9) **Date:** 5/21/1949 **Locations:** Moses Lake AFB; Grant County International Airport; Washington State; Hanford Atomic Works **Description:** 1:30 p.m. An F-82 is dispatched from Moses Lake AFB \[now Grant County International Airport\] in Washington State to intercept a UFO that is hovering in restricted air space over the Hanford Atomic Works at an altitude of 17,000–20,000 feet. The silvery disc is seen from the ground at Hanford and on radar. Before the F-82 can take off, the disc speeds away faster than a jet fighter. It disappears from ground radar and the F-82 cannot locate it. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Hanford AEC Plant / F-82/RV Case](http://www.nicap.org/490521hanforddir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 63; Hynek UFO Report, [p. 141](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/140/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1399 ### Event 7376 (7D054A11) **Date:** 5/21/1949 **Description:** On this afternoon a silvery disc was spotted hovering over the Hanford Atomic Energy Commission radar station outside of Moses Lake, Washington by a US Air Force F-82 pilot flying over the area. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p. 141 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3013 ### Event 7377 (E684054D) **Date:** 5/22/1949 **Location:** Bethesda Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Maryland **Description:** Secretary Forrestal (MJ-3) found dead after falling 16 floors from an insane asylum window, supposedly shouting, “we’re being invaded!” before he fell to his death. Some suspect he was murdered to silence him. **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_368 ### Event 7378 (ABC5571A) **Date:** 5/22/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Secretary [Forrestal](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/ForrestalJamesVincent.html) officially commits suicide in a fit of madness. According to MJ documents, he then leaves his place vacant in the [MJ-12](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/MJ-12.html) group. (May 22) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_791 ### Event 7379 (E0CD9F76) **Date:** 5/22/1949 **Location:** Hanford Nuc. Fac., WA **Description:** Radar/visual, F-82 scrambled; evasive action **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973_, by Richard Dolan](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/mode/2up) **Source:** Dolan, **ID:** Dolan_44 ### Event 7380 (EDBF6D08) **Date:** 5/22/1949 **Location:** National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland **Description:** 1:45 a.m. At the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, [Forrestal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FForrestal) is awake and refuses a sedative. Five minutes later, the Navy corpsman guarding him finds the room empty. Forrestal’s body is found on a third-floor roof below the 16th-floor kitchen, No suicide note is found other than part of a translation of [Sophocles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophocles)’s tragedy Ajax that he is copying. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[James Forrestal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FForrestal\#Death)”; J. C. Hawkins, Betrayal at Bethesda: The Intertwined Fates of James Forrestal, Joseph McCarthy, and John F. Kennedy, The Author, 2017; David Martin, The Assassination of James Forrestal, McCabe, 2019 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1400 ### Event 7381 (4B49FB70) **Date:** 5/24/1949 **Location:** USA, Muroc **Description:** (Translated from French) (cfr 4.2.48) NACA received a second example of the Skyrocket, which made its test flight on May 24, piloted by Bob Campine. NACA did not look favorably upon the Skyrocket, partly due to the rocket engine, it did not exactly fit transonic research. Walt Williams recalled: it had to take off before the temperature reached 80° F. Then it had to struggle to reach an altitude of 24,000 feet, having used almost the entire tank in the climb, then it had to try to reach Mach 0.9. This never lasted more than half an hour in total. **Reference:** NASA website 1997, "On the Frontier" **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1412 ### Event 7382 (AF77A063) **Date:** 5/24/1949 **Location:** USA, Roque River (Oregon) (No. 1119.00) **Description:** (Translated from French) At around 5 pm several witnesses saw with the naked eye, at the edge of a river 4 km from its mouth, an object that reflected the sun. Looking through binoculars, the witness no longer saw this reflection (did the binoculars have filters?). It appeared to be made of metal and was distinct enough to see that its hull was dirty. The front was smooth and the back was wrinkled and rough, with a kind of piece on top. It moved away in a level flight at increasing speed, reaching that of a jet plane before disappearing. No means of propulsion were visible. Duration of observation was 2 and a half to 3 minutes. [note de vog: see previous article, test flight...] **Reference:** Brad STEIGER: "Ovni, le projet Blue Book" - trad. Belfond 1979, p. 113, 114 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1413 ### Event 7383 (FF9E6BBD) **Date:** 5/24/1949 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** NORTHEAST / GOLD BEACH, OR **Description:** 5 scientists fishing. 35' metal saucer / jet speed. Fin / rear. Going quickly SSE. / r133#1p76. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 15) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1391 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "NE/GOLD BEACH,OR:5 SCIs FISHING:35'MTL SCR/JET SPEED:FIN/REAR:>>SSE:/r133#1p76", **LatLong:** "42.450002 -124.383339", **LatLongDMS:** "42:27:00 N 124:23:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.450002,-124.383339)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7384 (C0872DE9) **Date:** 5/24/1949 **Location:** Bend, OR **Description:** Rogue River Incident (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [490524](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/rogue490524dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_595 ### Event 7385 (F089E415) **Date:** 5/24/1949 **Location:** Gold Beach, OR **Description:** Hamburger-shaped metallic disc about 25-35 ft to 100 ft wide (1-1/2 miles E of Rogue River ) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [490524](http://www.nicap.org/490524rogue%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_596 ### Event 7386 (C7440161) **Date:** 5/24/1949 **Locations:** NACA Ames Research Lab; Rogue River, Oregon; Elephant Rock **Description:** 5:00 p.m. Five witnesses \(NACA Ames Research Lab employees Don Heaphy, Gilbert Rivera and his wife, Mrs. Roy L. McBeth, and Mrs. William McBeth\) on a fishing boat on the Rogue River, Oregon, near Elephant Rock, see a round, silvery object the size of a transport aircraft. It comes from the east, then turns southwest and leaves no exhaust trail. The disc appears flattened and has a wrinkled surface with a vertical stabilizer fin. The time of observation is less than 3 minutes. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[The Rogue River Incident](http://www.nicap.org/490524rogue%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 64; Swords 83–84; Bruce Maccabee, “[An Assessment of the UFO Sighting at Rogue River, Oregon \(May 24, 1949\),](http://www.nicap.org/reports/490524rogueriver%5Fmaccabee.htm)” December 2009 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1401 ### Event 7387 (1778C9C8) **Date:** 5/24/1949 **Description:** A metallic disc with a tail fin was viewed through binoculars as it moved on a horizontal flight course in Rogue River, Oregon at 5:00 p.m. It gradually increased its speed until it reached that of a jet aircraft. No propulsion method was apparent. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue files counted in official statistics, May 1949 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3059 ### Event 7388 (FF0521A0) **Date:** 5/25/1949 **Time:** 12:00? **Location:** LOUDON, TN **Description:** 5 locals. Flat metallic object makes "flapping noise". No further details. Type unknown. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 172) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1392 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "244", **HatchDesc:** "LOUDON,TN:5 LOCALS:FLAT METALLIC OBJ MAKES "FLAPPING NOISE":NFD:type unk", **LatLong:** "35.733335 -84.333337", **LatLongDMS:** "35:44:00 N 84:20:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.733335,-84.333337)", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7389 (BF8C997F) **Date:** 5/25/1949 **Description:** A flat, metallic object flew ove a farm in Loudon, Tennessee on this day, making a "flapping noise." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing Larry Fawcett, UFO Coverup, p. 172 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3080 ### Event 7390 (D0B76B38) **Date:** 5/27/1949 **Location:** USA, flying over Oregon **Description:** (Translated from French) South-central Oregon. 2:25 p.m. Joseph Shell, from Red Bluff, California. From 5 to 8 oval-shaped objects, twice as long as wide and 1/5th for the thickness. Flying in single file, leaving an interval of 3 to 4 times their length, except for the second and third which were closer to each other. **Reference:** Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1414 ### Event 7391 (712B8A99) **Date:** 5/27/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Southern Oregon, Joseph Shell, a North American Aviation SNJ trainer, is on a convoy from Red Bluff \(California\) to Burns \(Oregon\). He observes between 5 and 8 oval objects, twice as long as wide, and half as thick. They fly in single file, with an interval of 3 to 4 times their length, except for the 2nd and 3rd which are closer. (May 27, 2:25 PM) **Reference:** case [Blue Book](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/BlueBook.html) \#404 unexplained **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_792 ### Event 7392 (E3DF5876) **Date:** 5/27/1949 **Time:** 14:30 **Location:** HART MOUNTAIN, OR **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #392. 1 / private plane. 7 20' ovoids / row. 200mph. 3k' altitude. Turn going north. / MJ#253. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 178) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1393 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "2318", **HatchDesc:** "HART MTn,OR:BBK#392:1/Pvt PLANE:7 20'OVOIDS/ROW:200mph:3k'alt:TURN>N:/MJ#253", **LatLong:** "42.400002 -119.783339", **LatLongDMS:** "42:24:00 N 119:47:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.400002,-119.783339)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7393 (E8805F8D) **Date:** 5/27/1949 **Location:** Hart Mtn (near), OR **Description:** Pilot Encounters 5-8 Egg-Shaped Metallic Objects (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 404) **Reference:** NICAP: [490527](http://www.nicap.org/490527hartmtn%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_597 ### Event 7394 (9B2A1BAA) **Date:** 5/27/1949 **Time:** 2:25 PM **Location:** South-central Oregon **Description:** Witness: Joseph Shell, ferrying SNJ trainer for North American Aviation, from Red Bluff, California, to Burns, Oregon. Five to eight oval objects, twice as long as wide, and 1/5 as thick. They flew in trail formation, with an interval equal to 3-4 times their length, except that the second and third were closer together. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_27 ### Event 7395 (1F69C1A0) **Date:** 5/27/1949 **Locations:** Red Bluff, California; Burns, Oregon; Hart Mountain, Oregon **Description:** 2:25 p.m. Pilot and businessman [Joseph Shell](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25846612/joseph-claude-shell), ferrying an SNJ trainer for North American Aviation from Red Bluff, California, to Burns, Oregon, sees 5–8 oval objects, twice as long as wide and one-fifth as thick, around Hart Mountain, Oregon. They fly in trail formation, with an interval equal to 3–4 times their length, except that the second and third are closer together. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Pilot Encounters 5–8 Egg-Shaped Metallic Objects](http://www.nicap.org/490527hartmtn%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](http://nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 65 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1402 ### Event 7396 (9DB1A3BB) **Date:** 5/27/1949 **Description:** Joseph Shell, flying over Hart Mountain, Oregon at 2:25 p.m., witnessed 5-8 metallic, oval-shaped objects flying in single file. They were each 20 feet long and 10 feet wide, and followed the contour of the terrain. Their estimated speed was 230 mph, and they were observed to change course. This case is listed as a Project Blue Book "unknown" case. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 404; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 11; UNICAT database, case 625, citing Loren E. Gross; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1949, p. 78; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 179; APRO Bulletin, April 1978 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3112 ### Event 7397 (592DA882) **Date:** 5/29/1949 **Time:** 02:00 **Location:** ELKO, NV **Description:** Man / railroad/railway yard. 5 amber window-like night lights / V formation going west / 600+kph. Attached? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 389) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1394 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1540", **HatchDesc:** "ELKO,NV:MAN/RR YARD:5 AMBER WINDOW-LIKE NLTS/Vform >W/600+kph:attached?", **LatLong:** "40.816669 -115.750006", **LatLongDMS:** "40:49:00 N 115:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.816669,-115.750006)", **State/Prov:** "Nevada", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7398 (7C36F96E) **Date:** 5/31/1949 **Location:** Misawa AFB, Honshu, Japan **Description:** F-80 Pilot Sees Circular Object At High Speed (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [490531](http://www.nicap.org/490531misawa%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_598 ### Event 7399 (37D38CD2) **Date:** 5/31/1949 **Description:** The Air Force Office of Special Investigations sends Project Grudge a copy of [Rees](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43562489/doyle-rees)’s report on [Kaplan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FKaplan)’s visit on April 28, the trip that USAF Intelligence had arranged to explore the possibility of a clandestine investigation separate from Grudge. Thus AMC learns of the conspiracy to keep it in the dark, but Rees fails to mention the involvement of USAF Intelligence. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1985\): 15 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1403 ### Event 7400 (84A7C519) **Date:** 5/31/1949 **Description:** The Navy review board, convened by Adm. [Morton D. Willcutts](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60007154/morton-douglas-willcutts), completes hearings on [James Forrestal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FForrestal)’s death. The cause of death is remarkably inconclusive, and the investigation leaves many questions unanswered. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1404 ### Event 7401 (B7E31803) **Date:** 6/1949 **Location:** Union City, Michigan **Description:** **KLINE CATCHES A LITTLE ONE.** Clifford M. Kline, Union City, was just leaving his barn on a clear evening at 7:40 when approximately 200 feet away, and nearly 6 feet off the ground, an oval object about 5ft by 4ft sped from northeast to southwest in a perfectly straight line with no noise and disappeared behind a fence row of shrubbery nearly a quarter of a mile away. The object was reddish-brown and fringed with white. Kline's observation was similar to a procession of hat-crown-shaped objects observed soaring over Skening, Sweden, May 1818, which were described as brown and caused the sun to turn brick-red. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256) **Source:** Scully, **ID:** Scully_36 ### Event 7402 (97D6DE8C) **Date:** 6/1949 **Location:** Oak Ridge Nuc. Fac., TN **Description:** Air space violation **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973_, by Richard Dolan](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/mode/2up) **Source:** Dolan, **ID:** Dolan_45 ### Event 7403 (808D6D2A) **Date:** 6/1949 (approximate) **Location:** KLAMATH FALLS, OR **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #497. CAA technician. 6 silent metal plates pass overhead in a row. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 183) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1395 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "1323", **HatchDesc:** "KLAMATH FALLS,OR:BBK#497:CAA TECHn:6 SILENT MTL PLATES PASS OVHD IN A ROW", **LatLong:** "42.216669 -121.766672", **LatLongDMS:** "42:13:00 N 121:46:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.216669,-121.766672)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7404 (4E9EDE3B) **Date:** 6/1/1949 **Location:** Stewart Field, Newburgh, NY **Description:** Yellow oblong soundless object appear and disappear every few mins (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_599 ### Event 7405 (826A1A69) **Date:** 6/2/1949 **Time:** ~12:00 **Location:** GLENDALE, CA **Description:** 2 women. Silvery disk going quickly northwest into little Tujunga Canyon. Very fast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** DRUFFEL, Ann & ROGO, D. Scott:The TUJUNGA CANYON CONTACTS Signet Books PB 1989 (Index 150) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1396 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "155", **HatchDesc:** "GLENDALE,CA:2 WOMEN:SILVERY DISK >>NW INTO LITTLE TUJUNGA CANYON:VFAST", **LatLong:** "34.150002 -118.250006", **LatLongDMS:** "34:09:00 N 118:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.150002,-118.250006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7406 (8770BBC9) **Date:** 6/2/1949 **Location:** Los Alamos, NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 71; 00:40 - green ball of light with no sound (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_600 ### Event 7407 (D29662E3) **Date:** 6/2/1949 **Description:** A silver disc-shaped object flew toward the northwest into Little Tujunga Canyon near Glendale, California at around noon. It traveled very fast. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #1409, citing Ann Druffel **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3220 ### Event 7408 (D9608056) **Date:** 6/5/1949 **Location:** KEY WEST, FL TO GA **Description:** Huge silent fireball zigzags 800mi going quickly northeast across sky / 10 minute(s). / MJ#254. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 180) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1397 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "KEY WEST,FL to GA:HUGE SLNT FBL ZIGZAGS 800mi >>NE ACROSS SKY/10min:/MJ#254", **LatLong:** "24.550001 -81.750004", **LatLongDMS:** "24:33:00 N 81:45:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/24.550001,-81.750004)", **State/Prov:** "Florida", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7409 (E57CAB18) **Date:** 6/5/1949 **Description:** On this night in 1949 a huge fireball zigzagged 800 miles toward the northeast from the southern tip of Florida to Georgia. There were several reports along the west coast of Florida as it flew across the sky. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1410. **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3290 ### Event 7410 (28DF609E) **Date:** 6/6/1949 **Location:** Killeen Base, Camp Hood, TX **Description:** 9:05-9:08 p.m. Williams, Jones and others in UFO observation and triangulation network tracked a hovering orange object about 30-70 ft in diameter, 2 mils angular size, 1 mile above ground, 3 miles S of the observation post, 4-1/2 miles S of the Plotting Center, which suddenly started moving in level flight then exploded in a shower of particles. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_601 ### Event 7411 (ACD044B4) **Date:** 6/6/1949 **Locations:** Killeen Base, Fort Hood, Texas; 3 miles south of one observation post **Description:** 9:05 p.m. Two observation posts at Killeen Base, Fort Hood, Texas, spot a hovering orange light. Lts. Virgil Williams and Marvin L. Jones are at one site and Lts. Bernard G. Raferty and [Alfred H. Jones](https://www.columbiamissourian.com/obituaries/family%5Fobituary/alfred-h-jones-june-april/article%5Ffd2cc992-66e6-11e9-b20d-83d2f6ecf611.html) are at the other. When they triangulate its location, they find it is 3 miles south of one observation post and 4.5 miles south of the plotting center, hovering 5,280 feet in the air. It is 30–70 feet in diameter. Suddenly it starts moving in level flight, then bursts into small particles. The duration is less than 3 minutes. This observation involves the first real- time triangulation of a UFO sighting. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1985\): 12; Clark III 543; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 66; Thomas Tulien, ed., [Proceedings of the Sign](https://sohp.us/Sign-Historical-Group-Workshop-Proceedings.pdf) [Historical Group UFO History Workshop](https://sohp.us/Sign-Historical-Group-Workshop-Proceedings.pdf), Sign Historical Group, November 2001, p. 43 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1407 ### Event 7412 (268090D3) **Date:** 6/10/1949 **Location:** White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** White Sands, NM: Scientists tracking a test missile at 2k ft/second suddenly picked up two small circular UFOs that paced the missile. One of the UFO’s passed thru the missiles exhaust and rejoined the other UFO, and together they quickly accelerated upwards leaving the missile behind. Cmdr. McLaughlin received reports from 5 observation posts: ALL had witnessed the performance of the 2 circular UFOs. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-F p238) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_369 ### Event 7413 (11C12B25) **Date:** 6/10/1949 **Location:** White Sands, NM **Description:** Two round white UFOs maneuver around a missile **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973_, by Richard Dolan](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/mode/2up) **Source:** Dolan, **ID:** Dolan_46 ### Event 7414 (2E8CBD31) **Date:** 6/10/1949 **Time:** 15:40 **Location:** WHITE SANDS, NM **Description:** HIQ United States Navy (USN) crew and more/others. 2 white saucers pace V2 rocket. 1 passes through exhaust. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 182) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1398 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **SMP:** Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **RDR:** Radar traces/blips, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "1200", **HatchDesc:** "WHITE SANDS,NM:HIQ USN CREW++:2 WHT SCRS PACE V2 ROCKET:1 PASSES THRU EXHAUST", **LatLong:** "33.000002 -106.500005", **LatLongDMS:** "33:00:00 N 106:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.000002,-106.500005)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 7415 (51F22F19) **Date:** 6/10/1949 **Location:** Boston (20 miles SW of), MA **Description:** T-6 Chases / Loses 100' Tubular UFO (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [490610](http://www.nicap.org/490610boston%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_602 ### Event 7416 (BD964B9F) **Date:** 6/10/1949 **Location:** White Sands, NM **Description:** Two round white UFOs maneuvered around a missile in flight. (Confirmed by Capt. R. B. McLaughlin, USN) \[II\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_603 ### Event 7417 (0819C3A1) **Date:** 6/10/1949 **Description:** A team of Navy engineers and technicians under the command of Robert B. McLaughlin watched two white discs pace a V-2 rocket during its test launch from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. One of the discs passed through the rocket's exhaust and then shot straight up. The event was witnessed by at least five U.S. Navy rocket scientists and engineers. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 112; Donald E. Keyhoe, True Magazine, March 1950, p. 25; Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 238 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3405 ### Event 7418 (951EBDF3) **Date:** 6/11/1949 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** NEAR LIMA, OH **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #381. Metal ovoid going down [to] highway. Makes square turn. Flippers / underside. 1 observer. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 184) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1399 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "263", **HatchDesc:** "nr LIMA,OH:BBK#381:MTL OVOID ↓HWY:MAKES SQR TURN:FLIPPERS/UNDERSIDE:1 OBS", **LatLong:** "40.733335 -84.100004", **LatLongDMS:** "40:44:00 N 84:06:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.733335,-84.100004)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7419 (E79D88B5) **Date:** 6/11/1949 **Location:** Los Alamos, NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 72; 20:57 - obj green then red at end of flight - about the size of a star (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_604 ### Event 7420 (F47F7F03) **Date:** 6/14/1949 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 133.5km attitude (Blossom 4 — Nominal performance.) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_370 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 133.5km ### Event 7421 (5A2005EF) **Date:** 6/14/1949 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) At 15:35, launch of V2 No. 47, weighing 13,667 kg, reaching a height of 133 km (GESAG, Launches: "Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1959) Monkey "Albert" killed in the crash on the ground. (Nieuwenhuis H. 1988, 17) The monkey, Albert II, reached an altitude of 134 km in the V2, but the return parachute did not function. **Reference:** Inforespace No. 49, 1980, p. 14, 15 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1415 ### Event 7422 (08796B22) **Date:** 6/14/1949 **Location:** White Sands, NM **Description:** McLaughlin crew sights UFO pacing Navy missile (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [490614](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/wsands2dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_605 ### Event 7423 (604B6EE5) **Date:** 6/14/1949 **Location:** White Sands, NM **Description:** Two UFOs Pace V-2 Rocket (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [490614](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/wsands2dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_606 ### Event 7424 (289E3A70) **Date:** 6/14/1949 **Location:** Killeen Base, Camp Hood, TX **Description:** Hovering orange object about 30-70 ft in diameter (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_607 ### Event 7425 (1349E348) **Date:** 6/14/1949 **Location:** White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico **Description:** 3:35 p.m. A crew of Navy engineers under Capt. [Robert Bright McLaughlin](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72103423/robert-bright-mclaughlin) is testing an Air Force V-2 rocket at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. When the V-2 attains a speed of 2,000 feet per second in its upward flight, it is joined by two smaller circular objects that pace it, one on each side. One then passes through the rocket’s exhaust, joins the other, and together accelerate upwards leaving the V-2 behind. Five other missile observation crews also see the objects. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Two UFOs Pace V-2 Rocket](http://www.nicap.org/490614wsands%5Fdir.htm)”; Robert McLaughlin, “[How](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/True/1950%2003%2000%5FTrue%5FCommander%20McLaughlin.pdf) [Scientists Tracked a Flying Saucer,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/True/1950%2003%2000%5FTrue%5FCommander%20McLaughlin.pdf)” True, March 1950, pp. 25–27, 96–99; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 66; Swords 92–93 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1408 ### Event 7426 (92577019) **Date:** 6/17/1949 **Location:** Battle Creek Michigan **Description:** **MICHIGAN PHOTOGRAPHS TRIANGLES.** Lloyd Sanders, Rt 1, Took a photo of a strange triangular object which was going at a tremendous rate of speed and glowed like the sun. There was a high-pitched, whining sound. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256) **Source:** Scully, **ID:** Scully_37 ### Event 7427 (084E9B43) **Date:** 6/18/1949 **Location:** Kent, England **Description:** **ENGLANG SEES THEM AS 'BLOBS'.** Two farmers reported they saw tailess blobs of light spinning across the heavens. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256) **Source:** Scully, **ID:** Scully_38 ### Event 7428 (73587D43) **Date:** 6/18/1949 **Location:** GUNTER AIR FORCE BASE, AL **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #397. Saucers going down [to] and going up [to] big dark cloud over base. 1 dives at observer(s) / car. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 184) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1400 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **HUM:** Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "71", **HatchDesc:** "GUNTER AFB,AL:BBK#397:SCRS ↓+↑ BIG DARK CLOUD OVR BASE:1 DIVES AT OBS/CAR:", **LatLong:** "32.388890 -86.216671", **LatLongDMS:** "32:23:20 N 86:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.388890,-86.216671)", **State/Prov:** "Alabama", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7429 (62E45089) **Date:** 6/20/1949 **Location:** GLENDALE, CA **Description:** 18 observer(s). Semi-transparent object hovers flips and disappears. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** DRUFFEL, Ann & ROGO, D. Scott:The TUJUNGA CANYON CONTACTS Signet Books PB 1989 (Index 150) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1401 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "155", **HatchDesc:** "GLENDALE,CA:18 OBS:SEMI-TRANSPARENT OBJ HVRS FLIPS+DISAPPEARS:NFD", **LatLong:** "34.133335 -118.250006", **LatLongDMS:** "34:08:00 N 118:15:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.133335,-118.250006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7430 (5FA3D027) **Date:** 6/20/1949 **Location:** Los Alamos, NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 73; 20:10 - round, green obj turned red before vanishing (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_608 ### Event 7431 (170A0BFD) **Date:** 6/20/1949 **Location:** Los Alamos, NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 74; 20:10 - blue-green obj directly overhead vanished (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_609 ### Event 7432 (1C484FAF) **Date:** Summer 1949 **Description:** USAF Project "Twinkle" started **Type:** ufo sightings **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_103 ### Event 7433 (BC016809) **Date:** Summer 1949 **Locations:** Corona, New Mexico; Roswell Army Air Field **Description:** The gouge is said to be still visible in the debris field near Corona, New Mexico. [Mack Brazel,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9454979/william-ware-brazel) having found various scraps and bits for the past two years, mentions to someone in a bar in Corona that he has some material. The next day, a Capt. Armstrong and three others from Roswell Army Air Field supposedly confiscate the pieces. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1405 ### Event 7434 (B0D8D749) **Date:** Summer 1949 **Location:** Casablanca, Morocco **Description:** 4:00 p.m. The French Navy patrol boat [La Rusé](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le%5FRus%C3%A9%5F%28PC-472%29) \(formerly the USS PC-472\) encounters a cigar-shaped bluish object about one mile away off Casablanca, Morocco. The crew watches it for 1 minute until it shoots toward the horizon and out of sight. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p, 36 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1406 ### Event 7435 (9252AE05) **Date:** 6/22/1949 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** OAK RIDGE, TN **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #380. Teacher and scientist/science and 1. 2 delta/triangle/box-like crafts and 1 saucer seen / 15 minute(s). Slow and metallic. Going quickly northwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 183) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1402 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "300", **HatchDesc:** "OAK RIDGE,TN:BBK#380:TEACHER+SCI.+1:2 DLTS+1 SCR SEEN/15min:SLOW+MTLC:>>NW", **LatLong:** "36.033335 -84.266671", **LatLongDMS:** "36:02:00 N 84:16:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.033335,-84.266671)", **State/Prov:** "Tennessee", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7436 (4AB05FBC) **Date:** 6/22/1949 **Locations:** Oak Ridge, Tennessee; center of Oak Ridge **Description:** Three women \(one a schoolteacher, another a biologist working at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and a third who is the wife of a member of the Security Division, AEC, Oak Ridge\) observe an odd trio of “flying saucers” for about 15 minutes: “It was described as consisting of two identical rectangular-shaped objects which appeared to be coordinated in movement and which moved in wave-like motion. The third object was circular in shape and appeared to be in level flight between and above the two rectangular objects. The rectangular objects appeared to be bright metal on top but dark underneath, while the color of the circular object was the same as that of frosted glass. The ‘flying saucer,’ when last sighted, was in level flight and was flying in a northwesterly direction. The weather was clear with high cumulus clouds. The ‘flying saucer’ flew at speed of from 10 to 15 mph over an area just about the center of Oak Ridge.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1949, January–June](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1949-Jan-Jun.pdf), The Author, 1988, pp. 83–84 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1409 ### Event 7437 (387E6B3A) **Date:** 6/22/1949 **Description:** In Oak Ridge, Tennessee on this evening in 1949, a teacher, a scientist, and one other watched two delta-shaped UFOs and a disc fly over the US government nuclear research facility around 7 p.m.. The objects appeared to be metallic, and flew slowly toward the northwest. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1415 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3597 ### Event 7438 (18DAE271) **Date:** 6/24/1949 **Location:** Mesa, AZ **Description:** Five objects observed by two witnesses. One object moved vertical. Described as steel gray and at least one was a disc with two flanges (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [490624](http://www.nicap.org/mesa490624dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_610 ### Event 7439 (24AECDDC) **Date:** 6/27/1949 **Location:** ITALY, Albera Ligure **Description:** (Translated from French) At around 8:15 pm a veterinarian and his friend, Ercole Cerutti, were near the Borbera stream when they noticed the presence of a flying object ten meters above the ground. The lower part of the thing was rust-colored, while the upper "glass" part was divided into four panels. The craft was quite small, about two meters in diameter. When the object was directly above them, they could see that the base was completely round, crossed by four reinforcing bars two in each direction, at the back, the two bars ended in a kind of exhaust pipes directed downwards from which a thick orange gas came out, especially when the craft gained altitude. The trail of this gas measured 40 meters long and only formed 4 or 5 meters behind the craft. There was only a very light buzzing, the object then passed over the trees at 40 or 50 meters altitude, and continuing on its trajectory, disappeared from their view behind a hill. **Reference:** CISU, archive file 49001 - source: 1985 letter from the witness, addressed to CISU, following an article published in the newspaper "La Stampa". **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1416 ### Event 7440 (63ED2CF3) **Date:** 6/27/1949 **Time:** 20:20 **Location:** ALBERA LIGURE, ITL **Description:** 2 observer(s). Brassy disk with glassy top / 10M altitude. Blows gas. Going [to] over hill. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** Database/website: Maurizio VERGA: ITACAT Catalog online: http://www.ufo.it/english/main.htm **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1403 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **ODR:** Odors associated with UFO's **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "ALBERA LIGURE,ITL:2 OBS:BRASSY DISK W/GLASSY TOP/10M alt:BLOWS GAS:>OVR HILL", **LatLong:** "44.700002 9.066667", **LatLongDMS:** "44:42:00 N 09:04:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.700002,9.066667)", **State/Prov:** "Alessandria", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7441 (DA097D4D) **Date:** 6/27/1949 **Location:** Albuquerque, NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 76; 01:38 - round obj slightly more orange than star went behind building (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_611 ### Event 7442 (F9079D2A) **Date:** 6/27/1949 **Description:** A brass domed-disc with a transparent clear dome was seen at only 10 meters altitude in Albera Ligure, Italy at 8:20 p.m. It emitted a gaseous cloud of vapor, then flew away over a hill. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1416 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3691 ### Event 7443 (C7C589BD) **Date:** 6/29/1949 **Location:** White Sands, NM **Description:** Naval rocket expert observed a silvery disc (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_612 ### Event 7444 (4F2C2618) **Date:** 6/29/1949 **Location:** Baltimore, Maryland **Description:** 6:30 p.m. A former US Air Force tech sergeant observes three separate flights of three V-shaped or triangular objects from his front porch in Baltimore, Maryland. The objects veer sharply into a cloud at 2,500 feet altitude and then fly around it repeatedly. They have the ability to reverse their course 180° instantaneously. Through binoculars, they look like black, open boomerangs. More objects join them until there are 15–20, and he watches them for two hours. The formation moves from southeast to northeast and disappears. Fifteen other witness also see the display. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Marler 126–128 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1410 ### Event 7445 (3C459EBB) **Date:** 7/1949 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** ALEXANDRIA, KY **Description:** Retired teacher. 5 classic metallic saucers going south / file. Last 2 turn sharply going quickly east. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 415) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1404 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "251", **HatchDesc:** "ALEXANDRIA,KY:Ret.TEACHER:5 CLASSIC MTLC SCRS >S/FILE:LAST 2 TURN SHARPLY >>E", **LatLong:** "38.950002 -84.388893", **LatLongDMS:** "38:57:00 N 84:23:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.950002,-84.388893)", **State/Prov:** "Kentucky", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7446 (369355C7) **Date:** 7/3/1949 **Location:** Longview, WA **Description:** Navy commander, others, see disc pass above air show **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973_, by Richard Dolan](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/mode/2up) **Source:** Dolan, **ID:** Dolan_47 ### Event 7447 (EFE81B9B) **Date:** 7/3/1949 **Time:** 10:40 **Location:** LONGVIEW, WA **Description:** 150 aero-types and pilots. Series / 3 saucers over air-show! / MJ#255+/ r46p86. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 13) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1405 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "45", **Elev:** "7", **HatchDesc:** "LONGVIEW,WA:150 AERO-TYPES+PILOTS:SERIES/3 SCRS ovr AIR-SHOW!:/MJ#255+/r46p86", **LatLong:** "46.150002 -122.933339", **LatLongDMS:** "46:09:00 N 122:56:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.150002,-122.933339)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7448 (A30D52BF) **Date:** 7/3/1949 (approximate) **Time:** 14:00 **Location:** LOWRY AIR FORCE BASE, CO **Description:** 1+1 observer(s). 6 classic saucers going quickly east to horizon / 1 hr. 6th zigzags / 90° turns. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** PERSONAL INTERVIEW or Experience. (Index 0) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1406 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "1651", **HatchDesc:** "LOWRY AFB,CO:1+1 OBS:6 CLASSIC SCRS >>E TO HRZN/1 hr:6th ZIGZAGS/90°TURNS ", **LatLong:** "39.716669 -104.950005", **LatLongDMS:** "39:43:00 N 104:57:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.716669,-104.950005)", **State/Prov:** "Colorado", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7449 (5D9ADDE4) **Date:** 7/3/1949 **Location:** Longview, WA **Description:** Metallic Discus Object Observed By 150-200 Observers (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [490703](http://www.nicap.org/490703longview%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_613 ### Event 7450 (8341095B) **Date:** 7/3/1949 **Location:** Longview, Washington **Description:** 10:40 a.m. Aeronautical engineer [Molt Taylor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molt%5FTaylor), airport manager at Longview, Washington, is preparing for an air show when someone points out an object in the sky to the northwest. He announces it over the PA system to the crowd of 150–200 observers, including pilots, who watch a metallic disc cross to the southeast with a falling-leaf motion. Estimated altitude is 30,000 feet at 300 mph, with the approximate size of 100 feet. A second object is seen at 10:49 a.m. for 2 minutes. A third sighting takes place at 11:25 a.m. An object approaches from the west at about the same altitude, oscillating at 48 per minute, and disappears into the sun. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Metallic Discus](http://www.nicap.org/490703longview%5Fdir.htm) [Object Observed by 150–200 Observers](http://www.nicap.org/490703longview%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 67; Swords 82–83; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#multiwit) [Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#multiwit)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 48–49 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1411 ### Event 7451 (6B3D3A47) **Date:** 7/3/1949 **Description:** A blue-green fireball was sighted at dawn north of Vaughn, Montana. It lit up the sky from horizon to horizon. At 10:40 a.m. 200 spectators watched three identical disc-shaped objects fly over an air show being held in Longview, Washington. Another disc-shaped flying object was sighted in Astoria, Oregon at 1:00 p.m. At 3:00 p.m. in Sterling State Park on the shore of Lake Erie in Michigan, Mr. D. Swarz was watching 2 AT6 airplanes when his attention was drawn to a metallic disc high above moving rapidly in opposite direction. The object went south over the western end of Lake Erie and was gone in 11 seconds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Edward Sullivan, CSI-Los Angeles letters from witnesses; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top Secret, p. 86; newspaper clipping datelined Astoria, OR July 5, 1949. **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3799 ### Event 7452 (548FDEAA) **Date:** 7/7/1949 **Time:** 10:10 **Location:** ASTORIA, OR **Description:** Blue Book. "Venus" crosses sky 3X / 8.5 minutes. Saucer seen / 6th. Sketch / r133#4p10. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 206) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1407 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "9", **Elev:** "6", **HatchDesc:** "ASTORIA,OR:BBK:"VENUS" CROSSES SKY 3X/8.5 MINs:SCR SEEN/6th:sketch/r133#4p10.", **LatLong:** "46.183336 -123.816673", **LatLongDMS:** "46:11:00 N 123:49:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.183336,-123.816673)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7453 (00977B05) **Date:** 7/8/1949 **Time:** 07:00 **Location:** SHOSHONE LAKE, WY **Description:** 2 fishing. 8 metal saucers 300m over boat / lake. Absolute(ly) silent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 205) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1408 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "2375", **HatchDesc:** "SHOSHONE LAKE,WY:2 FISHING:8 MTL SCRS 300m OVR BOAT/LAKE:ABS SILENT", **LatLong:** "44.383335 -110.683339", **LatLongDMS:** "44:23:00 N 110:41:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.383335,-110.683339)", **RelAlt:** "300", **State/Prov:** "Wyoming", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7454 (FBF1B669) **Date:** 7/8/1949 **Description:** Eight metallic discs flew 300 meters over a boat in a lake at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming at seven o'clock in the morning. They were completely silent. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, July 1949 summary **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_3924 ### Event 7455 (A924EA3B) **Date:** 7/9/1949 **Location:** Alexandria, Virgina **Description:** **VIRGINIA SEES SAUCER DOING THE REFLECTING.** C.S. Dupree saw a light reflected on the sidewalk, and on looking up saw a fast-moving, saucer-shaped object. It was not bright, but easily visible. Other sightings in the same vicinity were reported. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256) **Source:** Scully, **ID:** Scully_39 ### Event 7456 (1ACA9AB0) **Date:** 7/9/1949 **Location:** PHILADELPHIA, PA **Description:** Scores / observer(s). Silver disks cross sky going northeast. 9 dull night lights seen / 10 th. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 234) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1409 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "12", **HatchDesc:** "PHILADELPHIA,PA:SCORES/OBS:SLVR DISKS CROSS SKY >NE::9 DULL NLTS SEEN/10th", **LatLong:** "39.950002 -75.166670", **LatLongDMS:** "39:57:00 N 75:10:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.950002,-75.166670)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7457 (8770D4A1) **Date:** 7/10/1949 **Location:** Tacony, Pennsylvania **Description:** **NINE WHIZ OVER PENNSYLVANIA.** Mr. and Mrs. George C. Wunsch of Tacony, Pennsylvania, and Mr. and Mrs. Barry McGuigan of West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, saw nine strange disks with a dull illumination visible beneath the evening's cloud cover. They moved faster than an airliner but were clearly visible. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256) **Source:** Scully, **ID:** Scully_40 ### Event 7458 (70F0EB05) **Date:** 7/10/1949 **Location:** TACONY, PA **Description:** 2 observer(s). 9 discs cross sky going quickly northeast / 1 minute(s) intervals. Fly under cloud layers. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 207) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1410 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "18", **HatchDesc:** "TACONY,PA:2 OBS:9 DISCS CROSS SKY >>NE/1min INTERVALS:FLY UNDER CLOUD LAYERS", **LatLong:** "40.033335 -75.044448", **LatLongDMS:** "40:02:00 N 75:02:40 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.033335,-75.044448)", **State/Prov:** "Pennsylvania", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7459 (72ECA7F3) **Date:** 7/13/1949 **Time:** 14:30 **Location:** 10 MI NORTH / PULLMAN, WA **Description:** 4 observer(s) / railroad/railway tracks. 3 silver 10' saucers. 1 cuts going east. 2 going southeast then going northeast. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 209) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1411 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "8", **Elev:** "750", **HatchDesc:** "10mi N/PULLMAN,WA:4 OBS/RR TRACKS:3 SLVR 10' SCRS:1 CUTS > E:2 > SE THEN >NE", **LatLong:** "46.866669 -117.188894", **LatLongDMS:** "46:52:00 N 117:11:20 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.866669,-117.188894)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7460 (0D43DE95) **Date:** 7/13/1949 **Location:** Los Alamos, New Mexico **Description:** [Kaplan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FKaplan) responds to a July 1 letter from Gen. [Charles P. Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) inquiring about his April visit to Los Alamos, New Mexico. He explains that he has deliberately waited two months to report because he wanted to have a cooling off period from the deep impression the New Mexico witnesses had on him. Moreover, he wants to see if the green fireballs are still reported \(they are\) before he recommends a full-scale instrumented program. He says that [Norris Bradbury](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norris%5FBradbury)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norris%5FBradbury) the Los Alamos lab director, has urged that a classified scientific conference be held to discuss the phenomena. Kaplan suspects that the fireballs are an auroral phenomenon, but concedes that their horizontal motion and southern appearance are “difficult to explain.” He recommends a photographic and spectrographic patrol that would stay on to look out for the fireballs. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1985\): 15 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1412 ### Event 7461 (1D4BF6BC) **Date:** 7/17/1949 **Time:** ~00:20 **Location:** BROWNWOOD, TX **Description:** 30cm fireball 10M over house. Sparks when touches tree. Going south. Rumble and flash. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 210) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1412 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "423", **HatchDesc:** "BROWNWOOD,TX:30cm FBL 10M OVR HOUSE:SPARKS WHEN TOUCHES TREE:>S:RUMBLE+FLASH", **LatLong:** "31.722224 -98.983338", **LatLongDMS:** "31:43:20 N 98:59:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31.722224,-98.983338)", **RelAlt:** "10", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7462 (8A38486C) **Date:** 7/18/1949 **Location:** GALVESTON, TX **Description:** Night light going west over town. Type unknown. Stops and continues / fantastic speed/velocity. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 210) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1413 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "GALVESTON,TX:NLT >W OVR TOWN:TYPE UNK:STOPS+CONTINUES/FANTASTIC SPD:NFD", **LatLong:** "29.316668 -94.794449", **LatLongDMS:** "29:19:00 N 94:47:40 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.316668,-94.794449)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7463 (3C8E899B) **Date:** 7/18/1949 **Time:** 09:00? **Location:** TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, CA **Description:** 4 military observer(s). Project Bluebook Case #404. 2 white round objects hurl going east. O / O / south in 5 seconds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 210) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1414 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "19", **HatchDesc:** "TRAVIS AFB,CA:4 MIL OBS:BBK#404:2 WHT ROUND OBJs HURL >E:O/O/S in 5 SECONDS", **LatLong:** "38.250002 -122.016672", **LatLongDMS:** "38:15:00 N 122:01:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.250002,-122.016672)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7464 (B17F93CE) **Date:** 7/18/1949 **Description:** An unidentified nocturnal light flew over the city of Galveston, Texas this night. It stopped, and then shot continued on at a fantastic speed. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1426 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4156 ### Event 7465 (C93314A2) **Date:** 7/21/1949 **Location:** Mount Pleasant, UT **Description:** Two Silver Objects On Headon Course (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [490721](http://www.nicap.org/490721mountpleasant%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_614 ### Event 7466 (C46F708A) **Date:** 7/23/1949 **Time:** 11:40 **Location:** NORTH / DELPHI, IN **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #408. 2 fishing / quarry and 1. 12m metal objects circle and play / 450m altitude. Type unknown. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 212) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1415 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "180", **Elev:** "206", **HatchDesc:** "N/DELPHI,IN:BBK#408:2 FISHING/QUARRY+1:12m MTL OBJS CCL+PLAY/450m alt:TYPE UNK", **LatLong:** "40.616669 -86.677782", **LatLongDMS:** "40:37:00 N 86:40:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.616669,-86.677782)", **RelAlt:** "450", **State/Prov:** "Indiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7467 (F59F7C47) **Date:** 7/23/1949 **Location:** Delphi (north of), IN **Description:** 2 observers fishing saw some 12-meter objects circle and play in the sky (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [490723](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/490723delphidir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_615 ### Event 7468 (A6CB2040) **Date:** 7/23/1949 **Description:** At 11:40 a.m. two people fishing in a flooded quarry north of Delphi, Indiana saw two 40-foot long metallic UFOs circle and maneuver at 1500 feet altitude for three hours. There was also a third witness. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book, July 1949; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1428; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1949 (Volume 2), p. 12 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4313 ### Event 7469 (77A78235) **Date:** 7/24/1949 **Location:** USA, Atlanta **Description:** (Translated from French) (U.P.) Airline pilots report seeing a huge craft emitting a twelve-meter-long stream of flames from the rear. The craft seemed to be illuminated by an incandescent trail running along its center. It was moving at a speed between 800 and 100 km/h. **Reference:** F. Scully: "The Mystery of Flying Saucers", Del Duca, Paris "Les Editions Mondiales" 1951, p. 174, citing the "Los Angeles Times" of July 25, title "An Aerial Monster Without Wings and Incandescent" **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1417 ### Event 7470 (57F93D9B) **Date:** 7/24/1949 **Location:** USA, Mountain Home, Idaho. **Description:** (Translated from French) Noon. Witness: Henry Clark, flight director, aboard his Piper Clipper. Seven triangular objects, with a wingspan of 35-55 feet, length 20-30 feet, thickness 2-5'; of a light color except for the dark circle of 12 feet at the back of each object. They flew in a tight formation of two, two and one, and made a perfect turn without inclining. During the 10 minute observation, they oscillated less and less. Clark's plane had difficulties during the observation and upon landing it was found that all the electrical fuses had blown. **Reference:** Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1418 ### Event 7471 (E946D2B1) **Date:** 7/24/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Mountain Home \(Idaho\), Henry Clark, an air service manager, flies in a *Piper Clipper*. He observes 7 objects in the shape of delta wings, from 35 to 55 feet in wingspan, 20 to 30 feet long, 2 to 5 feet thick. They are light colored except for a dark circle of 12 feet in diameter at the back of each. They fly in a tight formation 2 in front 1 behind, and make a perfect turn, but without inclining. During the 10 minutes of observation, they display gentle decreasing oscillations. Clark's engine coughs during the observation, and upon landing it is found that all its spark plugs have been consumed. (July 24, 12 PM) **Reference:** case [Blue Book](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/BlueBook.html) \#483 unexplained **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_793 ### Event 7472 (74087E72) **Date:** 7/24/1949 **Location:** Montgomery, AL **Description:** _Los Angeles Herald Express_. **HUGE MYSTERY PLANE OVER U.S.** Two Eastern Airline pilots, Capt. Cas Childs and Co-pilot J.B. Whitted, said they met a wingless two-deck plane early today southwest of Montgomery, Alabama. They said the strange ship with a blue glow underneath the fuselage and shooting red flames passed the EAL ship at 5,000 feet and headed towards New Orleans. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256) **Source:** Scully, **ID:** Scully_41 ### Event 7473 (798E33F4) **Date:** 7/24/1949 **Location:** Boise, Idaho **Description:** **V-SHAPED OBJECTS OVER IDAHO.** A Boise aviator saw seven V-shaped objects flying within 1,500 or 2,000 feet of his plane. The objects, estimated to be about the size of fighter planes, flew at a tremendous rate of speed in a tight, but unfamiliar formation. They were in the shape of a 'V' with a solid, circular body under the nose of the 'V'. There was no evidence of any means of propulsion. They were observed for about two minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256) **Source:** Scully, **ID:** Scully_42 ### Event 7474 (A72BF1F8) **Date:** 7/24/1949 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** MOUNTAIN HOME, ID **Description:** Pilot. 7 dark delta/triangle/box-like crafts / V formation. 800kph. 2500M altitude. Engine electro-magnetic effect (EME). / MJ#183. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** HAINES, Richard Ph.D: PROJECT DELTA; 1994, LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 USA (Index 179) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1416 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "958", **HatchDesc:** "MOUNTAIN HOME,ID:PILOT:7 DARK DLTS/VFORM:800kph:2500M alt:ENGINE EME:/MJ#183", **LatLong:** "43.133335 -115.683339", **LatLongDMS:** "43:08:00 N 115:41:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.133335,-115.683339)", **RelAlt:** "2500", **State/Prov:** "Idaho", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7475 (F4525077) **Date:** 7/24/1949 **Time:** 20:30 **Location:** FORT WORTH, TX **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #411. Air Force Captain and Major. 7 dull night lights / V formation north going quickly south. Possible delta/triangle/box-like craft structure? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 213) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1417 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "202", **HatchDesc:** "FORT WORTH,TX:BBK#411:AF CAPT+MAJOR:7 DULL NLTS/VFORM N>>S:POSS.DLT STRUCTURE?", **LatLong:** "32.716668 -97.316671", **LatLongDMS:** "32:43:00 N 97:19:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.716668,-97.316671)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7476 (E3D9D8E8) **Date:** 7/24/1949 **Location:** Mountain Home, ID **Description:** Piper Clipper Encounters Seven Delta-Shaped Objects (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 483) **Reference:** NICAP: [490724](http://www.nicap.org/490724mtnhome%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_616 ### Event 7477 (48E4ED83) **Date:** 7/24/1949 **Location:** Socorro (near), NM **Description:** Green fireball sighting-left possible copper particles (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_617 ### Event 7478 (0AC34ED3) **Date:** 7/24/1949 **Time:** 12 noon **Location:** Mountain Home, Idaho **Description:** Witness: Henry Clark, manager of a flying service, flying a Piper Clipper. Seven delta-shaped objects, 35-55' in span, 20-30' long, 2-5' thick; light colored except for a 12' diameter dark circle at the rear of each. They flew in a tight formation of twos with one behind, and made a perfect, but unbanked, turn. During the 10 minute sighting, they displayed decreasing smooth oscillations. Clark's engine ran rough during the sighting, and upon landing was found to have all its spark plugs burned out. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_28 ### Event 7479 (4DB9C900) **Date:** 7/24/1949 **Locations:** Mountain Home, Idaho; 10 miles northwest of Mountain Home, Idaho **Description:** 12:03 p.m. Henry Clark, manager of a flying service, is flying a Piper PA-16 Clipper at 19,000 feet 10 miles northwest of Mountain Home, Idaho, when he sees a tight formation of 7 delta-shaped objects, 35–55 feet in diameter near his plane. They make a perfect and unbanked right turn 1,500 feet ahead of his plane, then they turn right again, passing the aircraft at about 450–500 mph. Clark’s engine runs rough during the sighting, which lasts 10 minutes. After he lands, he finds all his spark plugs burned out. When Blue Book investigates the case, they confiscate the spark plugs. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Piper Clipper Encounters Seven Delta-Shaped Objects](http://www.nicap.org/490724mtnhome%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 68 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1413 ### Event 7480 (701EBDD8) **Date:** 7/24/1949 **Location:** Fort Worth, Texas **Description:** 8:30 p.m. An Air Force major and captain watch seven bluish-white lights pass over Fort Worth, Texas, in a V formation, moving rapidly from south to north. The distance between the lights does not vary during the 4–5 seconds they are visible. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1949 July–December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1949-July-Dec.pdf), The Author, 1988, p. 13 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1414 ### Event 7481 (785CF14A) **Date:** 7/24/1949 **Locations:** Socorro, New Mexico; School of Mines campus at Socorro **Description:** A green fireball is seen falling close to Socorro, New Mexico. The next day, scientist [William D. Crozier](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44600139/william-dwight-crozier) collects dust samples from the School of Mines campus at Socorro. The samples contain copper particles of unusually large size. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 543–544; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 68 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1415 ### Event 7482 (34CBB1EB) **Date:** 7/24/1949 **Description:** A pilot flying a twin engine plane over Mountain Home, Idaho at 12:03 p.m. encountered seven dark delta-wing objects flying in a V formation at a speed of 600 mph and an altitude of 8500 feet. They executed a sharp turn without banking. His plane experienced engine difficulty with one engine. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p. 143; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 49; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 179; newspaper clipping dated July 25, 1949 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4342 ### Event 7483 (F2BD25E0) **Date:** 7/25/1949 (approximate) **Time:** 18:00 **Location:** ELSMERE, DE **Description:** Boy and mom. Large CLSC metallic saucer / treetops / power station/depot/facility 300M away. Suddenly gone. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 415) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1418 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "24", **HatchDesc:** "ELSMERE,DE:BOY+MOM:LRG CLSC MTLC SCR/TREETOPS/PWR STN 300M away:suddenly gone", **LatLong:** "39.738891 -75.600004", **LatLongDMS:** "39:44:20 N 75:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.738891,-75.600004)", **RelAlt:** "20", **State/Prov:** "Delaware", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7484 (6794285E) **Date:** 7/26/1949 **Location:** Mitchell, Nebraska **Description:** **THEY FLY UPSIDE DOWN IN NEBRASKA.** Dr. H.G. Lauback saw a saucer flying on a southwesterly course at 3:10 p.m., resembling an upside-down saucer whirling as it moved through the sky, occasionally tipping sideways at an altitude of between 5,000 and 7,000 feet. It was estimated to be about 25 feet in diameter and traveled about 25 ground miles in three minutes. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256) **Source:** Scully, **ID:** Scully_43 ### Event 7485 (3A5A163E) **Date:** 7/26/1949 **Location:** MITCHELL, NEBR **Description:** Doctor. 7M saucer whirls across sky. 6K' altitude. Passes through clouds. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 213) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1419 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1244", **HatchDesc:** "MITCHELL,NEBR:DOCTOR:7M SCR WHIRLS ACRS SKY:6K'alt:PASSES THRU CLOUDS:NFD", **LatLong:** "41.938891 -103.805561", **LatLongDMS:** "41:56:20 N 103:48:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.938891,-103.805561)", **RelAlt:** "1800", **State/Prov:** "Nebraska", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7486 (17386CB0) **Date:** 7/26/1949 **Location:** REDMOND, OR **Description:** "Flat aluminum sheet" soars overhead / tremendous speed. Flashes in the sun. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 214) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1420 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "913", **HatchDesc:** "REDMOND,OR:"FLAT ALUM.SHEET" SOARS OVHD/TREMENDOUS SPEED:FLASHES IN THE SUN", **LatLong:** "44.283335 -121.183339", **LatLongDMS:** "44:17:00 N 121:11:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/44.283335,-121.183339)", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 7487 (25E94FEB) **Date:** 7/26/1949 **Location:** 6MI NORTH / BELLINGHAM, WA **Description:** Motorist. Red-orange ovoid silent and stationary. Sharp outlines. Blue Book. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 214) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1421 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "31", **HatchDesc:** "6mi N/BELLINGHAM,WA:MOTORIST:RED-ORG OVOID SILENT+STATIONRY:SHARP OUTLINES:BBK", **LatLong:** "48.833336 -122.488895", **LatLongDMS:** "48:50:00 N 122:29:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.833336,-122.488895)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7488 (9563CB8C) **Date:** 7/26/1949 **Location:** SPOKANE, WA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #413. Man / ground. 8 disks 1000' over B29. Outpace bomber / same direction. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 214) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1422 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "600", **HatchDesc:** "SPOKANE,WA:BBK#413:MAN/GND:8 DISKS 1000' OVR B29:OUTPACE BOMBER/SAME DIRECTION", **LatLong:** "47.683336 -117.416672", **LatLongDMS:** "47:41:00 N 117:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.683336,-117.416672)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7489 (850D2B46) **Date:** 7/26/1949 **Description:** At 10:30 a.m. in Redmond, Oregon a disc-shaped object described as looking like a "flat aluminum sheet" soared overhead at tremendous speed. It flashed brightly as it reflected the sunlight. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Newspaper clipping, July 27, 1949; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1949 (Volume 2), p. 14 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4407 ### Event 7490 (1FB846D6) **Date:** 7/26/1949 **Description:** At 3:10 p.m. a doctor named Laubach sighted a seven meter diameter disc in Mitchell, Nebraska that whirled across the sky at 6,000 feet altitude, passing through some clouds. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** newspaper clipping dated July 27, 1949; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1949 (Volume 2), p. 13; Kenneth Arnold & Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p. 143 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4408 ### Event 7491 (040975E4) **Date:** 7/27/1949 **Description:** A cropduster in Puyallup, Washington named Sagmiller saw a disc pass overhead at 9:40 a.m. It reflected the sunlight brilliantly. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 28, 1949 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4424 ### Event 7492 (0E5A457D) **Date:** 7/28/1949 **Location:** PUYALLUP VALLEY, WA **Description:** Crop duster. Saucer passes overhead. Brilliantly reflects sunlight. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 214) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1423 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "15", **HatchDesc:** "PUYALLUP VALLEY,WA:CROP DUSTER:SCR PASSES OVHD:BRILLIANTLY REFLECTS SUNLITE:", **LatLong:** "47.200002 -122.283339", **LatLongDMS:** "47:12:00 N 122:17:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.200002,-122.283339)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7493 (80EC66D1) **Date:** 7/30/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Mount Hood \(Oregon\), Captain Thrush of the *Northwest Airlines*, 2 operators from the Portland control tower, and a flight instructor observe an object with 1 white light and 2 red lights performing maneuvers and remaining stationary. (July 30, 9 PM) **Reference:** case [Blue Book](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/BlueBook.html) \#496 unexplained **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_794 ### Event 7494 (B24245C5) **Date:** 7/30/1949 **Time:** 21:50 **Location:** TROUTDALE, OR **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #416. Airliner and Portland Air Traffic Controller and cops and more/others. Night lights / 7000' altitude over high tension power lines lines. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 214) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1424 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "22", **HatchDesc:** "TROUTDALE,OR:BBK#416:AIRLINER+PORTLAND ATC+COPS++:NLTS/7000'alt OVR HIV LINES", **LatLong:** "45.588891 -122.400006", **LatLongDMS:** "45:35:20 N 122:24:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/45.588891,-122.400006)", **RelAlt:** "2000", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 7495 (31962AB3) **Date:** 7/30/1949 **Time:** 22:40 **Location:** SEATTLE, WA **Description:** Flat saucer / bright center. Halo / edges. Burien, WA similar object hours before. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 214) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1425 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "105", **HatchDesc:** "SEATTLE,WA:FLAT SCR/BRITE CENTER:HALO/EDGES::BURIEN,WA SIMILAR OBJ HRS BEFORE", **LatLong:** "47.600002 -122.300006", **LatLongDMS:** "47:36:00 N 122:18:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.600002,-122.300006)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7496 (7F26E50D) **Date:** 7/30/1949 **Location:** Mount Hood, OR **Description:** Object with 1 white light and 2 red lights (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 496) **Reference:** NICAP: [490730](http://nicap.org/mounthood490730dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_618 ### Event 7497 (BFB04210) **Date:** 7/30/1949 **Time:** 9 PM **Location:** Mt. Hood, Oregon **Description:** Witnesses: Northwest Airlines Capt. Thrush, two Portland control tower operators, and one flying instructor. One object with one white light and two red lights, maneuvered and hovered. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) **Source:** BerlinerBBUnknowns, **ID:** BerlinerBBU_29 ### Event 7498 (E0187208) **Date:** 8/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Officers Harbaugh and Kosirowski are examining a device found in Glen Burnie. See photo at images/images/1949\_GlenBurnie.jpg. **Reference:** UFX **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_795 ### Event 7499 (2DFC12F2) **Date:** 8/1949 **Locations:** Moon; Mars **Description:** [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) publishes Pioneers of Space, detailing his out-of-body visits to the Moon, Mars, and Venus. In private correspondence he later explains “how one may venture from one place to another, while his physical is in one place and he is in another. That is the way I have written this book. I actually have gone to the places I speak of.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** George Adamski \[ghost-written by Lucy McGinnis\], Pioneers of Space, Leonard-Freefield, 1949; “[Palomar Mountain, 1940–1960: From Obscurity to World Fame,](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-life/mount-palomar/)” The Adamski Case, September 22, 2019 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1416 ### Event 7500 (57390669) **Date:** 8/1949 **Location:** Alaska **Description:** Actor, producer, and director [Mikel Conrad](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikel%5FConrad), in promoting his soon-to-be-released film The Flying Saucer, claims that the movie contains actual footage of a spaceship recovered in Alaska by government agents. He produces a bogus FBI agent to “confirm” the story. The Air Force Office of Special Investigations interviews Conrad, who admits to perpetrating a publicity hoax. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jerome Clark, “A Catalog of Early Crash Claims,” IUR 18, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1993\): 16; Internet Movie Database, “[The Flying Saucer](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042469/)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1417 ### Event 7501 (B3C2252B) **Date:** 8/1/1949 **Location:** TAMPICO, MEXICO **Description:** Torpedo object zips over countryside. "Like 4 / July sparkler". **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 218) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1426 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Mexico", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "3", **HatchDesc:** "TAMPICO,MEXICO:TORPEDO OBJ ZIPS OVR COUNTRYSIDE:"LIKE 4/JULY SPARKLER"", **LatLong:** "22.216668 -97.900005", **LatLongDMS:** "22:13:00 N 97:54:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/22.216668,-97.900005)", **State/Prov:** "VRC", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 7502 (1450DC33) **Date:** 8/1/1949 **Description:** In Tampico, Mexico in the State of Veracruz a torpedo-shaped UFO zipped over the countryside. It was described as looking like a "4th of July sparkler." **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. Volume 2: 1949, p. 18 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4556 ### Event 7503 (63A3868F) **Date:** 8/3/1949 **Time:** 17:20 **Location:** WEST LOS ANGELES, CA **Description:** Silver 7M saucer 600M over intersection. Jerks. Flips. Smokes. Going quickly north. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LORENZEN, Coral & Jim: ENCOUNTERS with UFO OCCUPANTS; APRO/Berkley Medallion Books 1976. 424pp (Index 418) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1427 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "80", **HatchDesc:** "W.Los ANGELES,CA:SLVR 7M SCR 600M ovr INTERSECTION:JERKS:FLIPS:SMOKES:>>N", **LatLong:** "34.038891 -118.255561", **LatLongDMS:** "34:02:20 N 118:15:20 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.038891,-118.255561)", **RelAlt:** "600", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7504 (85FEB614) **Date:** 8/6/1949 **Location:** Las Cruses, NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 85; 20:00 - round bluish green obj disappeared behind building (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_620 ### Event 7505 (69243E28) **Date:** 8/6/1949 **Location:** Las Cruses, NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 86; 20:00 - reddish blue/green round obj app 6" in diameter disappeared (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_621 ### Event 7506 (B564069F) **Date:** 8/6/1949 **Location:** Alamogordo, NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 87; 20:00 - round, bright white w/slight reddish cast 1/2 size of moon (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_622 ### Event 7507 (BBF6A45B) **Date:** 8/6/1949 **Location:** Alamogordo, NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 88; 20:00-20:05 - white obj large as auto at arm's length disappeared (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_623 ### Event 7508 (4291071D) **Date:** 8/6/1949 **Location:** Alamogordo, NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 89; 20:15 - round, whitish yellow w/red tail obj twice as fast as falling star (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_624 ### Event 7509 (1D6F6AD1) **Date:** 8/6/1949 **Location:** Alamogordo, NM **Description:** AFOSI Case 90; 20:30 - round, white/bluish obj similar to falling star went out (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_625 ### Event 7510 (D69AE668) **Date:** 8/8/1949 **Time:** 13:00 **Location:** MEDFORD, OR **Description:** 3 / USAF. 5 luminous 35' saucers / V formation going ESE / 10K' altitude. 150mph. Glow. Plane chases. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 222) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1428 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "117", **HatchDesc:** "MEDFORD,OR:3/USAF:5 LUM 35' SCRS/VFORM >ESE/10K'alt:150mph:GLOW:PLANE CHASES", **LatLong:** "42.316669 -122.866673", **LatLongDMS:** "42:19:00 N 122:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.316669,-122.866673)", **RelAlt:** "3000", **State/Prov:** "Oregon", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7511 (447C3D1F) **Date:** 8/8/1949 **Location:** Medford, OR **Description:** Objects, varying from 1 to 7, traveling slow to very fast. Air Force Conclusion: Balls of thistle (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [490808](http://www.nicap.org/medford490808dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_626 ### Event 7512 (6F663F34) **Date:** 8/8/1949 **Locations:** Medford Municipal Airport; Rogue Valley International–Medford Airport; Oregon **Description:** 11:30 p.m. Six airmen and tower operators at Medford Municipal Airport \[now the Rogue Valley International–Medford Airport\] in Oregon see 1–7 shiny objects traveling at variable speeds at an estimated altitude of 30,000 feet. They fly in formation for a while, then break off and return to formation again. Control tower operators using binoculars seem to distinguish wings on the objects. They remain visible until around 12:30 a.m. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Winged Objects Cavort over Airport](http://www.nicap.org/490808medford%5Fdir.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1418 ### Event 7513 (9FA8CB73) **Date:** 8/8/1949 **Description:** On this afternoon five luminous disc-shaped objects flew in V-formation over Medford, Oregon and were sighted by three witnesses in flight aboard a military aircraft. The discs were estimated to be 35 feet in diameter, and were flying to the east-southeast at 10,000 feet altitude at a speed of 150 mph. The pilot attempted to chase them, but they outflew his airplane. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 179; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. Volume 2: 1949, p. 22 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_4769 ### Event 7514 (991C4A7C) **Date:** 8/10/1949 **Description:** USAF’s AMC issues a final 600-page report, “Unidentified Flying Objects—Project Grudge,” Technical Report 102-AC-49/15-100, or “The Grudge Report,” authored by Lt. Howard W. Smith and [George W. Towles](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/59257302/george-w%5F-towles). [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek)’s April analysis is included as an appendix. Based on 237 cases, Hynek finds that 32% can be explained astronomically. Others say 12% are balloons, 33% are other misidentifications, hoaxes, or insufficient information. That leaves 23% \(55\) classed as unknowns. Despite this, witnesses are mostly deluded, hysterical, lying, or crazy, and “further study along present lines would only confirm the findings presented herein.” The report concludes there is little evidence to prove UFOs are real and do not represent a security threat. It recommends that press releases be created to “aid in dispelling public apprehension.” On the other hand, it suggests that military and government agencies interested in “psychological warfare” be informed of the findings. Appendix D is written by USAF Scientific Advisory Board member [George E. Valley](http://news.mit.edu/1999/valley-1020), who writes that extraterrestrial civilizations “might observe that on Earth we now have atomic bombs and are fast developing rockets. In view of the past history of mankind, they should be alarmed. We should, therefore, expect at this time above all to behold such visitations.” Project Grudge enters a period of dormancy until July 1950. The report is classified Secret until August 1, 1952. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lt. Howard W. Smith and George W. Towles, “[Unidentified Flying](https://www.academia.edu/43389931/Project%5FGRUDGE%5FReport%5F1949) [Objects—Project Grudge,](https://www.academia.edu/43389931/Project%5FGRUDGE%5FReport%5F1949)” Air Materiel Command Technical Report 102-AC-49/15-100; Hynek UFO Report, [p.](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/18/mode/2up) [18](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/18/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 12 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1419 ### Event 7515 (55CB902C) **Date:** 8/10/1949 **Description:** The National Military Establishment is renamed the Department of Defense to unify the Army, Navy, and Air Force under the Secretary of Defense. It establishes the Joint Chiefs of Staff. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[United States](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%5FStates%5FDepartment%5Fof%5FDefense) [Department of Defense](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%5FStates%5FDepartment%5Fof%5FDefense)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1420 ### Event 7516 (9065E400) **Date:** 8/12/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Explosion of the first Soviet atomic bomb. (August 12) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_796 ### Event 7517 (3CF67E26) **Date:** 8/15/1949 **Location:** Deer Lodge, Montana **Description:** **MONTANA NOTES THEIR SILENCE.** Edgar Thompson saw a bright silver disk-shaped object heading towards Butte at a terrific speed. It traveled noiselessly in a straight line. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256) **Source:** Scully, **ID:** Scully_44 ### Event 7518 (B6735295) **Date:** 8/15/1949 (approximate) **Time:** 11:00 **Location:** NEAR CIRCLEVILLE, UT **Description:** 5 / farm. Odd whine. 3 25M saucers going north / V formation. 15M altitude. Tilt and veer going northwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LORENZEN, Coral & Jim: ENCOUNTERS with UFO OCCUPANTS; APRO/Berkley Medallion Books 1976. 424pp (Index 424) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1429 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1848", **HatchDesc:** "nr CIRCLEVILLE,UT:5/FARM:ODD WHINE:3 25M SCRS > N/VForm:15M alt:TILT+VEER >NW", **LatLong:** "38.172224 -112.022228", **LatLongDMS:** "38:10:20 N 112:01:20 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.172224,-112.022228)", **State/Prov:** "Utah", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7519 (7792A92D) **Date:** 8/16/1949 **Location:** Wola Drzewiecka, Poland **Description:** A young girl in Wola Drzewiecka, Poland, sees a dark green object nearby like two bowls put together and about 5 feet in diameter. She walks right up to it and touches its metallic surface with her index finger, getting a mild electric vibration and making her fingertip turn red. The object begins rotating, then rises up and disappears to the south at an altitude of 50 feet. In the distance she sees another object that she says remained in the same spot for several days. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Poland 18–19 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1422 ### Event 7520 (C9D8F4D5) **Date:** 8/17/1949 **Location:** New Mexico **Description:** [Lincoln LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) submits the fifth of a series of reports on “anomalous luminous phenomena.” He notes that “Many of the green fireballs now appearing descend in nearly vertical paths, whereas, in earlier months almost all of the green fireballs observed moved almost horizontally. There appears to be a concentration of New Mexico incidents near weekends, especially on Sunday and near the hour of 8:00.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1949-July-Dec.pdf) [1949 July–December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1949-July-Dec.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1949-July-Dec.pdf) The Author, 1988, pp. 28–29 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1421 ### Event 7521 (E29C58BA) **Date:** 8/17/1949 **Description:** An alleged CIA OSI information report on the analysis of UAP states a special studies project within the DOD known as Unidentified Lenticular Aerodyne Technology Transfer (ULATT) Exploitation Program houses six undisclosed projects. It states a power plant was recovered from a crashed UAP in New Mexico and a meeting was held on 14 July 1949 at Blair House where President Harry S. Truman proposed that the “know how” of ULATT be shared with Canada and the UK. The document also alleges that Hannes Alfven, who would win the Nobel Prize in 1970 for his work on magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), was consulted during his early MHD work because it was suggested the ULATT technology used magnetic field lines for travel. * [https://majesticdocuments.com/pdf/cia_oscurapeak.pdf](https://majesticdocuments.com/pdf/cia_oscurapeak.pdf) **Reference:** [Anonymous 2023 PDF](https://archive.org/details/anon_pdf_from_markdown) **Source:** Anon2023PDF, **ID:** Anon2023PDF_18 ### Event 7522 (9A600174) **Date:** 8/17/1949 **Description:** Great Falls AFB to AMC at Wright Patterson AFB writes on 17 August 1949 that an informant, prone to exaggeration but trustworthy, sees 7 flying discs and two crashed discs. AFB agents dragged the lake and didn’t find anything. * [https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2016/02/a-crashed-ufo-in-a-montana-lake/](https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2016/02/a-crashed-ufo-in-a-montana-lake/) * [https://web.archive.org/web/20160415135901/https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2016/02/a-crashed-ufo-in-a-montana-lake/](https://web.archive.org/web/20160415135901/https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2016/02/a-crashed-ufo-in-a-montana-lake/) **Reference:** [Anonymous 2023 PDF](https://archive.org/details/anon_pdf_from_markdown) **Source:** Anon2023PDF, **ID:** Anon2023PDF_19 ### Event 7523 (833E6C91) **Date:** 8/18/1949 **Location:** Socorro, New Mexico **Description:** [LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) and USAF scientists meet with [William D. Crozier](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44600139/william-dwight-crozier) to find out about his July 25 dust collection in Socorro, New Mexico. Crozier says he thinks the copper particles may have come from a campus building, although samples from the open country contain the same particles. LaPaz notes that copper is extremely rare in meteorites, although it might explain the yellow-green color of the fireballs. He suggests that further air and ground samples be taken in areas where the fireballs are seen. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 543–544 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1423 ### Event 7524 (1BCB066A) **Date:** 8/19/1949 **Description:** Fitzgerald and Gamey see little men in desert. **Type:** ce3 event **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_104 ### Event 7525 (1F027F22) **Date:** 8/19/1949 **Location:** USA, California - Death Valley **Description:** (Translated from French) Two gold prospectors were witnesses to the crash landing of a flying object in the shape of a disk. Two small men emerged from it and the gold prospectors gave chase. They lost the small men in the sand dunes and when they returned to what they estimated to be the landing site, the craft had gone. **Reference:** Charles BOWEN: "In Search of the Humanoids" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 174 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1420 ### Event 7526 (DD25A8EC) **Date:** 8/19/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) In Death Valley \(California\), Mace Garney and Buck Fitzgerald, 2 prospectors, [see an object crash in the desert.](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/1949-08-19.html) It has the shape of a disc and measures 7 m \(24 feet\) in diameter. (August 19) **Reference:** Local Bakersfield Journal, August 20, p. 13 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_797 ### Event 7527 (0BE039ED) **Date:** 8/19/1949 (approximate) **Location:** DEATH VALLEY, CA **Description:** 8M saucer going down. Prospectors chase 2 small humanoids (or Greys) / dunes. All vanish. / r6p23. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** BOWEN, Charles (ed.) The HUMANOIDS: HB Henry Regnery, Chicago 1969. 256pp. PB 1977 Futura, London (Index 142) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1430 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **OID:** Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "-50", **HatchDesc:** "DEATH VLY,CA:8M SCR ↓:PROSPECTORS CHASE 2 OIDS/DUNES:ALL VANISH:/r6p23", **LatLong:** "36.500002 -117.000006", **LatLongDMS:** "36:30:00 N 117:00:00 W", **Locale:** "Desert", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36.500002,-117.000006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "9" ### Event 7528 (7DA0507C) **Date:** 8/19/1949 **Time:** 20:00 **Location:** NORWOOD, OH **Description:** Hundreds / observer(s). Searchlight hits round object / 4 miles altitude. Glows. Same to 10 Mar. '50. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** STRINGFIELD, Leonard: SITUATION RED - The UFO Siege. Fawcett Crest, NY 1977 (Index 201) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1431 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "12", **Duration:** "180", **Elev:** "201", **HatchDesc:** "NORWOOD,OH:100s/OBS:SEARCHLITE HITS RND OBJ/4mi ALT:GLOWS:same to 10MAR50", **LatLong:** "39.166669 -84.466671", **LatLongDMS:** "39:10:00 N 84:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.166669,-84.466671)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 7529 (12404D2A) **Date:** 8/19/1949 **Location:** Norwood, OH **Description:** UFO in searchlight (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) **Reference:** NICAP: [490819](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/norwooddir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_627 ### Event 7530 (EF3A44F1) **Date:** 8/19/1949 **Location:** Death Valley, California **Description:** Two prospectors are said to have observed a disk-shaped object land. Two dwarfs emerged but were lost in the sand dunes when pursued. The object disappeared. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** Humanoids 52 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_70 ### Event 7531 (E7287441) **Date:** 8/19/1949 **Location:** Death Valley, California **Description:** Two prospectors, Buck Fitzgerald and Mase Garney, report that a flying saucer crashed near them in Death Valley, California. Two little men jump out and start running. The prospectors chase them over a sand dune, but lose them. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[‘Little Men’ in Flying Disc,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93020559/)” San Francisco Examiner, August 20, 1949, p. 2; Clark III 269; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1949-08-19-usa-deathvalley.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1949-08-19-usa-deathvalley.htm) August 22, 2006 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1424 ### Event 7532 (BB7AC81F) **Date:** 8/19/1949 **Locations:** Norwood, Ohio; University of Cincinnati; Cincinnati Post; Cincinnati Enquirer **Description:** 8:15–11:00 p.m. Rev. [Gregory Miller](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5347017/gregory-a-miller)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5347017/gregory-a-miller) pastor of the St. Peter and Paul Church in Norwood, Ohio, has purchased from Army surplus an 8-million-candlepower searchlight for his church carnival. Sgt. Donald R. Berger of ROTC of the University of Cincinnati is to operate it. During the festivities, Berger’s sweeping searchlight suddenly flashes across a stationary circular object in the sky. Miller and others join in and observe. When Berger moves the searchlight away, the disc continues to glow. Hundreds of calls are received by Cincinnati Post and Cincinnati Enquirer offices regarding fireballs and comet-like objects all across the Cincinnati area this first night. The searchlight picks up the same or similar objects on nine further occasions, the last being on March 10, 1950. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** “[More Proof That ‘Saucers’ Exist,](http://cufos.org/Orbit/ORBIT%20Volume%20I%201954-1955R.pdf)” CRIFO Orbit 1, no. 5 \(August 6, 1954\): 1–2; NICAP, “[The Ohio Searchlight Incident](http://www.nicap.org/490819norwood%5Fdir.htm)”; Patrick Gross, “[The Norwood Searchlight Incident](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/norwood49.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1425 ### Event 7533 (F458D965) **Date:** 8/19/1949 **Description:** Two prospectors in Death Valley, California allegedly observed a disc-shaped object land. Two dwarfs emerged but were lost in the sand dunes when pursued. The object disappeared. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, p. 116; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 193 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5152 ### Event 7534 (6C384BD8) **Date:** 8/20/1949 **Location:** USA, Las Cruces (New Mexico) **Description:** (Translated from French) On the evening of August 20th, 1949, at 10:45 PM, Professor Tombaugh was in front of his house in Las Cruces, New Mexico, with his wife and her mother. Looking up at the sky, he suddenly saw near the zenith, six or eight rectangles shining with a greenish light, flying quickly towards a point on the horizon between 25 and 30 degrees southeast. They moved with a rapid and uniform motion and seemed to be windows of some unlit craft carried in a luminous vague silhouette against the black of the firmament. In any case, these rectangles were certainly flat objects, because as they moved away they gradually contracted in the direction of flight, as if the three witnesses had seen them increasingly in profile. The whole of the six or eight rectangles, which followed each other two by two, formed in the sky a perfectly rigid design of an area of about one degree, which corresponds to twice the width of the full moon. (...) (There are slight differences between the two accounts: first in the magazine "Life" and then in Menzel): in the first Tombaugh frankly speaks of a cigar with two rows of windows, while in the second, the cigar has faded into a vague silhouette. In the first account the observation lasts about twenty seconds, it is much shorter in the second. (August 20th, 1949) **Reference:** "Glimpses of Flying Saucers" Aimé Michel, ed. Maison MAME, 1954, pp. 69 and 70, dated August 20th **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1419 ### Event 7535 (1AA20F9A) **Date:** 8/20/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) [The Tale of Garney and Fitzgerlad](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/1949-08-19.html) about the incident from the day before is published in a Bakersfield newspaper. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_798 ### Event 7536 (13EBF872) **Date:** 8/20/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) At Las Cruces, the famous astronomer [Clyde Tombaugh](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/TombaughClydeWilliam.html) \(working at the rocket test range of [White Sands](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/WhiteSands.html) 65 km away\) his wife and his mother-in-law observed 6 to 8 \(1 only?\) rectangular flying objects in an ellipsoidal formation. The UFOs were yellow-green in color and moved from northwest to southeast. In [1957](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/1957.html), he declared about this experience, "I was so unprepared for such a strange sight that I was truly petrified with surprise." **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_799 ### Event 7537 (A61755C4) **Date:** 8/20/1949 **Time:** 22:50 **Location:** LAS CRUCES, NM **Description:** Astronomer Tombaugh. Row / square windows going southeast as if attached. / FSRv15#3. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** EDWARDS, Frank: FLYING SAUCERS-SERIOUS BUSINESS; Lyle Stewart & Bantam Books 1966. (Index 23) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1432 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1191", **HatchDesc:** "LAS CRUCES,NM:ASTRONOMER TOMBAUGH:ROW/SQR WINDOWS >SE as if ATTACHED:/FSRv15#3", **LatLong:** "32.311113 -106.783338", **LatLongDMS:** "32:18:40 N 106:47:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.311113,-106.783338)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 7538 (EDA63F59) **Date:** 8/20/1949 **Location:** Las Cruses, NM **Description:** A rigid formation of faint bluish-green rectangles (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_628 ### Event 7539 (6B8CFB17) **Date:** 8/20/1949 **Location:** Las Cruces, New Mexico **Description:** 10:45 p.m. Astronomer [Clyde Tombaugh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde%5FTombaugh), his [wife](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/83427769/patricia-tombaugh), and [mother-in-law](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67133021/irene-b-edson) see a formation of rectangular bluish- green lights at Las Cruces, New Mexico, for about 3 seconds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Tombaugh Observes UFO Formation](http://www.nicap.org/490820lascruces%5Fdir.htm)”; H. B. Darrach Jr. and Robert Ginna, “[Have We Visitors from Space?](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/Life/1952%2004%2007%5FLife%5FHave%20We%20Visitors.pdf)” Life, April 7, 1952, p. 89; “[Dr. Clyde](http://cufos.org/CSI%5FNY/CSI%5FNY%5F%2322.pdf) [Tombaugh Provides Details on His Own Famous Sighting,](http://cufos.org/CSI%5FNY/CSI%5FNY%5F%2322.pdf)” CSI News Letter, no. 10 \(December 15, 1957\): 27; UFOEv, [p. 53](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=65&skin=2021); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 70; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#astronomers)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 59–60; Clark III 1129–1130; Swords 81–82 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1426 ### Event 7540 (E40422A5) **Date:** 8/20/1949 **Description:** At 10:15 p.m. in Las Cruces, New Mexico Astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of the planet Pluto, reported sighting six to eight green, rectangular UFOs flying in a symmetrical formation. He had a second sighting 30 minutes later. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 130, citing letter from Tombaugh dated August 7, 1957; UNICAT, case # 530, citing Dr. James E. McDonald **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5164 ### Event 7541 (252C3421) **Date:** 8/22/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Seymour L. Hess, a meteorologist from the University of Florida, observed through a telescope under the clouds a disk of metallic appearance. He estimated its size to be 1.5 m in diameter and its altitude to be 2500 m, going against the wind. (August 22) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_800 ### Event 7542 (15CDC3C2) **Date:** 8/22/1949 (approximate) **Location:** TIGVARIAK ISLAND, AK **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #428. Geodetic scientist/science. Whine. 6 saucers / circular form. 7th weaves. Northeast going quickly southwest. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 242) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1433 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **SND:** UFO sounds heard or recorded **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "TIGVARIAK ISL,AK:BBK#428:GEODETIC SCI:WHINE:6 SCRS/CIRC.FORM:7th WEAVES:NE>>SW", **LatLong:** "70.222226 -147.216674", **LatLongDMS:** "70:13:20 N 147:13:00 W", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/70.222226,-147.216674)", **State/Prov:** "Alaska", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7543 (E10DD7B8) **Date:** 8/22/1949 **Description:** In Alaska, a scientist on Tigvariak Island sighted six disc-shaped object flying in a circular formation, making a whining sound. A seventh disc then was seen weaving through the sky. They went from the northeast to the southwest. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1949, p. 42 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5215 ### Event 7544 (A12565E0) **Date:** 8/29/1949 **Location:** Semipalatinsk Test Site **Description:** First Soviet atomic bomb test RDS-1 “First Lightning” at Semipalatinsk in Semipalatinsk Test Site, NE Kazakhstan (Joe 1) **Type:** atomic **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_%28nuclear_test%29) **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDS-1) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_371 **Atomic type:** aboveground **Atomic KT:** 22 ### Event 7545 (FCB1508E) **Date:** 8/29/1949 **Location:** SEMIPALATINSK, KAZAK **Description:** 1st Soviet atom bomb test detected by USA seismographs. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 241) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1434 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **NFO:** No craft seen, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **RDA:** Radiation/high energy fields detected, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **HST:** Historical account, **MIL:** Military investigation, **GSA:** Covert Security Agency, **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Kazakh Republic", **Credibility:** "13", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "SEMIPALATINSK,KAZAK:1st SOVIET ATOM BOMB TEST DETECTED by USA SEISMOGRAPHS", **LatLong:** "50.433336 80.266670", **LatLongDMS:** "50:26:00 N 80:16:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.433336,80.266670)", **State/Prov:** "SMP", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7546 (30E08974) **Date:** 8/29/1949 **Time:** 07:00:00.0 **Location:** 50.4375 77.814167 **Description:** Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Name: “joe1” Yield: 22KT **Type:** atomic **Reference:** ["columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Reference:** ["archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards](https://web.archive.org/web/20220407121213/https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/my_papers/WW_nuclear_tests_IASPEI_HB.pdf) **Source:** NukeExplosions, **ID:** NukeExplosions_1032 **Extra Data:** **LatLong:** "50.4375 77.814167", **LatLongDMS:** "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/50.4375,77.814167)", **NukeCountry:** "USSR", **NukeDepth:** "0.00", **NukeName:** "joe1", **NukeSource:** "RFAE", **NukeType:** "NACS", **NukeY:** "22" ### Event 7547 (227AA2E8) **Date:** 8/29/1949 **Locations:** Kazakhstan; Semipalatinsk Test Site **Description:** 7:00 a.m. The Soviet Union secretly conducts its first successful nuclear weapon test \(First Lightning\) at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan. The design is very similar to the first US “Fat Man” plutonium bomb. The project is led by physicist [Igor Kurchatov.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor%5FKurchatov)  **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[RDS-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDS-1)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1427 ### Event 7548 (19888935) **Date:** 8/30/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) [Clyde Tombaugh](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/scientifiques.html\#TombaughClydeWilliam) observed with the naked eye an object flying in the shape of a cigar radiating a green-blue light, and with "portholes" lit by a greenish light: During the thousands of hours I spent observing the sky, the famous astronomer commented, I have never seen anything so strange. (August 30) **Reference:** VSD 2007 H **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_801 ### Event 7549 (5F9722B5) **Date:** 8/30/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Roy L. Dimmick, head of sales for the Los Angeles company *Apache Powder,* claimed to have discussed with a Mexican and an Ecuadorian who had seen a saucer crash near the city of Mexico. The story is told by [Frank Scully](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/ScullyFrank.html) \(who was not shy to repeat the strangest rumors circulating at his time without verifying them\). (Before 1950) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_802 ### Event 7550 (0146AD39) **Date:** 8/31/1949 (approximate) **Location:** USA, Muroc Air Base **Description:** (Translated from French) A giant in the sky, emitting a flame, more than a kilometer long, passed at 15,000 meters above the Muroc Air Base. The control towers of the airfield and the air traffic control officers at the Lockheed, Palmdale and Long Beach bases received this amazing information from a private pilot and his two passengers. The pilot is Bob Hanley, a calm and trustworthy man. He saw the object at 12:15 above Mint Canyon. (1949, August 31 (?)) **Reference:** F. Scully: "The Mystery of Flying Saucers", ed. Del Duca, Paris "Les éditions Mondiales" 1951, p. 175 he cites the "Los Angeles Daily News" of 31.8.1949, title "A strange aerial monster emitted a trail of fire more than a kilometer long." **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1421 ### Event 7551 (CA50ACFA) **Date:** 9/1949 **Location:** "Key atomic base", NM? **Description:** Approx. date. Radar of five objects at tremendous speed and altitude **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973_, by Richard Dolan](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/mode/2up) **Source:** Dolan, **ID:** Dolan_48 ### Event 7552 (CB92FC7E) **Date:** 9/1949 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** 15 MI NORTH / SUSDAL, RUSSIA **Description:** Numerous observer(s). "Headlight" maneuvers over town. Came near / ground once. Spins. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** VALLEE, Jacques: UFO CHRONICLES of the SOVIET UNION; Ballentine Books HB 1992. 212pp. (Index 183) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1435 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Russia", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "60", **HatchDesc:** "15mi N/SUSDAL,RUSS:NMRS OBS:"HEADLITE" MNVRS OVR TOWN:CAME NEAR/GND ONCE:SPINS", **LatLong:** "56.433336 40.483335", **LatLongDMS:** "56:26:00 N 40:29:00 E", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/56.433336,40.483335)", **State/Prov:** "VLA", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7553 (6CA447B6) **Date:** 9/1949 **Alternate date:** 10/1949 **Location:** Payerne, Vaud, Switzerland **Description:** A Swiss Air Force officer sees a silvery disc 20 feet in diameter with jagged edges above Payerne, Vaud, Switzerland. He observes it flying at about 700 mph for 12 seconds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Center for UFO Studies, \[[Payerne case file](http://cufos.org/cases/1949%5F10%5F13%5FCH%5FVD%5FPayerne%5FBB%5FDD%5FColor.pdf)\] **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1433 ### Event 7554 (D0E36D5E) **Date:** 9/1/1949 **Location:** USAF Cambridge Research Laboratory at Hanscom AFB in Bedford, Massachusetts **Description:** Col. John W. Schweizer of AFOIN writes to the director of USAF Intelligence: “reports that fall in the ‘fireball’ category will no longer be included in HQ Air Materiel Command and Directorate of Intelligence, HQ USAF, investigative activity on unidentified aerial incidents.” AMC hands green fireball reports over to the USAF Cambridge Research Laboratory at Hanscom AFB in Bedford, Massachusetts. AFOIN rejects an Army request for further facilities to study the green fireballs from field locations. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 543 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1428 ### Event 7555 (6085BB0C) **Date:** 9/3/1949 **Location:** Eielson Air Force Base, AL **Description:** USAF WB-29 lands at Eielson Air Force Base AL with filter paper samples indicating a Soviet nuclear weapons test **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [link](https://www.ll.mit.edu/about/history/sage-semi-automatic-ground-environment-air-defense-system) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_372 ### Event 7556 (7CD50030) **Date:** 9/5/1949 **Time:** 12:10 **Location:** NEAR LEBEC, CA **Description:** 2 pilots. 35' ovoid rises / foothills / terrific rate. Going quickly south to Los Angeles. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 238) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1436 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1100", **HatchDesc:** "nr LEBEC,CA:2 PILOTS:35'OVOID RISES/FOOTHILLS/TERRIFIC RATE:>>S to LOS ANGELES", **LatLong:** "34.838891 -118.861117", **LatLongDMS:** "34:50:20 N 118:51:40 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.838891,-118.861117)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7557 (7317ACDF) **Date:** 9/5/1949 **Location:** Reno (east of), NV **Description:** Perfectly round, silver object with curved sides coming to a smooth round edge, about the size of a P-38 wingspan (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [490905](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/reno490905dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_629 ### Event 7558 (D10D58EB) **Date:** 9/5/1949 **Location:** Lebec, CA **Description:** 2 USAF pilots flying military aircraft saw an oval object climb at tremendous speed to the S. (Project 1947) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [490905](http://www.nicap.org/490905lebec%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_630 ### Event 7559 (8EC08AF9) **Date:** 9/6/1949 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) Launch of Viking II. Stopped at 51 km altitude, escape in the turbine. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches: "Ley 1958, M.W. ROSEN, N.Y. 1955 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1422 ### Event 7560 (2F551345) **Date:** 9/6/1949 **Time:** 10:10 **Location:** NEAR PAYERNE, SWZ **Description:** Military flight instruction. Metallic saucer going southeast. 2km altitude / 1200+Kph. / r93 #2. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** ZINSTAG, Lou & ALLEMANN, Dr. T; UFO-SICHTUNGEN uber der SCHWEIZ; UFO-Verlag, Basel/Zurich 1958 (via Bruno Mancusi) (Index 6) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1437 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Switzerland", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "nr PAYERNE,SWZ:MIL.FLITE INSTRUCTR:MTLC SCR >SE:2km ALT/1200+KPH:/r93 #2.", **LatLong:** "46.833336 6.933334", **LatLongDMS:** "46:50:00 N 06:56:00 E", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.833336,6.933334)", **State/Prov:** "Vaud", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7561 (4A5D9352) **Date:** 9/6/1949 **Description:** At 10:12 a.m. a military flight instructor flying over Payerne, Switzerland watched a metallic disc-shaped object at 2 km altitude fly to the southeast at a speed in excess of 1200 km/h. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5673 ### Event 7562 (47E6DBF9) **Date:** 9/8/1949 **Location:** RADKERSBURG, AUSTRIA **Description:** Police report 2 'flying saucers' near Yugoslav border here. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 245) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1438 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OGA:** Non-Covert Government Agencies **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Austria", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "RADKERSBURG,AUSTRIA:POLICE REPORT 2 'FLYING SCRS' nr YUGOSLAV BORDER HERE", **LatLong:** "46.705558 15.983334", **LatLongDMS:** "46:42:20 N 15:59:00 E", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.705558,15.983334)", **State/Prov:** "STY", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7563 (5AAF39FC) **Date:** 9/8/1949 **Time:** 12:00 **Location:** CLARK AIR FORCE BASE, PHIL **Description:** 3 planes. Object climbs 800mph going [to] 15K' altitude going north. Contrail doesn't disperse. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 240) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1439 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Philippines", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "CLARK AFB,PHIL:3 PLANES:OBJ CLIMBS 800mph>15K'alt >N:CONTRAIL DOESN'T DISPERSE", **LatLong:** "15.050001 120.133339", **LatLongDMS:** "15:03:00 N 120:08:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/15.050001,120.133339)", **State/Prov:** "LZN", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7564 (E4161752) **Date:** 9/9/1949 **Location:** Washington DC **Description:** DCI Admiral Hillenkoetter hands Truman a carefully worded report of “an abnormal radio-active contamination” indicating “An atomic explosion on the continent of Asia.” **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [link](https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/nuclear-vault/2019-09-09/detection-first-soviet-nuclear-test-september-1949) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_373 ### Event 7565 (6C0CD680) **Date:** 9/9/1949 **Location:** Goose Bay AFB, Labrador, CAN **Description:** High-Speed Egg-Shaped Object Goes Into Clouds (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [490909](http://www.nicap.org/490909goosebay%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_631 ### Event 7566 (B1C08893) **Date:** 9/11/1949 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** MADEIRA, OH **Description:** Thousands / observer(s). Searchlight finds sphere/orb/globe / 17K' altitude. Rises to avoid beam? **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 240) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1440 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "13", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "235", **HatchDesc:** "MADEIRA,OH:1000s/OBS:SEARCHLITE FINDS ORB/17K'alt:RISES TO AVOID BEAM?", **LatLong:** "39.188891 -84.355560", **LatLongDMS:** "39:11:20 N 84:21:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.188891,-84.355560)", **RelAlt:** "5200", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7567 (AFFE8C8D) **Date:** 9/14/1949 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** LUBBOCK, TX **Description:** Several observer(s). Many small round silver objects going south in several groups / 3-50. Not birds. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2 booklets) Self published. (Index 53) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1441 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **WAV:** Wave/cluster/flap, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "959", **HatchDesc:** "LUBBOCK,TX:SVRL OBS:MANY SML ROUND SLVR OBJS >S IN SVRL GROUPS/3-50:NOT BIRDS", **LatLong:** "33.600002 -101.866672", **LatLongDMS:** "33:36:00 N 101:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.600002,-101.866672)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7568 (8408168E) **Date:** 9/14/1949 **Locations:** Massachusetts; New Mexico; Texas; Boston **Description:** The Geophysical Sciences Branch of the Air Force Research and Development orders the new AMC commander Lt. Gen. [Benjamin Chidlaw](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%5FW.%5FChidlaw) to have the Cambridge Research Laboratory in Massachusetts evaluate the New Mexico and Texas green fireball cases and consider the creation of an instrumented network. AMC is directed to send representatives from Boston to a meeting in New Mexico. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Lt. Col. John McK. Tucker, “[Light](http://www.nicap.org/docs/490914%5FLight%5FPhenomena.pdf) [Phenomena,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/490914%5FLight%5FPhenomena.pdf)” September 14, 1949; Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1985\): 16; Clark III 544 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1429 ### Event 7569 (BB375C52) **Date:** 9/14/1949 **Location:** Lubbock, Texas **Description:** 9:30–10:00 p.m. Two residents of Lubbock, Texas, see 9 clusters of objects “similar to ducks flying in formation,” bright silver and roughly round in shape. There are as many as 50 objects in all the formations except one. They seem to be traveling at 5,000 feet altitude, going north to south. Each light is visible for about 10 seconds, but it takes 30 minutes for all the objects to pass overhead. One witness is convinced the objects are ducks. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 692–693 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1430 ### Event 7570 (D5DFC4DC) **Date:** 9/14/1949 **Description:** Over a 30-minute period starting at 9:30 p.m. several small round silver objects, that were not birds, flew over Lubbock, Texas in groups of 3 to 50. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1454; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1951, p. 53 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_5939 ### Event 7571 (9A88CC03) **Date:** 9/16/1949 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 4.2km attitude (Blossom 5 — payload. Explosions led to early termination) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_374 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 4.2km ### Event 7572 (D74CF14A) **Date:** 9/16/1949 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) At 16:19, launch of V2 No. 32. Operation Blossom. Altitude 5 km. Explosion (GESAG, Launches: "Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1959) Monkey "Albert III" killed in the explosion. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches: Nieuwenhuis h. 1988, 17 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1423 ### Event 7573 (5297D377) **Date:** 9/18/1949 **Time:** 19:00 **Location:** MILFORD, OH **Description:** Many observer(s). Sgt. Berger catches white sphere/orb/globe / searchlight / one hour. Never moves. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 244) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1442 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "195", **HatchDesc:** "MILFORD,OH:MANY OBS:Sgt BERGER CATCHES WHT ORB/SEARCHLITE/1hr:NEVER MOVES", **LatLong:** "39.177780 -84.288893", **LatLongDMS:** "39:10:40 N 84:17:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.177780,-84.288893)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7574 (6F347501) **Date:** 9/20/1949 **Time:** 09:10 **Location:** NORTHEAST / ROME, NY **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #unknown. Lt. Col. Silver cylinder/cylindrical object spouts orange-white exhaust. Also separate pilot / 1000hrs. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 257) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1443 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "154", **HatchDesc:** "NE/ROME,NY:BBK#UNK:Lt COL:SLVR CYL SPOUTS ORG-WHT EXHAUST:+SEP PILOT/1000hrs", **LatLong:** "43.233335 -75.416670", **LatLongDMS:** "43:14:00 N 75:25:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.233335,-75.416670)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7575 (C9DCEAA3) **Date:** 9/20/1949 **Description:** A silvery cylindrical object with an orange-white exhaust was seen by a U.S. Air Force C-54 pilot flying northeast of Rome, New York at 9:06 a.m. It was seen again by another pilot at 10:00 a.m. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, September 1989, p. 13; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 11 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6116 ### Event 7576 (209DBB09) **Date:** 9/21/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Test of Soviet missile [R2](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/appareils.html\#R2). (September 21) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_803 ### Event 7577 (06C0DB8C) **Date:** 9/23/1949 **Location:** Washington DC **Description:** Truman made headlines with an announcement that the Soviet Union had tested a nuclear device several weeks earlier **Type:** historical event **Reference:** [link](https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/nuclear-vault/2019-09-09/detection-first-soviet-nuclear-test-september-1949) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_375 ### Event 7578 (DC728AA1) **Date:** 9/23/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) President [Truman](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/TrumanHarryS.html) announces that the Soviet Union has detonated an atomic bomb. (September 23) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_804 ### Event 7579 (FB396C8E) **Date:** Fall 1949 **Location:** Key Atomic Base, NM **Description:** Five Objects Cross Radarscope At Key Atomic Base (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [49Fall](http://www.nicap.org/49FALLnmexico%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_619 ### Event 7580 (CEDD8D2E) **Date:** Fall 1949 **Location:** Tulsa, Oklahoma **Description:** Don Bushnell, plant superintendent with Southwestern Porcelain Steel Corp., saw an object fall in front of his car as his radio was blocked. He applied the brakes; object vanished. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** KeyhoeS ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) **Source:** ValléeMagonia, **ID:** Magonia_71 ### Event 7581 (6A6C2113) **Date:** Fall 1949 **Location:** Los Alamos, New Mexico **Description:** A radar-tracking UFO case takes place at a key atomic base \(probably Los Alamos, New Mexico\). The base radar scope covers 200 miles of sky up to 100,000 feet. A legitimate radar contact tracks five apparently metallic objects at a great height moving south and crossing the radar scope in less than 4 minutes \(an average of about 4,500 mph\). **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** H. B. Darrach Jr. and Robert Ginna, “[Have We Visitors from Space?](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/Life/1952%2004%2007%5FLife%5FHave%20We%20Visitors.pdf)” Life, April 7, 1952, p. 89 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1434 ### Event 7582 (AFB410A5) **Date:** Fall 1949 **Location:** New Mexico **Description:** Night. Donald Bushwell and his wife are traveling along a straight highway in New Mexico. Suddenly a disc about 50–60 feet across comes straight down the road toward them about 4 feet off the ground. It raises up a little before reaching the car and passes overhead. As it does so, his radio turns to static. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Tulsa \(Okla.\) Tribune, December 10, 1957; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) p. 77 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1435 ### Event 7583 (78ABA37B) **Date:** 9/25/1949 **Location:** USA, in flight, Virginia **Description:** (Translated from French) In the afternoon, at 2:45 PM, this pilot was flying from Clark Field to Parkersburg in a Luscombe 84, at 160 km/h and 3450 feet above sea level, in the west of Virginia when he suddenly noticed a bright yellow shape coming straight towards him. The object was coming towards him at such a speed, added to the speed of his own plane, that it made him jump when it passed him in the space of two seconds. But it was flying roughly 100 feet below, 50 feet to the right. Thanks to the dark green of the forest that was passing beneath the plane, he was able to clearly distinguish the intruder: it was a bright canary yellow, 15 to 18 inches long, diameter around 4 inches at its widest part. It looked like a missile, but in fact had the same shape and proportions as the fuselage of a Lockheed X 90 of the Air Force. No wings, but vertical and horizontal ailerons at 1/3 of its rear. No visible means of propulsion, no engines, combustion trail, smoke, steam, exhaust gas. The front of the missile was very pointed, with a needle-shaped nose. This needle was about 6 inches long and resembled a lead pencil. The other end of the object was as pointed as the tail of a jet plane. The missile was heading west at 240°. It seemed to be coming to the end of its course when it passed the plane, as its speed seemed to be slightly decreasing. **Reference:** doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee, translated by Jean Sider **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1424 ### Event 7584 (172A6591) **Date:** 9/25/1949 **Time:** 14:50 **Location:** OVER LUBECK, WV **Description:** Pilot. Bright-yellow 50cm fuselage going [to] 100' under plane. Fins. / MJ#124. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 941) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1444 **Attributes:** **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **GSA:** Covert Security Agency **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "230", **HatchDesc:** "ovr LUBECK,WV:PILOT:BRITE-YEL 50cm FUSELAGE > 100'UNDER PLANE:FINS:/MJ#124", **LatLong:** "39.233335 -81.633337", **LatLongDMS:** "39:14:00 N 81:38:00 W", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.233335,-81.633337)", **State/Prov:** "Western Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7585 (650FC65C) **Date:** 9/25/1949 **Description:** A yellow, rocket-shaped object flew within 100 feet under an airplane that was flying four miles southwest of Parkersburg, West Virginia at 2:45 p.m. The rocket had what looked to be fins. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Bruce S. Maccabee, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1978, p. 11 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6308 ### Event 7586 (0A5DE230) **Date:** 9/26/1949 **Location:** WINCHENDON, MASS **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #513. Many observer(s). Cylinder/cigar-shape puffs smoke. Northwest going quickly southeast slowly. Vanishes! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 244) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1445 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "305", **HatchDesc:** "WINCHENDON,MASS:BBK#513:MANY OBS:CGR PUFFS SMOKE:NW>>SE SLOWLY:VANISHES!", **LatLong:** "42.688891 -72.044448", **LatLongDMS:** "42:41:20 N 72:02:40 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.688891,-72.044448)", **State/Prov:** "Massachusetts", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7587 (DC996913) **Date:** 9/26/1949 **Time:** 18:40 **Location:** SOUTHEAST / LEXINGTON, NE **Description:** 5 / farm. 3 4M ovoids going northeast. Turn up. 2 leave trail / sparks. See drawings. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 438) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1446 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **PHT:** Photos/movies/videos taken, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "736", **HatchDesc:** "SE/LEXINGTON,NE:5/FARM:3 4M OVOIDS >NE:TURN UP:2 LV TRAIL/SPARKS:see dwgs", **LatLong:** "40.716669 -99.683338", **LatLongDMS:** "40:43:00 N 99:41:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.716669,-99.683338)", **State/Prov:** "Nebraska", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7588 (4E98DA28) **Date:** 9/26/1949 **Locations:** Lexington, Nebraska; 5 miles southeast of Lexington, Nebraska **Description:** 6:30 p.m. [Lester Wolfe](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/79461100/lester-wolfe) and five others 5 miles southeast of Lexington, Nebraska, are threshing wheat when they see three objects coming from the general direction of the sun \(southwest\). As the objects move, they give off a dazzling brilliance. They maintain a level flight with two of the objects changing positions as they fly. The power of the illumination remains constant throughout the incident \(no pulses or flashes\). Once the objects reach a direction northwest of the observers, they make a smooth 90° turn straight upwards and climb rapidly out of sight. Dean Wolfe is a recent graduate of a two-year course in aeronautical design and thinks the objects look like domed discs when viewed face forward, but are more like stubby, wingless, tailless fuselages when seen from the side. About 5 miles away, [Don](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69079333/donald-e%5F-ballheim)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69079333/donald-e%5F-ballheim) [Minnie](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69079543/minnie-estelle-ballheim)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69079543/minnie-estelle-ballheim) [Elmer](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61298580/elmer-v-ballheim) and [Irene Ballheim](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/135430478/irene-m%5F-ballheim) see two fast-moving objects flying in the distance at level flight before abruptly turning straight up and flying upward. This group of people does not know their distant neighbors. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[90-Degree Turn Straight Up](http://www.nicap.org/490926lexington%5Fdir.htm)”; Swords 83–84 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1431 ### Event 7589 (68F6A238) **Date:** 9/26/1949 **Description:** Over the town of Winchendon, Massachusetts a cigar-shaped UFO emitted a cloud of smoke. It flew from the northwest to the southeast slowly, and then disappeared. The sighting lasted 15 minutes and the report was made by two men named Peckham and Clements. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, September 1949; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1949, Volume 2, p. 44 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6340 ### Event 7590 (599A1EA3) **Date:** 9/26/1949 **Description:** Southeast of Lexington, Nebraska three ovoid objects, about four meters in size, flew toward the northeast at 6:40 p.m. Two of the objects left trails of sparks. There were five witnesses, and the report was made by someone named Wolfe. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, September 1949; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1949, Volume 4, p. 38 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6341 ### Event 7591 (FE40D3A4) **Date:** 9/27/1949 **Location:** Sandia Base, New Mexico **Description:** 1:30 and 3:00 a.m. At least five observers at Sandia Base, New Mexico, see fireballs of various colors traveling either in an arc or in tangent to the Earth. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Francis Ridge, “[The Nuclear Connection Project: The New](http://www.nicap.org/nmexico/newmexicosightings.htm) [Mexico Sightings,](http://www.nicap.org/nmexico/newmexicosightings.htm)” September 3, 2005; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 71 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1432 ### Event 7592 (8DAE6134) **Date:** 9/29/1949 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 150.8km attitude **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_376 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 150.8km ### Event 7593 (F9A2461A) **Date:** 9/29/1949 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) At 9:58 AM, Launch of V2 #49, Altitude 151 km. **Reference:** GESAG, Launches: Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1959 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1425 ### Event 7594 (9659744F) **Date:** 9/29/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) 1st test of the French ground-air missile SE 4100. (September 29) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_805 ### Event 7595 (D406E5D8) **Date:** 9/29/1949 **Location:** HUMBOLDT, NEBR **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #475. Observer(s) = Nemechek. Ovoid made of luminous/glowing translucent rings going quickly south. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 247) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1447 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "302", **HatchDesc:** "HUMBOLDT,NEBR:BBK#475:OBS=NEMECHEK:OVOID MADE of LUMn XLUCENT RINGS >>S", **LatLong:** "40.166669 -95.944449", **LatLongDMS:** "40:10:00 N 95:56:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.166669,-95.944449)", **State/Prov:** "Nebraska", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7596 (50F1E44B) **Date:** 9/29/1949 **Description:** An ovoid object composed of luminous, translucent rings flew quickly to the south over Humboldt, Nebraska. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1949, p. 47 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6411 ### Event 7597 (EAE96382) **Date:** 10/1949 **Time:** 13:00? **Location:** OFF PALM ISL., AUSTRALIA **Description:** 2 fishing. Plain shiny 100' metallic cylinder/cigar-shape hovers / 80' altitude. Vanishes! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** CHALKER,Bill: The OZ FILES. Australian Sightings. 1996 Duffy & Snellgrove. NSW,Australia. ISBN 1-875989-04-8 (Index 49) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1448 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Australia", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "off PALM Isl.,AUSTRL:2 FISHING:PLAIN SHINY 100'MTLC CGR HVRS/80'alt:VANISHES!", **LatLong:** "-18.633334 146.666674", **LatLongDMS:** "18:38:00 S 146:40:00 E", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-18.633334,146.666674)", **RelAlt:** "80", **State/Prov:** "Queensland", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7598 (795C9FBB) **Date:** 10/1/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Mao founds the People's Republic of China. (1st October) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_806 ### Event 7599 (64D8F4AD) **Date:** 10/1/1949 **Location:** Jackson, MS **Description:** Rush Case (P) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_632 ### Event 7600 (5C19DFCD) **Date:** 10/2/1949 **Location:** HOLLAND, MICH **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #473. Vibrant bright saucer going west into cloud. Then exits / same point going quickly east! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 248) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1449 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "203", **HatchDesc:** "HOLLAND,MICH:BBK#473:VBRITE SCR > W INTO CLOUD:then EXITS/SAME POINT >>E!", **LatLong:** "42.794446 -86.111115", **LatLongDMS:** "42:47:40 N 86:06:40 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42.794446,-86.111115)", **State/Prov:** "Michigan", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7601 (ED4EC185) **Date:** 10/2/1949 **Time:** 21:30 **Location:** NEW YORK, NY **Description:** Scientist/science writer / (seen thru) telescope for eclipse. Dark ovoid crosses moon. / r133#2p49. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 442) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1450 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "30", **HatchDesc:** "NEW YORK,NY:Sci.WRITER/TSCOPE for ECLIPSE:DRK OVOID CROSSES MOON:/r133#2p49", **LatLong:** "40.716669 -74.005559", **LatLongDMS:** "40:43:00 N 74:00:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40.716669,-74.005559)", **State/Prov:** "New York", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 7602 (E34B44C9) **Date:** 10/2/1949 **Description:** On this day in Holland, Michigan a very bright disc flew into a cloud heading west, then exited the cloud from the same point and flew off rapidly to the east. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 473 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_6481 ### Event 7603 (C7F01CB6) **Date:** 10/6/1949 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33 (2nd Hermes II test) **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_377 **Rocket type:** V-2 ### Event 7604 (34C7F87F) **Date:** 10/7/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) Founding of the GDR. (7 October) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_807 ### Event 7605 (D40FA755) **Date:** 10/10/1949 **Location:** Sandia Base, New Mexico **Description:** 1:07 a.m. A bluish-green fireball is seen moving to the northeast at 45° above the horizon at Sandia Base, New Mexico. Duration is from 4 to 15 seconds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Francis Ridge, “[The Nuclear Connection Project: The New](http://www.nicap.org/nmexico/newmexicosightings.htm) [Mexico Sightings,](http://www.nicap.org/nmexico/newmexicosightings.htm)” September 3, 2005 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1436 ### Event 7606 (3C918462) **Date:** 10/11/1949 **Description:** The Navy releases only a brief summary of its findings in the death of [James Forrestal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FForrestal). The complete transcript is not released until 2004. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Ayn Rand Institute Watch, “[The Willcutts Report on the Death of James](http://ariwatch.com/VS/JamesForrestal/WillcuttsReport.htm) [Forrestal](http://ariwatch.com/VS/JamesForrestal/WillcuttsReport.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1437 ### Event 7607 (40467C04) **Date:** 10/12/1949 **Location:** Hollywood, CA **Description:** Frank Scully’s Variety article “One Flying Saucer Lands In New Mexico” **Type:** publication **Reference:** [link](https://hatch.kookscience.com/wiki/Frank_Scully) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_378 ### Event 7608 (FC41CBF7) **Date:** 10/12/1949 **Location:** USA, New Mexico **Description:** (Translated from French) (Note from vog: in my opinion, all this can only be the biggest hoax ever put together by Scully himself and others, including the famous Doctor G. alias GeBauer) October 12, 1949: Variety (New York) Title "A Flying Saucer Lands in New Mexico" - A two-column article by Frank Scully, announcing the landing of a flying saucer and giving all the details according to the accounts of scientists who had examined the craft. "It was 100 feet in diameter and 72 inches high". Scully adds that "sixteen men" with charred skin were found inside the cabin and that the craft was made of "two metals still unknown on this earth". **Reference:** F. Scully: "The Mystery of Flying Saucers", ed. Del Duca, Paris "Les éditions Mondiales" 1951, p. 176 which thus cites itself! **Reference:** The magazine "Variety" of November 23, 1949, publishes other details due to Scully's pen **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1426 ### Event 7609 (FAEA4FC5) **Date:** 10/12/1949 **Time:** 11:20 **Location:** HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE, NM **Description:** Blue Book. 3 military. Silver sphere/orb/globe / 35' altitude. Fantastic speed. Silent. Going quickly northeast going [to] Alamogordo. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 249) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1451 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1248", **HatchDesc:** "HOLLOMAN AFB,NM:BBK:3 MIL:SLVR ORB/35'alt:FANT.SPEED:SILENT:>>NE>ALAMOGORDO", **LatLong:** "32.866668 -106.083338", **LatLongDMS:** "32:52:00 N 106:05:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.866668,-106.083338)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7610 (085EA520) **Date:** 10/12/1949 **Location:** Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, AZ **Description:** Four Airman View Metallic Craft (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5) **Reference:** NICAP: [491012](http://www.nicap.org/491012davis-monthan%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_633 ### Event 7611 (4F3B6D1F) **Date:** 10/12/1949 **Location:** Holloman AFB, CA **Description:** H. S. Object Observed By Flight Engineer & Mechanics (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BB) **Reference:** NICAP: [491012](http://www.nicap.org/491012holloman%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_634 ### Event 7612 (BB4F3A8A) **Date:** 10/12/1949 **Location:** southwestern desert **Description:** Columnist [Frank Scully](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FScully) writes an article in Variety alleging that the US government has retrieved crashed spaceships in the southwestern desert. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Frank Scully, “[Scully’s Scrapbook,](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Scully%27s%5FScrapbook%5Fof%5FOctober%5F8%2C%5F1949)” Variety, October 12, 1949; Clark III 595, 1044 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1438 ### Event 7613 (12518B83) **Date:** 10/12/1949 **Location:** New Mexico **Description:** "Captured Saucers" first reported in New Mexico. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up) **Source:** HostileFawcett, **ID:** HostileFawcett_10 ### Event 7614 (77BFE1BF) **Date:** 10/14/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) A meeting is held to discuss the sightings of green fireballs. Representatives from G-2 section of the 4th Army \(possibly including some members of the [IPU](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/IPU.html)\), the *Armed Forces Special Weapons Project*, [FBI](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/FBI.html), [AEC](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/AEC.html), the Geophysical Research Division of the [AMC](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/AMC.html), and the [AFOSI](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/AFOSI.html) are present, a memo of which states: A logical explanation has not been issued concerning the origin of the green fireballs. It was generally concluded, however, that the phenomena existed and should be scientifically studied until these cases are satisfactorily explained. Especially since the continued occurrence of unexplained phenomena of this nature in the vicinity of sensitive installations is a cause for concern.. (October 14) **Reference:** Good 1987 **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_808 ### Event 7615 (58BE6992) **Date:** 10/14/1949 **Time:** 13:20 **Location:** MT. PALOMAR, CA **Description:** Astronomers and more. 18 night lights / V formation. Geiger-center chart-recorder offscale. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 258) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1452 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **RDA:** Radiation/high energy fields detected, **TRC:** Physical traces, **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1871", **HatchDesc:** "Mt PALOMAR,CA:ASTRONOMERS+:18 NLTS/VFORM:GEIGER-CTR CHART-RECORDER OFFSCALE", **LatLong:** "33.366668 -116.850006", **LatLongDMS:** "33:22:00 N 116:51:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.366668,-116.850006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7616 (11270C79) **Date:** 10/14/1949 **Location:** Mt. Palomar Observatory, CA **Description:** Perfect "V of V's" formation of about 16-18 silver \[round?\] objects (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [491014](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/palomar491014dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_635 ### Event 7617 (1CB44F66) **Date:** 10/14/1949 **Locations:** Los Alamos, New Mexico; Bedford, Massachusetts **Description:** At another conference in Los Alamos, New Mexico, attended by 16 representatives of AFOSI, AMC \([Joseph Kaplan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FKaplan) and Maj. [Frederic C. E. Oder](https://www.nap.edu/read/12473/chapter/39)\), Fourth Army, the FBI, AFSWP, and Los Alamos scientists \([Edward Teller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FTeller)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FTeller) [George Gamow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FGamow)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FGamow) and [Stanislaw Ulam](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislaw%5FUlam)\), the green fireballs are identified as probably atmospheric in origin, but more observational data is needed. [LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) and [Neef](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100488651/melvin-ellis-neef) speak at length. Oder’s Cambridge Research Laboratory at Hanscom AFB in Bedford, Massachusetts, is selected for a field project, under LaPaz’s supervision. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1985\): 16; Clark III 544; Swords 81; Good Above, [pp. 266–267](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/266/mode/2up) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1439 ### Event 7618 (1FAB3C11) **Date:** 10/14/1949 **Locations:** San Diego County, California; Point Loma, California; Palomar Gardens Café **Description:** 1:15 p.m. [Harley C. Marshall](http://palomarskies.blogspot.com/2009/04/who-are-you-callin-dummy.html)[,](http://palomarskies.blogspot.com/2009/04/who-are-you-callin-dummy.html) manager of public relations at Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California, is driving away from the observatory when he sees a perfect “V of V’s” formation of about 16–18 silver objects without tails or wings overhead traveling at high speed to the northwest and emitting a sound like jets. He stops and watches them disappear behind the cloud cover. Returning to the observatory, he phones electrician [Benjamin B. Traxler](https://calisphere.org/item/aa361e48f44cf8ee0f94886f6639c1db/)[,](https://calisphere.org/item/aa361e48f44cf8ee0f94886f6639c1db/) who at 1:20 p.m. sees one dark UFO traveling to the southwest. Marshall checks the Navy Electronics Laboratory Geiger counter on site and sees that the needle has jumped off the scale for several seconds. For the next 10 days, another 21 incidents of off-scale cosmic-ray detector incidents occur at scattered times, fitting a periodic 1.5-hour time schedule, a phenomenon not seen before or after, and unexplainable by equipment failure or radio interference from aircraft. Two representatives of the Office of Naval Research and two from the Naval Electronics Laboratory in Point Loma, California \([Joseph P. Maxfield](http://maxfieldgenealogy.com/maxfieldjs9001.html) and G. L. Bloom\), visit the observatory to investigate the readings, but not before they stop in at Alice Wells’s Palomar Gardens Café on the way in. After [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) claims he has seen increased UFO activity in the area \(including a sighting about the same time as another observation by Traxler on October 21\), they ask him if he would send them any photos he might take with one of his telescopes. He gives them a copy of a telescopic photo he took in February 1949 with his 15-inch reflector. The Naval Electronics Lab later attributes the photo to “electric discharge which frequently occurs in cameras during film pulling in dry or cold climates.” Several Navy aircraft of differing prop and jet types are flown near the observatory using radio, altimeter, and radars on October 21 and November 2 in an unsuccessful effort to trigger the Geiger counter. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** NICAP, “[Geiger Counters Detect](http://www.nicap.org/491014palomar%5Fdir.htm) [UFO Presence](http://www.nicap.org/491014palomar%5Fdir.htm)”; Clark III 38, 949–950; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) pp. 74–75; Swords 86–87; Maurice Weekley and George Adamski, “Flying Saucers As Astronomers See Them,” Fate 3, no. 6 \(September 1950\): 56–59; Colin Bennett, Looking for Orthon, Paraview, 2001, pp. 29–30 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1440 ### Event 7619 (3AE5FEC5) **Date:** 10/17/1949 **Time:** 07:20 **Location:** MT. PALOMAR, CA **Description:** Small black dot zips along below 7K' altitude clouds. Geiger center offscale! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 251) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1453 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCI:** Scientist involvement, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **EME:** Electro-Magnetic Effects, **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1871", **HatchDesc:** "Mt PALOMAR,CA:SML BLK DOT ZIPS ALONG BELOW 7K'alt CLOUDS:GEIGER CTR OFFSCALE!", **LatLong:** "33.350002 -116.850006", **LatLongDMS:** "33:21:00 N 116:51:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.350002,-116.850006)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 7620 (C330DA29) **Date:** 10/17/1949 **Location:** Mt. Palomar Observatory and Palomar Gardens, CA **Description:** Observatory Asst. Superintendent-Electrical B. B. Traxler saw a small black object without apparent projections moving at high speed (Sparks) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_636 ### Event 7621 (DFAD0B9B) **Date:** 10/21/1949 (approximate) **Time:** 14:30 **Location:** MT. PALOMAR, CA **Description:** Banana-object nearby. No Geiger radiation/radioactivity recorded this time. No further details. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 254) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1454 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "1871", **HatchDesc:** "Mt PALOMAR,CA:BANANA-OBJ NEARBY:NO GEIGER RDA RECORDED THIS TIME:NFD", **LatLong:** "33.366668 -116.833339", **LatLongDMS:** "33:22:00 N 116:50:00 W", **Locale:** "Mountains", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.366668,-116.833339)", **State/Prov:** "California", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7622 (BE922665) **Date:** 10/21/1949 **Location:** Mt. Palomar Observatory, CA **Description:** Elongated slightly curved or banana shaped object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_637 ### Event 7623 (93159AA4) **Date:** 10/23/1949 **Time:** 21:20 **Location:** NORWOOD, OH **Description:** Many and press. Saucer with searchlight. Delta/triangle/box-like crafts exit. Objects back 24 October and 20 December and 11 Jan. '50. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 253) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1455 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **RAY:** Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "11", **Duration:** "96", **Elev:** "201", **HatchDesc:** "NORWOOD,OH:MANY+PRESS:SCR W/SEARCHLITE:DLTS EXIT:OBJS BACK 24OCT+20DEC+11JAN50", **LatLong:** "39.150002 -84.466671", **LatLongDMS:** "39:09:00 N 84:28:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.150002,-84.466671)", **State/Prov:** "Ohio", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 7624 (D62EB202) **Date:** 10/23/1949 **Location:** St. Peter and Paul Church in Norwood, Ohio **Description:** 7:15–10:45 p.m. Rev. [Gregory Miller](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5347017/gregory-a-miller) has set up his searchlight once again at St. Peter and Paul Church in Norwood, Ohio. Sgt. Berger turns on the light and picks up a large object in the beam. At about 10:00 p.m., the searchlight picks up two distinct groups of five triangular objects that seem to emerge from the main disc. They descend on the beam then turn out of it. The same performance is repeated 30 minutes later. About 50 persons, including newspaper reporters observe the objects. Miller takes several photographs and asks Sgt. Leo Davidson of the Norwood police department to film the display. He uses three rolls, 25 feet each, and a Hugo-Meyer F-19- 3" camera with telephoto lens. Davidson also takes 10 still photographs of the large disc-shaped object that flies in and out of the searchlight beam, using a Speed-Graphic camera with a 14-inch Wallensach telephoto lens. Two of these are exceptional shots, showing both the parent object and the smaller group. These two pictures are last seen by Time-Life correspondent Harry Mayo, who has prepared a feature story for Time, which was to include them. But Mayo’s story and Miller’s photos were not used in Time or Life and, in spite of requests by Miller, these two photos are never returned. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Harry Mayo, “[What Glows on Here? Norwood Muses,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100226193/)” Cincinnati Post, April 6, 1950, p. 1; “[More Proof That ‘Saucers’ Exist,](http://cufos.org/Orbit/ORBIT%20Volume%20I%201954-1955R.pdf)” CRIFO Orbit 1, no. 5 \(August 6, 1954\): 1–2; NICAP, “[The Ohio](http://www.nicap.org/490819norwood%5Fdir.htm) [Searchlight Incident](http://www.nicap.org/490819norwood%5Fdir.htm)”; Patrick Gross, “[The Norwood Searchlight Incident](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/norwood49.htm)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1441 ### Event 7625 (1CC1804A) **Date:** 10/23/1949 **Description:** In Norwood, Hamilton County, Ohio outside of Cincinnati a black-and-white motion picture film was made showing a large disc-shaped craft hovering in a searchlight beam; it emitted five triangular or delta-shaped objects. The entire event began at 7:15 p.m., lasted over 210 minutes, and was witnessed by more than 50 people. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Leonard H. Stringfield, Inside Saucer Post...3-0 Blue, p. 72; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 88 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7033 ### Event 7626 (34A967FE) **Date:** 10/24/1949 **Location:** FT WILLIAM AND HYMERS, ONT **Description:** Huge streak / fire. Does neat loop and vanishes / newspapers. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 254) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1456 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **ODD:** Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Canada", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "15", **Elev:** "183", **HatchDesc:** "Ft WILLIAM+HYMERS,ONT:HUGE STREAK/FIRE:DOES NEAT LOOP AND VANISHES/NEWSPAPERS", **LatLong:** "48.400002 -89.233338", **LatLongDMS:** "48:24:00 N 89:14:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.400002,-89.233338)", **State/Prov:** "Ontario", **Strangeness:** "5" ### Event 7627 (7D0BCC63) **Date:** 10/28/1949 (approximate) **Time:** 06:30 **Location:** MONTECAROTTO, IT **Description:** Several separate observer(s). 8M cylinder/cigar-shape going quickly NNE 200M overhead. Oak branches thrash. / r39p31. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 243) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1457 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Italy", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "1", **HatchDesc:** "MONTECAROTTO,IT:SVRL SEP.OBS:8M CGR>>NNE 200M OVHD:OAK BRANCHES THRASH:/r39p31", **LatLong:** "43.527780 13.066667", **LatLongDMS:** "43:31:40 N 13:04:00 E", **Locale:** "Coastlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/43.527780,13.066667)", **State/Prov:** "Ancona", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7628 (CB774326) **Date:** 10/28/1949 **Description:** At six o'clock in the morning several independent observers in Montecarotto, Italy watched an eight meter long cigar-shaped object as it flew 100 meters overhead towards the north-northeast. Tree branches thrashed about as it passed by. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Solas Boncompagni, UFO in Italia, Volume I (Periodo 1907-1953), p. 103 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7214 ### Event 7629 (AEEF938B) **Date:** 10/30/1949 **Location:** Novato (10 miles N of), CA **Description:** Observed a white round solid disc-shaped object that was approximately 50 feet in diameter. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) **Reference:** NICAP: [491030](http://www.nicap.org/novato491030dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_638 ### Event 7630 (514EECFF) **Date:** 11/1949 **Description:** Photographer Nicholas Van Poppen, an aerospace photography expert, tells Dr. George C. Tyler on 11/1949 he flew from Hollywood with Dr. Wang to the Los Alamos complex and sees and makes detailed photographs of a large disc-like object. **Type:** witness statement **Reference:** [book "The UFO Crash at Aztec" by Steinman and Stevens](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Crash-Aztec-Well-Secret/dp/093426905X) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_379 **See also:** 3/25/1948 **See also:** 4/1948 ### Event 7631 (C164747F) **Date:** 11/1949 **Location:** BELGIUM, Brussels **Description:** (Translated from French) At around 7:30 PM, Mr. Toussaint observed 6 red objects, rolling along the southern horizon at a speed of approximately 200km/h - elevation 40° on the horizon. **Reference:** list by Daniel BUKENS, Remicourt, Belgium. **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1428 ### Event 7632 (464A4A81) **Date:** 11/3/1949 **Location:** Baja (near), CA **Description:** Donnelly Case, (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_639 ### Event 7633 (25C7C4AA) **Date:** 11/3/1949 **Locations:** Pentagon; Los Alamos **Description:** [Joseph Kaplan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FKaplan) brings the green fireball plan to the USAF Scientific Advisory Board at the Pentagon. By this time, he is convinced the fireballs are a rare type of meteor. But others are puzzled by the brightness, trajectories, and soundlessness, Kaplan says, “This high selectivity of direction seems to indicate that some group was trying to pinpoint Los Alamos with a new sort of weapon.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 544 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1442 ### Event 7634 (2192E226) **Date:** 11/3/1949 **Description:** [Karl Taylor Compton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%5FTaylor%5FCompton) resigns as chairman of the Research and Development Board around the same time that [Lawrence R. Hafstad](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence%5FR.%5FHafstad) succeeds [Lloyd Berkner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%5FBerkner) as executive secretary. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Michael Hall and Wendy Connors, “The Research and Development Board: Unanswered Questions,” IUR 26, no. 2 \(Summer 2001\): 9 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1443 ### Event 7635 (4758ACFA) **Date:** 11/3/1949 **Location:** Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico **Description:** 11:00 a.m. USAF Capt. William H. Donnelly is driving south about 2 miles north of Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico, with a friend when he sees four objects to the east at a high altitude. All are oval and a metallic white color. They are constantly changing formation, moving up and down, back and forth. The objects continue to fly south rapidly and move in a horizontal line and disappear from sight in 20–40 seconds. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Jan Aldrich **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1444 ### Event 7636 (722AA289) **Date:** 11/3/1949 **Description:** U.S. Air Force Captain W. Donnelly sighted a flight of four disc-shaped object north of Rosarita Beach, Baja California, Mexico. The objects had a cavorting flight formation. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Edward Sullivan, CSI/LA investigation files, letter dated April 6, 1952; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume I, p. 20 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7422 ### Event 7637 (6D334684) **Date:** 11/7/1949 **Location:** Osborne, Kansas **Description:** **KANSAS OBSERVES THEIR 'FLIP'.** Delmar Remick and Erwin Legg of Osborne, saw a flying saucer in the air, a mile up and moving northwest, rapidly takin six or seven seconds to get out of sight. It moved with a little flip every half second. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv506256) **Source:** Scully, **ID:** Scully_45 ### Event 7638 (1CBB3DA9) **Date:** 11/11/1949 **Location:** Straights of Hormuz **Description:** USN commander, others, see "light wheel" in water. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973_, by Richard Dolan](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/mode/2up) **Source:** Dolan, **ID:** Dolan_49 ### Event 7639 (98948C34) **Date:** 11/11/1949 **Locations:** Strait of Hormuz; Persian Gulf; Gulf of Oman **Description:** 6:30 p.m. USNR Commander [J. R. Bodler](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/131997317/j%5F-r%5F-bodler) is in charge of a merchant vessel \(possibly the [USS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FHemminger) [Hemminger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FHemminger)\) in the Strait of Hormuz between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. He observes a huge, pulsating submarine light wheel, some 1,000–1,500 feet in diameter, one mile from his ship. It is revolving around an ill-defined center with streaks of light like searchlight beams moving counterclockwise “like the spokes of a gigantic wheel.” He thinks it is caused by natural phosphorescence, stimulated by some marine life. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** J. R. Bodler, “[An Unexplained Phenomenon of the Sea,](https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1952/january/unexplained-phenomenon-sea)” US Naval Institute Proceedings 72 \(January 1952\): 66–67; Carl Feindt, [waterufo.net](http://www.waterufo.net/item.php?id=63) **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1445 ### Event 7640 (075543D5) **Date:** 11/14/1949 **Location:** GULF OF OMAN **Description:** 1200' circle / light nears ship. Spokes / light turn. 3 smaller ones after. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** LORENZEN, Coral & Jim: UFO's OVER THE AMERICAS; Signet Books, NY 1968. 243p. (Index 49) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1458 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **SUB:** Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Indian Ocean + islands", **Credibility:** "10", **Duration:** "60", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "GULF of OMAN:1200' CCL/LITE NEARS SHIP:SPOKES/LITE TURN:3 SMALLER ONES AFTER", **LatLong:** "25.000001 57.500003", **LatLongDMS:** "25:00:00 N 57:30:00 E", **Locale:** "High Seas", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/25.000001,57.500003)", **State/Prov:** "GOM", **Strangeness:** "8" ### Event 7641 (B2F5D312) **Date:** 11/16/1949 **Time:** 09:30 **Location:** OXFORD, MS **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #510. Several farmers and more. Silent upright cylinder/cigar-shape makes 2 90-turns. 2' diameter. 40mph. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 259) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1459 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "10", **Elev:** "127", **HatchDesc:** "OXFORD,MS:BBK#510:SVRL FARMERS+:SLNT UPRIGHT CGR MAKES 2 90-TURNS:2'diam:40mph", **LatLong:** "34.366668 -89.500004", **LatLongDMS:** "34:22:00 N 89:30:00 W", **Locale:** "Farmlands", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.366668,-89.500004)", **State/Prov:** "Mississippi", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7642 (DE959BB8) **Date:** 11/16/1949 **Time:** 19:50 **Location:** LOS ALAMOS, NM **Description:** Kids and Scientist. 2 blue-green night lights stationary. Then curve going north. Silent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 258) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1460 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **MID:** Likely mis-identification, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **PRB:** Probe: Possibly remote controlled, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **NUC:** Nuclear facility related, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "2231", **HatchDesc:** "LOS ALAMOS,NM:KIDS+SCIENTIST:2 BLU-GRN NLTS STATIONARY:THEN CURVE>N:SILENT", **LatLong:** "35.877779 -106.305561", **LatLongDMS:** "35:52:40 N 106:18:20 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.877779,-106.305561)", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "3" ### Event 7643 (364FB846) **Date:** 11/18/1949 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 123.9km attitude **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_381 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 123.9km ### Event 7644 (C4274587) **Date:** 11/18/1949 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) V2 Launch #56 at 09:03, altitude 124 km. (November 18, 1949) **Reference:** GESAG, Launches: Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1959 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1427 ### Event 7645 (85A058CB) **Date:** 11/18/1949 **Time:** 09:30 **Location:** SOUTH / RACELAND, LA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #unknown. 4 observer(s). Shiny fuselage-cylinder/cigar-shape going quickly southwest. Makes 2 90-turns. Silent. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 257) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1461 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "4", **HatchDesc:** "S/RACELAND,LA:BBK#UNK:4 OBS:SHINY FUSELAGE-CGR >>SW:MAKES 2 90-TURNS:SILENT", **LatLong:** "29.727779 -90.600004", **LatLongDMS:** "29:43:40 N 90:36:00 W", **Locale:** "Oil & Coal", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/29.727779,-90.600004)", **State/Prov:** "Louisiana", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7646 (55490D4C) **Date:** 11/18/1949 **Time:** 10:00 **Location:** BILOXI, MS **Description:** Blue Book. 3 observer(s). Silent 200' white cylinder/cigar-shape / 3000' altitude. 50mph by hospital. Straight and level flight. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 259) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1462 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "25", **Elev:** "7", **HatchDesc:** "BILOXI,MS:BBK:3 OBS:SLNT 200'WHT CGR/3000'alt:50mph BY HOSPITAL:S/L FLIGHT", **LatLong:** "30.400001 -88.916671", **LatLongDMS:** "30:24:00 N 88:55:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/30.400001,-88.916671)", **RelAlt:** "900", **State/Prov:** "Mississippi", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7647 (B74B06BE) **Date:** 11/21/1949 **Location:** AKITA, HONSHU, JP **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #501. F80 pilot. 60x20' rectangle. 500mph. 30K' altitude. No explanation. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 257) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1463 **Attributes:** **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Japan", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "2", **HatchDesc:** "AKITA,HONSHU,JP:BBK#501:F80 PILOT:60x20' RECTANGLE:500mph:30K'alt:NO EXPLAN.", **LatLong:** "39.733335 140.133340", **LatLongDMS:** "39:44:00 N 140:08:00 E", **Locale:** "Metropolis", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/39.733335,140.133340)", **State/Prov:** "Honshu Island", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7648 (B04C3FF1) **Date:** 11/21/1949 **Location:** Akita, Honshu, Japan **Description:** Rectangular object flying at 500 mph (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_640 ### Event 7649 (71B80281) **Date:** 11/21/1949 **Description:** An F-80 fighter pilot flying over Akita, Japan saw a rectangular-shaped UFO flying at 500 mph. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, November 1949 report **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7762 ### Event 7650 (A677888E) **Date:** 11/23/1949 **Location:** Hollywood, CA **Description:** Frank Scully Variety article “Flying Saucers Dismantled, Secrets May Be Lost” **Type:** publication **Reference:** [link](https://hatch.kookscience.com/wiki/Frank_Scully) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_380 ### Event 7651 (93DC5226) **Date:** 11/25/1949 **Location:** INEZ, TX **Description:** Several observer(s). Cloud-saucer radiates heat and causes steam. Going quickly south. Seen / Edna, TX also. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 258) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1464 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues, **CMF:** Camouflage/disguise **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "3", **Elev:** "19", **HatchDesc:** "INEZ,TX:SVRL OBS:CLOUD-SCR RADIATES HEAT+CAUSES STEAM:>>S:SEEN/EDNA,TX also", **LatLong:** "28.905557 -96.788894", **LatLongDMS:** "28:54:20 N 96:47:20 W", **Locale:** "Residential", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/28.905557,-96.788894)", **State/Prov:** "Texas", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7652 (8AFD6885) **Date:** 11/25/1949 **Location:** Mt. Palomar, CA **Description:** Flying discs first observed near the observatory at Mt. Palomar. A recording geiger counter was so activated at the times of these sightings, that it went completely off scale (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection) **Reference:** NICAP: [491125](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/palomar491125dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_641 ### Event 7653 (76C97D64) **Date:** 11/25/1949 **Description:** In 1949 a cloud cigar-shaped object was sighted by three witnesses driving between Edna and Inez, Texas at 2:30 p.m. It flew off rapidly to the south toward Edna. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Kenneth Arnold & Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p. 145 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_7899 ### Event 7654 (6767640F) **Date:** 11/27/1949 **Location:** Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico **Description:** 5:49 p.m. Civil Aeronautics Administration Chief Controller W. W. Jones watches a blue-white fireball moving 5°–7° per second over Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Francis Ridge, “[The Nuclear](http://www.nicap.org/nmexico/newmexicosightings.htm) [Connection Project: The New Mexico Sightings,](http://www.nicap.org/nmexico/newmexicosightings.htm)” September 3, 2005 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1446 ### Event 7655 (6355A297) **Date:** 11/27/1949 **Locations:** Kirtland AFB; McIntosh, New Mexico; Albuquerque **Description:** 6:00 p.m. Kirtland AFB Deputy Base Commander Lt. Col. Charles E. Lancaster Jr. is driving near McIntosh, New Mexico, when he sees a green fireball descend near Albuquerque. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 77 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1447 ### Event 7656 (16B24909) **Date:** 12/1949 **Location:** WA **Description:** Donald Keyhoe publishes “The Flying Saucers are Real” in True Magazine **Type:** publication **Reference:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flying_Saucers_Are_Real) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_390 ### Event 7657 (5B9B5308) **Date:** 12/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The popular magazine *True* publishes a series of articles in favor of the extraterrestrial explanation of UFO observations: according to well-informed sources, the UFOs that appeared some time ago in Scandinavia were interplanetary vehicles driven by men belonging to a different and more advanced civilization than ours. **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_809 ### Event 7658 (2EA1286A) **Date:** 12/1949 **Description:** Capt. Bernard Baruch Jr. suggests to Gen. [Hoyt Vandenberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg) that UFOs be added to JANAP 146 as required reporting subjects and that civilian pilots report UFO sightings according to military chains of command. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Swords 122 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1448 ### Event 7659 (D1A96833) **Date:** 12/1949 **Location:** New Jersey **Description:** Air Force Jets fired on UFO over New Jersey. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up) **Source:** HostileFawcett, **ID:** HostileFawcett_11 ### Event 7660 (566E82F0) **Date:** 12/2/1949 **End date:** 12/3/1949 **Locations:** Hanford Site plutonium production facility; eastern Washington **Description:** The US government releases radioactive fission products at the Hanford Site plutonium production facility in eastern Washington in an operation called Green Run. The radioisotopes are supposed to be detected by US Air Force reconnaissance. Sources cite 5,500–12,000 curies of iodine-131 are released and an even greater amount of xenon-133. The radiation is distributed over 500,000 acres encompassing three small towns and causes the cessation of intentional radioactive releases at Hanford until 1962, when more experiments commence. There are some indications that many other tests are conducted in the 1940s prior to Green Run, although this is a particularly large test. Evidence suggests that filters to remove the iodine are disabled during the test. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Wikipedia, “[Green Run](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%5FRun)” **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1449 ### Event 7661 (4AE029D4) **Date:** 12/4/1949 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** VOLTA REDONDA, BRZ **Description:** 15M saucer going down. 2 pseudo-human/entity invite observer(s) / their planet. Returned 14 Apr. '50! **Type:** sighting **Reference:** FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 329) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1465 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HOX:** Suspicion of hoax, **CNT:** Contactee related, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **RBT:** Possible robot or "Grey", mechanical motions, **PSH:** Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, **CVS:** Conversation/communication, **LND:** UFO landing or any part touches ground **Extra Data:** **Country:** "Brazil", **Credibility:** "4", **Duration:** "231", **Elev:** "298", **HatchDesc:** "VOLTA REDONDA,BRZ:15M SCR ↓:2 PSH INVITE OBS/THEIR PLANET:RETURNED 14APR50!", **LatLong:** "-22.533334 -44.116669", **LatLongDMS:** "22:32:00 S 44:07:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/-22.533334,-44.116669)", **State/Prov:** "RDJ", **Strangeness:** "10" ### Event 7662 (ADBBF190) **Date:** 12/4/1949 **Location:** Hammond (bet Covington and), LA **Description:** C-47 Crew Encounters 600 MPH+ Silver Sphere (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [491204](http://www.nicap.org/491204covington%5Fdir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_642 ### Event 7663 (7F81F446) **Date:** 12/4/1949 **Location:** Volta Redonda, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil **Description:** 5:00 p.m. Mario Restier is returning home from his father’s place in Volta Redonda, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, when he notices a disc land about 32–50 feet from the road. He hears a voice telling him not to be afraid and asking if he wants to know what it’s all about. Two beings about 5 feet 5 inches emerge from the UFO wearing togas and helmets. Restier asks them if they believe in God, and they answer, “God is one.” Encouraged, he enters the craft where he is offered a trip, put in a tub filled with liquid, and taken on a trip to a city on another world. He is shown a screen that depicts human nature, ambitions, and violence. After about 6 hours, he is returned to the spot where he was abducted. Returning to his father’s house, he finds it is April 14, 1950, and has lost nearly four months of earth time. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Brazil 23–24 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1450 ### Event 7664 (64033C5C) **Date:** 12/4/1949 **Description:** A 23-year-old man named Restier was driving home from Barra Mansa to Volta Redonda, Brazil at around 5:00 a.m. when he saw a 15-meter diameter disc land near the highway. Two beings came out, who looked human and were 1.65 meters tall but acted robotic in many ways. He claimed he went with them on an otherworld journey, during which he was put into a tub of liquid for the duration. After what seemed like three days he was returned, but the elapsed time had actually been four months (the return date was April 14th, 1950). **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0155, citing Walter Buhler, SBEDV Bulletin, April 1968, p. 15; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 157 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8171 ### Event 7665 (94C300AC) **Date:** 12/8/1949 **Location:** White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM **Description:** Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 130.3km attitude **Type:** rocket launch **Reference:** [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_382 **Rocket type:** V-2 **Rocket altitude:** 130.3km ### Event 7666 (CF6B4FE4) **Date:** 12/8/1949 **Location:** USA, White Sands **Description:** (Translated from French) At 00:15, launch of V2 No. 31, altitude 127 km (GESAG, Launches: Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1959 and Nieuwenhuis H. 1988, 17) "Albert IV" the monkey is the last to be launched by a V2. The parachute does not work. (December 8, 1949) **Reference:** Inforespace No. 49, 1980, p. 14, 15 which dates this to December 12 **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1429 ### Event 7667 (3E2C3BA4) **Date:** 12/13/1949 **Time:** 20:10 **Location:** ALAMOGORDO, NM **Description:** OSI agent. Object / 15km altitude. Stops / 5 minute(s). Changes color(s). Shoots flames. Going quickly. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 261) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1466 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **FBL:** Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "6", **Elev:** "1351", **HatchDesc:** "ALAMOGORDO,NM:OSI AGENT:OBJ/15km alt:STOPS/5min:CHANGES CLRS:SHOOTS FLAMES:>>", **LatLong:** "32.850002 -105.966672", **LatLongDMS:** "32:51:00 N 105:58:00 W", **Locale:** "Pasture", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.850002,-105.966672)", **RelAlt:** "15000", **State/Prov:** "New Mexico", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7668 (54B98F03) **Date:** 12/13/1949 **Location:** Holloman AFB, NM **Description:** Unknown Aerial Phenomenon Sighted (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC) **Reference:** NICAP: [491213](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/holloman491213dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_643 ### Event 7669 (DD8A24CF) **Date:** 12/17/1949 (approximate) **Location:** PUGET SOUND, WA **Description:** 2 / Seattle to/from/between Victoria ferry. Night light zigzags going northwest. No plane. Spirals going up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 261) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1467 **Attributes:** **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **SEA:** Observer(s) at sea, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **NWS:** News media report, **NLT:** Nightlights/points of light, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "7", **Duration:** "2", **Elev:** "0", **HatchDesc:** "PUGET SOUND,WA:2/SEATTLE<>VICTORIA FERRY:NLT ZIGZAGS>NW:NO PLANE:SPIRALS ↑", **LatLong:** "48.000002 -122.666673", **LatLongDMS:** "48:00:00 N 122:40:00 W", **Locale:** "Offshore", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48.000002,-122.666673)", **State/Prov:** "Washington", **Strangeness:** "4" ### Event 7670 (DBB935F7) **Date:** 12/17/1949 **Description:** On this evening in 1949 two witnesses aboard a ferry in Puget Sound bound for Victoria, British Columbia from Seattle, Washington saw a nocturnal light zigzagging in the sky toward the northwest. It spiralled up into the night sky. **Reference:** [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) **Reference:** Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing Loren Gross, UFOs: A History. 1949 (volume 2), p. 61 **Source:** Johnson, **ID:** Johnson_8456 ### Event 7671 (2DC3488C) **Date:** 12/20/1949 **Description:** Following consideration by the Defense Department’s Research and Development Board, [Joseph](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FKaplan) [Kaplan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FKaplan)’s green fireball project is approved by AMC. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Col. B. G. Holzman, “[Light Phenomena,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/491209%5FLight%5FPhenomena.pdf)” December 20, 1949; Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1985\): 16; Clark III 544 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1451 ### Event 7672 (6B9D6898) **Date:** 12/24/1949 **Time:** 18:00? **Location:** ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, MD **Description:** Blue Book. F51 chases / classic domed saucer. F81 crash lands. Saucer departs. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 264) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1468 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **VEH:** Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "85", **HatchDesc:** "ANDREWS AFB,MD:BBK:F51 CHASES/CLASSIC DOMED SCR:F81 CRASH LANDS:SCR DEPARTS", **LatLong:** "38.816669 -76.883337", **LatLongDMS:** "38:49:00 N 76:53:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38.816669,-76.883337)", **State/Prov:** "Maryland", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7673 (FE9169EB) **Date:** 12/24/1949 **Description:** The January 1950 issue of True magazine is published, with [Donald Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe)’s article, “The Flying Saucers Are Real.” Keyhoe argues that the Air Force knows UFOs are real, alien, and covering up information from the public in order to avoid panic: “For the past 175 years, the planet Earth has been under systematic close- range examination by living, intelligent observers from another planet.” The Air Force finds itself buried in letters, telegrams, and phone calls demanding information about flying saucers. **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Donald E. Keyhoe, “[The Flying](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/True/1950%2001%2000%5FTrue%5FDonald%20Keyhoe%5FLagrange%20scan.pdf) [Saucers Are Real,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/True/1950%2001%2000%5FTrue%5FDonald%20Keyhoe%5FLagrange%20scan.pdf)” True, January 1950, pp. 11–13, 83–87 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1452 ### Event 7674 (3A052B41) **Date:** 12/25/1949 **Location:** ISRAEL, Tel-Aviv **Description:** (Translated from French) Uri Geller, then aged 3, saw a large, shining, saucer-shaped object in the sky above him. He also saw, in the garden, a very large radiant figure with no discernible face, only a radiant form. This is the beginning of Uri Geller's story with all that surrounds the character. (1949, 25 December) **Reference:** [_Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI_, by Godelieve Van Overmeire](https://web.archive.org/web/20060107070423/http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chrono.html) **Source:** Overmeire, **ID:** Overmeire_1430 ### Event 7675 (25726E88) **Date:** 12/27/1949 **Description:** USAF Project "Saucer" closed **Type:** ufological event **Reference:** [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_105 ### Event 7676 (2AAA4F05) **Date:** 12/27/1949 **Location:** US **Description:** Project Grudge report released: Explained away all reports to date as delusions, hysteria, hoaxes and crackpot reports. Announcement that project had disbanded. **Type:** report released **Reference:** ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) **Reference:** ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_860 ### Event 7677 (D3B162A7) **Date:** 12/27/1949 **Description:** \(Translated from French\) The annual 629-49 US-AF report of the [Grudge](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Grudge.html) project based on the Hynek's report of April 30th states: Flying saucers do not exist, summarizing the technical report that closes the [Grudge](https://web.archive.org/web/2005/http://rr0.org/Grudge.html) project \(102-AC-49/15-100 UFO\\PG Grudge Report\): - of 237 cases, there are still 23% of observations that we cannot explain, but to which we must nevertheless find an explanation because we do not believe in flying saucers. And the report concludes with the need to reduce the study. (December 27) **Reference:** [rr0 - Beau](https://web.archive.org/web/20040704025950/http://www.rr0.org/1949.html) **Source:** rr0, **ID:** rr0_810 ### Event 7678 (27BD769A) **Date:** 12/27/1949 **Description:** USAF announces that Project Grudge is terminated. Its files are put into storage. The Grudge report is released again, reiterating that UFOs are the “result of \(1\) misinterpretations of various conventional objects; \(2\) a mild form of mass hysteria; or \(3\) hoaxes.” **Reference:** [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) **Reference:** Clark III 932–933 **Source:** EberhartUFOI, **ID:** Eberhart_1453 ### Event 7679 (1D9D278A) **Date:** 12/28/1949 **Location:** Richmond, VA **Description:** Richmond VA area: Radio play about a crashed saucer with 12 dead midget crewmen **Type:** radio show **Reference:** [link](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/105319343/flying-saucer-crash-12-midetmen-crewman/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_383 ### Event 7680 (529E7B64) **Date:** 12/28/1949 **Time:** 13:20 **Location:** LANGLEY FIELD, VA **Description:** Project Bluebook Case #520. Military observer(s). White curvy cone. 20' high. Tip slowly oscillates. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 260) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1469 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CST:** Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **DLT:** Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "6", **Duration:** "1", **Elev:** "78", **HatchDesc:** "LANGLEY FIELD,VA:BBK#520:MIL OBS:WHT CURVY CONE:20'HI:TIP SLOWLY OSCILLATES", **LatLong:** "37.083335 -76.350004", **LatLongDMS:** "37:05:00 N 76:21:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/37.083335,-76.350004)", **State/Prov:** "Virginia", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7681 (F6E7BF42) **Date:** 12/28/1949 **Time:** 16:30 **Location:** FAYETTEVILLE, NC **Description:** Huge silver saucer dives / sky. Very high and large. Private pilots can't catch up. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 260) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1470 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s) **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "20", **Elev:** "73", **HatchDesc:** "FAYETTEVILLE,NC:HUGE SLVR SCR DIVES/SKY:VERY HI+LARGE:PVT PILOTS CANT CATCH UP", **LatLong:** "35.050002 -78.866670", **LatLongDMS:** "35:03:00 N 78:52:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.050002,-78.866670)", **State/Prov:** "North Carolina", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7682 (3A5F46A4) **Date:** 12/28/1949 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** GREENWOOD, SC **Description:** Several observer(s). "Fluor-light tube" hovers / 30 minute(s). Changes shape. Terrific speed/velocity. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 260) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1471 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **TCH:** New technical details/clues **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "30", **Elev:** "203", **HatchDesc:** "GREENWOOD,SC:SVRL OBS:"FLUOR-LITE TUBE" HVRS/30min:CHANGES SHAPE:TERRIFIC SPD", **LatLong:** "34.194446 -82.161115", **LatLongDMS:** "34:11:40 N 82:09:40 W", **Locale:** "Forest", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.194446,-82.161115)", **State/Prov:** "South Carolina", **Strangeness:** "7" ### Event 7683 (D57C310E) **Date:** 12/28/1949 **Time:** 17:00 **Location:** NEWBERRY, SC **Description:** 10+observer(s). Slender shiny cylinder/cigar-shape. Slow level flight. Veers off and gently rises. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 268) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1472 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **CIV:** Observer(s) civilian, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **NWS:** News media report, **CIG:** Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "9", **Duration:** "5", **Elev:** "153", **HatchDesc:** "NEWBERRY,SC:10+OBS:SLENDER SHINY CGR:SLOW LEVEL FLITE:VEERS OFF+GENTLY RISES:", **LatLong:** "34.272224 -81.616671", **LatLongDMS:** "34:16:20 N 81:37:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34.272224,-81.616671)", **State/Prov:** "South Carolina", **Strangeness:** "6" ### Event 7684 (F2F8981F) **Date:** 12/29/1949 **Location:** Greenwood (Bet Hamlet and), NC **Description:** Blimp-shaped object outdistance the \[4?\] planes at high speed. (Project 1947; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) **Reference:** NICAP: [491229](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/fayette491228dir.htm) **Reference:** [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) **Source:** NICAP_DB, **ID:** NICAP_DB_644 ### Event 7685 (151C92F6) **Date:** 12/30/1949 **Location:** US **Description:** Major Jeremiah Boggs, Air Force Intelligence, said that some pilots had fired at UFOs to bring them down for closer examination. **Type:** ufo sighting **Reference:** [_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up) **Source:** HostileFawcett, **ID:** HostileFawcett_12 ### Event 7686 (E19D3A3C) **Date:** 12/31/1949 **Description:** Newspaper articles on a crash saucer “almost 3 years ago”, research program, exotic metals defying analysis, small occupants, very high technology, acclimation program references. There are 2 years, 5 months, 23 days between 7/8/1947 and 12/31/1949. **Type:** newspaper articles **Reference:** [link](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/105191549/crash-retrieval/) **Reference:** [link](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107741958/wes-izzard-columnist-tells-story-of/) **Source:** Maj2, **ID:** Maj2_384 ### Event 7687 (48B2A22E) **Date:** 12/31/1949 **Time:** 22:00? **Location:** 15 NM NORTH / DAVIS-MONTHAN AIR FORCE BASE, AZ **Description:** Silver saucer hovers / 15 minute(s). Going quickly northeast / 500mph when 3 B29s near. **Type:** sighting **Reference:** GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 102) **Source:** Hatch, **ID:** Hatch_UDB_1473 **Attributes:** **GND:** Observer(s) on ground, **AIR:** Observer(s) on aircraft, **MIL:** Observer(s) military, **HQO:** High-quality observer(s), **SCR:** Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, **NOC:** No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), **OBS:** Observation/chasing vehicles, **BLD:** Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, **MIL:** Military investigation, **BBK:** Project BLUEBOOK **Extra Data:** **Country:** "USA", **Credibility:** "8", **Duration:** "16", **Elev:** "850", **HatchDesc:** "15nm N/DAVIS-MONTHAN AFB,AZ:SLVR SCR HVRS/15min:>>NE/500mph WHEN 3 B29s NEAR", **LatLong:** "32.416668 -110.883339", **LatLongDMS:** "32:25:00 N 110:53:00 W", **Locale:** "Town & City", **LocationLink:** "[Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/32.416668,-110.883339)", **State/Prov:** "Arizona", **Strangeness:** "6" --- # Year Histogram * 0, 1 * 34, 2 * 61, 1 * 66, 1 * 70, 3 * 80, 3 * 98, 1 * 180, 1 * 187, 1 * 189, 1 * 193, 1 * 195, 1 * 200, 1 * 235, 3 * 240, 1 * 251, 3 * 260, 1 * 300, 1 * 314, 2 * 317, 1 * 334, 1 * 350, 1 * 351, 1 * 393, 1 * 394, 1 * 396, 1 * 436, 1 * 438, 1 * 457, 1 * 460, 1 * 497, 1 * 500, 1 * 507, 1 * 540, 2 * 549, 1 * 575, 1 * 577, 1 * 584, 1 * 585, 2 * 587, 1 * 596, 1 * 597, 1 * 637, 1 * 640, 1 * 642, 1 * 655, 1 * 661, 2 * 664, 2 * 666, 1 * 670, 1 * 675, 1 * 679, 1 * 680, 1 * 682, 3 * 684, 1 * 692, 2 * 698, 1 * 729, 1 * 741, 1 * 746, 1 * 749, 1 * 760, 2 * 773, 1 * 776, 3 * 789, 1 * 793, 2 * 796, 1 * 800, 1 * 807, 1 * 810, 1 * 811, 1 * 812, 1 * 813, 1 * 814, 4 * 815, 1 * 817, 1 * 827, 2 * 840, 3 * 842, 1 * 848, 1 * 877, 1 * 879, 2 * 880, 1 * 881, 1 * 900, 1 * 905, 2 * 919, 3 * 922, 1 * 927, 4 * 934, 1 * 940, 2 * 944, 1 * 950, 2 * 966, 1 * 967, 1 * 970, 1 * 979, 1 * 989, 6 * 998, 1 * 999, 1 * 1001, 1 * 1010, 1 * 1015, 3 * 1023, 1 * 1027, 1 * 1034, 3 * 1036, 1 * 1045, 1 * 1050, 1 * 1054, 2 * 1059, 1 * 1067, 2 * 1071, 1 * 1085, 1 * 1092, 1 * 1096, 2 * 1098, 2 * 1100, 2 * 1104, 2 * 1110, 1 * 1113, 1 * 1123, 1 * 1125, 1 * 1130, 2 * 1133, 2 * 1138, 1 * 1142, 1 * 1155, 1 * 1160, 1 * 1161, 1 * 1167, 1 * 1169, 1 * 1170, 2 * 1171, 1 * 1178, 1 * 1180, 4 * 1182, 1 * 1185, 1 * 1186, 2 * 1189, 1 * 1193, 1 * 1200, 3 * 1211, 1 * 1212, 1 * 1218, 2 * 1222, 1 * 1224, 2 * 1232, 2 * 1235, 4 * 1237, 1 * 1239, 2 * 1252, 1 * 1253, 1 * 1254, 4 * 1258, 1 * 1260, 1 * 1265, 1 * 1269, 3 * 1270, 1 * 1271, 3 * 1273, 1 * 1277, 2 * 1284, 1 * 1290, 2 * 1294, 1 * 1295, 1 * 1296, 1 * 1299, 1 * 1300, 2 * 1320, 1 * 1322, 3 * 1347, 1 * 1349, 2 * 1352, 1 * 1355, 2 * 1360, 1 * 1361, 4 * 1368, 1 * 1382, 1 * 1384, 1 * 1385, 1 * 1387, 2 * 1388, 3 * 1389, 2 * 1390, 2 * 1394, 4 * 1395, 2 * 1400, 1 * 1408, 1 * 1415, 2 * 1420, 2 * 1422, 1 * 1425, 1 * 1428, 4 * 1430, 1 * 1433, 2 * 1444, 1 * 1449, 1 * 1453, 1 * 1456, 1 * 1458, 5 * 1461, 7 * 1463, 1 * 1465, 1 * 1468, 4 * 1477, 1 * 1478, 1 * 1479, 1 * 1482, 1 * 1487, 1 * 1491, 4 * 1492, 3 * 1493, 2 * 1494, 1 * 1498, 1 * 1499, 1 * 1501, 1 * 1504, 1 * 1509, 2 * 1513, 1 * 1517, 3 * 1518, 1 * 1520, 3 * 1521, 1 * 1523, 3 * 1526, 1 * 1528, 5 * 1529, 1 * 1533, 1 * 1535, 1 * 1536, 1 * 1537, 2 * 1538, 1 * 1543, 1 * 1544, 2 * 1546, 1 * 1547, 5 * 1548, 2 * 1550, 2 * 1551, 5 * 1552, 1 * 1553, 2 * 1554, 5 * 1555, 1 * 1557, 3 * 1561, 5 * 1563, 2 * 1564, 3 * 1566, 5 * 1567, 2 * 1568, 2 * 1569, 3 * 1571, 4 * 1572, 4 * 1574, 1 * 1575, 3 * 1576, 1 * 1577, 2 * 1578, 2 * 1579, 1 * 1580, 3 * 1586, 3 * 1587, 1 * 1589, 1 * 1590, 1 * 1591, 1 * 1592, 1 * 1593, 1 * 1595, 1 * 1600, 1 * 1603, 1 * 1606, 5 * 1608, 6 * 1609, 1 * 1612, 1 * 1613, 1 * 1614, 3 * 1619, 3 * 1620, 4 * 1621, 8 * 1624, 1 * 1626, 1 * 1628, 1 * 1629, 1 * 1634, 1 * 1635, 1 * 1636, 1 * 1637, 1 * 1638, 3 * 1639, 4 * 1640, 1 * 1641, 4 * 1642, 1 * 1644, 3 * 1645, 2 * 1646, 5 * 1648, 1 * 1650, 2 * 1651, 1 * 1652, 1 * 1655, 1 * 1656, 1 * 1659, 1 * 1660, 13 * 1661, 9 * 1662, 2 * 1663, 7 * 1665, 4 * 1666, 2 * 1667, 3 * 1670, 1 * 1671, 1 * 1672, 6 * 1674, 1 * 1676, 3 * 1677, 3 * 1678, 2 * 1680, 2 * 1684, 1 * 1685, 1 * 1686, 5 * 1687, 1 * 1688, 2 * 1689, 1 * 1692, 3 * 1693, 3 * 1694, 2 * 1696, 2 * 1697, 2 * 1699, 2 * 1700, 4 * 1701, 1 * 1702, 2 * 1704, 1 * 1707, 4 * 1709, 4 * 1710, 2 * 1712, 1 * 1716, 4 * 1717, 2 * 1718, 1 * 1719, 2 * 1720, 1 * 1721, 1 * 1722, 1 * 1726, 4 * 1728, 1 * 1729, 2 * 1730, 1 * 1731, 3 * 1733, 1 * 1735, 1 * 1736, 1 * 1737, 8 * 1739, 1 * 1740, 3 * 1741, 4 * 1742, 2 * 1743, 6 * 1744, 4 * 1745, 3 * 1748, 1 * 1749, 4 * 1752, 9 * 1753, 3 * 1754, 1 * 1755, 2 * 1756, 3 * 1757, 2 * 1758, 3 * 1759, 6 * 1761, 4 * 1762, 7 * 1763, 1 * 1764, 3 * 1765, 1 * 1766, 1 * 1767, 5 * 1768, 4 * 1769, 3 * 1772, 1 * 1775, 1 * 1777, 5 * 1778, 1 * 1779, 1 * 1780, 4 * 1781, 1 * 1782, 11 * 1783, 5 * 1784, 21 * 1785, 8 * 1786, 2 * 1787, 1 * 1788, 2 * 1789, 2 * 1790, 3 * 1791, 2 * 1792, 1 * 1793, 6 * 1794, 4 * 1795, 3 * 1796, 3 * 1797, 2 * 1798, 5 * 1799, 5 * 1800, 3 * 1801, 2 * 1802, 5 * 1803, 6 * 1804, 4 * 1805, 1 * 1806, 5 * 1807, 4 * 1808, 8 * 1809, 5 * 1810, 3 * 1811, 3 * 1812, 7 * 1813, 4 * 1814, 3 * 1815, 1 * 1816, 3 * 1817, 2 * 1818, 2 * 1819, 9 * 1820, 11 * 1821, 3 * 1822, 4 * 1823, 3 * 1824, 3 * 1825, 4 * 1826, 4 * 1827, 2 * 1828, 4 * 1829, 2 * 1830, 2 * 1831, 1 * 1832, 6 * 1833, 7 * 1834, 3 * 1835, 6 * 1836, 9 * 1837, 11 * 1838, 11 * 1839, 3 * 1840, 2 * 1841, 1 * 1842, 6 * 1843, 7 * 1844, 4 * 1845, 15 * 1846, 8 * 1847, 9 * 1848, 9 * 1849, 10 * 1850, 14 * 1851, 2 * 1852, 6 * 1853, 2 * 1854, 2 * 1855, 8 * 1857, 1 * 1858, 3 * 1859, 4 * 1860, 17 * 1861, 4 * 1862, 4 * 1863, 6 * 1864, 4 * 1865, 8 * 1866, 4 * 1867, 4 * 1868, 14 * 1869, 11 * 1870, 18 * 1871, 11 * 1872, 10 * 1873, 12 * 1874, 10 * 1875, 6 * 1876, 6 * 1877, 16 * 1878, 11 * 1879, 13 * 1880, 40 * 1881, 13 * 1882, 12 * 1883, 21 * 1884, 10 * 1885, 19 * 1886, 12 * 1887, 10 * 1888, 7 * 1889, 8 * 1890, 5 * 1891, 8 * 1892, 12 * 1893, 7 * 1894, 9 * 1895, 10 * 1896, 83 * 1897, 412 * 1898, 19 * 1899, 16 * 1900, 13 * 1901, 14 * 1902, 14 * 1903, 14 * 1904, 19 * 1905, 24 * 1906, 19 * 1907, 18 * 1908, 58 * 1909, 204 * 1910, 56 * 1911, 8 * 1912, 25 * 1913, 73 * 1914, 59 * 1915, 34 * 1916, 49 * 1917, 53 * 1918, 16 * 1919, 24 * 1920, 30 * 1921, 14 * 1922, 18 * 1923, 16 * 1924, 18 * 1925, 13 * 1926, 30 * 1927, 35 * 1928, 23 * 1929, 21 * 1930, 28 * 1931, 40 * 1932, 36 * 1933, 59 * 1934, 49 * 1935, 41 * 1936, 34 * 1937, 44 * 1938, 53 * 1939, 41 * 1940, 43 * 1941, 54 * 1942, 149 * 1943, 125 * 1944, 264 * 1945, 288 * 1946, 412 * 1947, 1658 * 1948, 549 * 1949, 653