- **4 January:** 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. - **January 17th, 4:45 PM:** 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. - **February 9th, night:** A procession of [meteors](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 [\[Professor Chant, Toronto\]]{.source}. - 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. - 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 [\[UFO Roundup 4-36\]]{.source}. - **February** - Observations in Yorkshire. - First observations in Belgium and the Netherlands. - In France, German dirigibles are accused of spying on the Eastern border. - **February 21, 9 or 9:30 PM:** 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. - **March 4** - The appearances start in Germany. - A dirigible visits Tarnowitz (Prussia). - At Lake Schwielow, a burning airship is observed crashing into the nearby forest. However, after serious searches, no wreckage is found. - Express Train whose windows are illuminated [\[W. F. Denning, SRAC Astronomer\]]{.source} [\[Pottier, 1974\]]{.source}. - **End of summer, between 9 and 10 PM**: 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 [\[Henri Xhaloupek, Spatial Phenomena #11, 1967; drawing p. 209\]]{.source}. - **Autumn, 8 PM:** 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 [\[UFO report form, March 31, 1965\]]{.source}.