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, and an anonymous individual or group.
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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.)
This website is created automatically using a C++ command line tool called “ufojson”. It parses the raw text and Markdown source data to JSON format, which is then converted to a single large web page using pandoc. This tool's source code and all of the raw source and JSON data is located here on github.
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1015 1034
1180 1186
1235 1254
1269 1271
1322 1361
1387 1388
1415 1433
1458 1461
1468 1491
1520 1535
1547 1551
1554 1557
1561 1566
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1638 1646
1660 1663
1665 1672
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1692 1700
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Date: 0's
Description: Greek and Roman records of UFO's
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_0
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", State/Prov: "Unknown", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 812
Locations: Lyon, France; Magonia; Mahón, the port of
the island of Menorca, Spain
Description: 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
Reference: Jean-Louis Brodu, “Magonia: A
Re-Evaluation,” Fortean Studies 2 (1995): 198–215; Miceal Ross, “Anchors
in a Three-Decker
World,” Folklore 109 \(1998\): 63–75; Vallée, Magonia, pp.
23–24; Clark III 1213–1214; Vallée and Aubeck, Wonders in the Sky,
Tarcher, 2009, pp.
70–73; Pierre Chambert-Protat, “Florus de Lyon et les
Extra- terrestres,”
Florus de Lyon, November 4, 2014; Pierre Lagrange, “Agobard,
la Magonie et les ovnis,” Actualité, no. 440 (October 2017):
28–29; Wikipedia, “Magonia
(mythology)” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_0
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", State/Prov: "Rhône", Strangeness: "10"
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", State/Prov: "Meuse", Strangeness: "3"
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", State/Prov: "Honshu Island", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Honshu Island", Strangeness: "4"
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", State/Prov: "Meuse", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Honshu Island", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Honshu Island", Strangeness: "5"
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Krakow", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Honshu Island", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "5"
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", State/Prov: "SEA", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "Ragusa", Strangeness: "4"
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", State/Prov: "Pas-de-Calais", Strangeness: "4"
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", RelAlt: "99", State/Prov: "Alpes Maritimes", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Honshu Island", Strangeness: "5"
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", State/Prov: "Pas-de-Calais", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Data-Net Report, May 1970; Jacques Vallee,
Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 7
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7362
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", State/Prov: "Honshu Island", Strangeness: "4"
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", State/Prov: "Milano", Strangeness: "9"
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", State/Prov: "THR", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Simon Goulart, Thrésor d’histoires
admirables et mémorables de nostre temps, Geneva, 1600, vol.
1, p. 55
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1
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", State/Prov: "EST", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Bouches-du-Rhône", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Bade-Wurtemberg", Strangeness: "7"
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
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 33;
Jacques Vallee, Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact, p. 13
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_8190
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 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
Reference: Hans Glaser, Himmelserscheinung
über
Nürnberg am 14. April 1561, Holzschnitt, 1561; Carl Jung, Flying
Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies, Mentor ed., 1969, pp.
103–104, between pp.
120–121; Ulrich Magin, “A UFO in the Year 1561,” Fortean Times 283
(February 2012): 40–42
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_2
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", State/Prov: "Bavaria", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Basel", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 1600's
Description: Significant sightings
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Charles Fort
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_1
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", State/Prov: "Honshu Island", Strangeness: "3"
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 9/11/1621
Description: Contrails and white "crowns" moved in
groups over Paris, France at 10:00 p.m.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Lumieres dan la Nuit, issue 125
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5847
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", State/Prov: "Paris", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 1638
Location: Moon
Description: English clergyman and philosopher John
Wilkins 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
Reference: Maria Avxentevskaya, “How
17th Century Dreamers
Planned to Reach the Moon,” Real Clear Science, December 2,
2017
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3
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
Reference: John Winthrop, The History of New England
from 1630 to 1649, Little, Brown, 1853, vol.
1, pp. 349–350
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_4
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><THETFORD,ENGL:VERTICAL CLOUD-CGR GOES↓:RISES:CHANGES SHAPE+GONE", LatLong: "52.366669 0.550000", LatLongDMS: "52:22:00 N 00:33:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "4"
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
Reference: Akty istoricheskie, sobranye i izdanye
Arkheografischeskaia Kommissiia, Vol. 4, Saint Petersburg, 1842, pp.
331–332; Hobana and Weverbergh 54–61; Jacques Vallée and Chris
Aubeck, Wonders in the Sky, Tarcher, 2009, pp.
215–217; 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
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
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
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
Reference: Eine
abgebildete Beschreibung von dem wunderbarlichen Stralsundischen
Lufft-Kriege und Schiff-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
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", State/Prov: "Manche", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 186
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_751
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", State/Prov: "PLT", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 1686
Description: French philosopher Bernard
le Bovier de Fontenelle 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Conversations
on the Plurality of Worlds” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_7
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", State/Prov: "Saxony", Strangeness: "5"
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", State/Prov: "Honshu Island", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 1700's
Description: Significant sightings
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Charles Fort
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_2
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "NAT", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "4"
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", State/Prov: "Belgium", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Firenze", Strangeness: "6"
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><KENT/11DEC1753", LatLong: "51.283336 -0.833333", LatLongDMS: "51:17:00 N 00:50:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 12/5/1737
Locations: Sheffield, England; Venice, Italy; Kilkenny,
Ireland
Description: 5:00 p.m. Physician Thomas
Short 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
Reference: Thomas Short, “An
Account of Several Meteors,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal
Society 41 \(1741\): 625–627
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_8
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
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of Phenomenon, p. 9;
Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. 3
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_8191
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
Reference: Hobana and Weverbergh 222; Romania 4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_9
Date: 9/21/1741
Locations: Selborne, Hampshire, England; New Alresford;
Bradley
Description: Dawn. Parson-naturalist Gilbert
White 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
Reference: Gilbert White, The Natural History and
Antiquities of Selborne (1789), Letter
XXIII
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_10
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "4"
Date: 12/16/1742?
Locations: St. James’s Park; Westminster; London;
England
Description: 8:40 p.m. Physician Cromwell
Mortimer, 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
Reference: [A
Note by Cromwell Mortimer], Philosophical Transactions of the Royal
Society 43 (1745): 524–525
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_11
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "VYC", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 7/14/1745
Locations: Standlake Broad; Oxford, England
Description: Astronomer George
Costard observes a meteoric stream of fire that persists for at
least one hour at Standlake Broad west of Oxford, England.
Reference: Eberhart
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
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_12
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", State/Prov: "Honshu Island", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 11/4/1749
Locations: North Atlantic Ocean; Cape Finisterre,
Spain
Description: 11:50 a.m. The crew of the HMS
Montagu 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
Reference: Chalmers, “An
Account of an Extraordinary Fireball Bursting
at Sea,” 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
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", State/Prov: "Norway", Strangeness: "5"
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", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/1755
Location: Jupiter
Description: German philosopher Immanuel
Kant 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Universal
Natural History and Theory of the Heavens” Source:
EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_14
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", RelAlt: "2", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 1756
Description: Scottish astronomer James
Ferguson 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
Reference: James Ferguson, Astronomy Explained upon Sir
Isaac Newton’s Principles, 8th ed., London, 1790, p.
6; Matthew Goodman, The Sun and the Moon, Basic Books, 2008, pp.
189–190
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_15
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", State/Prov: "Torino", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 1758
Locations: Jupiter; Mars; Moon; Planets beyond the
solar system
Description: Swedish theologian and mystic Emanuel
Swedenborg 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
Reference: Emanuel Swedenborg, The
Earths in the Universe, London, 1875; Richard Smoley, “Is
There Really Life on Other Planets?”
Swedenborg Foundation, February 15, 2019
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_16
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", State/Prov: "Scotland", Strangeness: "6"
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
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
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", State/Prov: "Basel", Strangeness: "7"
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, 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
Reference: “Observation Astronomique,”
Histoire de l’Académie Royale des Sciences, 1766, pp. 106–107; “An
Account of a Very Singular Phaenomenon
Seen in the Disk of the Sun,” 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
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", RelAlt: "2", State/Prov: "Scotland", Strangeness: "8"
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
Reference: Annual Register 1767, pp.
127–128
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_19
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", State/Prov: "Saxony", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 6/17/1777
Location: Hôtel de Cluny in Paris, France
Description: 11:46 a.m. French astronomer Charles
Messier 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
Reference: Charles Messier, “Observation
singulaire d’une prodigieuse quantité de
petits globules qui ont passé devant le disque du soleil, le 17 juin
1777,” 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
Date: 1780's
Description: Coulomb’s law of electrostatics
Type: scientific advanced
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_3
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", State/Prov: "Seine-et-Marne", Strangeness: "4"
Date: 1783
Location: Bath, England
Description: British astronomer William
Herschel 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
Reference: George Basalla, Civilized Life in the
Universe, Oxford University, 2006, pp.
51–52
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_21
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "2"
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 Cavallo, 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “1783 Great
Meteor”; Tiberius Cavallo, “Description
of a Meteor, Observed Aug. 18, 1783,” Philosophical Transactions of
the Royal Society 74 \(1784\): 108–111; Charles Blagden, “An
Account of Some Late Fiery Meteors,” Philosophical Transactions of
the Royal Society 74 \(1784\): 202–232; Martin Beech, “The Great
Meteor of 18th August 1783,” Journal of the British Astronomical
Association 99 \(1989\): 130–134; Kaushik Patowary, “The
Great Meteor of 1783,” Amusing Planet, September 8, 2021
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_22
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
Reference: Alberto Penoglio, “Antichi Visitatori
dal Cielo,” Clypeus 3, n. 3 (1966): 13–14; Vallée, Magonia, pp.
60–61; “1790
UFO Crash or Time Traveller?”
Cool Interesting Stuff, June 1, 2014
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_23
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", State/Prov: "Bucharest", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Nova Scotia", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Annual Register 1798, p.
83
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_24
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", State/Prov: "Belgium", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 1800's
Description: Significant sightings
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Charles Fort
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_4
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", State/Prov: "Honshu Island", Strangeness: "8"
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
Reference: Wikipedia, “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,” UFO Criticism 1, no 1 (January 2001):
2–3; Tanaka Kazuo, “‘Utsurobune’: A
UFO Legend from Nineteenth-Century Japan,” 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
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", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 5/16/1808
Locations: Biskopsberga; Skänninge; Sweden
Description: 4:00 p.m. Swedish lichenologist Erik
Acharius 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
Reference: Erik Acharius, “Besynnerligt
Meteor-Phenomén,” Konglige Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handligar,
ser. 2, vol. 29 (July/September 1808): 215–218; “Account
of an Extraordinary
Meteoric Phenomenon,” 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
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "3"
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "3", State/Prov: "Alpes de Haute Provence", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "BRB", Strangeness: "5"
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Lot-et-Garonne", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Lozère", Strangeness: "6"
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 Hitchcock thinks
it is some kind of “gelatinous fungus” common to the area in the late
summer.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Rufus Graves, “Account
of a Gelatinous Meteor,” American Journal of Science 2 \(1820\):
335–337; Edward Hitchcock, “On
the Meteors
of Nov. 13, 1833,” American Journal of Science 25 \(1834\): 354,
362–363
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_27
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
Reference: Joseph Johann von Littrow, “Further
Note on the Supposed
Observation of an Intra-Mercurial Planet on the 12th of February,
1820,” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 22
\(1862\): 276
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_28
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", State/Prov: "Hautes Alpes", Strangeness: "6"
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
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
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", State/Prov: "BRL", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case no.
81
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7032
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", State/Prov: "Indiana", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 1824
Locations: Munich, Germany; Moon; Schröter crater
Description: Bavarian astronomer Franz von
Gruithuisen 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
Reference: “Gruithuisen’s
Lunar City,” whatsupinthesky.com; David Dunér, “Venusians:
The Planet Venus in the 18th-Century Extraterrestrial Life Debate,”
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
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", State/Prov: "Unknown", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "MCP", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 1825
Description: Ampère published his "Ampère’s law."
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_5
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", State/Prov: "HWI", Strangeness: "7"
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
Reference: Ernst Chladni, “Über
eine merkwürdige meteorische Erscheinung, am 1 April 1826, nicht weit
von Saarbrücken,”
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
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", State/Prov: "Bavaria", Strangeness: "9"
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", RelAlt: "3", State/Prov: "New York", Strangeness: "9"
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
Reference: “Celestial
Phenomena,” 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
Date: 1831
Description: Michael Faraday is generally credited with
the discovery of induction
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_6
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", State/Prov: "MCR", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Gordon Lore, Jr. and Harold H.Dennault, Jr.,
Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, pp. 60-61
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7622
Date: 5/11/1835
Locations: Palermo Observatory; Italy
Description: At the Palermo Observatory in Italy,
astronomer Niccolò
Cacciatore 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
Reference: “Supposed New Planet,” American Journal of
Science 31 (1837): 158–159
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_32
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 Herschel 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Great Moon
Hoax”; Richard Adams Locke, The
Moon Hoax, Gowans, 1859
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_33
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", State/Prov: "CSG", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 1838
Description: Samuel F. B. Morse demonstrates telegraph
transmission across two miles of wire in Morristown, NJ
Type: scientific advance
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_7
Date: 1838
Location: Broughty Ferry, Dundee
Description: Scottish minister and science writer Thomas
Dick 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
Reference: Thomas Dick, Celestial
Scenery, Harper,
1838
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_34
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", State/Prov: "Scotland", Strangeness: "5"
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", State/Prov: "ORE", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Bucharest", Strangeness: "5"
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
Reference: John R. Colombo, UFOs over Canada: Personal
accounts of sightings and close encounters, p. 209
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2610
Date: 10/3/1843
Description: Farmer Cooper saw three men flying through
the sky over Warwick, Quebec. They were completely white.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: John Colombo, UFOs over Canada: Personal
accounts of sightings and close encounters, p. 209
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_6516
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", State/Prov: "NA", Strangeness: "4"
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", State/Prov: "SEA", Strangeness: "7"
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, 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
Reference: “Atmospherical
Phenomena,” London Morning Chronicle, August 8, 1845, p. 5; The
Athenaeum, August 19, 1848, p.
833; 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; 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
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", State/Prov: "DRK", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: “Meteoric Stones,”
Littell’s Living Age 56 (1858): 503
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_36
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", State/Prov: "KRN", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 9/15/1850
Locations: Wellington Channel; Cornwallis; Devon
Islands; Nunavut; Canada
Description: 6:20 p.m. Senior medical officer Elisha Kent
Kane and other crew members of the USS
Advance,
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
Reference: Elisha Kent Kane, The U.S. Grinnell
Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, Harper and Brothers, 1854, p.
190
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_37
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", State/Prov: "Scotland", Strangeness: "4"
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: “Atmospherical
Phenomenon,” Gettysburg \(Pa.) Adams Sentinel, March 27, 1854, p.
1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_38
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
Reference: “Meteoric
Phenomenon,” New York Times, January 25, 1855, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_39
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
Reference: “Extraordinary Meteoric
Phenomenon,” Baltimore \(Md.) Sun, June 27, 1857, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_40
Date: 7/10/1858
End date: 1/7/1943
Description: Nikola Tesla born (dies 1/7/1943)
Type: scientist
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_8
Date: 1860
End date: 1864
Description: Louis Pasteur’s key germ theory
experiments
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_9
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", RelAlt: "30", State/Prov: "Delaware", Strangeness: "5"
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
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
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, “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 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
Reference: “The Wonders of the
Heavens: The Meteor Train,” Brooklyn \(N.Y.) Evening Star, July 21,
1860, p. 2; “The
Meteor of Friday Night,” 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,” Universe Today, July 20,
2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_41
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
Reference: “Another Splendid Meteor,”
Baltimore \(Md.) Sun, August 6, 1860, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_42
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_0
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
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
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", State/Prov: "MND", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 11/1862
Location: Morpeth, New South Wales
Description: Early morning. Magistrate 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
Reference: [Letter], 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
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", State/Prov: "MDR", Strangeness: "4"
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_10
Date: 1865
Locations: Baltimore; Moon
Description: French novelist Jules
Verne 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “From
the Earth to the Moon” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_44
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", State/Prov: "MCR", Strangeness: "5"
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 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
Reference: “False Lights on the
Durham Coast,” Newcastle Weekly Courant, January 12, 1866, p. 5;
David Clarke, “Britain’s
First X-File?” 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
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", State/Prov: "CLN", Strangeness: "4"
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
Reference: Wikipedia, “United
States Hydrographic Office” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_46
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", State/Prov: "SLP", Strangeness: "9"
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
Reference: “Three
Strange Stories,” Symons’s Monthly Meteorological Magazine 2 (1867):
130
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_47
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
Reference: Jerome Clark, International UFO Reporter,
Spring 2003, p. 20
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7455
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", State/Prov: "Atacama", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: “Remarkable
Meteor,” English Mechanic 7 \(July 10, 1868): 351
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_48
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_1
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_1
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", State/Prov: "NSW", Strangeness: "10"
Date: 7/25/1868
Location: Parramatta, New South Wales
Description: Engineer Frederick
William Birmingham of Parramatta, New South Wales, watches a bizarre
procession of the faces of two prominent Australians (Archbishop of
Sydney Frederic
Barker and New South Wales Premier James Martin)
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
Reference: Bill Chalker, “The Mystery of
a Machine
to Go through the Air: A UFO Vision?” 1998; Clark III 60–65; “Did
Frederick William Birmingham Build
a Flying Machine Based on His Bizarre 1868 UFO ‘Vision’ in Parramatta,
NSW, Australia?” 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
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", State/Prov: "Massachusetts", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 1869
Location: Mars
Description: French poet and inventor Charles Cros 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
Reference: Alissa Walker, “A
French Inventor Once Proposed a Giant Mirror to Burn a Message on
Mars,” Gizmodo, October 16, 2014
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_50
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
Reference: “Singular Phenomenon,”
Lancaster \(Pa.) Daily Evening Express, August 10, 1869, pp. 2–3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_51
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
Reference: “Was
It the Intra-Mercurial Planet?” Astronomical Register 7 \(1869\):
227–228; John Russell Hind, “Stellar
Objects Seen during the Eclipse of 1869,” Nature 18 \(1878\):
663–664
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_52
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
Reference: Skylook, March 1972
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4757
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", State/Prov: "CPL", Strangeness: "5"
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", State/Prov: "NAT", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Frederick William Banner, “Extract
from Log of Barque ‘Lady of the Lake,’” 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
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
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
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", State/Prov: "Belgium", Strangeness: "6"
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 Meath, 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
Reference: Brabazon, “A Meteor,” 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
Date: 1871
Description: English astronomer Richard A.
Proctor 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
Reference: Richard A. Proctor, Other
Worlds Than Ours, Appleton, 1871
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_55
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", State/Prov: "Bouches-du-Rhône", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 8/1/1871
Location: Marseille Observatory, France
Description: 10:43 p.m. Astronomer Jérôme
Eugène Coggia 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
Reference: Jérome Eugène Coggia, “Observation
d’un bolide, faite
à Observatoire de Marseille le 1er août,”
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
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", State/Prov: "HDS", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "12"
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", RelAlt: "2", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "8"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_2
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_2
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
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A
Century of Landings, case 2
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_8250
Date: 1873
Description: Maxwell published A Treatise on
Electricity and Magnetism as a summary of his work on
electromagnetism
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_11
Date: 1873
Locations: Wellesley, Massachusetts; Mars
Description: English-American geologist and
psychometrist William
Denton 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
Reference: William Denton, Soul of Things, Wellesley,
Mass.: Elizabeth M. F. Denton, 1873, vol. 3, pp.
171–267
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_57
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", State/Prov: "NSW", Strangeness: "6"
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 Alexander
Taylor, who
supplies the story to the New York Herald, vouches for the
witnesses.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Very
Like a Whale,”
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
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", State/Prov: "Puy-de-Dôme", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "LUN", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 4/24/1874
Locations: Prague; Czech Republic
Description: 3:30 p.m. Chemist and astronomer Vojtěch
Šafařík 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
Reference: Vojtěch Šafařík, “Telescopic
Meteors,” Astronomical Register 23 \(1885\): 205–211
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_59
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", State/Prov: "OAX", Strangeness: "4"
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
Reference: Charles Fort, Book of the Damned, p.
275
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3854
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
Reference: “Singular
Phenomenon,” Pascagoula \(Miss.) Star, August 22, 1874, p. 2
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_60
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", State/Prov: "GMX", Strangeness: "4"
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
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;
Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1,
Anomalist, 2019, pp. 144–145
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_61
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_3
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", RelAlt: "2", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 10/1877
Locations: Brera Observatory; Milan, Italy
Description: Astronomer Giovanni
Schiaparelli 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Martian canal”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_62
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
Reference: “A
Strange Phenomena,”
Dallas Daily Herald, January 23, 1878, p. 4; Patrick Gross, “The First
Publicized Flying ‘Saucer’ Report?”;
“Dallas
1878,” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, February 5, 2014
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_63
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", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "6"
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, director of the Ann Arbor (Mich.) Observatory, and Lewis Swift, 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
Reference: James C. Watson, “On
the Discovery of an Intra-Mercurial
Planet,” American Journal of Science, ser. 3, 16 (1878): 230–233;
Lewis Swift, “Letter
from Mr. Lewis
Swift, Relating to the Discovery of Intra-Mercurial Planets,”
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
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", State/Prov: "Kansas", Strangeness: "9"
Date: 3/14/1879
End date: 4/18/1955
Description: Albert Einstein born
Type: scientist
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_12
Attributes: Einstein
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", State/Prov: "Unknown", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "PGF", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_4
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_4
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
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
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_5
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_6
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_3
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_5
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
Reference: “A
Remarkable Phenomenon,” 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
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", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "10"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_7
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_6
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
Reference: “Galisteo’s
Apparition,” Santa Fe Weekly New Mexican, March 29, 1880, p. 3; “Solved at Last,”
Santa Fe Weekly New Mexican, April 5, 1880, p. 4; Clark III 69–70, 592;
Patrick Gross, URECAT, December
3, 2007
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_66
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
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
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", RelAlt: "-1", State/Prov: "PGF", Strangeness: "8"
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
Reference: Jenny Randles, Time Storms: Amazing Evidence
for Time Warps, Space Rifts, and Time Travel, p. 25
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2648
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
Reference: “A Curious
Phenomenon,” Rock Hill \(S.C.) Herald, July 7, 1880, p. 4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_67
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
Reference: “Passengers Shocked by
Lightning,” 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
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", State/Prov: "Kentucky", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: “More Monkeying,”
Louisville \(Ky.) Courier-Journal, July 29, 1880, p. 4; “The
Flying Machine,” Louisville \(Ky.) Courier-Journal, August 6, 1880,
p. 4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_69
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", State/Prov: "STP", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Haute Garonne", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: “Wonders of a
Meteor,” Marion \(Ohio\) Star, October 5, 1880, p. 3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_70
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
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
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><SYDNEY,AU:PRINCE/WALES+13:"PHANTOM VESSEL ALL AGLOW"/SKY:/r2p17", LatLong: "-39.500002 144.000007", LatLongDMS: "39:30:00 S 144:00:00 E", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Victoria", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_8
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_7
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
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
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
Reference: “A
Rain of Spider Webs,” Scientific American 45 \(1881\): 337
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_71
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", State/Prov: "---", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: N. S. Drayton, “A Supposed
Meteor,” Scientific American 47 \(July 22, 1882): 53
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_72
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 and by John Rand
Capron 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “November
1882 geomagnetic
storm”; J. Rand Capron, “The
Auroral Beam of November 17, 1882,” Philosophical Magazine, ser. 5,
15 (1883): 318–339; Edward Walter Maunder, “A
Strange Celestial Visitor,” The Observatory 39 \(May 1916\):
213–215; Paul Fuller, “The Life and
Times of John Rand Capron (1829–1888),” The Antiquarian Astronomer 8
\(March 2014\): 21–45
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_73
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", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: “On
February 5,
at 6.45 p.m.,” Nature 27 \(March 1, 1883): 423
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_74
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
Reference: Willy Smith, International UFO Reporter,
May-June 1984, p. 4, citing Nature, March 1883
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_694
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", State/Prov: "Paris", Strangeness: "5"
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", State/Prov: "ZCT", Strangeness: "6"
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, 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
Reference: José Á. y Bonilla, “Passage
sur le disque
solaire d’un essaim de corpuscles,” 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 Zacatecas (Mexico): A Fragmented
Comet That Nearly Hits the Earth,” Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
\(2011\); “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?” The Week, January
8, 2015; “OT- 1883
Zacatecas Observation of Objects before Sun Were Not 12P/Pons-Brooks
Fragments,” October 17, 2011; Phil Plait, “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
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
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
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", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "4"
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
Reference: “A
Celestial Visitor,” Lincoln \(Neb.) Daily State Journal, June 8,
1884, p. 5; “The
Magical Meteor,” 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
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", State/Prov: "New York", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_9
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
Reference: “A
Great Meteor,” Illustrated Science Monthly 2 \(1884\): 136
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_77
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_13
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
Reference: “Mysterious Light,”
Wichita \(Kan.) Beacon, March 25, 1885, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_78
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
Reference: “Frightful Experience at
Sea,” Sacramento \(Calif.) Record-Union, March 3, 1885, p. 1; “Notes
and News,” 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
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", State/Prov: "SAI", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "EDI", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 11/1/1885
Description: A huge disc-shaped object was seen in
Edirne, Turkey at 9:30 p.m.
Reference: Johnson
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
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", State/Prov: "KDK", Strangeness: "7"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_10
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_8
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
Reference: Ivan Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 34;
Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 181
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7409
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
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A
Century of Landings, p. 181; Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p.
27
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7603
Date: 1886
Description: French novelist Jules
Verne 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Robur
the Conqueror” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_80
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", State/Prov: "MRC", Strangeness: "8"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_11
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
Reference: Warner Cowgill, “Curious
Phenomenon in Venezuela,”
letter, Scientific American 55 (December 18, 1886): 389; Clark III 949;
Patrick Gross, UFO
Reports from the
Past
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_81
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
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
Date: 11/1886
Description: Heinrich Hertz became the first person to
transmit and receive controlled radio waves.
Type: scientific advance
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_14
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
Reference: “Rare
Electrical Phenomenon at Sea,” 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
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", State/Prov: "Newfoundland", Strangeness: "5"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_12
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_9
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, 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
Reference: “Globular
Lightning,” Science 10 \(1887\): 324; Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, “On
Globular Lightning,” 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
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", State/Prov: "PLT", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: “A Ball of Fire on a
Lake,” Hagerstown \(Ind.) Exponent, September 12, 1888, p. 3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_84
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
Reference: “A Brilliant Meteor,” Washington
\(D.C.) Evening Star, February 9, 1889, p. 6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_85
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
Reference: Jerome Clark, International UFO Reporter,
Spring 2003, p. 21
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_911
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_15
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "5"
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
Reference: J. B. Delaire, UFO Register, volume 7,
1976
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3452
Date: Winter 1889
Description: Nikola Tesla’s experiments at his
Experimental Station on wireless electricity transmission in Colorado
Springs
Type: scientific event
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_16
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_17
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
Reference: “Dublin 1891,” Texas
UFO Museum and Research Library, February 5, 2014
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_86
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
Reference: MacLeod (Ont.) Gazette, July 16, 1891; Clark
45
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_87
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", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 9/2/1891
Location: Coyote Canyon [now within the Sandia National
Laboratory complex], New Mexico
Description: 8:00 p.m. 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
Reference: “Strange Mid Air
Ships,” 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
Date: 1/1892?
Location: west coast of Baja California, Mexico
Description: George
W. Crusselle and S. D. Cuthereil from the USS
Thetis 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
Reference: George W. Crusselle, “The
Coast Survey,” Atlanta Constitution, April 10, 1892, p. 9
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_89
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", State/Prov: "KTW", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Lithuania", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Warsaw", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: “Spying by Balloon,”
New York Evening World, March 25, 1892, p. 1; “Balloons
As German Spies,” New York Times, March 26, 1892, p. 3; “Steering Military
Balloons,” Birmingham Daily Post, March 31, 1892, p. 8; Clark 45;
Brett Holman, “The
Phantom Balloon Scare of 1892,” Airminded, July 11, 2009
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_90
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
Reference: Poland 7–8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_91
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
Reference: Trenton (N.J.) Times, June 2, 1892; Clark
III 70
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_92
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
Reference: “Saw
Balls of Fire,” Atlanta Constitution, June 21, 1892, p. 10
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_93
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
Reference: “What Was It?”
Galveston \(Tex.) Daily News, September 2, 1892, p. 6; Clark III
70
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_94
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 of
the US Department of Agriculture, who performs a chemical analysis that
shows it to be from migrating spiders.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Spider
Web from the Clouds,” Scientific American 67 \(1892\): 325
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_95
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", State/Prov: "SKR", Strangeness: "6"
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, captain of the corvette HMS
Caroline,
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
Reference: Charles J. Norcock, “An
Atmospheric Phenomenon in the North China Sea,”
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
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
Reference: “Judgment Day,” St.
Louis Globe-Democrat, August 20, 1893, p. 9
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_97
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
Reference: Jerome Clark, International UFO Reporter,
April 2003, p. 19, citing the Arizona Republic, August 27, 1893
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5350
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", State/Prov: "Virginia", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 1894
End date: 1895
Description: The first practical radio transmitters and receivers
invented in by Guglielmo
Marconi using radiotelegraphy
Type: industrial advance
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_18
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
Reference: “Cum Grano Salis,” Lowell
\(Mass.) Daily Sun, February 8, 1894, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_98
Date: 5/1894
Location: Flagstaff, Arizona
Description: During the opposition of Mars, the idea
that Schiaparelli’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 Lowell 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Martian canal”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_99
Date: 6/7/1894
Locations: Lowell Observatory; Flagstaff, Arizona;
Mars
Description: Astronomers Percival
Lowell and William
H. Pickering 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
Reference: Percival Lowell, Mars, Houghton, Mifflin,
1897 ed., pp.
86–87
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_100
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
Reference: Ogden (Utah) Standard, July 26, 1894
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_101
Date: Late 11/1894
Location: Manchester, Kansas
Description: 11:00 p.m.–2:00 a.m. Mennonite farmers Henry
W. J. Smith and 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
Reference: “Battle in the
Heavens,” Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) Times, October 6, 1894, p. 6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_102
Date: 1895
Location: Mars
Description: French parapsychologist Albert de
Rochas 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
Reference: Hilary Evans, “Martians of the 1890s,” IUR
11, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1986): 8–9
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_103
Date: 8/1895
Location: Onondaga County, New York
Description: US psychical researcher James
Hyslop begins investigating a case of automatic writing by Sarah
Harper Cleaveland (“Mrs.
Smead”\) 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
Reference: Hilary Evans, “Martians of the 1890s,” IUR
11, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1986): 6–7
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_104
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 8/31/1895
Locations: Oxford, England; London; Margate, Kent
Description: 8:00 p.m. Oxford English Dictionary
lexicographer James
Murray 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
Reference: J. A. H. Murray, “Remarkable
Meteoric (?) Appearance,” London Times, September 4, 1895, p. 3; “Remarkable Meteoric
Appearance,” London Times, September 6, 1895, p. 8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_105
Date: 11/8/1895
Description: X-Rays discovered
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_19
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_13
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_10
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
Reference: “A Mysterious Balloon,” Winnipeg Manitoba
Morning Free Press, July 2, 1896, p. 4; “They Think It’s
Andreé’s,” Chicago Tribune, July 2, 1896, p. 1; Clark III 70
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_106
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", RelAlt: "120", State/Prov: "British Columbia", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: “It Was No Dream,” Winnipeg Manitoba Morning
Free Press, August 13, 1896, p. 2; Brett Holman, “Believing
Is Seeing,” Airminded, May 2, 2010
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_107
Date: Mid 7/1896
Locations: Princeton, Missouri; Lineville, Iowa
Description: Night. Chester
N. 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
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
Date: 8/11/1896
Location: San Francisco, California
Description: 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
Reference: US Patent, “Air-ship,” granted
August 11, 1896
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_109
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
Reference: “Saw the
Mystic Flying Light,”
San Francisco Call, November 22, 1896, p. 13
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_110
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "4"
Date: Late 10/1896
Location: Bowman, California
Description: Fruit rancher Constant
T. Musso and his family in Bowman, California. watch three bright
lights moving toward the east at about 100 mph.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Mission
of the Aerial Ship,” San Francisco Call, November 25, 1896, p.
1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_111
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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 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
Reference: “The
Apparition of the Air,” San Francisco Call, November 24, 1896, p.
1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_112
Date: Early 11/1896
Location: Woodland, California
Description: 8:00 p.m. 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
Reference: “Was It an Airship?”
Woodland \(Calif.) Daily Democrat, November 24, 1896, p. 3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_113
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", RelAlt: "20", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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
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
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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, who
watch the object rise and fall as it moves southwest.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Mystery
airship”; “Voices in the Sky,”
Sacramento \(Calif.) Evening Bee, November 18, 1896, p. 1; “Strange Craft of the
Sky,” San Francisco Call, November 19, 1896, p. 1; Loren E. Gross,
UFOs:
A History,
1896, The
Author, 1974; Thomas E. Bullard, The Airship File, The author, 1982;
Clark III 70–75
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_114
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", RelAlt: "600", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "5"
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
Reference: “Saw the
Mystic Flying Light,” San Francisco Call, November 22, 1896, p.
13
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_115
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
Reference: “Saw the
Mystic Flying
Light,” San Francisco Call, November 22, 1896, p. 13; Wikipedia, “Mystery
airship” Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_116
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", RelAlt: "1", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "5"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 11/22/1896
Locations: San Francisco; California; Maine; Oroville;
Oakland; Havana, Cuba
Description: San Francisco attorney George
D. 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, claims to know the inventor but has been sworn to
secrecy. Former California Attorney General William H.
H. Hart 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
Reference: Clark III 71–73; “A
Lawyer’s Word for That Airship,” San Francisco Chronicle, November
22, 1896, p. 36; “Collins Sticks to His
Airship Story,” San Francisco Chronicle, November 23, 1896, p. 12;
San Francisco Chronicle, November 24, 1896, p. 9; “Have
We Got ‘Em Again?” Sacramento Bee, November 23, 1896, p. 1; “Coy
Mr. Collins and His Airship,” San Francisco Chronicle, November 24,
1896, p. 9; “The
Apparition of the Air,”
San Francisco Call, November 24, 1896, p. 1; “Mission
of the Aerial Ship,” San Francisco Call, November 25, 1896, p. 1;
“Hart
Stands by His Ship,” “Hart
Confirms the Story from Sacramento,” San Francisco Call, November
26, 1896, p. 1; “Three
Airships, Says Hart,” 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
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
Reference: “Have
We Got ‘Em Again?” Sacramento Bee, November 23, 1896, p. 1; “A Winged Ship in the
Sky,” San Francisco Call, November 23, 1896, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_118
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
Reference: “The
Apparition of
the Air,” San Francisco Call, November 24, 1896, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_119
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "5"
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
Reference: “Mission
of the Aerial Ship,” San Francisco Call, November 25, 1896, p.
1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_120
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
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
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"
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, city
electrician George
H. Carleton, George
Hatton of the Oakland Tribune, and Melvin Holmes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Mission
of the Aerial Ship,” San Francisco Call, November 25, 1896, p.
1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_121
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
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
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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, 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
Reference: Clark III 73; “Hart
Confirms the Story from Sacramento,”
San Francisco Call, November 26, 1896, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_122
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
Reference: “Three Strange
Visitors,” Stockton \(Calif.) Evening Mail, November 27, 1896, p. 1;
Patrick Gross, UFOs
in the Daily Press
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_123
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "3"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "3"
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 Cross also sees
the strange aerial light when he is visiting a colleague two blocks
away.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “It Flitted over
San Jose,”
San Francisco Call, November 28, 1896, p. 1; “Three
Airships, Says Hart,” San Francisco Call, November 29, 1896, p.
1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_124
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
Reference: Clark III 73; “Says He Saw It,”
Oakland \(Calif.) Tribune, December 1, 1896, p. 1; “Saw the Airship at
Close Range,” San Francisco Call, December 2, 1896, p. 14
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_125
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "5"
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
Reference: “More Airship Stories,”
Woodland \(Calif.) Daily Democrat, November 29, 1896, p. 2
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_126
Date: 11/28/1896
Location: Oakland, California
Description: Percy Drew watches an enormous airship
with a red light over Oakland, California.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Says He Saw It,”
Oakland \(Calif.) Tribune, December 1, 1896, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_127
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, The UFO Wave of 1896, p.
23
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_8023
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, The UFO Wave of 1896, p.
25
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_8063
Date: 12/1/1896
Locations: Rumsey, California; Davis, California; Los
Angeles
Description: 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 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
Reference: “The
Mystery Solved,” Woodland \(Calif.) Daily Democrat, December 8,
1896, p. 3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_128
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
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
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
Reference: Clark III 74; “The Airship Again,”
Woodland \(Calif.) Daily Democrat, December 7, 1896, p. 3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_129
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
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
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", State/Prov: "Nevada", Strangeness: "5"
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", State/Prov: "Nevada", Strangeness: "4"
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
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_8291
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
Reference: “Saw an Air-Ship,”
Philadelphia \(Pa.) Times, December 28, 1896, p. 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_130
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
Reference: “Airship Reported Again,” Stockton
\(Calif.) Evening Mail, January 22, 1897, p. 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_131
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", State/Prov: "Nebraska", Strangeness: "6"
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
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
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
Reference: “See an Air Ship at Hastings,”
Omaha \(Neb.) Daily Bee, February 2, 1897, p. 2
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_132
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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, The
Mystery of Unidentified Flying Objects—A Prelude, 1896–1949, The
author, 1971; Roger L. Welsch, “This
Mysterious Light Called an Airship: Nebraska Saucer Sightings,
1897,” 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
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
Reference: Philip L. Rife, It Didn't Start with
Roswell, p. 3
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_649
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 Seen at Inavale,”
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
Reference: “Seen near North Platte,”
Kearney \(Neb.) Hub, February 18, 1897, p. 3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_134
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
Reference: “The Supposed Kansas
Airship,” Atchison \(Kan.) Daily Globe, February 27, 1897, p.
4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_135
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
Reference: “The Supposed Kansas
Airship,” Atchison \(Kan.) Daily Globe, February 27, 1897, p.
4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_136
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
Reference: “That Strange Light
Again,” Lincoln Nebraska State Journal, March 16, 1897, p. 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_137
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", State/Prov: "Nebraska", Strangeness: "6"
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. Copenharve, a
compositor for the Omaha Bee.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Visions of an Air
Ship,” Omaha \(Neb.) Daily Bee, March 16, 1897, p. 7
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_138
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
Reference: “Say They Saw an
Air-Ship,” Kansas City \(Mo.) Times, March 27, 1897, p. 5; “It Flies
at Night,” Kansas City \(Mo.) Journal, March 28, 1897, p. 2
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_139
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_14
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_11
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
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A
Century of Landings, pp. 140 & 182, case 11
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1668
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", State/Prov: "Kansas", Strangeness: "6"
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. Leedy, who
describes it as a “very strange light.” Harold
T. 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
Reference: “Strange Light in the Sky,” Topeka (Kan.)
Daily Capital, March 28, 1897, p. 1; “Neither Star Nor
Planet,” Kansas City \(Mo\) Times, March 29, 1897, p. 1; “Airship
Is Seen by Gov. Leedy,” Chicago Tribune, March 29, 1897, p. 4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_140
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_15
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_12
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
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
Date: 3/30/1897
Description: In 1897 in Denver, Colorado a mysterious
light was seen flying through the night sky.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: New York Herald, April 12, 1897
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1724
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", State/Prov: "Kansas", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_16
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_13
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
Reference: “Air Ship Headed toward
Omaha,” Omaha \(Neb.) Daily Bee, April 3, 1897, p. 9
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_141
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
Reference: “Air Ship Headed toward
Omaha,” Omaha \(Neb.) Daily Bee, April 3, 1897, p. 9
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_142
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
Reference: “The Airship Story
Spreads,” Cedar Rapids \(Iowa\) Evening Gazette, April 2, 1897, p.
1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_143
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
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
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", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Iowa", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: “Wesley Saw the Air
Ship,” Algona \(Iowa\) Republican, April 7, 1897, p. 8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_144
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
Reference: “That Blooming Ship,” Rockford (Ill.) Daily
Republic, April 12, 1897, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_146
Date: 4/4/1897
Locations: Wolf Creek Township, Iowa; Sioux City
Description: 12:15 a.m. Dairy farmer Dick
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
Reference: “Air Ship Again,” Marshalltown (Iowa)
Evening Times-Republican, April 9, 1897, p. 3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_145
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", State/Prov: "Nebraska", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: “Boarded the
Airship,” Auburn \(Neb.) Granger, April 9, 1897, p. 3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_147
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", State/Prov: "Iowa", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: “Airship Appears in Iowa,” Chicago Record,
April 9, 1897, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_148
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
Reference: Philip Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell,
p. 5
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1892
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, director of the Dearborn Observatory, tells the newspapers he
is sure the airship is the star Alpha Orionis (Betelgeuse).
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “See
Airship or a
Star,” Chicago Tribune, April 10, 1897, pp. 1–2; “California
Airship on the Wing,” Chicago Tribune, April 11, 1897, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_149
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", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "7"
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", RelAlt: "99", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: “Hides in the
Woods,” Chicago Chronicle, April 11, 1897, p. 3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_150
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
Reference: “Saw the Airship,”
Buffalo \(N.Y.) Enquirer, April 12, 1897, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_151
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
Reference: “The Airship over Quincy,” Quincy (Ill.)
Morning Whig, April 11, 1897, p. 8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_152
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
Reference: “The Airship over Quincy,” Quincy (Ill.)
Morning Whig, April 11, 1897, p. 8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_153
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", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/11/1897
Location: Hawarden, Iowa
Description: 12:30 a.m. John Peterson, E. K. Rowley, George
Moody, 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
Reference: “Another Wonderful Tale,” Des Moines (Iowa)
Leader, April 13, 1897, p. 3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_154
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 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
Reference: “Airship Myth Yet
Soars,” Chicago Tribune, April 12, 1897, p. 5; “Airship
Is All a Joke,” 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
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
Reference: “The Air Ship,”
Bloomington \(Ill.) Daily Pantagraph, April 12, 1897, p. 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_156
Date: 4/11/1897
Location: Benton Harbor, Michigan
Description: 7:45 p.m. John
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
Reference: “Air Ship Seen Here,” Benton Harbor (Mich.)
Evening News, April 12, 1897, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_157
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
Reference: “Does He Hail from Mars?” St. Paul (Minn.)
Pioneer Press, April 12, 1897, p. 4; “Wonder! Mysterious
Airship Seen by Stuart Mackroth,” Minneapolis Tribune, April 13,
1897, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_158
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
Reference: “Airship Myth Yet
Soars,” Chicago Tribune, April 12, 1897, p. 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_159
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
Reference: “Wonder! Mysterious
Airship Seen by Stuart Mackroth,” Minneapolis Tribune, April 13,
1897, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_160
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
Reference: “Saw the Air Ship,”
Decatur \(Ill.) Evening Republican, April 12, 1897, p. 8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_161
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
Reference: Philip Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell,
p. 10
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1946
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
Reference: Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Mysteries of the
Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 19
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1947
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
Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT:
Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0013, citing the Minneapolis
Tribune
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1948
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", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "Missouri", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Iowa", Strangeness: "8"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_17
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_18
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_14
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_15
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
Reference: “Air-Ship
Distances a Train,” St. Louis (Mo.) Globe-Democrat, April 13, 1897,
p. 6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_162
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
Reference: “Was It the Airship?” Lincoln (Ill.) Weekly
Courier, April 13, 1897, p. 8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_163
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
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1960
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
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
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
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
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", State/Prov: "Minnesota", Strangeness: "8"
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
Reference: “Airship Passed in the Night,” Louisville
(Ky.) Evening Post, April 13, 1897, p. 6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_164
Date: 4/13/1897
Location: Canton, South Dakota
Description: Night. Mayor 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
Reference: “Airship Is Seen
by Moonlight,” Omaha
\(Neb.) Daily Bee, April 15, 1897, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_165
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
Reference: “Adam Saw the Airship Light,” St Paul
(Minn.) Pioneer Press, April 15, 1897, p. 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_166
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
Reference: Philip L. Rife, It Didn't Start with
Roswell, p. 13, citing Official UFO, July 1976, p. 37
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2000
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
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
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", State/Prov: "Indiana", Strangeness: "8"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_20
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_23
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_16
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_17
Date: 4/14/1897
Locations: Burlington; Frankfort, Indiana; Middle Fork
of Wildcat Creek
Description: Early morning. Marble merchant David
W. 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
Reference: “That Mysterious Airship,” Indianapolis
Sentinel, April 15, 1897, p. 6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_167
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
Reference: “Trip of the Airship,” Saginaw (Mich.)
Courier-Herald, April 17, 1897, p. 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_168
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
Reference: “In
Daylight,” Cincinnati \(Ohio\) Enquirer, April 15, 1897, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_169
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
Reference: “Six Men Seen in the
Airship,” Cincinnati \(Ohio\) Enquirer, April 15, 1897, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_170
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
Reference: “Airship Positively Seen,” Burlington (Iowa)
Hawk-Eye, April 16, 1897, p. 2
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_171
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
Reference: “Talking
Heard by the Citizens,” Cincinnati \(Ohio\) Enquirer, April 16,
1897, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_172
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
Reference: “Mystery Solved,” Springfield (Ill.) News,
April 15, 1897, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_173
Date: 4/14/1897
Location: Mount Vernon, Illinois
Description: Night. Many persons in Mount Vernon,
Illinois, including Mayor Barton
C. 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
Reference: “Airship’s Travels,” Cincinnati (Ohio)
Commercial Tribune, April 16, 1897, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_174
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
Reference: “The Air Ship Again,” Dallas (Tex.) Morning
News, April 15, 1897, p. 4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_175
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
Reference: “Sighting the Air Ship,” Dallas (Tex.)
Morning News, April 16, 1897, p. 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_176
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
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2006
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
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A
Century of Landings, p. 182, citing Chicago Chronicle, April 15,
1897
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2007
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
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A
Century of Landings, p. 182, citing the Chicago Tribune, April 16,
1897
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2008
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", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Iowa", Strangeness: "9"
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><ARTESIAN,SD:STRANGE OBJ DESCENDS:FOLOS LOCOMOTIVE/ENGINEER:/FSR'66#4", LatLong: "44.011113 -97.716671", LatLongDMS: "44:00:40 N 97:43:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "South Dakota", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_24
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_26
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_27
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_28
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_29
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_18
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_19
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_20
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_21
Date: 4/15/1897
Locations: 7 miles west of Cisco, Texas; Cuba
Description: Late evening. Telegraph repairman Patrick
C. 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
Reference: “Oft-Seen
Air-Ship,” Fort Worth \(Tex.) Register, April 18, 1897, p. 11
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_177
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, 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
Reference: “Brunswick and
Drammen,” Eau Claire \(Wis.) Leader, April 17, 1897, p. 7
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_178
Date: 4/15/1897
Location: Dunkirk, Ohio
Description: 8:15 p.m. Willie
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
Reference: “Seen at Dunkirk,” Kenton (Ohio)
News-Republican, April 16, 1897, p. 4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_179
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
Reference: “Airship Seen in Galveston,” Galveston
(Tex.) Daily News, April 18, 1897, p. 2
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_180
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
Reference: “That Ubiquitous
Airship,” Sioux City \(Iowa\) Journal, April 17, 1897, p. 6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_181
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
Reference: “Saw
the Air Ship,” Little Rock Arkansas Gazette, April 22, 1897, p.
3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_182
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
Reference: “Sighted Here,” Fort Wayne (Ind.) Weekly
Gazette, April 15, 1897, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_183
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
Reference: “He Saw the Air Ship,”
Jamestown \(N. Dak.) Weekly Alert, April 22, 1897, p. 8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_184
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
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2011
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
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A
Century of Landings, p. 183, citing Chicago Times-Herald, April 16,
1897
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2012
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
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A
Century of Landings, p. 183, citing Flying Saucer Review, January
1965
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2013
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
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A
Century of Landings, p. 183, citing Flying Saucer Review, July-August
1966
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2014
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
Reference: Chicago Times-Herald, April 15, 1897
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2015
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
Reference: Lucius Farish newspaper clipping files
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2016
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", State/Prov: "Missouri", Strangeness: "8"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_30
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_31
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_22
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
Reference: “The Aerial
Mystery,” Bloomington \(Ill.) Daily Pantograph, April 17, 1897, p.
5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_185
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
Reference: “Air Ship a Reality,” Saginaw (Mich.)
Courier-Herald, April 16, 1897, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_186
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, F.
G. Ellis, Ben
Buland, David
Evans, and
Joe
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
Reference: “More
Air Ship Fakes,” Indianapolis Journal, April 17, 1897, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_187
Date: 4/16/1897
Locations: Springfield, Missouri; east of Springfield,
Missouri
Description: While wandering in the hills east of
Springfield, Missouri, W.
H. 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
Reference: “Golden
Haired Girl Is in It,” St. Louis (Mo.) Post- Dispatch, April 19,
1897, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_188
Date: 4/16/1897
Locations: Ohio; Marion, Ohio
Description: 8:00 p.m. 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
Reference: “Is Your
Credulity in Condition for the Only True Airship Story?” Marion
\(Ohio\) Daily Star, April 17, 1897, p. 9
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_189
Date: 4/16/1897
Location: Hillsboro, Texas
Description: Night. Judge 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
Reference: “Seen near Hillsboro,” Dallas (Tex.) Morning
News, April 17, 1897, p. 8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_190
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
Reference: “C. G. Williams Saw It,” Dallas (Tex.)
Morning News, April 19, 1897, p. 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_191
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
Reference: Lucius Farish newspaper files; Saginaw (MI)
Courrier Herald, April 16, 1897
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2043
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
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
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
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A
Century of Landings, case 22, citing Chicago Times-Herald, April 17,
1897
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2045
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
Reference: Philip L. Rife, It Didn't Start with
Roswell, p. 8
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2046
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
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
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_20
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", State/Prov: "Iowa", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "Michigan", Strangeness: "10"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_32
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_23
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
Reference: “Seen at Beaumont,” Dallas (Tex.) Morning
News, April 18, 1897, p. 4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_192
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’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 from nearby Fort Worth), does not survive the crash
and is buried “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, 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Aurora,
Texas, UFO incident”; “A Windmill Demolishes It,” Dallas Morning
News, April 19, 1897, p. 5; Donald B. Hanlon, “Texas
Odyssey of 1897,” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1966):
9–10; H. Michael Simmons, “Once
upon a Time in the West,” 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,”
Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, February 5, 2014; Mutual UFO
Network, “Aurora, TX
Crash, 1897,” May 14, 2021
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_193
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
Reference: “Trenton Has ‘Em,”
Memphis \(Tenn.) Commercial Appeal, April 18, 1897, p. 4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_194
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
Reference: “Talked with the Airship
Man,” Cincinnati \(Ohio\) Enquirer, April 19, 1897, p. 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_195
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
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A
Century of Landings, p. 184, citing Lansing State Republican, April 18,
1897
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2073
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
Reference: “The Airship Seen near Marietta,” Marietta
(Ohio) Daily Register, April 19, 1897
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_196
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
Reference: “Airship’s Lamp Is
Lighted,” Omaha \(Neb.) Daily Bee, April 20, 1897, p. 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_197
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
Reference: Gordon I.R. Lore, Jr. and Harold Dennault,
Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 21
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2102
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", State/Prov: "Western Virginia", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "9"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_34
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_24
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
Reference: “The Airship Seen in
Louisiana,” New Orleans Daily Picayune, April 21, 1897, p. 6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_198
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
Reference: “The Air
Ship Seen in El
Paso,” El Paso \(Tex.) Herald, April 20, 1897, p. 4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_199
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, 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
Reference: “Was Aboard an Airship,” Dallas (Tex.)
Morning News, May 16, 1897, p. 18
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_200
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
Reference: “Hovered over the Town,” Cincinnati (Ohio)
Commercial Tribune, April 20, 1897, p. 2
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_201
Date: 4/19/1897
Location: Yates Center, Kansas
Description: 10:30 p.m. Rancher 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
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,” Flying Saucer Review 22,
no. 6 (April 1977): 26; Daniel Cohen, The Great Airship Mystery, Dodd,
Mead, 1981, pp.
92–102
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_202
Date: 4/19/1897
Locations: Houston; Beaumont, Texas; Gulf of Mexico;
Iowa; Beaumont
Description: After 11:00 p.m. John
R. Ligon, an
agent for a brewery in Houston, and his son Charley 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 of Beaumont also claims to have met aeronauts from a landed
airship near the city around the same time.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Inspected
the Air Ship,” Houston \(Tex.) Daily Post, April 21, 1897, p. 2; “The
Airship,” 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
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
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
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", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "8"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_37
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_25
Date: 4/20/1897
Location: Elkton, South Dakota
Description: 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
Reference: US Patent, “Air Ship,”
granted April 20, 1897; Ruth Becken, A History of Elkton, [City of
Elkton,] 2000, p. 94
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_204
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 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 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
Reference: “The Airship in West Texas,” Galveston
(Tex.) Daily News, April 24, 1897, p. 3; “The Airship at Uvalde,”
Weimar \(Tex.) Mercury, May 1, 1897, p. 6; “Airship
Story Exploded,” 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
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
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A
Century of Landings, p. 184; Flying Saucer Review, July-August
1966
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2149
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", State/Prov: "Arkansas", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "8"
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
Reference: “The Airship,” New
Orleans Picayune, April 21, 1897, p. 9
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_206
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
Reference: “Aeribarque, That’s It’s
Official Name,” Cincinnati \(Ohio\) Enquirer, April 25, 1897, p.
9
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_207
Date: 4/21/1897
Locations: Erie, Pennsylvania; Lake Erie
Description: 11:00 p.m. Confectioner John
S. Scheer, Frank
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
Reference: “Passed over Erie,” Erie (Pa.) Daily Times,
April 22, 1897, p. 8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_208
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_39
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_41
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_26
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_27
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
Reference: “Men Seen in the
Airship,” Raleigh \(N.C.) News and Observer, April 25, 1897, p.
4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_209
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, William
E. Sollenberger, and
banking executive Frank
McCarty.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “The Mysterious Air Ship,” Kokomo (Ind.)
Daily Tribune, April 23, 1897, p. 4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_210
Date: 4/22/1897
Location: Rockland, Texas
Description: 11:00 p.m. John
M. 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
Reference: “Supplies
for Airship,” Houston \(Tex.) Post, April 25, 1897, p. 13
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_211
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
Reference: “That
Airship,” Houston \(Tex.) Post, April 26, 1897, p. 2
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_212
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
Reference: Houston Post, April 22, 1897
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2203
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
Reference: Houston Post, April 26, 1897; Jacques
Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 184-185
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2204
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_43
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_28
Date: 4/23/1897
Location: Kountze, Texas
Description: Night. Henry
A. Hooks and A.
W. Hodges of Kountze, Texas, allegedly meet two aeronauts named
Wilson and Jackson when their airship suffers a gas leak and
lands.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “That
Airship,” Houston \(Tex.) Post, April 25, 1897, p. 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_213
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
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A
Century of Landings, p. 185
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2249
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
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
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
Reference: “Is This a Reality?”
Knoxville \(Tenn.) Morning Tribune, April 25, 1897, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_214
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, and
they watch the lights until the object disappears into heavy clouds to
the southwest.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Say They Saw the Airship,” Cleveland (Ohio)
Plain Dealer, April 28, 1897, p. 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_215
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
Reference: Louisville Courier Journal, April 25,
1897
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2269
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_45
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_29
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
Reference: “Anchor
of the Airship,” Houston \(Tex.) Post, April 28, 1897, p. 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_216
Date: 4/25/1897
Location: Sunbury (Ohio)
Description: Night. William
F. 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
Reference: “Fairy Story: A Sunbury Editor Takes a
Photograph,” Dayton (Ohio) Daily Journal, April 28, 1897
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_217
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
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
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", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "9"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_46
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_30
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
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A
Century of Landings, case # 30; Dallas Morning News, April 28,
1897
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2327
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
Reference: Jerome Clark, Flying Saucer Review, July
1967, p. 22
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2328
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
Reference: Marquette (MI) Mining Journal, May 1,
1897
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2329
Date: 4/28/1897?
Locations: Deadwood, Texas; Beaumont
Description: 8:00 p.m. Hiram
C. 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
Reference: “The
Airship,” Houston \(Tex.) Post, April 30, 1897, p. 7
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_218
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", State/Prov: "New York", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Manitoba", Strangeness: "6"
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
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
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
Reference: “The Air Ship at Cassville,” Kokomo (Ind.)
Daily Tribune, May 4, 1897, p. 8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_219
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", State/Prov: "Arkansas", Strangeness: "9"
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
Reference: “Airship,”
Cincinnati \(Ohio\) Enquirer, May 5, 1897, p. 7
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_220
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
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
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", State/Prov: "Arkansas", Strangeness: "8"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_48
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_31
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
Reference: “Swore They Saw It,”
Little Rock Arkansas Gazette, May 9, 1897, p. 1; “Swear
They Saw It,” Arkadelphia \(Ark.) Southern Standard, May 14, 1897,
p. 2
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_221
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
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A
Century of Landings, p. 186, citing Flying Saucer Review, July-August
1966
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2573
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
Reference: “That Airship Again,” Cleveland (Ohio) Plain
Dealer, May 11, 1897, p. 3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_222
Date: 5/11/1897
Location: Sandusky, Ohio
Description: 10:00 a.m. John
E. 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
Reference: “The Air Ship: John E.
Hopley Sees
This Modern Invention,” Bucyrus \(Ohio\) Evening Telegraph, May 11,
1897, p. 4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_223
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
Reference: “The Air Ship or Its
Twin Brother Passes over Lexington,”
Lexington \(Ky.) Morning Herald, July 5, 1897, p. 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_224
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", State/Prov: "British Columbia", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "British Columbia", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 7/29/1897
Location: Whitemouth, Manitoba
Description: Sunset. Farmer 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
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
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", State/Prov: "British Columbia", Strangeness: "3"
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", State/Prov: "British Columbia", Strangeness: "6"
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
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
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", State/Prov: "Ontario", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #
208, citing Brad Steiger
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5069
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 and two other men who are standing on Grove Street.
It is about one mile in altitude.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Maybe It Was Andree on
His Return?” Charlotte \(N.C.) Observer, August 27, 1897, p. 3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_226
Date: 8/28/1897
Location: Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Description: 3:00 a.m. Luther
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
Reference: “Our Closeby Neighbors,”
Chambersburg \(Pa,) Valley Spirit, September 1, 1897, p. 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_227
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
Reference: “The Air Ship,”
Marshall \(Tex.) Evening Messenger, September 9, 1897, p. 2
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_228
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", State/Prov: "SIB", Strangeness: "4"
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
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
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
Reference: “Saw
the Man Who Saw the Ship,” Boston Daily Globe, November 5, 1897, p.
3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_229
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
Reference: “See the Airship,”
Chicago \(Ill.) Chronicle, November 20, 1897, p. 2
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_230
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
Reference: “Was
It an Air-Ship,”
Saint Paul \(Minn.) Globe, December 7, 1897, p. 2
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_231
Date: 1898
Locations: Surrey; London; southern England
Description: English author H. G.
Wells 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “The
War of the Worlds” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_232
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", State/Prov: "FRB", Strangeness: "5"
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", State/Prov: "Morbihan", Strangeness: "4"
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
Reference: “Star-Gazing in
Rome,” Atlanta \(Ga.) Constitution, January 11, 1898, p. 4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_233
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
Reference: Martin Brendel, “Ueber
ein 1898 Febr. 4 in Greifswald
beobachtetes Phänomen,” Astronomische Nachrichten 145 \(1898\):
333–334
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_234
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", State/Prov: "SRB", Strangeness: "5"
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
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
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
Reference: “A Mysterious Light,” New Castle
\(Pa.) News, May 4, 1898, p. 10
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_235
Date: 6/1/1898
Location: Emporia, Kansas
Description: 8:30 p.m. Harry
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
Reference: [News note], Emporia
(Kan.) Gazette, June 2, 1898, p. 4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_236
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", State/Prov: "Paris", Strangeness: "4"
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", State/Prov: "Paris", Strangeness: "5"
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
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
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) 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
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
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", State/Prov: "Ireland", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 1899
Locations: Colorado Springs, Colorado; Europe;
Mars
Description: Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla 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’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 of the Skeptoid podcast attributes Tesla’s signals to
pulsars, which are not identified until 1968.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Nikola Tesla, “Talking
with the Planets,” Colliers Weekly 26 \(February 9, 1901): 4–5;
Margaret Cheney, Tesla: Man Out of Time, Dorset Press, 1989 ed., pp.
111–113; Daniel Blair Stewart, Tesla: The Modern Sorcerer, Frog,
1999, p.
372; 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; Brian Dunning, “The Black Knight
Satellite,” Skeptoid podcast, no. 365, June 4, 2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_239
Date: 1899
Locations: Switzerland; Basel, Switzerland
Description: Swiss psychologist Carl
Jung investigates his 15-year-old cousin, Hélène
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
Reference: Hilary Evans, “Martians of the 1890s,” IUR
11, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1986): 7–8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_240
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
Reference: Dallas (Tex.) News, January 25, 1899; Clark
III 86
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_241
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
Reference: [News note],
Garfield County (Okla.) Democrat, February 9, 1899, p. 4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_242
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", State/Prov: "Marne", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 129
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2360
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", State/Prov: "Paris", Strangeness: "5"
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
Reference: Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets,
Flying Disk, 2020, p. 113
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_243
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
Reference: “Who Owns the Big
Balloon?” Spokane \(Wash.) Chronicle, July 5, 1899, p. 2
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_244
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", RelAlt: "2", State/Prov: "Sonora", Strangeness: "9"
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
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
Date: 1900
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Description: Psychic medium Catherine-Elise
Müller (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, 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
Reference: Society for Psychical Research, PSI
Encyclopedia, “Hélène
Smith”; Hilary Evans, “Martians of the 1890s,” IUR 11, no. 5
(Sept./Oct. 1986): 4–6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_246
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
Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet,
1969, pp. 13–14
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_247
Date: Mid Summer 1900
Location: Reedsburg, Wisconsin
Description: 3:00 a.m. 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
Reference: Clark III 1161
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_248
Date: 12/1900
Locations: Lowell Observatory; Flagstaff, Arizona;
Mars
Description: Percival
Lowell 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
Reference: “Science
Notes,” Scientific American 84 \(1901\): 179
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_249
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", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Jerome Clark & William Corliss, UFO
Calendar 1999
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1360
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
Reference: Clark III 261; Jenny Randles and Philip
Barnet, “Humanoids Encountered
in 1901?” Flying Saucer Review 24, no. 5 (March 1979): 28–29; “UFO
Britannia: Part 1, The Early Years,”
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
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "9"
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", State/Prov: "CMR", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Paris", Strangeness: "5"
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
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Challenge to Science: The
UFO Enigma, p. 5
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_765
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
Reference: Austin (Tex.) Daily Tribune, May 14, 1902;
Clark III 1168
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_251
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "AFR", Strangeness: "8"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_50
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_32
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
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
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", State/Prov: "South Australia", Strangeness: "5"
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", State/Prov: "Vaud", Strangeness: "4"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_51
Date: 3/17/1903
Location: Helmer, Indiana
Description: Mid-evening. Madge
Brosius, 12, and her father Charles 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
Date: 12/17/1903
Location: 4 miles south of Kitty Hawk, North
Carolina
Description: Inventors Orville and
Wilbur Wright 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Wright Flyer”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_254
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
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
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_52
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_33
Date: 1904
Locations: Dixboro, Michigan; Dixboro United Methodist
Church
Description: Late afternoon. Wirt
M. Covert, 17, and 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
Reference: NICAP case file
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_255
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", State/Prov: "NPC", Strangeness: "4"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_53
Date: 2/28/1904
Locations: Guam; San Francisco, California; 300 miles
west-southwest of San Francisco
Description: Mid-evening. The steamer USS
Supply is
transporting the ill Governor of Guam, William
Elbridge Sewell, from
Guam to San Francisco, California. About 300 miles west-southwest of San
Francisco, commanding Lt. Frank
Herman Schofield 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 thinks they are meteors, but Bruce
Maccabee is not so sure.
Reference: Eberhart
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,” 2005; NICAP, “Three Red Objects
Sighted from USS Supply”; Barry Greenwood, “The USS Supply
Sighting of 1904,” 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
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
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
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
Reference: Lore and Deneault, pp.
91–92
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_257
Date: 1905
Locations: Yreka, California; Mount Shasta,
California
Description: Frederick Spencer
Oliver’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
Reference: Wikipedia, “A
Dweller on Two Planets”; Frederick Spencer Oliver, A
Dweller on Two
Planets, Baumgardt,
1905
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_258
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", State/Prov: "WLS", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Roger Sandell, FSR, March-April 1972, p. 31,
citing the Barmouth Advertiser, March 23, 1905
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1617
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", State/Prov: "WLS", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Computer Catalog, case
248
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1716
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", State/Prov: "Manche", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: “Aerial
Navigation in Imperial Valley,” Imperial \(Calif.) Press, August 5,
1905, p. 4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_259
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "8"
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", RelAlt: "2", State/Prov: "WLS", Strangeness: "4"
Date: 9/2/1905
Description: An intensely dark object flew over
Llangollen, Gwynedd, Wales at an altitude over two miles.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Desmond Leslie, Flying Saucers Have Landed,
p. 34
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5561
Date: 9/6/1905
Description: Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity
paper published
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_21
Attributes: Einstein
Date: 1906
Location: Mitchell, South Dakota
Description: 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
Reference: “DeMott Rock Study
Crosses Continents,” Albany \(Oreg.) Democrat-Herald, August 27,
1973, p. 11; Clark III 261; Patrick Gross, URECAT, July
22, 2009
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_260
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", State/Prov: "Creuse", Strangeness: "8"
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
Reference: Clark III 1168
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_261
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", State/Prov: "GOM", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: “Ship Founders in
Air,” Indianapolis Star, September 17, 1906, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_262
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", State/Prov: "Indiana", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: “Ship
Floats over City: Hundreds See It in Flight,” Indianapolis Star,
October 8, 1906, p. 3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_263
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", State/Prov: "NFL", Strangeness: "5"
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
Reference: “Recalls Fiery 1906 U.F.O.,”
Des Moines \(Iowa\) Tribune, May 4, 1966, p. 36
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_264
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", State/Prov: "MLC", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Nashville (Tenn.) Sunday American, April
21–23, 28, 1907; “Here’s a Weird
Tale,” 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
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
Reference: Clark III 261; Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT
Index 1900-1909, p. 7
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_266
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", State/Prov: "Vermont", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 7/2/1907
Locations: Burlington, Vermont; Church and College
streets; College Street
Description: Just before 12:00 noon. Bishop John
Stephen Michaud is talking with Vermont ex-governor Urban
A. Woodbury 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
Reference: William H. Alexander, “A
Possible Case of Ball Lightning,” 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
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
Reference: Charles Fort, The Complete Books of Charles
Fort. New York: Dover, 1974, pg. 292.
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3783
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
Reference: “Phoenix Man Sees Blue
Stars,” Tucson \(Ariz.) Citizen, July 11, 1907, p. 4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_268
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_54
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_34
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", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: F. W. Longbottom, “Comet
or ———?” The Observatory 31 \(1908\): 215–216
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_269
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
Reference: Clark III 1168–1169
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_270
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", State/Prov: "Vosges", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Willy Wegner, “The Mystery
‘Airship’ over Denmark in 1908,” The UFO Register 8, no. 1 (November
1977): 3–8; Clark III 1163
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_272
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", State/Prov: "Danemark", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "EVE", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_55
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_35
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,
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.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Tunguska
event”; Hobana and Weverbergh 10–30; John Baxter and Thomas Atkins,
The Fire
Came By: The Riddle of the
Great Siberian Explosion, Doubleday,
1976; Surendra Verma, The Mystery of the Tunguska Fireball, Thriplow,
2005; Vladimir Rubtsov, The Tunguska Mystery, Springer, 2009; Phil
Plait, “Aliens
Saved Tunguska!”
Bad Astronomy, May 29, 2009; Mark Peplow, “Rock Samples
Suggest Meteor Caused Tunguska Blast,”
Nature, June 10, 2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_271
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
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
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", State/Prov: "Sofia", Strangeness: "4"
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", State/Prov: "SIB", Strangeness: "8"
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
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
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. Its first chief is Stanley
Finch. Attorney General George W.
Wickersham renames the force the Bureau of Investigation in March
1909.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Timeline, March 31, 2002
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_274
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
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,” Fortean Studies 6 \(1999\);
Patrick Gross, URECAT, August
17, 2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_275
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_22
Date: 1909
Location: East Frisia, Lower Saxony, Germany
Description: Night. Frederick
G. Hehr 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
Reference: “Report from the Readers,” Fate 4, no. 5
(July 1951): 95–96; Clark III 1169
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_276
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", State/Prov: "Belgium", Strangeness: "7"
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
Reference: SOBEPS, case 163
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1093
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: London Evening News, May 18, 1909; Carl
Grove, “The
Airship Wave of 1909: A
Preliminary Survey,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 6 (Nov./Dec.
1970): 9
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_277
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Peterborough Advertiser, March 27, 1909; “Aerial
Mystery,” London Standard, May 17, 1909, p. 7; Carl Grove, “The
Airship Wave of 1909: A Preliminary Survey,” Flying Saucer Review
16, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1970): 9; David Clarke, “Scareships
over Britain: The Airship Wave of 1909,” Fortean Studies 6 \(1999\)
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_278
Date: 3/23/1909
Description: An unidentified object with a very strong
searchlight flew over Peterborough, England at 5:10 a.m.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p.
20; Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1960, p. 12
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1618
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", State/Prov: "Firenze", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #
254
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2270
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: London Evening News, May 15, 1909; Carl
Grove, “The
Airship Wave of 1909:
A Preliminary Survey,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 6 (Nov./Dec.
1970): 10; David Clarke, “Scareships over
Britain: The Airship Wave of 1909,” Fortean Studies 6 \(1999\)
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_279
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
Reference: Carl Grove, FSR, November-December 1970, p.
10
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2672
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Carl Grove, FSR, November-December 1970, p.
10
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2752
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_56
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
Reference: East Anglian Daily Times, May 13, 1909; Carl
Grove, “The
Airship Wave of 1909: A Preliminary Survey,” Flying Saucer Review
16, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1970): 11; David Clarke, “Scareships
over Britain: The Airship Wave of 1909,” Fortean Studies 6 \(1999\)
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_280
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
Reference: “Mystery of the Air,” London Daily Express,
May 14, 1909, p. 1; David Clarke, “Scareships
over Britain: The Airship Wave of 1909,” Fortean Studies 6 \(1999\)
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_281
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
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
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Carl Grove, FSR, November 1970, p. 17
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2823
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", State/Prov: "WLS", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "8"
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
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
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", State/Prov: "WLS", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"
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
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,” Fortean Studies 6 \(1999\)
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_282
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
Reference: Carl Grove, FSR, November-December 1970, p.
17
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2882
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", State/Prov: "Northern Ireland", Strangeness: "6"
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, MP
for Great Yarmouth, England, had asked Secretary of State for War Richard
Haldane 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, 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
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
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
Reference: Carl Grove, FSR, November-December 1970, p.
17
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2913
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", State/Prov: "WLS", Strangeness: "8"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_58
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_36
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
Reference: “Airship
Mystery,” 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,” Mysterious Universe, May 23, 2016; Brett
Holman, “What the
Showman Saw,” Airminded, November 17, 2014
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_284
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
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
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", State/Prov: "WLS", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "WLS", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "WLS", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "7"
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 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
Reference: London Globe, May 19, 1909; Brett Holman,
“Wednesday,
19 May 1909,” Airminded, May 19, 1909; London Standard, May 21,
1909; Brett Holman, “Friday, 21
May 1909,” Airminded, May 21, 2009
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_285
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
Reference: East Anglian Daily Times, May 21, 1909;
Norfolk News, May 22, 1909; Mark Rodeghier, UFO
Reports Involving
Vehicle Interference, CUFOS, 1981, p. 1; Brett Holman, “Saturday,
May 22, 1909,” Airminded, May 22, 2009
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_286
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
Reference: “Airship Mystery,” London Daily Telegraph,
May 21, 1909, p. 12; Brett Holman, “Saturday,
May 22, 1909,” Airminded, May 22, 2009
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_287
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
Reference: Carl Grove, FSR, November 1970, pp. 18,
21
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2967
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
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
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", State/Prov: "Ireland", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "WLS", Strangeness: "4"
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", State/Prov: "WLS", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "MLC", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "NVT", Strangeness: "7"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_61
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_37
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
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
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
Reference: Bill Chalker, “Early Australian
Historical Encounters,” 1997; Tony Brunt, “The
New Zealand UFO Wave of 1909,” Ufocus NZ, July 22, 2020; Clark III
65–67; Brett Holman, “Scareships
over Australia—1,” Airminded, October 20, 2010; Brett Holman, “Scareships
over Australia—II,” Airminded, October 23, 2010; Brett Holman, “Scareships
over Australia—III,” Airminded, October 25, 2010; Robert E.
Bartholomew, “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
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", State/Prov: "SI", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Bill Chalker, “Early Australian
Historical Encounters,” 1997; Bryan Dickeson, “The
‘1909 Kelso
Airships’ of New Zealand,” Ufocus NZ, July 22, 2020
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_289
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", State/Prov: "SI", Strangeness: "5"
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", State/Prov: "SI", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "SI", Strangeness: "8"
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
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
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", State/Prov: "SI", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Xenolog, November 1975, p. 12; Lumieres dans
la Nuit, issue 180
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4422
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", State/Prov: "SI", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "SI", Strangeness: "8"
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
Reference: Bill Chalker, “Early Australian
Historical Encounters,” 1997; Tony Brunt, “The
New Zealand UFO Wave of 1909,” Ufocus NZ, July 22, 2020
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_290
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
Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, Issue 181
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4497
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
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
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", State/Prov: "SI", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "SI", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "SI", Strangeness: "6"
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
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
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
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
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", State/Prov: "NI", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "NI", Strangeness: "8"
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
Reference: Clark III 261; Hawkes Bay Herald, August 6,
1909; Tony Brunt, “The
New Zealand UFO
Wave of 1909,” Ufocus NZ, July 22, 2020
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_291
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
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
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
Reference: “The Goulburn
‘Airship,’” Sydney \(N.S.W.) Morning Herald, August 11, 1909, p. 10;
Bill Chalker, “Historical
Australian UFO Reports,” UFO Research Australia Newsletter 4, no. 3
(Nov.–Dec. 1983): 27
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_292
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 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
Reference: “Air Ship or What?” Concord (N.H.) Evening
Monitor, August 13, 1909, p. 7
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_293
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
Reference: “Is It an
Airship?” Sydney \(N.S.W.) Morning Herald, August 10, 1909, p.
7
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_294
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
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
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
Reference: “Fishers Islanders See Big Aeroplane,”
Providence (R.I.) Journal, August 19, 1909, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_295
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
Reference: “Airship
over Montclair,” New York Times, August 24, 1909, p. 2
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_296
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
Reference: Keith Roberts, Australasian Ufologist,
January 2001, p. 43
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5214
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", State/Prov: "EST", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: “What Mr. Hanna Saw May Have Been the
Worcester Airship,” Willimantic (Conn.) Chronicle, December 14, 1909, p.
8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_297
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
Reference: “Sights Strange
Airship,” Indianapolis Star, September 4, 1909, p. 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_298
Date: 9/20/1909
Locations: Meudon Observatory, Paris, France; Pic du
Midi Observatory, French Pyrenees
Description: During the opposition of Mars, astronomer
Eugène
Antoniadi 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Martian canal”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_299
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", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: “Tramp Balloon Snaps
Wires,” Indianapolis Star, October 1, 1909, p. 9
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_300
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", State/Prov: "Indiana", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Lore and Deneault, p. 97;
Clark III 1169 Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_301
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", State/Prov: "Western Australia", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 10/25/1909
Description: A blimp shaped aerial object was sighted
over Minderoo Station in Western Australia on this day.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 32
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7108
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", State/Prov: "Arkansas", Strangeness: "5"
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
Reference: “Airship Flies near
Little Rock, Perhaps,” Little Rock Arkansas Gazette, December 15,
1909, p. 7
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_302
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_62
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, 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
Reference: “Tells of Flight 300 Miles in Air,” Boston
Herald, December 13, 1909, p. 1; “Airship Seen in Two Cities,” Boston
Globe, December 23, 1909, p. 1; Clark III 1165; Stephen Whalen and
Robert E. Bartholomew, “The Great New England
Airship Hoax of 1909,” 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
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
Reference: “Skyship of Mystery Flies above Boston,”
Boston Journal, December 24, 1909, p.1; Clark III 1165
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_304
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", State/Prov: "Ireland", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "WLS", Strangeness: "9"
Date: 12/24/1909
Location: Providence, Rhode Island
Description: In Providence, Rhode Island, author H. P.
Lovecraft sees what people are claiming is Tillinghast’s airplane
bearing a powerful searchlight, but he identifies it as the planet
Venus.
Reference: Eberhart
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
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", State/Prov: "SI", Strangeness: "8"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_63
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_38
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", State/Prov: "Tennessee", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: “Airship in the
Air,” Chattanooga \(Tenn.) Daily Times, January 13, 1910, p. 7; “Another Airship
Flying,” Chattanooga \(Tenn.) Daily Times, January 14, 1910, p. 6;
Patrick Gross, URECAT, February
20, 2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_306
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
Reference: “Strange Airship,”
Huntsville \(Ala.) Journal, January 13, 1910, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_307
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
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
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
Reference: “Positive That They Saw
an Airship,”
Knoxville \(Tenn.) Journal, January 15, 1910, p. 7
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_308
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", RelAlt: "300", State/Prov: "Arkansas", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "SVL", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "CHR", Strangeness: "5"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_64
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
Reference: Clark III 262; Patrick Gross, URECAT, February
20, 2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_309
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
Reference: Clark III 1169
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_310
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", State/Prov: "Wisconsin", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "3", State/Prov: "Utah", Strangeness: "7"
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", RelAlt: "-1", State/Prov: "SCS", Strangeness: "7"
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
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
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", RelAlt: "100", State/Prov: "New York", Strangeness: "6"
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
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
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
Reference: Peter Rogerson, World-Wide Catalog of Type 1
Reports, citing FSR, May-June 1970, p. 11
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_6216
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
Reference: “Mysterious
Airship Sighted at Onslow,” Sydney \(N.S.W.) Morning Herald,
December 5, 1910, p. 9; Bill Chalker, “Early Australian
Historical Encounters,” 1997; Brett Holman, “Scareships
over Australia—IV,” Airminded, October 27, 2010
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_311
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", State/Prov: "Sasketchewan", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: “Unknown Aeronaut in
Alberta,” Calgary \(Alberta\) Herald, October 27, 1910, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_312
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
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
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
Reference: “Aviators Seen High Up in Air near City,”
Providence Journal, October 30, 1910, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_313
Date: 1/9/1911
Locations: Harvard; Boston
Description: Harvard astronomer William
H. Pickering 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
Reference: “Olden Monsters Inhabit
Venus?” Chicago Tribune, January 9, 1911, p. 8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_314
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
Reference: “Mysterious
Airships,” Perth West Australian, May 15, 1911, p. 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_315
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
Reference: “Large Ball of Fire Is
Seen in the Sky,” Reno \(Nev.) Evening Gazette, July 25, 1911, p.
1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_316
Date: 8/3/1911
Locations: Brinkerhoff Avenue; Mansfield, Ohio
Description: 9:00 p.m. Adam
H. McCullough and his wife Carrie 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
Reference: “A Phenomenon,”
Mansfield \(Ohio\) News, August 4, 1911, p. 10
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_317
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", State/Prov: "Unknown", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p.
249; Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 13
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1327
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 suspects the object is a pilot balloon.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Charles Tilden Smith, “Clouds
and Shadows,” Nature 89 \(1912\): 168; Charles J. P. Cave, “Clouds and
Shadows,” Nature 89 \(1912\): 268
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_318
Date: 4/15/1912
Description: Sinking of the Titanic
Type: disaster
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_23
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "4"
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
Reference: Clark III 1170
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_319
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 asks First Lord of the Admiralty Winston
Churchill 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 Hansa Zeppelin
over British airspace.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “The Alleged Visit of a
Foreign Airship,” London Times, November 22, 1912, p. 8; Brett
Holman, “The Sheerness
Incident,” Airminded, October 14, 2007; Brett Holman, “Secrets
of the German Aërial Fleet—I,” Airminded, May 29, 2013; Hilary Evans
and Robert E. Bartholomew, Outbreak!, Anomalist, 2009, pp. 486–487;
UFOFiles2, p.
6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_320
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: “Unknown Aircraft over
Dover,” London Times, January 6, 1913, p. 6; “Mysterious Airship,”
London Daily Telegraph, January 6, 1913; Brett Holman, “Monday, 6
January 1913,” Airminded, January 6, 2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_321
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
Reference: Lucius Farish, newspaper clipping, January
6, 1913; Desmond Leslie & George Adamski, Flying Saucers Have
Landed, p. 36
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_80
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
Reference: “Mystery Airships,” London Daily Express,
January 7, 1913, p. 5; Brett Holman, “Friday,
10 January 1913,” Airminded, January 10, 1913
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_322
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", State/Prov: "WLS", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 1/17/1913
Locations: Glamorganshire; Cardiff, Wales
Description: 4:45 p.m. Capt. Lionel
Lindsay, 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
Reference: “An Airship over
Cardiff,” London Times, January 21, 1913, p. 10; Brett Holman, “Tuesday,
21 January 1913,” Airminded, January 21, 2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_323
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "5"
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
Reference: “Aircraft over
Liverpool,” London Times, January 28, 1913, p. 13; Brett Holman, “Tuesday,
28 January 1913,” Airminded, January 28, 2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_324
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
Reference: “Mystery Airship,” London Daily Express,
January 30, 1913, p. 1; Brett Holman, “Thursday,
30 January 1913,” Airminded, January 30, 2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_325
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
Reference: “Is It a German Airship?” London Daily
Express, January 31, 1913, p. 5; Brett Holman, “Friday,
31 January 1913,”
Airminded, January 31, 2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_326
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
Reference: (“‘Russian Aeroplane’
Scare in Roumania,” Manchester Guardian, January 31, 1913, p. 9;
Romania 8–9)
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_327
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
Reference: London Globe, February 4, 1913, p. 3;
“Airplane Fired at,” London Daily Express, February 3, 1913, p. 7
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_328
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
Reference: “Another Mysterious
Airship,” London Times, February 3, 1913, p. 6; Brett Holman, “Monday,
3 February 1913,” Airminded, February 3, 2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_329
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
Reference: “Mysterious Fly-by-Night,” London Daily
Express, February 3, 1913, p. 7
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_330
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
Reference: “The Mystery Airships,” London Daily
Express, February 4, 1913, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_331
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
Reference: “The ‘Mysterious
Airship,’” Manchester Guardian, February 6, 1913, p. 9; Brett
Holman, “Thursday,
6 February 1913,” Airminded, February 6, 2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_332
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 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, 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “1913
Great Meteor Procession”;
Clarence A. Chant, “An
Extraordinary Meteoric Display,” Journal of the Royal Astronomical
Society of Canada 7 \(1913\): 145–191; Alexander D. Mebane, “Observations
of the Great Fireball Procession of 1913 February
9, Made in the United States,” Meteoritics 1, no. 4 (1956): 406–421;
Condon, pp.
570–571; Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report,
Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 31–35; “Sample
Press Coverage of the
1913 Meteor Procession,” 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
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
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
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
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,” Airminded, February 24, 2013; Brett Holman, “Tuesday,
25 February 1913,” Airminded, February 25, 2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_334
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 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
Reference: “Airship Mystery,” London Daily Telegraph,
February 26, 1913, p. 11; Brett Holman, “Wednesday,
26 February 1913,” Airminded, February 26, 2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_335
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
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
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
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,” Manchester Guardian, March 14, 1913, p. 8; Brett Holman,
“Friday, 14
March 1913,” Airminded, March 14, 2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_336
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.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “The Cardiff Aerial
Mystery Again,” Manchester Guardian, April 9, 1913, p. 9; Brett
Holman, “Wednesday,
9 April 1913,” Airminded, April 9, 2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_337
Date: 5/1913
Alternate date: 5/1914
Location: 2.5 miles west of Farmersville, Texas
Description: Morning. Silbie
J. Latham, 12, is working with his brothers Sid and
Clyde 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
Reference: Clark III 262; Patrick Gross, URECAT, October
19, 2006
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_338
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
Reference: “Strange
Aircraft Passes over Lansing at Great Rate of Speed Sunday,” Lansing
\(Mich.) State Journal, June 30, 1913, p. 3; Clark III 1167
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_339
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", State/Prov: "BLG", Strangeness: "4"
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", State/Prov: "MRV", Strangeness: "5"
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 at the Paris Observatory thinks the flashes are merely
“auto- suggestion.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Is Mars Trying to
Signal Us?” Santa Cruz \(Calif.) Evening News, November 24, 1913, p.
1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_340
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
Reference: “Correspondence,”
CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 6 (Dec. 1982/Jan. 1983): 3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_341
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", State/Prov: "LEO", Strangeness: "10"
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_24
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", State/Prov: "Haute-Vienne", Strangeness: "9"
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
Reference: Clark III 262; Patrick Gross, URECAT, March
3, 2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_342
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", State/Prov: "SCH", Strangeness: "9"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_65
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_39
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
Reference: Clark III 262; Patrick Gross, URECAT, November
28, 2007
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_344
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
Reference: Keith Basterfield, “Angel Hair: An
Australian Perspective,” IUR 27, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_343
Date: 7/28/1914
End date: 11/11/1918
Description: World War 1
Type: war
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_25
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", State/Prov: "Ontario", Strangeness: "9"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_67
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_40
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
Reference: “Old-Timer Tells of Outer
Spacemen in Letter to Wanaque Police Officer,” 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
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
Reference: UFOFiles2, p.
7–8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_346
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
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
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "7"
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
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 More in
1914!” UFO Historical Revue, no. 12 (September 2006): 6; Hilary
Evans and Robert E. Bartholomew, Outbreak! Anomalist, 2009, p. 491
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_348
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
Reference: “Great Ball of
Fire,” Rutland \(Vt.) Daily Herald, August 18, 1914, p. 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_349
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", State/Prov: "CAP", Strangeness: "5"
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
Reference: Clark III 262–263; Patrick Gross, URECAT,
March 5, 2013; Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT
Index 1910–1939, p. 9
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_351
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
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
Date: 9/9/1914
Locations: West Norwood, south London, England;
Ashstead, Surrey
Description: Mid-day. Amateur astronomer William
Herbert Steavenson 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 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
Reference: W. H. Steavenson, “Bright
Objects Observed
near the Sun,” Journal of the British Astronomical Association 25
\(1914\): 36–38
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_352
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
Reference: Hobana and Weverbergh 224
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_350
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
Reference: Australasian Ufologist, January 2001, p.
43
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_6561
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Albert Alfred Buss, “Cosmic and
Terrestrial Flotsam and Jetsam,” English Mechanic 100 \(October 14,
1914): 256
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_353
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
Reference: “Airship at Tjølta,” Morgenbladet, November
25, 1914, p. 2; Clark III 1167–1168
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_354
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
Reference: UFOFiles2, p.
8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_355
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", State/Prov: "Montana", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, volume 8
(1977), citing the Flathead Courier, February 11, 1915
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_767
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 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
Reference: “Ottawa in Darkness Awaits Airplane Raid,”
Toronto Globe, February 15, 1915, pp. 1–2; “Scare
in Ottawa over an Air Raid,”
New York Times, February 15, 1915, p. 1; Brett Holman, “The Air
Raid That Didn’t,” 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
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
Reference: Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The
Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 37–38
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_357
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
Reference: “United
Film Service,” The Moving Picture World 24 \(May 1, 1915): 806;
Barry Greenwood, “UFO
Feature Film: In
1914!” UFO Historical Revue, no. 12 (September 2006): 2–4; Barry
Greenwood, “The
Mysterious Airship: An Early
Silent Film, Update,” UFO Historical Revue, no. 14 (May 2015): 1–3;
Internet Movie Database, “The Mysterious Airship”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_358
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_26
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
Reference: Nick Redfern, “UFOs
and the Military, 1915:
Pt. 1,” Mysterious Universe, May 7, 2014; Nick Redfern, “UFOs
and the Military, 1915: Pt. 2,” Mysterious Universe, May 8,
2014
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_359
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", State/Prov: "Ireland", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "BRL", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Alberta", Strangeness: "7"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_69
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_41
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 9/4/1915
Location: Dartmoor, Devon, England
Description: 9:30 p.m. Two British Naval Intelligence
officers, Lt. Col. William
Price Drury 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
Reference: Nick Redfern, “UFOs
and the Military, 1915:
Pt. 1,” Mysterious Universe, May 7, 2014; UFOFiles2, pp.
11–12
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_360
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_27
Attributes: Einstein
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
Reference: Clark III 263; “The
Aldeburgh Platform,” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 1 (Jan./Feb.
1969), pp. 23–24; “The
Aldeburgh Platform,” parts 1–3; David Halperin, “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
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_70
Date: 1/31/1916
Locations: Romford, Essex, England; Rochford,
Essex
Description: 8:25 p.m. Royal Flying Corps Lieut. Reginald
Maxwell 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
Reference: Capt. Joseph Morris, The German Air Raids on
Great Britain, 1914–1918, Sampson, Low, Marston, 1925, pp.
81–82; David Clarke, “Britain’s First Military UFO Encounter?” Part
1 and Part
2, The
Real UFO Project, 2004; UFOFiles2, p.
10; Patrick Gross, “Pilots
UFO Sightings,”
August 10, 2021, and “Near
Rochford,” August 2, 2021
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_362
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
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
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
Reference: “Mysterious Aeroplane Continues Nocturnal
Trips over Superior,” Superior (Wis.) Telegram, February 29, 1916, p. 5;
Clark III 263; Patrick Gross, URECAT, March
16, 2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_363
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
Reference: Jerome Clark, Anomalist, April 2000, p.
19
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1186
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
Reference: Clark III 1171
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_364
Date: 5/4/1916
Location: National Observatory in Córdoba,
Argentina
Description: Evening. Astronomers Charles
Dillon Perrine and Anna
Estelle Glancy 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
Reference: “Comet
or Meteor?” Scientific American 115 \(1916\): 493
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_365
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", RelAlt: "3", State/Prov: "Indiana", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Western Virginia", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_71
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
Reference: Walter H. Eager, “An
Unusual Aurora,” 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
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
Reference: Charles Fort, Book of the Damned, p.
278
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4187
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_72
Date: 12/17/1916
Description: On the Western front in Europe, Canadian
soldier Maurice
Philipp Tuteur 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
Reference: “I Saw a Flying Saucer,” Flying Saucers, May
1959, pp. 6–18, 78; Clark III 1170
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_367
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
Reference: “The
Colored People Are Seeing Visions,” Charlotte \(N.C.) News, April
11, 1917, p. 13
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_368
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
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
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", State/Prov: "New Hampshire", Strangeness: "4"
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", State/Prov: "RBT", Strangeness: "9"
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 and her cousins Francisco and
Jacinta Marto—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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Our
Lady of Fátima” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_370
Date: 6/13/1917
Location: Fátima, Portugal
Description: The three children at Fátima, Portugal,
again see the lady, who reveals that Francisco
and Jacinta will be “taken to heaven” soon, but Lúcia 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Our
Lady of Fátima” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_371
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, 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
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_372
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
Reference: Jacques Vallee, The Invisible College, p.
145
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4958
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
Reference: Lore and Deneault, pp.
104–105
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_374
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
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_373
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
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
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 talking
to the invisible lady.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_376
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", State/Prov: "Pennsylvania", Strangeness: "8"
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_42
Date: 10/1917
Locations: Connington; KwaZulu-Natal midlands; South
Africa
Description: Seven-year-old Elizabeth
Klarer 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
Reference: Clark III 657; Elizabeth Klarer, Beyond the
Light Barrier, Howard Timmins, 1980
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_377
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", State/Prov: "RBT", Strangeness: "8"
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 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Miracle
of the
Sun”; Clark III 484–485; “O
Milagre do Fátima,” Ilustração Portuguesa, no. 610 (October 29,
1917): 353– 355; John de Marchi, The
True Story of Fatima, St.
Paul, Minn.: Catechetical Guild Educational Society, 1956; Joe Nickell,
“The
Real Secrets of Fatima,” 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 Sun,”
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
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
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
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_73
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
Reference: “Seaplanes
over Tasman Bay,” Nelson Colonist, March 2, 1918, p. 4; Brett
Holman, “The
Mystery Aeroplane Scare in New Zealand—1,” Airminded, August 28,
2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_380
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 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
Reference: Ione Warren Conway, “A UFO(?) from the
Past,” IUR 7, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1982): 16
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_381
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
Reference: “Aeroplane
off Wanganui,” Wanganui Chronicle, August 13, 1918, p. 4; Brett
Holman, “The
Mystery Aeroplane Scare in New Zealand—IV,” Airminded, October 26,
2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_382
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
Reference: “Local
and General,” Wellington Dominion, August 14, 1918, p. 4; Brett
Holman, “The
Mystery Aeroplane Scare in New Zealand—IV,” Airminded, October 26,
2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_383
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
Reference: Letter to J. Allen Hynek; Jan Aldrich
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_384
Date: 11/11/1918
Description: End of World War 1
Type: war
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_28
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
Reference: Lore and Deneault, p.
105; Clark III 1170; “1918
Sighting,” Civilian Saucer Investigation Quarterly Bulletin 1, no. 4
(Winter 1954): 10–11
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_379
Date: 1919
Locations: Mars; Schenectady, New York
Description: Wireless inventor Guglielmo
Marconi 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 at the General Electric Laboratories in Schenectady, New
York.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “‘Hello,
Earth! Hello!’” White Earth \(Minn.) The Tomahawk, March 18, 1920,
p. 6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_385
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"
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
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
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
Reference: Ananda Sirisena, FSR, March 1975, p.
17
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_404
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", State/Prov: "Vienne", Strangeness: "6"
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
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
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
Reference: Frontiers of Science, January 1982, p. 14;
UNICAT, case # 39
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3217
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_29
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", State/Prov: "Iowa", Strangeness: "8"
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
Reference: Clark III 263; Patrick Gross, URECAT, July
23, 2009
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_388
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", State/Prov: "GNV", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "FE", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: [Jerome Clark], “Encounters with Little
Men,” Fate 31, no. 11 (November 1978): 83–86; Clark III 263; Patrick
Gross, URECAT, July
24, 2009
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_389
Date: 12/1/1919
Description: Boni & Liveright publishes Charles Fort’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 and Booth
Tarkington.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “The
Book of the Damned”; 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
Date: 1920
Locations: northern Montana; northwest to
southeast
Description: Day. 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
Reference: “Report from the Readers,” Fate 7, no. 4
(April 1954): 115–116; Clark III 1171
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_391
Date: 1/16/1920
Description: First meeting of the League of
Nations
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_30
See also: 4/20/46
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "Iowa", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 6/3/1920
Location: Mount Pleasant, Iowa
Description: Day. 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
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,” MUFON UFO
Journal, no. 382 (February 2000): 12; Clark III 1170
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_393
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
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
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", State/Prov: "Missouri", Strangeness: "6"
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
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
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
Reference: Clark III 264; Patrick Gross, URECAT, October
3, 2017
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_392
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", State/Prov: "Finistère", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: “Report from the Readers,” Fate 8, no. 2
(February 1955): 122–123; Clark III 1170
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_394
Date: 11/2/1920
Description: First commercial radio broadcast from KDKA
in Pittsburgh PA
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_31
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_74
Date: 1921
Location: Marseilles, France
Description: Undocumented report of an "abduction" by
two beings.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_43
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
Reference: Clark III 264; [Letter], “J’ai voyagé en
soucoupe,” Paris-Match, no. 291, October 23, 1954; Patrick Gross, URECAT, September
7, 2006
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_395
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", State/Prov: "Bouches-du-Rhône", Strangeness: "9"
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
Reference: UFOFiles2, pp.
13–15
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_396
Date: 7/29/1921
Description: The Council on Foreign Relations is
incorporated. Founded by corporate lawyer Elihu Root, 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Council
on Foreign Relations” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_397
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, who notes
very little uniformity in the observations, with little agreement on
size, duration, color, or shape.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Harold Jeffreys, “Results of
the Ball Lightning Inquiry,” Meteorological Magazine 56 \(September
1921\): 208–211; UFOFiles2, pp.
13–16
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_398
Date: 9/1/1921
Locations: Mediterranean Sea; Mars
Description: J. H. C. Macbeth of the Marconi Wireless
Telegraph Company announces that inventor Guglielmo Marconi 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
Reference: “Marconi
Sure Mars Flashes Messages,” 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
Date: 10/9/1921
Location: Harvard University
Description: Harvard University astronomer William
Henry Pickering 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
Reference: “Says
2 Crops a Day Grow on the Moon,” New York Times, October 9, 1921, p.
6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_400
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_32
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 and
Christopher
Bengoa of the King’s River Ranch near Orovada.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kenneth Arnold, “Phantom Lights in Nevada,”
Fate 1, no. 3 (Fall 1948): 96–98
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_401
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_75
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_44
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
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
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
Reference: Clark III 264; Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT
Index 1910–1939, p. 21
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_402
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
Reference: Bronislaw Rzepecki, “UFOs and Ufologists in
Poland,” IUR 11, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1986): 15; Poland 8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_403
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", State/Prov: "WAR", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_77
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_45
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
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
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_78
Date: 1923
Locations: DePauw University; Greencastle,
Indiana
Description: Two DePauw University college students,
Andrew Wallace Crandall and Herrick
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
Reference: Lore and Deneault, p.
106
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_404
Date: 1923
Location: Sebeş, Romania
Description: A photograph shows a domed disc hovering
near the church tower in Sebeş, Romania.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Romania 10-11
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_405
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", State/Prov: "IM", Strangeness: "7"
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", RelAlt: "1", State/Prov: "Indiana", Strangeness: "9"
Date: 6/1923
Location: Northern Wayne County, IL
Description: Early Humanoid Report (NICAP: 07 - Entity
Cases, Code: En, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 2306xx
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_79
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", State/Prov: "KIR", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 10/1923
Description: Boni & Liveright publishes New Lands
by Charles
Fort, 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “New Lands”; Jim
Steinmeyer, Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural,
Tarcher, 2008, pp. 198–199; Clark III 507, 1098
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_406
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", State/Prov: "Charente", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Oklahoma", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_80
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
Reference: UFOEv, p.
129; “1924
Sighting,” Civilian Saucer Investigation Quarterly Bulletin 1, no. 4
(Winter 1954): 10
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_407
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", RelAlt: "1", State/Prov: "Charente", Strangeness: "6"
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 of Washington. The program is led by retired
astronomer David Peck
Todd with the military assistance of Chief of Naval Operations Adm.
Edward Walter
Eberle, with
William
F. Friedman (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 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
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,” Past Forward, August 23, 2016; Jessica Leigh Hester, “Everybody
Shut Up! We’re Listening for Mars,” Atlas Obscura, August 3,
2018
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_408
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", State/Prov: "RDO", Strangeness: "5"
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", State/Prov: "Ireland", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Clark III 1171–1172
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_409
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
Reference: Bill Chalker, “Historical
Australian UFO Reports,” UFO Research Australia Newsletter 4, no. 3
(Nov./Dec. 1983): 28
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_410
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", State/Prov: "TLD", Strangeness: "9"
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
Reference: San Diego (Calif.) Evening Tribune, August
12, 1965; Clark III 1171
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_411
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", State/Prov: "Western Australia", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "6"
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
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
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 1926
Location: Himalaya Mountains
Description: UFO’s seen around Altai Himalaya
Type: UFO sighting
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_33
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
Reference: Poland 9
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_412
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", State/Prov: "Kansas", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 1/1926
Location: Witicha, KS
Description: Several Circular Objects Surrounded Plane
(NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 260100
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_81
Date: 1/1926
Locations: Wichita, Kansas; Colorado Springs,
Colorado
Description: Aviator Bert Acosta 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
Reference: Jacques Vallée, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, Ace
ed., 1965, p.
49; Patrick Gross, “Pilots
UFO Sightings,” August 6, 2021
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_413
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", State/Prov: "SBU", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Hobana and Weverbergh 224–225; Romania
9–11
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_414
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", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Clark III 1170
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_415
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", State/Prov: "QNH", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_82
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", State/Prov: "Nevada", Strangeness: "7"
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
Reference: Patrick Gross, “Pilots
UFO Sightings,” August 5, 2021
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_416
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,
who has attended some of Robinson’s séances, calls him “as slippery as a
human eel.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Earl J. Johnson, “Imagination Runs Wild
about Visit of Martian Realm,” Pomona \(Calif.) Bulletin, October
28, 1926, p. 1; “Doctor Files Mars
Message by Radio ‘At Sender’s Risk,’” Vancouver \(B.C.) Sun, October
28, 1926, p. 18; Nandor Fodor, The Haunted Mind, Garrett, 1959, pp.
259–269; 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,” Weird Historian, February 22, 2018
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_417
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "8"
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
Reference: “1926:
Humanoid Hide and Seek,” ThinkAboutIt; Clark III 264
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_418
Date: 1927
Location: Fernvale, New South Wales
Description: For a few weeks, 10-year-old Cecil
“Danny” 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 in 1985.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 485–491; Bill Chalker, “Physical
Traces,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 190
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_419
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", RelAlt: "1", State/Prov: "Queensland", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "7"
Date: Summer 1927
Location: Wolfe County, Kentucky
Description: 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
Reference: “Report from the Readers,” Fate 11, no. 2
(December 1958): 111–112; Clark III 1171
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_420
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", State/Prov: "RO", Strangeness: "8"
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
Reference: Hobana and Weverbergh 152–153
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_421
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", State/Prov: "LIP", Strangeness: "7"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_84
Date: 8/5/1927
Location: Qinghai Lake, Tibet
Description: Explorer Nicholas
Roerich 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
Reference: Nicholas Roerich, Altai-Himalaya, Frederick
A. Stokes, 1929, pp.
361–362; Brad Sparks, “Analysis: Roerich
Case, Aug. 5, 1927” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_422
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
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p.
22; J. Allen Hynek, International UFO Reporter, January 1982, p.
10
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4669
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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Long delayed
echo”; Carl Størmer, “Short Wave Echoes and
the Aurora Borealis,” Nature 122 \(1928\): 681; Sverre Holm, “The
Five Most Likely Explanations for Long Delayed Echoes,” March 16,
2004; Sverre Holm, “15
Possible Explanations for Long Delayed Echoes,” November 6,
2007
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_423
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"
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
Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet,
1969, p. 18
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_424
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
Reference: Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole
Story, p. 18
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_6946
Date: 1/3/1928
Location: Kansas
Description: Kansas journalist Charles
Benedict Driscoll begins writing about ball lighting in his
syndicated column, “The World and All,” keeping the subject alive for
many years.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Charles B. Driscoll, “The World and All,”
Lexington \(Ky.) Herald, January 3, 1928, p. 4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_425
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", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 5/1928
Location: America
Description: Mystic and white supremacist William
Dudley Pelley 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
Reference: William Dudley Pelley, “Seven
Minutes in Eternity” with Their Aftermath, Robert
Collier, 1929; Clark III 1285
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_426
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
Reference: “Miami Astronomers
Unable to Identify Light in Sky,” Miami Herald,
June 14, 1928, p. 1; “Miamians Watch Sky
Mystery, Mistaken for Tailless Comet,” Miami News, June 14, 1928, p.
12; Clark III 1172
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_428
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
Reference: Pauline Berger, “The
Disappearing Scarecrow,” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 1 (Jan./Feb.
1969): 29; Clark III 264
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_427
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_34
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_85
Date: Early 11/1928
Location: Milton, North Dakota
Description: 10:30 p.m. Norman
H. Sabie and 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
Reference: UFOEv, p.
129; Clark III 1170 Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_429
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", State/Prov: "North Dakota", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 11/28/1928
Location: Rodez, Aveyron, France
Description: French diplomatic scholar Henri
Pensa 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
Reference: Giuseppe Stilo, “Francia,
1928: Marte
Attacca?” Cielo Insolito, October 2, 2019
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_430
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
Reference: Gordon Creighton, “A
Weird Case from the Past,”
Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1970): 30; Clark III
1173
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_431
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_35
Date: 4/1929
Location: Ward, CO
Description: Possible UFO In Old Photo (NICAP: 08 -
Photographic Cases, Code: I, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 2904xx
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_87
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_88
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_46
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
Reference: Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT Index
1910–1939, p.
31; Clark III 264
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_432
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
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, pg.
189
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3431
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", State/Prov: "Quebec", Strangeness: "9"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_91
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_47
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
Reference: Linda Zimmerman, More Hudson Valley UFOs,
Eagle Press, 2017
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_433
Date: 10/4/1929
Location: New York City, New York
Description: US stock market crashes
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_36
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_37
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 files the letter under “psychological” and does not
respond.
Reference: Eberhart
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, August
29, 2019
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_434
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
Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet,
1969, pp. 16–19
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_435
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
Reference: Clark III 264; Patrick Gross, URECAT, September
20, 2018
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_436
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", RelAlt: "1", State/Prov: "Creuse", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "KwaZulu-Natal", Strangeness: "7"
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
Reference: Clark III 1175
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_437
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", State/Prov: "Ardèche", Strangeness: "7"
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
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
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
Reference: Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT Index
1910–1939, p.
33; Clark III 264; Patrick Gross, URECAT, September
15, 2018
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_438
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", State/Prov: "GRC", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "RO", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "Virginia", Strangeness: "10"
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", State/Prov: "Ontario", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_92
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
Reference: Lore and Deneault, p.
108
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_439
Date: 1/26/1931
Location: Savoy-Plaza Hotel in New York City
Description: Author Tiffany
Thayer founds the Fortean Society during a dinner with Charles Fort in
the Savoy-Plaza Hotel in New York City in order to promote his books and
ideas.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Fortean
Society”; Jim Steinmeyer, Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the
Supernatural, Tarcher, 2008, pp. 239–241
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_440
Date: 2/1931
Description: Charles
Fort 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “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
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", RelAlt: "-1", State/Prov: "ARB", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Alpes Maritimes", Strangeness: "9"
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", RelAlt: "1", State/Prov: "Cagliari", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Mary Boyd, “An
Early Italian Cross-Country Case,” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 3
(December 1974): 21; 1Pinotti 13– 14
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_442
Date: 6/6/1931
Locations: New Zealand; Australia; Tasman Sea
Description: Aviator Francis
Chichester 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
Reference: Francis Chichester, The Lonely Sea and the
Sky, Hodder and Stoughton, 1964, p.
165; Keith Basterfield, “Aviator
Francis Chichester’s Classic Sighting: Is the Date
Wrong?” Unidentified Aerial Phenomena–Scientific Research, May 29,
2018; Patrick Gross, “Francis Chichester
Sighting, 1931” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_443
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", State/Prov: "TSS", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: James E. McDonald investigation files, case
004
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3402
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 and Seth
Barnes Nicholson, 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
Reference: David Herkt, “Who
No: Letters from Alice May Williams,”
Speaker: Public Address, September 3, 2012
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_444
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", State/Prov: "Western Virginia", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_93
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", State/Prov: "New Jersey", Strangeness: "5"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_94
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_95
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
Reference: Rufus Drake, “UFO Crisis over Greenland,”
Saga, October 1976, pp. 36–38, 54, 60; Patrick Gross, “Pilots
UFO Sightings,” August 8, 2021
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_445
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_96
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", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Queensland", Strangeness: "7"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_97
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
Reference: UFOEv, p.
129
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_446
Date: 5/1932
Location: Paris, OH
Description: Sutton photo of domed disc (NICAP: 08 -
Photographic Cases)
Reference: NICAP: 320500
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_98
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
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
Date: 6/1932
Location: Wattsburg, Pennsylvania
Description: Evening. 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
Reference: NICAP case file; Clark III 1175; Patrick
Gross, URECAT,
August 19, 2018
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_448
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
Reference: NICAP case file; Clark III 1175
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_447
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", State/Prov: "Quebec", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "New Jersey", Strangeness: "6"
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.
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", State/Prov: "South Australia", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "HLV", Strangeness: "4"
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_38
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
Reference: NICAp case file; Clark III 1175
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_449
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", State/Prov: "Western Australia", Strangeness: "9"
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", State/Prov: "SSD", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 316
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_398
Date: 1/30/1933
Location: Germany
Description: Hitler is made Chancellor of
Germany.
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_39
Date: 3/4/1933
End date: 4/12/1945
Location: Washington DC
Description: President Franklin D. Roosevelt in
office.
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_40
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", State/Prov: "EVR", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 6/1/1933
Location: Himalaya Mountains of Nepal
Description: English mountaineer Frank Smythe, 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
Reference: Frank S. Smythe, Camp Six: An Account of the
1933 Mount Everest Expedition, Hodder and Stoughton, 1937, pp.
264–265; Barry Greenwood, “UFOs on Mt.
Everest in 1933,” UFO Historical Revue, no. 5 (July 1999): 2–3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_453
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, Foreign Minister Galeazzo
Ciano, and Air Marshal Italo Balbo, with
scientific support from Guglielmo
Marconi and astronomer Gino
Cecchini. 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
Reference: Good Need, pp.
12–15; Roberto Pinotti and Alfredo Lissoni, Gli “X-Files” del
Nazifascismo, 2001; 2Pinotti 179–197
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_454
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_99
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_48
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
Reference: John Brent Musgrave, “Saskatchewan,
1933: UFO Stops
for ‘Repairs,’” Flying Saucer Review 22, no. 6 (April 1977): 16–17;
Clark III 264; Patrick Gross, URECAT, July
15, 2009
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_450
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
Reference: “Flying Saucer Spotted in 1933,”
Allentown \(Pa.) Sunday Call-Chronicle, February 16, 1964, pp. B1–B2;
Clark III 1175–1176; “1933
Sighting Reported,” APRO Bulletin, July 1964, pp. 7–8; Patrick
Gross, URECAT, July
16, 2009
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_451
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
Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet,
1969, pp. 19–20
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_452
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_41
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_100
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
Reference: History of the III Fighter Squadron, RAF,
London Press, 1947; Jan Aldrich, “Aircraft/UFO Encounters Prior to
1942,” Project 1947; Patrick Gross, “Pilots
UFO Sightings,” August 3, 2021
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_455
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
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
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
Reference: Clark III 1175
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_456
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", State/Prov: "Pennsylvania", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "Sasketchewan", Strangeness: "9"
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", State/Prov: "New Jersey", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "CHB", Strangeness: "5"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_101
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
Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs; The Whole Story, Signet,
1969, p. 19
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_457
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
Reference: Swords 361
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_458
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", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "5"
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", State/Prov: "Belgium", Strangeness: "5"
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
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing
SOS-OVNI France, Phenomena magazine, issue # 12
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_8484
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", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_102
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
Reference: Strange Company 7; Hilary Evans and Robert
E. Bartholomew, Outbreak! Anomalist, 2009, pp. 497–499; Swords 361–363;
Anders Liljegren, “Ghost
Flier Mystery
Still Unresolved,” AFU Newsletter 41 \(September 2001\): 1–3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_459
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", RelAlt: "300", State/Prov: "New York", Strangeness: "5"
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", State/Prov: "Norway", Strangeness: "5"
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", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 12/28/1933
Description: The 4th Swedish Flying Corps begins an
investigation of the ghost flyers.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: John A. Keel, “Mystery Aeroplanes
of the 1930s, Part 2,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 4 (July/Aug.
1970): 12
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_460
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_103
Date: 12/30/1933
Location: Sweden
Description: Swedish customs sends a request for air
support to Gen. Eric
Virgin, 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
Reference: Swords 361–362; Good Above, p.
13
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_461
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_42
Date: 1/1934
Location: 758 Manzanita Drive, Laguna Beach,
California
Description: George
Adamski, 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
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,” The Adamski Case, September
27, 2019
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_462
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", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "4"
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
Reference: John A. Keel, “Mystery
Aeroplanes of the
1930s, Part 2,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1970):
12
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_463
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
Reference: “Mystery
Plane Reported,” New York Times, January 10, 1934, p. 11; Strange
Company 7–8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_464
Date: 1/10/1934
Locations: Upper Norrland, Sweden; Norrbotten County;
Norrbotten
Description: Gen. Pontus
Reuterswärd, 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
Reference: Swords 361–362
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_465
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 alerts
the press that planes had flown over restricted military areas.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: John A. Keel, “Mystery Aeroplanes
of the 1930s, Part III—The Landings,” Flying Saucer Review 17, no. 4
(July/Aug. 1971): 17; Swords 362
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_466
Date: 1/27/1934
Description: Swedish MP Arvid
Lindman puts a question to Prime Minister Per Albin
Hansson, asking
what action the government plans to take about the ghost fliers.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 362
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_467
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", State/Prov: "Norway", Strangeness: "5"
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 claims that it was an RAF plane carrying out a training
exercise in coordination with ground forces.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: John A. Keel, “Mystery
Aeroplanes of the 1930s, Part 2,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 4
(July/Aug. 1970): 13
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_468
Date: 2/2/1934
Description: Prime Minister Hansson tells
the Swedish Parliament that most ghost flier sightings are
misidentifications or fantasy, while others are unsolved.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 362
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_469
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
Reference: “Finnish
Alarm Grows over ‘Ghost’ Planes,” New York Times, February 4, 1934,
p. 9; Strange Company 8–9
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_470
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_104
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", State/Prov: "Norway", Strangeness: "7"
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
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
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
Reference: Swords 362
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_471
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
Reference: Swords 362–363
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_472
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_105
Date: 4/30/1934
Description: Gen. Reuterswärd 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 accuses him of not being competent enough to draw such a
conclusion.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Good Above, p.
13; Swords 363 Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_473
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", RelAlt: "2", State/Prov: "Pennsylvania", Strangeness: "5"
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
Reference: John A. Keel, “Mystery
Aeroplanes of the 1930s, Part 2,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 4
(July/Aug. 1970): 13
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_474
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_43
Date: Summer 1934
Location: Barron, Wisconsin
Description: Day. 9-year-old Coral E.
Lightner 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
Reference: Lorenzen, FS Hoax, pp.
15–16; “The
Wisconsin Flying Saucer That Changed UFO Research Forever,”
Wisconsin Frights, September 20, 2018
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_475
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"
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
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
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_44
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", State/Prov: "Wisconsin", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 8/9/1934
Locations: Keuka Lake; western New York
Description: Around 5:00 a.m. Musician Leon
M. 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
Reference: “Ball of Fire Brings
Thrill to Fisherman,” 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
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", State/Prov: "CCR", Strangeness: "10"
Date: 1935
End date: 1937
Location: Ethiopia
Description: UFO activity around Second Italo-Ethiopian
War
Type: UFO activity
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_45
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
Reference: NICAP case file
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_477
Date: 1935
Description: Astronomer Arthur
M. Harding 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
Reference: Arthur M. Harding, Astronomy: The Splendor
of the Heavens Brought Down to Earth, Garden City Publishing, 1935, p.
408
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_478
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
Reference: Jerome Clark, “Conversations with Martians,”
IUR 29, no. 3 (Fall 2004): 20
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_479
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
Reference: “A correspondent from Vienna, Va., writes,”
Science 81 (1935): 294
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_480
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
Reference: Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT
Index 1910–1939, p.
42; Clark III 265
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_481
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", State/Prov: "Belgium", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "SVL", Strangeness: "9"
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
Reference: Clark III 264–265; Patrick Gross, URECAT, April
9, 2007
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_482
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
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
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
Reference: Romania 121–122
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_483
Date: 7/1/1935
Description: The US Division of Investigation
officially becomes the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Timeline, March 31, 2002
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_484
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
Reference: Swords 363
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_485
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", State/Prov: "MOS", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "ADD", Strangeness: "5"
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", State/Prov: "NSW", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 35
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_6695
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", RelAlt: "35", State/Prov: "Arkansas", Strangeness: "8"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_106
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_107
Date: 1936
Description: Atmospheric physicist William
Jackson Humphreys, 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
Reference: W. J. Humphreys, “Ball
Lightning,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 76
\(1936\): 613–626
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_486
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
Reference: Lore and Deneault, pp.
112–113; Clark III 1176 Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_487
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", State/Prov: "PVL", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 1/1936
Locations: Laguna Beach, California; Long Beach; Los
Angeles
Description: George
Adamski’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
Reference: “Laguna
Beach, 1932–1940: From Temple to Ranch,” The Adamski Case, September
27, 2019
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_488
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", State/Prov: "Wyoming", Strangeness: "5"
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", State/Prov: "Rhode Island", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 6/26/1936
Location: Germany
Description: Heinrich Focke designed the world’s first
practical, stable transverse twin rotor helicopter
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_46
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", State/Prov: "Northwest Territories", Strangeness: "6"
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.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Good Need, p.
12; Roberto Pinotti and Alfredo Lissoni, Gli “X-Files” del
Nazifascismo, 2001
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_489
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", RelAlt: "10", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "8"
Date: Fall 1936
Locations: Texarkana, Arkansas; Bowie County, Texas;
Red River Army Depot
Description: Before 12:00 midnight. Louie
R. 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
Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, no. 150, August 1980, p.
12
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_490
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
Reference: Marler 64–66
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_491
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", State/Prov: "TSC", Strangeness: "5"
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
Reference: Ernesto Thayaht, “Three
Sightings in Italy,” Flying Saucer Review 1, no. 3 (July/Aug. 1955):
6; 1Pinotti 15–16; “Pilots
UFO Sightings,” August 7, 2021
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_492
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", State/Prov: "Norway", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: “Strange Light
from Mars Called
Signal to Earth,” Ogden \(Utah\) Standard-Examiner, March 11, 1936,
p. 12
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_493
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", State/Prov: "Missouri", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Harley D. Rutledge, Project Identification:
The First Scientific Field Study of UFO Phenomena, Prentice-Hall, 1981,
p.
213
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_494
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", State/Prov: "North Carolina", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_108
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
Reference: Jerome Clark, Strange Skies: Pilot
Encounters with UFOs, Citadel, 2003, p. 6; Patrick Gross, “Pilots
UFO Sightings,” August 7, 2021
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_495
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
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
Date: 1/4/1937
Location: Boden, Norrbotten, Sweden
Description: New ghost flier sightings around the
fortress at Boden, Norrbotten, Sweden, have prompted Gen. Pontus Reuterswärd to
alert Minister of Defence Janne
Nilsson about the possibility of foreign spies.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 363
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_496
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
Reference: Swords 363
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_497
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", State/Prov: "Norway", Strangeness: "9"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_109
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
Reference: Strange Company 11
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_498
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
Reference: John A. Keel, FSR, September-October 1971,
p. 22
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_816
Date: 2/15/1937
Locations: Swedish Parliament; Northern Region
Description: MP Elof
Lindberg 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
Reference: Swords 363
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_499
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", State/Prov: "NA", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 5/19/1937
Description: Lindberg’s
request for a civilian ghost flier investigation is rejected by Swedish
Minister of Defence Janne Nilsson, who explains
that no new facts have surfaced and few new observations have been
reported.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 363
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_500
Date: 5/30/1937
Location: Nashville, Tennessee
Description: Amateur astronomer Latimer
J. 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
Reference: Latimer J. Wilson, “Apparent
Flashes Seen on
Mars,” Popular Astronomy 45 \(1937\): 430; Walter H. Haas, “Flashes on
Mars Observed in 1937 and Some Random
Remarks,” The Strolling Astronomer 45, no. 1 (Winter 2003):
43–45
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_501
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", State/Prov: "Vendée", Strangeness: "6"
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 Braun’s family and
is retrieved by German soldiers. It supposedly winds up in Wernher von
Braun’s laboratory, but the story is probably mythical.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Poland 116–117
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_502
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_110
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_111
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", State/Prov: "Belgium", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 9/1937
Location: New York City
Description: Tiffany
Thayer publishes the first issue of the Fortean Society Magazine
(retitled Doubt in 1944) in New York City.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Fortean Society Magazine 1,
no. 1 (September 1937); Clark III 516
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_503
Date: 9/10/1937
End date: 9/12/1937
Location: Laguna Beach, California
Description: George
Adamski’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
Reference: “Laguna
Beach, 1932–1940: From Temple to Ranch,” The Adamski Case, September
27, 2019
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_504
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_112
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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Council
on Foreign Relations” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_505
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
Reference: Lore and Deneault, p.
136; Clark III 1176 Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_506
Date: 2/1938
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Description: Raymond A.
Palmer 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Raymond
A. Palmer”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_507
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_113
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_116
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
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
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", State/Prov: "GUA", Strangeness: "8"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_114
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
Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, A Catalogue
of 200 Type I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, CUFOS, 1976, p. 2;
Clark III 265
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_509
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
Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4371
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", State/Prov: "MOS", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Aisne", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 169
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5386
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", State/Prov: "Massachusetts", Strangeness: "8"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_117
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_49
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
Reference: Michael D. Swords, “The Timmerman Files,”
IUR 26, no. 4 (Winter 2001–2002): 14
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_510
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", State/Prov: "Nova Scotia", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 10/22/1938
Description: Italian Lt. Col. Mario
Pezzi 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Mario
Pezzi (aviator)” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_511
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_47
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, is
an adaptation of H. G. Wells’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, the confusion allegedly inspires Joseph
Stalin to create a similar scenario with a fake alien crash in the
US.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “The
War of the Worlds (1938
radio drama)”; 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, 211
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_512
Date: 12/17/1938
Locations: Berlin, Germany; Kaiser Wilhelm Institut für
Chemie
Description: The process of nuclear fission is
discovered by chemist Otto Hahn and his
assistant Fritz
Strassmann at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institut für Chemie in Berlin,
Germany, producing barium by bombarding uranium with neutrons.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Atomic Heritage Foundation, “Atomic
Timeline” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_513
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_49
Date: 1939?
Locations: Washington, D.C.; Greenwich, Ohio
Description: Sisters Lucile and
Allene
Holt, daughters
of Rev. Turner
Hamilton Holt, claim they are separately told by their father, a
cousin of Secretary of State Cordell Hull, 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
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
Date: 1/13/1939
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Description: The process of nuclear fission is
explained theoretically in Stockholm, Sweden, by Lise Meitner and
her nephew Otto Robert
Frisch, who compares it to the biological fission of living
cells.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Atomic Heritage Foundation, “Atomic
Timeline” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_515
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
Reference: Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic
Bomb, Simon & Schuster, 1986, pp.
267–270
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_516
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
Reference: Atomic Heritage Foundation, “Atomic Timeline”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_517
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", State/Prov: "Jura", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_118
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_48
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", State/Prov: "NRW", Strangeness: "13"
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_50
Attributes: Einstein
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
Reference: George Pârvu, La voia destinului, CNI
Coresi, 2011; Romania 124–128
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_519
Date: 8/2/1939
Locations: Hungary; Germany; United States
Description: Hungarian-American physicist Leo
Szilárd writes a confidential letter to President
Roosevelt, in consultation with fellow Hungarian physicists Edward
Teller and Eugene
Wigner. He has persuaded Albert
Einstein 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 on October 11. Roosevelt gives the letter to his aide, Brig.
Gen. Edwin
“Pa” Watson with the instruction: “Pa, this requires action!”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Einstein–Szilard
letter”; Atomic Heritage Foundation, “Atomic
Timeline” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_520
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
Reference: “Woman Says Strange
Object Flew by
Her Bed in Yard,” Fort Worth \(Tex.) Star-Telegram, March 24, 1950,
p. 23; Clark III 1176
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_518
Date: 9/1/1939
End date: 9/2/1945
Description: World War 2
Type: war
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_51
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_119
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
Reference: Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold,
UFO Research Coalition, 2007, p. 17
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_521
Date: 10/21/1939
Locations: Washington, D.C.; National Bureau of
Standards; Carnegie Institution of Washington; Columbia University
Description: After reading Szilárd’s letter,
Roosevelt 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, Army Lt. Col. Keith
F. Adamson, and Navy Cmdr. Gilbert C.
Hoover. It is attended by physicists Fred
L. Mohler from the National Bureau of Standards and Richard
Brooke Roberts from the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and
Szilárd, Wigner, and Teller. Einstein 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’s
experiments into producing a nuclear chain reaction at Columbia
University.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “S-1
Executive Committee” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_522
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "7"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_120
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
Reference: Jenny Randles and Peter Warrington, Science
and the UFOs, Basil Blackwell, 1985, p.
3; Jenny Randles, “Beam Me Up,” Fortean Times 381 (July 2019):
29–30
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_523
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
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
Date: 1940
Description: Astronomer Royal Harold
Spencer Jones 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
Reference: H. Spencer Jones, Life on
Other Worlds, Macmillan,
1940; Michael D. Swords, “SETI/ETI and UFOs,” JUFOS 5 (1994):
141–142
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_524
Date: 3/1940
Locations: Laguna Beach; Valley Center, California;
Palomar Observatory
Description: George
Adamski 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
Reference: “Palomar
Mountain, 1940–1960: From Obscurity to World Fame,”
The Adamski Case, September 22, 2019
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_525
Date: 3/1940
Locations: US; Columbia University
Description: US physicist John R.
Dunning and colleagues at Columbia University verify the hypothesis
of Danish physicist Niels Bohr 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
Reference: Atomic Heritage Foundation, “Atomic
Timeline” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_526
Date: 3/1940
Locations: University of Birmingham in England;
Australia
Description: Otto Robert
Frisch and Rudolf
Peierls, two researchers at the University of Birmingham in
England—who ironically have been assigned to investigate nuclear weapons
by Australian physicist Mark
Oliphant 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Frisch–Peierls
memorandum”; Atomic Heritage Foundation, “Atomic
Timeline
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_527
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_121
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
Reference: Clark III 1177
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_529
Date: 3/22/1940
Description: Franklin
D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 8381, creating the three security
levels for the most important documents: Restricted, Confidential, and
Secret.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: US President, Executive Order No. 8381, “Defining
Certain Vital
Military and Naval Installations and Equipment,” March 22,
1940
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_528
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", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "6"
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, James
Chadwick, John Cockcroft, Mark
Oliphant, and Philip
Burton Moon; physicists Patrick
Blackett, Charles
Drummond Ellis, and
chemist Norman
Haworth are subsequently added, along with a representative of the
Director of Scientific Research at the Ministry of Aircraft Production
(MAP).
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “MAUD
Committee” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_530
Date: Mid 5/1940
Location: Fairbank, Iowa
Description: 9:00 a.m. Lavern
P. Zewiske and his father Paul 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
Reference: “Out
of the Past,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 5 (Oct./Nov. 1984):
6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_531
Date: 5/21/1940
Description: President Franklin
D. Roosevelt authorizes the FBI to conduct electronic surveillance
and wiretapping on US spies, saboteurs, or suspicious individuals.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Warrantless
FBI Electronic Surveillance,” 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
Date: 5/26/1940
End date: 6/4/1940
Location: Dunkirk
Description: Dunkirk evacuation (Operation
Dynamo)
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_52
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", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_122
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
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
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", RelAlt: "11400", State/Prov: "Scotland", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_123
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
Reference: Clark III 265
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_533
Date: 7/10/1940
End date: 10/31/1940
Location: Britain
Description: Battle of Britain
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_53
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_54
Attributes: Einstein
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
Reference: Strange Company 16–17
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_534
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", State/Prov: "TLN", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "PD", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Iowa", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 1941
Description: Charles Fort’s four famous books
Type: historical event
Reference: Pea
Research
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_55
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_56
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", State/Prov: "MNC", Strangeness: "8"
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
Reference: “Recent
Sightings,” APRO Bulletin, January 1957, p. 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_535
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", State/Prov: "Northern Territory", Strangeness: "10"
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
Reference: David Clarke, “The Radar Angels,” Fortean
Times 195 (May 2005): 36–37
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_537
Date: Early Spring 1941
Location: Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Description: 9:00–9:30 p.m. Rev. 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), but he loans it later to someone who never returns
it. Huffman’s wife Floy reveals
the story to her granddaughter, Charlette Mann, on her deathbed in 1984,
who relates the story to ufologist Leonard
Stringfield.
Reference: Eberhart
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,” A Different Perspective, December 5,
2019
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_536
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_58
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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Western
Defense Command” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_538
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_124
Date: 4/5/1941
Location: Charleston, MS
Description: Farmer abducted into submarine on
Mississippi (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases)
Reference: NICAP: 410405
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_125
Date: Late 4/1941
Location: Cape Girardeau, MO
Description: Cape Girardeau, MO Crash Retrieval
(MO41)
Type: UFO crash retrieval
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_57
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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Aircraft
Warning Service”; Project 1947, “Aircraft Warning
Service (AWS): Freeman Observation Post #52”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_539
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", State/Prov: "Ille-et-Vilaine", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 6/20/1941
Description: The Army Air Corps becomes the US Army Air
Forces to provide the air arm greater autonomy.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “United
States Army Air Forces” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_540
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
Reference: “Out
of the Past,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 5 (Oct./Nov. 1983):
4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_543
Date: 6/26/1941
Description: The first draft of the final report of the
MAUD Committee is written by George
Paget Thomson and circulates among committee members. It concludes
that an atomic bomb is feasible. Vannevar
Bush 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “MAUD Committee”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_541
Date: 6/28/1941
Description: Roosevelt establishes
the Office of Scientific Research and Development; Vannevar
Bush 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, Russian-American
physicist Gregory Breit,
American physicist Edward Condon, physicist Lloyd
P. Smith, and Henry DeWolf
Smyth. American physicist Ross Gunn is
dropped in line with an NDRC policy not to have Army or Navy personnel
in the sections. Lyman James
Briggs remains the chairman, with American physicist George B.
Pegram as the vice chairman.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Office
of Scientific Research
and Development” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_542
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 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Northrop N-1M”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_544
Date: 7/11/1941
Description: Roosevelt establishes
the Office of the Coordinator of Information, a forerunner of the Office
for Strategic Services, headed by lawyer William J.
Donovan. It is tasked with collecting and analyzing national
security information.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Office
of the Coordinator of Information” Source:
EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_545
Date: 9/1941
Location: Mozambique Channel
Description: Night. Seaman Mar Doroba, Anthony
Kornilak, and others on the British troopship SS Pulaski 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
Reference: Strange Company 17; Lore and Deneault, pp.
130–131
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_546
Date: 10/2/1941
Locations: Germany; Peenemünde
Description: German test pilot Heini
Dittmar attains an unofficial airspeed record of 623 mph in a
rocket-powered Messerschmidt Me 163A at Peenemünde, Germany.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Heini Dittmar”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_547
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, who relates a few details about a crash and dead “little
people” to his family in a letter and phone call. Walter N.
Webb reports on his investigation of the incident in 1996.
Reference: Eberhart
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
Date: 10/9/1941
Description: Roosevelt approves
an atomic weapons program after meeting with Office of Scientific
Research and Development Director Vannevar
Bush and Vice President Henry A.
Wallace. 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
Reference: Cameron Reed, “Manhattan Project Mystery,”
Forum on the History of Physics, Spring 2012
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_549
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_126
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_127
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
Reference: Strange Company 17–18; Lore and Deneault, p.
140
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_550
Date: 12/7/1941
Location: U.S.
Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_932
Date: 12/8/1941
Locations: Honolulu, Hawaii; Pearl Harbor
Description: Around noon. Red Cross volunteer 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
Reference: Clark III 501
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_551
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 asks for $400,000 for electromagnetic separation, and the
section immediately recommends granting it. MIT physicist Karl Taylor
Compton 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “S-1
Executive Committee”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_552
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_128
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
Reference: Strange Company 18; Lore and Deneault, pp.
140–141
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_553
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
Reference: Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. & Harold H.
Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 141
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_8559
Date: 1942
Location: Tientsien, Hopeh Province, N. China
Description: China (NICAP: 08 - Photographic
Cases)
Reference: NICAP: 420000
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_129
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
Reference: US Naval War College, Master
Script for “Communication Instruction for Reporting Enemy
Sightings,” undated; NICAP, “Capt.
Bernard Baruch Jr.”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_554
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
Reference: Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT Index
1940–1949, p.
3; Clark III 265; Patrick Gross, URECAT, September
26, 2007
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_555
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", State/Prov: "TNJ", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 2/24/1942
End date: 2/25/1942
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Description: Battle of LA
Type: military
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_59
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 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’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 (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.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Battle
of Los
Angeles”; Clark III 1176–1177; NICAP, “Battle of Los Angeles”;
Lore and Deneault, pp.
74–87; Good Above, pp.
15–17; Good Need, pp.
17, 31;
“No Bombs Dropped, No Planes Shot Down,” Los Angeles Herald Express,
February 25, 1942, p. 1; “Japanese
Carry War to California Coast,” Life, March 9, 1942, pp. 19–23;
Brett Holman, “New
Light on the Battle of Los Angeles,” Airminded, April 20, 2011;
David Marler, “The
Battle of LA UFO Incident,”
OpenMindsTV YouTube channel, October 9, 2018; Strange Company 19–22;
Robert Wood, “‘Leaked’
Documents Shed New Light on Outcome of ‘Battle of Los Angeles,’”
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; Lorraine Boissoneault, “The
Great Los Angeles
Air Raid Terrified Citizens—Even Though No Bombs Were Dropped,”
Smithsonian Magazine, January 19, 2018; Patrick Gross, “Los Angeles,
February 25, 1942” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_556
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 2/25/1942
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Description: Los Angeles, CA, searchlight case (NICAP:
08 - Photographic Cases)
Reference: NICAP: 420225
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_130
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
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
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 ("Above
Top Secret" by Timothy Good p17, 446)
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_60
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", State/Prov: "TMR", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 2/26/1942
Locations: Roosevelt; Los Angeles
Description: Army Chief of Staff George C.
Marshall writes Roosevelt 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
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, 446
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_557
Date: 2/26/1942
Locations: Royal Netherlands Navy; Australia; Battle of
Badung Strait; Bali; Indonesia; Timor Sea
Description: Royal Netherlands Navy cruiser HNLMS
Tromp, 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
Reference: “Australasia,”
Flying Saucer Review 3, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1957): 6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_558
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_131
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
Reference: Towson (Md.) Union News, March 6, 1942; Jan
Aldrich
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_559
Date: 3/9/1942
Description: The Air Service Command becomes a major
Army Air Forces unit to support logistical functions.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Air
Materiel Command”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_560
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", State/Prov: "Norway", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Claude Poher, Etudes Statistiques Portant
sur 1000 Temoignag, case # 417; Dale Goudie, CUFON
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1467
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_133
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_134
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
Reference: Lore and Deneault, p.
142
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_561
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", State/Prov: "Netherlands", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_132
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
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
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", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "7"
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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Air
Materiel Command”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_562
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", State/Prov: "SAH", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/27/1942
Location: Germany
Description: Nazi Amerikabomber long range bomber
project study completed
Type: project study
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_61
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
Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet,
1969, p. 22
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_563
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "9"
Date: 6/1942
Description: Col. James C.
Marshall is selected to head the Manhattan Project.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Manhattan
Project” Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_564
Date: 6/13/1942
Location: Washington DC
Description: The Office of Strategic Services (OSS),
predecessor of the CIA, begins operations
Type: historical
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_62
Date: 6/13/1942
Description: Roosevelt establishes
the Office of Strategic Services, a wartime intelligence agency, with
Gen. William
J. Donovan at
its head.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Office
of Strategic Services” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_565
Date: 6/19/1942
Description: Roosevelt 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 is appointed as its chairman, and Lyman James
Briggs, Karl Taylor
Compton, Ernest
Lawrence, and
American chemists Eger V.
Murphree and Harold C. Urey 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “S-1
Executive Committee” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_566
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_143
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
Reference: Bill Chalker, “Australian
A.F. UFO Report Files,” APRO Bulletin 30, no. 10 (October 1982):
6–7
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_569
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_135
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_136
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
Reference: Strange Company 23–25; Gordon W. Creighton.
“Foo
Fighters,” Flying Saucer Review 8, no. 2 (March/April 1962): 15;
Patrick Gross, “Pilot
Reports” Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_567
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", State/Prov: "Doubs", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "TSM", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "TNJ", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "RHP", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "8"
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
Reference: Clark III 1178
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_571
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_137
Date: 8/5/1942
Locations: Solomon Islands; Guadalcanal
Description: Early morning. The Navy destroyer USS
Helm 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, Quincy, Astoria)
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 later hears that the aircraft is neither German nor
Japanese.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 27–28
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_572
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_138
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", State/Prov: "SOL", Strangeness: "7"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_139
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
Reference: Good Above, p.
18; Strange Company 28–29
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_573
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
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
Date: 8/13/1942
Location: Manhattan Engineering District
Description: The Manhattan Engineering District, with
Brig. Gen. James C.
Marshall as district engineer, is established by Chief of the US
Army Corps of Engineers Maj. Gen. Eugene
Reybold.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Manhattan
Project” Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_574
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
Reference: Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of
Multiple UFO, p. 126
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4959
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", State/Prov: "TLA", Strangeness: "8"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_141
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
Reference: Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT
Index 1940–1949, 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
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_140
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", State/Prov: "Mississippi", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_142
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
Reference: Clark III 1177; Jan Aldrich
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_575
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
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
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_144
Date: 9/23/1942
Description: Col. Leslie
Groves is promoted to brigadier general and becomes director of the
Manhattan Project. The Military Policy Committee, consisting of Vannevar
Bush (with James B.
Conant as his alternative), Maj. Gen. Wilhelm D.
Styer, and Rear
Adm. William R.
Purnell, is created to oversee the project.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Manhattan Project”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_576
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
Reference: Strange Company 32
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_577
Date: 9/29/1942
Locations: US; Tennessee; Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Description: US Under Secretary of War Robert P.
Patterson 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Oak
Ridge, Tennessee”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_578
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "7"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_145
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_63
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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Clinton
Engineer Works” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_579
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", State/Prov: "SOL", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_146
Date: Late 1942?
Location: Europe
Description: According to records released in August
2010, Prime Minister Winston
Churchill 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 discussed how to deal with the encounter. However, the
evidence is hearsay and somewhat questionable.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: UFOFiles2, pp.
20–21
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_568
Date: 10/19/1942
Location: Los Alamos, New Mexico
Description: Leslie
Groves approves J. Robert
Oppenheimer to coordinate the scientific research of the Manhattan
Project at the Site Y laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Manhattan
Project” Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_580
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", State/Prov: "BSC", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "3", State/Prov: "Bergamo", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_148
Date: 11/15/1942
Locations: University of Chicago; Stagg Field
Description: Teams under physicists Herbert L.
Anderson and Walter Zinn have
constructed 16 experimental nuclear reactors under the Stagg Field
stands at the University of Chicago.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Metallurgical
Laboratory”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_581
Date: 11/25/1942
Location: Los Alamos, New Mexico
Description: The Los Alamos site in New Mexico is
acquired for Project Y.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Project Y”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_582
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_147
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
Reference: UFOFiles2, pp.
25–26; Strange Company 34–35; Good Need, pp.
18–19, 32
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_583
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
Reference: Keith Chester, Strange Company: Military
Encounters with UFOs in World War II, p. 34
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7977
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_64
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", State/Prov: "Somme", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_149
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
Reference: US Air Force, “National Air and Space
Intelligence Center Heritage,” July 31, 2015
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_584
Date: 12/1942
Location: River Somme, France
Description: 8:00 p.m. RAAF Lt. Bruce
Clyde Lumsden 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
Reference: Strange Company 36
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_585
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_65
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, achieving a
self-sustaining reaction just one month after construction was
started.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Chicago
Pile-1” Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_586
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. Through May, 44 more flights are made, nearly all terminated
by mechanical failures.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Northrop N- 9M”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_587
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_66
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_150
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_169
Date: 1/7/1943
Location: United States
Description: Nikola Test dies
Type: death
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_67
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", State/Prov: "Aisne", Strangeness: "6"
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
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
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
Reference: Strange Company 38
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_588
Date: 1/16/1943
Location: Hanford, WA
Description: Approval for the Hanford Site for
plutonium production
Type: nuclear weapons
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_68
Date: 1/16/1943
Locations: Washington State; Hanford site
Description: Leslie
Groves approves development of the Hanford site in Washington State
for plutonium production.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Hanford Site”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_589
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”\)
February 18 — Construction begins for Y-12, a massive electromagnetic
separation plant for enriching uranium at Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Y-12
National Security Complex” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_590
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_69
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_151
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", State/Prov: "NO", Strangeness: "8"
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_70
Date: 4/1/1943
Location: Los Alamos, NM
Description: Los Alamos Laboratory begins operations in
New Mexico
Type: nuclear weapons
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_71
Date: 4/1/1943
Locations: Los Alamos Laboratory; New Mexico
Description: Los Alamos Laboratory is established in
New Mexico and begins operations.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Project
Y”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_591
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_152
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
Reference: Project 1947, “UFO Reports,
1943”; Gerry A. Casey, “UFO: The Time for the Telling Has Come,”
Tacoma (Wash.) Western Flyer, July 7, 1989, via UFO
Newsclipping Service 241 (August 1989), p. 3; Patrick Gross, “Observation
at Long Beach, 1943” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_592
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
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
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
Reference: Poland 13
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_593
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_72
Attributes: Einstein
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_153
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_157
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
Reference: Strange Company 41
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_594
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_154
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.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Northrop N-9M”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_595
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_155
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
Reference: “Correspondence,”
CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 5 (Oct./Nov. 1982): 4–6; Strange
Company 40; Project 1947, “UFO Reports, 1943”;
John Hanson and Dawn Holloway, Haunted Skies: The Encyclopaedia of
British UFOs: Volume 1, 1940–1959, Fortean Words, 2010
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_596
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", State/Prov: "NRW", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_156
Date: 5/27/1943
Description: USAAF bomber crews flying over Essen,
Germany encountered a giant, cigarrette shaped UFO.
Reference: Johnson
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
Date: 6/1943
Description: The Army Air Force’s Air Tactical Service
Command asks Lockheed to develop a jet fighter
Type: aerospace
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_73
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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Skunk Works”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_597
Date: 6/2/1943
Location: Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Description: Construction begins on K-25, the gaseous
diffusion plant at Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “K-25”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_598
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", State/Prov: "Aisne", Strangeness: "5"
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
Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, Vol. 338
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3266
Date: 6/15/1943
Description: Einstein’s USN work announced in JTA Daily
News Bulletin
Type: scientist
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_74
Attributes: Einstein
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
Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 website
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3647
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_75
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", State/Prov: "Belgium", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 7/1943
Location: Burbank, California
Description: Lockheed Engineer Kelly
Johnson 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Skunk Works”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_599
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
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_76
Attributes: Einstein
Date: 7/18/1943
End date: 10/15/1944
Description: Einstein reports on his “explosives” work
to USN
Type: scientist
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_77
Attributes: Einstein
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 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
Reference: Jean Sider, Ultra Top-Secret: Ces OVNIs qui
font peur, Axis Mundi, 1990
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_600
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", State/Prov: "Finland", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "MSC", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "CRD", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "TNJ", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_158
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_50
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
Reference: Antonio
Ribera, Platillos Volantes en Iberoamerica y España, Santiago
Pomaire, 1968, pp. 411–412
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_601
Date: 9/1943
Description: Ray
Palmer, editor of Amazing Stories magazine, receives a letter from a
reader named Richard
S. Shaver, 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Richard
Sharpe Shaver”; Clark III 609; Walter Kafton-Minkel, Subterranean
Worlds, Loompanics, 1989, p.
136
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_602
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_160
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
Reference: Strange Company 43
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_603
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_204
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 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
Reference: UFOFiles2, p.
20; David Clarke and Andy Roberts, “The Foo Fighters: The RAF
Experience,” The Real UFO Project, January 2003
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_604
Date: 10/1943
Locations: Santa Barbara, California; Goleta
Valley
Description: 9:00 p.m. Wilberta
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
Reference: “Report from the Readers,” Fate 11, no. 11
(November 1958): 116–118; Clark III 1178
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_605
Date: 10/1943
Alternate date: 11/1943
Locations: Camp Ibis; Dead Mountains Wilderness;
Needles, California
Description: 11:00 p.m. 2Lt 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
Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet,
1969, pp. 22–23
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_608
Date: 10/10/1943
Locations: Hanford site; Washington
Description: Construction begins for the first reactor
at the Hanford site in Washington.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: US Department of Energy, Office of History
and Heritage Resources, “Hanford
Becomes Operational,” August 7, 2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_606
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", State/Prov: "Bavaria", Strangeness: "4"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_161
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
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
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_607
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_162
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", State/Prov: "Morbihan", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_163
Date: 11/1943
Location: Mantong
Description: Ray
Palmer 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, 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Richard
Sharpe Shaver”; \[Richard\] S. Shaver, [Letter], “An
Ancient Language?” Amazing Stories 18, no. 1 (January 1944):
206–207; [Ray Palmer,] “Mantong: The
Language of Lemuria,” Amazing Stories 19, no. 1 (March 1945): 71,
206; Walter Kafton-Minkel, Subterranean Worlds, Loompanics, 1989, pp.
136–137; 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
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
Reference: Wikipedia, “X-10
Graphite Reactor” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_610
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
Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 website on aerial
encounters
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7932
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", State/Prov: "KRB", Strangeness: "4"
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", State/Prov: "Norway", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Cantal", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_165
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
Reference: “Out
of the Past,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 6 (Dec. 1983/Jan.
1984): 6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_611
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, 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Air raid on
Bari” Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_612
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_167
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
Reference: Strange Company 51–52
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_613
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_168
Date: 12/14/1943
Location: Naples, Italy
Description: Night. British 255 Night Fighter Squadron
leader Patrick
Hardy Vesey Wells 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
Reference: Strange Company 52
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_614
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
Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 website, citing A.
Roberts
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_8387
Date: Winter 1943
Locations: central Germany; Phyllis Marie
Description: Day. While on a bombing mission over
central Germany, Sgt. 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
Reference: “First
Official Foo-Fighter Records Discovered,” Just Cause, no. 32 (June
1992): 4–5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_615
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
Reference: UFOEv, p.
64; Clark III 1177 Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_616
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 (A5, B3-C)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_78
Date: 1944
Description: Richard Shaver's stories re. UFO
Type: paranormal phenomenon
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_79
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
Reference: Good Need, pp.
21–22
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_617
Date: 1944
Locations: Palomar Mountain, California; Palomar
Gardens
Description: George
Adamski 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
Reference: “Palomar Mountain,
1940–1960: From Obscurity to World Fame,” The Adamski Case,
September 22, 2019; George M. Eberhart, “Palomar Gardens Café,” IUR 30,
no. 3 (May 2006): 9
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_618
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_170
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_171
Date: 1/15/1944
Description: The Materiel Command becomes the AAF
Materiel Command.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Air
Materiel Command”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_619
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_172
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_173
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", State/Prov: "RHP", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: SOS-OVNI France, Phenomena, issue 12
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_596
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", State/Prov: "Victoria", Strangeness: "8"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_174
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
Reference: Bill Chalker, “Australian
A.F. UFO Report Files,” APRO Bulletin 30, no. 10 (October 1982):
7
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_620
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
Reference: Strange Company 57–58
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_621
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", State/Prov: "BRN", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Claude Poher, Etudes Statistiques Portant
sur 1000 Temoignag, case 419; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case
498
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_860
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_176
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_177
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
Reference: Alvin G. McNish, “Letter,”
CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 5 (Oct./Nov. 1984): 2
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_622
Date: 2/23/1944
Locations: Germany; Japan
Description: Brig. Gen. 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, Col. Howard
H. McCoy, Col.
Harold
E. Watson, and Col. Malcolm
D. Seashore.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “United
States Strategic Air Forces in Europe” Source:
EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_623
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_178
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
Reference: Strange Company 60
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_624
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", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "SXA", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_179
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
Reference: UFOEv, p.
19
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_625
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 and given to Gothaer Waggonfabrik.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Horten Ho
229” Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_626
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
Reference: “Past
Sightings Come to Light,”
APRO Bulletin, Jan./Feb. 1968, p. 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_627
Date: 4/1944
Description: The first operation jet fighter, the
Messerschmitt Me 262, is introduced
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_80
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
Reference: “Correspondence,”
CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 5 (Oct./Nov. 1982): 2
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_628
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 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
Reference: Atomic Heritage Foundation, “Atomic
Timeline” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_629
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_180
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_181
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_182
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
Reference: Strange Company 64–65; UFOFiles2, pp.
16, 18
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_630
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
Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO
Encounters, case 7, citing Jan Aldrich, Project 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2416
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", State/Prov: "ARD", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 5/29/1944
Description: The Aircraft Warning Service is
deactivated.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Aircraft
Warning Service” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_631
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
Reference: Twitter
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_905
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_183
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_184
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_186
Date: 6/1944
Location: Torokina Beach, Bougainville Island, Papua
New Guinea
Description: 12:30 p.m. David
A. K. 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 airship, only
bigger.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: D. Morris, “RNZAF
Camp UFO Sighting
of 1944,” Ufocus NZ, July 22, 2020
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_632
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
Reference: “True Mystic Experiences,” Fate 3, no. 8
(December 1950): 82–87
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_633
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", RelAlt: "15000", State/Prov: "SEA", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_185
Date: 6/10/1944?
Locations: Omaha Beach; Normandy, France
Description: The Liberty ship SS George
E. Badger is off Omaha Beach in Normandy, France, when gunner 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
Reference: Strange Company 67; “The
Case for the ‘Sea-Saucer,’” CRIFO Orbit 1, no. 10 (January 7, 1955):
5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_634
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
Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT:
Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0120, citing Donald Worley
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3530
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_189
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_190
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
Reference: Hobana and Weverbergh 215–216
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_641
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
Reference: Clark III 1178
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_642
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
Reference: NICAP case file
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_643
Date: Summer 1944
Locations: RAF Molesworth; Cambridgeshire,
England
Description: Day. Asa Howard
Jr. 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
Reference: NICAP case file
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_644
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
Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT:
Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0122
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3595
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", State/Prov: "Finistère", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_187
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_188
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
Reference: “1944: An Italian Foo-Fighter?” UFO
Sightings Italia, no. 2, March 2002
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_635
Date: 7/4/1944
Location: Los Alamos
Description: Oppenheimer reveals
Segrè’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
Reference: Atomic Heritage Foundation, “Atomic
Timeline” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_636
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", State/Prov: "MRC", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 7/6/1944
Location: Lagerlechfeld, Bavaria, Germany
Description: German test pilot Heini
Dittmar attains an unofficial airspeed record of 702 mph in a
rocket-powered Messerschmidt Me 163B at Lagerlechfeld, Bavaria,
Germany.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Heini Dittmar”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_637
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
Reference: Hobana and Weverbergh 226–227; Strange
Company 71
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_638
Date: 7/17/1944
Description: The Air Service Command and the AAF
Materiel Command are placed under AAF Materiel and Services.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Air
Materiel Command”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_639
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
Reference: “A
Close Encounter from the Year 1944,” Nordic UFO Newsletter, 1985,
no. 1, pp. 3–5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_640
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_81
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", State/Prov: "Connecticut", Strangeness: "9"
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", State/Prov: "PRH", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Saône-et-Loire", Strangeness: "9"
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", State/Prov: "SI", Strangeness: "9"
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", State/Prov: "Val-de-Marne", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Landes", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "Haute Garonne", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_191
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 and another officer also observe it.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 78– 79
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_645
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_192
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", RelAlt: "1", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "9"
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><SUMATRA:B29/BOMBING RUN PACED:2M ORB:90°TURNS:GOES↑↑:/r242p23+/r65", LatLong: "9.750000 96.000005", LatLongDMS: "09:45:00 N 96:00:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "MLC", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_193
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_194
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
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
Date: 8/11/1944
Locations: Kharagpur, India; Palembang, Sumatra,
Indonesia
Description: Shortly after midnight. Capt. Alvah
M. 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
Reference: UFOEv, p.
23; Strange Company 71–75; Good Above, p.
19
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_646
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
Reference: UFOFiles2, pp.
26–27
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_647
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_195
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_196
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
Reference: Poland 14–15
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_648
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
Reference: Strange Company 79
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_649
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
Reference: Lore and Deneault, pp.
120–121
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_650
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
Reference: Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT
Index 1940–1949, p. 12; Clark III 265
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_651
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_197
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_51
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", State/Prov: "Haute Garonne", Strangeness: "7"
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
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
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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Air
Materiel Command”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_652
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", State/Prov: "Belgium", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Belgium", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Vosges", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "ZPD", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_198
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_199
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_200
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_201
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_202
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
Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet,
1969, pp, 23–24
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_653
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
Reference: Jerome Clark and Lucius Farish, “The Mysterious
‘Foo Fighters’
of WW II,” Saga UFO Report, Spring 1975
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_654
Date: 9/2/1944
Location: Philadelphia Navy Yard
Description: Two chemists are killed, and Arnold
Kramish 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Arnold
Kramish”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_655
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 (AAF Director of Intelligence), Lt. Col. Lewis F.
Powell Jr., Col. Howard
McCoy (chief of the Air Technical Section), Howard P.
Robertson (CalTech physicist), and Cmdr. Ian
Fleming (Admiralty).
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 80
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_656
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_82
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", State/Prov: "Tennessee", Strangeness: "8"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_203
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", State/Prov: "LSX", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Dale Goudie, CUFON; Larry Hatch, U computer
database, Claude Poher, case # 420
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_6409
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
Reference: Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs
from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 227
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_6410
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_205
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
Reference: Clark III 265–266
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_657
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
Reference: Clark III 1178
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_658
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", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "7"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_206
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
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
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_207
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_208
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_209
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_210
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_219
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_220
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
Reference: UFOEv, pp.
30, 129
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_659
Date: 10/28/1944
Locations: Europe; Pacific Theater
Description: Physicist David T.
Griggs, a
civilian adviser on radar to the War Department, is asked by Gen. Henry H. “Hap”
Arnold 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 on April 10, 1969.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Michael D. Swords, “David Griggs and the Foo
Fighters,” IUR 31, no. 1 (January 2007): 17–19
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_660
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_211
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_212
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
Reference: Strange Company 86
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_661
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_213
Date: Early 11/1944
Location: Germany
Description: Night. Lieut. Col. 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
Reference: Strange Company 87
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_662
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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Fu-Go
balloon bomb”;
Franklin Matthias, “Japanese
Balloon Bombs Fu-Go,” Atomic Heritage Foundation, August 10,
2016
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_663
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
Reference: “German
Dummy Planes Explode Amid Our Own,”
New York Times, November 6, 1944, p. 3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_664
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_214
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_215
Date: 11/8/1944
Location: Germany
Description: Nazis officially announce the V-2 rocket
on 11/8/1944
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_83
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
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
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, 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
Reference: NICAP, “UFO Observed
from USS Gilliam”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_666
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", State/Prov: "Norway", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_216
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
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
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", State/Prov: "Belgium", Strangeness: "10"
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", State/Prov: "Bas-Rhin", Strangeness: "5"
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", State/Prov: "STY", Strangeness: "8"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_217
Date: 11/24/1944
Locations: Klagenfurt, Austria; Trieste, Italy;
Adriatic Sea
Description: Capt. William
D. 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
Reference: Strange Company 90–93
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_667
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_218
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", State/Prov: "RHP", Strangeness: "7"
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
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
Date: 11/29/1944
Locations: Bruce Peninsula; Lake Huron; Georgian Bay,
Ontario
Description: 3:00 p.m. 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
Reference: Clark III 1179
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_668
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 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
Reference: Zoe Crasney, “What
Were the Mysterious ‘Foo Fighters’ Sighted by WWII Night Flyers?”
Smithsonian Air and Space Magazine, August 2016; Strange Company
93–95
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_669
Date: 11/30/1944?
Locations: Leyte Gulf; Lingayen Gulf, Luzon,
Philippines
Description: As the USS
Gilliam 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
Reference: NICAP, “UFO Observed
from USS Gilliam”; Strange Company 95–96
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_670
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_221
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_222
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_237
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_238
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_239
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_223
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_224
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
Reference: Strange Company 96, 101
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_671
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_225
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 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 Holman. 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
Reference: “More
Foo-Fighter Records Released,” Just Cause, new ser., no. 33
(September 1992): 2–6; Strange Company 96–111; Swords 3–5; “The
Foo Fighters of World War II,
Part One,” 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; Barry Greenwood, “Foo Fighter
Archive Donated to UHR,” UFO Historical Revue, no. 17 (December
2015): 2–8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_672
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", State/Prov: "RHP", Strangeness: "5"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_226
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_227
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", State/Prov: "RHP", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Bas-Rhin", Strangeness: "7"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_228
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
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
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_229
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_230
Date: 12/23/1944
Locations: Blackstone; Richmond, Virginia; Naval Air
Station Pasco, Washington
Description: Night. Navy Lt. George
Arents III 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
Reference: Strange Company 142; Nukes 43–44; Project
1947, “UFOs
over Hanford: Cdr. R. W. Hendershot,” June 22, 2014; Robert L.
Hastings, “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,” January 23, 1945;
Robert L. Hastings, “Former
US Navy Pilot Says Huge Fireball Maneuvered above the Hanford
Atomic Plant
during World War II,” UFOs & Nukes, October 5, 2015
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_673
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", State/Prov: "Bade-Wurtemberg", Strangeness: "6"
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
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
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_231
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_232
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_233
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_234
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_235
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_236
Date: 1945
Location: Los Alamos, NM
Description: Green Fireballs seen in Southwestern
US
Type: anomalous phenomenon
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_84
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_85
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
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_208
See also: 1947
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_240
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_241
Date: 1945
Location: Okinawa (near), Guam
Description: Nr. Okinawa, G (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases,
Code: R, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 450000
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_242
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_52
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_243
Date: 1/1945
Location: Lemuria
Description: Ray
Palmer 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Richard
Sharpe Shaver”; Richard S. Shaver, “‘I Remember
Lemuria,’” Amazing Stories 19, no. 1 (March 1945): 12–70; Walter
Kafton-Minkel, Subterranean Worlds, Loompanics, 1989, pp.
137–144; 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
Mystery—Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer, and the Quest for Lemuria (Part
1),” July 4, 2014
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_674
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_244
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_245
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
Reference: Strange Company 114–116, 208–209
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_675
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
Reference: “Balls
of Fire Stalk U.S. Fighters in Night Assaults over Germany,”
New York Times, January 2, 1945, pp. 1, 4; Strange Company 117–118
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_676
Date: 1/2/1945
Locations: Pentagon; Paris
Description: Col. Clayton
Lawrence Bissell, 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
Reference: [Clayton Lawrence] Bissell, [message],
January 2, 1945; Project 1947, “UFO Reports, 1945”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_677
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_246
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", State/Prov: "RHP", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_247
Date: 1/16/1945
Description: Lt. Col. Leavitt
Corning Jr. 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
Reference: Strange Company 126–127
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_678
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_248
Date: 1/20/1945
Location: Corning
Description: First Tactical Air Force Executive Officer
Maj. Samuel
V. Boykin responds to Corning asking
for more particulars about the reports.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 127
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_679
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", State/Prov: "UPS", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Clark III 503
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_680
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
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
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_249
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
Reference: Strange Company 129
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_681
Date: 1/30/1945
Description: Capt. Fred
B. Ringwald, intelligence
officer for the 415 Night Fighter Squadron, responds to Corning’s
January 16 request by offering a summary of 14 foo fighter reports from
December 14, 1944, to January 29, 1945.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 129–132
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_682
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_162
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_250
Date: 2/1945
Location: San Diego, California
Description: Meade
Layne 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, 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
Reference: Borderland Sciences Research Associates, [History];
Clark III 876; Håkan Blomqvist, “Round
Robin and
Contactee History,” Håkan Blomqvist’s Blog, March 30, 2014
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_683
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_251
Date: 2/2/1945
Locations: Hanford; Los Alamos
Description: The first Hanford plutonium arrives at Los
Alamos.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Atomic Heritage Foundation, “Atomic
Timeline” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_684
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 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. 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Horton Ho
229” Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_685
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_252
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_253
Date: 2/7/1945
Locations: Ulithi Atoll; Caroline Islands
Description: Afternoon. Several F6F fighters on patrol
(one piloted by Ensign Norman
P. Stark) from the USS
Wasp 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
Reference: LCDR Norman P. Stark, “A
WWII F6F Navy Fighter Pilot’s Experiences in
the Pacific,” Battle of Saipan, January 1, 2000
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_686
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_254
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_255
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_256
Date: 2/10/1945
Locations: Chicago; Washington
Description: The Chicago Tribune and Washington
Times-Herald reveal Bill
Donovan’s plans for a postwar intelligence agency and publishes a
secret memo he has sent to Roosevelt 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 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
Reference: Walter Trohan, “Super-Spy Idea
Denounced As New Deal OGPU,” Chicago Tribune, February 10, 1945, p.
1; Central Intelligence Agency, “Origins
of CIA,” August 3, 2005; Mark Riebling, Wedge: From Pearl Harbor to
9/11, Simon & Schuster, 2002, pp.
59–61
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_687
Date: 2/11/1945
Description: Air Commodore Colin
McKay Grierson, RAF assistant chief of staff A2, refers Ringwald’s
report to the Air Ministry.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 133–134
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_688
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", State/Prov: "Bade-Wurtemberg", Strangeness: "4"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_257
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_258
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_259
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_260
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
Reference: Clark III 1178
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_689
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_261
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_262
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_263
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_264
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 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Horton Ho
229” Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_690
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_265
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_266
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_267
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
Reference: Project 1947, “UFO Reports, 1945”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_691
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_268
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", State/Prov: "TRL", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Maine", Strangeness: "8"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_269
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_270
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_271
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_272
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_53
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_54
Date: 3/1945
Location: Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Description: The K-25 gaseous diffusion plant at Oak
Ridge, Tennessee, begins production.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “K-25”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_692
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
Reference: “I Saw a Flying Saucer,” Flying Saucers, May
1959, pp. 6–18, 78; Clark III 1178–1179
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_693
Date: 3/1945
Location: Barto, Pennsylvania
Description: Ray
Palmer travels to Barto, Pennsylvania, and spends a weekend with Richard
Shaver 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Richard
Sharpe Shaver”; Walter Kafton-Minkel, Subterranean Worlds,
Loompanics, 1989, pp.
137–144; 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 Mystery—Richard
Shaver, Ray Palmer, and the Quest for Lemuria (Part 1),” July 4,
2014
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_694
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_273
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_274
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_275
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, 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
Reference: Franklin Matthias, “Japanese
Balloon Bombs Fu-Go,” Atomic Heritage Foundation, August 10,
2016
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_695
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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Horton Ho 229”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_696
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_276
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_281
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_164
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_277
Date: 3/18/1945
Description: Grierson writes
to Samuel
V. Boykin that the Air Ministry thinks the fireballs are either
Me-262’s or flak rockets.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 147
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_697
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
Reference: Strange Company 148
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_698
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_278
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", State/Prov: "RHP", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/22/1945
Location: New Guinea
Description: 1:00 p.m. The USS
New York 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. orders the guns to stop. Immediately the object
shoots up and away at a fantastic rate of speed.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 151–152
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_700
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_279
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_280
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_282
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", State/Prov: "HSS", Strangeness: "7"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_283
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
Reference: “Weltrundschau,”
Weltraumbote, no. 32/22 (July/Aug. 1958): 14–15; Clark III 503
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_699
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
Reference: Strange Company 153– 154
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_701
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", State/Prov: "RYU", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/26/1945
Location: Iwo Jima, Japan
Description: During an air operation, Lieut. Calvin
P. 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 (pilot), Flight Officer George W. Hayden (radar observer),
and PFC William Brasvell (gunner).
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Project 1947, “UFO Reports, 1945”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_702
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
Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947, citing the 549th
NFS History
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1669
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
Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO
Encounters, p. 7, citing Jan Aldrich, Project 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1670
Date: 3/27/1945
Location: Germany
Description: Final V-2 rockets used during WW2
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_165
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", State/Prov: "UPA", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/1945
Locations: Okinawa, Japan; Ryukyu Islands
Description: During operations around Okinawa, Japan,
the radar crew on the aircraft carrier USS
Independence 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
Reference: Strange Company 183–186
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_703
Date: 4/1945
Location: Lemuria
Description: Ray
Palmer publishes a second story by Richard
Shaver, “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
Reference: Richard S. Shaver, “Thought
Records of Lemuria,” Amazing Stories 19, no 2 (June 1945):
16–52
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_704
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_284
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_285
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
Reference: Strange Company 157–159
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_705
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", State/Prov: "NSE", Strangeness: "7"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_286
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_287
Date: 4/7/1945
Location: Göttingen, Germany
Description: Walter and Reimar
Horten, German designers associated with wingless aircraft, are
arrested by US troops near Göttingen, Germany.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Lance Cole, Secret Wings of World War II:
Nazi Technology and the Allied Arms Race, Pen & Sword, 2015
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_706
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
Reference: “A Meteor?” Louisville Times, April 14,
1945; Project 1947, “UFO Reports, 1945”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_707
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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Unethical
human experimentation
in the United States”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_708
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_163
Date: 4/12/1945
Location: Warm Springs, Georgia
Description: Roosevelt dies at Warm Springs, Georgia.
Harry S.
Truman is sworn in as president.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_709
Date: 4/17/1945
Location: Pacific
Description: Maj. Gen. James
P. Hodges writes a memorandum to Gen. Henry H. “Hap”
Arnold, saying that infrared devices are now available to take
photographs of “balls of fire” in the Pacific.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Project 1947, “UFO Reports, 1945”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_710
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
Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 website
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2103
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", State/Prov: "Côte-d'Or", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "SCH", Strangeness: "5"
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
Reference: Henry-Jean Besset, Phenomenes Spatiaux,
September 1975, p. 21
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2150
Date: 4/22/1945
Locations: Okinawa, Japan; Two miles
Description: The USS Lewis
Hancock 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
Reference: Strange Company 184
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_711
Date: 4/24/1945
Location: Okinawa, Japan
Description: The USS Audubon 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
Reference: Strange Company 184–186
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_712
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
Reference: Keith Basterfield, “Observation
by Pilot over Germany, 1945,” Unidentified Aerial
Phenomena—Scientific Research, November 14, 2016
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_713
Date: 4/26/1945
Description: Gen. Curtis LeMay’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
Reference: Strange Company 162–163
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_714
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", RelAlt: "10", State/Prov: "Missouri", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "SPC", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 5/1945
Locations: Leonstein, Austria; Linz, Austria
Description: German scientist Viktor
Schauberger, 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Nazi UFOs”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_715
Date: 5/2/1945
Location: Fala Island, Truk Atoll
Description: Two airborne objects & red circles of
light (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP: 450502
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_288
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", State/Prov: "SPC", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "RHP", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: “B-24
Sights Circles of
Light,” UFO Historical Revue, no. 2 (September 1998): 8; Strange
Company 163–165; NICAP, “May 2, Truk Atoll
Sighting” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_716
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
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
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 balloon
bomb”) 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
Reference: “‘Flying Hot Cakes’ over
Tokyo in 1945,” St. Joseph (Mo.) News-Press, July 12, 1947, p. 6;
Clark III 503
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_717
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", State/Prov: "MAU", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Harley D. Rutledge, Project Identification,
p. 250
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2611
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_289
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", State/Prov: "Honshu Island", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_290
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_291
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", State/Prov: "OKN", Strangeness: "7"
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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Northrop
YB-49” Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_721
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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, The
Mystery of Unidentified Flying Objects—A Prelude, 1896–1949, The
author, 1971, p. 156
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_722
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", State/Prov: "ISL", Strangeness: "7"
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
Reference: Strange Company 177–180
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_723
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_292
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_293
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_294
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_86
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_295
Date: Summer 1945
Location: Long Beach, California
Description: After 5:00 p.m. Future ufologist Ann
Druffel 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
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
Date: Summer 1945
Location: Stendal, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Description: Future ufologist Illobrand
von Ludwiger 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
Reference: Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia,
Putnam, 1980, p.
357
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_719
Date: Summer 1945
Locations: Adak; Aleutian Islands; Alaska
Description: Radioman Robert S. Crawford and 13 other
sailors aboard the US Army Transport Delarof 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
Reference: NICAP, “Large
Object Emerges from
Sea near the Delarof”;
“The
Question of Submerging UFO’s,” UFO Investigator 4, o. 5 (March
1968): 4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_720
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_166
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_296
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 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
Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet,
1969, p. 24; Henry C. Huglin, “Group Commander’s
Reminiscences,” 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
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 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
Reference: Project 1947, “UFO Reports, 1945”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_725
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
Reference: Good Need, p.
24
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_726
Date: 7/1/1945
Description: The Air Technical Service Command is moved
into T-2 Intelligence.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Air
Materiel Command”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_727
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_297
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_298
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_299
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_300
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", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "7"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_301
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
Reference: NICAP, “Huge Saucer over
Nuclear Reactor—Radar/Visual”; Strange Company 188; Patrick Gross,
“Alleged
UFO Intercept Attempt at Hanford Nuclear Plant, July 1945”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_729
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_167
Atomic type: aboveground
Atomic KT: 18.6
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", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "5"
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 Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_0
Extra Data: LatLong: "33.6753 -106.4747", LatLongDMS: "33:40:31 N 106:28:29 W", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USA", NukeDepth: "-0.03", NukeName: "Trinity", NukeSource: "G+P", NukeType: "NACU", NukeY: "21"
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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Trinity
(nuclear test)” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_728
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", State/Prov: "Pas-de-Calais", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Operation
Paperclip” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_730
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
Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, p. 156
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4219
Date: 7/24/1945
Description: President Truman discloses
to Soviet leader Joseph
Stalin that the United States has atomic weapons. Stalin feigns
little surprise, since he already knows this through espionage.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Gene Dannen, “Truman Tells Stalin,
July 24,
1945” Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_731
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", State/Prov: "NPC", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "STM", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "OLT", Strangeness: "8"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_302
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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Project
SHAMROCK” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_732
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
Reference: Ilona Johansson- Paasonen, “Humanoideja
Längelmävedellä?” Vimana 1970, no. 3/4, pp. 22–24; Ilona
Johansson-Paasonen, “Humanoids
at Längelmävesi,” FSR Case Histories 13 \(February 1973\): 3–4;
Clark III 266
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_733
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 Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1
Extra Data: LatLong: "34.3947114 132.4543816", LatLongDMS: "34:23:41 N 132:27:16 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USA", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeName: "littleboy", NukeSource: "TCARTER", NukeType: "NACU", NukeY: "15"
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_168
Atomic type: aboveground
Atomic KT: 16
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", State/Prov: "Honshu Island", Strangeness: "7"
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. 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Atomic
bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_734
Date: 8/7/1945
Location: Hanford Engineer Works in Washington
Description: During a press conference with the Seattle
Times, Col. Franklin
Matthias, 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
Reference: Project 1947, “UFOs over Hanford: Commander
R. W. Hendershot” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_735
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_169
Atomic type: aboveground
Atomic KT: 21
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", State/Prov: "Kyushu", Strangeness: "7"
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 Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_2
Extra Data: LatLong: "32.7731273 129.8617014", LatLongDMS: "32:46:23 N 129:51:42 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USA", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeName: "fatman", NukeSource: "TCARTER", NukeType: "NACU", NukeY: "21"
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. 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Atomic
bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_736
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", State/Prov: "NPC", Strangeness: "5"
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 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
Reference: “Seeing Saucer Sweet
Music to a Pianist,” New York Daily News, September 8, 1957,
Passaic-Bergen Sec., p. 22; Lore and Deneault, p.
145
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_737
Date: 8/16/1945
Location: San Antonio, NM
Description: “Trinity” Crash Retrieval near San
Antonio, NM
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_170
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
Reference: Paola Leopizzi Harris, “The
Reme Baca and Jose Padilla Witness Case,”
The UFO Chronicles, November 30, 2010; John Greenewald, “Analysis
of Two Metallic Parts Purportedly from
a 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—A
Critique,” A Different Perspective, June 2, 2021; Jacques Vallée,
“The
Other Lessons of Trinity,” Trinity blog, December 6, 2021; Kevin D.
Randle, “Jacques Vallée
and Ten Unexplained UFO Cases and Metallic Debris,” A Different
Perspective, December 16, 2021
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_738
Date: 8/21/1945
Locations: Manhattan Project; Omega Site; Los Alamos
Laboratory; New Mexico
Description: Manhattan Project physicist Harry
Daghlian 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
Reference: Adam Higginbotham, Midnight at Chernobyl,
Simon & Schuster, 2019, pp. 30–31
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_739
Date: 8/22/1945
Location: Moscow, Russia
Description: Stalin appoints Lavrentiy Beria to direct
Soviet atomic bomb effort
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_171
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", State/Prov: "IWJ", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Finland", Strangeness: "8"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_303
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.
Reference: Eberhart
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’” Source:
EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_740
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
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
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
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing
Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 138
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5405
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_304
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, Erich
W. Neubert, Theodor A. Poppel, August Schultze, Eberhard Rees, 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Operation
Paperclip”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_741
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 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Manhattan
Project”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_742
Date: 9/1945
Description: Policy adviser Ferdinand
Eberstadt writes for Secretary of the Navy James
Forrestal a report recommending a complete realignment of national
security organizations.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Eberstadt
Report”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_743
Date: 9/2/1945
Description: End of WW2
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_172
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, the former OSS Deputy Director of Intelligence who
oversees the OSS liquidation. Most of the other personnel are
cashiered.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Office
of Strategic
Services”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_744
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", State/Prov: "Var", Strangeness: "7"
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 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
Reference: Strange Company 195–196
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_745
Date: 10/1945
Location: Langley, VA
Description: The temporary successor to the OSS, the
Strategic Services Unit (SSU), begins
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_173
Date: 10/1945
Locations: Bryan; Stryker, Ohio
Description: 8:00 p.m. While driving a car between
Bryan and Stryker, Ohio, 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
Reference: CUFOS case file
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_746
Date: 10/2/1945
Location: Cuxhaven, Germany
Description: British Operation Backfire near Cuxhaven:
V-2 launch test
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_174
Rocket type: V-2
Date: 10/9/1945
Description: Brig. Gen. George
C. McDonald, AAF director of intelligence, writes to Maj. Gen. Elwood
Richard Quesada 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
Reference: Macdonald–Quesada
correspondence, October
1945
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_747
Date: 10/15/1945
Location: Cuxhaven, Germany
Description: British Operation Backfire near Cuxhaven:
V-2 launch test
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_175
Rocket type: V-2
Date: 10/24/1945
Location: New York City, New York
Description: United Nations charter in full force
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_176
Date: 11/1945
Description: Operation Overcast is renamed Project
Paperclip.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Operation
Paperclip” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_748
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” Arnold.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jo Chamberlin, “The
Foo Fighter Mystery,” American Legion Magazine 39, no. 6 (December
1945): 9, 43–47; “Foo Fighter
Archive Donated to UHR,” UFO Historical Revue, no. 17 (December
2015): 2–8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_749
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", State/Prov: "Florida", Strangeness: "7"
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 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Flight 19”; Larry
Kusche, The Bermuda Triangle Mystery— Solved, Harper & Row, 1975, pp.
97–122; Larry Kusche, The
Disappearance of Flight 19, Harper
& Row, 1980
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_750
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
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
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", RelAlt: "8", State/Prov: "North Carolina", Strangeness: "4"
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
Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT:
Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0129, citing Northern Network News,
December 1976
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_8597
Date: 1946
Location: Scandinavia
Description: Ghost Rockets seen in Scandinavia
Type: UFO sightings
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_87
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_177
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
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_178
Date: 1946
Location: Soviet Union
Description: Soviet “Sverdlovsk-44” atomic bomb project
plant opened (Uranium enrichment)
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_179
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_180
Date: 1946
Description: The US nuclear stockpile consists of 9
atomic bombs.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Ryan Crierie, “U.S.
Nuclear Stockpile, 1945–2009” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_751
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
Reference: G. R. Leatherbarrow, “Two
Early UFO Cases from the Middle East,”
Awareness 5, no. 3 (Autumn 1976): 4–5; Clark III 1177
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_752
Date: 1946
Description: American astrophysicist Charles
Greeley Abbot 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
Reference: Charles Greeley Abbot, The Earth and the
Stars, Van Nostrand, 1946, p.
110; Roger D. Launius, “Venus-Earth-Mars:
Comparative Climatology and the Search for Life in the Solar
System,” Life 2, no. 3 (2012): 255–273
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_753
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, 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’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
Reference: R. V. Jones, Most Secret War, Hamish
Hamilton, 1978, pp.
507–513; “UFO
Britannia: Part 2—World War Foo and Post War
Cover Ups,” Above Top Secret forum, December 19, 2012
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_754
Date: 1/10/1946
Location: New Jersey
Description: Public announcements of radar signals
bounced off Moon
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Medium
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_181
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 that were recovered in Germany by Allied forces.
Reference: Eberhart
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 Flying Wings,” War
Bird Forum, July 2019
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_755
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", State/Prov: "Manche", Strangeness: "5"
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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
a History:
1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_756
Date: 1/22/1946
Description: President Truman 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 heads the CIG as Director of Central Intelligence.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “National
Intelligence Authority” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_757
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", State/Prov: "TRV", Strangeness: "8"
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
Reference: Archives for the Unexplained, “Case
XXX: The Meteor That Did Not Start a Fire” Source:
EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_758
Date: 2/26/1946
Location: Scandinavia
Description: Ghost Rocket reports in Scandinavia,
Sweden/Finland
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_182
Date: 3/1946
Description: The Air Technical Service Command becomes
the Air Materiel Command.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Air
Materiel Command”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_759
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", State/Prov: "São Paulo", Strangeness: "12"
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
Reference: Clark III 166–167; Brazil 17–21; Pablo
Villarubia Mauso, “The Incredible Saga of
João Prestes,” UFO Casebook Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_760
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
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
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_183
Date: 3/6/1946
Description: The Western Defense Command is
deactivated.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Western Defense
Command” Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_761
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
Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet,
1969, pp. 26–27
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_762
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
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
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_184
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
Reference: “Case
84,” CRIFO Newsletter 2, no. 3 (June 3, 1955): 4; Clark III
1179
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_765
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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Strategic
Services Unit” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_763
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_185
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 5.5km
Date: 4/20/1946
Description: League of Nations dissolved, succeeded by
the United Nations (UN)
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_186
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
Reference: Clark III 1179
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_764
Date: 5/1946
End date: 12/1946
Location: Scandinavia
Description: 2,000 Ghost Rocket sightings in
Sweden/Finland
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_187
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_305
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_308
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
Reference: UFOEv, p.
6; Clark III 1179 Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_766
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_188
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 112.6km
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
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_189
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 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “TsNIIMash”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_767
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
Reference: Jan L. Aldrich, comp., The Ghost
Rocket File, Fund
for UFO Research, 2000, p. 10
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_768
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", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "10"
Date: 5/18/1946
Locations: Kronoskagen; Ängelholm, Sweden
Description: 10:45 p.m. Gösta
Carlsson, 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “UFO-Memorial
Ängelholm”; Sven-Olof Fredrickson, “The
Ängelholm Landing Report,” Flying Saucer Review 18, no. 2 (Mar./Apr.
1972): 15– 17; Anders Liljegren, “High-Quality
Investigation of 1946 CEIII Case,” AFU Newsletter, no. 38 (March
1995): 2–3; Clark III 528–529; Clas Svahn, “Gösta Carlssons
möte,” Riksorganisationen UFO-Sverige, July 10, 2018; Håkan
Blomqvist, “UFO-Sweden
Memories: Ängelholm 1996,” 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
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
Reference: Swords 12
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_770
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", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "7"
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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
a History:
1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., p. 1; Göran Jansson,
“Spökraketerna
1947,” January 2005, p. 6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_771
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", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "7"
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
Reference: Swords 12
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_772
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_190
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 112.6km
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", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., pp.
2–3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_773
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
Reference: Joint Research and Development Board, Organization Authority
Record, June 6, 1946
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_776
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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., p. 3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_777
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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The
Author, 1988 ed., p. 3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_778
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", State/Prov: "Finland", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 6/10/1946
Location: Latin America
Description: Lieut. Gen. Hoyt
Vandenberg replaces Souers as
director of the CIG. He expands it and wins the right to collect
intelligence in Latin America.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: CIA Historical Staff, Chronology
1946–65, vol.
1, 1946–1955, p. 9
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_779
Date: 6/10/1946
Description: Mystery "ghost rockets" were seen over
Tampere and Helsinki, Finland.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: H. Edward Hill
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3403
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", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "7"
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
Reference: Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost
Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 33
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_780
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_191
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 117.2km
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
Reference: Phillip S. Meilinger, “The Early War
Plans,” Air Force Magazine, December 1, 2012
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_781
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
Reference: John Judge, “Near-Landing
in 1946 in Johannesburg,” Flying Saucer Review 24, no. 5 (March
1979): 14–16; Clark III 266
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_774
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
Reference: Clark III 1179
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_775
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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Northrop
YB-35”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_782
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
Reference: (Swords 12).
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_783
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_192
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 107.8km
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 Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_3
Extra Data: LatLong: "11.5900 165.5000", LatLongDMS: "11:35:24 N 165:30:00 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USA", NukeDepth: "-0.16", NukeName: "Able", NukeSource: "G+P", NukeType: "NACU", NukeY: "21"
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><KALUNDBORG,DK:SVRL OBS:2 SILENT SLVR SCRS TILT+WOBBLE:FLY ↑", LatLong: "55.650003 11.233334", LatLongDMS: "55:39:00 N 11:14:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Danemark", Strangeness: "7"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_310
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, “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
Reference: “A
Description of Rainbow City from the Hefferlin Manuscript (Hollow
Earth)”; Walter Kafton- Minkel, Subterranean Worlds, Loompanics,
1989, pp.
160–167; Clark III 610 Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_784
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
Reference: Lore and Deneault, p.
148; Clark III 1179 Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_785
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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
a History:
1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., p. 16
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_786
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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Operation
Crossroads” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_787
Date: 7/3/1946
Location: Carnegie Institution of Washington
Description: The Joint Research and Development Board
is established. Essentially it is Vannevar Bush’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 of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. The original
founding members are physicist Alfred Lee
Loomis, biologist Caryl
Parker Haskins, physicist Luis Walter
Alvarez, physicist
William
Shockley, and George Doriot.
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
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
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_193
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 from the Royal Swedish Air Force Materiel Administration
as chairman. Other members are Henry
Kjellson and Eric Malmberg from the Air Administration; Maj. Nils
Ahlgren and Capt. Gerdt
Stangenberg from the Air Defense department; chemist Gustaf
Ljunggren; physicist Martin Fehrm;
and Olof
Kempe from the Defense Radio Institute. They hold at least 12
meetings, beginning on July 10.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, 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
Date: 7/6/1946
Description: Astronomer Bertil
Lindblad, after
consulting with the Swedish Defense staff on ghost rocket reports,
remarks that the “adjective ‘cigar-shaped’ is something new.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost
Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 33
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_790
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", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "7"
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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, Mystery of the Ghost
Rockets, p. 10
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3896
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", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "7"
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_194
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 134.4km
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", State/Prov: "Finland", Strangeness: "7"
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
Reference: Göran Jansson, “Spökraketerna
1947,” January 2005, p. 12; Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., p.
14
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_791
Date: 7/9/1946
Locations: Guldsmedshyttan; Lindesberg; Sweden
Description: 2:30 p.m. Erik and
Asa Reuterswärd 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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, 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,” Riksorganisationen UFO-Sverige, March 7,
2017
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_792
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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The
Author, 1988 ed., p. 6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_793
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 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
Reference: Göran Jansson, “Spökraketerna
1947,” January 2005, p.11; Clark III 524, 527; Good Above, p.
20; Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., p.p. 6,
betw. 12–13
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_794
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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., p. 6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_795
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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The
Author, 1988 ed., pp. 6–7
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_796
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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
a History: 1946,
the Ghost Rockets, The
Author, 1988 ed., p. 7
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_797
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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The
Author, 1988 ed., p. 7
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_798
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
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3938
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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, Mystery of the Ghost
Rockets, p. 7
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3939
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", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "4"
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", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "8"
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,
Capt. C. Ljungdahl, and Capt. R. Westlin, who conclude that the material
has been in the area for a long time.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., pp.
10–12
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_799
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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., p. 9
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_800
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", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "5"
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", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "8"
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
Reference: Swords 20
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_801
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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The
Author, 1988 ed., p. 14
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_802
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
Reference: AFU case file
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_803
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", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Norway", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 7/15/1946
Description: The Swedes provide the British attaché
with analytical reports of all observations to date.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 20
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_804
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", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 7/16/1946
End date: 7/18/1946
Locations: US; Stockholm, Sweden
Description: US Secretary of the Navy James
Forrestal makes an unexpected visit to Stockholm, Sweden, to meet
with the Swedish Defense Minister Allan Vougt and
two members of the special committee on ghost rockets.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost
Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 35
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_805
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", State/Prov: "Norway", Strangeness: "7"
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
Reference: Swords 20
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_806
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
Reference: NICAP, “‘Ghost Rocket’
Crashes into Lake”; Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The
Author, 1988 ed., pp. 18–19; Göran Jansson, “Spökraketerna
1947,” January 2005, pp. 19–20; Clas Svahn and Anders Liljegren, “The
Kölmjärv Ghost Rocket Crash
Revisited,” AFU Newsletter 27 \(Jan./Dec. 1984): 1–5; Swords 16;
Clark III 526
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_807
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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., p.
17
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_808
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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, Mystery of the Ghost
Rockets, p. 18
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4154
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_195
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 4.8km
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", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "5"
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", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "7"
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
Reference: Swords 17
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_809
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
Reference: Swords 24
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_810
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
Reference: NICAP, “‘Ghost Rocket’
Crashes into Lake”; Göran Jansson, “Spökraketerna
1947,” January 2005, pp. 20–26; Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The
Author, 1988 ed., pp. 20, 76; Clas Svahn and Anders Liljegren, “The
Kölmjärv Ghost Rocket Crash Revisited,” AFU Newsletter 27
\(Jan./Dec. 1984): 1–5; Swords 17–20, 24; Clark III 525, 526
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_811
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
Reference: Swords 24–25
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_812
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
Reference: Swords 25
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_813
Date: 7/19/1946
Location: Scandinavian countries
Description: Maj. Gen. George
C. McDonald prepares a memorandum for the Commander of the Army Air
Forces Gen. Carl
Spaatz on reports of “rockets” over Scandinavian countries.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jan L. Aldrich, comp., The
Ghost Rocket File, Fund for UFO Research, 2000, pp. 9–11
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_814
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
Reference: AFU Sweden
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4188
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", State/Prov: "Norway", Strangeness: "6"
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 Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_4
Extra Data: LatLong: "11.5900 165.5000", LatLongDMS: "11:35:24 N 165:30:00 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USA", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeName: "Baker", NukeSource: "G+R", NukeType: "NWCU", NukeY: "21"
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
Reference: Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost
Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 35
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_815
Date: 7/25/1946
Description: The Swedish military states that ghost
rockets are not meteors.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
a History: 1946, the Ghost
Rockets, The
Author, 1988 ed., p. 23
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_816
Date: 7/25/1946
Locations: Baker nuclear test; Bikini Atoll; Marshall
Islands
Description: Baker nuclear test, Bikini Atoll in the
Marshall Islands.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Operation
Crossroads”; Fran Ridge, “The Baker Blast: Cause for
Alarm?” May 4, 2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_817
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", State/Prov: "Danemark", Strangeness: "6"
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
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”; Swords 20
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_818
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
Reference: London Daily Telegraph, July 29, 1946; Clark
III 526
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_819
Date: 7/29/1946
Locations: Norway; Sweden
Description: Norway begins censoring ghost rocket
reports just as Sweden is doing.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
a History: 1946,
the Ghost Rockets, The
Author, 1988 ed., p. 25
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_820
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_196
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 161.5km
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
Reference: Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost
Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 35
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_821
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
Reference: Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost
Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 35
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_822
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
Reference: Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost
Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 35
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_823
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", State/Prov: "Danemark", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Belgium", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "GRC", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Clark III 1179
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_824
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
Reference: Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT
Index 1940–1949, p. 20; Clark III 266
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_825
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", State/Prov: "Florida", Strangeness: "8"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_309
Date: 8/1/1946
Location: Tampa (near), FL
Description: Puckett Case (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation
Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_313
Date: 8/1/1946
Description: President Truman 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “United
States Atomic Energy Commission” Source:
EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_827
Date: 8/1/1946
Description: Truman 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Office
of Naval Research”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_828
Date: 8/1/1946
Locations: USSR; Sweden
Description: Col. Edwin
Kennedy Wright, Vandenberg’s
executive assistant at the Central Intelligence Group, sends a
memorandum to President Truman 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
Reference: Swords 21–23; Jan Aldrich, “Investigating
the Ghost Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 (Winter 1998): 10, 12
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_829
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
Reference: “Rocket
Craft Encounter Revealed by World War 2 Pilot,” UFO Investigator 1,
no. 2 (Aug./Sept. 1957): 15; UFOEv, p.
19
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_830
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
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
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
Reference: “Sweden
Plans Radar Fight on ‘Rockets,’” Los Angeles Times, August 13, 1946,
p. 1; Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
a History:
1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., p. 39
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_826
Date: 8/3/1946
Description: A cigar-shaped object flew over central
Norrland, Sweden this evening.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Bjorn Overbye, FSR, May-June 1969, p.
18
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4621
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", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_831
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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The
Author, 1988 ed., p. 28
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_832
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
Reference: Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost
Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 (Winter 1998): 10
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_833
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", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 8/7/1946
Location: Northern Japan
Description: A Top Secret message from the
Commander-in-Chief Air Forces, Pacific, to Gen. Lauris
Norstad, 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
Reference: Jan Aldrich; Murray Bott, “Military
Codenames ‘Olympic’ and ‘Majestic,’”
UFO UpDates, April 4, 2002
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_834
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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., p.
30
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_835
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
Reference: Göran Jansson, “Spökraketerna
1947,” January 2005, p. 36
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_836
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", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "4"
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", State/Prov: "Paris", Strangeness: "5"
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", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 8/11/1946
Locations: Ljugarn; Gotland; Sweden
Description: 8:47 p.m. Astronomer Bertil
Lindblad sees an exploding fireball in Ljugarn on Gotland,
Sweden.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Göran Jansson, “Spökraketerna
1947,” January 2005, p. 38
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_837
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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., pp. 33–
39; Göran Jansson, “Spökraketerna
1947,” 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
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_838
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
Reference: AFU Sweden, case G101; Loren E. Gross,
Mystery of the Ghost Rockets, p. 52
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4855
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", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "5"
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", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "7"
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
Reference: Good Need, pp.
39–40
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_839
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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
a History: 1946, the
Ghost Rockets, The
Author, 1988 ed., pp. 40–41
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_840
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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, Mystery of the Ghost
Rockets, p. 39
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4929
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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, Charles Fort, the Fortean
Society, and UFOs, p. 67
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4930
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", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 8/13/1946
Locations: Paris; Scandinavia; Leningrad; St.
Petersburg; Russia
Description: Capt. Roscoe
H. Hillenkoetter, 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
Reference: Swords 21; Good Need, pp.
38–39; Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4
(Winter 1998): 11
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_841
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, 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 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
Reference: Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost
Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 (Winter 1998): 10–11
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_842
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
Reference: “Swedes
Use Radar in Fight on Missiles,” New York Times. August 13, 1946, p.
4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_843
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
Reference: Joel Carpenter, “Guided Missiles and UFOs: A
Tangle of Fear, 1937–53, Part Two”; Swords 21
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_844
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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., p.
43
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_845
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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
a History: 1946,
the Ghost Rockets, The
Author, 1988 ed., p. 43
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_846
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_314
Date: 8/14/1946
Location: New York
Description: The New York Times reports that Secretary
of State Dean
Acheson is “very much interested” in the ghost rockets.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., p. 46; “2
Swedes Escape
a ‘Ghost Rocket,’” New York Times, August 14, 1946, p. 11
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_847
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
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; Swords 15–16; “Cigar
Sighted from B-19 Bomber,” AFU Newsletter, no. 44 (September 2002):
1–4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_848
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_197
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 6.4km
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", State/Prov: "Danemark", Strangeness: "6"
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 says that the object is “6 feet, 3 inches tall, like
a large man, and rather rectangular in shape.” She and her husband watch
it for an hour after it starts hovering about 20– 25 feet above a nearby
alley.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Al Starr, “Street Scene,” Waterloo (Iowa)
Sunday Times, August 18, 1946, p. II-1; “Well, We Saw It
First!” Waterloo Daily Courier, July 7, 1947, p. 2; Project 1947,
“UFO Reports:
1946” Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_849
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", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "8"
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
Reference: Joel Carpenter, “Guided Missiles and
UFOs: A Tangle of Fear, 1937–53, Part Two”; Jan L. Aldrich, comp.,
The
Ghost Rocket File, Fund for UFO Research, 2000, pp. 32–35
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_850
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
Reference: “Windows Broken by
Rocket Bomb,” Manchester Guardian, August 17, 1946, p. 6; Loren E.
Gross, UFO’s,
a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., p.
50
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_851
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", State/Prov: "Danemark", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The
Author, 1988 ed., p. 53
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_853
Date: 8/19/1946
Locations: Moscow; Peenemünde, Germany
Description: The US military attaché in Moscow reports
on the visit of Maj. Stig
Wennerström 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
Reference: Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost
Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 (Winter 1998): 12
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_854
Date: 8/19/1946
Locations: US; Stockholm, Sweden; Europe; London;
Sweden
Description: Two US experts on aerial warfare, aviation
legend General Jimmy
Doolittle and British Group Captain Douglas Bader, and General
David
Sarnoff, 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’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 in 1984, and researchers have found no evidence to support
a collaboration.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Joel Carpenter, “Guided Missiles and
UFOs: A Tangle of Fear, 1937–53, Part Two”; Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The
Author, 1988 ed., pp. 53–54; Clark III 527; Swords 21, 24
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_855
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
Reference: London Daily Telegraph, August 22, 1946;
Good Above, p.
21
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_856
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_198
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 0km
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", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Clas Svahn, “Spökraketerna:
Den Största Gåtan,” Riksorganisationen UFO-Sverige, March 7, 2017;
Swords 14–15
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_857
Date: 8/22/1946
Locations: Peenemünde; East Germany; Moscow; Gulf of
Bothnia
Description: Director of the Central Intelligence Group
(CIG) Lt. Gen. Hoyt
Vandenberg writes a top secret memo to President
Truman via Adm. William D.
Leahy, 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]
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
Reference: Joel Carpenter, “Guided Missiles and UFOs: A
Tangle of Fear, 1937–53, Part Two”; Barry Greenwood, “Significant
Ghost Rocket Documents
Available,” UFO Historical Revue, no. 15 (June 2015): 1–8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_858
Date: 8/23/1946
Locations: Sweden; British
Description: The British Foreign Office states that
English radar experts, including Reginald
Victor Jones, having
returned from Sweden, had “submitted secret reports to the British
government on the origin of the rockets.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Good Above, p.
21
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_859
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", State/Prov: "Cher", Strangeness: "4"
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", State/Prov: "North Carolina", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 8/24/1946
Location: Stockholm
Description: Stockholm Air Attaché Maj. Gen. 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
Reference: Joel Carpenter, “Guided Missiles and UFOs: A
Tangle of Fear, 1937–53, Part Two” Source:
EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_860
Date: 8/24/1946
Locations: Europe; Oslo, Norway; Norway; Sweden; Lake
near Oslo
Description: Admiral Henry Kent
Hewitt, 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
Reference: [Adm. Henry Kent Hewitt], Letter to US Naval
Attaché, Oslo, “Rocket Bombs or
Guided Missiles over Norway and Sweden,” August 24, 1946
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_861
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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
a History: 1946, the Ghost
Rockets, The
Author, 1988 ed., pp. 58–59
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_862
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
Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 151
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5282
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", State/Prov: "Oklahoma", Strangeness: "8"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_311
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
Reference: Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT
Index 1940–1949, p. 22; Clark III 266
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_852
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
Reference: Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost
Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 (Winter 1998): 13
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_863
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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., p. 63A;
[Memo on telegram of August 27,
1946]; Good Above, pp.
22, 447
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_864
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", State/Prov: "Nièvre", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Jacobsen, Area 51, p.
42
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_865
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", State/Prov: "GRC", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "GRC", Strangeness: "7"
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. Physicist
Paul
Santorinis is placed in charge of an investigation. He rules out
Russian missiles, but the Army ends the investigation in 1947.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 525; Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
a History: 1946,
the Ghost Rockets, The
Author, 1988 ed., pp. 62–63; Good Above, p.
23
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_866
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", State/Prov: "Ancona", Strangeness: "2"
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 ("Above
Top Secret" by Timothy Good p22,447)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_199
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", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "4"
Date: 9/7/1946
Location: Littlehampton, England
Description: British pilot Edward
Mortlock Donaldson attains an airspeed record of 616 mph in a
Gloster Meteor F Mk 4 at Littlehampton, England.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Edward
Donaldson (RAF officer)” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_867
Date: 9/9/1946
Location: Scandinavia
Description: The scientific advisor to MI6, English
physicist Reginald
Victor Jones, 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
Reference: Joel Carpenter, “Guided Missiles and
UFOs: A Tangle of Fear, 1937–53, Part Two”; Swords 26–27; Loren E.
Gross, UFO’s,
a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., pp.
63–64
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_868
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", State/Prov: "GRC", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "2", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "7"
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
Reference: NARA, US Naval Intelligence files; Jan
Aldrich
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_869
Date: 9/11/1946
Description: Jack
Northrop grounds the XB-35, which has suffered gearbox and propeller
control problems, until the Army Air Force can fix its propulsion
system.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Northrop
YB-35”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_870
Date: 9/11/1946
Location: Engle, New Mexico
Description: 2:00 p.m. Justin
B. 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
Reference: “Flying
Disc Tales Bring 2 Reports from Engle Area,” Albuquerque Journal,
June 29, 1947, p. 1; Clark III 530
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_871
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
Reference: (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO
Reporting Center, Seattle, September 1946 archived webpage, report
uploaded April 16, 2005
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5848
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", State/Prov: "Meurthe-et-Moselle", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 9/12/1946
Locations: Stockholm, Sweden; London
Description: Cmdr. Robert
A. Winston, 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
Reference: Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost
Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 (Winter 1998): 13
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_872
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", State/Prov: "AAL", Strangeness: "5"
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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., p.
66
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_873
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", State/Prov: "PYA", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 9/18/1946
Location: Castanheira, Portugal
Description: Two greenish globes, one following close
behind the other, zoom over Castanheira, Portugal.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The
Author, 1988 ed., p. 67
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_874
Date: 9/21/1946
Location: Swedish National Defense Research
Institute
Description: Chemist Gustaf
Ljunggren 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
Reference: Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost
Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 33–34
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_875
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", State/Prov: "Firenze", Strangeness: "7"
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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., p.
69
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_876
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", State/Prov: "FES", Strangeness: "4"
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
Reference: Clark III 530
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_878
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", State/Prov: "Finland", Strangeness: "4"
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", State/Prov: "Doubs", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "LSX", Strangeness: "2"
Date: 9/30/1946
Location: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City
Description: David
Sarnoff, 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
Reference: Joel Carpenter, “Guided Missiles and
UFOs: A Tangle of Fear, 1937–53, Part Two”; “Sarnoff
Predicts Weather Control and Delivery of the Mail by Radio,” New
York Times, October 1, 1946, p. 1, 48
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_877
Date: 10/1946
Location: Paterson, NJ
Description: Horse reacts to circular light (NICAP: 04
- Animal Reactions)
Reference: NICAP: 461000
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_315
Date: 10/1946
Locations: Denver, Colorado; Mount Shasta,
California
Description: Ray
Palmer publishes a letter from Maurice
Doreal (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
Reference: Walter Kafton-Minkel, Subterranean Worlds,
Loompanics, 1989, pp.
154–160; 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
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
Reference: Jan L. Aldrich, comp., The
Ghost Rocket File, Fund for UFO Research, 2000, p. 73
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_880
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_200
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 10/9/1946
Locations: Mount Palomar, California; San Diego
Description: Evening. George
Adamski 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 later tells the press that he has established psychic
communication with the occupants and the object is called the
Kareeta.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Sparks Fly
As Comet Passes Earth,” 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; Curt Collins, “1946,
Before Saucers, Kareeta: UFO Contact in California,”
The Saucers That Time Forgot, August 8, 2017
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_881
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_201
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 173.8km
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_202
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 104.6km
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
Reference: Clark III 529
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_882
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
Reference: “Swedish
Inquiry Fails to Solve Rocket Case,” New York Times, October 11,
1946, p. 3; Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The
Author, 1988 ed., pp. 71–72; Good Above, p.
23
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_883
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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
a History: 1946, the
Ghost Rockets, The
Author, 1988 ed., p. p. 74
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_884
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
Reference: Dolan, p.
12
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_885
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_203
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: .32km
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_204
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 102.4km
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
Reference: Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost
Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 (Winter 1998): 13
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_886
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
Reference: Joel Carpenter, “Guided Missiles and
UFOs: A Tangle of Fear, 1937–53, Part Three”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_887
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_205
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 152.9km
Date: 12/10/1946
Description: Gen. Curtis
LeMay answers an inquiry from Assistant Secretary of War for Air Stuart
Symington 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
Reference: Air Force Historical Research Agency,
Maxwell AFB; Jan Aldrich, “Secret Twining
Letter: ‘The
Reported Phenomena Are Real,’” October 11, 2008
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_888
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_206
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 184.4km
Date: 12/23/1946
Description: Jacobsson’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
Reference: Swords 26; Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, 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
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 1947
Location: Roswell, NM
Description: Einstein sees "Greys" for the first
time
Type: rumor
Reference: anonymous information (R.G.)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_207
Attributes: Einstein, gallant
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
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_209
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
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_212
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
Reference: "Report
on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J.
Ruppelt
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_896
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, Rear Adm.
Roscoe
Hillenkoetter, Secretary of the Air Force Stuart
Symington, Rear Adm.
Earl E. Stone,
Vice Adm. Arthur W.
Radford, Rear Adm. John E.
Gingrich, Adm. DeWitt
Clinton Ramsey, Maj. Gen. Robert
W. Harper, Lieut.
Gen Idwal H.
Edwards, Vice Adm. Ralph
Riggs, Capt. Richard Burke (USCG), and about 20 other
officials.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Capt. Bernard
Baruch, Jr.” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_890
Date: 1947
Locations: Sacramento, California; Roseville
Description: 11:00 p.m. Air Force pilot Edwin
T. Yeoman is returning home with his wife Eva 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
Reference: CUFOS case file
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_891
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 (A5, B3-C, RECOVERY)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_213
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
Reference: Wikipedia, “United
States Atomic Energy Commission”; Wikipedia, “Armed
Forces Special Weapons Project” Source:
EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_892
Date: 1/7/1947
Location: Portland, OR
Description: SKY OBJECT A MYSTERY ROCKET? - A
laboratory analysis of the cylindrical object which fell in Portland
yesterday from a clear sky established 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 reasonable basis for the hypothesis that it could have
been used in rocket construction. 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: Los Angeles Examiner - Fortean Society
Sightings (Scully box 3 ff5)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_214
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
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
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_893
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_215
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 116.2km
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", State/Prov: "NSE", Strangeness: "4"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_316
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
Reference: UFOFiles2, p.
29; ClearIntent, p.
151; Sparks, p. 16;
David Clarke, “Operation
Charlie,” 2002; Martin L. Shough, “A New
Study of the British ‘Ghost Airplanes’ of 1947,”
April 2009 Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_894
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
Reference: APRO Bulletin, December 1977, p. 7
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_344
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_317
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
Reference: Martin L. Shough, “A New
Study of the British ‘Ghost Airplanes’
of 1947,” April 2009 Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_895
Date: 1/20/1947
Locations: London; England
Description: In London, Ben
Lockspeiser, 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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, The
Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:
UFOs, a History: 1947 January 1st–June 23rd, Supplemental Notes, The
Author, 2000, pp. 3–5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_896
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_216
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 49.9km
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
Reference: Martin L. Shough, “A New
Study of the British ‘Ghost Airplanes’ of 1947,” April 2009
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_897
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
Reference: Martin L. Shough, “A New
Study of the British ‘Ghost Airplanes’ of 1947,” April 2009
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_898
Date: 1/29/1947
Locations: Los Alamos Laboratory; Sandia Base, New
Mexico
Description: Secretary of War Robert P.
Patterson and Secretary of the Navy James V.
Forrestal 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Armed
Forces Special
Weapons Project” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_899
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", State/Prov: "HSS", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 2/6/1947
Locations: Lock, South Australia; Port Augusta, South
Australia
Description: Around 7:30 a.m., 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 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
Reference: NICAP, “Five Objects
Cast Shadows”;
Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in
History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 329–350
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_900
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
Reference: Letter from US Naval Forces Europe, London,
to Chief of Naval Operations; Jan Aldrich
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_901
Date: 2/9/1947
Location: Coral Gables, FL
Description: Student and Einstein assistant Shirley J.
Wright wins writing essay competition
Type: scientist
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_217
Attributes: Einstein
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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, The
Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:
UFOs, a History: 1947 January 1st–June 23rd, Supplemental Notes, The
Author, 2000, p. 7
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_902
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_218
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 109.4km
Date: 2/28/1947
Location: Lima, Peru
Description: Three "Figures" Near Disc (NICAP: 07 -
Entity Cases, Code: En, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 470228
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_318
Date: 2/28/1947
Locations: Sweden; USAF Office of Air
Intelligence
Description: Capt. Emmet
O’Beirne, 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
Reference: Jan Aldrich
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_903
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", State/Prov: "Connecticut", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_219
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 165.2km
Date: 3/17/1947
Description: Newspaper article stating Einstein “has
helped many young students to find their directions”
Type: newspaper article
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_220
Attributes: Einstein
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
Reference: “‘Phantom
Bomb’ Returns to Skies over Sweden,” New York Times, March 22, 1947,
p. 8; Loren E. Gross, The
Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 January
1st–June 23rd, Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2000, p. 9
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_904
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><ORLANDO,FL:3/CAR:SVRL SLVR DISKS:APPEAR+DISAPPEAR:NFD:(AP)/6JLY47", LatLong: "28.866668 -81.766671", LatLongDMS: "28:52:00 N 81:46:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Florida", Strangeness: "6"
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
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
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", State/Prov: "British Columbia", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Cantal", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "Vendée", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_319
Date: 4/1947
Description: The June 1947 issue of Amazing Stories is
devoted in its entirety to “proofs” of Richard
Shaver’s claims and includes four of his novellas. Vincent
Gaddis has written a prescient article on UFOs, titled “Visitors
from the Void.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: David Halperin, “The
Shaver Mystery—Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer, and the Quest for Lemuria
(Part 2),”
July 11, 2014; Richard S. Shaver, “Formula
from the Underworld,” Amazing Stories 21, no. 6 (June 1947): 10–29;
Vincent H. Gaddis, “Visitors
from the Void,” Amazing Stories 21, no. 6 (June 1947): 159–161
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_905
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
Reference: NICAP, “Silvery Disc Seen
through Theodolite”; James E. McDonald, “Statement
on Unidentified Flying Objects,” 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 Horseman
of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 January 1st–June 23rd,
Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2000, pp. 17–21; Sparks, p. 16
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_906
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_221
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 129.2km
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", State/Prov: "Utah", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_222
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 102.2km
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", State/Prov: "Western Virginia", Strangeness: "5"
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", State/Prov: "Virginia", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, The
Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:
UFOs, a History: 1947 January 1st–June 23rd, Supplemental Notes, The
Author, 2000, p. 16
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_907
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_223
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 142.4km
Date: 4/17/1947
Location: Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Description: Col. Oliver G. Haywood
Jr. of the Atomic Energy Commission writes a memorndum to Harold A.
Fidler 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
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”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_908
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
Reference: Bloecher, p.
ix; Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects and Cloud Cigars,” IUR 29,
no. 1 (Spring 2004): 4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_909
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", State/Prov: "Oise", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "8"
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
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
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", State/Prov: "Sasketchewan", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "8"
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
Reference: MUFON case file
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_910
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_224
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", RelAlt: "5", State/Prov: "Tennessee", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: “Three Memphians Say They Saw Objects,”
Memphis (Tenn.) Commercial Appeal, July 7, 1947, p. 2
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_911
Date: 5/1/1947
Description: Rear Adm. Roscoe
H. Hillenkoetter replaces Hoyt
Vandenberg as Director of Central Intelligence.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_912
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", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 5/5/1947
Description: Hillenkoetter writes
to Baruch, saying that his CIRES plan is “on the verge of being put into
effect.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jan Aldrich
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_913
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", State/Prov: "New Jersey", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger, July 7, 1947;
Bloecher, p.
I-2
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_914
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
Reference: Allied Control Commission for Hungary;
George Mitrovic, The
Gateways to the Gods, Kindle,
2012
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_915
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
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_225
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 135.2km
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_226
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 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
Reference: “V-2 Goes Astray, Lands
in Six Miles of Alamogordo,” Las Cruces \(N.Mex.) Sun-News, May 16,
1947, p. 1; Good Need, pp.
55–57; Wikipedia, “Hermes
program” Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_916
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", State/Prov: "Oklahoma", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_320
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
Reference: NICAP, “Round and
Flat Object
Observed by Field Engineer”; Oklahoma City Times, June 26, 1947;
Loren E. Gross, The
Fifth Horseman of
the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 January 1st–June 23rd,
Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2000, pp. 27–28; Sparks, p. 16
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_917
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
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
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_227
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_228
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", State/Prov: "SNT", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "7"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_321
Date: 5/19/1947
Locations: Pike’s Peak Railway; Manitou Springs,
Colorado
Description: Around 12:30 p.m. Navy veteran Dean
A. 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
Reference: “Manitou Vets Relate Story: Another ‘Disk’
Seen,” Denver Post, June 28, 1947, p. 1; Bloecher, p.
I-1; Loren E. Gross, The
Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 January
1st–June 23rd, Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2000, pp. 29–30
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_918
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
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
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", State/Prov: "Alaska", Strangeness: "6"
Date: Late 5/1947
Location: Beaufort (near), SC
Description: Four Discs Flying Overhead (NICAP: 01 -
Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 4705Late
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_322
Date: Late 5/1947
Locations: Augusta, Georgia; St. Helena Sound;
Beaufort, South Carolina
Description: 11:00 a.m. Colden
R. 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
Reference: NICAP, “Four Discs Flying
Overhead”; Bloecher, p.
I-2
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_919
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", State/Prov: "South Carolina", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_229
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 79.3km
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 and Ernst
Steinhoff are conducting the test.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Hermes
program”; J. Terry White, “The
Hermes II Incident,” White Eagle Aerospace, May 2, 2011
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_920
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_230
Attributes: Einstein
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
Reference: Phillip L Rife, It Didn't Start With
Roswell; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3174
Date: 6/1947
Description: Oppenheimer-Einstein Majestic Document on
US Space Law, “Relationships with Inhabitants of Celestial Bodies”
Type: majestic document
Reference: Majestic
Document
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_231
Attributes: Einstein, majestic
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", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Hynek UFO Report, p.
142
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_921
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", State/Prov: "Delaware", Strangeness: "7"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_323
Date: 6/2/1947
Location: Rehoboth Beach, Delaware
Description: Private pilot Forrest
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
Reference: NICAP, “Jar-Shaped Object
Crosses in Front of Aircraft”;
Bloecher, p.
III-9; Sparks, p.
16
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_922
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
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
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
Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 Research Notes,
Bordentown, New Jersey, April 16, 2005, citing Waterloo Courier, July
10, 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3219
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
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 Still a Flight of
Fancy,” IUR 26, no. 1 (Spring 2001): 17–27; David Rudiak, “The
Phony Mogul Balloon Trajectory,”
2002; Kevin D. Randle, “Mogul
and Roswell,” A Different Perspective,” July 11, 2013; Kevin D.
Randle, “A
Few Facts about Project Mogul,” A Different Perspective, August 12,
2013; Kevin D. Randle, “Truth about
Mogul,” A Different Perspective, April 4, 2016
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_923
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", State/Prov: "Maharashtra", Strangeness: "4"
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
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
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’ 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
Reference: Jan Aldrich
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_924
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", State/Prov: "BDB", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "Sonora", Strangeness: "6"
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_55
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
Reference: Project
Blue Book
record; Joe Brill, “UFOs behind the Iron Curtain,” Skylook, no. 76,
March 1974, p. 8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_925
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
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
Date: 6/11/1947 (estimated)
Description: Student and Einstein assistant Shirley J.
Wright’s last day of high school
Type: scientist
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_232
Attributes: Einstein
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", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "4"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_324
Date: 6/12/1947
Location: Weiser, Idaho
Description: 6:15 p.m. 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
Reference: NICAP, “June 12, 1947, Weiser, Idaho”;
Bloecher, p.
II-8; Sparks, p.
17
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_926
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
Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers Are Real,
p. 24
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3432
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", State/Prov: "Vienne", Strangeness: "7"
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
Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #198
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3453
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_325
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
Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1978, p.
3
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3471
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", State/Prov: "Michigan", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "20", State/Prov: "North Dakota", Strangeness: "5"
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", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Wisconsin", Strangeness: "6"
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_58
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
Reference: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 26,
1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3524
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", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "New Jersey", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: “Local
Man Asserts Flights Seen Here,” Eugene \(Oreg.) Guard, June 26,
1947, p. 1; Bloecher, p.
IV-3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_927
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_326
Date: 6/19/1947
Locations: Muroc AFB; Edwards AFB; California
Description: USAAF Col. Albert
Boyd reaches a world airspeed record of 624 mph in a Lockheed P-80R
Shooting Star at Muroc AFB [later Edwards AFB], California.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Albert Boyd”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_928
Date: 6/19/1947
Locations: Baltic Sea; Sweden
Description: Maj. Gen. Stephen
Chamberlin, 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
Reference: Jan Aldrich
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_929
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", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "8"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_327
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_88
Attributes: metals
Date: 6/21/1947
Description: Maury Island Incident
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Medium
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_233
Attributes: metals
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", State/Prov: "Oklahoma", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "8"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_328
Date: 6/21/1947
Location: Maury Island, WA
Description: Maury Island Incident (NICAP: 06 - Trace
Cases)
Reference: NICAP: 470621
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_329
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_330
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_56
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_57
Date: 6/21/1947
Location: Spokane, Washington
Description: 11:55 a.m. Guy
R. Overman watches several silvery objects moving below a plane at
Spokane, Washington.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Eight Disc-Shaped
Objects As Big As a House”; Bloecher, p.
II-18; Sparks, p.
17
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_930
Date: 6/21/1947
Location: Maury Island, Washington
Description: Log salvager Harold
A. 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
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
Date: Summer 1947
Location: Pittsburg, Kansas
Description: Naval Cmdr. L.
H. Witherspoon sees a disc-shaped UFO flash over the airport at
Pittsburg, Kansas.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: UFOEv, p.
30
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_959
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
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A
Scientist's Search for Alien Contact, p. 47
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3565
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
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
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", State/Prov: "Massachusetts", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 6/22/1947
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Description: Dahl claims
he is visited by a mysterious dark-suited man who knows all about the
sighting. He tells his associate Fred L.
Crisman, and they
allegedly go to the beach to pick up fragments. Dahl mails Ray
Palmer in Chicago, Illinois, some fragments.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 721; Kenn Thomas, Maury Island
UFO: The Crisman Conspiracy, IllumiNet, 1999; Charlette LeFevre and
Philip Lipson, “The Maury Island
UFO Incident,” February 2014 Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_932
Date: 6/22/1947
Location: Greenfield, Massachusetts
Description: 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
Reference: Air Force Base Intelligence Report, “Flying
Discs,” July 30, 1947; Kevin D. Randle, “Roswell,
Nathan Twining, and the Mini-EOTS,” A Different Perspective, October
6, 2014
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_933
Date: 6/22/1947
Locations: Mount Franklin; El Paso, Texas
Description: 3:30 p.m. G.
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
Reference: “More El
Pasoans Report Seeing ‘Flying
Discs’ in Southwest,” El Paso \(Tex.) Times, June 29, 1947, pp.
1–2
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_934
Date: 6/22/1947
Locations: Yale University; Hartford, Connecticut
Description: Evening. Yale University astrophysicist Lyman
Spitzer 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
Reference: “Mars
May Be Peopled, Says Yale Speaker,” Hartford \(Conn.) Courant, June
23, 1947, p. 1; Clark III 455
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_935
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
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
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", page 111 (paperback)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_89
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Georgia", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "3000", State/Prov: "Nebraska", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Iowa", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_331
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
Reference: Bloecher, p.
II-3; Sparks, p. 17; Kevin D.
Randle, “More
Pre-Arnold UFO Sightings,” A Different Perspective, June 30,
2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_936
Date: 6/23/1947
Location: Wapakoneta, Ohio
Description: 9:30 p.m. Richard
L. Bitters and his wife Martha are
returning from a movie in Wapakoneta, Ohio, when they see a saucer-like
object flying an uneven course in the sky.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Saucer
Just Didn’t Fit Editor’s Idea of a ‘Scoop,’” Madison Wisconsin State
Journal, July 7, 1947, p. 2; Bloecher, p.
III-6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_937
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
Reference: Michael Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomenon
1947-1987, p. 1
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3612
Date: 6/24/1947
Location: Mt. Rainer, WA
Description: Kenneth Arnold sights 9 discs near Mt.
Rainer, Washington
Type: UFO sightings
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_90
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_234
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", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "1500", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "OER", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Missouri", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "3"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_332
Date: 6/24/1947
Location: Mt. Ranier, WA
Description: Arnold Case (P) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation
Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 470624
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_333
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_334
Date: 6/24/1947
Alternate date: 6/30/1947
Locations: 25 miles north of Pendleton, Oregon;
Columbia River
Description: Afternoon. Bill
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
Reference: NICAP, “Man Sees Figures Standing
near Disc”; Clark III 267; Patrick Gross, URECAT, November
7, 2018
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_938
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
Reference: “Flying
Discs Seen by
Railroad Man,” Cedar Rapids \(Iowa\) Gazette, June 28, 1947, p. 2;
Schopick, pp.
1–2; NICAP, “Engineer Reports 10 Shiny
Flat Discs”; Kevin D. Randle, “The
June 23, 1947 UFO Sighting,” A Different Perspective, March 20,
2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_939
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, 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 Shough 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Kenneth
Arnold UFO Sighting”; \[Project Blue Book file];
NICAP, “Kenneth
Arnold Sighting”; Center
for UFO Studies, [clippings
and reports]; Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the
Saucers, Palmer, 1952, pp. 9–13; Bloecher, p.
I-2–3; Patrick Gross, “The Kenneth
Arnold Sighting, June 24, 1947”; Kim
Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 48–53;
John A. Keel, “Kenneth
Arnold and the F.B.I.,” Flying Saucer Review 32, no. 5 (August
1987): 2–12; Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
a History:
Volume 1, 1947, 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; Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO
Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, pp.
54–59; Martin Shough, “The Singular
Adventure of Mr. Kenneth Arnold,” 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
Date: 6/24/1947
Locations: Idaho; Boise, Idaho
Description: 3:30 p.m. Idaho Lieutenant Governor Donald S.
Whitehead and Justice of the Peace 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
Reference: “Whitehead,
Lampert, Join ‘Disc List,’” Boise Idaho Statesman, July 3, 1947, p.
9; Bloecher, pp.
III-18–19
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_941
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
Reference: NICAP, “Prospector Compass
Incident”; Bloecher, p.
IV- 3;
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,” June 2010, pp. 106,
109–110; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 58–59
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_942
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
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
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
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
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", State/Prov: "Pennsylvania", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Missouri", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "4", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Utah", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Oklahoma", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 6/25/1947
Locations: East Oregonian office in Pendleton, Oregon;
Cascade Mountains
Description: Kenneth
Arnold goes to the East Oregonian office in Pendleton, Oregon, and
speaks with reporters Nolan Skiff and 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
Reference: “Impossible! Maybe, But Seein’ Is Believin’,
Says Flier,” Pendleton East Oregonian, June 25, 1947, p. 1; “Flying
Saucers Puzzle Pilot,” 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,’” Daily Kos,
April 18, 2009; Phil Wright, “The
Sighting,” Portland East Oregonian, June 16, 2017
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_943
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
Reference: “Puzzle
in Sky Whiz,” Kansas City \(Mo.) Star, June 26, 1947, p. 6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_944
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", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Utah", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Utah", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: “Dr.
Urey Scoffs
at ‘Atom Angle’ to Flying Disks,” Chicago Tribune, July 6, 1947, p.
8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_945
Date: 6/26/1947
Location: Pendleton, Oregon
Description: Kenneth
Arnold is interviewed live on KWRC radio in Pendleton, Oregon, by
broadcaster Theodore
A. “Ted” Smith.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Patrick Gross, “About
the June 25, 1947, Interview on WKPG Radio by Bill Bequette”; “Kenneth Arnold Interviewed by Bill
Bequette [actually Ted Smith],” Nutsandbolts UFO YouTube channel,
December 12, 2010
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_946
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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Northrop
YB-35”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_947
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
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
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", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "2"
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", RelAlt: "300", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Arkansas", Strangeness: "4"
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", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "British Columbia", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "NSW", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: “More El
Pasoans Report Seeing ‘Flying Discs’ in Southwest,” El Paso \(Tex.)
Times, June 29, 1947, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_948
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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
a History: Volume 1, 1947, The Author, February 1991, p. 16
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_949
Date: 6/27/1947
Locations: Pendleton, Oregon; Texas; Idaho
Description: In a United Press dispatch from Pendleton,
Oregon, Kenneth
Arnold 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
Reference: “Report
of ‘Flying
Saucers’ Causes Furor; Texas Preacher Calls Flock for World’s End,”
Medford \(Oreg.) Mail Tribune, June 27, 1947, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_950
Date: 6/27/1947
Locations: Alamogordo Army Air Field; Holloman AFB; New
Mexico; Engle, New Mexico
Description: Day. Capt. 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
Reference: Bloecher, pp.
III-9–10
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_951
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
Reference: Bloecher, pp.
II-1–2
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_952
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
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
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", RelAlt: "8", State/Prov: "Iowa", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Michigan", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Nevada", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "2400", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Wisconsin", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Alabama", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_335
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_336
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_337
Date: 6/28/1947
Location: 30 miles north of Lake Mead, Nevada
Description: 1:15 p.m. Lieut. Eric
B. 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
Reference: NICAP, “Formation of 5–6
Objects Head toward P-51”; Bloecher, p.
III-10; Sparks, p.
17
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_953
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, 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
Reference: NICAP, “Object Zig-Zags
with Bursts of Speed”; Bloecher, p.
III-3; Sparks, p.
18
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_954
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
Reference: Waterloo (Iowa) Courier, July 6, 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3706
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
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
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
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
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_235
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", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "5"
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", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "Ontario", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Iowa", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Iowa", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_338
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_339
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_340
Date: 6/29/1947
Location: 20 miles east-northeast of Las Cruces, New
Mexico
Description: 1:15 p.m. Carl J. Zohn, 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 (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
Reference: NICAP, “Naval Research Lab
Rocket Scientists See Silver Discs”; Bloecher, p.
III-18; Sparks, p. 18; Evelyne
Tsezana, “Grandpa Zohn
Saw UFOs in New Mexico,” Geni, April 6, 2011
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_955
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
Reference: Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of
1947, p. 109
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3723
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
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case
729
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3724
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
Reference: Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of
Multiple UFO, p. 178
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3725
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", State/Prov: "Arkansas", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "100", State/Prov: "Arkansas", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Utah", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Arkansas", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Georgia", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Tennessee", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_341
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_59
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
Reference: NICAP, “P-80 Pilot Sees
Circular Objects Dive and Land”; Bloecher, p.
II-12; Sparks, p. 18
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_956
Date: 6/30/1947
Locations: Eighth Air Force; Fort Worth, Texas
Description: Eighth Air Force Brig. Gen. Roger
M. Ramey and intelligence officer Col. Alfred
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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, The
Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History:
1947 June 24th–July 6th, Supplemental Notes, The
Author, 2000, p. 17
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_957
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.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Sparks, p.
13
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_958
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
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
Date: 7/1947
Description: Student and Einstein assistant Shirley J.
Wright visits Princeton and studies under Einstein
Type: scientist
Reference: Bragalia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_236
Attributes: Einstein
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
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_266
See also: 6/24/1947
See also: 9/23/1947
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
Reference: "Report
on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J.
Ruppelt
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_854
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", State/Prov: "Finland", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Finland", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_342
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_343
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_237
Date: 7/1/1947
Locations: Roswell Army Air Field, Roswell NM; White
Sands, NM
Description: 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, had received a call from Brigadier
General Martin F. Scanlon of the Air
Defense Command, ordering him to report to the radar sites at White
Sands. 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 at all 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
Reference: Frank Kaufmann
(aka Steve McKenzie) - roswellfiles.com
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_929
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", RelAlt: "1500", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Alberta", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Prince Edward Island", Strangeness: "4"
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", State/Prov: "Kentucky", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Ontario", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "99", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "North Carolina", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "South Carolina", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_344
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_345
Date: 7/1/1947
Location: North Bedeque, Prince Edward Island
Description: Day. Animal ecologist Charles
K. 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
Reference: Bloecher, p. III-18
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_961
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
Reference: Col. James F. Olive Jr., “Radar Pick-Ups of
High-Speed Targets in the Far East,” Memorandum for Assistant Chief
of Air Staff, Washington, D.C., September 26, 1947
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_962
Date: 7/1/1947
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
Description: Col. Alfred
Kalberer holds another press conference in Fort Worth, Texas, and
brings astronomer Oscar
Monnig along to comment that the discs are “an interesting study in
human psychology.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, The
Fifth Horseman
of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 June 24th–July 6th,
Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2000, pp. 23–24
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_963
Date: 7/1/1947
Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
Description: Night. Albuquerque, New Mexico, Chamber of
Commerce official Max
Hood sees a bluish disc zigzagging for about 30 seconds.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Bloecher, p.
III-17; Loren E. Gross, The
Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947
June 24th–July 6th, Supplemental Notes, The
Author, 2000, pp. 23
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_964
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
Reference: Bloecher, p.
III-2; Loren E. Gross, The
Fifth Horseman
of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 June 24th–July 6th,
Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2000, p. 23
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_965
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 Castle 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
Reference: Lorenzen, FS Hoax, pp.
18–19
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_966
Date: 7/1/1947
End date: 7/3/1947?
Locations: Roswell, New Mexico; Washington, D.C.; New
Mexico desert
Description: According to Annie
Jacobsen’s informant, EG&G engineer Alfred
O’Donnell, the upcoming Roswell, New Mexico, crashes are the result
of a psychological warfare operation by Soviet leader Joseph
Stalin to fly into US airspace two disc- or wing-shaped aircraft
based on a Horton
brothers 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.
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
Reference: Jacobsen, Area 51, pp.
367–374; Kremlin 30–36
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_967
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, 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
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The
Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p.
159; Kevin D. Randle, A History of UFO Crashes, Avon, 1995, p.
8; Jim Wilson, “Roswell Plus
50,” 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
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
Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 Research Notes
from Bordentown, New Jersey talk, April 16, 2005, p. 27
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3760
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
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
Date: 7/1/1947
Description: At noon Mrs. Hunt saw saw six discs
maneuvering in the sky over Madras, Oregon.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: The Oregonian, July 3, 1947; Ted Bloecher,
Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case # 136
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3762
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
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
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
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
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
Reference: Oregon Journal, July 3, 1947; Ted Bloecher,
Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case # 139
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3765
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
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
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
Reference: Charleston (SC) News Courier, July 6, 1947;
Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case # 147
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3767
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
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
Date: 7/2/1947
Description: Roswell area crash
Type: ufo crash
Reference: Valerian, Matrix 1
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_238
Date: 7/2/1947
Location: Roswell, NM
Description: Roswell area crash
Type: ufo crash
Reference: "Matrix 1", Valerian
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_239
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_240
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", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Michigan", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Wisconsin", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "1500", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "30", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "450", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Clark III 267; Patrick Gross, URECAT, August
81, 2006
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_960
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
Reference: “100
at Ball Game Tell of Seeing Two Mystery Saucers,” Cincinnati
\(Ohio\) Post, July 7, 1947, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_969
Date: 7/2/1947
Location: Roswell, New Mexico
Description: 9:50 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Dan
Wilmot see an oval object like two inverted saucers pass over their
house moving northwest in Roswell, New Mexico.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Sparks, p. 19;
Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at
Roswell, Evans, 1994, p.
159; 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
Date: 7/3/1947
Location: Magdalena, NM
Description: Magdalena, NM area crash
Type: ufo crash
Reference: "Matrix 1", Valerian
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_241
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. 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
Reference: Jason
Colavito - Saucer Mystery Solved?
Reference: Stockton
Evening and Sunday Record, 7/3/1947, newspapers.com
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_928
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "5"
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", State/Prov: "Nebraska", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Arkansas", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Georgia", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Maryland", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Iowa", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Maine", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Prince Edward Island", Strangeness: "4"
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", State/Prov: "Prince Edward Island", Strangeness: "4"
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", State/Prov: "Prince Edward Island", Strangeness: "4"
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", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "Vermont", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Iowa", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "MDG", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "4"
Date: 7/3/1947
Location: Roswell, NM
Description: Famous alleged UFO crash (NICAP: 06 -
Trace Cases, NC)
Reference: NICAP: 470703
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_346
Date: 7/3/1947
Location: Roswell, NM
Description: Famous alleged UFO crash and bodies
recovered (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases, NC)
Reference: NICAP: 470703
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_347
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_348
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_349
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
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_0
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
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
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_971
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
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
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
Reference: NICAP, “Astronomer
Observes Ten Large Objects”; Bloecher, p.
III-18; Sparks, p. 19; James E.
McDonald, “Statement
on Unidentified Flying Objects,” 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
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 has
asked Wright Field to look into such reports. Air Materiel Command’s Lt.
Gen. Nathan
F. Twining tells Idaho Evening Statesman reporter David
N. Johnson that officials are indeed looking into the discs and that
Wright Field has no comparable technology. Lieut. William
C. Anderson, Wright Field public relations officer, says there is no
confirmation that the discs exist. Maj. Paul
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
Reference: “Army
Gets Around to Checking ‘Flying Discs’
and Is Mystified,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 3, 1947, p. 1; Dave
Johnson, “AAF
Investigates Reports of Mysterious Air
Objects,” Boise Idaho Daily Statesman, July 3, 1947, pp. 1, 9; “Military Says ‘No
Results’ in Disc Probe,” Boise Idaho
Daily Statesman, July 4, 1947, p. 2; “Weird ‘Flying Saucers’
Seen over 10 States,” New York Daily News, July 4, 1947, Final ed.,
p. 8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_974
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
Reference: Bloecher, p.
II-17; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night,
2022, p. 64
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_975
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
Reference: “‘Saucer’
Reports Increase As
Sky Is Searched in Vain,” Spokane \(Wash.) Spokesman-Review, July 7,
1947, pp. 1, 6; “Dishman
Residents Saw ‘Flying Saucers’ Land,” Spokane \(Wash.)
Spokesman-Review, July 7, 1947, p. 6; Bloecher, p.
II-12
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_976
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
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
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
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
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
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, pg.
51; Donald Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top Secret, pg. 89
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3797
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
Reference: Ted Bloecher; Rutland (VT) Herald, July 9,
1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3798
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
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_243
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
Reference: Twitter
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_244
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", State/Prov: "Ontario", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "New Jersey", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Virginia", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "Massachusetts", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "600", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "7"
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><AUSTIN,NV:2/Pvt.PLANE:5 BRILL.DISKS >>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", State/Prov: "Nevada", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Louisiana", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "Montana", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "7"
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", RelAlt: "5000", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Missouri", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "11", State/Prov: "North Dakota", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "6000", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Kansas", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Wyoming", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Pennsylvania", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Arkansas", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Missouri", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "Wisconsin", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Minnesota", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "South Dakota", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Michigan", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "11"
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", State/Prov: "New Jersey", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Maryland", Strangeness: "7"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_350
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_351
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_352
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_353
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_354
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_355
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_356
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
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_1
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
Reference: “South Plainfield Woman
Reports Seeing ‘Flying Saucer’ Formation,” Bridgewater \(N.J.)
Courier-News, July 5, 1947, p.1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_978
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
Reference: Bloecher, p.
II-6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_979
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
Reference: “U.S. Stops ‘Laughing Off’ Stories
of Flying Disks,” Hollywood \(Calif.) Citizen-News, July 3, 1947, p.
1; “Flying
Disks Said ‘Space Ships’
from Other Solar Systems,” Bryan \(Tex.) Eagle, July 3, 1947, p. 8;
“Buck
Rogers Special,” Santa Rosa \(Calif.) Press Democrat, July 4, 1947,
p. 2; Curt Collins, “A
1947 Pioneer of the UFO Extraterrestrial Hypothesis,”
The Saucers That Time Forgot, December 16, 2021
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_980
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
Reference: Bloecher, p. III-10
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_981
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
Reference: Ruppelt, p.
20; Bloecher, p.
II-9; Sparks, p. 19
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_982
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
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”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_983
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, Portland
police officer 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, Robert
Ellis, and
Earl
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
Reference: NICAP, “Seven Discs
Observed by Many Witnesses”; Bloecher, pp.
II-9, III-15;
Sparks, 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”;
James E. McDonald, “Statement
on Unidentified Flying Objects,” 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
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
Reference: “Flying
Saucer Mystery Grows,” Tucson \(Ariz.) Daily Citizen, July 5, 1947,
p. 4; Bloecher, p.
II-5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_985
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
Reference: Bloecher, p.
II-14
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_986
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
Reference: “‘Air
Disc’ Mystery Grows, Baffles
U.S.,” Hollywood \(Calif.) Citizen-News, July 5, 1947, pp. 1, 3;
Bloecher, p.
III-10
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_987
Date: 7/4/1947
Location: 12321 22nd Street NE, Lake City, Seattle,
Washington
Description: 5:45 p.m. Coast Guard Yeoman 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
Reference: “Observers Report
Discs over
Entire Western Area,” Salt Lake
City Deseret News, July 5, 1947, p. 1; Bloecher, pp.
IV-3–4; London UFO Research Unit, “Seattle,
Washington, America, North America”; Michael D. Swords, “Can
You Learn Anything from UFO Photos,
Part Two,” 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
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
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”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_989
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
Reference: “Disks
Seen Here Today, Is Report,” Spokane \(Wash,) Spokesman- Review,
July 7, 1947, p. 1; Bloecher, pp.
II-6–7
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_990
Date: 7/4/1947
Locations: Fayetteville, Arkansas; 2 miles north of
Fayetteville, Arkansas
Description: Sunset. Henry
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
Reference: Bloecher, p.
IV-1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_991
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
Reference: “Flying
Discs Seen
over City,” Philadelphia Inquirer, July 5, 1947, pp. 1, 3; Bloecher,
pp.
II-14–15
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_992
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
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”;
NICAP, “5 Discs Sighted by
United Flight”; Bloecher, pp.
III-10–11; Sparks, p. 20;
Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, 1952, Palmer,
pp. 18–19; James E. McDonald, “Statement
on Unidentified Flying Objects,”
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
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). 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
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The
Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, pp.
160–161
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_994
Date: 7/4/1947
Location: Corona, New Mexico
Description: During a thunderstorm near Corona, New
Mexico, W.
W. “Mack” 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
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The
Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p.
160
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_995
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 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 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
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The
Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p.
160; Jacobsen, Area 51, p.
36; 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,” Popular Mechanics 174 \(July 1997\): 48–53; The Roswell Files,
“Jim
Ragsdale,” 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 Roswell
Tale,” A Different Perspective, April 22, 2015
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_996
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
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3808
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
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
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
Reference: Nevada Daily Free Press, July 7, 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3810
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
Reference: Brinsley Le Poer Trench, Mysterious
Visitors, p. 91
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3811
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
Reference: Thomas Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding
UFO Sighting Reports, p. 2; Oregon Journal, July 5, 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3812
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
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
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
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
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
Reference: Madison Capital-Times, July 7, 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3815
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_245
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
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"
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", RelAlt: "20", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "1500", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "7"
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", RelAlt: "1500", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Maine", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Louisiana", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "Montana", Strangeness: "4"
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", State/Prov: "Kentucky", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Pennsylvania", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "New Jersey", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "New Jersey", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "South Carolina", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "South Carolina", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "South Dakota", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "Michigan", Strangeness: "5"
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", State/Prov: "Massachusetts", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Nebraska", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Oklahoma", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Arkansas", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "15", State/Prov: "Georgia", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Wisconsin", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_357
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 of the Army's Air Defense Command, discredited Roswell
witness Frank
Kaufmann returns to Roswell Army Air Field from Alamogordo to alert
Colonel William H.
Blanchard, Roswell AAF commanding officer, about a potential
crash.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jim Wilson, “Roswell Plus
50,” Popular Mechanics 174 \(July 1997\): 48–53
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_997
Date: 7/5/1947
Locations: Roswell, New Mexico; Pine Lodge Road
northwest of Roswell
Description: 5:00 a.m. Archaeologists, including William
Curry Holden, 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 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 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
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The
Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, pp.
33–36; 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
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
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
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, 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 has interviewed Alfred
O’Donnell, 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, working for the Russian military. A frantic search to find
what happened to the brothers allegedly takes place; informants like
Austrian physicist Adolf Smekal of
Frankfurt, Germany, provide leads, with confusing results for several
months.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The
Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p.
161; Thomas J. Carey, “The Strange Saga of ‘Cactus Jack,’” IUR 22,
no. 1 (Spring 1997): 3–11; Jim Wilson, “Roswell Plus
50,” Popular Mechanics 174 \(July 1997\): 48–53; Jacobsen, Area 51,
pp.
36–40
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1000
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 travels there from Albuquerque to examine the
survivor, who reportedly dies one week later and is buried in the Fort
Stanton cemetery.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The
Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 161;
Nick Redfern, The Roswell UFO Conspiracy, Lisa Hagan, 2017, pp.
204–221
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1001
Date: 7/5/1947
Location: J. B. Foster ranch house southeast of Corona,
New Mexico
Description: Following the rain the night before, 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. 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 and
Loretta Proctor. 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
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– 32, 161;
Michael D. Swords, “Roswell: Clashing
Visions of the Possible,” 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,” 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
Date: 7/5/1947
Location: Auburn, California
Description: 2:30 p.m. Automobile dealer Kjell Qvale 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
Reference: “Skeptical
Experts Call Disc
Reports ‘Mass Illusion,’” San Francisco Examiner, July 8, 1947, p.
1; Bloecher, p.
II-5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1003
Date: 7/5/1947
Description: Later that evening, 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
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The
Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 163
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1004
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
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3835
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
Reference: Ted Bloecher, citing the Sacramento Bee,
July 7, 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3836
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
Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary
Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave; Albuquerque Journal, July 6,
1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3837
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
Reference: Daily Kennebec Journal, July 7, 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3838
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
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case
862
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3839
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
Reference: Jan Aldrich, A Preliminary Report on the
1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 80
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3840
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
Reference: Ted Bloecher, newspaper clipping dated July
6, 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3841
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", RelAlt: "1", State/Prov: "Kansas", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "New Jersey", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Louisiana", Strangeness: "7"
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", RelAlt: "6", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"
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", RelAlt: "20", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Florida", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Missouri", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Louisiana", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"
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", RelAlt: "25000", State/Prov: "British Columbia", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Indiana", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Kansas", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Wyoming", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Wyoming", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Florida", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "2", State/Prov: "British Columbia", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Georgia", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Missouri", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Louisiana", Strangeness: "7"
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", RelAlt: "3000", State/Prov: "South Dakota", Strangeness: "7"
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", RelAlt: "10", State/Prov: "Kansas", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "South Carolina", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Wisconsin", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Virginia", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Oklahoma", Strangeness: "2"
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", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Oklahoma", Strangeness: "5"
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", State/Prov: "Utah", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Missouri", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "750", State/Prov: "New Hampshire", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "New York", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Virginia", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Connecticut", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Nebraska", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Missouri", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Missouri", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Missouri", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "5", State/Prov: "New York", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Alabama", Strangeness: "7"
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", RelAlt: "900", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Danemark", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Rhode Island", Strangeness: "6"
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><BURLINGTON,WI:2 OBS:SCR W/LRG PROPELLER OUTRUNS LITE PLANE:FLASH", LatLong: "42.633335 -88.333338", LatLongDMS: "42:38:00 N 88:20:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Wisconsin", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Maryland", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Ontario", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "Indiana", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "20", State/Prov: "Minnesota", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Nebraska", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_358
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_359
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_360
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
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_2
Date: 7/6/1947
Locations: Roswell, New Mexico; Roswell Army Air Field;
Brazel's ranch
Description: 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. 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
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The
Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, pp.
163–164
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1005
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
Reference: NICAP, “30–50ʹ Circular Object
Paces B-25, Accelerates”; Bloecher, p.
III-11; Sparks, p.
21
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1006
Date: 7/6/1947
Locations: Fairfield-Suisun Army Air Field; Fairfield,
California
Description: Day. Army Air Corps Capt. James
H. 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
Reference: NICAP, “Round Flat
Object Size of C-54”; Bloecher, p.
III-3; Sparks, p. 21
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1007
Date: 7/6/1947
Location: Encampment, Wyoming
Description: 2:45 p.m. David
A. Kenney, 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
Reference: Bloecher, p.
III-17; David Kenney, “Right Place, Right Time,” IUR 30, no. 4
(August 2006): 28
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1008
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
Reference: “Tempeans
See ‘Disc,’” Phoenix Arizona Republic, July 7, 1947, p. 1; Bloecher,
p.
II-13
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1009
Date: 7/6/1947
Locations: Roswell AAF; Ranch; Fort Worth Army Air
Field; Washington, D.C.
Description: Colonel William H.
Blanchard, 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, the air intelligence officer, to investigate the debris
report. Marcel immediately drives to the sheriff’s office. Marcel
interviews 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. Cavitt. They
escort Brazel back to his ranch and examine the debris field. Acting on
orders from Major General Clements
McMullen, 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 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
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The
Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, pp.
37–40, 164;
Good Need, p.
89; Nukes 482–483
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1010
Date: 7/6/1947
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
Description: 8:45 p.m. Army Staff Sgt. 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
Reference: Bloecher, pp.
III-3–4, IV-4;
Michael David Hall and Wendy Ann Connors, Alfred Loedding and the Great
Flying Saucer Wave of 1947, Rose Press, 1998, pp.
67–68
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1011
Date: 7/6/1947
Description: 9:00 p.m. Because of the distance to the
ranch over roads that are less than adequate, Brazel,
Marcel,
and 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
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The
Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p.
165
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1012
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
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3855
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
Reference: Pocatello Tribune, July 7, 1947; Seattle
(WA) Post-Intelligencer, July 8, 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3856
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
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
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
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official
statistics; Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p.
37
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3858
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
Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO
Encounters, p. 9
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3859
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
Reference: Indianapolis News, July 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3860
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
Reference: Michael Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomena
1947-1967, p. 2
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3861
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
Reference: Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of
1947, case 451
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3862
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
Reference: Sioux Falls (SD) Daily Argus-Leader, July 7,
1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3863
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
Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A preliminary
report on the 1947 UFO sighting wave, p. 85
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3864
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
Reference: Cincinnati Enquirer, July 7, 1947; Ted
Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, cases 442 & 457
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3865
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
Reference: Daily Oklahoman, July 8, 1947; Dallas
Morning News, July 7, 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3866
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
Reference: Hartford Times, July 7, 1947; Manchester
Union-Leader, July 7, 1947; Providence Journal, July 7, 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3867
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
Reference: Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of
1947, case 468
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3868
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
Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1978, p.
4
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3869
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
Reference: Baltimore News-Post, July 7, 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3870
Date: 7/6/1947
Description: A "rolling" luminous disc was seen flying
south of Omaha, Nebraska at 11:45 p.m.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Omaha World-Herald, July 7, 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3871
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 (crash)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_247
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_248
Date: 7/7/1947
Location: Spokane, CA
Description: Newspaper article: “Army can’t locate
crashed saucers” in Spokane area
Type: newspaper article
Reference: Medium
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_249
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
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
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Baja California", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Indiana", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Western Virginia", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Maryland", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "5"
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", State/Prov: "Missouri", Strangeness: "4"
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", State/Prov: "Vermont", Strangeness: "7"
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", RelAlt: "3", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "9"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"
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", RelAlt: "75", State/Prov: "North Carolina", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Louisiana", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Wisconsin", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Nevada", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Missouri", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Wisconsin", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Oklahoma", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Wisconsin", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Wisconsin", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "5", State/Prov: "Pennsylvania", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "New Jersey", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "1500", State/Prov: "Massachusetts", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "7"
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", RelAlt: "3300", State/Prov: "Oklahoma", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Georgia", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Tennessee", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Florida", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Wisconsin", Strangeness: "5"
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", State/Prov: "Seine Maritime", Strangeness: "9"
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", State/Prov: "Florida", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "Tennessee", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "99", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Pennsylvania", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "8"
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", RelAlt: "20", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "7"
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", RelAlt: "1200", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Pennsylvania", Strangeness: "8"
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", RelAlt: "20", State/Prov: "Alabama", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Iowa", Strangeness: "7"
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", RelAlt: "1200", State/Prov: "Wisconsin", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Florida", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "75", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Connecticut", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Michigan", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "300", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Tennessee", Strangeness: "3"
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", State/Prov: "Oklahoma", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Alabama", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Utah", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Kentucky", Strangeness: "3"
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", State/Prov: "Mississippi", Strangeness: "3"
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", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Michigan", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Maine", Strangeness: "5"
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", State/Prov: "New Hampshire", Strangeness: "5"
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", State/Prov: "Maine", Strangeness: "7"
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.
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", State/Prov: "NSW", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Kentucky", Strangeness: "5"
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", State/Prov: "Georgia", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "South Dakota", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_361
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_362
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_363
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_364
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_365
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_366
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_367
Date: 7/7/1947
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Description: The Rhodes Photo Case (NICAP: 08 -
Photographic Cases, Code: I, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 470707
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_368
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
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The
Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p.
165
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1013
Date: 7/7/1947
Location: Roswell
Description: Brazel takes
Marcel and
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
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, 165;
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,” Journal of Scientific Exploration 12, no. 1
(1998): 79–101; Michael D. Swords, “A
Different View of ‘Roswell: Anatomy of
a Myth,’” Journal of Scientific Exploration 12, no. 1 (1998):
103–125; Robert M. Wood, “Critique
of ‘Roswell:
Anatomy of a Myth,’” 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 Brazel
Schreiber and the Roswell Crash,” A Different Perspective, September
19, 2015
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1014
Date: 7/7/1947
Locations: Alamogordo AAF; Kirtland AAF; New Mexico;
Washington State
Description: AMC commander Lieut. Gen Nathan
Twining unexpectedly flies to Alamogordo AAF and Kirtland AAF in New
Mexico, remaining there until July 11. Army Air Forces Commander Gen. Carl Spaatz is
supposedly “vacationing” in Washington State. He tells reporters he
knows nothing about the flying discs.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The
Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p.
165
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1015
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
Reference: Sparks, p. 21; “Speaking
of Pictures: A Rash of Flying Disks Breaks Out over the U.S.,”
Life, July 21, 1947, p. 14; ClearIntent, p.
149; 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 Again,”
A Different Perspective, July 29, 2015; Maurizio Verga, “Here
They Are! Early Crashes of Flying Saucers,
a Visual History,” Cielo Insolito, no. 6 (March 2018): 8–27
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1016
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
Reference: “Tiny
Speck Whizzes
across Sky Here at Unbelievable Rate of Speed; Many Reno Persons See
Small Object,” Reno Nevada State Journal, July 8, 1947, p. 14;
Bloecher, pp.
III-7–8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1017
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
Reference: Bloecher, p.
III-11; Sparks, p. 22; Loren E.
Gross, The
Fifth Horseman of the
Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 July 7th–July 10th, Supplemental
Notes, The Author, 2001, p. 9
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1018
Date: 7/7/1947
Locations: Toronto; Shreveport, Louisiana; Ellington
Field [now Ellington Airport], Houston, Texas
Description: Gen. Hoyt
Vandenberg’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 Symington, calls
concerning the Shreveport, Louisiana, incident. 1:55 p.m. Leo and Gen.
Curtis
LeMay 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
Reference: David Rudiak, “Lt.
Gen. Hoyt S.
Vandenberg and Roswell,” Roswell Proof, 2001
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1019
Date: 7/7/1947
Locations: East Troy, Wisconsin; Eagle; Muskego
Description: 2:30 p.m. Capt. Robert
J. Southey and Clem
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
Reference: Bloecher, pp.
III-11–12; Sparks, p. 22; Loren E.
Gross, The
Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:
UFOs, a History: 1947 July 7th–July 10th, Supplemental Notes, The
Author, 2001, p. 9
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1020
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, 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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, The
Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 July
7th–July 10th, Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2001, p. 16
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1021
Date: 7/7/1947
Location: Zelienople, Pennsylvania
Description: John
Philip Bessor 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
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,” The Saucers That Time Forgot,
February 15, 2019
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1022
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
Reference: Bloecher, p.
III-18; Ray Palmer, “New Report on the Flying Saucers,” Fate 4, no.
1 (January 1951): 63–81
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1023
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
Reference: Bloecher, p.
II- 6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1024
Date: 7/7/1947
Location: Great Pond near Rome, Maine
Description: 9:00 p.m. Orrin
Williams and his wife Albertine, 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
Reference: Bloecher, p.
II-10
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1025
Date: 7/7/1947
Locations: Phoenix, Arizona; Hamilton Army Airfield;
Novato, California; James E. McDonald
Description: 9:00 p.m. William
A. Rhodes, 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 obtains them on a later visit to Hamilton, and they wind up
with James
E. McDonald. 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
Reference: NICAP, “The Rhodes Photo
Case”; Bloecher, p.
IV-4; Michael D. Swords, “Can
You Learn Anything from UFO Photos, Part Two,” The Big Study, July
5, 2012; Swords 53, 54
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1026
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
Reference: “‘Flying Saucers’
Still Seen Flitting in
N.E. Sky,” Bangor \(Maine\) Daily News, July 8, 1947, pp. 1–2;
Bloecher, p.
II-20
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1027
Date: 7/7/1947
Location: Preston Street and Bickels Lane in
Louisville, Kentucky
Description: 10:15 p.m. Louisville Times photographer
Al
Hixenbaugh 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
Reference: Louisville (Ky.) Times, July 8, 1947; “‘Flying Liver Pills’
over Kentucky,” Cincinnati Enquirer, July 9, 1947, p. 1; Bloecher,
pp.
IV-4–5; “La
Fotografía (y la Pélicula) Al Hixenbaugh 1,” Marcianitos Verdes,
February 5, 2017
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1028
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
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
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
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
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
Reference: Sacramento Bee, July 7, 1947; Ted Bloecher,
Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case # 595
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3899
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
Reference: Tacoma News Tribune, July 8, 1947; Ted
Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case # 547
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3900
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
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
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 (B1-B, J2, RECOVERY)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_252
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_253
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 (B1-A, RECOVERY)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_254
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_255
See also: 7/2/1947
See also: 7/7/1947
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_256
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_257
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
Reference: Newspapers.com
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_258
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Puerto Rico", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "2", State/Prov: "Oklahoma", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Massachusetts", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Alabama", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "North Dakota", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Alabama", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "600", State/Prov: "North Carolina", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "150", State/Prov: "Missouri", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "10"
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", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "Virginia", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "2000", State/Prov: "Missouri", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "99", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "British Columbia", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "9999", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "9"
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", RelAlt: "400", State/Prov: "New Hampshire", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Hawaii", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Iowa", Strangeness: "6"
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><NOTUS,ID:1/CAR:9-12 DRK WIGGLY 'AMOEBAS' >>W FAST:FADE into DISTANCE", LatLong: "43.694447 -116.750006", LatLongDMS: "43:41:40 N 116:45:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "3000", State/Prov: "Kansas", Strangeness: "5"
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", State/Prov: "British Columbia", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Kansas", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Pennsylvania", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Ontario", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Wisconsin", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_369
Date: 7/8/1947
Location: Los Angeles (near), CA
Description: F-51 pilot (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation
Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_370
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_371
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_372
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_373
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_374
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_60
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
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_3
Date: 7/8/1947
Locations: Roswell; Corona, New Mexico; Roswell
AAF
Description: 2:00 a.m. Marcel stops
at home in Roswell to show his wife Viaud and
son Jesse
Jr. 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
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The
Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p.
166; 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
Date: 7/8/1947
Locations: base Provost Marshal; Fort Worth,
Texas
Description: 6:00 a.m. Marcel and
Cavitt visit
with Blanchard in
his quarters and tell him what they have seen. Blanchard calls base
Provost Marshal Maj. Edwin
D. 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 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
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The
Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p.
166
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1030
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 and
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 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
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The
Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p.
166
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1031
Date: 7/8/1947
Locations: Cavitt; Lewis S. Rickett; Carlsbad, New
Mexico; Roswell; impact site north of Roswell
Description: 9:00 a.m. Cavitt and
Lewis
S. 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
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The
Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p.
166
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1032
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 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 and three others see three discs heading in a westerly
direction. At 10:10 a.m., XP-84 test pilot Maj. Jowell
C. Wise sees a yellowish-white object at 10,000 feet traveling about
200 mph. At 11:50 a.m., Maj. Richard
R. Shoop, Col. S. A. Gilkey, and Capt. John P. Stapp 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
Reference: NICAP, “Observers Sight
Saucer over Base”; NICAP, “Object Observed by
Four Witnesses in Observation”; NICAP, “Object Descends to
Ground Level, Rises”; NICAP,
“Flat Object with
Fin Observed by F-51 Pilot”; Bloecher, pp.
III-4, 12; Clark III 783–784; Sparks, pp. 22–23; Patrick Gross, “The Muroc Army
Air Field Incidents” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_1033
Date: 7/8/1947
Location: Roswell, New Mexico
Description: 11:00 a.m. Col. William
Blanchard dictates a press release about the Roswell recovery to
Public Information Officer Lt. Walter
Haut, 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
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The
Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p.
167
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1034
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
Reference: “‘Saucer’
Dept.—All Designs,” Racine \(Wis.) Journal Times, July 8, 1947, p.
6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1035
Date: 7/8/1947
Description: Rep. Lyndon B.
Johnson (D-Tex.) requests information on the flying discs from the
War Department. Someone from Gen. Carl Spaatz’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
Reference: Swords 38
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1036
Date: 7/8/1947?
Locations: US; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; New
Mexico
Description: British radio and TV entertainer Hughie Green 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
Reference: “Star
Puzzled,” Flying Saucer Review 1, no 1 (Spring 1955): 3; Clark III
319; “Hughie
Green: ‘Peripheral Witness to Roswell?’” Above Top Secret forum,
October 20, 2012
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1037
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 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. The pilot is Lt. Col. Payne
Jennings Jr. with Lt. Col. Robert 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, 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
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The
Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, pp.
167–168; 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
Date: 7/8/1947
Locations: Roswell Army Air Field; New Mexico; Chavez
County Sheriff's Office
Description: 2:26 p.m. Haut’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 “to
higher headquarters.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The
Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p.
167
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1039
Date: 7/8/1947
Location: Corona, New Mexico
Description: 2:30 p.m. Blanchard 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
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The
Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p.
167; 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
Date: 7/8/1947
Description: 2:41 p.m. The press release is put on the
United Press wire.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1041
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
Reference: Air Force Base Intelligence Report, “Flying
Discs,” July 30, 1947; Kevin D. Randle, “Roswell,
Nathan Twining, and the Mini-EOTS,”
A Different Perspective, October 6, 2014
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1042
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
Reference: Bloecher, p.
III-12
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1043
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 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, at a press conference held by Ramey and Col. Thomas J.
DuBose 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, 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
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 Message
in a Bottle’: Confounds in Deciphering the Ramey Memo from the Roswell
UFO Case,” Journal of Scientific Exploration 16, no. 1 (2002):
45–66; Barry Greenwood, “An Observation
on the Ramey Memo,” UFO Historical Revue, no. 11 (March 2004): 1–8;
James Houran, A
Search for Meaning in the Ramey Document: From the
Roswell UFO Case, Fund
for UFO Research, 2006; Dennis Balthaser, “Interview:
James Bond Johnson (Roswell
Wreckage Photographer),” The UFO Chronicles, March 27, 2006; Barry
Greenwood, “Ramey
Memo Redux: Line
5,” 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
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 in the Dallas, Texas, FBI office sends a teletype headed
“Flying Disc, Information Concerning” to J. Edgar
Hoover 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, 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) 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, Maj.
Edwin
D. Easley, Ruben and Pete Anaya, New Mexico Lieutenant Governor Joseph Montoya, Sgt. Melvin E.
Brown (who says the bodies looked Asian), Capt. Oliver “Pappy”
W. Henderson,
Staff Sgt. Robert
A. Slusher, and Charles
H. Forgus.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: [Wyly’s
teletype message]; 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; 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
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)
has identified the Roswell debris as a weather balloon.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The
Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, pp.
46–52, 168
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1046
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
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
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.
Reference: Anonymous 2023
PDF
Source: Anon2023PDF, ID:
Anon2023PDF_1
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.
Reference: Anonymous 2023
PDF
Source: Anon2023PDF, ID:
Anon2023PDF_2
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.
Reference: Anonymous 2023
PDF
Source: Anon2023PDF, ID:
Anon2023PDF_3
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.
Reference: Anonymous 2023
PDF
Source: Anon2023PDF, ID:
Anon2023PDF_4
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", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Kyushu", Strangeness: "4"
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", State/Prov: "Wisconsin", Strangeness: "5"
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", RelAlt: "15", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Ontario", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Kentucky", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "3000", State/Prov: "New Jersey", Strangeness: "6"
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><MERIDIAN,ID:UAL PILOT:FLAT BLK SCR/STAIRCASE MNVRS:BAD FILM:/r185p1", LatLong: "43.611113 -116.300006", LatLongDMS: "43:36:40 N 116:18:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "Massachusetts", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Montana", Strangeness: "3"
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", State/Prov: "Alaska", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Western Virginia", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Newfoundland", Strangeness: "7"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_375
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_401
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
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_4
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
Reference: Bloecher, pp.
II-13–14
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1047
Date: 7/9/1947
Locations: Roswell Daily Record; Los Alamos, New
Mexico; Kirtland AFB; Roswell; Fort Worth
Description: RAAF officers locate Mack
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’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, who says he was on board.
Reference: Eberhart
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, 169–171;
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,” A Different Perspective,
September 19, 2015
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1048
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
Reference: ClearIntent, p.
151; Good Above, pp.
253–254
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1049
Date: 7/9/1947
Locations: US; Idaho
Description: US Sen. Glen H.
Taylor (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
Reference: “‘Can’t Laugh Off
Saucers,’ Says Senator,” Boston Globe, July 9, 1947, p. 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1050
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
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
Date: 7/9/1947
Description: 10:30 a.m. President Truman meets
with Sen. Carl
Hatch
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: (D-N.Mex.).
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1052
Date: 7/9/1947
Location: Lt. Gen. James Doolittle
Description: 10:35 a.m. Assistant Secretary of War for
Air Stuart
Symington meets with Lt. Gen. James
Doolittle and Gen. Hoyt
Vandenberg. The
conversation is presumably about the flying discs.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Donald R. Schmitt, UFO Crash at Roswell II,
Moonset, 2001
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1053
Date: 7/9/1947
Description: 10:50 a.m. Doolittle, Vandenberg, and Symington meet
in the office of Army Chief of Staff Dwight
D. Eisenhower. Maj.
Gen. Lauris
Norstad, director of the Plans and Operations Department, is also
present.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Donald R. Schmitt, UFO Crash at Roswell II,
Moonset, 2001
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1054
Date: 7/9/1947
Location: Vandenberg
Description: 11:58 a.m. Vandenberg calls
President Truman.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1055
Date: 7/9/1947
Locations: Vandenberg; Symington
Description: 12:50 p.m. Vandenberg and
Symington meet
with the Joint Chiefs.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1056
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, 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
Reference: NICAP, “AT-6 Encounters
Black Disc”; Bloecher, pp.
III-12–13; Loren E. Gross, The
Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs,
a History: 1947 July 7th–July 10th, Supplemental Notes, The Author,
2001, pp. 39–43, 55; Sparks, p.
23
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1057
Date: 7/9/1947
Locations: Vandenberg; Symington
Description: 2:30 p.m. Vandenberg and
Symington meet
again.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1058
Date: 7/9/1947
Location: Vandenberg
Description: 4:17 p.m. Vandenberg meets
with Maj. Gen. Emmett
O’Donnell Jr., director of information for the Army Air Force.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: (Donald R. Schmitt, UFO Crash at Roswell II,
Moonset, 2001).
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1059
Date: 7/9/1947
Locations: Roswell Army Air Field; New Mexico
Description: Late afternoon. 1Lt Chester
P. Barton, stationed at Roswell Army Air Field in New Mexico, is
sent by Maj. Edwin
D. 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
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
Date: 7/9/1947
Description: Brig. Gen. George
F. Schulgen, 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. 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
Reference: E. G. Fitch, [FBI
memo], July 10, 1947; ClearIntent, p.
148; Loren E. Gross, The
Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 July
7th–July 10th,
Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2001, p. 14
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1061
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 suspects it might have been a small missile.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Object Hovers over
Sand”; Bloecher, pp.
IV-2–3; Joel Carpenter, “The Midland Fireball:
Dow Chemical, UFOs, and Evidence,” IUR 23, no. 3 (Fall 1998):
28–32
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1062
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
Reference: St. John’s (Newf.) Evening Telegram, July 9,
1947; Loren E. Gross, The
Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:
UFOs, a History: 1947 July 7th–July 10th, Supplemental Notes, The
Author, 2001, pp. 45–46
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1063
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
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3940
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
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #
1094; Loren E. Gross, UFOs, A History. 1947, p. 44
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3941
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
Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary
Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 27
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3942
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
Reference: Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of
1947, case 788
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3943
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
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
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
Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary
Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 98, citing Austin
American
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3945
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_259
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 16.25km
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_260
Attributes: Einstein
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 (B1-A p148)
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_261
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", State/Prov: "Ireland", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Utah", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "600", State/Prov: "Georgia", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "1600", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "8"
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", RelAlt: "150", State/Prov: "SNT", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "500", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Western Virginia", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Georgia", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Newfoundland", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Norway", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Oklahoma", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "LNG", Strangeness: "8"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_376
Date: 7/10/1947
Location: Morristown, NJ
Description: 6 DD from aircraft (NICAP: 08 -
Photographic Cases)
Reference: NICAP: 470710
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_377
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_378
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_402
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
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_5
Date: 7/10/1947
Location: La.
Description: FBI agent E. G. Fitch forwards Schulgen’s
request to Assistant Director of the Domestic Intelligence Division D.
Milton “Mickey”
Ladd 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 adds, “I think we should do this,” while J. Edgar
Hoover 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
Reference: E. G. Fitch, [FBI
memo], July 10, 1947; RosRept, pp.
25– 26;
Good Above, p.
541; Kevin D. Randle, “The
Hoover Memo Again,” A Different Perspective, July 29, 2015
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1064
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, 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., whose father Jack G.
Tiffany Sr. is one of the crew members that flies debris from Fort
Worth to Dayton.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The
Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, pp.
61–66; 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
Date: 7/10/1947
Location: Morristown, New Jersey
Description: 10:00 a.m. John
H. Janssen, 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
Reference: “‘Flying Saucers’ Invade
Morristown; 4 Discs Photographed near
Airport,” Paterson \(N.J.) Evening News, July 11, 1947, p. 10;
NICAP, “07-10-1947
USA, New Jersey,
Morristown” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_1066
Date: 7/10/1947
Locations: Pentagon; Vandenberg
Description: 10:30 a.m. Lt. Gen. Curtis LeMay,
deputy chief of Air Staff for Research and Development at the Pentagon,
meets with Vandenberg, Maj.
Gen. Leslie
Groves, and Lt. Gen. Robert
Miller Montague.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1067
Date: 7/10/1947
Description: 12:15 p.m. Doolittle and
Vandenberg meet
with Truman.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1068
Date: 7/10/1947
Location: Robert P. Patterson
Description: 2:40 p.m. Secretary of War Robert P.
Patterson meets with Groves and Montague.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1069
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 stops at White Sands before returning to Wright Field,
Ohio.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1070
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, 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
Reference: NICAP, “200ʹ Ellipsoidal
Object Sighted by La Paz
Family”; H. B. Darrach Jr. and Robert Ginna, “Have
We Visitors from Space?” Life, April 7, 1952, p. 84; Bloecher, p.
III-19; Loren E. Gross, The
Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 July
7th–July 10th, Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2001, p. 58; Sparks, p. 24;
James E. McDonald, “Statement on
Unidentified Flying Objects,” 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
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
Reference: NICAP, “Harmon Field
Photo”; Sparks, p. 24; Michael
D. Swords, “Can
You Learn Anything from UFO Photos, Part Two,” The Big Study, July
5, 2012; Swords 38–39; Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
a History: Volume 1, 1947, 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
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
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The
Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p.
172
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1073
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
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3973
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
Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO
Encounters, p. 10
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3974
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
Reference: Michael Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomenon
1947-1987, p. 3
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3975
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
Reference: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 11,
1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3976
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
Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary
Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 137
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3977
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
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
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
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
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
Reference: Michael Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomenon
1947-1987, p. 4
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3980
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
Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary
Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 101
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3981
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_262
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", State/Prov: "IZT", Strangeness: "4"
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", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Newfoundland", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Surinam", Strangeness: "5"
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", State/Prov: "Montana", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "BSC", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "3000", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Bologna", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "3", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Florida", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_379
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
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The
Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, pp.
72–76, 172
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1074
Date: 7/11/1947
Location: Elmendorf AFB [now Joint Base
Elmendorf-Richardson], Anchorage, Alaska
Description: 11:00 a.m. USAAF Col. Bruce
H. Perry and Maj. 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
Reference: NICAP, “Round 3ʹ Aluminum Object at
Great Speed”; Sparks, p.
24
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1075
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 (B1-G, p16)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_263
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_264
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", RelAlt: "2", State/Prov: "Ontario", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "Alberta", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Alberta", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Indiana", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "North Carolina", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "North Dakota", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Utah", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Alaska", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "North Carolina", Strangeness: "6"
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><ALBION,ID:5/CAR:DRK OBJ >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", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "5"
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", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "5"
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", State/Prov: "Indiana", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 7/12/1947
Locations: Hotel Owyhee in Boise, Idaho; Hamilton Army
Airfield [now closed] in Novato, California; Mt. Rainier,
Washington
Description: Kenneth
Arnold is interviewed at the Hotel Owyhee in Boise, Idaho, by Lt. Frank
M. Brown and Capt. William
L.
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
Reference: Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of
the Saucers, Palmer, 1952, pp. 21–23; Kenneth Arnold, “Confidential,” Project
1947; Frank M. Brown, “Memorandum for the
Officer in Charge,” July 16, 1947; James Easton, “Kenneth
Arnold and the
Pelicans,” UFO Conjectures, April 4, 2007; Martin Shough, “The
Singular Adventure of Mr. Kenneth Arnold,”
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
Date: 7/12/1947
Description: The FBI conducts a shorter follow-up
interview with Capt. Emil J. Smith.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: ClearIntent, p.
153
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1077
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
Reference: Sparks, p. 24
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1078
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 and James Calahan watch three silvery discs flying quickly
north from their location near North 82nd Street and 11th Avenue in
Seattle.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Bloecher, p.
III-6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1079
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", State/Prov: "Beijing", Strangeness: "7"
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", RelAlt: "300", State/Prov: "Oklahoma", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "BSC", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Montana", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Massachusetts", Strangeness: "7"
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", RelAlt: "750", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "2000", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Western Virginia", Strangeness: "5"
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", State/Prov: "Kansas", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 7/13/1947
Locations: State Highway 2; Gardner,
Massachusetts
Description: 5:48 p.m. Warren
Baker Eames is driving with his wife Alice 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
Reference: Bloecher, p.
III-1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1080
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
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, cases 1163
& 1164
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4025
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", State/Prov: "CTN", Strangeness: "4"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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
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", State/Prov: "New York", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "1500", State/Prov: "North Carolina", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "TNJ", Strangeness: "7"
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
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
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_267
See also: 1/31/1949
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 ("Above
Top Secret" by Timothy Good, p541, RECOVERY)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_268
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", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 7/15/1947
Location: Roswell AAF, New Mexico
Description: Mack
Brazel is returned home after an extensive interrogation at Roswell
AAF, New Mexico.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The
Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p.
173
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1081
Date: 7/15/1947
Location: Concord, California
Description: 12:15 p.m. Col. Frank
A. 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
Reference: Bloecher, p.
III-13
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1082
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
Reference: San Francisco News, July 18, 1947; Ted
Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case # 841
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4064
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", State/Prov: "Norway", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"
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
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
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", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Oklahoma", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Nevada", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Montana", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Missouri", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary
Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 109
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4155
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", State/Prov: "British Columbia", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Buenos Aires", Strangeness: "7"
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
Reference: Paul Dong, The Four Major Mysteries of
Mainland China, Prentice-Hall, 1984, p.
3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1084
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", State/Prov: "Maryland", Strangeness: "7"
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", RelAlt: "20", State/Prov: "Buenos Aires", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "SNG", Strangeness: "5"
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", State/Prov: "Jiangsu", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Idaho Daily Statesman, July 21, 1947; Ted
Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case 842
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4220
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", RelAlt: "2000", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"
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
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
Date: 7/21/1947
Description: Life magazine publishes a pictorial news
story on the flying discs.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Speaking
of Pictures: A Rash of Flying Disks
Breaks Out over the U.S.,” Life, July 21, 1947, pp. 14–16
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1086
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
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
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", State/Prov: "Connecticut", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 7/22/1947
Location: Maury Island, Washington
Description: Ray
Palmer writes to Kenneth
Arnold and tells him about the Maury Island, Washington, case,
asking him to look into it.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jason Colavito, ed., “Inquiry
into Richard Shaver and Ray Palmer, Federal Bureau of
Investigation, 1947”;
Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, Palmer, 1952,
p. 21
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1087
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", State/Prov: "São Paulo", Strangeness: "10"
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", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "6"
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_61
Date: 7/23/1947
Locations: Morristown Airport; New Jersey
Description: Day. John
H. Janssen, 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
Reference: NICAP, “07-10-1947 USA, New Jersey,
Morristown”; John H. Janssen, “My Encounter with Flying Disks,” Fate
2, no. 3 (September 1949): 12–16
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1088
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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Caso
José Higgens”; 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
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
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
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
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
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_269
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", RelAlt: "30", State/Prov: "Montana", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "Massachusetts", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Wyoming", Strangeness: "7"
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", RelAlt: "65", State/Prov: "Buenos Aires", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "150", State/Prov: "British Columbia", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "240", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 7/25/1947
Location: Boise, Idaho
Description: Intelligence agents from the Fourth Air
Force, Lt. Frank
M. Brown and Capt. William
L. Davidson, visit
Kenneth
Arnold in Boise, Idaho, and tell him to contact them if he runs
across any interesting UFO evidence.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1090
Date: 7/25/1947
Locations: Roswell, New Mexico; China
Description: A memorandum over the signature of Maj. Lester
M. Garrigues states that by order of Col. Blanchard,
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. Garrigues has assumed duties in China prior to this and is
no longer in Roswell.
Reference: Eberhart
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
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
Reference: “Perryton Man Displays Proof of
Saucer Story,” Amarillo \(Tex.) Daily News, August 6, 1947, p. 1;
“Salvage from
Mystery Blast,” Amarillo
\(Tex.) Daily News, August 9, 1947, p. 5; Curt Collins, “The
Texas UFO Crash Debris Photo from July
1947,” The Saucers That Time Forgot, May 21, 2020
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1092
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", State/Prov: "Loiret", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 7/26/1947
Location: Joint Research and Development Board
Description: President Truman 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 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “National
Security Act of 1947” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_1093
Date: 7/27/1947
Location: Maury Island, Washington
Description: Ray
Palmer wires Kenneth
Arnold $200 to investigate the Maury Island, Washington, case.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of
the Saucers, 1952, Palmer, pp. 23–24
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1094
Date: 7/27/1947
Locations: Portland Oregonian; Boise Stateman
Description: Capt. Davidson and
Lt. Brown interview
Richard Rankin. The FBI finds that the CIC agents have also interviewed
Kenneth
Arnold, Capt. Emil
J. Smith, Flight Officer Ralph Stevens, and Boise Stateman Editor David
N.
Johnson about their UFO sightings. Leverett G.
Richards, aviation
editor of the Portland Oregonian, informs the FBI of this information.
He also calls Lieut. Gen. Nathan
Twining, 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
Reference: Memo for FBI Director from Mr. D. M. Ladd,
August 14, 1947
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1095
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", State/Prov: "Manitoba", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_380
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 orders
Col. Howard
M. McCoy, deputy
commander of T-2 intelligence at Wright Field, Ohio, to send a top-level
assessment team (possibly Alfred
Loedding or Col. William
R. Clingerman Jr.) to Stephenville “immediately” and report directly
to the Pentagon afterwards. McCoy suspects German or Russian
technology.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the
Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 (2000): 33–34; Swords 39
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1096
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
Reference: “United
Air Lines Crew Reports Sighting Flying
Saucer between Mountain
Home and Boise,” Boise Idaho Daily Statesman, July 29, 1947, pp.
1–2; Bloecher, pp.
III-13–14
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1097
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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1947
(Volume 5), p. 43
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4446
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
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
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_270
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_271
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 160.7km
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", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "3000", State/Prov: "Montana", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "4"
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", RelAlt: "150", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_381
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_382
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
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_6
Date: 7/29/1947
Description: A memo from FBI agent E. G. Fitch says
that Special Agent Reynolds has
met with Gen. Schulgen again,
who assures him that “all discs recovered would be made available for
the examination by the FBI agents.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: ClearIntent, pp.
149–150
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1098
Date: 7/29/1947
Locations: Tacoma, Washington; Union, Oregon; La
Grande; Winthrop Hotel
Description: 6:55 a.m. Kenneth
Arnold 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 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 visits Arnold that night, then takes him to Fred Crisman’s
place to see some Maury Island fragments. Arnold thinks it looks like
lava.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of
the Saucers, Palmer, 1952, pp. 25–38; Bloecher, pp.
I-15–16, III-14;
Clark III 720–721
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1099
Date: 7/29/1947
Locations: Hamilton Army Airfield; Novato,
California
Description: 2:50 p.m. Assistant Base Operations
Officer Capt. William
H. 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
Reference: Bloecher, p. III-5; Sparks, p. 25
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1100
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
Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO
Unknowns
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4469
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", State/Prov: "Sasketchewan", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 7/30/1947
Locations: Maury Island, Washington; Tacoma; Winthrop
Hotel
Description: Arnold 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 and
Crisman.
Smith stays with Arnold at the Winthrop Hotel. Journalist Ted Morello 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
Reference: Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of
the Saucers, Palmer, 1952, pp. 38–46; Clark III 721
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1101
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
Reference: “Flying Disks,” Section B, Bureau Bulletin
no. 42, Series 1947, in Black Vault FBI documents compilation, p. 48;
ClearIntent, p.
150
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1102
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, 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.
Reference: Eberhart
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
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—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 and Hoover at
the FBI for comment, subtly indicating that investigating a domestic
project is a waste of time.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Air Force Base Intelligence Report, “Flying
Discs,” 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, Nathan
Twining, and the Mini-EOTS,” A Different Perspective, October 6,
2014
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1104
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
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
Date: 7/31/1947
Locations: Maury Island; Winthrop Hotel room in Tacoma,
Washington; Hamilton Army Airfield in Novato, California
Description: Crisman and 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 calls
Brown and
Davidson at
Hamilton Army Airfield in Novato, California. They quickly depart for
Tacoma. Morello 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
Reference: Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of
the Saucers, Palmer, 1952, pp. 46–57; [FBI teletype, August 6, 1947], pp.
87–88
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1105
Date: 7/31/1947
Description: Capt. Edward
Ruppelt: “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
Reference: Ruppelt, p.
22
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1106
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", State/Prov: "Victoria", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Belgium", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Seine-et-Marne", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "25", State/Prov: "RDJ", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Finland", Strangeness: "5"
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", State/Prov: "MLT", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_383
Date: 8/1947
Location: Media, PA
Description: Boyce Case, (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation
Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_384
Date: 8/1947
Location: Media, Pennsylvania
Description: USAF fighter pilot W. Boyce sees a
hovering disc above Media, Pennsylvania.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: UFOEv, p.
33
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1107
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’s 1946
instructions.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1108
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
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1109
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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Sandia
Base”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1110
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_272
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", RelAlt: "300", State/Prov: "Nevada", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "SVO", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 8/1/1947
Locations: McChord Field near Tacoma, Washington;
Hamilton Army Airfield [now closed] in Novato, California; Kelso,
Washington
Description: Brown and
Davidson make
a stop at McChord Field near Tacoma, Washington, to speak with
intelligence officer Maj. 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 calls
Palmer and
offers to return his money. Palmer says to just mail him some fragments.
Arnold and Smith visit Morello and Dahl and
Crisman. They
talk to Tacoma Times reporter Paul 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
Reference: “Air Force Day Marred As B-26 Crashes Here,”
Longview (Wash.) Daily News, August 1, 1947, p. 1; “‘Flying
Saucers’ Figure in Two
Air Crash Deaths,” 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,” February 2014; Leslie Slape, “Marker
Placed near Kelso to Honor Pilots in ‘47 Crash,” Longview \(Wash.)
Daily News, August 3, 2007, p. 9
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1111
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
Reference: Phenomenes Spatiaux, June 1968
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4554
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_273
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", State/Prov: "New Jersey", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 8/3/1947
Locations: Tacoma, Washington; Winthrop Hotel
Description: Smith contacts Maj. Sander, who
relieves Arnold 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
Reference: Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of
the Saucers, Palmer, 1952, pp. 73–84
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1112
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", State/Prov: "Alaska", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Massachusetts", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Alaska", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_385
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_386
Date: 8/4/1947
Location: Bethel, Alaska
Description: Pilots Capt. Jack 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
Reference: NICAP, “Smooth Black Object
Crosses Path of DC-3”; Harold D. Johnston, “Matters of National
Interest,” August 5, 1947; Sparks, p.
25
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1113
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
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
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", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "2500", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "Pennsylvania", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Wyoming", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Pennsylvania", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 8/6/1947
Description: An FBI memo from E. G. Fitch to D. Milton
Ladd identifies either Brown or
Davidson as
a CIC agent on a top secret mission.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jason Colavito, ed., “Inquiry
into Richard Shaver and Ray Palmer, Federal Bureau of Investigation,
1947”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1114
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
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
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
Reference: Kenneth Arnold & Ray Palmer, The Coming
of the Saucers, p. 137
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4715
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "10", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 8/7/1947
Locations: Seattle, Washington; Maury Island
Description: The Seattle, Washington, FBI office
interrogates Crisman and 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 also
speaks to Crisman, who admits the story is baseless.
Reference: Eberhart
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 Investigation,
1947”; Kenn Thomas, Maury Island UFO: The Crisman Conspiracy,
IllumiNet, 1999; Anthony Bragalia, “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
Date: 8/8/1947
Locations: Hamilton Army Airfield; Novato, California;
Tacoma, Washington
Description: Lt. Col. 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
Reference: “Fourth Air Force Drops
Disc Inquiry; Search Held Futile,” San Francisco Examiner, August 9,
1947, p. 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1116
Date: 8/9/1947
Location: Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Description: 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
Reference: US Advisory Committee on Human Radiation
Experiments, “Final Report,” October 1995, chapter
13
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1117
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", State/Prov: "Manitoba", Strangeness: "6"
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
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
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", RelAlt: "7500", State/Prov: "Missouri", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "3"
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", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "Kansas", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "8"
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", RelAlt: "100", State/Prov: "British Columbia", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_387
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_388
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_62
Date: 8/13/1947
Locations: Snake River Canyon; Blue Lakes Ranch; Twin
Falls, Idaho
Description: 1:00 p.m. Albert
Clarence Urie and his two sons Billy 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, for
Project Blue Book, later identifies it as an “atmospheric eddy.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Flying
Saucer Reported Flashing
Down Canyon at 1,000 Miles Per Hour; Two
Others Seen,” Twin Falls \(Idaho\) Times-News, August 15, 1947, pp.
1, 8; NICAP, “Snake River
Case”; Hynek UFO Report, p.
34; Sparks,
p. 26; Story, pp.
337–338; Patrick Gross, “Snake
River, August 13, 1947” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_1118
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
Reference: San Francisco (Calif.) Examiner, August 14,
1947, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1119
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
Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, February 1978, p. 4;
Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 192
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4960
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", State/Prov: "UD", Strangeness: "9"
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", State/Prov: "GUA", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_389
Date: 8/14/1947
Location: Friuli, Italy
Description: Professor Encounters "Lens" &
Creatures (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases, Code: En, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 470814
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_390
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_391
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_63
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
Reference: Project 1947, “August 1947 Gallup
Poll”; Robert J. Durant, “Evolution of Public Opinion on UFOs,” IUR
18, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1993): 9–10
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1120
Date: 8/14/1947
Location: Torrente Chiarzò near Raveo, Udine,
Italy
Description: Shortly after 9:00 a.m. Italian artist and
author Luigi
Rapuzzi (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
Reference: NICAP, “Professor Encounters ‘Lens’ and
Creatures”; “The
Villa Santina Case,” in Charles Bowen, ed., The Humanoids, special
issue of FSR, Oct./Dec. 1966, p. 2; 1Pinotti 19–30
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1121
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
Reference: Lt. Col. Donald L. Springer, “Flying Disc,”
August 27, 1947; Sparks, p.
26
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1122
Date: 8/14/1947
Description: The FBI concludes that the plane carrying
Davidson and
Brown was
not sabotaged, nor was it carrying actual flying disc parts.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Memo for FBI Director from Mr. D. M. Ladd,
August 14, 1947
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1123
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
Reference: APRO Bulletin, December 1977; NICAP UFO
Investigator, February 1978, p. 4
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4997
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
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
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_392
Date: 8/15/1947
Location: San Francisco
Description: In response to the August 13 San Francisco
Examiner report, FBI Director J. Edgar
Hoover 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 “Mickey”
Ladd at FBI headquarters assures FBI Deputy Director Edward Allen
Tamm that he is unaware of any such effort.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Memo to
Assistant FBI Director E. A. Tamm from Agent D. M. Ladd, August 15,
1947
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1124
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 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
Reference: NICAP, “12 B-29-Sized
Elliptical Objects Seen”; Hynek UFO Report, p.
40; Sparks,
p. 26
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1125
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", State/Prov: "Ontario", Strangeness: "6"
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
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
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", State/Prov: "Ontario", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "South Dakota", Strangeness: "8"
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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
a History: Volume 1, 1947, The Author, February 1991, p. 61
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1126
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", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "20", State/Prov: "Louisiana", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_393
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
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
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
Reference: Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the
Attack, p. 73
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5118
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", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "7"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_395
Date: 8/19/1947
Description: FBI memo to D. M.
Ladd from E. G. Fitch on “Flying Discs” mentions SAC Reynolds’s
conversation with Lt. Col. George
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 Chamberlin and
the War Department claim to have no involvement.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Memorandum from E. G. Fitch, “Flying Discs,” August
19, 1947
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1127
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
Reference: NICAP, “August 19, 1947, Twin
Falls, Idaho”; Hynek UFO Report, p.
39; Sparks,
p. 26
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1128
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.
Reference: Anonymous 2023
PDF
Source: Anon2023PDF, ID:
Anon2023PDF_5
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.
Reference: Anonymous 2023
PDF
Source: Anon2023PDF, ID:
Anon2023PDF_6
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
Reference: New London (Conn.) Day, August 20, 1947; Jan
Aldrich
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1129
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", State/Prov: "British Columbia", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Nevada", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "STY", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 8/22/1947
Description: Col. Robert Taylor
III, Collection
Branch of Army Air Force Intelligence, summarizes the findings of Lt.
Col. Garrett’s
investigations of UFOs in a letter to Gen. Curtis LeMay,
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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, The
Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 August
1st–December 31st, Supplemental
Notes, The Author, 2001, p. 27; Swords 39–40
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1130
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", State/Prov: "Montana", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 Research Notes
from Bordentown, NJ talk April 16, 2005, p. 25
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5245
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", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 8/24/1947
Description: The name Joint Research and Development
Board is changed to simply Research and Development Board.
Reference: Eberhart
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
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
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #
1250, citing Loren Gross, UFOs: A History 1947, p. 62
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5283
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_396
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_397
Date: 8/25/1947
Locations: Muroc AFB; Edwards AFB; California
Description: USMC Maj. Marion
Eugene Carl attains a world airspeed record of 651 mph in a Douglas
Skystreak at Muroc AFB [now Edwards AFB], California.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Marion
Eugene Carl” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_1132
Date: Late 8/1947
Location: Garrett Estimate
Description: Brig. Gen. George
F. Schulgen passes the updated Garrett Estimate on to Air Materiel
Command head Gen. Nathan
Twining with a request for a statement on the discs so an authorized
UFO project can be requested. Col. Howard
McCoy asks for a meeting between Alfred
Loedding (aeronautics engineer at T-3), Lt. Col. George 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
Reference: RosRept, p.
13; 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, p. 13; Swords
42, 43
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1135
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", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "5"
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", State/Prov: "Missouri", Strangeness: "6"
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
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
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
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
Date: 8/28/1947
Location: Fukuoka, Japan
Description: Target Tracked In A Climb (NICAP: 09 -
RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 470828
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_398
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
Reference: NICAP, “Target Tracked in a
Climb”; Sparks, p.
27
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1133
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
Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 Research Notes
from Bordentown NJ talk April 16, 2005
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5406
Date: 8/29/1947
Description: Gen. LeMay answers
Col. Taylor’s August
22 request stating that there is no such project as described.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 41
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1134
Date: 9/1947
Location: Roswell, New Mexico
Description: Astronomer Lincoln
LaPaz arrives in Roswell, New Mexico, and rediscovers the area of
blackened ground earlier found by two of Wilcox’s
deputies. He speaks to some witnesses and determines there might have
been more than one object.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1136
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", State/Prov: "British Columbia", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "7"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_399
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
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_7
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
Reference: ClearIntent, p.
156; Michael Hesemann and Philip Mantle, Beyond Roswell, Marlowe,
1997, p.
66
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1137
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
Reference: “True Mystic Experiences,” Fate 2, no. 3
(September 1949): 74–82
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1138
Date: 9/5/1947
Description: In response to the Garrett Estimate, Gen.
Curtis
LeMay 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
Reference: Michael D. Hall and Wendy A. Connors, Alfred
Loedding and the Great Flying Saucer Wave of 1947, Rose Press, 1998, p. 83
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1139
Date: 9/5/1947
Locations: Washington, D.C.; Wright Field, Ohio
Description: In Washington, D.C., Alfred
Loedding (as Wright Field T-2’s liaison with the Pentagon) meets
with Garrett and
Carroll. Flying disk reports at the Pentagon are transferred to Wright
Field, Ohio, shortly afterwards.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the
Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 (2000): 34
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1140
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_274
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 1.5km
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", State/Prov: "Tennessee", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "SEA", Strangeness: "6"
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
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
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", State/Prov: "Utah", Strangeness: "7"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_400
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", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Hawaii", Strangeness: "5"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_403
Date: Mid 9/1947
Location: Garrett Estimate
Description: Twining passes
the Garrett Estimate on to Col. Howard
McCoy, Maj.
Gen. Alden
Crawford (chief of T-3), Gen. 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 (Air Institute of Technology commander). They each study
Garrett’s
report and hold a conference on the discs.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the
Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 (2000): 33
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1141
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", State/Prov: "KYS", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 9/16/1947
Location: Fukuoka, Japan
Description: Radar Tracks Incoming Object (NICAP: 09 -
RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 470916
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_404
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
Reference: Col. James F. Olive Jr., “Radar Pick-Ups of
High-Speed Targets in the Far East,”
Memorandum for Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Washington, D.C., September
26, 1947
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1142
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_405
Date: 9/17/1947
Description: The US Senate confirms James
Forrestal as the first Secretary of Defense.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1143
Date: 9/18/1947
Location: Langley, Virginia
Description: CIA officially begins, directed by Rear
Adm. Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, USN
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_275
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
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1144
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 (B1-A)
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_276
Attributes: Majestic
See also: 11/30/1947
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", State/Prov: "Louisiana", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 9/19/1947
Location: San Francisco
Description: FBI Special Agent Harry
M. Kimball in San Francisco passes Col. R. H. Smith’s memo up the
chain to Hoover.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: ClearIntent, p.
156
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1145
Date: 9/19/1947
Location: State of New Mexico
Description: A dubious document, allegedly written on
this date by DCI Adm. Roscoe
Hillenkoetter 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. It purports to verify the “recovery of unidentified
planform aircraft” in two locations on July 6.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Good Need, p.
95
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1146
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
Reference: Houston Press, March 24, 1950; Jan L.
Aldrich, “Project 1947: A
Progress Report,”
March/April 1996
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1147
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
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
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.
Reference: Anonymous 2023
PDF
Source: Anon2023PDF, ID:
Anon2023PDF_7
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
Reference: Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the
Attack, p. 72
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_6115
Date: 9/21/1947
Location: Pentagon
Description: Arrangements are made to transfer UFO
files from Garrett’s
office in the Pentagon to Alfred
Loedding at AMC.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 43
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1148
Date: 9/23/1947
Description: Confirmation sighting of Arnold's discs by
Fred Johnson
Type: UFO sightings
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_91
Date: 9/23/1947
Description: USAF project "SIGN" started
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_92
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_277
See also: 7/1947
See also: 9/15/1950
See also: 8/1954
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
Reference: "Report
on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt,
pg. 31
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_855
Date: 9/23/1947
Location: Oak Ridge
Description: Head of Air Materiel Command Gen. Nathan
Twining responds to Schulgen’s
request for UFO information with a classified letter composed by Col. McCoy with
the assistance of Alfred
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
Reference: Lt. Gen. Nathan Twining, “AMC Opinion Concerning ‘Flying
Disks,’” September 23, 1947; RosRept, p.
14; Swords 42, 476–478; Good Above, pp.
260– 262, 476–478
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1149
Date: Fall 1947
Description: Claude Degler, under the
pseudonym John Chrisman, publishes a single issue of the first flying
saucer fanzine, Weird Unsolved Mysteries.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, The
Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 August
1st–December 31st, Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2001, pp. 56–69;
Curt Collins, “Claude
Degler, One of
the Ufologists That Time Forgot,” The Saucers That Time Forgot, July
15, 2021
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1158
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
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.
Reference: Anonymous 2023
PDF
Source: Anon2023PDF, ID:
Anon2023PDF_8
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
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_278
Attributes: Majestic
See also: 2/15/1987
See also: 9/4/1987
See also: 7/1947
Date: 9/24/1947
Description: DCI Hillenkoetter, 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
Reference: Jan Aldrich
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1150
Date: 9/24/1947
Location: White House
Description: President
Truman meets with Vannevar Bush,
chairman of the Research and Development Board, at the White House.
Secretary of Defense James
Forrestal is also present.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Stanton T. Friedman, Top Secret / MAJIC,
Marlowe, 1996, pp.
68–69
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1151
Date: 9/24/1947
Description: A fake memo from President Truman to
Secretary of Defense James
Forrestal allegedly establishes a top-secret control group,
Operation Majestic Twelve (MJ-12), to deal with the UFO problem.
Reference: Eberhart
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
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1152
Date: 9/24/1947
Location: Japan
Description: Col. Miles E.
Goll, in a memo
signed for Col. McCoy,
asks about a radar case in Japan that Charles Carroll had mentioned to
Alfred
Loedding in their meeting of September 5.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Dr. Carroll’s UFO files; Jan Aldrich
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1153
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.
Reference: Anonymous 2023
PDF
Source: Anon2023PDF, ID:
Anon2023PDF_9
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", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "6"
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.
Reference: Eberhart
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
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
Reference: (Col. James F. Olive Jr., “Radar Pick-Ups of
High- Speed
Targets in the Far East,” Memorandum for Assistant Chief of Air
Staff, Washington, D.C., September 26, 1947).
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1155
Date: 9/27/1947
Description: Hoover notifies
USAF Maj. Gen. George
C. McDonald, assistant chief of air staff, that he is advising all
FBI agents to discontinue all flying disc investigations.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Letter, J.
Edgar Hoover to Gen. George C. McDonald, September 27, 1947;
ClearIntent, p.
158; Michael Hesemann and Philip Mantle, Beyond Roswell, Marlowe,
1997, p.
67
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1156
Date: 9/28/1947
Description: Student and Einstein assistant Shirley J.
Wright: Newspaper college freshman photo
Type: scientist
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_279
Attributes: Einstein
Date: 9/30/1947
Description: Vannevar
Bush is appointed head of the new Research and Development Board in
the National Military Establishment.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Research
and Development Board: History and Functions, US
National Military Establishment, June 1, 1948
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1157
Date: 10/1947
Description: Article on student and Einstein assistant
Shirley J. Wright receiving Barry Scholarship
Type: scientist
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_280
Attributes: Einstein
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", State/Prov: "Finland", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Manitoba", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "SVO", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Jianxi", Strangeness: "5"
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", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_8
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.
Reference: Anonymous 2023
PDF
Source: Anon2023PDF, ID:
Anon2023PDF_10
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.
Reference: Anonymous 2023
PDF
Source: Anon2023PDF, ID:
Anon2023PDF_11
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_281
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_406
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
Reference: ClearIntent, p.
159
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1160
Date: 10/1/1947
Description: A letter from Truman to
Vannevar
Bush appears to bear the original Truman signature used in the MJ-12
fake memo.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1161
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
Reference: Good Above, pp.
394–397
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1159
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", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "5"
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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth
Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 August 1st–December
31st, Supplemental Notes, The
Author, 2001, p. 76
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1162
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", State/Prov: "Nevada", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_407
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_282
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 156.1km
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", State/Prov: "Honshu Island", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "5"
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", RelAlt: "3000", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "7"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_408
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
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_9
Date: 10/14/1947
Locations: USAF headquarters; Petsamo region
(Pechengsky District) of Finland; Russia
Description: Bernt Balchen, 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., 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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, The
Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 August
1st–December 31st, Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2001, p. 76
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1163
Date: 10/14/1947
Locations: Muroc; Edwards AFB, California
Description: Test pilot Chuck
Yeager 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Chuck Yeager”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1164
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_283
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 207km
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_284
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 231km
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", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_409
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_410
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
Reference: NICAP, “Farmers Observes Two
Cigars”; Keyhoe, FSTS, p. 89; Sparks, p.
29
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1165
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, former
acting chief of the Analysis Section at AMC under McCoy.
It expresses concern about German/Russian technology and adds disc
characteristics of hovering, disappearance, quick grouping, and sudden
appearance.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “‘Flying Disc’ Information
Request to European Command, October 1947”; Michael D.
Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7
(2000): 35; Swords 43, 479–484
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1166
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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Northrop
YB-49” Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1167
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_285
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 29km
Date: 10/28/1947
Location: Kapustin Yar
Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar,
29km (Success)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_286
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 29km
Date: 10/28/1947
Description: Brig. Gen. George
F. Schulgen, Chief
of USAF Intelligence Requirements Division, writes a five-page report
based on the characteristics listed in the September 23 Twining 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
Reference: George F. Schulgen, “Intelligence Requirements on Flying Saucer
Type Aircraft: Draft of Collection Memorandum,” October 30, 1947 [PDF of real memo, pp.
1–6, PDF of fake
memo, pp. 7–12]; RosRept, p.
35; Good Above, p.
262; Robert G. Todd, “Fake Air Force Memo
Exposed,” The Roswell Files; Robert G. Todd, “Fake Air Force
Memo Exposed, Part 2,” The Roswell Files; Robert G. Todd, “Fake Air Force
Memo Exposed, Part 3,” The Roswell Files; Michael D. Swords,
“Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 (2000):
35–36
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1168
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_287
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 2km
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", State/Prov: "Finland", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Alpes Maritimes", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Ontario", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 11/1947
Locations: Heiligenbeil, East Prussia; Mamonovo,
Russia
Description: Former Messerschmidt test pilot Fritz
Wendel tells US Army CIC that the Horten
brothers 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
Reference: Jacobsen, Area 51, pp.
41–42
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1169
Date: 11/2/1947
Location: Kapustin Yar
Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar,
260km (Success)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_288
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 260km
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_289
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 260km
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", State/Prov: "Finland", Strangeness: "7"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_411
Date: 11/4/1947
Location: Kapustin Yar
Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar,
268km (Success)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_290
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 268km
Date: 11/6/1947
Location: Muroc AFB, California
Description: Chuck
Yeager again makes an unofficial airspeed record of 891 mph in a
Bell X-1 at Muroc AFB, California.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Chuck Yeager”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1170
Date: 11/10/1947
Location: Kapustin Yar
Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar,
24km (Control failure)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_291
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 24km
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 letter.
It calls for a discreet canvass into finding German engineers who might
know of similar technology.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “The Walker
Memo,” The Roswell Files Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_1171
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", State/Prov: "NPC", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_412
Date: 11/12/1947
Location: Cape Blanco, Oregon
Description: Early morning. US Navy Second Officer
Williamson on the USS
Ticonderoga 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
Reference: Sparks, p. 29
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1172
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_292
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 270km
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_293
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 270km
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", State/Prov: "MNG", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_413
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_414
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
Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary
Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 121
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7682
Date: 11/18/1947
Locations: Boise Idaho; Mitchel Field, New York
Description: Boise Idaho Statesman Aviation Editor David
N. Johnson, having heard of the USS Ticonderoga sighting, writes to
Gen. George E.
Stratemeyer at Mitchel Field, New York, for information and asking
eight questions about the Army’s investigation. Stratemeyer passes the
query on to Garrett and
Taylor.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 43
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1173
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_294
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 26.7km
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 (B1-A)
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_295
Attributes: Majestic
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", State/Prov: "Alger", Strangeness: "5"
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 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
Reference: Ruppelt, p.
28
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1183
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_296
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 104.6km
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_415
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
Reference: UFOEv, p.
149
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1174
Date: 12/11/1947
Description: Garrett and
Taylor write
a memorandum to the USAF Public Relations Office outlining the proper
answers to questions such as Johnson has
asked.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 44
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1175
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", State/Prov: "Norway", Strangeness: "4"
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
Reference: Project
1947 case file
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1176
Date: 12/16/1947
Locations: Berlin; Göttingen, Germany
Description: Army Lt. Col. Harry
H. Pretty in Berlin writes a memo to the Deputy Director of
Intelligence in Berlin stating that the Horten
brothers (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
Reference: Lt. Col. Harry H. Pretty, “Horten Brothers
(Flying Saucers),” December 16, 1947
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1177
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.”
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
Source: Anon2023PDF, ID:
Anon2023PDF_12
Date: 12/17/1947
Locations: US; Idaho
Description: US Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Carl Spaatz 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
Reference: “Spaatz
Leaves Door open on Chance ‘Flying Discs’ Are of Foreign
Origin,” Boise Idaho Statesman, December 17, 1947, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1178
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 LeMay 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 for
his signature.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Analysis of ‘Flying Disc’
Reports,” 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
Date: 12/19/1947
Description: The Research and Development Board has its
first meeting.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1180
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", State/Prov: "Finland", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 12/22/1947
Description: The final EEI, called “Analysis of Flying
Disc Reports,” is issued by Chief of USAF Intelligence 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 for a reply. Gen. Charles
Cabell, the new chief of AFOIR, signs off on this.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Analysis of ‘Flying Disc’
Reports,” December 18, 1947; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and
the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 (2000): 36
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1181
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_297
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 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
Reference: “Sky Patrol Recommended by
Scientist,” Richmond \(Va.) Times Dispatch, December 27, 1947, p. 8;
Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
a History: Volume 1, 1947, The Author, February 1991, p. 76
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1182
Date: 12/30/1947
Description: USAF project "Saucer" started
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_93
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
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-A, B1-G p23)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_298
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_416
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_417
Date: 12/30/1947
Location: Europe
Description: Gen. Laurence
C. Craigie, director of USAF R&D and successor to Gen. Curtis
LeMay (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, 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, p. 11; Condon,
p.
896; “Report
by the Director of Intelligence, USAF, to the Joint Intelligence Committee
on Unidentified Aerial Objects,” 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
Reference: Joel Carpenter
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1184
Date: 1948
Location: Europe
Description: More Ghost Rockets seen in Europe
Type: UFO sightings
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_95
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_299
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 (A5, B3-C, RECOVERY)
Reference: Twitter
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_310
See also: 3/25/1948
See also: 2/13/1948
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_64
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
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
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
Reference: L. J[ames] Lorenzen, “Aimé
Michel’s Orthotenic Lines,” APRO Bulletin, July 1958, pp. 6–7; Clark
III 325
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1186
Date: 1948
Locations: New Mexico; Russia; UK
Description: British author and ex-MI5 operative Bernard
Newman 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
Reference: Bernard Newman, The Flying Saucer, Gollancz,
1948; Andrew May, “The
Flying Saucer,” Retro-Forteana, June 30, 2013; Kremlin 43–45
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1187
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
Reference: Greg Long, “Strangeness at Yakima,” IUR 19,
no. 4 (July/Aug. 1994): 16–17
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1188
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.
Reference: Anonymous 2023
PDF
Source: Anon2023PDF, ID:
Anon2023PDF_13
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.
Reference: Anonymous 2023
PDF
Source: Anon2023PDF, ID:
Anon2023PDF_15
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.
Reference: Anonymous 2023
PDF
Source: Anon2023PDF, ID:
Anon2023PDF_16
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
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_300
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", State/Prov: "CCR", Strangeness: "11"
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", State/Prov: "Finland", Strangeness: "7"
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
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
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", RelAlt: "10", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "10"
Date: 1/6/1948
Location: Chehalis, Washington
Description: 3:00 p.m. Bernice
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
Reference: “‘Flying Man’ Is
Chehalis Report,” Coos Bay \(Oreg.) World, January 21, 1948, p. 2;
Lyle Zapato, “The
Birdmen of Cascadia,” ZPi blog, March 24, 2007; Clark III 270
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1189
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
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
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_94
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_301
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 ("Above
Top Secret" by Timothy Good p481)
Reference: [Grave][(https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14958603/thomas-francis-mantell)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_302
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", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 1/7/1948
Location: Fort Knox, KY
Description: Mantell Case (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation
Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 480107
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_418
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_419
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_420
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
Reference: Sparks, p.
30
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1190
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, 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
Reference: Sparks, p. 30
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1191
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., 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 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) as an explanation. This implausible explanation is not even
believed by the Air Force, but it remains unchallenged for several
years. In 1952, Ruppelt reopens
the case and identifies the object as a secret Skyhook balloon, although
he cannot confirm a launch that day. Army veteran Clifford
Stone finds later that there had been no Skyhook launches since late
December. However, Barry J.
Greenwood and Robert
Todd tentatively identify the balloon as one launched from Camp
Ripley near Little Falls, Minnesota, on January 6.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Mantell
UFO incident”; NICAP, “The Mantell Case”; Clark
III 706–710; Ruppelt, p.
31; Good Above, pp.
262–263; Good Need, pp.
104–105; Sparks, pp. 30–
31; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,”
JUFOS 7 (2000): 37; “The
Mantell UFO:
A Smoking Gun, Maybe!” Just Cause, no. 39 (March 1994): 9–10; “The
Mantell UFO: A Smoking Gun, Maybe!
Part Two” 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,” A Different Perspective, September 21, 2017;
Center for UFO Studies, [clippings and
documents on
Mantell case]; Swords 51–52; Francis Ridge, The
Mantell Incident: An Anatomy of a Re-Investigation, The Author,
2010; Flight Handbook,
USAF Series F-51D Aircraft, January
20, 1954
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1192
Date: 1/7/1948
Locations: Godman Army Airfield; Fort Knox,
Kentucky
Description: 4:45–7:06 p.m. USAF 1Lt. 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
Reference: Sparks, p. 31
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1193
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 and VHF Direction-Finding (DF) Operator and amateur
astronomer 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 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
Reference: NICAP, “Object Circles
Base at High Speed / Touches Down”; Sparks, p. 32
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1194
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
Reference: NICAP, “Object Circles Base at
High Speed / Touches Down”; NICAP, “Part
2-11: ‘…Was Not the Planet Venus,” June 4, 2006
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1195
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
Reference: Wilmington (OH) News Journal, January 8,
1948
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_178
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", State/Prov: "North Carolina", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Georgia", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_421
Date: 1/9/1948
Location: Cartersville, Georgia
Description: 11:30 p.m. Eastern Airlines pilot Hugh
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
Reference: NICAP, “Object Passes
DC-3, Turns”; Sparks, p. 32
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1196
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_422
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", State/Prov: "Connecticut", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_423
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
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
Date: 1/15/1948
Location: Washington DC
Description: USAF officially a separate service
Type: history
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_303
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", State/Prov: "Danemark", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Danemark", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 1/21/1948
Description: Col. Riley
F. Ennis,
chief of the Army Intelligence Division, in a memo reiterates the Schulgen Draft
of Collection Memorandum and stresses the need to investigate Soviet
development of a jet-propelled flying wing aircraft.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Department of the Army, “Unconventional
Aircraft,” Intelligence Collection Memorandum number 7, January 21,
1948
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1197
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_305
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 159.3km
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
Reference: "Report
on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J.
Ruppelt
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_856
Date: 1/22/1948
Location: Wright Field
Description: Project Sign officially launches at Wright
Field. The primary investigators are Capt. Robert
R. Sneider (project chief), Alfred
Loedding (T-3 engineer), Lawrence
Truettner (T-2 engineer), and Col. Albert
Deyarmond (analyst in Intelligence Analysis Division). Also involved
are Maj. Raymond
Llewellyn (chief of special projects branch), Lt. Howard W. Smith,
George
W. Towles, and others as assigned. How much interest Col. Howard McCoy 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 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
Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the
Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 (2000): 36–37; Sparks, p. 11; Ruppelt,
p.
10; NICAP, “Project Sign
Begins, 22 Jan 1948”; 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
Date: 1/23/1948
Location: Wright Field
Description: Col. William
E. Clingerman, writing
for Col. Howard
McCoy at Wright Field, asks Lt. Col. George
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
Reference: Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost
Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 (Winter 1998): 13; Swords 30
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1199
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
Reference: Sparks, p. 13
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1200
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", State/Prov: "Seine Maritime", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: “‘Flying Discs’ Book Declared Closed,”
Pendleton East Oregonian, January 31, 1948; Project 1947, “UFO Reports, 1948”;
Swords 52–53
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1201
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.
Note: The RDB was chaired at the time by 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.
Reference: Anonymous 2023
PDF
Source: Anon2023PDF, ID:
Anon2023PDF_14
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", State/Prov: "HDS", Strangeness: "5"
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
Reference: “Bruce Stevenson
Reveals Close-Up
View of Saucer,” Circleville \(Ohio\) Herald, August 2, 1952, pp.
1–2; “Bruce
Stevenson Certain Saucer Wasn’t Reflection,” Circleville \(Ohio\)
Herald, August 7, 1952, p. 1; Project 1947, “UFO Reports, 1948”;
Pete Hartinger, “America’s First Classic Close Encounter,” Pickaway
Quarterly, Fall 1996, pp. 11–13
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1202
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", RelAlt: "6", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "7"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_424
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
Reference: Ed McCann, Circleville Herald, August 3,
1952
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_650
Date: 2/4/1948
Description: Capt. Richard
W. Geuss, acting assistant adjutant general, writes a memo on behalf
of Lieut. Gen. George
E.
Stratemeyer, 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
Reference: Capt. Richard W. Geuss, “Investigation
and Reporting of ‘Flying Disc’ Incidents,” February 4, 1948
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1203
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_306
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 111km
Date: 2/12/1948
Location: Plans and Operations
Description: Brig. Gen. Charles P.
Cabell, chief
of the Air Intelligence Requirements Division, sends a secret memo to
Maj. Gen. Samuel E.
Anderson. 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
Reference: Good Above, p.
263
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1204
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, ALIENS
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_304
See also: 3/25,1948
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", RelAlt: "2", State/Prov: "Kansas", Strangeness: "7"
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 is persuaded that reports of the Norton County meteorite fall
might actually have been UFO-related. Astronomer Lincoln
LaPaz directs the recovery of the massive achondritic meteorite in
1948. More than 100 stones are recovered, including one weighing about
one ton.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Norton
County (meteorite)”; “Norton
County,” Meteorite Recon, October 8, 2015; Luna Meteorite Hunters,
“Norton
County, KS Fall 18FEB1948 More Than 60 Years Ago,” February 26,
2009; Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
a History: 1948, 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
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
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
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", RelAlt: "800", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 2/20/1948
Location: Palm Beach, Florida
Description: 2:00 a.m. In Palm Beach, Florida, lawyer
and writer Charles
Francis Coe 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
Reference: “Mystery ‘Globe’ Seen by
Editor,” 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
Date: 2/20/1948
Location: Emmett, Idaho
Description: 1:15 p.m. Six surveyors, including Idaho
Power Company surveyor E. G. Hall,
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
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
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
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
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", State/Prov: "Danemark", Strangeness: "7"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_425
Date: 3/3/1948
Locations: Pentagon; Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio
Description: Maj. Gen. Samuel E.
Anderson, USAF Director of Plans and Operations at the Pentagon,
rejects a proposal by Col. Howard
McCoy and Brig. Gen. Charles P.
Cabell 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
Reference: Maj. Gen. S. E. Anderson, “Flying Discs,”
March 3, 1948; Good Above, pp.
263–264
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1208
Date: 3/12/1948
Locations: Germany; Russia; Argentina
Description: Maj. Earl
S. Browning Jr., in a memo to the European command of the 970th CIC,
writes that the Horten brothers 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
Reference: Jacobsen, Area 51, p.
43
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1209
Date: 3/17/1948
Description: Memo on “Flying Discs” from Maj. Gen. George
C. McDonald, director
of USAF intelligence, to the AMC commander, considers Col. McCoy’s
proposal to maintain fighters on alert for UFOs “unfeasible.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Maj. Gen. George C. McDonald, “Flying Discs,”
March 17, 1948
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1210
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 von
Kármán presiding. Col. McCoy 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
Reference: Howard McCoy, “Scientific Advisory
Board Conference
Held 17–18 March 1948, Room 3E-869, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C.”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1211
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_307
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 5.5km
Date: Spring 1948
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Description: Ray
Palmer and Flying magazine editor Curtis
Fuller 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 Arnold, 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
Reference: Kenneth Arnold, “I
Did
See
the Flying Disks!” Fate 1, no. 1 (Spring 1948): 4–10; Kenneth
Arnold, “The Mystery
of the Flying Disks,” Fate 1, no. 1 (Spring 1948): 18–48; Robert N.
Webster [Curtis Fuller], “What
Were the
‘Doughnuts’?” Fate 1, no. 1 (Spring 1948): 12–17; Clark III
872
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1214
Date: Spring 1948
Location: Landing Aids Experiment Station in Arcata,
California
Description: Kenneth
Arnold visits the Landing Aids Experiment Station in Arcata,
California, and interviews Kenneth
W. Ehlers, 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 and Luis
Walter Alvarez, 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
Reference: Wesley Price, “The
Sky Is Haunted,” 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,” 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
Date: Spring 1948?
Description: President Truman asks
Col. 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
Reference: James R. Fuchs, “Oral
History Interview with Robert B. Landry,” Harry S. Truman Library
and Museum, February 28, 1974
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1216
Date: 3/23/1948
Description: RAF pilot John
Cunningham reaches an altitude of 59,430 feet in a de Havilland
Vampire turbojet.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “John
Cunningham (RAF officer)” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_1212
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 (B1-A p27, RECOVERY)
Reference: book
link
Reference: book
link
Reference: book
link
Reference: Robert
Spencer Carr
Reference: Robert
Spencer Carr
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_308
See also: 2/13/1948
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
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_309
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,
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 and Leo
GeBauer (“Dr. Gee,” although Scully claims this was a composite
character incorporating 8 informants, one of whom is said to be
geophysicist Carl
A. 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 and Wendelle
C. Stevens 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 Ramsey, 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Aztec,
New Mexico
UFO hoax”; Frank Scully, Behind the
Flying Saucers, Holt,
1950; J. P. Cahn, “Flying
Saucers and the Mysterious
Little Men,” True, September 1952, pp. 17–19, 102–112; J. P. Cahn,
“Flying
Saucer Swindlers,” 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; Good Need, pp.
117–123; Jerome Clark, review
of The
Aztec Incident, 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,” The Saucers That
Time Forgot, April 5, 2020
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1213
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_311
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
Reference: Ruppelt, p.
41; Bloecher, p.
I-1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1217
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", State/Prov: "LZN", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_426
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
Reference: NICAP, “P-47 Flight
Encounters Half-Moon Object”; Sparks, p. 33
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1218
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
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
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_312
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 144km
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", State/Prov: "CB", Strangeness: "8"
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
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
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
Reference: Pea
Research ("Above
Top Secret" by Timothy Good p481)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_313
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", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "7"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_427
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
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_10
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 and one of 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
Reference: NICAP, “Team Watches
35-Meter Disc”; Ruppelt, p. 71;
Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,”
JUFOS 7 (2000): 40–41; Sparks, p. 33; Project
1947, “Holloman
AFB UFO Sightings” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_1219
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
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
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
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
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", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_429
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_430
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_431
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
Reference: Clark III 777
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1220
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_432
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", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "6"
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 Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_5
Extra Data: LatLong: "11.66276 162.23785", LatLongDMS: "11:39:46 N 162:14:16 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USA", NukeDepth: "-0.06", NukeName: "X-ray", NukeSource: "G+P", NukeType: "NACU", NukeY: "37"
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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Operation
Sandstone” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_1221
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_433
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_434
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_314
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 56km
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_435
Date: 4/23/1948
Description: A preliminary 25-page report, written by
Project Sign’s Col. Howard
McCoy 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 and Director of Intelligence Charles P.
Cabell. The Rhodes photos and 99 other cases are listed. A comment
by chemist Irving
Langmuir is appended, noting his doubts about the reality of flying
discs.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Col. Howard M. McCoy, “Project
Sign,” April 23, 1948; Swords 54–55
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1222
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
Reference: St. Louis Post Dispatch, April 26, 1948;
Kansas City Star, April 29, 1948
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2330
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,
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, chairman
of the USAF Scientific Advisory Board, to review UFO reports and
investigations from the area. Kaplan and Lincoln
LaPaz 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
Reference: Good Above, p.
266
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1223
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 ("Above
Top Secret" by Timothy Good p481)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_315
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", State/Prov: "WDC", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_436
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 Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_6
Extra Data: LatLong: "11.61569 162.3194", LatLongDMS: "11:36:56 N 162:19:10 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USA", NukeDepth: "-0.06", NukeName: "Yoke", NukeSource: "G+P", NukeType: "NACU", NukeY: "49"
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
Reference: Jan Aldrich Jan, Project 1947 website,
citing USAF Office of Defense Intelligence 1948
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2417
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_437
Date: 5/1948
Description: An article on secret Skyhook balloons
(without mentioning the project name) by Devon
Francis is published in Popular Science.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Devon Francis, “New
Balloons Explore Roof of the Airways,” Popular Science, May 1948,
pp. 98–104
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1224
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_438
Date: 5/5/1948
Description: An Efficiency Rating report is written up
for Alfred
Loedding from Miles E. Goll,
which mentions his work as a monitor for Project Sign.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Miles E. Goll, “Efficiency
Rating of Mr. Alfred C. Loedding,” May 5, 1948
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1225
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_439
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", State/Prov: "Tennessee", Strangeness: "5"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_440
Date: 5/7/1948
Locations: 251 W. Waldorf Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee;
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; Cincinnati Observatory,
Ohio
Description: Afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Fordyce
J. 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 of
the Cincinnati Observatory in Ohio, who thinks the objects are meteors
and recommends Ohio State University astronomer J. Allen
Hynek in Columbus as a project consultant. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
a History: 1948, The Author, 1988, pp. 28–29; Sparks, 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 has admitted he has been in contact with the Russians.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jacobsen, Area 51, p.
43
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1226
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
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
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", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Indiana", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official
statistics, case # 129; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p.
10
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2753
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_316
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 127.3m
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 Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_7
Extra Data: LatLong: "11.5352 162.36063", LatLongDMS: "11:32:07 N 162:21:38 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USA", NukeDepth: "-0.06", NukeName: "Zebra", NukeSource: "G+P", NukeType: "NACU", NukeY: "18"
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
Reference: Wikipedia, “RAND
Corporation”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1227
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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Operation
Sandstone”; Jacobsen, Area 51, p.
224
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1228
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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Northrop
YB-35”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1229
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
Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the
Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 (2000): 41–44
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1230
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 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
Reference: Jenny Randles, UFO Conspiracy, Cassell,
1987, pp.
92–93
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1231
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
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
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_317
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 139.7
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_318
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 139.7
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", State/Prov: "BRL", Strangeness: "4"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_441
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
Reference: NICAP, “Air Force Transport
Buzzed by 3 UFOs”; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate
of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 (2000): 45
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1232
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", State/Prov: "North Carolina", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_442
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 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
Reference: NICAP, “Cigar Slows Down
Then Speeds Up”; Sparks, p.
34
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1233
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
Reference: Wilmington, North Carolina Morning Star,
June 1, 1948; Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics,
case # 129
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3175
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_319
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", State/Prov: "Dordogne", Strangeness: "6"
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 (for whom Forbes AFB in Topeka, Kansas, is named), copilot
Capt. Glen
Edwards (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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Northrop
YB-49” Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1236
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_320
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 62.3
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 ("Above
Top Secret" by Timothy Good, p481)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_321
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", State/Prov: "AST", Strangeness: "9"
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
Reference: Good Above, p.
221; Joe Brill, “UFO’s behind the Iron Curtain,” Skylook, no. 87,
February 1975, pp. 14–15
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1237
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
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
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, 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
Reference: “Note
on U.S. Covert Actions,” 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
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_322
Date: 6/20/1948
Location: Belleville, IL
Description: Scott AFB (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters,
BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_446
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_443
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_444
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_445
Date: Summer 1948
Locations: Goose Bay AFB [now CFB Goose Bay], Labrador;
Lake Erie in Erie, Pennsylvania
Description: USAF Maj. Edwin
A. 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 Jerome Radar Case”;
UFOEv, pp.
83–84; 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 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
Reference: UFOEv, pp.
55–56
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1234
Date: Summer 1948
Location: Easton, Pennsylvania
Description: Physicist Carl
A. Mitchell sees three luminescent greenish discs, one second apart,
passing across the sky above Easton, Pennsylvania, from north to
south.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: UFOEv, p.
49
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1235
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", RelAlt: "300", State/Prov: "Pennsylvania", Strangeness: "8"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_447
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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
a History: 1948, The
Author, 1988, pp. 32–33
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1239
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_448
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_449
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
Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the
Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 (2000): 45–46; Sparks, p. 35;
Swords 57
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1240
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", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Ontario", Strangeness: "10"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_450
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
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_13
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
Reference: UFOEv, p.
38; NICAP, “Summary of
letter from Witness to Major Keyhoe, dated March 10, 1958”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1241
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 ("Above
Top Secret" by Timothy Good p481)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_323
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", State/Prov: "Indiana", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Swords 57–58; Sparks, p.
35
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1242
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", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_451
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_452
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
Reference: “Report
from the Readers,” Fate 1, no. 4 (Winter 1949): 93–94
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1243
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 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 and Kevin
Randle, 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
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; Good Above, pp.
397–398; “Laredo 1948,”
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
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_453
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_454
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_455
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_456
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
Reference: Barry Greenwood, “The Estimate of
the Situation: Well,
Not Exactly!” UFO Historical Revue, no. 16 (July 2015): 5–10
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1245
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
Reference: Swords 58; Sparks, p. 35
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1246
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", State/Prov: "Azores", Strangeness: "7"
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
Reference: Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch, July 14,
1948.
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3990
Date: 7/14/1948
Location: Boise, Idaho
Description: Day. Charles
W. Shangle Jr. 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
Reference: “True Mystic Experiences,” Fate 2, no. 1
(May 1949): 75–79
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1247
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", State/Prov: "Finland", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #
1322, citing Awareness, 1976
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4065
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 ("Above
Top Secret" by Timothy Good p481)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_324
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", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_457
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
Reference: NICAP, “Two Military
Families Report Seven Objects”; Swords 58 Source:
EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1248
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
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
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 ("Above
Top Secret" by Timothy Good p481)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_325
See also: 7/25/1948
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", State/Prov: "Netherlands", Strangeness: "7"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_458
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
Reference: NICAP, “High V-2-Like Craft
Observed”; Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
a History: 1948, The Author, 1988, p. 86
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1249
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
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official
statistics, July 1948; Paris Flammonde, UFO Exist! p. 249
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4221
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_459
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
Reference: Swords 58
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1250
Date: 7/24/1948
Location: Montgomery, Alabama
Description: Eastern Airlines pilots Chiles and Whitted
see UFO
Type: UFO sightings
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_96
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_326
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", State/Prov: "Georgia", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Virginia", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Alabama", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "Louisiana", Strangeness: "7"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_460
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_461
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_462
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_463
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
Reference: NICAP, “July 24, 1948, 0250E,
Warner Robins AFB, Georgia” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_1251
Date: 7/24/1948
Locations: Montgomery, Alabama; Columbus, Ohio
Description: 2:45 a.m. Capt. Clarence
S. Chiles and copilot 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. McKelvie of
Columbus, Ohio, also sees it.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Chiles-Whitted
UFO Encounter”;
NICAP, “Chiles-Whitted
Case”; Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers,
Palmer, 1952, pp. 90–91; James E. McDonald, “Statement
on Unidentified Flying Objects,” 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; Sparks,
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, 479;
Joel Carpenter, “Watershed: The
Chiles-Whitted ‘Rocketship’ Sighting,” 2002; Martin Shough, “Analysis
of the Chiles-Whitted
Sightings, July 24, 1948,” February 2011; Kevin D. Randle, “Chiles/Whitted
and Skepticism,” A Different Perspective, January 21, 2016
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1252
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
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
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 ("Above
Top Secret" by Timothy Good p481)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_327
See also: 7/20/1948
See also: 8/3/1948
See also: 1/31/1950
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_464
Date: 7/25/1948
Locations: Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio; Atlanta,
Georgia
Description: Chief of Air Force Intelligence Gen. Charles
Cabell phones McCoy’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, Deyarmond, and
Llewellyn (now
apparently director of Project Sign) are flown by Capt. Clarence
Groseclose to Atlanta, Georgia.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Sparks, p. 13; Swords
60
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1253
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_328
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 86.9
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", State/Prov: "Georgia", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_465
Date: 7/26/1948
Location: Henry Grady Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia
Description: Loedding, Deyarmond, and
Llewellyn interview
Chiles and
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 incident,
according to Ruppelt. Capt.
Sneider considers
the shape aerodynamically feasible; consultant J. Allen
Hynek says it might be a fireball but considers that
“far-fetched.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 60
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1254
Date: 7/26/1948
Description: Aeronautical engineer Molt
Taylor 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
Reference: “It May Be Men from Mars, Expert
Says of ‘Saucers,’” San Francisco Examiner, July 28, 1948, p. 32;
Loren E. Gross, The Fifth
Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1948, Supplemental
Notes, The Author, 2000, p. 65
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1255
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
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
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", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_466
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
Reference: Col. Brooke E. Allen, “Analysis of
Flying Object
Incidents in the U.S.,” October 11, 1948; “Report
by the Director of Intelligence, USAF, to the Joint Intelligence
Committee on Unidentified Aerial Objects,” April 28, 1949, p. 2; Jan
L. Aldrich, “New
Top Secret Document
Revealed,” Project 1947 Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_1256
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
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p.
54
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4423
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", RelAlt: "9", State/Prov: "Indiana", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_467
Date: 7/29/1948
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
Description: An object swept over a road at 10 m
altitude.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_65
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
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_11
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
Reference: NICAP, “Close Encounter with
‘Propeller-Shaped’ Object”; Sparks, p.
36
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1257
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
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official
statistics, case no. 185; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO
Unknowns
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4470
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", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Indiana", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 7/31/1948
Location: Indianapolis (central), IN
Description: Cymbal shaped or domed disc object (NICAP:
01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 190)
Reference: NICAP: 480731
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_468
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_469
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
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_12
Date: 7/31/1948
Location: south-central Indianapolis, Indiana
Description: 8:25 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon
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
Reference: NICAP, “Cymbal-Shaped
Object Observed by Couple”; Sparks, p.
37
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1258
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
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
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
Reference: Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the
Attack, p. 98
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4519
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><SAIGON:ALL/AIRLINER:HUGE MTLC CGR >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", State/Prov: "SCS", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Bouches-du-Rhône", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "LZN", Strangeness: "7"
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
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p.
54; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers are Real, p. 72
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4555
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_470
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_329
See also: 7/25/1948
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", State/Prov: "MSC", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_471
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
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
Date: 8/4/1948
Location: North Powder, OR
Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant
Encounters, BB: BBU, LC)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_472
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_330
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 165.7km
Date: 8/5/1948
Description: This date given by Edward
Ruppelt 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
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1259
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", State/Prov: "Minnesota", Strangeness: "7"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_473
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_66
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
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
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", State/Prov: "Upper Austria", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "99", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 8/15/1948
Location: downtown Phoenix, Arizona
Description: Morning. Future ufologist Walter
H. Andrus Jr., 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
Reference: Story, pp.
17–18
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1260
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
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
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_332
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 13.4km
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 of an
“aerial explosion considered to be some form of guided missile
originating from Estonian islands, possibly Dagö or Osel.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “‘Sky Octopus’ Seen
above Swedish Town,” 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
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", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "8"
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", RelAlt: "1", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "9"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_474
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_67
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
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
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
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1344,
citing Charles Berlitz and William Moore, The Roswell Incident, p.
139
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5515
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
Reference: "Report
on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt,
pg. 62-63, 67
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_857
Date: 9/1948
Description: About this time Capt. Robert
R. Sneider becomes a co-chief of Project Sign with Lt. Howard W.
Smith.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Sparks, pp. 13–14
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1262
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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Office
of Policy Coordination” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_1263
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_333
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 150.6km
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 website
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5849
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 ("Above
Top Secret" by Timothy Good p481)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_331
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_475
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", State/Prov: "OR", Strangeness: "8"
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
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #
1346, citing a website
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5906
Date: 9/15/1948
Location: Muroc [now Edwards] AFB, California
Description: USAF Maj. Dick
Johnson reaches an official airspeed record of 671 mph (slightly
more than Yeager’s first
record\) in a North American F-86A-3 Sabre at Muroc [now Edwards] AFB,
California.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “North American
F-86 Sabre” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_1264
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
Reference: Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT
Index 1940–1949, p.
43; Clark III 270
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1265
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_476
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_477
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", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "8"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_478
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_479
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
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_14
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
Reference: NICAP, “Flat Dime On-Edge
Observed by Lab Personnel”; Sparks, p.
38
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1266
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
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1347,
citing Jerome Clark
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_6243
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
Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns;
Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top Secret, p. 90
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_6244
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
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
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1267
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_480
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_334
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 150.3km
Date: 9/30/1948?
Locations: New Mexico; Fargo, North Dakota
Description: Project Sign officer Capt. Robert
R. 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 and
Dewey
J. Fournet 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,
Loedding, and
Truettner almost
certainly are part of the writing. Llewellyn certainly
looks in. All these people, as well as higher-ups in Clingerman’s
and McCoy’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, but it really is meant for Director of Intelligence Gen.
Charles
Cabell. It is
probably sent near the end of September, just before the George
Gorman “UFO dogfight” in Fargo, North Dakota, on October 1. It
probably lands in 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) 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
Reference: Ruppelt, p.
45; 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; 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
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", State/Prov: "Shandong", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "300", State/Prov: "Wisconsin", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 10/1948
Description: Vannevar
Bush resigns as chairman of the Research and Development Board,
passing the job on to Karl Taylor
Compton.
Reference: Eberhart
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
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_97
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 ("Above
Top Secret" by Timothy Good p481, B1-F p234, B1-G p28)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_335
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", State/Prov: "Louisiana", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "North Dakota", Strangeness: "8"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_481
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.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Antonio F. Rullán, “Blue Book UFO Reports
at Sea by Ships: Analysis of the Blue Book Ship
Database,” December 10, 2002, pp. 8–9; Swords 122
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1270
Date: 10/1/1948
Location: Fargo, North Dakota
Description: 8:30 p.m. 2d Lieut. 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 and Manuel E. Johnson, as well as others on the ground and
pilot Arthur
E. 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 and James E.
McDonald, have rejected the balloon explanation.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Gorman
dogfight”; NICAP, “Gorman (Fargo)
Case”; Ruppelt, pp.
41–43; Sparks, 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
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
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
Date: 10/7/1948
Locations: Garrett; Cabell; Gorman
Description: A document from Project Sign to Garrett and
Cabell is
an upbeat Sneider report
on the initial investigation of the Gorman dogfight,
making the object sound extremely unusual and intelligent in behavior.
This is almost like a supplement to the Estimate.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the
Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 (2000): 50
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1272
Date: 10/7/1948
Description: A set of letters, composed not by Sneider but
actually by Samuel
Z. Hunnicutt, a member of T-2 and the Sign team, and approved by MCI
heavyweights McCoy, Clingerman, and
Leland
Money, 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
Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the
Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 (2000): 50
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1273
Date: 10/11/1948
Location: Munich, West Germany
Description: Neubiberg AFB (NICAP: 01 - Distant
Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_482
Date: 10/12/1948
Alternate date: 10/22/1948
Location: United States
Description: Project Sign’s Col. William
R. 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
Reference: Col. W. R. Clingerman, “Request for
Study by Rand
Project,” October 12\(?), 1948; Swords 58, 492–493
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1274
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_483
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_484
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 (B1-F p235)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_336
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", State/Prov: "Seine Maritime", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Kyushu", Strangeness: "7"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_485
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_486
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
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_15
Date: 10/15/1948
Location: Fukuoka, Japan
Description: 11:05 p.m. On night patrol, 1st Lt. Oliver
“Bud” Hemphill Jr. 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
Reference: NICAP, “F-61 ‘Black Widow’ Radar
Case”; James E. McDonald, “Statement
on Unidentified Flying Objects,” 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; Sparks, p.
40
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1275
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
Reference: “Project
Nutmeg: The Birth of the Nevada Test Site,” National Nuclear
Security Administration, June 2004; Philip Howard, “Project
Nutmeg,” Village Craftsmen, April 21, 2012; Diane Tennant, “How
Outer Banks Almost Became a Nuclear Test Site,” Norfolk
Virginian-Pilot, January 27, 2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1278
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
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
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_487
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_488
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_394
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_489
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
Reference: Wikipedia, “United
States Air Force Security Service” Source:
EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1276
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_490
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_491
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_492
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
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official
statistics, case # 192; Fund for UFO Research index of cases
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7067
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", State/Prov: "Bavaria", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_493
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
Reference: Jan Aldrich, “Early Top Secret
UFO Document
Discovered,” 2000 Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_1277
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_494
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_495
Date: 10/31/1948
Location: Unknown Location, Azores
Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant
Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_496
Date: 11/1948
Location: Los Alamos, NM
Description: Green fireballs prominent in New
Mexico
Type: anomalous phenomenon
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_98
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_337
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 4.8km
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", State/Prov: "Newfoundland", Strangeness: "4"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_497
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
Reference: NICAP, “600 MPH Track at Goose Bay”;
NICAP, “October 29,
October 30, and November 1, 1948, Incident Nos. 188, 195, and
196: Goose Bay,
Labrador,” June 28, 2009; Sparks, p. 42
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1279
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
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
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_498
Date: 11/3/1948
Location: US
Description: Against most predictions, Harry S.
Truman wins the US presidential election against Republican Thomas E. Dewey. Secretary
of Defense James
Forrestal, like everyone else, expects to have a new boss in
January. His relationship with Air Force Secretary Stuart
Symington 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 begins to think Forrestal is suffering from a “total
psychotic breakdown.”
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1280
Date: 11/3/1948
Location: Wright Field, Ohio
Description: Gen. Charles
Cabell writes a firm letter to Wright Field in Ohio, asking Project
Sign for another Estimate. It is possibly composed by Maj. Aaron “Jere”
Boggs or Col. 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
Reference: Maj. Gen. C. P. Cabell, “Flying Object
Incidents in the United States,” 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
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 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
Reference: “USAFE 14, TT 1524,
Top Secret,” November 4, 1948; Jan Aldrich, “Early Top Secret UFO
Document Discovered,” 2000; Swords 62–63; Good Need, p.
115
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1282
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_499
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
Reference: NICAP, “Target Circles
Radar Site”; Keyhoe, FS from OS, p. 34; Sparks, p. 42
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1283
Date: 11/8/1948
Locations: Pentagon; Chiles-Whitted
Description: A letter is sent with Col. McCoy’s
signature to Gen. Cabell. Written
by Sign operative Albert
Deyarmond, 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 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
Reference: Col. H. M. McCoy, “Flying Object Incidents
in the United States,” 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
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", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "7"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_500
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 and
Vandenberg on
the ETH. It includes Sneider,
and perhaps Deyarmond,
Loedding,
Truettner,
and McCoy. On
the Pentagon side, Boggs and Cabell 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 Valley of MIT are to be
made aware of all cases. So too are Boggs’s office, ONI, and maybe even
the NBS. Hynek is to
be formally commissioned for an assessment, as well as Irving
Langmuir and Project Rand.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Col. H. M. McCoy, “Transmittal of
Project ‘SIGN’ Incident Summaries,” 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
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", State/Prov: "Missouri", Strangeness: "6"
Date: Mid 11/1948
Location: Nevada, Missouri
Description: Late afternoon. 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
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
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
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #
1358, citing Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1948, p. 95
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7683
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_501
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_338
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 145.3km
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 (B1-G p28, B1-F p236)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_339
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", State/Prov: "MRL", Strangeness: "8"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_502
Date: 11/18/1948
Location: Andrews AFB, Maryland
Description: 10:00 p.m. USAF Reserve pilot Lt. Henry
G. 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
Reference: NICAP, “The Lt. Combs / T-6
Encounter”; Sparks, p. 42;
Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, Aurora, 1988, pp. 236–237
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1287
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 (B1-F p237)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_341
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", State/Prov: "Bavaria", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_503
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_504
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
Reference: NICAP, “Another Object in
Vertical Descent Explodes near Colonel”; Sparks, p. 43;
Clark III 539
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1288
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
Reference: NICAP, “Grnd Visual / Grnd
Radar Track Object at 27,000ʹ”; Ruppelt, p.
46; Sparks,
p. 43
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1289
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
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
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, Director
of Intelligence.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: [Maj. Gen. Charles P. Cabell], “Memorandum for
Record,” November 24, 1948
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1290
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_505
Date: 11/30/1948
Description: Maj. Gen. Charles P.
Cabell, 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 for
permission to feed Shalett some statistics, but the memo is apparently
never sent.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Maj. Gen. C. P. Cabell, “Publicity on Flying
Saucer Incidents,” Air
Staff Summary Sheet, November 30, 1948; “Memorandum for Mr.
Forrestal” \[unsent\] Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_1291
Date: 11/30/1948
Locations: AMC Dayton; Mitchel AFB [now closed]; Long
Island, New York
Description: Letter from Howard
McCoy 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
Reference: NICAP, “1948 UFO Chronology”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1292
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
Reference: Jan Aldrich
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1293
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 (B1-A)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_342
See also: 3/1952
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", State/Prov: "MOS", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_506
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
Reference: “Nuclear
‘Pincher’: The START II Treaty, the American ‘Escalation of Superiority’
Strategy, and Russia’s Strategic
Nuclear Forces,” from Sovetskaya Rossiya, April 8, 1995
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1294
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "5"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_507
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_508
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
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_16
Date: 12/3/1948
Locations: Fairfield-Suisun AFB; Fairfield, California;
Travis AFB
Description: 8:15 p.m. Sgt. 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
Reference: NICAP, “Fairfield-Suisun
AFB, Dec. 3,
1948, UFO Report”; Sparks, p.
43
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1295
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", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "5"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_509
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_510
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 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
Reference: NICAP, “AFOSI Case 8: AF C-47
Pilot Observes UFO Similar to Green Flare”;
Clark III 539; Sparks, p.
43
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1296
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
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
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_511
Date: 12/6/1948
Location: Kirtland AFB, New Mexico
Description: Lt. Col. 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
Reference: Clark III 539
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1297
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 of the
Office of Defensive Air, the ONI, and the USAF Scientific Advisory
Board.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 65
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1298
Date: 12/6/1948
Locations: Sandia Base; Albuquerque, New Mexico
Description: 10:55 p.m. Atomic Energy Security Service
Officer Joseph
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
Reference: NICAP, “AFOSI Case 10: AESS
Observed Green Flare Directly over Sandia Base”; Clark III 539;
Sparks, p. 44
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1299
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", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "3"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_512
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_513
Date: 12/8/1948
Location: Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Description: Two AFOSI officers, Capts. Melvin
E. 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
Reference: NICAP, “AFOSI Case 11: Agents
in T-7 Observe Intense Green Fireball at 13,000ʹ”; Clark III 539; Sparks, p. 44
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1300
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_340
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 108.4km
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_514
Date: 12/9/1948
Location: University of New Mexico
Description: Capt. Neef informs
Lincoln
LaPaz, 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
Reference: Clark III 539
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1301
Date: 12/10/1948
Location: Dayton, OH
Description: Top Secret Air Intelligence Report
100–203–79 issued
Type: top secret report
Reference: Pea
Research
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_343
See also: 1/7/1948
See also: 11/1/1948
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
Reference: US Air Force, Directorate of Intelligence,
Analysis
of Flying Object Incidents in the U.S.: Summary and Conclusions, Air
Intelligence Report 100-203-79, December 10, 1948; copy, 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, 480–481
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1302
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", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "5"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_515
Date: 12/12/1948
Locations: Bernal, New Mexico; Los Alamos National
Laboratory
Description: 9:02 p.m. Lincoln
LaPaz 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
Reference: NICAP, “AFOSI Case 13: LaPaz, Captain, CAP
Intel Officer Observed Green Fireball”; Clark III 539–540; Good
Above, p.
266; Joel Carpenter, “Green Fireball
Chronology,” October 6, 2011
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1303
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
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
Date: 12/13/1948
Description: Project Sign files are sent to the Navy by
Col. William
R. Clingerman.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Project
‘SIGN’ Files Sent
Directly to the Navy,” December 13, 1948
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1304
Date: 12/13/1948
Description: Aeronautical engineer James E. Lipp writes
an 8-page memo to Brig. Gen. Donald
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
Reference: James E. Lipp, “Special Design
and Performance Characteristics That Are Believed to Distinguish
Spaceships,” December 13, 1948
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1305
Date: 12/16/1948
Description: Astronomer J. Allen
Hynek is officially tasked by Project Sign with studying UFO cases
for astronomical explanations.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: (AMC contract W33-038-1118).
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1306
Date: 12/16/1948
Description: Brig. Gen. Donald
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),
effective in February. Morale plummets.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Report
by the Director of Intelligence, USAF, to the Joint Intelligence
Committee on
Unidentified Aerial Objects,”
April 28, 1949; Sparks, p. 11
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1307
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_516
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_517
Date: 12/20/1948
Description: Sneider sends
his summary of the Chiles-Whitted case, Air Intelligence Report number
102-122-79, to Cabell. It is
later called “The Ghost of the Estimate” by some researchers.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Capt. Robert R. Sneider, [untitled memorandum],
December 20, 1948; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of
the Situation,” JUFOS 7 (2000): 52
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1308
Date: 12/20/1948
Locations: Lt. Col. Doyle Rees; Los Alamos
Description: In a confidential memo to Lt. Col. Doyle
Rees, LaPaz 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
Reference: Clark III 540; World History Project, “Project
Twinkle Established to
Monitor Green Fireball Sightings” Source:
EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1309
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 to try to
photograph the green fireballs, personnel (William D. Wilson, Buford
G. Truett, 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
Reference: NICAP, “AFOSI Case 14: AESS OP
Sighted Green Fireball with Triangulation”; Sparks, p. 46
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1310
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_518
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
Reference: Clark III 540
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1311
Date: 12/30/1948
Location: Unknown Location, Sweden
Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant
Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_519
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_344
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_346
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_347
Date: 1949
Location: Siberia
Description: Soviet “Tomsk-7” atomic weapons project
plant opens (Uranium enrichment, component manufacturing)
Type: atomic plant
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_348
Date: 1949?
Locations: Mather AFB; Sacramento, California;
Sacramento Mather Airport
Description: Evening. USAF Brig. Gen. 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
Reference: Jan L. Aldrich, “Brigadier
General William
Madison Garland, USAF” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_1312
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
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
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
Reference: “Recently
Reported,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 10 (October 1981):
5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1314
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.
Reference: Anonymous 2023
PDF
Source: Anon2023PDF, ID:
Anon2023PDF_17
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_345
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", RelAlt: "1", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 1/1949
Location: Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Description: Project Sign personnel begin to be
reassigned. Loedding disappears
from project records. Deyarmond’s
attention goes elsewhere. 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. 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 and
Sneider),
all we know is that they are soon no longer involved, perhaps not even
assigned to the same base. Even Clingerman and
McCoy 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. 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
Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the
Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 (2000): 52–53
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1315
Date: 1/1949
Location: Beatty, Nevada
Description: Early morning. 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
Reference: “True Mystic Experiences,” Fate 4, no. 2
(March 1951): 84–89
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1316
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", State/Prov: "Mississippi", Strangeness: "7"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_520
Date: 1/1/1949
Description: The CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence
is established. Willard
Machle becomes assistant director for scientific intelligence.
Problems almost immediately involve recruitment and filling positions
with competent professionals.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Rear Adm. R. H. Hillenkoetter, “Scientific
Intelligence,” January 4, 1949
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1317
Date: 1/1/1949
Location: Jackson, Mississippi
Description: 5:00 p.m. Pilot 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
Reference: NICAP, “Cigar-Shaped Object
Encountered by Bush Pilot”; Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
a History: 1949, January–June, The
Author, 1988, pp. 1–2; Sparks, p.
46
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1318
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", State/Prov: "Hawaii", Strangeness: "7"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_521
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
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_17
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, 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
Reference: NICAP, “Disc Circles,
Maneuvers, Climbs into the NE”; Sparks, p. 47
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1319
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
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
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_522
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
Reference: Jan Aldrich
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1320
Date: 1/6/1949
Location: Los Alamos, NM
Description: Rocket shaped UFO sighted near Los Alamos,
NM
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_349
See also: 1/31/1949
See also: 7/25/1948
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", RelAlt: "450", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_523
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_524
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
Reference: NICAP, “Diamond-Shaped
Light”; Sparks, p.
47
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1321
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
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
Date: 1/10/1949
Locations: Tennessee; Oak Ridge National Laboratories;
Russia
Description: FBI special agent Charlton
C. McSwain sends a memo to J. Edgar
Hoover 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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
a History: 1949, January–June, The Author, 1988, pp. 6–10
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1323
Date: 1/11/1949
Description: Angered over his opposition to defense
economization policies and meeting secretly with Thomas
Dewey’s Republicans, Truman tells
Forrestal that
Louis A.
Johnson will soon replace him as Secretary of Defense.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1324
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_350
Rocket type: V-2
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 ("Above
Top Secret" by Timothy Good p482)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_351
Date: 1/13/1949
Location: Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas
Description: Col. Eustis
L. 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
Reference: Col. Eustis L. Poland, “Unconventional
Aircraft,” January 13, 1949; Good Above, pp.
265, 482
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1325
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_525
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", State/Prov: "Bermuda", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_526
Date: 1/24/1949
Locations: Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Wright-Patterson AFB,
Ohio; North Pole
Description: An FBI memo from D. M. Ladd to Hoover documents
speculation on a Soviet nuclear-powered disc by USAF Col. Clyde D. Gasser 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
Reference: D. M. Ladd, “Flying Discs,” January 24,
1949
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1326
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", State/Prov: "Florida", Strangeness: "7"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_527
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
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_18
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, 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
Reference: NICAP, “Two Sightings of Object
with Lighted Windows”; Sparks, p.
49
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1327
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_352
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 59.9km
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_528
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_529
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
Reference: NICAP, “AFOSI Case 18: Green
Fireball Event Witnessed in New Mexico”; Commanding
Officer, Kirtland AFB, “Nr. OSI-1-90,” January
31, 1949; Clark III 540; Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
a History: 1949, January–June, The Author, 1988, pp. 15–16; Sparks, p. 49
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1328
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 (B1-A p53, CRASH)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_353
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 ("Above
Top Secret" by Timothy Good p483, B1-G p30)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_354
See also: 7/25/1948
See also: 7/1947
See also: 8/4/1950
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 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
Reference: Commanding Officer, Kirtland AFB, “Nr. OSI-1-90,” January
31, 1949; Clark III 540
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1329
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, 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
Reference: SAC, San Antonio, “Protection of Vital
Installations, Bureau File
#65-58300,” January 31, 1949; ClearIntent, p.
149; Good Above, pp.
267, 483
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1330
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_355
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", RelAlt: "300", State/Prov: "New York", Strangeness: "7"
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_68
Date: 2/1949
Location: New York
Description: Chemist H. Marshall
Chadwell, from the New York office of the Atomic Energy Commission,
is appointed assistant director of scientific intelligence at the
CIA.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jan Aldrich
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1331
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
Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet,
1968, pp. 122–148
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1346
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
Reference: Project Status Report on Project Sign,
February 4, 1949; Jan Aldrich
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1333
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
Reference: Swords 73
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1332
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 (B1-A p53, RECOVERY)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_356
Date: 2/8/1949
Locations: UCLA; University of New Mexico in
Albuquerque; Sandia Base
Description: UCLA geophysicist Joseph
Kaplan meets with LaPaz 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 Neef and
Maj. William
Godsoe (Fourth Army Intelligence liaison officer at Sandia Base). He
promises to alert Scientific Advisory Board chairman Von
Kármán and urge an investigation.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 540
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1334
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_530
Date: 2/11/1949
Location: Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton,
OH
Description: USAF Project "GRUDGE" started
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_99
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
Reference: "Report
on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt,
pg. 85-88
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_858
Date: 2/11/1949
Location: Washington, D.C.
Description: Kaplan meets in
Washington, D.C., with Von
Kármán, who
is impressed enough to write Gen. Charles
P. Cabell that
the green fireballs look like a serious issue that needs to be
addressed, perhaps by LaPaz.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 79, 497
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1335
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 and Albert
B. Deyarmond and approved by Col. Clingerman (chief
of USAF Technical Intelligence Division) and Col. Howard
McCoy (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 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’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 at
Ohio State University, the RAND Project, and the USAF Scientific
Advisory Board.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: L. H. Truettner and A. B. Deyarmond, Unidentified Aerial
Objects: Project “Sign,” Air Materiel Command Technical Report no.
F-TR-2274-IA, February 1949; Sparks, p. 12;
Swords 72
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1336
Date: 2/12/1949
Description: Project Sign officially becomes Project
Grudge.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Sparks, p.
12
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1337
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
Reference: John Gosling, Waging the War of the Worlds,
McFarland, 2009, pp. 102– 113
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1338
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", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "5"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_531
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
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
Date: 2/15/1949
Description: Maj. Gen. Cabell sets
out a revised list of Air Intelligence reporting requirements for
“unconventional aircraft.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Maj. Gen. C. P. Cabell, “Unconventional
Aircraft,” Air Intelligence Requirements Memorandum no. 5, February
15, 1949
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1339
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,
Norris E.
Bradbury, Marshall
Holloway, Frederick
Reines, and Edward Teller 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, 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
Reference: Cmdr. Richard S. Mandelkorn, Report
of a Trip to Los Alamos, New Mexico, 16 February 1949, February 18,
1949; Lt. Col. Doyle Rees, [Minutes of February
16 Conference on Aerial Phenomena, Los Alamos], March 29, 1949;
Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
a History: 1949, January–June, The
Author, 1988, pp. 23–53; Swords 79–80; Good Above, pp.
265–266
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1340
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_357
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 100.6km
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_532
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_533
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_69
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
Reference: NICAP, “AFOSI Case 24: Vertical
Climb, Then Leveled Off”; Sparks, p.
50
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1341
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
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A
Century of Landings, p. 193, citing Oltre il Cielo, Volume I
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_957
Date: 2/18/1949
Location: Los Alamos
Description: Cabell writes
Von
Kármán and says he has a transcript of the Los Alamos meeting and
that Hynek 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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
a History: 1949, January–June, The
Author, 1988, pp. 12–13
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1342
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’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
Reference: Clark III 810
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1343
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", State/Prov: "CHL", Strangeness: "7"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_534
Date: 2/23/1949
Location: Kirtland AFB’s Office of Special
Investigations
Description: McCoy sends
Capt. Roger Groseclose and Lt. Howard Smith to Kirtland AFB’s Office of
Special Investigations to discuss the green fireballs with LaPaz and Neef and
to mollify them for not showing up at the February 16 conference.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 541
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1344
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_358
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 129km
Date: 2/24/1949
Locations: Neef; Agent Jack Boling
Description: Groseclose and Smith have an unpleasant
exchange with Neef, LaPaz, Agent Jack
Boling, and Army Maj. 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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
a History: 1949, January–June, The
Author, 1988, pp. 11, 14–15; Clark III 541
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1345
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", State/Prov: "Arkansas", Strangeness: "8"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_535
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_359
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"
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:
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", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/1949
Locations: Strategic Air Command; USSR
Description: Strategic Air Command head Gen. Curtis
LeMay 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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Curtis LeMay”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1347
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_536
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 criticizing Project Sign, and any inference that the Air
Force and Navy are not cooperating.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 73
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1348
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_537
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_538
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
Reference: SAC, San Antonio, “Protection of Vital
Installations, Bureau File
65-58300,” March 22, 1949; Clark III 541–542; Sparks, pp. 50–51; “Fort Hood
Sightings, 1949,” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, February 5,
2014
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1349
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_539
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", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_540
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_541
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_542
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
Reference: NICAP, “Killeen Base, Camp
Hood, Texas, OSI
Case 39”; SAC, San Antonio, “Protection of Vital
Installations, Bureau File 65-58300,” March 22, 1949; Clark III 542;
Sparks, p. 52
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1350
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
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
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_543
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
Reference: NICAP, “March 13, 1949, Sandia
Base, NM, OSI Case 40”; Sparks, p. 52
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1351
Date: 3/15/1949
Description: A memo on UFOs to Willard
Machle 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
Reference: ClearIntent, p.
113
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1352
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", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "4"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_544
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
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_19
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, 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
Reference: Clark III 542; Sparks, p.
52
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1353
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_545
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_360
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 133.5km
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
Reference: SAC, San Antonio, “Protection of Vital
Installations, Bureau File 65-58300,” March 22, 1949
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1354
Date: 3/25/1949
Description: J. Edgar
Hoover 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
Reference: John Edgar Hoover, “Flying Discs,”
March 25, 1949; ClearIntent, p.
161
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1355
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_546
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_547
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_548
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_549
Date: 3/28/1949
Location: Pentagon
Description: James
Forrestal leaves office in a formal ceremony. He rides back to the
Pentagon with his opponent Stuart Symington, 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
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1356
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_550
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_551
Date: 3/31/1949
Locations: Hobe Beach, Florida; Bethesda,
Maryland
Description: Forrestal is
flown to Hobe Beach, Florida, to stay with his friend Under Secretary of
State Robert A.
Lovett, where his wife is vacationing. He meets with psychiatrist William C.
Menninger (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
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1357
Date: 3/31/1949
Description: CIA’s H. L. Bowers writes a memo to Dr. Machle, “Notes
and Comments on Unidentified Aerial Objects-- Project Sign,” stating
that Deyarmond thinks
UFOs will turn out to be another “sea serpent.” Nonetheless, they must
be investigated.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Document released to Brad Sparks but not
in subsequent CIA FOIA releases; Good Above, p.
330
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1358
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
Reference: NICAP, “Field Telephone
Affected by BOL”; Clark III 542; Sparks, p. 53
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1359
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_101
Date: 4/2/1949
Locations: National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda,
Maryland; White House
Description: Menninger and
Raines fly Forrestal 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
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1360
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", State/Prov: "Montana", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_552
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
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_20
Date: 4/3/1949
Location: Russia
Description: Broadcaster Walter
Winchell 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
Reference: “Anatomy
of a Hoax, Part Two,” Saturday Night Uforia Source:
EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1361
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
Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns;
Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. Volume 2: 1949, p. 60
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1812
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_553
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
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_21
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
Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO
Unknowns
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1829
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_554
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
Reference: NICAP, “1949 UFO
Chronology”; Sparks, p. 54
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1362
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_555
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_558
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", State/Prov: "Iowa", Strangeness: "7"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_556
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_557
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_559
Date: 4/8/1949
Description: In response to Winchell’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
Reference: “Air Force Isn’t
Committing Self on Flying Disks,” Cedar Rapids \(Iowa\) Gazette,
April 8, 1949, p. 22
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1363
Date: 4/9/1949
Location: National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda,
Maryland
Description: Forrestal 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
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1364
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
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
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_361
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 87.2km
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", State/Prov: "Wisconsin", Strangeness: "5"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_560
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_561
Date: 4/14/1949
Locations: Kelly AFB; Kelly Field Annex; San Antonio,
Texas; Killeen Base, Texas
Description: Col. Reid
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
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
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", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Gironde", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Air
Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance
Agency” Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1366
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
Reference: “The Scientific
Advisory Board to the Chief of Staff, United States Air Force,
Conference,” November 3, 1949; Clark III 541; Swords 133–135
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1367
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_562
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_362
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 49.9km
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_563
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
Reference: Sparks, p. 55
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1368
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_363
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", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_564
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
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_22
Date: 4/24/1949
Location: Arrey, New Mexico
Description: 10:30 a.m. General Mills meteorologist Charles B.
Moore 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 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
Reference: NICAP, “White Sands Incident / C. B.
Moore Case”; R. B. McLaughlin, [Letter
to J. A. VanAllen], May 12, 1949; J. Gordon Vaeth, 200 Miles Up: The
Conquest of the Upper Air, Ronald Press, 1951; James E. McDonald, “Statement
on Unidentified
Flying Objects,” 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; UFOEv, pp. 2–3;
Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp.
72–73; Sparks, 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
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
Reference: Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 238
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2271
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", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "8"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_565
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
Reference: NICAP, “Various Formations
Observed”; Clark III 541; Sparks, p. 57
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1370
Date: 4/25/1949
Locations: AFOSI headquarters; Albuquerque, New
Mexico
Description: Lt. Col. 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 arrives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, having been directed
there by AF Intelligence Director Maj. Gen. Charles
Cabell and Scientific Advisory Board Chairman Theodore
Von Kármán, who wants Kaplan to set up a field investigation. They
emphasize that Grudge is not to be informed.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 542; Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
a History:
1949, January–June, The
Author, 1988, p. 52
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1371
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", State/Prov: "Pennsylvania", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 4/27/1949
Description: USAF press release admits that saucers may
exist
Type: historical event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_100
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
Reference: "Report
on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J.
Ruppelt
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_859
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", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "7"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_566
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, Kaplan, and LaPaz 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 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
Reference: Lt. Col. Doyle Rees, “Unknown
(Aerial Phenomena),” May 12, 1949; Loren E. Gross, The
Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1949
January–June, Supplemental
Notes, The Author, 2000, pp. 60–62; Clark III 542
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1372
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
Reference: “Unidentified
Aerial Objects,” Air Brief, Special Study Part Two, April 27,
1949
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1373
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 to wonder if there is a major disagreement about UFOs within
the Air Force.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: National Military Establishment, Office of
Public Information, “Project
‘Saucer,’” April 27, 1949; Swords 74–75
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1374
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
Reference: NICAP, “Close Encounters
with Drones/Probes at Weapons Storage
Site”; Sparks, 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
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", State/Prov: "Michigan", Strangeness: "5"
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", RelAlt: "8000", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "5"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_567
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_568
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_569
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
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_23
Date: 4/28/1949
Location: Joint Intelligence Committee
Description: USAF Director of Intelligence Charles
Cabell 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
Reference: “Report
by the Director of Intelligence, USAF, to the Joint Intelligence Committee
on Unidentified Aerial Objects,” April 28, 1949; Jan Aldrich, “Top-Secret 1949
Document,” IUR 23, no. 1 (Spring 1998): 3–6, 31; Swords 76–77
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1376
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
Reference: US Air Force, Directorate of Intelligence,
Analysis
of Flying Object Incidents in the U.S.: Summary and Conclusions, Air
Intelligence Report 100-203-79, December 10, 1948; copy, dated April
28, 1949
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1377
Date: 4/28/1949
Location: Los Alamos National Laboratory in New
Mexico
Description: Kaplan, LaPaz, Rees, and
Neef meet
with security officers at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico
to discuss green fireball observations at that facility.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, The
Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:
UFOs, a History: 1949 January–June, Supplemental Notes, The
Author, 2000, pp. 62–63
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1378
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
Reference: NICAP, “Flying Saucer Observed
from Aircraft” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_1379
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
Reference: NICAP, “Cigar-Shaped
Object Observed in
Daylight” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_1380
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
Reference: Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The
Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1985): 10;
Clark III 543; Sparks, p.
58
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1381
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
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
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
Reference: Sidney Shalett, “What
You Can Believe about
Flying Saucers, Part One,” Saturday Evening Post, April 30, 1949,
pp. 20–21, 136–139; Swords 73
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1382
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_570
Date: 4/30/1949
Description: Hynek turns
in his astronomical analysis of Sign’s 237 cases. His contract with Sign
is over.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience,
Ballantine ed., 1974, pp.
199–200; Hynek UFO Report, p.
17; O’Connell 45
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1383
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_571
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", State/Prov: "Nevada", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_572
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
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
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_573
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_574
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_575
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_576
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_577
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
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, Sign Historical
Group, November 2001, pp. 43–44).
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1384
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_364
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 8.85km
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", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "7"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_578
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
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_24
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
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
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 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
Reference: NICAP, “May 5, 1949, 1140 MST,
Fort Bliss, Texas”; Sparks, p.
59
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1386
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", State/Prov: "VOL", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_579
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_580
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_581
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_582
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
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_25
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
Reference: Good Above, pp.
221–223; Joe Brill, “UFO’s behind the Iron Curtain,” Skylook, no.
87, February 1975, p. 15
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1387
Date: 5/6/1949
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Description: Col. 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
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
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
Reference: Sidney Shalett, “What
You Can Believe about Flying Saucers, Part Two,” Saturday Evening
Post, May 7, 1949, pp. 36, 184–186; Swords 74; Ruppelt, p.
63
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1389
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
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
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
Reference: Project Blue Book files; Jan Aldrich,
Project 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2575
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
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
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
Reference: Jan Aldrich, FOIA, http://www.nicap.org/hood490506dir.htm
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2577
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", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_583
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_584
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_585
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_586
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_587
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", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_588
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
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_26
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
Reference: “Things
That Go Whiz,” Time, May 9, 1949; “Anatomy
of a Hoax, Part Six,” Saturday Night Uforia Source:
EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1390
Date: 5/9/1949
Description: Editor Ken Purdy asks Maj.
Donald E.
Keyhoe 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 and Adm. Calvin
M. Bolster, his
opinion changes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Keyhoe, The Flying Saucers Are Real, Gold
Medal, 1950, pp. 18–22,
44
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1391
Date: 5/9/1949
Location: White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico
Description: Naval Unit Commander Robert
B. 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
Reference: R. B. McLaughlin, [Letter
to J. A. VanAllen], May 12, 1949; Sparks, p.
61
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1392
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
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official
statistics, case 384
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2673
Date: 5/11/1949
Location: New York City
Description: Israel admitted to the UN
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_365
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
Reference: Edward Sullivan, letter from witness in 1952
to the Civilian Saucer Intelligence office, Los Angeles
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2733
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_589
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_590
Date: 5/12/1949
Description: Commander McLaughlin writes
to his friend, atmospheric physicist James Van
Allen, describing the Moore 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
Reference: R. B. McLaughlin, [Letter
to J. A. VanAllen], May 12, 1949
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1393
Date: 5/12/1949
Locations: Holloman AFB; Highway 70; Alamogordo, New
Mexico
Description: 9:30 p.m. Astronomer Donald H.
Menzel 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
Reference: Donald H. Menzel, Flying Saucers, Harvard
University, 1953, pp.
3–4, 99–100;
Sparks, 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
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
Reference: Medium
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_366
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", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. Volume 2:
1949, p. 85
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2789
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", State/Prov: "Newfoundland", Strangeness: "5"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_591
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_592
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_367
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", State/Prov: "Louisiana", Strangeness: "7"
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 seems
“somewhat better,” having regained 12 pounds.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1395
Date: 5/18/1949
Locations: Newfoundland; Stephenville
Description: Walter
Winchell, 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
Reference: “Anatomy
of a Hoax, Part
Two,” Saturday Night Uforia Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_1396
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_593
Date: 5/19/1949
Location: Wright-Patterson Air Material
Intelligence
Description: Wright-Patterson Air Material Intelligence
Commander Col. Howard
McCoy 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
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
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 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
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, Sign Historical
Group, November 2001, pp. 43–44; Clark III 543
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1398
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
Reference: Bruce S. Maccabee, MUFON UFO Journal, March
1978, p. 11
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2970
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", RelAlt: "5486", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_594
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
Reference: NICAP, “Hanford AEC Plant /
F-82/RV Case”; Sparks, p. 63; Hynek UFO
Report, p.
141
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1399
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
Reference: J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p.
141
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3013
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 (B1-A)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_368
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 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’s tragedy
Ajax that he is copying.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “James
Forrestal”; 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
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", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 5/24/1949
Location: Bend, OR
Description: Rogue River Incident (NICAP: 01 - Distant
Encounters)
Reference: NICAP: 490524
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_595
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_596
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
Reference: NICAP, “The Rogue River
Incident”; Sparks, p. 64;
Swords 83–84; Bruce Maccabee, “An
Assessment of the UFO Sighting at Rogue River, Oregon (May 24,
1949),” December 2009 Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_1401
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
Reference: Project Blue files counted in official
statistics, May 1949
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3059
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", State/Prov: "Tennessee", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing
Larry Fawcett, UFO Coverup, p. 172
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3080
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", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_597
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
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_27
Date: 5/27/1949
Locations: Red Bluff, California; Burns, Oregon; Hart
Mountain, Oregon
Description: 2:25 p.m. Pilot and businessman Joseph
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
Reference: NICAP, “Pilot Encounters 5–8
Egg-Shaped Metallic Objects”; Sparks, p. 65
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1402
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
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
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", State/Prov: "Nevada", Strangeness: "5"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_598
Date: 5/31/1949
Description: The Air Force Office of Special
Investigations sends Project Grudge a copy of Rees’s
report on Kaplan’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
Reference: Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The
Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1985):
15
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1403
Date: 5/31/1949
Description: The Navy review board, convened by Adm. Morton
D. Willcutts, completes hearings on James
Forrestal’s death. The cause of death is remarkably inconclusive,
and the investigation leaves many questions unanswered.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1404
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", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_599
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_600
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
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case
#1409, citing Ann Druffel
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3220
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", State/Prov: "Florida", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case
1410.
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3290
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_601
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 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
Reference: Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The
Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1985): 12;
Clark III 543; Sparks, p. 66; Thomas
Tulien, ed., Proceedings
of the Sign Historical
Group UFO History Workshop, Sign Historical Group, November 2001, p.
43
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1407
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 (B1-F p238)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_369
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", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "8"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_602
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_603
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
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
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", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "7"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_604
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_370
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 133.5km
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_605
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_606
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_607
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 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
Reference: NICAP, “Two UFOs Pace V-2
Rocket”; Robert McLaughlin, “How Scientists
Tracked a Flying Saucer,” True, March 1950, pp. 25–27, 96–99; Sparks, p. 66; Swords
92–93
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1408
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", State/Prov: "Alabama", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_608
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_609
Date: Summer 1949
Description: USAF Project "Twinkle" started
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_102
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, 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
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1405
Date: Summer 1949
Location: Casablanca, Morocco
Description: 4:00 p.m. The French Navy patrol boat La
Rusé (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
Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet,
1969, p, 36
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1406
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", State/Prov: "Tennessee", Strangeness: "7"
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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
a History: 1949, January–June, The Author, 1988, pp. 83–84
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1409
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
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case
1415
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3597
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_610
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", State/Prov: "Alessandria", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_611
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
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case
1416
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3691
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_612
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
Reference: Marler 126–128
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1410
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", State/Prov: "Kentucky", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_613
Date: 7/3/1949
Location: Longview, Washington
Description: 10:40 a.m. Aeronautical engineer Molt Taylor,
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
Reference: NICAP, “Metallic
Discus Object Observed by
150–200 Observers”; Sparks, p. 67; Swords
82–83; James E. McDonald, “Statement
on Unidentified
Flying Objects,” 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
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
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
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", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "5"
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", RelAlt: "300", State/Prov: "Wyoming", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official
statistics, July 1949 summary
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3924
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", State/Prov: "Pennsylvania", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Pennsylvania", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 7/13/1949
Location: Los Alamos, New Mexico
Description: Kaplan responds
to a July 1 letter from Gen. Charles P.
Cabell 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, 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
Reference: Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The
Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1985):
15
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1412
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", RelAlt: "10", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "5"
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", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "5"
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case
1426
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4156
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_614
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", RelAlt: "450", State/Prov: "Indiana", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_615
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
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
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", RelAlt: "2500", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "5"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_616
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_617
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
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_28
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
Reference: NICAP, “Piper Clipper
Encounters Seven Delta-Shaped Objects”; Sparks, p.
68
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1413
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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
a History: 1949 July–December, The Author, 1988, p. 13
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1414
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 collects dust samples from the School of Mines campus at
Socorro. The samples contain copper particles of unusually large
size.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 543–544; Sparks, p. 68
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1415
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
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
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", RelAlt: "20", State/Prov: "Delaware", Strangeness: "7"
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", RelAlt: "1800", State/Prov: "Nebraska", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "4"
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", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Newspaper clipping, July 27, 1949; Loren E.
Gross, UFOs: A History. 1949 (Volume 2), p. 14
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4407
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
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
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
Reference: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 28,
1949
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4424
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", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "2000", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "3"
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", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_618
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
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_29
Date: 8/1949
Locations: Moon; Mars
Description: George
Adamski 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
Reference: George Adamski [ghost-written by Lucy
McGinnis], Pioneers of Space, Leonard-Freefield, 1949; “Palomar
Mountain, 1940–1960: From Obscurity to World Fame,” The Adamski
Case, September 22, 2019
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1416
Date: 8/1949
Location: Alaska
Description: Actor, producer, and director Mikel Conrad, 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
Reference: Jerome Clark, “A Catalog of Early Crash
Claims,” IUR 18, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1993): 16; Internet Movie Database,
“The Flying Saucer”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1417
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", State/Prov: "VRC", Strangeness: "4"
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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. Volume 2:
1949, p. 18
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4556
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", RelAlt: "600", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_620
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_621
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_622
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_623
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_624
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_625
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", RelAlt: "3000", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_626
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
Reference: NICAP, “Winged Objects
Cavort over Airport” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_1418
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
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
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. Hynek’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, 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
Reference: Lt. Howard W. Smith and George W. Towles,
“Unidentified
Flying Objects—Project
Grudge,” Air Materiel Command Technical Report 102-AC-49/15-100;
Hynek UFO Report, p. 18;
Sparks, p.
12
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1419
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
Reference: Wikipedia, “United
States Department
of Defense” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_1420
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", State/Prov: "Utah", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Poland 18–19
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1422
Date: 8/17/1949
Location: New Mexico
Description: Lincoln
LaPaz 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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
a History: 1949
July–December, The
Author, 1988, pp. 28–29
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1421
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.
Reference: Anonymous 2023
PDF
Source: Anon2023PDF, ID:
Anon2023PDF_18
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.
Reference: Anonymous 2023
PDF
Source: Anon2023PDF, ID:
Anon2023PDF_19
Date: 8/18/1949
Location: Socorro, New Mexico
Description: LaPaz and USAF
scientists meet with William
D. 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
Reference: Clark III 543–544
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1423
Date: 8/19/1949
Description: Fitzgerald and Gamey see little men in
desert.
Type: ce3 event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_103
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "9"
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", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "3"
Date: 8/19/1949
Location: Norwood, OH
Description: UFO in searchlight (NICAP: 08 -
Photographic Cases)
Reference: NICAP: 490819
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_627
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_70
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
Reference: “‘Little Men’ in Flying
Disc,” San Francisco Examiner, August 20, 1949, p. 2; Clark III 269;
Patrick Gross, URECAT, August
22, 2006
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1424
Date: 8/19/1949
Locations: Norwood, Ohio; University of Cincinnati;
Cincinnati Post; Cincinnati Enquirer
Description: 8:15–11:00 p.m. Rev. Gregory
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
Reference: “More
Proof That ‘Saucers’ Exist,” CRIFO Orbit 1, no. 5 (August 6, 1954):
1–2; NICAP, “The
Ohio Searchlight Incident”; Patrick Gross, “The Norwood
Searchlight Incident” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_1425
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
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
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", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "8"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_628
Date: 8/20/1949
Location: Las Cruces, New Mexico
Description: 10:45 p.m. Astronomer Clyde
Tombaugh, his wife,
and mother-in-law see
a formation of rectangular bluish- green lights at Las Cruces, New
Mexico, for about 3 seconds.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Tombaugh Observes
UFO Formation”; H. B. Darrach Jr. and Robert Ginna, “Have
We Visitors from Space?” Life, April 7, 1952, p. 89; “Dr. Clyde Tombaugh Provides
Details on His Own Famous Sighting,” CSI News Letter, no. 10
(December 15, 1957): 27; UFOEv, p.
53; Sparks, p. 70; James E.
McDonald, “Statement
on Unidentified Flying Objects,” 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
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
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
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", State/Prov: "Alaska", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1949, p.
42
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5215
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
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_371
Atomic type: aboveground
Atomic KT: 22
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", State/Prov: "SMP", Strangeness: "5"
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 Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1032
Extra Data: LatLong: "50.4375 77.814167", LatLongDMS: "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeName: "joe1", NukeSource: "RFAE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: "22"
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.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “RDS-1”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1427
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", State/Prov: "VLA", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Center for UFO Studies, [Payerne
case file]
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1433
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
Reference: Clark III 543
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1428
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_372
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_629
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_630
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", State/Prov: "Vaud", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5673
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", State/Prov: "STY", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "LZN", Strangeness: "7"
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_373
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_631
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", RelAlt: "5200", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "7"
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 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
Reference: Lt. Col. John McK. Tucker, “Light Phenomena,”
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
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
Reference: Clark III 692–693
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1430
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
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #
1454; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1951, p. 53
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5939
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_374
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 4.2km
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", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "5"
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", State/Prov: "New York", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, September
1989, p. 13; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 11
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_6116
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_375
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_619
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)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID:
Magnonia_71
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
Reference: H. B. Darrach Jr. and Robert Ginna, “Have
We Visitors from Space?” Life, April 7, 1952, p. 89
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1434
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
Reference: Tulsa (Okla.) Tribune, December 10, 1957; Schopick, p.
77
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1435
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", State/Prov: "Western Virginia", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Bruce S. Maccabee, MUFON UFO Journal, March
1978, p. 11
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_6308
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", State/Prov: "Massachusetts", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "Nebraska", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 9/26/1949
Locations: Lexington, Nebraska; 5 miles southeast of
Lexington, Nebraska
Description: 6:30 p.m. 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, Minnie, Elmer and
Irene
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
Reference: NICAP, “90-Degree Turn
Straight Up”; Swords 83–84
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1431
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
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
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
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
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
Reference: Francis Ridge, “The Nuclear
Connection Project: The New Mexico
Sightings,” September 3, 2005; Sparks, p.
71
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1432
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_376
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 150.8km
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", State/Prov: "Nebraska", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 9/29/1949
Description: An ovoid object composed of luminous,
translucent rings flew quickly to the south over Humboldt,
Nebraska.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1949, p.
47
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_6411
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", RelAlt: "80", State/Prov: "Queensland", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 10/1/1949
Location: Jackson, MS
Description: Rush Case (P) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation
Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_632
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", State/Prov: "Michigan", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "New York", Strangeness: "8"
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
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official
statistics, case # 473
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_6481
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_377
Rocket type: V-2
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
Reference: Francis Ridge, “The Nuclear
Connection Project: The New Mexico
Sightings,” September 3, 2005
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1436
Date: 10/11/1949
Description: The Navy releases only a brief summary of
its findings in the death of James
Forrestal. The complete transcript is not released until 2004.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Ayn Rand Institute Watch, “The
Willcutts Report on the Death of James Forrestal”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1437
Date: 10/12/1949
Location: Hollywood, CA
Description: Frank Scully’s Variety article “One Flying
Saucer Lands In New Mexico”
Type: publication
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_378
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", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_633
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_634
Date: 10/12/1949
Location: southwestern desert
Description: Columnist Frank
Scully writes an article in Variety alleging that the US government
has retrieved crashed spaceships in the southwestern desert.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Frank Scully, “Scully’s
Scrapbook,” Variety, October 12, 1949; Clark III 595, 1044
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1438
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_635
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 and Maj. Frederic C. E.
Oder), Fourth Army, the FBI, AFSWP, and Los Alamos scientists (Edward Teller, George Gamow, and Stanislaw
Ulam), the green fireballs are identified as probably atmospheric in
origin, but more observational data is needed. LaPaz and 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
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
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1439
Date: 10/14/1949
Locations: San Diego County, California; Point Loma,
California; Palomar Gardens Café
Description: 1:15 p.m. Harley
C. Marshall, 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, 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 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 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
Reference: NICAP, “Geiger Counters
Detect UFO
Presence”; Clark III 38, 949–950; Sparks, 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
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "8"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_636
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", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_637
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", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "4"
Date: 10/23/1949
Location: St. Peter and Paul Church in Norwood,
Ohio
Description: 7:15–10:45 p.m. Rev. Gregory
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
Reference: Harry Mayo, “What Glows on Here?
Norwood Muses,” Cincinnati Post, April 6, 1950, p. 1; “More
Proof That ‘Saucers’ Exist,” CRIFO Orbit 1, no. 5 (August 6, 1954):
1–2; NICAP, “The
Ohio Searchlight
Incident”; Patrick Gross, “The Norwood
Searchlight Incident” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_1441
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
Reference: Leonard H. Stringfield, Inside Saucer
Post...3-0 Blue, p. 72; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 88
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7033
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", State/Prov: "Ontario", Strangeness: "5"
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", State/Prov: "Ancona", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: Solas Boncompagni, UFO in Italia, Volume I
(Periodo 1907-1953), p. 103
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7214
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_638
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_379
See also: 3/25/1948
See also: 4/1948
Date: 11/3/1949
Location: Baja (near), CA
Description: Donnelly Case, (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation
Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_639
Date: 11/3/1949
Locations: Pentagon; Los Alamos
Description: Joseph
Kaplan 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
Reference: Clark III 544
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1442
Date: 11/3/1949
Description: Karl Taylor
Compton resigns as chairman of the Research and Development Board
around the same time that Lawrence R.
Hafstad succeeds Lloyd
Berkner as executive secretary.
Reference: Eberhart
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
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
Reference: Jan Aldrich
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1444
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
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
Date: 11/11/1949
Locations: Strait of Hormuz; Persian Gulf; Gulf of
Oman
Description: 6:30 p.m. USNR Commander J.
R. Bodler is in charge of a merchant vessel (possibly the USS Hemminger) 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
Reference: J. R. Bodler, “An
Unexplained Phenomenon of the Sea,” US Naval Institute Proceedings
72 \(January 1952\): 66–67; Carl Feindt, waterufo.net
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1445
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", State/Prov: "GOM", Strangeness: "8"
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", State/Prov: "Mississippi", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "3"
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_381
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 123.9km
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", State/Prov: "Louisiana", Strangeness: "6"
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", RelAlt: "900", State/Prov: "Mississippi", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "Honshu Island", Strangeness: "7"
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
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_640
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
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official
statistics, November 1949 report
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7762
Date: 11/23/1949
Location: Hollywood, CA
Description: Frank Scully Variety article “Flying
Saucers Dismantled, Secrets May Be Lost”
Type: publication
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_380
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", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "7"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_641
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
Reference: Kenneth Arnold & Ray Palmer, The Coming
of the Saucers, p. 145
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7899
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
Reference: Francis Ridge, “The
Nuclear Connection
Project: The New Mexico Sightings,” September 3, 2005
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1446
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
Reference: Sparks, p. 77
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1447
Date: 12/1949
Location: WA
Description: Donald Keyhoe publishes “The Flying
Saucers are Real” in True Magazine
Type: publication
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_390
Date: 12/1949
Description: Capt. Bernard Baruch Jr. suggests to Gen.
Hoyt
Vandenberg 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
Reference: Swords 122
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1448
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
Reference: Wikipedia, “Green Run”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1449
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", State/Prov: "RDJ", Strangeness: "10"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_642
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
Reference: Brazil 23–24
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1450
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
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
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_382
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 130.3km
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", RelAlt: "15000", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 12/13/1949
Location: Holloman AFB, NM
Description: Unknown Aerial Phenomenon Sighted (NICAP:
01 - Distant Encounters, NC)
Reference: NICAP: 491213
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_643
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", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "4"
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
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing
Loren Gross, UFOs: A History. 1949 (volume 2), p. 61
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_8456
Date: 12/20/1949
Description: Following consideration by the Defense
Department’s Research and Development Board, Joseph Kaplan’s green
fireball project is approved by AMC.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Col. B. G. Holzman, “Light
Phenomena,” 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
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", State/Prov: "Maryland", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 12/24/1949
Description: The January 1950 issue of True magazine is
published, with Donald Keyhoe’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
Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, “The
Flying Saucers
Are Real,” True, January 1950, pp. 11–13, 83–87
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1452
Date: 12/27/1949
Description: USAF Project "Saucer" closed
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_104
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
Reference: "Report
on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J.
Ruppelt
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_860
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
Reference: Clark III 932–933
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1453
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
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_383
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", State/Prov: "Virginia", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "North Carolina", Strangeness: "6"
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", State/Prov: "South Carolina", Strangeness: "7"
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", State/Prov: "South Carolina", Strangeness: "6"
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
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_644
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
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_384
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", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "6"
