Date: 0’s
Description: Greek and Roman records of UFO’s
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Date: 1600’s
Description: Significant sightings
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Charles
Fort
Date: 1700’s
Description: Significant sightings
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Charles
Fort
Date: 1780’s
Description: Coulomb’s law of electrostatics
Type: scientific advanced
Reference: Wikipedia
Date: 1800’s
Description: Significant sightings
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Charles
Fort
Date: 1825
Description: Ampère published his “Ampère’s law.”
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Wikipedia
Date: 1831
Description: Michael Faraday is generally credited with the discovery of
induction
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Wikipedia
Date: 1838
Description: Samuel F. B. Morse demonstrates telegraph transmission
across two miles of wire in Morristown, NJ
Type: scientific advance
Reference: link
Date: 7/10/1858
End date: 1/7/1943
Description: Nikola Test born (dies 1/7/1943)
Type: scientist
Reference: Wikipedia
Date: 1860
End date: 1864
Description: Louis Pasteur’s key germ theory experiments
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Wikipedia
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
Date: 7/1868
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)
Location: Copiago, Chile
ID: 1
Date: 12/7/1872
Time: 0100 hours
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)
Location: Banbury, Great Britain
ID: 2
Date: 1873
Description: Maxwell published A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism
as a summary of his work on electromagnetism
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Wikipedia
Date: 3/14/1879
End date: 4/18/1955
Description: Albert Einstein born
Type: scientist
Reference: Wikipedia
Attributes: Einstein
Date: 5/15/1879
Time: 2140
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)
Location: Persian Gulf
ID: 4
Date: 1880
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)
Location: Aldershot, Great Britain
ID: 3
Date: 1880
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)
Location: Eastern Venezuela
ID: 5
Date: 3/26/1880
Time: evening
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)
Location: Lamy, New Mexico
ID: 6
Date: 6/11/1881
Time: 0400
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)
Location: Between Melbourne and Sydney at sea, Australia
ID: 7
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
Date: 11/2/1885
Time: dawn
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)
Location: Scutari, Turkey
ID: 8
Date: 11/1886
Description: Heinrich Hertz became the first person to transmit and
receive controlled radio waves.
Type: scientific advance
Reference: link
Date: 11/12/1887
Time: 2400
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)
Location: Cape Race, Atlantic Ocean
ID: 9
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
Date: Winter 1889
Description: Nikola Tesla’s experiments at his Experimental Station on
wireless electricity transmission in Colorado Springs
Type: scientific event
Reference: link
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: Wikipedia
Reference: link
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
Date: 11/8/1895
Description: X-Rays discovered
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Wikipedia
Date: 1896
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)
Location: Arolla, near Zermatt, Swiss Alps
ID: 10
Date: 3/26/1897
Time: night
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)
Location: Sioux City, Iowa
ID: 11
Date: 3/28/1897
Time: 2230
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)
Location: Omaha, Nebraska
ID: 12
Date: 4/1/1897
Time: 2100
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)
Location: Everest, Kansas
ID: 13
Date: 4/12/1897
Time: 1430
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)
Location: Nilwood, Illinois
ID: 14
Date: 4/12/1897
Time: 1800
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)
Location: Girard, near Green Ridge, Illinois
ID: 15
Date: 4/14/1897
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)
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
ID: 17
Date: 4/14/1897
Time: 1500
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)
Location: Gas City, Indiana
ID: 16
Date: 4/15/1897
Time: morning
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)
Location: Linn Grove, Iowa
ID: 18
Date: 4/15/1897
Time: nightfall
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)
Location: Howard-Artesian, South Dakota
ID: 19
Date: 4/15/1897
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)
Location: Springfield, Illinois
ID: 21
Date: 4/15/1897
Time: 2100
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)
Location: Perry Springs, Missouri
ID: 20
Date: 4/16/1897
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)
Location: Downs Township, Illinois
ID: 22
Date: 4/17/1897
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
Location: Aurora, TX
Date: 4/17/1897
Time: morning
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)
Location: Williamston, Michigan
ID: 23
Date: 4/19/1897
Time: 2230
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)
Location: Leroy, Kansas
ID: 24
Date: 4/20/1897
Time: 1800
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)
Location: Homan, Arkansas
ID: 25
Date: 4/22/1897
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)
Location: Rockland, Texas
ID: 26
Date: 4/22/1897
Time: 2400
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)
Location: Josserand, Texas
ID: 27
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 Japanese.”
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Farish, in Allende Letters - Award Special, 1968 (Vallee)
Location: McKinney Bayou, Arkansas
ID: 28
Date: 4/25/1897
Time: evening
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)
Location: Merkel, Texas
ID: 29
Date: 4/26/1897
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)
Location: Aquila-Hillsboro, Texas
ID: 30
Date: 5/6/1897
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)
Location: Hot Springs, Arkansas
ID: 31
Date: 10/28/1902
Time: 0305
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)
Location: Gulf of Guinea
ID: 32
Date: 1904
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)
Location: Rolling Prairie, Indiana
ID: 33
Date: 9/6/1905
Description: Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity paper
published
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Wikipedia
Attributes: Einstein
Date: 1908
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)
Location: Coast of Delaware
ID: 34
Date: 6/30/1908
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)
Location: Podkamennaia Toungouska, USSR
ID: 35
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
Date: 5/18/1909
Time: 2300
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)
Location: Caerphilly, Wales
ID: 36
Date: 6/16/1909
Time: 0410
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)
Location: Donghoi, Annam
ID: 37
Date: 1/1910
Time: 2300
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)
Location: Invercargill, New Zealand
ID: 38
Date: 4/15/1912
Description: Sinking of the Titanic
Type: disaster
Reference: Wikipedia
Date: 1/1/1914
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
Location: St. Petersburg, FL
Date: 6/1914
Time: 0400
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)
Location: Hamburg, Germany
ID: 39
Date: 7/28/1914
End date: 11/11/1918
Description: World War 1
Type: war
Reference: Wikipedia
Date: 8/1914
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)
Location: Georgian Bay, Canada
ID: 40
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)
Date: 8/21/1915
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)
Location: Gallipoli, Turkey
ID: 41
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
Attributes: Einstein
Date: 10/1917
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)
Location: Youngstown, Pennsylvania
ID: 42
Date: 11/11/1918
Description: End of World War 1
Type: war
Reference: Wikipedia
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
Date: 1/16/1920
Description: First meeting of the League of Nations
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
See also: 4/20/46
Date: 11/2/1920
Description: First commercial radio broadcast from KDKA in Pittsburgh
PA
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Date: 1921
Description: Undocumented report of an “abduction” by two beings.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
Location: Marseilles, France
ID: 43
Date: 1922
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
Location: County Donegal, Ireland
Date: 2/22/1922
Time: 0500
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)
Location: Hubbell, Nebraska
ID: 44
Date: 9/9/1922
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)
Location: Barmouth, Wales
ID: 45
Date: 1926
Description: UFO’s seen around Altai Himalaya
Type: UFO sighting
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Location: Himalaya Mountains
Date: 10/1928
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
Location: Antarctica
Date: Spring 1929
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))
Location: Bainbridge Island, WA
Date: 6/12/1929
Time: 2300
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)
Location: Fermeneuve, Canada
ID: 46
Date: 7/1929
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)
Location: Robsart, Canada
ID: 47
Date: 10/4/1929
Description: US stock market crashes
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: New York City, New York
Date: 11/29/1929
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
Location: Antartica
Date: 1933
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
Location: Antartica
Date: 1/30/1933
Description: Hitler is made Chancellor of Germany.
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Germany
Date: 3/4/1933
End date: 4/12/1945
Description: President Franklin D. Roosevelt in office.
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Washington DC
Date: summer 1933
Time: Morning
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)
Location: Chrysville, Pennsylvania
ID: 48
Date: 7/4/1933
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
Location: Germany
Date: 1934
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)
Location: Fort Washakie, WY
Date: 6/19/1934
Description: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is established,
replacing the Federal Radio Commission.
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Location: Washington DC
Date: 7/29/1934
Description: Ufologist and nuclear physicist Stanton T. Friedman is born
in Elizabeth, NJ.
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Elizabeth, NJ
Date: 1935
End date: 1937
Description: UFO activity around Second Italo-Ethiopian War
Type: UFO activity
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Location: Ethiopia
Date: 6/26/1936
Description: Heinrich Focke designed the world’s first practical, stable
transverse twin rotor helicopter
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Reference: link
Location: Germany
Date: fall 1938
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)
Location: Juminda, Estonian coast
ID: 49
Date: 10/30/1938
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
Location: New York City, New York
Date: 1939
End date: 1941
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
Location: Antartica
Date: 8/1939
Description: The turbojet powered Heinkel He 178, the world’s first jet
aircraft, made its first flight
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Germany
Date: 8/2/1939
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
Location: Washington DC
Attributes: Einstein
Date: 9/1/1939
End date: 9/2/1945
Description: World War 2
Type: war
Reference: Wikipedia
Date: 5/26/1940
End date: 6/4/1940
Description: Dunkirk evacuation (Operation Dynamo)
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Dunkirk
Date: 7/10/1940
End date: 10/31/1940
Description: Battle of Britain
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Britain
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
Attributes: Einstein
Date: 1941
Description: Charles Fort’s four famous books
Type: historical event
Reference: Pea
Research
Reference: Wikipedia
Date: 1941
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
Location: Bakersfield, CA
Date: 3/17/1941
Description: US Army establishes the Western Defense Command for
coordinating the defense of the Pacific Coast
Type: military
Reference: link
Location: West Coast
Date: Late 4/1941
Description: Cape Girardeau, MO Crash Retrieval (MO41)
Type: UFO crash retrieval
Reference: link
Location: Cape Girardeau, MO
Date: 2/24/1942
End date: 2/25/1942
Description: Battle of LA
Type: military
Reference: link
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Date: 2/26/1942
Description: Secret Memo to the President from Chief of Staff, C.G.
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 (B1-E p15,446)
Reference: link
Location: Washington DC
Date: 4/27/1942
Description: Nazi Amerikabomber long range bomber project study
completed
Type: project study
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Germany
Date: 6/13/1942
Description: The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), predecessor of the
CIA, begins operations
Type: historical
Reference: link
Location: Washington DC
Date: 10/3/1942
Description: First German V-2 rocket test to get very close to space,
85–90km
Type: aerospace
Reference: link
Location: Germany
Date: 12/1942
Alternate date: 1/1943
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)
Location: Columbia, PA
Date: 12/2/1942
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
Location: Germany
Date: 1943
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)
Location: San Diego, CA
Date: 1/7/1943
Description: Nikola Test dies
Type: death
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: United States
Date: 1/16/1943
Description: Approval for the Hanford Site for plutonium
production
Type: nuclear weapons
Reference: link
Location: Hanford, WA
Date: 2/18/1943
Description: Construction begins for Y-12 electromagnetic separation
plant for enriching uranium at Oak Ridge
Type: nuclear weapons
Reference: link
Location: Oak Ridge, TN
Date: Spring 1943
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
Location: Laguna Beach, California
Date: 4/1/1943
Description: Los Alamos Laboratory begins operations in New Mexico
Type: nuclear weapons
Reference: link
Location: Los Alamos, NM
Date: 5/1943
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
Location: Princeton, NJ
Attributes: Einstein
Date: 6/1943
Description: The Army Air Force’s Air Tactical Service Command asks
Lockheed to develop a jet fighter
Type: aerospace
Reference: link
Date: 6/15/1943
Description: Einstein’s USN work announced in JTA Daily News
Bulletin
Type: scientist
Reference: link
Attributes: Einstein
Date: 7/1943
Description: Skunk Works begins in Burbank CA. Lockheed Engineer Kelly
Johnson deliver proposal for the XP-80 jet fighter
Type: aerospace
Reference: link
Location: Burbank, CA
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
Attributes: Einstein
Date: 7/18/1943
End date: 10/15/1944
Description: Einstein reports on his “explosives” work to USN
Type: scientist
Reference: link
Attributes: Einstein
Date: 9/1943
Time: 0400
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)
Location: Oncativo, Argentina
ID: 50
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)
Date: 1944
Description: Richard Shaver’s stories re. UFO
Type: paranormal phenomenon
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Date: 4/1944
Description: The first operation jet fighter, the Messerschmitt Me 262,
is introduced
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
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
Date: end of 8/1944
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)
Location: Mattoon, Illinois
ID: 51
Date: 9/7/1944
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
Location: Germany
Date: 11/8/1944
Description: Nazis officially announce the V-2 rocket on 11/8/1944
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Germany
Date: 1945
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)
Location: Habbebishopsheim, Germany
ID: 52
Date: 1945
Description: Green Fireballs seen in Southwestern US
Type: anomalous phenomenon
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Location: Los Alamos, NM
Date: 1945
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
Location: Ozyorsk, Russia
See also: 1947
Date: 1945
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
Location: New Jersey
Date: 2/1945
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
Location: San Diego, CA
Date: 3/1945
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)
Location: Belfast, Maine
ID: 53
Date: 3/1945
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)
Location: Aleutian Islands
ID: 54
Date: 3/17/1945
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
Location: Germany
Date: 3/27/1945
Description: Final V-2 rockets used during WW2
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Germany
Date: 4/12/1945
End date: 1/20/1953
Description: President Harry S. Truman in office
Type: historical event
Location: Washington DC
Date: Summer 1945
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)
Location: Hanford, WA
Date: 6/26/1945
Description: United Nations charter signed, goes into full force on
10/24/1945
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: New York City
Date: 7/16/1945
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
Location: White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Atomic type: aboveground
Atomic KT: 18.6
Date: 8/6/1945
Description: First atomic bomb attack at Hiroshima, Japan. 20,000
soldiers killed, 70,000–126,000 civilians killed.
Type: atomic
Reference: link
Location: Hiroshima, Japan
Atomic type: aboveground
Atomic KT: 16
Date: 8/9/1945
Description: Second atomic bomb attack at Nagasaki, Japan. 39,000–80,000
killed, At least 150 soldiers killed.
Type: atomic
Reference: link
Location: Nagasaki, Japan
Atomic type: aboveground
Atomic KT: 21
Date: 8/16/1945
Description: “Trinity” Crash Retrieval near San Antonio, NM
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: link
Location: San Antonio, NM
Date: 8/22/1945
Description: Stalin appoints Lavrentiy Beria to direct Soviet atomic
bomb effort
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Moscow, Russia
Date: 9/2/1945
Description: End of WW2
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Date: 10/1945
Description: The temporary successor to the OSS, the Strategic Services
Unit (SSU), begins
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Location: Langley, VA
Date: 10/2/1945
Description: British Operation Backfire near Cuxhaven: V-2 launch
test
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: Cuxhaven, Germany
Rocket type: V-2
Date: 10/15/1945
Description: British Operation Backfire near Cuxhaven: V-2 launch
test
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: Cuxhaven, Germany
Rocket type: V-2
Date: 10/24/1945
Description: United Nations charter in full force
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: New York City, New York
Date: 1946
Description: Ghost Rockets seen in Scandinavia
Type: UFO sightings
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Location: Scandinavia
Date: 1946
End date: 1951
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
Location: Launch Complex 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Date: 1946
Description: Soviet “Sverdlovsk-44” atomic bomb project plant opened
(Uranium enrichment)
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Soviet Union
Date: 1946
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
Location: Soviet Union
Date: 1946
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
Location: Antarctica
Date: 1/10/1946
Description: Public announcements of radar signals bounced off
Moon
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Medium
Location: New Jersey
Date: 2/26/1946
Description: Ghost Rocket reports in Scandinavia, Sweden/Finland
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Scandinavia
Date: 3/6/1946
Description: The Western Defense Command, activated on 3/17/1941, is
deactivated
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Pacific Coast Region, US
Date: 3/15/1946
Description: First static test fire of V-2 missile at White Sands Pad
33
Type: aerospace
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Date: 4/16/1946
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
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
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
Date: 5/1946
End date: 12/1946
Description: 2,000 Ghost Rocket sightings in Sweden/Finland
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: link
Location: Scandinavia
Date: 5/10/1946
Description: First nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33,
112.6km altitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 112.6km
Date: 5/13/1946
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
Location: Astrakhan Oblast
Date: 5/29/1946
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 112.1km
altitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 112.6km
Date: 6/13/1946
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 117.2km
altitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 117.2km
Date: 6/28/1946
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 107.8km altitude
(nose separation failure)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 107.8km
Date: 7/5/1946
End date: 12/1946
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
Location: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Date: 7/9/1946
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 134.4km
altitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 134.4km
Date: 7/19/1946
Description: Failed V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 4.8km
altitude (oxygen pump explodes)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 4.8km
Date: 7/30/1946
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 161.5km
altitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 161.5km
Date: 8/15/1946
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
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 6.4km
Date: 8/22/1946
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
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 0km
Date: 9/4/1946
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 (B1-E p22,447)
Location: Sweden
Date: 10/9/1946
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
Location: San Diego, CA
Date: 10/10/1946
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
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 104.6km
Date: 10/10/1946
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 173.8km
altitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 173.8km
Date: 11/7/1946
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
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: .32km
Date: 11/21/1946
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
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 102.4km
Date: 12/5/1946
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 152.9km altitude
(Control system failed at altitude)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 152.9km
Date: 12/17/1946
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 184.4km altitude
(Rocket exploded at 440s)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 184.4km
Date: 1947
Description: Einstein sees “Greys” for the first time
Type: rumor
Reference: anonymous (channeled) information (R.G.)
Location: Roswell, NM
Attributes: Einstein
Attributes: channeled
Date: 1947
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
Location: Ozyorsk, Russia
Date: 1947
Description: Soviet “Sverdlovsk-45” (Plant 418) atomic bomb project
plant opened (Uranium enrichment, warhead assembly)
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Reference: link
Location: N 58 39 E 59 47
Date: 1/1947
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)
Location: Papago Indian Reservation
Date: 1/7/1947
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)
Location: Portland, OR
Date: 1/10/1947
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
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 116.2km
Date: 1/23/1947
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
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 49.9km
Date: 2/9/1947
Description: Student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright wins
writing essay competition
Type: scientist
Reference: link
Location: Coral Gables, FL
Attributes: Einstein
Date: 2/20/1947
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
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 109.4km
Date: 3/7/1947
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 165.2km
altitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
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
Attributes: Einstein
Date: 4/1/1947
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 129.2km
altitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 129.2km
Date: 4/8/1947
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 102.2km
altitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 102.2km
Date: 4/17/1947
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
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 142.4km
Date: 5/1/1947
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
Location: Washington DC
Date: 5/15/1947
Description: UFO sighting in Oklahoma City: round, disc-like, ten times
longer than thick, high speed, Project Grudge case #82. (Possibly
5/21/47)
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: link
Location: Oklahoma City, OK
Date: 5/15/1947
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
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 135.2km
Date: 5/19/1947
Description: UFO sighting in Manitou Springs CO: “Reversal of direction
of fight, manoeuvres” , Project Grudge chase #92
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: link
Location: Manitou Springs, CO
Date: 5/19/1947
Description: UFO sighting in Manitou Springs CO: “Reversal of direction
of fight, manoeuvres” , Project Grudge case #92
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: link
Location: Manitou Springs, CO
Date: 5/29/1947
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
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 79.3km
Date: 5/31/1947
Description: Student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright class
photo in newspaper
Type: newspaper article
Reference: link
Location: Coral Gables, FL
Attributes: Einstein
Date: 6/1947
Description: Oppenheimer-Einstein Majestic Document on US Space Law,
“Relationships with Inhabitants of Celestial Bodies”
Type: majestic document
Reference: Majestic
Document
Attributes: Einstein
Attributes: majestic
Date: 6/10/1947
Time: 2300
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)
Location: Douglas, Arizona
ID: 55
Date: 6/11/1947
Description: Student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright’s last day
of high school (estimate)
Type: scientist
Reference: link
Attributes: Einstein
Date: 6/17/1947
Time: 1030
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)
Location: Bisbee, Arizona
ID: 58
Date: 6/21/1947
Time: 1150
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)
Location: Spokane, Washington
ID: 57
Date: 6/21/1947
Description: Harold Dahl sees 6 discs near Tacoma Harbor, WA. Drops
metal residue.
Type: UFO sightings
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Location: Maury Island, WA
Attributes: metals
Date: 6/21/1947
Description: Maury Island Incident
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Medium
Reference: link
Attributes: metals
Date: 6/21/1947
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)
Location: Maury Island, near Tacoma, Washington
ID: 56
Date: 6/24/1947
Description: Kenneth Arnold sights 9 discs near Mt. Rainer,
Washington
Type: UFO sightings
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Location: Mt. Rainer, WA
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
Date: 6/29/1947
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
Location: White Sands, NM
Date: 6/30/1947
Time: 0910
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)
Location: Grand Canyon, near Williams Field, Arizona
ID: 59
Date: 7/1947
Description: Student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright visits
Princeton and studies under Einstein
Type: scientist
Reference: Bragalia
Attributes: Einstein
Date: 7/1947
Description: Conclusion to an FBI/ARMY Intelligence Report: Based on a
detailed study of the Kenneth Arnold case (6/24/47) 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
See also: 6/24/47
See also: 9/23/47
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
Attributes: Majestic
See also: 9/24/1947
Date: 7/1/1947
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
Location: White Sands, NM
Location: Alamogordo, NM
Location: Roswell, NM
Date: 7/2/1947
Description: Roswell area crash
Type: ufo crash
Reference: Valerian, Matrix 1
Date: 7/2/1947
Description: Roswell area crash
Type: ufo crash
Reference: “Matrix 1”, Valerian
Location: Roswell, NM
Date: 7/2/1947
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
Location: Magdalena, N.M.
Date: 7/3/1947
Time: 2:30 PM EDT
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
Location: Harborside, Maine
ID: 0
Date: 7/3/1947
Description: Magdalena, NM area crash
Type: ufo crash
Reference: “Matrix 1”, Valerian
Location: Magdalena, NM
Date: 7/4/1947
Description: UFO crashes in Horse Mountain Canyon: 2 dead grays, one
heavily injured, one surviving
Type: ufo crash
Reference: anonymous (channeled) information (R.G.)
Location: Magdalena, NM
Date: 7/4/1947
Description: Portland area mass sightings, hundreds of witnesses, Blue
Book Report includes state and local police witnesses
Type: mass ufo sighting
Reference: Twitter
Location: Portland, OR
Date: 7/4/1947
Description: Capt. E. J. Smith co-pilot & stewardess see UFO’s in
PNW
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Wikipedia
Reference: Twitter
Location: Pacific Northwest
Date: 7/4/1947
Time: 8:17 PM PDT
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
Location: over Emmet, Idaho
ID: 1
Date: 7/5/1947
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
Location: Plains of San Agustin, NM
Date: 7/5/1947
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)
Location: Portland, OR
Date: 7/6/1947
Time: Daytime
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
Location: Fairfield-Suisan Air Base, California
ID: 2
Date: 7/7/1947
Description: Newspaper article: “Army can’t locate crashed saucers” in
Spokane area
Type: newspaper article
Reference: Medium
Location: Spokane, CA
Date: 7/7/1947
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)
Location: Roswell, NM
Date: 7/7/1947
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
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Date: 7/7/1947
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 )
Location: Medford, OR
Date: 7/7/1947
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 )
Location: Louisville, Kentucky
Date: 7/8/1947
Description: Roswell radio announcement, debris being flown by special
plane to Wright Field
Type: ufological event
Reference: YouTube
Location: Roswell, NM
Date: 7/8/1947
Description: FBI Dallas teletype to Director: flying saucer crashed and
was recovered near Roswell NM
Type: teletype
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-A, RECOVERY)
Location: Dallas, TX
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
See also: 7/2/47
See also: 7/7/47
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
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
Date: 7/8/1947
Time: 9:30 AM PDT
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
Location: Muroc Air Base, California
ID: 3
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
Date: 7/8/1947
Time: 1200
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)
Location: Muroc Air Field, California
ID: 60
Date: 7/8/1947
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)
Location: Roswell, NM
Date: 7/9/1947
Time: 12:17 PM PDT
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
Location: Meridian, Idaho
ID: 4
Date: 7/10/1947
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
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
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
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
Date: 7/10/1947
Time: Between 3 and 5 PM local time
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
Location: Harmon Field, Newfoundland, Canada
ID: 5
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
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)
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
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
See also: 1/31/49
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 (B1-E, p541, RECOVERY)
Date: 7/23/1947
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)
Location: Bauru, near Pitanga, Brazil
ID: 61
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
Date: 7/29/1947
Time: 2:50 PM PDT
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
Location: Hamilton Air Base, California
ID: 6
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
Date: 7/29/1947
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 160.7km altitude
(Near vertical trajectory.)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 160.7km
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
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
Date: 8/13/1947
Time: 1300
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)
Location: Twin Falls, Smoke River Canyon, Idaho
ID: 62
Date: 8/14/1947
Time: 0900
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)
Location: Raveo, Italy
ID: 63
Date: 9/3/1947
Time: 12:15 PM PDT
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
Location: Oswego, Oregon
ID: 7
Date: 9/6/1947
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
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 1.5km
Date: 9/18/1947
Description: CIA officially begins, directed by Rear Adm. Roscoe H.
Hillenkoetter, USN
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Location: Langley, Virginia
Date: 9/19/47
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
Attributes: Majestic
See also: 11/30/47
Date: 9/23/1947
Description: USAF project “SIGN” started
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Date: 9/23/47
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
See also: 7/47
See also: 9/15/50
See also: 8/54
Date: 9/23/1947
Description: Confirmation sighting of Arnold’s discs by Fred
Johnson
Type: UFO sightings
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Date: 9/24/47
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
Attributes: Majestic
See also: 2/15/87
See also: 9/4/87
See also: 7/47
Date: 9/28/47
Description: Student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright: Newspaper
college freshman photo
Type: scientist
Reference: link
Attributes: Einstein
Date: 10/47
Description: Article on student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright
receiving Barry Scholarship
Type: scientist
Reference: link
Attributes: Einstein
Date: 10/1947
Time: 11 PM CDT
Description: Witness: one unnamed civilian man. Watched for 1 hour while
an undescribed object flew counterclockwise circles.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Dodgeville, Wisconsin
ID: 8
Date: 10/1/47
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
Date: 10/9/1947
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 156.1km altitude
(Internal explosion at 83.5s)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 156.1km
Date: 10/14/1947
Time: Noon MDT
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
Location: 11 mi. NNE of Cave Creek, Arizona
ID: 9
Date: 10/18/1947
Description: First Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 207km
(Vehicle disintegrated at atmospheric reentry)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: Kapustin Yar
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 207km
Date: 10/20/1947
Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 231km (Deviated
181 kilometres from intended flight path)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: Kapustin Yar
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 231km
Date: 10/23/1947
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
Location: Kapustin Yar
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 29km
Date: 10/28/1947
Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 29km
(Success)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: Kapustin Yar
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 29km
Date: 10/31/1947
Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 2km (Started
rolling after lift-off and crashed)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: Kapustin Yar
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 2km
Date: 11/2/1947
Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar (2nd that day),
260km (Lost fins after launch)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: Kapustin Yar
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 260km
Date: 11/2/1947
Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 260km
(Success)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: Kapustin Yar
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 260km
Date: 11/4/1947
Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 268km
(Success)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: Kapustin Yar
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 268km
Date: 11/10/1947
Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 24km (Control
failure)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: Kapustin Yar
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 24km
Date: 11/13/1947
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
Location: Kapustin Yar
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 270km
Date: 11/13/1947
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
Location: Kapustin Yar
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 270km
Date: 11/20/1947
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 26.7km altitude (GE
technology proving flight)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 26.7km
Date: 11/30/47
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
Attributes: Majestic
Date: 12/8/1947
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
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 104.6km
Date: 12/23/1947
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
Location: Muray Hill, NJ
Date: 12/30/1947
Description: USAF project “Saucer” started
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Date: 12/30/1947
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)
Location: Washington DC
Date: 1948
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
Location: Washington DC
Date: 1948
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)
Location: Swastika, Canada
ID: 64
Date: 1948
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
Location: White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
See also: 3/25/48
See also: 2/13/1948
Date: 1948
Description: More Ghost Rockets seen in Europe
Type: UFO sightings
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Location: Europe
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
Date: 1/7/1948
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
skiessouth 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
Location: Maysville, KN
Date: 1/7/1948
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….oftremendous size.directly ahead and slightly above….I am trying
to close for a better look.” The F-51 exploded inmid-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.
Type: ufological event
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-E p481)
Location: Maysville, KN
Date: 1/7/1948
Description: Capt. Mantell of USAF is killed while pursuing UFO
Type: UFO encounter
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Location: Godman Air Base, Kentucky
Date: 1/15/1948
Description: USAF officially a separate service
Type: history
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Washington DC
Date: 1/22/1948
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 159.3km altitude
(Payload separation failure)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 159.3km
Date: 2/6/1948
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
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 111km
Date: 2/13/1948
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
Location: Aztec, NM
See also: 3/25,1948
Date: 3/19/1948
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
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 5.5km
Date: 3/25/1948
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
Location: Aztec, NM
See also: 2/13/1948
Date: 3/25/1948
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
Location: Aztec, NM
Date: 4/1948 (estimated)
Description: Photographer Nicholas Van Poppen, an aerospace photography
expert, tells Dr. George C. Tyler on 11/49 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
Location: Los Alamos, NM
Date: 4/2/1948
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
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 144km
Date: 4/5/1948
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 (B1-E p481)
Location: Holloman AFB
Date: 4/5/1948
Time: Afternoon
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
Location: Holloman AFB, New Mexico
ID: 10
Date: 4/19/1948
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
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 56km
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 (B1-E p481)
Date: 5/13/1948
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
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 127.3m
Date: 5/27/1948
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 139.7km altitude
(Steady flight with low roll rate)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 139.7
Date: 5/27/1948
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 139.7km altitude
(Steady flight with low roll rate)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 139.7
Date: 6/1948 (approximate)
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
Location: US
Date: 6/11/1948
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
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 62.3
Date: 6/15/1948
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 (B1-E, p481)
Location: Miles City, MT
Date: 6/19/1948
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
Location: Kapustin Yar
Date: 7/1948
Time: Shortly after sunset
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
Location: vicinity of Marion, Virginia
ID: 13
Date: 7/1/1948
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 (B1-E p481)
Location: Ellsworth Air Force Base
Date: 7/17/1948
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 (B1-E p481)
Location: Kirtland Air Force Base
Date: 7/20/1948
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 (B1-E p481)
Location: Netherlands
See also: 7/25/48
Date: 7/24/1948
Description: Eastern Airlines pilots Chiles and Whitted see UFO
Type: UFO sightings
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Location: Montgomery, Alabama
Date: 7/24/1948
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
Location: Montgomery, Alabama
Date: 7/25/1948
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 (B1-E p481)
Location: US
See also: 7/20/48
See also: 8/3/48
See also: 1/31/50
Date: 7/26/1948
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
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 86.9
Date: 7/29/1948
Time: 9:55 AM
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
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
ID: 11
Date: 7/29/1948
Description: An object swept over a road at 10 m altitude.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
ID: 65
Date: 7/31/1948
Time: 8:25 AM
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
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
ID: 12
Date: 8/3/1948
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
Location: Moscow
See also: 7/25/48
Date: 8/5/1948
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 165.7km
altitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 165.7km
Date: 8/11/1948
Time: 1200
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)
Location: Hamel, Minnesota
ID: 66
Date: 8/19/1948
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
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 13.4km
Date: 8/29/1948
Time: 0503
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)
Location: Maplewood, Ohio
ID: 67
Date: 9/2/1948
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
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 150.6km
Date: 9/12/1948
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 (B1-E p481)
Location: Midway
Date: 9/23/1948
Time: 12 noon
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
Location: San Pablo, California
ID: 14
Date: 9/30/1948
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 150.3km altitude
(Bumper 3 WAC stage failed)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 150.3km
Date: 10/1/1948
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 (B1-E p481, B1-F p234, B1-G p28)
Location: North Dakota
Date: 10/1/1948
Description: Lt. G. Gorman air duels with UFO for 25 minutes
Type: UFO sightings
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Location: Fargo, North Dakota
Date: 10/15/1948
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)
Location: Japan
Date: 10/15/1948
Time: 11:05 PM
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
Location: Fusuoka, Japan
ID: 15
Date: 11/1948
Description: Green fireballs prominent in New Mexico
Type: anomalous phenomenon
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Location: Los Alamos, NM
Date: 11/1/1948
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
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 4.8km
Date: 11/18/1948
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
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 145.3km
Date: 11/18/1948
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)
Location: Andrews AFB
Date: 11/23/1948
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)
Location: Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany
Date: 12/1948
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)
Location: Dayton, OH
See also: 3/52
Date: 12/3/1948
Time: 8:15 PM
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
Location: Fairfield-Suisan AFB, California
ID: 16
Date: 12/9/1948
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
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 108.4km
Date: 12/10/1948
Description: Top Secret Air Intelligence Report 100–203–79 issued
Type: top secret report
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Dayton, OH
See also: 1/7/1948
See also: 11/1/1948
Date: 1949
End date: 1990
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
Location: Soviet Union
Date: 1949
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
Location: Bishop, CA
Date: 1949
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
Location: Dayton, OH
Date: 1949
Description: Soviet “Tomsk-7” atomic weapons project plant opens
(Uranium enrichment, component manufacturing)
Type: atomic plant
Reference: link
Location: Siberia
Date: Early 1949
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
Location: Dayton, OH
Date: 1/4/1949
Time: 2 PM
Description: Witness: USAF pilot Capt. Paul Storey, 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
Location: Hickam Field, Hawaii
ID: 17
Date: 1/6/1949
Description: Rocket shaped UFO sighted near Los Alamos, NM
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Los Alamos, NM
See also: 1/31/49
See also: 7/25/48
Date: 1/13/1949
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 (B1-E p482)
Location: NM
Date: 1/13/1949
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33 (1st Hermes II
test)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Date: 1/27/1949
Time: 10:20 PM
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
Location: Cortez-Bradenton, Florida
ID: 18
Date: 1/28/1949
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 59.9km
attitude (Defective performance)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 59.9km
Date: 1/31/1949
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)
Location: NM
Date: 1/31/1949
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 12/05/48 and 01/06/49, 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 (B1-E p483, B1-G p30)
Location: NM
See also: 7/25/48
See also: 7/47
See also: 8/4/50
Date: 2/1949
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
Location: Dayton, OH
Date: 2/1949
Time: 1630
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)
Location: Pucusana, Peru
ID: 68
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)
Date: 2/11/1949
Description: USAF Project “GRUDGE” started
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Location: Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OH
Date: 2/17/1949
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches
100.6km attitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 100.6km
Date: 2/17/1949
Time: night
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)
Location: France, exact location unknown
ID: 69
Date: 2/24/1949
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
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 129km
Date: 3/1949
Description: An analysis of the Maury Island incident metal fragments
appears in the BSRA’s “Round Robin” publication
Type: publication
Reference: link
Location: San Diego, CA
Date: 3/17/1949
Time: 7:52 PM
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
Location: Camp Hood, Texas
ID: 19
Date: 3/21/1949
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 133.5km
attitude (Blossom 3 — Parachute not ejected)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 133.5km
Date: 4/1949
Description: 2 UFO’s tracked by theodolite at White Sands, New
Mexico.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Location: White Sands Proving Grounds, New Mexico
Date: 4/3/1949
Time: 11:55 AM
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
Location: Dillon, Montana
ID: 20
Date: 4/4/1949
Time: 10:20 PM
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
Location: Merced, California
ID: 21
Date: 4/11/1949
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 87.2km
attitude (Degraded performance from 43s)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 87.2km
Date: 4/21/1949
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
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 49.9km
Date: 4/24/1949
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
Location: Arrey, NM
Date: 4/24/1949
Time: l0:30 AM
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
Location: Arrey, New Mexico
ID: 22
Date: 4/27/1949
Description: USAF press release admits that saucers may exist
Type: historical event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Date: 4/28/1949
Time: 5:45 PM
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
Location: Tucson, Arizona
ID: 23
Date: 5/5/1949
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
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 8.85km
Date: 5/5/1949
Time: 11:40 AM
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
Location: Ft. Bliss, Texas
ID: 24
Date: 5/6/1949
Time: 9:35 AM
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
Location: Livermore, California
ID: 25
Date: 5/9/1949
Time: 2:30 PM
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
Location: Tucson, Arizona
ID: 26
Date: 5/11/1949
Description: Israel admitted to the UN
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: New York City
Date: 5/13/1949
Description: Newspaper coverage of BSRA’s “second memorandum of
importance” on flying discs.
Type: publication
Reference: Newspapers.com
Reference: Medium
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Date: 5/18/1949
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
Location: Wright Patterson AFB, Dayton OH
Date: 5/22/1949
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)
Location: Bethesda Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Maryland
Date: 5/27/1949
Time: 2:25 PM
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
Location: South-central Oregon
ID: 27
Date: 6/10/1949
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)
Location: White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Date: 6/14/1949
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 133.5km
attitude (Blossom 4 — Nominal performance.)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 133.5km
Date: Summer 1949
Description: USAF Project “Twinkle” started
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Date: 7/24/1949
Time: 12 noon
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
Location: Mountain Home, Idaho
ID: 28
Date: 7/30/1949
Time: 9 PM
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
Location: Mt. Hood, Oregon
ID: 29
Date: 8/19/1949
Description: Fitzgerald and Gamey see little men in desert.
Type: ce3 event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Date: 8/19/1949
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)
Location: Death Valley, California
ID: 70
Date: 8/29/1949
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
Location: Semipalatinsk Test Site
Atomic type: aboveground
Atomic KT: 22
Date: 9/3/1949
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
Location: Eielson Air Force Base, AL
Date: 9/9/1949
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
Location: Washington DC
Date: 9/16/1949
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
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 4.2km
Date: 9/23/1949
Description: Truman made headlines with an announcement that the Soviet
Union had tested a nuclear device several weeks earlier
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Location: Washington DC
Date: fall 1949
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)
Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma
ID: 71
Date: 9/29/1949
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches
150.8km attitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 150.8km
Date: 10/6/1949
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33 (2nd Hermes II
test)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Date: 10/12/1949
Description: Frank Scully’s Variety article “One Flying Saucer Lands In
New Mexico”
Type: publication
Reference: link
Location: Hollywood, CA
Date: 11/1949
Description: Photographer Nicholas Van Poppen, an aerospace photography
expert, tells Dr. George C. Tyler on 11/49 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
See also: 3/25/48
See also: 4/48
Date: 11/18/1949
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches
123.9km attitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 123.9km
Date: 11/23/1949
Description: Frank Scully Variety article “Flying Saucers Dismantled,
Secrets May Be Lost”
Type: publication
Reference: link
Location: Hollywood, CA
Date: 12/1949
Description: Donald Keyhoe publishes “The Flying Saucers are Real” in
True Magazine
Type: publication
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: WA
Date: 12/8/1949
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches
130.3km attitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 130.3km
Date: 12/27/1949
Description: USAF Project “Saucer” closed
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Date: 12/28/1949
Description: Richmond VA area: Radio play about a crashed saucer with 12
dead midget crewmen
Type: radio show
Reference: link
Location: Richmond, VA
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 7/8/47 and 12/31/49.
Type: newspaper articles
Reference: link
Reference: link
Date: 1950
Description: Aviator Kenneth Arnold publishes the pamphlet “The Flying
Saucer as I Saw It”
Type: publication
Reference: Archive.org
Location: WA
Date: 1950’s
Description: At least 11 nuclear explosions were carried out at the
Soviet Kapustin Yar test site, in addition to all other launches
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Kapustin Yar
Date: 1950’s
Description: “Area 51” designation appears on several atomic fallout
maps.
Type: book reference
Reference: “Dreamland” by Lazar
Location: Area 51
Date: 1950
Description: Soviet “Krasnoyarsk-26” atomic weapons project plant opens
(Plutonium production)
Type: atomic plant
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Soviet Union
Date: Early 1950
Description: Author and military historian Fletcher Pratt initiated
rumor waves in the press by announcing that he had obtained through
confidential channels information that a flying saucer had crashed to
earth and that bodies of a vaguely human appearance and about 35 inches
tall had been found dead in the wreckage.
Type: rumors
Reference: Medium
Date: 1/1950
Description: TRUE magazine publishes first article on Flying
Saucers
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Date: 1/1/1950
Description: Donald Keyhoe publishes a condensed version of “The Flying
Saucers are Real” in Newspapers
Type: publication
Reference: Wikipedia
Date: 1/6/1950
Description: Wyandotte Echo Kansas City newspaper: “Coulter” (George T.
Koehler) story on 2 recovered saucers, saucer near a radar installation,
exotic metals, acclimation program, etc.
Type: rumors
Reference: Amazon
Reference: Newspapers.com
Date: 1/16/1950
Description: CLASSIFIED USAF Staff Message: At a radar station near New
Mexico a person reported seeing 2 saucers. One was badly damaged the
other almost perfectly intact. Description: Each consisted of 2 parts, a
cockpit or cabin about 6 ft. diam.; a ring approx. 18 ft. across and 2
ft. thick surrounding cabin, resembling aluminum, but actual metal has
defied analysis by the Dearborn Plant. Two crew members in the damaged
ship were charred but in the undamaged ship the two crew members were
perfectly preserved.
Type: classified staff message
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-A p27, RECOVERY)
See also: 1/6/50
See also: 1/30/50
Date: 1/22/1950
Description: U.S. Navy patrol plane pilot, Lt. Smith, was on routine
security flight when he picked up a radar track on an UFO, two times.
Smith then radioed Kodiak radar station and was advised that no known
traffic was in his radar area. Moored south of Kodiak was the USS
Tillamook with Master Morgan standing on watch. Suddenly, at 3 a.m., “a
very fast moving red glow appeared to be of exhaust nature, seemed to
come from the south-east, moved clockwise in a large circle in the
direction of, and around Kodiak and returned out in a generally
south-east direction. The UFO was moving so fast that it was actually
leaving a streak on Smith’s radarscreen. It was estimated to be moving
at a speed of 1800 mph. Described as “two orange lights rotating about a
common center like two jet aircraft making slow rolls in tight
formation.” The UFO then made an abrupt turn and headed directly towards
Smiths’ aircraft in a threatening gesture so Smith quickly turned off
all of his lights turn make his plane less conspicuous in the inky
colored sky. The UFO flew by him and disappeared in the south-east in a
matter of minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Kodiak, Alaska
Date: 1/29/1950
Description: Mr. Quintana of Denver saw a silvery-green ovoid object
hovering about 15 m above a slope and landing slowly in a small ravine.
Then it shot upward at very high speed. Its diameter was about 20 m, and
it had a revolving middle band. A greenish light flashed under it, and
the witness felt a rush of air and a pungent smell.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FS Jul., 59 (Vallee)
Location: South Table Mountain, Colorado
ID: 72
Date: 1/30/1950
Description: The Knoxville Journal, Knoxville, Tennessee, prints article
referring to the Wyandotte Echo Kansas City newspaper article on
“Coulter” (George T. Koehler) story on 2 recovered saucers, acclimation
program.
Type: newspaper article
Reference: Newspapers.com
Location: Kodiak, Alaska
See also: 1/6/50
Date: 1/31/1950
Description: Office MEMO, Director FBI, SAC, San Antonio: A UFO
resembling a rocket ship without wings appeared out of a thunderhead of
clouds narrowly missing an Eastern Airlines flight and disappeared into
another cloud. It was traveling approx. 2700 mph and no sound or air
disturbance was noted with it. During the past two months the UFO
sightings appeared to be concentrated near Los Alamos, N.M. This UFO was
also sighted near Los Alamos on Jan. 6, 1949.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Los Alamos, NM
See also: 1/6/50
Date: 2/5/1950
Time: 5:10 PM
Description: Witnesses: Marvin Odom, former U.S. Navy fighter pilot,
USAF Lt. Philip Foushee, pilot from Otis AFB, and two others. Two thin,
illuminated cylinders, one of which dropped a fireball, maneuvered
together and then disappeared high and fast after 5 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Teaticket, Massachusetts
ID: 30
Date: 2/17/1950
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches
148.7km attitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 148.7km
Date: 2/22/1950
Description: USAF denies existance of flying saucers
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Date: 2/24/1950
Time: 1:55 PM
Description: Witnesses: Municipal Airport Weather Observers Luther
McDonald, Harrison Manson. One white, slightly elongated oval was
watched for 1.5 minutes through a theodolite while it flew straight and
level.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
ID: 31
Date: 2/25/1950
Time: 3:55 PM
Description: Witnesses: Twelve Atomic Energy Commission security
inspectors. One cylinder with tapered ends, silver and flashing, flew
slow and hen fast, fluttered and oscillated, and changed course.
observations by individuals varied from 3 seconds to 2 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Los Alamos, New Mexico
ID: 32
Date: 3/3/1950
Time: 11:05 PM
Description: Witness: 1st Lt Frank Mattson. One intense, dull yellowish
light descended vertically, then flew straight and level very fast for 4
minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Selfridge AFB, Michigan
ID: 33
Date: 3/8/1950
Description: Tape recorded University of Denver lecture on three crash
retrievals. Tape recently found at the AHC in Frank Scully’s papers in
Laramie WY. Was going to be given by a scientist involved in the
retrieval that knew or worked with Dr. Vannever Bush during WW2, but was
instead given by Silas Newton at the last minute.
Type: lecture
Reference: YouTube - Part
1
Reference: YouTube - Part
2
Location: University of Denver
Date: 3/8/1950
Description: Mysterious “Silas Newton” speaks at University of
Denver
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Date: 3/16/1950
Description: Swiss engineer Julian Gardiol reported he spotted a UFO
stop in the air stop for 5 minutes (Denver Post Special)
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Newspapers.com
Reference: “Behind
the Flying Saucers” by Frank Scully
Location: Lima, Peru
Date: 3/16/1950
End date: 3/18/1950
Description: Farmington Armada mass UFO sighting: 100’s of UFO’s spotted
over town, and from nearby Aztec. Some UFO’s appeared red colored. Seen
by thousands of witnesses over a period of several days. Local
newspapers reportedly censored.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: link
Location: Farmington, NM
Location: Aztec, NM
Date: 3/18/1950
Time: 1830
Description: A rancher, Wilfredo H. Arevalo, saw two objects, one of
which landed. He walked within 150 m of the aluminum-looking craft which
gave off a greenish-blue vapor and “an intense smell of burning
benzine.” A large, flat section on top was revolving above a glass cabin
in which could be seen four tall men, dressed in something like
cellophane, working at various instruments. They saw him and shone a
light in his direction while a blue light illuminated the craft; the
vapor increased and flames (alternately reddish and greenish) shot out
of the base while the object rose with a faint hum. Both craft flew away
toward Chile, leaving bluish trails.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 32 (Vallee)
Location: Lago Argentino, Argentina
ID: 73
Date: 3/20/1950
Time: 9:26 PM
Description: Witnesses: Chicago & Southern Airlines Capt. Jack
Adams, First Officer G. W. Anderson, Jr. One 100’ circular disc with
9-12 portholes along the lower side emitting a soft purple light, and a
light at the top which flashed 3 times in 9 seconds, flew at not less
than 1,000 m.p.h. It was seen for 25-35 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Stuggart, Arkansas
ID: 34
Date: 3/22/1950
Description: FBI “Guy Hottel” Memo: 3 saucers recovered in NM
(corroborating Frank Scully’s later book on 8/50). Description: Circular
with raised centers, approx. 50 ft. diam. Each one occupied by 3 bodies,
only 3 ft. tall, dressed in metallic suite, taped like high-speed
flyers. It is believed that a very high powered Radar Station interfered
with their control mechanisms, causing them to crash.
Type: memo
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-A p116, B1-F p326, B1-E p527, RECOVERY)
Location: Washington DC
See also: 3/25/48
Date: 3/22/1950
Description: Dept. Transportation, Ottawa Canada, announces plans to
build and test free energy geomagnetic engine. Also state that
“Dr. Vannevar Bush heads highest secret saucer research group in the
USA
Type: announcement
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-A, B1-E p464)
Location: Ottawa, CA
Date: 3/27/1950
Time: 10:30 AM
Description: Witness: USAF radar operator Cpl. Bolfango. Tracked on
radar for 2 minutes while it was stationary and then moved at 500
m.p.h.. Visual observation not detailed, only mentioned in
summary.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Motobo, Okinawa
ID: 35
Date: 3/28/1950
Time: 3:15 PM
Description: Witness: M/Sgt. Patterson, of the office of the U.S. Air
Attache. One white object observed for 5-10 seconds through binoculars
while it flew high and fast, crossing 30^ of sky.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Santiago, Chile
ID: 36
Date: 3/29/1950
Time: 7 AM
Description: Witnesses: real estate salesmen Whiteside and Williams.
Six-twelve dark objects shaped like 300-lb. bombs, estimated 5 feet
long. Flew 500 m.p.h. and descended, making a noise like wind blowing
through the trees.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Marrowbore Lake, Tennessee
ID: 37
Date: 3/31/1950
Description: Memo to Director, FBI pertaining to flying saucers. Memo
names a person in Denver, Colorado that claims to possess a UFO radio
transmitter.
Type: memo
Reference: YouTube
Location: Washington DC
Date: 3/31/1950
Description: Secret tape of an AFOSI interrogation of radio time
salesmen George Koehler (“Coulter” in newspaper articles), recorded at
station KMYR in Denver. The 2 federal agents were looking for “parts”
and “gadgets” from crashed flying saucers. Digitized from the Frank
Scully archive at the American Heritage Center (Box #34 Item #17).
Type: tape recording
Reference: YouTube
Location: Denver, CO
Date: 4/1950
Description: Mikel Konrad made a movie of eight disks he saw landing and
taking off 60 km north of Jun.au.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
Location: Juneau, Alaska
ID: 74
Date: 4/7/1950
Description: Letter sent from BSRA to President
Type: letter
Reference: Twitter
Link
Location: San Diego, CA
See also: 5/16/1950
Date: 4/8/1950
Time: afternoon
Description: David, 12, and Charles, 9, Lightfoot saw a disk land behind
a hill and touched it. It was the size of a car tire, about 30 cm high,
with a rounded top that rotated and a pivot between the base and the
top. It took off very fast. The faces and arms of the boys later became
red.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 200 (Vallee)
Location: River Road near Amarillo, Texas
ID: 76
Date: 4/8/1950
Time: 0200
Description: A metal worker was awakened by his dog and observed an
object 60 m away at low altitude. It was a gray metal disk, 5 m in
diameter, shaped like a top with a kind of turret. It was oscillating,
spinning slowly, and had three portholes shining with a blue-white
light. It hovered for about 2 min, left toward the north, very
fast.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Kokomo, Indiana
ID: 75
Date: 4/8/1950
Time: 2 AM
Description: Witness: Earl Baker. One grey metallic disc, 50’ in
diameter, 15’ thick; top-shaped with a “conning tower” at the top and
three ports on the rim giving off a blue light. It hovered for 2
minutes, then flew away. Baker aroused from sleep by his dog.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Kokomo, Indiana
ID: 38
Date: 4/14/1950
Time: 2:30 PM
Description: Witness: Army M/Sgt. James. Four rectangular, amber
objects, about 3’ by 4’. changed speed and direction rapidly; the group
of objects rose and fell during the 3-4 minute sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Ft. Monmouth, New Jersey
ID: 39
Date: 4/17/1950
Description: Variety author Frank Scully’s book “Behind the Flying
Sauces” announced coming soon.
Type: announcement
Reference: Newspapers.com
Location: Glens Falls, NY
Date: 4/20/1950
Time: night
Description: Jack Robertson was driviug about 13 km west of town when he
saw a round object about 3 m in diameter hovering about 7 m above him
with a dull red glow. It took off with a “swooshing roar” as sparks flew
from a slot under it. Minutes later the witness feIt a burning sensation
on his face.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FS Jul., 59 (Vallee)
Location: Lufkin, Texas
ID: 77
Date: 4/24/1950
Time: 2200
Description: Bruno Facchini heard and saw sparks coming from a dark,
hovering object, near which a man dressed in tight-fitting clothes and
wearing a helmet seemed to be making repairs. Three other men were seen
near the craft. When the work was finished, a trap through which light
had been shining was closed and the thing took off. The witness had the
time to note many details of the machine and its occupants.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 63, 2; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Abbiate Guazzone, Italy
ID: 78
Date: 4/27/1950
Description: TWA flight 117 sights UFO
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Date: 5/7/1950
Time: 1845
Description: A couple and their grandson were returning from a picnic
when, about 14 km south of Ely, they saw a silvery-white object at
treetop level. It hovered for 10 min, then oscillated “as if attempting
to rise” and suddenly flew out of sight at high speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Ely, Nevada
ID: 79
Date: 5/7/1950
Time: 6:45 PM
Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. George Smith and their grandson.
One silvery white object hovered at 100’ altitude, moved back and forth
for 10 minutes and then flew up and away. Note in case file: “No
investigation.”
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Nine miles sough of Ely, Nevada
ID: 40
Date: 5/11/1950
Description: McMinnville UFO photographs, also known as the Trent UFO
photos, were taken by a farming couple, Paul and Evelyn Trent near
McMinnville, Oregon.
Type: ufo photo
Reference: link
Reference: link
Location: McMinnville, OR
Date: 5/16/1950
Description: Reply letter from White House to BSRA
Type: letter
Reference: Twitter
Link
Location: Washington DC
See also: 4/7/1950
Date: 6/1950
Description: Many sightings
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Date: 6/25/1950
Description: Korean War
Type: war
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Korea
Date: 6/27/1950
Time: 7:50 AM
Description: Witnesses: Terrell and Yates, employees of Red River
Arsenal. One object, bright, shaped like two dishpans face-to-face, flew
straight and level, fast for 4-5 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Texarkana, Texas
ID: 41
Date: 7/1950
Description: Flying Magazine: “THE FLYING SAUCERS-FACT OR
FICTION?”
Type: publication
Reference: link
Date: 7/2/1950
Description: In a story strangely similar to that of Mr. Kiehl (Aug.,
1914) (Case 40) a man and his wife saw a double saucer with portholes
and a rotating antenna come to rest on the surface of the lake. Ten
figures, 1.20 m tall, dressed in shiny clothing, emerged and walked on
deck like robots “changing direction without turning their bodies.”
Their faces could not be seen. One of them wore a red cap, had darker
arms and legs and “seemed to be their chief.” They immersed a hose in
the lake, then took off. Fishermen later reported a green moss forming
on the lake.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Wilkins U (Vallee)
Location: Steep Rock Lake, Canada
ID: 80
Date: 7/4/1950
Description: Daniel Fry makes UFO contact and is taken to NYC and back
in 30 minutes
Type: ce4 event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Location: White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Date: 7/13/1950
Time: 5 PM
Description: Witnesses: two skilled Arsenal employees including
Mr. Washburn. one object, shaped like a bowtie, and like polished
aluminum. Flew straight and level, then one triangle rotated 1/4 turn in
the opposite direction and returned to its original position. The object
then made a right-angle turn and accelerated away after at least 30
seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Redstone Arsenal, Alabama
ID: 42
Date: 7/20/1950
Description: Mr. Campello and several others in a car saw two large,
silvery objects by the side of the road, one on a hillock, the other on
flat ground, about 50 m away from each other. They came within 600 m of
the objects, which went away at “an incredible speed,” causing a rush of
air that rocked the car.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: SBEDV 30 (Vallee)
Location: Porto Novo, Brazil
ID: 81
Date: 7/24/1950
Description: V-2 missile test at Cape Canaveral LC3, Reaches 16.1km
attitude (Low-angle atmospheric flight over 320 km range)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 16.1km
Rocket range: 320km
Date: 7/29/1950
Description: V-2 missile test at Cape Canaveral LC3, Reaches 16.1km
attitude (Low-angle atmospheric flight over 320 km range)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 16.1km
Rocket range: 320km
Date: 8/1950
Description: Author Frank Scully’s book “Behind the Flying Saucers”
published
Type: publication
Reference: Amazon
Location: US
Date: 8/1/1950
Description: Gen. Walter B. Smith fills the vacant MJ-3 position.
Type: ufological event
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-A)
Location: Washington DC
Date: 8/4/1950
Description: CONFIDENTIAL MEMO: From Lt. Colonel Mildren (G-3) to Maj.
U.G. Carlan (GSC Survey Section): Since July 30, 1950, UFO’s have been
sighted over the Hanford AEC Plant. Air Force jets fails to intercept
them. FBI, anti-aircraft battalion, radar units and fighter squadrons
alerted for further observation. Atomic Energy Commission still
investigating.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-E p485)
Location: Hanford, WA
Date: 8/4/1950
Time: 10 AM EDT
Description: Witnesses: Master Nils Lewring, Chief Mate Jacob Koelwyn,
Third Mate, of M/V Marcala. One 10’ cylindrical object at 50-100’
altitude, flying with a churning or rotary motion, accelerated at end of
15 second sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: approx. 100 mi. SE of New York City (39’ 35’ N, 72’ 24.5’
W)
ID: 43
Date: 8/20/1950
Time: 1:30 PM
Description: Witnesses: USAF MATS liaison officer Lt. William Ghormley,
Col. W. V. Brown, Lt. col. L.w. Brauer. One small, round, bright object
flew fast, straight and level for 15-20 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Nicosia, Cyprus
ID: 44
Date: 8/25/1950
Time: 8 PM
Description: Witness: B-29 radarman S/Sgt. William Shaffer. Radar
observation, plus possible blue streak 3 minutes later. B-29 followed
unidentified target, then passed it at l/4-mile distance, target
followed for 5 minutes, then passed B-29 and sped away. Total time of
tracking: 20 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: approx. 250 mi. SW of Bermuda (29’ 40’ N, 67’ 28’ W)
ID: 45
Date: 8/30/1950
Time: 1:30 PM
Description: Witnesses: three local employees, including Kaeel and
Alexander, of the Air Force Base. A dark, barrel-shaped object with a
pole down from it into the water, flew at 3-5 m.p.h. and 15-20’ altitude
for 5 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Sandy Point, Newfoundland, Canada
ID: 46
Date: 8/31/1950
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 136.4km
attitude (Blossom 7- Nominal performance)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 136.4km
Date: 9/3/1950
Time: 2 PM
Description: Witnesses: Maj R.J. Gardiner, Mrs. Gardiner and neighbor
(former saw three objects, others saw one). Metallic bronze discs,
20-30’ long, 2-6’ thick. Moved independently and erratically for 5
minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Spokane, Washington
ID: 47
Date: 9/15/1950
Description: In a conference between Canadian Wilbert Smith and
Dr. Sarbacher (a consultant to the US Research and Development Board),
scientist reveals Frank Scully’s 1950 “Behind the Flying Saucers” book
is true and substantially correct, Flying Saucers exist, we haven’t been
able to duplicate their performance, it’s pretty certain they didn’t
originate on the earth, the subject is classified more highly than the
H-bomb.
Type: conference
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-E p519)
Location: Washington DC
See also: 9/23/47
See also: 1/26/53
Date: 9/20/1950
Time: 10:49 AM
Description: Witness identified only as a “reliable source”. Two large,
round, glowing objects and three smaller, internally lit objects. Two
hovered for 1 minute, moved, and three smaller ones came from behind or
within the two larger objects, and all sped upward and away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Kit Carson, Colorado
ID: 48
Date: 9/21/1950
Time: 9:52 AM
Description: Witness: M.I.T. research associate and Air National Guard
Maj. M.H. Ligda. Radar tracking of one object during M.I.T tracking of
USAF flight of F-84 or F-86 jet fighters. Object speed was 22
miles/minute (l,200 m.p.h.), made turn of 11-12 gs acceleration during 1
minute observation.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Provincetown, Massachusetts
ID: 49
Date: 10/6/1950
Description: Confidential Memo: Headquarters, 5th Army Division: John de
Reneaux photographed the saucer which crashed near Aztec, N.M. He said
that “army officials” had attempted to take the photographs away from
him but that he had given them another roll of film. In a further
interview with the 5th Headquarters, de Reneaux denied any knowledge of
the Aztec crash.
Type: confidental memo
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-A p117, RECOVERY)
Location: Fort Sam Houston, TX
See also: 3/25/1948
Date: 10/15/1950
Time: Time unknown
Description: Witness: Woodward. Same as previous observation.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Pope AFB, North Carolina
ID: 52
Date: 10/15/1950
Time: Time unknown
Description: Witness: Daniel. Listed as “unidentified” in folder index,
but no supporting data could be found.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Pope AFB, North Carolina
ID: 51
Date: 10/15/1950
Time: 3:20 PM
Description: Atomic Energy Commission Trooper Rymer, J. Moneymaker,
Capt. Zarzecki. Two shiny silver objects shaped like bullet or bladder.
They dove with a smoke trail and one vanished. The other hovered at 5-6,
altitude, 50’ away, left and returned several times somewhat further
away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Oak Ridge, Tennessee
ID: 50
Date: 10/23/1950
Time: 12:42 PM
Description: Witness: ex-USAF pilot Frank Risher. One aluminum object
shaped like a dirigible or Convair C-99 cargo plane, with 3 portholes,
arrived from southeast, hovered 3-5 seconds and flew away to the
south-south-east at end of 40 second sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Bonlee, North Carolina
ID: 53
Date: 10/26/1950
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 8km
attitude (Explosion at 50s at Mach 3 terminated flight)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 8km
Date: 11/5/1950
Time: 11:55 AM
Description: Witness: Fairchild Aircraft illustrator Don Patrick. One
translucent object, light grey with dark core, shaped like a pear or
bean. Flew for 5-10 minutes with rapid, darting movements.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Oak Ridge, Tennessee
ID: 54
Date: 11/10/1950
Description: Private letter from BSRA Director Meade Layne to Frank
Scully. Mentions increased volume of correspondence since the fall of
1946.
Type: letter
Reference: Twitter
Link
Location: San Diego, CA
Date: 11/11/1950
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33 (3rd and Final
Hermes II test)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Date: 11/21/1950
Description: Mr. Smith writes a “Top Secret” Memo on Canadian government
research into UFO’s and propulsion technology.
Type: top secret memo
Reference: link
Location: Canada
Date: 12/1950
Description: Project “Magnet” authorized in Canada
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Location: Canada
Date: 12/2/1950
Time: 10:50 AM
Description: Mr. and Mrs. L. Scott. One pearly, iridescent object with a
flattened top, spun while hovering and made a sound like bees buzzing.
Only data in files was from East African “Standard” newspaper.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Nanyika, Kenya
ID: 55
Date: 12/3/1950
Description: Stanton Friedman used the Freedom of Information Act to
procure a previously classified communique from a field agent named
Auerbach (first name not given) in Richmond, Virginia, to FBI director
J. Edgar Hoover. According to Auerbach, of the Counter Intelligence
Corps, his office had been asked to stay attuned to “any data on flying
saucers.” Any information, the memo added, would be telephoned,
immediately, to Air Force Intelligence.
Type: classified communique
Reference: link
Location: Richmond, Virginia
Date: 12/6/1950
Time: 5 PM
Description: Witnesses: former aircraft purchasing agent Harry Lamp and
four boys, using lO-power binoculars. One 75’ object, 3-4’ thick, bubble
on top, silver with a red rim having two white and two orange jets along
it. The center revolved when the object hovered; then it flew away very
fast.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Ft. Myers, Florida
ID: 56
Date: 12/6/1950
Description: The ConAC Air Defense Controller notified the Headquarters
USAF Command Post that at 1030 hours a number of unidentified aircraft
were approaching the northeast area of the United States and that there
was no reason to believe the aircraft were friendly. By 1040 hours, 40
aircraft at an altitude of 32,000 feet were confirmed by radar in the
vicinity of Limestone, Maine. President Truman had been notified and
interceptors scrambled. Truman even mentioned the incident in his
memoirs, not published until 1979. At the time, he noted in his diary,
“It looks like World War III is here. I hope not–but we must meet
whatever comes–and we will.”
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: link
Location: Limestone, Maine
Date: 12/6/1950
Description: A second flying saucer crashes in El Indio-Guerrero area.
The saucer is recovered and taken to the AEC facility at Sandia,
NM.
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea
Research
Reference: link
Location: Guerrero, Mexico
Date: 12/11/1950
Time: 10:13 PM
Description: Witnesses: crew of Northwest Air Lines flight 802. Two
white flashes, followed by a dark cloud which rose and split in
two.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: l0 mi. NW of Gulcana, Alaska
ID: 57
Date: 1951
Description: Project Mercury Astronaut Gordon Cooper,
describes seeing 100’s of UFO’s flying in formation at very high
altitudes over Europe.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: link
Location: Europe
Date: Early 1950’s
Description: Carson’s Field (speculated location), New Zealand: A New
Zealand investigator receives a letter from a respected US researcher
who spoke with a young American pilot. The pilot mentions he had just
been sent on a mission to Australia, where he landed at a vast airport.
A gigantic spacecraft was already there, where he meets a group of
friendly, intelligent and good-looking men. He was told they were
scientists from other planets, and he was to fly them to Scotland for a
meeting. He flew them to Scotland and remained with his plane during the
conference. He said that scientists from many of the world’s nations
were also present.
Type: book reference
Reference: “Alien Gene”, McGhee, page 69
Location: Carson’s Field, New Zealand
Date: 1951
Description: Meade Layne, BSRA director, founds the “Borderland Sciences
Research Foundation” as a CA non-profit (C0254263) research and
educational organization for the purpose of studying parapsychology,
UFO’s and extended consciousness. Previously, the BSRA was a
loose/unofficial association.
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Date: 1/8/1951
Time: 10:45 PM
Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. W.J. Boggus, plus unidentified
drivers and passengers in other cars stopped to watch. Two groups of red
and green lights in triangular formations were stationary and then
moved.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: South of Ft. Worth, Texas
ID: 58
Date: 1/12/1951
Time: 10 PM
Description: Witness: U.S. Army 2nd Lt. A.C. Hale. One light with a
fan-shaped wake remained motionless like a star about 20 minutes and
then sped away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Ft. Benning, Georgia
ID: 59
Date: 1/14/1951
Description: Einstein student and Roswell witness Shirley J. Wright
picked for “Who’s Who Among Students in American Colleges and
Universities”
Type: scientist
Reference: link
Date: 1/16/1951
Time: Time unknown
Description: Witnesses: Two members of a balloon project from the
General Mills Aeronautical Research Laboratory, the manager of the
Artesia Airport, and three pilots. The balloon crew was observing their
110’ balloon at an altitude of 112,000’ when a dull white, round object
was spotted. It appeared larger than the balloon, but made no movement.
Later, the balloon crew and the others saw two objects from the airport;
flying side-by-side, they circled the balloon and flew away to the
northeast. The second observation lasted about 40 seconds. Note: there
is confusion over the date of this case, with some USAF records showing
it as 1952; however, 1951 appears to be correct.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Artesia, New Mexico
ID: 60
Date: 1/18/1951
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 1.6km (Stalled on
pad for 13s then rose slowly for 38s before exploding)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 1.6km
Date: 2/1/1951
Time: 5:10 PM
Description: Witnesses: pilot and radar operator of F-82 night fighter.
One amber light made three or four 360 degree turns to the right,
reversed toward the F-82 and then climbed out of sight.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Johnson Air Base, Japan
ID: 61
Date: 2/10/1951
Description: Confidential Memo to Air Transport Squadron One: Lt. Graham
E. Bethune, U.S. Naval Reserve reported seeing a circular,
reddish-orange UFO flying at a speed in excess of 1000 mph, approx. 300
ft. diam. approaching and reversing direction within 5 miles of his
plane (Flight 125 from Keflavik, Iceland.)
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-E, p486)
Location: Keflavik, Iceland
Date: 2/21/1951
Time: 4:55 AM
Description: Witnesses: three men in a truck, several other persons,
none named. A dark red, torpedo-shaped object with darker center, flew
straight and level.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Durban, South Africa
ID: 62
Date: 2/25/1951
Description: BSRA’s “Gerald Light” associate reports that he was
attacked suffering injuries by a saucer, and his neighbor and his
neighbor’s dog were also affected.
Type: ufological event
Reference: link
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Date: 2/26/1951
Time: 7:10 AM
Description: Witness: USAF Sgt. J.B. Sells. One dull grey, metallic
object, estimated to be 120’ long and 10-12’ thick, hovered, puffed
smoke and sped away after 1-1.5 minutes. Note: may have been
Feb. 25.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Ladd AFB, Alaska
ID: 63
Date: 3/8/1951
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 3.1km (Blossom 8 —
Three explosions at 15.5; 18.5 and 19.5s destroying tail section)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 3.1km
Date: 3/10/1951
Time: 9:51 AM
Description: Witnesses: crew of USAF B-29 bomber, including scanners and
tail gunner. A large red-yellow glow burst and became blue-white. No
further information in files.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Chinnampo, Korea
ID: 64
Date: 3/13/1951
Time: 3:20 PM
Description: Witnesses: USAF lst Lt. B.J. Hastie, Mrs. Rafferty. A
cylinder with twin tails, 200’ long and 90’ wide, turned north and flew
at incredible speed. Two minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: McClellan AFB, California
ID: 65
Date: 3/15/1951
Time: 10:20 AM
Description: Witnesses: 25 members of a flying club, including the chief
aerial engineer and his two assistants. One metallic cigar-shaped object
with white exhaust which turned black when it accelerated to an
estimated 1,000 m.p.h. and made a large loop. Seven minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: New Delhi, India
ID: 66
Date: 4/27/1951
Description: Science fiction movie “The Thing from Another World” is
released
Type: movie
Reference: link
Location: US
Date: 6/1/1951
Time: 4:20 AM
Description: Witnesses: M/Sgt H.E. Sweeney, 2 enlisted men. One glowing
yellow-orange, saucer-shaped object with arc-shaped wings, flew straight
up. Seen for 30-40 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Niagara Falls, New York
ID: 67
Date: 6/14/1951
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 0km (Exploded on
pad at start of main-stage thrust after rising 6-inches)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 0km
Date: 6/19/1951
Time: 1200
Description: Joseph Matiszewski, a mechanic, heard a whistling sound and
saw an object land in a meadow. Approaching within 50 m, he found
himself paralyzed and observed that birds had stopped singing and cows
seemed to be similarly unable to move. From the object emerged four
handsome men who had brown skin and wore black shiny suits and
translucent helmets. Eight objects also emerged from the craft and
hovered above it. Other men inside the craft and on its deck appeared to
be making repairs, then the objects flew to about 100 m altitude and
climbed rapidly out of sight. Only then did the paralysis subside.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Nachrichten May., 59 (Vallee)
Location: Sonderborg, Denmark
ID: 82
Date: Summer 1951
Description: USAF project “Bluebook” is started
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Location: US
Date: 6/28/1951
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 5.8km (Blossom 9 —
Tail explosion at 8s and then cut-off signal given at 22s.)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 5.8km
Date: 7/9/1951
Description: Pilot Lt. Kinmon sees and reports an UFO.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research
Reference: NICAP
Location: Columbus, GA
See also: 7/10/1951
Date: 7/10/1951
Description: Classified OSI Message from Robins AFB, Macon: UFO sighted
by Lt. George H. Kinmon Jr. on July 9, 1951. Description: Flat on top
and bottom and appeared from front view to have rounded edges, slightly
beveled. Color was white. When it dived from its position it appeared
circular with a clockwise spinning motion. Appeared to have a fractured
surface. No exhaust fumes or visible means of propulsion. At an approx.
distance from his plane the UFO appeared to be 10 to 15 feet in diam.
UFO caused air disturbance as it barrel-rolled under his plane. His nose
camera malfunctioned.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research
Reference: NICAP
Location: Macon, GA
Date: 7/22/1951
Description: The Soviet R-1V carrier rocket brought the dogs of Dezik
and Tsygan to the upper atmosphere and returned them to earth alive. It
was the first successful flight of animals into space, but for 40 years
the story was classified due to the numerous unsuccessful flights before
that.
Type: aerospace
Reference: link
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Soviet Union
Date: 7/24/1951
Time: 7:10 PM
Description: Witnesses: Hanscom AFB Operations Officer Capt. Cobb, Cpl.
Fein. One 100-200’ tubular object, 5 times long as it was wide, with
fins at one end, and colored greyish with many black spots. Flew
800-1,000 m.p.h. at 1-2,000’ altitude, leaving a faint swath. 20
seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Portsmouth, New Hampshire
ID: 68
Date: 8/22/1951
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 213.4km (Army
training test — last 5 launches by “Broomstick Scientists”)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 213.4km
Date: 8/25/1951
Time: 9:58 PM
Description: Witnesses: Sandia Base Security Guard Hugh Young and wife.
A flying wing-shaped craft passed over their heads at an estimated
800-1,000’ altitude with no sound. Size estimated at 1.5 times wingspan
of B-36 bomber,or 350’. Dark, chordwise stripes on underside, and 6-8
pairs of soft, glowing lights on trailing edge of “wing”. Speed
estimated at 300-400 m.p.h., object seen for about 30 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
ID: 69
Date: 8/31/1951
Time: 12:45 PM
Description: Witnesses: Mrs. Tom Tilson, one or two other women, all
apparently of excellent reputations. One pear-shaped object with a
length of a B-29 fuselage (100’), aluminum or silver with a port or some
type of aperture on the side. It moved with smaller end forward,
drifting slowly at about 150’ altitude, then headed up in a circular
fashion and out of sight after a few seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Matador, Texas
ID: 70
Date: 9/1951
Description: A group of Unmatjera aborigines observed a shiny circular
object land near a similar craft, about 12 m in diameter. Several min
later, a dwarf dressed in a shiny suit and having “a round, shiny head”
came out of one craft and entered the other; both took off with a
buzzing sound.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Edwards 93 (Vallee)
Location: Central Australia
ID: 83
Date: 9/6/1951
Time: 7:20 PM (not really clear)
Description: Witnesses: S/Sgt W.T. Smith, M/Sgt L.L. Duel (?). Six
orange lights in an irregular formation, flew straight and level into a
coastal fog bank after 3-4 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Claremont, California
ID: 71
Date: 9/10/1951
Description: CONFIDENTIAL Air Intel REPORT: Maj. Ballard and Lt. Rogers
while flying at 20,000 ft. in a T-33 spotted a disc-shaped UFO the size
of an F-86 flying below them at 8000 ft. It was travelling much faster
than they were (900+ mph). It was steady in flight, with no visible
means of propulsion and shiny silver in color. The radar station at Ft.
Monmouth plotted the same UFO on radar at 1110 EDT flying above 700 mph.
(p127 of Ruppelt’s book)
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-E p487)
Reference: NICAP
Location: Asbury, NJ
Date: 9/14/1951
Time: 9:30 PM
Description: Witnesses: T/Sgt W.B. Maupin, Cpl. J.W. Green. Three
objects tracked on radar. Two were on a collision course, then one
evaded to the right upon the request, by radio, of one of the radar
operators! No aircraft were known to be in the area. A third
unidentified track then joined the first two. More than 15
minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Goose Bay, Labrador, Canada
ID: 72
Date: 9/18/1951
Description: Science fiction movie “The Day the Earth Stood Still” is
released
Type: movie
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: US
Date: 9/24/1951
Description: Soviet atomic bomb test RDS-2 (Joe 2), 38.3kt
Type: atomic
Reference: link
Location: Semipalatinsk Test Site
Atomic type: aboveground
Atomic KT: 38.3
Date: 10/1951
Description: Project Grudge is on hold, Intelligence Officer
Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt has been assigned to reshape the study and field
mounting concern for the Pentagon.
Type: historical event
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Dayton, OH
See also: 12/48
See also: 3/52
Date: 10/2/1951
Time: 6 PM
Description: Witness: Battelle Memorial Institute graduate physicist
Howard Cross. One bright oval with a clipped tail flew straight and
level, fading into the distance after 1 minute.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Columbus, Ohio
ID: 73
Date: 10/3/1951
Time: 10:27 PM
Description: Witnesses: radar operators Sgt. M.W. Watson and Pvt.
Gonzales and one other Sergeant. One large, sausage-shaped blip tracked
at an estimated 4,800 m.p.h.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Kadena, Okinawa
ID: 74
Date: 10/9/1951
Time: 1:42 PM
Description: Witness: CAA Chief Aircraft Communicator Roy Messmore at
Hulman Municipal Airport. One round silver object flew directly
overhead, reaching the horizon in 15 seconds. Note: a very similar
incident happened 3 minutes later near Paris, Illinois (15 miles NW) and
was also listed as “unidentified” for several years, but was eventually
reclassified.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Terre Haute, Indiana
ID: 75
Date: 10/11/1951
Time: 6:30 AM
Description: Witnesses: General Mills balloon researchers, including
aeronautical engineer J.J. Kaliszewski, aerologist C.B. Moore, pilot
Dick Reilly in the air, and Doug Smith on the ground. The flight crew
saw the first object, a brightly glowing one with a dark underside and a
halo around it. The object arrived high and fast, then slowed and made
slow climbing circles for about two minutes, and finally sped away to
the east. Soon they saw another one, confirmed by ground observers using
a theodolite, which sped across the sky. Total time first object was
seen was 5 minutes, second was a few seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
ID: 76
Date: 10/18/1951
Description: Soviet atomic bomb test RDS-3 (Joe 3), 41.2kt, first air
dropped, released at 10km detonated at 400m
Type: atomic
Reference: link
Location: Semipalatinsk Test Site
Atomic type: aboveground
Atomic KT: 41.2
Date: 10/21/1951
Description: Air Intelligence Report: Mr. (name withheld), a civilian
pilot of 14 years experience sighted a disk-like, highly polished UFO
which closed head on with his Navy aircraft at an extremely high rate of
speed near Battle Creek, MI.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Battle Creek, MI
Date: 10/26/1951
Time: 0400
Description: The driver of a transcontinental train on the east-west
line saw an object that illuminated the countryside like the full moon.
It flew very fast, came close to the train, appeared ready to land in
the desert, then took off and disappeared.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Wilkins A 249 (Vallee)
Location: Australia
ID: 84
Date: 10/29/1951
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 140.9km (Army
training test. Payload released but damaged on impact.)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 140.9km
Date: 11/2/1951
Time: 2300
Description: Two forest observers were in a canyon 50 km north of the
Mojave when they saw a disk-shaped flying object in the southwest; 10 m
estimated diameter, 3 m thick, blue-green, well-defined, surrounded with
a glow of same color. Stopping their jeep, they signaled to the object,
which approached within a few meters, flew away, seemed to play with
them. Eventually it vanished “like a magician’s trick.”
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Mojave, California
ID: 85
Date: 11/18/1951
Time: 3:20 AM
Description: Witnesses: Crew of Capital Airlines DC-4 Fliqht 610,
Andrews AFB Senior air traffic controller Tom Selby. One object with
several lights, followed the DC-4 for about 20 minutes and then turned
back.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Washington, DC
ID: 77
Date: 11/24/1951
Time: 33:53 PM
Description: Witnesses: USAF or ANG pilots W.H. Fairbrother and D.E.
Stewart in P-51 Mustangs. One milky white object shaped like Northrop
flying wing (broad, slightly swept-back wing with no fuselage or tail).
Estimated 8’ span. Flew straight and level for 5 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Mankato, Minnesota
ID: 78
Date: 12/1951
Description: Sam Coley and his two children saw an object with a
human-looking occupant.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 52 (Vallee)
Location: Red Springs, North Carolina
ID: 87
Date: 12/1951
Time: 0300
Description: A man from Lincoln was driving to Indiana when he saw a
blue light in the northwest sky. It vanished to the southeast. The
witness missed a turn, had to go back toward Auburn, and had reached a
point northwest of Peru when he saw an orange glow in the sky. Coming
near, he observed the glow came from a cauldron-shaped object on the
ground, about 12 m from the road. He stopped to examine the object,
which measured about 10 m diameter and seemed to be made of cast iron.
Thirty cm from the top was a row of windows, 25 cm in diameter, from
which the orange light was coming. On the other side was a blue
flamelike glow. There was no noise, no sign of life or activity, and no
antenna or protrusion. The witness drove away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Peru, Nebraska
ID: 86
Date: 12/7/1951
Time: 4:30 PM
Description: Witness: amateur astronomer Carl Loar. One silvery sphere
seen through telescope. Two specks sighted at sides, object seemed to
explode and was replaced by a dark cloud and many specks. 30
minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Sunbury, Ohio
ID: 79
Date: 12/7/1951
Time: 8:15 AM
Description: Witness: Atomic Energy Commission guard J.H. Collins. One
20’ square object, white-grey but not shiny flew above ridge to clouds
and back again twice, taking 30-40 seconds each time.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Oak Ridge, Tennessee
ID: 80
Date: 1952
Description: Soviet “Zlatoust-36” nuclear weapons program plant opens
(Warhead assembly)
Type: atomic plant
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Soviet Union
Date: 1952?
Description: SECRET SECURITY INFORMATION: CIA, (not dated): Walter B.
Smith, (MJ-3 replacement), Director of CIA notifies the Psychological
Strategy Board that “Flying Saucers” have implications for psychological
warfare as well as for intelligence and operations. Suggests discussion
on the possible offensive or defensive utilization of these phenomena
for psychological warfare purposes.
Type: secret information
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-E p511)
Location: Langley, Virginia
See also: 10/2/52
Date: early 1952
Time: 2242
Description: A fiery, spherical object made a right-angle turn during an
observation by a C-54 crew flying from Westover to Goose Bay. It was
also seen from the ground by the control tower and by two men who
plunged to the earth when the object made a low pass at them. It went
away at 2247.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
Location: Goose Bay, Labrador
ID: 89
Date: 1/1952
Time: 2230
Description: A 38-year-old rancher saw a “shooting star” that suddenly
stopped in mid-air between him and a mountain. It was seen spinning in a
clockwise direction. It had one red window periodially facing the
observer. It went down toward the Little Powder River and came up again.
The witness turned his car to send light signals, to which the object
seemed to respond by stopping its red window facing the witness’s
location. Spinning resumed, the object rose and came down. A similar
craft arrived and both went into the deep valley, out of sight.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Weston, Wyoming
ID: 88
Date: 2/11/1952
Time: 3 AM
Description: Witnesses: Capt. G.P. Arns and Maj. R.J. Gedson flying a
Beech AT-ll trainer. One yellow-orange comet-shaped object pulsed flame
for 1-2 seconds of a 1 minute straight and level flight.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
ID: 81
Date: 2/23/1952
Time: 11:15 PM
Description: Witness: Captain/B-29 navigator. One bluish cylinder, three
times long as wide, with a tail and rapid pulsations, came in high and
fast, made several turns and levelled out under B-29 which was evading
mild antiaircraft fire. 45 second sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: over North Korea
ID: 82
Date: 3/1952
Description: Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt recommends a new name for Project
Grudge, “Project Blue Book”.
Type: ufological event
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Dayton, OH
See also: 12/48
See also: 10/51
Date: 3/20/1952
Time: 10:42 PM
Description: Witnesses: WWl/WW2 veteran A.D. Hutchinson and son. One
dull orange-yellow saucer-shaped light flew straight and level very fast
for 30 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Centreville, Maryland
ID: 83
Date: 3/23/1952
Time: 6:56 and 7 PM
Description: Witnesses: pilot and radar operator of F-94 jet
interceptor. On either occasion, a red fireball increased in brightness
and then faded over 45 second span. Stationary both times. Note: (May
31, 1952) says target was also tracked by ground radar at 78 knots (90
m.p.h.) at 22,500’ and 25,000’ altitude.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Yakima, Washington
ID: 84
Date: 3/24/1952
Time: 8:45 AM
Description: Witnesses: B-29 navigator and radar operator. One target
tracked for 20-30 seconds at estimated 3,000 m.p.h.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: 60 miles west of Pt. Concepcion, California
ID: 85
Date: 3/29/1952
Time: 11:20 AM
Description: Witness: Brigham, pilot of AT-6 trainer. One small, very
thin, shiny metallic disc flew alongside the AT-6, then made a pass at
an F-84 jet fighter, flipped on edge, fluttered 20’ from the F-84’s
fuselage and flipped in the slipstream…all in 10 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: 20 miles north of Misawa AFB, Japan
ID: 86
Date: 4/1952
Description: Life Magazine article: “Have We Visitors from Space?”
Type: article
Reference: Medium
See also: 12/48
See also: 10/51
Date: 4/4/1952
Time: 7:30 PM
Description: Witnesses: two radar operators of the 147th AC&W
Squadron. One object was tracked for one minute by radar at an estimated
2,160 m.p.h.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Duncanville, Texas
ID: 87
Date: 4/5/1952
Time: 9:15 PM
Description: Witnesses: L.E. VanDercar and 9 year old son. Four dark
circular objects with mostly fuzzy edges, crossed face of Moon; each was
half the apparent diameter of Moon. 2:59 PM Witness: H.L. Russell.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Miami, Florida
ID: 89
Date: 4/5/1952
Time: l0:40 AM
Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. L.G. Ryan, R.L. Stokes, D. Schook.
One large, dull grey circular object, followed by two more, flew
straight and level at high speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
ID: 88
Date: 4/6/1952
Time: 2:59 PM
Description: Witness: H.L. Russell. 50-75 grey-white discs changed
position within formation continually, tilted in unison every 12-15
seconds during 3.8 minute sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Temple, Texas
ID: 90
Date: 4/12/1952
Time: 9:30 PM
Description: Witnesses: Royal Canadian Air Force Warrant Officer E.H.
Rossell, Flight Sgt. R. McRae. One round amber object flew fast,
stopped, reversed direction, climbed away at 30’ angle during a 2 minute
observation.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: North Bay, Ontario, Canada
ID: 91
Date: 4/14/1952
Time: 12:35 PM
Description: Witness: unidentified CAL airline pilot. Several light
colored objects flew in V-formation. No further details in files.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: LaCrosse, Wisconsin
ID: 92
Date: 4/14/1952
Time: 6:34 PM
Description: Witnesses: U.S. Navy pilots Lt. jg. Blacky, Lt. jg. O’Neil.
One inverted bowl, 3’ long and 1’ high, with vertical slots, flew fast,
straight and level, 100 yards from observers’ aircraft for 45-60
seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Memphis, Tennessee
ID: 93
Date: 4/15/1952
Time: 7:40 PM
Description: Witness: Mr. Hayes, brother of Master Sergeant. Two faint
objects observed flying fast along the horizon for 6-8 seconds, using
20x spotting telescope.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Santa Cruz, California
ID: 94
Date: 4/17/1952
Time: 3:05 PM
Description: Witnesses: group of Army weather observation students,
including several graduate engineers. One flat-white, circular object
flew with an irregular trajectory and a brief trail, for about 7
seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Yuma, Arizona
ID: 96
Date: 4/17/1952
Time: 8:30 PM
Description: Witnesses: S.B. Brooks, chemical engineer J.A. Eaton. One
round, deep orange object flew fast and erratic, occasionally emitting a
shaft of light to the rear during a 40 minute sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Longmeadow, Massachusetts
ID: 95
Date: 4/18/1952
Time: 4 AM
Description: Witness: janitor C. Hamilton. One yellow-gold object made a
sharp turn and left a short, dark trail during l minute sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Canada
ID: 101
Date: 4/18/1952
Time: Time unknown
Description: Witness: one radar operator. Tracked unidentified target
for 1 minute at 2,700 m.p.h.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: 50 miles northwest of Kyushu, Japan (129’ 51’ E, 34’ 19’
N)
ID: 100
Date: 4/18/1952
Time: l0:l0 PM
Description: Witness: reporter Chic Shave. One round, yellow-gold object
flew south and returned during 1.5 minute sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Canada
ID: 99
Date: 4/18/1952
Time: Time unknown
Description: Witnesses: two Army weather observation students. One
flat-white circular object flew for 5-10 seconds in a very erratic
manner.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Yuma, Arizona
ID: 97
Date: 4/18/1952
Time: l1:30 AM
Description: Witnesses: R. Poerstal and three other men. Seven to nine
circular, orange-yellow lights in a V-formation flew overhead silently
for 4-8 seconds, from south to north.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Bethesda, Maryland
ID: 98
Date: 4/22/1952
Time: 99 PM
Description: Witnesses: crew of B-29 bomber, on ground. One elliptical
object, followed by two and then another two, each with a white light
that blinked every 1-2 seconds as they performed erratic maneuvers for
10 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
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Location: Naha AFB, Okinawa
ID: 102
Date: 4/24/1952
Time: 8:10 PM
Description: Witness: USAF light Surgeon Maj. E.L. Ellis. Many
orange-amber lights, sometimes separate, sometimes fused, behaved
erratically. Speed varied from motionless to very fast during 5 minute
sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
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Location: Clovis, New Mexico
ID: 105
Date: 4/24/1952
Time: 2:30 PM
Description: Witnesses: three Cambridge Research Center electronics
engineers, one named Buruish. Two flat, red squares flew wobbly in level
flight, climbed, levelled out during 1.5 minute observation.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
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Location: Milton, Massachusetts
ID: 104
Date: 4/24/1952
Time: 5 AM
Description: Witnesses: crew of USAF C-124 transport plane. Three
circular, bluish objects in loose “fingertip” formation twice flew
parallel to airplane during 3-4 minute period.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Bellevue Hill, Vermont
ID: 103
Date: 4/25/1952
Description: UFO sighted flying over San Jose, CA, near Mt. Hamilton by
two scientists, Dr. W (biochemist; name withheld) and Dr. Y
(bacteriologist, name also withheld). Description of hovering disk: at
about 50 ft. it appeared to be 4 to 5 ft. in diam. The wobble of the
disk allowed them to estimate it’s thickness to be approx. 1.5ft. No
sound or means of propulsion observed. Later they observed a higher
flying silvery disc approx. 100 ft. in diam. Next to it more UFOs
appeared and bobbed around like boats in a stream. The objects
disappeared around 11:15 a.m. The two scientists decided not to report
the incident to Moffett Field for fear of ridicule.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-F p241)
Location: San Jose, CA
Date: 4/27/1952
Time: 4:15 PM
Description: Witnesses: H.A. Freytag and three male relatives, including
a minister. One silver oval rolled, descended and stopped. Two silver
cigar-shaped objects appeared, one departing to the east and one to the
west. A third silver cigar-shaped object flew by at high speed.
Sightings lasted 45 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Roseville, Michigan
ID: 106
Date: 4/27/1952
Time: 8:30 PM
Description: Witnesses: M/Sgt. and Mrs. G.S. Porter (he was off-duty
control tower operator). Bright red or flame-colored discs, appearing as
large as fighter planes. Seven sightings of one disc, one of two in
formation during 2 hours. All seen below 11,000’ overcast.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Yuma, Arizona
ID: 107
Date: 4/29/1952
Time: 3:30 PM
Description: Witness: private pilot R.R. Weidman. One round, white
object which flew straight, with a side-to-side oscillation for 1.5
minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Marshall, Texas
ID: 108
Date: 4/29/1952
Time: 100 PM
Description: Witness: B-29 bombardier Lt. R.H. Bauer. One white
fan-shaped light pulsed 3-4 times per second for 2 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
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Location: Goodland, Kansas
ID: 109
Date: 5/1/1952
Time: 10:50 AM
Description: Witnesses: three men on the arms range, plus one Lt.
Colonel 4 miles away. Five flat-white discs about the diameter of a
C-47’s wingspan (95’) flew fast, made a 90^ turn in a formation of three
in front and two behind, and darted around, for 15-30 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: George AFB, California
ID: 111
Date: 5/1/1952
Time: 5:32 AM
Description: Witnesses: Two Atomic Energy Commission employees, Eggan
and Shipley. One silver object without wings flew straight and level for
1.5 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Moses Lake, Washington
ID: 110
Date: 5/5/1952
Time: 10:45 PM
Description: Witness: Mrs. M.M. Judson. Six or seven translucent,
cream-yellow objects. One moved in an ellipse, while the others moved in
and out.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Tenafly, New Jersey
ID: 112
Date: 5/7/1952
Time: 12:15 PM
Description: Witnesses: Capt. Morris, a Master Sergeant, a Staff
Sergeant, and an Airman First Class. Ten times, an aluminum or silver
cylindrical object was seen to dart in and out of the clouds during a
5-10 minute period.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Keesler AFB, Mississippi
ID: 113
Date: 5/9/1952
Time: 5:20 PM
Description: Witness: A/lc G.C. Grindeland. One dull white,
arrowhead-shaped object flew straight and level for 10 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: George AFB, California
ID: 114
Date: 5/10/1952
Description: RESTRICTED USAF Intelligence Report signed by Col. William
L. Travis, Chief USAF Intelligence Division. stating: at 2030 hours, in
the city of Paphos, S.W. Cypress, a group of persons including a noted
British Scientist sighted an UFO which appeared to rise sharply from the
level of the sea and disappeared into the sky. It was of a circular
shape and emitted a luminous light. It appeared to waver back and forth
before fading out of sight directly overhead.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-E p540)
Location: Paphos, Cypress
Date: 5/10/1952
Time: 10:45 PM
Description: Witnesses: 4 duPont employees at the Savannah River nuclear
plant. Up to four yellow, disc-shaped objects were seen on five
occasions between 10:45 and shortly after 11:15.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Ellenton, South Carolina
ID: 115
Date: 5/12/1952
Description: “Blue Flash” phenomenon reported over Seattle on front page
of NY Times, reported as possible meteor but meteorologists were not
convinced as it did not follow the usual patterns
Type: anomalous phenomenon
Reference: Dr. Leon
Davidson
Reference: NY
Times
Location: Seattle, WA
Date: 5/14/1952
Time: 7 PM
Description: Witnesses: Attorney and ex-USAF pilot Mr. Stipes,
Sr. Garcia-Mendez. Two shining orange spheres: one was stationary, while
the other darted away and back for 30 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Mayaquez, Puerto Rico
ID: 116
Date: 5/20/1952
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 103.5km (Army
training test. Also designated TF-2)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 103.5km
Date: 5/20/1952
Time: l0:l0 PM
Description: Witnesses: USAF pilots Capt. J. Spurgin and Capt. BB.
Stephan. One bright or white oval object moved from side-to-side while
making a gradual turn for 90 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Houston, Texas
ID: 117
Date: 5/25/1952
Time: 9:15 PM
Description: Witnesses: seven persons, including John Hoffman, his
family and friends. One large white circular object having dark sections
on its rim, flew straight and level for 30 minutes, appearing red when
behind a cloud.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Walnut Lake, Michigan
ID: 118
Date: 5/28/1952
Time: 1:45-2:40 PM
Description: Witnesses: two city fire department employees. Two circular
objects–one shiny silver and the other orange or light brown–were seen
three times performing fast maneuvers.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
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Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
ID: 120
Date: 5/28/1952
Time: 10:30 AM
Description: Witnesses: many in crowd watching a ceremony. One
white-silver disc-shaped object flew straight and fast for 2
minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Saigon, French Indo China
ID: 119
Date: 5/29/1952
Time: 7 PM
Description: Witness: USAF pilot Maj. D.W. Feuerstein, on ground. One
bright tubular object tilted from horizontal to vertical for 8 minutes,
then slowly returned to horizontal, again tilted vertical, accelerated,
appeared to lengthen and turned red. The entire sighting lasted 14
minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: San Antonio, Texas
ID: 121
Date: 6/1952
Description: Truman Bethurum meets Aura Rhanes and visits saucer many
times
Type: ce4 event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Date: 6/1952
Description: Reports of UFO’s in Korean War
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Location: US
Date: 6/1952
Description: Big month for sightings
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Location: US
Date: 6/1/1952
Time: 6 PM
Description: Witnesses: A/lc Beatty and two civilians. At least five
long silver objects flew in a neat box formation with a leader for 15-20
seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Rapid City, South Dakota
ID: 122
Date: 6/1/1952
Time: 1 PM
Description: Witness: ex-military pilot Reserve Maj. W.C. Vollendorf.
One oval object with a “definite airfoil” performed a fast climb for 7
seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Walla, Washington
ID: 123
Date: 6/1/1952
Time: 3+ PM
Description: Witness: Ray Lottman. Three glimmering objects flew
straight and level for 10 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Soap Lake, Washington
ID: 124
Date: 6/2/1952
Time: 5:02 PM
Description: Witness: Larry McWade. One purple object seen for unknown
length of time. No further information in files.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Bayview, Washington
ID: 125
Date: 6/2/1952
Time: Time unknown
Description: Witness: lst Lt. John Hendry, photo-navigator on an RB-26C
reconnaissance bomber. One porcelain-white object flew very fast for an
unknown length of time.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Fulda, West Germany
ID: 126
Date: 6/4/1952
Description: RESTRICTED USAF Intelligence Report.
Type: intelligence report
Reference: Pea
Research
See also: 5/10/1952
Date: 6/5/1952
Time: 11 PM
Description: Witnesses: Dan Benson, Mr. Bacon. A total of eight yellow
circular objects, like large stars, were seen during 45 minutes. The
first two were in a trail formation, the others were seen singly.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Lubbock, Texas
ID: 127
Date: 6/5/1952
Time: 6:45 PM
Description: Witness: S/Sgt T.H. Shorey. One shiny round object flew 5-6
times as fast as an F-86 jet fighter for 6 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
ID: 128
Date: 6/5/1952
Time: 11 PM
Description: Witnesses: 2nd Lt. W.R. Soper, a Strategic Air Command top
secret control officer and former OSI agent; and two other persons. One
bright red object remained stationary for 4.5 minutes before speeding
away with a short tail.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Offutt AFB, Omaha, Nebraska
ID: 129
Date: 6/6/1952
Time: Time unknown
Description: Case missing from official files.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Kimpo AFB, Korea
ID: 130
Date: 6/7/1952
Time: 11:18 AM
Description: Witnesses: crew of B-25 bomber #8840 at 11,500’. One
rectangular aluminum object, about 6’x4’, flew 250-300’ below the
B-25.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
ID: 131
Date: 6/8/1952
Time: 10:50 AM
Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. J.D. Markland. Four shiny objects
flew straight and level in a diamond formation.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
ID: 132
Date: 6/9/1952
Time: Time unknown
Description: Case missing from official files.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
ID: 133
Date: 6/12/1952
Time: 7:30 PM
Description: Witnesses: U.S. Army Major and Lt. Colonel, using
binoculars. One orange ball with a tail flew with a low angular
velocity.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Ft. Smith, Arkansas
ID: 134
Date: 6/12/1952
Time: 11:26 AM
Description: Witness: T/Sgt. H.D. Adams, operating an SCR-584 radar set.
One unidentified blip tracked at 650 kts. (750 m.p.h.) at greater than
60,000’ altitude.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Marakesch, Morocco
ID: 135
Date: 6/13/1952
Time: 8:45 PM
Description: Witness: R.S. Thomas, Olmstead AFB employee and former
control tower operator. One round, orange object travelled south,
stopped for 1 second, turned east, stopped 1 second, and went
down.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Middletown, Pennsylvania
ID: 136
Date: 6/15/1952
Time: 11:50 PM
Description: Witness: Edward Duke, ex-U.S. Navy radar technician. One
large, cigar-shaped object with a blunt front, lit sides and a red
stern, maneuvered in a leisurely fashion for 15 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Louisville, Kentucky
ID: 137
Date: 6/15/1952
Description: Men at work in the forest saw large, circular objects
similar to parachutes coming down. Half a dozen witnesses.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: France-Soir Jun. 18, 52 (Vallee)
Location: Magneville, France
ID: 92
Date: 6/15/1952
Description: An intercept operation took place in Richmond, VA. An Air
Force T-33 jet tried to intercept a “shiny sphere” south of
Gordonsville. It was a “round, shiny object with a golden glow” above
35000 feet altitude. At 20:05 the jet lost sight of the UFO.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Gordonsville, VA
Date: 6/16/1952
Time: 8:30 PM
Description: Witness: USAF maintenance specialist S/Sgt. Sparks. Five or
six greyish discs, in a half-moon formation, flew at 500-600 m.p.h. for
l minute.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Walker AFB, New Mexico
ID: 138
Date: 6/17/1952
Time: Between 7:30 and 10:20 PM
Description: Witnesses: many and varied. From one to five large
silver-yellow objects flew erratically, stopped and started for about 15
minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: McChord AFB, Washington
ID: 139
Date: 6/17/1952
Time: 1:28 AM
Description: Witness: pilot of USAF F-94 jet interceptor. A light like a
bright star crossed the nose of the airplane while being observed for 15
seconds. No further information in the files.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Cape Cod, Massachusetts
ID: 140
Date: 6/18/1952
Time: 9 AM
Description: Witness: R.A. Finger. One crescent-shaped object hovered
for several seconds and then sped away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Columbus, Wisconsin
ID: 141
Date: 6/18/1952
Time: 10 PM
Description: Witnesses: Marron Hoffman and four relatives, using 4x
binoculars. One orange light was observed zigzagging and then hovering
for an unspecified length of time.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Walnut Lake, Michigan
ID: 142
Date: 6/18/1952
Description: EBE1 dies of unknown causes according to the Carter
Aquarius document
Type: majestic document
Reference: link
Attributes: Majestic
Date: 6/19/1952
Time: 2 PM
Description: Witness: USAF pilot John Lane. One round, white object flew
straight and level for 10 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Yuma, Arizona
ID: 144
Date: 6/19/1952
Time: 2:37 AM
Description: Witness: 2nd Lt. A’Gostino and unidentified radar operator.
One red light turned white while wobbling. Radar tracked a stationary
target during the 1 minute sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Goose Bay, Labrador, Canada
ID: 143
Date: 6/20/1952
Time: 3:03 PM
Description: Witnesses: four Marine Corps Captains and pilots of F4U-4B
Corsair fighter planes. One 10-20’ white or silver oval object made a
left-hand orbit at terrific speed for 60 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Central Korea
ID: 145
Date: Summer 1952
Description: While Operation INTERCEPT was in effect, two North American
F-86 Operation INTERCEPT Sabre fighters were vectored onto a target UFO.
The pilots had a broad daylight view of the UFO and fired tracer bullets
at it before it accelerated out of range. The officer who fired the
bullets was debriefed by his Colonel (name withheld) and the base
commander told Capt. Ruppelt to destroy the report (according to Ruppelt
himself).
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research
See also: 7/52
Date: summer 1952
Time: 0300
Description: A woman was awakened by a thunderclap and a strong bluish
light. As she got out, she saw a large number of hovering disk-shaped
machines resembling “inverted soup plates” 200 m away at an altitude of
about 1 m. She observed them for 30 min, saw two figures standing on one
of the craft and looking at the sky. They went back inside, and shortly
thereafter the “fleet” took off, one object at a time.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68,1 (Vallee)
Location: Itenhaem, Brazil
ID: 90
Date: summer 1952
Description: Mrs. Rogers saw an object descend slowly and pass across a
pasture at 7 m altitude. She stopped her car and observed it was
“wobbling” in mid-air, was shaped like a turtle, and showed three
oarlike protrusions that moved slowly. Estimated dimensions: 5 by 4 m, 1
m thick. It was greenish-gray in color, emitted a blue flame, but showed
no other light.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Barker 78 (Vallee)
Location: Martin County, Texas
ID: 91
Date: 6/21/1952
Time: 12:30 PM
Description: Witness: T/Sgt. Howard Davis, flight engineer of B-29
bomber at 8,000’ altitude. One flat object with a sharply pointed front
and rounded rear; white with a dark blue center and red rim, trailed
sparks as it dove past the B-29 at a distance of 500’, in l
second.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Kelly AFB, Texas
ID: 146
Date: 6/22/1952
Time: 10:45 PM
Description: Witnesses: Two Marine Corps Sergeants. One 4 ft. diameter
object dove at a runway shooting red flames, hovered briefly over a
hill, turned 180, flashed twice and was gone.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Pyungthek, Korea
ID: 147
Date: 6/23/1952
Time: 4:05 PM
Description: Witness: Airport weather observer Rex Thompson. One round
disc with a metallic shine flashed, and fluttered like a flipped coin
for 5-7 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Spokane, Washington
ID: 148
Date: 6/23/1952
Time: 9 PM
Description: Witness: 2nd Lt. K. Thompson. One very large light flew
straight and level for 10 minutes. No further information.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: McChord AFB, Washington
ID: 149
Date: 6/23/1952
Time: Time unknown
Description: Case missing from official files.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Kirksville, Missouri
ID: 150
Date: 6/23/1952
Time: 3:30 AM
Description: Witness: secretary Martha Milligan. One bullet-shaped
object with burnt-orange exhaust flew straight and level for 30-60
seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Oak Ridge, Tennessee
ID: 151
Date: 6/23/1952
Time: 6:08 AM
Description: Witness: USAF pilot of the l8th Fighter-Bomber Group. One
black coin-shaped object, 15-20’ in diameter, made an irregular
descent.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Location unknown, but information came via Japan Hq. “CV
4359”
ID: 153
Date: 6/23/1952
Time: 10:00 AM
Description: Witness: National Guard Lt. Col. O. L. Depp. Two objects
looking like “giant soap bubbles”, reflecting yellow and lavender
colors, flew in trail for 5 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Owensboro, Kentucky
ID: 152
Date: 6/25/1952
Time: 8:30 PM
Description: Witnesses: Mrs. Norbury, Mr. Matheis. One bright
yellow-white, egg-shaped object which sometimes had a red tail, made
seven circles in 1 1/2 hours.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Chicago, Illinois
ID: 154
Date: 6/25/1952
Time: Time unknown
Description: Case missing from official files.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Japan-Korea area
ID: 155
Date: 6/26/1952
Time: 2:45 AM
Description: Witness: USAF 2nd Lt. C. W. Povelites. Undescribed object
flew at 600 m.p.h. and then stopped. No further information in
files.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Terre Haute, Indiana
ID: 156
Date: 6/26/1952
Time: 11:50 PM
Description: Witness: assistant manager of airport. Three sightings of
flashing lights: two lights separated by 2 miles, with the leader
flashing steadily and the other irregularly; two similarly flashing
lights, but with l mile separation; finally a single light. Speed
estimated at 150-250 m.p.h.. Total of 1/2 hour.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Pottstown, Pennsylvania
ID: 157
Date: 6/27/1952
Time: 6:50 PM
Description: Witnesses: USAF pilot 2nd Lt. K. P. Kelly and wife. One
pulsating red object which changed shape from a circular to a vertical
oval as it pulsed. Was stationary for about 5 minutes, then went
out.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Topeka, Kansas
ID: 158
Date: 6/28/1952
Time: 6 PM
Description: Witness: G. Metcalfe. One silver-white sphere became an
ellipse as it turned and climbed away very fast. 10 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Lake Kishkanoug, Wisconsin
ID: 159
Date: 6/28/1952
Time: 4:10 PM
Description: Witness: Capt. T. W. Barger, USAF electronics
countermeasures officer. One dark blue elliptical-shaped object with a
pulsing border flew straight and level at 700-800 m.p.h..
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Nagoya, Japan
ID: 160
Date: 6/29/1952
Time: 5:45 PM
Description: witnesses: three USAF air policemen. One bright silver,
flat oval object surrounded by a blue haze, hovered, then moved very
fast to the right and to the left, and up and down for 45 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: O’Hare Airport, Chicago, Illinois
ID: 161
Date: 7/1952
Description: Pilots Nash and Fortenberry see 6 discs.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Date: 7/1952
Description: Ohio Northern University sets up Project “A” to investigate
the UFO’s.
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Location: Ohio Northern University
Date: 7/3/1952
Time: 11:50 PM
Description: Witness: Mrs. J. D. Arbuckle. Two bright pastel green discs
flew straight and level very fast for 6 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Chicago, Illinois
ID: 163
Date: 7/3/1952
Time: 4:15 AM
Description: Witnesses not identified. Two big lights, estimated at 20’
diameter, flew straight and level at tremendous speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Selfridge AFB, Michigan
ID: 162
Date: 7/5/1952
Time: 7:58 PM
Description: Witness: Oklahoma State Patrolman Hamilton in State Patrol
airplane. Three dark discs hovered and then flew away, silhouetted
against a dark cloud. 15 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Norman, Oklahoma
ID: 164
Date: 7/6/1952
Time: 11:00 PM
Description: July 6-12, 1952. Witness: Charles Muhr. Four pictures taken
of some indistinct light which was admittedly not seen visually, but
which appeared on the negatives.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Elizabeth, New Jersey
ID: 165
Date: 7/9/1952
Time: 6:30 PM
Description: Witness: farmer John Mittl. One aluminum, oval-shaped
object changed direction and attitude, finally tipping on end and
departing after 20 seconds. Case file includes three vague
photographs.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Kutztown, Pennsylvania
ID: 167
Date: 7/9/1952
Time: 3:35 PM
Description: Witnesses: S/Sgt. D.P. Foster and three other persons.
Three times, a single white, disc-shaped object sped by, straight and
level, in 5 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Rapid City AFB, South Dakota
ID: 168
Date: 7/9/1952
Time: 12:45 PM
Description: Witness: USAF pilot Maj. C. K. Griffin. One object shaped
like an airfoil less its trailing edge, luminous white, moved slowly and
erratically for 12 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado
ID: 166
Date: 7/11/1952
Description: Oscar Linke, former Wehrmacht major, and his daughter
Gabrielle, 11, had to leave their motorcycle when they had a flat tire.
Inside the woods the girl noticed two men in silvery suits examining the
ground in a clearing near a pink disk-shaped object, 8 m in diameter,
showing a double row of openings around the rim and a black turret on
top. One of the men had a flashing box. Both men went inside, and the
disk vibrated, rose along the turretlike cylinder, then spun faster and
rose out of sight.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Guieu 52 (Vallee)
Location: Hasselbach, Germany
ID: 93
Date: 7/12/1952
Time: 3:30 PM
Description: Witness: insurance company president William Washburn. Four
large, elliptical-shaped objects were seen to fly very fast, stop, turn
90 degrees and fly away in 7-8 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Annapolis, Maryland
ID: 169
Date: 7/12/1952
Time: 9 PM
Description: Witnesses: many radar controllers who were military
officers. Several big blips tracked on radar at 1,500 kts. (1,700
m.p.h.). There was no visual sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Kirksville, Missouri
ID: 170
Date: 7/14/1952
Time: 8:12 PM
Description: Witnesses: Pan American Airways First Officer William Nash,
Second Officer William Fortenberry. Eight large, round, glowing red
objects maneuvered below their airliner, in formation.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Norfolk, Virginia
ID: 171
Date: 7/14/1952
Description: Pan American pilots see formation of UFO’s.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Date: 7/15/1952
Time: 10:10 PM
Description: Witnesses: J. Antoneff and two other persons. One
discus-shaped object, greyish, except when hovering, when it appeared
muddy. Hovered over Palm Beach International Airport, then followed an
SA-l6 twin-engined amphibian and flew away after 40-60 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: West Palm Beach, Florida
ID: 172
Date: 7/16/1952
Description: German mayor states two human-like figures wearing shimmer
metallic clothing about 4 feet high come out of a landed 40ft diameter
saucer
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Newspapers.com
Location: Germany
Date: 7/16/1952
Time: 9:35 AM
Description: Witness: U.S. Coast Guard photographer Shell Alpert. Four
roughly elliptical blobs of light in formation photographed through
window of photo lab.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Beverly, Massachusetts
ID: 173
Date: 7/17/1952
Time: 11 AM
Description: Witness: Air National Guard employees. One light like a big
star was seen for 3 hours, but disappeared when an aircraft approached.
Also seen the night of July 20, 22 and 23.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Lockbourne, Ohio
ID: 175
Date: 7/17/1952
Time: 3:10 PM
Description: Witness: Mrs. Florence Daley. Two round objects,
bluish-white with brighter rims, flew in formation, making a sound like
bombers, only softer. Note: Later, the witness stated she heard many
feminine voices coming from the objects.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: White Plains, New York
ID: 174
Date: 7/18/1952
Time: 9:45 PM
Description: Witnesses: three USAF officers and four enlisted men. Over
an hour period, a series of hovering and maneuvering red-orange lights
were observed moving in a variety of directions.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Patrick AFB, Florida
ID: 178
Date: 7/18/1952
Time: 11 AM
Description: Witnesses: E. R. Raymer and daughter. One opaque, silvery
bubble flew very fast at a right-angle to the wind direction for 10
seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Miami, Florida
ID: 177
Date: 7/18/1952
Time: 9:10 PM
Description: Witnesses: T/Sgt. Mahone, A/3c Jennings. One amber-colored,
elliptical-shaped object with a small flame at the rear, periodically
increased in brightness. It moved very fast for l 1/2 minutes, giving
off a resonant beat sound.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Lockbourne, Ohio
ID: 176
Date: 7/19/1952
Time: 11:35 PM
Description: Witnesses: USAF pilot Capt. C.J. Powley and wife. Two
star-like lights maneuvered, hovered and sped for 5-7 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
ID: 180
Date: 7/19/1952
Description: Washington, D.C.: Long range “overfly” RADAR picked up a
formation of seven blips that were 15 miles south and not far from
Andrews AFB. Radar operator, Ed Nugent, thought that they were military
traffic until two of the targets suddenly accelerated at fantastic
speeds and disappeared off the radar scope. These strange UFOs were
monitored by Harry Barnes, Senior Controller, and controllers Howard
Cocklin and Joe Zacko. Also, Andrews AFB had also been tracking the UFOs
as they intruded over the White House which was Washington Air Space
restricted air space. The UFOs were traveling at speeds of up to 7000
mph before stopping abruptly and then cruising about in unconventional
patterns.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Washington DC
See also: 7/26/52
Date: 7/19/1952
End date: 7/26/1952
Description: UFO’s detected by radar over Washington., D.C.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Location: Washington DC
Attributes: radar
Date: 7/19/1952
Time: 2:55 AM
Description: Witness: one experienced civilian pilot. One
elliptical-shaped object with a light fringe, travelled down fast, made
a 360 degree and then a 180 degree turn in 5 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Williston, North Dakota
ID: 179
Date: 7/20/1952
Description: Classified Spot Intelligence Report (dated 7/23/52): 3 UFO
spotted by 5 base personnel at Andrews AFB at 0030 hours EST. UFOs
reddish orange in color, moving erratically at an undetermined altitude.
Approach Control picked up another UFO at 0415 EST which was on the
radar scope for 30 seconds before fading. Lt. Hyatt, Operations Officer
during this period, said that he had been receiving “flying saucer”
reports that evening and the objects had been picked up by radar.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Andrews AFB
Date: 7/20/1952
Time: 12:20 AM
Description: Witness: Seton Hall Univ. chemistry professor Dr. A.B.
Spooner. Two large orange-yellow lights with some dull red coloring flew
in trail, turned and circled for 5-6 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Lavalette, New Jersey
ID: 181
Date: 7/20/1952
Time: 0030
Description: Approximate date. R. Petijean saw a luminous object, 20 m
diameter, on the ground. It gave off bluish flashes as it took off,
leaving a smell of burning sulphur.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
Location: Dai-el-Aouagri, Morocco
ID: 94
Date: 7/21/1952
Time: 6:30 PM
Description: Witnesses: USAF pilot Capt. E.E. Dougher, WAF Lt. J.J.
Stong, situated miles apart. Four bright yellowish lights were seen by
Dougher to separate, with two climbing and two flying away level in the
opposite direction. Stong watched two reddish lights fly in opposite
directions. Sightings lasted about 10-15 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Weisbaden, West Germany
ID: 182
Date: 7/21/1952
Time: 10:40 PM
Description: Witnesses: one Lieutenant, two Staff Sergeants, three
airmen. One blue circle with a blue trail was seen to hover and then
accelerate to near-sonic speed (700+ m.p.h.) after 1 minute.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: San Marcos AFB, Texas
ID: 183
Date: 7/21/1952
Time: 4:30 PM
Description: Witness: wife of USAF Capt. J. B. Neal. One elongated,
fuselage-shaped object flew straight and level, made a right-angle turn
and went out of sight at more than 300 m.p.h., all in 3-5 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Converse, Texas
ID: 184
Date: 7/21/1952
Time: 8:10 PM
Description: Witnesses: one military officer, two enlisted men. One
aluminum, delta-shaped object with a vertical fin, flew straight and
level, and then hovered during a 3 minute sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Rockville, Indiana
ID: 185
Date: 7/22/1952
Time: After midnight
Description: Witness: Mrs. A. Burgess. One round, yellow, flashing light
went downward. No further information in files.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Holyoke, Massachusetts
ID: 186
Date: 7/22/1952
Time: 10:50 AM
Description: Witnesses: control tower operator Don Weins, and two pilots
for Carco. Eight large, round, bright aluminum objects flew straight and
level, then darted around erratically during 25 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Los Alamos, New Mexico
ID: 187
Date: 7/22/1952
Time: 2:46 PM
Description: Witness: Don Epperly, Trans Texas Airlines station manager
and weather observer. One large, round, silver object flew at more than
1,000 m.p.h. for 45 seconds, while gyrating.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Uvalde, Texas
ID: 188
Date: 7/22/1952
Time: 10:47 PM
Description: Witnesses: pilot and radar operator of USAF F-94 jet
interceptor. One round blue light passed F-94, spinning.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: between Boston and Provincetown, Massachusetts
ID: 189
Date: 7/22/1952
Time: 10:50 PM to 12:45 AM, July 23
Description: Witnesses: crews of several USAF F-94 jet interceptors from
Dover AFB, Del. Thirteen visual sightings and one radar tracking of
blue-white lights during two hours.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Trenton, New Jersey
ID: 190
Date: 7/23/1952
Time: 8:40 AM
Description: Witnesses: the two-man crews of three USAF F-94 jet
interceptors. One large silver object, shaped like a long pear with two
or three squares beneath it, flew at 150-180 kts. (170-210 m.p.h.),
while a smaller object, delta-shaped or swept back, flew around it at
1,000-1,500 kts. (1,150-1,700 m.p.h.). Seen by crews for 1-4
minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Pottstown, Pennsylvania
ID: 191
Date: 7/23/1952
Time: 12:50 PM
Description: Witnesses: two-man crews of two USAF F-94 jet interceptors
at 35-46,000’ altitude. Three cylindrical objects in a vertical stack
formation flew at an altitude of 50-80,000’. Seen for 20 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Altoona, Pennsylvania
ID: 192
Date: 7/23/1952
Time: 11:35 PM
Description: Witness: USAF pilot Capt. H. W. Kloth. Two bright
blue-white objects flew together, then the rear one veered off after
about 9 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: South Bend, Indiana
ID: 193
Date: 7/23/1952
Description: In an Air Mail reply from Dr. Einstein to Mr. Louis A.
Gardner in LA, he said in regards to UFO’s “Those people have seen
something. What they saw I do not know, and I am not curious to
know”.
Type: letter
Reference: link
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-A p128)
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Date: 7/23/1952
Description: Orfeo Angelucci takes ride in saucer
Type: ce4 event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Date: 7/24/1952
Time: 3:40 PM
Description: Witnesses: two USAF Lt. Colonels McGinn and Barton in a
B-25 bomber. Three silver, delta-shaped objects, each with a ridge along
the top, crossed in front of and above the B-25 at high speed, in 3-4
seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Carson Sink, Nevada
ID: 194
Date: 7/24/1952
Description: BSRA sends a warning letter to the President, a large swath
the US military, US government, representatives, and press concerning
the recently announced USAF “Shoot Down” order. Warning found in
official FBI UFO files.
Type: letter
Reference: Twitter
Location: San Diego, CA
Date: 7/24/1952
Time: night
Description: A man who was fishing in the Serchio River saw a disk
hovering for 10 min. From it hung a hose that plunged into the water.
The object was 20 m in diameter, with five propellers in the rear and a
dome with something like blades on top. An orange glow could be seen
through slits along the deck. A man wearing a diving helmet looked at
the witness through a window, and he received a kind of electric shock
as a “green ray” hit him. He looked up with difficulty, in time to see
the object fly away toward the east. Six days later a stranger with a
foreign accent contacted the witness and intimidated him.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 69,1 (Vallee)
Location: Vico, Italy
ID: 95
Date: 7/26/1952
Time: Time unknown
Description: Case missing from official files.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Williams, California
ID: 199
Date: 7/26/1952
Time: 8 PM
Description: Event occurred until after midnight. Witnesses: radar
operators at several airports, airline pilots. Many unidentified blips
tracked by radar all over Washington area, at varying speeds. Pilots
spotted unidentified lights.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Washington, DC
ID: 195
Date: 7/26/1952
Time: 12:15 AM
Description: Witnesses: USAF Capt. H. A. Stone, men in control towers at
Fairfax Field and Municipal Airport. One greenish light with red-orange
flashes was seen for 1 hour as it descended in the northwest from 40
degree elevation to 10 degree elevation.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Kansas City, Missouri
ID: 196
Date: 7/26/1952
Time: Time unknown
Description: This was a continuation of the extensive sightings and
radar tracking reports reported throughout the Washington, DC. area, all
night long.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Andrews AFB, Maryland
ID: 197
Date: 7/26/1952
Time: 12:05 AM
Description: Witness: Airman lst Class J.M. Donaldson. Eight to ten
orange balls in a triangular or V-formation flew very fast for 3-4
seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Kirtland AFB, New Mexico
ID: 198
Date: 7/26/1952
Description: Washington, DC: Long range “overfly” RADAR picks more
blips, just one week after the previous invasion of restricted air space
over Washington, D.C. Capt. Ruppelt told Maj. Dewey Fournet to get over
to the airport in Washington. Fournet was a radar specialist with
Project HOLCOMBE and arrived at the airport with Al Chop, AF Press
Officer, just in time to see the UFO blips on the radar sets and to hear
ground-to-air conversations of the pilots of two F-94s vectored towards
the UFOs.
Type: letter
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Washington DC
Date: 7/27/1952
Time: 10:05 AM
Description: Witnesses: three B-29 bomber crewmen on ground. Many round,
white objects flew straight and level, very fast. Two at 10:05, one at
10:10, one at 10:15, one at 10:20. Each was seen for about 30
seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Selfridge AFB, Michigan
ID: 200
Date: 7/27/1952
Time: 8:30 PM
Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Ellis. Two disc-shaped
objects, illuminated by a phosphorus light, flew at an estimated l,000
m.p.h. for 15 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Wichita Falls, Texas
ID: 201
Date: 7/27/1952
Description: Truman Bethurum visits spaceship and meets crew. Many other
visits.
Type: ce4 event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Date: 7/28/1952
Description: USAF on 24 hour alert. Shoot Down order newspaper
articles
Type: letter
Reference: Newspapers.com
Location: Washington DC
Date: 7/28/1952
Description: Personal Minute from Prime Minister W.S. Churchill to
Secretary of xxxxxxx Air Ministry stating: What does all this stuff
about Flying Saucers amount to? What can it mean? What is the truth? Let
me have a report at your convenience.
Type: secret memo
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-E p505, Churchhill)
Location: Britain
See also: 8/9/52
Date: End of 7/1952
Description: SECRET MEMO to Director, CIA, from H. Marshall Chadwell,
Office of Scientific Intelligence stating: ATIC has set up a worldwide
reporting network for Flying Saucers and major Air Force bases have been
ordered to make INTERCEPTIONS of UFO’s. Battello Memorial Institute is
to handle machine indexing of all official reported sightings. From 1947
to date, there have been 1500 official sightings with 250 of them in
1952 alone. Of the 1500, 28% remain UNEXPLAINED. UFO’s are of such
importance that the matter should be brought before the National
Security Council.
Type: secret memo
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-E p31,506, war escalation)
Location: Dayton OH
See also: 9/19/76
See also: 5/10/80
See also: 5/19/86
See also: 9/4/87
Date: 7/28/1952
Time: 2:15 AM
Description: Witnesses: T/Sgt. Walstead, S/Sgt. Calkins of the 635th
AC&W Squadron. One dull, glowing, blue-green ball,.the size of a
dime at arms’ length, flew very fast, straight and level.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: McChord AFB, Washington
ID: 204
Date: 7/28/1952
Time: 6 AM
Description: Witness: Ground Control Approach radar operator M/Sgt. W.F.
Dees, and persons in the base control tower. Radar tracked a large
cluster of very distinct blips. Visual observation was of oblong objects
having neither wings nor tail, which made a very fast turn and at one
time were in echelon formation. Entire episode lasted 55 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: McGuire AFB, New Jersey
ID: 203
Date: 7/28/1952
Time: 10:20 PM
Description: Witnesses: Sgt. B.C. Grassmoen, WAC Pfc. A.P. Turner. One
saucer-shaped object having an appearance of light metal and giving off
shafts of white light, flew slow, made a 90^ turn and climbed away fast
after 4-5 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Heidelberg, West Germany
ID: 202
Date: 7/29/1952
Time: 12:35 PM
Description: Witnesses: USAF shop employees Douglas and Hess at
Municipal Airport. One bright white circular object with a flat bottom
flew very fast, and then hovered 10-15 seconds over the Cessna Aircraft
Co. plant, during the 5 minute sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Wichita, Kansas
ID: 209
Date: 7/29/1952
Description: Sidney Eubank went to the Enid police station and told
Sergeant Vern Bennell that an enormous disk had buzzed his car as he
drove between Bison and Waukonis on Highway 81. The rush of air made the
car leave the road while the object flew west very fast.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Anatomy 134 (Vallee)
Location: Enid, Oklahoma
ID: 96
Date: 7/29/1952
Time: 12:30 PM
Description: Witnesses: USAF persons, alerted that UFOs were coming from
the direction of Seattle, Wash. Two to five flat disc-shaped objects:
one hovered 3-4 minutes, while the others circled it. Sighting length of
30 minutes not explained further.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Ennis, Montana
ID: 210
Date: 7/29/1952
Time: 1:30 AM
Description: Witnesses: radar operators on ground, pilot of F-5l Mustang
in flight. Several clusters of up to 10 small radar targets and one
large target. Small targets moved from southwest to east at 50-60 kts.
(60-70 m.p.h.), following each other. The large one moved at 600 kts.
(700 m.p.h.). One hour total time. Pilot confirmed one target.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Osceola, Wisconsin
ID: 205
Date: 7/29/1952
Time: 2:30 PM
Description: Witness: USAF Capt D.G. Moore, of military air traffic
control system. One undescribed object flew at an estimated 2,600
m.p.h., below 5,000’ altitude, toward the air base for about 2
minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Langley AFB, Virginia
ID: 206
Date: 7/29/1952
Time: 2:50 PM
Description: Witnesses: Mr. Moore, Gilfillan electronics representative
W. Yhope. One radar target tracked moving away, stopped for 2 minutes,
again moved very, very fast. Four minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Langley AFB, Virginia
ID: 207
Date: 7/29/1952
Description: USAF Gen. Samford holds UFO press conference
Type: historical event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Location: Washington DC
Date: 7/29/1952
Description: USAF pilot pursues UFO over Michigan
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Location: Michigan
Date: 7/29/1952
Description: SECRET, EYES ONLY MEMO to Deputy Director/Intelligence from
Ralph L. Clark, Acting Assistant Director of Scientific Intelligence
stating: In the past several weeks numerous UFOs have been sighted
visually and on RADAR. This office (CIA) has maintained a continuing
review of reputed sightings for the past three years and a special group
has been formed to review the sightings to date. O/CI and O/SI will
participate in this study and prepare a report on UFOs by August 15,
1952.
Type: secret memo
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-E p505)
Location: Britain
Date: 7/29/1952
Time: 3:44 or 4:35 PM
Description: Witnesses: Herbert Mitchell and one employee. One dark,
discus-shaped object, trailed by a silvery light 2 lengths behind,
tipped on its side, dove, hesitated and then circled very fast during
the 2 minute sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Merced, California
ID: 208
Date: 7/30/1952
Time: 11:02 PM
Description: Witness: USAF lst Lt. George Funk. One orange light
remained stationary for 10 minutes. No further details in files.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
ID: 211
Date: 7/30/1952
Time: 10 AM
Description: Witnesses: E.E. Nye and one other person. One round, white
object flew slow and then sped away after 20-30 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: San Antonio, Texas
ID: 212
Date: End of 8/1/1952
Description: CIA Memo from acting Chief of Weapons and Equipment
Division: “It is strongly urged, however, that no indication of CIA
interest or concern reach the press or public.”
Type: secret memo
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Langley, Virginia
Date: 8/1/1952
Time: 1:14 AM
Description: Witnesses: sheriff’s deputies and other persons, one named
Mallette. Two brilliant red lights hovered and maneuvered for 5
minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Lancaster, California
ID: 213
Date: 8/2/1952
Time: 3 AM
Description: Witnesses: USAF lst Lt. W.A. Theil, one enlisted man. One
red ball with a blue flame tail flew straight and level for 3-4
seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Lake Charles, Louisiana
ID: 214
Date: 8/4/1952
Time: 11:37 AM
Description: Witnesses: one woman, two children. One object, shaped like
a lifesaver or donut, emitted black smoke from its top and made a 15’
arc in 1.5 minutes. Observed for 2 hours.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Mt. Vernon, New York
ID: 216
Date: 8/4/1952
Time: 2:20 AM
Description: Witness: USAF A/3c W.F. Vain. One yellow ball which
lengthened and narrowed to plate shape, flew straight and level for 5
minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
ID: 215
Date: 8/5/1952
Time: 11:30 PM
Description: Witnesses: USAF F-94 jet interceptor pilots lst Lt. W.R.
Holder and lst Lt. A.M. Jones, and Haneda control tower operators.
Airborne radar tracked a target for 90 seconds. Control tower operators
watched 50-60 minutes while a dark shape with a light flew as fast as
330 kts. (380 m.p.h.), hovered, flew curves and performed a variety of
maneuvers.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Haneda AFB, Japan
ID: 217
Date: 8/6/1952
Time: Time unknown
Description: Case missing from official files.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Port Austin, Michigan
ID: 219
Date: 8/6/1952
Time: Time unknown
Description: This is a continuation of the Haneda AFB sightings.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Tokyo, Japan
ID: 218
Date: 8/7/1952
Time: 9:08 AM
Description: Witness: Mrs. Susan Pfuhl. Four glowing white discs: one
made a 180 degree turn, one flew straight and level, one veered off, and
one circled during the 70 minute sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: San Antonio, Texas
ID: 220
Date: 8/9/1952
Description: Reply from Air Ministry, Whitehall, S.W. to W.S. Churchill
stating: All UFO sightings are either astronomical phenomena, mistaken
sightings of balloons, birds, etc., optical illusions or hoaxes. The
Americans have reached a similar conclusion.
Type: secret memo
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-E p449)
Location: Britain
See also: 7/28/52
Date: 8/9/1952
Time: 10:50 AM
Description: Witness: USAF A/3c J.P. Raley. One disc-shaped object flew
very fast and then hovered for 2 seconds during a 5-6 minute
sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Lake Charles, Louisiana
ID: 221
Date: 8/13/1952
Time: 9:45 PM
Description: Witness: USAF Marine Corps pilot Maj. D. McGough. One
orange light flew a left orbit at 8,000’ and 230 m.p.h., spiralled down
to no more than 1,500’, remained stationary for 2-3 minutes and went
out. An attempted interception was unsuccessful.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Tokyo, Japan
ID: 222
Date: 8/16/1952
Description: CIA analysis report of a Vienna news article of a UFO
report from the Belgian Congo: Commander Pierre of Elisabethville
Airfield was sent out to intercept two Flying Saucers. They had a diam.
of 12 to 15 meters with a stationary central hub with visible portholes
and an extremely fast rotating outer disk that glowed as if on fire.
Color similar to aluminum. They emitted a loud whistling sound which
could be heard over his own engines. He estimated their speed at over
1500 kilometers/hour.
Type: report
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-E p512)
Location: Langley, Virginia
Date: 8/18/1952
Time: 12:50 AM
Description: Witnesses: three policemen. One object changed color like a
diamond, and changed directions during the 30 minute sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Fairfield, California
ID: 223
Date: 8/19/1952
Time: evening
Description: Ronny Desvergers saw a large, round, dark object above him
in a clearing. It had a turret on top. Red balls of light were emitted
by the object and burned him. He also observed a “hideous” creature
aboard the craft. Grass roots were scorched at the site.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Ruppelt 222; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: West Palm Beach, Florida
ID: 97
Date: 8/19/1952
Description: J. D. Desvergers (scoutmaster) has contact with saucer. Is
burned.
Type: ce3 event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Attributes: injury
Date: 8/19/1952
Time: 2:38 PM
Description: Witness: Ground Observer Corps observer Albert Lathrop. Two
objects, shaped like fat bullets, flew straight and level, very fast for
25 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Red Bluff, California
ID: 224
Date: 8/20/1952
Description: Memorandom for Director CIA: the DCI, after a briefing by
OSI on the subject of UFOs, directed the preparation of an NSCID for
submission to the Council stating the need for investigation and
directing agencies concerned to cooperate in such investigations. It was
decided that Dr. Whitman, chairman of P&DB, would investigate
undertaking R&D studies through Air Force agencies. Signed: H.
Marshall Chadwell. (See continuation of this briefing.)
Type: memorandom
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Langley, Virginia
See also: 11/25/52
Date: 8/20/1952
Time: 3:10 AM
Description: Witnesses: Bill Ford and two others. An undescribed object
flew at 500’ altitude for several minutes. No further data in
files.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Neffesville, Pennsylvania
ID: 225
Date: 8/21/1952
Time: 11:54 PM
Description: Witness: Jack Rossen, ex-artillery observer. Three
blue-white lights hovered then descended; 1.5 minutes later, one of them
descended more.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Dallas, Texas
ID: 226
Date: 8/22/1952
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 78km (Army training
test. Thrust decreased after 53s. Tail separation at 217s.)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 78km
Date: 8/23/1952
Description: CIA analysis report of an Athens news article of an UFO
landing in Communist Berlin, Germany: Former Mayor of Gleimershausen,
Oscar Linke and his 11 year old daughter, Gabriella, spotted a landed
Flying Saucer near the town of Hasselbach. The huge “frying pan” was
approx. 13 to 15 meters in diameter and had two rows of holes on its
periphery, about 30 centimeters in circumference. The space between the
two rows was about 0.45 meters. On top was a black conical object about
3 meters high. Two men dressed in shiny metallic clothing were standing
outside the craft. Upon hearing my daughters voice the two men retreated
into the UFO which then began to rotate. As the UFO began to spin the
conical tower slid down into the UFO and the UFO began to rise and
rotate like a top. It seemed to be supported by the conical tower that
was now underneath it. (More details were included in report, see
02/23/55, See also the movie “Earth vs. the Flying Saucers”)
Type: report
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-E p513)
Location: Langley, Virginia
See also: 2/23/1955
Date: 8/23/1952
Time: 4:10 AM
Description: Witnesses: USAF 2nd Lt. H.K. Funseth, a ground radar
observer, and two U.S. Navy men. One pulsing amber light was seen to fly
straight and level for 7 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Akron, Ohio
ID: 227
Date: 8/24/1952
Time: 10:15 AM
Description: Witness: Georgia Air National Guard F-84G jet fighter pilot
Col. G.W. Johnson. Two 6’ silver balls in abreast formation, one turned
grey rapidly, the other slowly. One changed to long grey shape during a
turn. Sighting lasted about 10 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Hermanas, Mexico
ID: 228
Date: 8/24/1952
Time: 9:30 PM, 10:30 PM
Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Sharp. One object, shaped
like a spinning top, changing color from red to yellow to blue, and with
a fiery tail, hovered for 20 minutes, whistling, then flew away. It, or
another like it, returned an hour later.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Levelland, Texas
ID: 230
Date: 8/24/1952
Time: 0600
Description: A man driving through a wood encountred a strange object
and stopped to observe it. It looked like two turtle shells glued
together, about 25 m long, with a humanoid creature in what appeared to
be a control cabin in front. Windows lighted by an intense blue light
and a throbbing sound were also reported. The object was oscillating and
suddenly flew straight up with a strong humming noise. The middle
section supported what looked like propellers. The object hovered 3 m
above ground.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Frontenac, Kansas
ID: 98
Date: 8/24/1952
Time: 5:40 PM
Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. George White. One large round,
metallic, white light with a vague lower surface, flew slowly, then fast
With a dancing, wavering motion, for about 1 minute.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Tucson, Arizona
ID: 229
Date: 8/25/1952
Time: 3:40 PM
Description: Witnesses: civilian supervisor Fred Lee, foreman L.A.
Aquilar. One round silver object flew south, turned and flew north, made
a 360 turn and flew away vertically after 3-5 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Holloman AFB, New Mexico
ID: 232
Date: 8/25/1952
Time: 5:35 AM
Description: Witness: radio station musician William Squyres. One dull
aluminum object, shaped like two meat platters, face to face, estimated
at 75’ long, 45’ wide, and 15’ thick. Through a window in the front
section shone a blue light; the head and shoulders of a man could be
seen. The mid section had numerous windows through which could be seen
some kind of regular movement. A series of small propellers were spaced
close together along the outer edge of the object, revolving at high
speed. The object was hovering about 10’ above the ground, 100 yards off
the road, with a slight rocking motion. It then ascended vertically with
a sound like a large covey of quail starting to fly at the same time.
Vegetation showed signs of having been disturbed under the object.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Pittsburg, Kansas
ID: 231
Date: 8/26/1952
Time: 12:10 AM
Description: Witness: USAF Capt. D.A. Woods. One large, round, very
bright object with a V-shaped contrail having a dark cone in the center,
flew very fast, hovered, made an instantaneous 90 turn, followed by a
gentle climb and finally sudden acceleration.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Lathrop Wells, Nevada
ID: 233
Date: 8/27/1952
Description: A saucer-shaped craft, 3 by 2 m, landed on the witness’s
property after hitting a chimney. A little man, about 70 cm tall,
emerged and was asked whether he was hurt, but he did not answer. The
craft took off with a whistling sound.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Wilkins A 268 (Vallee)
Location: Lamberton, North Carolina
ID: 99
Date: 8/28/1952
Time: 9:30 PM
Description: Witnesses: USAF control tower operators, officer from USAF
Office of Special Investigations, and others. Six objects, varying from
fiery red to sparkling diamond appearance, hovered, flew erratically up
and down for 1 hour and l5minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Chickasaw and Brookley AFB, Alabama
ID: 234
Date: 8/29/1952
Time: 10:50 AM
Description: Witnesses: two U.S. Navy pilots flying a P4Y-2 patrol
plane. Three white disc-shaped or spherical objects hovered, then flew
very fast in a triangular formation, in 2-3 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: west of Thule, Greenland (77’ N, 75’ 15’ W)
ID: 236
Date: 8/29/1952
Time: 8:35 PM
Description: Witness: pilot C.A. Magruder. Three objects, 50’ in
diameter, 10’ high, aluminum with red-yellow exhaust, flew in trail at
estimated 1,500 m.p.h. for 4-5 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado
ID: 235
Date: 8/31/1952
Description: Herbert Long saw an object land 15 m away from the road. He
made a drawing of it.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Wilkins A 257 (Vallee)
Location: Pennsylvania, exact location unknown
ID: 100
Date: 9/1/1952
Time: 10:30 PM
Description: Witnesses: Mr. Bowman (ex-artillery officer) and 24 others.
A red, white, and blue-green object which spun and shot off sparks for
15 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Marietta, Georgia
ID: 240
Date: 9/1/1952
Time: 4:45 AM
Description: Witnesses: Visual sighting by two USAF enlisted men, radar
tracking seen by three men using AN/FPS-3 radar set. Two small,
varicolored lights became black silhouettes at dawn; flew erratically.
One hour.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Yaak, Montana
ID: 241
Date: 9/1/1952
Time: 10:30 PM
Description: Witness: one unidentified person using binoculars. Two
large objects shaped like spinning tops and displaying red, blue and
green colors, flew side by side, leaving a sparkling trail for 30
minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Marietta, Georgia
ID: 238
Date: 9/1/1952
Time: 9:43 PM
Description: Witnesses: Mrs. William Davis and nine other persons. One
light, similar to the evening star, moved up and down for a long period
of time.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
ID: 239
Date: 9/1/1952
Time: 10:50 PM
Description: Witness: ex-AAF B-25 gunner. Two large white disc-shaped
objects with green vapor trails flew in trail formation, merged, flew
away very fast.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Marietta, Georgia
ID: 237
Date: 9/2/1952
Time: 3 AM
Description: Witness: radar tracker Turason (ground controlled approach)
at Midway Airport. 40 targets flew in miscellaneous directions, up to
175 m.p.h. Two seemed to fly in formation with DC-6 airliner. Total of 8
hours.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Chicago, Illinois
ID: 242
Date: 9/3/1952
Time: 99 AM
Description: Witnesses: civilian pilots McCraven and Thomas. One shiny,
dark ellipse made three broad, curving sweeps in 1.5 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Tucson, Arizona
ID: 243
Date: 9/6/1952
Time: l:30 AM
Description: Witnesses: T/Sgt. J.E. Wilson and two enlisted men. One
bright star-like light moved about the sky for 2 hours.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Lake Charles AFB, Louisiana
ID: 244
Date: 9/6/1952
Time: 4:55 PM
Description: Witnesses: ex-Congresswoman Mrs. Isabella King and Bill
McClain. One orange teardrop-shaped object whirled on its vertical axis,
descended very fast, stopped, retraced its path upwards, while whirling
in the opposite direction. 1.5 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Tucson, Arizona
ID: 245
Date: 9/7/1952
Time: 10:30 PM
Description: Witnesses: chemist J.W. Gibson and others. One orange
object or light (the color of 2,000’ F.) exploded into view. Seen for
from 3-20 seconds by various observers.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: San Antonio, Texas
ID: 246
Date: 9/9/1952
Time: 9 PM
Description: Witness: E.J. colisimo, a civilian illustrator with USAF
Intelligence. One disc with lights along part of its circumference, flew
twice as fast as a T-33 jet trainer, in a slightly curved path for 5
seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Rabat, French Morocco
ID: 247
Date: 9/12/1952
Time: 9:30 PM
Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. David Kolb, of the Ground Observer
Corps, using binoculars. One white light with a red trim and streamers
flew northeast for 35 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Allen, Maryland
ID: 248
Date: 9/12/1952
Description: Space “monster” appears from saucer near Sutton, West
VA
Type: ce3 event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Location: Sutton, West Virgina
Date: 9/12/1952
Time: sunset
Description: A group of young people saw a “meteor” land on top of a
hill and went to the site with Kathleen Hill and three men. They
observed a globe as large as a house making a throbbing or hissing sound
and a huge figure with glowing orange eyes nearby. About 4 m tall, the
figure had a red face and “floated” toward the witnesses, who fled in
terror. A lingering smell and skid marks were found.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 52 (Vallee)
Location: Flatwoods, West Virginia
ID: 101
Date: 9/13/1952
Time: 7:40 PM
Description: Witness: private pilot W.A. Hobler, flying a Beech Bonanza.
One object, shaped like a fat football, flaming orange-red color,
descended and then pulled up in front of the witness’ airplane. Seen for
2 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Allentown, Pennsylvania
ID: 249
Date: 9/13/1952
Description: Mr. and Mrs. George Snitowski and their little girl
suddenly found their car stalled, and an unpleasant smell (ether mixed
with sulphurous smoke) filled the air. Mr. Snitowski thought a chemical
plant might be burning in the area and walked toward a strong light
visible in the woods, in spite of the nauseous smell. Coming near it, he
felt pricklings throughout his body, had to stop, lost his balance
several times as he returned to the carwhere he found his wife
terrified, pointing to a giant creature (3 m tall), human-shaped, 10 m
away. They locked the car as “it” inspected the vehicle, glided away and
went into the woods. Soon afterward, the sphere of light was observed to
rise gradually, to swing like a pendulum, and to leave a luminous
trail.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Paul Lieb (Vallee)
Location: Frametown, West Virginia
ID: 102
Date: 9/14/1952
Time: 8:40 PM
Description: Witness: USAF C-54 transport pilot Tarbutton. One
blue-white light travelled straight and level, then went up. Seen for 30
seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Santa Barbara, California
ID: 250
Date: 9/14/1952
Time: Time unknown
Description: Witnesses: military persons from several countries aboard
ships in the NATO “Operation Mainbrace” exercise. Among the sightings:
one blue-green triangle was observed flying 1,500 m.p.h; three objects
in a triangular formation gave off white light exhaust at 1,500
m.p.h.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: North Atlantic, between Ireland and Iceland
ID: 251
Date: 9/14/1952
Time: 7 PM
Description: Witness: Ground Observer Corps observer L.W. Barnes, using
binoculars. One red, cigar-shaped object, with three puffs behind it,
flew west, then south, and then was gone. Seen 30-40 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: White Lake, South Dakota
ID: 252
Date: 9/14/1952
Time: 11:30 PM
Description: Event occurred to 1:20 AM, Sept. 15. Witnesses: consulting
engineer R. J. Portis and three others. Six groups of 12-15 luminous
spheres or discs, which flew in formations varying from arcs to
inverted-Y’s, very fast.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Ciudad Jaurez, Mexico
ID: 253
Date: 9/14/1952
Time: Time not known
Description: Witness: pilot of Flying Tiger Airlines airplane N67977.
One blue light flew very fast on a collision course with the airliner.
Note: the summary card attached to the file showed completely different
information.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Olmstead AFB, Pennsylvania
ID: 254
Date: 9/14/1952
Description: Iceland, North Atlantic, between Ireland and Iceland.
Witnesses: military persons from several countries aboard ships in the
NATO “Operation Mainbrace” exercise. Among the sightings: one blue-green
triangle was observed flying 1,500 mph; three objects in a triangular
formation gave off white light exhaust at 1,500 mph
Type: report
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: North Atlantic
Date: 9/16/1952
Time: 6:22 PM
Description: Witnesses: crew of U.S. Navy P2V Neptune patrol plane,
visually and via radar. A group of five lights was seen at the same time
a long, thin blip was being tracked on radar. Note: consideration was
given to this being USAF KC-97 airplanes involved in a refueling
operation. The sighting involved 20 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Portland, Maine
ID: 255
Date: 9/16/1952
Time: 7:30 PM
Description: Witnesses: three USAF officers, two civilians. Two white
lights flew abreast, at 100 m.p.h., for 15 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Warner-Robbins AFB, Georgia
ID: 256
Date: 9/17/1952
Time: 11:40 AM
Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. Ted Hollingsworth. Two groups of
three large, flat, shiny objects flew in tight formations: the first
group slow, the second faster. Seen for 2 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Tucson, Arizona
ID: 257
Date: 9/19/1952
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 27km (Army training
test. Tail explosion at 27s terminating thrust.)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 27km
Date: 9/20/1952
Description: Air Ministry, London: A number of airmen and officers of
the R.A.F., Topcliffe, observed an UFO. As it descended it was swinging
in a pendular motion like a falling leaf. Pendulous motion ceased and
object began rotary motion about its own axis. Suddenly accelerated at
an incredible speed. (9/19/52, cont’d) It was not identifiable with any
known aircraft and acceleration was in excess of that of a shooting
star! Craft was silver in color and circular. (Operation
Mainbrace)
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-E p31,450, B1-G p43)
Location: North Yorkshire, England
See also: 9/20/1952
Date: 9/20/1952
Description: An UFO similar to the Topcliffe one (see 9/19/52) is
sighted over a U.S. Carrier ship out with the fleet between England and
Scandinavia. An American photographer doing a story of the fleet
exercise took pictures of the UFO which was ascertained not to have been
a balloon. The Navy never released the photos of the UFO.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Between England and Scandinavia
See also: 9/19/52
Date: 9/21/1952
Description: Six RAF jets on maneuvers over the North Sea saw a “sphere”
heading towards them, coming from the direction of the English fleet. It
was tracked on radar then disappeared and reappeared behind them. One
Meteor pilot attempted an intercept but was completely outrun by the
UFO. Capt. Ruppelt was later told by RAF Intelligence that the incidents
of the past three days caused the RAF to officially recognize the UFO
situation.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: North Sea
See also: 7/52
See also: 6/24/53
Date: 9/23/1952
Time: No time shown
Description: Witnesses: Pepperell AFB operations officer and seven other
campers. One bright white light, which reflected on the lake, flew
straight and level at 100 m.p.h. for 10 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Gander Lake, Newfoundland, Canada
ID: 258
Date: 9/24/1952
Time: 3:30 PM
Description: Witnesses: crew of USAF B-29 bomber. A lot of bright,
metallic particles or flashes, up to 3’ in length, streamed past the
B-29 for 15 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Charleston, West Virginia
ID: 259
Date: 9/26/1952
Time: 11:16 PM
Description: Witnesses: pilot, copilot, engineer and aircraft commander
of USAF C-124 transport plane. Two distinct green lights were seen to
the right and slightly above the C-124, and at one time seemed to turn
toward it. The lights alternated leading each other during more than 1
hour of observation.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: 400 miles NNW of Azores Islands
ID: 260
Date: 9/27/1952
Time: 10 PM
Description: Witnesses: two couples, using a 5x telescope. One large,
round object, which went through the color spectrum every 2 seconds, was
seen to fly straight and level for 15 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Inyokern, California
ID: 261
Date: 9/29/1952
Time: 3:15 PM
Description: Witness: USAF T/Sgt. B.R. Hughes. Five or six circular
objects, bright white but not shiny, circled in trail formation for 5-6
minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Aurora, Colorado
ID: 264
Date: 9/29/1952
Time: 8:15 PM
Description: Witnesses: U.S. Army Res. lst Lt. C.H. Stevens and two
others. One green ellipse with a long tail orbited for 15 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Southern Pines, North Carolina
ID: 263
Date: 9/29/1952
Time: 3:55 PM
Description: Witnesses unknown, but report came via the Rochester Police
Dept. Two flat objects hovered for 3 minutes, and then sped away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Rochester, England
ID: 262
Date: 10/1/1952
Time: 7:40 PM
Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. C.C. McLean and one other person.
One round, milky-white object, shaped like a powder puff, hovered for
5-10 minutes then flew away very fast in an arc. A loud blast was heard
at the start of the 22 minute sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Pascagoula, Mississippi
ID: 266
Date: 10/1/1952
Time: 6:57 PM
Description: Witness: USAF lst Lt. T.J. Pointek, pilot of RF-8O
reconnaissance jet. One bright white light flew straight, then vertical,
then hovered, and then made an abrupt turn during a 23 minute attempted
intercept.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Shaw AFB, South Carolina
ID: 265
Date: 10/2/1952
Description: SECRET MEMO to Director CIA from H. Marshall Chadwell,
Assistant Director of Scientific Intelligence: ATIC is the only group
devoting appreciable effort to the study of UFOs. Flying Saucers pose
two elements of danger to the United States. The first involves mass
psychological considerations and the second concerns vulnerability of
the U.S. to air attack. Recommend that the DCI discuss this subject with
the Psychological Strategy Board.
Type: secret memo
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-E p509)
Location: Langley, VA
See also: 11/25/1952
Date: 10/7/1952
Time: 8:30 PM
Description: Witness: USAF Lt. Bagnell. One pale blue oval, with its
long axis vertical, flew straight and level for 4-5 seconds, covering 30
in that time.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Alamagordo, New Mexico
ID: 267
Date: 10/10/1952
Time: 6:30 PM
Description: Witnesses: USAF S/Sgt., two other enlisted men. One
blinking white light moved like a pendulum for 20 minutes, and then shot
straight up.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Otis AFB, Massachusetts
ID: 268
Date: 10/15/1952
Time: 1910
Description: Approximate date. Figures with helmets and masks were seen
through lighted windows inside a bright yellow, cigar-shaped object on
the ground. Length 30 m, diameter 6 m. Forward section was rounded, and
a sort of fog was noted at both ends of object.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy; Anatomy 62 (Vallee)
Location: Le Vigan, France
ID: 103
Date: 10/17/1952
Time: 9:15 PM
Description: Witnesses: Four USAF officers One round, bright blue light
moved from north to northeast at an elevation of 45 degree for 2-3
seconds and then burned out.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Taos, New Mexico
ID: 269
Date: 10/17/1952
Time: 10:15 PM
Description: Witnesses: Ministers Greenwalt and Kluck. Ten lights, or a
rectangle of lights, moved more or less straight and level for 5
seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Killeen, Texas
ID: 270
Date: 10/17/1952
Time: 11 PM
Description: Witness: one military person (no detail). One white
streamer moved at an estimated 3,000 m.p.h. in an arc for 20 seconds. No
further details in files.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico
ID: 271
Date: 10/19/1952
Time: 1:30 PM
Description: Witness: one ex-USAF aircrewman Woolsey. Three circular
aluminum objects, one of which was olive-drab colored on the side, flew
in a rough V-formation. One object flipped slowly, another object
stopped, during the 3-4 minute sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: San Antonio, Texas
ID: 272
Date: 10/19/1952
Time: 6:58 PM
Description: Witnesses: crew of USAF C-50 transport plane. One round
yellow light, with a red glowing edge, estimated at 100’ in diameter,
flew at 300-400 kts. (350-450 m.p.h.) for 20 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: 500 miles south of Hawaii
ID: 273
Date: 10/21/1952
Time: No time given
Description: Witnesses: persons at airport weather station. Six white
lights flew in a loose formation for 1-2 minutes, and made a shallow
dive at a weather balloon.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Knoxville, Tennessee
ID: 274
Date: 10/24/1952
Time: 8:26 PM
Description: Witnesses: USAF Lt. Rau, Capt. Marcinko, flying a Beech
T-ll trainer. One object, shaped like a plate, with a brilliant front
and vague trail, flew with its concave surface forward for 5
seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Elberton, Alabama
ID: 275
Date: 10/27/1952
Description: Air Intelligence Memo: “Some military officials are
seriously considering the possibility of (UFOs being) interplanetary
ships.”
Type: secret memo
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Dayton, OH
Date: 10/27/1952
Time: 0203
Description: Customs officer Gabriel Gachignard observed a cigar-shaped
object land briefly on the airfield 100 m away, producing a dull sound.
The object was dark with four lighted windows. It took off with a
“swish” and a shower of sparks when the witness ran toward it.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Challenge 6 (Vallee)
Location: Marignane Airport, France
ID: 104
Date: 10/29/1952
Time: 7:50 AM
Description: Witnesses: USAF S/Sgt. Anderson, A/2c Max Handy. One round
object, silhouetted against a cloud, flew straight and level and smooth
at 400 m.p.h. for 20 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Erding Air Depot, West Germany
ID: 276
Date: 10/31/1952
Time: 7:40 PM
Description: Witness: USAF Lt. James Allen. One orange, blimp-shaped
object, 80’ long and 20’ high, flew at treetop level, crossed over
Allen’s car (at which time his radio stopped playing), then climbed out
at 45’ and tremendous speed at the end of a 1 minute sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Fayetteville, Georgia
ID: 277
Date: 11/1952
Description: A child was burned when a strange disk, 25 cm in diameter,
landed near Dublin.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Dublin, Ireland
ID: 105
Date: 11/3/1952
Time: 66:29 PM
Description: Witnesses: two control tower operators, including Lemaster.
One long, elliptical, white-grey light flew very fast, paused, and then
increased speed during a 3-4 second observation.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Laredo AFB, Texas
ID: 278
Date: 11/4/1952
Description: NSA is established
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Location: Fort Meade, Maryland
Date: 11/4/1952
Time: 5:40 PM
Description: Witness: housewife Mrs. Sprague. Two groups of 2-3 whirling
discs of light flew toward the southeast over a period of 30
seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Vineland, New Jersey
ID: 279
Date: 11/12/1952
Time: 10:23 PM
Description: Witness: security inspector. Four red-white-green lights
flew slowly over a prohibited area for 15 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Los Alamos, New Mexico
ID: 280
Date: 11/13/1952
Time: 2:20 AM
Description: Witness: radar tracking by USAF 779th AC&W station. An
unexplained track was followed for 1 hour, 28 minutes, at 158,000’
altitude (30 miles) and a speed of 240 m.p.h. Radar was FPS/3
(PPI).
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Opheim, Montana
ID: 281
Date: 11/13/1952
Time: 2:43 AM
Description: Witness: U.S. Weather Bureau observer Earl Oksendahl. Five
oval-shaped objects, with lights all around them, flew in a V-formation
for about 20 seconds. Each object seemed to be changing position
vertically by climbing or diving as if to hold formation. Formation came
from the northwest, made a 90 degree overhead, and flew away to the
southwest.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Glasgow, Montana
ID: 282
Date: 11/15/1952
Time: 7:02 AM
Description: Witnesses: USAF Maj. R.L. Wallander, Capt. Belleman, A/3c
Phipps. One orange object (a blue streak?) varied in shape, as it made
jerky upward sweeps with 10-15 second pauses during a 3-5 minute
sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Wichita, Kansas
ID: 283
Date: 11/18/1952
Description: Nello Ferrari, 41, a farmer, found himself flooded with a
reddish light and saw a large plate 10 m above him, between gold and
copper in color. At the center of the bottom surface, 20 m in diameter,
was a cylinder of 5 m diameter made of rapidly rotating parts, producing
a noise similar to that of an electric motor. On the upper surface was a
turret inside which three occupants were visible, looking directly at
the witness. They looked perfectly human, wore rubber coveralls and
transparent face masks. They spoke a few words, which were not
understood; a loud metallic noise was heard; and the top part of the
object lowered itself toward the lower plate. The sound gained
intensity, and the craft flew vertically at very high speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 102 (Vallee)
Location: Castelfranco, Italy
ID: 106
Date: 11/18/1952
Description: MAJESTIC “Preliminary Briefing” document to President
(elect) Eisenhower from Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter (MJ-1)
Type: majestic document
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-A)
Reference: link
Location: Washington DC
Attributes: Majestic
Date: 11/20/1952
Description: George Adamski contacts man from Venus.
Type: ce3 event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Location: CA
Date: 11/21/1952
Description: At a place alled “La Butte” a luminous sphere, which seemed
to spin, its color changing from orange to white, was seen at low
altitude. It oscillated left and right, then took off toward the
southwest, according to the witness, Mr. Gauci.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Challenge 56 (Vallee)
Location: Belle-Ile, France
ID: 107
Date: 11/24/1952
Time: 6:30 PM
Description: Witness: L.L’ Brettner. One round, glowing object flew very
fast, made right angle turns and reversed course during a 1 hour
sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Annandale, Virginia
ID: 284
Date: 11/25/1952
Description: (cont’d briefing from 8/20/52): Memorandum for Director
CIA: Another meeting by A-2 and ATIC personnel was held on this date.
UFOs must have immediate attention. UFOs have been sighted at great
altitudes and at high speeds in the vicinity of major U.S. defense
installations and can NOT be attributed to natural phenomena or KNOWN
types of aerial vehicles. OSI is proceeding to establish an immediate
PRIORITY research and development on UFOs under the aegis of CANIS.
Signed: H. Marshall Chadwell.
Type: memorandum
Reference: link
Location: Langley, VA
See also: 8/10/52
See also: 10/2/52
See also: 11/25/52
Date: 11/27/1952
Time: 12:10 PM
Description: Witnesses: pilot and crew chief of UAAF B-26 bomber. A
series of black smoke bursts (4-3-3-4-3), similar to antiaircraft fire,
was seen over a 20 minute period.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
ID: 285
Date: 11/30/1952
Time: 12:30 PM
Description: Witnesses: radar operators at Washington National Airport.
Radar trackings similar to those of July 26, 1952.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Washington, DC
ID: 286
Date: 12/2/1952
Description: Statement by H. Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director of
Scientific Intelligence, CIA: “The reports of (UFO) incidents convince
us that there is something going on that must have immediate
attention.”
Type: statement
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Langley, VA
See also: 10/2/52
See also: 11/25/52
Date: 12/8/1952
Time: 8:16 PM
Description: Witnesses: pilot lst Lt. D. Dickman and radar operator lst
Lt. T. Davies in USAF F-94 jet interceptor (s/n 49-2522). One white,
oval light which changed to red at higher altitude, flew straight and
level for 2 minutes, then climbed at phenomenal speed on an erratic
flight path. Sighting lasted 10 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Ladd AFB, Alaska
ID: 287
Date: 12/9/1952
Time: 5:45 PM
Description: Witnesses: Capt. Bridges and lst Lt. Johneon in USAF T-33
jet trainer. Four bright lights, in diamond formation, flew at 400
m.p.h. and were passed by the T-33 at 450 m.p.h. during the 10 minute
sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Madison, Wisconsin
ID: 288
Date: 12/28/1952
Time: Time unknown
Description: Case missing from official files.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Marysville, California
ID: 289
Date: 1953
Description: Project xxxxxx (name censured) established by President
Eisenhower and renamed Project AQUARIUS (1960, 1968)
Type: majestic document
Reference: Pea
Research (AQUARIUS, B1-A)
Attributes: Majestic
Date: 1953?
Description: Pilot (name withheld) stated, “a saucer crashed in a desert
area”. He was sure that it was just inside the Arizona border. He also
saw the bodies first-hand at Wright-Patterson AFB. The crates arrived at
night by DC-7. Description of bodies: approx. 4 ft. high. Resting
un-shrouded on a special blanket on dry ice. Heads were hairless,
narrow, disproportionately large for their bodies. Skin had brown tint.
Open eyes, small mouth, indistinct nose, hands and feet. Wore tight
fitting, dark colored suites. One Alien appeared to be female. One Alien
had been alive at the crash site but attempts to save its’ life with
oxygen failed.
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea
Research (B3-B Case A-1 p2,3, RECOVERY, BODIES)
Location: Arizona
Location: Wright-Patterson AFB
Date: 1953
Description: Director of Project Blue Book, Capt. Ruppelt stated: “Two
RAF Intelligence Officers who were in the US on a classified mission
brought six single-spaced typed pages of questions they and their
friends wanted answered regarding UFOs.”
Type: classified mission
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Dayton, OH
See also: 9/21/52
Date: 1/1/1953
Time: 8:45 PM
Description: Witnesses: Warner Anderson and two women. A silver,
saucer-shaped object with a red glowing bottom, flew low over a river
and then climbed fast in a horizontal attitude. Ten second
sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Craig, Montana
ID: 290
Date: 1/8/1953
Time: 7:15 AM
Description: Witnesses: men from the 82nd Fighter-Interceptor Squadron,
including the squadron commander; all were on the ground. One green,
disc-shaped or round object flew southwest for 15 minutes, with a
vertically bobbing motion and sideways movements, below clouds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Larson AFB, Washington
ID: 291
Date: 1/10/1953
Time: 3:45 PM or 4 PM
Description: Witnesses: retired Col. Robert McNab, and Mr. Hunter of the
Federal Security Agency. One flat object, like a pinhead, made three 360
degree right turns in 9 seconds, made abrupt 90 degree turns to the
right and left, stopped, accelerated to original speed and finally flew
out of sight vertically after 60-75 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Sonoma, California
ID: 292
Date: 1/17/1953
Time: 3:55 PM
Description: Witness: geologist/salesman J.J. Sackett. One brilliant
green-gold object, shaped like the Goodyear blimp with its length twice
its height, flew 400 m.p.h. straight and level, stopped, then went
straight up with one stop. Sighting lasted 22 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: near Guatemala City, Guatemala
ID: 293
Date: 1/20/1953
End date: 1/20/1961
Description: President Eisenhower in office
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Date: 1/26/1953
Description: The ROBERTSON PANEL convenes, headed by Prof. H.P.
Robertson. He was chosen because of being renowned as a nuclear
physicist. Some of the persons involved with this panel were
Capt. Ruppelt, Dr. Allen Hynek, Prof. S. GOUDSMIT, L. ALVAREZ, Sam
Goudsmit, Prof. Luis Alvarez, Dr. Lloyd Berkner and Prof. Thornton
Page.
Type: historical event
Reference: Pea
Research
Date: 1/26/1953
Description: The Dept. of Defense, Washington, D.C. states in a letter
to the Henry Holt & Co. that Maj. Donald Keyhoes’ book on “flying
saucers” is accurate and that if the reported controlled maneuvers of
the saucers are accurate then the saucers may be from another planet.
Signed, Albert M. Chop, Air Force Press Desk.
Type: letter
Reference: Pea
Research (A10, B1-E p542)
Location: Washington DC
See also: 9/15/50
Date: 1/28/1953
Time: No time given
Description: Witnesses: radar maintenance personnel. Radar tracked one
stationary target for 20 minutes. A visual sighting about the same time
was explained. No further information in the files.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Albany, Georgia
ID: 296
Date: 1/28/1953
Time: 1 PM
Description: Witness: R.W. Love, owner of Love Diving Co., engaged in
retrieving radio-controlled drones. An 18-20’ white, flat disc flew
straight and level, overhead, for 6 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Pt. Mugu, California
ID: 294
Date: 1/28/1953
Time: 6:05 PM
Description: Witness: USAF T/Sgt. George Beyer. Five 25’ green spheres
flew in V-formation, then changed to trail formation at which time the
end objects turned red. Sighting lasted 12 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Corona, California
ID: 295
Date: 1/29/1953
Description: Hearing a commotion in his barn, a farmer observed an
object about 7 m long and 4 m wide at treetop level. It was light gray
in color and lit up inside. It resembled a half egg. The witness fired
his gun at the object. Numerous livestock died “mysteriously” in the
area after the sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Conway, South Carolina
ID: 108
Date: 2/1953
Description: Two strange men from another planet hired in San Francisco
- mysterious, then disappear.
Type: anomalous event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Location: San Francisco, CA
Date: 2/3/1953
Time: 5:25 PM
Description: Witnesses: radar operators. Four unidentified targets were
tracked for 24 minutes. No further data.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Keflavik, Iceland
ID: 297
Date: 2/4/1953
Time: 1:50 PM
Description: Witness: U.S. Weather Bureau observer Stanley Brown, using
a theodolite. One white, oblong object was tracked flying straight up,
leveling off and being joined by a second, similar, object. The second
twice flew away and returned to the first. After 5 minutes, both were
lost to sight behind clouds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Yuma, Arizona
ID: 298
Date: 2/17/1953
Time: 10:04 PM
Description: Witnesses: two officers and three airmen of USAF AC&W
squadron, visually and by radar. Visual object appeared to larger and
brighter than a star and changed color; it was seen to move slowly for 5
minutes until 10:09 PM Radar picked up a target at 10:08 PM moving in a
similar direction for 17 minutes, at similar speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Port Austin. Michigan
ID: 299
Date: 2/20/1953
Time: #1 time unknown; #2, 10:30 PM
Description: Witnesses: USAF B-25 bomber pilots. #1 was a bright yellow
light seen for 8 minutes. #2 was a bright light which flew on a
collision course, dimmed and climbed away fast.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Pittsburg-Stockton, California
ID: 300
Date: 2/24/1953
Time: 7:43 PM
Description: Witnesses: Warrant Officer and Mrs. Alden. Two bright red,
round objects with big halos flew in small circles, climbed and faded
during a 3-7 second sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Sherman, Texas
ID: 301
Date: 2/27/1953
Time: 11:58 AM
Description: Witness: USAF airman/private pilot. Five yellow discs made
circular turns, fluttered, three of them vanished, the other two flew
erratic square turns for a total of 4 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Shreveport, Louisiana
ID: 302
Date: 3/11/1953
Time: 4 AM
Description: Witness: Mrs. Nina Cook, an experienced private pilot and
wife of a Pan Am flight engineer. A large light, blinking at 10-15 times
per minute, moved up and down along a mountain range.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Hackettstown, New Jersey
ID: 303
Date: 3/14/1953
Time: 11:45 PM
Description: Witnesses: radar and visual observation by 10 crew members
of U.S. Navy P2V-5 patrol plane. Groups of 5-10 colored lights,
totalling 90-100, slowly moved aft off the left side of the airplane, as
detected visually and by airborne radar for 5 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: north of Hiroshima, Japan
ID: 304
Date: 3/19/1953
Description: Jack Clerk (Jack Charles Pryal Clerk, 1919–1996, US Marine
Corps Reserves), an Electrical Engineer attached to Army Ordinance as a
consultant, was giving public presentations at the Glendale CA Lions
Club area about three Crash Retrievals (“grounded saucers”) that
occurred in the southwest. His talks were “cleared by Security”, and it
says parts of his talk had to be “dummied up” at the request of the
government.
Type: public presentation
Reference: Medium
Location: Glendale, CA
Date: 3/21/1953
Time: 3:05 PM
Description: Witness: Ground Observer Corps observation post. Six discs
in a group flew high and fast for a few seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Elmira, New York
ID: 305
Date: 3/25/1953
Time: 3:05 PM
Description: Witnesses: USAF Capt. and Mrs. D.E. Cox. Several lights,
some of which moved straight, others which made 360 degree turns for 1.5
hours.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: San Antonio, Texas
ID: 306
Date: 3/27/1953
Time: 7:25 PM
Description: Witness: pilot of USAF F-86 jet fighter at 600 kts. (700
m.p.h.). One bright orange circle flew at 800 kts. (900 m.p.h.), and
executed three fast rolls. Pilot chased object for 4 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Mt. Taylor, New Mexico
ID: 307
Date: 3/29/1953
Time: 3:45 PM
Description: Witness: L.C. Gillette. One aluminum, circular object flew
high and fast, twice reversing its course. Note: Mr. Gillette saw a
similar object in 1938. Fifteen second sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Spooner, Wisconsin
ID: 308
Date: 4/8/1953
Time: 7:55 PM
Description: Witness: lst Lt. D.J. Pichon, pilot of USAF F-94B jet
interceptor. One bright blue light descended, accelerated, flew parallel
to the F-94, increased its speed and blinked out after 45 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Fukuoka, Japan
ID: 309
Date: 4/15/1953
Time: 5:45 PM
Description: Witness: S/Sgt. V.A. Locey. Three orange lights were seen
for: 3 minutes, 30 seconds, and a few seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Tucson, Arizona
ID: 310
Date: 5/1/1953
Time: 11:35 PM
Description: Witnesses: pilot and radar operator of USAF F-94 jet
interceptor, and control tower operator. One white light evaded
interception attempt by F-94 during 30 minute sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Goose AFB, Labrador, Canada
ID: 311
Date: 5/18/1953
Time: 10:30 PM
Description: Witness: C.S. Chapman, 15. One white, fuzzy, flashing light
hovered and darted around for 4 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: New Plymouth, New Zealand
ID: 484
Date: 5/20/1953
Time: 1830
Description: Two miners, John Q. Black, 48, and John Van Allen, reported
that an object, silvery, 2.5 m in diameter, 2 m thick, with a tripod
landing gear, landed on a sand bar 50 m away from them. An occupant
described as a broadshouldered dwarf wearing clothing that covered the
head and the trunk was also seen. His arms and legs were covered with
tweedlike cloth fastened at the wrists and ankle. He filled a shiny pail
with water and handed it to someone inside the craft. He then appeared
to notice Black and jumped into the craft, which made a hissing sound
and departed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 53 (Vallee)
Location: Brush Creek, California
ID: 109
Date: 5/20/1953
Description: Dr. Ed Doll orders Fritz Werner to report for special duty
the next day. (Indian Springs AFB.)
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Kingman, AZ
See also: 5/21/53
Date: 5/21/1953
Description: Fritz Werner (pseudonym), engineer at Wright-Patterson AFB,
assisted in the investigation of a crashed UFO. It was constructed of an
unfamiliar metal, similar to aluminum [magnesium?]. It had impacted 20
inches into the sand without any signs of structural damage. It was oval
and 30 ft. in diam. An opened hatchway was 3 1/2 ft. long and 1 1/2 ft.
wide. Inside the craft were 2 swivel seats, oval cabin and lots of
instrumentation and displays. A tent pitched nearby contained the corpse
of the pilot. It was approx. 4 ft. tall and had a brown complexion, two
eyes, a small round mouth, two nostrils [no nose?], and two ears. It
wore a silvery metallic-like suite and a skull cap of the same
material.
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Kingman, AZ
See also: 5/20/53
Date: 5/27/1953
Time: 8:30 PM
Description: Witnesses: many unidentified civilians, including Jacobson.
Nine separate meandering lights were seen during 15 minute
sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: San Antonio, Texas
ID: 312
Date: 6/18/1953
Time: 0230
Description: Howard Phillips, Hilda Walker and Judy Meyers saw in a
garden at 118 East Third Street a strange “shadow” on the lawn which
resembled a “flying man,” and they watched it take off.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Wilkins A 261 (Vallee)
Location: Houston, Texas
ID: 110
Date: 6/20/1953
Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean reports that two fisherman in CA
spot UFO’s
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Newspapers.com
Location: California Coast
Date: 6/20/1953
Time: 1830
Description: John Q. Black, witness of the May. 20 incident, observed an
exact repetition of the scene, including the “little man.” Van Allen saw
only the landing marks, about 30 cm wide and re sembling elephant
tracks.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 53 (Vallee)
Location: Brush Creek, California
ID: 111
Date: 6/21/1953
Time: 7 PM
Description: Witnesses: Nine Japanese and Okinawan weather observers.
One unidentified light moved slowly for 20 minutes. No further data in
files.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Naha, Okinawa
ID: 313
Date: Summer 1953
Description: Saucer crash lands near Camp Polk, Louisiana. US Army Pvt.
H.J. (initials) under Sgt. R.S. (initials) in Company B ordered to stay
by the saucer until the ambulance and superior officers arrive. Three
Aliens walked away from the crash. One Alien was carried on a stretcher.
All aliens eventually died, taken to storage facility near Washington
D.C. Alien description: Large helmeted heads, tight fitting suits, legs
stiff when they walked, 3.5 to 4.0 feet tall, used Alien language.
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea
Research (B3-C, RECOVERY, ALIENS)
Location: Camp Polk, Louisiana
Date: 6/22/1953
Time: 2:10 AM
Description: Witnesses: pilot and radar operator of USAF F-94 jet
interceptor. One red light, flying at an estimated 1,000 kts. (1,100
m.p.h.) eluded the chasing F-94 after 5 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Goose AFB, Labrador, Canada
ID: 314
Date: 6/24/1953
Description: USAF EMERGENCY Intelligence Report: Two jets out of Quonset
Point have had mid-air collision at 2130E with UFO. American and Eastern
Airlines pilots reported UFO. Jets fell in flames 15 miles West of
Quonset Point.
Type: ufo collision
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-E p488)
Location: Quonset Point, Rhode Island
See also: 6/26/1953
Date: 6/24/1953
Time: 0018
Description: A civilian woman saw something like “a large aircraft”
flying very slowly and low. It had a lighted red band around the middle
and was coming straight toward her house with an oscillating motion. She
still thought it was an aircraft of some new design when it stopped near
her, 25 m above ground. Then it flew backward over the water and
hovered, making the same noise as a swarm of bees. The top section
supported a series of red lights and a cabin with four portholes through
which a control panel was visible. No occupant was seen. The cabin rose
above the object, rotated, then glided back. The object tilted toward
the west and rose toward the southeast, disappearing within 3 sec at an
80 degree angle of climb after the 3-min sighting. Diameter: 30 m. Two
days later a yellowish moss was observed at the site.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Hampton Bay, Long Island
ID: 112
Date: 6/24/1953
Time: 11:30 PM
Description: Witnesses: crew of USAF KB-29 aerial tanker plane. Radar
tracked an unidentified target which twice approached to within .5 miles
of the airplane, and once to within 6 miles, during a 2 minute
observation.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands
ID: 315
Date: 6/24/1953
Time: 11:30 AM
Description: Witness: weather observer A/2c R.A. Hill. One red triangle
hovered and rotated for 15 seconds, then climbed for 5 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Simiutak, Greenland
ID: 316
Date: 6/26/1953
Description: USAF Intelligence Report, EMERGENCY JEDUP JEDEN JEDFF JEPHQ
JEPRS 555. Distribution: OOP, OOP-CP, OAC, ARMY, NAVY, JCS, CIA, NSA,
Tech Intelligence Center Wright Patterson AFB. (see 06/24/53 for details
of report)
Type: ufo collision
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-E p488)
Location: Dayton, OH
See also: 6/24/53
Date: 7/2/1953
Time: 1300
Description: Approximate date. An illiterate boy cowherd, Maximo Munos
Olivares, 14, saw a “big balloon” on the ground behind him when a faint
whistling attracted his attention. Shaped like a water jug, it was
metallic. Through an opening came three dwarfs 60 cm tall, with yellow
faces, narrow eyes, and oriental features. They spoke in a language he
could not understand. They were dressed in blue, had a sort of flat hat
with a visor in front and a metal sheet on their arms. One of them
smacked the boy’s face, then they reentered the machine, which glowed
very brightly, made a soft whistling sound and went off “like a rocket.”
Footprints and four holes 5 cm deep forming a perfect square 36 cm in
side were found by police.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 29 (Vallee)
Location: Villares des Saz, Spain
ID: 113
Date: 7/19/1953
Description: Confidential Message to the Adjutant General, Wash. 25
D.C.: An F-86 aircraft was observed in flight over the Oak Ridge
residential area by a writer and his wife. While observing the F-86
through 6 power field glasses an UFO, black in color, moved out of a
high white cloud directly over the area where the F-86 had been
circling. The UFO began circling at a tremendous speed for at least 5
minutes. It appeared at times to be cigar shaped and at other times to
be round in shape. No sound or visible means of propulsion was observed
from the UFO. It flew away at tremendous speed for 3 miles where it was
joined by 2 other UFOs into a ‘V’ formation and sped away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Oak Ridge, TN
See also: 7/27/53
Date: 7/20/1953
Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean reports that two fisherman in CA
spot UFO’s
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Newspapers.com
Location: California Coast
Date: 7/26/1953
Description: Emergency Message to Air Defence Command: CIRVIS 3346N
9632W sighted 7 UFOs hovering at altitude of 5 to 8 thousand feet near
Perrin Tower, TX. Visually observed by citizens of Denison and Sherman,
TX. The UFOs were grouped in a Z (Zebra) formation, then circled to
higher altitudes and faded from sight. Each UFO had one bright red light
on it.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-F p359)
Location: Perrin Tower, TX
Date: 7/27/1953
Description: Security Information, Confidential Message to Adjutant
General, Wash. 25 D.C.
Type: Confidential Message
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Washington DC
See also: 7/19/53
Date: 7/31/1953
Time: 1900
Description: A metallic object 30 m in diameter was observed by five
Polish and two German workers as it landed in a field close to a
railway. It was shaped like a sphere with a flat disk around it, showing
numerous openings at the periphery.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Intelligence Digest Nov., 53 (Vallee)
Location: Wolin, Poland
ID: 114
Date: 8/3/1953
Time: 12:04 PM
Description: Witness: Airport control tower chief C.S. Brown. One round
and reflective or translucent object flew straight, stopped for 7
seconds, sped along, stopped again, was joined by a similar object and
they flew off in different directions, after a total of 56
minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Amarillo, Texas
ID: 317
Date: 8/12/1953
Description: First Soviet hydrogen bomb test (Joe 4), 400kt,
Semipalatinsk Test Site
Type: atomic
Reference: link
Location: Semipalatinsk Test Site
Atomic type: aboveground
Atomic KT: 400
Date: 8/13/1953
Description: Science fiction movie “The War of the Worlds”
released
Type: movie
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: US
Date: 8/16/1953
Time: 2030
Description: Claude Pasquier saw two disks flying very low, quite
slowly, along a straight course, with a “hard” sound.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Anatomy 65, 141 (Vallee)
Location: Tours, France
ID: 115
Date: 8/17/1953
Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on saucers to the
Southern Cross Astronomical Society in the Miami area
Type: lecture
Reference: NICAP
Location: Miami, FL
Date: 8/18/1953
Time: evening
Description: Approximate date. Cab driver Salvador Villanueva, 40,
observed two creatures 1.2 m tall wearing coveralls with wide, shiny,
perforated belts, metal collars, and small, black, shiny boxes on their
backs. They had helmets under their arms. The witness thought they were
pilots of Indian race. One of them spoke to him in Spanish, “stringing
the words together” in a strange accent. Trivial matters were discussed
until dawn, when they returned to their craft, 13 m in diameter, through
a staircase under the lower disk. The witness ran away when invited to
follow them. The object rose with a pendulum motion and shot up
vertically.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 32; FSR 56, 2 (Vallee)
Location: Ciudad Valleys, Mexico
ID: 116
Date: 8/20/1953
Time: 9:05 PM
Description: Witnesses: crew of TB-29 bomber/trainer plane. One greyish
oval object made four passes at the airplane (three times at 10-20 miles
distance), then dived vertically as if two objects.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: near Castle AFB, California
ID: 318
Date: 8/23/1953
Description: Soviet tactical atomic bomb test RDS-4, 28kt
Type: atomic
Reference: link
Location: Semipalatinsk Test Site
Atomic type: aboveground
Atomic KT: 28
Date: 8/26/1953
Description: Regulation AFR 200–2 issued to Air Force personnel for
reporting UFOs.
Type: regulation
Reference: Pea
Research
See also: 8/12/54
Date: 8/27/1953
Time: 9:45 PM
Description: Witnesses: USAF pilot, M/Sgt., others, all on the ground.
One meandering light was observed for 50 minutes. No further details in
file.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Greenville, Mississippi
ID: 319
Date: 9/1953
Description: The book “Flying Saucers Have Landed” by Desmond Leslie and
George Adamski published.
Type: book
Reference: Amazon
Location: California
Date: 9/2/1953
Time: 9:14 PM
Description: Witnesses: Lt. Col. William Moore and lst Lt. J.H. McInnis,
flying a USAF C-47 transport plane. One very bright light was on a
collision course with the C-47, levelled out, made 180 degree turn
during 3 minute observation.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Sidi Slimane AFB, French Morocco
ID: 320
Date: 9/3/1953
Time: Unknown time
Description: Two bright silver ovals moved very fast. Case missing from
files.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Portland, Oregon
ID: 321
Date: 9/4/1953
Time: 2130
Description: A woman saw two objects on the ground and three 1.5-m-tall
men running toward the craft. They had oversized heads and wore helmets
and boots. One entered the elongated object, 5 m long, 1.5 m wide, which
spread “wings” that made it look like a butterfly. It then took a
vertical position, resting on a tripod, and took off with the spherical
object into which the other two creatures had gone. Traces were found at
the spot.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: GEPA 68, 1 (Vallee)
Location: Tonnerre, France
ID: 117
Date: 9/12/1953
Description: Brovst was the scene of an attempted abduction of a girl by
two humanoids emitting a golden light. Their hands were rugged and cold
like a fish.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Guieu (Vallee)
Location: Brovst, Denmark
ID: 118
Date: 9/16/1953
Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on saucers to the
USAF Air Reserve 9882nd Volunteer Air Reserve Squadron in the North
Miami area
Type: lecture
Reference: NICAP
Location: Miami, FL
Date: 9/22/1953
Time: 11:45 AM
Description: Witness: civilian, Mr. Bray, using a small telescope. One
thin, yellow triangle moved slowly, made a rapid acceleration and a
vertical climb during the 5-8 minute sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Hayward, California
ID: 322
Date: 9/28/1953
Time: 7 PM
Description: Witness: radar observer of USAF F-94C jet interceptor. One
object tracked at 2,000 kts. (2,300 m.p.h.) for 15 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Palmdale, California
ID: 323
Date: 9/28/1953
Time: 7 PM
Description: Witness: radar observer of USAF F-94C jet interceptor.
Visual observation one orange ball travelling 500-600 kts. (600-700
m.p.h.) for 6 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Newhall, California
ID: 324
Date: 10/2/1953
Description: Industrial engineer Jack W. Grant gives a presentation
titled “Flying Saucers Have Landed” to the Federation of Women’s Clubs
at a hotel. He had travelled the country for the past 6 years and was
convinced the topic was of immense significance. He said the government
would eventually tell the public and his presentation would help soften
the blow.
Type: lecture
Reference: Newspapers.com
Reference: Newspapers.com
Location: Lancaster, Ohio
Date: 10/9/1953
Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on flying saucers
at the Aerodex Management club
Type: lecture
Reference: NICAP
Location: Miami, FL
Date: 10/15/1953
Time: 10:10 AM
Description: Witnesses: three General Mills research engineers including
Bartholomew. One glowing grey mass with a vapor trail dived for 10-15
seconds, levelled out and the trail stopped, leaving the grey mass
visible. Total of 40 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
ID: 325
Date: 10/16/1953
Time: 10 PM
Description: Witness: USAF Capt. H.W. Watson, Maj. G. Watson. Two white
or blue lights in trail formation, travelled very fast straight and
level, then made a turn. Ten second sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Nicosia, Cyprus
ID: 326
Date: 10/19/1953
Time: 9:35 PM
Description: Witnesses: T/Sgt. Rommanis, T/Sgt. Osiecki, two others. One
white white sphere with a white or red tail, ascended at 20 degree
angle, performed a loop and returned. Fifty second sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Washington, DC
ID: 327
Date: 10/25/1953
Time: 2130
Description: Jim Milligan, 16, was driving through a park when he saw
something fall in front of his car and stopped as the object landed in
some bushes. He walked toward it, found a craft that looked like two
ship hulls, about 3 m long, 2 m wide glued together. When he tried to
touch it, the object flew away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Wilkins A 223 (Vallee)
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
ID: 119
Date: 10/29/1953
Time: 8:30 PM
Description: Witnesses: two high school students, including Morrison.
One blue object with a flaming trail, and two dark green glowing objects
with white and blue-green fringe, flew from south to north with some
erratic motions for l hour.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Mapleton, Maine
ID: 328
Date: 11/1953
Description: Mr. Trygve, Mrs. Bufflot and a neighbor saw an object rise
from behind a hill, oscillate over a lake, follow their car, and stop
ahead of them just above the ground. They stopped, felt “pricklings”
until the craft took off vertically. A watch stopped working, and
numerous people vouch for the fact that the paint on the car changed
from dark beige to bright green.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Mar., 62; FSR 56, 5 (Vallee)
Location: Gjasjoen Bridge, Norway
ID: 120
Date: 11/2/1953
Description: Changes updated for UFO reporting. New Regulation AFR
200–2A.
Type: regulation
Reference: Pea
Research
Date: 11/10/1953
Description: A. K. Bender UFO researcher silenced.
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Date: 11/13/1953
Description: Miami Herald: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on
flying saucers
Type: lecture
Reference: NICAP
Location: Miami, FL
Date: mid 11/1953
Description: Rumors a saucer and its occupant were in custody at Edwards
AFB, originally heard up by ex-Naval aviator and intelligence officer
George Williams. Recorded by author Frank Scully in his private notes
now at the AHC.
Type: private notes
Reference: Medium
Location: CA
Date: 11/18/1953
Time: 12:45 PM
Description: Witness: R.J. Bassett, a pilot for 31 years. One silver
sphere or disc hovered several times during 45 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Manitowoc, Wisconsin
ID: 329
Date: 12/1953
Description: Meeting of a private “industrial group” discussing matters
that “confront the country” concerning custody of several beings off a
saucer. Meeting was to be held at “Muroc Dry Lake” (Edwards AFB), but it
was held somewhere else.
Type: private notes
Reference: Medium
Location: CA
Date: 12/1953
Description: Mrs. Orfei heard a knock at the door in the middle of the
night and obtained no answer when she asked who it was. When more
furious knocks were heard, her Alsatian dog jumped toward the door, but
suddenly retreated, trembling as if terrified and retired to a corner.
Mrs. Orfei went to an upper door and saw two “indescribable” shadows go
away from the house. A while later a big, round object took off 100 m
away with a blue-green lightning. The police found broken bushes as
evidence of an enormous weight.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Oltre il Cielo, Vol. I (Vallee)
Location: Sherbrook, Canada
ID: 121
Date: 12/8/1953
Description: CIA Evaluation of the UFO situation: It was pleased to note
that the number of sightings had decreased dramatically, due, it
believed, to the success of its’ implemented policies. Some sightings
still would have “possible scientific intelligence value”. The CIA
concluded that the panel’s (name?) recommendations might have been
interpreted by saucer believers as “debunking”.
Type: report
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Langley, VA
Date: 12/17/1953
Time: 2:37 PM
Description: Witness: Capt. Ulf Christiernsson, chief pilot for
Transair, flying a DC-3. One shiny metal spherical ellipse, 2,000’ below
DC-3, flew at approximately 700 m.p.h. for 6-7 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Hasslehom, Sweden
ID: 330
Date: Winter 1953
Description: Salisbury Plain, England: Flight Lt. C.G. Townsend- Withers
was flying an experimental Canberra aircraft at 55,000 ft. when he
picked up on the new experimental radar an UFO following his plane. The
science officer went up to the turret for a visual and spotted a
circular craft five miles behind them. They tried to outpace the UFO by
accelerating to 225 knots but it kept up with their plane.
Townsend-Withers initiated a wide sweeping turn and lost radar contact
with the UFO but came into direct visual on a collision course with the
UFO. Then the UFO flipped vertically in the air and climbed from 50 to
70 thousand feet, as quickly as you could say it. Description: Round,
thin disc with two tail fins at the rear, appearing metallic and
enormous. Leaving no vapor trail, wake or detectable sound, it vanished
within a couple of seconds up into the blue sky.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Salisbury Plain, England
Date: 12/24/1953
Time: 8:04 AM
Description: Witnesses: U.S. Navy Lts. J.B. Howard and L.D. Linhard,
flying F9F-2 jet fighters. Ten silver, oval objects flew at more than
400 kts. (450 m.p.h.), straight and level, for 5 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: El Cajon, California
ID: 331
Date: 12/28/1953
Time: 11:55 AM
Description: Witness: Yuba County Airport Manager Dick Brandt. One
saucer, with a brilliant blue light, reflecting on a nearby building,
hovered briefly during the 1.5 minute observation.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Marysville, California
ID: 332
Date: 12/31/1953
Description: Marines observed the landing of an unknown round object
which throbbed and pulsated, emitting red lights.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Wilkins U 210 (Vallee)
Location: Quantico Marine Base, Virginia
ID: 122
Date: 1954
Description: Project SIGMA established as part of Project xxxx (name
CENSURED). Top Secret project that looked into how to communicate with
aliens. That projects existence was revealed in the PROJECT AQUARIUS
Briefing Document and is said to have succeeded in 1964 when a USAF
intelligence officer met two other aliens at a prearranged location in a
desert in New Mexico. Became a separate project in 1976.
Type: majestic document
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-A, SIGMA)
Location: US
Attributes: Majestic
Date: 1954
Description: US Satellite Program: “The U.S. Earth satellite program
began in 1954 as a joint U.S. Army and U.S. Navy proposal, called
Project Orbiter, to put a scientific satellite into orbit during the
International Geophysical Year. The proposal, using a military Redstone
missile, was rejected in 1955 by the Eisenhower administration in favor
of the Navy’s Project Vanguard, using a booster advertised as more
civilian in nature. Following the launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik
1 on 4 October 1957, the initial Project Orbiter program was revived as
the Explorer program to catch up with the Soviet Union.”
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: US
Date: 1/1954
Description: Radio commentator Frank Edwards states that the US
government has an “object” under examination in California.
Type: radio
Reference: Medium
Location: California
Date: 1/1954
Description: Giant UFO Over Baltimore and Washington.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Date: 1/4/1954
Time: 2100
Description: Mr. Chesneau, fireman, saw a round luminous object slowly
coming down and called the control tower to report it. When he came out
again, the object had disappeared.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Guieu (Vallee)
Location: Marignane Airport, France
ID: 123
Date: 1/24/1954
Description: Author Frank Scully records in his private notes 11/53
rumors of a saucer and its occupant in custody at Edwards AFB. He also
records that an “industrial group” discussing matters that “confront the
country” will be meeting at Muroc Dry Lake concerning the custody of
several beings off a saucer.
Type: private notes
Reference: Medium
Location: Edwards AFB
See also: 11/53
See also: 12/53
Date: 1/28/1954
Time: 110-10:15 AM
Description: Witness: Wilhelm Reich. Two bright lights moved into
valley, and were seen against the mountain background, for 15
minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Rangeley, Maine
ID: 333
Date: 2/1954
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Forster stated they saw a craft on the ground,
with a woman close by. She was wearing luminous clothing, a sort of
hood, and thick glasses and held a tube in one hand and a box in the
other. Mrs. Forster had to be taken to the hospital in a state of
shock.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Barker (Vallee)
Location: Peakskill, New York
ID: 125
Date: 2/1954
Description: A native was riding a horse over a low ridge when a
spherial object about 13 m in diameter “nearly skittled me off my
horse.” It went up suddenly with a heavy wind, rumbling and emitting
four columns of smoke.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Wilkins U 211 (Vallee)
Location: Todd River Downs, Australia
ID: 124
Date: 2/6/1954
Description: CONFIDENTIAL Air Force Staff Message: (DTG 061800Z) From
Commander 19, A-Division, Carswell AFB, TX: UFO sighted over base. Had
long fuselage, elliptical wings, stabilizer and no visible means of
propulsion. It was larger than a B-36, had no tail, left no trail of
exhaust and emitted no sound. Passed directly over tower at an Alt. of
3000 to 4000 ft. and was visible to all persons on duty. The UFO, when
viewed on 10 mile scope gave a return of 1 inch. Copy of this report
sent to: CSAF, WASH DC; COMDR ADC, ENT AFB, COLO; COMDR ATINTEL, CRT
WPAFB, OHIO; COMDR 8TH AF, CARSWELL AFB, TEX.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-E p495)
Location: Carswell AFB, TX
Date: 2/15/1954
Description: Two small boys see and take pic of UFO near Coniston,
England.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Location: Coniston, England
Attributes: ufo photo
Date: 2/18/1954
Description: Cedric Allingham meets and takes a picture of a man from
Mars and saucer.
Type: ce4 event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Date: 2/20/1954
Description: Rumors of President Eisenhower disappearing from reporters
at Palm Springs for a secret meeting at Edwards AFB to captured saucers
and perhaps have a meeting. One reporter issues and then immediately
retracts a wire story that the President was dead. Dentist visit a cover
story.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: book
link
Location: Edwards AFB, CA
See also: 4/2/54
Date: 2/24/1954
Description: Lecturer and engineer Norman S. Bean states that saucers
are already in “captivity”, one saucer was or still is in Dayton OH,
military is investigating the saucer, saucer people look like humans,
after the British atomic bomb tests in Australia saucer reports took off
there, claimed Air Force permission to talk.
Type: newspaper article
Reference: Newspapers.com
Location: Miami, FL
Date: 2/26/1954
Time: 2:30 PM
Description: Witnesses: architect R.M. Pierce, marine engineer George
Avery and one other person. One silver disc, with a white trail, made a
loud roar for 30-60 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Newburyport, Massachusetts
ID: 334
Date: 3/1954
Description: Sec. of Air Force Talbott’s aircraft paced by UFO over
Fresno, CA
Type: ufo encounter
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Location: Fresno, CA
Date: 3/1954
Time: 1700
Description: Rubem Hellwig was driving when he saw a football-shaped
machine, the size of a Volkswagen, on the ground. He walked toward it
and met two men of slim build, normal height, their faces brownish,
wearing no helmets. One was inside the object while the other collected
grass samples. They spoke to Hellwig in a strange language, and yet he
said he understood they were asking for ammonia. He directed them to a
nearby town. The craft vanished silently and instantly with blue and
yellow flames.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 1; Humanoids 33 (Vallee)
Location: Santa Maria, Brazil
ID: 126
Date: 3/1954
Time: early
Description: Rubem Hellwig again saw a strange machine the next day. He
observed a tall, faircomplexioned man and two women, who had light brown
skin, long black hair, dark, slanted eyes. All three wore one-piece
garments of a fabric resembling suede, with zippers. They told Hellwig
that they were scientists, spoke of the natural riches of Brazil, and
expressed surprise that he did not run away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 1; Humanoids 33 (Vallee)
Location: Santa Maria, Brazil
ID: 127
Date: 3/1/1954
Description: “Castle Bravo” hydrogen bomb test at the Bikini Atoll,
Marshall Islands, the most powerful nuclear device detonated by the
United States at 15mt.
Type: atomic
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands
Atomic type: aboveground
Atomic MT: 15
Date: 3/2/1954
Time: 10 PM
Description: Witness: research engineer R.C. Swengel. Three objects,
each with two lights, flew straight and level at medium speed for an
unknown length of time.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: vicinity of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
ID: 335
Date: 3/5/1954
Time: 8 PM
Description: Witnesses: crews of USAF KC-97 aerial tanker planes. One
object or light made passes at KC-97s, the other flew straight and
level. Sighting duration unknown.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Nouasseur, French Morocco
ID: 336
Date: 3/11/1954
Description: Miami News: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on
flying saucers.
Type: lecture
Reference: NICAP
Location: Miami, FL
Date: 3/12/1954
Time: 9:35 AM
Description: Witness: USAF lst Lt. Robert Johnson, flying an F-86 jet
fighter. He chased an object at more than 530 m.p.h. for 30 seconds, but
was unable to catch it. It appeared to be the size of a fighter plane
but had neither tanks nor trails.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Nouasseur, French Morocco
ID: 337
Date: 4/1954
Description: SOM1–01 “MAJESTIC-12 Group Special Operations Manual”
document
Type: majestic document
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: US
See also: 12/1994
Date: 4/8/1954
Time: 4:30 PM
Description: Witness: Lelah Stoker. One white round-topped disc, with a
humanoid suspended beneath it, skimmed over the water, landed, and an
occupant in a green suit walked around. It then took off very, very
fast. Sighting lasted 30 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Chicago, Illinois
ID: 338
Date: 4/12/1954
Description: Between 6:30 and 7:15 PM a saucer crashed in the desert,
NM. K.A. (initials) and Rescue Team 4 were sent from Roswell AFB to
investigate the crashed disc. The saucer was 40–50 ft. in diameter.
There were 4 dead Aliens scattered about the desert by the saucer. Alien
description (seen from helicopter at 30 ft. alt.): Height was between
4.0 to 4.5 ft. Large proportioned heads, no helmets. Tight fitting dark
blue suite. Faces, under ’copter spotlight, were light green with a
luminous tint. The saucer was stored in Hanger-18, Top Security.
Hanger-18 was later expanded to 9 stories high and 11 stories deep with
heavy refrigeration equipment, radar equip., and sophisticated computer
equip.
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea
Research (B3-C, A5, RECOVERY, desert - NM)
Location: NM
See also: 2/10/54
See also: 4/24/54
See also: 3/7/55
Date: 4/13/1954
Description: Approximate date of Eisenhower meeting with others at
Edwards AFB. Event witnessed by occultist, medium and author “Gerald
Light” (possibly R.G. McFarland, his “publisher”) and a detailed account
along with 3 other witness names is immediately published by the BSRA.
Einstein, Paperclip scientists, and government officials were present
according to witnesses.
Type: ce3 event
Reference: Medium
Location: Edwards AFB
See also: 4/15/1954
Date: 4/15/1954
Description: Date of Gerald Light’s detailed bulletin of meeting with
others at Edwards AFB.
Type: public bulletin
Reference: Medium
Location: Edwards AFB
See also: 4/13/1954
Date: 4/22/1954
Time: 1400
Description: American military personnel saw a cigar-shaped object of a
gray color coming to the ground. Smoke was seen to rise where it landed,
but a search yielded no results.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: San Nicholas Island, California
ID: 128
Date: 4/23/1954
Time: 9:30 AM
Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. F.E. Robinson. One silver
dollar-shaped object with a dome and a flashing light made a sound like
a swarm of bees. It hovered and tilted, flew horizontally, then rose
vertically without tilting. Stones underneath it moved. Four minute
sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Pittsfield, Maine
ID: 339
Date: 4/24/1954
Description: Buck Nelson takes a trip to Venus, Moon, Mars in
saucer.
Type: ce4 event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Location: Mt. View, MO
Date: 4/24/1954
Description: A saucer crashed at Bandelier, NM, as reported by K.A.
(initials) of the Roswell, N.M. Rescue Team 4.
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea
Research (RECOVERY)
Location: Edwards AFB
See also: 4/12/54
Date: 4/24/1954
Time: 6:10 PM
Description: Witness: D. Robinson. One large, silver, oblong object with
a dome and a flashing light flew straight and level and then straight
up. Total of 15 minutes under observation.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Hartland, Maine
ID: 340
Date: 4/26/1954
Time: 7:35 PM
Description: Witnesses: C. Cartey, Mr. and Mrs. H. Hopkins and their
daughter. Fifteen to twenty yellow objects in a V-formation, flew from
south to north for 10 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Athens, Georgia
ID: 341
Date: 5/10/1954
Time: 12:40 PM
Description: Witness: U.S. Marine Corps Squadron Leader D.R. Higgin,
flying an F3D-2 jet fighter. One dark gunmetal delta-shaped object, 22’
long and 10’ wide, with a fin on the top, descended at a 25-30’ angle
under the lead airplane of a formation, and over the airplane of Higgin.
Sighting lasted a few seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Elsinore, California
ID: 342
Date: 5/11/1954
Time: 10:45 PM
Description: Witnesses: three USAF. air policemen at Washington National
Airport. Two bright lights were seen on three occasions to fly straight
and level, make 90 degree turns and fade. Each sighting lasted about 45
seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Washington, DC
ID: 343
Date: 5/12/1954
Description: Multiple witnesses spot a disc hovering for 15 minutes over
Dayton, OH, close to Wright-Patterson AFB, jets intercept
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Leonard Stringfield’s CFIRO Newsletter 6/4/1954
Location: Dayton, OH
Date: 5/15/1954
Description: Air Force Chief Nathan Twining tells audience in Amarillo
that best brains of Air Force are trying to solve the riddle of the
flying saucers: “If they come from Mars, there is nothing to be alarmed
about!”
Type: statement
Reference: “My
First 10,000,000 Sponsors” by Frank Edwards, page 123
Location: Amarillo, TX
Date: 5/18/1954
Time: 1900
Description: Two persons witnessed the landing of a lens-shaped object
the size of a house. It came to the ground near the railroad tracks,
kicking up a small sand storm in the desert. One witness first decided
to approach it, then ran away in fear.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Binder (Vallee)
Location: Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico
ID: 129
Date: 5/20/1954
Description: Private Frank Scully note at AHC: CIC officers told 3 weeks
ago by Maj. May that 30 diamond drill bits were destroyed attempting to
drill into a saucer with no effect (actual event could have been a long
time before).
Type: private notes
Reference: Medium
Location: California
Date: 5/20/1954
Time: 0200
Description: Nigel Frapple was cycling home from a dance in Wincanton.
At Redlynch crossroads, he saw an orange glow in a field and observed it
from a hedge. It came from a huge object 35 m away, less than 7 m above
the ground, which made a throbbing sound. After 1 min, it moved toward
the northwest, accelerating and climbing.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 2; Humanoids 3 (Vallee)
Location: Bruton, Great Britain
ID: 130
Date: 5/22/1954
Time: 9:15 PM
Description: Witnesses: highway engineer R.W. Dring, engineer Geert
Tibma. One bright light made a shallow climb for 45 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: LaPorte, Indiana
ID: 344
Date: 5/31/1954
Time: 10:15 AM
Description: Witness: Mrs. L.K. Stevens. One very white, elongated
object flew very, very fast, and then blinked out after 8-10
seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Concord, New Hampshire
ID: 345
Date: 6/1/1954
Time: 9 PM
Description: Witnesses: crew of USAF B-47 jet bomber at 34,000’
altitude. One object with running lights flew at 24-44,000’ altitude for
1 hour.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: from 400 miles south to Minneapolis, Minnesota
ID: 346
Date: 6/4/1954
Description: From Leonard Stringfield’s CRIFO newsletter: “Mantle of
Mystery Shrouds Muroc”. A source in CA writes in a letter that the US
government has “captured discs”. “In the strictness secrecy these
objects are being examined by the top ‘brains’ in the
country…Information regarding the discs propulsion, metal and structure
would be sugar in the hands of the Russians.”
Type: letter
Reference: Medium
Location: Edwards AFB
Date: 6/8/1954
Time: 1 AM or 2:30 AM
Description: (file not clear). Witness: L.T. Prewitt, employee of Red
River Arsenal. One golden yellow light flew over his house, making a
“shhh” or buzzing sound for 2 minutes. 9:09 PM Witness: USAF pilot ht.
One white light descended at
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Texarkana, Texas
ID: 347
Date: 6/9/1954
Time: 1820
Description: Janet Brown, 16, and a 13-year-old friend heard a loud
noise and saw a large, dark object that “burst into light” hovering 20 m
away at the height of a factory gate. It was cylindrical, 10 m long, 5 m
high, with a canopy on top. It flew away and was lost to sight behind
some trees.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Wilkins U 216 (Vallee)
Location: East Dandenong, Australia
ID: 131
Date: 6/10/1954
Time: 9:09 PM
Description: Witness: USAF pilot Capt. Bill McDonald, in flight. One
white light descended at 45 degrees from great altitude, passed under
his aircraft, made two 360’ turns and went out after 30 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Estacado, Texas
ID: 348
Date: 6/21/1954
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Guy Baker saw a disk, about 14 m in diameter,
with a dome and several rotating lights. They had to push their car,
which could not be started until the object left the ground. They found
a large, brown, circular spot in the pasture where the disk had been
resting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 104 (Vallee)
Location: Ridgeway, Canada
ID: 132
Date: 6/22/1954
Time: 9 PM
Description: Witnesses: U.S. Marine Corps Maj. E. Buchser and Maj. J.V.
Wilkins. One meteor-like object descended, stopped, and became extremely
bright. Sighting lasted 7 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Miami Beach, Florida
ID: 349
Date: 6/24/1954
Time: 12:45 PM
Description: Witness: R.B. Tomer, director of commercial engineering for
CBS-Hytron. One white, elliptical-shaped object covered 45^ of sky in 30
seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Danvers, Massachusetts
ID: 350
Date: 6/25/1954
Time: 5:05 PM
Description: Witnesses: experienced private pilot John Mark, flying
Navion lightplane; radar at Dayton, Ohio airport, tracked very fast
target at same location. One silver or aluminum round object with a flat
bottom, raised front edge, inverted cone on top, and a diameter of about
60’. Flew horizontally, hovered, made a high-G pull up and then a steep
climb into an overcast. Sighting lasted 3-5 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Indian Lake, Ohio
ID: 351
Date: 6/29/1954
Description: A BOAC Strato Cruiser (British Airways) on a trans Atlantic
flight with Capt. James Howard in command was traveling at 260 knots at
19,000 ft. when the crew saw a large CIGAR shaped UFO with six smaller
UFOs flying close to it. Among the others to witness these events were
First Officer Lee Boyd and Navigator Capt. H. McDonnell. After 15
minutes of observing the UFOs, Capt. Howard radioed Goose Bay, Canada,
for backup escort, upon which the smaller UFOs entered the bigger Cigar
shaped one which then shot away. Upon landing, Howard and Boyd were
debriefed by intelligence officers and their flight logs were
confiscated by USAF personnel.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Atlantic Ocean
Date: 7/7/1954
Description: A miner saw a landed object and a giant man with strange,
burning eyes. He fainted. When he regained consciousness, object and
entity had vanished. Investigated by the Royal Canadian Air Force.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Keyhoe C 184 (Vallee)
Location: Garson, Canada
ID: 133
Date: 7/14/1954
Description: MJ-12 SSP briefing letter, briefing scheduled for July 16,
1954. MEMO to General Nathan F. Twining (MJ-4) requesting his presence
at an MAJESTIC-12 meeting with President Eisenhower on July 16. Note by
Stanton Friedman: Letter was discovered in the National Archives by Wm.
Moore and Jamie Shandera on 1985 in the 126th box of USAF files. Carbon
of the original form.
Type: majestic document
Reference: link
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-A p84, majic)
Location: Washington DC
Attributes: Majestic
Date: 7/16/1954
Description: Secret Meeting between Gen. Nathan Twining (MJ-4) and
President Eisenhower.
Type: secret meeting
Reference: Pea
Research (MJ-4)
Location: Washington DC
Date: 7/18/1954
Time: 8:40 PM
Description: Witness: A.T. Chamblin. One greenish-white disc was seen
for 30 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Normandy, Missouri
ID: 352
Date: 7/20/1954
Description: Near this city, two men were chased by an object and
stopped their car to observe it. After the sighting, a watch stopped
working and the paint on the car allegedly changed color.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Challenge 129; 3; cf. Case 120 (Vallee)
Location: Oslo, Norway
ID: 134
Date: 7/25/1954
Time: 7:12 PM
Description: Witness: attorney L.B. Tussing. One black cylinder, 12
times long as wide, moved fast along the surface of the lake.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Middle Sister Island, on U.S.-Canadian border in western Lake
Erie
ID: 353
Date: 7/30/1954
Time: 10:15 AM
Description: Witness: Hughes Aircraft test pilots Englert and Peterson,
flying a B-25 bomber. One metallic, pencil-shaped object flew slowly or
hovered for an unstated length of time.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Los Angeles, California
ID: 354
Date: 8/1954
Description: Statement by Air Chief Marshall Lord Dowding, head of the
RAF during WWII: “Of course the flying saucers are real! And, they are
inter planetary!”
Type: public statement
Reference: Pea
Research
See also: 9/23/47
See also: 10/9/55
Date: 8/1954
Description: Frank Edwards, pro-saucer newscaster fired.
Type: historical event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Date: 8/2/1954
Time: 5:17 PM
Description: Witness: ex-AAF B-17 gunner (19 missions) N.E. Schroeder.
One thin, bright ellipse, like polished metal, hovered for 5-8 seconds,
dropped down 3,000’ in 3 seconds, hovered again and faded out after a
total of 20 seconds in view.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Westlake, Ohio
ID: 355
Date: 8/6/1954
Time: 6 PM
Description: Witness: mechanical engineer L.H. Hormer. One intensely
white elliptical light changed to yellow, then orange, then pink, four
or five times while flying straight and level for 5 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: San Antonio, Texas
ID: 356
Date: 8/10/1954
Time: 2130
Description: The Coupal childrm said that a brightly lighted object
followed them to the farm. Mr. Coupal and his oldest son went to the
field where the children had been playing and saw an orange object rise
and speed off to the west. Grass was flattened over 15 m, with two
tracks about 5 m long.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Wilkins U 237 (Vallee)
Location: Hemmingford, Canada
ID: 135
Date: 8/11/1954
Time: 8:55 PM
Description: Witness: P.L. Percharde, electrical engineer and assistant
manager of Moeller Shipwrecker Co., of Okinawa. A line of blue lights,
underneath. a blue circle with a black center. Flew over ship and
climbed, illuminating and agitating the clouds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Yoron Jima, near Okinawa
ID: 357
Date: 8/12/1954
Description: EMERGENCY CIA MESSAGE: Sighted Saucer hovering at 2000 ft.
above Maxwell AFB, Alabama. Dispatched local helicopter NBR ARMY267 to
investigate. Definitely NOT a star. Helicopters fuel low, returned to
base. In coming helicopter ARMY294 proceeded toward UFO which then
completely disappeared. Pilot of ARMY294 lost sight of it, would be glad
to be called upon to verify saucer light. Pilots of Army helicopters
were: R.T. Wade, 506th helicopter Co., U.S. Tarma, also of the 506th,
Ft. Genning, GA.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-E p493)
Location: Maxwell AFB
Date: 8/12/1954
Description: New updated reporting of UFOs. Regulation AFR 200–2, (see
Aug. 26, 1953), by order of N.F. Twining (MJ-4), Chief of Staff,
USAF.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-E p489)
Location: Washington DC
See also: 8/26/1953
Date: 8/15/1954
Time: 10:20 PM
Description: Witnesses: USAF Maj. W.J. Davis, Capt. R.D. Sauers, flying
a C-47 transport plane. One dark blue oblong object paced the C-47,
veered away, then crossed in front of it. Five minute sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: San Marcos, Texas
ID: 358
Date: 8/21/1954
Description: Cecil Sutton and family have run in with spacemen.
Type: ce3 event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Location: Hopkinsville, Kentucky
Date: 8/23/1954
Description: Elise Blanc approached an object looking like an aluminum
trailer with two small beings in silvery dress, grunting like pigs,
standing close by. The craft took on a fiery color and flew away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Challenge 129 (Vallee)
Location: Lugrin, near Thonon, France
ID: 137
Date: 8/23/1954
Description: Approximate date. A strange object hovered low over the
house of Mr. Lucas and left straight up.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 4 (Vallee)
Location: Varennes, near Diges, France
ID: 136
Date: 8/24/1954
Time: 8:30 PM
Description: Witness: one unnamed farmer. A cylinder, 2-2.5’ long, 4-5’
in diameter, made a loud whizzing sound, flew straight and level fast,
then slow, then fell into sandbar.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Egilstadir, Iceland
ID: 359
Date: 8/25/1954
Description: Two girls in Norway meet spaceman.
Type: ce4 event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Location: Norway
Date: 8/26/1954
Time: 6:15 AM
Description: Witness: Rev. W.L. Shelton. Two domed ellipses, 20’ long,
8’ thick, 10’ at ends; glowing silver or orange. Hovered, then climbed
side-by-side while getting brighter. Observed for 2 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Danville, Virginia
ID: 360
Date: 8/27/1954
Time: 2030
Description: A wingless flying object was seen by Bill Supa, an employee
of the Caswell Construction Co. It landed about 2 km way from the
witness, who approached within 300 m before it took off and flew away.
Grass was flattened where it had landed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Wilkins U 227 (Vallee)
Location: Boston Creek, Canada
ID: 138
Date: 8/27/1954
Time: 1 PM
Description: Witness: E.A. Srazdes. Seven large, white, teardrop-shaped
objects turned blue. Flew in line formation and increased speed during
the 2 minute sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Dorchester, Massachusetts
ID: 361
Date: 8/28/1954
Description: Two boys saw a craft land and two or three men come out. No
details given.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Constance 277 (Vallee)
Location: Quebec, Canada
ID: 139
Date: 8/28/1954
Description: Two boys in Quebec, Canada see spaceship land. Two or three
men get out.
Type: ce3 event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Location: Quebec, Canada
Date: 8/29/1954
Time: 11:05 AM
Description: Witnesses: lst Officer H.G. Gardner, engineer J.V.D.
Whitisy, flying Royal Dutch Airlines DC-4 (PH-DBZ). Three or four dark,
lens-shaped objects veered north and changed position in formation
during the 10 minute sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Prince Christian, Greenland
ID: 362
Date: 8/30/1954
Time: 0525
Description: Sgt. Durdle saw a brilliant, circular object flying across
Lake Nipissing toward the Royal Canadian Air Force base. An oblong
canister was hanging down from a central section, which supported a long
cone with a spinning globe on top. When it tilted, the witness was able
to observe regulatorlike devices inside the machine through a vertical
lighted slit. Six brilliant appendages, which looked like necklaces,
were hanging from the craft. Durdle woke up four Air Force men, who
observed the object spiraling away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Wilkins U 227 (Vallee)
Location: North Bay, Canada
ID: 140
Date: 9/3/1954
Description: Many workers in the fields 12 km south of the town saw an
object apparently made of transparent plastic fly over the houses, stop
on edge, and swing like a pendulum a few meters above the ground. It
made several erratic jumps, then resumed its horizontal position and
flew away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 5 (Vallee)
Location: Souk-el-Khemis, Tunisia
ID: 141
Date: 9/4/1954
Time: 3 AM
Description: Witness: J. Faltemeier, CAA communications specialist.
Twenty-thirty lights, as if on a string, flew straight and level for 1.5
minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Butler, Missouri
ID: 363
Date: 9/5/1954
Time: 12:23 AM
Description: Witness: J. Faltemeier, CAA communications specialist. One
silver or white object with a slightly swept-back leading edge and a
following exhaust, flew straight and level, then veered southwest to
south after 30 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Butler, Missouri
ID: 364
Date: 9/7/1954
Time: 0715
Description: Between Harponville and Contay, two bricklayers, Emile
Renard, 27, and Yves Degillerboz, 23 saw an object floating in mid-air
over a field: “It looked like an unfinished haystack, with a plate
turned upside down on top of it.” When they approached, it took off.
Diameter 10 m, height 3 m. A kind of door was noticed. The observation
lasted over 3 min. The object released smoke when it departed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 6; M 35 (Vallee)
Location: Harponville, France
ID: 142
Date: 9/10/1954
Time: 2230
Description: A metal worker, Marius Dewilde, 34, came out of his house
as a dog was barking and saw a dark object on the railroad tracks, then
observed two dwarfs walking toward it. When he tried to stop them, he
found himself paralyzed as a strong orange light was projected at
him.The creatures were under 1 m tall, bulky, and wore dark diving
suits. No face or arms were visible. Traces made by an object of
estimated weight 30 tons were noted by French Air Force and police on
the ballast.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 8; M 44; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Quarouble, France
ID: 144
Date: 9/10/1954
Time: 2030
Description: A farmer, Mr. Mazaud was walking home when he was suddenly
confronted with a helmeted being of average height who made friendly
gestures, then went back into the brush, entered a cigar-shaped object
about 4 m long, which took off toward Limoges. A few minutes later
witnesses in Limoges reported a disk-shaped, red object leaving a bluish
trail.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 7; M 40 (Vallee)
Location: Mourieras, France
ID: 143
Date: 9/14/1954
Time: 2200
Description: John J. Swain, 12, was driving a tractor back from the
fields when he saw a small man no bigger than a 5-year-old child a few
meters away from him. He had a long nose and long ears and seemed to
“fly” when he moved toward a saucershaped craft hovering less than 2 m
above ground. It “opened up” and the creature “popped inside.” The craft
became luminous and went out of sight. Strange traces were found by
police. The creature was dressed in shiny clothes, and his shoes seemed
to have “fins.” He carried two cylinders on his back and had long,
pointed ears.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 9; Humanoids 53; Wilkins U 239 (Vallee)
Location: Coldwater, Kansas
ID: 145
Date: 9/15/1954
Time: 2320
Description: A white light suddenly swept the road in front of Roland
M., 19, who observed that it came from a large, dark object 10 m above
ground. It flew away with the noise of a wet firework, throwing
magnesiumlike sparks.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 10; M 49 (Vallee)
Location: Feyzin, France
ID: 146
Date: 9/17/1954
Time: 2230
Description: Between Cenon and Vouneuil, Yves David, 28, met a being in
a diving suit who made friendly gestures. He was very small and had a
voice “inhuman and incomprehensible.” The witness could not move
throughout the encounter. He saw the creature enter an object on the
road, about 3 m by 1 m in size; it took off “like lightning,” throwing a
greenish light.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 11; M 58 (Vallee)
Location: Cenon, France
ID: 147
Date: 9/18/1954
Time: 5:55 AM
Description: Witnesses: two control tower operators, a weather
forecaster and a weather observer. One round object, like polished
aluminum, flew straight and level for 11-13 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Kimpo Air Base, Japan
ID: 365
Date: 9/18/1954
Time: 2015
Description: A small gray disk flew over a car at very high speed,
followed by cold air currents. This was reported by Mr. Guitta of
Casablana.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Ouranos (Vallee)
Location: Casablanca, Morocco
ID: 148
Date: 9/19/1954
Time: 2115
Description: A bright light was seen in the east, came to the ground,
lost its brightness, remained on the spot about 40 sec. It was the size
of a small bus, and there was a figure in front of it. It rose and took
on the appearance of a red ball.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 12; M 63 (Vallee)
Location: Oberdorff, France
ID: 149
Date: 9/20/1954
Time: 2300
Description: A guard saw a craft, 3.5 m in diameter and 1.5 m thick,
land on the airfield. The witness, Vitorino Lourenco Monteiro, said a
figure emerged from the craft and said something he could not
understand, before taking off again. There were antennalike protrusions
on top of the object.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Santa Maria Airport, Azores
ID: 150
Date: 9/21/1954
Time: 9:45 PM
Description: Witness: airport guard. One 10’x5’ light metallic blue,
pecan-shaped object with a clear glass or plastic nose having a door,
and with poles or aerials on the nose. Humming or whining, it hovered,
landed vertically, 50’ away. A blond man, 5’ 10” tall appeared, spoke in
a strange language, patted the guard on the shoulder, got in the object,
hooked up his harness, pushed a button, took off with the object’s nose
pointed up, then levelled off and climbed vertically. Sighting lasted
2-3 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Santa Maria, Azores Islands
ID: 367
Date: 9/21/1954
Time: 1 AM
Description: Witnesses: two local policemen, four U.S. Marine Corps
police, one highway patrolman. One red-orange ball giving off sparks,
and a smaller light, made a zigzag descent and then hovered. Total of 20
minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Barstow, California
ID: 366
Date: 9/22/1954
Time: 9 AM
Description: Witnesses: private pilot J.N. Williams, E.J. Ash. A thin,
translucent tan asymmetrical boomerang-shaped object revolved, then
tumbled down behind some trees. Marks were found in the dirt. Sighting
lasted 15 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Marshfield, Missouri
ID: 368
Date: 9/23/1954
Time: 2100
Description: Mrs. Vignolles saw a luminous object come down rapidly,
without noise, and land in a field near the church. It took off very
fast a few seconds later.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 15; M 77 (Vallee)
Location: Lencouacq, France
ID: 152
Date: 9/23/1954
Time: 2100
Description: The Patient family witnessed the landing of a bright object
giving off a magnesiumlike light, a red glow, and a narrow beam of
light. It took off again a moment later and followed their car until
they reached Fontland. Policemen in Plombieres and several independent
witnesses observed the object as it flew erratically over the area for
60 min.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 13; M 69 (Vallee)
Location: Le Jou, France
ID: 151
Date: 9/23/1954
Time: 9:45 AM
Description: Witness: Dave Owenby. Two bright silver, wheel-shaped
objects flew from north to south in trail for 2 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Gatlinburg, Tennessee
ID: 369
Date: 9/24/1954
Time: 1000
Description: Cesar Cardoso and three others saw two individuals, 2.5 m
tall, dressed in shiny clothes, emerge from a landed craft and gather
flowers, shrubs, and twigs in a shiny box, then take off. They seemed to
be inviting the witnesses aboard, but their language was not
understood.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Wilkins U 55, 245; 24 (Vallee)
Location: Almaseda, near Castelibranco, Portugal
ID: 154
Date: 9/24/1954
Time: 2300
Description: Mr. Cisterne, who was coming back with his tractor, saw a
luminous object fly very low over him. Two other witnesses.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 16;M 76 (Vallee)
Location: Farm Lachassagne, near Ussel, France
ID: 155
Date: 9/24/1954
Time: 0900
Description: Two women (Widow Geoffroy and Miss Gisele Fin) made
independent reports of a dark gray disk, 6 m in diameter, 1 m high, seen
in a clearing. A man of normal height was standing close to it. He wore
dark clothes and a kind of cap. Miss Fin came within 30 m of the craft
and stated the man was repairing it. Traces were found on the
grass.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 14; Carrouges 98 (Vallee)
Location: Becar, near Diges and “Les Michauts” or “Les Jolivets”,
France
ID: 153
Date: 9/26/1954
Time: 1430
Description: Mrs. Leboeuf was suddenly confronted with a creature
resembling “a child in a plastic bag, with eyes larger than human eyes.”
This creature entered a flat, circular machine, which took off toward
the northeast with a soft whistling. Traces. Witnesses in state of
shock.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 17; Carrouges 116; Anatomy 70; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Chabeuil, France
ID: 156
Date: 9/27/1954
Time: 0230
Description: At “Revety,” people in a bus saw a reddish light coming
down. Later Mr. and Mrs. Roche noticed an object on the ground, softly
glowing, a short distance from their home, but were afraid to approach
it. It remained there for several hours. It was described as “a sort of
glowing tomato, with antennae on top.”
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 18; M 84; Anatomy 71 (Vallee)
Location: Foussignargues, France
ID: 157
Date: 9/27/1954
Time: 0840
Description: Children saw “a box” and “an unknown man” standing nearby.
The object took off.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Figeac, France
ID: 158
Date: 9/27/1954
Time: afternoon
Description: A college student saw a circular object on the ground. Two
beings came out of it, then reentered the craft and left. Witness in a
state of shock.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 19;M 88 (Vallee)
Location: Perpignan, France
ID: 159
Date: 9/27/1954
Time: 2030
Description: Four children came out of their home as dog barked
furiously. They found a large object on the ground and a small being
they thought was a “ghost” in the yard. Raymond Romand, 12, threw stones
at the intruder.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 20; Challenge 170 (Vallee)
Location: Premanon, France
ID: 160
Date: 9/28/1954
Time: 2130
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Alexis Lartillot and Georgette Mongot observed
a large, bright object oscillate, then land. It changed color and was
lost to sight behind some trees.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 21; M 94 (Vallee)
Location: Froncles, France
ID: 161
Date: 9/28/1954
Time: 2230
Description: At “Le Grand Tertre” Mr. Mercier observed that someone had
stolen grapes from his vineyard. He decided to stay late and catch the
“robbers.” He was amazed when he saw a luminous mass fall from the sky
about 50 m away, and found himself “paralyzed” as three figures emerged
from the light and moved about. He lost consciousness. When he came to
his senses, everything had vanished.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 22; M 97 (Vallee)
Location: Bouzais, France
ID: 162
Date: 9/28/1954
Time: 2310
Description: At “La Butte Rouge” two railroad engineers, Bernard and
Potraux, who were bringing a locomotive from Nantes to Auray, saw a dark
object take off with a purple glow and follow them for 15 sec before
veering off. Potraux had to see a doctor.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 23; M 95; Anatomy 70 (Vallee)
Location: Saint Nicolas de Redon, France
ID: 163
Date: 9/30/1954
Time: 0445
Description: While driving to work, Lawrence Cardenas, 41, a laundry
employee, saw 15 strange men wearing dark green uniforms to his right.
They had cylinders on their shoulders, tight-fitting skull caps with
pointed peaks in front, and heavy goggles. They were of medium height,
and a taller man seemed to be giving them instructions. About 80 m away
was a craft 4 m high with colored lights flickering on and off. The
witness did not wait.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Wilkins U 230 (Vallee)
Location: Dearborn, Michigan
ID: 164
Date: 9/30/1954
Time: 2200
Description: As he was returning home near La Flotte-en-Re, Celeste
Simonutti saw a bright light and, fearing a fire, rushed to the scene.
There he observed a luminous sphere 12 m in diameter hovering at 1 m
altitude, turning red, blue, and taking off. Two other witnesses.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 28 (Vallee)
Location: Isle of Re, France
ID: 168
Date: 9/30/1954
Time: 2200
Description: Jean Andrieux, ferry operator, saw a large white sphere,
with a smaller green sphere below, hang motionless above the Seine for
20 min. Two witnesses. It eventually flew away to the southwest.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 27 (Vallee)
Location: Grand-Couronne, France
ID: 167
Date: 9/30/1954
Time: dusk
Description: At sea between Brest and Roven, the crew of the tanker
“Port Lyautey” observed an object touch the surface of the sea, then
take off vertically and give off a red flame before being lost to
view.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 26 (Vallee)
Location: Brest, France
ID: 166
Date: 9/30/1954
Time: 1630
Description: Georges Gatay and seven construction workers saw a disk at
ground level, with a humanoid standing close by. Both vanished in a very
strange manner. Physiological effects in all witnesses.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 25; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Marcilly-sur-Vienne, France
ID: 165
Date: 10/1954
Description: Project “Magnet” discontinued
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Location: Canada
Date: 10/1/1954
Time: 1600
Description: A man and his dog were “paralyzed” as a luminous white
object dived toward them and climbed again.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Bry, France
ID: 171
Date: 10/1/1954
Time: 1815
Description: Approximate date. A farmer saw a white craft in a field.
Flattened grass was later found at the site.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Ressons-sur-Matz, France
ID: 172
Date: 10/1/1954
Time: 1900
Description: Two young men saw a luminous white disk moving in the sky.
It dived to the ground and two men, described as being very tall and
dressed in white, emerged from it and made gestures. The witnesses ran
away in fear.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Jussey, France
ID: 173
Date: 10/1/1954
Time: 2200
Description: Coming home at night, Gilbert Prudent saw a lighted object
on the side of the road. It had a flat section and a sort of “mushroom”
on top. As he approached it, the object became dark and took off
vertically with a soft whistling sound.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Branges, near Louhans, France
ID: 175
Date: 10/1/1954
Time: 2200
Description: Returning home, fireman Jean Dufix, 26, saw an oval light
in the sky and thought it was a shooting star. Later he was alarmed when
his yard seemed to be ablaze. Rushing out again, he saw a disk rise from
the ground with a whistling sound. It flew off, became luminous again,
and took off at fantastic speed. A neighbor, Jean Labonne, 61, saw the
disk, 3 m in diameter, resting on three legs in the yard.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 31 (Vallee)
Location: Bergerac, France
ID: 176
Date: 10/1/1954
Time: 2000
Description: Near Saint Jan d’Angely, two businessmen, Messrs. Estier
and Phelippeau, who were driving back from Royan, saw a little man cross
ing the road in front of their car. Having stopped, they saw the figure
disappear into the woods.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 28 (Vallee)
Location: La Roulerie, France
ID: 174
Date: 10/1/1954
Description: A woman reported to police she had seen a luminous disk
leaving a long trail. It landed in a field, then took off again.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 29; Challenge 132 (Vallee)
Location: Dhubri, India
ID: 169
Date: 10/1/1954
Time: 1300
Description: Two bricklayers, Sebastiani and Buratto, approached a
cigar-shaped object 3 m long, 80 cm wide, which took off from the ground
with a whistling sound. The pointed section of the object was yellow,
the rest brown. From the fore part, two appendages extended to the
ground.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 30 (Vallee)
Location: Blanzy, France
ID: 170
Date: 10/2/1954
Time: 2345
Description: A disk emitting a weak green glow landed in a field.
Witnesses: Messrs. Domant and Gilcher.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: M 105 (Vallee)
Location: Guebling, France
ID: 181
Date: 10/2/1954
Time: 2000
Description: A mechanic, Ernest Delattre, 19, was riding home on his
motor scooter when an egg-shaped object, brilliantly illuminated, landed
on the left side of the road 15 m away. He saw short, dark shapes “like
potato bags” moving about the object. He sped up, saw the object, the
size of a small bus, taking off while its color changed from orange to
blue and then to grayish-blue. The witness fainted while telling his
story. Two persons in neighboring villages independently reported
observing the object.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Croix d’Epine, France
ID: 180
Date: 10/2/1954
Time: 0230
Description: In the immediate vicinity of case 175, Mr. Nicolas saw a
craft with a dome on top, on the ground between the road and the
railroad tracks. Through some openings a strong yellow light
shone.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 33;M 109 (Vallee)
Location: Louhans, France
ID: 179
Date: 10/2/1954
Description: Two creatures were seen on the ground, and two hours later
a luminous red object was observed at the same spot, at very low
altitude.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
Location: Jonches, France
ID: 178
Date: 10/2/1954
Description: At the Bourg du Cerisier, two women (Janiki and Lacotte)
independently reported to police that a luminous disk about 3 m in
diameter had flown very low over the village.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 32 (Vallee)
Location: Levroux, France
ID: 177
Date: 10/3/1954
Time: 1300
Description: Near La Rochelle. Mr. and Mrs. Guillemoteau saw an object,
2.5 m high, 5 m diameter, hover for several minutes 1 m above ground,
then rise vertically. Oily marks were found at the spot.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 34; M 131 (Vallee)
Location: Benet, France
ID: 187
Date: 10/3/1954
Time: 1245
Description: A circular craft was seen by Jean Allary between Montmoreau
and Villebois-Lavalette. It seemed to be gliding on the ground. It
showed luminous spots and became completely illuminated when it took
off. It was about 1.20 m high. Grass was found flattened and scorched
over an area 7 m across.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 36; M 130 (Vallee)
Location: Ronsenac, France
ID: 186
Date: 10/3/1954
Time: 2110
Description: Less than 3 hrs after case 183, an orange object chased a
car for 8 km, then flew away toward the sea. Witness: Georges Galant, a
butcher.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 35; M 116 (Vallee)
Location: Quend, France
ID: 185
Date: 10/3/1954
Time: 1920
Description: The crowd at a fair saw a luminous object arrive very fast
in the sky, stop in flight, emit sparks, and come down to ground level.
As witnesses rushed to the spot, it took off again.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: M 113 (Vallee)
Location: Chereng, France
ID: 184
Date: 10/3/1954
Time: 1845
Description: Between Rue and Quend on Road D27, Rene Coudette and B.
Devoisin were riding bicycles with a third witness when they saw an
orange object, shaped like a honeycomb, on the road ahead of them. A
strange “man” wearing a diving suit was standing close to it. When they
got within 70 m of it, the object took off very fast.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 3Z; M 118 (Vallee)
Location: Vron, France
ID: 183
Date: 10/3/1954
Time: dawn
Description: Angelo Girardo, 55, a stockyard employee, was going to work
when he saw a circular craft 3 m diameter and a small figure wearing a
diving suit, standing close by. The object took off at a fantastic
speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 32; M 130 (Vallee)
Location: Bressuire, France
ID: 182
Date: 10/4/1954
Time: evening
Description: Several people noticed an object hovering near a hilltop.
They drove to the site, but it flew away. What seems to be the same
object was seen at Megrit, 25 km to the southwest, hovering over a farm.
It was described as metallic, flat, emitting light
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 38;M 139 (Vallee)
Location: Tregon, France
ID: 191
Date: 10/4/1954
Description: A farmer, Mr. Garreau, saw an object the size of a carriage
land in his field. Two men of normal height emerged through a sliding
door. They wore khaki overalls and were of European type. They shook
hands with the witness and said something like: “Paris? Nord?”
(According to another version they spoke indistinct words.) They gave a
pat on the back to Mr. Garreau’s dog and took off at an amazing
speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 37; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Chaleix, France
ID: 190
Date: 10/4/1954
Description: Andre Garcia and Andre Darzais were driving a truck betwem
Lagrasse and Villemagne when they saw a luminous object coming slowly to
the ground. It measured about 10 m diameter and took off with a burst of
light.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 35 (Vallee)
Location: Lezignan, France
ID: 189
Date: 10/4/1954
Time: 1840
Description: Ten-year-old Bertiaux saw an object “like a tent” and an
unknown man near it.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Villers-le-Tilleul, France
ID: 193
Date: 10/4/1954
Time: 2000
Description: Mrs. Fourneret, a housewife, ran away as an orange,
circular object 3 m in diameter swung in mid-air and landed near her
farm. When Messrs. Girardot and Vincent arrived with rifles, they found
that the earth had been “sucked up” over a quadrilateral area. Francois
Bouiller confirmed he had seen a luminous object in flight. Extensive
investigation by French Air Force and police.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 37; M 134; Anatomy 71 (Vallee)
Location: Poncey-sur-Lignon, France
ID: 194
Date: 10/4/1954
Time: 1830
Description: At Les Chavannes, about 20 people, among them Remy
Gaudicourt of Sanvignes, saw a circular, luminous object rise from the
vicinity of the railroad tracks. It took off vertically.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: M 138 (Vallee)
Location: Montceau-les-Mines, France
ID: 192
Date: 10/4/1954
Description: An object was said to have landed in the yard of
Mr. Montagne, a railroad employee.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 35 (Vallee)
Location: Limoges, France
ID: 188
Date: 10/5/1954
Time: 1545
Description: Ten km from here, several persons saw an object coming
toward them and getting brighter. When it was about 150 m away, they
felt “a strange sensation” and found themselves unable to move. The
object left a smell compared to that of nitrobenzine.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 34; Challenge 53 (Vallee)
Location: Beaumont, France
ID: 199
Date: 10/5/1954
Time: 0715
Description: A roadmender, Mr. Narcy, saw an object near the road
between Voillecomte and La Neuville. In a report to police, he stated he
saw a hairy dwarf wearing an orange tight-fitting jacket climb aboard
the craft, which consisted of a cigarshaped section under a flat disk.
Between the two sections was a kind of porthole through which the entity
entered the object. Traces were found at the spot.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 38, 39 (Vallee)
Location: Mertrud, France
ID: 198
Date: 10/5/1954
Time: 0630
Description: East of Le Mans on Route N23, Renault employees were going
to work when they saw near the road a luminous object on the ground and
felt “pricklings and a sort of paralysis.” The object emitted a burst of
green light and flew away very low over the fields.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 42; Vuillequez; M 143 (Vallee)
Location: Le Mans, France
ID: 197
Date: 10/5/1954
Time: 0400
Description: A baker, P. Lucas, was draining water from a well when he
noticed an object some distance away. It was circular, about 3 m
diameter. From it emerged a dwarf with an oval face covered with hair
and eyes “as large as raven eggs” who touched him on the shoulder and
spoke to him in an unknown language. The dwarf went away, and the object
took off.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 34 (Vallee)
Location: Loctudy, France
ID: 196
Date: 10/5/1954
Description: A fisherman met with a red-clad being who spoke an unknown
language. No details.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
Location: Roverbello, Italy
ID: 195
Date: 10/6/1954
Time: 2130
Description: Near the military barracks, soldiers saw a strange object
on the ground 300 m away. As one of them approached the torpedo-shaped
object, which was about 80 cm high, he found himself paralyzed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: La Fere, France
ID: 201
Date: 10/6/1954
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Laroche, from Paris, saw a fiery sphere
landing near Chantonnay.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 40 (Vallee)
Location: Monchamps, France
ID: 200
Date: 10/6/1954
Time: 2230
Description: Two women (Mrs. Salabrino and her daughter) saw a whitish
light in the western sky. It seemed slowly to come toward the ground,
and was later seen between the railroad station and the bridge 100 m
away from their house. When it moved, a very bright light was visible
under its dark mass. It gave off a flow of sparks and rose, hovered for
a moment and flew away rapidly.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: M 138 (Vallee)
Location: Villers-le-Lac, France
ID: 202
Date: 10/7/1954
Description: On Route N138, a truckdriver, Mr. Tremblay, saw an intense,
blue light coming toward him. The object producing it was cigarshaped,
red and blue. Engine and headlights died.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 41;M 143 (Vallee)
Location: Saint-Jean-d’Asse, France
ID: 207
Date: 10/7/1954
Time: 1430
Description: R. Margaillan saw an object that had landed in a field. It
was hemispherical, about 2.5 m in diameter. The witness gasped for air
and felt “paralyzed.”
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: M 145; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Monteux, France
ID: 208
Date: 10/7/1954
Time: 1930
Description: Etienne-sous-Barbuise (France). Marcel Guyot was coming
from work near this village, and his son Jacques followed the same road
10 min later. Both saw, at a railroad crossing, three objects on the
ground that gave a bright white light. One was circular, the others
cigar-shaped.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 42; M 146 (Vallee)
Location: St
ID: 209
Date: 10/7/1954
Time: 2400
Description: Mr. Sebelli saw an object land in the village. He called
his neighbors, and they observed the departure of the craft.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 43; M 146 (Vallee)
Location: Bompas, France
ID: 210
Date: 10/7/1954
Description: The two Lanssellin children witnessed the landing of a
luminous, red object shaped like a half-egg, and saw two occupants who
looked like normal men.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: M 145 (Vallee)
Location: Hennezis, France
ID: 203
Date: 10/7/1954
Time: early
Description: The crew of several fishing boats saw a luminous,
orange-colored object over the coast, apparently surrounded by dense
smoke. Villagers saw the same object and stated independently that it
came within 10 m of the ground, then flew away to the southeast.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 41; M 140 (Vallee)
Location: Plozevet, France
ID: 204
Date: 10/7/1954
Time: 0400
Description: A farmer, Mr. Thebault, saw a luminous object, 2 or 3 m in
diameter, emitting a beam of light which swept the countryside.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 41; M 142 (Vallee)
Location: Beruges, France
ID: 205
Date: 10/7/1954
Time: dawn
Description: A railroad employee, Rene Ott, saw a mushroom-shaped object
3 m in diameter, in a field 3 m away from Route N16 and 1 m above
ground. A luminous rectangle, like a door, was seen on the side. It took
off and flew about 5 m above the witness, following him to the next
village.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 41; M 143 (Vallee)
Location: Jettingen, France
ID: 206
Date: 10/8/1954
Time: 2115
Description: On the road to Boulogne a bluish object, clearly seen with
a dome on top, dived toward the ground, became white and went
away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 44, 45;M 154 (Vallee)
Location: Calais,, France
ID: 212
Date: 10/8/1954
Time: 0230
Description: Ghaseme Fili, of Amireah Street, was on the second floor of
his house when he saw a luminous, white flying object stop in mid-air 2O
m away. lights were shining from the rear and the sides of the craft,
inside which could be seen a small man dressed in black, wearing a mask
with a trunk like an elephant. “I was standing with both hands on the
bar of my balcony, looking with astonishment at this strange object,
when I suddenly felt as though I were being drawn up toward the object
by a magnet.” Mr. Fili cried out in terror and woke up his neighbors.
The object shot straight up, emitting sparks, and it was lost to sight
almost immediately.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 52, 58 (Vallee)
Location: Teheran, Iran
ID: 211
Date: 10/9/1954
Description: People out hunting saw a luminous sphere take off and fly
toward the southwest.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy; M 153 (Vallee)
Location: Dreux, France
ID: 215
Date: 10/9/1954
Description: Between Montaren and Serviers, 1 km from “Le Mas Blanc,”
Dr. Fabre, Mr. Court, and six others saw an orange oval object
oscillating in mid-air. It was very bright and “fiery,” and it came very
low.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Montaren, France
ID: 214
Date: 10/9/1954
Description: A mailman saw a cigar-shaped object land. Twn silhouettes
“approximately human” were seen aboard.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 45; M 154 (Vallee)
Location: Huy, Belgium
ID: 213
Date: 10/9/1954
Time: 1900
Description: Mr. Barrault was riding his bicycle when he suddenly saw a
figure in a diving suit aiming a double beam of light at him. The
individual had boots without heels and very bright eyes, walked on the
road for one minute and went into the forest. The witness was
“paralyzed” throughout the incident. The entity had a hairy chest and
two lights, one above the other, in front of him.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 45, 48; M 153; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Lavoux, France
ID: 221
Date: 10/9/1954
Time: 2030
Description: On Route N631 at “La Caiffe,” a technician, J. P. Mitto,
was coming back from Toulouse with two other persons when they saw two
small figures, the height of 11-year-old children, cross the road about
5 m in front of the car and jump into a pasture. Stopping immediately,
the witnesess saw a large convex disk take off vertically. It was about
6 m in diameter, orange in color and was literally “sucked up” into the
sky. Brown oily spots were found at the site.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 43, 50 (Vallee)
Location: Briatexte, France
ID: 222
Date: 10/9/1954
Time: 2215
Description: The local representative of a German firm, Max Favell, saw
an object give off a white light and land. It took off vertically, with
a spinning motion, and was lost to sight.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 51 (Vallee)
Location: Beirut, Lebanon
ID: 223
Date: 10/9/1954
Description: Several local people saw a luminous, spherical object land
in a pasture.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 46; M 154 (Vallee)
Location: Soubran, France
ID: 216
Date: 10/9/1954
Time: 1600
Description: As he was driving near Carcassonne, Jean Bertrand saw a
bright, metallic sphere on the road ahead. The top half seemed to be
made of transparent plastic, and two humanlike figures were standing
inside. It took off rapidly, flying east.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 48; M 145 (Vallee)
Location: Carcassonne, France
ID: 219
Date: 10/9/1954
Time: 1830
Description: Four children-Gilbert Calda, 12; Daniel Hirsch, 9; J. P.
Hirsch, 5; and Robed Maguin 16-were roller-skating when they saw a
luminous object near the cemetery. It was round, about 2.5 m in
diameter, standing on three legs. A dwarf, about 1.2 m tall, dressed in
black, having a face covered with hair and large eyes, came out and
shone a blinding light at them, and said something in an unknown
language. The children ran away, but looked back in time to see the
object flying away high in the sky.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 49; M 154; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Pournoy-la-Chetive, France
ID: 220
Date: 10/9/1954
Time: evening
Description: Near the Landeforet pool, Christain Carette saw for 10 sec
a fiery sphere flying at treetop level. Diameter: 4 m. Protuberance on
top.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 48;M 152 (Vallee)
Location: Beauvain, France
ID: 218
Date: 10/9/1954
Time: evening
Description: Willi Hoge, a projectionist, saw four occupants of an
object that had come to ground level 70 m from the road. He was
returning home when he observed a blue light and thought an airplane had
made an emergency landing. The object was cigar-shaped, and four men
wearing rubber coveralls were working under it. They were about 1.2 m
tall and had very large chests and oversized heads; their legs were
short and thin.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 47 (Vallee)
Location: Rinkerode, Germany
ID: 217
Date: 10/10/1954
Time: nightfall
Description: Roger Gayout and family saw a very bright object come very
close to the ground.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 56; M 162 (Vallee)
Location: Saillat-sur-Vienne, France
ID: 229
Date: 10/10/1954
Description: Between Epoisses and Toutry, Daniel Grapin and Francois
Bolatre, topographers saw a luminous sphere 3.5 m diameter on the ground
near Route N454.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
Location: Epoisses, France
ID: 225
Date: 10/10/1954
Description: Second landing here, seen by Marius Dewilde (cf. Case 144)
and his 4-year-old son. A disk, 6 m diameter, about 1 m high, landed
again on the tracks. Seven little men emerged and spoke in an unknown
language. The craft then vanished without noise or smoke. Traces larger
than the first, and symmetrical, were observed. Dewilde refused to
report the case.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Quarouble, France
ID: 226
Date: 10/10/1954
Description: Approximate date. Many farmers observed the landing of a
“marvelous luminous object,” hemispherical in shape, emitting
multicolored beams. The central part appeared to be metallic. The object
shot straight up suddenly and vanished while the crowd watched.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Creighton; 52 (Vallee)
Location: Mahallat, Persia
ID: 224
Date: 10/10/1954
Time: 0630
Description: Roger Thiriet, jailer in Ecouvres detention center, was
riding his motorcycle when he suddenly saw an aluminum colored object
shaped like a plate, with a dome and two portholes. It was about 2 m in
diameter and 1 m high. It took off immediately.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 54 (Vallee)
Location: Charmes-la-Cote, France
ID: 227
Date: 10/10/1954
Time: 1400
Description: A math professor, Mr. Bon, observed a silvery disk about 7
m in diameter rise silently from a point about 250 m to the side of the
road. Spinning, it dived to the ground from an altitude of about 800 m,
then flew off horizontally at a dizzying speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 55, 57 (Vallee)
Location: Saint-Germain-de-Livet, France
ID: 228
Date: 10/11/1954
Time: dawn
Description: Anny Pracht, her sister Roselyne, and two other persons saw
a luminous object on the ground. It became fiery red in color and flew
away when they came near.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 56; M 162 (Vallee)
Location: Heimersdorf, France
ID: 235
Date: 10/11/1954
Time: 0430
Description: Messrs. Gallois and Vigneron who were driving from Clamecy
to Corbigny felt an “electric shock” as the car headlights died. They
then saw a craft in a pasture 50 m away. It was cylindrical, fairly
thick, and three dwarfs were standing close by. No light was seen,
except a small, reddish point. Both witnesses were “paralyzed” until the
craft left. A third witness, Mr. Chaumeau, had seen a lighted object fly
over the woods at La Carie.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 57; M 158 (Vallee)
Location: Sassier, near La Carie, France
ID: 234
Date: 10/11/1954
Time: 0420
Description: Mr. Labonde was driving at the intersection of D14 and D104
when he was followed by a sort of luminous globe surrounded with a
reddish glow, about 2 m in size. It stayed within 25 m of the car.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 58; M 158 (Vallee)
Location: Lacanche, France
ID: 233
Date: 10/11/1954
Time: 0415
Description: Baptiste Jourdy, who was making the daily collection of
milk, was suddenly stopped as the engine and headlights of his truck
died. He got out and saw a light above him. After it crossed the road,
the headlights came on again and he was able to restart his truck.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 57 (Vallee)
Location: Fonfrede, near Chambon Feugerolles, France
ID: 232
Date: 10/11/1954
Time: 0130
Description: Farmers awakened by a whistling sound saw a flat object
land near the woods. It soon rose very fast, vertically, and flew away.
The ground was found calcined. Samples were taken by police officials
for analysis.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 56 (Vallee)
Location: Doncourt-Village, France
ID: 230
Date: 10/11/1954
Time: 0300
Description: Two men riding motorcycles saw a bell-shaped craft about
2.5 m high, hovered 1 m above the Evreux-Louviers railroad line. The
lower part was ringlike, and the object gave off reddish and greenish
sparks. A burst of orange light was seen as it jumped about 10 m high,
then it remained motionless for about 1 hr, during which time a third
witness joined the first two. It ultimately turned brighter and flew
away toward the east.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 55; M 162 (Vallee)
Location: Acquigny, France
ID: 231
Date: 10/11/1954
Time: dawn
Description: A large red object was seen flying very fast at treetop
level while cattle panicked. Three witnesses.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy; M 162 (Vallee)
Location: Bauquay, France
ID: 236
Date: 10/11/1954
Time: 2150
Description: Four persons, among them Julia Juste, Maria Barbeau, and
Marion Le Tanneur, of Jarnac, saw two luminous spheres flying in the
same direction. Having stopped and maneuvered in midair, the larger one
took on a deep red color, turned to an intense white light with a red
aura, and both landed. Witnesses did not wait.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy; M 160 (Vallee)
Location: Birac, France
ID: 239
Date: 10/11/1954
Time: 2200
Description: A round craft, 4 m diameter, landed in a pasture. It gave
off a powerful red light, took off with a formidable acceleration when
witnesses (garage owner Mr. Carriere and son; Mr. Gardelle, farmer;
Mr. Ginestre, shoemaker; and two others) came close to it. Mr. Gardelle
felt “an electric shock.”
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 60, 61; M 162 (Vallee)
Location: Montbazens, France
ID: 240
Date: 10/11/1954
Time: 1930
Description: Three men driving near Taupignac got out of their car to
observe an intense red sphere in the sky. Then they discovered a round
machine with a dome, 6 m diameter, giving off a yellowred light, 200 m
away at 10 m altitude. It was motionless and silent. It suddenly moved
horizontally for a short distance and landed behind a woods. Two
witnesses went closer and saw four dwarfs, 1 m tall, who seemed busy
with the machine. The creatures rushed inside when the witnesses arrived
within 15 m. The witnesses wae blinded by a sudden burst of light, blue,
then orange, then red, and the object took off vertically at fantastic
speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Taupignac, France
ID: 238
Date: 10/11/1954
Time: 0500
Description: A large disk flying very low over a road scared two truck
drivers, Messrs. Gaston Breau and Amoura, who stopped their gasoline
truck and ran away into the fields while the object flew on toward Medea
in silence.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 59 (Vallee)
Location: Lavarande, Algeria
ID: 237
Date: 10/12/1954
Time: 2330
Description: Roger Ramond, a nightwatchman saw a great light and noticed
an oval object which landed 300 m away. It looked like a fieryorange
ball, illuminated the vinyard for nearly 3 hrs, then assumed a vertical
position, rose slowly, hovered 30 m above ground for a few seconds, and
took off at fantastic speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 64; M 168 (Vallee)
Location: Vielmur, France
ID: 247
Date: 10/12/1954
Time: 2230
Description: Jan Marty, 42, mechanic, was in his shop when he saw a
luminous disk about 6.5 m diameter and 2.5 m thick, land. He tried to
approach it, but the craft rose vertically and silently at an amazing
speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 62, 63 (Vallee)
Location: Leguevin, France
ID: 244
Date: 10/12/1954
Time: 2230
Description: Gilbert Lelay, 13, saw a phosphorescent cigar in a pasture
and a man near it, wearing a gray suit, boots, and a gray hat. He held a
flashing sphere and told Gilbert in French not to touch it. He went back
inside the craft, which flew in loops and vanished.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Carrouges 103; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Sainte-Marie d’Herblay, France
ID: 245
Date: 10/12/1954
Time: evening
Description: A railroad employee, Mr. Laugere, saw a torpedo-shaped,
metallic craft on the ground near a gas-oil tank. An individual covered
with hair was standing nearby, emitting sounds that were not understood.
The witness went to get his friends, but the thing disappeared in the
meantime.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 63; M 167 (Vallee)
Location: Montlucon, France
ID: 243
Date: 10/12/1954
Description: A businessman, Mr. Vielle, was on Route N471 between
Frasnes and Pontarlier when he saw a circular flying craft, which gave
off a yellowish and a purple light. Losing altitude, the craft came very
close to the ground, changed its course to southwest, and rose again in
the sky.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy; M 167 (Vallee)
Location: Dompierre-les-Tilleuls, France
ID: 246
Date: 10/12/1954
Time: 2100
Description: A farmer, Mr. Beuc, saw a small pilot enter an object. It
glided over the road for 30 m, then rose rapidly.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: M 167; Carrouges 98 (Vallee)
Location: Orchamps, France
ID: 242
Date: 10/12/1954
Time: afternoon
Description: A French engineer driving to Port Lyautey saw a dwarf about
1.2 m in height enter an object which soon took off. The little man was
wearing silver coveralls.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 62 (Vallee)
Location: Mamora Forest, Morocco
ID: 241
Date: 10/13/1954
Time: 1930
Description: At Donjon de Montlaur, five persons, among them J. Dubois,
saw a round craft maneuver, give off a blinding light. It had some
openings or portholes, and seemed to land far from them.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Crocq, France
ID: 248
Date: 10/13/1954
Time: 1935
Description: Messrs. Olivier and Perano and a third man saw a reddish
disk about 4 m diameter with a small being close by, about 1.2 rn tall,
wearing a diving suit: “His head was large with respect to the rest of
the body and he had two enormous eyes. The suit was bright and shiny
like glass.” The craft was surrounded by a sort of misty glow. One of
the men came within 2O m of it and found himself paralyzed. The craft
took off, throwing him to the ground, and rose very fast.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 62, 63 (Vallee)
Location: Bourrasole, France
ID: 249
Date: 10/13/1954
Time: 10:05 AM
Description: Witness: weather observer, following a balloon with his
theodolite. One round, flat, silver object flew straight and level for
30 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Nouasseur, French Morocco
ID: 370
Date: 10/14/1954
Description: Several witnesses saw seven small beings flee into a
phosphorescent object when they were approached. It took off
immediately. It is claimed that “unknown seeds” were found at the
site.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 62 (Vallee)
Location: Saint-Ambroix, France
ID: 250
Date: 10/14/1954
Time: 0630
Description: A man coming out of his house saw a luminous object
resembling a bright star. Coming near, he observed it was an object 5 m
long, near which a “short young man” was standing on a circular piece of
metal, laughing at the witness’s terrified expression. The witness was
20 m away when the craft took off at unbelievable speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 52 (Vallee)
Location: Shamsabad, Iran
ID: 251
Date: 10/14/1954
Time: 1530
Description: In Erchin Wood, Casimir Starovski, a miner, met a strange
being of small height and bulky figure with large slanted eyes. Its body
was covered with fur.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Anatomy 143; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Lewarde, France
ID: 252
Date: 10/14/1954
Description: Flight Lt. Jimmy Salandin took off in his Meteor jet at
4:15pm and climbed up to 16,000 ft. When he was over Southend, England,
two circular UFOs shot past him at 9o’clock high. One UFO was silvery
and the other gold in color. A third UFO appeared ahead of him on a
collision course. It had a bun-shaped top, a flange like two saucers in
the center and a bun shaped dome underneath and was silvery in color. It
flew close enough to his jet to overlap his windshield.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: North Weald Airfield, Essex, England
Date: 10/14/1954
Time: 2010
Description: On the road between Thieulloy-la-Ville and Beauvais,
Mr. Covemacker saw an object fly over his car as the headlights died. It
went on toward the north, seemingly following a train.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Thieulloy-la-Ville, France
ID: 260
Date: 10/14/1954
Time: nightfall
Description: Mr. B. saw a circular craft shaped like an upside-down
plate. At the same time, the engine on his motorcycle stalled. In the
same area an engineer saw a luminous object coming down rapidly.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Anatomy 130 (Vallee)
Location: Saint-Romain, France
ID: 259
Date: 10/14/1954
Time: 1815
Description: A municipal employee, Jose Casella, was riding home when he
suddenly found in front of him on the road an oval-shaped aluminum
object about 5.5 m in diameter, 1 m high. As he applied the brakes, the
object took off at very high speed. Several persons confirmed the
sighting. The disk was gray, supported a dome, and emitted a soft
whistle. It took off when Casella was only 6 m away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 65 (Vallee)
Location: Biot, France
ID: 253
Date: 10/14/1954
Time: nightfall
Description: Andre Cognard, coming from Gueugnon, was blinded by a light
as a diskshaped object flew low over his car.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Anatomy 130 (Vallee)
Location: Chazey Wood, France
ID: 258
Date: 10/14/1954
Time: 1930
Description: South of Gueugnon, Messrs. Jeannet and Garnier saw a
reddish fireball fly low over their car as their engine and headlights
died.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: M 175) Anatomy 130 (Vallee)
Location: Chazey Wood, France
ID: 257
Date: 10/14/1954
Time: nightfall
Description: Mr. Lonjarret observed a luminous orange object on the
ground near a corn field.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy; M 175 (Vallee)
Location: Saint-Germain-du-Bois, France
ID: 256
Date: 10/14/1954
Time: nightfall
Description: A farmer observed an orange sphere land and went near it.
He found it was shaped like a flattened dome, 5.5 m in diameter, and
gave off a blinding light, which illuminated the countryside for about
200 m. It was transparent, and a dark figure could be seen inside. After
remaining at ground level for 10 min it flew north, while a bright cloud
slowly fell to the ground at the site. When the witness arrived home he
found his clothes covered with a white film of adhesive substance, not
unlike paraffin wax.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 62; M 174 (Vallee)
Location: Meral, France
ID: 255
Date: 10/14/1954
Time: nightfall
Description: A farmer saw a bright object, which came almost to the
ground. When he tried to approach it the object produced an intense
“screen of light” and vanished without a noise. Several persons in
Angles observed the scene.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 62 (Vallee)
Location: Angles, France
ID: 254
Date: 10/15/1954
Description: Near the swimming pool in Saint-Assiscle, Damien Figueres,
56, was walking with his dogs when a reddish, luminous sphere landed 30
m away and an individual in a diving suit walked around it. The dogs
barked at him. He boarded the machine, and it flew away in
silence.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 65; Carrouges 120 (Vallee)
Location: Perpignan, France
ID: 261
Date: 10/15/1954
Time: 0340
Description: A baker saw a brilliant yellow craft descend rapidly and
land on the railroad tracks. It was shaped like a mushroom, about 4 m
diameter, 2 m high.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 62; M 180 (Vallee)
Location: Saint-Pierre-Halte, France
ID: 263
Date: 10/15/1954
Time: 1300
Description: An ovoid object made a pass over a range of trees; two
caught fire.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 83 (Vallee)
Location: Luino, Italy
ID: 264
Date: 10/15/1954
Time: afternoon
Description: Farmers saw a disk-shaped object land, then take off
vertically. At the site was found a deep crater about 6 m in diameter.
Poplar trees were partially burned. Official investigation.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 65; M 181 (Vallee)
Location: Po-di-Gnocca, Italy
ID: 265
Date: 10/15/1954
Time: 1950
Description: A yellow, cigarshaped object with brilliant portholes, 30 m
long, 6 m diameter, was seen on the ground. Figures with helmets
covering the head could be seen inside. A sort of haze was observed at
both ends of the craft.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
Location: Nimes-Courbessac Airfield, France
ID: 266
Date: 10/15/1954
Time: night
Description: Pat Hennessey ran away when she saw an object land on the
road near Chalkwell Park. It had vanished silently when she looked
back.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: M 182; Humanoids 4; FSR 62, 12 (Vallee)
Location: Southend, Great Britain
ID: 267
Date: 10/15/1954
Time: night
Description: A steelworker observed a luminous sphere land in the
countryside; it then emitted lights of various colors.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 54, 68; M 181 (Vallee)
Location: Isbergues, France
ID: 268
Date: 10/15/1954
Time: night
Description: Truck driver Rene Le Viol saw a flat craft, shaped like an
inverted plate, fly very low toward the sea. A second disk followed
shortly afterward. Both emitted a red glow.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 69; M 182 (Vallee)
Location: Fouesnant, France
ID: 269
Date: 10/15/1954
Time: 8:45 PM
Description: Oct. 15, 16 and 17, 1954. Fifty objects with illuminated
bottoms were seen flying in a V-formation, very fast, on successive
nights. Only data is on summary card.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Kingfisher, Oklahoma
ID: 371
Date: 10/15/1954
Description: A farmer leading cows to a pond suddenly saw an object fly
over his house. The cows panicked and ran away, throwing a girl to the
ground, while the object emitted a burst of light. The witness ran to
the house and fainted; three other persons saw the craft depart. Dark,
surrounded by short blue and yellow flames, the object was egg-shaped,
flew 15 m above the ground, and emitted intense heat. The little pond
was found desiccated, and haystacks caught fire as it flew over, while
the cattle suffered burns.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 67; Plantier 104 (Vallee)
Location: Boaria, Italy
ID: 262
Date: 10/16/1954
Description: Two objects were seen, one of which made a pass at treetop
level. It top-shaped, and a small, gesticulating human figure was seen
under it. The witness was a bus driver, Mr. De Rossi.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 84 (Vallee)
Location: Quasso, Italy
ID: 270
Date: 10/16/1954
Time: nightfall
Description: Dr. Robert, while driving through this village, saw four
objects, at about 300 m altitude, flying slowly in echelon formation.
Suddenly one of them dropped to the ground with a dead-leaf motion, 100
m away. The witness felt an electric shock as engine and headlights
died, and the car stopped when the object touched the ground. Incapable
of moving, Dr. Robert saw a figure about 1.2 m tall moving in the light
of the object, then all went dark. Some time later the headlights
resumed operation by themselves, and Dr. Robert saw the craft take off
toward the north.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 71; M 185 (Vallee)
Location: Baillolet, France
ID: 274
Date: 10/16/1954
Description: Approximate date. An object landed about 30 m away from a
woman, who fainted. The witness suffered from a skin disease following
the incident.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Challenge 53 (Vallee)
Location: Thin le Moutiers, France
ID: 271
Date: 10/16/1954
Description: Guy Puyfourcat, 22, who was coming back from the fields,
leading a mare by the bridle, was surprised when the animal became
restless. Rising from the side of the road, a gray object about 1.5 m in
diameter flew over them. The mare rose about 3 m in the air, and the
witness had to release the bridle. Then the animal fell like a mass and
for 10 min was unable to move. At last, it rose and attempted to walk,
but it was still trembling and stumbling with fear. The object had long
since flown away at high speed. The witness himself had felt absolutely
nothing.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Cier-de-Riviere, France
ID: 272
Date: 10/16/1954
Time: 1730
Description: Mr. Bachelard was driving a light truck on road D52-E
between Chanat and Couhay when suddenly the engine seemed to slow down
and he felt “paralyzed.” He then saw in a field near the road a brown
object about 10 m long, 2.5 m high. Silent, it gave off no light and
showed no opening.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 70;M 198 (Vallee)
Location: Mazaye, France
ID: 273
Date: 10/16/1954
Time: 2145
Description: Messrs. Deschamp and Laclotre saw a craft, about 20 m
diameter, 2 m high, come within 4 m of the ground for 3 or 4 min. It
gave off a yellowish light and a glow extended for 4 m around.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Dompierre, France
ID: 275
Date: 10/16/1954
Time: 2400
Description: Several people saw a landed object in a meadow. It appeared
phosphorescent and of large size. It took off very suddenly.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 83 (Vallee)
Location: Siena, Italy
ID: 276
Date: 10/17/1954
Time: 2030
Description: Several witnesses, among them Mr. Beuclair a policeman, saw
a bright red domeshaped object descend to ground level 20 m away. The
underside showed red and white lights.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: M 188 (Vallee)
Location: Varigney, France
ID: 280
Date: 10/17/1954
Time: night
Description: On Capri, an artist Raffael Castelle, saw a disk 5 m in
diameter land on the property of Curzio Malaparte. Upon approaching it,
he discovered it was not a helicopter and saw four dwarfs wearing
coveralIs emerge from it. After 30 min the craft made a soft whirring
sound and rose vertically, leaving blue sparks.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 72 (Vallee)
Location: Cape Massulo, Italy
ID: 281
Date: 10/17/1954
Description: Leon B., a city council member, saw a circular, orange
craft take off from the ground.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
Location: Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer, France
ID: 277
Date: 10/17/1954
Description: A hunter, Manuel Madeira, saw an object, which flew away as
he approached it, rose in the sky, and was lost to sight.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: O Alvito, Portugal
ID: 278
Date: 10/17/1954
Time: 2030
Description: A 65-year-old man was hunting with his dog, near the
junction of the Brillance Canal and the Durance River, when he saw a
gray object, about 4 m long and 1 m high on the ground and 40 m away. It
showed a dome from which two helmeted figures emerged. The witness fled,
but his dog started toward the object. The dog soon retreated, walking
awkwardly as if partialIy paralyzed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Cabasson, France
ID: 279
Date: 10/18/1954
Description: J. Augard and J. Chanzotte saw an oval object with a dome,
emitting a bright white light, resting in a field. When they approached
it, the object rose vertically, leaving a reddish trail, and flew to the
northeast.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 70; M 198 (Vallee)
Location: Cisternes-la-Foret, France
ID: 282
Date: 10/18/1954
Description: Mr. Meunier, a construction supervisor, was terrified by a
strange craft, which rose vertically from the ground. He said he had
never been so afraid, even during the war.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 73; M 196 (Vallee)
Location: Pont l’Abbe d’Arnoult, France
ID: 283
Date: 10/18/1954
Time: 2040
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Lherminier saw a cigar-shaped red object dive
toward them with a reddish trail and land near the road. Upon reaching
the top of the hill, they were confronted with a bulky human figure,
about 1 m tall. The creature wore a helmet and his eyes were glowing
with an orange light. One witness fainted on the spot. Four others saw
the object in flight from separate locations. The countryside was
illuminated over 2 or 3 km.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Fontenay-Torcy, France
ID: 284
Date: 10/18/1954
Time: 2100
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Labassiere and other witnesses saw two disks
in the sky, one orange and the other red, with a sort of luminous
“bridge” between them. They landed, and one dwarf came out of each craft
and went into the other without any sign. After this exchange of pilots
both objects flew away with a tremendous flash.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 74 (Vallee)
Location: Royan, France
ID: 285
Date: 10/18/1954
Time: 2245
Description: Miss Bourriot saw a bright red light on Route N437 near the
old factory. Near it were three beings: two, dwarfs, crossed the road
ahead of her; the third was a man of medium size. The craft took off,
flying over the lake at high speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy; M 197; LDLN 97; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Saint-Point Lake, France
ID: 286
Date: 10/19/1954
Time: 1920
Description: Filippo Corridoni saw a half-empty balloon at ground level
near the Isonzo River. Near it, a disk 10 m in diameter was resting on a
strange frame. The upper part was white with a black domelike turret,
around which was a series of portholes, some illuminated with a very
bright, bluish-white light, which suddenly went out as the object took
off spinning and rising vertically, pulling the balloon with it.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 86 (Vallee)
Location: Gorizia, Italy
ID: 288
Date: 10/19/1954
Description: Bruno Senesi saw two shining objects emitting smoke land in
a field. Out of them came small, red, monstrous beings who chased him.
In a state of great excitement Senesi was brought to a hospital, where
he tried to hide under a bed, screaming and trembling in terror.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 85 (Vallee)
Location: Livorno, Italy
ID: 287
Date: 10/19/1954
Time: 2230
Description: Two men saw a disk-shaped object, 6 m diameter, hovering
and emitting small violet flashes. On top of it was a very high antenna.
Two small robotlike beings, 1.2 m tall, descended from it on a long
ladder. Their eyes were “sharp” and dark red. They said something that
sounded like “Dbano da skigyay o dbano,” went back aboard their craft,
and flew away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 87 (Vallee)
Location: Fabriano, Italy
ID: 289
Date: 10/20/1954
Description: Several unknown objects maneuvered for 2 hrs near this
village. One of them was very brilliant and landed in a pasture. Two
others were seen near the cliff in Mers, and seemed to be in
communication by means of light signals with objects in another
group.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 75 (Vallee)
Location: Saint-Valery, France
ID: 293
Date: 10/20/1954
Description: Roger Reveille saw an oval object, 6 m long, at treetop
level, and felt intense heat from it. It took off vertically at great
speed. Inside the woods, the heat had become intolerable and a cloud of
dense smoke was forming under the rain. After 15 min the witness was
able to approach the site, and he found the trees, grass, and ground
perfectly dry.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy; M 204 (Vallee)
Location: Lusigny Forest, France
ID: 292
Date: 10/20/1954
Time: 0230
Description: Forty-year-old Lazlo Ujvari was suddenly confronted by a
man wearing a jacket, boots, and cloth headgear (like a pilot’s) who
pointed a gun at him and said something he could not understand. When
Ujvari spoke to him in Russian, the man answered in the same language,
asked whether he was in Spain or Italy, and how far he was from Germany.
When he asked the time, Ujvari said: “2:30.” The man took his watch and
said “You lie; it’s 4:00.” Then he wanted to know how far and in what
direction Marseilles was. He made Ujvari walk on the road with him, and
they came close to a gray craft with an antenna on top. When he was
about 200 m away, he heard a soft whistling sound and saw it fly
straight up, then take an oblique trajectory.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Carrouges 99; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Raon-l’Etage, France
ID: 291
Date: 10/20/1954
Description: Lucien Fisch saw an object land near Route N83. It was
luminous.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy; 75 (Vallee)
Location: Issenheim, France
ID: 290
Date: 10/20/1954
Time: night
Description: Renzo Pugina, 37, bad just put his car in the garage when
he saw a strange being covered with a “scaly” luminous suit, about 1.3 m
tall, standing near a tree. The creature aimed the beam from a sort of
flashlight at him, and he felt paralyzed, until a motion he made when
clenching his fist on the garage keys seemed to free him. He attacked
the intruder, who rose and fled with a soft whirring sound. An oily spot
was found at the site.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 77;Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Panavicino d’Erba, Italy
ID: 295
Date: 10/20/1954
Time: 1830
Description: Mr. Schoubrenner, 25, a truck driver, saw a bright light in
the distance and soon found his road blocked by a strange object. The
engine died, and he felt paralyzed: “My hands were as though glued to
the wheel.” The craft looked like an inverted cone, the lower part
phosphorescent, the middle dull, the top luminous with a yellow or
orange point.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 76; M 204 (Vallee)
Location: Turquenstein, France
ID: 294
Date: 10/21/1954
Time: 2130
Description: Between Serifere and Paille, a man from Cherbonnieres
suddenly felt painful pricklings similar to electric shocks and his
4-year-old child started crying. They felt increasing pain as the car
went on, and suddenly the engine died and the lights went off. They were
blinded by a strong red light, which turned orange. It came from an
object hovering above the road, and everything returned to normal when
it went away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 80; M 341 (Vallee)
Location: Pouzou, France
ID: 300
Date: 10/21/1954
Description: A young man walking in a field heard a rustling noise and
saw a strange craft land nearby. Getting closer to investigate, he saw a
pilot with a diving suit coming out of the craft, which emitted
bronze-green rays of light, flooding the whole countryside. The witness
was paralyzed. A dog barking about 100 m away caused the rapid escape of
the pilot into the craft, which took off.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 88 (Vallee)
Location: Melito, Italy
ID: 297
Date: 10/21/1954
Description: An egg-shaped object, about 5.5 m diameter, hovered and
landed near the road. Two dwarfs, about 1.25 m tall, emerged from it,
and went back inside almost immediately. The craft took off vertically
leaving a red trail.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 78 (Vallee)
Location: Pons, France
ID: 296
Date: 10/21/1954
Time: 1645
Description: Near Shrewsbury, Jennie Roestenberg and her two children
observed a diskshaped, aluminum object hovering above the house. Through
two transparent panels they saw two men with white skin, long hair to
their shoulders, and very high foreheads. They wore transparent helmets
and turquoise-blue clothing, resembling ski suits. The object hovered at
a tilted angle while the two occupants looked at the scene “sternly, not
in an unkind fashion, but almost sadly, compassionately.”
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 4 (Vallee)
Location: Ranton, Great Britain
ID: 298
Date: 10/21/1954
Time: 2000
Description: The car driven by a bricklayer, Mr. Fillonnau, stoped as a
large ball of fire flew near it. A violent air displacement was felt.
“The battery was dead and the headlights were burned out.” Thorough
police investigation failed to identify the cause of the
phenomenon.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 79 (Vallee)
Location: Criteuil-la-Madeleine, France
ID: 299
Date: 10/23/1954
Description: Mrs. Boeuf was coming out of her farmhouse when she saw a
luminous disk in the sky and alled her family. When everyone saw the
object come closer, they locked all doors and spent a sleepless night.
They did not observe the object’s departure.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 81 (Vallee)
Location: Saint-Hilaire-des-Loges, France
ID: 301
Date: 10/23/1954
Time: 0100
Description: Two persons in a car saw an object resting by fhe side of
the road. They stopped and walked toward the craft, 2 m diameter, which
suddenly changed its clear light into a red glow and took off.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 89 (Vallee)
Location: San Giovanni Vesuviano, Italy
ID: 302
Date: 10/23/1954
Time: 0300
Description: A farmer saw a flying craft descend to ground level about
50 m away, with a sound like that of a compressor. It was an egg-shaped
machine with six wheels and complex machinery. The top half was
transparent, flooded with bright white light. Aboard were six men in
yellowish coveralls, having human faces and masks. When he touched part
of the craft, the witness felt a strong electric shock. One of the
occupants motioned for him to stay away. For the next 2O min, the
witness was able to observe the six men, apparently busy with
instruments. Reliable investigations were made.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Tripoli, Libya
ID: 303
Date: 10/24/1954
Description: A small man with strange glowing eyes was seen on the
Mediterranean shore.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
Location: Ain-el-Turck, Algeria
ID: 304
Date: 10/24/1954
Time: 2100
Description: Between Biozat and Effiat, on the road from Clermont to
Vichy, the engine of a motor scooter died as an egg-shaped object took
off from the side of the road and rose without noise, leaving a bright
trail behind.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Biozat, France
ID: 306
Date: 10/24/1954
Time: 1730
Description: Near Sainte Catherine, a child saw a man emerge from a
strange craft. He was “dressed in red, his clothes looked like iron. He
walked with his legs stiff, had long hair and a hairy face. His eyes
were large, like those of the cows.”
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Les Egots, France
ID: 305
Date: 10/25/1954
Time: 1830
Description: G. Mahou, municipal muncilor, 30, saw a phosphorescent
craft shaped like a brooder, about 2 m in diameter, 1 m high, rise
vertically from the road, leaving a luminous trail.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 91 (Vallee)
Location: Arraye-et-Han, France
ID: 309
Date: 10/25/1954
Description: Approximate date. A. Treussard and a friend were almost
blinded by a luminous disk, which landed in a pasture.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Plemet, France
ID: 307
Date: 10/25/1954
Time: 0600
Description: Ulderico Cardinali saw a disk-shaped craft among the reeds
of a swamp. It was 2 m in diameter, and near it was a small being, 1.40
m tall, clad in yellowish-brown coveralls. This creature went inside the
machine, which took off at very high speed, touching the tops of the
reeds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 90 (Vallee)
Location: Northern Italy, exact place unknown
ID: 308
Date: 10/26/1954
Time: evening
Description: Aime Boussard, 47, a farmer, was suddenly confronted with
an individual of normal height (1.60 m) wearing a sort of diving suit
with a pale-green light on either side of the helmet. The individual
aimed at the witness the beam of two blue lights, and he was thrown
backward. No craft was observed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 92 (Vallee)
Location: La Madiere, France
ID: 311
Date: 10/26/1954
Time: 2030
Description: Approximate date. At this place situated near Saint Quirin,
Mrs. Louis and her sons Marc and Yvon observed an orange craft, 6 m
diameter and 3 m high, fly over them as their tractor engine died. The
lights also went out, and the battery was found dead after the
sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Les Metairies, France
ID: 312
Date: 10/26/1954
Time: 2130
Description: Mrs. Spinner and another witness saw a flying object come
from the west and land 1 km away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Heiteren, France
ID: 313
Date: 10/26/1954
Description: Vincent Casamajou and his wife saw a large cauldron-shaped
craft, the size of a truck (about 7 m) at 50 m distance, near the road,
18 km from this town, going toward Paris. It took off without noise,
leaving a white trail.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 9Z (Vallee)
Location: Angouleme, France
ID: 310
Date: 10/27/1954
Time: 2330
Description: Near Grosseto, Ermellina Lanzillo, who was looking for her
cat, saw from her window a strange entity standing in the garden. The
being appeared fat and had narrow shoulders, apelike eyes, and a head
like a diving helmet. Paralyzed with terror, she regained self-control
when called by her niece and withdrew from the window.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 94 (Vallee)
Location: Grosseto, Italy
ID: 320
Date: 10/27/1954
Time: 2315
Description: On Route N40, the Mayor’s secretary saw for 15 min a
bright, cigar-shaped object, flying very low and following the turns of
the road at 20 m altitude. Suddenly it tumed at a right angle from the
road and flew away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Oye-Plage, France
ID: 319
Date: 10/27/1954
Time: 2030
Description: An object was seen on the ground by a schoolboy and his
school director. Triangular traces were reported.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 53 (Vallee)
Location: Moussey, France
ID: 318
Date: 10/27/1954
Time: 1930
Description: A farmer, Gilbert Hee, was gathering pears when he suddenly
saw an elongated object with a light at both ends resting in the
pasture. He dared not investigate, but he saw cows gathering around the
object. A minute later, the lights went out, and the witness lost
interest and went home. Two hours later, an 18-year-old man named
Cheradame fell from his motorcycle as it suddenly failed at the same
spot, and alerted neighbors saw the object again. It had moved only
slightly and two occupants were seen. They were about 1 m tall, walked
in stiff fashion, and had clothes resembling bright armor. They vanished
suddenly, and the craft took off without noise.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Les-Jonquerets-de-Livet, France
ID: 317
Date: 10/27/1954
Description: Policemen saw a craft, which took off from the ground. No
details were given.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Mezieres, France
ID: 315
Date: 10/27/1954
Time: 1400
Description: A young man named Fabrizio Bruni heard a strange hissing
sound and saw an object in a field. It was stationary, 1 m above the
ground, seemed transparent and emitted a blinding glare. The witness
fell on the ground “because of his strong emotions” at the sight. The
object took off vertically and suddenly, leaving a trail. Very white,
glistening threads were found on the ground.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 93 (Vallee)
Location: Ciolica Alta, Italy
ID: 316
Date: 10/27/1954
Description: A shop owner and his employee felt an electric shock as a
very bright object flying very low stopped the engine and turned off the
lights on their car.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 92; M 204 (Vallee)
Location: Linzeux, France
ID: 314
Date: 10/28/1954
Time: 5:32 PM
Description: Witnesses: USAF pilots Lt. Col. O.C. Cook and Lt. J.W.
Brown, on ground using 7x50 binoculars. One brilliant white, round-oval
object climbed in front of clouds, brightened, turned 90 to the north.
Seen for 45 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Miho Air Base, Japan
ID: 372
Date: 10/29/1954
Time: 0745
Description: A 14-year-old child sought asylum in the farmhouse owned by
Mrs. Gentil, crying that he had been chased by a saucer. A disk three
times as large as the sun, red and purple, spinning rapidly, was seen
descending swiftly toward the ground and then it vanished. Investigation
by local police.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Mesples, France
ID: 321
Date: 10/29/1954
Time: 9 PM
Description: Witnesses: four Portuguese nationals. One object, shaped
like a stovepipe with a center bulge and short wings (10’ long, 3’ in
diameter, 3’ wings) having concave wingtips, and grey colored. Made a
gargling sound when hovering, then disappeared in the glare of airplane
landing lights. Sighting lasted 4-5 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Terciera Islands, Azores
ID: 373
Date: 10/30/1954
Time: 0930
Description: Two objects were seen by hunters. One touched the ground 50
m away. It was rhomboidic, and from the bottom a cylinder was hanging. A
peculiar sound could be heard. The object shifted its position and the
cylinder hit trees, bouncing three times. Then the craft gained altitude
and flew away, leaving a bluish trail.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 82 (Vallee)
Location: Muro Lucano, Italy
ID: 322
Date: 10/31/1954
Description: Near Long, P. Petit and his employee, Mr. Tillier, with a
shop owner, Mr. Pecquet, saw an oval object on the ground. When it took
off, the lights of a tractor went out. It measured about 4.5 m, emitted
a bright light similar to a welder’s torch. It came back, turned, and
flew to the southwest. It made the same noise as a swarm of bees.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Corrompu, France
ID: 323
Date: 11/1/1954
Time: 0730
Description: A 40-year-old lady going to a cemetery suddenly observed an
object, shaped like two cones with a common base, resting on a grassy
space. Two small seats were visible inside the lower cone. From behind
the object appared two dwarfs, 1 m tall, wearing gray coveralls and
reddish helmets. Speaking words she could not understand, and with
smiles that showed fine white teeth, they took a pot of flowers from the
witness and flew away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Poggio d’Ambra, Italy
ID: 324
Date: 11/2/1954
Time: 1800
Description: Two students, Pietro Alberini and Pericle Sacchi, who were
hunting, saw a dwarf 1 m tall with a “rubber” head and a flexible tube
connecting his face to a cylindrial container on his back. When they
came close to it, the being wrapped itself in a bluish cloud. The
witnesses ran away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 90 (Vallee)
Location: Cremona, Italy
ID: 325
Date: 11/3/1954
Time: 0700
Description: Maroc-Presse reported that one of its employees, Mr. E.,
driver of a delivery truck, “a man of sane judgment and excellent
eyesight,” observed an object flying over the Beth River. “I am positive
it was not an aircraft or any known machine but a circular, flat craft
which had the appearance of copper. It flew normally for some time, then
it suddenly flipped over. Therefore, I was able to see the whole disk
and was amazed when it came down into a field where it landed on edge,
very gently. Almost immediately it rose into the sky at great speed,
resumed its horizontal position and was soon lost to sight.”
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 95 (Vallee)
Location: Oued Beth, Morocco
ID: 326
Date: 11/4/1954
Time: night
Description: Jose Alves was fishing in the Pardo River when he suddenly
saw a craft approach with a wobbling motion and landing near him. Shaped
like two washbowls placed together, it was about 4.5 m in diameter. Too
terrified to move, the witness saw three little men, dressed in white,
wearing tight-fitting skull caps, with dark skin, come out of the craft,
gather vegetables and water and fly away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 33; Lor. I 44 (Vallee)
Location: Pontal, Brazil
ID: 327
Date: 11/5/1954
Time: 1010
Description: Raymond R. saw a craft, which made a noise like a large
transformer and gave off an orange light, land in a pasture. Three men
in dark coveralls were standing nearby. One was holding a sort of box,
“which emitted a beam of light three meters long.” The other two were
holding objects that looked like weapons. Another witness fled and felt
pricklings on his face as he ran. Four photographs of the scene were
taken. Traces: a whitish substance and a circle 3 m in diameter where
the ground had an ashlike appearance.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: La Roche-en-Brenil, France
ID: 329
Date: 11/5/1954
Description: Gonzalo Rubinos Ramos, whose car had broken down, saw a
large, shining disk rise 150 m away with a slight noise like an
explosion and fly away at fantastic speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 96 (Vallee)
Location: La Coruna, Spain
ID: 328
Date: 11/6/1954
Description: Ray Stanford contacts spacecraft with many witnesses
Type: ce3 event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Location: Padre Island, TX
Date: 11/7/1954
Time: 1515
Description: A motorcyclist saw a disk-shaped machine land near the
road. He tried to turn too sharply and fell 50 m away. A taxi driver
stopped to observe the object, which gave off a soft whirring sound and
soon took off. Farmers on the other side of the mountain saw it fly
away. The disk, about 15 m in diameter, was made of a silvery, rough
metal. It supported a dome and showed several portholes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 97; Wilkins U 237 (Vallee)
Location: Monte Ortobene, Sardinia
ID: 330
Date: 11/8/1954
Time: 1800
Description: In the Vacheresse Forest, reliable persons reported seeing
a luminous sphere land at the edge of the forest and become dark. The
next morning, investigation disclosed that an area 4 or 5 m in diameter
had no leaves, while the ground elsewhere was covered with them. The
earth seemed to have been dug up.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Voussac, France
ID: 332
Date: 11/8/1954
Time: 1030
Description: A crowd of about 150 people, destroying barriers to come
closer, gathered to observe a luminous craft landed in a stadium. The
object rested on three legs and had a dome emitting a blinding white
light and supporting an antenna. Two small figures dressed in white and
gray, wearing transparent helmets, were seen. They spoke with guttural
sounds. One of them had a black face with sort of trunk. When a man
sicced a boxer dog onto the dwarfs, the animal turned around and bit
him. The object rose with a shrill sound and vanished rapidly.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Wilkins U 238 (Vallee)
Location: Monza, Italy
ID: 331
Date: 11/8/1954
Time: dusk
Description: Andre Chaillou felt pricklings in his hands, “in spite of
his gloves,” when a blue disk came close to his motorcycle and his
electrical system failed. He was unable to move or articulate a word for
several minutes. As soon as the blue light was turned off, he started
again and went near the light when it reappeared 200 m away. He saw the
object, a cone 5.5 m in size, rise vertically with a soft whistling,
then fly horizonally to the north.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 98 (Vallee)
Location: La Tessoualle, France
ID: 333
Date: 11/9/1954
Description: Two villagers reported the landing of a 2-m-high “flying
egg” in a pasture. Screams seemed to emanate from it.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Wilkins U 251 (Vallee)
Location: Bois de Villers, Belgium
ID: 334
Date: 11/10/1954
Description: An agronomist and his family in their car saw a landed disk
from which two men, normal in height, with long hair and coverall-like
clothes, emerged and came toward the car with arms raised. As the
frightened witnesses sped away, they saw the men reenter the disk, which
rose and flew off at very great speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. I 42 (Vallee)
Location: Porto Alegre, Brazil
ID: 335
Date: 11/13/1954
Time: 0330
Description: Near the local airport, Mr. Davril saw a craft like a round
hut 300 m away. It took off without noise.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Berck, France
ID: 336
Date: 11/13/1954
Description: At intersection of Routes N28 and N319, Mr. R. L., of
Rouen, saw a luminous craft take off while he feIt pricklings and was
paralyzed. The engine of the car slowed down but did not stall.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
Location: Buchy, France
ID: 337
Date: 11/13/1954
Time: 0330
Description: A lens-shaped object was seen on the railroad tracks. Near
it, three dwarfs wearing tight-fitting suits were looking at the tracks
with a light. When the witness approached, the machine took off very
fast.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 99; Humanoids 33 (Vallee)
Location: Curitiba, Brazil
ID: 338
Date: 11/14/1954
Time: night
Description: Approximate date. Marcel Pipers a gardener saw a craft
resting near the road give off a very bright light. His clothing was
partially burned when he went close to it.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
Location: Wasmes, Belgium
ID: 340
Date: 11/14/1954
Time: afternoon
Description: Amerigo Lorenzini, a farmer, saw a bright, cigar-shaped
craft land near him and took cover. Out of it came three dwarfs dressed
in metallic diving suits. They centered their attention on rabbits in a
cage while speaking among themselves in an unknown language. Thinking
they were going to steal the animals, the farmer aimed a rifle at the
intruders, but it failed to fire and the witness suddenly felt so weak
that he had to drop the gun. The dwarfs took the rabbits, and their
craft departed, leaving a bright trail.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 100 (Vallee)
Location: Isola, Italy
ID: 339
Date: 11/14/1954
Time: night
Description: A shange beam of red light, apparently from some flying
source, was reported sweeping the countryside. As it illuminated two
tractors, one of them stalled, but the other, a diesel, continued. The
beam was seen for about one hour by a large number of persons.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: M 211 (Vallee)
Location: Forli, Italy
ID: 341
Date: 11/15/1954
Time: 44 PM
Description: Witness: N. Gallant, manager of radio station WFAV. Ten
gold, circular objects flew in vertical V-formation, straight and level
for 3 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Augusta, Maine
ID: 374
Date: 11/19/1954
Time: 4:15 PM
Description: Witness: P.J. Gunn, assistant professor of art at Oregon
State University and ex-U.S. Navy aviation cadet. One bright white light
hovered 8.5-9 minutes, then crossed 20 of sky in 3-3.5 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Corvallis, Oregon
ID: 375
Date: 11/22/1954
Time: 2145
Description: A radio operator at the local air base saw a huge, dark
object about 30 m in diameter hovering at treetop height. With four
other persons he saw it for several hours, sometimes softly glowing,
sometimes coming down almost to the ground.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. I 4511 (Vallee)
Location: Santa Maria, Brazil
ID: 342
Date: 11/22/1954
Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a talk on flying saucers in
Northwest Miami
Type: lecture
Reference: NICAP
Location: Northwest Miami, FL
Date: 11/25/1954
Time: 1700
Description: Two 12-year-old boys, G. Marziano and P. Santucci, suddenly
saw three figures who, as soon as they were discovered, entered a small
spherical craft concealed 10 m away behind some bushes. The beings were
small, about 35 cm tall, had very large heads and lead-gray skin. The
craft had two sharppointed propellers in front, which started spinning.
The craft took off suddenly with a hissing sound.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 90 (Vallee)
Location: Calcerosa, Italy
ID: 343
Date: 11/28/1954
Time: 10:50 AM
Description: Witness: one anonymous medical doctor. One flat-bottomed,
domed object (65-70’ across, 18-20’ high), bright orange with yellow
discs attached and an exhaust trail. Flew north, stopped, reversed its
course during 4 minute sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Manilla, Phillipine Islands
ID: 376
Date: 11/28/1954
Time: 0200
Description: G. Gonzales and Jose Ponce, truck drivers, found their road
blocked by a luminous sphere over 3 m diameter, hovering 2 m above
ground. A small creature with claws and glowing eyes came toward them.
Gonzales grabbed it, found it strangely light (less than 2O kg), and
observed its body was very hard and covered with fur. But the creature
pushed him back, while two other dwarfs emerged from the bushes and
leaped into the sphere, carrying stones and other samples. Gonzales was
blinded by a light from the craft and the strange beings flew
away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor I 52 (Vallee)
Location: Caracas, Venezuela
ID: 344
Date: 11/30/1954
Description: Meteorite or something hurls thru roof of Mrs. H. Hodges in
Alabama.
Type: anomalous event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Location: Alabama
Date: 12/1954
Description: Early in December, the director of Barquisimeto College was
chased by a luminous disk as he was driving near Guanare. He fired at
the object with his revolver, without effect. He stopped another car in
which a lawyer and two policemen were traveling. All four saw the
machine fly away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. I 43 (Vallee)
Location: Guanare, Venezuela
ID: 345
Date: 12/1/1954
Time: 0430
Description: A 39-year-old civilian saw an oval light, very bright,
illuminating the countryside. After some maneuvers and oscillations in
mid-air, it landed for a couple of minutes less than 3 km away, then
flew off to the east.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Bassoues, France
ID: 346
Date: 12/3/1954
Time: 12:12 PM
Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. S.P. Mellen. One translucent grey,
round, flat object rotated on its vertical axis at high r.PM for 30
seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Gulfport, Mississippi
ID: 377
Date: 12/4/1954
Time: night
Description: For several minutes a waiter saw a circular object
stationary in a pasture 50 m away. It was blue with symmetrical
openings, from which a bright red light was emitted. The witness got a
rifle and fired twice at the very tall figure who came out of the turret
on the craft. Immediately a very strong wind was felt, and the craft
took off amidst a reddish glow.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 101 (Vallee)
Location: Caselle di Nogara, Italy
ID: 348
Date: 12/4/1954
Description: Twelve workers saw what they described as a square machine,
with a side of 10 m, land and take off at great speed, flying toward the
south.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Zuaga, Spain
ID: 347
Date: 12/7/1954
Time: 1:15 PM
Description: Witness: weather officer, using a theodolite. One white,
semi-circular, flat object with a dome flew from west to east, then
turned north. Sighting lasted 7 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Cape Province, South Africa
ID: 378
Date: 12/9/1954
Time: evening
Description: A farmer, O. da Costa e Rosa, observed a stranger standing
near a machine shaped like “a tropical helmet,” cream-colored,
surrounded with haze, making the same noise as a sewing machine. Another
man was looking at a fence, and the head and arms of a third one were
visible inside the craft. As the witness dropped his hoe, the man
smiled, picked it up, and gave it back to him, after which they motioned
him to stay away and took off. They were of average height, had broad
shoulders, long hair, very white skin, and slanted eyes. They wore brown
coveralls ending with shoes without heels.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. I 46; Humanoids 4 (Vallee)
Location: Linha Bela Vista, Brazil
ID: 349
Date: 12/9/1954
Time: 1930
Description: Ernst Jung and his wife saw an intense red, luminous object
descending toward them at great speed. It hovered 5 m above ground when
they stopped their motorcycle. It was cigarshaped, 5 m long, 2 m wide.
They saw it turn off its lights and fly toward the forest. Other people
in a bus saw the same thing.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Nachrichten Oct., 56 (Vallee)
Location: Dorf-Gull, Germany
ID: 350
Date: 12/10/1954
Time: 1830
Description: A doctor from Caracas who was driving with his father near
this town stopped his car as two little men were running into the
bushes. Soon thereafter, a luminous disk rose from the side of the road
with a sizzling sound and flew away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. I 43 (Vallee)
Location: Floresta, Venezuela
ID: 351
Date: 12/10/1954
Time: evening
Description: Having seen a bright object land near the Trans-Andean
Highway, two young men approached it, found it was shaped like two bowls
g]ued together, about 3 m diameter. The underside was a source of fiery
light. Four small beings emerged and attacked them, in an apparent
kidnapping attempt. The dwarfs were extremely strong, their bodies
covered with hair. They fled into the machine, and it took off.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. I 51 (Vallee)
Location: Chico, Venezuela
ID: 352
Date: 12/11/1954
Time: 1700
Description: Near the site of Case 349, Pedro Morais saw two human
beings dressed in “yellow bags” take a tobacco plant and a chicken, then
go away. Their craft “had a bottom like an enormous polished brass
kettle,” hovered with an oscillating motion, and made a noise like a
sewing machine. Its upper part resembled a jeep hood.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. I 46; Humanoids 34 (Vallee)
Location: Linha Bela Vista, Brazil
ID: 353
Date: 12/16/1954
Description: Three young men saw a dwarf, who attacked one of them,
Jesus Paz, before fleeing into a disk-shaped machine, which flew off
immediately. It was flat and shiny and had been hovering 1 m above
ground.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. I 50; Humanoids 35 (Vallee)
Location: San Carlos, Venezuela
ID: 354
Date: 12/17/1954
Time: 1700
Description: A woodsman from Poligny saw a very bright light on the
road, first thought it was an American car with its headlights on, but
soon observed it came from a dark craft about 80 m away. The light
turned brighter; the witness felt an intense heat wave and thought he
was going to die. Finally, the light went away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Bersaillin, France
ID: 355
Date: 12/19/1954
Time: 2300
Description: Jose Parra, an 18-year-old jockey, saw six small creatures
loading stones into a disk-shaped machine hovering about 3 m above
ground. He tried to run away but was paralyzed by a violet beam aimed at
him by one of the creatures. All the creatures entered the craft, and it
took off.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. I 52 (Vallee)
Location: Valencia, Venezuela
ID: 356
Date: 12/20/1954
Time: 0000
Description: An employee of the Barbula sanatorium saw an object on the
ground but did not report it. Three hours later, another employee saw
the craft. It was luminous and took off soon afterward.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. I 52 (Vallee)
Location: Valencia, Venezuela
ID: 357
Date: 12/22/1954
Description: World catastrophe predicted by Prof. Loughead via Dorothy
Martin.
Type: channelling
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Date: 12/22/1954
Description: World catastrophe predicted by Prof. Loughead via Dorothy
Martin.
Type: channelling
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Date: 12/29/1954
Time: 2100
Description: Near Gardonne, Mr. Gamba saw an oval red object 50 m away.
When he tried to approach it, he found he was unable to move. As soon as
this “paralysis” subsided, he ran to get his brothers and came back to
the craft, which turned white, then red. It rose and flew away toward
the east. It had been on the ground for at least 15 min. Strange traces
were found, as if the ground had been dug up. Small trees near the river
were found damaged, as if they had been cut with a knife.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 103 (Vallee)
Location: Bru, France
ID: 358
Date: 1955
Description: Soviet “Penza-19” nuclear weapons program plant opens
(Warhead assembly)
Type: atomic plant
Reference: link
Location: Soviet Union
Date: 1955
Description: According to researcher Yuri Stroganov, USSR’s Ministry of
Defence formed a UFO Research Committee. Stroganov claimed that Russian
intel chiefs met with counterparts from France, Britain, and the USA to
discuss the problem in 1956. The agreed upon the necessity to keep the
issue top secret and maintain a unified approach in handling witnesses,
the media and UFO research grounds.
Type: ufological event
Reference: “The
Alien Gene”, Moira McGhee, page 69
Location: Soviet Union
Date: 1/1/1955
Time: 6:44 AM
Description: Witnesses: instructor and student pilot in USAF B-25
bomber/trainer. A metallic disc, shaped like two pie pans face-to-face,
and 120-130’ in diameter, paced the B-25, showing both its edge and its
face, for 5-7 minutes. Only item in case file was summary form.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Cochise, New Mexico
ID: 379
Date: 1/3/1955
Time: 0725
Description: Two persons in a car saw a flying object come within 70 m
of them after their vehicle was stopped.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
Location: Melbourne, Australia
ID: 359
Date: 1/5/1955
Description: A red circular object 3 m in diameter was observed to land
and take off again.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
Location: San Sebastian, Spain
ID: 360
Date: 1/26/1955
Time: 6:15 PM
Description: Witness: J.M. Holland. A black smoke trail made a circle.
There was an explosion and some objects fell. No further information in
file.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Lakeland, Florida
ID: 380
Date: 2/1/1955
Time: 7:55 PM
Description: Witnesses: Instructor Capt. D.F. Ritzdorf, aviation cadet
F.W. Miller in TB-25 bomber/trainer. One red and white ball hovered off
the left wing of the TB-25 for 5 minutes, then made a very fast climb.
Total time of sighting was 8 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: 20 miles east of Cochise, New Mexico
ID: 381
Date: 2/2/1955
Time: 11:50 AM
Description: Witness: USN Cmdr. J.L. Ingersoll. One highly polished
sphere, with reddish-brown coloring, fell, then instantly accelerated to
1,000-1,500 m.p.h.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Miramar Naval Air Station, California
ID: 382
Date: 2/10/1955
Time: 10:03 PM
Description: Witness: E.J. Stein, model maker at U.S. Navy ship design
facility. One object, shaped like a small portion of the bottom of the
Moon, with a radiant yellow color, hovered for 30 seconds. Its bottom
changed to a funnel shape. Total sighting lasted 1.5-2 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Bethesda, Maryland
ID: 383
Date: 2/23/1955
Description: Broadlands Archives Record: Sworn statement by Lord
Mountbatten and Frederick Briggs describing a Saucer that landed on Lord
Mountbattens property. It was shaped like a child’s humming top, between
10 to 30 ft. diameter. Looked like kitchen saucepan. Had cylindrical
column about the size of a man descending from the center. Had portholes
all around the middle, like a steamer boat. I noticed a man standing on
the end of the central column. He was dressed in a dark suit of
overalls, and wearing a close fitting hat or helmet. As the Saucer
powered up a bright blue light came from one of the portholes (like a
mercury-vapor lamp). A force knocked me over. The Flying Saucer
proceeded to rise and retract the central column. (See movie ”Earth
vs. the F.S.”)
Type: ce2 event
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-E p451-453, ALIEN)
Location: Britain
See also: 8/23/52
Date: 3/1955
Time: 0400
Description: Robert Hunnicutt, a businessman, saw three men kneeling on
the side of the road. They were about 1 m tall, had gray skin, and wore
tight-fitting gray clothes. They had froglike face, long slender arms,
normal eyes, but no eyebrows. One of them held a dark object (emitting
blue flashes) between his raised arms. Hunnicutt tried to go near but
“must have lost consciousness,” because he found himself driving to the
police station without remembering what took place in the
meantime.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Stringfield; FS May., 61; Sanderson 147 (Vallee)
Location: Branch Hill, Ohio
ID: 361
Date: 3/2/1955
Time: 1700
Description: A car was followed for 10 min by three elongated
“balloons,” each showing eight red lights and about 7 m long.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Huntley, Illinois
ID: 362
Date: 3/7/1955
Description: K.A. (initials) from Rescue Team 4, Roswell AFB, N.M. given
a general discharge from the USAF because he told his Sergeant about the
Top Secret recovery of a UFO on April 12, 1954.
Type: personnel discharged
Reference: Pea
Research (A5, B3-C)
Location: Roswell, NM
See also: 4/12/54
Date: 4/18/1955
Description: Albert Einstein dies
Type: scientist
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Princeton, NJ
Date: 4/21/1955
Description: Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter, 5 adult and 7 child
witnesses, UFO spotted, “twelve to fifteen” short, dark figures who
repeatedly popped up at the doorway or peered into the windows.
Type: ufological event
Reference: link
Location: Hopkinsville, KY
Date: 4/30/1955
Time: 7:30 AM
Description: Witness USAF Wing Intelligence Officer Maj. L..J.
Pagozalski. Four black objects in a cluster made a whooshing sound like
a zephyr. Sighting lasted 2-3 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Travis County, Texas
ID: 384
Date: 5/4/1955
Time: 12:38 PM
Description: Witnesses: Lt. Col. E.J. Stealy, lst Lt. J.W. Burt. About
10 round, white objects, one of which left a brief smoke trail, flew in
an irregular formation, some of them making erratic movements during the
5-8 second sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Keflavik, Iceland
ID: 385
Date: 5/18/1955
Description: News release from AEC announcing “preliminary work” had
begun “on a small satellite installation” within the Las Vegas Bombing
and Gunnery Range. Contractor was adding “Limited additional facilities
and modifications” to a small installation near Groom Lake (now known as
Area 51).
Type: news release
Reference: “Dreamland”
by Bob Lazar
Location: Groom Lake
Date: 5/23/1955
Time: Midnight
Description: Witnesses: USAF Airman/Basic I.J. Shapiro and E.C. Ingber.
During a 5 minute period, two slender, vertical rectangles were seen low
on the horizon, and two ovals with tops (dark, with dark blue
illumination) flew higher.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Cheyenne, Wyoming
ID: 386
Date: 5/29/1955
Time: 1920
Description: Approximate date. Three farmers, among them Thomas
Robinson, saw a light growing in size for 2 min and flying between them
and Mt. Williams. Looking like a “light airplane on fire,” it changed
course, losing altitude and trailing flames. It touched the ground,
lighting up the whole area, rose again, and began to “feel its way along
the crooked edge of the cane field and the swamp toward our house.” It
returned to earth four times. The dogs ran out barking as it landed
within 100 m of the witnesses before taking off again.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: UFO Bulletin Mar., 58 (Vallee)
Location: Smithfield, near Cairns, Australia
ID: 363
Date: 5/31/1955
Time: 1110
Description: A farmer, 74-year-old J. B. Collange, was watching his cows
on a clear, calm morning when he suddenly observed, in an easterly
direction, a vertical circular object about 3 m away, the bottom edge
about 30 cm from the ground. It measured about 1.10 m in diameter, was
very luminous, white, but not blinding. Many filaments of various colors
were radiating from the disk. Their length varied between 0.5 and 2 m.
The object rose over a hedge and was lost to sight behind some
woods.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Ouranos 14, 15, 22 (Vallee)
Location: Puy-Saint-Gulmier, France
ID: 364
Date: 6/10/1955
Description: Science fiction movie “This Island Earth” is released. A
group of scientists receive special materials that are technologically
more sophisticated than anything available at the time from a secret
research group.
Type: movie
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: US
Date: 7/3/1955
Description: Mrs. Wesley Symmonds was driving near this town when she
saw four “bug-eyed” creatures near the road. They were small beings with
thin arms, large eyes, and pointed chins. Two were turned away from the
witness; one was bending over with something like a stick in its hand;
and the fourth one was facing her with its right arm raised. It had
bulging eyes, a sort of cap, no visible mouth, a long pointed nose, a
chin which came to a sharp point, and long thin arms with claws.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Stringfield; Humanoids 54 (Vallee)
Location: Stockton, Georgia
ID: 365
Date: 7/12/1955
Description: Unusual UFOB report from Pepperrel AFB, Newfoundland. UFO
sighted by a tanker aircraft (KC97) pilot and ground radar. “Unusual” in
that the pilot of the Archie 29 called direction changes of the UFO to
ground radar which correlated exactly with those painted by the radar
scope. This observation went on for 49 minutes. Signed: Todos M.
Odarenko.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Pepperrel AFB, Newfoundland
Date: 7/18/1955
Time: 0300
Description: Mr. Maupin and five other witnesses on the airfield were
blinded by a light from a disk-shaped object 150 m away. It left orange
glows in its trail. Silent, flying slowly, it hovered near the Metro
station, close to the ground, but did not actually land. It left toward
the northwest. A woodsman from Mareul-Caubert, Mr. Rolle, saw the object
half-an-hour earlier. It came from the direction of Amiens.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Plessiel Airfield, near Abbeville, France
ID: 366
Date: 7/29/1955
Time: 10:45 PM
Description: Witness: Morrice Raymond. Four orange flashing lights and
one whIte flashing light moved up and down like yo-yos for 5-6
minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Columbus, Nebraska
ID: 387
Date: 8/1/1955
Time: night
Description: Two persons in a car saw a lighted object dive toward them
and hover about 30 m above the road. A disk, 12 m in diameter, it flew
around the car and went away without noise. The witnesses were tourists,
who went straight to the Arles police.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 105 (Vallee)
Location: Salon, near Arles, France
ID: 367
Date: 8/1/1955
Time: 2100
Description: Mr. Sheneman, who was coming from Willoughby, came out of
his car and saw a circular object with a red light on it that came down
fast, hovered, and emitted two beams of light. The witness fled toward
his house, and the object appeared to chase him at less than 70 m
altitude. It measured about 30 m in diameter and supported a dome.
Mr. Sheneman, his wife, and their two children saw it fly away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Evidence 114 (Vallee)
Location: Chardon Road, Ohio
ID: 368
Date: 8/5/1955
Time: 1430
Description: Messrs. Coisin and Mahieu saw five brown, disk-shaped
machines coming down and up again at great speed. One of them flew under
the others, then two disks appeared to land 300 m away near the German
cemetery. The others flew away toward the south at tremendous
speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Buzancy, Ardennes, France
ID: 369
Date: 8/11/1955
Time: 11:45 AM
Description: Witness: 2nd Lt. E.J. Marlow. Twelve grey objects, from
cigar to egg-shaped, varied their formation from elliptical to wavy line
to scattered to straight line to trail formation. Speed varied from
hover to 1,000 m.p.h. Sighting lasted 3-4 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Iceland
ID: 388
Date: 8/16/1955
Time: 0400
Description: Mr. Ernest Suddard, 35, and his 13-year-old son were in a
lorry on Roundhill Street when they saw what seemed to be a human being
about 1.20 m tall, dressed in skin-tight black clothes. It held its arms
close to its sides, its feet close together, and walked by a series of
jumps. On its chest was a silver disk perforated with holes. It turned
off suddenly into a passageway and was lost to sight. The witnesses were
too amazed to follow it.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Constance 222 (Vallee)
Location: Bradford, England
ID: 370
Date: 8/19/1955
Time: 2330
Description: About 700 m away from Roundhill street, Mr. Wood, a
warehouseman, saw a bright, bullet-shaped, silvery object behind a
hillock. It measured about 4 m in height, 1.5 m in diameter, had a
surface similar to chromium and made a highpitched buzzing sound.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Constance 222 (Vallee)
Location: Bradford, England
ID: 371
Date: 8/21/1955
Time: 2030
Description: The Sutton family saw a light landing near their farmhouse,
then several nightmarish entities about 1 m tall, with glowing silver
clothing, an oversized round head, huge eyes and ears, and a slit-like
mouth harassed them for several hours, in spite of heavy gunfire. At one
point, one of the entities was knocked down from the roof by a bullet:
it “floated down.” Running out of ammunition, the Suttons got the
police, who observed a lighted object in the sky, flying very
fast.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic, Anatomy 173; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Hopkinsville, Kentucky
ID: 372
Date: 8/22/1955
Time: 1400
Description: A group of children was playing in the garden of Mr. and
Mrs. Douglas when they observed a hovering object which disappared and
reappeared as a spinning disk with curved lines radiating from it. Other
objects, silvery and semi-transparent, soon appeared and were seen by
all children. They made musical sounds as they vanished and reappeared.
One of them landed, and a creature the size of a 4-year-old child,
transparent, wearing a belt with a bright disk, was seen nearby. Another
creature appeared and spoke to one of the boys. All the children
experienced visions of the object and the creatures, as well as “arms”
which appeared to beckon to them.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: TSR 67, 5 (Vallee)
Location: Casa Blanca, near Riverside, California
ID: 373
Date: 8/23/1955
Time: 10:45 AM
Description: Witness: G.M. Park, using a 400x telescope. Several orange
lights moved singly or in groups, circling and stopping during 30 minute
sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Arlington, Virginia
ID: 389
Date: 8/25/1955
Description: Four adolescents in a car saw a creature with a luminous
body, standing near a fireplug.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Stringfield 64 (Vallee)
Location: Greenhills, Ohio
ID: 374
Date: 9/3/1955
Time: Unknown time
Description: Witness: Observer Saunders for Ground Observer Corps. One
white pinhead moved slowly across 30^ of sky in 15 minutes. No further
information.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Bellingham, Washington
ID: 390
Date: 9/7/1955
Time: Unknown time
Description: Witnesses: Two photographers, one plate maker for the Army
Map Service (one named Smith). One glowing round object flew an arc for
1 minute.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Washington, DC
ID: 391
Date: 9/9/1955
Time: 12 noon
Description: Witness: M.N. Dawkins, using binoculars. One brown, almost
square object flew with a circular motion for 10-15 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: near Alcoa, Tennessee
ID: 392
Date: 9/16/1955
Time: 1800
Description: A young shepherd heard a whistling sound as a dark mass
appeared to fall from the sky and a rush of air swept him from his feet.
The object looked like a machine with an opening where a stairway became
visible. Two occupants were seen. One was observed to have a reddish
face, a bald head and very fine teeth. The craft was round, about 3.5 m
diameter, 2 m high, lighted with neon-like light. The occupants gathered
some plants and flew away to the northwest.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Boisseuges, France
ID: 375
Date: 9/17/1955
Time: night
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Bordes, of New York City, were fishing when
they heard a loud splash and a “gurgling sound,” saw a pink, iridescent,
mushroom-shaped object rise about 70 cm above the water, and sink into
the reservoir. Later, they saw the object again, about 5 m long and
surrounded with turbulence. It reversed direction several times without
turning around and finally flew away very fast.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Constance 226; FSR 55,5 (Vallee)
Location: Bush Pine, New York
ID: 376
Date: 9/21/1955
Description: Soviet underwater atomic bomb test, 3.5kt
Type: atomic
Reference: link
Location: Soviet Union
Atomic type: aboveground
Atomic KT: 3.5
Date: 10/5/1955
Description: Letter from US Navy Rear Admiral J. L. Herlihy at Pearl
Harbor to the future director of the BSRA, Riley Crabb. They gave him an
award of $200 in recognition of his superior performance in his
duties.
Type: letter
Reference: Twitter
Location: Pearl Harbor
Date: 10/8/1955
Time: 4:38 PM
Description: Witnesses: R.D. Prather, H. Ahern. One round, silver or
white object flew straight and level at more than 1,000 m.p.h. for an
unstated length of time.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Loogootee, Indiana
ID: 393
Date: 10/11/1955
Time: 4 PM
Description: Witnesses: B. Hale, A. Ostrom. One round object which
looked white in the daylight and turned red with sparks toward the end
of the 2.5 hour sighting, made a deep roar, unlike an aircraft.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Pt. Lookout, Maryland
ID: 394
Date: 10/28/1955
Description: A disk with a row of blue lights on the periphery slowly
maneuvered above a car on a deserted road.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Evidence 135, 146 (Vallee)
Location: Galloway, England
ID: 377
Date: 11/1955
End date: 4/1956
Description: Admiral Richard E. Byrd’s fifth Antarctic expedition
(Operation Deep Freeze). By 1955 Byrd was in charge of the United
States’ Antarctic program and supervised the U.S. Navy’s Operation Deep
Freeze, which was sent to support the International Geophysical Year
(1957–58). This was Byrd’s final visit to Antarctica and although he was
only there for a week, he also took his last flight over the South Pole
on January 8, 1956. This expedition also established permanent Antarctic
bases at McMurdo Sound (McMurdo Station) and the South Pole
(Amundsen-Scott Base).
Type: lecture
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: McMurdo Station
Date: 11/2/1955
Description: Deputy-sheriff A. H. Perkins, C. F. Bell, and a dozen other
witnesses saw six bellshaped objects moving by successive leaps. One
came close to a patrol car; the men inside felt that their arms and legs
“went dead” and that their clothes were burning them.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Evidence 64 (Vallee)
Location: Williston, Florida
ID: 378
Date: 11/17/1955
Time: 6:10 AM
Description: Witness: J.A. Mapes. Twelve round, flat objects, silver on
top and dark on the bottom, flew in 4-deep formation, tipping in pitch
and roll, for 45 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
ID: 395
Date: 11/20/1955
Time: 5:20 PM
Description: Witnesses: Operations Officer Capt. B.G. Denkler and five
men of the USAF 663rd AC&W Sqdn. Two oblong, bright orange,
semi-transparent objects flew at terrific speed and erratically, toward
and away from each other. Observed by various persons form 4 to 15
minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Lake City, Tennessee
ID: 396
Date: 11/22/1955
Description: First megaton-class Soviet hydrogen bomb test RDS-37 at the
Semipalatinsk Test Site
Type: atomic
Reference: link
Location: Semipalatinsk Test Site
Atomic type: aboveground
Atomic MT: 1.6
Date: 11/25/1955
Time: 10:30 AM
Description: Witness: State Senator S.T. Taylor. One dirigible-shaped
object (fat front, tapered toward the tail) object, which was luminous
green-blue and jellylike, appeared overhead diving at a 45’ angle, then
reduced angle to 30’. Object seen for 5 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: La Veta, Colorado
ID: 397
Date: 12/21/1955
Time: 111 PM
Description: Witness: Roberta V. Jacobs. One round, very bright gold,
domed disc made a short climb, rotated, hovered and then accelerated
during the 6-8 minute sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Caribou, Maine
ID: 398
Date: 1956
Description: E. R. Rayburn, Twin Falls, Idaho see saucer capture 400lbs
steer from farm
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Location: Twin Falls, Idaho
Attributes: cattle mutilation
Date: 1956
Description: Much UFO activity in South America
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Location: South America
Date: 1956
Description: Much UFO activity and interest in Mexico.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Location: Mexico
Date: 1956
Description: According to researcher Yuri Stroganov, Russian intel
chiefs met with counterparts from France, Britain, and the USA to
discuss the UFO problem. The agreed upon the necessity to keep the issue
top secret and maintain a unified approach in handling witnesses, the
media and UFO research groups.
Type: secret meeting
Reference: “The
Alien Gene”, Moira McGhee, page 69
See also: 1955
Date: 1956
Description: Soviet “Krasnoyarsk-45” nuclear weapons program plant opens
(Uranium enrichment)
Type: atomic plant
Reference: link
Location: Soviet Union
Date: 2/5/1956
Description: Soviet atomic bomb test R-5M. The RDS-4 comprised the
warhead of the R-5M, the first medium-range ballistic missile in the
world, which was tested with a live warhead for the first and only time
on February 5, 1956.
Type: atomic
Reference: Wikipedia
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Kapustin Yar
Atomic type: aboveground
Atomic KT: .3
Date: 2/7/1956
Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture to a discussion
group in Coral Gables, FL
Type: lecture
Reference: NICAP
Location: Coral Gables, FL
Date: 2/8/1956
Description: Miami News: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on
flying saucers
Type: lecture
Reference: NICAP
Location: Miami, FL
Date: 2/12/1956
Time: 11:25 PM
Description: Witnesses: F-89 pilot Bowen, radar observer Crawford. One
green and red object rapidly circled the aircraft while being tracked on
radar during 1 minute sighting. No further details.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Goose Bay, Labrador, Canada
ID: 399
Date: 2/19/1956
Time: 6:07 AM
Description: Witnesses: crew of Eastern Airlines Super Constellation.
One intense white light, moving 4-5 times the speed of the airplane, was
evaded by the pilot.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Houston, Texas
ID: 400
Date: 3/3/1956
Description: Science fiction movie “Forbidden Planet” is released
Type: movie
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: US
Date: 4/4/1956
Time: 3:15 PM
Description: Witnesses: Capt. Roy Hall, U.S. Army, ret.; Charles
Anderson and others; some observed through a 6” telescope, others
through a 55-200x telescope. One fat, oblong object with two lines
around its middle, remained stationary for 6 hours.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: McKinney, Texas
ID: 401
Date: 4/6/1956
Description: Two men saw a silvery, balloonshaped craft about 2 m in
diameter land in a field 100 m away from them, about 8 km east of
McKinney. They stopped their car to investigate, but the object took off
at fantastic speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: McKinney, Texas
ID: 379
Date: 4/7/1956
Description: Elizabeth Klarer, South Africa takes ride in saucer, talks
to Venusians.
Type: ce4 event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Location: South Africa
Date: 4/8/1956
Time: 2345
Description: Near Exauroux, two brothers, 18 and 20, saw a red ball to
their left coming down and hovering at tree height. It then left at
fantastic speed. Three additional witnesses reported it independently.
The object was a disk about 7.5 m in diameter, with a red dome, and
rotating fins under it. It emitted a yellow-orange glow.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Elboeuf, France
ID: 380
Date: 4/16/1956
Time: 0500
Description: On Route 1, just before dawn, two government employees saw
for a few seconds a large, top-shaped object passing over their car. It
was as large as the road and made no sound.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Henderson, North Carolina
ID: 381
Date: 5/9/1956
Time: 2300
Description: Two girls, Joan Frost and Gertie Wynn, while waiting for a
bus, saw two pulsating lights flying horizontally and disappearing. 15
min later the lights were seen again, stopping at the zenith, merging,
and diving to 50 m altitude. As the bus arrived, it seemed that the
objects had separated and were about to abduct the witnesses, and they
ran to the vehicle in terror.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Mar., 59 (Vallee)
Location: Jacksonville, Florida
ID: 382
Date: 6/6/1956
Time: 0430
Description: An object hovered about 30 m above and 100 m away from the
witness’s car. Showing something like a dome on top, it crossed the road
slowly, turned, and crossed the road again behind the car, then vanished
suddenly.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Banning, California
ID: 383
Date: 6/6/1956
Time: 5:30 AM
Description: Witness: Mr. Bierman. One thin disc with a small dome,
shimmering silver, hovered about 100 yards away for 8-10 seconds, then
zoomed up.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Banning, California
ID: 402
Date: 6/13/1956
Description: Science fiction movie “Earth vs. the Flying Saucers” is
released
Type: movie
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: US
Date: 7/19/1956
Description: Michael Savage, Cal. takes pic of saucer.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Location: California
Attributes: ufo photo
Date: 7/20/1956
Description: Three witnesses independently claimed that they observed a
huge, ballshaped object from which emerged three beings. They were
nearly 2 m tall, had long, blond hair, and wore tight, green
suits.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Hanlon; Humanoids 64 (Vallee)
Location: Panorama City, California
ID: 384
Date: 8/8/1956
Time: 11 PM
Description: Witnesses: attorneys W.B. Buttermore and J.W. Smith. One
blue-white pulsating light flew fast, straight and level, for 5-7
minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: 20 miles south of Quartsite, Arizona
ID: 403
Date: 8/27/1956
Time: 9:55 PM
Description: Witness: Mrs. R.S. Pope. One bright disc with a clear dome
flew vertically, then north. A very cold breeze seemed to have been
originated by the object during the 3 minute sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Juniata, Pennsylvania
ID: 404
Date: 8/29/1956
Description: National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena
organized in Washington DC
Type: historical event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Location: Washington DC
Date: 9/1956
Time: 2030
Description: O. Guarichi was walking on the beach with his dogs when he
saw an object come from the sea and land. Two men, 1.80 m tall, wearing
metallic-looking uniforms, emerged. One of them picked up objects from
the beach. There was an exchange of gestures with the witness. One of
the dogs turned away when the witness approached the craft, which was 20
m wide 3 m high and showed flashing lights as it left.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Nachrichten Mar., 61 (Vallee)
Location: Cabo Frio, Brazil
ID: 385
Date: 9/4/1956
Time: 9 PM
Description: Witnesses: U.S. Marine Corps T/Sgt. R.D. Rogers and family.
One large star, changing to red color, remained stationary for 20
minutes, then went west at 200 kts. (230 m.p.h.). Sighting lasted 23
minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Dallas, Texas
ID: 405
Date: 9/7/1956
Description: Hutchinson of Moneymore, Ireland wrestles with UFO. Disc
escapes.
Type: ufo encounter
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Location: Moneymore, Ireland
Date: 9/14/1956
Time: 1 AM
Description: Witness: Scaly, N. Car. policeman O.S. Gryman. Fourteen
yellow-to-red round objects with tremendous exhaust, flew in a Vague
formation from southwest to east to northeast and back again, while
swoooping up and down. Sighting lasted 1.5 hours.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Highland, North Carolina
ID: 406
Date: 10/2/1956
Description: Harry Sturdevant, a night watchman of some 20 years, said,
“a red light in the sky shot at him. This UFO had no wings, fins or
propulsion sounds, except for the sound of “escaping steam”. It was
about 60 to 100 ft. in diam. and cigar shaped. The UFO gave him “the
greatest shock of my life”. There was a nauseating smell like sulfur and
brimstone. He lost the sense of taste and smell and couldn’t swallow
properly. He collapsed on the ground and was unable to move for half an
hour, after which he managed to drive to his home and call for aid. Six
weeks later, a New Jersey workmen’s compensation referee decided that
Sturdevant should be paid for medical expenses incurred for the injury
done by the UFO.
Type: ufo sighting with injury
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Trenton, NJ
Date: Late 1956
Description: Castle AFB, California: A.A. and J.R. (names withheld) were
flying F-86’s near Modesto, CA, on alert duty due to civilian UFO
reports in a nearby town. Base instructed them to return because their
was an UFO near the control tower. With afterburners on they closed
rapidly on a luminous elliptical UFO that moved above and below cloud
cover at 10 to 12 thousand feet as if to elude them. The two pilots
played cat-and-mouse with the UFO until they ran low of fuel and
returned to base. Local citizens that witnessed these events were told
by the Air Force that the pilots had been chasing ducks or geese.
Type: movie
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Castle AFB, CA
Date: 10/24/1956
Description: NICAP established. One of its board of directors was
Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, former CIA director and rumored MJ-12
member. From this position Hillenkoetter and others could steeer NICAP
from the inside in any direction they wanted.
Type: historical event
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Washington DC
Date: 11/1/1956
Time: 5:30 PM
Description: Witness: USAF Capt. W..M. Lyons, Intelligence Division
Chief (Aerial Weather Reconnaissance Officer), flying a T-33 jet
trainer. One orange light with a blue tinge, flew across the sky for 2
minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: 60 miles east of St. Louis, Missouri, in Illinois
ID: 407
Date: 11/30/1956
Time: 12:48 PM
Description: Witness: USAF aerial navigator Maj. D.D. Grimes. One
unspecified object flew at an estimated 100’ altitude over water for 10
minutes. No further details.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Charleston AFB, South Carolina
ID: 408
Date: 12/31/1956
Time: 2:10 AM
Description: Witness: USAF lst Lt. Ted Brunson, flying an F-86D jet
interceptor. One round, white object flew under the F-86D, which was
unable to turn as sharply as the object.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Guam
ID: 409
Date: 1957
Description: Soviet “Chelyabinsk-70” nuclear weapons program plant opens
(Weapons design and research)
Type: atomic plant
Reference: link
Date: 1957
Description: Cynthia Appleton, Birmingham, England is visited by
spacemen
Type: ce3 event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Location: Birmingham, England
Date: 1957
Description: A radioactive waste containment sector near Ozyorsk failed
and exploded with a force between 70-100 tons of TNT. Radiation was
immediately spread throughout the region, affecting over 250,000 people.
The radioactivity released into the atmosphere was estimated to only be
one-fourth that of the later Chernobyl disaster. By 1959 every tree
within a 12-mile radius of the Chelyabinsk-40 complex was dead.
Type: radiological event
Reference: link
Location: Ozyorsk, Russia
Date: 1/15/1957
Time: early
Description: William West and Wallace Liddell saw an object similar to a
shooting star coming close to them appearing then as an oval,
fluorescent craft, about 40 m in diameter, which almost touched the
grass. They rushed to catch it, but it jumped away, turning into a
bluish-white sphere with a dark red center. Each time they tried to
reach it, the craft jumped farther away. It cleared a high fence and
slowly vanished. The Invercargill Weather Bureau had no
explanation.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 107 (Vallee)
Location: Balfour, New Zealand
ID: 386
Date: 2/9/1957
Time: 2200
Description: Approximate date. Ina Salter was driving on Route 53 in a
desolate area when she encountered a cigar-shaped objert about 5 m long,
showing several portholes, which was hovering close to the ground to the
left of the road. The portholes, about 50 cm in diameter, were
illuminated with a yellowish light, and there were shadows moving
behind. As she passed the object, it took off straight up, hovered for a
few seconds, then rose out of sight
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Mar., 62 (Vallee)
Location: Georgetown, Connecticut
ID: 387
Date: 3/8/1957
Time: night
Description: A pilot saw a circular object flying against the wind. It
was luminous, about 5.5 m in diameter, and flew so low that it appeared
to suck up the snow.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Keyhoe S (Vallee)
Location: Baudette, Minnesota
ID: 388
Date: 3/10/1957
Description: Pan American Airways Plane almost collides with UFO (NY to
San Juan, P.R. run)
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Location: New York
Attributes: aerospace
Date: 3/10/1957
Description: Pan American Airways Plane almost collides with UFO (NY to
San Juan, P.R. run)
Type: ufo encounter
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Location: New York
Attributes: aerospace
Date: 4/14/1957
Time: 1500
Description: At an intersection, two women, Mrs. Garcin and Mrs. Rami,
suddenly heard a noise and saw behind them a top-shaped object, 1 m high
and 1 m wide, nearly touching the ground. It made a sudden jump and
landed again: There were a number of antennalike projections on top of
it. The noise did not come from the object, but from a metallic road
sign vibrating in its vicinity.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: M 207; Challenge 14 (Vallee)
Location: Vins-sur-Caramy, France
ID: 389
Date: 4/19/1957
Time: 1152
Description: Japanese fishermen aboard the “Kitsukawara Maru” saw two
metal disks come into the sky. This was followed by violent
turbulence.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Round-up 147 (Vallee)
Location: Pacific Ocean, near Japan
ID: 390
Date: 4/22/1957
Time: 1300
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Firmin Bason heard an unusual noise and saw a
whirlwind of flames 10 or 15 m above ground, coming down toward the
vineyard. It was red and blue, spinning wildly, flying slowly. It
hovered for 5 min over plants which moved violently, then it flew south
with a deafening roar, hovered again and departed to the southwest.
Diameter at the top: about 5 m.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Ouranos 21 (Vallee)
Location: Palalda, France
ID: 391
Date: 4/25/1957
Time: Unknown time
Description: Military witness Robertson. Case missing from official
files.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Ringgold, Louisiana
ID: 410
Date: 5/1957
Description: Frances Stichler, who lived on a farm, was working in her
barn when she heard a whirring sound and saw a bowl-shaped object, 7 m
in diameter, with a rim over 1 m wide about 5 m above ground. It stopped
with one side tilted toward her. A man dressed in a loose, shiny, gray
suit, wearing a tight-fitting helmet, was facing her from inside the
object. He seemed of average height had deep-set eyes, tanned skin, and
a long face with a “quizzical” expression. Almost immediately the object
left toward the southeast.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 108; Humanoids 57 (Vallee)
Location: Milford, Pennsylvania
ID: 392
Date: 5/1957
Description: Pilot Milton Torres flew a F-86 D Sabre from the Royal Air
Force base at Manston, Kent and ordered to shoot down a large “aircraft
carrier” sized UFO flying at more than 7600mph. Object disappeared,
ordered to stay silent and threatened with a national security breach if
he talked.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Reuters
Link
Location: Manston, Kent
Date: 5/1/1957
Time: 0700
Description: When his motorcycle suddenly failed, the driver observed a
disk, 2O m in diameter and 5 m thick, hovering about 15 m above ground.
He hid in a ditch and saw the craft come down, making a sound similar to
air escaping from a valve. A sort of lift descended from its base almost
to the ground. In it was a man of average height, who made friendly
gestures to the witness. He was dressed in a plastic diving suit. The
witness entered the machine and saw inside several people seated before
instrument panels, lighted by an extraordinary light. He was then
escorted out, and the disk rose to the northwest. During the next hour,
six sightings were made along the same course by independent
witnesses.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 35; FSR 65, 1; FSR 65, 4 (Vallee)
Location: Pajasblancas Airport, Argentina
ID: 393
Date: 5/3/1957
Description: Astronaut Gordon Cooper
spots a UFO landing at Edwards AFB.
Type: ce2 event
Reference: YouTube
Location: Edwards AFB
Date: 5/10/1957
Time: 2250
Description: A Hungarian refugee, Michel Fekete, was riding his bicycle
when he saw an object hovering 30 cm above ground and four little men
nearby. The police found lavalike fragments at the site. Six other
witnesses vouch for the sighting including Messrs. Iklef and Lepot and
their wives. The craft was luminous, pulsating between red and white
(remaining red longer). When white, it was more blinding than a powerful
searchlight. It was 50 m away from the group of witnesses. Occupants
were about 1.30 m tall with a beige-gray body, an abnormally large black
head, and a waddling gait. The object flew away when a car came into
view.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 109; M 211 (Vallee)
Location: Beaucourt-sur-Ancre, France
ID: 394
Date: 5/20/1957
Description: OPERATION INTERCEPT: Two USAF fighters intercept a UFO. The
F-86D’s fired Mighty Mouse missiles at the UFO and missed it. The UFO
left their 30 mile range area and fell off the radar scope.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: link
Location: Manston, Kent
Date: 6/2/1957
Description: Letter to BSRA about a recent nuclear test that was
postponed for 2 weeks because the winds would blow fallout in occupied
areas. The eventually conducted test blew the fallout over occupied
areas anyway.
Type: letter
Reference: Twitter
Location: Nevada
Date: 6/5/1957
Description: Undocumented report of a landing and of “bellicose
dwarfs.”
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
Location: Uriman, Venezuela
ID: 395
Date: 6/12/1957
Time: 7:30 PM
Description: Witness: G.U. Donadio, translator for export-import firm.
One object “big as a hen’s egg” flew very fast, zigzagged, hovered and
revolved, then shot up after 17 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Milan, Italy
ID: 411
Date: 7/1/1957
Description: International Geophysical Year (IGY). It marked the end of
a long period during the Cold War when scientific interchange between
East and West had been seriously interrupted. Sixty-seven countries
participated in IGY projects. The IGY encompassed eleven Earth sciences:
aurora and airglow, cosmic rays, geomagnetism, gravity, ionospheric
physics, longitude and latitude determinations (precision mapping),
meteorology, oceanography, seismology, and solar activity. The timing of
the IGY was particularly suited for studying some of these phenomena,
since it covered the peak of solar cycle 19. Both the Soviet Union and
the U.S. launched artificial satellites for this event; the Soviet
Union’s Sputnik 1, launched on October 4, 1957, was the first
successful artificial satellite.[3] Other significant achievements of
the IGY included the discovery of the Van Allen radiation belts by
Explorer 1 and the defining of mid-ocean submarine ridges, an important
confirmation of plate-tectonic theory.
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Date: 7/25/1957
Time: 1910
Description: Mr. Joao Guimaraes, who is a professor at the Catholic
Faculty of Law in Santos, was sitting near the shore when he saw a
hat-shaped, luminous craft approach from the sea and land near him. From
it came a metallic stairway. Two normal men with long, fair hair hanging
to their shoulders, a youthful appearance and wearing one-piece suits,
came down, gave no verbal answers to his questions, but invited him
“telepathically” to come aboard the craft. Inside the illuminated
compartment, he sat on a circular seat with the crew. The machine rose
for a short flight. On his return, Guimaraes found that his watch no
longer worked. (Humanoids 36; FSR 57, 6
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: (Vallee)
Location: Sao Sebastiao, Brazil
ID: 396
Date: 7/27/1957
Time: Early morning
Description: Or July 29, 1957. Witness: J.L. Siverly. One thick disc,
ice blue, with a top like honeycomb (interconnected hexagons), hovered
and rocked below the hill tops for 10 minutes. Middle band was
scalloped, bottom had four kidney-shaped forms.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Longmont, Colorado
ID: 412
Date: 7/29/1957
Time: 10:31 PM
Description: Witnesses: Capital Airlines Capt. R.L. Stimley, First
Officer F.J. Downing. One large, round, yellow-white object dimmed once,
crossed the bow of the airliner, which then gave chase but was unable to
catch it. Sighting last 8 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
ID: 413
Date: 7/29/1957
Time: 11:45 AM
Description: Witness: E.E. Henkins. One pale yellow fireball glided into
the water and exploded. Viewed for 1 minute.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Oldsmar, Florida
ID: 414
Date: 7/30/1957
Description: Jack Stephenson was walking about 7 km from Galt when he
saw a flash in the sky. A circular object making a whirring sound came
down and landed with a throw of flames. It took off again 30 min
later,leaving the ground blackened and branches broken. The craft had a
stationary dome, but the periphery was spinning.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Round-up 188 (Vallee)
Location: Galt, Ontario, Canada
ID: 397
Date: 7/30/1957
Description: Jack Stephens, Galt, Ontario sees spaceship on ground for
45 minutes
Type: ce2 event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Location: Galt, Ontario
Date: 8/20/1957
Description: An Air Force man inside a tent heard a loud, shrill sound
and saw a disk that came down as grass and plants fluttered wildly under
it. He found himself unable to draw his gun, which “seemed to be glued
in its holster.” A voice came from the craft, telling him in Spanish
that UFO’s had a base in the Salta area and would soon show themselves
to warn all people about the dangers of a nuclear catastrophe.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 36 (Vallee)
Location: Quilino, Argentina
ID: 398
Date: 8/22/1957
Time: 1540
Description: A black, bellshaped object bearing two bright, white lights
at the top and maeasuring 15 m in diameter was chased by a civilian in a
car until the engine stalled. The object was then hovering 3 m away. The
underside of the machine resembled a disk with fins. When a jet aircraft
took off from the airfield, the object went out of sight almost
instantaneously. The car battery was found completely dead. There was no
helicopter in the area, although the two witnesses compared the noise
made by the object to that of a helicopter.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Cecil Naval Air Station, Florida
ID: 399
Date: 8/31/1957
Description: In a letter about UFOs to a constituent, Senator Barry
Goldwater said, “I, frankly, feel there is a great deal to this.”
Type: letter
Reference: Pea
Research
Date: 9/1957
Description: A man suddenly fell, as if paralyzed, and his two
companions then observed an object shaped like a disk with a dome on top
and another dome under it, 50 m away. A door opened and three men, 1.70
m tall, wearing close-fitting, iridescent clothing, and who walked as if
on skis, appeared to make a check of the craft and the surroundings.
They gathered samples in a large box. The witnesses saw small portholes
and a tripod landing gear. The craft took off after 20 min.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Nachrichten Jul., 60 (Vallee)
Location: Campinas, Brazil
ID: 400
Date: 9/10/1957
Description: Approximate date. Anonymous witnesses saw a disk dive down
and explode, showering the area with flaming fragments. Some samples
were gathered, sent to a Brazilian newsman, analyzed by friends of
Dr. Fontes, of Rio, and were found to consist of surprisingly pure
magnesium.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor.l 90; 110 (Vallee)
Location: Ubatuba, Brazil
ID: 401
Date: 9/16/1957
Time: 930
Description: Les McDonald, 17, and Gladys Smith, 14, saw a red light
changing to green, spreading around them like a mist and covering an
area about 100 m diameter. They became nearly paralyzed and “felt a warm
glow.” They had no fear, but were “merely cognizant of things as they
were without being able to react.” This sensation lasted two min.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: UFO Bulletin Dec., 57 (Vallee)
Location: Smithfield, Australia
ID: 402
Date: 9/19/1957
Time: 1840
Description: A boomerang-shaped object bigger than a house was reported
to have landed. Grass flattened.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Point Pleasant, New Jersey
ID: 403
Date: 9/20/1957
Time: 8 PM
Description: Witnesses: S/Sgt. H.T. O’Connor, S/Sgt. H.D. Bridgeman. One
object, shaped like a coke bottle without the neck, translucent and
fluorescent. Made four 5-10 second passes from north to south, with 4-5
minutes between passes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Kadena AFB, Okinawa
ID: 415
Date: 9/26/1957
Time: sunset
Description: Three hundred people were said to have seen three elongated
objects with a series of portholes, maneuvering at ground level in an
area with many empty oil wells. One of these objects, said to be 150 m
long and 20 m high, pearl-colored, glistening under the setting sun and
showing a series of circles painted on its surface, landed for 20 min.
An occupant emerged, observed the abandoned derricks and took off again.
Observed through binoculars, he appeared as a “monster,” 1 m tall,
moving with strange jumps. He picked up something from the ground.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Perego (Vallee)
Location: Yellow Falls, Texas
ID: 404
Date: 9/29/1957
Time: 0500
Description: Undocumented report of a landing observed by missile
men.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Keyhoe S (Vallee)
Location: Deerwood Nike Base, Maryland
ID: 405
Date: 10/1957
Description: At the Gabiroba farm, owners A. Santinoni and S. de
Oliveira were blinded by beam from a round object at ground level. The
light was green and yellow. When they came near, all went dark and the
object vanished.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Round-up 205 (Vallee)
Location: Niquelandia, Brazil
ID: 406
Date: 10/4/1957
Description: Sputnik 1 launched, transmits for 3 weeks, deorbits on
1/4/58
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
See also: 11/12/57
Date: 10/5/1957
Time: 2300
Description: Antonio Villas-Boas who could not sleep because of the
heat, opened the shutters of his house and saw a silvery glow in the
yard, but no flying object. The light moved and was seen going over the
house.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66, 4; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Francisco de Sales, Brazil
ID: 407
Date: 10/8/1957
Time: 1500
Description: Two couples going from Nabouwalu to Nawaca in a motor boat
saw a white object come down from the sky, thought it was a plane in
trouble and went closer. They found the object hovering 7 m above the
water, and a figure on board the craft aimed at them a beam so bright
they “felt weak.” The figure disappeared suddenly, and the object took
off vertically at high speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Round-up 202; Challenge 18 (Vallee)
Location: Nabouwalu, Fiji Islands
ID: 408
Date: 10/8/1957
Time: 9:17 AM
Description: Witnesses: two U.S. Army sergeants. Two flat, round, white
objects flew in trail formation along an irregular path, frequently
banking during 25-30 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Seattle, Washington
ID: 416
Date: 10/10/1957
Description: Mrs. Edward Yeager who lived in a trailer on the
Duanesburg-Church Road near Mariaville, saw a circular object go down
behind the hill. Two min later it flew up again, very bright. The next
day she was feeding animals that ran away as the same or a similar
object came within 2 m of the ground. Two dark, little men came out of
the craft and went into the woods. The object remained there two min,
then left. A search for the occupants proved futile. A bus driver was
said to have seen two craft land in a nearby field at the same
hour.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 58, 3 (Vallee)
Location: Schenectady, New York
ID: 409
Date: 10/10/1957
Time: night
Description: Naval officer Miguel Espanhol and another man, traveling to
Ceres, saw a bright object that illuminated the countryside and came
down to ground level as the truck stalled. It was oval or saucer-shaped,
over 150 m in diameter and 40 m deep, with a dome supporting a long
“aerial” with a red light on top. The bright light went off and the
witnesses saw seven childlike beings, with long hair and luminous suits,
who looked down at them for about 3 min. The craft flew south and
released a smaller disk, which flew north.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 36 (Vallee)
Location: Quebracoco, Brazil
ID: 410
Date: 10/11/1957
Time: 2000
Description: Two witnesses in a car saw something they described as “a
dark, transparent ball” about 50 cm in diameter rising from the side of
the road. It had appendages trailing behind.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 111 (Vallee)
Location: Roulon, France
ID: 411
Date: 10/14/1957
Time: 2145
Description: Second observation by A. Villas-Boas. He was plowing a
field with his brother when they saw a red light at the edge of the
field. He went toward it, but it shifted its position every time he went
close. It vanished on the spot.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66, 4; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Francisco de Sales, Brazil
ID: 412
Date: 10/15/1957
Description: Villas Boas abduction. Has intercourse with an
human-looking female.
Type: abduction
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Brazil
Date: 10/15/1957
Time: daylight
Description: Mr. Moudy, a farmer, observed a silvery disk which hovered
above his tractor; the engine failed when the object rose.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Covington, Indiana
ID: 413
Date: 10/16/1957
Time: 0100
Description: Third observation by A. Villas-Boas. Alone in the fields on
a clear night, he saw a big, red star which took the appearance of a
luminous, egg-shaped object and stopped 50 m above his tractor. Its
light was brighter than that of the headlights as it landed 15 m away.
The top part was spinning. It became green as it slowed down, was then
seen as a flattened dome. Three legs emerged from the machine as it
settled down. The tractor engine stalled, and the witness was seized by
unknown individuals and carried aboard the craft, where he was medically
examined, then left with a woman of short stature with whom he had
sexual intercourse. Villas-Boas reported that crew members wore tight,
white clothes with a light on the belt, heelless white shoes, big
gloves, and opaque helmets with a slit at the level of the eyes. Their
language was shrill, and he could establish no verbal communication with
them.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66, 4 et seq. (Vallee)
Location: Francisco de Sales, Brazil
ID: 414
Date: 10/25/1957
Description: A girl suffering from cancer appeared about to die when the
house was suddenly illuminated by a strong light, as if a searchlight
had been aimed at the room. It came from an object whose top part was
reddish yellow. Two figures emerged from it and entered the house. They
were about 1.20 m tall, had long yellow-red hair, small green, slanted
eyes, and wore white gloves and glowing white clothes. Before the
astounded witnesses (the author of the report and the family of the
girl), they used a device producing a bluish-white light and another
instument, in what appeared to be radiation treatment of the patient.
After 30 min they went away, leaving her completely cured. The report
was anonymous.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 67, 5 (Vallee)
Location: Petropolis, Brazil
ID: 415
Date: 10/31/1957
Time: 0000
Description: A businessman and his wife saw a large, lighted object with
openings, which hovered, came to ground level, and took off with a great
increase in brightness at very high speed, but without noise.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Longchaumois, France
ID: 416
Date: 11/1957
Time: 2300
Description: Haskell Raper, Jr., was driving home on a rainy night when
he saw a large, lighted object on the road ahead, which he thought was a
truck. Suddenly the object flashed a beam of light directly at the car,
apparently exerting a strong pressure and slowing it to a stop 5 m away.
The object was then described as oval, 5 m long, 3 m high, army green in
color. It bore lettering beginning with the letters UN, followed by some
numbers. A sort of heat wave filled the car, and the witness ran out in
panic as the vehicle caught fire. The object rose with the sound of a
diesel engine. Raper ran to the town, less than 2 km away; and reported
the incident. The car, a 1956 Ford, was completely destroyed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FS Oct., 58 (Vallee)
Location: Provencal, Louisiana
ID: 417
Date: 11/2/1957
End date: 11/3/1957
Description: Levelland, TX: many sightings, with numerous cars
stalled
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Location: Levelland, TX
Date: 11/2/1957
Time: 0330
Description: 5 km west of this town, military and civilian witnesses
reported a submarine-shaped object, red and white, two or three times as
long as a car and about 3 m high, at ground level. A figure was seen
near this object, also something compared to a white flag. When a car
stopped in the vicinity, a flash of light from the object coincided with
the sudden failure of the headlights.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Canadian, Texas
ID: 418
Date: 11/2/1957
Time: 2250
Description: A large number of reports from the Levelland area described
a low-flying object, over 60 m long, equipped with a bright light, and
which interfered with car ignition.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Anatomy 136; map (Vallee)
Location: Levelland, Texas
ID: 419
Date: 11/2/1957
Description: Multiple landings on roadways, E-M (electro-magnetic)
effects, etc. Sheriff Weir Clem was sent out to search the roads as a
result of earlier UFO reports and saw a reddish oval crossing the road
and illuminating the pavement. Ronald Martin saw an UFO land in front of
his truck and turn from red to bluish-green at which time the truck’s
electrical system failed. It then turned reddish again and took off.
Within the next few hours an Army Jeep Patrol at White Sands, N.M.,
reported an egg-shaped UFO that descended to about 50 yards above a
bunker used during the first A-bomb explosion. This wave of sightings
continued for 2–3 weeks. After retirement in 1975, Sheriff W. Clem gave
a more graphic description of the UFO he saw: “The object was shaped
like a huge football and had bright white lights. No living human could
believe how fast it traveled. The thing was as bright as day. It lit up
the whole area.” In an interview in 1977, Sheriff Clem said, “After the
publicity of UFOs over the next few days, the number of witnesses to
them rose to about a hundred people.”
Type: ce2 event
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Loveland, TX
See also: 11/5/57
Date: 11/3/1957
Time: 0300
Description: At Stallion Site, an army patrol in a jeep saw an orange,
“apparently controlled,” luminous object on the ground near the site of
the first A-bomb explosion. It was first seen as a sunlike source 50 m
above ground, descending to ground level after 3 min, and landing
several km away at the northern end of the testing grounds. Two
witnesses.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: M 238 (Vallee)
Location: White Sands, New Mexico
ID: 420
Date: 11/4/1957
Time: 0315
Description: Two policemen, Joseph Lukasek and Clifford Schau, and a
third man named Daniel De Giovanni, while looking for the cause of a
headlight failure, observed a fluorescent object 50 to 100 m away from
them, coming down. The car hadlights functioned properly again and they
drove toward the object but had to stop at a cemetery wall. They turned
off all lights and watched the object for two min. It played “hide and
seek” with them as they tried to reach its location.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: M 240; 113 (Vallee)
Location: Elmwood Park, Illinois
ID: 421
Date: 11/5/57
Description: A single investigator from Project Blue Book headquarters
arrived at Loveland, TX. He interviewed only two persons who had stalled
cars and reported that all the UFO activity in Texas between Nov. 2–4
was the result of a “rather heavy electrical storm…All witnesses saw the
same streak of lightning…which stimulated the populace into a high level
of excitement….and resulted in an inflation of stories by some
witnesses.”
Type: investigation
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Loveland, TX
Date: 11/5/1957
Description: Reinhold Schmidt, Kearney, Nebr., goes aboard saucer, talks
to spacepeople
Type: ce4 event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Location: Kearney, NE
Date: 11/5/1957
Description: An object looking like “a big meat platter” was seen at
close range by Mrs. Jasper Barlow and her two children, who were inside
their car. It had a flickering light on the bottom. There was no
ignition interference noted.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: M 245 (Vallee)
Location: New Castle, Indiana
ID: 422
Date: 11/5/1957
Time: 0430
Description: In Van Cortland Park, Frank C. was talking with a bus
driver when they saw in the park, about 400 m away, a metallic object
shaped like a disk, spinning with a soft whirring. On top was a fixed
dome with portholes. The object was hovering at tree-height. A yellow
light from the craft suddenly illuminated the area, and it flew off
“like a shooting star.”
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: M 241 (Vallee)
Location: New York City, New York
ID: 423
Date: 11/5/1957
Time: 1730
Description: A man heard a noise similar to that of a helicopter and
perceived a “burning” odor. He saw a balloon-like, elongated object that
came to ground level, did not touch the ground, but rose again and
disappeared. The witness was “paralyzed” during the observation. The
object appeared to have generated thick smoke.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Scotia, Nebraska
ID: 424
Date: 11/6/1957
Time: 10:50 PM
Description: Witnesses: one Las Cruces policeman, one Dona Ana County
Deputy Sheriff. One round object–changing from red to green to blue to
white–rose vertically from a mountain top. Sighting lasted 10
minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Radium Springs, New Mexico
ID: 417
Date: 11/6/1957
Time: 0630
Description: A civilian source reported an object so bright that his
eyes could not sustain it. It appeared to land on a ridge, then took off
again. It was round and much larger than a plane, had an “odd color,”
left no trail and made no noise.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Lake County, Ohio
ID: 428
Date: 11/6/1957
Time: 1800
Description: A civilian source reported an oval object, about 5 m long,
bright orange, similar to glowing coals, hovering 4 m above ground. The
witness went to call his family; the object had vanished when he
returned. Unidentified.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Boerne, Texas
ID: 431
Date: 11/6/1957
Time: 0010
Description: J. Martinez and A. Gallegos saw an egg-shaped object coming
toward them at low altitude. It moved slowly, illuminating their car and
producing a humming sound. The car engine, the clock and a wristwatch
stopped. The object shot away toward the southwest.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: M 246 (Vallee)
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
ID: 425
Date: 11/6/1957
Description: Richard Kehoe & others see landed saucer, stalled cars,
talk to spacepeople
Type: ce4 event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Date: 11/6/1957
Time: 0540
Description: Richard Kehoe was driving near the beach when his engine
stopped, and so did three other cars. The man got out and observed an
egg-shaped object wrapped in “a blue haze” on the beach. Two men, below
average height got out of the craft and asked them questions about their
identity, what time it was, etc. They looked normal wore black leather
pants, white belts, light-colored jerseys, and seemed to have
yellowish-green skin. They went back inside the craft, which left
rapidly, and the cars could then be started.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 57 (Vallee)
Location: Playa del Rey, California
ID: 427
Date: 11/6/1957
Time: morning
Description: North of Seoul a barrel-shaped object, bluish-white and
luminous, was seen close to the ground, reflected in a pool of water. It
rose and vanished “like a light switched off.”
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Seoul, Korea
ID: 426
Date: 11/6/1957
Time: 2330
Description: Olden Moore, 28, a plasterer was driving home when he
suddenly saw an object looking like a bright meteor split into two
pieces, one of which went straight up. The other got larger while its
color changed from bright white to blue-green. It hovered 60 m above a
field and came to the ground with a soft whirring sound, 150 m away.
After observing it for 15 min, Moore then walked to the object, which he
found to be shaped like “a covered dish” 15 m in diameter, 5 m high,
with a cone on top about 3 m high, surrounded by haze or fog, pulsating
slowly. Holes, footprints and radioactivity were found at the site by
Civil Defense Director Kenneth Locke.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: M 252 (Vallee)
Location: Montville, Ohio
ID: 433
Date: 11/6/1957
Time: 2100
Description: 180 km north of Ottawa Jacques Jacobson and three of his
friends saw a bright, yellowish-white sphere hovering over a hilltop
about 4 km away. From top and bottom issued light cones that illuminated
the countryside and the clouds. Radio reception was blocked throughout
the observation, except for a very powerful signal at one wavelength,
modulated, but not in Morse code. The object rose slowly toward the
south.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: M 249 (Vallee)
Location: Baskatong Lake, Canada
ID: 432
Date: 11/6/1957
Time: evening
Description: John Trasco saw a brilliant, egg-shaped object hovering in
front of a barn and was confronted with a being 1 m tall with a
putty-colored face and frog-like eyes. He thought the dwarf said in
broken English: “We are peaceful people; we only want your dog.” The
little man, who was dressed in a green suit with shiny buttons, a green
tam-o-shanter-like cap, and gloves with a shiny object at the tip of
each finger, fled when the witness denied his request.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 56; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Everittstown, New Jersey
ID: 430
Date: 11/6/1957
Time: 0630
Description: 12-year-old Everett Clark saw a strange object on the
ground and four occupants, two men and two women who spoke a language he
thought was similar to German. They went back to the craft in a manner
the witness could not understand, for he saw no door.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: M 271;114; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Knoxville, Tennessee
ID: 429
Date: 11/7/1957
Time: 0725
Description: Truck driver Malvin Stevens, 48, was driving to Memphis
when, about 23 km northwest of Meridian, he saw an object which appeared
to have two propellers at either end and a third one on top. Getting out
of his truck, he saw three little men about 1.30 m tall, in gray
clothes, with “pasty white faces” that seemed friendly and willing to
talk, but he was unable to understand their “chattering.” “I stood there
for what seemed like an eternity.” They got back into the machine and it
took off straight up. There was no ignition interference. An 8-year-old
girl from Honse independently reported a round object crossing the sky
toward the south.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: M 273; 115 (Vallee)
Location: Meridian, Mississippi
ID: 434
Date: 11/8/1957
Time: l0:10 AM
Description: Witness: Mrs. L. Dinner. One bar-shaped object, 3.5’ long,
giving off blue flashes, made a swishing sound. No further data.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Merrick, Long Island, New York
ID: 418
Date: 11/8/1957
Time: 1430
Description: Hank Mollohan and eight other persons saw an elongated
object, 12 m long, with several portholes from which fire and smoke
appeared to be coming. It swung at low altitude and dropped to the
ground. People seemed to be moving around it, but the witnesses were
driven away by a hard rain.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: M 265 (Vallee)
Location: Holly, West Virginia
ID: 437
Date: 11/8/1957
Time: 0200
Description: A cigar-shaped object 70 m long was observed less than 7 m
above ground.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: M 264; 117 (Vallee)
Location: Sloanville, New York
ID: 436
Date: 11/8/1957
Description: Fourteen people, including Mrs. Maty Home, reported to
police that a diskshaped object followed their truck, dived toward it,
came within 20 m of them, then left toward the sea, leaving a double
vapor trail.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Round-up 217; 116 (Vallee)
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
ID: 435
Date: 11/8/1957
Time: night
Description: Paul Rutledge saw an object 16 m long flying over his
garage. The top part was bright, and there were two figures visible
inside.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: M 266 (Vallee)
Location: Waterloo, Iowa
ID: 438
Date: 11/9/1957
Time: 0100
Description: A civilian driving his car home from work observed a
hovering object 16 m long. His car engine died as he neared the object’s
position, and it started again only after the object’s departure.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Lake City, Missouri
ID: 439
Date: 11/10/1957
Time: 0125
Description: Mrs. Leita Kuhn observed a very large, lighted object 20 m
above ground. It was so brilliant that she had to close her eyes. It was
over 10 m wide, 3 to 4 m thick, with a dome on top. The witness had to
consult a physician several days later because of serious eye and skin
irritation.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: M 267; 118 (Vallee)
Location: Madison, Ohio
ID: 440
Date: 11/12/57
Description: FBI STATUS REPORT: “Ever since the Russians release
‘Sputnik’ there has been a great increase in the number of flying
saucers and other UFOs reportedly seen by people all over the U.S.”
[Angle: Artificial satellite spurs Alien interest in mankind. Other
Angle: Artificial satellite causes populace to go sky crazy.]
Type: status report
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Washington, DC
Date: 11/16/1957
Time: 2230
Description: A blinding object, red and yellow, twice landed-first near
the Jockey Club, then near the Rural Exhibition.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
Location: Bage City, Brazil
ID: 441
Date: 11/18/1957
Time: 1030
Description: Farmers Joao Ernani and Pedro Zilli heard a strange humming
sound, then saw two aluminum-colored disks 200 m away. Near them were
six mm of average height, slim build, dressed in “dark gray suits glued
to their bodies.” The disks were about 3.5 m wide, hovering 1 m above
ground. They rose with a sharp whistling sound, while coconut trees
below them bent double. Three more disks rose from behind the trees, and
all five flew toward the Atlantic.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 36 (Vallee)
Location: Maracaja, Brazil
ID: 442
Date: 11/18/1957
Time: 1500
Description: Mrs. Cynthia Appleton, 27, mother of two, saw the figure of
a man appear near her fireplace while a whistling sound was audible. He
was tall and fair, wore a tight-fitting plastic garment, and seemed to
communicate with her through telepathy, indicating he was looking for
titanium and was coming from a world of peace and harmony. Suddenly he
disappeared. Mrs. Appleton had subsequent contacts with similar
entities.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 4 (Vallee)
Location: Aston, Great Britain
ID: 443
Date: 11/22/1957
Description: A shop owner saw a pyramidshaped, luminous, transparent
object fly fast across the road. As it was above 250 m away, he clearly
saw two figures who looked like human beings, sitting one behind the
other aboard the craft.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Gesten, Denmark
ID: 444
Date: 11/23/1957
Time: 0630
Description: Four disk-shaped objects on the ground were observed for 20
min from a distance of 15 m. When the witness tried to come closer, they
took off with an unbearable humming sound.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Tonopah, Nevada
ID: 445
Date: 11/25/1957
Time: 1430
Description: Two engineers were driving about 200 m from the railroad
crossing in Faverges when they saw a nearly spherical object at ground
level, performing zig-zags on the road. They stopped and were amazed as
the object simply vanished, leaving no trace.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Ugines, France
ID: 446
Date: 11/26/1957
Time: 10:07 AM
Description: Witnesses: three control tower operators, one weather
observer and four others. One silver, cigar-shaped object suddenly
vanished after 8 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Robins AFB, Georgia
ID: 419
Date: 11/30/1957
Time: 2:11 PM
Description: Witnesses: three U.S. Coast Guardsmen. One round object
turned white, then gold, then separated into three parts and turned red.
Sighting lasted 20 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana
ID: 420
Date: 12/1957
Time: night
Description: Edmund Rucker was awakened by a roaring noise and saw a
strange object land near his house. “Its windows were lighted, and I saw
strange-looking heads there.” An opening became visible and four
creatures emerged. They had large heads, dome-like foreheads, and
bulging eyeballs. They delivered a message to the witness in English,
stating that they had philanthropic and scientific purposes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FS Jul., 58 (Vallee)
Location: El Cajon, California
ID: 447
Date: 12/5/57
Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a talk titled “Satellites and
Saucers”
Type: status report
Reference: NICAP
Location: Washington, DC
Date: 12/8/1957
Time: 1750
Description: Between Woodward and Seiling, 12 km from the latter, an
unknown flying object allegedly took complete control of a car with
three passengers. The driver, an employee of an aircraft company, had
turned the heater, windshield wiper, and radio on. He was nearing a hill
in this wooded area when a bright light appeared ahead. It reminded the
witness of the light from a mercury lamp. As a crash seemed imminent,
the car slowed down by itself and stopped, as if the entire electrical
circuit had failed. Over the vehicle was a disk 16 m in diameter with
portholes around the periphery, emitting a current of hot air and a
high-pitched sound. It had a dome on top and bottom. It rose as the car
started by itself. The car was a 1954 Dodge Coronet without automatic
transmission. The witness spent four hours with two Kirtland AFB
officers who told him of similar observations. The case was never
reported to Blue Book.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Woodward, Oklahoma
ID: 448
Date: 12/11/1957
Time: 1600
Description: Many cars stopped to observe a silent, reddish, glowing
disk, about 15 m in diameter, which flew 6 m above the ground at about
80 km/h. A small, windowless cabin was visible on the underside of the
object.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FS Jul., 58 (Vallee)
Location: Ellsworth, Wisconsin
ID: 450
Date: 12/11/1957
Description: Mary Louise Tobin, a schoolteacher, was driving on State
Highway 1 when she saw an object that she compared to the rising sun, in
the vicinity of a smoking car. The driver, an elderly lady, came out
with a child who seemed to have suffered burns. The unknown object went
away: The disabled car did not catch on fire.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FS Jul., 58 (Vallee)
Location: Chestnut, Louisiana
ID: 449
Date: 12/13/1957
Time: 9:35 AM
Description: Witness: R.C. Cano. Fourteen-fifteen circular, tapered
discs, very bright, flew in a formation like a stack of coins, then
changed to an inverted-V formation. Sighting lasted 20 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Col Anahuac, Mexico
ID: 421
Date: 12/17/1957
Time: 7:20 PM
Description: Witness: F.G. Hickman, 17. One round object changed from
yellow to white to green to red; red tail was twice as long as the body.
It stopped, started, backed up for 45 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: near Grand Junction, Colorado
ID: 422
Date: 12/18/1957
Time: night
Description: Mary Stan was awakened by a brilliant light and saw through
her east window the fuselage of a craft that hovered in midair. Aboard
were two men, each with his right hand raised, wearing yellowish
jackets. A third man joined the first two, then all lights went off
inside the craft while it glowed like brass. A spinning antennalike
device was noted. A few minutes later it flew off.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 60,3 (Vallee)
Location: Old Saybrook, Connecticut
ID: 451
Date: 12/21/1957
Time: 1830
Description: Mrs. Mendonca and five other persons saw a light in the
south, which later appeared as two spherical objects coming closer to
the witnesses on an oscillating course. One of them hovered close to the
car while the other circled. They were shaped like a sphere surrounded
by a flat ring, and chased the car for two hours over the deserted road.
Estimated diameter: 5 m.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Mar., 59 (Vallee)
Location: Ponte Poran, Brazil
ID: 452
Date: 12/28/57
Description: Japanese science fiction movie “The Mysterians” is
released
Type: movie
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Japan
Date: 12/30/1957
Time: night
Description: George Chowanski, an auto mechanic was alerted by the
barking of his dog and heard a whirring sound similar to that of an
electric shaver. A lighted object was observed by Chowanski and his wife
as it came within 60 cm of the ground. Two figures came out of the
bottom of the object, walked around a clearing, and one picked up
something before returning to the craft, which then took off. Total
duration: 2 min.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FS Oct., 58 (Vallee)
Location: Drakestown, New Jersey
ID: 453
Date: 1958
Description: DoD kills “Project Horizon”, a military colony on the moon
program
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Reference: Lt. Col. Philip J. Corso’s Manuscript
Location: Washington, DC
Date: Late 1950’s
Description: The Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit (IPU) was disestablished
and all records were transferred to the Air Force.
Type: historical event
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-A p55)
See also: 5/16/84
Date: 1/1958
Time: 0130
Description: A lady who was driving on the New York State Thruway during
a snow storm saw a large shape with a tall, luminous pole on the side of
the road. Her car stalled, and the lights went off. Two figures, looking
like animals or huge insects were observed near the pole. They soon
disappared, and the object took off spinning. The witness was then able
to start her car. She noted that the snow at the site had been melted
and the grass was warm.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Binder; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Depew, New York
ID: 454
Date: 1/4/1958
Description: Sputnik deorbits
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Washington, DC
Date: 1/4/1958
Description: A woodcutter reported that he saw an object land, and a
very tall man with a tanned face, wearing a helmet, stepped from the
machine. He went back in after a few minutes; the craft took off “with a
noise like a flock of birds.” Air Force officers and policemen searched
the snowcovered hill for traces.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 58, 2 (Vallee)
Location: Stavanger, Norway
ID: 455
Date: 1/7/1958
Description: Two figures again appeared to Mrs. Appleton and spoke to
her in English (see Case 443).
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 4 (Vallee)
Location: Aston, Great Britain
ID: 456
Date: 1/13/1958
Time: 2345
Description: Brian Crittendon, 21, was chased by a dome-shaped object
that emitted a narrow light beam toward the ground. He was so frightened
that he drove home on a half-flat tire, followed for 5 km by the object,
which was about 50 m away and 10 m above ground. It overtook his car at
a speed exceeding 100 km/h. Radio interference was noted, but no
noise.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: UFO Bulletin Mar., 58 (Vallee)
Location: Farm Hill, Australia
ID: 457
Date: 1/22/1958
Description: Major D. Keyhoe cut off TV show dealing with UFO
discussion
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Date: 1/26/1958
Time: 1600
Description: A very bright object landed before numerous chemical
workers; they reported beings falling from the sky without parachutes.
They wore strange suits and spoke an unknown language.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 58, 3 (Vallee)
Location: Shimada City, Japan
ID: 458
Date: 2/1958
Description: Brazilian Navy releases authentic picture of UFO
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Date: 2/1/1958
Description: First US Satellite Explorer 1 launched into a geocentric
medium earth orbit from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 26
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 26
Date: 2/2/1958
Time: 1530
Description: Farmer Yasukichi Nakaguchi and his son, and Kametaro
Takuma, saw an egg-shaped object that landed silently.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 58, 3 (Vallee)
Location: Hokkaido, Japan
ID: 459
Date: 2/5/1958
Description: Reinhold Schmidt’s 2nd contact with saucers &
spacepeople, takes ride.
Type: ce4 event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Location: Kearney, NE
Date: 2/24/1958
Time: 0305
Description: Three witnesses, among them Dr. C. da Costa, decided to
sleep in their car when the engine stalled and could not be started
again. Then a very large, blue silvery object appeared and came to
ground level with a swinging motion. was shaped like a sphere surrounded
by a flat ring. When they tried to approach it, the object maneuvered in
a strange “aerial dance.”
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. I 143 (Vallee)
Location: Conceicao Almeida, Brazil
ID: 460
Date: 3/1958
Description: Big “flap” in Arizona. Much activity.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Location: Arizona
Date: 3/2/1958
Time: 1945
Description: A civilian source was said to have observed a
balloon-shaped object land on the airfield then take off slowly and
hover at 250 m altitude before disappearing. It showed a bright light
source.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Tampa, Florida
ID: 461
Date: 3/14/1958
Time: 8:45 AM
Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. W.F. Cummings and one other. A 3’
round, black object touched the ground and then took off. Watched for 2
minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Healdsburg, California
ID: 423
Date: 3/14/1958
Time: 0845
Description: Two persons, in their backyard, saw a round object 1 m in
diameter come from the west and land 15 m away. It took off toward the
east, turned south, and was lost to sight.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Healdsburg, California
ID: 462
Date: 3/19/1958
Description: Near Moscow, a large, disk-shaped object was seen on the
ground. It rose in a spiral motion, then took off and was lost to
sight.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Moscow, USSR
ID: 463
Date: 4/1958
Time: 0600
Description: Near Paripueira, jeweler Wilson Lustosa and numerous
fishermen saw an object hovering 15 m above the sea, 40 m away. It was
lens-shaped, about 12 m thick, and showed portholes with a glowing red
light. Below the object the water seemed to be “boiling” or attracted
upward, while a soft, whirring sound was heard. For one hour the object
kept going up and down.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: SBEDV (Vallee)
Location: Maceio, Brazil
ID: 464
Date: 4/1958
Description: All UN members queried as to status of UFO activity in
respective countries
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Location: New York City, New York
Date: 4/14/1958
Time: 1 PM
Description: Witness: USAF Maj. D.G. Tilley, flying C-47 transport. One
grey-black rectangular object rotated very slowly on its horizontal axis
for 4 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Lynchburg, Virginia
ID: 424
Date: 4/15/1958
Description: Approximate date. In the mountains, about 14 km from Abra
Pampa, a luminous object 30 m in diameter came to ground level.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
Location: Tabladitas, Argentina
ID: 465
Date: 4/17/1958
Time: 1925
Description: All night long, three hovering disks were seen by several
witnesses in this area. A railroad employee, Mr. Cavalheiro, and the
station chief, J. Machado, wired the Tupancireta police, and all saw the
objects coming to ground level about 1 km away. At times they appeared
to exchange signals. One of the disks flew over the station itself,
leaving a luminous trail and considerable heat.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN (Vallee)
Location: Abaatu, Brazil
ID: 466
Date: 5/1958
Description: Maelstrom AFB, Montana: Just after midnight an UFO
approached the alert hanger where one guard was standing on duty. At
about 1000 ft. altitude. The UFO appeared as a round metallic looking
object (called a “Flying Saucer” by the guard). The base radar and FAA
radar picked up the UFO as it was apparently hovering over the alert
hanger and the atomic bomb storage nearby. The saucer then moved slowly
down the length of runway and then proceeded across town to the Muni
Airport at Great Falls and hovered over the National Guard parking ramp
for the F-89’s and then flew off.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Maelstrom AFB, Montana
Date: 5/2/1958
Description: Eight people working in a wood saw a green creature with
scaly skin and very long arms. The pointed nails of its long fingers
nearly touched the ground.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Dischi Volanti, by L. Bulgarini (Vallee)
Location: Bogota, Colombia
ID: 467
Date: 5/9/1958
Time: 11:05 AM
Description: Witness: Phillipine Airlines pilot. One object with a
shiny, metallic surface was falling and spinning for 1.5 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Bohol Island, Phillipine Islands
ID: 425
Date: 5/23/1958
Description: Explorer 1 loses contact
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: medium earth orbit
Date: 5/27/1958
Time: late
Description: Remo dell’Armellina was driving a truck toward Santa Fe
when he saw a figure, 3 m tall, blocking the road. He went toward it
with an iron bar but could not approach because of the stench and the
blinding phosphorescent light emanating from it. It had very long arms,
a scaly body, and wore a flight coverall. The witness fainted; nothing
was left to be seen when he regained consciousness.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Perego; Bulgarini (Vallee)
Location: Boa del Tigre, Argentina
ID: 468
Date: 6/14/1958
Time: 10:46 AM
Description: Witness: airport weather observer O.R. Foster, using a
theodolite. An object shaped like Saturn, less the bottom part; silver
with no metallic luster, flew overhead for 5 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Pueblo, Colorado
ID: 426
Date: 6/20/1958
Time: 11:05 PM
Description: Witness: Battalion Communication Chief SFC A. Parsley. One
silver, circular object, its lower portion seen through a green haze,
hovered, then oscillated slightly, then moved at great speed. Watched
for 10 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Ft. Bragg, North Carolina
ID: 427
Date: 8/16/1958
Time: 1700
Description: A dozen people out on the lake in perfect weather saw a
bright light coming down. They stopped their boat as it came to hover
about 15 m above them. It was saucer-shaped, 10 m in diameter, with a
cabin showing several windows on top. The outer disk below the cabin was
spinning. As it came down toward the water, a noticeable current was
created. No noise or occupants were noticed. After several leaps in
mid-air, the craft flew off at “unbelievable” speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Leman Lake, Switzerland
ID: 469
Date: 8/17/1958
Time: 7:05 PM
Description: Witness: A.D. Chisholm. One extremely bright object shaped
first like a bell, then like a saucer, hovered for 5 minutes, flipped
over and sped away to the west-south-west. Sighting lasted 6-10
minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Warren, Michigan
ID: 428
Date: 9/1/1958
Time: 12:15 AM
Description: Witness: Philco technical representative A.M. Slaton. One
round, blue-white object flew at varying speeds. First sighting lasted 2
minutes, second lasted 1.5 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Wheelus AFB, Libya
ID: 429
Date: 9/1/1958
Time: 2130
Description: About 11 km before Laval, a businessman coming from Paris
suddenly saw a motionless object, 10 m above ground, to the left of the
road, 150 m away. It was shaped like two cones with a common base and
showed two rows of about ten openings in the middle section. It seemed
about 20 m wide, metallic, with a light similar to that of a red traffic
light shining through the windows. The witness had time to stop and
maneuvered to get the object in his headlight beams. Throughout the
observation a whistling sound such as that of a jet aircraft was heard.
The object rose very slowly, flew off faster climbing out of
sight.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 119 (Vallee)
Location: Laval, France
ID: 470
Date: 9/21/1958
Time: 0300
Description: A circular, flat object, 7 m in diameter, 2 m thick,
hovering 1.5 m above ground, and making a jetlike sound was seen from a
house by a civilian woman. Its color was that of aluminum; it had a
wobbling motion and emitted gray smoke before rising again and taking
off.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Sheffield Lake, Ohio
ID: 471
Date: 10/2/1958
Time: 2:30 PM
Description: Witness: naturalist Ivan Sanderson. One dull-grey object,
shaped like a pickle with a flat bottom, flew erratically and made loops
for 15 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
ID: 430
Date: 10/27/1958
Description: An object resembling a large gray cigar with an assembly
tail flew at treetop height, making a strong “swishing” sound.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Union Dale, Pennsylvania
ID: 472
Date: 10/27/1958
Time: 10:30 PM
Description: Witnesses: Phillip Small, Alvin Cohen. One large, flat
egg-shaped object affected a car’s electrical system and caused a
burning sensation on one of its occupants. Sighting lasted 1
minute.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Lock Raven Dam, Maryland
ID: 431
Date: 10/31/1958
Time: 1550
Description: A civilian reported an eliptical, aluminum-colored object
at 2 km altitude, coming down to 4 m, flying up and down by sudden
jumps, stopping at ground level less than 200 m away for five min. A red
light appeared at one end of the object, which gradually took a fiery
color, then exploded. The witness ran away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Caledon East, Canada
ID: 473
Date: 11/1958
Time: 0500
Description: Two soldiers of the Territorial Army on an exercise near
Ballater heard a “gurgling noise” and saw two figures, over 2 m tall,
dressed in peculiar suits. As they fled, they heard a “swishing” noise
and saw a large disk flying at ground level, which then swooped over
their heads and away, pulsating and leaving a sparkling trail. Witnesses
were in a state of shock.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 5 (Vallee)
Location: Braemar, Scotland
ID: 474
Date: 11/3/1958
Time: 2:01 PM
Description: Witness: M/Sgt. William R. Butler, medic. One bright green
object, shaped like a 10 cent piece, and one smaller, silver round
object. First object exploded, then second object moved toward the
location of the first at high speed. Sighting lasted 1 minute.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Minot, North Dakota
ID: 432
Date: 11/17/1958
Time: 2203
Description: A luminous object, with an apparent diameter greater than
that of the full moon, was seen coming down from a high altitude,
hovering at tree height, then landing. It was observed for two
min.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Soviet Union, exact location not revealed
ID: 475
Date: 11/23/1958
Time: 2335
Description: An engineer, Julio M. Ladaleto, stopped when his car hit a
can rolling on the road, then observed an object about 35 m away. It was
shaped like a lamp shade with an upper transparent sphere emitting a
bluish, pulsating light, 12 m diameter, 7 m high, resting on three
half-spheres. An occupant 2.5 m tall was photographed by the witness as
he crossed the road and appeared to inspect the craft. He wore a blue
coverall and luminescent heelless boots, and had a bald head. The
observation lasted 10 min, after which the object took off with a
whining sound, sparks and smoke. The following day, before he had
revaled anything about the case, Ladeleto was contacted by strange
“newsmen” who appeared to know all the details of it.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Settimana Incom. Sep. 16, 62 (Vallee)
Location: Cojutepeque, San Salvador
ID: 476
Date: 12/20/1958
Description: Patrolmen Le Roy A. Arboreen and B. Talada while on patrol
suddenly spotted a glowing red object which came directly toward them at
a phenomenal rate of speed from the West, Increasing rapidly in size,
then coming to an abrupt stop, it was ellipsoid in shape and solid
bright red while giving off a pulsating glow. After hovering a few
seconds it went straight up like a shot and faded beyond the stars.
Visibility: unlimited.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Dunellen, NJ
Date: 12/20/1958
Time: 1600
Description: Approximate date. A disk of 20 m diameter was observed and
caused damage on the ground.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
Location: Clermont-Ferrand, France
ID: 478
Date: 12/20/1958
Time: 0255
Description: Near Domsten, Hans Gustavsson, 35, and Stig Rydberg, 30,
saw something in the woods and stopped their car to observe it. They
found a disk about 5 m wide set on a tripod. All of a sudden they were
attacked by four gray-colored creatures described as “fluid,” but one
witness reached the car and blew the horn for help. The beings fled and
the craft took off, emitting “paralyzing vibrations.”
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. II 56 (Vallee)
Location: Hoganas, Sweden
ID: 477
Date: 12/28/1958
Time: afternoon
Description: A black flying object, 2 m wide, cut a tree in two, 3 m
above ground, and did not stop. The tree in question is 70 cm wide and
13 m tall. This event was observed by a farmer named Bennett.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 59, 2 (Vallee)
Location: Portglenone, Ireland
ID: 479
Date: 1959
Description: Project SIGMA meets with success and establishes contact
with Aliens.
Type: majestic document
Reference: Pea
Research
Attributes: Majestic
See also: 4/15/64
Date: 1/1959
Time: 1715
Description: Leonard Hewins, of Tredington, saw a fiery, round object
come down from the east and land 100 m away. While a blue haze formed,
three figures emerged from the object and seemed to sit down with clumsy
movements. The witness was unable to move until the craft and its
occupants took off swiftly, leaving a trail of stars.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 67, 5 (Vallee)
Location: Stratford-on-Avon, Great Britain
ID: 480
Date: 1/26/1959
Description: Area-51/S-4 whistleblower Bob Lazar is born in Coral
Gables, FL.
Type: whistleblower
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Coral Gables, FL
Date: 2/1959
Description: 350 km east of Umiat, trappers saw a red, disk-shaped
object less than 4 km away, going up and down, sometimes nearly touching
the ground. It circled and went away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 59, 3 (Vallee)
Location: Umiat, Alaska
ID: 481
Date: 2/28/1959
Description: Private Gerry Irwin stopped his car to investigate what he
thought was a crashing plane. He was later found unconscious. Sequels of
the incident (fainting, amnesia and his return to the site in a
trancelike state) are sometimes quoted as evidence of psychologial
experience correlated with the observation of the luminous object. Irwin
deserted, and his subsequent whereabouts are unknown.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 121; Lorenzen; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Cedar City, Iowa
ID: 482
Date: 3/1959
Description: On the Polish coast, not far from Kolobreg, soldiers saw
the sea become turbulent as a triangular object, 4 m in size, emerged,
circled the barracks, and flew away at high speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 122 (Vallee)
Location: Kolobreg, Poland
ID: 483
Date: 3/13/1959
Time: 1410
Description: Near Claypans, 150 km northeast of Adelaide, Carl Towill,
postmaster, and Percy Briggs, mail carrier, saw a dome-shaped object
take off from a field 400 m away. It resembled a huge, brilliant circus
tent, studded with lights that kept changing from red to blue. They
approached within 200 m, then saw it rise, hover, and shoot off at
immense speed toward the south. They had observed it for 10 min.
Mr. Briggs was questioned by investigators from Woomera Rocket
range.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 59,5 (Vallee)
Location: Pumong, Australia
ID: 484
Date: 3/20/1959
Alternate date: 6/8/1959
Description: A group at the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA)
produced for the Army a classified study report titled Project Horizon,
A U.S. Army Study for the Establishment of a Lunar Military Outpost by
1965.
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Redstone Arsenal
Date: 3/26/1959
Time: 12:45 PM
Description: Or March 27, 1959. Witness: T.E. Clark. One dark red,
barrel-shaped object, 20’ long, 6-7’ high, descended below some trees
during the 3 minute sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Corsica, Pennsylvania
ID: 433
Date: 3/31/1959
Time: 1330
Description: Barry Neale was driving home to Goolwa when he saw on the
ground a glowing, reddish-orange object with a row of portholes. It
illuminated the trees, was about 5 m wide. He got within 300 m of it,
and drove around the wooded area in time to see it take off. No
radioactivity was found at the spot.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 59,5 (Vallee)
Location: Port Elliot, Australia
ID: 485
Date: 4/1/1959
Description: An Air Force C-118 transport plane with four passengers
suddenly radioed in ”MAYDAY, we’ve been hit!” Col. R.E. Booth told
reporters that a mid-air collision had taken place at 8:19 p.m. APRG
(Aerial Phenomena Research Group) investigators determined that from
7:00 p.m. on through the early evening several mysterious aerial
explosions had shaken the Seattle, WA, area. Several residents had
reported seeing mysterious UFOs from 20 miles north of the crash scene
to about 8 miles southeast of it. These sightings were confirmed by the
Orting Chief of Police and by Public Information Officer at Mc Chord
AFB. Several persons told APRG investigator, R. Gribble, that as the
C-118 passed over their area it was followed by 2 parachute-shaped
objects and that the C-118 was missing its tail assembly. Mr. and
Mrs. Bill Jones reported 3 or 4 parachute-shaped UFOs following the
C-118 as it passed over their home. Chief of Police, Fred Emard, told R.
Gribble that he would be glad to furnish information on the UFOs to
APRG, but changed his mind the next day after an interview with an Air
Force Colonel. “The Chief and other officials of Orting had been
silenced,” Gribble reported.
Type: ufo midair collision
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Orting, WA
See also: 9/29/59
See also: 5/61
Date: 4/15/1959
Time: evening
Description: Between Svendborg and Nyborg, Ove Christensen, coming home
after work on his bicycle, was stopped on the road by a disk-shaped
object spinning at ground level. After five minutes it began chasing
him, flying 6 m above him for 5 m. The object was luminous and seemed
made of glass.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 59, 3 (Vallee)
Location: Svendborg, Denmark
ID: 486
Date: 4/29/1959
Time: 2230
Description: Alex Gillis and Jerry Monkman saw from a hilltop an
egg-shaped object in the middle of the road. It was about 5 m long, the
top part emitting a bright light. The object went away silently. Fearing
ridicule, the witnesses reported the incident one month later.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 59, 6 (Vallee)
Location: Grassy Plains, Canada
ID: 487
Date: 5/20/1959
Time: 1730
Description: Two hunters saw a diskshaped object resting on the ground
150 m away. It looked like an aluminum craft about 2.5 m high, with a
dome on top. Grass flattened.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Challenge 53 (Vallee)
Location: Tres Lomas, Argentina
ID: 488
Date: 6/18/1959
Time: 9:30 PM
Description: Witnesses: A. Cavelli and R. Blessin, using 7x binoculars.
One brown, cigar-shaped object came from below the horizon (close to the
witnesses) ascending to 40-50^ above the horizon in 4 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
ID: 434
Date: 6/21/1959
Time: 2000
Description: A civilian woman observed a saucer-shaped object hovering 5
m above ground. It was bathed in an orange glow, similar to that of a
dying fire. It flew away horizontally and was lost to sight behind a
hill.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 59, 6 (Vallee)
Location: The Willows, South Africa
ID: 489
Date: 6/26/1959
Time: 1845
Description: Many witnesses, among them Fr. W. B. Gill, head of a local
mission, saw an orange object that hovered in mid-air. Four engines were
visible on its “deck” and a beam of blue light was emitted upward from
it. The object did not come to ground level, but its position above the
ocean was almost on a level with the observers standing on the
hill.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 123; Anatomy 145 (Vallee)
Location: Boianai, New Guinea
ID: 490
Date: 6/30/1959
Time: 8:23 PM
Description: Witness: USN Cdr. D. Connolly. One gold, oblate-shaped
object, nine times as wide as it was thick, metallic and with sharp
edges, flew straight and level for 20-30 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Patuxent River NAS, Maryland
ID: 435
Date: 7/13/1959
Time: 0530
Description: Mrs. Moreland saw a diskshaped object as she was milking
cows. It was about 10 m diameter, had two intense, green lights and two
rows of jets around the rim, emitting orange flames. Inside a glass dome
on top were two men dressed in aluminumlike suits. The craft did not
land, but took off at great speed with a high-pitched sound. Heat
sensation.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 124; Challenge 24 (Vallee)
Location: Blenheim, New Zealand
ID: 491
Date: 7/14/1959
Description: Hunters reported the landing of a red object on the island.
Other hunters saw a similar object near Karumba Lodge.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 123 (Vallee)
Location: Prince of Wales Island, Australia
ID: 492
Date: 7/25/1959
Time: 1 PM
Description: Witness: technical illustrator W.D. Neva. One thin,
crescent moon-shaped object with a small white dome in the center, flew
at tremendous speed for 5-10 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Irondequoit, New York
ID: 436
Date: 8/9/1959
Time: 1954
Description: Mr. Uribe, a petroleum engineer, and two other witnesses
had to stop when they ran out of fuel; they observed a light swinging
like a pendulum, coming close to the ground. It appared as a large,
vertical, egg-shaped object which made a “whooshing” sound. Closest
approach was 120 m. Estimated height: 2 m; width, 1.5 m. When Uribe
aimed a rifle at the object, it went out of sight within seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. IlI 14 (Vallee)
Location: Sombrero, Tierra del Fuego
ID: 493
Date: 8/10/1959
Time: 1:28 AM
Description: Witness: Royal Canadian Air Force pilot Flt. Lt. M.S.
Mowat, on ground. One large star-like light crossed 53 degree of sky in
25 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Goose AFB, Labrador, Canada
ID: 437
Date: 8/12/1959
Description: A 60-year-old farmer saw an eggshaped object come down at
high speed and land in a pasture near a river. Then it took off
vertically and flew away toward Santiago. Traces. Engine noise, not
similar to helicopter.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Brion, Spain
ID: 494
Date: 8/13/1959
Time: 2130
Description: A bright, flying object passed low over a car, whose engine
stalled, and landed in a wooded area. Six witnesses in two separate
groups observed the object, and the police were called. The dense
underbrush prevented investigation of the site.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Sep., 59 (Vallee)
Location: Freeport, Texas
ID: 495
Date: 8/25/1959
Time: 1100
Description: Near Hagen, Lutz Holtmann went toward a bright object in a
forest, and fainted when he got close to it. When he regained
consciousness, he saw it take off silently and vertically. It was round,
had a tripod landing gear, two rows of bright openings, and was about 30
m in diameter.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Nachrichten Oct., 59 (Vallee)
Location: Werdehl-Eveking, Germany
ID: 496
Date: 9/7/1959
Description: A bluish, disk-shaped object was observed at ground level
by a mail carrier. It suddenly went away horizonally, leaving a stained
ring on the ground.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP Nov., 59 (Vallee)
Location: Wallingford, Kentucky
ID: 497
Date: 9/13/1959
Time: 4 PM
Description: Witnesses: at least two control tower operators and the
pilot of a Mooney private airplane. One pear-shaped object, colored
white, cream, and metallic, with a trail under it. Object showed little
movement during 3 hours. Attempted intercept by USAF T-33 jet trainer
failed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Bunker Hill AFB, Indiana
ID: 439
Date: 9/13/1959
Time: 1:05 AM
Description: Witness: R.H. Daubner. One round yellow light, with eight
blue lights within it, and then five larger red lights, flew very fast
vertically while making a pulsating jet noise. Sighting lasted 10
minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Gills Rock, Wisconsin
ID: 438
Date: 9/29/1959
Description: Maj. R.O. Braswell, while flying an C-47 at 6500 ft. alt.,
spotted an UFO. “It was colored like a large red fire and looked like an
atomic cloud”, he stated. At about 5 degrees above my plane it appeared
massive and was at about 13000 ft. alt. The UFO appeared to be about
1000 ft. thick (top to bottom). Billie Guyton of Centerville, TX, also
observed the UFO and said that he observed a smaller UFO emerge from it.
Another ground observer, Jackie J. Cox, schoolteacher, saw a “bright
light in the sky that spread to cover the entire sky.” W.S. Webb of
Buffalo, N.Y., glanced out his bedroom window and saw a ball of fire
shooting through the sky, after which he heard a noise, as if something
was falling from the sky. The next day Braniff Airways Flight 542,
carrying 28 passengers and 6 crew members, was found shredded in a
thousand pieces. Subsequent inquiry found that there had been no fire or
explosion aboard the jet before or after the crash and that scorch marks
found on the exterior windows, fuselage and parted tail section showed
signs of having been exposed to tremendous exterior heat. Also the force
causing the plane to come down did not come from within the plane. Radar
Operator, E.H. Tindale, later told investigators that he had plotted an
UFO twice on the night Flight 542 crashed. Both plots of the UFO were in
the area where the wreckage of the airliner was found. The UFO was
stationary both times it was tracked.
Type: ufo midair collision
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Buffalo, Texas
See also: 4/1/59
See also: 5/61
Date: 10/2/1959
Description: Approximate date. Miss G. Wilson, 14, was out riding a
horse when a luminous object dived toward her, and she rushed home in
fear. Her father came out and saw the object, which he described as
orange and making a “painful” sound.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 125 (Vallee)
Location: Glenora, Canada
ID: 498
Date: 10/4/1959
Time: 9:25 PM
Description: Witnesses: USN Lt. C.H. Pogson, CPO K.J. Moore. One large
round or oval object, changing from red to red-orange, flew straight and
level for 15 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Quezon, Phillipine Islands
ID: 441
Date: 10/6/1959
Time: 8:15 PM
Description: Witnesses: Lt. Col. L. Liggett (Selective Service) and
wife. One round, white-yellow light made several abrupt turns and flew
very fast for 2 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Lincoln, Nebraska
ID: 442
Date: 10/19/1959
Time: 9:15 PM
Description: Witness: department store manager C.A. Cissman. One bright
light approached, hovered about 30 minutes, and then was up and gone in
2 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: 3rd or 4th week. Telephone Ridge, Oregon
ID: 440
Date: 10/19/1959
Time: 9:25 PM
Description: Witness: Capt. F.A. Henney, engineering instructor at USAF
Academy, flying a T-33 jet trainer. One bright yellowish light came
head-on at the T-33, the pilot avoided it and the light dimmed. Sighting
lasted 30 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Plainville Kansas
ID: 443
Date: 10/25/1959
Description: On the Trans-Canada Highway west of this town, four hunters
(Douglas Robinson, Ray Disguiseppe, Victor Arnone and John Defilippo, of
Port-Arthur) saw an oval, luminous object follow their car about 13 m
above them. The object was spinning, stopped when they did, was white in
color and remained with them for nearly 50 km.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 60, 1 (Vallee)
Location: Fort William, Canada
ID: 499
Date: 11/18/1959
Time: 6:25 PM
Description: Witness: J.M. Porter. A row of red lights flew slow, then
speeded up immensely. Sighting lasted 5-6 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Crystal Springs, Mississippi
ID: 444
Date: 12/22/1959
Time: 2350
Description: Kenneth Lindsley and several other witnesses saw a bright,
orange object at ground level. It was bowl-shaped, as wide as the road,
and shadows that appeared to be moving could be seen.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 60, 3 (Vallee)
Location: Oakdale, California
ID: 500
Date: 1960’s
Description: “Area 51” designation appears on several atomic fallout
maps
Type: secret location
Reference: “Dreamland” by Lazar
Date: 1960’s
End date: mid 1980’s
Description: ex-Navy worker Riley Hansard Crabb (April 2, 1912 — January
20, 1994) takes over as director of the BSRF. One of the first major
things he does is discredit “Gerald Light”
Type: research group
Reference: link
Date: 1960
Description: The first planar monolithic integrated circuit (IC) chip
was demonstrated
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Wikipedia
Date: 1/31/1960
Description: Telegram from Manhattan Project scientist Dr. Leon Davidson
to President Eisenhower over “inspection of secret aircraft” rumors of a
Feb. 1954 meeting at Edwards AFB.
Type: telegram
Reference: link
Date: 2/27/1960
Time: 6:27 PM
Description: Witnesses: control tower officer Capt. J. Huey and four
other tower operators. One light trailing a white fan shape, made a mild
descent for 3-4 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Rome AFB, New York
ID: 445
Date: 3/1960
Description: “Flying Saucer Review” article by Manhattan Project
scientist Dr. Leon Davidson
Type: article
Reference: link
Date: 3/4/1960
Time: 5:55 PM
Description: Witness: Charles Morris. Three elliptical-shaped objects
made a slight climb for 4 minutes. Film exposed during sighting showed
no images of the objects.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Dubuque, Iowa
ID: 446
Date: spring 1960
Time: night
Description: An electronics engineer was fishing when he heard a shrill,
whirring sound and saw a round object, with a rotating light on top,
land on the shore. The sound gradually stopped, an opening became
visible, and two dwarfs with oversized heads came out with a hose and
pumped water from the river. Later they appeared to play like children.
Their bodies glowed with lights of changing colors.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Binder (Vallee)
Location: Syracuse, New York
ID: 501
Date: 3/23/1960
Time: 3:35 AM
Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. E.I. Larsen. A series of balls,
arranged like an “X” with one diagonal line, seen for 3/4 of a minute.
Note: little data on the case in the files.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
ID: 447
Date: 4/5/1960
Description: An orange disk landed with a hissing sound, then exploded,
while four dwarfish figures ran away into the brush.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 60, 5; 126 (Vallee)
Location: Beira, Mozambique
ID: 502
Date: 4/12/1960
Time: 9 PM
Description: Witness: Monroe Arnold. One fiery-red disc exploded four or
five times. Analysis of paint samples from explosion proved
inconclusive. Sighting lasted 2-3 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: LaCamp, Louisiana
ID: 448
Date: 4/17/1960
Time: 8:29 PM
Description: Witnesses: USAF Maj. J.G. Ford and Link representative A.
Chapdelaine, using a 48x telescope. One reddish glow made an odd orbit
for 2.5 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Richards-Gebauer AFB, Missouri
ID: 449
Date: 4/18/1960
Time: 2100
Description: Mr. Arnold saw a round object, fiery red in color, arriving
at high speed from the south. It touched the ground about 300 m away
with a loud explosion heard by many people, and a flame. It bounced in
an easterly direction for about 300 m, then rose again, turned west and
disappeared. The ground was scarred in nine places, and a substance
resembling metallic paint was found.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Science & Mechanics Dec., 66 (Vallee)
Location: Lacamp, Louisiana
ID: 503
Date: 4/25/1960
Time: 7-10 PM
Description: Witness: Mrs. M. Clark. Five circular objects flew in trail
formation, hovered and accelerated and made sharp turns. Case file
includes other reports from Mrs. Clark for previous 3 years.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Shelby, Montana
ID: 450
Date: 5/4/1960
Time: 0915
Description: A yellow, elliptical object with four evenly spaced
windowlike openings was observed at ground level by an architect.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP May., 60 (Vallee)
Location: Sarasota, Florida
ID: 504
Date: 5/14/1960
Time: 0400
Description: Raimondo dos Santos saw two craft land on hill near a farm
called Capin Acu. He went near them and saw several small beings,
palelooking, making friendly gestures. He ran away. The creatures wore
blue uniforms and white helmets. The previous day at 1900, over 100
witnesses had observed a dark-gray, circular craft, 20 m in diameter
with a powerful light, maneuvering and hovering.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 37; LDLN 58 (Vallee)
Location: Paracuru, Brazil
ID: 505
Date: 5/19/1960
Time: night
Description: Salvatore Cianci, jeweler, and his wife, were driving near
this Sicilian town when a creature about 1 m tall appeared in the
headlights. It wore a shining coverall and a diving helmet and had two
short wings. Mrs. Cianci suffered from shock.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 64, 4 (Vallee)
Location: Siracusa, Italy
ID: 506
Date: 5/25/1960
Description: Vera Bowden, 35, saw a gray, elliptical object hovering at
tree height over Broadwater Lake for 18 min. Then it left toward the
west.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 60, 5 (Vallee)
Location: Chinthurst Hill, Great Britain
ID: 507
Date: 7/19/1960
Time: 8:30 PM
Description: Witness: T.L. Ochs. One round, bright red light flew
overhead, stopped and hovered, and then backed up. Sighting lasted 20
minutes. Note: Ochs reported similar sightings on three following
nights.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
ID: 451
Date: 8/1960
Time: 0920
Description: Mrs. K. St. Bereits was in her garden when she saw an
object coming down at great speed. Arriving at ground level, it came
toward her, appearing as a disk standing on edge, 7 m in diameter with a
pulsating halo of yellow light. Three beams of light came from a central
opening. A sort of haze and “gas stream” was also described.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Nachrichten Jan., 61; FSR 61, 4 (Vallee)
Location: Hamburg, Germany
ID: 508
Date: 8/13/1960
Description: Red Bluff, CA: CHP Officers Charles A. Carson and Stanley
Scott were on patrol when they sighted what they thought was an airliner
about to crash. When the UFO had descended to about 100 or 200 feet
altitude it suddenly reversed direction and climbed to 500 ft.
Description: round or oblong surrounded by a glow (color not mentioned)
and having definite red lights at each end. They continued to watch the
UFO as it performed ”unbelievable” aerial feats. The local RADAR
operator confirmed the UFO at this time but denied it the next day.
Other Tehema County Sheriffs’ officers also saw this UFO and another
similar one that same night. (NICAP, 1964)
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Red Bluff, CA
Date: 8/23/1960
Time: 3::24 AM
Description: Witness: Boeing aeronautical engineer C.A. Komiske. One
round object with yellow lights coming from what looked like three
triangular windows at bottom. Object was dull orange. Flew in an arc for
2 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Wichita, Kansas
ID: 452
Date: 8/29/1960
Time: 4:05 PM
Description: Witness: farmer Ed Schneeweis. One shiny, round, silver
object flew straight up very fast for 18 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Crete, Illinois
ID: 453
Date: 9/10/1960
Time: 9:50 PM
Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. M.G. Evans. Two light gray glowing
objects, saucer or boomerang-shaped, which swished when accelerating.
Seen 1-2 seconds each.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Ridgecrest, California
ID: 454
Date: 9/23/1960
Time: 2135
Description: A Canadian ship reported that a cylindrical object with
lighted portholes came down, hit the ocean, and sank off the northcoast
of Labrador.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Labrador
ID: 509
Date: 10/1960
Description: New apparitions of a monstrous “cyclops.”
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 129 (Vallee)
Location: Yariguarenda Jungle, Argentina
ID: 510
Date: 10/5/1960
Time: 7:37 PM
Description: Witness: E.G. Crossland. One bright, star-like light moved
across 120^ of sky in 20 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Mt. Kisko, New York
ID: 455
Date: 11/11/1960
Time: night
Description: Four witnesses, among them three military men, saw an
object that seemed about to land, then took off again toward the north,
leaving a trail of sparks and blinding them.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 130; FSR 61,1 (Vallee)
Location: Warminster, Great Britain
ID: 511
Date: 11/13/1960
Time: 0245
Description: Remi Carbonnier, 45, was awakened by a green light
illuminating his room. He went to the window and saw a bright, round
object, 6 m in diameter, resting on three legs on the railroad tracks
300 m away. It was emitting orange flashes. A dome on top of the object
started spinning, the legs disappeared, and the object rose vertically
above the trees, without noise. Less than 20 sec later, it had cleared
the hill and was lost to sight in the southwest. The next day the
witness went to the site and found no trace, but his dog turned around
and ran away,
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 131 (Vallee)
Location: La Londe, France
ID: 512
Date: 11/27/1960
Time: 7:30 PM
Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. L.M. Hart. One orange-red point of
light made huge circles and stopped during the 20-30 minute
sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Chula Vista, California
ID: 456
Date: 11/29/1960
Time: 6:38 PM
Description: Witnesses: USAF Lt. Col. R.L. Blwlin (sp?) and Maj. F.B.
Brown, flying a T-33 jet trainer. One white light 8lowed and paralleled
the course of the T-33 for 10 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: south of Kyushu, Japan
ID: 457
Date: 12/9/1960
Time: 2030
Description: A dog barking at a glowing object resting in a park. Three
witnesses observed it from separate locations. It appeared as an oval,
luminous craft, 4 m in diameter, inside which vague shadows were seen.
It took off toward the north. A circle of yellowed grass was found at
the site.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Ouranos 27 (Vallee)
Location: Carignan, France
ID: 513
Date: 1961
End date: 1963
Description: Near Nellis AFB, NE: “Mat”, a radio maintenance engineer at
Nevada’s AEC between 1961–1963 provided evidence to the MUFON Journal
that Project REDLIGHT was secretly being conducted at nearby “Area 51”,
a 50-mile-square quadrant of land east of Nellis AFB. This Project
“involved flight-testing of an UFO which had been shipped there from
Edwards AFB.” The craft flew silently, was about 20 to 30 ft. in diam.,
and had no wings or tail.
Type: ufo testing
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Area 51
Date: 1961
Description: ex-Lt. Col Philip J. Corso said in 1961 he was given a file
cabinet from his superior General Trudeau which contained material
recovered from ET craft. He was instructed to use these items for
“utilization and exploitation,” farming the objects out to various
companies such as Bell Labs to reverse engineer and further develop.
Among the technologies he said arose from this were: night vision, fiber
optics, food irradiation, integrated circuits, and lasers.
Type: historical event
Reference: “The Day after Roswell”, by Philip J. Corso
Reference: Philip J. Corso’s Manuscript
Location: Washington DC
Date: 1961
Description: Russia: Vladimir Azhazha found an elliptical area where he
claimed that an alien craft had plummeted to Earth in 1961. A local
resident, Zoya Shubenkina, corroborated Azhazha’s story about the 1961
crash, claiming she had witnessed it for herself. She said a big, fiery,
red sphere flew over her house and crashed in the valley by the
river.
Type: ufo crash
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Russia
Date: 1/1/1961
Description: A government topographer, Adolfo P. Pisani, was passed by a
truck as he was driving on the Andean Highway. A brilliant disk with the
appearance of blue steel swooped down very close to the hood of the
truck and then flew away. The truck was pulled up nearly 1 m above the
road and overturned in a sandbank. The driver escaped with minor
injuries.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor.I 250 (Vallee)
Location: La Victoria, Venezuela
ID: 514
Date: 1/20/1961
End date: 11/22/1963
Description: President John F. Kennedy in office
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Washington DC
Date: 1/22/1961
Time: 1830
Description: An electronics professor at Bordeaux University and three
school teachers observed an elongated, glowing, orange object.
Interference with car ignition was noted. One witness was said to have
felt a slight indisposition and to have heard or somehow perceived the
word “ZEMU” repeated twice.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Ouranos 26 (Vallee)
Location: Cestas-Gazinet, France
ID: 515
Date: 2/27/1961
Time: 10:15 PM
Description: Witness: Mrs. LaPalm. One fiery-red, round object, preceded
by light rays, slowed and descended, while her dog howled. Sighting
lasted 10 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Bark River, Michigan
ID: 458
Date: 2/28/1961
Description: US military advisors first accompany South Vietnamese
troops during operations in Vietnam
Type: war
Reference: link
Location: Vietnam
Date: 3/10/1961
Time: 2045
Description: F. Reynolds and his son were camping near the water. They
observed an object on the ground with four windows in it. There was a
fire nearby, and four figures could be seen between it and the object.
At 2130 it had disappeared. Witnesses in Wodonga, West Albury,
Wangaratta and Tallangatta independently observed an unknown object in
flight.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Austr. FSR 5 (Vallee)
Location: Bowna, Australia
ID: 516
Date: Spring 1961
Time: Time unknown
Description: Case missing from official files.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Kemah, Texas
ID: 459
Date: 4/18/1961
Time: 1100
Description: J. Simonton heard a whining sound and saw an object, 10 m
in diameter, 4 m high, with exhaust pipes around the periphery, land
near his house. A door was opened and a man appeared. About 1.50 m tall,
he wore a black, turtle-neck pullover with a white band at the belt, and
black trousers with a vertical white band along the side. Two figures
were visible inside the object. Simonton filled a jug with water,
returned it to the man, who gave him three ordinary pancakes, and the
craft took off.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Eagle River, Wisconsin
ID: 517
Date: 4/24/1961
Time: 3:34 AM
Description: Witnesses: aircraft commander Capt. H.J. Savoy and
navigator lst Lt. M.W. Rand, on USAF RC-l2lD patrol plane. One
reddish-white, round object or light, similar to satellite. Observed for
8 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: 200 miles SW of San Francisco, California (35’ 50’ N, 125’ 40
W)
ID: 460
Date: 4/28/1961
Description: Traces of a crashed UFO were found in this area.
Type: ufo crash
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Korb Lake, Leningrad, Russia
Date: 5/1961
Description: In the May issue of “Fate” magazine, Master Sgt. O.D. Hill
admits that we are still losing Air Force planes to UFOs. The first case
was an F-86 jet fighter that was sent aloft to investigate an UFO that
had been plotted on the Radar scope of an Air Base (name and dates
classified). The Radar Operator spied the UFO heading straight for the
craft. The operator radioed for the F-86 to climb at once, but it was
too late. The two blips merged as one and the UFO was tracked moving
away. Classified as “mysterious” not a single shred of the F-86 was ever
found. (ref. Kinross AFB where an F-89 with crew of two merged with an
UFO and disappeared.-Donald Keyhoe) Second Case: A radar operator was
tracking a transport plane carrying 26 persons aboard when, suddenly,
another blip appeared on the screen closing at 2500 mph on the
transport. Before the operator could warn the transport the two blips
emerged as one. The remaining blip sped straight up at tremendous speed.
A surface search in the vicinity revealed no oil slicks on the water,
although a Generals’ briefcase was found floating around.
Type: publication
Reference: Fate Magazine, 5/1961
Location: US
See also: 4/1/59
See also: 9/29/59
Date: 5/3/1961
Time: 2200
Description: Approximate date. A hemispherical craft with portholes,
resting on a road, took off when a car came near it. Estimated diameter
was 4 m, height 2.5 m, bearing “fluorescent lights.”
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Evidence 139, 147 (Vallee)
Location: Union Mills, Indiana
ID: 518
Date: 5/22/1961
Time: 4:30 PM
Description: Witnesses: Mrs. A.J. Jones and Mrs. R.F. Davis. One big
silver dollar disc hovered and revolved, then suddenly disappeared after
15 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Tyndall AFB, Florida
ID: 461
Date: 6/2/1961
Time: 10:17 PM
Description: Witnesses: lst Lt. R.N. Monahan and Hazeltine Electric
Co. technical representative D.W. Mattison. One blue-white light flew
erratic course at varying speed, in an arc-like path for 5
minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Miyako Jima, Japan
ID: 462
Date: 6/3/1961
Time: 0635
Description: Off this town, four people in a boat were suddenly shaken
by growing waves and saw the sea swelling like an enormous bubble 1 km
away. An object emerged, hovering at 10 m altitude for a brief time, its
underside glowing, and it left obliquely at high speed toward the
northeast. Its shape was similar to a cone resting on a disk.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Settimana Incom. Jan. 6,63 (Vallee)
Location: Savona, Italy
ID: 519
Date: 7/3/1961
Time: 0015
Description: An object resembling a hovercraft, having five windows
through which an orange light was shining, hovered about 20 m above the
trees. It left suddenly at high speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 61, 6 (Vallee)
Location: Ryde, Great Britain
ID: 520
Date: 7/7/1961
Time: 11 PM
Description: Witness: waitress Nannette Hilley. One large ball flew
slow, split into four after 45 minutes. Four flew close formation,
descended and flew away to the west. Total sighting lasted 1 hour.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Copemish, Michigan
ID: 463
Date: 7/11/1961
Time: 7:45 PM
Description: Witnesses: ex-air navigator G. Scott, Mrs. Scott, and
neighbors. One round, bright light like shiny aluminum, passed overhead
in 20 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Springfield, Ohio
ID: 464
Date: 7/17/1961
Time: 0200
Description: One mile north of Bonny Spring Ranch, on U.S. Highway 91,
two civilians in a car observed in the rear-view mirror a low-flying
object that overtook their car, followed by a rush of cold air. It
stopped, circled the vehicle, flew off and was lost to sight behind the
mountains, where it may have landed. In the course of an exceptionally
complete investigation by military authorities, however, no evidence of
a landing was discovered.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
ID: 521
Date: 7/20/1961
Time: 8 AM
Description: Witnesses: Trans-Texas Airlines Capt. A.V. Beather, flying
DC-3, plus vague report from ground radar. Two very bright white light
or objects flew in trail formation for 30 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Houston, Texas
ID: 465
Date: 7/21/1961
Description: Mercury program : Mercury-Redstone 4 Mission — Gus Grissom
piloting Liberty Bell 7 becomes the second American to go into space (in
a suborbital mission).
Type: aerospace
Reference: Fate Magazine, 5/1961
Location: US
See also: 1/27/67
Date: 8/12/1961
Time: 2100
Description: Two Drake University students saw a large object shaped
like an oval with “running boards” bearing a series of lights. It
hovered for about 4 min at tree-height, shot straight up, climbed away
toward the east, then disappeared from view in five sec or so.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Kansas City, Kansas
ID: 522
Date: 8/12/1961
Time: 9 PM
Description: Witnesses: college seniors J.B. Furkenhoff and Tom Phipps.
One very large oval object with a fin extending from one edge to the
center; like a sled with lighted car running boards. Hovered at 50’
altitude for 3-5 minutes, then flew straight up and east.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Kansas City, Kansas
ID: 466
Date: 8/25/1961
Description: Approximate date. Five persons observed a luminous, yellow
sphere, 8 m in diameter, flying about 10 m above the road. Horizontal
and vertical bands of darker tone gave the impression of “windows.” The
object flew up very fast when the car reached town.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN (Vallee)
Location: Toulouse, France
ID: 523
Date: 9/19/1961
Time: 2200
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Hill saw a lenticular object with a double row
of portholes and half-a-dozen dark figures working at control panels
inside, when they stopped to investigate a light following their car.
They became afraid and drove away. A “beeping sound” enveloped the car,
and they felt a prickling sensation before losing consciousness. When
they came to, they were driving near Ashland. A series of nightmares and
medically controlled hypnosis brought back what apparently was the
memory of their abduction by the occupants of the object.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Fuller; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Indian Head, New Hampshire
ID: 524
Date: 9/19/1961
End date: 9/20/1961
Description: Betty and Barney Hill abduction incident in Lincoln, New
Hampshire. Three miles south of the city of Lancaster, New Hampshire:
Barney noticed what appeared to be a bright star, or planet, which
seemed to move erratically. Barney pointed this out to Betty… As the
object moved to within a hundred feet of him, he could see occupants
inside. Frightened, he ran back to his car where Betty waited. They
climbed inside and sped away. Soon, two hours of their lives would
vanish into oblivion.
Type: abduction
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Lincoln, New Hampshire
Date: 9/30/1961
Time: 2200
Description: Eight km south of La Porte, 16year-old Dennis Bealor saw a
large sphere of orange light rise ahead of him on the road. He was so
frightened that he lost control of his bike and left the road.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Hartle 158 (Vallee)
Location: La Porte, Indiana
ID: 525
Date: 10/3/1961
Description: Soviet “Tsar Bomba” hydrogen bomb test, the most powerful
thermonuclear weapon ever detonated, 50mt yield, Novaya Zemlya
archipelago, 10x the amount of all the explosives used in WW2 combined,
heat of explosion was estimated to potentially inflict 3rd degree burns
at 100km distance.
Type: atomic
Reference: Wikipedia
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Severny Island, Novaya Zemlya
Atomic type: aboveground
Atomic MT: 50
Date: 10/8/1961
Description: Privately circulated letter from Manhattan Project
scientist Dr. Leon Davidson to members of the UFO community over his
concerns that all UFO’s are actually CIA psychological warfare.
Type: letter
Reference: link
Location: US
Date: 11/21/1961
Time: 7:30 PM
Description: Witnesses: C. Locklear and Helen Hatch. One round,
red-orange object flew straight up and faded after 3-4 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Oldtown, Florida
ID: 467
Date: 11/23/1961
Time: 9:30 PM
Description: Witness: F. Braunger. One bright red star flew straight and
level for 15 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Sioux City, Iowa
ID: 468
Date: 12/13/1961
Time: 5:05 PM
Description: Witnesses: C.F. Muncy, ex-U.S. Navy pilot W.J. Myers, and
G. Weber. One dark diamond-shaped object with a bright tip flew straight
and level for 1-3 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Washington, DC
ID: 469
Date: 12/21/1961
Time: 2145
Description: Jerry Hislope, 20, was driving to Kentland when he saw a
glowing white object, 3 m in diameter, 1 m thick, dive at him, flying 3
m above the ground. He stopped to observe it, but the object flew
away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Mar., 62 (Vallee)
Location: Lafayette, Indiana
ID: 526
Date: 1/8/1962
Time: night
Description: A truck driver and two other men observed two powerful
lights lost sight of thern, but later saw a craft on the ground 150 m to
the side of the road. It took off at high speed when illuminated by the
headlights. Farther away, two objects maneuvered above the road leading
to La Bajada. As the police were driving to the scene, they saw one of
the craft on the ground near Loma Brava.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: CODOVNI 1962 (Vallee)
Location: Catamarca, Argentina
ID: 527
Date: 2/9/1962
Time: 0330
Description: Mr. Wildam, of Luton, noticed that his car was gradually
losing speed as he approached a bright, oval thing hovering 10 m above
the road. The object was surrounded by a glow, and left at high speed
very suddenly.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 62, 2 (Vallee)
Location: Aston Clinton, Great Britain
ID: 528
Date: 2/25/1962
Time: 7:20 PM
Description: Witnesses: one U.S. Army private, six anonymous civilians.
One red light, trailed 30 seconds later by a blue light. Sighting lasted
5 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Kotzbue, Alaska
ID: 470
Date: 3/1/1962
Time: 10:35 PM
Description: Witness: Mrs. L. Doxsey, 66. One gold-colored box,
12-14”x3-4”, flew straight and level across the horizon for 3-4
minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Salem, New York
ID: 471
Date: 3/26/1962
Time: 1:35 PM
Description: Witness: USAF Capt. J.M. Lowery, from an unspecified
aircraft. One thin, cylindrical object–l/3 snout, 2/3 tail fins–flew at
an estimated Mach 2.7 (2,000 m.p.h.) for 5-8 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Ramstein Air Base, West Germany
ID: 472
Date: 3/26/1962
Time: 11:40 PM
Description: Witnesses: Mrs. D. Wheeler, Claudine Milligan. Six or eight
red balls, arranged in a rectangular formation, became two objects with
lights by the end of the 15 minute sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Naperville, Illinois
ID: 473
Date: 3/26/1962
Time: 10:45 PM
Description: Witnesses: many unidentified young people. One large red
ball flew or fell down, then went back up during 3-10 minute sighting.
Note: May 26?
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Westfield, Massachusette
ID: 474
Date: 4/1962
Description: Flight Commander P.J. (initials), attached to TAC Fighter
Wing was deployed at Wright-Patterson AFB and mistakenly entered into an
air hanger where he thought the gym was located. Upon entering the
hanger he was approached by an air police sentry with a sub-machine gun.
Behind the sentry was a saucer approx. 12–15 ft. diam. suspended off the
ground by two engine test stands. There were no markings or insignia on
the saucer. It had no rivet markings. The saucer was roped-off and 8
guards stood at parade rest around it. P.J. and his friend were
encouraged to leave the hanger. P.J. returned to Myrtle Beach AFB,
SC
Type: witness statement
Reference: Pea
Research (A5, B3-C, RECOVERY)
Location: Wright Patterson AFB
Date: 4/4/1962
Time: 0150Z
Description: Witnesses: G.R. Wells and J. Lewis, using 117x telescope.
One small object changing brightness, gave off smoke but remained
stationary like a comet for 6 minutes. Case missing from official
files.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Wurtland, Kentucky
ID: 475
Date: 4/10/1962
Time: evening
Description: Mario Zuccula, 27, was walking home when he suddenly felt a
current of cold air. He was paralyzed with fear when he saw a white
object, 10 m in diameter, metallic in appearance which hovered close to
the ground. A metallic cylinder was lowered from the craft, and two
little men about 1.30 m tall, came out through a door lighted by a
source inside the cylinder. A low voice similar to the sound of an
electronic device told him they would return at the end of the fourth
moon, one hour before dawn, with a message. The beings had their heads
covered with a hood.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 62, 4 (Vallee)
Location: San Casciano, Italy
ID: 529
Date: 4/11/1962
Time: evening
Description: Between Saronno and Legnano, Benazzi and three other
witnesses saw a peculiar craft fly above them and land on the road. It
was intensely luminous.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Sep., 62 (Vallee)
Location: Sarouno, Italy
ID: 530
Date: 4/18/1962
Description: Object was first spotted over Oneida, New York and was
heading in a westerly direction. Object reported over Kansas, Colorado
and Eureka, Utah. The object was reported by over a thousand people. The
object appeared to land and then take off again from Eureka, CA. The
town of Eureka experienced a blackout when it landed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Oneida, NY
Location: Kansas
Location: Colorado
Location: Eureka, Utah
Date: 4/30/1962
Time: night
Description: Eugenio Siragusa, 43, claimed to have met two men of normal
height, clad in diving suits, with belts emitting intermittent
yellow-green blue light, who delivered to him a peace message in
Italian. The voice had a metallic tone. Also observed was a very
dazzling object, 15 m in diameter.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 63, 1 (Vallee)
Location: Mount Eba, Italy
ID: 531
Date: 5/1962
Time: 0400
Description: Approximate date. Four people whose car had run out of gas,
were waiting in a drizzling rain when a bright light, first thought to
be from a car, approached them. It turned out to be a lowflying object
that landed. It was round with a blinking light, and stayed there about
one hour before taking off at high speed
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Jul., 63 (Vallee)
Location: Jujuy, Argentina
ID: 532
Date: 5/12/1962
Time: 0410
Description: V. and G. Tomasini and H. Zenobi saw an object on the
ground 100 m away from the road. It looked like a railroad car and was
illuminated. As they came close to it, the object took off, crossed the
road at low altitude, rose with a flame, and separated into two sections
that flew away in different directions. It made a humming noise and was
seen on the ground for one min. Within a circle 60 m in radius, grass
was burned, insects were carbonized, and the ground was “petrified.”
Sample analysis was done by the Puerto Belgrano Naval Base.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: SBEDV 30; 132; CODOVNI 1962 (Vallee)
Location: Pampa Province, Argentina
ID: 533
Date: 5/12/1962
Description: General Douglas McArthur states, “of ultimate conflict
between a united human race and the sinister forces of some other
planetary galaxy”
Type: speach
Reference: link
Location: West Point Academy
Date: 5/13/1962
Time: 0400
Description: Dozens of witnesses in Uncativo, Cordoba, Carranza, and Los
Molinos Dam observed a very luminous, elongated object with a bright
trail. Soon thereafter, fog filled a wooded section near Uncativo, and a
landed object resembling a small house was observed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 133; CODOVNI 1962 (Vallee)
Location: Uncativo, Argentina
ID: 534
Date: 5/22/1962
Description: A woman was hospitalized after her observation of a strange
object that landed, and of the “ugly” giant beings who emerged from it.
Approximate date.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 135 (Vallee)
Location: Winifreda, Argentina
ID: 535
Date: 6/16/1962
Description: Four persons from Thursday Island, among them E. Thorpe,
were climbing a hill when they observed a silvery object on a nearby
hillside, less than 2 km away. It could not be located again when they
reached the other side of the hill.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 62,5 (Vallee)
Location: Prince of Wales Island, Australia
ID: 536
Date: 6/21/1962
Time: 4 AM
Description: Witnesses: Lt. Col. H. King and tail gunner M/Sgt. Roberts,
aboard a B-52 heavy jet bomber. Three bright, star-like lights: one
seen; 10 seconds later, two more were seen. Total sighting took 3
minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
ID: 476
Date: 6/26/1962
Time: evening
Description: For about one hour, 20-year-old Roberto Poregozzo, his
mother, Maria, and his 25year-old sister, Luisa, observed a silvery
disk, the apparent diameter of the moon, maneuvering in the sky near
Santa Anastasia church. They finally went home. About 0300, one of them
was awakened by a feeling of intense cold and perceived a greenish light
in the room. In the window a sharply defined human shape, delineating a
semi-transparent body, was visible. The apparition had a huge bald head.
The witness screamed, awakening the two others, and they saw the
apparition shrink and vanish “like a TV image when one turns off the
set.”
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 63, 2 (Vallee)
Location: Verona, Italy
ID: 537
Date: 6/30/1962
Time: 9 AM
Description: Witness: 13 year old Meadors. One red, star-like light seen
for an unspecified length of time. No further details in files.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Richmond, Virginia
ID: 477
Date: 7/19/1962
Time: 9:30 PM
Description: Witnesses: C.T. Loftus, H. Wilbert. Four or five lights
darted about the sky for 7-10 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Bayhead, New Jersey
ID: 478
Date: 7/29/1962
Time: 11:20 PM
Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. M.O. Barton. One bright cherry-red,
diamond-shaped object flew slow, hovered, made fast 1/2 loops for l0
minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Ocean Springs, Mississippi
ID: 479
Date: 7/30/1962
Description: A man driving near Pasnembi stopped when his engine failed
and observed a cylindrial object, described as “a bottle with two
necks,” about 40 m long, 15 m high, which had landed on the road. Two
men (one at either end of the craft), appeared to be changing some
luminous signals. This lasted 10 min and the craft took off at high
speed. In Alta, a number of people reported a bright object moving at
high altitude.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 136; FSR 62, 6 (Vallee)
Location: Pasnembi, Brazil
ID: 538
Date: 7/30/1962
Description: Roberto Mievres, 17, was riding his motorcycle when a tall
being, with a head like a watermelon and three eyes, appeared as the
engine stalled. The apparition snatched the boy’s scarf, but he ran away
and came back with a group of people, who found the scarf on the ground,
discovered some traces and observed an unknown craft flying away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: CODOVNI 1962 (Vallee)
Location: Bajeola Grande, Argentina
ID: 539
Date: 8/2/1962
Description: Luis Harvey, airport manager, and his staff thought that an
unannounced aircraft was about to land, as they saw a luminous object
circling at high speed. It came down to hover about 1 m above the runway
for some four min. It was spherical, spinning, and emitted flashes of
blue, green and orange. When approached, it took off at very high
speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 64, 4 (Vallee)
Location: Camba Punat Airport, Argentina
ID: 540
Date: 8/17/1962
Time: evening
Description: Rivalino da Silva, a diamond prospector, told his
associates that he had seen two strange dwarfs digging a hole near his
house. They ran away as he came near them, and moments later an object
took off from behind the bushes. It was shaped like a hat and surrounded
with a red glow.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Sep.,62 (Vallee)
Location: Duas Pontes, Brazil
ID: 541
Date: 8/18/1962
Time: 5 PM
Description: Witnesses: Owner M. Sheppard and chief announcer A. Seymour
of radio station. Three dull-white, egg-shaped objects wavered as they
moved for 20 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Bermuda
ID: 480
Date: 8/19/1962
Time: night
Description: Raimundo, the son of Rivalino da Silva (see previous case),
was awakened by the sound of steps and saw “a weird shadow” in the room.
It was small and not human in shape. Voices were heard saying, “This one
looks like Rivalino,” and later that they would kill him. The family
stayed on the alert all night.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Sep., 62 (Vallee)
Location: Duas Pontes, Brazil
ID: 542
Date: 8/20/1962
Description: Raimundo da Silva (see previous cases) testified before the
police that while working in a field, he saw two spherical objects
hovering 2 m above ground, a few meters from the house. One was black
with an antenna-like protrusion and a small tail; the other was black
and white. Both emitted a humming sound and a flickering fire through an
opening. The boy’s father warned him to stay away as Rivalino walked
toward the objects, praying. When he was 2 m away, the two spheres
merged into one, raising dust from the ground and spreading a yellow
mist that enveloped the man. The boy ran after his father, noting that
the cloud had “an acrid smell.” As it dissolved, everything had
vanished. Police investigation, headed by Lieutenant Lisboa, failed to
reveal any clue. Many terrified people left the area.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Sep., 62 (Vallee)
Location: Duas Pontes, Brazil
ID: 543
Date: 9/1962
Time: 2145
Description: A. T. Gray, a dairy rancher, thought some lights in a field
were those of a car. When coming nearer, he realized the object was
oblong with blunt edges and hovered about 7 m above the ground, making
no noise. When Gray was 50 m away, the object came toward him, rose, and
took off toward the southwest.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Jul., 63 (Vallee)
Location: Orland, California
ID: 544
Date: 9/5/1962
Time: night
Description: Second observation by Mr. Siragusa (Case 531), who saw two
figures over 2.10 m tall. The light from their belts prevented him from
seeing them in detail. A large, spinning object, 25 m wide, top-shaped,
hovered nearby. “From the under part, a metallic cylinder over 3 m long
reached down almost to touch the road, with a small door, a sort of
lift.”
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 62, 6 (Vallee)
Location: Mount Manfre, Italy
ID: 545
Date: 9/13/1962
Time: 2320
Description: Myra Jones was driving between Overfield and Norris Hill
when she saw a luminous, gray object, larger than a car with a dome on
top. It was flying at the altitude of the Phone poles, slowly spinning.
Dark spots were visible on the underside. It nearly touched the car,
then gave a whistling sound and flew away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 137; FSR 62, 6 (Vallee)
Location: Overfield, Great Britain
ID: 546
Date: 9/15/1962
Time: 1700
Description: Two bright disks were first seen at 1700, then were seen
again at 1800, at the state line. Two witnesses saw one round object
with a fin on top and another under it at 1950, and reported that it was
going down toward the Oradell reservoir. Three young men saw and heard
the object as it touched the water. Another witness called police. The
luminous object took off a few minutes later. Official investigation
described it as bright, surrounded with a glow, the apparent size of a
small plane 1 km away. It left toward the south.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Oradell, New Jersey
ID: 547
Date: 9/18/1962
Description: Three men working in a rubber plantation saw a large,
disk-shaped object hover above the river. It emitted sparks, was of
silvery color, and very brilliant. It eventually rose straight up at
high speed. Disappearance of cattle was noticed in the area during that
period and blamed on the same cause.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Jan., 63 (Vallee)
Location: Barcelos, Brazil
ID: 548
Date: 9/21/1962
Time: 7:37 PM
Description: Witness: fishing boat captain S.A. Guthrie. Two objects,
red and black with orange streaks, one as big as the Moon, and the other
smaller. Arced across the sky for 13 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: WSW of Biloxi, Mississippi, in the Gulf of Mexico
ID: 481
Date: 10/23/1962
Time: 3 PM
Description: Witness: R.O. Christensen. One grey and silver ball,
trailing what looked like twine with two knots in it, swerved, and
climbed away at a 45’ angle, making a sound like a flock of ducks
(rushing air). Twenty seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Farmington, Utah
ID: 482
Date: 10/24/1962
Description: Undocumented claim that a landing took place. No
traces.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP Oct., 62 (Vallee)
Location: Horsetooth Reservoir, Colorado
ID: 549
Date: 10/28/1962
Time: 1930
Description: Mrs. E. D. Silvester was driving with her three children
when an illuminated oval object landed near the road. She watched it for
40 min, and reported seeing a man wearing a helmet and gas mask in the
vicinity of the object.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 63, 4 (Vallee)
Location: Norwood, Australia
ID: 550
Date: 11/1962
Time: evening
Description: A garage owner was driving through a rainstorm when he
suddenly saw a group of figures 80 m away. He slowed down as they went
away jerkily, and observed that they were bizarre, birdlike creatures.
As they rushed toward the car, he drove past them in terror and saw them
going back toward a luminous, blue object hovering in a field. They
entered it as if “sucked into it,” and a dull sound was heard before the
object flew off.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68, 6 (Vallee)
Location: Var, France
ID: 551
Date: 11/17/1962
Time: 99 PM
Description: Witness: F.L. Swindale, college graduate and ex-USMC
Capt. Three bright star-like lights approached, hovered and bounced,
then faded after 11-15 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Tampa, Florida
ID: 483
Date: 12/9/1962
Time: 2200
Description: Antonio Candau saw a circular object land in Cadivilla, 9 m
away from him. It was about 5.5 m m diameter, and two men emerged from
it, approaching within 2 m, and spoke incomprehensible words. They wore
yellow coveralls and a wide belt. Noting that the witness was afraid,
one of them made a reassuring gesture with his hand, and the craft
departed with a strange sound.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Settimana Incom. Dec. 30, 62 (Vallee)
Location: Bologna, Italy
ID: 552
Date: 12/11/1962
Time: dawn
Description: G. L. Colodrero and the director of the Cordoba Historial
Museum were driving from Catamarca to Cordoba when, 7 km away from
Chumbicha, they saw seven objects on the ground of a mountain slope.
They were bright and spherical, rose straight up and flew away with a
very bright trail.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: CODOVNI 1962 (Vallee)
Location: Chumbicha, Argentina
ID: 553
Date: 12/17/1962
Time: dawn
Description: Francesco Rizzi, night watchman, was crossing the factory
yard when he heard a whistling sound and observed an object hovering 1 m
above ground. It was a silvery disk, about 5 m in diameter, with lighted
windows. The noise stopped, a door became visible, and a small being
appeared and made a gesture. A second figure was also seen. The craft
took off with a puff of white smoke and a whistling sound.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 138 (Vallee)
Location: Milan, Italy
ID: 554
Date: 12/19/1962
Description: Three sailors on a ship observed two gray, helmet-shaped
objects hovering 1 km away at 20 m altitude above Lake Major. Diameter:
about 15 m. After 5 min one object started moving rapidly, gaining
height with an undulating movement. It was soon joined by the second
object, and both disappered together at the horizon.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 139 (Vallee)
Location: Verbania, Italy
ID: 555
Date: 12/21/1962
Time: 0215
Description: A large, fiery disk was observed on the runway by Horado
Alora and Mario Pezzuto, the two control tower operators, and by the
crews of two aircraft. It rose to 10 m altitude, hovered, and flew away
to the northeast.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: CODOVNI 1962 (Vallee)
Location: Buenos Aires Airport, Argentina
ID: 556
Date: 1/4/1963
Time: 1900
Description: A well-known psychiatrist saw an object on the ground in a
deserted city park. Shape: a dome upon a cylinder, bearing a series of
round apertures and surrounded by a thick, roundish ring, set on a
tripod landing gear supporting the base of the cylinder 1 m above the
ground. Diameter: 5 m. Suddenly the ring started spinning rapidly, and a
gust of air was felt as the craft rose a few m above ground, then
disappeared in a split second.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 142 (Vallee)
Location: Rome, Italy
ID: 557
Date: 1/11/1963
Time: 2300
Description: A 43-year-old farmer was awakened by restless animals and
went out to calm them. Fifteen min later he saw an object land in a
small square in the village, went toward it, was “paralyzed” when 10 m
away. Two min later the craft, 4.5 m long, 1.5 m high, with a
translucent upper dome showing two dark, moving figures, ascended in the
direction of Brindisi, emitted a vertical beam of green light.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 143 (Vallee)
Location: San Pietro, Italy
ID: 558
Date: 1/28/1963
Time: 1720
Description: Mary Sharp and Mrs. E. L. Sharp saw an object on the
ground. It had four windows, emitted a yellow-orange light, and
eventually left toward Rugby.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Shilton, Great Britain
ID: 559
Date: 1/28/1963
Time: night
Description: A former Chilean Air Force officer, who was driving a
truck, observed two disk-shaped objects that followed him for over ten
min.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Mamina, Chile
ID: 560
Date: 1/31/1963
Description: An object was reported to have landed. The Lopez brothers
found traces in the grass and evidence of intense heat. Police
investigation. A whitish powder was also found at the site.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66, 1 (Vallee)
Location: Ganada de Algosaray, Argentina
ID: 561
Date: 2/5/1963
Description: Approximate date. A student, Anastasio Lenven, saw an
object land on the school grounds. In a different observation, several
residents, including an official of the Ministry of the Interior, saw an
object flying at very high speed over Ascension.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Ascension, Paraguay
ID: 562
Date: 2/15/1963
Time: 0710
Description: A civilian observed an object arriving from the east. It
stopped at 15 m altitude over his farmhouse. The object made a swishing
sound, and measured about 8 m in diameter, 3 m in height. The underside
was spinning in a counterclockwise direction, had a blue color and no
light. It took off faster than a jet, after hovering about five sec. The
witness suffered from a strong headache all day.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Willow Grove, Australia
ID: 563
Date: 2/20/1963
Time: 1730
Description: A young man saw from a window ,a slowly spinning object,
almost stationary, 500 m away. It appeared as a disk having a central
upper dome, with a total diameter of 3 m. The object had a brilliant
yellow red halo, but its dome was much more brilliant. The witness
observed it through binoculars, reported seeing a “particle” leave the
object, after which it stopped spinning, gained altitude with a vertical
shifting, and left toward the northeast.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 144 (Vallee)
Location: Lecce, Italy
ID: 564
Date: 2/21/1963
Time: 0230
Description: A strange globe of fire hit a car driven by a civilian man.
Several people called authorities to report that they had been awakened
by a peculiar object.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Belgrade, Montana
ID: 565
Date: 3/9/1963
Description: Amos Biggs observed a silver, saucer-shaped craft, with an
oval dome, which landed on the frozen lake for 10 min. A “door” was
opened and then shut, and the craft took off with a buzzing sound.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FS Jul., 64 (Vallee)
Location: Crystal Lake, Montana
ID: 566
Date: 3/12/1963
Time: 0532
Description: After an intense rainfall Pablo Michalowski and Roberto
Jorge Martinez observed and photographed a luminous object that rose
from a forest preserve about 2 km from Colonia Yerua.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: CODOVNI 1963 (Vallee)
Location: Colonia Yerua, Argentina
ID: 567
Date: 3/13/1963
Time: 2230
Description: Fred White was fishing when he heard a high-pitched whine
coming from the east and saw an object come in his direction and land 15
m away, scattering sand. It was at least 30 m in diameter, and was
shaped like two plates glued together. Through several oval portholes he
could see light inside. A man with a fair complexion, wearing a metallic
helmet, looked at the witness. He wore a sky-blue, one-piece coverall
with no visible buttons or fasteners, and gloves made of shiny mesh.
Warm air was felt as the craft took off about six min later, and radio
interference was noted.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 63, 5 (Vallee)
Location: Richards Bay, South Africa
ID: 568
Date: 5/7/1963
Time: evening
Description: Margaret McCutcheon and her 13-year-old son reported to the
police that, after the house lights blacked out while watching
television, they saw an object about 6 m in diameter, with two aerials
and a red light flashing, emitting a low buzz, near the house. After one
minute, it flew away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 63, 4 (Vallee)
Location: Kirkby, Great Britain
ID: 569
Date: 5/15/1963
Description: Mr. and Mrs. D., of Carignan, saw an object on the ground
to the left of the road as they were driving between Bergerac and
Bordeaux, beyond the Yvrac intersection, 2.5 km from Maille. They
stopped to observe it, and the object then followed them for part of
their trip.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN 71 (Vallee)
Location: Yvrac-Maille, France
ID: 570
Date: 5/20/1963
Time: evening
Description: A 17-year-old witness, who wishes anonymity for fear of
ridicule, saw what he first thought was a bulldozer by the side of the
road. He came within 20 m of it, then was blinded by a strong light as
his car suddenly stopped. The object crossed the road and flew away. The
light was as intense as that of a welder’s torch. The witness’s father
testified that his son came home white and visibly terrified.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Nov., 63 (Vallee)
Location: Glencoe, Australia
ID: 571
Date: 5/22/1963
Time: 10:45 PM
Description: Witness: Myra Jackson. Four pink wheels spun or rolled very
fast from east to west in succession, each taking about 1 second.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Pequannock, New Jersey
ID: 485
Date: 6/4/1963
Description: A multicolored object, the size of a light truck, was
reported to have landed in the vicinity of Lyle. Police searched an area
over 3 km wide on both sides of the Iowa-Minnesota border, with no
results.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Lyle, Minnesota
ID: 572
Date: 6/15/1963
Time: 10:39 AM
Description: Witness: 3rd Mate R.C. Chamberlin, of S/S Thetis. One
luminous disc travelled at 1.5 times the speed of satellite for 3-4
minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: 200 miles north of Venezuela (14’ 27’ N, 69’ 57’ E)
ID: 486
Date: Summer 1963
Time: 9:30 or 10 PM
Description: Witness: Grace Dutcher. Eight-ten lights moved at random,
then in an oval formation, then singly, during the 1 minute
sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Middletown, New York
ID: 487
Date: 6/28/1963
Time: 2130
Description: A fiery red object, 8 m wide 4 m high, with a concave top
and flat bottom, was seen on the road by a Willaston resident who
stopped his car 4 m away. The object rose, tipped to one side and flew
away at fantastic speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 141; FSR 64, 1 (Vallee)
Location: Sandy Creek, Australia
ID: 573
Date: 7/1/1963
Time: 8 PM
Description: Witness: R.B. Stiles, ll, using a theodolite. One light,
the size of a match head at arm’s length, flashed and moved around the
sky for 1.5 hours.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Glen Ellyn, Illinois
ID: 488
Date: 7/15/1963
Description: A farmer discovered strange crater 2.5 m wide and 2.5 m
deep. Vegetation around it was burned and there were four holes in the
ground around the crater itself.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 63, 5; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Charlton, Great Britain
ID: 574
Date: 7/17/1963
Description: A passenger of a Convair-880 related to UFO investigator,
James Moseley, that the 4 engine jet airliner she had been flying in was
pursued by an UFO. The jet, traveling at 600 mph, made a sharp turn to
avoid the UFO, now rapidly closing in on the plane. Just as they were
about to collide, the UFO swerved away at fantastic speed and
disappeared in the night sky. When the (unnamed) woman confronted the
pilot about the incident, he said, “I wouldn’t dare risk telling the
airline of the incident. If I could tell you of some of the experiences
my buddies have had, you’d never fly again!”
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: US
Date: 7/22/1963
Time: 2030
Description: William Holland, 12, and two other persons saw a hovering,
silvery object with a flashing red light on top, at 20 m altitude. It
had three “legs” and a periscope underneath that pointed at the
witnesses. The object went up into a cloud of unusual color, which flew
against the wind.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 64, 3 (Vallee)
Location: Parr, Great Britain
ID: 575
Date: 8/5/1963
Description: Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT). At this point, 499 nuclear
tests were conducted
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Date: 8/7/1963
Time: night
Description: Five persons observed a luminous source flying slowly over
the railroad tracks. Direction of travel: west, then north. It appeared
ready to land in a wooded area. Its luminosity was variable.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Centralia, Illinois
ID: 576
Date: 8/8/1963
Time: 2210
Description: An oval, luminous object coming from the north dived toward
Centralia Road, followed a car, flying around it. Then it went away
toward the west, disappeared like a bulb turned off, and was seen again
in the west flying very fast. It was observed by numerous people. Total
duration: 15 min.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Mount Vernon, Illinois
ID: 577
Date: 8/11/1963
Time: 10 PM
Description: Witness: R.M. Boersma. One light moved around the sky for
20 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Warrenville, Illinois
ID: 489
Date: 8/13/1963
Description: An elliptical object with lights on its entire length and
occasional flashes at both ends was seen at ground level for over one
hour by an entire family.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Evidence 141 (Vallee)
Location: Ellsworth, Maine
ID: 578
Date: 8/13/1963
Time: 8:04 PM
Description: Witness: A.F. Schelling. One fireball became a dark object
after 4 minutes, and then a bigger glow, a minute later, and finally
exploded. Note: same witness had another, undescribed, sighting on
Aug. 14
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: St. Gallen, Switzerland
ID: 490
Date: 8/20/1963
Time: 2132
Description: In a wooded area near Rome, a man in a car observed an
object resembling a plate turned upside down, with a central turret,
flying low over his vehicle.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Rome, Italy
ID: 579
Date: 8/28/1963
Time: 1915
Description: Two brothers, F. and R. Eustagio, 11 and 9, saw a luminous
sphere at treetop level. Through an opening they observed “several rows
of people inside” and a thin, 3 m tall being, whho glided down to the
ground along two vertical beams of light. He walked with a strange,
swinging motion, then sat down. He wore a transparent helmet, had one
eye in the middle of his forehead, wore high boots that left a
triangular imprint, and carried a box emitting flashes. He made a
threatening gesture and flew up to the sphere, which left. The chlldren
somehow became convinced that the being was “good” and would
return.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 37; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Sagrada Famila, Brazil
ID: 580
Date: 9/14/1963
Time: 3:15 PM
Description: Witness: E.A. Grant, veteran of 37 years training forest
fire lookouts for the U.S. Forest Service. One round object intercepted
a long object and either attached itself to the latter or disappeared.
Sighting lasted l0 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Susanville, California
ID: 491
Date: 9/15/1963
Time: 66 PM
Description: Witness: Mrs. F.E. Roush. Two very bright gold objects–one
shaped like a banana and the other like an ear of corn–one remained
stationary, the other moved from west to north during 10 minutes,
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Vandalia, Ohio
ID: 492
Date: 9/19/1963
Time: 2000
Description: Four children saw a bright oval object hover in a field and
drop something. Approaching the site, they were confronted with a 3 m
tall man, dressed in “a white monklike suit,” who held out his hands and
made unintelligible sounds. The children fled in panic, and one girl was
admitted to the hospital in shock.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Saskatoon, Canada
ID: 581
Date: 10/1963
Time: 0900
Description: A middle-aged woman, who had seen a strange craft hovering
near her house the previous Jul., observed a gray-colored object, 3.5 m
long, hovering less than 2 m above ground. Through the transparent front
part she could see three figures. Suddenly one of the occupants was
standing on the grass. He was clothed in “asbestostextured coveralls”
and neither the face, nor the hands, nor the feet was visible. When she
asked, “What do you want?” the answer, in English, was: “One of our
party knows you; we will return.” The object then decreased in size,
tilted, partially sank into the ground, grew to its previous size, and
departed to the east, producing steam, a flash, and a noise.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 64, 6 (Vallee)
Location: Whidbey Island, Washington
ID: 582
Date: 10/4/1963
Time: 3:32 PM
Description: Witness: R.E. Carpenter, 15. One intense oblong light with
tapered ends and surrounded by an aqua haze, flashed and flickered while
stationary for 15 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Bedford, Ohio
ID: 493
Date: 10/12/1963
Time: 0330
Description: E. Douglas, while driving a truck through,a violent
rainstorm, had to stop when he encountered a large, blinding object, 35
m high, from which three giants, 3 m tall, wearing luminous clothes and
strange helmets, emerged. Douglas fired at them, as a red beam burned
him. He ran away and found shelter in Monte Maiz. He suffered burns
similar to ultraviolet exposure. Footprints of large dimension were
found at the site.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: CODOVNI 1963; Austr; FSR 8; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Monte Maiz, Argentina
ID: 583
Date: 10/21/1963
Time: 2130
Description: Six strange objects were observed for 40 min causing a
local panic. One was hovering at ground level above some railroad
tracks, while another, showing a dome and portholes, was nea a house.
When witneses flashed a light, the house was flooded with a strong beam.
Temperature rose and a sulphurous odor was noted. Figures were seen in
the vicinity of the first disks. All six objects had a white and a red
light beam, measured 8 m in diameter, and left a cloud of white
smoke.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 145; LDLN 66 (Vallee)
Location: Trancas, Argentina
ID: 584
Date: 10/23/1963
Time: 8:35 PM
Description: Witnesses: several unnamed students, including Gordon. One
object shaped like a circle from below and like a football from the
side, hovered low over the observers, making a deep, pulsating, loud,
extremely irritating sound, for 6 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Meridian, Idaho
ID: 494
Date: 10/24/1963
Time: No time given
Description: Witnesses: A. McLean (12) and G. McLean (8). One light
moved for an unspecified length of time. No further details in files.
Note: Project Blue Book chief Maj. H. Quintanilla told the youngsters,
in a letter, that this was “one of the most complete” of the unexplained
cases for the year.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Cupar Fife, Scotland
ID: 495
Date: 10/31/1963
Time: 0415
Description: Jim Davidson saw an object about 3 m long, bearing orange
and red lights, which came close to his light truck, flew ahead of him,
then departed and appeared to land behind a hill. Two witnesses
independently reported a maneuvering light.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Austr. FSR May., 64 (Vallee)
Location: Daylston, Australia
ID: 585
Date: 10/31/1963
Time: 1400
Description: A farmer, Issuo Oikiti, and two other witnesses saw a
luminous object, resembling a huge, aluminum ball, which hit the river,
changed direction while spinning, crossed to the other side and plunged
into the water, which appeared to boil.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Vuillequez (Vallee)
Location: Peropava River, Brazil
ID: 586
Date: 11/15/1963
Description: Peter Valko and Jim Keosian ran toward a strange object
that appeared about to land, but it “vanished.”
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Binder (Vallee)
Location: Bloomingdale, New Jersey
ID: 587
Date: 11/16/1963
Time: evening
Description: Four teenagers, among them painter John Flaxton, while
walking on a country road, saw a moving star turn into a reddish glow
coming toward them, then disappearing behind some trees. Shortly
thereafter, a bright, golden light was seen 80 m away, floating 3 m
above ground, and a dark figure the size of a man, with wings like a
bat, came toward them. They fled in terror.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 64, 2; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Saltwood, Great Britain
ID: 588
Date: 11/22/1963
End date: 1/20/69
Description: President Lyndon B. Johnson in office
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Date: 11/22/1963
Description: President John F. Kennedy Assassinated at Dealey Plaza in
Dallas, TX.
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Date: 12/1963
Description: A Japanese man reported the landing of an object, from
which emerged a being who spoke to him in a language he could not
understand, climbed aboard again, and flew away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN67 (Vallee)
Location: Japan, exact location unknown
ID: 589
Date: 12/10/1963
Time: 2330
Description: At the RAF camp, two airmen observed a dome-shaped object
that landed behind a hangar. It gave out a bright glow, and the
witnesses fled when an opening became visible.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 64, 2 (Vallee)
Location: Cosford, Great Britain
ID: 590
Date: 12/11/1963
Time: 7 AM
Description: Witness: W.W. Dolan, professor of mathematics and
astronomy, and dean of the faculty of Linfield College. One bright,
star-like light hovered, slowed, dimmed and flashed in 1 minute.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: McMinnville, Oregon
ID: 496
Date: 12/14/1963
Time: 0100
Description: Messrs. Muller and Immelman suddenly found the countryside
illuminated and saw an object, 15 m in diameter, with intense orange and
blue lights, emitting sparks, flying toward their car. They stopped and
jumped out as it dived five or six times, at one point hovering for two
min 15 m above them, making a humming sound, before flying away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 146; FSR 64, 3 (Vallee)
Location: Vereeniging, South Africa
ID: 591
Date: 12/16/1963
Time: 5:05 PM
Description: Witness: unspecified persons aboard a military aircraft.
One white light blinked 2-3 times per second as it moved very fast
across the sky for 15 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: 800 miles north of Midway Island (40’ N, 175’ 54’ W)
ID: 497
Date: 12/25/1963
Time: night
Description: A fisherman witnessed the landing of a craft, from which a
terrifying creature emerged. It was humanoid in shape, spoke sounds he
could not understand, left footprints on the sand, and went back to the
machine and flew off.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 147;LDLN 70 (Vallee)
Location: Libreville, Gabon
ID: 592
Date: 12/27/1963
Time: 1600
Description: A shiny white object was seen on the ground at Bank’s
Stables. It was about 3.5 m long, 1 m high, and had something like a
windshield more brilliant than the rest of the craft. It took off, flew
horizontally for 30 m, and was hidden from view. Grass was flattened
over a circular area, and four traces were found.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BUFORA 1 (Vallee)
Location: Epping, Great Britain
ID: 593
Date: 4/3/1964
Time: 2100
Description: Four people in a car observed a rigid configuration of
intense red and white lights, apparently attached to a large object that
came to ground level, hovered, and flew off very fast as they were
driving about 2 km west of Monticello.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic; Challenge 31 (Vallee)
Location: Monticello, Wisconsin
ID: 594
Date: 4/3/1964
Time: 9 PM
Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. R. Wold (he was a graduate student
in anthropology). Four huge red lights in a rectangular formation, with
a white light above, were near the ground, tilted and flew away after
3-4 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Monticello, Wisconsin
ID: 498
Date: 4/11/1964
Time: 6:30 PM
Description: Witnesses: physiotherapist W.B. Ochsner and wife. Two
cloud-like objects darkened; one shot away and returned during the 30-45
minute sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Homer, New York
ID: 499
Date: 4/15/1964
Alternate date: 4/24/1964
Description: USAF Intelligence officer meets with 2 Aliens at
prearranged location in the desert of New Mexico near Holloman AFB.
Project SIGMA operates at AFB, New Mexico.
Type: alien meeting
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-A)
Location: Holloman AFB
Date: 4/22/1964
Time: 2100
Description: Marie Morrow and two other persons were driving west, about
2O km east of Lordsbury when the entire area was illuminated by a bluish
light “as bright as day,” and a round object flew about 3 m above the
car, making a whining sound, then went north.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO May., 64 (Vallee)
Location: Lordsbury, New Mexico
ID: 595
Date: 4/24/1964
Time: 1745
Description: Policeman Lonnie Zamora observed the landing of a white
craft, resting on four legs, in a depression 4 km outside Socorro. Near
it were standing two figures, below average height, dressed in white.
Within 30 m of the object, he saw a red insignia on its aluminumlike
surface. It rose to 4 m with a strong roar, became silent, hovered and
flew away. Traces.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic; Challenge 34; Humanoids 47; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Socorro, New Mexico
ID: 597
Date: 4/24/1964
Time: 5:45 PM
Description: Witness: Socorro policeman Lonnie Zamora. Watched object
with flame underneath descend toward the desert. Two small humanoids
observed near vertical oval on ground. Later watched object take off
with a roar, go silent and fly away. Burning and charred brush found at
landing sight.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Socorro, New Mexico
ID: 500
Date: 4/24/1964
Time: 1000
Description: Dairy farmer Gary T. Wilcox saw a shiny, egg-shaped object,
about 8 m long and 6 m wide, in his field. He spoke in English to two
dwarfs, 1.2 m tall, wearing seamless clothing and hoods, and carrying
trays.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 59; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Tioga City, New York
ID: 596
Date: 4/26/1964
Time: 1230
Description: Orlando Gallegos observed a bright, metallic, egg-shaped
object about 70 m away, on the ground, north of La Madera. Blue flames
appeared to circle the base of the machine, which was silent and about
the length of a Phone pole. Scorch marks and four imprints were found,
according to Police Capt. Martin Vigil.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: La Madera, New Mexico
ID: 598
Date: 4/28/1964
Time: morning
Description: Numerous witnesses, among them policeman Paul Arteche, saw
a reddish, round object hover at low level, then take off very rapidly
toward the west.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP Jul., 64 (Vallee)
Location: Anthony, New Mexico
ID: 599
Date: 4/30/1964
Time: 2230
Description: Several anonymous adults observed an elongated, glowing
object. Two children saw a lighted craft land and take off, leaving four
rectangular indentations.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Jul., 64 (Vallee)
Location: Canyon Ferry, Montana
ID: 601
Date: 4/30/1964
Description: Gloria Biggs, her husband, and her mother observed a brown,
dome-shaped object on a hilltop about 17 km west of Baker on U.S.
Highway 91. They lost sight of it a moment, could not see it again, and
found only a depression in the ground.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 64, 5; Anatomy 75 (Vallee)
Location: Baker, California
ID: 600
Date: 5/5/1964
Time: 0830
Description: A farmer, Alfred Ernst, saw an object rise from a field and
fly rapidly into the cloud bank. It was described as oval, and it left a
depression and imprints in the ground.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FS Jun., 65 (Vallee)
Location: Comstock, Minnesota
ID: 602
Date: 5/9/1964
Time: 1100
Description: Three children, John Owens, Cheryl Glunt, and Bernie
Montello, saw a silvery, dome-shaped object arrive from the south and
land in a field 150 m away. Estimated diameter: 3 m.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FS Jun., 65 (Vallee)
Location: Mogadore, Ohio
ID: 603
Date: 5/9/1964
Time: 10:20 PM
Description: Witness: J.R. Betz, U.S. District Court reporter. Three
light green crescent-shaped objects, about half the apparent size of the
Moon, flew very fast in tight formation from east to west, oscillating
in size and color for 3 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Chicago, Illinois
ID: 501
Date: 5/13/1964
Description: A woman saw two objects, one of which landed in a field. It
was round and luminous.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP Jul., 64 (Vallee)
Location: Rio Vista, California
ID: 604
Date: 5/17/1964
Time: 2100
Description: A fiery object, maneuvering at low altitude, was seen from
Wooster and Smithville at 2110. then from Lawrence and Burbank between
2125 and 2130. It flew erratically with a whirring sound and changes of
color, apparently interfering with police radio. lt went down toward the
northwest, seemingly ready to land. Abnormal radioactivity allegedly was
found at the site.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Akron UFO Res. Soc. (Vallee)
Location: Massillon, Ohio
ID: 605
Date: 5/18/1964
Time: 5:15 PM
Description: Witness: civil engineer F. Meyers. One small, glowing white
oval split twice after moving from the right of the Moon around to the
left. Sighting lasted 17 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Mt. Vernon, Virginia
ID: 502
Date: 5/18/1964
Description: A bright, silvery object, 3 m long, 1.5 m high, with a
cone-shaped front part, resting on four legs, was seen in a wheat field
by 10-year-old Mike Bizon. It made a beeping noise, rose first to the
altitude of the Phone poles, then took off vertically. Wheat was found
flattened in all directions.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP Jul., 64 (Vallee)
Location: Hubbard, Oregon
ID: 606
Date: 5/24/1964
Time: 2100
Description: A man driving on Millinocket Lake Road saw a fiery,
spherical object to the side. He stopped and left his car with a friend
to observe it better. When they became afraid and walked back to the
car, the sphere followed them; the engine could not be started as long
as the sphere remained within 2 or 3 m of the car. It flew away after
five min. It was described as a ball of fire without structure, about 75
cm in diameter.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Millinocket, Maine
ID: 607
Date: 5/26/1964
Time: 7:43 PM
Description: Witness: P. Wankowicz, RAF pilot and ex-Smithsonian
satellite tracker. One thin, white ellipsoid (3.5 times as long as wide)
flew straight and level for 3-4 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
ID: 503
Date: 5/26/1964
Time: 11 PM
Description: Witness: Rev. H.C. Shaw. One yellow-orange light, shaped
like the bottom of a ball, was spotted in a field and chased down the
road for 2 miles.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Pleasantview, Pennsylvania
ID: 504
Date: 6/2/1964
Time: 1730
Description: David Wilson, 14, was going to get some straw for his
rabbits when he stopped with other children to observe half-a-dozen
dwarfs, about 80 cm tall, dressed in bright green, and having hands
lighted “like electric bulbs,” who seemed to be searching for something.
Another child later reported that she had seen a silvery disk-shaped
object, the size of a car, take off from the same location.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FS Dec.,64 (Vallee)
Location: Leam Lane, England
ID: 609
Date: 6/2/1964
Time: 1600
Description: A “black object with flames” is blamed for burns suffered
by an 8-year-old child, who said he saw the object coming from the sky.
His grandmother, Mrs. Frank Smith, who was standing nearby, heard a
sound similar to that of a bullet, but saw nothing. The child suffered
second-degree burns on his face, and lost part of his hair.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Saucer News Mar., 65 (Vallee)
Location: Hobbs, New Mexico
ID: 608
Date: 6/5/1964
Description: A 42-year-old doctor and his wife were 30 km away from the
airport when an intensely bright object appeared on the road ahead. They
drove very close to it and saw three men dressed in gray, one of whom
told him in Spanish that “they had a mission on Earth.”
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 39 (Vallee)
Location: Pajasblancas, Argentina
ID: 610
Date: 6/8/1964
Time: 2230
Description: Helen Reed observed a spinning object 5 m above ground,less
than 20 m away, coming and going with right-angle turns. It had a dome
from which colored light emanated (blue turning to red) and bands of
yellow light. The object was lost to sight behind trees in the
north.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP Jul., 64 (Vallee)
Location: Lawrenceville, Illinois
ID: 611
Date: 6/13/1964
Time: 2100
Description: Karen Fahle saw a bright object coming to the ground about
200 m away. While approaching its lights blinked and turned to dark red.
Five min later it went away slowly.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: AMUFO Sep., 64 (Vallee)
Location: Penberville, Ohio
ID: 612
Date: 6/13/1964
Time: 9:15 PM
Description: Witness: B.L. English, announcer for radio station WTOD.
Three glowing white spheres, glowing red on their sides, moved slow,
hovered and then moved in circles very fast, all the while making a low,
rumbling sound.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Toledo, Ohio
ID: 505
Date: 6/14/1964
Time: 2100
Description: Charles Englebrecht went outside when his TV set and all
house lights suddenly failed and saw a glowing blue-white object, about
30 nn in diameter, land about 18 m away in the field. He felt a mild
electric shock when he tried to approach it and was unable to move
forward.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP Jul., 64 (Vallee)
Location: Dale, Indiana
ID: 613
Date: 6/15/1964
Description: A miner, R. A. Donoso, observed a strange machine land.
From it emerged two fairskinned men who asked for water in a language
which appeared to be a mixture of English and Spanish. Donoso took some
water from his car radiator for them and they left. Their craft was
about 3 m long and 1 m wide.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 65; 2 (Vallee)
Location: Aria, Chile
ID: 614
Date: 6/23/1964
Description: Author of “Behind the Flying Saucers” and journalist Frank
Scully dies in Palm Springs, CA. In 1988 his large archive of
1950’s-early 60’s material (personal notes, private correspondences,
newspaper clippings, etc.) is contributed by his wife Alice to the
American Heritage Center (University of Wyoming) in Laramie, WY.
Type: death
Reference: link
Location: Palm Springs, CA
Date: 7/7/1964
Time: 2100
Description: Nine persons from three different houses, including J.
Ivester, described an object like “a flying top.” TV interference was
associated with the object’s presence. It flew silently at tree height
and hovered over the vard of Mrs. Russell Mickinan’s house. The lower
part was bright red, with three lights on the upper part. As it left, a
green light illuminated the countryside. A powerful odor similar to
“embalming fluid” was noticeable when police arrived. The next day,
witnesses felt a burning sensation on their faces and arms.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Challenge 39 (Vallee)
Location: Tallulah Falls, Georgia
ID: 615
Date: 7/14/1964
Time: evening
Description: Miss P. Upton came running home nearly hysterical. While
riding bicycles, she and a friend saw a low-flying object that terrified
them. A strong unpleasant smell also was reported.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Fate Nov., 64 (Vallee)
Location: Tallulah Falls, Georgia
ID: 616
Date: 7/16/1964
Time: 1500
Description: Edmund Travis, 9, Randy Travis, 7 Floyd Moore, 10, and two
other boys, saw a dwarf dressed in a black suit and a helmet, with a
glass section in front of his face, which looked human. He appeared to
request some water in a strange tone, which sounded “as if it came from
a pipe.” He then walked to a shiny machine partially hidden in the
brush, as the boys ran home.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 59 (Vallee)
Location: Conklin, New York
ID: 617
Date: 7/16/1964
Time: 11:15 PM
Description: Witness: Northern Air Service pilot K. Jannereth. Four
white lights in a stepped-up echelon formation, were joined by two more.
They closed in on the airplane, then rapidly slowed nd flew along with
it for a total of 5 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: 15 miles south of Houghton Lake, Michigan
ID: 506
Date: 7/20/1964
Time: 4:45 AM
Description: Witness: J.J. Winkle. One 60’ diameter round-topped,
flat-bottomed object with a long acetylene-colored flame shooting
downward, flew straight and level, made a half loop, then rose up.
Sighting lasted l minute.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Littleton, Illinois
ID: 507
Date: 7/27/1964
Time: 7:30 PM
Description: Witness: Duabert, engineering supervisor. One aluminum
sphere with a luminous ring, remained stationary for 4-5 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Norwich, New York
ID: 508
Date: 7/27/1964
Time: 8:20 PM
Description: Witness: A. Borsa. One white ball of fire, the size of a
car, climbed slowly, then speeded up. Sighting lasted 2-3 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Denver, Colorado
ID: 509
Date: 7/27/1964
Time: 2100
Description: An engineer stopped his car when he saw an aluminum-looking
object, stationary, about 15 m above ground. The edge of the craft
seemed fluorescent, and three beams of very bright light were emitted
before it flew off at high speed. Total duration: 6 min.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Sherburne, New York
ID: 618
Date: 7/28/1964
Time: 2230
Description: A former Navy pilot and another man, both regarded as
trustworthy, were at work in a field when they saw an intense light,
cone-shaped, emitted from the ground. A similar light was observed in
the sky when the one on ground was turned off, then the reverse took
place. A round, aluminum-looking object, about 10 m in diameter, with
one red and one white light, then appeared and descended to ground level
with a strong whistling sound similar to a small jet. Piercing and
high-pitched voices similar to those of children playing were heard.
After 40 min the craft took off. Before it did so, a jet aircraft flying
at low altitude circled its position. On Jul. 31 and August 1, the
densely wooded area was explored from a helicopter and on foot by
Sheriff Nickell and a U.S. Air Force officer, but nothing was
found.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Lake Chelan, Washington
ID: 619
Date: 7/30/1964
Description: A whitish, elliptical object followed a car, then landed in
a field. The driver got out to observe it, but when the object started
in his direction he became afraid and drove off.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP Sep., 64 (Vallee)
Location: Flemington, New Jersey
ID: 620
Date: 8/2/1964
Description: Gulf of Tonkin incident in Vietnam
Type: war
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Vietnam
Date: 8/7/1964
Description: Gulf of Tonkin Resolution is passed, airstrikes against
Vietnam begin
Type: war
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Vietnam
Date: 8/10/1964
Time: 5:16 AM
Description: Witnesses: aircraft commander Capt. B.C. Jones and
navigator lst Lt. H.J. Cavender, in parked USAF C-124 transport plane.
One reddish, blinking light approached the runway, stopped and made
several reverses during 2 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Wake Island
ID: 510
Date: 8/12/1964
Time: 2200
Description: Witnesses got out of their car to watch an object
resembling a “burning haystack,” oval or crescent-shaped, which rose
from the ground, crossed the sky, and was lost to sight in the
south.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Brekkens Corner, Montana
ID: 621
Date: 8/15/1964
Time: 1:20 AM
Description: Witness: S.F. D’Alessandro. One 10’x5’ bullet-shaped object
with wavy lines on the rounded front part and six pipes along the
straight rear portion, made a “whishhh” sound. Witness’ dog growled
during sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: New York, New York
ID: 511
Date: 8/15/1964
Time: 8:15 AM
Description: Witnesses: E.J. Haug, of the San Francisco Orchestra and
the San Francisco Conservatory of Music; and C.R. Bubb, a high school
mathematics teacher. Three bright silver, round objects, in a stack
formation, flew very fast, changing positions within the formation. The
sound of rushing air was heard during the 3-4 second sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Yosemite National Park, California
ID: 512
Date: 8/18/1964
Time: 12:35 AM
Description: Witnesses: Maj. D.W. Thompson and First Pilot lst Lt. J.F.
Jonke, on a USAF C-124 transport plane. One round, blurred,
reddish-white object was on a collision course with the C-124 from ahead
and below. The airplane evaded the object. Sighting las ted 2
minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Atlantic Ocean, 200 miles east of Dover, Delaware
ID: 513
Date: 8/25/1964
Time: 2230
Description: Richard Pratt, 17, heard a whistling noise and saw a
silvery, oval object surrounded with a soft white glow, supporting a
dome, which went down to ground level. A similar object had been
observed one hour earlier at Littleton, about 50 km west, by four boys.
It was described as silvery gray, with three blinking red lights and a
white light.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP Sep., 64 (Vallee)
Location: Lynn, Massachusetts
ID: 622
Date: 9/5/1964
Time: 2200
Description: A hunter, who had lost his way in the mountains, observed
approaching lights that seemed to land. From a vantage point in a tree,
he saw a dome-shaped object at ground level, about 500 m away. Several
creatures, one of them a robotlike figure with “eyes” about 10 cm in
diameter, came near, apparently trying to dislodge the witness from his
tree. The creatures appeared to fear the light from flaming objects
thrown at them. The witness fell asleep after an exhausting series of
attempts to keep the creatures away. At dawn there was nothing to be
seen.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Cisco Grove, California
ID: 624
Date: 9/5/1964
Time: 2100
Description: Chafredo Dagota observed a circular object that came to the
ground briefly. It stood on a sort of pillar and emitted a blinding
light. He caught sight of two figures moving near it.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66, 3 (Vallee)
Location: Cofico, Argentina
ID: 623
Date: 9/10/1964
Time: 7:09 PM
Description: Witness: chemist P.H. DePaolo. Four white lights, 3-4
apart, were seen to the north, going west for 45 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Cedar Grove, New Jersey
ID: 514
Date: 9/11/1964
Time: 0600
Description: Karen Campbell was scared by an oval, dull copper object
that flew low over her car. It measured about 1.2 m in height, had a
dome on top, made a “rushing” noise, and seemed to “float” over the
car.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 148 (Vallee)
Location: Ulysses, Oklahoma
ID: 625
Date: 9/15/1964
Description: James Warren was awakened by a noise, and saw an object
bearing blinking red and green lights fly over his house at treetop
level. He called the police, who also reported seeing the object.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Fate Jan., 65 (Vallee)
Location: Core Lane, Louisiana
ID: 626
Date: 10/1964
Description: Air Force and Army radar stations tracked an UFO as it
hovered over and flew along the demilitarized zone between North and
South Korea. The UFO was visible for over an hour.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Korea
Date: 11/1964
Time: 2300
Description: Mr. Lehel observed a lighted object at hilltop level, about
700 m away. At the site, a wide circle of crushed vegetation was found,
three branches were broken, and a pole was calcined.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN 76 (Vallee)
Location: Saint-Alexis de Montcalm, Canada
ID: 627
Date: 11/14/1964
Time: 9:40 PM
Description: Witnesses: Dr. G.R. Wagner, MD; and two girls. Three dim,
reddish lights flew through a 160^ arc in 5-6 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Menominee Falls, Wisconsin
ID: 515
Date: 11/19/1964
Time: Unknown time
Description: Witnesses: unidentified military persons. One bright white
flashing light was travelling from horizon to horizon in 20
seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: 1,400 miles east of Tokyo, Japan (34’ 55’ N, 164’ 05’ E)
ID: 516
Date: 12/10/1964
Description: Recovery of Saucer by A.K. (initials).
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Fort Riley, KA
See also: 11/65
Date: 12/19/1964
Description: Memo to Chief, Contact Division: NICAP case #(censured):
Subject: UFOs over Patuxent Navel Air Station between 1500 and 1530
hours. Two UFOs approached Air Base at 3800 mph. Another UFO approached
at 6000 mph. Radar operator, Chief Pinkerton had visual on Radar. US
Coast Guard had “visual” on the UFOs. Official statement to press: the
(single) blip was caused by faulty radar equipment!
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Patuxent Navel Air Station
See also: 1/25/65
Date: 12/21/1964
Time: 1700
Description: Mr. Burns saw a huge object cross the road, hover at ground
level in a field for less than one min, then take off vertically. There
were other witnesses in the area.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Harrisonburg, Viginia
ID: 628
Date: 12/28/1964
Description: Two young girls, R. Bender and J. Quinn, observed an object
flying 17 m above the ground. It was shaped like two plates glued
together, with two rows of intense lights, and a turret with a green
light on top. When an opening became visible, the witnesses thought the
thing was about to land, and they fled.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Spaceview (Vallee)
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
ID: 629
Date: 1965
Description: While visiting the Air Force Museum in Fairborn, Ohio, R.M.
(initials), a government employee of 23 yrs., went through a double-
door marked “Off Limits” and suddenly came face to face with an Alien in
a self contained space suite. Description: About 4.5 ft. tall with a
translucent dome over its’ large head; wasn’t human; large eyes under a
heavy brow; no noticeable nose; a slit for a mouth; bluish skin. When
the creature walked it didn’t bend its’ knees. R.M. later found out from
a retired Air Force Colonel from Wight-Patterson AFB, that 2 live Aliens
were held in captivity in an artificial environment. The Colonel also
said that a 2-man sized craft crashed near Whitewater Lake, Indiana, as
a result of an electrical disturbance in the atmosphere. (The Alien
would have to lock his knees in a high-gravity environment to avoid
falling down.)
Type: alien sighting
Reference: Pea
Research (A5, B3-C, WHITEWATER RECOVERY)
Location: Fairborn, Ohio
Date: 1/12/1965
Time: night
Description: A member of a federal agency, who was driving toward the
base, saw a low-flying object, 10 m in diameter, which avoided collision
at the last moment. He got out of the car and observed it hovering for
one min, then it flew off. at high speed. The object was tracked on
radar. The same night, a round, glowing object with a dome on top landed
on a nearby farm, melting snow in a 10 m diameter urcle.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP Mar., 65 (Vallee)
Location: Blaine Air Force Base, Washington
ID: 630
Date: 1/14/1965
Time: 2400
Description: James Myers saw an object rise from the ground, appearing
as a bright, circular silvery craft.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Fate Jul., 65 (Vallee)
Location: Norfolk, Virginia
ID: 631
Date: 1/15/1965
Description: Soviet subsurface nuclear explosion “Chagan”, crater had a
diameter of 408m, 100m deep
Type: atomic
Reference: link
Location: Kazakhstan
Atomic type: subsurface
Atomic KT: 140
Date: 1/19/1965
Time: 1815
Description: A workman cutting wood on the Augusta archery range saw two
saucer-shaped objects, 30 m and 6 m in diameter, hovering in the sky.
The smaller one landed, a door opened, and three pilots emerged. They
looked human, but had a reddish-orange skin and staring eyes. One of
them had “a long finger on his left hand.” Their clothes were the same
color as the craft, whose open door showed a strange light inside. The
object was so highly polished that “I would bet on a clear day you could
not see it at five thousand feet.” The occupants spoke sounds that were
not understood and reentered the object. The door outline could not be
seen when it was closed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Brands Flat, Virginia
ID: 632
Date: 1/23/1965
Time: 8:40 AM
Description: Witness: Mr. T.F. Mains. One mushroom or lightbulb-shaped
object, 75-80’ high, 25’ diameter on top and l0’ bottom diameter;
metallic grey with a red-orange glow on the near side and a blue glow on
the far side. The object made a sound like a vacuum cleaner. The
witness’ car electrical system was affected as the object moved away at
an altitude of 4’. The sighting lasted 25 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Williamsburg, Virginia
ID: 517
Date: 1/23/1965
Time: 0840
Description: A 31-year-old man driving a ’64 Cadillac was at the
intersection of U.S. Highway 60 and State Route 14 when the engine
failed, and he had to stop by the side of the road. He then observed an
object about 1.2 m above ground. It was shaped like a mushroom or an
electric bulb, 25 m high, 8 m in diameter made noise similar to a vacuum
cleaner had a metallic gray coIor, a red-orange light on one side, and a
blue one on the other. It took off against the wind toward the west, at
high speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Williamsburg, Virginia
ID: 633
Date: 1/25/1965
Time: night
Description: Woody Darnell, policeman, his family, and several neighbors
saw a stationary object on the ground. It took off with a shower of
sparks. Several trees were found uprooted or calcined at the site.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Fate Jul., 65 (Vallee)
Location: Marion, Virginia
ID: 634
Date: 1/25/1965
Description: Memo to Chief, Contact Division: NICAP Case
#(censured).
Type: memo
Reference: Pea
Research
See also: 12/19/64
Date: 2/3/1965
Time: 2045
Description: A man saw a light on the beach near Penguin Street and got
out of his car to observe it. He then heard a modulated whistling sound
and saw an object, 7 m wide, rise from the beach to an altitude of about
20 m. He came back to the site with other persons, and a dog that became
restless at a spot where grass was found flattened. Another witness,
driving near Humphrey Ave., saw the object as it rose over South
Brighton.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 149 (Vallee)
Location: South Brighton, New Zealand
ID: 635
Date: 2/4/1965
Description: Several persons observed five luminous objects in flight. A
transparent craft landed, and five creatures, about 2 m high, with one
eye on the forehead and flashing helmets, emerged and tried to abduct a
villager. Approximate date.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 39 (Vallee)
Location: Torrent, Argentina
ID: 636
Date: 2/11/1965
Description: Personal Interview report by Capt. D.M. (initials): Aerial
encounter of three UFOs with radar and visual sightings. Air Force
flight F-169 en route from Anchorage, AL, to Japan. Capt. R.W.
(initials) and Capt. W.(initial) observed 3 UFOs on radar 5 miles off
the wing. The UFOs paced the Flying Tiger freighter aircraft for 30
minutes then climbed away at a steep angle at about 1200 knots ground
speed. Estimated size (thumb and finger method) approx. 200 to 1000 ft.
diam., glowing red and oval shaped. The pilot remarked, “we often see
UFOs on the Alaskan run!”
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Pacific Ocean
Date: 2/21/1965
Time: 2100
Description: About 50 Toba Indians, including policemen, saw three
little men with luminous glows emerge from an object that had made
several low passes over the village with other flying craft. A
photographer took several pictures and noted that the creatures feared
the light from his flash camera. The object increased in luminosity as
it took off.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: CODOVNI; FSR 65, 4 (Vallee)
Location: Chalac, Argentina
ID: 637
Date: 3/2/1965
Time: 1355
Description: John F. Reeves, 65, retired, was walking in the woods when
he observed an object 10 m in diameter, 2m thick, saucer-shaped with an
outer rim and a stairway. After watching it for 10 min, he saw a
robotlike being, about 1.30m tall, wearing a silver uniform, glass
headgear, and then returned with a The being walked walked to the craft,
then returned with a box that emitted a flash when pointed at the
witness. The object subsequently took off with a whistling sound.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Brooksville, Florida
ID: 638
Date: 3/4/1965
Time: 9:23 PM
Description: Witness: W.V. Harrison. Three lights rose from the ground,
several seconds apart. The next day, an oily spot was found at the
site.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Corvallis, Oregon
ID: 518
Date: 3/4/1965
Time: 1830
Description: A farmer and his employee saw from their car three
yellow-orange spheres rapidly rising. Oily spots were found in the
field.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Corvallis, Oregon
ID: 639
Date: 3/8/1965
Time: 7:40 PM
Description: Witness: J.H. Martin, instrument maker for U.S. Bureau of
Standards. Six lights flew overhead slowly for 3 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Mt. Airy, Maryland
ID: 519
Date: 3/8/1965
Time: 1940
Description: Three persons saw a cigarshaped object with two fixed red
lights, which flew above them, avoided hitting the house at the last
moment, and was lost to sight in the northeast.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Mount Airy, Maryland
ID: 640
Date: 3/15/1965
Time: 0100
Description: In the Everglades, 30 km east of Big Cypress, James Flynn,
45, who was hunting, saw a huge, lighted object 1 m above the swamp
surface. He watched it for 40 min, observing that it was conical, twice
as wide as it was high, and seemed built from metal sections over one
square m each. It showed four rows of square windows, 70 cm wide.
Estimated diameter: 25 m. A yellow light shone through the windows, and
the object made a sound of a transformer and wind. Flynn got within 2 m
of it and made a gesture. A beam of light from the underside of the
object struck him between the eyes and he lost consciousness for 24
hours. He had lost vision in the right eye, saw poorly with the left,
went to a doctor in Fort Myers, and spent five days in the
hospital.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Fate Sep.,65 (Vallee)
Location: Fort Myers, Florida
ID: 641
Date: 4/1965
Description: Felipe Martinez, 37, reported that he was paralyzed during
the landing of a silent, large, egg-shaped object, from which emerged a
small man, about 1 m tall, wearing a helmet linked to the object by
three cables. The being spoke slowly and with difficulty in,
Spanish.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 40 (Vallee)
Location: Monte Grande, Argentina
ID: 642
Date: 4/4/1965
Time: 4:05 AM
Description: Witnesses: USAF A/2c Corum, a weather observer;
confirmation by college student R. Pittman not clear from available
data. One 40’ black, oval object with four lights along the bottom, flew
in and out of the clouds for 15 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Keesler AFB, Mississippi
ID: 520
Date: 4/8/1965
Time: 2130
Description: A 60-year-old man saw an object 200 m away, in the
northwest at 30 m altitude. It turned east, then left toward the south.
First seen as a single, bright light, then two luminous sources were
visible through a “door” in the object, which appeared metallic. Radio
interference was noted.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Kindrae, Minnesota
ID: 643
Date: 4/23/1965
Time: 0800
Description: A woman observed an object land near her house while she
was working in her kitchen. It was shaped like a disk, showed portholes
and a cylinder about 1 m high, with a sliding door from which a small
creature, about 1 m tall, emerged and jumped to the ground. Its face was
not clearly visible but it had pointed ears, a sort of tail, and was
linked to the main object by a cable. It wore white clothing, appeared
to pick up something from the ground, and reentered the cylinder, which
then slid up into the larger white disk. The outside rim started
spinning in a counterclockwise motion with a soft whistling sound and
the object rose straight up, out of view. Estimated diameter of the
disk: 7m.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Rivesville, West Virginia
ID: 644
Date: 4/26/1965
Time: 1700
Description: Gary X., 9, saw an object which came down silently and
hovered at ground level 60 m away. A sort of periscope emerged from it,
and a strange noise (also heard by the boy’s father) was noted. After
1-2 min the “periscope” disappeared, the object rose, and then dashed up
at unbelievable speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: New London, Minnesota
ID: 645
Date: 5/7/1965
Time: 7:30 PM
Description: Witness: M.E. Marshall. One light, like a satellite, split
into two parts, one of which was copperish color, then two more joined
up. One object may have been tumbling. Sighting lasted 1 minute.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Oxford, Michigan
ID: 521
Date: 5/23/1965
Time: 2100
Description: About 70 km from Mackay, Jim Tilse, Eric Judin, and John
Burgess saw a circular object, 10 m in diameter, flying erratically,
making a buzzing sound. It had headlights, a tripod landing gear, and
supported another disk-shaped device. Police investigation disclosed
damaged trees and other landing traces.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 65, 5 (Vallee)
Location: Eton Range, Australia
ID: 646
Date: 5/24/1965
Time: 1840
Description: Hunters saw through binoculars an object resembling an
upside-down plate, very luminous, with a red light on top, flying in
circles and landing on a hilltop. The Lujan police sent a patrol, under
Comm. Osvaldo Pagella, which found a large, metallic object resting on
the hill, but they could not approach the object before it took off,
because of the difficult terrain.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Paso de las Carretas, Argentina
ID: 648
Date: 5/24/1965
Time: 0130
Description: Mr. and Mrs. French observed an object in a field at 4 m
altitude. It had blinding white lights, caused radio interference, and
made a high-pitched sound.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Spaceview 44; LDLN 80 (Vallee)
Location: Geradton, Australia
ID: 647
Date: 5/28/1965
Description: Police statement (interview); Bougainville Reef, Australia:
An Ansett-A.N.A. DC-6B airliner (VH-INH) en route to Port Moresby, New
Guinea, was buzzed by a UFO at about 3:25 a.m. The pilot radioed the
Townsville Ground Control Tower and talked to Mr. O. (initial).
Description: slightly spherical and oblate, flattened on top and bottom;
appeared to have exhaust gasses coming from it. Photos of the UFO were
taken by the pilot but were later confiscated at Canberra as was the
taped conversation to Mr. O., the Tower operator. Mr. O. was threatened
with dismissal if he talked about the incident.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Bougainville Reef, Australia
Date: 6/2/1965
Time: 2000
Description: Mr. D. Armstrong, a former airman, was called outside by
his sons and saw a spherical object with flashing lights that appeared
to land silently on a hillside situated on Mr. Watson’s property.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 65, 5 (Vallee)
Location: Kuranda, Australia
ID: 649
Date: 7/1/1965
Time: 0500
Description: Farmer Maurice Masse, 41, heard a strange noise and saw an
egg-shaped object 30 m away in a lavender field. The craft was set on a
central pivot with six legs, was about 5 m long, and had a door showing
two seats back to back. Near it were two dwarfs the size of 8-year-old
children, with heads, normal human eyes, fine hands with five fingers,
and no hair. They seemed surprised when the witness came near, and
stopped their examination of a plant to aim a small device at him,
causing inhibition of movement. They spoke among themselves in shrill
sounds similar to a gargle. The craft took off and “vanished.”
Traces.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 65, 5; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Valensole, France
ID: 650
Date: 7/3/1965
Description: Newspaper reports, Antartica: Argentine, British and
Chilean military and scientific personnel observed an UFO moving at a
frightening speed doing incredible maneuvers. It was something solid,
glowing blue-green and causing E/M interference with our equipment.
Lenticular shaped “flying saucer”. Tracked by theodolite, binoculars and
magnetograph tapes. Also, 10 color photographs were taken of the
UFO.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Antartica
Date: 7/6/1965
Time: night
Description: The commander and crew of the Norwegian tanker “Jawesta”
observed a lighted object flying out of the sea. First Officer Toronin
Lien first saw a large, blue, intense flame behind the ship at high
speed. He called the captain and tracked the object with binoculors as
its altitude reached about 300m. Its shape was that of a cigar, with a
row of lighted portholes showing a clear yellow glow, and it left a
bluish trail.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 150 (Vallee)
Location: Puerto La Cruz, Portugal
ID: 651
Date: 7/6/1965
Time: 9:30 PM
Description: Witness: Mrs. E.R. Hayner. One flashing light, like a
satellite, was seen for less than 1 minute. No further data was in the
files.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Kiel, Wisconsin
ID: 522
Date: 7/9/1965
Time: 1230
Description: At the Cote-de-Thermont, 30year-old Mrs. Zielonka saw a
metallic object rise at high speed and fly away toward Metz. Estimated
diameter: 3 m.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 152 (Vallee)
Location: Moyeuvre, France
ID: 652
Date: 7/12/1965
Description: Student Humberto Aranjo da Silva nearly hit a saucer-shaped
craft, 6 m in diameter, with two V-shaped landing pads and a dome, which
had landed on the road. It made a whirring noise.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN 84; SBEDV 51, 53 (Vallee)
Location: Bairio Paraiso dos Barbeiros, Brazil
ID: 653
Date: 7/15/1965
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Bosquets and their family observed a luminous
object, its color changing from blue to orange, about 12 m in diameter,
and showing several portholes. The object left traces on the
ground.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: CODOVNI 1965 (Vallee)
Location: Loretami Valley, Argentina
ID: 654
Date: 7/17/1965
Description: A blinding object, smaller than an airplane and having
metallic legs, was seen on the bank of the Rio de la Plata River by two
workers and four young men. White smoke emerged from the craft, which
remained on the sand for two min, leaving X-shaped traces. It flew up to
about 10 m altitude, then went away. The craft showed a round central
section with two oval ends and looked somewhat similar to an egg.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 153 (Vallee)
Location: Colonia, Uruguay
ID: 655
Date: 7/19/1965
Time: 2130
Description: Mr. Crowe was attracted by a strong light on the beach, and
walked within 20 m of the craft producing it, which took off with a
yelloworange light. Estimated diameter: 7 m, height, 3 m, with
blue-green edges.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Spaceview 44 (Vallee)
Location: Vancluse, Australia
ID: 657
Date: 7/19/1965
Time: 1930
Description: Maria Andres, teacher, Mr. Gomez, Mrs. Goicoecha, and
others saw a small object leave a larger one, land, and burn a spot on
the ground before going back to the main object. It emitted a blinding
light.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Asi Jul. 30, 1965 (Vallee)
Location: Villas Rosas, Argentina
ID: 656
Date: 7/19/1965
Time: night
Description: Carlos Videla Zamudio saw a “strange machine” land on an
isolated beach. It was shaped like a mushroom or a top, was lighted from
inside, rested on the ground silently, flew up to 30 m, and disappeared
at fantastic speed. This was the third landing on a beach reported in
Jul..
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 155; LDLN 78; APRO Jan., 66 (Vallee)
Location: Chanaral, Chile
ID: 658
Date: 7/20/1965
Time: 0800
Description: R. Pereyra was driving near Monte de los Curas when he saw
a parachutelike object land. Going near, he observed a chromiumlooking,
egg-shaped craft standing on metal legs, with a transparent upper part.
A blond-haired pilot, wearing plastic coveralls and small boots, seemed
to study a piece of paper. Inside the craft was another man seated
before an instrument panel. Shortly thereafter the object took
off.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 40 (Vallee)
Location: Quilmes, Argentina
ID: 659
Date: 7/23/1965
Description: An object was observed to land on ranch 45 km north of this
town by a chemical engineer, his wife, and several farmers. It remained
on the ground for 45 min, leaving traces.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Saucer News 61 (Vallee)
Location: Lima, Peru
ID: 660
Date: 7/25/1965
Time: night
Description: Mr. Alva was awakened by a strange sound and saw an object
on the ground emitting green light flashes. He woke up other employees,
who had time to note that the object was about 3 m in diameter, had
small windows in its upper part, and a revolving telescopic appendage.
The investigating commission found dark, triangular traces on the
ground.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 67, 6 (Vallee)
Location: Chosica Power Plant, Peru
ID: 661
Date: 7/25/1965
Time: 9:15 PM
Description: Witness: amateur astronomer M.D. Harris, 16. One bright
blue star crossed 90 of sky in 10-15 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Castalia, Ohio
ID: 523
Date: 7/26/1965
Time: 2000
Description: A teenager, Adilon Azevedo, a others who fled, saw two
objects at ground level, about 3 m in diameter, 1.5 m high, with five
occupants, wearing luminous helmets, speaking among theselves, in
unfamiliar language. One of the beings had a bright object in his hand.
The witness experienced headaches for five days.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 41 (Vallee)
Location: Carazinho, Brazil
ID: 662
Date: 7/29/1965
Time: 2300
Description: Alain Bressol observed a large, disk-shaped object in a
field near Monsempron-Libos. It flew at high speed toward the south.
Official report.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 156;LDLN 78 (Vallee)
Location: Grouzies, France
ID: 663
Date: 7/30/1965
Description: Hundreds of people in two separate spots observed an object
that landed for five min. It emitted a blinding purple light.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 157; LDLN 78 (Vallee)
Location: Puerto Monte, Chile
ID: 664
Date: 7/30/1965
Time: 0500
Description: Two children attracted by the barking of a dog saw a
luminous object resting on a tripod landing gear, and observed it for
one hour.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Goonumbla, Australia
ID: 665
Date: 7/31/1965
Description: A woman in a car saw an object on the road. It took off,
then landed again in Belluco where it was seen by several people. The
object emitted a bright, purple light and a green beam.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Spaceview (Vallee)
Location: Belluco, Chile
ID: 666
Date: 8/2/1965
Description: Two deputy sheriffs of Tarrant County saw an object as
bright as burning magnesium, which landed as they were on a patrol near
Wagle Mountain Lake. Extensive investigation by the police led to
negative results.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Justin, Texas
ID: 667
Date: 8/2/1965
Description: Five children saw a brilliant, round object without wings,
close to the ground, in the 600 block on Northwest 63.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
ID: 668
Date: 8/3/1965
Description: A young man saw an object rise from the lake area.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Lake Hefner, Oklahoma
ID: 669
Date: 8/3/1965
Time: 2000
Description: Approximate date. Dr. Antonin Kukla and Mrs. Audrey
Lawrence saw an object dive toward them. They switched off the car
headlights and got out of the vehicle to observe the oval object, which
hovered at ground level, its color changing from orange to fluorescent
green, before it took off at high speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP (Vallee)
Location: Carnarvon, Australia
ID: 670
Date: 8/4/1965
Time: 0130
Description: Truck driver Don Tenopir had reached a point 35 km from
Abilene, going toward Lincoln, when his headlights blinked and failed.
An object then dived toward the truck and stopped on the road 30 m ahead
causing a car coming in the opposite direction to leave the road in
order to avoid it. The object was orange, 5 m in diameter, 1.5 m high,
with a dome and a “black spot.” It took off toward the west, then turned
south.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN 82 (Vallee)
Location: Abilene, Kansas
ID: 673
Date: 8/4/1965
Description: A bright, silvery object landed on a hill for 45 min. There
were numerous witnesses, among them military men. Official
investigation.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Nachrichten Oct., 65 (Vallee)
Location: Chena, Chile
ID: 671
Date: 8/4/1965
Time: 0130
Description: A man in a car observed a red and blue light thought it
came from a police car, then was passed by a huge, orange object flying
at ground level.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Dallas, Texas
ID: 672
Date: 8/4/1965
Time: 2200
Description: Joao Erondo dos Santos saw a disk 50 m in diameter land
with a distinct sound, although no traces were found afterward. The
object illuminated a wide area.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN 84 (Vallee)
Location: Trapua, Brazil
ID: 674
Date: 8/4/1965
Time: 11:35 PM
Description: Witnesses: two unnamed 14 year olds. One light moved around
the sky for 16-17 seconds. No further data in files.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Tinley Park, Illinois
ID: 525
Date: 8/4/1965
Time: 9:30 PM
Description: Witness: J.A. Carter, 19. One light flew fast, straight and
level for 12 seconds. No further data in files.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Dallas, Texas
ID: 524
Date: 8/5/1965
Time: 2030
Description: Several children saw an object shaped like two saucers
glued together come to ground level several times on the farm of William
Butcher. It was chromelike, measured about 16 m in diameter, took off
with green and yellow flames, and illuminated the clouds when it flew
into them. Capt. James Dorsey and four technicians from Niagara Falls
AFB investigated the case. They found no trace, concluding, however,
that the witnesses were not lying.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Cherry Creek, New York
ID: 675
Date: 8/9/1965
Time: 2330
Description: Three girls driving a car observed what they first thought
was the rising moon. It was a circular, pale-yellow object, with a
silhouette moving inside the glow. There were five other witnesses one
of whom stated that as he approached the object, it appeared to “blow
up” with a bang.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66, 2 (Vallee)
Location: Grand Forks, North Dakota
ID: 676
Date: 8/13/1965
Time: 0700
Description: Ellen G. Ryerson, 16, and her sister, Laura, were going to
work in a bean field when they observed three creatures about 1.60 m
tall, with bulging eyes, expressionless faces, white craniums, large
pores, and a protrusion at the back of their heads. They wore purple
jerseys and white shirts. They had disappeared when the running girls
looked back.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66, 2 (Vallee)
Location: Renton, Washington
ID: 678
Date: 8/13/1965
Description: A 37-year-old civilian had just put his car in the garage
when he saw an object about 100 m in diameter, shaped like a disk, which
flew in front of the moon in a northerly direction at about 80 km/h. It
was surrounded with orange lights that weakened as a blue source came
on, very intense for about 3 sec then all lights disappeared as the
object was about 700 m away. This was followed by a sort of “shock-wave”
effect, and tree leaves were shaken. The witness entered his house and
called the Air Force. Twenty minutes later his vision became hazy and
his eyes were painful. He gradually lost vision in both eyes, and his
entire body was “sunburned.” Medical examination compared the symptoms
to ultraviolet exposure. His vision came back gradually over a period of
several days.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Baden, Pennsylvania
ID: 677
Date: 8/14/1965
Time: 0200
Description: Patrick Nash and his family were awaiting a ferry boat when
a brilliant, orange-red object shaped like a large soup plate appeared
50 m away, rose from the ground, flew low over the car, landed 20m away
on the other side, vanishing suddenly.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 65,6 (Vallee)
Location: Stranraer, Scotland
ID: 679
Date: 8/15/1965
Time: 2300
Description: Five persons in a car heard a humming sound, and an object
with changing colored lights landed and blocked the road while the car
engine stalled. The object was as wide as the road, and 3 m high. Before
it took off, three human beings were seen inside.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 42 (Vallee)
Location: Salto, Uruguay
ID: 681
Date: 8/15/1965
Time: 0200
Description: A guard saw a boatlike object flying at high speed, with
red flames on its sides. It circled and came low over a farm. In fear,
the man fired at it with his rifle.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66, 1 (Vallee)
Location: Nablus, Jordan
ID: 680
Date: 8/19/1965
Time: 8:20 PM
Description: Witnesses: Mrs. William Butcher, son Harold, 17, and
children. A large elliptical object, with a reddish vapor underneath,
came close to the ground, then shot straight up into the clouds a few
seconds later. Radio drowned out by static, a tractor engine stopped.
When the object was on the ground, a steady beeping sound could be
heard. Afterwards, a strange odor was noticed, and the next day, a
purplish liquid, 2”x2” marks and patches of singed grass were found at
the site. A bull bellowed and tried to break its bonds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Cherry Creek New York
ID: 526
Date: 8/20/1965
Time: 2300
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Yacobi heard a loud humming sound and saw a
glowing, oval, flashing object land 200 m away. Figures moved around it,
as if examining the craft, which took off again.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 42 (Vallee)
Location: Mar del Plata, Argentina
ID: 685
Date: 8/20/1965
Time: 0300
Description: Mrs. T. E. Schumaker was awakened by a loud humming sound
and found she could not speak or move for a while. When she finally
reached her window, she saw a vertical, cigarshaped, luminous object. It
moved right and left, then back, etc. Ultimately it disappeared behind
some trees. The next morning a circle of crushed grass, 4 m in diameter,
was found in the yard.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66,2 (Vallee)
Location: Mount Airy, North Carolina
ID: 682
Date: 8/20/1965
Time: 1150
Description: Several tourists, including Alberto Ugarte and Elwin Voter,
observed a strange craft landing near the Inca ruins that they were
visiting. Two creatures described as luminous dwarfs, who seemed to have
“vertical mouths,” were seen briefly.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 43 (Vallee)
Location: Cuzco, Peru
ID: 683
Date: 8/20/1965
Time: 1820
Description: Four students working on a farm noted radio interference
and a peculiar “beeping sound,” then saw an object at low altitude on
the farm of William Butcher. It was shaped like two saucers glued
together, had a shiny chromelike surface, diameter of 15 m, height of 6
m, and left a trail and smell of burned gasoline. It rose straight up
into the clouds, which were illuminated with green light. Five min later
it came down again over a woods, rose, and finally flew off to the
southwest. Effects were noted on animals: milk production decreased from
2 1/2 barrels to one; a dog barked, and other animals were
terrified.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Cherry Creek, New York
ID: 684
Date: 8/21/1965
Time: 1530
Description: A man was repairing the broken chain of his motorbike when
an object shaped like a top, gray, spinning, 1.8 m high, same diameter,
suddenly appeared 5 m away, 1.5 m above the road. It shot off toward the
northeast.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 65,6 (Vallee)
Location: Bury’s Bridge, Eire
ID: 686
Date: 8/23/1965
Time: 0100
Description: Casimiro Zuk was riding his bicycle near a railroad
crossing when he saw a luminous object above him that circled, then
landed near the tracks. It was round, 5 m in diameter, and 2.5 m high. A
door opened, and a man dressed like a pilot emerged, walked around, and
reentered the object, which flew off in a spiral.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 158 (Vallee)
Location: Apostoles, Argentina
ID: 687
Date: 8/25/1965
Time: 1010
Description: A red object shaped like a plate, emittting fire and smoke
through two openings in its lower section, shook a school building as it
allegedly landed on the roof. Faculty and students at the Santa Leonor
College observed the craft, which had two antennae on top, rise spinning
and emitting red light beams It flew off to the northeast.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 67, 6 (Vallee)
Location: Callao, Peru
ID: 689
Date: 8/25/1965
Time: 0300
Description: Zoilo Campos Aguilar observed an object very close to the
ground for 38 min. It was semi-oval, with a powerful yellow-orange light
and left rapidly toward the south with a double trail. Apparent diameter
was that of the full moon. The witness was a night watchman.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Binder (Vallee)
Location: Terreon, Mexico
ID: 688
Date: 8/30/1965
Description: A spinning, top-shaped object with openings through which
an orange light was visible was observed taking off with a “foggy”
trail.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Jan., 66 (Vallee)
Location: La Blanquilla, Venezuela
ID: 690
Date: 8/30/1965
Time: 10:30 PM
Description: Witnesses: M.A. Lilly, N. Smith, T. Nastoff. One white
ball, 5-8’ in diameter and trailed by a 2-3’ light, hit the road 100’ in
front of the witness’ car, bounced and flew away. Sighting lasted 3-4
seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Urbana, Ohio
ID: 527
Date: 9/1/1965
Time: 0500
Description: A worker observed the landing of an oval object on an
airfield where he had gone “drawn by a strange feeling.” Four other
persons also saw the object, from which a dwarfish creature, 85 cm tall,
emerged. The entity had a head double the size of a normal human head,
and made gestures that were not understood. He reentered the machine,
which became illuminated and took off, first vertically, then toward the
west.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Huanuco, Peru
ID: 691
Date: 9/3/1965
Time: 0120
Description: J. Fernandez was awakened by a humming sound and saw a
luminous, oval object rising from the roof of his house. Its color
varied from white to red, and it left marks on the roof.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 41 (Vallee)
Location: San Justo, Argentina
ID: 692
Date: 9/3/1965
Description: Project Blue Book File #(?): Damon/Angleton, TX. Deputy
Sheriffs Billy E. McCoy and Robert W. Goode were investigating an UFO in
the back-woods roads when the purplish UFO shot instantly towards them
to within 150 feet and hovered at 100 feet off the ground. The bright
glow illuminated the interior of the car and the surrounding fields
(11:30 p.m.). “Every blade of grass stood out clearly” in the field.
Officer Goode, who was driving with his arm out the window, felt heat on
his arm and later reported that a cut that was on his arm healed more
rapidly than normal [U/V effects].
Type: ufo encounter
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Angleton, TX
Date: 9/3/1965
Time: evening
Description: Two Angleton sheriffs, McCoy and Robert Goode saw from
their car a huge object 70 m long, 15 m high, with a bright, violet
light at one end and a pale-blue light at the other. They stopped to
watch it and saw the craft fly within 30 m, casting a huge shadow when
it intercepted the moonlight. They felt a heat wave and drove away in
fear, but returned to the site a second time, only to turn around when
they found the object was still there. Goode had been bitten by an
animal before the sighting, and his left index finger swelled and bled
freely. After exposure to the light from the object, the pain was gone,
and the wound cured unnaturally. Later that evening, two men found him
at a restaurant and described the object in detail, adding he should
keep future encounters to himself.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP Aug.,65 (Vallee)
Location: Damon, Texas
ID: 694
Date: 9/3/1965
Time: 0200
Description: A young man and two Police officers observed five lights in
a rigid configuration moving over a field, sometimes fluttering to low
altitude with a falling-leaf motion. The lights illuminated the
countryside and flashed in sequence.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Fuller (Vallee)
Location: Exeter, New Hampshire
ID: 693
Date: 9/3/1965
Time: 11 PM
Description: Witnesses: Brazoria County Chief Sheriff’s Deputy Billy
McCoy and Deputy Robert Goode. One triangular object, 150-200’ long,
40-50’ thick at middle and dark grey, with a long, bright, pulsing,
purple light on the right side and a long blue light on the left side.
Came from distance to 150’ off highway and 100’ in the air. Purple light
illuminated ground beneath object and interior of police car. Driver
felt heat on his left arm. Initial sighting lasted 5-10 minutes. Second
sighting.occurred later that night.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Damon, Texas
ID: 529
Date: 9/3/1965
Time: 2 AM
Description: Witnesses: Exeter Patrolmen Eugene Bertrand, Jr. and David
Hunt, and Norman Muscarello. One large, dark, elliptical object with a
row of red lights around it, moved slowly and erratically around houses
and trees, while lights blinked in sequence. Farm animals were very
noisy. Sighting lasted about 1 hour.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Exeter, New Hampshire
ID: 528
Date: 9/5/1965
Time: 0500
Description: Governor Sebastian Macha saw two dwarfish creatures, 80 cm
tall, on the snow near Ceulacocha. They entered a craft, which left with
a thundering noise.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66, 2 (Vallee)
Location: Santa Barbara, Peru
ID: 695
Date: 9/7/1965
Time: 2100
Description: More than 200 witnesses saw two objects come to ground
level, leaving crater-like depressions.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: San Joaquin, Peru
ID: 696
Date: 9/8/1965
Time: 2200
Description: A child reported the observation of a luminous object from
which seven creatures, 80 cm tall, with only one eye, emerged. The same
day a newsman was said to have seen an object land in the vicinity of
Puno, and to have made an unsuccesful attempt at communication.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Puno, Peru
ID: 698
Date: 9/8/1965
Time: evening
Description: After work, latex collectors saw an object resembling a
huge wheel, intensely bright, with two flaming openings in front, about
to land near them. They went into hiding, and observed the craft as it
flew away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN 84 (Vallee)
Location: Alto Purus, Brazil
ID: 697
Date: 9/10/1965
Description: Three women were said to have observed a group of beings, 3
m tall, without noses or mouths with red, bright eyes, wearing gray
clothing and boots. No object was described. Approximate date.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 159 (Vallee)
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
ID: 700
Date: 9/10/1965
Description: Four persons saw a creature with glowing catlike eyes,
dressed in black, walking in a street. The entity was holding a metallic
tube, was pursued, and vanished suddenly.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 159; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Jalapa, Mexico
ID: 699
Date: 9/11/1965
Time: 0800
Description: Antonio Pau Ferro saw two objects land. Two dwarfish beings
emerged, 70 cm tall, dressed like humans, with “ugly” skin. They
appeared to examine some tomato plants, reentered their craft, 6 m in
diameter, and flew off. They spoke in a language which was not
understood.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN 84 (Vallee)
Location: Guarulhos, Brazil
ID: 701
Date: 9/15/1965
Time: 2400
Description: Two policemen, John Lockem and Koos de Klerk, were on a
patrol of the Pretoria-Bronkhorstspruit Road when their headlights
illuminated a disk 10 m in diameter, copper-colored, resting on the
road. Ten sec later it took off in a pool of flames, at high speed. The
tar on the road kept burning for some time.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 71 (Vallee)
Location: Silverton, South Africa
ID: 702
Date: 9/16/1965
Description: NICAP Report #(?): Pretoria, S. Africa: Constables John
Lockem and Koos de Klerk while on patrol (after midnight) suddenly had a
domed, disc shaped object come into their van headlights. It was sitting
on the road. The UFO was copper colored and about 30 ft. in diam.
Immediately the UFO lifted off, emitting tongues of flame from two tubes
or channels on the underside. The flames deflected about three feet off
the macadam road surface and were still visible after loosing sight of
the craft. Road damage: part of the road was caved-in, and in a 6 foot
area the gravel was separated from the tar. Samples of the road surface
were taken for analysis, report was never released. Lt. Col. J.B. Brits,
District Commandant of Pretoria North said the incident was “highly
secret”, and inquiry is being conducted in top circles.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Pretoria, South Africa
Date: 9/20/1965
Time: 1630
Description: A farm woman saw an object land, and six dwarfs, 80 cm
tall, emerged from it. They wore very shiny white clothes and “walked
like ducks.” She hid during the observation, and noted that they spoke
in a language she could not understand. After their departure, a liquid
resembling vinegar was found on the ground.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Pichaca, Peru
ID: 703
Date: 9/25/1965
Time: 9:55 AM
Description: Witness: Bett Diamon. Five orange lights in a row flew fast
and made an abrupt turn during the 1 minute sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Chisholm, Minnesota
ID: 530
Date: 9/25/1965
Time: 10 PM
Description: Witnesses: Dr. George Walton, physical chemist, and wife.
Two round white objects flew side-by-side, at 30-50’ altitude, pacing
the witnesses’ car for 6 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Rodeo, New Mexico
ID: 531
Date: 9/27/1965
Time: 0815
Description: Addie Jones, 61, saw a silvery object, 10 m in diameter,
rise from a wooded area and hover silently before leaving toward the
west. Under the object was a boxlike device. Distance to witness: 400 m.
No light.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 160 (Vallee)
Location: Fredonia, New York
ID: 704
Date: 9/29/1965
Description: Two men in a car, Julio L. de Romana and Antonio Chavez
Bedoya, saw a strange being, 80 cm tall, by the side of the road. The
creature had only one eye, and gold and silver stripes over its entire
body. Soon afterward a craft flew over their car. Several persons living
20 km away also reported an unidentified object within min of this
sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Arequipa, Peru
ID: 705
Date: 10/1965
Description: Soviet N-1 super heavy rocket development is begun
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Soviet Kazakhstan
Date: 10/1/1965
Description: Three students, Santos Vallejos, Antonia Aparti, and Adela
Sanchez, who were walking to General San Martin School, were attacked by
small creatures with greenish skin. The children ran away, and arrived
at the school in a state of terror.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: CODOVNI (Vallee)
Location: Aguas Blancas, Argentina
ID: 706
Date: 10/4/1965
Time: evening
Description: Betty Valine and her 12-yearold son Robbie observed a
large, plate-shaped machine with a dome on top, inside which three
creatures were clearly visible. The witnesses did not see the object
touch down.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66, 3 (Vallee)
Location: Rio Vista, California
ID: 708
Date: 10/4/1965
Description: An object was said to have landed near Southington. No
details.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP (Vallee)
Location: Southington, Connecticut
ID: 707
Date: 10/4/1965
Time: Unknown time
Description: Witness: Tucker. Case missing from official files.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Middletown, Ohio
ID: 532
Date: 10/13/1965
Description: Two adolescent girls, Marg Gudajtes and Judy Norlock, saw a
large, metallic, oval object with bluish lights land in a park at the
edge of town. It had left by the time they returned with help. An oval
area of crushed grass was observed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66, 3 (Vallee)
Location: Minot, North Dakota
ID: 709
Date: 10/18/1965
Description: Thousands of persons saw a circular object that flew over
the beach, circling. Later two witnesses saw it land in an isolated spot
between Cuaranga and the Santos Air Base.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Ouranos 32; LDLN 84 (Vallee)
Location: Ponte Praia, Brazil
ID: 710
Date: 10/22/1965
Description: Approximate date. Jose Camilo Filho saw two creatures near
a landed object.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN 84 (Vallee)
Location: Canhotinho, Brazil
ID: 711
Date: 10/23/1965
Time: 1915
Description: James Townsend, 19, was driving on Highway 27 when his
engine, lights, and radio stopped operating. He then observed an object
10 m tall, about 3 m in diameter, shaped somewhat like a rocket, sitting
on fins on the road. Three creatures with “tripod legs and matchstick
arms,” brownish-black in color, having no eyes or facial features, stood
in a large, lighted circle under it, facing the witness for a few
moments before disappearing in the intense light. The object rose
straight up for 400 m, with a high-pitched humming sound, stopped and
vanished. The car then resumed normal operation by itself.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66, 3 (Vallee)
Location: Long Prairie, Minnesota
ID: 712
Date: 10/30/1965
Time: night
Description: Witnesses in a Volkswagen encountered a strong light on the
road. A truck and another Volkswagen arrived and went near the object,
which took off suddenly and flew over them. It was also observed by
dozens of witnesses at the Pinhal Junction.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Sep., 66 (Vallee)
Location: Pinhal, Brazil
ID: 713
Date: 11/1965
Description: Fort Riley, KA: “AK” (Aaron Kaback) was on guard duty at 2
a.m. when the duty officer drove up and ordered him to hop into the
jeep. He and 3 other officers were driven out to a remote area where a
large oval object was resting. An army chopper was hovering above the
object and shining a bright light on it. The object was approx. 35–48
ft. in diam., had a fin on the end and an exhaust port or some kind of
hole below the fin. It had rows of squares around the rim and remained
completely dead for the 2 1/2 hours they guarded it. (Kaback seems to be
confused as to the actual date this incident occurred.)
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Fort Riley, KA
See also: 12/10/64
Date: 11/1965
Time: dusk
Description: Eric Williams saw a large object, 30 m in diameter, 15 m
high, about 75 m away. He reported seeing clearly a row of portholes
illuminated with a greenish light.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66, 4 (Vallee)
Location: Broken Hill, Zambia
ID: 714
Date: 11/9/1965
Time: dawn
Description: During the great power blackout, actor Stuart Whitman was
startled to hear a whistling sound outside his 12th floor window and to
observe two hovering objects, one orange and the other blue giving off a
luminescent light. He then heard an English message indicating that the
blackout was a “demonstration.”
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66, 6 (Vallee)
Location: New York City, New York
ID: 715
Date: 11/13/1965
Description: Dario Filho, his wife, his grandson, and a bank director
saw an object land 100 m away, flashing a beam of light toward the sky.
Two policemen on the scene also observed the incident. Near the object
were two dwarfs. One of them wore coveralls, the other had a gray shirt
and brown trousers. By what seemed an optical effect, a third being with
a flat, squarish head, wearing something like a surgeon’s apron, was
also seen near them. The object and the creatures were very
bright.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Sep., 66 (Vallee)
Location: Mogi-Guassu, Brazil
ID: 716
Date: 11/16/1965
Description: T. Untiedt was driving on Highway 28 about 5 km west of
Cyprus when he saw a red flourescent, cylindrical object with a cone on
top, 4 km long and 2 m in diameter, surrounded with a white glow. The
car slowed down as the observer was 400 km away from the object, which
took off toward the northeast.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66, 6 (Vallee)
Location: Cyrus, Minnesota
ID: 717
Date: 11/29/1965
Time: evening
Description: Kevin Davis, 12, and Gary Jardine, 10, saw an object with a
blinking red dome fly over the Cooper Creek area and come to ground
level. They observed portholes and a long bar with fingerlike devices
emerging from an opening. Snow was blown away and bushes were
flattened.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP Jan., 66 (Vallee)
Location: Springhill, Nova Scotia
ID: 718
Date: 12/9/1965
Description: A UFO crash-landed in the Kecksburgh, PA woods. It had
appeared as a fireball flying across several U.S. states and Canada.
Dozens of witnesses described military personnel cordoning off the
landing area. The object was transported away by military truck. In
Feb. 1969, the key witness (John Murphy ) to this incident was struck
and killed by a car on a highway near Ventura. Researcher, Stan Gordon
kept the research of this incident alive. The Blue Book report changed
the name of Kecksburg to “Acme” PA. After 20 yrs. Bill Bulebush came
forward with a description of the downed UFO.
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Kecksburgh, PA
Date: 12/16/1965
Description: A railroad worker, Cesar T. Gallardo, was surprised when
his carbide lamp and his radio stopped working. He saw strange lights
outside the sleeping coach where he was reading, and a luminous being
whose legs were clad in shiny dark cloth came in, tore up his newspaper,
poured the contents of an oil can into a small bottle and went away,
leaving the witness amazed. Other people saw “a luminous man” walking
along the tracks. Police report.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66, 1 (Vallee)
Location: Sauce Viejo, Argentina
ID: 719
Date: 12/20/1965
Description: Edward Burnd, 15, was driving west in a farm truck when he
saw an object 2 m above the road about 30 m away. As the engine died,
the object glowed red and the witness lost consciousness. When he awoke,
the truck was facing east and rested in a ditch.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66, 6 (Vallee)
Location: Herman, Minnesota
ID: 720
Date: 1966
Description: Envelope found with hand written notes in private BSRA/BSRF
archives containing the addresses of the 3 other named witnesses to the
4/54 Edwards AFB meeting.
Type: hand written note
Reference: Twitter
Location: San Diego, CA
Date: 1/7/1966
Time: 15l7
Description: A civilian had to stop his car when an object he first
thought was a helicopter landed on the road about 5 km southwest of
Georgetown. The craft was about 8 m in diameter, supported a cone with a
flashing green light, made a loud whirring sound. It appeared to hover,
then left at high speed. The witness could then restart his engine,
which had died during the close approach. Sulphur or a “rotten egg”
smell was noted.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Wilmer, Alabama
ID: 721
Date: 1/11/1966
Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on flying saucers
at Palm Beach Towers, FL
Type: lecture
Reference: NICAP
Location: Miami, FL
Date: 1/16/1966
Time: 0400
Description: On the Morlaix-Callac Road, 23year-old Eugene Coquil was
driving his Renault Dauphine when he saw headlights in a field and
observed an object come over his car and land on the other side of the
road. It was square with four vertical lights resembling lamps. The
witness drove away and did not see the object leave.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal; 161 (Vallee)
Location: Bolazec, France
ID: 722
Date: 1/19/1966
Time: 0900
Description: George Pedley, 27, was driving his tractor when he heard a
high-pitched sound and saw a strange gray-blue craft, 8 m in diameter, 3
m high, rise from the lagoon 25 m away. It was spinning like a top, rose
to 20 m, and flew to the southwest on a fast, oblique course. Flattened
reeds were found in several places.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66,2; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Horseshoe Lagoon, near Tully, Australia
ID: 723
Date: 1/29/1966
Time: 0010
Description: Two civilians returning from a sporting event observed what
they first thought was the moon. After driving for about 1 km, they saw
that it was a flat, well-defined object, which had blocked the road. The
object was the size of a truck and cast an intense yellow-orange light
on the ground. The witnesses turned around and drove back to
Rexburg.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Rexburg, Idaho
ID: 724
Date: 2/2/1966
Time: 11:15 PM
Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. L.J. Wise. One silver,
diamond-shaped object with several balls constantly in very fast motion
around it, and much light. Object hovered over the trees for 3-4
minutes, while a dog barked, and then zipped out of sight. Sighting
lasted 1 hour.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Salisbury, North Carolina
ID: 533
Date: 2/6/1966
Time: 2000
Description: Vicente Ortuno and another man observed a bright orange
disk, about 11 m in diameter, with three legs, which came down, landed,
and took off again at high speed on the “El Relajal” estate.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 63, 3 (Vallee)
Location: Aluche, Spain
ID: 725
Date: 2/6/1966
Time: 5:45 AM
Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. K.R. Gulley. One yellow, lighted
object at 500; altitude and a pulsating red glow on the lawn. The house
lights went out, and high frequency bothered the witnesses’ ears.
Sighting lasted 5-10 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Nederland, Texas
ID: 534
Date: 2/16/1966
Time: 2030
Description: A luminous object was said to have landed in the woods. It
showed flashing red, blue, and green lights. A second object was later
seen to join the first one.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Brunswick Naval Air Station, Maine
ID: 726
Date: 2/22/1966
Description: Miami News: Engineer, inventor and lecturer Norman S. Bean
is interviewed. States that after enough reports are gathered flight
paths can be determined, craft can fly at 5000mph, wobble after stopping
and can turn on a dime, must use some sort of gravitational propulsion
to avoid destruction from high G-forces, occupant description,
Wright-Field has had wreckage of 4 crashed discs for years, many
sightings are related to water being pumped in or out of crafts. Reports
forwarded to the Foreign Technology Division at Wright-Patterson
AFB.
Type: interview
Reference: NICAP
Location: Miami, FL
Date: 2/22/1966
Description: Look Magazine reports UFO sightings near Exeter, NH. In one
sighting the witness went and got a policeman, who also witnessed the
UFO.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: NICAP
Location: Exeter, NH
Date: 2/26/1966
Description: A civilian witness was driving 8 km east of Farmington when
a flying oval object, the size of a car, came within 3 m of him, then
circled twice and left toward the north. It emitted a bright red glow,
supported a sort of dome with a green light on top, produced radio
interference, and made a strange “signallike noise.”
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Hanna City, Illinois
ID: 727
Date: 3/3/1966
Time: 1920
Description: Several civilians reported an object that flew slowly
toward the south, hovered, came within 15 m of them, and finally flew
off toward the southwest.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Oswego, New York
ID: 728
Date: 3/17/1966
Time: 0000
Description: A police officer observed an object in the southwest. He
thought it was a plane about to crash, although no sound was audible. He
tried to contact the police headquarters, but his radio transmitter did
not work properly. The object, which now colored lights spinning at the
periphery, and a diameter of 16 m, came within 25 m of the patrol car,
following it for 1 km, then flew off toward the northwest. The witness
had been a policeman for 10 years, and had never seen anything like that
object.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Milan, Michigan
ID: 730
Date: 3/17/1966
Description: Mr. Ward saw an object 12 m in diameter and 7 m high,
emitting a pulsating white light, in a field. It had a revolving section
with portholes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FS Aug., 66 (Vallee)
Location: Harrow, Canada
ID: 729
Date: 3/20/1966
Time: 2000
Description: Frank Mannor and his son, Ronald, saw a luminous object
hovering over a swamp. It was described as brown, with a “scaly”
surface, coneshaped, and showing bluish lights that turned red. Then the
whole object lighted up with a yellowish glow and flew away at high
speed with a whistling sound.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Dexter, Michigan
ID: 731
Date: 3/20/1966
Description: Dexter, MI.: Frank Mannor, age 47, and Ronald Mannor, age
19, went out at night through swampy, hummocky terrain to investigate
flashing lights in the swamp. They saw a domed, elliptical object with
aquilted surface hovering about 8 ft. off the ground in a patch of
apparent mist. The object glowed “blood red” and the body lights
disappeared. They lost sight of the UFO and didn’t see it again.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Twitter
Location: Dexter, MI
See also: 3/21/66
See also: 4/1/66
Date: 3/20/1966
Description: La Porte, IN: Patrolman Michael Spevak was on duty when 2
youths pulled over and pointed out an UFO that they said had been
following them from Michigan City to La Porte. According to the young
men, the object frequently burst into such a bright glare that it
blinded them, forcing them off the highway. It had been following them
at an altitude of about 60 ft. Both the young men and the patrolman
noticed a cross-shaped appendage protruding from the lower portion of
the UFO.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-F, p257)
Location: La Porte, IN
Date: 3/20/1966
Time: 12:15 AM
Description: Witness: USAF Res. Maj. K.C. Smith, employee of NASA at
Cape Kennedy. One pulsating light which varied from white to intense
blue made a jerky ascent and then rapidly accelerated away to the north
after 5 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Miami, Florida
ID: 535
Date: 3/21/1966
Description: William Van Horn, Civil Defense Director, and a group of
students observed a pattern of lights on the ground. The source of the
light appeared to manuever for about two hours.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Hillsdale, Michigan
ID: 732
Date: 3/21/1966
Description: Engineer, inventor, and lecturer Norman S. Bean is quoted
in the Miami News: “We have good reason to believe that the Air Force
has wreckage from at least four of these small vehicles and has been
conducting studies of such wreckage at Wright Field for years”. Also
mentions what is now known as the US Gravity Control Research
Program.
Type: newspaper article
Reference: Medium
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Miami, FL
Date: 3/21/1966
Description: Law enforcement officer F.B. (initials) at Dexter,
Michigan, and officer “C” (initial) on patrol sighted a landed saucer in
a swamp. Description: Large craft, like a pot; no windows; had a dull
glow and steam was coming up from the water. Sounded like a turbine, a
low whine or hum. He notified Selfridge AFB which immediately sent out
MP’s, well armed. All law officers were ordered back and their film was
confiscated. Later his report and other reports disappeared from police
headquarters. Then, everyone in the force, including he and “C”, were
transferred to other parts of the county. The UFO wasn’t disabled. F.B.
saw it take-off and climb straight up.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research (A5, B3-C)
Location: Dexter, MI
See also: 3/1/67
Date: 3/22/1966
Time: 1:30 AM
Description: Witness: S.J. Musachia. White flashing lights, and the air
full of smoke. Lit up witness’ apartment. Sound of “yen” heard up close
during 4 minute sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Houston, Texas
ID: 536
Date: 3/23/1966
Description: Two young men were walking through a wooded area when they
saw a bright object that they thought was a balloon covered with
fluorescent paint but it became so intensely bright that they could not
look directly at it. As they walked closer, it exploded, leaving no
trace.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Fort Pierce, Florida
ID: 733
Date: 3/23/1966
Time: 0505
Description: An electronics instructor, who was driving to work at a
local Air Force Base, observed an object blocking the road. It was
shaped like an airplane fuselage, 25 m long, with a “bubble” on top
resembling the canopy on a B-26, rested on legs, and had very bright aft
and forward lights. There was a door and a short stairway to the side of
the object, and a man in coveralls appeared to be examining the craft
which bore the identification “TL 4768” (see case 417). When the witness
approached, the “pilot” went back inside, a sound resembling that of a
highspeed drill was heard, and the object rose. No engine was observed.
The witness was familiar with all conventional military aircraft.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Temple, Oklahoma
ID: 734
Date: 3/23/1966
Time: 5:05 AM
Description: Witness: W.E. Laxson. One large object, like a wingless
C-124 transport plane; 75’ long, 8’ high and 12’ wide; with a bubble
canopy on top. Sat on highway, a man dressed in military work clothes
entered, and it rose after about 40 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Temple, Oklahoma
ID: 537
Date: 3/24/1966
Time: 2215
Description: Two women saw a glowing object on the road. As they came
near it, they found that it hovered and showed two intense white lights,
as well as a green and red light. The object was bowlshaped, and they
lost sight of it when they drove away. They saw it again later, flying
low on a southnorth trajectory.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Sheboygan, Wisconsin
ID: 735
Date: 3/25/1966
Description: John King, 22, working with the Bangor Police Department,
suddenly saw above him a very bright object with a dark underside. He
fired at it four times, hearing the bullets hit a metal surface as the
object flew off.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN 84 (Vallee)
Location: Bangor, Maine
ID: 736
Date: 3/26/1966
Time: Midnight
Description: Witnesses: Mrs. P.N. Beer and Mrs. E. Smith. One flashing
light buzzed their car from the front then hovered. Sighting lasted l0
minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Texhoma, Oklahoma
ID: 538
Date: 3/26/1966
Time: 2400
Description: Two civilian women were driving back from Amarillo when
they saw an object aproaching from the north. The engine died and the
headlights failed. The object flew over the car and hovered 400 m away.
After 10 min, the witnesses were able to start their car and leave. They
reported the object had a wafflelike surface and glowed with an intense
red light.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Texahoma, Oklahoma
ID: 738
Date: 3/26/1966
Description: Jean Voilquin, 54, saw a strange “wheel” roll 15 m away at
a speed of about 30 km/h. It was about 80 cm in diameter, 25 cm thick;
it rolled away and vanished.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN; GEPA 8 (Vallee)
Location: Attigneville, France
ID: 737
Date: 3/28/1966
Time: 2000
Description: A man driving at a speed of about 100 km/h suddenly
encountered a large lighted object 1 m above the road on a hilltop. It
flew off, as the car engine and headlights died. The light bulbs had to
be replaced. The object was oval, 7 m long, dark gray, and showed about
30 lights along its periphery.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Fayetteville, Tennessee
ID: 739
Date: 3/30/1966
Description: An elongated object about 30 m long and 9 m high was
reported to have landed near a highway for 5 min.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP Mar., 66 (Vallee)
Location: Pecos, Texas
ID: 740
Date: 3/30/1966
Time: 2035
Description: A civilian woman and her four children observed an oval
object crossing the road as they were driving south about 15 km north of
Lexisburg. It came close to the car, and a pulsating sound was heard,
increasing in frequency as the object came nearer, but it seemed to come
through the car radio rather than directly from the object. The witness
drove away in fear, but was followed for 13 km by the object, whose
color suddenly changed from reddishorange to bluish-white before
accelerating out of sight.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Lexisburg, Indiana
ID: 741
Date: 3/30/1966
Time: 2200
Description: An anonymous witness saw a round object with two lights
land near the Ohio State University campus. A door opened and a very
thin, child-sized figure was seen. The object then began to move torward
the witness’s car and rose rapidly.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Gribble Jun., 66 (Vallee)
Location: Mansfield, Ohio
ID: 742
Date: 3/31/1966
Time: 0600
Description: Two women observed a large object with a pulsating bluish
light on top, an orange light below, windows, and antennae, resting in a
construction area. Silhouettes could be seen moving inside, one of them
gesturing as the craft took off.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Gribble Jun., 6 (Vallee)
Location: San Francisco, California
ID: 744
Date: 3/31/1966
Time: 2115
Description: Charles Kozens, 13, saw two objects, 2.5 m long, 1.2 m
high, with flashing lights, land near Hamilton. When he tried to touch
an antenna on one of the objects, he received an electric shock.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66, 4 (Vallee)
Location: Hamilton, Canada
ID: 745
Date: 3/31/1966
Time: 0200
Description: A man driving home saw lights on the road and discovered a
gray,lens-shaped object hovering at 1 m altitude. It had one intense
white light and three colored flashing lights. Driving within 2 m of it,
he became afraid and backed up, but the object suddenly flew over and
behind him. A noise similar to that of a swarm of bees was audible. It
left at high speed toward the east.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Vicksburg, Michigan
ID: 743
Date: 4/1/1966
Time: 2240
Description: A civilian man, 34, was driving about 10 km south of
Tangier when he reached a hilltop and saw a green object flying north at
very high speed, emitting a shrieking noise and a “heat wave.” The car
engine died. The witness noted that the object was wider than the
road.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Tangier, Oklahoma
ID: 746
Date: 4/1/1966
Time: 2400
Description: Darlene Underwood and her mother saw two starlike objects
land in a field. One of them rose rapidly when a train came into view.
It went behind a hill, while the second one hovered at tree height with
its lights off. When the train had passed, both objects landed again and
two manlike shadows were seen. Voices shouting in a foreign language and
what sounded like a pig being butchered were heard. Light signals.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: IIR May., 66 (Vallee)
Location: Liberty, Missouri
ID: 747
Date: 4/1/1966
Description: From LIFE magazine: In a hastily called press conference,
the USAF spokesman J. Allen Hynek suggested that the Dextor, MI, UFO and
others seen in the swamps near Hillsdale may have been marsh (or swamp)
gas that had spontaneously ignited.
Type: magazine article
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Dextor, MI
See also: 3/20/66
See also: 3/21/66
Date: 4/4/1966
Time: 0605
Description: A civilian man, 40, saw an object resting on the ground as
he was going to work, less than 2 km southeast of Hague. It was an
elongated craft, 2 m long, 70 cm high. When he tried to touch it, the
craft left at great speed toward the west. It had six openings, 10 cm in
diameter, and made a “turbine” noise so loud that the witness had to put
his hands over his ears. After going away for a few meters, it vanished
suddenly. Rain was falling throughout the observation, which lasted four
min.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Hague, Florida
ID: 748
Date: 4/5/1966
Time: 2400
Description: Two civilian men stopped to watch an object hovering above
a swamp, tried to follow it, but it flew awav. They observed that
animals (cows, dogs, horses) were restless in all the areas that the
object crossed. A photographic reconstitution by the U.S. Air Force
showed an oval object, 30 m long, flying at 5 m altitude, between a
high-tension line and a row of trees.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Alto, Tennessee
ID: 753
Date: 4/5/1966
Time: 0130
Description: A woman was awakened by a flash, thought her heater had
exploded, but found everything in order. The next day she was told that
a pulsating, luminous object had flown at very low altitude over her
trailer, circled and left. Three witnoises. Low buzzing sound.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Binder (Vallee)
Location: Durhamville, New York
ID: 750
Date: 4/5/1966
Description: Congressman, Gerald Ford announces to Congress the need to
extensively examine UFOs. Brief Hearing, C. Sagan.
Type: announcement
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-G p64)
Location: Washington DC
Date: 4/5/1966
Description: R. Sullivan was driving toward Maryborough when his
headlight beams appeared to “bend” to the right. He then observed a
vertical, conical beam of light in a nearby field, very white at ground
level and rainbowlike up to an altitude of 7 m. Top and bottom
diameters: 3 and 1 m respectively. The object producing the light flew
away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO May., 66 (Vallee)
Location: Wycheproof, Australia
ID: 749
Date: 4/5/1966
Time: 0300
Description: A civilian woman, 42, went to get a glass of water in her
kitchen and saw a spinning object, 3 m in diameter, 6 m above ground
near her house. It departed very suddenly, leaving a trail.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Lycoming, New York
ID: 751
Date: 4/5/1966
Time: 1900
Description: A landed object was observed through binoculars by four
persons. It took off, hovered for a while, and left.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Kittery, Maine
ID: 752
Date: 4/5/1966
Time: 11:55 PM
Description: Witness: W. Smith. One oval object with a dark top,
appeared cone-shaped when moving. It made a high-frequency noise during
the 2.5 hour sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Alto, Tennessee
ID: 539
Date: 4/5/1966
Time: 3 AM
Description: Witness: Lillian Louis. One vapor-like sphere hovered and
spun at low altitude, shooting its exhaust onto the ground below.
Sighting of 1 minute.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Lycoming, New York
ID: 540
Date: 4/7/1966
Time: 2130
Description: Six teenagers reported strange lights following their car
as they left the site of a picnic in a state of extreme fear. An unknown
man, 2.20 m tall, wearing black clothes, had been seen passing in front
of the shelter entrance and walking on the roof.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Daniels Park, Colorado
ID: 754
Date: 4/8/1966
Time: 0805
Description: Mike Dorsey and Gary Hunt, 12 were walking to school when
they saw a circling object making the sound of humming bees. They ran
for cover, trying to stop a car. The craft resembled an upside-down
plate, very smooth, apparently metallic, with a black spot near the rim,
a red light and an antennalike projection, and red and white lights
spinning counterclockwise. Diameter2.5 m, height, 1.5 m. Minimum
altitude was 2 m, held for 5 min, with a slight rocking motion. The
object then took off at great speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 108 (Vallee)
Location: Norwalk, Connecticut
ID: 755
Date: 4/11/1966
Time: 0000
Description: A civilian man, 43, saw a well-defined object 5 m above
ground, 100 m away. It showed a flashing red light, rose, was lost in
the fog, then came back at treetop level with a strong whistling sound.
Its shape was that of a cigar, 15 m long. It had no wings, tail
assembly, or wheels.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Greensburg, Pennsylvania
ID: 756
Date: 4/12/1966
Time: 1945
Description: During a power failure many residents, including Robert
Moses and Robert McCambly, saw an oval object with a dome on top and
lights (red to white to green) around the bottom, which appeared to land
on the roof of the Oliver Wendelle Holmes grammar school after a series
of maneuvers.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66, 4 (Vallee)
Location: Dorchester, Massachusetts
ID: 757
Date: 4/17/1966
Description: A person in a car saw an oval object the size of a car
follow his vehicle, then cross the road behind it at 5 m altitude. The
object reflected sunlight.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Millersville, Texas
ID: 758
Date: 4/17/1966
Description: Ravenna, OH, to Conway, Penn.: Deputy Sheriffs Dale Spaur
and Wilbur Neff of Portage Countywere on patrol when an UFO stopped
above them, illuminating them and the surroundings (it was just about
dawn). As the UFO moved away from them at about 300–500 ft. above the
road, it would alternately start and stop ahead of them playing cat and
mouse. At E. Palestine, OH, officer Wayne Huston joined in the pursuit.
At speeds of 100 mph in unfamiliar territory, they were soon low on gas
and had to give up the game with the UFO. Through local police dispatch
the officers alerted the Air Force, who sent out fighter planes to
investigate the UFO. As the officers saw the AF planes approaching the
UFO shot straight up and out of sight.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-F p259)
Location: Ravenna, OH
See also: 6/24/66
Date: 4/18/1966
Time: 2210
Description: An egg-shaped object, 25 m long, 5 m high, gray-colored,
was observed from a distance of 25 m by a 42-year-old witness driving a
car. The object supported a cockpit with windows and three rows of
lights, emitted red flames, and made the same noise as a heavy truck on
wet pavement. The object followed the car for some time.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Battle Creek, Michigan
ID: 759
Date: 4/19/1966
Time: 2200
Description: Two women saw a cigar-shaped object, with bright, red
lights at both ends, flying erratically. It made a whistling sound when
moving, was silent when hovering. Minimum distance: 100 m, length, 20 m.
The lights began flashing and the object went down behind some trees
when five planes and a helicopter came over the area. Two of the
aircraft circled the location, then flew on. The whistling sound was
again heard, but the object was not seen after the departure of the
planes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Bellingham, Massachusetts
ID: 760
Date: 4/19/1966
Time: 2245
Description: A man saw what he thought was a crashing plane, then
observed it was oval, had white, red, and green lights, flew low over
him, circled, came down with pendulum motion, and appeared to land on
Route 114. At midnight, two men driving along that route saw a beam
sweep the road, stopped, and saw the object in a field. It was a disk
with a white, a green, and three red lights. The two reports were
independent.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Peabody, Massachusetts
ID: 761
Date: 4/22/1966
Time: 1530
Description: Several people were said to have observed an object fly at
low altitude and land outside Bagley. Four dwarfs seemed to make
repairs, then the craft flew away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FS Mar., 67 (Vallee)
Location: Bagley, Minnesota
ID: 762
Date: 4/22/1966
Time: 2100
Description: A child saw a blinding, multicolored source of light making
a buzzing sound as it flew over the road 15 m away from the house. It
seemed to land in a field near the school. Three adults came out to calm
the child and also saw the object circling and hovering. They called the
police. Two officers arrived and saw the object appearing to “dance”
with two other craft. All witnesses then observed the arrival of one
helicopter and two aircraft, as the remaining object flew away to the
southwest. Police described the object as plate-shaped when stationary
above the school building. TV reception was blurred throughout the
observation.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Beverly, Massachusetts
ID: 763
Date: 4/24/1966
Time: 1810
Description: Two men saw an object dive within 30 m of their car. It was
silent, had a bright blue light on top, suddenly accelerated, and was
lost to sight toward Mt. Watatic.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Ashby, Massachusetts
ID: 765
Date: 4/24/1966
Time: 0330
Description: Tom M. Lasseter, architect, was camping near the river when
he was awakened by a fluttering sound and observed a glowing white disk,
7 m in diameter, at treetop level 60 m away. It had a row of
lights.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP May., 66 (Vallee)
Location: Pedernales River, Texas
ID: 764
Date: 4/26/1966
Time: 2330
Description: A young man saw a silent object shaped like two bowls glued
together, 30 m altitude, ahead of his car. Estimated diameter: 10 m. He
drove away without looking behind.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Follansbee, West Virginia
ID: 766
Date: 4/30/1966
Time: 3:15 AM
Description: Witness: Anita Miller. One light moved around the sky for
2.5 hours. No further detail in files.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Sacramento, California
ID: 541
Date: 5/7/1966
Time: 9:55 PM
Description: Witness: A/3c W.L. Whitehead. One short, cylindrical object
with pointed ends and a yellow light at one end and blue light at the
other, flew straight and level for 35 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Goodfellow AFB, Texas
ID: 542
Date: 5/10/1966
Time: 2200
Description: Approximate date. The crowd at a movie projection panicked,
thinking it was an earthquake, as an unknown object exploded. According
to police, a sulphurous odor and a trace 25 cm deep, 35 cm wide, were
noted at the site.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN 84 (Vallee)
Location: Atafona Campos, Brazil
ID: 768
Date: 5/10/1966
Time: 1652
Description: A man observed the landing of an oval object and two
beings, who ame out of the object through a system of light beams. They
used strange instruments to examine a number of objects, especially
plants. They were 2 m tall, had oversized heads, appeared bright and
“transparent.” Their eyes were slanted, their shoulders very broad. They
wore no apparent weapon, but their belts were very wide and emitted
light rays. They did not touch anything without first illuminating it
with these beams. They went back aboard their craft “as if carried by
the light.”
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Marisela Caracas, Venezuela
ID: 767
Date: 5/16/1966
Description: Manuel Hernandez was coming back from the fields near
Cordoba when he saw a disk-shaped object land 100 m away. Small beings
resembling “green birds” came out for a few instants, then took off
again.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 162 (Vallee)
Location: Cordoba, Spain
ID: 769
Date: 6/3/1966
Time: 2145
Description: Two witnesses observed a stationary object 3 m above
ground. It had a diameter of 7 m, lights on top and bottom and smaller
lights at the rim. It flew away very fast to the east.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: West Point City, Pennsylvania
ID: 770
Date: 6/6/1966
Time: 9:30 PM
Description: Witness: Dorothy Gray. Two domed discs with sparkling upper
surfaces and square windows in their tops, revolved above a lake,
apparently causing strange behavior of the lake water during the 25
second sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Spooner, Wisconsin
ID: 543
Date: 6/8/1966
Time: 0645
Description: A civilian man, 43, driving west between Kansas and Toledo,
saw an object appear out of nowhere. It was cigar-shaped, bright
metallic, and flew low to the northeast. Minimum distance: 30 m. The
object was completely silent, and the size of an airliner.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Sandusky Road, Ohio
ID: 771
Date: 6/8/1966
Time: 6:45 AM
Description: Witness: Max Baker. One bright silver, cigar-shaped object,
as long as an airliner, buzzed the witness’ car. Sighting lasted 1
minute.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Kansas, Ohio
ID: 544
Date: 6/11/1966
Time: 0345
Description: A civilian who was going fishing saw an object dive toward
his car and hover at treetop level, stopped and observed it for two min.
It was shaped like two plates glued together, and had a smaller, oval
object on top. It took a 45 (degree) inclination, rose, made a
right-angle turn, and changed color (white to yellow to blue to green)
as it accelerated.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP (Vallee)
Location: Westport, Connecticut
ID: 772
Date: 6/13/1966
Description: The policeman who had observed an object over Milan on
Mar. 17 saw an unidentified machine on the ground at a street
intersection. He drove toward it with his headlights illuminating the
object, which took off like an airplane, flying away to the southeast.
Investigation by Selfridge AFB.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Milan, Michigan
ID: 773
Date: 6/18/1966
Time: 0345
Description: The Mayor of Bar-sur-Loup, Leon Barbier, saw a large, round
object with yellow and green lights on a hilltop.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN 89 (Vallee)
Location: Bar-sur-Loup, France
ID: 774
Date: 6/18/1966
Time: 12:30 AM
Description: Witnesses: members of a Boy Scout group, including
Sterrett. One bell-shaped object with three flashing red lights hovered
for 5 hours and was then joined by six others.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Burnsville, North Carolina
ID: 545
Date: 6/18/1966
Time: 2400
Description: Four campers saw an object with three flashing red lights
land on the ground 200 m away. It remained there all night, rose at
dawn, was then observed through binoculars as a red-colored, bell-shaped
craft. Broken trees and other traces were found.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Mount Mitchell, North Carolina
ID: 776
Date: 6/18/1966
Time: 0400
Description: A truck driver, Mr. Dugelay, saw a disk-shaped object over
Le Rouret. It remained motionless for five min, then disappeared. Its
lights were alternately red and bluish-green.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN 84; 163 (Vallee)
Location: Le Rouret, France
ID: 775
Date: Summer 1966
Description: Results of an Iowa Poll, Iowa: 45% Iowans queried believe
UFOs to be real objects. Of the 45%, 21% were of the opinion that the
UFOs were of extraterrestrial origin.
Type: poll
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Iowa
Date: Summer 1966
Description: Nha Trang, Vietnam: At this active Army Base at about 9:45
p.m., what was thought to be a flare lit up the north sky. The bright
UFO approached the base alternately moving at low to high speeds. Upon
descending toward the soldiers it hovered at an altitude of 300–500 ft.
All of a sudden the 6 generators failed along with the engines of the
idling Skyraiders, bulldozers and trucks. The entire valley and
surrounding mountains were illuminated by the hovering UFO for about 4
min. after which it went straight up and disappeared in about 3
sec. After the incident a plane load of officials from Washington
arrived to investigate.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Nha Trang, Vietnam
See also: 3/4/69
Date: 6/23/1966
Time: 2130
Description: A 61-year-old civilian woman was reading when an intense
red light illuminated the ground near her house. She went outside and
saw a lighted object 20 m away 1 m in diameter, which backed up and flew
away “like a bullet.” Three other persons saw it from the next house.
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Type: ufo sighting
Reference: (Vallee)
Location: Hamburg, New York
ID: 777
Date: 6/24/1966
Description: Officer William L. Stevens, Jr., observed a
dirigible-shaped UFO at 3:30 in the morning near the fairgrounds. It was
about 100 ft. long and 30 ft. thick with greenish-yellow lights on its
perimeter. Stevens attempted to chase the UFO but it maintained an even
distance from him even though he sped up and slowed down. “The object
seemed to be playing cat & mouse with me,” he later said. After
10–15 min. the UFO accelerated and sped away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Richmond, VA
See also: 4/17/66
Date: 6/27/1966
Time: 4 AM
Description: Witness: Radio Officer Steffen Soresen, of the S/ Mt.
Vernon Victory. One “cloud” expanded with a light inside, and then
accelerated away after several minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: 400 miles east of Wake Island (19’ N, 172’ E)
ID: 546
Date: 7/5/1966
Description: Several persons reported seeing a very small creature
leaving a luminous trail, quietly walking along the streets, while
children and adults panicked.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 164 (Vallee)
Location: Chaclacayo, Peru
ID: 778
Date: 7/11/1966
Description: Two civilian women saw a red, luminous object 30 m away in
a field. It had small openings and made a whirring sound. Length, 30 m;
height, 6 m; duration, 90 min.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Union-Kirkwood, Pennsylvania
ID: 779
Date: 7/11/1966
Time: 7:45 PM
Description: Witnesses: Carl Wood and Charles Hawthorne. One large (100’
wide, 20’ high) bright red object with small windows and yellow lights.
The object emitted a humming noise, seemingly from the outside, and a
qrinding noise which seemed to come from inside. Observed for 1
hour.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Union, Pennsylvania
ID: 547
Date: 7/13/1966
Description: Camillo Faieta, 35, a lineman, was on duty when a light
dazzled him, and he observed that it came from an object on a small
island on the Emissario Canal. Two little men were seen briefly on the
ground before the departure of the object. There are four other
witnesses.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN 86; FSR 67, 1 (Vallee)
Location: Pontedera, Italy
ID: 780
Date: 7/17/1966
Time: 0345
Description: Rene Pebre and two others were driving back from Draguignan
when they saw a gray oval, metallic object, about 5 m long, hovering at
low altitude, about 300 m from them. They noticed several window-like
openings on the craft, which emitted a light beam. All the dogs in the
vicinity were barking.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: GEPA Sep., 66 (Vallee)
Location: Rebouillon, France
ID: 781
Date: 7/25/1966
Time: 0200
Description: A man driving between Greenville and Vancehars saw a glow
in the woods and was followed by the light even at speeds of 170 km/hr.
He finally stopped to observe it, but became afraid when he saw that it
came from a pulsating object that flew within 100 m of the car, 15 m
above ground. The color changed in sequence, orange to red to blue to
green, and the object wobbled on its axis. It came within 30 m, then
suddenly left straight up.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Vancehars, North Carolina
ID: 782
Date: 7/25/1966
Time: 1 AM
Description: Witness: college student James Clark. One object which
changed color from orange to red to blue to green and back to orange.
Followed witness’ car at high speed, then stopped and hovered over the
car. Rose and flew up and out of sight in less than 5 seconds. Entire
sighting involved about 1 hour.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Vanceboro, North Carolina
ID: 548
Date: 7/28/1966
Time: evening
Description: A photographer, Mr. Lacoste, and his wife, saw a red,
lighted object cross the sky and appear to touch the ground. It then
rose, hovered, and disappeared. The next day a wheat field was found
flattened over an area 3 m in diameter, and covered with an oily
substance.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 166; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Montsoreau, France
ID: 783
Date: 7/31/1966
Time: 2025
Description: Young witnesses reported an object flying erratically and
landing 300 m away. It had the shape of a mushroom and swept the area
with a light beam. A strange being, 1.80 m tall, was seen. Police
report.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 167; FSR 66, 6 (Vallee)
Location: Erie, Preque-Ile Park, Pennsylvania
ID: 784
Date: 7/31/1966
Time: 7:25 PM
Description: Witnesses: Douglas Tibbetts, 16; Betty Klem, 16; Anita
Haifley, 22; and Gerald Labelle, 29. Square or hexagonal object with
edges lit or reflecting light, came tumbling down from right to left.
Stopped 5-10’ above the beach and settled heavily down; circle of
spotlights at top were visible when it was on the ground. Sighting
lasted 5 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Presque Isle State Park, Pennsylvania
ID: 549
Date: 8/1/1966
Time: 1945
Description: Several young witnesses reported seeing an unidentified
object at low altitude.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 109 (Vallee)
Location: Rushville, Indiana
ID: 785
Date: 8/6/1966
Time: 1400
Description: A civilian man and his family observed a dark object
hovering near their isolated house. It had a square “door” emitting a
yellow light. Three children saw a dwarf through the opening. He was
dressed in shiny black coveralls. The object left slowly with a soft
humming sound.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Texas
ID: 786
Date: 8/18/1966
Description: Three hunters, E. Beucomo, J. Zapata and J. Ramos, observed
a strange glow in the forest and discovered a very large, egg-shaped
object, stationary 2 m above ground. It had large, circular openings
emitting a multicolored light, and it made a whistling sound. The
hunters ran away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Sep., 66 (Vallee)
Location: Barinas, Venezuela
ID: 787
Date: 8/19/1966
Time: 1650
Description: A border patrolman saw a bright, shiny disk on its edge, 10
m in diameter, 5 m high, floating down the side of a hill, wobbling from
side to side 3 m above ground. It reached the valley floor, climbed to
about 30 m, and moved across to a small reservoir where it assumed a
horizontal position. A dome then became visible on top of the disk. It
hovered for one min and seemed about to land less than 80 m away, but
tilted back on edge and flew into the clouds at high speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Donnybrook, North Dakota
ID: 788
Date: 8/19/1966
Time: 4:50 PM
Description: Witness: U.S. Border Patrolman Don Flickenger. Round disc
with domed top, 30’ in diameter and 15’ high, colored white, silvery or
aluminum. Moved across a valley from the southeast, hovered over a
reservoir, appeared to land in a small field, then rose up into clouds
very rapidly. Sighting lasted 5 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Donnybrook, North Dakota
ID: 550
Date: 8/20/1966
Time: early
Description: Otto Becker, his son, and daughter-in-law woke up to find
the whole house bathed in bright light, and they observed a “six-story”
object at treetop level 60 m away. It gave off rainbow colors which
appeared to pour off its edges “like water” in a fantastic display.
Distinct engine noise was heard before it took off vertically. Domestic
animals had been greatly disturbed, and the witness had inflamed eyes
for several days.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Gribble Jan., 67 (Vallee)
Location: Heraldsburg, California
ID: 789
Date: 8/20/1966
Description: A woman called police to report a luminous object rising
and descending on top of a high hill. When policemen climbed to the site
they found the bodies of two men, electronics technicians Pereira da
Cruz and Viana. The bodies had lead masks on the upper part of the face.
An autopsy failed to disclose the cause of death. Investigation
disclosed several earlier incidents and an organization to which these
men belonged.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Niteroi, Brazil
ID: 790
Date: 8/23/1966
Time: 77 PM
Description: Witnesses: Broomall and Gilpin. One circular, luminous
white object split into five objects and all streaked away toward the
west. Sighting lasted 15 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Columbus, Ohio
ID: 551
Date: 8/24/1966
Time: 2200
Description: An airman observed and reported by radio a multi-colored
light high in the sky. A strike team was sent to his location and
confirmed the unknown. A second object, white, was seen to pass in front
of clouds. At the radar base, an object was detected and tracked. The
observations lasted nearly 4 hours and were confirmed by three different
missile sites. Radio interference was noted by teams sent to locations
where the object was sometimes described as hovering at ground
level.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota
ID: 791
Date: 8/26/1966
Time: 8:50 PM
Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. Funk and their three children. A
cluster of four small, glowing, orange-yellow lights in a triangular
formation, moved from east to west for 4.5 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Gaylesville, Alabama
ID: 552
Date: 9/1966
Time: 0330
Description: A police officer was driving at nearly 200 km/h toward the
north on Route 71 when he suddenly saw an object on the road ahead and
another one following his car. The first one looked like a flaming car
and was the size of a 3-story house. It flew away as the policeman was
about to hit it.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 168 (Vallee)
Location: El Campo, Texas
ID: 792
Date: 9/1/1966
Time: 2:45 PM
Description: Witness: T.H. Ridman. One oval object with lights that
flashed red and white and occasionally blue, travelled west, then
disappeared downward. It returned, several minutes later, at which time
a loud noise was heard. The entire sighting lasted 30 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Willsboro, New York
ID: 553
Date: 9/3/1966
Time: 1400
Description: Two young witnesses went outside when the TV set became
blurred. They observed a fantastic spinning light illuminating the
house. It came from an object hovering at the same location as an
earlier sighting (see Case 786).
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Texas
ID: 793
Date: 9/5/1966
Time: evening
Description: A civilian man observed a peculiar light phenomenon and a
small figure that appeared to enter a bedroom. The figure was not seen
again.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Texas
ID: 794
Date: 9/6/1966
Time: 6:50 PM
Description: Witnesses: Stahl and Ladesic. One white cylinder of light
came from the east at high speed, stopped and hovered for 3 minutes, and
then turned and slowly disappeared. Sighting lasted 8 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Suffolk County AFB, New York
ID: 554
Date: 9/7/1966
Time: 2000
Description: About 15 km east of Durand, Mrs. E. Bruns and her two
children observed an elongated object, about 10 m long, with revolving
lights, hovering 1 m above ground and making a deafening noise. After 30
sec, it tilted and took off.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Sep., 66 (Vallee)
Location: Durand, Wisconsin
ID: 795
Date: 9/9/1966
Time: 2100
Description: A man saw an object descend from a cloud bank, slow down,
and land with a soft whirring sound. It showed three horizontal bands of
light-blue, red and green.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Franklin Springs, New York
ID: 796
Date: 9/9/1966
Time: 9 PM
Description: Witness: Jacobson. One solid object, larger than an army
tank, with lights all around it, made a low humming sound and
disappeared into woods at the end of the 30 minute sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Franklin Springs, New York
ID: 555
Date: 9/13/1966
Time: 0730
Description: A child of 11 years saw a disk-shaped object land near a
farm. It had a tripod landing gear, two red lights, two white and one
green light, and a transparent dome. A businessman from Gwinner and an
Air Force Lt. Col. went to the site and discovered three traces,
apparently left by spherical objects, 18 cm deep, very compact.
Radiation measured at 0.1 milliroentgen (normal). The child reported
that the object “went away so fast that it vanished.”
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Stirum, North Dakota
ID: 797
Date: 9/13/1966
Time: 7:30 AM
Description: Witness: Rotenberger. One silvery-grey ellipse with a clear
bubble protruding from its top, hovered about a mile away, then landed
within 300 yards and took off very fast. It made a low-pitched whine
during the 5 minute sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Gwinner, North Dakota
ID: 556
Date: 9/17/1966
Time: 0445
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Ronald MacGilvary saw a golden-white, luminous
object resting on the beach, with two bright lights flying in and out of
the craft. It went away after one hour.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN 88; NICAP Oct., 66 (Vallee)
Location: Cranes Beach, Massachusetts
ID: 798
Date: 9/21/1966
Time: 0630
Description: Eight members of the Royal Canadian Air Force saw a bright
object that flew down at high speed, stopped abruptly, remained at
ground level for 20 min, and flew away straight up.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP Oct., 66 (Vallee)
Location: Summerside, Canada
ID: 799
Date: 9/28/1966
Time: 3:38 PM
Description: Witness: Clarke. Three round, oval-shaped, aluminum-colored
objects with rotating rings around them. Two remained stationary, while
the third varied its altitude during the 90 second sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Wilmington, Ohio
ID: 557
Date: 10/5/1966
Description: A boy saw a disk-shaped object with a transparent dome and
a row of lights, at ground level. It rose at high speed, emitting a
“heat wave,” and was lost in the clouds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP Oct., 66 (Vallee)
Location: Potomac, Maryland
ID: 800
Date: 10/5/1966
Time: Time unknown
Description: Witnesses: several members of one family. One small, bright
orange, moon-shaped object remained stationary in the northeast for
about 20 minutes, then suddenly took off very fast to the WNW.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Osceola, Wisconsin
ID: 558
Date: 10/14/1966
Time: 2230
Description: James Roberts saw two round pinkish-red objects on a
hillside near his home. He fled when they took off with a hissing sound
emitting streams of fire.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Gribble Jan., 67 (Vallee)
Location: Fork, West Virginia
ID: 802
Date: 10/14/1966
Time: 1845
Description: A adolescent first saw a bright light, then a plate-shaped
object hovering near the house. It took off at high speed, causing
static on the phone as the boy was calling his mother to describe it.
When she came home, she found her son in a state of shock and the dog
hiding in a corner.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Newton, Illinois
ID: 801
Date: 10/23/1966
Time: 6 PM
Description: Witness: Mr Acquino. One object with arms in front of it
which sparkled like an arc-light. Traveled south along some power lines,
then turned southwest. Made a slight humming sound during the 4 minute
sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Southhampton, Long Island, New York
ID: 559
Date: 10/26/1966
Time: No time given
Description: Witness: civilian control tower operator Ralston. One white
object approached runway at 50’ altitude. Runway lights were then turned
on, and object accelerated and climbed away so fast that witness was
unable to use binoculars. Sighting lasted 3 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Cold Bay Air Force Station, Alaska
ID: 560
Date: 11/2/1966
Time: 1925
Description: W. Derenberger, salesman, saw a dark object ahead of him on
the road. It was flat on the bottom and rounded on top. As he stopped,
the object came within 20 cm of the road surface, and a man of dark
complexion, dressed with a shirt and ordinary trousers, both a shiny
blue color, came out, smiled at the witness who then thought that he
received a message, although no word was spoken. The message described a
hypothetical “other world” and suggested that the observation be
reported to authorities. The man also promised to return. Several people
who drove by the witness did report seeing a man speaking to him, as
well as a strange vehicle nearby.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 169; FSR 67, 1 (Vallee)
Location: Parkersburg, West Virginia
ID: 804
Date: 11/2/1966
Time: evening
Description: Mrs. Mark deFriend, 32, saw an object at ground level in
front of her car on a rainy night. It would leave the road and fly over
the fields from time to time. The greenish-blue object flew back in
front of the car, then was lost to sight behind some trees.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 168 (Vallee)
Location: El Campo, Texas
ID: 803
Date: 11/8/1966
Time: At night
Description: Witness: college graduate Annis. A group of lights that
flashed and changed color hung stationary, almost touching the road, and
would abruptly vanish during the 5 minute sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Saginaw, Michigan
ID: 561
Date: 11/17/1966
Time: 0400
Description: Patrolmen A. G. Huskey and C. Hutchins saw a dark,
spherical machine with a flat rim land near them. Estimated diameter: 7
m. An opening and a short ladder became visible, and a small man,
dressed in a shiny gold suit, emerged, came within 6 m of them, and
spoke in perfect English before taking off.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68, 2 (Vallee)
Location: Gaffney, South Carolina
ID: 805
Date: 11/19/1966
Time: 0750
Description: Two local businessmen observed a dark, gray, metallic
sphere, from the top of which projected a dozen “tentacles” over 2 m
long, flying at about 40 m altitude and then coming down behind a house.
It was assumed that it plunged into the bay, but a search by patrol
boats was unsuccessful.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Bavonne, New Jersey
ID: 806
Date: 11/28/1966
Description: Two witnesses observed a dark, red object land by the side
of the road, later following their car.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 168 (Vallee)
Location: El Campo, Texas
ID: 807
Date: 12/25/1966
Time: 3 AM
Description: Witnesses: civilians and military persons. Three round
objects, as large as cars, gave off vapor, then became three bright
reddish-orange lights. Blast at beginning of 90 minute sighting pushed
one witness against a car.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Monroe, Oregon
ID: 562
Date: 12/30/1966
Time: 2015
Description: A physics professor driving through a wooded area saw a
bright, pulsating glow, changing from orange to white, in the woods
about 1.7 km away. Coming back the next day, he located traces of burns,
and called the Air Force and the University of Colorado.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Haynesville, Louisiana
ID: 808
Date: 1967
Description: In 1967 a drought reduced water levels in Lake Karachay
where nuclear waste was being dumped, exposing radioactive dust. The
dust was spread by gale-force winds in the area, spread over 25,000
square kilometers and exposing another 500,000 residents to nuclear
fallout. The lake would eventually accumulate over 120 million curies of
radionuclides. To put that in perspective, the Chernobyl incident
released 1 million.
Type: radiological event
Reference: link
Location: Lake Karachay, Russia
Date: 1/5/1967
Time: 0430
Description: A civilian man, 32, driving to work in his 1964 Chevy
truck, had to stop and inspect the vehicle when its engine stalled. Only
then did he observe an intense light to his right, coming closer. He saw
it land on the road, and locked himself inside the cabin. The craft
settled on a tripod landing gear; it measured 25 m in diameter and was
10 m high. Something similar to an elevator came down from it, and a man
dressed in blue coveralls “with something like a glass fishbowl on his
head,” of medium height, seemed to check something and left.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Winsted, Minnesota
ID: 812
Date: 1/17/1967
Time: 1845
Description: A woman walking home saw a beam of light about 1 m in
section sweep the ground in her direction. It came from a circular,
white object that turned off its main light. She then saw reddish spots
before it vanished entirely. Another witness saw the phenomenon from a
separate location, 2 km away (LDLN).
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: (Vallee)
Location: Romieres, France
ID: 809
Date: 1/17/1967
Time: night
Description: F. Bedel, 23, driving on Route 135 about 8 km north of
Freetown saw a plate-shaped object with red, yellow, blue, and white
blinking lights, lost control of his car, and ran off the road. Less
than 2 km away, Phil Patton saw an identical object that came within 30
m of his car.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 22 (Vallee)
Location: Freetown, Indiana
ID: 810
Date: 1/19/1967
Time: 0905
Description: Two min later it flew away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 67, 3 (Vallee)
Location: Charleston (West Virginia) Tad Jones, 38, was driving near
Charleston when he saw a large, metal sphere, about 6 m in diameter,
having four legs equipped with wheels and a very small propeller
underneath
ID: 811
Date: 1/26/1967
Time: 2100
Description: A Methodist minister was driving on Route 185 near Coffeen
when he saw an object, flat on the bottom, rounded on top, cross the
road silently 100 m away, at low speed. Length, 20 m; height, 3 m.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Coffeen, Illinois
ID: 813
Date: 1/28/1967
Time: 1345
Description: Children observed “a little blue man with a tall hat and a
beard” that disappeared in a puff of smoke; they later saw him again,
and heard “foreign-sounding” voices.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 67, 4; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Studham, Great Britain
ID: 814
Date: 2/1/1967
Time: 2100
Description: Three witnesses independently saw a craft emitting light
signals land a few meters away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN 93 (Vallee)
Location: Boadilla del Monte, Spain
ID: 815
Date: 2/5/1967
Time: evening
Description: A young man heard a strange noise and a barking dog, and
saw an egg-shaped object land. From an elevatorlike shaft came human
figures that placed small spheres around the craft. A man walked to them
and appeared to speak with the entities. The witness was seen, the
creatures tried to abduct him, and then took off.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP May., 67 (Vallee)
Location: Hilliards, Ohio
ID: 816
Date: 2/6/1967
Time: 8:45 PM
Description: Witnesses: Donald and Marie Guseman. One large,
Saturn-shaped object–5O’ in diameter and 20’ high–with two bright
lights, a green light on one side and a red light on the other. Hovered
motionless over the trees, then slowly moved north and suddenly
disappeared after 2 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Odessa, Delaware
ID: 563
Date: 2/11/1967
Time: 0145
Description: Miss Hildebrand, 19, and Michael McKee fled when they saw a
large shiny object off the road. Returning to the scene with a
policeman, the found broken branches at the site.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Jan., 67 (Vallee)
Location: Milford, Ohio
ID: 817
Date: 2/12/1967
Time: 3:40 AM
Description: Witness: Mr. Lou Atkinson. Four fluorescent,
football-shaped objects, a dull, almost grey luminous color; flew
northeast in a very rigid formation for 4-10 seconds. Made a chirping
noise.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan
ID: 564
Date: 2/16/1967
Time: 9:11 PM
Description: Witness: Miss Lynn Marsh. One light with faded edges seemed
to follow observer in her car for 5-6 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Stoughton, Wisconsin
ID: 565
Date: 2/20/1967
Time: 3:10 AM
Description: Witness: USAF veteran/truck driver Stanton Summer. One
orange-red object flew parallel to truck for 2 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Oxford, Wisconsin
ID: 566
Date: 2/22/1967
Time: night
Description: G. Grammond saw an object with flashing red and green
lights glide, circle, and land in a field. He saw it again spinning in
the northeast when he came out with two other witnesses 5 min
later.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 67, 4 (Vallee)
Location: Chippenham, Great Britain
ID: 818
Date: 2/23/1967
Time: 1030
Description: Mrs. Rice and Mrs. Weston were talking on the phone when
they were surprised to hear a very strong sound and saw an object flying
low over their area. A third person saw the object, and many heard it.
The snow was swirling under it. The object was mushroom-shaped,
supported a dome with a fin, was greenish, and left toward the Severn
River.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 170 (Vallee)
Location: Linstead, Maryland
ID: 819
Date: 2/24/1967
Description: Approximate date. An engineer from Osorno, well-known
locally, saw an object touch down and a strange being, 1.50 m tall,
emerge, wearing a transparent suit. He had a very white face and white
hands, a pronounced jawbone, and no apparent nose. Seeing the witness,
he got back inside the machine, which took off at great speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 59; Vuillequez (Vallee)
Location: Riachuelo, Chile
ID: 820
Date: 2/27/1967
Time: 8:19 PM
Description: Witnesses: Sheriff Grysen, wife and others. Large white
light, with smaller red and green lights seen to the sides. Made almost
instantaneous 90^ turn to left, shot out over road and stopped, moving
too fast to follow. Sighting lasted 1 hour, 11 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Grand Haven, Michigan
ID: 567
Date: 3/1/1967
Description: Lt. Gen. Hewitt T. Wheless, USAF, sends notice to all
branches of the military warning of persons imitating military officers
and harassing private citizens and confiscating UFO photos.
Type: notice
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Dayton, OH
See also: 3/21/66
Date: 3/3/1967
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Fellows were driving toward Sandwich when they
saw a lighted object going up and down, turning from white to greenish
blue, and following their car for 20 min until they reached Route 113.
It left to the northeast. They reported feeling an “electric discharge”
as it left, and their dog was very nervous during the observation.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP Mar., 67 (Vallee)
Location: Red Hill, New Hampshire
ID: 821
Date: 3/4/1967
Time: 2400
Description: The Sodestrom family obsered two plate-shaped objects, one
30 m in diameter, the other smaller and gray in color. They hovered at
20 111 altitude for 15 min. The object left with a hushed whistling
sound, illuminating the forest with intense light.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 171 (Vallee)
Location: Vilhelmina, Swedish Laponia
ID: 822
Date: 3/6/1967
Time: 12:01 AM
Description: Witnesses: Jerome Wolanin, assistant news director of radio
station and former policeman, and wife. One round saucer or oval-shaped
object with red, green and yellow lights around bottom rim which
pulsated red. Flew level, east to west, and was joined by second object
from west. First object opened top, second came over and hovered for 30
seconds and disappeared. Sighting lasted more than 40 minutes. Objects
made hissing sound.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Benton Harbor, Michigan
ID: 568
Date: 3/6/1967
Time: 4:25 AM
Description: Witness: Deputy Sheriff Frank Courson. One object shaped
like a rubber cup which is placed under furniture leg, with a dome set
in the cup. Bottom of object spun rapidly, rim pulsated red. Approached
witness and passed overhead at low altitude, making a hieeing
sound.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Galesburg-Moline, Illinois
ID: 569
Date: 3/8/1967
Time: 0105
Description: Two persons observed deep fog in the vicinity of a cemetery
and saw a light in the center, coming from an object hovering 100 m
above ground. Thinking it was a fire, the witnesses stopped. Paralysis
and ignition interference were then noted while the object, about 13 m
in diameter, oscillated and then departed with a whirring sound. It took
about 20 min for the witnesses to recover muscular coordination.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP Mar., 67 (Vallee)
Location: Leominster, Massachusetts
ID: 823
Date: 3/9/1967
Time: 9:05 PM
Description: Witness: Jack Lindley. One bright white, saucer-shaped
object, as big as a jet airliner, flew straight and fast to the east for
2 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Onawa, Iowa
ID: 571
Date: 3/9/1967
Time: 7:10 PM
Description: Witnesses: two housewives. One object shaped like a pancake
with a rounded top; object was pulsating red, with red lights around its
rim. Approached witnesses and seemed to explode with a brilliant white
light that lasted 10 seconds and almost blinded them. Then it
accelerated to the north and disappeared.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Galesburg, Illinois
ID: 570
Date: 3/9/1967
Time: 2100
Description: Three witnesses observed an object as they were driving on
Route 2. It was round, hovered at rooftop level, left suddenly at high
speed. Its size was that of a car, and the underside showed several
lights.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Follansbee, Virginia
ID: 824
Date: 3/12/1967
Description: A boy who had gone outside to buy a newspaper saw an object
resembling an inverted mushroom hovering 10 m above ground. It was not
larger than a car, took a 45 (degree) orientation, oscillated, and left
to the northwest. Three photographs were reportedly taken.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Rochester, Minnesota
ID: 825
Date: 3/20/1967
Time: 2245
Description: A man and his daughter saw two lights that they thought
were landing lights on aircraft, but they came to ground level, flew
straight toward the car, and suddenly vanished. At the same time, five
figures appeared about 3 m away. They had narrow, pointed noses, mouths
and eyes like slits, blond hair, rough skin, and were dressed in loose
“hunterlike” clothes. Witnesses drove away as fast as they could.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68, 5 (Vallee)
Location: Butler, Pennsylvania
ID: 826
Date: 3/22/1967
Time: 10:20 PM
Description: Witness: Douglas Eutsler, 15. Fluorescent, solid,
multicolored lights stood still, then flew away at high speed after 1
minute.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Wapello, Iowa
ID: 572
Date: 3/24/1967
Time: 99 PM
Description: Witness: truck driver Ken Williams. One dome-shaped object,
emitting a bright light, landed in a ravine. As the witness approached,
it took off and settled back, hidden from the highway. Sighting lasted
several minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Belt, Montana
ID: 573
Date: 3/24/1967
Description: Numerous reports came from this area, including one of a
landing observation. At dawn, police and a Malmstrom AFB helicopter made
a search, with negative results.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Belt, Montana
ID: 827
Date: 3/25/1967
Time: dawn
Description: An intensely luminous object woke up several residents.
People in trains going toward Acapulco and people traveling by car saw
the same phenomenon. It came to ground level with a blinding light, then
took off.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 177 (Vallee)
Location: Iguala, Mexico
ID: 828
Date: 3/26/1967
Time: 4 PM
Description: Witnesses: man, woman, three boys. One oval object, which
looked like copper or brass with the sun shining on it, flew from
southeast to northwest with tumbling motion for 30 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: New Winchester, Ohio
ID: 574
Date: 3/26/1967
Time: 2045
Description: Mr. and Mrs. John Dick and Mrs. W. Buhr were driving toward
Gretna. Near three radio towers situated 3.5 km south of Altona, they
saw a very bright object at ground level, illuminating the countryside
with a pink glow. The object itself was dark, with a luminous band
around it, was motionless and pulsated, then suddenly disappeared.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 173 (Vallee)
Location: Altona, Canada
ID: 829
Date: 3/31/1967
Description: Three strange objects, a bright, orange light emitting a
shower of green sparks, and two smaller sources, were seen in a field.
No details.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 67, 6 (Vallee)
Location: Hanley, Great Britain
ID: 830
Date: 4/1/1967
Time: 2000
Description: Two boys saw an orange disk, less than 1 m in diameter,
flying at high speed, stop and hover for three min, 20 m above ground.
Chief of Police Peter Mehan confirmed that the sighting was under
investigation.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 174 (Vallee)
Location: New Westminster, Canada
ID: 831
Date: 4/5/1967
Time: 1945
Description: Justice of the Peace John H. Demler was driving north on
Route 72 when his car stalled and the lights went out. He then saw an
object, 10 m in diameter, which gave off a smell of sulphur and
camphorated oil, hovering low over the car, which was pulled and rocked
when the object took off. Physiological effects (perspiration and
peeling skin) were reported after 12 hours. The object gave off a sound
resembling an electric motor, and emitted sparks.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP May., 67 (Vallee)
Location: Jonestown, Pennsylvania
ID: 832
Date: 4/6/1967
Time: 1245
Description: An entire class at an elementary school observed an object
20 m above ground, 2 km away. It vanished suddenly as the children and
their teacher, 33-year-old Robert Apfel, were watching it.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 176 (Vallee)
Location: Crestview, Florida
ID: 833
Date: 4/7/1967
Time: 0945
Description: More than two hundred children and three teachers saw an
oval object, with a light at each end, come to ground level. Several
other objects also were seen, moving up and down with a pendulum
motion.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 67, 3 (Vallee)
Location: Crestview, Florida
ID: 834
Date: 4/16/1967
Description: Guillermo Roldan, his daughter, and other persons saw a
glowing, egg-shaped object fly across the sky at high speed, stop
suddenly and descend to ground level. As the witnesses rushed toward the
area, the object took off at very high speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 60 (Vallee)
Location: Boraure, Venezuela
ID: 835
Date: 4/21/1967
Time: 2100
Description: Mr. Crowder was driving home when he saw an object on the
road 70 m away. Supported by four legs, it was a vertical cylinder, 5 m
in diameter, with a half-sphere on top. It was gray and its base was 1 m
above the pavement. When the witness turned his high beams on, the craft
gave off a vertical light and vanished. The road burned for 15 min.
Mr. Martin, who lived nearby, also observed the light. Holes, traces of
burns, and calcined matches were noted at the site.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: South Hill, Virginia
ID: 836
Date: 4/26/1967
Time: 2100
Description: Brian Dorscht saw a dark object, measuring 1 m in diameter
and 1.5 m in height, with flashing green and white lights. When 1 m
above ground, six legs came out, and it landed on a lawn near the
National Grocers Company. The whirring sound the object was making
stopped, and the witness became afraid and ran away. Police found six
prints at the site.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 177; SS&S; Summer, 67 (Vallee)
Location: Kitchener, Canada
ID: 837
Date: 4/27/1967
Time: 2200
Description: Four boys with binoculars observed an object come lower
with oscillating motions, illuminating the woods 1 km away. It was
concshaped, with a blue underside, and a top that changed from red to
orange to white.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Green Lake, Wisconsin
ID: 838
Date: 5/6/1967
Time: 1100
Description: A mechanical engineer and his daughter saw a disk-shaped
object on the ground off a highway. They stopped the car and took three
photos of the object as it was taking off. The first one showed the
object at treetop level, the second showed it in flight, and the third
photo missed the object.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 65 (Vallee)
Location: Durango, Mexico
ID: 839
Date: 5/7/1967
Time: 0200
Description: Ricky Banyard, 14, saw a strange object in the sky and
followed it with a friend, Glenn Coates, through binoculars. It hovered
near a cemetery, making a hushed whistling sound and illuminating the
ground with a vertical beam of light. The object left suddenly with a
roar similar to that of a jet, and a series of “bangs.” Stones were
found calcined at the site.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 178 (Vallee)
Location: Edmonton, Canada
ID: 840
Date: 5/9/1967
Description: In a field which belonged to the Mayor, Mr. Maillotte, a
depression was discovered, and blue powder was found in small trenches
radiating from that area. A formidable weight seemed to have rested at
the spot. No radioactivity.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 179 (Vallee)
Location: Marliens, France
ID: 841
Date: 5/11/1967
Time: 0200
Description: Michael Campeadore, 25, a hospital employee, was driving to
Salt Lake City when he heard a noise similar to that of a truck, but saw
nothing. Then a yellow light became visible to the left, and thinking
that it was a jet plane about to crash, he got out and saw it stop 30 m
away at 30 m altitude. It was shaped like an inverted bowl with a dome
on top and looked metallic. The witness became afraid and emptied his
.25 Beretta in the direction of the craft. He heard the bullets hit
metal and the object took off at great speed. When he told his story at
a nearby service station, the attendant replied that about 20 reports
had been made in the Saint George area recently.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 180 (Vallee)
Location: Saint George, Utah
ID: 842
Date: 5/16/1967
Description: Roman and Jose Arribas observed an object land in a pine
forest north of Nieva-Segovia. They saw “people” enter the ashcolored
craft, which took off straight up, at high speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN 89 (Vallee)
Location: Nieva-Segovia, Spain
ID: 843
Date: 5/17/1967
Time: 8:30 PM
Description: Witness: Red Ledford. One round, orange-colored object,
similar in size to a small aircraft, zigzagged back and forth over a jet
that was heading northeast for 5 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Rural Hall, North Carolina
ID: 575
Date: 5/20/1967
Time: 1213
Description: Polish-born Steve Michalac, 52, industrial mechanic and
prospector, saw two redglowing objects flying at high speed. One of them
blew vegetation as it landed, surrounded by a glow, and it was observed
for 30 min before a door opened, showing a purple light. A high-pitched
sound and an odor resembling a burning electrical circuit were noted.
Approaching, the witness heard voices, and upon touching the craft, he
burned his rubber-coated glove, and was “blown out” by hot air when the
subject started spinning. The witness felt dizzy, suffered minor face
burns, second and third degree burns on his chest, vomited frequently
for 4 days, and lost over 10 kg. Diameter of craft, 11 m; height, 3 m,
with a 1-m-high superstructure.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 60; Condon 316 (Vallee)
Location: Falcon Lake, Canada
ID: 844
Date: 5/22/1967
Time: evening
Description: A teacher, 45-year-old Mr. Tyrode, saw a glow, then an
object shaped like an inverted plate emitting a greenish-blue light. It
flew less than 20 m above his car, at 40 km/h.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN 94 (Vallee)
Location: Evillers, France
ID: 845
Date: 5/24/1967
Time: 2300
Description: Remy Deneuville and his family saw a white light to the
side of the road, but it was turned off when they drove within 150 m of
its location. Minutes later, they saw a luminous spherical object fly
away for several minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: GEPA Dec., 67 (Vallee)
Location: Arbonne, France
ID: 846
Date: 6/1/1967
Time: 2330
Description: John Norton, 7, had to be taken to a hospital after
observing a disk-shaped, buzzing object, the size of a Volkswagen, with
green and red lights, which landed in a clearing and took off “like
lightning.”
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP May., 67 (Vallee)
Location: Richmond, Virginia
ID: 847
Date: 6/7/1967
Time: 0130
Description: A vehicle stalled in the vicinity of a brilliant,
transparent, mushroom-shaped object, aboard which occupants with catlike
faces were seen. Under the object was a quadrangular protuberance.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68, 6 (Vallee)
Location: Itajuba, Brazil
ID: 848
Date: 6/11/1967
Time: 2000
Description: Two children saw a disk-shaped object 1 m in diameter and
25 cm thick, making a metallic noise as it hovered 10 m above them. They
took a series of photos that show only a blur.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 181 (Vallee)
Location: Price Hill, Ohio
ID: 849
Date: 6/13/1967
Description: An object hovering 4 m above ground, and three dwarfs, were
observed. Traces and an oily substance were found at the site.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Nov., 67 (Vallee)
Location: Caledonia, Canada
ID: 850
Date: 6/20/1967
Time: 1200
Description: Farmer Arvi Juntunen heard a loud humming sound and saw a
round, shiny gray object 50 cm above ground, 6 m away. It had a domed
top with a fin and measured 75 cm in diameter. As he was about to seize
it, the object rose with a blast, circled and flew away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68, 3 (Vallee)
Location: Suomussalmi, Finland
ID: 851
Date: 6/24/1967
Time: 3:12 AM
Description: Witness: artist Ray Stanford. One solid, blue-white,
elliptical object flew from northwest to northeast and stopped,
seemingly in response to flashlight signal, for 1.5 minutes. The object
then proceeded along its original path at high speed and disappeared
behind clouds. Sighting lasted 9 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Austin, Texas
ID: 576
Date: 6/29/1967
Time: 1:30 AM
Description: Witness: truck driver Damon Brown. One oyster-shaped
object–2OO’ wide, and 25-30’ thick–with a huge red light at each end and
one on the bottom, and a row of blue lights along the bottom. Circled
m.n aircraft, hovering then moving rapidly, and then followed the
witness’ car for about 500’, veered south and departed at great speed
after 8-10 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Scotch Plains, New Jersey
ID: 577
Date: 7/3/1967
Description: R. T. (initials), with ALPHA RED TOP SECRET CRYPTO
Clearance, rank PFC, assigned to Canine Corps at Camp Pendleton, San
Diego, CA., states that he and his dogs were air transported 2.5 hrs. to
a sight in a desert (unknown location) UFO crash-sight. Saucer:
Metallic, 30 ft. diameter, domed top, no windows. He also observed:
Large walk-in refrigerator, empty body bags, men at work with technical
instruments.
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Camp Pendleton, San Diego, CA
Date: 7/5/1967
Description: One hundred persons claimed to have seen a silvery
disk-shaped object, about 10 m long, land in the area.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 67, 5 (Vallee)
Location: Clifton, Great Britain
ID: 852
Date: 7/7/1967
Time: 2330
Description: Antonio Brambila and another man saw a glow coming from a
disk, 6.5 m in diameter and 2.5 m high, with a dome on top and four
telescopic legs, which emitted a strange vibration.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN 91 (Vallee)
Location: Milan, Italy
ID: 853
Date: 7/10/1967
Time: 5:50 PM
Description: Witness: golf pro Harold Washington (Capt, USMC, ret.). One
object with a dome, the top colored gunmetal blue, the bottom the color
of old lead. Moved east, crossed the highway tilted upward, moved to the
right, accelerated and disappeared into the clouds after 3-5 seconds.
Object made a swishing sound.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Lizelia, Mississippi
ID: 578
Date: 7/11/1967
Time: evening
Description: Two persons saw a cigar-shaped object on the ground, 400 m
away from the road, which took off, rising rapidly. It had windowlike
openings emitting a bright light.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 183 (Vallee)
Location: Santa Clara del Mar, Argentina
ID: 854
Date: 7/17/1967
Time: 1600
Description: Children were terrified by four dwarfish creatures dressed
in black clothing, about 1 m tall, who moved very rapidly among the
bushes. They were dark-skinned, had bulging eyes, and spoke among
themselves in a strange, musical dialect.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 182 (Vallee)
Location: Arc-sous-Cicon, France
ID: 855
Date: 7/17/1967
Time: evening
Description: E. Browne, walking in a wood, saw a disklike, dull,
blue-gray object with a rough surface, hovering about 2 m above ground.
An opening became visible in the middle section and two men dressed in
silvery clothes emerged, walked in the woods, then reentered the craft,
which rose and vanished from sight.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 67, 6 (Vallee)
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland
ID: 856
Date: 7/18/1967
Time: 0130
Description: A minister was awakened by a strange sound and had the
“impulse” to go downstairs and look outside. Between his house and the
next one, he saw a silhouette wearing a luminous suit. He thought
someone was playing a prank, but the apparition was well-defined and
looked real. It turned into a shapeless glow and vanished.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Keel; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Boardman, Ohio
ID: 857
Date: 7/21/1967
Time: 0230
Description: Barbara Fawcett, 18, and her sister saw a yellow “jagged”
object rise above a swamp and land on a hill. Air Force investigators
found a very large scorched area at the spot.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Jul., 67 (Vallee)
Location: Jewish Creek, Florida
ID: 858
Date: 7/24/1967
Time: 2200
Description: Between Mareuil and Ste-Hermine, Daniel Bonifait and his
family saw a red disk, the size of a building, fall 300 m away behind a
hill. Dark forms were observed on the disks surface, and the forest
seemed to be ablaze as the witnesses drove away in fear.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: GEPA Dec., 68 (Vallee)
Location: Mareuil, France
ID: 859
Date: 7/31/1967
Time: 2215
Description: A guard, Sidney Zipkin, 50, was driving through a large
parking lot when he observed a cigar-shaped object, 16 m long, with
green lights under it, land on the pavement. He stopped his truck within
30 m of the object, with the headlights aimed on it, and was surprised
to see two dwarfs dressed in shiny black uniforms rush by the vehicle
and enter the craft, which took off straight up.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 184 (Vallee)
Location: Churchville, New York
ID: 860
Date: 8/3/1967
Time: 2330
Description: Two persons saw a luminous, whitish object, 10 m in
diameter, resembling two plates glued together. The whole yard was
illuminated and a humming sound was heard. A door opened in the base of
the craft, and something similar to a light bulb lowered itself to
ground level. This, too, had an opening, from which stepped a small man
in silvery, luminous clothes, his head surrounded with vapor. He was
about 5 m away from the witnesses, and was observed to pick up stones,
examine them, look up and seem to communicate with the main object. He
then dropped the stones and stepped into the “bulb” that reentered the
craft, which took off.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 44 (Vallee)
Location: Caracas, Venezuela
ID: 862
Date: 8/3/1967
Time: 2000
Description: J. Vieira, a lawyer, and his driver, Amauri, at km 15 on
the Miguel Peraira Highway saw two yellowish lights, then many others,
about 500 m away to the left. They blinked and faded. Similar lights
were seen again at Conrado. When the driver blinked the car’s
headlights, the objects seemed to respond. An object which illuminated
the whole area was seen resting in a woods.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 17 (Vallee)
Location: Conrado, Brazil
ID: 861
Date: 8/4/1967
Time: early
Description: Engineer Hugo S. Yepes was on a beach 25 km north of Recife
when he saw a disk, 6 m in diameter, come out of the water. It was gray,
looked metallic, hovered for a few sec at 1 m altitude, then rose slowly
to the east and disappeared.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP Mar., 68 (Vallee)
Location: Recife, Venezuela
ID: 863
Date: 8/5/1967
Time: 2330
Description: Ronald Sherven and Robert Bodine saw a glowing, white
object on a west-east trajectory north of Sawyer. The object was hidden
by a hill at first but all of a sudden it appeared again over a
cemetery, came to ground level, and sped away to the north.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP Oct., 67 (Vallee)
Location: Sawyer, North Dakota
ID: 864
Date: 8/6/1967
Description: Antonio Neri Perez and several other people saw three
glowing, red disks take off from a field near the house.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 65 (Vallee)
Location: Hidalgo, Mexico
ID: 865
Date: 8/7/1967
Time: 0200
Description: In the San Bernardino section, Pedro Riera, of Avila Ave.,
was awakened by the shaking of his bed and saw a creature in his room,
which “flew” out through the open window. Lights on the ground blinded
the witness when he rushed to the balcony. Other people had seen a
strange vehicle parked in the street. That afternoon, a strange dwarf
entered the office of Dr. S. Vegas, who examined him. The being spoke
perfect Spanish, had peculiar heart sounds, and did not understand the
notion of “age.”
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 74 (Vallee)
Location: Caracas, Venezuela
ID: 866
Date: 8/8/1967
Time: evening
Description: Evangelic Pastor Estanislao Lugo Contreras was at the shore
when he saw a diskshaped object with a very bright orange glow emitting
a buzzing sound, rise out of the sea, hover a few seconds then rise
obliquely.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 55 (Vallee)
Location: Salina, Venezuela
ID: 867
Date: 8/12/1967
Time: 0230
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Miedtke, awakened by the barking of their dog,
saw a large hemispherical object with a fluorescent glow and a short
flash of light. Too terrified to go outside, they heard heavy footsteps
around their trailer. At dawn there was a sound like that of a
generator, and seconds later the object was gone.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 27 (Vallee)
Location: Ogema, Wisconsin
ID: 868
Date: 8/23/1967
Time: early
Description: Stanley Moxon, of Toronto, driving to Montreal, was between
Joyceville and the Glen Grove Rd. when he encountered a large,
diskshaped craft and two creatures, 1.20 m tall, dressed in white suits
and helmets. They “flew back” into the object at once and it left
silently at high speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 32 (Vallee)
Location: Joycevi]le, Canada
ID: 869
Date: 8/23/1967
Time: 2000
Description: A boy and a girl, both 15, noticed a red glow coming down
in the woods. Later they saw a large source of light in mid-air and
heard piercing whistling sounds, then footsteps, and saw a jumping
creature, 10 m away. It was about 1.30 m tall, had an oversized head,
made jerky motions, raised a tube in its arms, and had a “shimmering”
appearance.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Sep., 67 (Vallee)
Location: Kolmarden, Sweden
ID: 870
Date: 8/24/1967
Time: 1700
Description: A motorcyclist was suddenly engulfed in a bluish-white
light so dazzling that he had to stop. He then saw a metallic object, 30
m away, its shape that of two saucers one on top of the other, with a
dome on top, silvery, the lower half dark gray, about 10 m in diameter,
and bearing a black mark or insignia. Near it appeared two figures about
1.5 m tall, wearing silvery coveralls and opaque helmets. A gesture from
them scared the witness, who drove away but was followed by the
object.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68, 2 (Vallee)
Location: Sydney-Melbourne Road, Australia
ID: 871
Date: 8/25/1967
Time: 1700
Description: Three disks of large dimension were seen to emerge from the
sea by Ruben Norato, after he observed a “precipitous movement of the
water.”
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP Mar., 68 (Vallee)
Location: Catia la Mar, Venezuela
ID: 872
Date: 8/26/1967
Description: Saki Macharechi spotted an object in flight, which he
thought was a heron, land near a bridge. He then saw that it was a
dwarf, about 1 m tall, with huge eyes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 78 (Vallee)
Location: Maturin, Venezuela
ID: 874
Date: 8/26/1967
Time: 0200
Description: Esteban D. Cova, a private in the Marines, was relieved of
duty at the airport and returned to his quarters. Then he met an ugly
dwarf, 1 m tall, with a huge head, bulgy eyes, and a body covered with
“hairy stuff or wiry metal.” It made a deep whistling sound, and Cova
felt a prickling sensation in his body. In perfect Spanish the creature
said: “Won’t you come with me? We need one human being.” Cova
fainted.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 79 (Vallee)
Location: Maiquetia Airport, Venezuela
ID: 873
Date: 8/29/1967
Time: 1030
Description: Two children saw a sphere, 2 m in diameter, and “four
little devils.” One of them was bending over, apparently busy with
something on the ground, and another held a mirrorlike object. They
hovered and flew around the sphere, then dived into it as it rose with a
soft whistling sound. A smell of sulphur began to spread, and the object
flew away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68, 5; LDLN 90 (Vallee)
Location: Cussac, France
ID: 875
Date: 9/2/1967
Time: night
Description: Nelson Gutierrez, a salesman, saw an object on the Plains
Highway, and a creature, of which he took several photographs.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 78 (Vallee)
Location: Hato Viejo Farm, Venezuela
ID: 876
Date: 9/3/1967
Description: Paula Valdez, suffering from a headache, was suddenly
aroused by a whistling sound and saw a small man, with a large head and
prominent eyes, who said: “I want you to come with us, so that you’ll
know other worlds, and you’ll realize how small your world is.” The
witness screamed wildly, and the apparition ran.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 80 (Vallee)
Location: Caracas, Venezuela
ID: 877
Date: 9/4/1967
Time: 0510
Description: Police Officer P. A. Andrade was on duty at City Hall when
he heard a humming noise and footsteps in a garage. He met a dwarf, 1 m
tall, with a big head and bulging, reddish glowing eyes, wearing a
silver-colored, metallic-looking coverall. Andrade pointed his machine
gun at the creature, but a voice from a hovering disk said in Spanish
that he should not harm the creature. The dwarf then tried to convince
Andrade to come to “their world,” adding it was “very distant and much
larger than the Earth, and with many advantages for Earthlings.” When
Andrade declined, the creature flew back into the object, which
left.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 82 (Vallee)
Location: Valencia, Venezuela
ID: 878
Date: 9/8/1967
Time: 0230
Description: A. Aguilar, 23, saw a creature outside her bedroom window
and screamed. Her parents ran into the room in time to see it soaring
over rooftops, surrounded by a bluish-yellow glow. It moved as if
suspended from a balloon. A strong smell of “melted iron” was detected
by all.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 81 (Vallee)
Location: Caracas, Venezuela
ID: 879
Date: 9/11/1967
Time: 2130
Description: During a raging storm, an entire family watched a large,
glowing object in a field 300 m away, giving off brilliant beams of
light for 4 hours, after which it took off in seconds. Sootlike material
with an unpleasant smell and tracks on flattened grass were noted.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68, 6 (Vallee)
Location: Villa Constitucion, Argentina
ID: 880
Date: 9/14/1967
Time: 1100
Description: Fabio J. Diniz, 16, was walking near a hospital when he saw
a mushroom-shaped craft on a playing field. It had a cupola on top, and
a guillotinelike door that slid up. The boy fled, but a voice told him
in Portuguese: “Don’t run away.” He saw two men, 2 m tall, dressed in
green tight-fitting clothes. They told him not to be afraid and to
return the next day, “otherwise we will take your family.” They had
greenish skin, and round eyes set wide apart.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68, 6 (Vallee)
Location: La Baleia, Brazil
ID: 881
Date: 9/15/1967
Description: The carcass of a horse named Snippy was discovered. Unusual
radioactivity and strange traces were claimed to have been found at the
spot.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Condon 344; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Alamosa, Colorado
ID: 882
Date: 9/15/1967
Time: 2045
Description: Two teenage girls observed a large, glowing object, and
three small figures, about 1.25 m tall, witll oversized heads, running
near a barn. From the object came a noise similar to that of “a power
mower when it fires but fails to start.” The object blacked out, and the
figures hid while a car passed, after which the object pulsated between
very bright white and dull red, and moved diagonally several
times.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 166; Condon 347 (Vallee)
Location: Winsted, Connecticut
ID: 883
Date: 9/18/1967
Time: 0100
Description: Forestry employee Russell Hill heard a strange pulsating
sound and saw an object giving off a green glow hover near his cabin.
Radio interference.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 34 (Vallee)
Location: Nanton, Canada
ID: 884
Date: 9/22/1967
Time: night
Description: Near Caracas, a race track employee was attacked by a very
strong creature that choked him, but ran away when a horse was heard
neighing frantically in the stable. Thirty min later, a horse was
attacked, and an employee saw a dwarf, 1 m tall, “zoom” out of the
building.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 84 (Vallee)
Location: Caracas, Venezuela
ID: 885
Date: 10/9/1967
Time: 1740
Description: A boy riding his bicycle saw an aluminum cylinder standing
on end, 3 m high, 80 cm wide, supported by two legs ending in round pads
joined by a bar. He got within 12 m of the object before it rose
vertically with a deep, low-pitched hum, but no smoke, flame, or haze.
It left two impressions.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 119 (Vallee)
Location: East Tucson, Arizona
ID: 886
Date: 10/11/1967
Time: 0010
Description: Othmar Willi, 37, observed three cylinders, 10 m high, 5 m
in diameter, with two rows of square windows and a small cone on top,
hovering 50 m away and 5 m above a maize field, making a noise
resembling a swarm of bees. A small object was dropped briefly.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68, 4 (Vallee)
Location: Oberhrendingen, Switzerland
ID: 887
Date: 10/18/1967
Time: 9 PM
Description: Witness: John Herbert. One bright, fiery ball flashed four
times while moving east, just above the tree tops. Sighting lasted 1
minute.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Lake Charles, Louisiana
ID: 579
Date: 10/21/1967
Time: 2200
Description: Four boys were driving east on State Route 7 when they saw
three men on the road, who “almost flew off and disappeared.” They were
about 1.20 m tall and wore shiny blue-green clothing. Their faces looked
human, but they had very large ears. The next day a small footprint
showing four toes was found in the mud.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 84 (Vallee)
Location: Duncan, Oklahoma
ID: 888
Date: 10/24/1967
Time: 2130
Description: Donald Chiszar, 13, and Pat Crozier, 10, saw a bright
object hovcrillg in mid-air. It tilted toward them, and they could see
two big, square windows separated by a bar, and strange lettering under
them. Two aliens, and control panels with lights and knobs, could be
seen inside. It vanished on the spot.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III, 180 (Vallee)
Location: Newfield, New York
ID: 889
Date: 10/25/1967
Time: 2045
Description: Clive Robinson and Richard Corben, 14, and a third boy,
reported the landing of a dome-shaped object with a smaller hump on top,
200 m away. It took off diagonally, leaving some traces.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68 (Vallee)
Location: Malvern, Great Britain
ID: 890
Date: 10/26/1967
Time: 0430
Description: A businessman driving north between Hook and Reading was
puzzled when the electrical system of his car broke down. He then
observed a dull object, 20 m in diameter, 100 m away, at about 15 m
altitude. He made the rest of his journey in a trancelike state.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 67, 6 (Vallee)
Location: Reading, Great Britain
ID: 891
Date: 10/27/1967
Description: A spinning object, 7.5 m in diameter, emitting red and
green lights, came down to a river, causing thunderous agitation of the
water, and took off over a forest, with a heat wave.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN 92 (Vallee)
Location: Dympep, India
ID: 892
Date: 10/30/1967
Time: 2100
Description: A businessman was driving toward Boyup Brook when his car
failed completely and stopped, although he did not recall feeling
deceleration. He found a strong light beam aimed at him from a
mushroom-shaped craft, 10 m in diameter. He had no recollection of
starting the car again after the departure of the object.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68, 4 (Vallee)
Location: Boyup Brook, Australia
ID: 893
Date: 11/2/1967
Time: night
Description: Will Begay and Clyde Soccie, in their early 20’s, said that
an object landed on top of their car, forcing them to stop. Two dwarfs
spoke to them, but were not understood. The object left.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68, 1 (Vallee)
Location: Ririe, Idaho
ID: 894
Date: 11/3/1967
Description: Carlos Spini and another man saw a luminous, blue, circular
object land nearby, as they were examining some cows. It took off when
they came near.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: San Jeronimo, Argentina
ID: 895
Date: 11/5/1967
Time: 2330
Description: Lorry driver Karl Farlow told police that as his lights and
radio blacked out, although his diesel engine continued to work, he saw
an egg-shaped object, 3 m long, 15 m away. Moments later, a white Jaguar
coming in the opposite direction also stopped. The object, emitting a
green light and showing a whitish dome under its lower surface, hovered
between the two vehicles for 2 min and left at high speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 67, 6; 68, 3 (Vallee)
Location: Fordingbridge, Great Britain
ID: 896
Date: 11/14/1967
Description: Orlando Gonzales and two other persons saw an oval object,
1.5 m high, resting in the middle of a highway 80 m away. It left
straight up.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Nov., 67 (Vallee)
Location: Barinas, Venezuela
ID: 897
Date: 11/16/1967
Time: 1700
Description: Mrs. Quick and another woman saw a flickering light and a
deep-red, glowing object at ground level, with a dark figure, slightly
larger than a normal human, approaching it. The object disappeared
suddenly.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68, 2 (Vallee)
Location: Storrington, Great Britain
ID: 898
Date: 11/16/1967
Time: 1830
Description: Farm manager Alan Pool, 43, saw an object, 6 m in diameter
and 1.5 m high, with round and square windows, land in a field with a
whining noise. It took off and vanished, leaving no trace.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68, 1 (Vallee)
Location: Yerecoin, Australia
ID: 899
Date: 11/24/1967
Time: 1430
Description: Technician Ugo Battaglia, 39, and a boy, heard a
high-pitched sound and saw a bright, metallic, disk-shaped object come
down, hit a tree and hover, while three tall men in white coveralls
walked around. The boy later suffered severe headaches. Traces.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Nov., 67 (Vallee)
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
ID: 900
Date: 11/29/1967
Time: 0200
Description: Percy McBride saw a flashing object, the size of a station
wagon, with two aerials, arrive from the east and land in a woods for 15
min. It made a clicking sound and a noise similar to six radio receivers
tuned on different stations. It had a square, boxlike protuberance
supported by a pole underneath.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Jan., 68 (Vallee)
Location: Yarmouth, Canada
ID: 901
Date: 12/3/1967
Description: Abduction of Herbert Schirmer, a Nebraska patrolmen. Was
told there were alien bases off the Florida coast, the polar region, and
off the coast of Argentina. Motherships were cigar shaped, 6ft diameters
discs for recon surveillance.
Type: abduction
Reference: Matrix 1, Valerian
Location: Nebraska
Date: 12/3/1967
Time: 0230
Description: Police Officer Schirmer observed a bright, aluminum-colored
object just above the road and approached within 14 m, when the object
rose, emitting a shrill beeping noise and a red-orange beam. Under
hypnosis at the University of Colorado, the witness reported that a
small human form, about 1.30 m tall, came from under the craft and
approached him to communicate a message stating that “they” came from
space and would meet him again.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68, 4 (Vallee)
Location: Ashland, Nebraska
ID: 902
Date: 12/22/1967
Description: Six teenagers observed a silvery, disk-shaped object with a
pointed projection on top and multicolored lights, 100 m away, and felt
a heat wave when it hovered above them.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FS Jun., 68 (Vallee)
Location: Holmes County, Ohio
ID: 903
Date: 1968
Description: Project xxxxxxxx (name censured) established to evaluate
all UFO information pertinent to space technology.
Type: majestic document
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-A)
Attributes: Majestic
See also: 1953
See also: 12/69
See also: 1976
Date: 1/19/1968
Description: DIA Intelligence Report from Liaison in Moscow, Russia
mentioning an attempt by the British Government in 1967 to collaborate
with the Soviets in UFO research.
Type: intelligence report (B1-E p543)
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Moscow, Russia
See also: 2/22/68
Date: 2/1/1968
Description: Serafim Vieira Sebastiao, a watchman at the Azores Air
Station, saw “an oval object with a metallic gleam, topped by a glass
tower with a small balustrade on which two beings were standing.” There
were two other figures inside the tower. When he shone a light toward
it, a cloud of dust surrounded the witness, the craft vanished, and he
fainted. Investigation by American military authorities.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68, 5 (Vallee)
Location: Criacao do Cabrito, Azores
ID: 904
Date: 2/9/1968
Time: 4:20 AM
Description: Witness: Mr. R.W. Bland. One object, 100’ in diameter, with
concave sides having “portholes” in the center of each gave off
yellow-green light. Hovered 25’ above ground, then moved rapidly toward
the southwest. Gave off pulsating sound, like a length of wire whirled
at high speed above the head. Sighting lasted 1-5 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Groveton, Missouri
ID: 580
Date: 2/22/1968
Description: UNCLASSIFIED AIR GRAM, U.S. Dept. of the State regarding
UFOs in the Soviet Union: Feb. 1968, Soviet Life published three pages
pertinent to UFOs, by Felix Zigel. He also published a UFO article in
1966. Until recently no study of UFOs had been made in the Soviet
Union.
Type: unclassified air gram
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-E p473)
Location: Soviet Union
See also: 1/19/68
Date: 3/3/1968
Time: 0615
Description: Nick Sgouris, while driving to work, observed a luminous,
cigar-shaped object, about 20 m long, showing numerous multi-colored
lights. The car almost stopped as the object flew low overhead, and the
witness was briefly paralyzed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRG Bulletin 67 (Vallee)
Location: Syracuse, New York
ID: 905
Date: 4/2/1968
Description: Science fiction movie “2001: A Space Odyssey” is
released
Type: movie
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: US
Date: 5/1968
Time: 2400
Description: Gerardo Vidal and his wife were driving along Route 2 when
they were caught in “a dense fog” and lost consciousness for 48 hours.
When they came to, it was daytime, and the car, whose paint was badly
scorched, was parked in an unknown road. They spoke to local people and
found that they were in Mexico.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68, 5; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Chascomus, Brazil
ID: 906
Date: 6/1968
Time: 0050
Description: Pedro Pretzel, 39, motel owner, observed an object 50 m
away on road 20, showing two powerful red headlights. Arriving at his
room, the witness found his daughter unconscious. When she came to, she
said that a blond man, 2 m tall, wearing a blue, bright suit, and
holding a paleblue sphere in his hand, had appeared and spoken to
her.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN 95 (Vallee)
Location: Carlos Paz, Argentina
ID: 907
Date: 6/14/1968
Time: 0300
Description: Jorge Yaru, 35, saw a strange light outside and a bright
object, the size of a bus, 30 m away. It had yellow, green and red
lights at the bottom. As he approached, the object rose suddenly,
hovered for 40 min, and left at high speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN 95 (Vallee)
Location: Mendiozaca, Argentina
ID: 908
Date: 6/16/1968
Time: night
Description: Chief of Provincial Police German Rocha and Police Major
Niceforo Leon observed a round object with a vivid blue light. It
landed, left a strange, powerful odor, and burned grass and
shrubs.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68, 5 (Vallee)
Location: El Choro, Argentina
ID: 909
Date: 6/19/1968
Time: night
Description: A settler, Romulo Velasco, 25, saw a bright object land.
From it emerged a strange “tall, slim being” who came toward the
witness, who fainted.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68, 5 (Vallee)
Location: Cabreria, Argentina
ID: 910
Date: 6/21/1968
Description: A man riding his bicycle encountered a large object, 50 cm
above the ground. The top part was spinning, and it cast a vertical beam
of red light toward the ground. Calcination traces were found by
police.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN 95 (Vallee)
Location: Miramar, Argentina
ID: 911
Date: 6/25/1968
Time: 105
Description: Jorge Ribles, electrician at the Carmal Chemical Plant,
noticed that the engines were at a standstill, while the countryside was
lit up with intensive reddish light. Another man, 52-yearold Jose J.
Rociski, fell unconscious as a vivid light enveloped him. He was unable
to move his left arm for three days, and suffered from pain and extreme
nervousness.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68, 5 (Vallee)
Location: Bouchard, Argentina
ID: 912
Date: 7/1/1968
Time: 0400
Description: Raul Calcedo met two giants, almost 3 m tall, in Ricardone.
He fled in terror, in spite of a strange power that tended to make him
stay.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68, 5 (Vallee)
Location: Ricardone, Argentina
ID: 913
Date: 7/1/1968
Time: 1230
Description: Three boys saw an object, about 8 m wide, 350 m away. It
had a large tripod under carriage and a ladder reaching down to the
ground. These devices were retracted, and the object rose a few meters,
then flew off at high speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68, 6 (Vallee)
Location: Botucatu, Brazil
ID: 914
Date: 7/2/1968
Time: 0815
Description: A boy, Sola, saw, a few meters away, a strange being, about
2.10 m tall, hovering in the air, his body emitting a peculiar glow,
near a bright, unknown object.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68, 5 (Vallee)
Location: Cofico, Argentina
ID: 915
Date: 7/2/1968
Time: 1125
Description: Oscar H. Iriart, 15, saw two men of normal height, with
short, white hair and red clothes, semi-transparent legs, motioning to
him. Near them was an elliptical, silvery machine, 2 m long, 60 cm high,
with three 50 cm legs. The men gave him an envelope with a childish
message and flew off. The witness’s horse and dog were paralyzed for
several minutes. The boy arrived home “like a madman.”
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68, 5 (Vallee)
Location: Sierra Chica, Argentina
ID: 916
Date: 7/31/1968
Time: 0900
Description: Luce Fontaine, 31, a farmer, was in a clearing when he
suddenly saw an oval object, 25 m away, less than 5 m above ground. It
had a clear center, dark-blue ends, two protrusions on top and bottom,
and measured 5 m in diameter, 2.5 m in height. In the object stood two
beings, 90 cm tall, wearing coveralls. A violent flash and a blast of
hot air were noted as the object vanished.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN 96 (Vallee)
Location: Plaine-des-Cafres, La Reunion Island
ID: 917
Date: 8/27/1968
Time: early
Description: Maria Josa Cintra, who worked at the Clemente Ferreira
Sanatorium, was awakened by a noise. At the front door was a
“foreign-looking” woman of normal height, wearing light-colored clothes,
and a headdress exposing only her face. She spoke in an unknown
language, and handed Marie a mug and a glass bottle covered with
beautiful engravings. Maria filled them. The woman said something such
as “Rempaua,” and went out to a pearlshaped, bright object that took off
with the sound of wings.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 69, 1 (Vallee)
Location: Lins, Brazil
ID: 918
Date: 8/31/1968
Time: early
Description: Three witnesses, among them two Casino employees, stated
that they observed five dwarfs, with oversized heads, who emerged from a
landed craft and traced undecipherable signs on the ground.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Le Figaro Sep. 2, 1968 (Vallee)
Location: Mendoza, Argentina
ID: 919
Date: 9/15/1968
Time: 9:30 PM
Description: Witness: missionary pilot Jay Cole, flying a Beech C-45
twin-engined utility plane. One light performed aerobatics for 15
minutes and then vanished. A second light appeared, heading toward them
on a collision course, made a 90 degree turn and disappeared. Later,
ground radar told them a target was following them. Sightings lasted 15
minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: near Ocala, Florida
ID: 581
Date: 10/9/1968
Time: 0620
Description: Doribio Pereira, 41, municipal employee, suddenly observed
a golden, cigar-shaped object, and a figure armed with a flashing weapon
that immobilized him. Three beings were standing on a platform under the
craft, and another figure appeared to be using a keyboard inside the
transparent top part. The object took off rapidly, leaving the witness
in a state of shock.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 69, 1 (Vallee)
Location: Lins, Brazil
ID: 920
Date: 11/2/1968
Time: 0355
Description: During a thunderstorm, a medical doctor was awakened by his
crying 14-month-old son. He saw two luminous objects outside his house,
and observed them coming close together and merging about 180 m away. A
vertical beam of light was aimed at him for a second as the object
tilted, and then the display vanished with a flash, leaving a slowly
dissolving cloud. Persistent nightmares and various physiological
phenomena were later recorded.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 1 (Vallee)
Location: France
ID: 921
Date: 11/20/1968
Time: 1730
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Milakovic were driving to Hednesford when they
suddenly saw a brilliant object rising from a held to the left and
hovering above a house. It appeared to “quiver like a jelly.” Several
figures were seen on the deck of the craft for about five min, then it
left with a jerky motion.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 69, 1 (Vallee)
Location: Hanbury, Great Britain
ID: 922
Date: 11/22/1968
Time: 2100
Description: A dozen witnesses saw a lens-shaped object surrounded with
a blue glow, making a noise similar to that of a jet and emitting
flashes, which landed in a field briefly. It suddenly took off and was
lost to sight at the horizon.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: France-Soir Nov. 24, 1968 (Vallee)
Location: Fleury-d’Aude, France
ID: 923
Date: 11/23/1968
Time: 8:05 PM
Description: Witness: Mr. Jones, accountant. One oblong light, 120-150’
wide. Hovering 75’ above the ground, it emitted a beam that lit the
ground. Radio gave off static, then car engine stopped. Light flew away
vertically and car engine restarted itself. Sighting lasted 3-4
minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Newton, Georgia
ID: 582
Date: 1969?
Description: A retired Colonel from Wright-Patterson AFB with Top Secret
Clearance states that a 2-man saucer crashed near Whitewater Lake,
Indiana as a result of an electrical disturbance in the
atmosphere.
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea
Research (A5, B3-C, WHITEWATER RECOVERY)
Location: Whitewater Lake, Indiana
See also: 1968
Date: 1/17/1969
Time: 3:24 AM
Description: Witness: Mr. Roman Lupton, test facility mechanic. Several
amber lights–one of them blinking–in an elliptical formation, flew
forward slowly while moving up and down, then turned and disappeared
after 2 minutes. Made a humming sound.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Location: Crittenden, Virginia
ID: 583
Date: 1/20/1969
End date: 8/9/1974
Description: President Richard Nixon in office
Type: historical event
Reference: (Wikipedia)(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon)
Date: 2/21/1969
Description: Soviet super-heavy N-1 rocket fails its first attempt
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Baikonur Cosmodrome
Date: 3/4/1969
Description: Near Atlanta, Missouri: The City Marshall and Mail Carrier
in Elmer, Missouri, William R. Overstreet observed an UFO at early dawn
over the road ahead of him. It was about 100 ft. in diam. apparently
rotating clockwise and emitting a strong white beam of light down to the
road which seemed to magnify the size of theroad it was shining on. He
felt intense heat from the direction of the UFO and his CB radio was
dead. As heneared the light beam from the UFO his truck motor and radio
quit. As the beam moved away from his truck he was able to start the
engine again. He followed the UFO for about 4 mi. staying away from the
beam. The UFO followed the contour of the land it was flying over. After
7–8 min. the UFO veered away and went out of sight. “I had never
believed in them too much until I saw this,” he said. “Now I know that
there is something to these UFOs!”
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-F p265)
See also: 8/13/75
See also: 6/66
Date: 3/28/1969
Description: Dwight D. Eisenhower dies
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Date: 7/3/1969
Description: Soviet super heavy N-1 rocket fails its second test
attempt
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Baikonur Cosmodrome
Date: 10/1969
Description: Jimmy Carter sees and reports a UFO.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-E p516)
Location: Leary, Georgia
Date: 12/1969
Description: Project xxxxxx (name censured) continues after Project
BLUEBOOK is closed.
Type: majestic document
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-A)
Attributes: Majestic
Date: 1970’s
Description: Private letter sent to BSRF from an active duty USAF pilot
asking for information.
Type: letter
Reference: BSRA archive
Location: San Diego, CA
Date: 3/31/1970
Description: Explorer 1, the first US satellite, decays
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Link
See also: 2/1/58
Date: 6/26/1971
Description: Soviet super heavy N-1 rocket fails its third test
attempt
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Baikonur Cosmodrome
Date: 1972
Description: Project SNOWBIRD established to test fly a captured flying
saucer. This was an alleged ongoing 1972 Top Secret project that
researched, developed and implemented alien spacecraft technology and
test flown recovered UFOs. It is possible that the UFO involved in the
CASH/LANDRUM CASE was built by the Americans as part of this project,
however another “Project Snowbird” has been found described as a “Joint
Army/Air Force peacetime military exercise in the sub-arctic region in
1955” in the 1963 Gale Research’s Code Names Dictionary. Project
SNOWBIRD is another project that was revealed in the Project AQUARIUS
Briefing Document.
Type: majestic document
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-A, SNOWBIRD)
Reference: archive.org
Date: 10/2/1972
Description: A letter from the Dept. of National Defense, Canada, Brig.
Gen. L.A. Bourgeois states: All UFOs reported to CFHQ are investigated
by the Director of Operations. It isn’t a practice to allow the public
to study these files. Since the beginning of 1968 these UFO reports have
been passed along to the NRC. Evidence suggests that UFOs present no
threat to the world. They exhibit a unique scientifically advanced
technology.
Type: letter
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-E p467)
See also: 9/19/26
Date: 11/23/1972
Description: Soviet super heavy N-1 rocket fails its fourth and final
test attempt
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Baikonur Cosmodrome
Date: 3/29/1973
Description: The last United States combat troops left Vietnam
Type: war
Reference: link
Location: Vietnam
Date: 9/1973
Description: At Great Lakes Naval Base, Instructor R. K., Gunnery School
Grade E-4, while delivering a sealed envelope to the Commandant in the
quonset hut, was surprised to see a saucer 30 ft. diam. and 10 ft. ht.
resting on a wooden platform. Description: Silvery blue and shimmering,
it tapered like a teardrop with a flange running along its topside from
one end to the other and there were no windows. R.K. believed this
saucer to be the one shot down on its third pass over a Navy vessel by a
missile. The saucer crashed in 350 ft. water between Hawaii and the
mainland. It was retrieved by a Glomar Explorer, shipped to Hawaii then
stateside to Chicago.
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea
Research (A5, B3-C, RECOVERY, HAWAII)
Location: Hawaii
Date: 10/18/1973
Description: Capt. Lawrence Coyne, while flying an Army helicopter with
three other crewmen were 45 minutes out over Mansfield when Staff
Sgt. Robert Yanacsek spotted a red glowing UFO headed toward their
helicopter at an estimated 600 mph. It stopped abruptly 500 ft. above
them. It had a big, gray, metallic looking hull about 60 ft. long,
shaped like an airfoil or streamlined cigar with a red light in front
and a green light in the rear, the lead edge glowed red a short distance
from the nose. There was a center dome. The ’copter radio wouldn’t
function and the copter was set for a 20 degree dive but gained altitude
from 1700 ft. to 3500 ft. with no power applied. After a slight “bounce”
the UFO took off to the N.E.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-F p319, 271)
Location: Mansfield, OH
Date: 10/25/1973
Description: Director of FBI, Clarence M. Kelley, states: UFOs are not
and never has been a matter that is within the investigative
jurisdiction of the FBI.
Type: statement
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-E p475)
Location: Washington DC
Date: 12/13/1973
Description: Patrick Thrush spots a hovering UFO above a river with a
tube leading from the craft to the water. Witness takes 2 photos with
his flash, the tube retracts and the UFO goes over his car and drops
warm dry “rocks” on it. UFO seen by another witness. Norman S. Bean
contacted.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: link
Location: Bradenton, FL
Date: 1974
Description: Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) renewed
Type: law
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Washington DC
Date: 8/9/1974
Description: President Gerald Ford in office
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Washington DC
Date: 10/11/1974
Description: Robert Spencer Carr described in great detail on a local
radio show interview the Aztec crash, had anonymous military and
civilian witnesses, made international news.
Type: interview
Reference: link
Location: Tampa, Florida
See also: 3/25/48
Date: 12/1974
Description: Date given by Professor Carr on 10/11/74 predicting the
government will launch a carefully-engineered acclimation effort to
prepare American public for an announcement of the existence of
extraterrestrial life.
Type: interview
Reference: link
Location: Tampa, Florida
Date: 1975
Description: Ex-CIA Pilot John Lear stated “The main Air Force sightings
were in 1975. And the UFOs descended on every Strategic Air Command base
guarding the perimeter of the northern United States. They hovered over
the nuclear weapons storage area and they stayed there with impunity for
up to two and three hours over a period of three days.”
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: link
Location: Loring AFB
Date: 1/8/1975
Description: Confidential Spanish Report, Spanish Air Force: UFO spotted
by military personnel at Las Bardenas Reales, near Zaragoza Air
Base
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-E p459)
Location: Las Bardenas Reales, Spain
Date: 3/28/1975
Description: Letter from Senator Barry Goldwater stating: Ten or twelve
years ago I tried to get access to the building at Wright-Patterson
(HANGER-18) where UFO artifacts were stored and I was understandably
denied access. It is still classified above TOP SECRET. I’ve heard they
plan to release some of the information in the near future and hope not
to have to wait too much longer.
Type: letter
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-E p2)
Reference: See Barry Goldwater’s “Blue Room” letters and released FOIA
Material 1975–1984, Burbank CA, asked General Curtis LeMay to see Blue
Room
Location: Washington DC
Date: 8/13/1975
Description: Near Haderslev, Denmark: Police Officer Evald Hansen Maarup
was driving home at 10:50 p.m. when all of a sudden his car was engulfed
by a bright blue light while at the same time his car lost all power.
The temperature in his car rose to that of a warm summer day and his
radio was dead so he couldn’t call for help. The bright beam from the
UFO was conical in shape with a bottom diam. of 4–5 meters and a top
diam. at the UFO of 10 meters. Two dome-like protrusions were visible on
the underside of the UFO that was hovering at about 20 meters altitude.
He activated a special camera on the patrol car which automatically took
3 pictures of the UFO. As the UFO sped away he regained power to his
car. The developed film which was later turned over to the Danish AF
showed the light source of the UFO on it. No report or analysis has been
available from the AF to date.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-F p281)
Location: Haderslev, Denmark
See also: 3/4/69
Date: 8/13/1975
Description: Staff Sgt. Charles L. Moody, USAF, drove out to the
outskirts of town late one night to watch for meteors. As a disc-shaped
UFO descended toward him, he tried to start his car to get away but it
wouldn’t start. He heard a high pitched whining sound from the UFO and
saw shadowy figures in it and felt numbness, after which the UFO
departed. After driving home he found he couldn’t account for 1.5 hours.
The next day his back was inflamed and he discovered a small puncture
wound over his spine and a few days later he developed a body rash. As
months passed he regained memory of the missing 1.5 hours. He remembered
that he had been in the UFO and in telepathic communication with small
4’8” humanoids. They had whitish gray skin, large heads, large eyes,
small slit-like mouths and mask-like features. He had been in a
drug-like state on a table and they had poked a rod like device into his
back. After this they escorted him about the ship and later dropped him
off at his car.
Type: ce4 event
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-F p282)
Location: Alamogordo, NM
See also: 3/4/69
Date: 10/1975
End date: 12/1975
Description: Reliable military personnel saw unconventional and
unexplained aerial objects hovering around nuclear weapons storage
sites, aircraft alert areas and missile control complexes at
installations across the northern United States. In some instances, as
radar sightings of the objects were made, Air Force fighter planes were
sent aloft in unsuccessful pursuit, although the records gave no
indication that the fighters fired on the intruders.”
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Washington
Post
Location: US
Date: 10/27/1975
Description: The Loring AFB incidents are extremely well documented,
both in terms of personal testimonials and declassified CIA and National
Military Command Center (NMCC) documents. Retired Sgt. Stephen B.
Eichner was on duty when a strange object hovered over the Loring
ammunition dump. Eichner told how he and fellow airmen had seen a
football-shaped reddish orange object, three or four car-lengths long,
hovering over the Loring ammunition dump. He said the object suddenly
vanished, then reappeared some distance away at the end of a runway.
Numerous other visual and radar sightings were made at Loring. Air Force
planes were scrambled in a luckless attempt to track down the object.
Eichner said it made no noise and could not be mistaken for a
helicopter.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Washington
Post
Reference: Debrief
Location: Loring AFB
Date: 10/28/1975
Description: Confidential CINC/NORAD Report: UFOs, suspicious objects
seen by ground personnel. Sounded like jet aircraft. Intermittent radar
contact made with object. Jets scrambled to intercept but objects lights
went out, interceptors passed and then came on again. Then the object
increased in speed and raised to a high altitude and could not be
discerned from the stars. Description: Through binoculars, looked like
100 ft. sphere and appeared to have craters around the outside. To date,
AF and SAC helicopters have failed to provide a positive I.D. of the
UFO.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-E p468)
Location: Loring AFB
See also: 11/11/75
See also: 7/52
Date: 10/29/1975
Description: NMCC Joint Staff Memo: Subject: AFB penetration. At 290200
EST, AFOC informed NMCC that an unidentified helicopter (UFO), possibly
two, had been sighted flying low over Loring AFB, Maine, in proximity to
a weapons storage area. Army Nat. Guard helos called in to assist in
locating UFO. NORAD informed of the incident by SAC. Received authority
to proceed into Canadian airspace, if necessary, to locate UFO. A
similar incident was reported the evening before.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-E p468)
Location: Loring AFB
Date: 11/11/1975
Description: Confidential CINC/NORAD Report
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-E p468)
Location: US
See also: 10/28/75
Date: 1976
Description: Project SIGMA becomes an independent project from Project
xxxxxxx.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-A, SIGMA)
Location: US
Attributes: Majestic
See also: 1968
Date: 1/21/1976
Description: MEMO from NMCC by Rear Adm. J. B. Morin stating: Two UFOs
reported near the flight line at Cannon AFB, N.M. Security Police report
the UFOs to be 25 yards (75 ft.) in diameter, gold/silver in color with
blue light on top, hole in the middle and red light on the bottom.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-E p524, B1-F p342)
Location: Cannon AFB, NM
Date: 4/9/1976
Description: CONFIDENTIAL CIA Message: Source (name Censored) seeks
guidance from CIA UFO experts as to material in his report that should
remain classified.
Type: confidential message
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-E p508)
Location: Langley, VA
Date: 7/30/1976
Description: NMCC Joint Staff Memo: Subject: Reports of UFOs. At approx.
0345, EDT, the ANMCC received several reports of UFOs near Fort Ritchie.
At 0130, civilians reported an UFO to the NAB. At 0255, two separate
patrols sighted three UFOs; oblong with a reddish tint. At 0300, the
Desk Sgt. (name with held) sighted an UFO over the ammo storage area at
100–200 yds. altitude. At 0345, an Army Police Sgt. sighted an UFO in
the vicinity of sight R. ANMCC was requested to have each individual
write a statement on the sightings. One person said the UFO was the size
of a 2.5 ton truck.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Fort Ritchie, Cascade, Maryland
Date: 9/19/1976
Description: Tehran, Iran: Civilians reported an UFO to the AFB. The
Iranian AF scrambled an American F-4 for intercept. As the F-4 was
vectored towards the brilliant UFO, all communications and
instrumentation were suddenly lost. As the pilot broke off pursuit, all
aircraft functions returned to normal. A second F-4 that was scrambled
began closing in on the UFO at greater than Mach 1 and was closing on
the UFO at 150 nautical mph., but the UFO accelerated and stayed ahead
of the F-4 (confirmed by Radar). Multi-colored flashing lights were
visible on the UFO. The moment the F-4 pilot tried to lock an AIM-9
missile at the UFO he lost all weapons panel and communication control.
The UFO launched two smaller UFOs, one of which began to follow the F-4.
After evasive action by the F-4, the smaller UFO returned and united
with the larger UFO. The other smaller UFO seemed to have landed on the
ground so the pilot flew down to investigate it. The landed UFO appeared
to be 12feet in diameter. As the pilot descended the light from the
landed UFO went out and he lost sight of it. The DIA termed this
sighting as “an outstanding report. This case is a classic which meets
all the criteria necessary for a study of a UFO phenomenon.” And, “an
inordinate amount of maneuverability was displayed by the UFOs.”
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-E p497, TEHRAN, B1-F p288, B1-G p72)
Location: Tehran, Iran
See also: 10/2/72
See also: 9/20/76
Date: 1977
Description: V. Alexeyev said that at some “unnamed” weapons test ranges
when UFO’s appeared soldiers signaled, mostly in a physical way. The
UFO’s responded by “compressing” their visual shape.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: link
Location: Soviet Union
Attributes: communication
Date: 1977
Description: Former USAF Sergeant, Mario Woods, claims that Richard Doty
was present at the debriefing of his 1977 UFO incident over a nuclear
silo at Ellsworth AFB.
Type: debriefing
Reference: link
Location: Ellsworth AFB
Date: 1977
Description: CAUS (Citizens Against UFO Secrecy), a non-profit freedom
of information activist group that advocates for the release of
classified information regarding UFOs, is founded.
Type: non-profit organization
Reference: Wikipeda
Location: Scottsdale, Arizona
Date: 1/20/1977
End date: 1/20/1981
Description: President Jimmy Carter in office
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipeda
Location: Washington DC
Date: 9/1/1977
Description: Air Force Letter from Col. Charles H. Senn, Wash., D.C., to
Gen. Duward L. Crow (Ret.), NASA, Wash., D.C. stating: Enclosed are the
UFO Fact Sheet and standard response to UFO public inquiries you
requested. I sincerely hope you are successful in preventing a reopening
of UFO investigations.
Type: letter
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-E p581)
Location: Washington DC
Date: Late 70’s
Description: In an interview, Colonel-General Gennady Reshetnikov, chief
of the Top Command Academy of the Air Defence Forces reported several
incidents where aircraft were scrambled to chase UFO’s. He also
investigated sightings of a cigar shaped object with portholes in the
late 70’s over Arctic region of Norilsk, alarming local military
units.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: link
Location: Norilsk, Soviet Union
Date: 1/18/1978
Description: MP at Ft. Dix shoots and kills an Alien. Incident report
sent to Col. Landon and Brig. Gen. Brown (AFOSI). The reporting officer
was S. W. (initials), Lt. 1st Class. Sgt. J.M. (initials), Security
Police Squad (PACAF) also witnessed and reported the incident (Sept. 16,
1980).
Type: alien encounter
Reference: link
Location: Ft. Dix, NJ
Date: 1/18/1978
Description: During the early morning hours of January 18, 1978, UFOs
were sighted flying over Fort Dix and McGuire AFB, adjacent military
bases. Shortly afterward, an Air Force security patrol was ordered to
the back gate of McGuire AFB to allow entry to New Jersey State Police
who were searching for something.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: link
Location: Ft. Dix, NJ
Date: 2/1/1978
Description: NASA Information Sheet claims NASA is not involved in a
research program involving UFOs, nor is any other government agency. The
U.S. Air Force no longer investigates UFOs. (see NASA arrest laws re.
private citizens)
Type: information sheet
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-E p515)
Location: Washington DC
Date: 7/18/1978
Description: DoD Staff Message: UFO spotted over North Tehran,
Iran
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-E p501)
Location: Tehran, Iran
Date: 7/29/1978
Description: Ufologist Leonard Stringfield gives his first talk on Crash
Retrievals in Dayton, OH. He is threatened twice (by phone and then in
person), moved to a location not of his choosing by security men with
radios.
Type: public presentation
Reference: link
Location: Dayton, OH
Date: 10/21/1978
Description: Aircraft Accident Investigation Summary Report: Fredrick
Valentich vanished while reporting a UFO playing cat and mouse with his
airplane which was a Cessna 182L. It’s hovering above me… it’s got a
greenlight and sort of metallic (like) it’s all shiny (on) the outside…
it’s hovering and it’s Airplane not an aircraft… (end of
transmission…pilot presumed dead).
Type: ufo encounter
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-E p461-463, B1-F p298)
Date: 11/9/1978
Description: Project Mercury Astronaut Gordon Cooper, in
a letter to the U.N., states that UFOs are interplanetary vehicles and
crewed by aliens. He also describes seeing 100’s of UFO’s over Europe
during 1951.
Type: letter
Reference: link
Location: New York City
Date: End of 1978
Description: UFO research at the USSR Academy of Sciences came under the
umbrella of STEKA-AN. UFO acronym was banned until 1989, instead
“Anomalous Atmospheric Phenomena” was the sanctioned acronym.
Type: book reference
Reference: link
Location: Soviet Union
Date: 1979
Description: Ufologist Paul Bennewitz, President and owner of Thunder
Scientific Company in Albuquerque, NM, lives next to the Manzano Weapons
Storage Area, near Sandia Base. He’s also an investigator for APRO
(Aerial Phenomenon Research Organization), and others see strange lights
in the night sky over the Manzano Test Range outside Albuquerque.
Type: letter
Reference: link
Location: Albuquerque, NM
Date: 11/1979
Description: Colonel General Sapkov observes UFO changing colors and
hovering for 30 minutes over secret rocket test range (Kapustin Test
Range — where V-2 was tested)
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: link
Location: Kapustin Test Range
Date: 11/4/1979
Description: Iran Hostage Crisis
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Iran
Date: 1980’s
Description: Area-51 workers and widows said that throughout the 1980s
the Air Force and its contractors regularly filled 55-gallon drums with
toxic wastes, emptied them into football-field size trenches, doused
them with jet-fuel and burned them. They claimed that the U.S. Air Force
generated and mishandled hazardous substances, and that the
Environmental Protection Agency failed to take necessary action to
enforce the requirements of the resource conservation act against the
Air Force.
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Location: Area 51
Date: 5/10/1980
Description: DoD Report: The FAP (Peruvian Air Force) spotted a UFO
twice and tried to intercept and destroy the UFO without success.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-E p503)
Location: Area 51
See also: 7/1952
Date: Summer 1980
Description: Ex Soviet test pilot Lev Vyatkin plane collided with an
aircraft emitting a “hard beam”. The pilot managed to land successfully,
but the wing, touched by the beam, continued to glow for several more
hours.
Type: ufo encounter
Reference: link
Location: Soviet Union
Date: 7/28/1980
Description: Author and researcher John Keel is interviewed by David
Letterman. Keel says that animal mutilation cases keep him up at
night.
Type: interview
Reference: link
Location: New York City
Date: 8/1980
Description: Three guards reported sighting an aerial light which
descended on the Sandia Military Reservation. Ernest Edwards reported
the sighting to AFOSI Special Agent Richard Doty, unaware that Doty had
already heard from Russ Curtis (the Sandia Security Chief) that a Sandia
Security guard had sighted a disc-shaped object near a structure just
minutes after the sighting by the three Manzano guards. Doty included
these reports and several others in his formal report, forwarding it to
AFOSI (Air Force Office of Special Investigations) Headquarters in
Washington DC.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: link
Location: Manzano Test Range
Date: 8/9/1980
End date: 9/3/1980
Description: AFOSI Complaint Form: At Kirtland AFB three persons report
seeing UFO over a Restricted Test Range. On Aug. 9th a Sandia Security
Guard drove down the Coyote Canyon access road to check out an alarmed
building and observed a landed UFO next to an alarmed building. The UFO
was around disk shaped object. As he approached the object on foot
equipped with a shotgun the object took off in a vertical direction at a
high rate of speed. His radio wasn’t working right at the time so he
couldn’t reach dispatch. The building contained HQ CR 44 material.
(Nature of material not known.)
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: link
Location: Kirtland AFB
Date: 9/1/1980
Description: The Roswell Incident by Charles Berlitz and William L.
Moore is published.
Type: book
Reference: Amazon
Location: US
Date: 9/16/1980
Description: Sgt. J.M. (initials) of the PACAF writes to Len Stringfield
that he was stationed at McGuire AFB, NJ, when, on Jan. 18, 1978, an MP
shot and killed an alien at the Ft. Dix Army base next to the AFB.
Type: letter
Reference: (link
Location: McGuire AFB, NJ
See also: 1/18/78
Date: 10/24/1980
Description: Investigator Paul Bennewitz contacts Major Ernest Edwards
of the Kirtland AFB Security Police who, over the period of the next few
months, became concerned and requested the guards on the Manzano Weapons
Storage Area to report to him any sightings of unusual aerial
lights.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: link
Location: Manzano Test Range
Date: 11/10/1980
Description: Investigator Paul Bennewitz presented his evidence of
sightings near the Kirtland Air Force Base and the Manzano range to high
ranking Air Force personnel including Brigadier General William
Brooksher. In the report of this meeting, it is noted that Bennewitz was
advised to apply for an Air Force grant to study the phenomena.
Type: private presentation
Reference: link
Location: Manzano Test Range
Date: 11/17/1980
Description: SECRET USAF OSI Document: Analysis of photo of UFO
following C-5A aircraft inclusive. Photo analysis of Cylinder Shaped UFO
legitimate. Photo E. showed legitimate disc shaped UFO of 37 ft.
diameter with trilateral insignia on object. USAF still has an interest
in all UFO sightings over installations and test ranges. Several other
Government agencies, lead by NASA, actively investigate legitimate
sightings through COVERT COVER. One agency that deceives the public
which such covert cover is the UFO reporting center at U.S. Coast and
Geodetic Survey, Rockville, MD. 20852. (The results of PROJECT AQUARIUS
is still classified TOP SECRET with access limited to “MJ-12”.)
Type: secret document
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-E p528)
Location: US
Attributes: majestic
Date: 12/1980
Description: UFO landing between the Bentwaters and Woodbridge NATA
bases in England. Nearby animals driven into a frenzy, surrounding trees
damaged, left moderate levels of radiation, 17 firsthand witnesses,
event filmed.
Type: ufo landing
Reference: APCIC Vol 10 #4–1985
Location: between the Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge
See also: 3/3/1985
Date: 12/27/1980
Description: USAF UFO report signed by Lt. Col. Charles I. Halt, Deputy
Base Commander, RAF Woodbridge stating: Two USAF security police
patrolmen saw a UFO either hovering or on legs outside the backgate,
Woodbridge. Being early morning, it illuminated the entire forest with a
white light. Description: Metallic in appearance and triangular in
shape, pulsing red light on top and banks of blue lights underneath.
Approx. 2–3 meters across and 2 meters high. It maneuvered through the
trees and disappeared.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-E p456)
Location: RAF Woodbridge
See also: 12/29/1980
Date: 12/29/1980
Description: Cash-Landrum incident. It was investigated by ex-Col. John
B. Alexander on behalf of the inspector General of the Pentagon.
Type: ufo encounter
Reference: link
Location: north of Houston, TX
Date: 12/29/1980
Description: A low flying UFO was escorted by a large number of
helicopters (23) including some Chinooks and possibly Hueys, near
Dayton, Texas. It was probably escorted to the Top Secret underground
installation within Fort Hood, Texas. The secret air force base is NOT
listed in the Air Force Officer’s Guide or the Air Force Almanac (it is
an Army AFB). The name of the Secret base is Gray AAF, Texas. The
special group piloting the helicopters escort for UFO are known as the
“BLUE BOYS”. The Texas Department of Public Safety works closely with
Gray AAF on UFO cases.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Dayton, TX
See also: 6/6/88
Date: 12/29/1980
Description: Lt. Col. C. I. Halt, sees a UFO that separates into 5 UFOs
and later sees 3 other UFOs.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-E p456)
Location: RAF Woodbridge
See also: 12/27/1980
Date: 1981
Description: The “China Society of UFO Research” (CSUR) research
organization was established. More than 600 UFO’s have been reported
within the past 5 years in China. Studies will be done on UFO’s and
human body science relationships.
Type: research organization
Reference: “Above Top Secret” by Timothy Good page 219
Location: China
Date: 1/13/1981
Description: Bentwaters AFB Air Force Memo from Lt. Col. Charles I.
Halt, Deputy Base Commander.
Type: memo
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Bentwaters AFB
See also: 12/27/80
See also: 12/29/80
Date: 1/20/1981
End date: 1/20/1989
Description: President Ronald Reagan in office.
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Washington DC
See also: 12/27/80
See also: 12/29/80
Date: 10/19/1981
Description: Barry Goldwater, Senator, Arizona, in a letter to Lee
Graham, Aerojet Electric Systems, Azusa, CA, states that he has given up
trying to get into the BLUE ROOM at Wright-Patterson AFB where UFO
artifacts are stored by the Air Force.
Type: letter
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Washington DC
Date: 11/3/1981
Description: Civil Action, Case #80–1562, goes against the plaintiff and
for the defendant, the NSA. The NSA retains the right to withhold 156
Top Secret records containing communications intelligence (COMINT)
reports which were produced between 1958 and 1979. Only military
personnel with a Top Secret Clearance were allowed to view the documents
for the court hearing. NOT even the Judge was allowed to see them, even
though he ruled against the plaintiff (CAUS).
Type: court case
Reference: Pea Reseach (A3, B1-A)
Location: US
See also: 6/24/83
Date: 11/3/1981
Description: Newspaper article on CAUS vs. NSA: “Suit Seeks to Lift
Secrecy Veil From Agency’s UFO Documents”.
Type: newspaper article
Reference: Washington
Post
Location: US
Date: 1982
Description: Investigator Paul Bennewitz was sending regular reports to
the APRO and contacted US Senator Harrison Schmidt and Senator Peter
Domenici, as well as other UFO investigators such as Linda Moulton Howe
and John Lear. By 1982, APRO had decided to investigate Bennewitz’s
claims. They sent William Moore, one of their directors and a former
schoolteacher turned writer and ufologist, to talk to Bennewitz. Bill
Moore later stated in a public confession that he was recruited by
someone with the code name Falcon to lead Paul Bennewitz astray by
giving him false information. He claimed that he was given his orders by
AFOSI agents (believed to be Richard Doty and Steve Atwater), and that
for four years, he was asked to feed disinformation, including the
forged “Aquarius Document” to Bennewitz. This disinformation included
“verification” of Bennewitz’s beliefs about the “grays” and the
underground base at Dulce. Bennewitz had to be hospitalized for
“exhaustion”. He later died on June 23, 2003.
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Location: Albuquerque, NM
Date: 2/6/1982
Description: Prof. John Spencer Carr of Clearwater FL calls ufologist
Leonard Stringfield and revealed a key USAF officer’s witness name to
the 1948 Aztec C/R. Stringfield sat back dumbfounded, because in the
past this officer had spoken to Stringfield and told him about UFO’s.
The USAF officer saw the occupant bodies on location.
Type: telephone call
Reference: Twitter
Location: Clearwater FL
See also: 3/25/48
Date: 6/27/1982
Description: Bob Lazar appears on the front Sunday page of the “Los
Alamos Monitor”
Type: newspaper article
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
Location: Los Alamos, NM
Date: 7/28/1982
Description: Area-51/S-4 worker Bob Lazar meets Dr. Edward Teller at a
presentation.
Type: meeting
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
Location: Los Alamos, NM
Date: 8/21/1982
Description: Bob Lazar appears in the “Arizona Republic” newspaper in
Phoenix AZ and is said to be working in “Los Alamos, NM National
Laboratory”
Type: newspaper article
Reference: Newspapers.com
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Date: 11/27/1982
Description: Police Commander Michael McDonald was on patrol at 5:00
a.m. when the area around his car was lighted, as if by a phosphorous
flare. Looking up he saw a large white UFO with tinges of red at an
altitude of 900–1000 ft. Two other officers, alerted by radio, also
observed the UFO. The other two cars gave pursuit to the UFO at speeds
of between 60–65 mph but the UFO outdistanced them. A few minutes later
another UFO was noted by the commander and then the other two officers.
It was a diffuse “domed disc” which was seen to emit a beam of light
towards the ground. The UFO then disappeared behind the tree line of a
forest preserve. The police report includes a tape recording of the
radio communications during the sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Palatine, IL
Date: 3/27/1983
Description: A cigar-shaped UFO about the size of a Boeing 747 hovered
over Gorki Airport at low altitude for 40 minutes. No jets were
scrambled. The Soviet Government appointed a cosmonaut Pavel Popovich to
head the Commission on Abnormal Atmospheric Phenomena. Popovich declared
the incident definitely had taken place.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: “Extra-Terrestrials Amoung Us” by George C. Andrews
Location: Gorki, Mahilyow Voblast, Belarus
Date: 6/24/1983
Description: Larry W. Bryant, Director of CAUS, filed a Civil Action,
Case #83–1932 (Judge Oliver Gasch) petitioning for a Writ of Habeas
Corpus Extraterrestrial, in the United States District Court for the
Dist. of Columbia, seeking to obtain the release from custody of “one or
more occupants of apparent extraterrestrial origin.” Mr. Bryant contends
that the Government action in maintaining secret custody, detention, and
prosecution of such extraterrestrials is unlawful and a violation of
their basic rights and is seeking to restore their civil rights.
Type: lawsuit
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Washington DC
See also: 11/3/81
Date: 10/23/1983
Description: 1983 Beirut Barracks Bombings
Type: terrorist attack
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Beirut, Lebanon
Date: 11/29/1983
Description: Dr. Robert I Sarbacher, consultant US Research and
Development Board and President and Chairman of the Board, Washington
Institute of Technology, in a letter to Dr. William I. Steinman states
that Frank Scully’s book (“Behind the Flying Saucers”) story is true and
persons definitely involved in operations of recovered saucers were John
von Neuman and Dr. Vannever Bush. Also, Dr. Sarbacher thought that
Robert Oppenheimer was also involved. Dr. Sarbacher had been invited by
President Eisenhower to attend several discussions associated with the
reported recoveries, but was unable to attend them. He did receive
Special Reports on the recoveries at the Pentagon but was instructed NOT
to remove them from his office.
Type: letter
Reference: Pea
Research (A2, B1-E p525, B1-G p49)
Location: US
Date: 1984
Description: USAF seizes 89,000 acres of public land adjacent to Groom
Lake
Type: land seizure
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
Location: Area-51
Date: 1984
Description: From the Air Traffic Controllers Manual: Controllers MUST
report UFOs immediately to AIS (Military), LATCC. A completed report
MUST be sent to MOD (AFOR). A list of phone numbers and locations is
shown in the directory at Appendix H.
Type: manual
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-E p458)
Location: US
Date: 1/13/1984
Description: New York Post: Soviet scientists are puzzled by the flight
of a mysterious bright sphere followed by seven small lights which flew
at great speed but low altitude across southern Russia and Ukraine. The
objects changed altitude and direction and were flying less than half a
mile above the ground.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Archive.org
Location: Soviet Union
Date: 4/1984
Description: Reported in APRO Bulletin: D.M., who lives just south of
White Swan, WA went out to his rural mailbox just before dawn to get his
paper. He observed a large flying triangle passing overheard. It was
lighted completely around its perimeter with multicolored lights which
burned steadily. He estimated it was 8k-10k feet high, made no noise and
was in sight for several minutes as it wasn’t moving at high
speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Archive.org
Location: White Swan, WA
Date: 5/1/1984
Description: The book “Clear Intent”, later renamed to “The UFO
Cover-up: What the Government Won’t Say” in 1990, written by Lawrence
Fawcett and Barry J. Greenwood is published.
Type: book
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: US
Date: 5/16/1984
Description: Dept. of the Army letter to W. S. Steinman stating that the
IPU was disestablished in the late 1950s and all records were
transferred to the Air Force. Therefore the Army isn’t aware of what
their function was even though it was a Secret unit of the Army. (FOIA
requests to USAF)
Type: letter
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-A p55)
Location: US
Date: 1985
Description: Scientific UFO Conference in Darlian, China. China Daily
reported that 20,000 people involved in UFO research. Professor Renglin
of Guangzhou Jinan University said more than 600 reports in China in
prev. 5 years.
Type: conference
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: China
Date: 3/3/1985
Description: Meeting between researchers Ray Boeche and Scott Colborn
and US Senator J. J. Exon D-Neb concerning the 12/1980 Bentwaters and
other incidents. Exon is described as concerned that as a member of the
Armed Services Committee he has not been fully appraised of the
Bentwaters and other UFO events.
Type: meeting
Reference: APCIC Vol 10 #4 1985
Location: Washington DC
See also: 12/1980
Date: 4/19/1985
Description: In a letter from Ministry of Defense, Lord Trefgarne
states, “There is no organization in the MOD appointed solely for the
purpose of studying UFOs, and no staff are employed on the subject full
time… the staff in the Department… examine the reports as part of their
normal duties… and we cannot inform observers of the probable identity
of the objects seen.”
Type: letter
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: London, England
Date: 6/28/1985
Description: USAF ACCESS RESTRICTED NOTICE: Report TR-DE-3A, Oct. 15,
1955, from Air Tech. Intel. Ctr., file no. TS5–2862, has been WITHDRAWN
from the National Archives and is classified a TOP SECRET UFO
Report.
Type: report
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-E p529)
Location: National Archives, Washington DC
Date: 8/27/1985
Description: Darlian, China, the “China Daily” reports: 20,000 people
are involved in UFO research. The first recognized photo of a UFO in
China was taken in 1945.
Type: newspaper article
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-E p472)
Location: Darlian, China
Date: 1986
Description: Colonel General Sapkov observes UFO over Kapustin Test
Range
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: link
Location: Kapustin Test Range
See also: 11/79
Date: 5/11/1986
Description: Minister Robert H. Henderson and his wife, Nann, of
Phoenix, AR, were flying at an altitude of 8500 ft. at 4 p.m. when a
very bright UFO was seen approaching head-on to them. As he prepared to
take evasive action the UFO passed quickly to the left and below of his
plane. The UFO was seen to be wingless and resembling a “modified
half-sphere, with the flat side down.” The closure rate was estimated at
about 1200 mph.
Type: aerial ufo encounter
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: near Sedona, AR
Date: 5/19/1986
Description: Near Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Between 9:00 to
12 midnight the Brazilian Air Defense and the Civil Air System were
swamped with Radar and pilot UFO sightings. As Ospires Silva, President
of Petrobras Oil Company were preparing to land, the control tower
informed him of UFO targets on their radar. He and his companion, Alcir
Pereira da Silva, saw bright red-orange UFOs, not at all like stars or
planes. They attempted to pursue the UFOs for 30 min. but gave up as the
UFOs seemed to be jumping from place to place. At this time three F-5E
fighter jets were scrambled from Santa Cruz AFB. Capt. Marcio Jordao was
able to approach within 12 miles of an UFO, visible to him as a bright
light changing from white to green. Lt. Kleber Caldas Marinho chased
another UFO which was a very intense light, changing from white to green
then red again. Both pilots broke off chase as they were running low on
fuel. Ground Radar picked up 10–13 more UFOs that surrounded another
plane with Capt. Armindo Souza Viriato de Marinho, K.C. Freitas piloting
it. Capt. Freitas tracked the UFOs on his radar, but only de Freitas,
A.S.V. saw them visually once as they climbed vertically past him. Brig.
Gen. Octavio Moreira Lima made these events public at a press conference
and allowed the pilots and radar operators to be questioned by the
media.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
See also: 7/52
Date: 11/17/1986
Description: Japan Airlines flight #1628, a Boeing 747 freighter, was
cruising at 35000 ft. altitude and at 5:11 p.m. the pilots noticed
bright lights 30 degrees to the left and below them. The UFOs moved up
directly in front of the 747 and, said Capt. Kenju Terauchi, “most
unexpectedly, two spaceships stopped in front of our face, shooting off
lights (like numerous exhaust pipes). The inside cockpit shined brightly
and I felt warm in the face.” The UFOs appeared as two rectangular
clusters or arrays of light, one above the other. As the larger UFOs
moved away from the 747 Airlines Flight 1628 there remained two smaller
flat white UFOs. At about 5:30 p.m. Capt. Terauchi checked the pale
white light behind their craft visually. He saw a gigantic
“walnut-shaped” UFO (Saturn-shaped) following them. As an evasive action
the Capt. ordered the 747 to turn away from the giant UFO that was
following them, at which time the UFO “spaceship” disappeared.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: Fort Yukon, Alaska
Date: 2/15/1987
Description: The San Jose Mercury states that the Pentagon has a “Black
Budget” which has become a “Black Hole” for secret projects spending. It
is far bigger than the federal budget for education, transportation,
agriculture or the environment. These Projects are classified above TOP
SECRET, therefore very few federal investigators have the security
clearances necessary to audit black programs.
Type: newspaper article
Reference: Pea
Research (J4-B)
Location: San Jose, CA
Date: 3/12/1987
Description: US Army Intelligence letter: The IPU (Interplanetary
Phenomenon Unit) of the Scientific and Technical Branch, Counter
intelligence Directorate, Department of the Army was disestablished
during the 1950’s and never reactivated. All of its records were turned
over to the USAF (which can’t seem to locate them). This letter was sent
to Timothy Good.
Type: letter
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-E p484)
Location: US
See also: 5/16/84
Date: 9/4/1987
Description: JMP (Justice for Military Personnel) letter sent to
President Ronald Reagan. This letter, verified by: Astronaut Gordon Cooper,
Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe (USMC, Ret.) (now deceased), MUFON (Sequin, TX),
APRO (Tucson, AZ) and Just Cause (Coventry, CT) states that: “WE
(military personnel) have been ordered by the CIA to shoot at UFOs,
silence pilots who have seen UFOs, intimidate, harass, jail, confine to
institutions, and destroy military careers of witnesses to UFO
sightings. We VIOLATED the Freedom of Information Act by hiding
Government documents.” Maj. Keyhoe sent this letter to PEA Research in
1987.
Type: letter
Reference: Pea
Research (JMP)
Location: Washington DC
See also: 7/52
See also: 9/24/47
Date: 9/21/1987
Description: President Reagan states to the UN General Assembly “Perhaps
we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common
bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would
vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.”
Type: statement
Reference: link
Location: New York City
Date: 9/25/1987
Description: Contactee spy comedy “Real Men” movie is released
Type: movie
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: DC
Date: 12/13/1987
Description: Ufologist John Lear claims Dr. Edward Teller is MJ-12
Type: statement
Reference: Article by John Lear (TODO)
Location: Nevada
Date: 12/21/1987
Description: CIA letter to former assistant director of NICAP
Mr. Richard H. Hall stating the CIA’s reasons for denying certain FOIA
requests about himself on the basis of national defense reasons and must
be kept secret. Mr. Hall is an UFO investigator and book author.
Type: letter
Reference: Pea
Research
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Langley, VA
Date: 1988
Description: Area-51/S-4 worker Bob Lazar meets ufologist John
Lear
Type: meeting
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
Location: NV
Date: 1/28/1988
Description: Ex-CIA Pilot Claimed To Receive 25 Secret CIA Memos About
Aliens On Earth
Type: interview
Reference: link
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Date: 5/5/1988
Description: For the third time, publicly, President Ronald Reagan
states that the nations of the earth would unite if we were threatened
by an Alien race from a hostile planet.
Type: statement
Reference: Pea
Research (J4-A)
Location: Washington DC
Date: 6/6/1988
Description: Letter received from ufologist Paul F. Bennewitz describing
Project Beta: Alien base located in New Mexico consisting of type “Grey”
Aliens. NASA CIR film has aided in locating this base and revealing US
Military involvement with the “Greys”. Aliens helped US Military to
build a working saucer, Atomic Powered. Two women and a boy exposed to
radiation burns by this saucer. Government is not picking up the medical
bills. “Grey” base is currently abandoned. Another group called “Orange”
is based on the west slope of Mt. Archeleta near “the Diamond”. Goal of
Project Beta: to locate, inventory and propose ways of destroying Alien
bases.
Type: letter
Reference: Pea
Research
Location: New Mexico
See also: 12/29/80
Date: 9/19/1988
Description: The Fund for UFO Research Inc. provides $500 in funding to
Elaine Douglas and Mr. Richard Hall for Washington DC area Abduction
research.
Type: funding
Reference: link
Location: Washington DC
Date: 10/14/1988
Description: “UFO Cover-Up?: Live!” Broadcast from Washington DC on 130
syndicated stations throughout the US. Soviet ufologists appeared live
by satellite. AFOSI officer Rick Doty played the part of ‘Falcon’ in the
Kodak-produced documentary, but it is generally accepted he wasn’t the
‘real’ Falcon of the Aviary.
Type: TV broadcast
Reference: link
Reference: link
Location: Washington DC
Date: 11/15/1988
Description: First and only test of the Soviet Buran orbital spaceplane.
It was the first spaceplane to perform an uncrewed flight, including
landing in fully automatic mode.
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Soviet Union
Date: 11/29/1988
Description: Dr. Edward Teller calls Area-51/S-4 worker Bob Lazar
Type: telephone call
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Date: 12/1988
Description: Crash Retrieval Program worker Bob Lazar starts working at
Area-51/S-4 (Unclear: Lazar’s book says 1/89 in Preface)
Type: historical event
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
Location: Area 51
Date: 1989
Description: The date provided in an interview by Dr. Eric W. Davis PhD
for the failure of the “Crash Retrieval Program”
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Date: 1989
Description: Year of Area-51/S-4 whistleblower Bob Lazar’s W-2
statement
Type: tax statement
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Date: 1/20/1989
End date: 1/20/1993
Description: President George H. W. Bush in office
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Date: 3/1989 (approximate)
Description: Lazar takes group near Groom Lake to view UFO’s
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
Location: Papoose Dry Lake
Date: Spring 1989
Description: Bob Lazar takes groups of friends on Wednesday nights into
the desert around Papoose Dry Lake, 15 miles south of Groom Lake. They
appeared to be large glowing, disc-shaped objects. At least one sighting
was recorded on video.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
Location: Papoose Dry Lake
Date: 3/29/1989
Description: Lazar records the mean outdoor temp, heads with group to
viewing area for 2nd time
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
Location: Papoose Dry Lake
Date: 4/2/1989
Description: Lazar’s 3rd trip with group to view UFO’s near Groom
Lake
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
Location: Papoose Dry Lake
Date: 4/7/1989
Description: Area-51/S-4 whistleblower Bob Lazar’s last day at
work
Type: employment
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
Location: Papoose Dry Lake
Date: 5/1989
End date: 11/1989
Description: Journalist George Knapp is assigned to research all things
Bob Lazar.
Type: historical event
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Date: 5/14/1989
Description: Bob Lazar, at ex-CIA contractor and ufologist John Lear’s
secure house, is first interviewed by journalist George Knapp.
Type: interview
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar page 213
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Date: 5/17/1989
Description: Kalahari Desert, close to the borders between the Republics
of South Africa and Botswana: UFO shot down by 2 scrambled Mirage jets.
2 live EBE’s and craft debris transported to Wright Patterson AFB. A
South African Air Force Intelligence officer leaks photos of the
EBE’s.
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: AFU Archives, “Space Craft Shot Out of South African
Sky”
Location: Kalahari Desert
Date: 5/24/1989
Description: Bob Lazar interviews on KLAS-TV in silhouette using assumed
identity “Dennis”. Sometime after this, Popular host Billy Goodman
organizes bus trips to the outskirts of Groom Lake for UFO viewing
parties.
Type: interview
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
Reference: YouTube
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Date: 9/28/1989
Description: UFO landing and Government attempt at intercept: Six
helicopters circle around an UFO, between 574–1000 ft. in diam. while it
was close to a downed UFO on the beach. The UFOs apparently got away.
The eyewitness took 48 photos of the event. This even occurred in
Suffolk County.
Type: ufo retrieval attempt
Reference: Pea
Research
Reference: Archive.org
Location: Smith’s Point Beach, Shirley, NY
Date: 11/1989
Description: “UFO’s: The Best Evidence” multi-part series released by
George Knapp, revealing Bob Lazar’s identity to the public.
Type: TV series
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar (TODO)
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Date: 1990’s
Description: USAF argues in court filings that it never used the name
Area 51
Type: court filings
Reference: “Dreamland” by Lazar
Location: US
Date: 8/2/1990
End date: 1/17/1991
Description: Operation Desert Shield
Type: war
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Iraq
Date: 2/28/1991
Description: Operation Desert Storm
Type: war
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Iraq
Date: 1/20/1993
End date: 1/20/2001
Description: President Bill Clinton in office
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Washington DC
Date: 3/20/1994
Description: “Groom Lake Toxic Burning Alleged” A former worker at the
secret Air Force base says poisonous substances were routinely ignited.
Las Vegas Review-Journal, Mar. 20, 1994, Page 1B.
Type: newspaper article
Reference: link
Location: Groom Lake
Date: 9/16/1994
Description: Ariel school incident
Type: ce3 event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Ruwa, Zimbabwe
Date: 12/1994
Description: SOM1–01 “MAJESTIC-12 Group Special Operations Manual”
document “leaked” to UFO researcher
Type: majestic document
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: US
See also: 4/1954
Date: 12/18/1994
Description: Ufologist Leonard Stringfield dies
Type: death
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Cincinnati, OK
Date: 1996
End date: 1997
Description: Crimean ufologist Anton Anfalov made a map of the Soviet
secret sensitive site “Zhitkur” with instructions on the location of all
sites and drew diagrams of their devices.
Type: document
Reference: link
Location: Crimea
Date: 1996
Description: Skinwalker Ranch is purchased by Robert Bigelow
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Skinwalker Ranch
Date: 2/8/1996
Description: Wall Street Journal on Area 51 worker toxic disposal fires
lawsuits: “A Secret Air Base Hazardous Waste Act, Workers’ Suit Alleges
U.S. Cites National Security In Fighting Claims Tied to Toxic Disposal
Fires Plaintiffs Fear Retaliation”
Type: article
Reference: link
Location: Area 51
Date: 3/1996
Description: Area-51 workers and their widows lose suite against the
federal government in Las Vegas. “..the Air Force could invoke the
common law state secrets privilege to protect military secrets at Area
51, and that once invoked, the privilege is absolute, protecting even
innocuous-seeming information from disclosure.”
Type: lawsuit
Reference: link
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Date: 1997
Description: ex-US Army Lt. Col Corso appears on Art Bell’s “Dreamland”
radio show
Type: radio appearance
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Rachel, NV
Date: 2/1997 (approximate)
Description: “Victor”, who claimed to have worked at Area-51 S-4, speaks
in “Area 51: The Alien Interview” by Rocket Pictures. Claims two
psychics were present to interpret the responses from an alien in
custody. Aliens were highly psychic.
Type: interview
Reference: Youtube
Reference: IMDB
Location: US
See also: 5/23/97
See also: 2008
Date: 5/23/1997
Description: Art Bell anonymously interviews “Victor”, who claimed to
have worked at Area-51 S-4 (see 2/1997). Claims no successful
communication has taken place and that most psychics used in the program
were frauds.
Type: interview
Reference: Youtube
Location: US
Date: 7/23/1997
Description: ex-US Army Lt. Col Corso appeared on Coast to Coast AM and
again was interviewed by Art Bell. This time, he was accompanied by
Dr. John Alexander who represented that he had gone to Washington D.C.
and gone to the National Archives and other records to verify the facts
of Corso’s public service. He indeed had served honorably as a
Lieutenant Colonel under Lieutenant General Arthur Trudeau and worked in
the White House for four years.
Type: interview
Reference: link
Location: Rachel, NV
Date: 2/28/1998
End date: 6/11/1999
Description: Kosovo War and NATO intervention
Type: war
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Kosovo
Date: 11/16/1998
Description: Newspaper Article: “High court won’t review “state secrets”
privilege in ‘Area 51’ case”. The U.S. Supreme Court refused in early
November to hear an appeal of a lawsuit by workers at a “secret” air
base near Groom Lake, Nev., dubbed “Area 51.”
Type: lawsuit
Reference: link
Location: Area 51
Date: 1/20/2001
End date: 1/20/2009
Description: President George W. Bush in office
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Washington DC
Date: 7/4/2001
Description: Art Bell interviews Linda Moulton Howe, Philip J. Corso,
and Bill Birnes were interviewed live in Roswell, NM, about the infamous
UFO crash in 1947.
Type: interview
Reference: link
Location: Roswell, NM
Date: 9/11/2001
Description: September 11 Terrorist Attack
Type: terrorist attack
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Washington DC
Location: New York City
Date: 10/7/2001
End date: 8/30/2021
Description: Afghanistan War begins
Type: war
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Afghanistan
Date: 3/2003
End date: 4/2003
Description: Second Persian Gulf War (Gulf War II)
Type: war
Reference: link
Location: Iraq
Date: 2004
Description: TicTac craft witnessed by Fravor and other Navy personnel
off the coast of southern California
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: TODO
Location: off the coast of southern California
Date: 2007
Description: NY Times: Dr. Eric W. Davis PhD, an astrophysicist, starts
working as a subcontractor and then a consultant for the Pentagon U.F.O.
program (Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, or
AATIP)
Type: newspaper article
Reference: NY
Times
Reference: NY
Times
Location: Washington DC
Date: 2008
Description: Claimed Area-51 S-4 worker named “Victor” appears
anonymously in bonus footage for the re-release of “Alien Interview”.
“Victor” claims that Donald Rumsfeld has been aware of alien interviews
since 1974.
Type: video interview
Reference: link
Location: US
See also: 2/1997
See also: 5/23/97
Date: 1/20/2009
End date: 1/20/2017
Description: President Barack Obama in office
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: US
Date: 11/6/2009
Description: ex-Police Detective and ufologist James Clarkson gives a
presentation at a UFO Conference about ex-Wright Patterson AFB worker
June Crain, who had heard of 3 crash retrievals during her time working
there.
Type: presentation
Reference: Newspapers.com
Location: US
Date: 6/4/2010
Description: First Falcon 9 Technology Demonstration launch
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Cape Canaveral SLC-40, FL
Date: 3/1/2015
Description: Las Vegas Review-Journal Article: “Area 51 worker sees hope
in Supreme Court ruling”
Type: newspaper article
Reference: link
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Date: 1/20/2017
End date: 1/20/2021
Description: President Donald Trump in office
Type: historical document
Reference: link
Location: Washington DC, US
Date: 4/18/2017
Description: The Washington State Senate passed Resolution 8648 about
the Maury Island Incident. It stated “The FBI’s conclusions and Dahl’s
(the main witness) secret were sealed for fifty years.” It also states
“Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted an
investigation of the deaths of Davidson and Brown and ultimately
concluded that Dahl did not recant his story but that his claim of hoax
was itself a fabrication to avoid further public attention and
ridicule.”
Type: state resolution
Reference: link
Reference: link
Location: Olympia, WA
See also: 6/21/1947
Date: 6/2017
Description: Majestic document mentions Frank Scully, Aztec crash,
EBE-1
Type: majestic document
Reference: link]
Reference: archive.org
Location: US
Date: 10/12/2017
Description: Tom DeLonge Announces To The Stars Academy for ‘Outer Edges
of Science’ Research (TTSA)
Type: company formation
Reference: link
Location: US
Date: 12/16/2017
Description: NY Times discloses the Pentagon’s AATIP program
Type: newspaper article
Reference: NY
Times
Location: Washington DC
Date: 8/14/2018
Description: TTSA’s “ADAM Project” (an acronym for Acquisition &
Data Analysis of Materials) hand delivers exotic materials claimed to be
from a crashed UFO to EarthTech in Austin, TX.
Type: delivery
Reference: YouTube)
Location: Austin, TX
Date: 10/11/2018
Description: Ufologist Robert O. Dean dies at age 89. Dean gave public
presentations about secret documents we read at NATO SHAPE concerning
UFO’s.
Type: death
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Tucson, AZ
Date: 3/2019
Description: NY Times: Dr. Eric W. Davis PhD, Aerospace Corporation (a
defense contractor), gives a classified briefing to a Defense Department
agency about retrievals from “off-world vehicles not made on this
earth.”
Type: senate briefing
Reference: NY
Times
Location: Washington DC
Date: 4/30/2019
Description: In an interview, Dr. Eric W. Davis PhD (who has a security
clearance) talks about the “crash retrieval program” that was terminated
in 1989 for lack of progress.
Type: interview
Reference: link
Location: US
Date: 5/13/2019
Description: Ufologist and nuclear physicist Stanton T. Friedman dies
age 84
Type: death
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Toronto, Canada
Date: 5/31/2019
End date: 8/22/2020
Description: First season of History Channel’s “Unidentified: Inside
America’s UFO Investigation”
Type: documentary
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: US
Date: 6/20/2019
Description: Bob Lazar and film maker Jeremy Corbell sit down for an
interview with Joe Rogan
Type: interview
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar (TODO)
Location: US
Date: 9/20/2019
Description: “Storm Area-51” event planned
Type: event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Area 51
Date: 10/21/2019
Description: Dr. Eric W. Davis PhD gave classified briefings on
retrievals of unexplained objects to staff members of the Senate Armed
Services Committee.
Type: senate briefing
Reference: NY
Times
Location: Washington DC
Date: 10/23/2019
Description: Dr. Eric W. Davis PhD gave classified briefings on
retrievals of unexplained objects to staff members of the Senate
Intelligence Committee
Type: senate briefing
Reference: NY
Times
Location: Washington DC
Date: 1/20/2020
Description: President Joe Biden in office
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Washington DC
Date: 3/11/2020
Description: COVID-19 Pandemic: The World Health Organization (WHO)
declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern
on 30 January 2020, and a pandemic on 11 March 2020.
Type: pandemic
Reference: Wikipedia
Date: 3/23/2020
Description: Bigelow Aerospace laws off entire workforce
Type: layoff
Reference: link
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Date: 6/6/2020
Description: Ufologist and ex-NASA mission specialist Bob Oechsler
dies
Type: death
Reference: link
Location: Edgewater, Maryland
Date: 7/28/2020
Description: NY Times confirms Crash Retrievals with “retrieved
materials”, all information is classified
Type: newspaper article
Reference: link
Location: New York, New York
Date: 1/23/2021
Description: Radio and TV host Larry King dies at age 87 in Los Angeles,
CA
Type: death
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Date: 4/26/2021
Description: Letter from Senate Majority leader Harry Reid confirming
the existence of AATIP and Lue Elizondo’s leadership role within the DoD
program
Type: letter
Reference: TODO
Date: 6/4/2021
Description: South China Morning Post: China military uses AI to track
rapidly increasing UFOs. To the People’s Liberation Army they are
‘unidentified air conditions’ and artificial intelligence is the best
way to keep up with them.
Type: newspaper article
Reference: link
Location: China
Date: 8/30/2021
Description: Afghanistan War ends
Type: war
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Afghanistan
Date: 12/28/2021
Description: Nevada Senator Harry Reid dies at age 82
Type: death
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: US
Date: 2/6/2022
Description: Garry Nolan appears on Lex Fridman Podcast’s podcast with
the show title “UFOs and Aliens”
Type: interview
Reference: YouTube
Location: US
Date: 3/29/2022
Description: Ufologist and pilot John Lear, son of industrialist and
Learjet founder Bill Lear, dies at aged 79
Type: death
Reference: link
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Date: 6/3/2022
Description: Ex-US Navy Aviator Ryan Graves gives a keynote titled “UAP
& Government: The Innovation Imperative” at the SCU AAPC conference
near the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville AL. Graves states at the
conference that aviators are reporting sightings, but are being ignored,
and if this continues they will stop reporting them.
Type: public presentation
Reference: link
Location: Huntsville, AL
Date: 6/4/2022
Description: Dr. Alexander Wendt gives the virtual presentation
“Dangerous Knowledge — UFO Science and the Last Humans” at the SCU AAPC
conference, near the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville AL, on potential
societal collapse and mass panic if Disclosure of the reality of UFO’s
is rushed. Mentions a 20 year process of acclimation focusing on young
people.
Type: public presentation
Reference: link
Location: Huntsville, AL
Date: 6/4/2022
Description: ex-Col. John B. Alexander states on video at the SCU AAPC
conference near the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville AL that MJ-12 was
real, but then claimed it had nothing to do with UFO’s. Stubblebine said
it was very secret.
Type: public statement
Reference: link
Location: Huntsville, AL
Date: 6/4/2022
Description: Panel held at the SCU APC conference near the Redstone
Arsenal in Huntsville AL: “The National Security Implications of
Scientifically Studying UAP”- Dr. Joseph DiNoto (moderator), Dr. Matthew
Szydagis, Dr. Garry Nolan, Dr. Joshua Pierson, and Mr. Richard
Hoffman.
Type: public panel
Reference: link
Location: Huntsville, AL
Date: 12/23/2022
Description: President Biden signs the 2023 NDAA (National Defense
Authorization Act) into law, containing UFO whistleblower protections
and references to back-engineering
Type: law
Reference: link
Location: Washington DC
Date: 1/12/2023
Description: CNBC: “More than 360 new UFO cases have been reported to
U.S. intelligence agencies since March 2021”
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: link
Reference: link
Location: US
Date: 1/12/2023
Description: CBS News: “Hundreds more UFO sightings included in latest
report”. “On Thursday, the Office of the Director of National
Intelligence released an unclassified version of its annual report on
UFOs, or what the government calls unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP).
The office tracking reports of UFOs has added nearly 400 additional
sightings to its catalog over the last year, either because of new
sightings or older sightings discovered in existing files, bringing the
total number of UFO sightings to over 500. The assessment revealed that
the office tracking UAPs has had a total of 510 sightings since 2004.
This is significantly up from the 144 sightings included in the initial
report in 2021. Department of Defense has determined that about half of
the additional sightings displayed “unremarkable characteristics.” A
U.S. official told CBS News that none of the incidents have yet been
definitively linked to China, Russia or any other country.”
Type: unclassified report
Reference: link
Location: Washington DC
